THE ISLE OF QUIET.
The 1 s!es of Quiet lie beyond the years,
Hoar prophets say it: yet, for all the tears,
I doubt the saying of the seers.
I think that whoso seeks them here shall
find
That all with open, patient heart and
mind
Shall drink their peace from sun ar.d wind.
—John Vance Cheney, in the New York Outlook*
THE EMANCIPATION OF TOY DUK.
A Strikes Chinese Character Study.
By Marguerite St,cb er.
IN his oirn country, Hnie Keewould
not have dared to raise his low
born eyes even so high as Toy
Duk's little crippled feet, but in
this country, where everything is pos
sible, he promptly fell in love with her
011 the approved American plan. He
haunted the street in which she lived,
and watched her latticed balcony with
his eyes turned up at the corners in a
very Western way, for he was the un
happy resultant of the two opposing
forces, Chinese birth and American
training.
Aud Toy, also imbued with the spirit
of American independence, had so far
declared her emancipation from Orien
tal custom as to return his glances
from behind her shutters. To be sure
the slats were scarcely turned, nnd
she peeped through her sleeve, but to
her it was a mad flirtation, and she
trembled at her audacity. The doughty
Chew Bang, her father, not only kept
his balcony latticed more securely than
those of his neighbors, but the lattice
work was of iron liars, which made the
little balcony strikingly like a prison.
Ami now, after 305 long, monotonous,
colorless (lays, another Dragon-day had
rolled around—the only day In all the
stupid years worth living, as poor little
Toy thought The sedate little valley
town was, on this occasion, overrun
with an invading horde of chattering,
jabbering coolies, for there was scarce
ly an able-bodied Chinaman for twenty
miles around who was not looking at
tlfe great dragon parade.
On this eventful day the Chinese
women are driven up and down long
streets. Toy Dult sat rigidly upright
in a cnrrlage ns she endeavored to bal
ance a two-story head-dress of fearful
and wonderful construction, while the
layers of rice powder on her cheeks
fell into cracks as she babbled and
laughed in her enjoyment of this unu
sual excitement. She was a beautiful
little yellow lady, whose slippers were
scarcely larger than an oyster shell,
and, alas! almost as shapeless, who
hobbled about gracefully with the help
of an attendant, or squatted on a mat,
a marvel of elegance and dignity. And
as she sat in her gaj'ly bedizened car
riage, her little almond eyes dancing
with merriment, many foreign eyes
were turned admiringly in her direc
tion. But from the moment of the
first excited shout, announcing the ap
pearance of the procession, till, after
much coaxing on the part of the sol
diers, the glittering dragon was finally
induced to go under the low doorway
that led to oblivion till the next par
ade, Toy was conscious of nothing but
.the wonder and splendor that filled
her eyes oh all sides!
At last, however, it was all over, anil
Toy Duk's holiday was drawing to a
close, too, for she was kept almost as
securely packed away as the dragon.
From her latticed balcony she had of
ten watched the American girls walk
ing about freely at all hours of the day.
Independent and happy, and had asked
herself what, after all, was the great
advantage of being a "little-foot" wom
an. anyway. Old Bang's Iron grating,
notwithstanding all bis precaution, was
not high enough or strong enough to
keep out the microbes of discontent
that fill tl'.e air. Sorrowfully she saw
the shadows grow longer and watched
the minute hand on the clock tower
catching up with the hour hand. All
her life she had lived in two bare little
rooms and ono high walled porch, and
had been out ono day eaeii year, as 011
this occasion. By anil by some ono
would buy her, then there would he a
change of homes, and she hoped, de
voutly, the new balcony might not he
so high, but there would still be only
that one day in all the year worth liv
ing. If she should live to he an old
woman, say sixty years, that would
make just sixty "worth-while" days.
Two months of an American girl's year
would represent a whole lifetime to
her, for just to be out in the sunlight,
to feel free to come and go as she
chose, to know what was around the
corners of the streets below, was all
her hungry little soul craved.
