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VOLUME 3,
CHANDLER, OKLAHOMA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1894
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AT THE HEAD OF THE LINE.
Whnt' That olil man with the grizzly hair
Blear-cved anil mutOblln* of pain,
"Who erects all he ni#ets with a vacant staro
As he totters alow ' on his cant
"What part can he take on a (lav liUe-this.
That you place him in trout of the line?
An<l why should he valute with a kiss
The folds of "Old Glory,' divine':
This bended old man what right has he here
•To bo touched by our tia,r as it floats?
What part can he take when brave men choer,
And cannons are crack in* their throats?
There are strong men here, and young men
enouffh.
Ho take the old dotard away
JsCl him sit bv his hearth nnd dream and puff
For he spoils the effect of the day.
M.v boy, thut old m m bonded and ?r.\y
That dotard that ' bundle of clods,"
Stands just as he sto > I one July day
When men wer • sublime as th" L-odn:
When Leo all unchecked, northward swept
In his mk'ht.
And Gettysbur/'s thunders were pour • 1.
Th<' old m m stood tn the thick of the light
And wielded a hero's sword
JIo saw the mad rush through the sulphurous
smoke
When brave Pickett char/rod to his death-
Swept the field- then staggered- rallied—and
broko
While the Nation wai ti ildin? it ^ bro ith.
IIo stood where he stands, at the he id of
the line
And the battle-smoke liftinsr apace,
Revealed the bright folds of "Old Glory '
divine
' Caressing his powdor-stainod face.
Saved the Nation? Yosr boy such us ho
such men:
They are old now and feeble, I know,
. But they were our giants and heroes then,
y Only thirty short year* a o
* Do not thoughtlessly ssniij :>t their doting
pride
A* they bear up the 11 a? we adore.
For by their own bio . I it wa nuritied
In sixty—and sixty four.
Let the old soldier dream-let him live in the
past,
And disturb not his erand memories:
The battle sounds still o'er his senses are cast
Like the roaring of distant seas.
And tie hears th • !<>n r.>iL on the other side
Where hea ven's 1 i_r11 b.it t leu;i-nt s >!:
He has earned bis place and is satisfied -
Ills place at the head of the line
—National Tribune.
Just After tho Wi r.
« Pxttsih ug, Pa.
Mr Dear Charlie: Your brother
Lant and I, after talking- over how
we should pat in our vacation, con-
cluded that railroads, steamboats and
horses were too monotonous, and that
we would take a walk of two or three
weeks, with Niagara Falls as our des-
tination. So, one line morning in Sep-
tember, 1805, with haversacks slung
over our shoulders, we started from
our house autl laid our course due
north. Joe went with us as far as the
Sharpsburg bridge and, bidding us
good-by, we left.
We went as straight north as the
road would take us. The first day we
(bade twenty miles; the second day
we stopped at the farmhouse of John
Crow. Farmer Crow caught up with
lis as we were climbing a steep hill,
and invited us to get into his wa ron,
saying, "I will give you a lift over
this pinch." As soon as we were
seated beside him he began to ques-
tion us, and in a short time knew all
about us; our names, business and
that we were walking for pleasure.
There were no tramps in those days.
"In that case," he said, "you might as
well come with me and stay at my
house all night." Turning his horses
into a long, shadv lane, we soon
reached a fine old Pennsylvania farm-
house. As we rode along ho told us
that the farm had been occupied by
the Crow family for over ioo years,
lie pointed to a rail fence, built of
chestnut rails that he declared was
over 100 years old. We simply said
"chestnuts," never dreaming: that
twenty-five years after that, word
would be a synonym of age. Wo
dusted off, washed up and were shown
into the house, and sat down to a
supper good enough for hungry men.
After tho blessing we fell upon the
good fare as only hungry young fel-
lows can.
There were at the table Mr. and
Mrs. Crow, the Misses Crow, Master
Crow, a German farm hand about 50
years old, a little German girl that I
took to be his daughter, and Lant
and I.
