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PETRIFACTION A FAKE,
Scientist Who Claim* a Real Cm* Urns
Neve* lleen Found*
Prof. W. J. McGee of the Ethnologi
cal Bureau at Washington, la author
ity for the statement that no such
thinr as human petrifaction has ever
been discovered. He does not claim
that it cannot ex'st, but simply states
that all cases of petrified human be
ings up to the present time are noth
ing more or less than fakes.
Recently a letter forwarded to tho
bureau stated that the head of a man,
reported to be petrified, had been dis
covered somewhere in the wilds of
New Jersey. Later came the myste
rious head, and a convocation of learn
ed scientists gravely held council over
it. They were disappointed. The head
turned out to be a limestone boulder,
curiously fashioned, it is true, into
features very like a human being's, but
a limestone boulder nevertheless.
Another case which at the time
looked as though it. would explode all
of the old theories and prove to be the
real things, was that of a body of a
woman, which a company had been
exhibiting throughout the West as the
only petrified woman. She excited
much attention and the notice of the
scientists at the Ethnological Bureau
was drawn to the case. "The only
petrified woman" was forwarded to
Washington and an investigation was
held. The scene of the inquest was
a gruesome affair. It was late on a
winter afternoon, and one gns jet was
lit. The body was laid out in the
center of the room in its frame coffin,
and Prof. McGee, with much gravity,
proceeded to conduct the services.
They consisted of taking from his
pockets several little instruments and
of ooring a few inches into the foot.
To the amazement of every onlooker, a
small section of a gas pipe was struck.
This ended the inquest. Mrs. Stone's
reputation as l profesiional was for
ever spoiled, and she no longer went
galavanting around the country pos
ing as "the one and only petrified
woman ever discovered in the history
of the world."
There is a factory in California
which manufactures petrified human
beings by the wholesale. They cause
them to bo buried in different parts of
the country, then unearthed and sold
for exhibition purposes. Every kind
of a petrified human being, men, wom
en and children, Indians, giants, and
what-not, has been unearthed in re
mote parts of the United States, and
their finding has resulted in a big sen
sation for the immediate locality, and
a gold mine for the fellow who took
It up for exhibition purposes. More
frauds have been perpetrated in this
way than even in the (lime museums.
Tho bureau has suppressed more of
these frauds within recent years than
It has stopped to count, and there is
not a year without its good sensation
In tout office itself.
Art M, of State,.
It appears from the geographical
surveys accepted as a basis of the re
cent federal census that Texas is ths
largest state in the country. In the
New England group the largest of the
states Is Maine with nearly 30,000
square miles of land surface; none of
the other New England states has as
much as 10,000. Two states which are
most nearly alike In area are New
York and North Carolina. Two others
which correspond very nearly are
lowa and Illinois. Arkansas and Ala
bama are of almost the same size and
Ohio and Virginia differ by only a few
square miles. The lund area of each
is about 40.000 square miles.
Wnr on Pouter*.
The agitation in France against the
disfigurement of country landscapes by
flaring advertisements still proceeds,
but it appears with doubtful success,
owing to vested Interests. The coun
try people whose land lies alongside
the lines of railway are readily tempt
ed by tho offers of the advertising
contractors from whom some of them
reap quite a respectable income from
displaying posters which puff soup,
chocolate, drinks, etc. It Is said that
an agent of one firm is now starting
on a journey through 38.000 com
munes, in each of which he is to ar
range for the erection of a painted
hoard. This Is to be done in time for
the tourist season. The no;jee boards
already arranged for and erected by
this agent cost hta no less than 11,'.0J
francs a year.
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W After the lapse of wearying years ® Mb
I am glad that I sit alone to-day; **•
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♦ . I can see him still, as he ran about, •
j9£ And I know the prayer he used to say. Jjsg
441 hol(1 h,s Picture to my face
**|fc And I fancy I feel his hand again
*-j> As It creeps into mine, and he takes his
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•"* On my knee, as he did In the fair days * • • /
Jj&m JfeL when Jk*
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. •'* And I stirred the envy of other men. " •'•
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ifyi "His days were only days of Joy,
*t4fc Happy, he shouted the hours away; f .
3p% was glad wlt ' l the ffiee of a careless
He laughed as only the innocent may;
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ifctT-d, * le never looked back with vain regret -jr.- •Jk*
3K JBgJ At the close of a sorrowful day.
