Chandler Daily Publicist. (Chandler, Okla. Terr.), Vol. 2, No. 223, Ed. 1 Friday, December 18, 1903 Page: 4 of 4
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CLOSING DOORS
O ttni* of my heart, what wind m<| ns
]<•■* along tby ihidov u aboie?
la tk*v the deep-sea heart l hear with lie
lav me ueep-w*a iicari
dying sob at its core?
Tktoh dim lost wave that lapses is like a
closing iloor;
*Tit closing doors they hear at last who
boon shall hear no more.
Who soon shall hear no more.
TXTv, Eily, Eilv, call low, come back, call
low to me;
Vs heart you have broken, your troth for
saken, but lose even vet can be
Come near, rail low, for closing doors are
ns the waves o’ the sea,
Once closed they arc closed forever, Eily,
lost. lost, for thee and nn-.
Lost, lost, for thee and me.
1*Hvt —Fiona MacLeod.
PURDY’S COW
3y Potiphar Potts, Esq.
-WOU*. V friend aud neighbor,
^ _ fc Purdy, of whom, 1 |>re-
O iV| O sume, you linve ere tlds
^ X heard me speak, is clty-
•MO>C bred.
All be knows of Ike country is theo-
retical knowledge, and, like nil men of
his elass, he has some very peculiar
Ideas In regard to the rural regions.
I am somewhat that way myself,
though 1 beg leave to say that I think
my original sound sense aud judgment
.would, in un emergency, save me from
committing any glaring mistakes If
were suddenly to he transported to the
backwoods as a permanent Inhabitant.
But to return to Purdy.
Until a very short time since he has
religiously believed that there were cer-
tain kinds of cows which gave butter-
milk, and other kinds known ns the
sour-milk cows, and again a breed
eilled tbe skimmed-mllk-nnd water
nows, the latter being tlie only kind
known to the city milkmen.
For some time he ami Mrs. Purdy
Agitated the matter of keeping a cow.
They had a baby which was being
brought up oil the bottle, and it was so
difficult to procure pure milk for the
little cherub thut Sirs. Purdy coveted a
real cow, so Hint upon her lacteal se-
cretions her dear little Amabel Selina
might grow fat and rosy.
Purdy is an indulgent man, and he
concluded to gratify the wife of his
bosom. He enuio over three or four
weeks ago and discussed the matter
with me. He looked over my farm
hooks on the subject of dniryiug. and
found that there was no way a man
could get rich so fast as by keeping a
cow. A cow would average a pound
of butter u day, besides the milk, said
the books, and that was fifty cents,
and it wouldn’t cost more than twenty-
live cents a day to keep her.
"Why, when I come to think of it,"
said Purdy, "I marvel that every man
does not keep cows. It is better than
getting a government contract from
the postofHce department, to supply
mull boxes, or patent locks for the mail
bags, or being heud of n ring."
"To be sure,” said I.
"So 1 should say,” remarked Mrs.
Potts.
"Now, the fact Is. Potts.” said Purdy.
‘‘I urn not the best Judge of cows in
Hie world; In truth, the most I have
ever seen of them was in landscape
pictures, and in patent office reports,
and 1 want the benefit of your Judg-
ment In seleetiug one. Suppose you
and I take a trip out to Belmont Mead-
ows to-morrow and buy one?"
1 agreed to it, and on the morrow we
set forth.
“Be sure and have her geutle. and
so the children can play with her, and
one thnt chews tier cud like the cows
in poetry,” was flic parting admonition
of Mrs. Purdy, as she held up the baby
for Purdy to kiss.
He reached Belmont Meadows, and
Inquired of the station agent who had
cows to sell. He directed us to the
farm of Major Grey, half a mile off.
The major was at home, and lie lmd
cows to sell. Eleven of them. He
looked thorn over. Were they gentle?
Oh, yes, geutle as lambs, and kittens
thrown in.
But they had horns, Purdy said; tic
was a little shy of cows witli horns.
Hadn't tile major got some without
horns?
The major was mildly Indignant. In-
deed he hadn’t. They didn’t make
cows without horns out that way. No.
sir. If hornless cows were wanted.