Having satisfied my hunger, I was
about to push back my chair and
leave the table, when I glanced at
Lant. IIe# sat with his hands folded
and his eyes cast down. I hesitated,
and Mr. Crow returned thanks. I con-
fess that I felt like a pagan who for
the first time sees the forms and cere-
monies of Christianity, but recognizes
their perfect fitness.
We all went out on the porch, lit
our pipes, and settled down comfort-
ably to talk. The war was just over;
nothing was talked of but the war
Mr. Crow had lost a number of friends
and relatives, among them a nephew,
very near and dear to him. When he
mentioned his name Lant knew him
well, and could tell tho farmer
all the particulars of his death,
as Lant was in the same battle in
# which the young fellow had lost his
life. Lant told him how the boy had
been shot through the arm and sent
to the rear, but when told that his
captain had been shot and the lieuten-
ants wounded, he took a stick (he
could not carry a ii&sket,) and rushed
back, led his company into the light,
and lost his life right in the bloody
front.
Of course, wo were all much af-
i fected, particularly the old gentleman
| and his wife. You know, Lant was a
master hand at story telling. Tho
old gentleman was stirred up to re-
late his experiences, and told us how
near he lost his life whilo fighting. II
was on the Rapidan, and he had all
his accoutermeuts on. From his knap-
sack, hanging down behind, was his
fryingpan. He said a reb shot him
through his frying-pan. It was a nar-
! row escape. Calling to the little girl
he said:
"Katie, fetch dot fry pan. I show
de gentlemen how near I was to be
killed." ^ ^
Katie brought the frying-pan, and
there was tho ragged hole made by
the minic-ball almost in the center. It
was a close c ill. I thought it an in-
cident worthy the poet's loftiest
flight, and being filled with the
afflatus called divine, I assumed the
role of Silas Wegg, and dropped into
poetry, thus:
It was a valiant soldier man
Went marchin.r down the Hapid.in;
A Johnny Keb let fly his lead
And shot him in the fry in .'pan
Oh, the try in .'pan, the life preserving frying-
pan !
Lot mothers prate of remorseless fato,
i -ui,' to you or tin- fryingpan.
Then every soldier declared to a man
Th it there could be no better plan
To save his life and vet homo to his wifo
Than to carry beh.nd him a frying-pan.
Oh, the fryingpan, the life-preserving fryinj-
pan:
Let others prate of remorseless fate,
losing to you of tho fryingpan*
We left next morning after family
prayers and breakfast (grace before
and thanks after), with all the Seckle
pears our haversacks would hold. He
was much offended at our offer to pay
him. We walked along smoking our
pipes, for a long1 time, when Lant re-
marked with epigrammatical terse-
ness, "he was the whitest crow I ever
saw." Yours, sincerely,
W. K. woodwell.
No Wonder tho south I.ost.
The Southern idea of pie is extreme-
ly crude when applied to that succu-
lent Northern dish and subtly refined
when directed to the political variety.
The farthest development in the pie
line that the native Southerner has
attained is to a manufacture of sweet
potatoes, which is a state's prison
counterfeit and forgery of the New
England pumpkin pie, and even that
base imitation has obtained foothold
no farther south than South Carolina.
Congressman Crain, of Texas, says
that the people of Texas regard the
pie family as Ciosar regarded Gaul—
divided into three kinds, "the kiverad,
the unknotted and the cross-barred."
"I overheard some years ago," said
he, "a great debate between a North-
ern printer and a Southern composi-
tor on the subject of the late war.
The Southerner was hots impetuous
and sentimental; the Northern cham-
pion calm, cool and even phlegmatic.
"'Why, didn't we lick you out of
your boots at Manassas?'
"'Granted,' said the Northern type-
sticker.
" 'Didn't we smash you at Cold Har-
bor and wipe up the ground with you
in the Wilderness?'
" 'Granted,' said the other.
"'Didn't we tie you all up in knots
and make rags of you all through the
peninsular campaign?'
" 'Granted,' said the Northerner,
'but how was it at Appomattox?'
