i HN A STS RAN A i Ag Wh God doth ate ate wad er to Gon EE od Lady nd entertains pri Shan gifts With a well-chosen book or i Ths man is freed from servile bands Of hips Bo rise, or fear to fall: Lord § Simself, thotigh not of lands; And having nothing, yet hath all. “Ste Hoary Wotten, wore safer than were those bedind the | extemporized fortification In the cen. | tre. After the pickets had been placed | In the pits and the fatigue and post- | point of defense the Indians drew In. The red circle was drawn clower and closer, and the bullets from the Ute: | rites ‘tore through the frafl parts of the barricade, and soldier after soldier t | was either killed or wounfied. Three times the Indians were riven jolt, only to return again. They had | lost heavily, but seemed to be roused Bi] te a maddened pitch that made them + | headless of caution. For the fourth m again had entered saker's mind, bes would sald: “No, Johnson run again, but if he could | he galt that he ones 00-yard sprinting rec {time they were sent hurtling back- ward, and then there came the awful necessity of sending Instructions to thi men in the outlying pits. The space between the central defense and the outer guards was as level as un bowl jng alley. The Utes, when they had withdrawn for the fourth time, were still within easy range. though they had improvised cover for themselves It came to be a question with the com. manding officer as to whether or not 3 50 much of in these communication was possible with the | DENLY STUMBLED AND WENT TO EARTH. s would be beaded by sn. the name of the bolder Johnson.” : the slightest doubt among ers who bave long mem- le world's champion sprint- ) track fame when Henry eooper. went lame | for the greater part Dp A is xolored cavalry. reds retreated a a little way, hela hele cordon of braves spell, for they set at once to entrench. They with thelr horses and Impedi- and by vigorous use of the orming and in throwing up g defense bulwark. After d been done sipall parties under if the rifles of their comrades t out to a considerable distance | trenchment and there dug by the foe without much at- interference, perhaps think- they bad a Eure ng e of B is skin and sealp. these well-covered rifle pits Is were dropped with a plentiful of ammunition and such little and provender as could be! There was ens fan in each! ey were absolutely protected the front, and they were put there perform ae usual duty expected pits. He aid not in bis heart believe eutire elreuit The captain commanding was just about to give over all ides of attempt: ing messenger cominunication because For the deadly pature of the errand, when Private Henry Johnson came op to him, saluted, and said that he would ilike to volunteir to make the round of the guards. *You can’t do 1t, Johnson,” sald his commanding officer. “It's death” “Sea, I ean, sah: I'm sg sprinter, ¥ | When they shoots at me running side- ways ‘round the ring they can't do my Rtate before I listed.” The result of this dislogue and some thought on the captain's part was that & moment afterward a bioe-clad figure wis darting in zigzag lines straight away from the barricade toward the iar rifle pit. How that negro did run, notwithstanding the fact that he took a course like the fight of a snipe when It Is frst fioshed He simply tore. He bad pot gone thirty yards before a hundred feathered heads were seen raised and the faces below show the sight of that flying figure. Then rifle after rifle spoke viciously, but Johnson, the sprinter, sped on. He reached the fret pit unscathed and fell into it by the side of the guard There he stayed long enough to “breaths” himself! and to turn over hits orders, and thew from the pit, jumping like a jack-in-the-box, came! iz stalwary figure. There was no time lost In scoring. Johnpson was away for the next bole at the first stars. This time his course was practically alung ¥ i the lines of fire. The bullets marked out his way, bat, as It was sald behind the barricade, “They'll have to hold & hundred yards ahead of that buck to cget him” No ane thou since that the world's records befors | eight of the guard pits, and the ace between cach was but a repetition of | the last, the Indisns all the whiie at the devoted messen- | ger, while the sitions, though with fOrens are UNNOCARESLY. Ways in tall trees. The nests are high up and are combersome things of {in the same tree. The tree always dies, | though why this Is the case no one that soy wan could live to reach the | first ope of the guards, let alone the | ATRer than young turkeys, and stay carefully In the nest for several days, | destruction. Duriog the extreine youth one heron. On ome oceasion a bird | Bathing but cut daylight behind my | | back. I've beat everything in the regl- ‘ment ranning. and I beat everything In Siberia. The articlea found include hundreds of flat arrowhesds, spear | Ing doubtiess in sheer amazement at) monument has Just been erected ln : I pit ana started for hg Siig His