Purdy might seek them In some other
locality.
Purdy hogged pardon, and said no
offense was meant; only he thought
that horns would be in the way IT the
baby was playing with the cow. and
wanted to gel on tier hack over her
bead. That was all.
Purdy bought a cow. Stic was black
find white, and warranted five years
old: a good milker, and gentle In all
kinds of harness—or under all circum-
stances.
He paid eighty dollars for her, and
the major was to deliver her at Purdy’s
bouse.
The next day she came.
'After the major’s man went away
Purdy came over after me auil Mrs.
Totts.
"Marier and T are going to milk our
cow.” lie said, "and we want you to
lie there, tf anything should happen.
Neither of us exactly understand the
science of milking, and your advice
and judgment may he of use to us."
Mo Mrs Potts and 1 went over, and l
took my books on dairying along with
me.
'The cow stood in the stable, chewing
away, viciously, I thought, on a bundle
of liny, and swinging her tail in a busi-
ness sort of way. as If she meant to
say slip was mistress of the situation.
Mrs. Purdy and Purdy stood on one
stile of her, and Mrs. Potls and 1 stood
on the other.
"Now.” said I, "the book says ‘the
lacteal fluid should be drawn swiftly
and promptly from Its receptacle, and
tbe sooner the operation of milking is
performed, the greater will he tbe
yield of milk.’ ”
".lust so!" says Purdy, "so. of course,
it is best for two of us lo milk her!
Two can do it quicker lhaii one! You
take her on one side, and i'll take her
on the other!”
"Are you going lo milk tier from the
side?" asked Mrs. Purity. "It seems
to me that It would be easier getting
ut her from behind!"
"That's all a woman knows!" said
f. "Pass on the pall, neighbor I’urdy
we'll soon settle the question!"
"Now, look here!" said Mrs. Purdy,
with emphasts.’T'H never give my con-
sent, Tom Purdy, for you to sit down
In front of that cow’s legs! You are a
husband and the fattier of a family,
and your life Insurance has run out,
and 1 won’t! Mo there!”
"Where shall I sit?” asked Purdy,
lu a discouraged tone.
"Why. behind her, of course!” said
Mrs. Purdy.
“If I sit behind her. she may step
backward!” said Purdy.
“And If you sit before tier, she may
step forward!” said Mrs. Purdy. .
"And swing her tail in your eyes!”
said Mrs. Potts.
“True,” said I, believing it was al-
ways the best policy to agree with
Ariminla Maude.
"Her milking arrangement Is put in
Just the most Inconvenient locality in
the world!” said Purdy, Impatiently.
"NoW, if ever I build a COW I'll have it
where it is easier of access, and I'll
patent It! by jingo, I will!"
After a little more discussion on the
subject, which would not interest, the
reader, we placed the pall under (lie
place where the milk was supposed to
be. and Purdy squatted on one side of
the animal, and I squatted on the
other.
We seized each a couple of teats and
gave n squeeze. A stream of milk
about the size of a knitting needle lilt
me square in the left eye, and another
one hit Mrs. Potts on the ornamented
skirt of her new cashmere dress, but
Purdy was more fortunate and bit the
edge of the milk pall.
"Ain’t it jolly?” said he, pausing to
wipe the perspiration from Ids fore-
head. and Just then, whisk came thnt
cow's tail right across tils eyes, and he
went over backward and the cow
stepped forward and planted one fi*>t
In the pall and the other on my left
great toe where there is a corn about
twice the size of the toe itself.
"Thunderation!” cried Purdy; "who
was that struck me?”
"Is the milk spilled?" asked Mrs.
Purdy.
It was spilled, and the pail was dirty.
Mrs. Purdy took it Into the house, and
washed It, and we began anew.
"Y'ou hold her tall. Marier,” said
Purdy. “I don’t run no risks of that
kind again, now l tell ye.”
“I’m afraid," said Mrs. Purely.
“I'll help you,” said Mrs. Potts,
bravely, and ns we squatted again the
two women laid hold of that tall.
You should have seen the result!