Thus she mused as her carriage slow
ly moved along. Then she raised her
eyes in response to a steady look fixed
upon her from the opposite side of the
street, and through a mist of rebellions
tears saw Koe. 111 an instant the
clouds of discontent were cleared
away, and in defiance of the stupid cus
tom that had hedged her so closely
about all her life, she frankly returned
Ills look. A moment Inter she deliber
ately went him one better, and smiled
with a sudden burst of mischief that
seemed to well up from the depth of
a merry little heart, sparkle in her
eyes till It bubbled over and dimpled
down her cheeks and lost Itself around
the corners of her mouth. At this sign
of encouragement Mr. Koe walked
straight up to the carriage, raised Ids
hat, and extending his hand took hers
In the American way he had often seen
people do, but flip look that went with
the act was original, and had neither
to lie learned nor copied.
Tills was bold emancipation. Toy
felt the eyes of the world must ho
upon her, hut was not dismayed In
the least: she quite enjoyed it. She
even tried to wriggle her poor little
tortured toes to see if they, too, were
not becoming emancipated from their
stupid imprisonment. The other occu
I think who will may share their psalm,
begun
The hour when summer day is done
The sky and field tire growing one.
I know the foolish fancies fondest
cling;
But I believe the 6till air's murmuring,
The s\ve°t far thing the thrushes sing.
pants of the carriage looked at her In
horror, hut she was now across the Ru
bicon, and liiuig deilancc at everything
on the thither side. She didn't even
care what the consequences might be,
lor her 0110 day was almost over, and
she was hound to make the most of it.
So she laughed and chatted with Iluie
Kce in a pretty little Cantonese sing
song, as she had seen the American
girls do, while the "eagle-bird"
screeched loudly over her head.
Then, when his dragonship was lost
to view, the crowds began to move to
ward the scene of the bomb-easting.
In an incredibly short time the streets
were cleared, and the open between the
joss house aud the levee fdled with a
swarm of excited contestants.
Kce's soul was fired with a deter
mination to eatcli one of the bombs,
for that would insure the success of
his every undertaking during the year.
And poor Kee bad dire need of all the
help it could give him, for while he had
stood chatting with the emancipated
Toy, her father, Chew Bang, as is of
ten tlio way of fathers, had watched
them from an opposite doorway. Such
conduct on the part of his carefully
brought-up daughter was almost be
yond belief, and as he watched her
talking boldly to a man 011 the street,
knowing tlie eyes of the world were
upon her, in horrified surprise Ids little
bias-cut eyes grew wicked looking.
Every minute of this scandalous belin
vlor was bringing down Toy's selling
price, nnd Kee, the miserable, low-horn
pauper, knew it. Perhaps he was
doing it to make her an unsaleable
chattel. Bang told himself, in order
that ho might get her at a bargain.
Yes, that was undoubtedly the reason,
he decided, nnd Toy, poor, misguided
little fool, had not wit enough to see it
But lie was prepared to nip such an
unheard-of flirtation in the bud in an
effectual way. And his teeth mot with
a vicious click as he started off down
the alley on a noiseless little trot
When the bomb-easting began Kee
took a reluctant leave of Toy, and was
soon lost in the crowd, but Bang fol
lowed him closely. The bomb Is pro
jected high in tiie air, while the men
struggle to catch it as it comes
down. The squabbling nnd yelling
aud actual fighting over it show how
firmly their faith is pinned to this su
perstition, aud the victor is borne
away with shouts and cheers, while
the less fortunate ones slip away
with black eyes, bleeding noses and
sometimes serious breakages.
Chew Bang bided his time until Kee
entered tlio lists, then took his place
near him. lie held his right arm very,
straight, and guarded it fforn being
jostled by tlio scurrying crowd.
