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HX. Poultry Industry Retarded ijsy Great Differenc#iift • Regulation* p OMmnI br Ik* MM tttua of Acrimttar*.) The poultry-breeding tndaitry of the United State* !• awMm a determined «ffort to bring harmony oat of the confusion tint now exists because of the difference* In the rules and regulations applied to certification and accreditation of flocks in the various states. Under present conditions when a prospective purchaser of hatching eggs, baby chicks, or breeding stock cornea across the word "accredited" or "certified" in connection with the advertised flock#, fat does not know Jest what factor were taken into consideration to certify or accredit these flocks, nmecs he fts familiar with the regulations governing such work In each state. The great difference In methods, plans, and rules governing the accreditation and certification of poultry in the different States is serving to retard the progressive development of the Industry and In unfairly shielding some breeders whose flocks are certified under less stringent rules than others. Difference In Regulations. At present there are 22 states which have adopted regulations for certification and accreditation of flocks. The difference that exists between the regulations in these states is seen in the case of baby chicks. In one state chicks are sold by grade based on the production of the parents; in another case two grades of chicks are offered, one grade being from accredited flocks that are not tested for baclllary white diarrhea, and the other grade from flocks that have been tested and are found free from the disease. In another state chicks are sold on a basis of four grades according to the grading of the adult birds, and the grading erf the adult birds la based on their genoral qualities. Still another sells certlfled as well as two other grades of chicks, the certlfled chick being produced from certified males mated to certlfled females, while of the other two grades the first are chicks produced from old hens mated to certified cockerels, and the second grade are thicks produced from certified pallets anted to certlfled cockerels. Committee Makes a Survey. The general committee appointed to co-operate with the poultry office of the United States Department of Agriculture has made a survey in which this same degree of difference In state rules and regulations was found to exist in regard to hatching eggs and breeding stock as well as baby chicks. The committee is of the opinion that If the states can get together to discuss these differences much can be done to stabilize the poultry-breeding Industry. Alss, from the standpoint of interstate commerce In hatching eggs, bacy chicks, and breeding stock, the committee feels that uniformity in the state rules and regulations concerning the accreditation- certification work Is necessary if pool try men are to retain this Hill Selection of Seed Potatoes Is Satisfactory A large number of pairs of plants from similar halves of the same seed tubers ««re grown ander ss nearly the same conditions as possible and were compared for yield at the Geneva experiment station. Wide dfflMlM were found it the yields, ranging from nothing to 141.8 per cent of the average yield of the two plants of the pair, with an average difference of 23.4 per cent. This rather unexpected result Is said to Indicate that there are probably Important factors affecting the yield of potatoes which are unknown or which are not now fully appreciated. An unequal number of stalks per plant Is known to have been an Important cause of the differences in yield noted In the station experiments. It Is believed that these wide differences In yield of plants from halves of the same seed tuber which would ordinarily be expected to be quite uniform, show that the Improvement of potatoes by the hill selection method cannot be carried to full perfection. "The usual farm practice of selecting seed potatoes from the best yielding hills should not be affected by these findings," says the experts, "as they are of Interest primarily to the expert or to those attempting to develop improved strains of potatoes. Selecting seed potatoes from hlgh-yleldlng hills has been thoroughly demonstrated ae a satisfactory method for maintaining high yields." Crown of Alfalfa Plants * Is Close to the Ground Toung alfalfa plants have a sort of a crown dose to the top of the ground A horse or a sheep will bite off the young plants below the crown during the first fall and winter and kill the plants. Cattle do not crop so close to the ground but they do eat the tops that should be left there every winter for protection and to hold the snow. Alfalfa stays green under the snow all winter, not very green, but still there Is some color near the ground on every crown. A few warm days and the green shows more and then It dies back slightly with the next cold snap. If the stock are even allowed to run over the alfalfa field when the weather Is cold they will break off the tops of the plants and kill quite a percentage of all the plants they touch. Fence Is cheaper than reseedlng alfalfa. wj.laifi.'iiliiix Had Nobles As a general rule, oppression In the Middle ages was strictly a one-way affair; the lotd* sgprapod the people,; and that was aB Iwas about tt. But there wqpe e»i«ptloo» to this tea* ' ersl nlu ft* rraiyl^tha fendsl law •amfeed to run rather atnatehlr In the neighborhood of U--^ In the Fifteenth century, at tfan tfcne when feudnllsm was nt the apogee preceding its decHnfe, this manufacturing city, under its ruling bishop, had an extremely Short way of dealing with Intrusive hohlSs. The city Is surrounded by heights which, commanding it, of Jsred most eligible sites for fendal castles, since one of the feudal Jests with the commonalty was the stopping of