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ABOUT TIM BLUDDERKIN
BY WM. NORRIS BURR.
Tim Bludderkin could never do any- T been over this road to town twice a
thing except in the way he had been week for five years, and always got
aceustamed to do it, there? What are you driving at, any
"When you go uptown this morning, way, Uncle Ike?"
will you go to'Shermans and get six "Guess'you'll tink what you dribin'
bars of white R me?"
Russia soap for at, you go much funder," said the
called his neighbor, Mrs. Wilkins, colored man. "Dat Fountain stream's
from her back -kitchen door one morn- rose eight feet sence mornin', an' it's
ing, ragin' an' foamin' an' spreadin' out
I never go past Sherman's when ober de country wusser'n the small -
I go uptown," answered Tim, "I al- poX scare!"
ways go stralght up T— street." "Well, what of it?" said Tim, with
"But it is only two doors down H—. evident unconcern.
street from T—," called Mrs, Wilkins "Now, see hyar, you Tim," said
—"not more than a dozen steps out Uncle Ike, "I al'as knowed you didn't
of your way." hab no sense nohow, but 'pears ter me
ever go that way" said Tim, and yer ought ter know nuff not to dribe
he walked off, wondering that any one inter de Fountain when it's on de rise,
could be, so unreasonable as to expect Yer jes turn dem two shacklebones ov
him to walk a dozen steps down H— yers right round an' go down to der
street when he had never been known Fo'-mile Bridge ef ye wants ter
to do such a thing, home wid yer bref1 in yer. Yer c
.One day, another neighbor saw Tim no mo fo'd dan Fountain dan
in his half -acre lot, clearing away Pharo cud fo'd de Red Sea, an' ef yer
stones. The neighbor watched him tries it, dar'Il be jes' 'bout dat much
for some time, puzzling his brain over lef' ov yer as was lef' ov dem 'Gip-
Tim's manner of doing the work. He shuns --an' dat wasn't nuffin' but some
would take two or three of the stones dead bodies on de sea-sho'. Ye better
in his arms—as many as he could turn roun'!"
carry—and walking to a certain fence- "But "I always go this way," s
corner at the further end of the field, Tim, "I never went around by F
deposit them on a huge stone -pile, mile Bridge in nay life."
then back he would go for another "Yer loonier 'n ole Joner was w
armful, and so he was patiently clear- he went de way he wasn't tole ter g
ing the field, and making for himself exclaimed Uncle Ike. "If
much unnecessary hard labor, Ye th
Bel` -hops! Shun! A scene on the decks of one of the great trans-.
Atlantic liners when the lads line up Per inspection.
Stories About We
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An Apt Retort.
The famous French aviator, Louis
Bieriot, who made history in July,
1909, by flying across the English
Channel in hie aeroplane, was one of
the earliest to' foresee the possibilities
git of the heavier•than-air machine,
an't Once, while watching an aviator
eta make a trial flight of a few hundred
yards in one of the first aeroplanes to
be built in this country, a spectator
standing by saki to hint:
'Of what use are. these power•driven
boxkites anyway?"
The query was in a; sense not alto-`
aid gether unjustified, for these pioneer
our- machines were mere contraptions of
woad and canvas.. Bat Bler•{ot was
when equal to the occasion,
ol" Turning on his interrogator like a
ink flash, he retorted quickly: "Of what'
swaller ye wen
use is• a newborn baby?"
The neighbor thought he woald yer'tumblin' roue de1Fountain, 1 think
kindly suggest that the field could be yer mistaken in de range where dem.
cleared in another way quicker and critters feeds, Ye can jes eo wham
easier.
"Why not throw the stones in this
corner, Tim? It does not seem neces-
sary that all of them should be thrown
ye please," he continued, turning into;
his cabin; "'thin none o' my fun'rel
now ef ye do git drownded."