As the bomb rose in the air and all
eyes were riveted tipon it, Bang edged
up to Kee, and when the great scuipe |
began hissed into iiis car, with nil ugly
yellow smile: "I have a score to settle
with you. I'll teach you not to Insult
my daughter." Tlio bomb had turned,
and was coming down. If Kee got out
of range lie knew he would lose liis
chance at it. "Get away!" he snapped
at Bang. But the adored Toy's father
pulled him by the sleeve toward the
edge of the mob. "If you touch me
again I'll kick you out," muttered Kco,
in desperation. But old Bang, with the
agility of a cat, had caught the knife
from ills sleeve, and Kee felt his cold,
sharp rejoinder penetrating between
his ribs as he sank' to the ground. By
the time the tomb had descended and
had been caught, however, Chew Bang
was standing on the other side of the
crowd, an interested spectator.
Meanwhile the beautiful Toy wnp
still smiling to herself and craning her
neck to follow a certain tall contestant.
When the report of the stabbing was
passed through the crowd, she lnstant
ly got out of her carriage, and hobbled
and hobbled along the sidewalk until
she reached the spot where poor Kee
lay prostrate on the ground. Her coun
trymen were too much excited to do
anything but jabber and jostle one
another, and because Toy was a wom
an, they fell back, conscious of their In
adequacy to the occasion, and glad to
shift the responsibility to more capable
shoulders. Tenderly she raised his
head so he might breathe. This re
stored his consciousness sufficiently for
him to speak, but when Toy bent low
to catch his last word, she heard, not a
loving farewell, hut her father's name.
"Chew Bang did It," ho faltered, "he
cause "
Toy understood only too well, and
waved the bystanders back Into a
wider circle so there might be no possi
bility of Ills words being overheard.
"Who did it?" several asked, seeing
Kee could still speak; "ask him before
It Is too late!"
Toy turned toward the crowd surging
closer about her, and read their purpose
In their faces. Then she glanced at the
man on'the ground, whose eyes still
looked into hers with the meaning
that had first stirred the revolt in her
heart against the colorless life enforced
upon her by Oriental custom and her
father's severity. Rut mingled with that
other look was an appeal to her for ven
geance, for to die with his blood una
venged is, to a Confucian, worse than
for a Christian to die uushrlven. And
again she heard the name of her father
repeated in a whisper as Ills murderer.
The nearest bystanders began to call
to Ivee himself for the name of his as
sassin. Toy raised her head to answer
them, but suddenly she found that, ru
der tlds test, she was not merely Toy,
the emancipated, but the product of
countless ancestor-worshiping genera
tions, to whom duty to a parent is a
fundamental tenet.
"The American doctor is coming,"
she presently hoard one of licr country
men say, and Instantly the thought
flashed through her mind: Could lie,
by care and skill, take out the knife
and stanch the blood so Kee might
live? If this were possible, then was
her emancipation sure, for Baug would
bo in their power, and all opposition
ended. Yes, ended, because her fath
er's old age would go down in disgrace,
possibly imprisonment. Here, how
ever, the dominating forces of centuries
again surged in upon her, and her new
ly acquired spirit of independence was
not strong enough to stem the on
slaught.
Again Toy bent low over the victim
of her father's wrath and licr own
rashness. Even the fast-falling stupor
could not dim the agony of appeal in
his eyes. This time she did not see it.
In another instant the surgeon would
be here and have her secret.
Throwing herself upon Kee, as if in
a paroxysm of grief, she drew out the
incriminating knll'e so that blood
gushed from the wound, making
further speech impossible, and deftly
concealed it in the flowing sleeves of
her blouse.
As Ivee fell back lifeless, Toy strug
gled to her little crippled feet.
"He's already dead," said the physi
cian when ho reached Ivee's side. "Who
stabbed him?"
"He no sabec," Toy faltered, and
meekly allowed herself to lie led away
to tiro balcony behind the iron grating.
—San Francisco Argonaut.