"'Yes, how was it at Appomattox!1
shouted the Southerner, growing sen-
] timental as the mingled beers and
whiskies they were consuming rose to
j his head. 'We had 13,000 poor, ragged,
footsore, tired, starved veterans, with-
j out a single rouna of ammunition while
you had 300,000 fat, sassy soldiers,
provided with every luxury and
ev-every m-in-mother's s-son of 'em,'
he sobbed, 'plumb f-full of pic!'"—
Washington Post.
Kind o* Wanted to He in tho Front.
Sergeant Hunter, of the Kentucky
soldiery, exhibited the bravest sol-
dierly qualities in tho conflict at
J Springfield, Mo. His superb figure
! never failed to attract the eye in the
ranks of tho guard. He had served
, in the regular cavalry and the body
guard (Fremont's noted men) had
1 profited greatly from his skill as a
; drill-master, lie -lost three horses
! killed under him in the fight. As soon
as one was killed, he caught another
1 from the rebels; the third horse taken
I by him in this way ho rode into St.
! Louis. The sergeant slew five men.
fcaid he —
I "I won't speak of those I shot—an-
i other may have hit them; but those I
touched with my sabre I am sure of,
; because I felt them."
! At the beginning of the charge he
came to the extreme right and took
position next to Major Zagonvi, whom
he followed closely through the battle.
The major, seeing him, said:
"Why are you here, sergeant? Your
place is with your company on the
| left." #
j "I kind o' wanted to bo in front,"
was the answer.
r -'What could I say to such a man!"
, exclaimed tfagonyi, speaking of the
matter afterwards.—American Tri-
bune.
THE FARM AND JIOME.
THE SCIENCE OP FEEDING
STUDIED BY FARMERS.
Alternate Starving and Stalling I* En-
tirely Out of Date— Tuuning sklun for
Home l'*e—No Don't—1'^m Notes
autl llome llliltd.
Scientific Feeding.
Tho point on which farming has
made the groatost and yot least-
notieod advance is tho
understanding that now prevails
among progressive farmers about
the feeding of domestic ani-
mals. it is trno that a largo
part of tho food that used to bo given
to stock was either wasted or was
positively injurious. It is yet, for
that matter, among tho largo class
who givo little thought to their busi-
ness and despiso tho teaching of
newspapers and experimental sta-
tions. To alternately starvo and
stuff animals used to bo considered
inevitable. It was the condition of
nature, and it was arguod that wild
animals in a state of nature usually
maintained good health. Those who
argued for better feoding than na-
ture's methods were told that what
was gained in ilosh making was
likely to be olfsot by weaker consti-
tutions, and often by an impairment
of tho digostivc functions.
That this was (sometimes a fact
was true. Tho science of feeding
has been of comparatively recent
growth, and to feed in tho best man-
ner animals whoso digestion has
already been injured requires iroro
skill than most feeders possess. Wo
are at last learning that for the
very best loading animals must be
guarded against injudicious food
ft'iun birth, aid even earlier than
this, it is pi\siblo certainly to
stunt pigs before their birth, and it
is ofter^ dono when breeding sows
aro fed too much corn. They are
apt in such a caso to farrow pigs
whose digestion seems to bo impaired
even from birth. Generally, how-
ever, young animals havo good appo-
tites and aro able to digest what
nature has provided for them. The
first milk they get from their dams
is always laxative, and tho weakness
of very young animals insures them
against getting more at first than is
good for them. In fact, for a number'
of days after birth, suckling their
dams provides tho kind and amount
of food that is best for growth and
future well being of the animal. It
is when the natural supply becomes
insufficient that the injury to diges-
tion begins. Kither the young ani-
mal is left with too little, or it is apt
to be greatly overfed, or fed with
what is too hard to digest. Of tho
two evils, under feeding
smaller.
