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Ti) PUT CAKE t ani E HElt•
The following way of putting a
,wake together never fails: Work
the butter and •sugar to a cream,
beat the whites and yolks of eggs
separately,the whitesto a stiff
froth, the yolks to a cream, then
add the yolks to the creamed but-
ter and sugar, beat hardfor five
minutes, then acid the milk. then
the flavoring, next the whites of
the eggs, and lastly the flour, fold-
ing it in carefully, Just 'before
ready to put in the oven add the
,baking powder and beat carefully
fou two minutes. Avoid stirring
the deice after the sugar and butter
are creamed, but beat from the bot-
tom up and over. Never allow the
butter to get oily before creaming
it. For small takes' the oven must
be hot; for large ones only med-
erately so. When you take the
k f thed t remove
salt, red pepper, and paprika
mixed together. Dry' sa the oven,
taking care that they do not be-
came parched, Chap finely and
tsprinkle on to buttered bread,
cover with.another buttered slice,
and cut in fancy shapes. lhesc
will he found to be both novel and
delicious,
Simple Recipe. -Two eggs beat-
en light, one cup£uI of sugar, two.
.,tablespoonfuls of sour cream; fill
with buttermilk, ono level tea-
spoonful of baking powder, a pinch
of salt, flour to roll out, Fry and
roll in fine sugar before putting on
the table,
Pries Doughnuts.-O.ne cupful of
eugar, one egg, one cupful of sour
milk, one teaspoonful of soda, two
tablespoonfuls of melted lard, five
cupfuls of flour. Flavor to taste.
sand cook in deep lard. Prepare
cake from
oven o- no i - the dough at night, and. 000k de-
it from the pan until it is cool. sired amount of doughnuts fresh.
When you take it, from the pat slip
:Set
:Serem
ai ouaway, and
gaauad
it ones ]ate and putntho.wing,
In making the icing a shallow,
glazed earthen dish should be used,
Allow a quarter of a pound or more
of the finest white sugar to the
white of each egg. If you use flav-
aring add it last. Put frosting an
in large spoonfuls. Begin with the
-centre and spread with a thin blade
eel knife, clipped from time to time
in ice water. -Let the frosting dry
in a. cool place.
Lady Baltimore Cake --Ona cup-
ful of butter, two cupfuls of sugar,
three and one-half cupfuls of flour,
one cupful of sweet milk, the
whites of six eggs, two level tea-
spoonfuls of baking powder, one
teaspoonful of rosewater. Creain
the butter, adding the sugar gra-
dually, heating continually, then
the milk and flavoring, next the
flour into which the baking pow-
der has been sifted, and lastly, the
stiffly beaten whites of the eggs,
which should be folded lightly into
the dough. Bake in three Layer
cake -pane, in a hot oven. To make
the filling: Dissolve three cupfuls
of granulated sugar in one cupful
of boiling water, eook it until it
threads, then pour over it the stiff-
ly beaten whites of three eggs., stir-
ring constantly. To this icing add
one cupful of chopped, raisins, one
cupful of chapped nutmeats-pe-
CANNED
utmeats pe
all is used; is little work, last,
batch is good as first, end who
,does not relish a warm fresh dough-
nut with his eoffee?
CANNED PUMPKIN.
Fresh home stewed pumpkin
makes the best pies. This cannot
be had the year round. But pump-
kin may be so treated as to defy
an epicure to distinguish between
the preserved and the fresh pro-
duct.
Stew the pumpkin "dry," that is
reduce the pulp greedy. Sift. Then
to every three-fourths of a eupful<al
pumpkin add three-fourths of a
cupful of white granulated sugar,
one scant teaspoonful of ginger,
one-eighth teaspoonful of cinna-
mon, one-eighth teaspoonful of nut-
meg, and a pinch of salt. Blend
thoroughly. Heat to the boiling
point, being careful not to burn
the mixture. Seal in airtight pint
jars. This will keep indefinitely.
