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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-9-30, Page 66 T El BRUS ELS POST• SEPT. 80, 1 )8. CURRENT NOTES, Ot2✓9"CatDr- -44,91. m i Vast year the Klondike gold dieser'- On the Farm. 0 ' ult.; held the center of the stage, ?nit 0 the Span', h rumpiLrattons transferred n''i4"✓tionta®- -'® the witkln to Om West Indies and the MOWING PASTITRE AND STUBBLE far aWW.ay Pht''ippinee, and this year YIELDS• the Klondike has but little figure in MowLug pastures is work that in the march of oveuts. Now, however, many oases ought to bo done, but there comes a change, end the pnblto more times it is deviate" not to do it. is teething a glimpse of the other side To get out of a job of work is what of the Klondike picture. The return- many are looking for, so to let the ing tide is bringing lack from the mowing of ten pasture go gives 8 lit - frozen north harrowing tales of anf- feriug and want. and privation. The inevitable reaction has Dome, and although the northward stream of gold seekers scents as large as ever the exodus from the Klondike region tie relief in some ways, and then wo console ourselves by thinking if We mow the weeds in the pasture we might ea off some bunches of grass that will be wasted, and as the sup - is au large as to paralyze all lateens of ply is anent theca is nuns to waste. transportation. All the Alaskan ports Then there will be the weed al obs to are crowded to suffocation and atraf- prod the noses of the stock, says a fir blockade exists. writer, and perhaps the stork will eat sumo of the weeds Sr we let theta alone, and then, too, the few weeds that remain, by winter will act us a protection to the grass by 'holding some snow that may come. So the details are carefully gone over and the conclusion is arrived at that we will not mow the pasture. But read- er, did you ever notice that when one does not wish to work he can find many reasons to support his theory? Not alt pastures need mowing. Land that has been in pasture for some time should be well sodded over and there ie. very little chance for weeds to gain a foothold. But the newer pastures will have some weeds and these should be cut at such times of year as will prevent them ripening their seed and soon the are rid of them and have a good looking pasture. And the same will apply to stubble fields. now has Ln his possession a small glass Where there is weed growth they bottle containing the entire result of should be mowed. Last spring was one season's work in thego ie s. It It is officially estimated that the en- tire Klondike output this year will not reach $5.000,000. Those estimates rang- ing from $50,000,000 to upwards of $100,000,000 seem to have emanated largely from the transportation lines whish naturally are interested in keep- ing nip the gold excitement as long as possible; but it seems little less than criminal at this time to advise Klon- dike travel. There are many return- ing argonnuts who have been beg- gared by their experiences in the new gold fields, but somehow their mis- fortunes do not claim as much atten- tion in the press as do the rare cases of success. If a man returns with $10,000 his name is heralded broad - oast and his actual earnings are multi- plied many times in the telling; but nothing is heard of the hundreds who have come back empty handed. One consists of gold dust and is valued at very favorable for weed growth dur- $1.05. rt cost Mae more than $500 to ing the early growing period of the .get that dust, and he is no longer a oats, and what gut. started then got Klondike enthusiast. But there are up enough so they were out off by others who are, and unless they trust the harvester, and this, with the more in actual experience and less in ab- sence of ruin since harvest, has caus- the imagination of transportion agents ed but a settee fall growth of the the mourners' bench next season probably will be overcrowded. While the czar's proposal of diserma- them 1.0 corn again It was plain to be ment is new in the realm of statesman- seen where the mowing bad been ship and diplomady it is not new in the done by the absence of weeds. I al- ways seed all lead sown Ln smell realm of fiction. In a ourious and in- grain as it is required to keep up the teresting novel, entitled "Realmah," by rotation. Other years it looked hard Sir Arthur Helps, published many years to mow off the clover In the stubble ago, the idea of European disarmament that was ten inches high and blos- rominent and much discuss- hurts ( but ; still I do not think it was made P hurts it any; it just stimulates it to ed by certain characters 'in the book. better growth. If a bunch of clover The plan proposed was for Englcnd to is allowed to go to seed it seems to set the example by surrendering Gib- have filled