♦ "I keep the little clothes he wore,
I treasure the shoes that encased his •*jp
The way was smooth that he traveled
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The w,nds that blew through his curly m
"A' Had blown out of peaceful realms and 't*
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When they crossed his hands and laid
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•§& lam glad that I toil alone to-day! ■■■> aHi
_ He knew life's gladness, but not its woe,
?&• .iVL And I have his memory, and I know J&IL Jhl*
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The Girl of Lamy.
BY H. A. CALLAHAN.
(Copyright. 1901, by Dally Story Pub. Co.)
Just a handful of wooden houses in
Lamy, thrown together as if by the
haphazard hand of a careless God into
tho little pocket of the mountains that
stand like priests around the city of
Santa Fe. Here it is that the dust
gray coaches which thunder in from
Arizona on the west, meet their broth
ers from the east and exchange for a
few brief moments the greetings of the
way.
Of course, the red clap-board eating
house and station are the main attrac
tions during these arrivals and present
scenes of unwonted activity to those
accustomed to the aching solitude of
the place by day or its blinking dream
iness beneath the stars at night.
No one distinctly remembers just
when or how the Girl became an insti
tution at Lamy. However, they do re
member that one September morning
some years back there was a new face
behind the counter in the eating-house;
a face framed in dull gold hair and
lighted by two blue-gray eyes, which
seemed forever on the brink of laugh
ter. The boys who made their home
in* the little clap-board affair used to
call her Mollie; but it was a name of
their own devising and she accepted
It, as she did many other little things,
with an inscrutable smile that puzzled,
yet meant nothing. When the crews
would come in from a heavy climb,
soaked to the bone with rain and sleet,
the Girl was there in a motherly way,
with a stiff three fingers of whisky and
a supper that lifted them clear of their
weariness. Or, if on a Saturday night,
A New Face Behind tho Counter,
the sounds of a brawl would flaunt
down on the still air the Girl would
walk over to German Joe's In a busi
ness-like way and scatter the drunkest
of them with a quiet word and an ad
monnltory jerk of the sleeve that sent
them sneaking out like coyotes. Then,
perhaps, she would stand and smile in
the doorway with her hair blowing in
the wind, her eyes speaking more plain
ly than words that a new era had be
gun In Lamy. Her sway was absolute.
And it was not long before every fire
boy and throttle-man on the Division
had had his own individual experience,
jig 8
ifin
"Where's Dan?"
tamed by the graceful slip of a girl
with golden hair, who seemingly came
from nowhere—the Angel of the Grade..
This was all before Dan Beard hap
pened in. Dan was from the Colorado
hills and no angel. They had put him
first 011 the little bunt line that runs
crazily over the hills to Santa Fe.
Then he was shifted to the main line
for relay work and became a fixture at
Lamy. Dan was six feet one, brown as
leather and as tough, and incidentally
'•.ould drink more whisky than any
man this side of Phoenix. He spent
his mornings against the bar in Ger
man Joe's place, cursing out the road,
from the president down. Then about
ten minutes before his run began he
would shuffle over to his machine and
get his orders. When these were duly
scanned Dan would open up No. 20
gently and sneak out of Lamy like a
snake, but before the whistling post
was passed he had her galloping over
the rails like a frightened thing and
bellowing like a bull. He became no
torious as the most reckless devil on
the road, and everybody said that
sooner or later there would be a smash
somewhere up in the hills and Dan
Beard would got oft' the line forever.
But the smash didn't seem to come,
and Dan's mad way continued. Then a
change came. II was almost imper
ceptible. But gradually Dan dropped
away from the whisky and bade fair to
quit it altogether. He didn't take the
grades so fast and slackened up on the
curves almost like the rest. Some said
it. was "Mollie." Some said the Divi
sion Superintendent. Nobody ever
really knew.
It was a morning in the early June
the great event occurred. A dispatch
had come over the wires saying that
a special was coming from the east and
that a double-header would be needed
to carry it over the grades. Dan
Beard's No. 20 could climb a tree, and
the big fellow got his orders to make
the run. It was getting close to start
ing time and Johnny Coleman, Dan's
fire boy, was growing anxious. Dan
had not shown up all morning. He
was not at German Joe's, nor around
the station. The dispatcher was stand
ing in the sun looking at his watch and
swearing safely to himself. He was
just on the point of putting another
man on No. 20, when something white
caught his eye on the hill-path that
runs above the cut. As it came nearer
he saw it was Mollie, and right behind
was Dan, clumsily picking his way
over the stones. At the station Dan
called out: "All ready," to the dis
patcher, looking rather sheepish and
strangely happy.