pace showed no sign of abating. Some in from left to right along the eircom. ference of thelr own circle in order to mark the messenger's course more perfectly with thelr sights and shots, seared jack-rabbit, suddenly stumbled and went to earth. He was up again | like a flash and on he passed, but his ated was lagging a little now. Once more he went down. then up again, and once more baltingly and slowly for ten yards, then down again with his face in the sand, and then on for ten yards morofthis time on his hands | and knees, aml then he rolled into the last rifle pit Everyones kvows of the outcome of the Milk River Ute campaign. How the beleaguered men were relleved, and Hove them. Before those men, almost | dying of thirst, would one of them go from the barracks to the sparkling river, they went In mnss so rifle pit | No. 8 and there picked up Johnson and carried him to the water. Henry Johnson, colored private of Troop K. had only three holes In him, but bis sprinting days bave been over for nearly a quarter of a century. It is ‘because the soldiers who saw Johnson ran forgot to hold & walch on him that another man now ¢laims the world's sprinting record --Edward B. Clark, In ‘the Chicago Recortl- Herald. EUROPE'S SMALL FIRE LOSS: One-Tenth of That in Cistes Here, Beeavse Bofidings sre Almost Firviproof. Losses by fire in European ofties are cities here, though in Earaps the fire departments, except fn one or two in. stances, are slmost insigniticant and on a casnel survey wholly friadagaate. for years has had a fire loss less than | Boston's, Budapest, with a larger! population than Boston, lost less than tod-tenth the amount last rear (hat the Massachusetts capital di Mian, with balf a milllpn Inhabit ante, loses on the average only $150. 000 a year. and the total damage by fire In Venlee, where 200060 people | don's logs bt only aboot onedifth that of New York. It f= not that the fire depariments | ara so very efficient In any of theses of the Indians, in following the ein | cling course of the black, had closed | The result was a concentration of five, and Johnson, while speeding like a | would become thelr advocates, Al of the march that Was HeceHsary to re i the grate In a moderately heated oven. “When the potato seems soft and mealy the oven; and s6 continue until all the i potatoes have been subjected to this less than one-tenth of those In the with a varlety of receipis in which it a 500 : | satisfactory. and the result has been a With a population of 2.500000 Paris | | decided addition to the table with very | give due credit to the moecesses which thres-quarters of a teaspiouful of =al- live, was only abont 320000. Lon | ings are planned on lines wileh ren der them practically fireproo!t. Wood | plays soroe part In the sanstruction of | honses, nt brick and stone surround it Invariably, and experience bas shown that elaborate fire Rghting | mre ninon Ao SH AE R Se Colonies of Herons, The great bloe herons in tle Bronte | {bird cage will miss the DBeronrios | where they have In (Be pat made thelr meets and laid thelr eggs. The heron. | ing purposes. Usually the colonies are made op fn the neighborhood of a swamp, and ak brush and small linihe, sometimes as | large as an neh in diameter Often there will be half a doen nests | sevice ables to tell. The young herons when hatrhod are for to fall would Be almost eerraln of the small birda the old herons are kept very busy fishing. Great catches are necessary. Over thirty minnows have been found in was found to have eaten a fish weigh- ing over a pound. A heronry once established 1s always a heronry, and the birds return year after year to ri Ahelr young in the sane old trece New York Times Valuable ¥ Inds in Siberia. ¥ $ £ $ 7 i i 3 ? i ¥ ~~ § Just been made pear the anclint town of Novgorod, in the provigee of that name, on the banks of Lake Sloen, bends, axe heads of slate, fint fsb hooks, and an enormous muss of crock. ery and shmnilar fragments, ornpmented | in the same style as those found previously in other parts of the same province. The discovery bas been made by M. Perenolsky, of the St Petersburg University, a son of the archaeclogist who originally studied this province, and always insisted upon the existence fn the neighborhood of Lake Slmen of a numerous pepulation | during the Btoune age, a theory whieh! thus receives satisfactory proof, The articles found are all of one class and date, tndicating the existence of a considerable tribe, which piust have either been wiped out or have migrated | to other regions before attaining any higher state of culture than that of tha Stone age, The Wireless System Not New, James Bowman Lindsay, to whom » Dundee, Beotland, went to Loudon about Ufty years age, and Mustrated by experiients a syste of telegraph- ght in the strain of that! awfiul time to ‘hold a wareh™ on the! experiments were successful, but as sprinter. There never hag been a doubt and after were smashed. There were | te taure than easnal