That cow dropped the bay she was
masticating, nnd did her level best to
stand on her head. Her heels went up
fully six feet In the air. and Mrs. Purdy
was flung down the trap door into the
barn cellar, while Mrs. Potts, after
turning two sivift somersaults, brought
up under tile feet of Purdy’s aston-
ished horse. In the next stall.
I found myself in the crib, hugging
the milk pall to my breast; nnd Purdy,
at the first charge, retreated to the hay-
mow, where an hour afterward we dug
him out, very much scared, but no
hones broken.
Tile cow went down street, nnd de-
voured the stock in trade of an apple
woman, and was finally brought back
by a policeman, who asked five dollars
for the Job.
Purdy tiegged him to tnke tbe cow
for Ills pay, but the policeman Indig-
nantly refused, tie wasn't in tlie milk
line himself.
Next day the cow was advertised for
sale, nnd Mrs. Purdy and Mrs, Potts
kept their beds, with a strong smell of
camphor pervading the house.
I used arnica.
The cow was sold for forty dollars,
nnd tlic Purdy cherub Is being brought
np on city milk, but if you want to
hear profanity just you say "cow" to
Purdy.—New York Weekly. ^
CROSS-BRED FRUIT.
liow the Bishop \Vtt» Cured.
A writer in Harper’s Weekly reports
an amusing new anecdote which Bish-
op Potter tells on himself. "When one
lias lived for years In America with-
out any special title in ordinary con-
versation," says the Bistiop, "It is not
easy to become accustomed to being
hailed ns ’my lord’ whenever any serv-
ice is rendered. During uiy various
trips to Europe I found it Impossible
to go anywhere or do anything without
being ’lorded’ right aud left. At last
l was in a fair way of becoming
spoiled, when a little occurrence merci-
fully delivered me. I had reached
home, after a run abroad, and while
descending the gangphink met n friend,
an old vestryman of mine. He was
hurrying on hoard to receive his wife
and daughters. Pausing midway up
the plank, he grasped my hand amt
shouted:
“ ‘Why, hello. Bish! How are you?’ ”
1’atlent Never Knew.
Paul Mick reports the case of a young
mail who died while being operated
upon for tuberculous peritonitis under
chloroform. His heart had stopped
beating for forty-five minutes, his re-
spirations had ceased ami his pupils
were widely dilated. Mick opened the
pericardium, massaged the heart, and
applied liot compresses to it while re-
spiration was being performed. In
half an hour the heart was heating
strongly and regularly, anil life was
resumed, the patient living for twen-
ty-seven hours, when lie died in col-
lapse. The cuse is illustrative of the
extreme value of direct cardiac mas-
sage in eases of sudden duutk.—New
York" Medical Journal.
Pecnttar Hybrid* Produced by the Helen
IIHc Horticulturist.
Some years ago a whitish mildew ap-
peared oil tin* vines of North France
end ruined the crop. Two years later
it spread all over France, Italy. Spain,
Syria —in fact, over all the vineyards of
Hit* countries round the Mediterranean.
The crops were reduced to one-twell'th
of tlie usual amount, and for some
years the terrible disease known as the
phylloxera raged, doing millions of
pounds’ worth of damage.
In 18(1." vines were imported from
California and found lo he proof
against the fungus. Then began u
series of experiments In crossing these
new varieties with the old ones. The
hybrids which have resulted produce
the inosi valuable grapes at present
known; and not only that, tint are as
powerful In resisting the attacks of
disease as were their American ances-
tors.
Tho palleal experimenters In cross-
breeding plants have conferred many
great boons upon mankind In general,
and their work is at present only be-
ginning. Some of the experiments
lately completed are of an absolutely
startling character. Tomatoes, for in-
stance, have been grafted on potato
plants, and the extraordinary spectacle
lias been seen of a plant producing two
crops-—one under the ground and one
above. Strictly speaking, however, the
latter case Is not one of hybridization.
A hml grufted upon another stock al-
ways comes true to Ms parent. For in-
stance, If you graft a branch from a
Kibston-pippin upon u crab-apple, you
get true Ribston-pipptn apples, not a
cross between pippins and crabs. Real
hybridization results from fertilizing
the blossom of one plant with the pol-
len of another, and then planting the
resulting seed.