"Remember, Dan," spoke Mollie, as
No. 20 began to move. "Not another
drop, little girl. Not another and
.10 waved a brown fist back at the girl,
•r the tender bumped over the switch
to the main track. And not until the
big machine dwindled to a mere bug
in the distance did Mollie turn her
back and disappear in the doorway.
That night the special from the east
was late. It crept into Lamy with one
engine and that engine was not No. 20.
The little knot that gathered in curi
osity on the platform felt in their
hearts something was impending.
Johnny Coleman limped up, his head
bandaged in white cloth, and looking
weak and sick.
"Where's Dan?" asked a little wom
an with a face very white.
Johnny Coleman did not answer, but
looked uneasily away. They were
lifting something very gently from the
baggage car to lay it on the platform.
Johnny told as briefly as possible the
details.
"Making up time, we left the track
at the culvert," he said. "I jumped
clear, but Dan didn't get out in time.
When we got him from beneath he
was pretty bad. And " (someone
was crying very softly over where Dan
lay.) Johnny continued: "I guess we
could ha' pulled 'im through at that.
But he wouldn't take the whisky we
give him.
" 'Ain't drinking, Johnny; not an
other drop,' was all he said, and then
he sort o' turned over like a tired
little kid and —I 'spose that's when he
died."
That night was a lonely vigil in
Lamy and along in the early dawn
they buried Dan Beard. He's up there
near the liill-path that runs above the
cut, and can hear the 100 tonnersi
climbing up the grade. And some
times when the boys give the long blast
for the Junction they just pull a short
one for Dan —the worst man on the
Division.
If you are ever down that way, drop
in on the girl at the eating-house.
She's not very stylish, and I guess per
haps her talk is a bit western, but
somehow or other they seem to think
pretty well of her in Lamy. And, by
the way, they don't call her "Mollie"
any more. It's just Dan Beard's girl—
the Girl at Lamy.
"There's m Pipe."
Do you know there is much fake
business about the pipe-smoking and
pipe-offering host? So long has tb.e
earth been flooded with rot and rub
bish about "the pipe" that ordinary
men must live fifty years before they
can break away from the idea that a
briar or cob, packed with long-cut Or
granulated at 20 cents a pound is the
very quintessence of comfort and hos
pitality. Tut-tut! Who wants to put
between his lips a guttapercha stem
that others have slobbered through? I
have in piind several acquaintances
who keep on hand from ten to a dozen
rancid old pipes to hand around when
friends call. Such men are practicing
economy for economy's sake. They
are too mean to offer you a 10-cent
cijar, and pretend that their dirty
old pipes are good enough for any
body. Catch 'em outside and ask if
they'll have a smoke. Why, certain
ly. And they order quarter cigars. I
have had much experience of these
chaps.—New York Press.
Advice to Olrls Who Travel.
The young girl who is traveling by
herself should seek information from
the train people rather than from her
companions on the train. No girl in
traveling should make confidants of
strangers of either sex, disclose her
name, her destination of her family af
fairs, or make acquaintances on the
road. She may, however, show kind
attention to a mother traveling with
little children, amuse a wearied little
one, and politely thank anyone who
does her an unobtrusive kindness.—
Margaret E. Sangster in the Ladies' ,
Home Journal.
A Cosmopolitan Army.
The conflict between the Germans
and Czechs In Austria-Hungary, which
deserves Secretary Seward's appella
tion of "the irrepressible conflict,"
makes interesting a study of the ele
ments composing the army of that
country, which consists of 428,000
Slavs, 227,000 Allemands, 120,000 Mag
yars, 48,000 Roumanians and 14,000
Italians. The Slavs are made up of
174,000 Czechs, 76,000 Polos, 75,000
Ruthenlans, 75,000 Croatlans and Ser
vians and 28,000 Slavonians.
New To., the Sunnleflt City.
New York claims to be the sunniest
of the large cities. The United States
weather bureau has charts in light and
shade showing, from 1870 to 1895, how
many days have been sunny In each
part of the country. Although Arizona
has sometimes attained a percentage
cf SO and other parts of the west have
seen very clear skies. New York city
follows closely with a mean percent
| auto of 50.
MRIIS^L
Summer Treatment of Milk.