its mission, lays aside ac - ratter to Spain, and one of the charge- tivity and does not grow much more, tern Faye: "Some one nation must take while if the top is cut off it realizes the first move, and why should not this something more is wanted of it and nation be England 1" The discussion it awakens to newness of life, sends ended, however, with no conclusion oth- out roots in new directions, new foli- ar than that the subject was better fit- age appears and all goes on gaily. ted for the action of a congress than The protection the standing stubble of any one nation ; and this is precise- and weeds afford the young grass ly the czar's plan. Sir Arthur Helps, it will be remembered, was a very dis- tinguished English writer on moral, economic. political and governmental topics, and his works of fiction were on- ly pleasant disguises for their discus- sion. weeds in the stubble fields. For some years I have mowed the worst parts of the stubble fields, and when I put In a humorous passage of this same story one of the characters tells what he would do for mankind if he had uni- versal power, and is asked, What about war? Here I should shine. Here would come in that practical good eense of which 1 possess so large a share. We are such a. set of foolish, quarrelsome little beasts, and we derive so much pleasure from hearing about sieges and battles and knowing of the miseries of our fellow creatures that I should not abolish war altogether. But what I should dois this t I should reduce the decidedly poor dairymen, and the may be something, but if left stand- ing they will be gathered in with the next hay crop, while when mowed the rubbish and clippings as a mu11111 are a great benefit to the young grass, and then they are out of the way of the next hay crop. And the neat ap- pearance of the field after it is mow- ed will well repay the tidy farmer for the trouble of doing it. A WORD FOR THE PRIVATE DAIRY. As a rule, not enough encourage- ment is given farmers to induce them to improve their butter product, but on the other hand, they are frequent- ly told that good butter can be made only in public oreameries, and they are advised to send their milk to them. There are good, indifferent and European armies in the following pro- portion: I should allow them one man for each thousand they now possess. France, for instance, should have 700 soldiers; Austria}, about the sante num- ber ; Prussia. 000 ; England, 450; Rus- sia, 800, and the United States, 900. The gree.t naval powers should be allowed a ship apiece and one or two gunboats. These little armies and navies should go about fighting away like fun and undertaking what would then be thought great battles and sieges. The newspapers would still be well fed with interesting events, and taxation for war purposes would be insignifi- cant. (Undoubtedly it is that dream of all philanthropists that war should be ab- olished from the earth, but the prao- tical meal who conduct the, business of states and nations have never sympa- thized with this dream. They desire peace, but their maxim is, "If you would maintain peace you must be pre- pared for war." r;' THE BEST REASON. Little Clarence, who reads and pon- ders -Pe, I have just been reading a paragraph which says there are vari- ous reasons wily a man who talks in his sleep should not marry; what are soma of those reasons, Pa? Mr. Callipers -The best reason, my son, is because he talks in his sleep. VICTORIA'S BREAKFAST. A, member of the Queen's household says that breakfast proper, as far as tbo Queen herself is concerned, is nearly the same the year round. It consists of fried bacon, eggs, thin bread and butter and tea. Occasionally por- ridge finds a place on the menu, but not every day. VERY UNUSUAL, t' Remarkable man, that, said Mr. Blykins under his breath. I never mot anybody ;quite like him. I28 is quite ordinary in appearance and conversation. f yes, But he. Was beat at a game o billiards w out saying as word about bow well lee used to b ltd e 0 the gat out of pt'antleei play b R8 they c'or'er the milk -pail with muslin I l of 1'n , !1 ilr t c u boa 11. tea hey cut l q RE ��I�REE �lOR 1 1 g 0��� R of the troth , To d c 1. 