provisions until a ransom should be paid. But according to lOehetat: "Some morning the mountain would hear no sounds from the city and would see neither Ore nor smoke. The people had struck work. Presently from twenty to thirty thousand workmen would defile through the gates, march on such or such a caatle, dismantle and lay It level with the ground. They would indemnify the baron with lands in the plain--" where, to Interpolate a remark, he could not watch them--"and a good house in Liege--" where they could keep an eye upon him. The archives of the city, quoted by the same historian, relate that one of the barons In question. Sir Radus, returned from a journey he had taken in company with the bishop of Liege, to find the spot on which his castle had stood entirely bare. "By my fay, Sir Bishop," his astonished voice comes to us down the ages, "I know not whether I am dreaming or awake; but I was accustomed to see my house, Sylvestre, here, and now I do not perceive it" "Be not angry, my good Radus," replied the bishop gently. "You shall not be a loser by It" One Imagines the gentle churchman looking slightly embarrassed. "But," he adds diffidently, "I have had a monastery built out of the stones of your castle."--F. H. Backley, In Adventure Magasina. PAlNTEk WHITEWASH CONTINUES TO i HOLD SUPREME POSITION &*•> . JNo' .Hew Material Jgpnd ?Sc; 'fJp Supersede It|;;% Though whitewash Is one of the oldest paints used In American agriculture for tfce Interiors of barns and other buildings, no new material has over threatened to supersede it. "This is largely because whitewash Is cheap, easy to prepare, and has undergone a process of improvement," nays B. R. Gross, rural engineer, New Jersey College of Agriculture. Whitewash cleans and disinfects in addition to giving buildings a wholesome, pleasing appearance. Quicklime Is still the basic substance used in making whitewash, but years of experience have resulted in a -formula that includes a few cheap substances which greatly Improve the disinfecting qualities and durability of the mixture. What Is commonly known as the government formula Is excellent: Half bushel (M lba.) of aolck-Ume or lamp lima slaked In 1 gallons of hot water. One peck (IS lbs.) of salt dissolve* «B 4 gallons of hot water. Three pounds of ground rice boiled 1 So a thin paste. One pound of etear sin* dlasalvad la one gallon of warm watec. gUlf pound of Spanish whlttag glseohed wltb the slue. The lime Is slaked to a barrel or tub. The salt water Is then added, followed by the^glue and whiting mixture And, finally, the rice paste. The entire batch requires thorough stirring. Twelve ounces of alum added to this mixture acts as a hardener and makes It stick better. To Increase the gloss • two or three bars of laundry soap may be added. There Is an advantage tn applying whitewash while it Is hot. Care should be taken not to apply it too thick, as it will then crack and. scale. - 'i"'1 " i1 11 - rt'" • -r Sheep Business Subject4 " to Market Fluctuations The sheep business, like all other Industries, Is subject to market fluctuation, periods of low prices being followed by higher prices and lucrative returns. Since the last depression in 1922 sheep have been one of the most profitable classes of farm live stock. Many express -the opinion, therefore, that after this year we will see lower prices. No doubt there will be considerable fluctuation In the market and dry weather may cause a sufficient liquidation to temporarily demoralize the market this fall. This should, if It develops, provide an excellent opportunity to lay the foundation for a farm .flock and at the same time should be an incentive to every man who Is in the business to retain his flock If at all possible to do so. Phosphate Rock Output The phosphate rock shipped from mines In the United States in 1924 amounted to 2,771,000 long tons, valued at 98,740,000, according to preliminary figures made public by the Department of the Interior, which were compiled by the geological survey. Florida, the leading state, shipped 2,336,000 long tons, worth $7,507,000, more than ninetenths of which was land-pebble phosphate, Shipments from Tennessee and small quantities from Kentucky amounted to 396,000 tons, worth $2,- 039.000. Idaho, Montana and Wyoming made small shipments, according to an Interior department bulletin. The phosphate rock mined tn the United States in 1924 amounted to 2,756.000 long tons, which is 6 per cent less than that mined In 1923. More than four-fifths of It was mined in Florida. Most of the remainder was mined to Tennessee and Kentucky, though a small qusntlty was mined In , Idaho and Montana and Wyoming. Sore Was Bargain It must certainly be admitted tbst Lightning was not quite what Its name would suggest. In fact, as a race horse It was a "washout," and would have been more at home In a hearse. It had just lost its nineteenth race of the season--not only lost It, but had come In last. Soon after the owner met a man he knew, who wanted to buy a horse. "Do you wsnt to buy a good mount?" he asked. "What's the matter with Itf* Inquired the other. "Nothing," said the owner, lying bravely. ' / "Well, what do you want to sell It for?" was the next question. -- • • "Nothing," came the reply. . "All right, then," said the prospective purchaser, who had seen Lightning's last performance. Til have K." --Philadelphia Inquirer. Peruvian* Mapt Count by Knot* in String Mineral Mixtures Help, There are on the market a number of commercial mineral mixtures which have recently been especially compounded for poultry feeding. It will probably be the easiest for the average poultryman to secure bis minerals by purchasing them In this form. Be sure that you are getting a well-known mixture, and feed It strictly according to instructions. Most of these mineral mixtures contain. In addition to those mentioned above, other m'neral elements, such as sulphur, which undoubtedly have a definite place., Spray or dust potatoes»it pays. Treat millet seed against smut by placing It in sacks and soaking for one hour In a solution made by mixing one pint of formaldehyde to fortyfive gallons of water. %>How ths pastures --$» dantmy thn .