During hot weather the best means
of caring for milk designed for the
creamery is to run it through a sepa
rator a few moments after milking.
Cool the cream as much as possible
with the coolest well water available.
Put the cream into eight-gallon cans
and keep it at as low a temperature
as well water will hold it. Deliver
when convenient. If the well water is
54 degrees or less, the cream will keep
in good condition.
Capturing Squnfth nu;.
The old-fashioned squash bug Is not
as easy creature to destroy. It can
not be reached by the ordinary poison
sprays, as it takes its food by sucking
the plant and does not eat the foliage.
Kerosene emulsion, soap solution and
tobacco decoction have been recom
mended and used with some success;
but hand-picking is most satisfactory.
The bugs can be decoyed under pieces
of boards, such as barrel staves, etc.,
if laid on the ground with one end
slightly raised, among the vines. Clus
tering under these boards for shelter
and protection, the pests can be col
lected and destroyed a couple of times
daily, until their numbers are greatly
reduced.
Advice to Ileginnnr* In Farming.
Beginners in farming, especially
those with limited capital, should en
deavor to produce earlv and late ciops,
so as to have cash coming in all the
time, if possible. One of the essen
tials for quick returns is poultry. The
hens should lay every day, with good
management. One or two good cows
will also be found serviceable, as milk,
butter and eggs are cash at all seasons.
Small fruits, such as strawberries,
currants, gooseberries, raspberries and
blackberries, soon give returns, but
grapes and orchard fruit require more
time. On a small farm it may not pay
to depend upon the cereal crops.
Stock, fruit and vegetables give better
profits and bring in cash long before
the harvest comes for corn. There
is nothing that will give larger and
quicker profits in proportion to cap
ital invested than fowls, and as they
multiply rapidly the number can be
increased every year. The fowls will
also consume much waste material
that cannot be otherwise utilized.
Cultivating Fine Tomatoen.
Producing fine tomatoes is quite
an art, and one that it pays the grower
to master if ho expects to make much
money out of the crop. Professor
Massey says that he formerly enter
taind the opinion, still held by some,
that heavy applications of nitrogenous
manures made the vines too rank and
the fruit more crooked; but persistent
efforts in improving the character of
the fruit and the modes of culture
have convinced him that wllh a go'-d
strain of seed no amount of manuring
will make it arty more irregular, while
a poor strain will he irregular In any
event, and that a rank growth of vine,
induced by heavy manuring, simply
indicates the need of more room for
the plant and a heavier crop of big
tomatoes, and that heavy manuring
on the hill Is the best way to insure a
vigorous growth of vine and a corre
sponding vigor and perfection in the
fruit.
I have also learned that small fruits
grow from seeds of small fruits, and
vice versa; that trimming and train
ing the plant to a single stem leads to
a smaller production of blossoms, less
pollen and a smaller erop; that the
largest crops are always on the plants
which are allowed to take their full
natural development and grow at their
own sweet will on the ground; that
healthy tomatoes lying on the ground
are no more liable to rot than those
trained off it. No fruit is more rapidly
improved by careful selection, and
none more rapidly deteriorated by
carelessness than the tomato. Like
Indian corn, the tomato Is best when
the seed is produced in the same lati
tude and climate where the crop is to
be grown, and it seldom does its best
the first season when taken far north
or south of its native locality. The
improvement of the tomato should the
therefore be carried on in the locality
where the crop is to be raised.—Vick'o
Magazine
Tho f!ra*liopper Pemt.
Nature has ordained that an endless
warfare should prevail among her
creatures, to the end that one species
should not increase too fast, and crowd
others out of existence. The growth
of microscopic plants in certain in
sects, causing their death, is an ex
ample of this. Most of these plants
belong to a family that the botanists
call empusa, from the Greek word
meaning "ghost."
A striking peculiarity about the
plants is that they can grow only on
certain kinds of insects and always
while the insects are alive. There is
a kind, for example, called the empusa
grylliJ, that grows only on the grass
hopper. One can find many dead
grasshoppers. In the autumn, clinging
to fenees, tree-trunks or buildings,
several feet above the ground. Break
open the bodies, and yen will find a
white substance that seems to have
burned up the 1". ring tissues, ani
turned the insects into mummies,
which cling, life-like, loug after
death. This white substance is the
spores of the empusa gryllii.