There were farmers who
out this problem of feeding
tho days of scientific analysis, says
the American Cultivator. Their rea-
soning was that good feoding re-
quired as nearly as possiblo a con-
tinuation of tho feeding which young
animals received from their dams,
tho amount fod being gradually in-
creased as tho animal became
stronger. Tho digestive organs, like
all others in the body, are strength-
ened by use ;'.nd weakened or injured
by abuse. \\ hat is called dyspepsia
almost always results from bad food-
ing, alternately starving and pam-
pering. or the giving of food that is
difficult of digestion. Somotimes the
trouble with digestion is that the
fool is not p -up M'iy b il.mr ■ I. Tnr
natural appetite calls for the kind of
food that the system requires. If
this is not furnished any substitute
for it will bo eaten less heartily, will
not receive its duo proportion of
saliva and will not digest well.
The analysis of food showing its
different constituents has only made
more plain tho reasons for tho suc-
cess of some old-fashioned feeders
t\nd *he lailuro of others. By show-
ing what rations for growth, for fat-
toning and milk require it has mado
it possiblo for all to bo reasonably
successful. There is far loss feeding
of corn to young or to breeding ani-
mals than used to be common. When
corn is fed now it is in combination
witV less concentrated forms of food
and those having more of tho llosh,
muscle and bone-forming material
than has corn. I hero is far more
use of fine wheat middlings as a cor-
rective of tho excessive carbonace-
ous corn meal and also a> an aid to
better digest inn. than many farmers
imagine. If they are fattening ani-
mals, they ofton suppose that tho
more concentrated fattening fool
they can get eaten, tho better will
be tho result. But skillful feeders
know better. It is not what is eatei^
but what is digosted and assimiiated
that benefits the fattening aifimal.
With a balanced ration and some
bulky food to distend tho stomach,
tho fattening animal will
and maintain its appetite,
will not do if fed only on
fatfening f< jd.
Tunning *>kbi* lor lltnnn Use.
No more cheap and simple process
can be do^ircd than to apply to the
flesh side, when fresh and wet, a
mixture of two parts saltpeter and
ono puut alum These should be
finely pulverized and sprinkled over ]
tho
studied
before
eat more
which it
th" most
every part of tho skin; double In
llosh to flesh, roll up and let it lie a
day or two; then with a dull knifo
removo tho meat and fat, if any has
been loft. After about half dry,com-
mence rubbing and continue work-
ing until dry. Tho skin wih bo found
very nice, whito and pliable, and tho
hair firmly set. Another method is
to remove the flesh and fat, then
wash tho skin in a solution made by
dissolving a little sal soda in the
water. Take four ounces pulverized
alum, eight ounces salt, ono quart
new milk to four gallons soft water,
also ono pint prepared starch; stir
well: put in furs, and air them ofton,
by hanging them over a stick laid
across your tan tub, so that thoy
will drain back in tho tub. Handlo
occasionally, until thoy havo been in
the solution a day or. two, then add
to tho liquor, first romoving tho
sliins, half a toacupful of sulphuric
it:id; stir well and put back tho
skins, keeping them stirring pretty
ofton for an hour, then tako out,
wring and rinse In soft, lukewarm
water; hang up in a cool place, and,
when they begin to get whito, work
and stretch them till they aro dry.
Hides of largo animals should re-
main in tho solution longer.—Farm-
ers Voice.
No Don't.
Don't try to please your* wift,
D( i i appreclat one thing that sht
does. Don't ever plan your work m>
as to bo able to tako her to any en-
tertainment. Don't help care for
the children; that is what you got
het for. Don't fail to ask your wife
if sho wants you to do all the 'house-
work when sho asks you to put some
wood in the stove. Don't neglect
asking what sho has dono with all tho
egg and buttor money, for it will
more than supply the table, help pay
tho hired man, get tho children's
books and clothes, etc. Don't won-
der that your food has a peculiar fla-
vor; lor it is seasonod with blasted
hopes, sighs of disappointment, etc.
D< n't bo surprised to real that tho
majority of insane women aro farm-
ers' wives.
Farm Note*.
Potatoos nnd onions aro crops
which on tho average will yield good
returns, if properly planted, culti-
vated and marketed.