attention. and popoing away | Ing without wires. It seems that his there was po eal at that tise for a system of that kind they attiieted it : were soon forgotten. Lindsay predicted | in 1534 that houses and city streets would soon be lighted by elictricity, that it would also furnish beat for European cities, but because the bulla. | ries are colonles of the binds for neste & of flour and two-thirds of 2 cup of lo | spoonful ciunamen, six cups of four, #g3s. Bale in two large loaves. Very A valuable arehaeclogical find pai ery material that suggests stained slams | houses, 8 and power to drive Sachisery, : : Geronls’ 8 Too Httle cooking Is at the bottom of many difficulties. In cereals, for ex- i sample, all need thorongh cooking, not- withstanding the fact that those which some in packages contain directions for only short boiling. If this fart were properly appreciated many persons who now decry the use of ceresil foods need to boll at least a half hour. and | . oatmeal requires at least an hour. . Three bours. indeed, for the patural | »oatmenl, which has not had a sivam treatment. Is not too much, The Right Way to Bake Potatoes. Wash and clean the skins of the po tatoes without breaking Put them on It the oven is too hot the skins will at once harden, forming a non-con ducting sarface, preventing the escape of water. Potatoes baked in this way are heavy and waxy, ndigestitde and unpalatable. As soon as the potato | is =oft upon slight pressure of the fin. ger. remove it from the oven. Take it in your band, which should be pro tected with a napkin or towel and carefully work the Lotito as though you were mashing it In the skin, be- ing very careful not to break the skin - throughout put it back on the grate in process. Ladies’ Home Journal, How to Use Sour Milk. Whenever there is a superabundancs of sour milk It is well 1 be provided C may be used. The following recsipts | have sll been tried and have nroved little expense. : * & @ ; Bread Cakes Take ane pint of bread and sosk in sour milk antl soft Rub through a colander, add a Hite more sour milk To one quart of this add two eggs wall beaten. a litle salt, eratus, and four enough to make a batter a little thicker than for the or dinary pancakes. Bake ou a bot grid die. . 9» Graham Gems—-One pint sf sour (milk, with one sven tepipooniul of | saleratus, stiveed into it one table spoontol of brown sogar one table | spoonlul of melled hoger, and atiout one quart of graham four, or enough “to make a thick miter »* * - Corn Genis—-One egg. two enps of sour milk, ones and a ball cops of lo dian meal, one and 8 half supe of Boor, two faldesnoanelal of land wd lottery mixed, one teaspoonful of sods und a little salt. Bake in hot gem pans or in Jonf. In the Jatier vase omit ote tablespoonful of the shortening » ow Spider Chke--Mix together one third | RA AIAN AA digs meal. Add two egg one Lup of sour milk, ene small teaspoonalal of saleratus, one cup of swee milk, quar ter of a cup of sugar and g litte sale When mixed hace ready un bot spider | with butter half the size of an egg | . melted. Then pour fo the above and | add anotuer enp of sour nik without stirring, Bake twenty five minutes, 2 5 ~ Ginger Bread--Hslf a cup of Luster and one cup of lird created together | with two cups of brews sugar. | Add { two cups of New Orlesnn molnsssi ote | eup of sour milk. with one even fea spoonful of saleratus stirred inte it until it froths, the yolks of four eggs, two tablespoonfuls of gloger, half salt | b spoonful of allaples, cloves, one tea | and the well beaten whites of four fine. —Fifladeiphls Record. jf | came acquainted at the State Bind | i Sehool and with them it was a case of Parming In conducted: on a large and : { sconomin scalp in maoy portions of wtthern Californias. In no loeslity has rotary steamy farming machinery been applied with such effectivenciw ax upon the grain ranches of southern California. On one ranch the englue used to draw the machinery is of Arty. horsepower, and has drive wheels sight feet high, It consumes twelve barrels of oll every day, and its oper- Ation requires the serviess of seven men. In plowing, fifty five furrows Are turned over at one tin covering a breath of forty feel, Elght horsés are nesded to keep the machine supe plied with water and fael The best record made #0 far in plowing In seventy-five acres in four hotrs acd forty-five minntes, The Held wae five miles around, giving the great engine a straightaway course, with few turns in waking the record. In operating this plow to the best mdvantage eo witer station ls matatiined st one corner of the feld, fron which the en: gloe {8 supplied as nesded. The aver age capacity of the machine ia the plowing of 110 acres pér day. The use of this machine is not un experiment. Last year 8000 aores wore | harvested by it. On fn ranch of 1000 acres (ff Is an economic investment, but a smaller acreage wonld not war rant the outlay. Last season as cowm- bined harvester was drawn