Many splendid new fruits have thus
been produced. For Instance, at a re-
cent meeting of the Royal Horticul-
tural Society a new hybrid was shown
which was half raspberry, half black
berry, and had the good qualities of
both. The hush has the look of the
blackberry and is grown in tbe same
way; but the fruit lias a taste midway
between blackberry and raspberry, and
comes luto bearing just as the raspber-
ries are falling.
Considering how the price of or-
dinary fruit doubles or trebles at the
beginning or end of its season, the
value of nn early or late variety may
tie easily understood. An example of
the value of cross-breeding fruits is to
tie seen in the peach known as the
Duchess of Cornwall. It has been
known to ripen nearly a fortnight be-
fore any other British hothouse peaeli.
It Is a cross between an early peach
and an early nectarine, and is earlier
than either of its parents.
The possibility of a pear-apple was
suggested to a Worcestershire gardener
by finding sueli a freak on one of his
apple trees, tie successfully produced
it after several attempts, but It Is
likely lo be valuable only as a curios-
ity, for there is little that is inviting
either in its appearance or flavor.
It Is possible to produce the strangest
crosses. Blackberries, for instance,
have been crossed with strawberries,
but though the resulting seed produced
plants, these were sickly and spindly
and utterly refused to bloom, much
less bear fruit. Ferhaps the most pe-
culiar attempt at crossing fruits was
that between the bluek currant and the
gooseberry, but in spite of every effort
it failed.
Possibly the most Important of all
cross-breeding experiments are those
which have had wheats anil other food
grains for their subjects. At Newtonle-
Willows, in Lancashire. Messrs. Garton
have been at work for more than
twenty years past crossing and improv-
ing wheats, barleys and oats.
Ordinary English barley lias three
grains on each spike. By cross-breed-
ing a descendant lias been produced
with seventeen grains instead of three.
Ottier cross-bred wheats have been pro-
duced on tliis farm which have no
husks. The food value of such grains
is, of course, very much greater, and
the labor of preparing them for table
much less.
It ts an interesting point that the
first experiment in cross-breeding was
performed upon the common pink.
This was Just two centuries ago. Fair-
child was tlip experimenter, and the
result was a perfect success. ^
Bicycle l.tmn Mower.
For the proprietor of a moderate size
suburban place who wants a carpet-
like lawn without the expense of a
horse-drawn or automobile grass cut-
ter the bicycle lawn mower has been
designed. A velvety stretch of green
grass can only be maintained by fre-
quent cropping, nnd tin* lawn mower
of tin* ordinary type has its limitations.
A lawn of even moderate proportions
becomes a burden wiicn it must be
traversed frequently behind a lawn
mower. Tlie combination of tlie bicy-
cle and lawn mower is nn ideal one
under such circumstances. The prin-
ciple is much tlie same as that em-
ployed in the horse-drawn mower with
tlie reciprocating blades. The rear
wheels of the combination are geared
to drive tlie cutting blades, which are
supported on a movable arm, at a
point abreast of the front wheel, where
its operation is constantly under the
eye of the operator. The position of
these blades with respect to tbe ground
is easily raised aud lowered at the will
of the operator for the purpose or
overcoming any inequalities in the Sur-
face of the lawn.
By the use of gearing connecting the
driving wheels with the cutters it is
possible to out a greater swatli
through the grass than with the ordi-
nary type of lawn mower, and thus flip
lawn can he covered In much less
time and with less exertion.
One sort of permanent investment
is buying a cemetery lot.
. qinua1 :i_
In spite of the fact that tile trade
of the Atlantic ports of the United
Slates lias fallen off ibis year, the port
of Montreal, Panada, has beaten alt
previous records in both freight and
I nssenger service.
The American critic. Daniel fluorsoh |
of New York, has published a most
severe criticism of contemporary Ger- i
man sculpture. In tlie course of his
criticism lie » eclares the work to be | ^
decadent, ugly and inferior to tlie work
of tin* American, French and Italian
schools. The recent monuments
throughout Germany, he says, are eye-
sores.
