—— "NATURAL FISH TRAF. Strange Island Formation Oft the Brazilian Coast. ! The word “atoll” in Portuguese sig- nifies a group of reefs forming a small bay. The Atoll das Rocas is a natural horseshoe, where fish are caught in a labyrinth. The island may be reached from Pernambuco by boat in six hours, and is situated 125 miles northeast from Cape San Roque and eighty-four SUN MOYES A MONUMENT. NOT TRUE THAT FIND- . — UNG IS KEEPING. ' TISEIIIIIRIIIIIIINY Many people do not realize the power that the sun exerts even on such un yielding substances as solid stone. The Washington Monument is well known to bend itself measurably before the sun's rays, and numerous other in stances are on record proving the hom: age which even inanimate nature thus pays to the centre of all life. One of the most curious things of this A NN 7 A NATURAL a FISH TRAP, miles from the island of San Fernando de Noronha. It is fourteen miles in eircumference and from one-fourth to one-half mile wide. At ebb tide the reefs are almost completely out of the water and at high tide they are on a level with the sea. The difference be- tween high and low tide is about nine feet. The bay is completely sheltered (as shown in tlie sketch) and the water within the inclosure is about thirteen feet deep. During low tide the en- trance of the bay is almost closed by a shoal. The coast in these latitudes abounds in fish, for which the Atoll das Rocas furnishes a favorable retreat, and at the same time constitutes a trap of gigantic proportions. This pe- culiar island is formed by an aggrega- tion of a very porous limestone with numberless holes and crevasses, form- ing a natural shelter for all fish and *creeping things,” according to a report from United States Consul General Seeger at Rio de Janeiro. Rio de Janeiro imports about two tons of salted or dried fish per week, sall of which could easily be supplied from the Atoll das Rocas, besides lob- sters and other “frutti di mare,” if fishing were properly organized at this unique island, which, in fact, consti- tutes the greatest natural fish reser- voir and at the same time the most gigantic natural fish trap known to geography. On his retiring from active service in 1899, the Brazilian Adwiral, Pedro Benjamin de Cerqueira Lima, obtained from the Brazilian Government the ex- clusive right to the fishing industry at this island for thirty years, and after his recent death his children inherited the monopoly, but they are not making _use of it, and, it is said, have agreed to dispose of their privileges to a company which has been organized for the pur- pose.—Philadelphia Record. Endurance. How to fit ourselves into God’s good plan is the question which daily con- fronts each one of us. And having done all things stands. Love guides us In seizing the opportunity to observe. and to act with readiness and tact. Having done all things to the best of our ability we perforce obey the divine command to stand and learn. sort ever reported is spoken of by the Scientific American, It is a heavy stone ball thirty-five inches in diameter mounted on a pedestal as & monument in the cemetery at Marion, Ohio. This ball weighs 4200 pounds and it would take special machinery to move it. Nevertheless it is constantly moving all THIS 4200-POUND STONE BALL ROTATES ON ITS BASE, of itself, with the encouragement of the sun. Last spring it was noticed that the ball was rotating. and repeated meas- urements have demonstrated the fact beyond any question. The motion av- erages about an inch a month. It will be noted from the engraving that the circular unpolished spot at which the ball originally was placed on the ped- estal is now about halt way up, show- ing a quarter turn of the ball. Scientists are not agreed as to the exact explanation of this interesting phenomenon, though it is apparent that the movement is due in some way to the heat of the sun. Probably the heat causes one side of the bal! to expand more than the other, thus causing creeping motion which is infinitesimal from day to day, but which is natice- (able after atime. . A MARTYR. The Boy—“Don’t you get awful tired doin’ nothin’, mister?” The Man—*Terrible; but I never complain. Everybody has their troubles.” =The Tatler. AAA AAA AAA AANA AAAAAAAA AANA MAA NAAN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AVIAN ve His Country’s Navy. “Pool, pooh,” said the man with the yellow whiskers, “to icse a big navy isn’t such a staggering blow by any means. Why, my country could see every warship she possessed sent to the bottom without admitting that she was at all crippled hy the loss.” The crowd stared at Lim. “May I ask,” the conductor queried, “what country you hail from?” “I'm from Switzerland,” replied the yellow-whiskered man. — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Trying to Get Out of Is, A quaint story of Lord Leighton was told by Mr. G. Storey, A. R. A. Two ladies were looking at his picture of Helen of Troy. “It is a horrid pie- ture,” one remarked to the painter “I'm sorry, but it’s mine,” said Sir Frederick, as he then was. “Oh!” gaiq the lady, “you don’t mean to say you've bought it?” “No, I painted it,” wag the reply. “Oh!” declared the ladies “you must not mind what we say. We are only saying what everybody else sayst’=London Telegraph, h New York City.