Of course, Tim Budderkin whipp
on the same pile, and you would not be up his horses and went straight ahe
obliged to walk back and forth the He had always forded the stream
whole length of the field with every' fore, he had never been around
armful of stones." Four -mile Bridge, and h should
"Why, I began at that end," ens- now in his accustomed way.
wered Tim. "I threw the stones at; "Mebbe I'd better see 'bout d
first into the nearest corner." I fool," said Uncle Isaac, a few m
"But is it necessary they should all ments later, "He ain't no good
go to that particular place?" asked how, -fur he don't hab de sense ob
the neighbor. !chicken in de egg; but I'll jes era
"I never thought of that" said Tim; down towa'd de fo'd an' see what doe
"but it seems to mo they ought to go come ov him."
there." When Uncle Isaac arrived at t
'Then why not wheel them from scene of action, he saw a wagon an
this end in your wheelbarrow? It is two old horses being carried dow
a big job to carry them are" i stream by the rushing water. T
"Why, I bought that wheelbarrow, driver was not in sight,
for wheeling dirt when I dug my "Dar's de lass ab dem shacklebone
well," said Tim, les fur dey w'on't be no mo' good r
And do you never expect to use about a minnit dan dent `Gipshu
It for any other work?" smiled the chariots,'" soliloquized the colore
neighbor, uncle, "'Spoct dat Tim's gone to d
'Never thought of that," answered bottom. Hullo! what's dat a -bobbin?
Tim. "Might, perhaps, but I began! Something rose out of the water
by carrying the stones, and I must that had overflowed the bank, an
keep it up, I guess," and off he moved Uncle Ike recognized the drippin
toward the distant stone -pile
Wrongly Described.
Some of us do not quite deserve oar
descriptions. The great humorist,
Mr, Stephen Leacock, was once des.
cribed at a meed
ed! `—Gentlemen, the funniest man in
ad. I the world."
be- But the chairman who made this
by announcement happened, tutfartunato-
ly, to push his wig back at this mo-
ment, -and pushed it off altogether: So
at the audience decided that Mr. Leacock ,l.
o- was only the second funniest.
no Another case of a description that a
a' might have been more apt comes from "
vl Vienna. A Letter from this town was t
s addressed to:
"Mr, G. K. Chesterton, England's s
he Greatest Lotter -Writer, England."
d Now, Mr. Algernon Ashton, who has „
n written 00015 letter's to newspapers he than any other man alive or dead, de- I
serves this title, and Mr, Chesterton
s- should have been nescribed as "Eng. til
n land's Largest Letter -Writer."
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The. Prince's Wages.
ca, however. While travelling Siren
I Nigeria he preferred the engine to t
luxtu•ious compartment that had bee
prepared for hind,
and during
I
o
half-hour actually drove. the train.
l had intended this service to be gra
torts, but on the following day t
railway officials presented him with
mileage street, showing that the co
Daly was in his debt to the extent
tenpence! -"
This sum was solemnly handed
hint, adn the Prince signed the. she
and took the money,
- Musical Genius and Carpenter,
Sir Henry Wood, the great conduc
or, is a practical man. In more tha
one way. Not many of his great num
bei- of admirers know that be is
first-rate carpenter. His skill in thi
line is at the moment being utilized
the building of a cueert hall at hr
country home In Hertfordshire,
Brevity the Soul of Levity.
Canon Rollo, of Trinity College,
Toronto, ]raa a reputation for ready
wit which is only exceeded by hi
fame as a scholar, The toliowin
story is related of him:
When in Scotiaud, Canon Rollo was
once accosted on his way to the post
office by a stranger, The latter sought
money for a meal. None the less
generous, the cantn.was suspicious,
o gain time, he asked:
"And what religion are you, may I
ak."
"Not the same as yon, sir," replied
he stranger, piously. "But what does
hat matter? We're both going to the
erne place."
"Not at all," smiled the 01n0n,
You're 'on your way to a restaurant,
in going to the postofmce."
Scaling Fame's Heights.