Many years ago. London Country
Life* says, one man bet another thnt he
could not move an ordinary brick tied
to the end of a cord two or three miles
long. A straight and level road just
outside of Chichester was sclen ted for
the trial; the brick was not moved,
and the mau lost his bet for u large
amount. It was stuted by some one
present that the brick, though weigh-
ing only about seven pounds, would,
from a distance of two or three miles,
represent a dead weight of nearly a
ton. Only another illustration that the
closer you get to y problem the easier
it is to solve.
A gale in the open ocean will lash
ui) the* waters into spray, and produce
waves which seem of prodigious
height to unfortunates in any small
boat; lmt as Nature points out. few
of our impressions are more mislead-
ing. Dashed from their crests into
tlie troughs between, we say the waves
ran “mountains high;’* but the highest
waves in British seas probuoly never
exceed fifteen or twenty feet, and the
greatest height observed by Scoresby
in the waves of the Atlantic was but
forty-three feet. This is, of course,
the height of tlie wave from trough
to crest, aud has nothing to do with
the height to which spray, water or
stones may be hurled when the waves
break on shore.
Since Poor Lo lias stopped facing
the setting sun nnd delivering fourth
reader orations lie has managed to
pick up a considerable portion of this
world's goods, says the Worcester Tel-
egram. There are about -38,000 Poor
Los. und they cost this Government
$0,800,000 every year, and of this $3.-
GOO.OOO goes for education. Still the
Indian 0 ,?s not improve much. Some-
times he becomes a ball player or foot-
ball player, and on one occasion, to
the sorrow' of his manager, Mr. Bur*
ton. he became a singer in opera. The
Indians are well cared for. They have
free education and they have a good
income from the United States. This
is increased by a little work, but not
too much work, for the Indian does
not believe in labor. All told, he lias
about the best time of any man or
race of men on the globe.
“All our great corporations and
manufacturing concerns,” says the
Iron Age, “seek tlie college man, blit
in no sense do they seek him because
of his familiarity with their business
or with auy detail of their transac-
tions; neither do they want him for
the smattering of knowledge he may
be able to devote to their interests.
They take him solely for the training
he has gone through, and not for the
wisdom that may be stitched in the
Lning of his cap. That training the
man of affairs can further develop
along lines which will be useful to
him. The ‘having learned how to
learn’ is of vastly more Importance in
i.ctual operations than all the learn-
ing absorbed in any course of lour
years.” A demand exists for men
who have mustered the higher educa-
tion, especially on the engineering and
technical side. But there is a demand
also for graduates who have taken
the classical course only, if graduation
implies training and industry.
Much speculation about the age of
the sun and the source of its heat has
recently been based upon tbe chance
that that body contains radium, com-
ments the Now York Tribune. Wheth-
er the lutter assumption yet has any
excuse, therefore, is au interesting
question. For au answer one natural-
ly turns to the spectroscope. By
means of that instrument every known
terrestial element has given indica-
tions whereby its presence in the stars
can be determined. At least forty of
these elements are known to exist in
the sun. To gratify his curiosity an
unnamed correspondent of Nature has
compared tlie lines in the* spectrum
of radium, as determined by Sir Will-
iam Crookes, with accepted tabula-
tions of the solar spectrum. He says
that not a single line in the one cor-
responds with any in the other. Such
a declaration can hardly be regarded
as final and conclusive, but for the
present it deprives the hypothesis of
the existence of radium in tbe sun of
all scientific standing.
A Missouri l«le«.
ISSOf’UI is not usually
^ . redlted with being ahead
G O of Iowa in anything. But
Missouri has been first
>TO*r to discover that it is the
care that is given to dirt roads after
they are made that determines wheth-
er dirt roads may be good roads. The
discovery was made in a very simple
manner, as set forth in a bulletin thnt
the Missouri Board of Agriculture is
distributing among the farmers of the
State. After the same experience with
roads that Iowa has had. good a little
while and then bad a long while, it
was suggested by some one that if
every farmer would keep up the road
running past his own farm all the
roads would soon he in good condition
at very little cost to .anybody. One of
tbe farmers to act upon this sugges-
tion was I). W. King, of Maitland, who
with some ingenuity set about making
a drag for himself, and it is this drag
that is the subject of the State board's
bulletin. Tlie bulletin describes it as
follows:
The road draw is very simply con-
structed. It is composed of two split
logs, nine feet long. Joined together
with short crosspieces. After each
rain tlie road should be gone over with
the drag. * carefully smoothing down
all high places and filling up tlie ruts.