The preserving may be done in
the fail, when pumpkins are fresh,
or a little at a time at each stew-
ing, or in the winter, when pump.
kins will keep no longer. Which-
eeer plan is followed, the product
is -most oonveniente
For pie dissolve one cupful of pre -
,course serve an egg salad sprinkled
with 'Mimed mint leaves,
For covering jam pats have
freshly -made flour and water Vote,
Use it ledt.
A young rabbit can be easily re -
:cognized' by ite sharp claws and
brittle jawbone.
Strong drink may be overcome
without the aid of drugs, simply by
the use of buttermilk.
Clean combs with a good stiff nail
brush, dry, They soon warp and
break if washed with 'water,
Save fat from soup, clarify it,
and you will have- 'the'wherewithal
for basting'nseat.and frying vege-
tables.
When blacking a kitchen range
.mix the blacklead with vinegar, if
you ivant it to have a' really good
-polish,
When oilcloth is dull and shows
•signs of wear it will be greatly hp -
proved by 1 thin coat of varnish.
To make a green mayonnaise
for a vegetable salad, add scalded
chopped parsley to ordinary salad
dressing.,
When boiling rice, add lemon
juice to the water to make the
,grains white, and prevent them
,sticking together.
For discolored bine, zinc ware, or
sinks, powdered hearth stone mole -
toned with paraffin is a magic clean-
ser.
Put an orange or a lemon into
the pan with your eweet cakes or
cookies and you will find it will im-
prove the taste.
Select lamp wicks which aro soft
and loosely woven. Soak them in
vinegar, and dry in a cool oven be-
fore using.
Cauliflower should be turned
head, downwards in cooking, so
that no scum may by any chance.
settle an the white portion.
When peeling potatoes put then:
in hot water before boiling and you
Will be able to take the skin off
quite easily. -
cans preferred -and five figs out in- served pumpkin in one and one -
to thin strips. With this ice both .half 'cupfuls of hot scalded milk,
the top and the sides of the cake. ,add one-half cupful of -cream and
Never Fail Cake. -A good plain two well beaten eggs; hake in a
layer cake that can be depended
epon every time is made as follow •
Rub one-half a cupful of butter and
two cupfuls of white sugar' to a
cream, add the beaten yolks of
three eggs, and one cupful of sweet
milk. Next stir in three cupfuls of
sifted flour, and when well mixed
beat with a cake mixer er wooden
paddle far several minutes. The
more the cake is heaten the finer
it will be. But the beating process
should in most eases cease before
the baking powder is added. Uso
two rounding teaspoonfuls of bak-
ing powder. Fold the powder in
with an upward and downward
movemeit, and when thoroughly
blended add the well beaters whites
of the eggs in the •same manner.
Bake in a moderate oven for half
an hour. The cake should be a rich
,brown on top when done. Either
granulated or white coffee sugar
may he used. If a soft cake is
wanted use the -latter. When a
fruit cake is wanted use three cup-
fuls of light brown sugar, four eup-
fu]s of flour, two and one-half tea-
spoonfula of baking powder, one-
ehalf' a cupful of strong coffee, one
:level tablespoonful of ground cin-
namon, one -cupful of seedless rai-':going with a large open kettle of
sins, and one and a half cupfuls of boiling water on the stove to ere-
ehepped dates. Flour the 'fruit and ate steam, This prevents the fea-
tadd last. Bake in two loaves for thers,from blowing and if the seams
at least an hour.
Angel's Food Cake -Sift a tee. -
.spoonful of cream of tartar six
times with half a cupful of flour.
Whip the whites of six eggs until
they stand alone, then gradually
stir into them a half cupful of
(granulated ,sugar and the sifted
Stour. Beat hard for eight minutes,
,turn into a (loan =greased pan
with a funnel in the middle. Bake
in a steady oven untila straw
comes out clean from the thickest
part. Turn the pan upside down
on It clean towel and as the cake
,cools( it will slip out of the tin.
When cold ice the bottom and sides
with a boiled icing.