A few days ago the British Prime
!ulster told this Interesting little
story. "Tho day I was boat," said Mr.
Baldwin, "our cook wrapped me In a
anket and, by way of ensuring that I
ould rise in lite, carried 200 to the
p of the heuse, Putting a chair in
e middle of one of the attic rooms,
e stood on It and held me as high 1
she could in her arms. After that,"
added, "I could hardly help my
lf!"
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GROWING CROPS WITHOUT SUNSHINE
DesPtte•improved tachlnery and Me It is quite unnecessary to dry the ma
proved i; I
farmer's sueeeus Or failure ` still' de-
pende very largely on the weather.
Nevertheless it is quite probable that
twenty years. hence •a wet stiminer will
p v methods of cultivation the tonal beforehand, It 10, therefore
built on to the stack in a clamp, gree
condition, which, according to all rule
should, eventually cause spontaneou
combustion. Under the stack ar
not be so much dreaded, as it is, to- placed two wooden tubes, about tw
Day I feet aquas, eonnected with the elec
During the last few years prove• tric blower. There are also severe
menta have boon afoot to make the iron tubes fixed' in the sides, contain.
farmer almost independent of weath- l ing. thermometers which can be moved
or, and one method at least has conte out and in. Otherwise the stack le
very near achieving this end. If the constructed In the usual manner.
system discovered and put in praotice 'Doing Without,Davilght.
by a Sussex
fanner n
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arne1 develops- on the Whenever..fermentationbegins..the
right lines it shauiil revolutionize eg- thertnometens, are closely watched,
ricuitm•e, says an English Writer. and if the temperature rises above a
With the help of an electric cur-
rent,, crops can be prod:ucecl without
any ,sunshine at alt, -ancl, if necessary;
In continuous rain. Such, work as
ripening and drying corn, which usun.l-
fixed Bruit the San is started and air
blown thr1ough,the stack. Generally it
requires about half an hour's blowing
to reduce the hely to the temperature
ly requires. a great deal of warm of the air. When this process has
ly requires
esay be Bats under any eon- been repeated a dozen times the stack
is perfectly dry and ready for use,
ditlons by the new method^
Dr in Hay dried by the electric feu is of.
Y g a Haystack, ten actually superior to that dried by
A portable air.blower and an eight- rite sun Sav L 1
0 -
ns horse -power motor are ora arnters. have 1quits capable cently realized this and a fair quantity
He of doing in a few hours what the sun is now produced annually, A large
ti- I often fails to do in a week. The cost, colliery, for instance, has grown the
he too, is trifling, for after the wires and food for its pit•ponies in this new fas-
a 1 motor have been put in position there hion-cluing the last two years.
m- I is very little labor invoh ed. At paesettt The electric current is. also of great
of I the farmer has to employ a whole use in ripeningcrops. iP
army of men merely to turn and shake 1 or this par -
army high-tension apparatus is used
10 the grass or to protect it from rain,.'consisting of a small motor with huge
et I On a farm where an electric plant is valves, three times bigger than h
installedeno such labor is neeessaa' ggthose
On one such farm the electric mer-
e. gy is produced by a hydro -generator
n I situated on the banks of an old mill-
. pool, From this point the wire along
n which the 'current runs has been cat
of a wireless set, The current is car-
ried to the growing crops by means of
fine wires suspended from sticks:
The electric motor has, still another
use, Not content with taking the
rt o Place of the sun,• it even takes the
s ell n poles across the neighboring n
or'
b to
g S' Plaice of daylight In early spring and fields. Thus, wherever' desired, the late autumn the poultry sheds are 1It
s !current can be switched off to drive up long before the dawn by the pale
light of electric lamps. These tamps
are marvelously adjusted., for they
automatically shine day. and night
only clueing the hours of semi.dsrk-
The ordinary haystack Is composed nele.. As the times of dawn and sun-
s of gree 1010011 has already been thor- set change every day, the process is
g cughly dried, but on the electric farm little short of miraculous.
reapers, tractors, or other agricul-
tural maohinerY. Its 2115111 use, how-
ever, is to drive the numerous fans by
which the stacks are dried,
I form of Tim B•ludderkin.