11 and iulllt into t eyeing - steel 1 steel a little 81011 Ile 1 then the top of the pall, l piece of the cloth is out WHAT IS GOING ON IN Ti1E FOUR to be larger than the pail lop, and the edge Is lammed over the steel, nod tbi' is purred over the top of the pail, the steel herding it. in its place, Old end New World l ecnts of Int.;est Caron. To get the cloth the sight size, pass soled Ilrtefty-Interesting happenings of same Dan be said of the butter -mak- ers employed in public creameries. Good butter, is good butter, and poor butter is poor butter, whether made on the farm or in a public creamery. When honestly judged by an expert, butter must stand on its merits, wherever it may have been made. But the public is not the expert judge, and therefore creamery butter many times passes on its reputation where farm butter of really good quality would not be allowed to pass. But when it oomes to the question of op- portunity,farm dairy butter is ahead, because all the conditions from the herd and the pasture or stable, to the packing of the butter, era directly and almost completely under the 0011- trol of the proprietor. and if he is the right kind of a dairyman all of these conditions will, as te rule and in the main, he such as are required for the production of butter. If he is not the right kinrl of te dairyman, or striving to become one, he is neither fit to produce milk for a public creamery or make butter at home. It seems to the writer tbat there is and has been for some time, organized and combined efforts to boom the public) creamery, if not to disparage the - farm dairy. The government, through the agricultural department, does a good deal for the one and but little for the other. All state and national dairy organizations favor the first and give the latter but little attention, In fact, one national but- ter makers' association in this coun- try does not admit to its membership, private dairy butters, yet a produce commission merchant or a manufac- turer of public creamery ttppareeus can become a member by a peyment of the required fee, while a good, enter- prising farmer, or his wife, eager to gain information In the art of butter reeking would be debarred from join- ing the association or attending the meetings. 13efore dairying 01.1. fns the high plane of. improvement It ought to attain in this country, all this Stuet be changed. COVERS 1r0:t BALK PAILS. On the isle of Jersey, it is said, CORNERS OF THE GLOBE. the elatb over the pail hod fasten it in place with aha spring. Ikon mark where the spring (:10108 and fold up the hem just there and run the spring through 11. A similar arrangement, used by a Virginia dairyman, was made of n ting of telegraph wire, cut to be an inch smaller than ties top of the pail and bent so the ends would ((linnet meet, A circle of cloth an inch larg- er all around than the ring, so there should be a little sat;, had a hem about the edge through which the wire was run. 'Pine was placed just within the rim of the pail and milk- ed into. One of -these was counted as part of each milk -pail. The filth gathered upon it was proof of the need of it, but, while a gain over the open milk -pail, is not as good as the other, which protects the entire top, even to the place of pouring out. A11 these impurities, eau, of course, he taken out in this straining, but most of them are soluble, and the milk! named Fatma Hanum. A great proces- must gain in substance, even by a cion of state officials and military ace companied the relic when the transfer was made. Recent 1)ute' Agents from the Congo Free Slate are scouring Siam and the far East for 50,000 coolies to be shipped to the Congo by the end of the year. Dr. Johnson's pocket, notebook of the trip be took to France with the Thrales has been discovered among some old papers belonging to the poet Samuel Rogers that were examined recently. Britons having found out what the Akoond of Swatis are now engaged in investigating the Almnmiseluku of Bunban, who has put himself at the head of the Sierra Leona insurgents, British museum, the authorities hav- ing established a cycle stable in the basement, for as many as a hundred cycles a day hal been left unprotect- ed against the railings. ,d hair of the board of the Prophet has been presented to the Constanti- nople poorhouse by a lady of that city very short wait of them in It. CLEANLINESS IN SWIN.L'' RAISING, Whoever would raise hogs without disease, and this is necessary to ob- tain the highest profit, must get rid of the notion that the hog is natural- ly a filthy animal; that filth is less distasteful and unhealthful to him than to the steer or horse, and that it is impossible because of the nature of the anime). to surround the hog with sanitary conditions. Filth is a prolific source of disease among all animals ; and because the hog is brought into eontaot with the most filth, there is the most disease among swine. Filth opposes the health and thrift of swtne just as it opposes the health of horses or man. The first step in growing hogs without diseas- es is to keep filth away from them, to give them clean food, clean drink, clean quarters, glean shelters. THE RETIRED BURGLAR. Au Experience Tient made lilts for a Tinto Bamber shy ofLlghtnhng. "Perhaps you remember," said the retired burglar, "my telling you once about a visit that I made to ahouse during a thunderstorm, and how easy it made the work because everybody in the house, 