Whale-Shooting In tho Arctic;
In Harper's James B. Connolly, who
has Just returned from a trip to the far
north for Harper's Magazine, tells of
the modern method of shooting whales
with a harpoon gun, Mr. Connolly
made a trip on the whaler Skytteu:
"Only eighty feet over all, with less
than two feet of freeboard at her waist
the Slcytten seemed a puny craft for
the rather large business of whale-ltlll
ing," pays Mr. Connolly. "It was her
equipment, of course, that made her
strength. Forward, on a platform set
directly In her bow, she mounted a
heavy built muzzle loading harpoon
gun, and on her forward deck she car
ried a lot of appurtenant machinery—
winches, hoists and one thing or other,
which wero to warp in tho whales by
and by.
"The skipper hesitates, and we try
to remember tho tales they tell of his
skill.
" 'Wee-hay!* he roars, this man who
has killed his thousands—'Wee-hay!' he
bellows, under the strain of It, and he
has been hunting whales for thirty-five
years. Wee-hay! and boom!—they come
together—the flame and the cloud of
smoke. The harpoon we are not quick
enough to see, but tho line that follows
it we do see. From our bow to the
back of that great creature It leaps—a
long leap—a hundred feet—and where
the lino stops we know tho harpoon is
burled. Back of tho shoulder and Just
above the water line we know it lias
gone—lance and shank beneath the
shiny dari: blue skin—Ave feet of iron
into the middle of the whale." ,
Unlinjipy Co-Eda.
' When one of Chicago's two educa
tional institutions, the University of
Chicago and tho Northwestern Univer
sity, cannot supply news for the papers
of that city, something is surely the
matter. Tho latest Item comes from
the latter university, and concerns the
co-eds, who have not yet been "segre
gated," ns have their sisters at the
Harper Institution. It seems that the
young Indies who live in Willnrd Hall,
one 'of the domitorics, are frivolously
inclined. "Fudge-parties" and similar
dissipations engross their attention nt
the expense of their work. Becently
some of the young women got together
and formulated rule 3 of conduct which
barred out all parties of this kind and
cut down "calling" evenings and hours.
Hitherto the inmntes of tho hall have
been allowed to receive callers on two
nights in the week, from 7.30 to 10.
Under the new rules callers may come
but one night in the week and stay only
from 7.30 to 9. The result of these
stringent rules has been a terrific nun
pus on the part of a minority of young
women who are socially Inclined, and a
strike is threatened.'
Olijeota to n ltlnglcss Statin*.
The people of Leamington deter
mined to have a statue of Queen Vic
toria, so one was ordered and has been
erected, but it appears the people are
as little pleased with their statue as
inclined to pay for It. They have been
"studyliig it in detail, and they nre not
satisfied, because her lute Majesty is
represented without any rings on her
fingers." I doubt if the statue of a
sovereign was ever before criticised on
similar grounds. Probably that war
rior-heroine, Queen Boadlcea, wore rings
not only on her fingers, but on her
toes. But it has never occurred to any
Londoner to complain that these rings
nre not on her statue at Westminster
Bridge.—London Truth.
King Edward's Salary.
King Edward enjoys a salary of over
$5090 a day, and this is by no means
so largo as many other rulers receive.
He gives away a great 'deal more
money privately thnn any one imag
ines, and is often more than generous,
lie pays for all his boxes at the thea
tre, and for all his own telegrams, let
ters and parcels. His milntary ward
robe is valued nt $75,000, and the sa
loon carriage in which he travels on
the Continent cost him $35,000. King
Edward has given in public charities
$1,550,000. As Prince of Wales his
telegrams and stamps cost him SSOOO
[ a year.
Darwin and Modern Criticism
By Prof. Benjamin Kldd.