Tim harnessed his two old horses "Why didn't yer go down stream
on morning and went, as was his wid yer hosses an' chariot'?" asks
wont, to the mountains for firewood, ; Uncle Ike, as Tim came wading
During the day, a heavy rain -storm -through the overflow to the dry land•
name sweeping down from the, north,' "I jumped!" said Tim.
swelling the streams so that, by; "Jumped? Dat's mighty strange,
means of their added strength, they Yer never jumped befo'e. Hope yer
tore away bridges and dams, and jumped inter some common sense dat
spread themselves out in a freshet, time. It neve' come nigh ye befo'e,
One of these streams Tim had been r"''"'-'"
accustomed to ford on his way to and;
from the mountains.
Late in the afternoon of the day of
the great storm, an old colored man,
shuffling about his cabin with an eye
to repairs rendered more than aver I
necessary by the ravages of wind andi
rain, caught the sound of an approach -I
ing wagon, and thrust his head out'
of his cabin door to see "who's de fool
gain' dis way to town!"
A moment later, he caught sight of
Tim Bludderkin., with a load of fire -I
wood from the mountains, calmly urg-;
ng on his superannuated beasts, with:
apparently no thought that the road!
might hold obstructions which were l
not there when he passed in the morn-
ing.
Whoa, dal•! Whar ye gwine?" yell-�
ed Uncle Ike, as Tim approached the
cabin.
"Going to town, of course," replied
Tim.
'You s'pect you ever git der?" asked
the colored uncle.
"Get there?" said Tint, "why, o£ A torpedo takes four minutes to
course I expect to get there. Haven't' reach a target 6,500 yards away.
b3
When tits Prince of Wales was in sh
r Canada, a farmer—unaware of his to
identity—offered hien a job. It was th
harvest time, and the pay was quite sh
good. Nevertheless, the Prince_rltd as
not accept the opening, he
d He has earned some money in AN- se
Tempting Frult,
"Man's original fall was brought
about by an apple."
"Now it's always a peach,"
REM -AR FELLERS—By Gene Byrnes.
/ WHATS
VIM
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Ink From Wasp Stings.
Gall, or nutgall, as it is often termed
is an excrescence on plants, due to the
sting of insects. The surface of the
bark or leaf is punctured and en egg
deposited in the cavity. The rest, -t
ant gall -growth is the effect either ef
some virus deposited with the egg, or
of the irritation caused by tho larva,
which lives in the gall till its develop-
ment into an insect.
The galls of commerce come from
Asia and southern Europe. They con-
tain tannin and are used in the mak-
ing of ink, dyeing, tnnig, etc.
copperas is being dissolved. The two
solutions are then mixed, making the
' base of I.
Wasps are far more useful to the
world than most peopleimilgine, Their
assistance in our war on hies, for one
thing, should be more generally ap-
preciated. Many cows, too, if they
could taut, would thank the wasps for
lessening the number of files.
All wasps are intlustricus and am-
bitious—quite as much so, in fact, as
their more celebrated relatives, the
bees and ants. Work is evenly divided
i in a nest of wasps. For instance,
some of them assume the duty of
plunderers, going out in search of `
! food, while others act as policeman
'and stay at helve to guard the place.
ITheir devotion to honey is well known
iby people who keep beehives, and con -le
stant warfare is needed to keep them b
I out of the hives. The drones of the
I wasp world are energetic and keep the go
I town in the best of order, and lead a
quiet, well -regulated lives. ^ !