It is claimed that whenever cows
givo milk that require more than
twenty pounds to make a pound of
butter, she is not a good dairy ani
mo'
Starving stock or exposing them
to tho c >ld will not harden them.
The better plan is to givo them com-
fortable quarters and feed sullieient
to keep them strong and growing.
(iood feeding will do much to in-
ert ' t!i" >i/.e of eggs; according to
one 11 iv •' > this is why eggs from
yards whero only a few fowls aro
kept arc often larger and richer than
those of regular market eggs.
Some people cherish tho erroneous
idea that pure bred fowls aro espec-
ially liable to disoase. It is true that
no linely bred creature can stand tho
abuse that may be given with impu-
n:ty to a 10-pin ball. All that fowls
need to keep them in health is proper
management.
■ Ono of tho experiment stations has
found by experiment in feeding hogs
that bono meal makes corn go far-
ther. and that hard wood ashes aro
nearly as good as bono meal. Tho
effect of tho bono meal and ashes
was to save twenty-eight per cent of
tho corn rouuirod to produce 10 >
pounds of grain. There was about
fifty per cent more ash in tho hogs
receiving bono meal or hard wood
ashes than in tho bones of those not
so fed.
Homo Hint*.
I'oil or roast a lemon, ll'l ^vitli
sugar while hot and eat hot. It will
often check your cold.
Use kerosene for blood stains.
Wash colored cottons and linens as
quickly as possiblo, dry in tho shade
and take off the line as soon as dry.
Tho best way of removing tho
whito spots caused by water drops on
crepe is an exceedingly simple ono.
Lay the cropo on a table with a piece
of black silk beneath it. Dip a
camel's-hair brush in ordinary ink
and go over tho stain. Wipe the ink
off with a soft piece of * silk. The
stain will disappear as soon as tho
ink dries.
A recipe for whitewash that will
not bo washed off by rain reads as
follows: One peck of lime should be
slacked in live gallons of water, in
vftiich one pound of rico has I •••■u
Uoli. d until it is dissolved. The ricu
water 3hould be used hot, and tho
mixture covered over closely until
the lime is slacked. Then add a
pound of salt, and tho whitewash
must bo heated to boiling point when
used.
A lovely sofa pillow may bo made
of gold tissue brocade, which is an
rxijuisito material upon which to
work designs, cut a piece of bro-
cade tho eize you wish your pillow,
and fasten over it a piece of canvas
of the same sizo and shape, care be-
ing taken to have upon the canvas a
pretty design of flowers. This pat-
tern is worked out with wools in the
old canvass stitch. The threads of
canvas are afterward drawn out,
leaving the xbrk on the brocade*
THE RUNAWAY BOY.
— —9
\Viinst I sassed my p.i an' h«
Woo i it$&4 that, aa' ho punished cio—•
Non when he wiu none tint day,
1 slipped out nn' runnod away.
J tooK all my copper coats,
An climbed over our back fen CO
in the jimson weeds 'at growed *
Ever'where all down the road.
Non 1 not out there, uu non
1 runned houic an' rtinned a^aia,
When I met a niau 'at led
A i 1k cow at shook her head.
i \*eat down a Ion r, i<>u i lane,
Where was little i i^- > a ploy'n't
And a great 1>U pi r went "booh"'
An' jumped up. an' skeercd me, too.
Nen I scampered past, un' they
Was somebody hollered "lley!"
An' just looked ever'whero,
An' th iy wuz nobody there. ,
1 want t , but I'm frald to try
To ko back • * * An' an' by
Somepin hurts my th'oat insldo—
An' 1 want my ma an'cried.
Nen a erea' bitf girl come through
Where's a Kate, an' tolled me who
Am 1 ? an' ef 1 tell where
My home's at she'll show nn there.
But i oouldn t i t ! at t«-u
What's my nam > an' so says "Well,"
An' lsi tooKed tni> up an' says
"Sho know where 1 live, she guess.**
Non sho telled me hu r wite close
R tund Mr neck t an' on she goo *
SUippin' up the street! An' nen
Purty soon I'm home avain
An" my ma. when she kisse l mo,
Kissed the bi*r tdrl, too. an' sho
Kissed mo ef 1 j) omlse shoro
1 won't run awav no more'
.Tames Whltoomb Itiloy.