~There is no costume that suits the active young girl better than this one made in the favorite “Peter Thompson” or reguiation style. It is martin effect, girlish and very generally becoming, while at the same required eight yards of material twen- ty-seven, six and one-eighth yards thirty-two or four and a half yards forty-four inches wide with seven- eighth yard twenty-seven inches wide for collar and shield. Tucked Blouse or Shirt Waist. The fancy shirt waist, or the waist that takes an intermediate place be- tween the severely plain model and the elaborate ome, is always in de- mand. It is useful for many occasions, it is dainty and attractive without over- fuss, and makes an altogether desire able addition to the wardrobe, Illus- trated is a most charming one that is tucked in groups and trimmed with bands of insertion that are applied be- tween and which gives a dressy effect, while in reality it is so simple that it can quite easily be made. In the case of the model the material is white lawn, but there are innumerable oth- ers which are appropriate, thin silks and light-weight wools being made af ter the same manner as are the wash able fabrics. The waist consists of fronts and back. There is a regulation shirt waist pleat at the front edge beneath which the closing is made, and the narrow tucks are stitched in graduated lengths at the front, from shoulders to belt at back. The sleeves are the accepted ones that consist of fitted cuffs and with full portions above. The quantity of material required for A LATE DEJIGN Y MAY MANTON. a time it allows perfect freedom and ac- tivity. In the illustration the dress is made of dark blue serge with the col- lar and shield of white and banding of black over white, but the model is a favorite one for linen and similar washable materials as well as for serge, flannel and the like, and it is cor- rect in white as well as in color, so that many varieties can be made. White flannel and white pique are pe- culiarly charming for the real warm weather, and while they have the disadvantage of soiling readily, also can be cleansed easily and success- fully. The dress consists of the blouse and the skirt. The blouse is drawn on over the head, there being only a slight opening at the front, and is finished with a big sailor collar, beneath which the shield is attached. It can be faced to form the yoke or left plain as pre- ferred. The sleeves are the favorite ones that are gathered at the shoulders and tucked at the wrists. The skirt is cut in seven gores and is laid in a pleat at each seam, which is stitched for a portion of its length, pressed into position below. For a girl of fourteen years will be A Simpler, A little simpler was a white linen gown with Irish lace. The skirt had pin tucks over the hips and was tight fitting. Just above the knees were three hemstitched tucks, and below was a broad stripe of lace quite twelve inches deep. This was not an insertion but a wide lace with an edge. Below it were two hemstitched tucks and hemstitched hem, giving the effect of three tucks. The short bolero jacket was practically a cape of lace. Be- neath was a blouse of sheerest Persian the medium size is four and a quarter yards twenty-one, three and five-eighth yards twenty-seven or two yards forty- four inches wide, with five and three- eighth yards of insertion to trim as il- lustrated in the medium size. lawn, trimmed with fine tucks and Va- lenciennes insertion. A French Touch, There are French touches which give a great deal of style to one’s evening gown. One of these is the tiny hand- kerchief with a flower embroidered in the corner in colors. The bit of linen should be very fine and not much larg- er than a woman's hand. In the corner there should be a blue flower, a pink of a green to match one’s evening gown. Unclaimed Proper.y Must Be Hand ed Over to the Police if Found in a Public Place. —— There is a very widespread idea, as you may know, that finding is keeping. This is not universally true, however, The maxim must be taken as subject to certain distinct and definite limita- tions. Every law student is familiar with the case of the chimney-sweeper's lad who, having found a ring, took it to a jeweler to inquire what it was worth. The jeweler returned it without the principal stone, and it was held by the courts that the boy had a right to the jewel as against everyone but the true owner, and was therefore entitled