VARIOUS RECIPES,
rich crust one hour .and you have
the famous old New England pump-
kin pie.
ALL AROUND THE HOUSE.
Mouseproof pantry -In building
or doing over a house, before bus
final poards are put on the pantry,
have. it lined throughout with mos-
quito wire. It is not expensive be.
put on this mouseproof inner lining
and the relief from the pests would
compensate for the expenditure,
;even though it were double.
Wall Paper Help. -It is some
times .necessary to patch the wall
paper where it has become defac-
ed or torn, and the new paper of
the same pattern is too bright to
use. Try banging the new paper
in bright •sunshine until the -colors
,are faded or dulled and it can be
,applied to the damaged paper on
the walls and will match- it per
f ectly
To Change Feathers -When you
change the feathers from one pillow
case to another, have pillow ticks,
needle, thread. and scissors all in
the kitchen, with doors closed to
avoid drafts, and have a good fire
Ice Cream -Take ons -half pound
of sugar, six yolks of eggs, one
pint of milk, :Mix well, put on fire,
keep stirring until it conies to a
boil, and then add one pint cream
,and flavor to the taste. .Strain and
freeze:. Before serving cover the
tct•ea m With
a meringue g
ue and
bake
in avey
r hot oven an' one to
Mcr',guo
-Io r whites of eggs,
s,
well beaten. Add one-half pound
, flavor.
Or
andflao
sager g
or powdered
su red
u ed-
be used -
Salter,'
of
the
reelpe can �
ne p
one-half
$eoh
'i• Les,--•
Salted Almond,Sanda el
one-fourth of a enpful of best olive
oil in a frying pan, add four auto -
es of blanched almonds, and fry a
in the ticks are opened and sewed
together before attemp t:ng to- shake
from one to another, and then are
pinned, basted, and whipped, you
.can do the entire operation without
losing more than ten or twelve fea-
thers.
School Day helps. -Mark um-
brellas by writing name on muslin
with ink and sewing to inside of
topwith black' thread; overshoes
,and rubbers by writing name on
lining, and handkerchiefs by writ-
ing name across the centre with
ink. Furnish children with a black
-cloth pen wiper and a clean cloth
to use when painting. Line the
sleeves of girls' dresses underneath
to elbow, as they s -on n ear through
en the desks and thus can be mend -
ted easily. Put hangers on winter
coats, Mark mittens by sewing
name written with ink on muslin
to inside wrist. Dress -children
meetly. Never allow them to go
With holes in their stockings. Teach
them to brush their teeth and hair,
keep their hands and faces clean,
give them abottle of h
o
e Po
li
h to
use when shoes, grow sh. bb
,They
feel and work better and win the
appreciation of the 'teacher when
tlY
i lack web,
e
HOW A. "CORSE GALLOPS
Conventional Mode of Bepreseata
Lion and its Origin.
How does a horse gallop l Ow
ing to the rapidity of action it can-
not be seen by the human eye
However, just as the individual
spoke:a of a rapidly revolving whew
can be made visible by' a flash of
lightning, so the action of a gal
loping horse can be and has beer
analyzed by instantaneous photo-
graphy.
The statuette of Sysonby, the
thoroughbred, has been made frim:
photographs taken at the inesan.
when all four legs ars off the
ground. The_ back is arched, the
hind feet are directed forward, the
fore feet backward, so that all are
tucked under the animal's body.
When the limbs again torah ;,i(
ground the first to do so is of
hind feet, which is thrust for
ward so as to form an acute anal(
with the line of the body, and thu'
serve the purpose of a spring ix
breaking the force of the impa
of the hoof when the horse is gi
ing at top speed.
In the conventional mode of -a-
presenting a galloping horsy ea
four legs are off the ground at once.
but the front pair aro extended
backward in such a way that the
under surfaces of their hoofs aro
directed skyward, the body being
ab the same time brought near the
ground. This oonventional pose
appears to have been derived from
a dog running. when the front and
hind pairs of legs are respeetivels
extended forward and backward.
with the soles of the hind fee:
turned upward.