Now It is suggested that one of the
best ways to get rid of the grass
hoppers In the west, where they ao so
much injury to the crops, Is to infect
some of them with the empusa gryllil,
and thus cause an epidemic among
them. Those who have studied the
question say that the plan is wholly
feasible, for the spores of the plants
are blown from the body of the dead
insect in every direction by the wind,
and if even one -- on a live hopper,
it is likely to grow, and as surely as
it grows, it will kill the hopper.
The way the farmers now try to rid
themselves of the pest is to drag over
the fields, by hand or by horse power,
a broad wooden trough, partly filled
with water having petroleum on the
surface. Back of the trough is
stretched a cloth, against which the
grasshoppers fly, falling thence into
the oil. This device, however, is only
partially successful, and the empusa i
infection would supplement it, even if
it would not render it wholly unneces
sary.—Philadelphia Record
l'repnrlna Wool for Mnrk.t,
To get the full value for our wool it
must be washed. The difference be
tween washed and unwashed wool is t
so great that it pays the grower every
time to wash it. Good delaine wool
will not shrink one-third, which prices
quoted in the market seem to indicate.
There are many ways of washing,
however, whic do not prove success
ful. I have seen some housed breed
ing ewes washed so that the discolor
ation which appeared only in patches
before the operation was distributed
all through the wool, practically in
juring its quality to a considerable
extent By distributing the color all
through the wool it was given a dingy
appearance which immediately excited
the suspicions of the buyers.
Nevertheless, the careful prepara
tion of the wool for market is as es
sential today as any other feature of
the business. In the northern wool- .
growing sections cold weather and *
cold water often make the work late
in the season, and this sometimes
proves quite a disadvantage. Probably
what is needed as much as
anything else in every good
wool-growing section of the coun
try is a co-operating scouring
house. This would solve the problem
and save to the farmers a considerable
part of the profit that now goes to the
commission men. It would cost little
to send the wool to such a house and
have it scoured ready for market.
Scoured wool sells so much higher
that the profits in some instances
would be increased from 20 to 50 per
cent. Such a scouring house could be
conducted in almost any good sheep
raising district on the commission
plan. It would pay both the farmers
and the commission men. The two
could agree on a fair commission for
scouring the wool, and the farmers
could easily keep such a house run
ning. In fact, it would draw upon a
wide neighborhood, for it would pay p
the growers to have their wool scoured
at home 011 a fixed basis, and then ship
it to market in this condition. As it
is now, the unscoured, unwashed wool
is always purchased at such low prices
that there is a very wide margin of
profit left for somebody to make be
fore the wool is finally made up into
cloth. There are too many middle
men who must get their pay. By dis
posing of a few of these the grower
would receive more, and the consumer
would actually be charged less for his
manufactured product A good scour
ing house would save washing, which
is sometimes an expensive process,
and also save loss in other ways. A
house of this kind located right in the
heart of a wool-growing country could
easily calculate upon handling from
10.000.000 to 15,000,000 pounds of wool
annually.—W. E. Edwards in Amer
ican Cultivator.
Poultry Point., i
A poultry farm is a photo of the
poultryman.
I.ow. level roosts are pdeferable to
high, sloping ones.
Plenty of fresh water placed in the
shade is always in order in the poultry
yards.
Camphorated balls are recommended
for keeping lice from the nests of lay
ing and sitting hens.
Keep the little chicks busy. If they
are taught to hustle for a portion of
their food they will grow fast and
look thrifty.
Don't let cats and dogs worry the
lien with young chickens. Many of
c.o little fellows are permanently in
jured by being trampled.
As soon as the goslings nre about
feathered, put them out In a pasture-*
with plenty of grass and water, and
iney will be no more bother until 1
picking time. w
A quart of corn, or its equivalent, is
estimated as being sufficient for 10
hens one day. But some hens eat less
and some more. Besides, it is bard to
ce ue the "equivalent."
Raw corn meal should not be fed to
small chicks. If it must be given,
mix it wllh one-third shorts and bake.
Give the fowls plenty of cool, fresh
water and keep the drinking vessels
under shade.
There may not be anything in show
but there Is a whole lot in looks when
it comes to poultry. A neat-looking
egg basket is more apt to have good
eggs than a dirty one, and the cus
tomer will have his eye on it, too.
Every conscientious poultry raiser
win be careful not to send stale eggs
to market If the egg is doubtful do
not sell it, for your neighbor to eat.
Gather the eggs every day and use
china nest egg. Leaving an egg forv
a nest egg should never be tolerated T
on any poultry farm.