-a,.™—tii the growth of that sense of responsibility towards life, which
M Darwin thought he saw interfering with the operation of the law
Hf of natural selection by filling the asylums with the maimed and
KsVy less capable, we have not Indeed the suspension of natural setec
v v tion in society, but the first basis of a social process, the iuten-
sity and efficiency of which have, under the influence of natural
selection when viewed from a wider standpoint, begun to tell
\ to an Increasing degree in competition with all other types of
society whatever. The projection of the sense of human respon
sibility outside the limits of all tho creeds and interests which,
iti previous stages, had embodied it in the state, has resulted in the gradual
dissolution of tile closed absolutisms in the state within which human activities
lind previously been confined. The dissolution of the conception upon which
slavery rested; the growth of the conception of the native equality of men,
and of their right to equal voting power in the state, irrespective of status or
possessions; tho undermining of the absolute position of the occupying classes,
and of the ideas by which civil and religious opinion was previously supported
by the power of the state; the tolerance of parties; the right of free Inquiry in
every direction; the long movement towards political enfranchisement; with
finally the growth of that conviction which constitutes a standing challenge to
nil existing absolute tendencies in the economic conditions of the modern world,
namely, that the distribution of wealth in a well-ordered state should aim at
realizing political justice—are all features of an integrating process in Western
history. They are all tho marks of a type of society of higher organic poten
tiality than has existed in the world before—a type of which the characteristic
feature Is that the sense of human responsibility has been at last projected
outside the state and beyond the present.—Harper's.
TEe Noblest Business ©f AIL
Verdict of a Farmer From Choice.
By Enoch C. Dow, Belfast, Me.
@NLY a short time since I received a call from a man who lias
a responsible position with one of the largest contracting and
building firms in this country. During the conversation 1
made the remark tiiat ho had a good trade, and was doing
well at it, to which he replied that if he was to start over
again he would go to farming.
* Now, here was a man in the prime of life, earning more
than SIOOO a year, who believes farming holds out belter in
ducements to the young man that Is offered by the mechanical
trades. This is not the visionary idea of the city worker who has no practical
knowledge of farm life, and who imagines farming is all pleasure and profit.
No, it was the mature judgment of a well educated and experienced mechanic,
who has the management of a department and the supervision of forty men
working under him. As a boy he grew up on a farm; as a yonng man he
worked nt farming for several years; ns a man In the prime and vigor of life,
with mature judgment, and earning a salary that the average farmer boy
would look upon as fabulous, he says there aro more and better opportunities
on the farm than in the trades.
Hero is something for the farmers' boys to think about and well consider,
True, tile farm knowledge needed by the successful farmer to-day is greater
than tn the past, yet it Is of such a nature that it may be largely gained while
conducting the usual farm operations. It requires no more time to learn to be
a good farmer than to learn a good trade.
Tho good farmer can get more opt of life than tho good mechanic; the poor
farmer has a better show for a living than tho poor mechanic. Then, there
are tho enjoyments of country living to offset the Inconveniences of the usual
city life. Yes, the city has its advantages; so also has the country. On the
whole, the advantages are with the country.
The writer of this is a farmer from choice," and not from necessity. With
some experience in other walks of life, and a good education, u good look was
taken, and the decision was made that farming was a better and bigger busi
ness than any of the trades or so-called learned professions. I have not seen
cause to change that opinion, but it grows stronger as the seasons come and
go. Always there Is something to learn on the farm. The mechanic may be
come a machine; the preacher grows small nud narrow in his theology; the
lawyer gets sharp, but limited; the doctor sickens of his pills and patients and
sighs for a broader life. The farmer only, of all men, has a business that
always broadens and develops If followed intelligently.—New York Tribune.
jg? <gr
Curing Crippled Children.
By Dr. Adolf Lorcnz, of the University of Vienna.
jpjjEErajnjjjpa 808 ABLY tlie only new tiling which I have to teach surgeons
is that many malformations and dislocations can be cured by
I aaaa> I the use of the human hands and by manipulation of the mnl-
VLummJ? fl formed or dislocated part without any cutting. It is no reflcc
£ ff gji tion upon the excellent surgeons of America tliat I havo
fl ft n something new to show them, because the results of my
I B cal '' iest bloodless operations performed with the hands were
(Lull mm iu tlu) nature of discoveries, and as new to me as to others.
America teaches the rest of the world many things and, there
fore, can sometimes learn with a good grace.