This pose, it is thought, was
adopted to represent the gallop of
the horse by the goldsmiths of My
venae between 800 and 1000 B. C..
whence it was transmitted by way
of Persia and Siberia to China and
Japan, to return in the eighteenth
eenturv, as the result of conrmer
cial relations, to western Europe.
USEFUL HINTS;
Your starch will not stick of you
trtir it with a wax candle directly
pale brown color. Drain. on paper it is merle.
. t
than toss .haun in a seasoning of For the roast of ,cold lump
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THE S. S, LESSON
INTERNATIONAL LESSON,
O0T, 24,
Lesson IY, :Pall a Prisoner, •Amts
25. 6-12. _Golden Text, 2
Thu. 1, 12.
0-12, Golden Text, 2 7'im, 1. 12
THE LESSON WOAD STUDIES.
Time : Summer of A.D. 09. Place
Caosat ea. Perso ,s Paul ; Festus,
the new governor ; Herod Agrippa
I1,, •great-grauudsnn of Herod the
Great; Bernice, his sister, a notori-
enis eliareeter; Jews from Jerusa-
lem., Links: Festus gave prompt
attention to the case of the Jews
versus Paul (Acts 25. 1, 6, 13, 23).
The hostile Jews attempted to have
the case tried in Jerusalem, that
they height carry out their plan to
kill Paul, .but Festus insisted upon
their' carrying their eharges to
Caesarea, where Felix had left Paul
in bond's•, Point of the Narrative:
Festus, in order to please the Jews,
invites Paul to be judged at Jeru-
salem, but he appeals- to Caesar,
knowing there is no justice for him
in Jerusalem. Before Agrippa,,
who appears in Caesarea to pay his
respects to Festus, Paul complete-
ly clears himself.
Chapter 25, verse 6, When he had
tarried among them-Festus, the
successor of Felix, at Jerusalem.
Went down unto Caesarea -Ac-
companied probably by the Jewish
elders (verse 5).
7. Bringing against him many
and grievoua charges --These they
sad doubtless accumulated from
every source through the two years
if his imprisonment.
8. Paul said in his defense -The
,.bree headings of his • statement
lover the same ground as his 'cle-
anse before Felix (Acts 24. 11-21).
9. Desiring to gain favor - Pro-
vincial governors were really en-
nverebie to their subjects, since
:he latter might bring complaints
zgainst them at the close of their
:erm of office.
THE FINAL AUTHORITY.
I{nicker-"When do you expect
'confirmation of the discovery of the
Pole?"
Booker -"When Mr. S. Claus
comes to town,"
REGRETFUL.,
Regret will never be able to head
off indiscretion.
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from the dead; (4) that he should
be preached to the Gentiles,
24. Much learning -The many.
writings, literally, Referring to
Paul's oonversanee with the legal
and prophetic literature of his na-
tion,
20, Note the good-natured and
Courteous form of Paul's reply. In;
the Greek, soberness is the eruct
opposite of madness,
23:. Wtthe but little persuasion
thou wouldest fain make me a
Christian :This is preferable to
the old trauslation, Almost thou
persuades- mo ,s hardly a possible
Pondering. The idea is, , that the
apostle is foolish ,to suppose he can
with so little freebie win the king
over to the side of the despised
Nazarene.
�9, Luimbq°s paraphrase �,
g ra hrase . I may
have seemed to use little pesetas, -
store and suddenly to have jumped
at the reonelusien. that you accept
the. teaching of the prophets as
myself receive it;: but whether it
need little or much persuasion; or
little or much time, my prais
rlo
God is, for you and for all who
ten to me, that they may become.
such as I am," eee- t t libert
32. Might have been se a y
--Agrippa accepts Paul's version of
the Jewish Scriptures as true, and.
es a Jew acquits him, This eon-
firmed the view of Festus• (Acts 25,
26).P
Ipealed had .not a -- This
he
appeal made impossible either eon-
demnation or acquittal by a lower
court.
Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem , , ,
afore me? -This is a violated Ro-
nan lair: Festus therefore pro-
poses that the other offenses be
-card before, the Sanhedrin ivith
timself present to insure fair play.
10. I am standing before Caesar's
judginent seat -The verb means he
1s now, and has been, standing
shere. For two years he has been
in custody of the Romans, and he
:Declines to be handed over to men
:rom whom he can expect no jus -
ice.
11. I appeal unto Oaesar-To this
'aul was foreed, because (1) he was
:ertain of being condemned by the
Sanhedrin, and se), (ince Festus
gas both just and timid, he- could
expect nothing from him. •
12. The council -The eases -:ora,
elm acted as. the governor's legal
advisers.
Chapter 26, verse 1. Agrippa -
-Ie woe the son of .that. Herod
lgrippa whose tragic death is de
scribed in Acts 12. and became ru-
ler over several Jewish cities. He
,vas instrumental in, completing the
Semple, sand was deeply interested
in all Jewish questions, He was
l:'Let of the Heroes. With his sis-
er I3erhioe, who bore a most urs-
rnviabls reputation in the Roman
.world, ha had conte to pay his .re-
,peas to Festus, the new governor.
testes .regards it as, a most oppor-
`,ne time to bring forward his die -
Fly ---Just to think that 1 should
be the third. one to discover the
North Pole l -Life.
anguished prisoner. The hearing
was held in the presence of Agrip-
pa, Bernice, Festus, and the chief
men of the, city.
3. Expert in all -customs . .
among the Jews -No idle oompli
ment. Jewish customs were his
specialty.
4-27. Paul's defense. The main
points are: (1) that all Jews know
of his strict training in the belief in
a coming Messiah and the resurrec-
tion ; (2) that he had had his diffi-
culties in accepting Jesus as the
fulfillment of promise, until his
miraculous conversion and
commis-
sion to the Gentiles; (3) that the
hostility -r the Jews' grew out of
his zeal fax w' at Moses and the
prophets had distinctly taught
(G 23
The hope of the promise - In-
cluding the resurrection of all Tews
tc. share in the Messianic kingdom,
The well as the Doming of the Mes-
siah,
es-siah,
8. The question is equvadent to,
"Why not believe that Jews was
raised from the dead 1"
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FORTUNE FOR PAIR SLIPPERS.
Pair Worn by Countess Wore
Ablaze with, Diaaloud's.
Our grandmothers would be
shocked if they knew the high pric-
es paid by the modern maid for her
foot wear, In former years a
bride's wedding outfit, including
beets, shoes, and slippers, would
seldom exceed $125, but the weal-
thy girl of to -day thinks nothing
of spending $500 or so for her house
slippers alone, while in a few very
exceptional cases the cost of those
necessary articles has even run in-
to four figures.
A London (England) tradesman
told the writer that slippers are
becoming more and more costly.
An extraordinary order came
from a wealthy -South American
gentleman not very long ago, wive
wished to present a pair of slippers
to'a noted prima donna. They had
to be ornamented with two charm-
ing butterflies crusted with proci-
ous stones. The dainty slippers cost
him nearly 920,000.
This pricey large as it seems, has
actually been exo.eded. Only this
year a countess had made to order
a pair of slippers which were de-
corated with a magnificent array of
rubies, emeralds, and diamonds,
and cost her $22,500.
But the most oestly slippers in
the world were made for a well-
known dowager -countess, who ap-
peared in them as Cinderella at a
fancy dress ball a year or two age.
The slippers were one mass of
sparkling diamonds and they east
her husband the astounding sum of
$00,000. Of course, they were only
used once, and when the ball was
over the jewels were carefully re-
moved from the slippers and placed
for safety in the countess' jewel
box.
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BAROMETER 7BIRDS.
9. Contrary to the name of Jesus
-In order to stifle oonfueion of it.
10. Gave my vote against them•-
Eatahlishing the fact that Paul was
a member of the Sanhedrin.