to maintain an action against his despoil- er for the value of the missing stone. Moreover, as this was not produced by the latter, it was assumed to be a stone of the finest water that would fit the setting. This is the leading law case upon the subject. Any person who finds an article of value in a public place is under obliga- tion to hand it over to the police. If, however, there is any identifying mark upon the property, or any other clue by which the owner may be discovered, it amounts to a theft to retain it from him. Unclaimed or untraceable property found in a private house, or on private land, whether by a servant of the own: er or by a stranger, is presumed to be- long to the owner of the land. But it would be different in the case of a more or less public place, such as a railway station or the open part of a shop, when the finder would undoubtedly be the keeper.—Scottish-American. WISE WORDS: ‘Advice lightly given deserves to be lightly taken. The man who profits from his mis- takes has made a good investment. Golden coin and fashion’s magic touch will make the evil one look like a saint. Money governs with the consent of General Apathy and his well disci- plined army. Vulgar habits spring from a vulgar mind, for as the thought is, so is the deed in kind, No man is any worse than he wants to be, but most of us would like to be better than we are. "Tis true, and ’tis a strange thing 'tis true, that a weakness which is not strong enough to master us is no weak- ness at all. It’s a wise man who knows a good thing when he sees it; any fool can pick out the things that are good for nothing. Resting the Heart. “Rest your heart now and then dur- ing the day,” said an instructor in gymnastics. “But the heart can’t be rested,” a pupil objected. “It works incessantly from birth to death.” “It rests the heart to lie down,” said the instructor. “Every night's sleep of nine hours saves the heart the lift: ing of 32,000 ounces of blood. Con- siderable rest there, eh? “When we lie down, you see, the heart's action becomes slower—slower by “ten strokes a minute. Thus in an hour 600 strokes are saved, and in nine hours 5400 strokes. Each stroke pumps six ounces of blood, and there- fore in nine hours the heart is saved the labor of pumping 32,000 ounces. “The heart often requires a rest.’'— Philadelphia Bulletin. A Side Show by Bangs. John Kendrick Bangs loves music, and for a preference Wagner's operas take first rank. How well he knows them and how closely he follows the music was illustrated*the other night at one of the concerts on the New York Theatre Roof, when Mr. Dam: rosch’s orchestra was playing the “Ride of the Valkyries.” The humorist was holding his eye- glass case in his hand when the leader tapped on his music rack for the band’s attention, and with the first stroke of his baton Mr. Bangs began to beat time on the palm of his left hand with the little leather case. Never once through the long and difficult score did he fai! to catch the beat at the proper moment, and when the number was ended he slipped the case back into his pocket with the air of ome who had really done something well.—New York Press. Rojestvensky’s “Impulsiveness.’” I remember a salient instance of Rojestvensky’s morbid impulsiveness during the maneuvres at Reval, when the “Admiral of the Atlantic” was ad- miring the warships of the “Admiral of the Pacific.” © One of the most prominent figures after the two mon- archs was that of the future command- er of the Baltic squadron. During the artillery fire, which seemed to be pro- gressing very well at the moment, the Admiral stood on i\e bridge looking intently through Ee Nt glasses. All at once he leaped asideNdarted down the ladder, and rushing up to the men who were serving the guns, belabored them unmercifully with his field glasses to the accompaniment of pic. turesque expressions which sailors are wont to regard as almost “techb- nical terms.”—London Telegraph, A Fourteen Foot Snake, Otto Humboldt, while in the vicinity of West Fork shot a snake of unknown species, said to be the largest ever killed in Crawford County. Humboldt was armed with a Win- chester, and he shot fourteen bullets into the quivering mass before he ven- tured in range. The snake nreasured fifteen inches in circumference and was fourteen feet in length.