I have been performing these operations for nbout fifteen years, and havo
In that time treated about 1090 cases by the new method. These eases have
included club feet, double or single displacement of the hip, wry ueek and
other malformations.
Previous to ISSO I used the knife in treating the hip dislocations and, in
consequence, almost invariably got a resulting stiff hip iu tho patient. By the
present method I get forty per cent, of cures that seem to bo absolutely per
fect, so that a child that has two dislocated lilps and Is almost unable to drag
Itself about can in a little while run and jump as well as any other. In an
other thirty per cent, the cure is not perfect, for a slight limp Is left, and in
the remaining thirty per cent, there is at least no injury to the patleut.
I have learned by my 'experience that It Is better to set an age limit for
these operations, and, I do not now generally undertake to treat children over
six years of age where both hips are out of joint, or over nine years of age
where one is displaced. I used to treat older children, but gave it up as the
results were not good, owing to the strength of the muscles that bound the
Umb Into the wrong position.
At first 1 used a sort of screw to pull limbs into their places, but It was too
rough and I gave that up aud now use the bauds alone, though iu difficult
cases the limbs nre prepared for the operation by means of weights that pull
them, some of them being as heavy ns eighty pounds.
Though the treatment of the child's malformed or mlsjointed limb may
appear to the layman to be very severe, and though a great deal of force Is
certainly applied In tearing tho muscles that bind the bones In the false posi
tion, yet when tlie child awakes from the ether it feels no pnin. Recovery
from the immediate effects of the operation is very rapid aud the child should
be moving about in two or three days, using the limb that has been treated.
I want the child to use the limb as soon as possible, for in most cases the head
of the femur and tlie socket In which it works do not work harmoniously, be
cause during all the patient's life they have grown apart. Use will remove
this difficulty.
After the operation to reduce congenital dislocation of tho hip the patient
Is kept in tho plaster cast about nine months, though encouraged at the same
time to move about, using the limb that lias been treated and especially bear
ing weight on it. Some little patients with these casts upon them are very
lively. I remember a boy from Berlin, who was in a east tlint held his legs
out in spread eagle style, the knees and toes pointing in opposite directions.
He used to gallop sidewise about the streets. By the time the cast Is taken
off the muscles have lcnlt the limb into its new position and If it has been well
used all joint difficulties have vanished and the cure is as complete ns though
the child had had two good limbs from the beginning.
Sometimes there is no socket, or one of its walls Is too low to properly
retain the head of the femur when it is put In place. This can often he
remedied by boring with the femur itself at the time of the operation. The
plaster cast theu holds tlie lione in place till the muscles bind It there.
America lias some of the cleverest surgeons of tlie world nnd the whole
body of tliom hero are notably quick nt learning. I am greatly pleased with
the hospitals, the apparatus is so good, the specialization so thorough, and
there has been such liberal provision for'particular wants. This country Is
far ahead of Germany In such matters. The American dentist has demon
strated that he is tlie best in tho world in his calling, and the American sur
geon will go to the front also—it is Inevitable.
[Dr. Loreuz is, physically, of striking appearance, being more than six feet
high and wearing a long beard—black, streaked with gray. His figare is
ovcct and all ills movements give evidence of extraordinary strength and ae
)lvlty. He uses good English, though with German accent, end is notably
direct, simple, energetic nud emphatic in his speech. The foregoing article Is
from an Interview with him by a representative of The Independent.—Editor.]
A CAME BIRD OF CIVILIZATION. .
The Bird llus Gone West and Become
Common There.
Reports of the scarcity of quail in
Northern Ohio are so general that
there is no room for doubt that adverse
weather conditions last winter cut
down the stock of the most popular
American game bird far below the
normal average. "Bob White" seems
in danger of extermination in some
localities where there are usually quail
in plenty.
But it is only an apparent danger.
With ordinary seasons and a little bet
ter protection than is commonly given
by farmers nnd game wardens the
quail will rapidly make good their
losses and be as plentiful as ever. The
bird is hardy, brave and adapted to
civilization. Unlike the grouse or
partridge, often called the pheasant,
quail prefer open lields and flourish
much better where the laud is quite
generally tilled than they do in wild
and forest-coi cred regions.