11. Punishing thorn , ,. in all the
synagogues -In various places in
the Gospels we find references to
the synagogues es places in which
men were accused and punished'
(compare Matt. 10. 17).
To make them blaspheme -- To
deny the name of Jesus,
10-18, Paul a here summarizes. +ow ,
es time
and to
mrcn
io
oralrevelations, The co n
st
preach to the Gentiles was given
later (compare Acts 22, 15 and 21).
2 - To small and
fltca
t
rhe Lord
should bear his
•.
that lir
had sail.] id
name hefore kings (Ants 0. 15).
22. 2.3. The teaching of the pro-
phets and Mose,' was: (1) that iv(.
Wail should hould (wine ; (2) that lie should
auffer; (3) that lie should rice again
Trow -TO -11011 coOo nolkDS.
Tioh Artiote Tolle of a Sipple and
(!heap ?Ietheil.
"Fater ►nixed with soil produces
mud. The larger the quantity of
water tend the more thorough the
mixing the greater the .depth of
the mud and the tougher and more
tenacious its quality, But to mix
water and ,soil the two must ba
held in close contact, The rain-
drape fall and when they strike they
keep .en moving at a hurry -up -gait
until they run off the road bed in-
to the side ditch, and they are like-
ly to keep on running until they
get out of the neighborhood.
A baby mud -hole contains a pint
of rain water, and the wheels cut
le a little deeper, and wider, and
longer, The road dries; the mud -
puddle ,is
ud-puddle,le only a depression in the
surface now but it is prepared to
hold more water when it rains
again, Another rain and; once
more the wlieele out and ream it
out, and fou' longer hours, because
it contains more water and does
nob dry so quickly. The following
rains and numerous wheels develop.
the baby mud-holeinto a , giant
quagmire with atrength to seize a
leaded wagon and powerful team
and hold thee- helplase in the grasp
of i•ts miry fingers,
The solution of the problem of
the hard -earth road is in keeping
its surface always so that the next
rain will find no lodgment, and
hencein obvititing the bad effects
of "mixing."
The King drag movement has
come with a rush. Ten years ago
th'e first speech acivneating the King
system was yet to be uttered. To-
day the use of the King method is
spreading over Maine. and Cali-
fornia and between ; it epidemic
in Texas and Canada, and between ;
the writer's printed story has been
tianslated into Spanish and for
several years the South American
nations have benefited by it, The
Philippines are inoculated; and for
two years or more the newspapers
of Australia have pushed the pro-
paganda of "Good roads without
money." This year, in Missouri,
the birthplace of the movement,
two thousand dollars is being spent
in one county to drag its main
roads. Whole townships have or-
ganized to drag every mile of road
after every rain. One township
in Iowa has dragged its entire mile-
age for three ,years past and the
organization is so perfect that its
reads, every foot of them, arc -com-
pletely dragged ire three hours
from the moment the -order is giver.
Ice 1900 the state of Iowa amend-
ed her statues to provide for the
use of the King system on the
country roads. .In 1909 the law was
made mandatory and has been
broadened to include the unpaved
streets of the cities and towns. in
that state.
Let all concerned take notice that
the foregoing, in no phrase or para-
graph, attempts to substitute the
produce of the King system - the
hard earth road -for gravel or
macadam. Enough travel must
pass over either of these styles of
road in order to keep it at its
best. If there is not sufficient trav-
el either will go to pieces. On the
other hand too . much travel will
ruin any one of the three. Or, ap-
proaching the problem from an-
other angle, the mere travel an
earth road has, up to a certain
point, the better it is. And the
same statement is true of gravel or
macadam, We may, therefore, con-
clude that when the travel is suffi-
cient to break down an earth road
the surface should be covered with
gravel or macadam; and when the
gravel or tnacadim fails to with-
stand the traffic the hour bas conte
when we must plan for brick or
cobblestones.