Tho Seven bleepvrJ.
Tho first and perhaps tho most
unique of these slcepcr'slcgcnclsoccurs
in Egyptian mythulofy. Osiris
lord of the earth, was a great king,
who, setting out from Egypt, trav-
ersed the world, leading a host of
fauns and satyrs. On his return
Typhon laid a stratagem for him. He
had a chcst made exa • tly Osiris's size
and studded heavily with jewels. At
ti banquet he offered tho chest to the
one wh ise body lit t lie in t' i ior. When
Osiris made the trial a number of
Typhon's slaves ruslie i in and nailed
cavern, and a faithful dog stood watch
at the mouth of tho cave for the whole
two centuries.
Marly Hardship*.
On° of tho er-liest recollections of
my adventurous childhood is tho ride
I had on a pony's side. It seems
i fetrango to think of riding in this
j manner; nevertheless, tho Indian
mode of life made it possible. I was
passive in the whole matter. A littlo
girl cousin of mine was put in a baff
and suspended from the horn of an In-
dian saddle; but her weight must bo
balanced, or the saddle would not re-
main on the an Final's back. There-
fore, I also was put into a sack, anil
made to keep both tho saddle and tho
girl in their proper position! I scarce-
ly objected to tho manner of tho ride,
for I had a very pleasant game of
peek-a-boo with tho littlo girl, uutil
we came to a big snowdrift, whore tho
poor beast was stuck fast and began
to lio down! Then it was not so nice!
This was the convenient and primi-
tive way in which some Mothers
packed their children for winter jour-
neys. However cold tho weather
might be, the inmate of the fur-lined
sack was usually very comfortable —
at least I used to think so. I believo
I was treated to all the precarious
Indian conveyances, and, as n boy, I
enjoj'ed the dog-travois ride as much
as any. These travois consisted of a
sot of rawhide strips securely lashed
to the tent-poles, which were har-
nessed to the sides of tho animal as if
ho stood between shafts, while tho
free ends were allowed to drag on tho
ground. Both ponies and a largo kind
of dogs were used as beasfs of bur-
den, and they carried in this way tho
smaller children as well as the bag-
This mo le of traveling for children
was possiblo only during tho summer:
and as tho i were som "times unre-
liable, the little ones were exposed to
ti certain amount of danger. For in-
stance, whenever a train t f dogs had
been traveling for a long time, almost
^Ijperishing with the heat and their heavy
loads, a glimpse of water would causo
them to forget everything else for it.
Some of them, in spite of the screams
of tho women, would swim with their
burdens ijjto the «•<><«1 in,r s ream, and I
was thus not infrequently compelled
to partake of an unwilling bath—Rec-
ollections of an Educated Sioux, inSL
N ichol us.
down the lid, afterwards pouring j mado.
•:^«:4li«ll Memo Engine.
Tho eggshell steam engine is easily
pitch upon the chest and throwing it
into tho Nile.
As syon as Osiris' wife, Isis, learned
of this, sho went in search of the
chest and found it many months after-
wards on the coast of By bios, lodged
in the branches of a tamarisk bush.
Sho took it down, cut it open with
care, &sd to hsr amazement was
clasped in her husband's arms, tlie
gods having preserved him in deep
slumber.
The Roman legend of tho Seven
Sleei ers is perhaps tho best known
of all. In the year A. I). 439, when j the w.
tho Emperor Decius persecuted the which
Christians, seven noted youths of
Ephesus concealed themselves in a
cave, the entrance of which was im-
mediately after choked with hugo
stones by tho emperor's orders. They
immediately fell into a slumber, last-
ing 1S7 years, at the end of which
"Blow" two fresh eggs by making1
a small hole in tho big end and care-
fully sucking out its contents. With
very finetvir.- | • iL • aeh in a harness
or cage by which it may be hung se-
curely in a horizontal position. In
tho same manner firmly suspend a
thimble from each egg so that it will
hang directly below when tho egg is
suspended.