In the course of time tlie road so treat-
ed will become hard and firm and, with
a little attention after each rain, al-
ways will remain dry and smooth. Ex-
periments have been made in every
part of the State, and on every kind
of soil with the drag, and it has been
found to be successful.”
The Register and Leader takes pleas-
ure in presenting this Missouri idea
to its readers. It is the solution
of the road problem for Iowa, and tbe
only solution. Each farmer may not
wish to keep a road drag and to drag
It is own rond. but every farmer ought
to be willing to combine witli his
neighbors to secure a road tender
whose business it should be to keep
our dirt highways smooth and passa-
ble. Every township in the State
should have a man. with sufficient
teams and tools, hired by the year to
do nothing else. In one year nine out
of ton of our dirt highways would be-
come so well hardened and so firm that
no ordinary spell of wet weather would
affect them further than to moisten
the surface.
Even if Iowa should secure macad-
amized highways, they would require
constant care. Why should not the
Stnte provide the caretakers for the
dirt roads that*it will be compelled
to have when permanent highways
come in?—Des Moines (Iowa) Register
and Lender.
WILY BELGIAN MAIDS- v
*r
A DiHgiace to Civilization.
While the people ot' this country
have been expending their energies
and means in contributing the best
system of railroads upon tlie eartli.
there has been little attention given
to building highways according to
modern ideas. There lias been no ade-
quate system for maintaining them,
and their condition in tills age of gen
eral development aud improvement is
a disgrace to a civilized nation.
It seems to be settled beyond argu-
ment that the public roads in tills
country are to be Improved. Argu-
ment is all on the affirmative side, nnd
there is no opposition. Tlie only ques-
tion to settle Is of ways and means,
and the attention of the people is be-
ing directed to national aid to road
improvement as outlined in the Brown-
low bill.
In countries that are famed for their
good roads their general government
is a large factor in their general man-
agement. Nearly a hundred years
ago our national Government was en-
gaged in projecting and building ex-
tensive systems of public highways
to develop the resources of the coun-
try. and probably would have contin-
ued such policy hut for the rapid
growth of steam railway systems that
seemed bettor adapted fo tin* needs
of the expanding business and tlie in-
creasing traffic of tlie country.
Within recent years, through the De-
partment of Agriculture, tlie office of
Public Rond Inquiries was estab-
lished and is maintained by yearly
appropriations from the public treas-
ury, resulting in great good in promot-
ing road improvement, and there has
been an increasing demand upon this
office, not only for achieving aid, hut
for material assistance.
In responding to the people's call
for Government aid there lias been
made a safe and healthy beginning,
and it seems an opportune time to en-
large and extend the work.
Petri Hed Hat.
About four years ago Charley Erwin
paid a visit to the petrified forest of
Arizona, and while there left a large
sombrero under the natural bridge
near the falls, nnd in such a position
that the water dripped on It. One side
of tlie brim was pinned up to the
crown, and therein was worked ivitli
cord the letters "C. E." In this place
the hat remained until about a month
ago, when Mr. and Mrs. George Rnff-
ner were visiting at tlie place. Erwin
gave them a description of tlie location
of tits “plant,” and thither they went,
nnd found the hat. A complete petri-
fication of the chepeau lmd taken
place. It was absolutely stone. Mrs.
ttuffiier brought it home with her,
nnd now lias it, regarding it ns one of
the choice curios of her ninny travels.
—Prescott Courier.
Novel Method. Adopted by Them to
Seen re Husband,.
Eraussines is a small village in Bet-
gitim which possesses a good supply,
of girls, who realized lately that a
great many’of them were destined to
be old maids unless they tool; the mat-
ter in hand themselves.
After many meetings, from which
ail married folks were rigorously ex-
cluded. tin* girls determined to give
a great dinner to which unwedded
Tooths from far and near should be
invited.