It is the writer's opinion that in
localities where farming land is
worth thirty dollars an acre, and
stone and gravel can be procured
within three miles of the proposed
road, the community which docs
not put a hard surface on its main.
traveled highways is net living up
to its opportunities. And he be-
lieves that where land is wortn are
hundred dollars the stone can be
shipped a hundred miles by rail.
The method used is very simple.
The King drag which is used in all
/these road improvements can be
made by any farnner with a, couple
of planks or spliced legs, an auger,
a few braces and a chain, All that
has to be done to have a hard. dur-
able dirt road is to draw t.hc drag,
over the surface occasionally -
especially after a rain, when the
farmer can't work in his fields -•
ther was obliged to reprove him rounding the surface of the road
was so quiet and well-behaved that
highest point in the centre. This
his mother noticed it, and spoke- dragging creates a surface from
approvingly,
"What a gond . little boy Clar-
ence was in church to -day," she
said. "Marne was so proud of
)ruin," ' ,r ce
44(11, said Clarence, "I had
to be, The choir looked right at
me, and sang over and over again,
'Please bo still, nloase be etv,:.
LUCKY TOTII1aLAST.
You do not tap the barometer
bird ; you keep your eye on its tail.
Tile barometer -bird ors disco% er
est in this way: Un a secant visit
to Pemba Bay, lortuwdese East
Africa, the captain of a Swsa•sh
vessel was attracted by the pretty
antics of some small, gaudily -co,
tired birds. They were sweet -voic-
ed, 'had nice, long, curving tail
feathers, and the captain made a
collection of them. A few wee'ss•
'experience afloat, however, sliuw-
ea that the little songsters had
much more than their appearance
or voices to recommend then. They
kept changing color, and as ens,
ship progressed north' their Dean
tiful tail -feathers cane out. Whet
the ship crossed the equator the
Weds became a sober black and
mottled color, But they grew yet'
low in the sunshiers, and turnes
dark at the approach of foul was
then. It is observed, also that she
bind exercised some strange 0,1.'
fluence over the ship's cat, which
ran in deadly fear from there.
A. PERSONAL MATTER,
Clarence was usually so restless
and fidgety in church that his mo -
EYES' QUEER MALADIES
PEOPLE WICO. SLEEP WITH
THEIR EYES OPEN,
A St, Louis Man Who Ilas • Not
Closed flits lyes for Twenty
Years.. .
To "sleep with one eye open," to
be always "wide awake," are bits
t f advice which it is very diffioult
to follow literally. Yet there are
several individuals who Can truth-
fully claim the distinction of sleep-
ing with both eyes 'open. Ons of
the most interesting of these cases
is that' of Joseph Anderson, of St,
Louis, who for twenty years has
never closed his eyes, sleeping or
waking, and who will •probably
never close them again in this life,
says London Tit -Bits, •
Anderson is now in the City Hos-
pital, St. Louis, under the care of
physiolans who fear to' make any
experiments to restore the natural
movement of the eyelids, lest by so
doing they destroy also the sight
si the eyes. If Anderson agrees to
take the risk, thenan attempt will
be made to give him bank the abil
icy to close his eyes -a luxury
which the unfortunate man is very
anxious to enjoy. The story' of An-
derson's mysterious malady is inter-
esting, and may prove something of
a warning to other men who are
following his occupation.
A. WIDE-EYED AMERIOAN.
This "wide-eyed" American is
sixty years of age, and twenty years
ago was a quarry workman. The
lime dust that was perpetually get-
ting• into his ayes created an in-
f'lammation,whioh, however, did
not bother. Anderson very much. A
few weeks later, however, he began
to notice that it was getting more
and more difficult for him to close
lois eyes, and one night when he lay
down to steep he found it impos-
sible to lower the eyelids. He made
desperate efforts to do so, bat
failed, and throughout' the night
he lay there staring at the ceiling•
When he rase in the morning he
felt in no way weary, and came to
the conclusion that he must have
slept with his eyes open.