by the én- gine, and averaged over 1000 serves of wheat {na day. cutting. thrashing and sacking the crop. Ona of {hess great fleld engines fs at work this season near Coving, dieplacing seventy mules, Imm ievation. Assistant Cornmissinfier of Immigra. tion MeSwoney prophesivs that unless the tide of tnunigration be checked, within two generations fordigners will control the country. If Mr MeRween. ey thinks that the allen romaine nn Irreducible element ifter passing through inspection, chssifieation and fumigation at Ellix Deland, lie does pot he helps to superintesd As roprégontative Ametioan citizens. It office In the country execpt one, If | penerationy of contlsuons risidence to aud gooseberry worms. It woe ; transform 4 batch of lmnidgrants into | spinkl ed all over the hush on With » an old American family. There willy 00 Woe always ue diluted London i purple for cabbage worms and sprinkle po . Hoon when the leaves ame [he Whoever presides ar Bliss [slapd at hen the leaves are dampR a + 3 : LOL in New England Homestead. that day way well cantent himself (nf Du in gland arrive Bers in the year WD Ly wats or alr, many thogsands of foroigrers, peace, for no army of nllens will go to walvonie he reenforcemwenis. In stead there will be eitiieng descend. ants of the huniigranta of thiz present year amd of Inter years who will mild ly wonder {ff It ix not time to have a Poeonntry eselusively for the use of Americans, Harper's » eekly. Girent Work by » Blind Man. William Brinkman. the Kokonie blind man who two years ago married Jennie Lamb, who besides being hind Is totally paralyzed, hus disarmed his erities who losfsted taar, he had bis hands fall in aking osre of himself without mssaming additional burdens, In two years, Brinkioan, unaided by charity, has paid for # home and tn. proved It to a present worth of £m, The blind man has sold 3888 paunds of peanuts ard 31,000 popeorn balls. After preparing the manening men! snd guid ing the food to the mouth of the help night for the other meals. Fle does all ; the housekeeping Sesltor. that he B20 pleeces apart, cleaved it and bad it wgetier al playing an it in four Roun He declines all offers of char iy. A short twee ages Mr. B Reinkaan ng the town clock, when experts had failed. Mr and Mrs Brinkman be J “love at first sight,” as both sxpressed move ten stains from china, rub the spots with a little whiting. | Olive oll is useful for removing fla | ger marks from furnitore Apply a little at a time on a plece of fSantiel To renovate a ldack dregs or coat that has worn glossy, sponge with | equal parts of Ink and strong tea. A delicious way of serving lima beans 19 to fry them a golden brown tint after they Lave been boiled tens der, As a curtain for an odd wiodow drap- | is particularly geod. The design cones | in old gold, red and bine, ottlined with | a cord of darker bive i Nothing exceeds the artistic effect of | Singapore or Cairo lattice, wheres drap- | ery of the open mesh order Is desired, | and various colors and effects are tp be abtained, i A torn gown ia generally best daroed | on the outside raveilings of the ma terial being used inst sad of either silk gr cotton. When the rent 15 vepalped, | press ir oon the wrong side wilh a bot fron, and it will baedly be seen, aud | may escape detection aitogether, Here Is a simple method of making half a ten of coal go as fur as fGen bundred-weight, The pian 8 to pave no quantity of coalk in the grates; (ngs heated this is practically ines haustidla from combustion, and gives out @eat heat. it. ~8r, Louls Globe Demioerat, mn ln 4 oA, ARH Rive Krapp's Vane Wealth. The richest man in Germany is Horr | Krupp. Aeveording to the iteome tax returns he has an income of abet 23.000000 9 year. No one approaches Bim in wenlth, He stands tna class alone, and there areovir a dogen classes tetween Herr Krupp ud ithe next richest man in Germaay, The ident y af the second wealthiest man tu th smpire, whe hag a yearly igcomse or about $1,300,088), is not quite clear, although he fs supposed to be the coal | master, Herr von Thiele Winekler The income fax returns show sixty-five | other Incomes of more than R250.000 a year. Ten of these neomes are amiler | | 2750,000, two are under £1,000.000 and three ave ampder $1.250000 a year. The i returns alse show 2774 persons to have A yearly income of Spar af R20.) MM rst Advertion. A fundamental fact which persons { Wito have articles to sell or services fo reader cannon: ignore {8 that this is a tine of sharp eowpetition, in which there Is a tremendous effort of enters | : Lon the fool whetever Decessary to I prising men to eresse their share of i y * add welght.using thie handles mainly ¢ business, lnevitably the business ma who shall not Beep hs estanlishment { before the people will be forgotten. As long as there shall be wen who ad: vertise constantly and louwdiy nobody will charge lus mind with remember ing those who do not advertise, —Phila- | ! adeiphia Record. This ine. of