Now He's Drone Inn
Jones—"
Sn your u friend all -_ 1
d{•n
Is ov��^
In far-off Arabic: a wasp et{ngi. an
oak tree! In the course of time this
fungus growth is harvested, socked
and shipped to great European and
American cities, where is has become
known as "nutga:i," No chemist has
been able to equal by laboratory ex-
periments the acids of the nutgalls as
they come from nature. Certain pro•
perties in this ,product of the wasp
sting make it the hest ink base yet
discovered. It 1s a case 0f where the
work of nature has defied all imitative
effort of learned. scientists.
The nutgalls are embed and then
brewed in a solution of water much
as tea is brewed, until a certain den-
sity or specific gravity Is reached.
This solution is allowed to cool, while
es.
-Joann liyrddin, steel worker of Sout who won a vocal scholarsh
valued at over $3,500, defeating hu
dreds of candidates.
"Cast Down But Not
Destroyed."
After years of hard and patient la
bora well -organized ibinese ntissio
has been established. Church au
school, dispensary and garden, all
were in order. A useful work was go-
ing forward. Now everything was tle-
entroyed. Between the rival arnl{es of
soldiers and the thieving, murderous
bandits, the buildings had been robbed
and wrecked. The homes of most of
the Chines
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EARTH WORM
FRIEND TO MANKIND
MAKES STERILE SOIL
MORE VALUABLE.
Ranks With. Cow, Horse and
Hen in Service to the
Human Race.
Here is an odd creature which plays
an important , part in the welfare of
the world by a lowly and unusual
means. It renders a. great service to
mankind, th its follow. members of the
,animal kingdom, to the plants that
grow from the soil, all by the strange
device of eating dirt.
This animal with the peculiar Lippe,'
tate, the only animal in the world with
this food habit, is • nate other than the
modest earthworm, with which one
baits his Rooke when he goes fishing,'
writes William Atherton Du Puy, Sq
little understood . Is the earthworm
that most people consider that it ren-
ders its greatest service when it wrig-
gles , on a hook as a temptation to
brook trout. Great would be the sur-
prise of these people should they find
out that, aside from this. purpose, the
earthworm has earned itself a place in
the wetted - alongside the tow, the
horse, the little brown hen, in the -
group of most useful animals.
Nature's Cultivator,
This dirt eater serves its chief pure
pose by malting the soils of the earth
more fertile than they otherwise
would be, It nature's own cultivate
or of the soil. Through the ages it has
stirred up the soil of all the continents
of the world more than have the har-
rows -01 n1an, It has worked without.
Ceasing through the centuries, mel-
lowing the earth's. surface and malting
it more productive. It Inas always add.
ed to the world's harvests, and hare
vests have always been the World's
primary interest.
In the average one -acre garden there
re 50,000 earthworms always work.
ing. They represent 400 .pounds of
brawn busy at the business of soil
mixing. They are working iu your
garden, but they ase also working in
your wood lot, In your meadow, your
cornfield.
The first aid which the earthworm
lends to the fitness of the soil cornea
from the tunnels it runs through the
ground. It creates a network of thein
iu the surface soil. Aioe% conies dry
weather and the surface soil is too
dry and hard for Its operations. It
digs deeper, perorate,s the second
foot down.
Then, as winter comes on, 11 this is
a northern earthworm, it realizes that
it must go still farther down, must get
beyond the point where there is any
chance of freezing. For this and other
reasons earthworms may go down four
feet, six feet, even eight feet.
These tunnels let the water in, rt
ftens hard, dry places, The earth
ep down becomes a storage reser-
ir for moisture that may save plant
suffering Dapple, who had never 001110: a
near the mission. ^After nearly two
Years of disturbance peace was. re-
stored i that district and the miasiou
work was reorganized.
I "We shall have to begin at the very
bottom again," said the helpers.
I But when the doors of the now mis-
sion buildings were opened the crowd
of Chinese who sought admittance al.
Most overwhelmed the workers,
"Why," exclaimed one of them, "we
have three tines as many supporters
es we' had when we lost our buildings.
What does it mean?"