10111011 was only women, had hid in closets and under feather beds till the storm was over to escape the lightning ? but I don't think lever did tell you about another experi- ence I had once in a thunderstorm that didn't work exactly that way. "I had struck a house,. a very gond house, indeed it was, too, that was empty, as far as people was concerned, but very full otherwise. The silver- ware was very slick, and I thought that altogether I had never struck anything that seemed simpler and eas- ier and more comfortable; I'd got there and got in just in time to keeps out of the thunderstorm, that was coming up. "Rain? And here I was just as snug as could be and just a-listenin' to it come dotter, as though Pd been in my own house. But I can't say I stayed comfortable very long, because the lightning was something tee-rif-fro, and I thought the thunder'd push the house in. "Just as I began gathering up the things there came a flash and a crash that made the house rock, and I could hear things rip and smash and tear somewhere, and then I could see light through the blinds on one of the front windows that was where I could see 11. The lightning had struck the porch of the house, and ripped off a lot of the woodwork there and banged it against these blinds hard enough to smash 'em in and smash the window, too. "You know I ought to have taken warning by that, but I said to myself lightning never strikes twice in the Annie place and went ahead. Alittle litt- er, just eter,just as I had picked up a big heavy silver coffeepot, there came a little lull, and I turned for a minute 10 look out through that opening in the blinds, be- fore putting the coffeepot into the bag As I stood there looking there came a flash of lightning that covered the whole front of the house opposite, as far as I could see through the hole in the blind, with a sheet of crinkly sil- ver and blue light, and the thunder that came with it was awful. "Standing there looking and listen- ing to the last mountains tumbling (10011 and thinking of that sheet of blue and silver, it struck me all of sudden that the coffee-pot I was hold- ing wee very light -I'd held on to'that just the same, all the time -and look- ing around I saw that I was now hold- ing only the handle; the lopped -off body of the coffeepot was lying nn the floor; and then 1 realized that the dazzling blue and white light I had seen on the house across this way was the re- flection of a bolt that had passed with- in an inch of me through the room In whioh I stood. "Well, I ain't superstitious, and I don't know as I'm over scary; but I wished then there'd been somebody in the house; but there wasn't and I didn't want to stay there myself alone,. So I gathered up the bag with what there was in it, but not picking up the coffeepot nor putting in the handle; I laid that down on the. sideboard. And then I went out and dodged the light- ning all the way down the road, and I was more or less shy of lightning aft- er that for years." I,etizia, Duchess Dowager of Aosta, having exhausted the exoitement of bi- oyoltng, has now turned to ballooning, which she is trying to reeks the fash- ionable sport of Italian society. She makes a daily ascent accompanied by her maid. Royal hair sold cheap in London re- cently. Locks of King Edward IV;, of George III. of the Princess Charlotte of Wales and of Napoleon I•, with a bit of William IV.'s cerecloth, and the test- imonials of authenticity thrown in, brought 514 at emotion. Frank T. Marzials, who is well known as a song writer and composer and has also written stories, has just been pro- moted to the position of Accountant - General at the War Office, in which he has, been employed for more than for- ty years. In a recent Chancery case involving the right of agricultural tenants in Derbyshire to mine for coal, the evi- dence put it Fee the right was that given before a parliamentary commit- tee soon after the death of King Char - las I. The case was decided on evidence more than 200 years old. Two lives for one cent is a recent Sic- ilian record. .A saloon keeper in Pal- ermo drove a knife into 'the heart of a 15 -year-old boy who was unable to pay the cent he owed. for his drinks. The boy's three brothers shot down the as- sassin before the police got on his track, and are now under arrest. Lava streams that have flowed out of Vesuvius during the last three years have deposited 105,000,000 cubic metres of lava on the sides of the mountain, A Done of lava 880 feet high' has been formed, out of whioh fresh streams are flowing. The valleys on either side of the observatory peak have been com- pletely filled up. Sea serpents having gone out of style in England, the octopus has taken their place. Constable Holmes, while bathing at Kildysart on the Irish coast, was seized by one which twined