During the days that followed
Anderson tried to exercise his eye-
lids, but couldn't as much as wink
ab a comrade when the latter asked
him to take a "smile." "It caused
me soma trouble at first," Ander-
son said to the surgeons, "as I
couldn't go to sleep, but just lay
there staring at the ceiling. But
gradually I be-ame used to it and
slept as well as any man -with my
eyes open."
For eighteen yearsAnderson
thought little of bis ability to go
to sleep with his eyes open, but
then eanao headaches and he began
to suffer a goad deal.- He believed
that he had rheumatism of the
eyes, and when he couldn't gaud
the pain any tenger he want to the
hospital, where the surgeons hailed
him as one of the "queer" eases
which delight the medical profes-
sion. They laughed at his idea of
rheumatism, but Anderson persists
that he is right, and declares that
it rheumatism can be cured that
one day he will be able to close his
eyes again. Attempts at a cure will
probably he made, and As:derson'e
naso is being watched with consid-
erable interest by medical men in
al' sections of the country.
RESULT OF RHEUMATISM.
G,,oo k --"Ta S
v Ion was always a for-
tunate. male, but doesn't it acorn
wonderful that his luck should stay
toe vlast1"
hi the
,it to
withvery
m• 1 at?
llalei h.- H t s o'a s l i
g
Cook•---"Il:e was iaperated on for
which ws.tn. readily runs ell and
nn which it cannot remain to form
mud -holes,
The split log drag can be used
be great advantage In the auburnu,
hardening the ground 'so as to shed
rain water and to preserve the soil
10 firm, dry condition, Bad roads
tri Sj1r:ng are largely the result of
putting mud and water into c.
old
storage in the Ward Ring,
in Technicalrig Magazine.
SOUVENIRS,
r .
"Did ) .,r t ,cut wife bring rine sou
,,,,
venire bark from >•.ui (, o l
I
1 altos:ld env shr del. Sixiovn
Rheumatism of the eyes ix not so
unusual as readers may possibly
think. An interesting case may be
recalled. When Wilkie Collins, the
famoue novelist, was at the height
of his fame he became afflicted ,viva
what was then diagnosed no "rheu-
matism of IA a eyes." The author
suffered the most excruciating pain
for eight months, during which
time( he lay on his face, shielding
his eyes with his arm and dictating
the greatest of all his novels, "The
Moonstone. The nial,ndy left hint
as mysteriously as it had come, ax,d
never again was the author trou-
bled with his eyes, though the visi-
tation left flim very near-sighted.
The ease of a young child, named
Dorothy Crass, greatly interested
the surgeons of Newark Hospital a
few years ago. This child was born
,with the eyelid attached to the
esebr•ows, so that it was impassible
for her to close them. The doctors
feared tooperate lest the sight
should be damaged, but finally cut
hoose the eyelids, and by means of
grafting were enabled to.lhide the
scars. - For several nionths'the child
had to be instructed in the way of
closing and opening her eyes, un-
til the Deletion ' became a natural
enc and she could "blink" as often
as she had a mind to. According
10 the looters the case was not an
isolated one,
SUICIDE WITH HATPIN.
A rather unusual suicide was
that of John Hawason at Bristol,
,a
The
man v
Intl,
England,roc v
in the
hospital
os et 1 suffering
ri
n
from n
pneu-
monia, and
ntnaaia,and waa attlledelirious.
Ar the nurse was leaning over his
end
suddenly ran up, e
nl sprang 1 h ti ac,de E
,eel n .0 y P
slab-
bed
r her ,
hatpin .from a 1
seizing ahu
ci tt
Tho
ltrul himself to the heart•
thou r'enrnval of a prnrl wliir,h 1,e r.i•ouns, a silver sugar• 411141 00011„1 nurse exlraoted i,iw loin, but 111a
ha+) aceidrtntally swallowed while c., a des=ert fork, null eight wier. ;ratan died shortly lifter. The dor.-
citing eystero, and when the pe -o-1 p ,;, u11 from rliff,ront weals, tors %I 111) t (rfnrmrd the autopsy
wasexamin+rl it W44 found ty'. 1, tco( found #t tiny puncture in the i car.
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