Wood acer bn Boe DOW aS. gendral, since potash salts have been introduced, and farmers should en- deavor to learn more regarding both potanh and phosphates. Experiments show that the snlphate of potash gives better results on tobacco than the mn- rints, but strawberry growers give preference fo the muriate. All erops will be benefited by the use of potash, som more than others, but the effects of potash iargely depend upon the cone dition of the soll. It Is excellent on frills, clover, heans and peas, and sel dam falls to Increase the yields on sandy soils. Winter Flowering Plants, There are several varteties of the be genta which are well adapted to wine ter ase. Inderd, they belong to the ever-blooming claims of plants, as under ordinary trestmeot they are seldom without flowers, and under Iibers) treatment they bloom profusely at nearly all seasons of the year. In this respect they are quite the equal of the geranium. They are also of very easy culture. All begonias do thelr best when given a spongy, porous soil, Leaf mould containing a generous amount of wand suits them better than a loamy compost, but they will flonrish in the latter If }t has sand enough In it to make It friable. Good is essential. In a poorly drained sof} defective root action is quite sure to result, and this is shown by the folinge terning brown at the edges and falling off. Often the plants fall apart. joint by joint.—Eben Rexford, in Harpers Basar, Leaf Riight Prevalent, My verbena and nasturtiom leaves werd attacked in such a way that whit Thousands | 13 $Dots came otit on the leaves. soon VA AIOIRA TY 3 A of : ; of childrin of those wie cobne hora in | a gr lar aifitice the steerige of a frangatiuntie Uner go | ors to Europe in the cabin, 0 be regarded § the tissues or layers of the léaves I dusted the folinge with a mixture of ; | one-third London purple. two-thirds takes only a four vears fo ive to the | 4. c ; four, sing awde wi allen the right to vote snd held every | SUF, using 4 Making powder bax With perforated lid for making the applies hi ; | thon to cabba currants 00se: Mr. MoeSwoenay will take the trouble | Ee, = and 2 to follow the foreizners after they | land, he will see thems fouling political | processions, snd bear them Inquiring | Bow soon they may vars In tha coun. | : | Budde made from soft sosp aod ratp fry It requires little more than ters) » berries, as well as flowars, Flue soot or sifted ashes would do to mix it with, but dour being heavier falls to the foliage and sticks better witter compictely routed the currant RS Par Thicker Orchard Vianting. After visiting many of the apple dis trict of Earope, as a frult bayer and | exporter, I have becotie convinced that a great deal of space goes to waste Cduring the early years of the average arehard. In maar cases the land is not fully utilized during the whole Hes time of the planter. The most prac tical plan seems that of thick setting amd subsequent removal of a part of the tees. Young trees are set twenty foet apart, the alterante trees being sortie young-bearfog kind. They will | do will for nearly twonty years in this climate, producing several times more frojt than a thinly planted orchawd Then the rows should be taken out al ternately in a diagonal direction. None of tha remaining tries will be nearer ln any direction than twenty-eight foes { apart, and with most varieties the i orchard will not be oo crowded during ifetime of the pl ww. Tho : lens wife. be rolls the peanat roaster | the: liZetime of the plante Those whe | downtown, returaing Some at noon aod prefer thinner setting may start with twinty-ive feet apart, and thin by the same plan to thirty-five feet<W, PB. : F Tryon, in American Agrieuiturist, funes planes, vepalrs clocks and or | Toth in American Agrt » fans Recently he tosh an orzan of | os rg JO A Devices Yor Breaking Clods. A home cled eruzher, designed for axe with a single horse. auswers the puipose better sometimes than some tof the manufactured tools that are performed the pertlons feat ip finate | Ing the court Rouse tower and repair much heavier, It may be made of neh oak planks which should be elght inches wide and three amd one-half feet long, The side boards are notched three Inches deep in onder that the proper pitch may be given to the boards forming the drag, The planks RONE-MADE CLOD CRUSHER. are fastened to the sides with fours incl upikes and the handles, which Pwuny de from any disearded plow, sre bolted to the side-pleces. The chains are attached to the side pieces by bere ing ludes in the latter, and after the cham is inserted running a spike through one of the links, In using this erusher, or drag, the operator stands to ragnage the tool in turning corners. This inplement will be found especial iy useful after fall plowing and for going vver the fields at any time prior to setiing small fruit plants. Rn Af di mre AV For 800 years the Chinese have made Wal Saf Pape
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