its ten- tacles around his arm, With the aid of another policeman he succeeded in freeing himself from the beast. Signorina Esther Bonomi, dootor of medicine of the University of Genoa, is the first woman to obtain that degree in Italy in modern times, though there are several instances of woman dootors,, In earlier centuries. Another woman dootor, Katherina van Tussohenbroek, has been made professor of gynaecology at the University of Utrecht. Russia's women criminals are for the most part peasants who have murder- ed their husbands, The prevalenoe of the crime is believed to be due to the custom of marrying girls long, before the age of puberty. To this is also as- cribed the excessive number of deaths among very young children, the mor- tality under 1 year of age in Russia being 27 per oent. whereas the Eur- opean average is 18 per cent. France's society for the reformation of spelling, the Association of Ortho- graphique, has received a very large bequest from a Frenchman who died recently In Buenos Ayres. It consists of 270,000 acres of land in Argentina, the Income from whioh is already $20- 000. Of this $11,000 a year and one- half of the residue go to the society for Rte purposes; the rest is to be div- ided up into prizes to persons who have done good to mankind. Beer is apparently the German's first thought whenever anything happens, No sooner was it known that Bismarck 10018 dead than the students of the Ber- lin University sent out a summons to. a beer feast of mourning in his hon- or. The "Trauer commers" was held in the hall of a large brewery, deoor- ated with the banners and colors of the student corps, The rector and many of the professors of the university were present, while the galleries were 1111 - ed with ladies, The proceedings began with the playing of a funeral. march and the singing Of the choral, " What God hath done is well done," followed by "Gaudeamus igitur," and an ad- dress on Bismarck. The presiding stu- dent then gave the word for the "Trait= er salamander," after which there were more songs, In a golf math at Baynes Park, Brig - land, recently a lark flying across the grounds was hit by a golf ball and de- capitated. Experiment with sugar rations for soldiers were tried during the last Ger- man manoeuvres, Ten men wore sub. jetted to the sugar diet, while anoth- er ton received esnotiy the same va- The barking of a dog on the earth tions ae the rest of the army, The can he dietinotly heard by a balloonist men chosen for the spacial diet were at an elevation of four raise, weak corporeally. A000rding to the oi; fleial roper(, the teetotal of the sugar - man ilor,anot daring the manoeuvres more than that of , Stn ril u 1hor - Sammy ration, "11 was proved that dur- ing long morellos the feelings of hull - ger could be kept. down for ;t tenger t.tine' by the use of sugar, that the su- ger-poople suffered loss from thirst than the ethers, end drat a few pieces of sugar suffiee1 to still tltiret for a. considerable time. it wns also ob- served that symptoms of exhaustion or at eunetreke were quickly overcome by a email ration ot sugar." The authori- ties; now reoommend 1 lin I sugar be eon - steered a regular article of soldlers' food, and that, above all, soldiers on the marrh shank' have a supply of it. REMOVING A CITY. tat O'0Un'altby City to be Destroyed and 31,, inbabIlmits /removed to a New Lem. It is probable that the action of the Japanese Government in ordering tit destruction of U1e City of Teckcham Formosa, and the removal of all of it Inhabitant's to a new location, is pro- bably without its precedent in history The city is situated on the north-west coast of the island, and has been fre- p -®...6-3-¢),.O - O -- 0-te-..0-0-0,- Young )-G_d'-- Youngq Folks. +4 _p•_W-W-'0-0-Q 10^0-0)-0-0-t' LOYAL '1'O D111'I'1llilt, "Nine o'oluek, Oh, dour, how rfaiok it sloes come I" and Clara White looked at 1,11e long hands of the oloek, with just a little eh/Mow owning over her bright face, "'Phut is not very late," her Cousin Effie said, who turned the leaves of the book that elle held in her bands, as if to begin another chapter, "But it Is 1113 ha.i-time; and I mast retire at nice,," end Clara rage to go. "Do you have to go precisely at 0 o'clock?" 5111111 asked, while she still remained in her chair. "It is m0nuua'a W1811 that 1 retire at 9 o'clock," was the genet answer. "But your mamma is away, and you have company. 