Notices of the coming festival and
its reasons were published nil over the
country and even in Holland.
This very original way of securing
a husband lias just come off. llie pre-
parations aud decorations of the vil-
lage having kept all agog for a week.
A table was placed in the centre of
tlie village street, and tlie hostesses,
“dressed lo kill." awaited the arrival
of the guests.
At o'clock till* girls, witli their par-
ents and bachelor guests, assembled
in front of the town hall, whence
numerous addresses were given on the
subject of matrimony.
Then the event of the day took place.
Tlie loverless girls took tlieir places
at table first, each leaving an empty
seat at tier side, and waiting anxi-
ously for the youth who should elect
to sit bosido her.
There was an awful pause ere the
first mau screwed up courage to leave
the rest, who stood huddled together
a if for protection from the danger
that awaited them, hut at last a
brawny fellow of about forty, from
some distance, whose hearth was com-
fortless without a wife, made a choice
and look his seal* then another and
another, nnd goon all tlie places were
taken.
Dinner lasted to 7 o’clock in true
Flemish fashion, ending with songs
and speeches. By this time acquain-
tance was made, hearts were warmed
and declarations made, and tlie girls
who hod succeeded in securing sweet-
hearts made their appearance in the
village square with tlieir captured
swains.
Very few were left lamenting. Tlie
dinner was followed by a ball in the
open air. and many wedding days are
already fixed.—London Express. ^
WORDS OF WISDOM
Start each day as if commencing a
new* life.
Forget the sorrows and anxieties of
yesterday. .
Think thnt you are but human, and
liable to error. >
A man's conscience is the best ba-
rometer of his ability.
Remind yourself of pleasant etreura-
stnnres in a casual way.
He that ruleth his spirit is better
than he that tnketh a city.
The man who wears the best clothes
may have the most creditors.
Control, your mind in giving atten-
tion to only one matter at a time. .
Manhood is one of the things that
the man who is always on the make
forgets to make.
The greatest lies can he compressed
into tlie smallest parcels, yet they al-
ways weigh the same.
The man who points out your faults
may be a true friend, but you feel like
kicking him just the same.
With patience sour grapes become
sweet and the mulberry leaf satin.—
Turkish Proverb, in Century.
A man never knows w 1 t a woman
thinks of him until after he has been .
married to her for about six weeks.
Woman is evidently a special dispen-
sation of Providence to prevent man's
conceit from running away with him.
It is a good hostess who never in-
clines her guests unconsciously to look
at the dock—“The Damsel and the
Mage.” •
People who have to measure the size
of their meals by the length of their
purses are very apt to become a trifle
unsteady in their ethics concerning
questions.—Owen Kildare.
Remind yourself that you cannot act
beyond the abilities you possess, and
that time alone will give you the nec-
essary experience you are desirous of
obtaining, if you are an observer.
It is well to have a high standard of
life, even though we may not be able
altogether to realize it. Whoever tries
for tlie highest results cannot fail to
reach a point far in advance of that
from which tic started.—Smiles,
Discoverer of ice Cream*
A French chef, who prepared* tlie.
dish for the Due de Chartres in 1774,
is said lo have made tlie first ice crenrn.
Lord Bacon was aware of the process
of congealation by means of snow and
salt, but lo him it was a scientific fact
of greater or less interest, and be had
no idea of tlie delightful possibilities
of this process on various eatables.
Iced drinks and water tees were
known to tlie Parisian epicures a cen-
tury and a half earlier, tlie dainties
having probably come from the Far
East by llie hand of some traveler
who had tested sherbet. The English
knew or cared nothing for such arti-
ficial refreshment till the present cen-
tury. Even now they do not regard
tin- "iced pudding” with especial fa-
vor.—Mirror-Farmer. ^
Deepest Bore Hole.
The deepest bore hole in the world is
one of 0571 feet below the surface of
tlie soil made at Paruschowitz, near
Rybrick, Upper Silesia. The previous
record for depth was a 5733 foot hole
drilled some years ago at Schlndebncb,
near Leipsic. The latter bore hole was
made in search for toal measures, and
eighty-three separate seams, some of
considerable thickness, were pene-
trated.—Mirror Farmer.
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