"It moan's," said the leader, "that
God can overrule evil for good, but it
also means that while routine service
may r'eaclt"and minister to a select and
thankful few all men can appreciate
real Christian love and ministration,
especially in the hours of darkness
th and need, `Let us see to it that we do
not fail to learn the lesson. This is so
1? what Paul and his early helpers thor- de
1- mighty knew when they declared that fO
through they weft' killed all day long 111
yet they lived, and, though cast down, ro
they were not destroyed, Let a sow th
the seed while the sun shines,, but Pe
when the seed is sown it needs a day su
of aloud and rain to make it sprout
end. take root,"
o when dry spells come. Plant
ots follow the wormholes where
ey might not otherwise be able to
netrate. Thus do they reach new
pplies of plant food.
Bring Dirt to Surface.
The earthworm has a crop and giz.
d as has a chicken,' The crop lets
e swallowed dist into the gizzard a
d
ulcered a
similar fate; for a time the mission.
axles seemed to be helpless.
"What can we do?" was the cry.
'Our buildings Have been destroyed
and the work of years scattered to the
winds."
"It is heart -breaking," said the lead-
r of the mission, "but our lives have
sen spared, and God w111 help us. But
w'e must not stand idle. Let everyone
his way and minister to the people.
a God give's the opportunity."
So the mission workers went out,
ound the scattered, suffering, dis-
ressed members of their flock and
'blistered ed to them as they could, feed-
ing the hungry in or.e place and min•
Il"tering to the side in another, always
ringing a message of hope and faith
nil the ministration of Christian love
Smith --"Yes„ absolutely penniless, b
Yea see, ho lost his health in getting a
wealtb5, then bosh ail his wealth try - 'I
ing to get healthy:'
15 THAT
ALL You CAN
'TALK? 2.BETCHA
DONT KNOW THE
DIFFERENCE •TEEN'
n their service, eo sweetly and tine.-
tentatiously done, they helped other
Easy Mending,
Ethel -"How you going to mend
those holes in your stockings?'
May—"Easy,—just roti 'eat down."
Sure Thing.
Ailing
One.—"I generally doctor my-
eolf, with the aid of medical books."
Doctor—"Uh-huh. Wel:, some day
you'll die cf ntispriut,"
A baby - kangaroo is not much big-
ger than a man's th - n b
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little at a time. This gizzard is filled
with sharp, grinding bits of stone such
as the chicken uses but, of course,
much smaller. In this gizzard all the
dirt that has been eaten is ground up,
worked over, bverything in it, such
as decaying leaves, is set aside anal
used as food. Tile great mast, of 1t;
however, goes on through the earth-
worm's system and Is discharged.
Before discarding this worked ever
dirt, however, the earthworm takes it
to the surface. Anybody who will lake
the trouble to look can see piles of it
all about, in the garden, along the
path, at the edge of the pavement. Mi-
ttens of earthworms every night bring.
this worked -over dirt to tho surface
somewhat as do the ants, and leave it
there, by their holes, where it can be
readily aecognizesd.
Whatever yr
e the object of the
earth-
m in bringing this vegetable mat -
underground, it serves a valuable
pose by being converted- into fer•-
er. Farmers, plow under green
'scatter straw upon the land,
great pains in one way or an-
i to ilitrodueevegetable humus
the soil because 'they know that
vegetable platter will cause that
to yield better crops. This mod
ittle eeistant gardener fro all the
irk leas • 1)1011 working sl.eadily at
ing humus ,underground for mil•
s of yams.
The Call of the Road.
let. me tramp the dusty road
tat seems to have no ending;
elf uo `roar, no safe abode,
ouch shadows ate descending.•
let Me wonder what I'll sea.
Yond the road's next turning,
let me wonder whero I'll bo
night, when lamps aro burning,
e not now for darn nor dawn,
r rain so swiftly failing;
5• want to wander on---
e road .is calling, calling!
—Verga Loveday Harden,
ter being re:eased from a liner
ing the At:antic. to Europe, a
O flew 1,000 miles over the sea .
loft in New York.
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