11y mamma niways al - toes ole to remain up its long as I please when Shy friends are spending this evening with me, and-" Effie stopped before she completed the son- tence;for there was a look of surprise quenlly subject to pestilence, with the on Clara's face that repot ed her. sacrifice of thousands of lives. As long' "It would he wrong to disregard as Formosa 1011a under the control of mamma's wishes in her absence. White the Chinese, no atinutiae was paid to the matter, Slid there are several cities in Cbina where such calamities occur with regular frequency without any affect on the pax, of the government "Walt, I will go Lf yeti say s0, but Yellow river are illu.strations. This or the people to prevent or r'emecly this story is so via8. I tbink that Alia clock is too fast, anyway," and Effie therm closed the Book somewhat reluctantly, The etties along the shpres of thel "The cloak is always right," was the quick reply 01 rho lithe girl that would not be tempted to disregard her mamma's wishes. In a few moments both little girls she might not insist on my retiring exactly 9 o'clock, I know that she dos not wieh me tc remain up later Hien this time," and the honest little girt looked straight into her cousin's face. stream is known as "China's Sorrow," because it always overflow's its banks after e, heavy rainfall. The bed is not were fast asleep in their nice worm led. sufficient to contain the drainage of Mrs. White came home from her visit to a neighbor's house at '9,80 o'clock. the valley through which it flows. As; She stepped into Clara's room before retiring to kiss the sweet-faced lit - many as 100,000 people have been drown - ad in one of these periodical inunda- tions. But, with the deices persis- tency that is characteristic of the Chinese race, the survivors return to their former homes as soon as the ava- tar subsides, burn a few sticks of in- cense to appease the dragon of the wa- ter, but take no further steps for their protection. T,he Japanese are different, and are as fond. of inundations as the Chinese are opposed to them. Japan has been in control of Formosa nearly three years, and in 1890 and 1897 plagues vis- ited Teckcham with enormous fatality, The pbenomenon being called to the attention of the Government, an in- vestigation nvestigation was ordered by sanitary experts, who reported that the city was built upon a swamp, and that at cer- tain seasons of the year poisonous gases issued from the ground, whereupon an order was issued to Mr. Sakurai, the governor, to select a new location as convenient to the old one as possible, where the natural conditions were healthful. A new city was laid out by experts, and eaoh property holder in the old one, was assigned a site that corresponded in area with that he oo- oupied in Teckcham, and he was giv- en twelve months to remove his build- ings and belongings. Sewers, roadways, and sidewalks, pub- lic buildings, water works, and all oth- er public improvements were laid out by the Government in the now city without expense to the people, but they were required to pay the cost of the removal of their own property. This is not so expensive an undertaking as one might suppose, because most of the houses and other buildings in Teck- oham, as well as in other cities, are built of the very llgbtest wooden ma- terial, and a Japanese house offers the advantage of being taken apart with- out difficulty or injury. The undertaking is a notable illus- tration of the enterprise and the wis- dom of the Japanese Government. THE OLD FIREWOOD QUESTION. The Sources Of enemy 81111 the lnlproba• blltty of'H'heir Exhaustion. At certain intervals the declaration is made either that the world's coal supply is rapidly giving out or that the world's wood supply, through the reckless and indiscriminate destruc- tion of remaining forests, is nearly at an end. Fortunately, however, for all those who require or think they re- quire warmth in winter, the two alarms do not occur simultaneously. If they did, the inquiry whiob they evoke 'would probably call for ex- amination of the matter, which neith- er one seems to justify. A few years ago the discovery of natural gas in the West worked great havoc with the fears of the alarmists concerning the world's coal supply, but recently the forestry alarmists )lave been deep- ly stirred by the assertion that at the present ratio of destruction there would not be a tree left In a certain. number of years, which has aroused the fears of the pessimists. An official statement well calculat- ed to re -assure them, however, comes from the British Oounsul-General at St. Petersburg, who has sent to the London Foreign Office some account of the unused Russian forests w111eh shows be the province of Archangel, whore the Crown forests cover 88,- 070,040 acres, the felling of the trees has not mural more than begun, He says that hitherto virgin forests of the Petahore Basin are opened up for trade, and new mills have been built, one at Archangel, one at Pushlakta, end one, too, et Kola, on the Lapland coed. Tho whole world's consumption of wood amounts in a year to about 00,- 000,000,000 cubic feet, of whiob almost exactly one-half is used for firewood and the other half