It Is not doubtful that the numbers
of quail in the United States very much
exceed the highest average in good
seasons when white men first landed
on American soil. The bird lias gone
West with the plow and become com
mon where it was unknown in the days 1
when the Indians held the land. Its #
range is iar greater than it was two or
three centuries ago, and it is more com
mon where it was found at that time.
So quail will never die out if given
a decent chance by the laws and by
public sentiment. The lack of a fair
opportunity to flourish ir. the United
States would ... a disgrace to the coun
try. Not only is "Bolt White" a fine
game bird, but his cheery call is a
pleasure to lovers of nature, and lie
has a lirnve American spirit which
ought to make him the National fa
vorite, which lie is.—Cleveland Leader.
WISE WORDS
Humility is the prelude to honor.
Boasting is only begging for praise.
He chooses night who refuses liglnr
The true light gets lost in the crookee
life. ~^r
Do ns you would be done by.—Per- A
slan.
Seeds of love may need storms of
sorrow.
Gems nre but pebbles without the
gTfndlng.
A silent Idiot is wiser than a babbling
simpleton.
Stolen thunder will not bring show
ers of blessing.
There can be no communion where
there is no union.
""Everything comes to the man who
waits—and keeps on walking.
Our gnfns depend not on what we
can get but what we can give.
Do not that to a neighbor which you
would take ill from him.—Grecian.
What you would not wish done to
yourself do not unto others.—Chinese. .
He sought for others the good be d
sired for himself. Let his jiass on.—
Egyptian.
One should seek for others the hap
piness one desires for one's self.—
Buddhist.
The plant of piety will not live by
being stuck in the soil of prayer about
once a week.
When you can honorably do so. the
best way to cenquer your enemy is to
concur with him.
All things whatsoever ye would that
men should do to you do ye even so to
them.—Christian.
Let none of you treat his brother in
away he himself would dislike to be
treated.—Makometanisui.
The true rule in business is to guard
nnd do by the things of others as they
do by their own.—Hindoo.
It will be time enough to indict oth
ers when we have finished the lu- W .
ventory of our own faults. I
The law imprinted on the hearts of
all men is to love the members of so
ciety ns themselves.—Bomaii.
It takes less of a fool's brain energy
to doubt all things than it does for a
wise man to accept one fact.—ltam's
Horn.
Whatsoever you do not wish your
neighbor to do to you do not unto him.
This is the whole law; the rest is a
mere exposition of It—Jewish.
Tlio Value of a Slnulo lien.
It requires much time nnd patience
to breed a line up to anything ap
proaching perfection, hut once attained
the reward is well worth the effort.
Single hens have sold in this country
for ns much as SSOO, while in England
SIOOO has been paid for a single speci
men. The breeder does not depend for
his returns altogether upon fancy prices
for his Individual birds, however. lie i
profits by the increased productiveness
of his flocks. For instance, in the mat
ter of egg-laying it may be cited that
the average American hen lays about
100 eggs per year. The practical poul
tryman goes In for belter results nnd
gets them. Numerous instances show
whole flocks with an average of 200 to
the hen per year—an increase of 100
per cent.—Leslie's Monthly.
The Value of the American lien.
The growth of the poultry industry
In this country is one of the wonders
of the time. As a producer of wealth
the Amerlcnn hen is a marvel. To il
lustrate the Increased earning powers
of this industrious autocrat of the
barnyard it may be stated that in Mis
souri, during the Inst fiscal year, the i
sum derived from the sale of poultry j
nnd eggs ran $17,000 ahead of all other
products of the State combined. The
totals show that the old hen, neglected
nnd left by tile farmers to forage for
herself while he devoted ids attention
to the field crops, outstripped them all.
Including corn, wheat, oats, flax, timo
thy seed, clover seed, millet seed, to
bacco, broom corn, hay and straw.—
Leslie's Monthly. ~