Next tako a bottlo cork, into tho
bottom of which a pin i.-> stuck, firmly
fasten tho tines of two forks into it
•xactly opposite sides, and poiso
ule uf it on the head of tho pin,
should rest on a well-worn
nickel laid on the top of a catsup or
wine bottle. If this mechanism is
carefully constructed it will freely
and evenly revolve around tho bottle.
It now becomes necessary to half
fill each eggshell with water. To do
this heat them r :i lamp and then
time the Stonea were removed, l pon I suddenly plunge them int >eold water.
their awakening, the sleepers dis-
patched ono of their number to se-
cretly return to the city to procure
bread. The youth (if we may still
employ that appellation) could no
longer recognize the once familiar
aspect of his native country. He
heard people usfhg the Lord's name,
;:ii-l was tfiore p>rploxed.
44Yesterday no one dared to pro-
nounce the nam ; of Jesus; now it is
on everyone's lips."
11 is singular dress and obsolete lan-
guage confounded tho baker, to whom
he offered an ancient medal of Decius
as the current coin of the empire. TIio
shopman seized liini, crying:
"Whoever you are, you havo found
a secret treasure. Show us where it
is that we may share it with you!";
The youth being too frightened to
answer, they put a rope around his
neck and drew him through the streets
into tho market place before the
judge,who a>!ced him whence he came,
lie replied that he was a native of
Ephesus, "if this be Ephesus." "Send
>r your relations, then," said the
judge.9 The youth mentioned their
names, but no such names were known
in the town. Then the judge ex-
claimed:
"How dare you say that the money
belonged to your parents, when it dates
back nearly 200 years?"
"1 implore vou," i d the yqpit h
"where is the Emperor Decius gone '
"My son," was the answer, 44he who
was thus called died long ago."
The bishop of Ephesus, the clergv,
the magistrat -s, and, it is said, the
Emperor Theodorus himself, hastened
to visit the cavern of the seven sleep-
who b fo .VI' ! their • "■ 11'■
told their story and instantly expired.
This story h:is bt n adopted by the
nations from Bengal to Africa, and is.
found in the Syrian,* Scandinavian,
Abyssinian and Russian calendars.
The Persian legend states that the sun
altered its our.se twice a day for tho
whole period, so as to shine into the
and enough will penetrate to tho in-
terior.
Now carefully hang a shell from
each fork handle, and nlaco in each of
the thimbltfs ;i wa 1 of raw cotton
saturated in alcohol. Insure a per-
fect balance of the .whole by placing'
a few line shot in ono or tho other
thimble if need b.v
All is now ready for raising steam.
Touch a match to the cotton wadding*
in the thimbles and in a few minutes
the water in the egg shells will boil
and steam will begin to issue from
tho holes. Of course, tho eggshells
are hung so as to fact in opposite < l i-
ructions.
When the steam begins to 4,hiss'*
gently set tho whirligig in motion
away from the jet of steam, and then
the force of the escaping steam will
keep up the movement, slowly at
first, but soon at a quite rapid rate of
revolution.
If, in placo of forks in a cork, a
carefully whittled and balanced pieco
of whito pine wood, pois I on a blunt*
needle and a polished and oiled cop-
per coin bo substituted, the smooth-
ness and force of action will increase.
boose eggs, of course, will afford
larger boilers, and as a consequenco
will keep the machine in operation
longer.—Chicago Inter Ocean.
A llllnd Child'* I'rayer.
When little Helen Keller, the blind,
deaf, and dumb <
clergyman if she
"I pray the pr.i.v
• lie
Hostess
raw oystet
they are r
:al wc
vo I by a
she said:
fond of
ui'aui, if
^ A sad Fact,
Teacher—What was tho significant
fact of Thomas Jefferson's death on
the Fourth oI July? I right Hoy —
That he misssd tli .* fireworks.—Life'
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