—English Correspondence Indianapolis News. FARM TOPICS. PLANTING FOR THE FOWLS. It is wise to plant certain crops for exclusive use in the poultry yard; among these are oats, cowpeas, sun- flower seed, kafir corn, sorghum, millet and clover. Most of what is fed to fowls on the farm ought to be grown there, for the profit in cggs and fowls is largely in their feed. DRIED BLOOD FOR CALVES. The tonic effects of dried blood have been proved during feeding experi- ments at the Kansas station. Calves that did not seem to do well improved rapidly when fed on the dried blood in small quantities. In some cases a tea- spoonful of dried blood added to the milk showed marked effects after one or two days. A calf that gained only, four pounds in seventy-nine days be- gan to gain after feeding dried blood, and by the time it was a year old weighed 578 pounds. Another calf that was weak and sickly at the start made very fair gains as soon as it could be induced to eat a little dried blood. Some of the packing companies make a soluble form of blood meal that is claimed to dissolve in milk more easily than the ordinary article, CURE OF HOGS. Are your hogs free from lice? If they are not, they ought to be. If they. get lousy they will not thrive as they, should, and you will not get much profit from the feed they consume. They will not gain the number of pounds in the length of time as they, should, for the lice get more benefit from the feed than the hog does. It does not pay to feed lice. Hogs to be most profitable should be kept growing from the time of their birth until ma- tured, as it takes a certain amount of feed to sustain life, and when the hogs are in a condition in which they are making no gain all the feed they con- sume is lost. It is the amount of feed consumed over and above what it takes to sustain life that is a clear profit to the owner.—The Epitomist. WEEDS ON WALKS. Hot brine will destroy weeds. It should be made from a pound of salt to a gallon of water, and applied with a watering pot in :as nearly boiling condition as possible. It is much pref- erable to the use of dry salt, which tends to make paths unsightly for some time. Ten gallons of water, twenty pounds of quicklime and two pounds of sulphur boiled in an iron vessel answer the same purpose if, af- ter settling, the clear part is poured off and used as necessary. Yet other rem- edies are an ounce of carbolic acid to a gallon of water used in a watering pot, and one part of commerical sul- phuric acid (oil of vitriol) to thirty parts of water mixed in a wooden pail and applied only with a very thorough- ly painted watering pot. None of these preparations should be brought into coutact with the clothcs or person of the operator, RENOVATING GRASS LAND. One of the first results of the contin- uous grazing of land by milch cow or young stock is the exhaustion of the phosphoric acid which such land cony, tains. The quantity of this plant food material removed in a single year may not appear very considerable when worked out by analysis, but un- der the most favorable conditions the percentage of phosphoric acid in the soil is very small, and when the land is grazed for a number of years and no manure is applied to it with the object of returning the phosphoric acid car- ried away, the exhaustion eventually assumes so serious a form as to consid- erably diminish the grass-producing capacity of the land. For restoring to the soil the phosphate thus removed the best artificial dressings at present at the command of farmers are super: phosphate and basic slag, the last named of which is found specially val- uable on soils deficient in lime. Other plant food materials also get carried away in the same manner, of course, but that which is the first to become exhausted is the phosphoric acid.— Massachusetts Ploughman. ABOUT HOES, The winter season is a good time for looking over the tcols of the farm and seeing if they are in proper condition. Although the horse hoe has superseded the hand hoe very largely in the field, yet it will never go out of use, and in the garden it is indispensable, so much so in fact that the person who tills a garden needs several hoes of different sizes and shapes, If there are any old hoes about the buildings that are ap- parently wcrn out, better take them to the workshop, cut their ragged edges, trim them to a true and even shape. when they become the handiest imple ments that you ever saw, almost. For working among small plants one of these cut over hoes can be used to the greatest advantage. Almost any shape that a partly worn hoe can be cut inte will be valuable. A V shaped hoe ig admirable for many kinds of work, se also is one with the lower or cutting edge the longest, "the top being cut narrow. The edges of these hoes should be kept sharp at all times. Take a file to the field and file the edges whenever they need it. It al ways pays to keep a hoe sharp, no mat. ter what kind it is. Yes, and don’t for: get to keep it bright, too. Whenever you hang it up just rub it over with a little grease.—F, H, Cow, in The Dpit- omist, ow ¥ diy Ther versitie Mra. W teethin tion,all Winr fastest !don tionhas F.Boy: The estimat Gern to the idly g operati Mana Man 43 +A N ® FO troubled ¢ peir sex cessful, "stops dis ooreness, Paxtine water, an and econo Ton Trial THE R. | —t—— DR cuses. Se treatment mre RS
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