for building opera- shone of all kinds -houses, bridges, ships, vehicles, furniture and orna- mentation. Russia uses three times as much wood for fuel as it does for Wilding. Tho United States uses twice as much for building as it does for fuel. There are three countries from which in large amounts wood is exported to other lands, the United States, Canada and Norway and Swed - OM There are three countries which, by reason of their dearth of wood, lea - port le in considerable amount. These ate England, France and Spain. tle sleeper. "Fast asleep. I knew that I should. find her thus. She is so loyal to my wishes in everything that .1 think she is the dearest little girl in the whole world," and as the fond mother said this softly to herself, she hissed the happy little dreamer again. THE COMING -GUT PARTY. The very latest thing-m'ybe Ii ou ght to say things-outs•"Miss Mildred Par- sons end her brothers, Blaster Law- rence and the ;Baby," the invitations read, "invite you to a Coming-out Party this afternoon. Come at 2 o'olock and don't dress up I" Such a funny idea -a party and not to dress up I But mamma persisted gently in putting on the twin lees' -03etty's and Beth's, you know -plain brown dresses. "'For 1t wouldn't be polite now to dress up," she said, "after they've ask- ed you not to." Honey ;Bunch was invited, too, and mamma put on her bright little every- day plaid. "Who's coming out, you s'pose, mam- ma?" asked (Betty, "Mildred?" "Why, no; I think that can't be," said mamma, with a smile, "She's on- ly seven; and young ladies do not usually '00018 out' before they ars eighteen, et leash." And so the coming -oat party began. Can you guess who came out? Forty-one little, wet, yellow chick- ens I They didn't all come out at once - dear me, not It took some of them a good while. They had to saw open their shells with their tiny hard points on their beaks.; and then they had to rest and then they had to wriggle and squirm out. When they ware "Out" how draggled and homely they were I IBut it didn't take long• to dry and scramble over to the little windows - the ounninggest, yellowestlit1e mune- waters, as Lawrence called them. You see, Unole Lem's big incubator was out in tits woodshed; and aha yel- low chickens were in there. The chil- dren watched them through its win- dows. "It's a beautif11 party I" exclaimed Betty, with long sigh of contentment. "Oh, isn't it I" cried. Beth. And Honey Bunch said so, too. After awhile it was over; and then there wns a lunch in rho kitahcnof egg - salad and chicken sandwiches. 03ut the best of it all was that eaoh little guest carried home a wee, wee, fluffy yellow chicken in a box of cotton, to keep. LEAKING BOATS. First haul the boat out of water, scrub her well inside, and out, and let her dry thoroughly, if possible under shelter. Turn her bottom up, and let her rest on pieces of scantling so plec- ed as to keep her rigid and prevent her "wabbling" about. If there are any rough places on the hull rub them smooth with heavy sandpaper, Have ready a quantity of the coarsest un- bleached muslin you can buy, the width of which depends upon the dimension of your heat, and should bo calculated beforehand. Mix a pot of white lead with suffiotent boiled linseed oil to make very thick paint, stiff enough for a brush' to gaud. up in it alone, You will also require a good. supply of small copper taoks. Next: get your sister or your ohum's sister to sew hems an titch wide on astrip of the muslin long en. ougli' to cover one side of the boat(froln stem to eternpost. With( a blue poncll draw astraight line down the center of the keel, and heginning at the stem, and working aft, tack the muslin tem- porarily to the keel along the blue email line. Now pull the muslin to the shape of the boat, 1.118 abject boing 1.0 800ver the wood snugly wlth'the doth, To get good results you will hews to be both' patent and ingenious, and then suocess will be certain. Y'ott will experience the greatest difficulty about the bow, but in the end you will get it to fit "like the paper on the wall," and will bo able to mark out on the cloth the contour of the Stem, and get it hemmed, and Molted to fit, foliate - • int; the blue pencil line on the keel, unci 'u i 'I. o t+ e d C Itt 14n111 l t !!t ale l h (11 g a 1 Pursue Ilie same tact les aft, uuli1 yeti h,ve I]to tInth !n pendintem Net'tl'e permanently to Due side of the boat, ESCAPED FROM SAVAGES. Thrilling Experience of All English tris• 0101111')'11t Stein% Leon . X1010115 Ole 511,88engers 11110 arrived at Liverpool in the sleumship Bonny 10518 1he Hee. C. I£. Goodman, an Eng- lish nlixslollttry from Sierra, Leone, '.l'he revot•eued gentleman has had some thrilling personal experiences in the 711en,11 country, He was stripped to be killed, but a dispute arose and his execution was postponed, For seta en weeks he was 'rept in captivity, and suffered greatly from dysentery and Black -water lever. :eventually he was rescued. A London "Daily Mall" represents- Live has had a chat with Bir. Goodman, who still bears marks of elle terrible mental strain he was called upon to go through. In Sierra Leone he was the missionary of the United Methodist b'ree Church, and bo said that when the terrible wave of murderous rane- ticism swept over the Meudi country, and some 5110 defenceless missionaries, harmless traders, end hel.pioss women and children were savagely does to death he was laboring among the Tiir- onkah section of the Meudi tribe, The Tikonkohs sought to protect him from the Mompeh Mendis, 111e most power- ful section of the Mends tribe and the chief instigatore of the revolt, The likuukohs kept him in hiding for eeverat days after the outbreak, but were ultimately forced to give him up owing to the pressure which was brought to bear upon them by the Bompehs, who had got wind of the pres- ence of a white man among the Tikon- kohs. So he was handed over to be murdered in cold blood as he thought. But, as Dar. Goodman expressed it, even in the savage breast of a Mendi "Yorr'ohman" some vestige of setter feelings would seem to dwell, far Gru- bruin, King of the Bompehs, person- ally exerted himself TO SAVE HIDE from the cruel fate which had over- taken his coworkers. A grand pala- ver .was held in the gloom of the for- est. Grubruin stuck to his guns. Mr. Goodman, as he said, was "no live for tho government or trade, but mission- ary who no saysy war but come for to do good," and Grubruin carried the day. Ir, Goodman said he was seven weeks a captive with the Bompsh Mendis, during the, whole of which time he suf- fered no ill-treatment beyond the hard- ships which his captivity entailed. fie explained that the Mendis fight in the bush, and will not go into open. They dig pits a few yards from rho bush tracks over which the troops have to pass, and at whom they take potshots with old taut -locks and a few cameuns, remaining concealed themselves at the bottom ot their hiding places. Their other weapons are spears and old mili- tary cutlasses, and a peculiarity of their armament consists in two species of a short thin barbed spear, which they shoot from there• guns. Tho King of the Bompehs, as already stated, is Grubruln, but Berews, his war chief enjoys great influence, and, according to Mr. Goodman, he is re- sponsible for the murder of several of the American missionaries. During his captivity 1111'. Goodman's diet consist- ed almost exclusively of rice and salt -"more often," he said, "of salt and rice.' Ms. Goodman added that when he left Sierra Leone a number of refugees were still coming in to Bonthe, Mostly women -widows of massacred Sierra Leoneans. A great many of these poor creatures heel been wandering in the bush for weeks. They hall en- dured terrible sufferings, and Mr.. Goodman said that the testimony of these women would have to be relied upon for most of the evidence in con- nection nvithe the caning trials in Free- town - The general belief in Sierra Leone is that bte whole of the hinterland will be changed from a Broteetorate into a Crown colony before the year is out. FRUIT DRESSING FOE SHOES. The best dressing for black leather is orange juice. Take a slice or quar- ter of an orange and rub it thoroughly all over the shoe or boot and allow it to dry. Then brush briskly with a soft brush until it shines like a look- ing glass. A most convenient dressing for tan shoes is the inside of a banana skin. This is rubbed well and evenly all over the shoo, and removes all spots and dirt as well as gives a fine polish, which last is brought out by ueiagg s flannel for wiping dry and anotlzren clean flannel for polishing, A shoe of lemon is also used as a tan leather dressing. Patent leather must never be blank- ed or polished with anything but an oil. A fine sweet oil or vasellne is the best. They are the hardest kind .of shoes to keep in good order. It is nec- essary to take a °leen sponge and Olean them from all dirt before applying the oil. It may then be rubbed dry at ouoe with a flannel or other soft cloth which will not scratch the patent finish, PEIOSPHOBTJSLESS MATCHES. The government of :Belgium hos of- fered ffered a reward of 50,000 francs, nearly $10,000, for the invention of a maloh' pasts containing no phosphorus. Ella competition is open to citizens and, subjects of all nations. IC is r'equirod, that the matches shall ignite when scratched on any surface, including cloth, but that they shall not ignite readily 113 friction, so as to be dan- gerous when carried in the pocket. 130 IIL WAS. PAM -Hello, old man. You aro rho Met man I expected to meat. Prom. -Indeed? \Weil, I'm the last person y0n've met.