^^fceds. • ' „ • • • • ? *' " J The only excuse for cflBvsHhg corn ^ to kill the weeds. ' e e • * Be gore to plant plenty of soy beans ncrfl and soil Improvement. ... • e • t Good paint will prevent a multitude evils; bad paint ^wlll commit them. K Remember thst grass snd weeds sre #«ssler to kill when young. Cultlvste %*ops frequently. ^ It has been said that there is as gain &*tlthout a loss. In other words, gain * alfalfa and lose despair. * 0 Profitable poultry production re- ».i:> <^pires good bousing, proper and suffi ^K#ent feeding. pcwec ffM* aoA ^^n Hens need some sources of Ifood in order to give high and continued egg production. This may be either fresh meat, milk, meat scraps or The cowmen brown rat bteeds trim six to ten- times a year and produces;, an average of ten young. Barium carbonate ia.an effective and eoasoBikai poison. . e. e e If only a limited amount of nione.v can be Invested In lime each year, a small portion of the farm should be treated, and later the treatment ca.i be gradually extended to all parts of the farm. • ' • *" Broilers should be fNI exactly as any other chickens, and broilers or any other chickens will put on weight full> as rapidly when on range as anywher* else, provided thayare tt»erally Hi. . Their Escape "The bank was robbed just before I got to town," stated Farmer Fumblegate upon his return from the county seat "I met the robbers escaping In a motorcar, as I was about to turn into the new road." "My goodness I" ejaculated Mrs. Fumblegate. "What did you do?" "I drlv' right along without knowing who they were. When I saw men acting crazy and running about I inquired what the matter was, and was told of the robbery. They said that just as the robbers'clumb Into their car Constable Slackputtef began to sneese, and the robbers were foOr miles away as the crow flies before he could get his mouth shut."--Kansas City Star. Whpfoamo Realism Shatfd - / S o l e A i m . , '4: - .V The prodRt* gf the Tennessee admirers of AnflMfe Jackson because of the portraits Of the •aster of the Hermitage and hit Wifis painted in an article by Meads Mtnnegerode again raises the question of ths value of the work of ths now school of portrait painting Nothing Is so drab and dreary as ths unrslleved eulogy In which all ths hlimes blemishes of the subject are palntad out; and nothing mors deceptive snd unjust than giving to these blemishes such exaggerated Importunes ss to mske them dominate the whole. But the general tendency toward realism In biography is altogether wholesome. Men, and the best of men, sre made up of elements of strength and weakness, and there can be no honest portrait of a man or woman in which both elements are not given their proportionate place. We want no mors Pardon Weems and no more tlograpkteh! portraits painted to order to satisfy the sensibilities of the subject's family, a writer la the New York World affirms. There is one danger, however, tn the tendency of soma of these portrait painters. Because there is something In human nature which craves to know the worst of a fellow-being who has attained distinction, the biographer seeking popularity Is tempted to seek the wsakneases and to minimise the elements of strength. It Is easy to paint a grotesque Jackson, a supercunning Jefferson and a blsck Burr. Easy to paint a portrait of Lincoln, uncouth, awkward, socially crude, commonplace, even vulgar. Easy to paint a Washington cold, materialistic, uninspiring and offensive. Easy thus to paint theee men If the writer sets out with the determination to paint them so, through the overemphasis of their shortcomings snd the rejection of ether and overshadowing qualities. And what a John Adams could be painted 1 His childish vanity, his almost puerile love of show, his passion for distinctions snd titles, his petty jealousies, his strutting pomp snd ridiculous pose, his rages of temper--use these qualities, unqueetlonably his, to ths sccluslon of others snd what a laughable creature we have! But that would make a caricature and not a portrait. Into honest realistic portraiture must likewise go his real ability, his superb moral courage, his manly Independence, his robust patriotism. A portrait of the first sort would make Inexplicable his high position In the state; one of the second klnd,a without his weaknesses painted In. would make incomprehensible his unpopularity snd fall; and the only portrait which would explain the man, his greatness and his fall, would be thst including all the qualities that made him. Along with this disposition to overemphasize the fallings of a subject, to which too many modern literary portrait painters are prone, is the less offensive tendency In others to twist traits to the justification of their preconceptions. Here even Gamaliel Bradford is not wholly free--albeit ususlly so and always conscientious His conception of Aaron Burr as a man who looked on life as a gay adventure for the extraction of fun may be possible, but It was scarcely just to cite his action in carrying the body of Richard Montgomery, his loved commander, on his shoulders through a rain of toilets to the American line No such extraordinary explanation Is necessary. Burr's natural gallantry, his devotion to his friends, his love of Montgomery, offer explanation enough, and he Is surely entitled to the credit. On that occasion Burr was not playing n child's game, he was doing a brave man's work. Many years ago Cromwell gave the bast possible advice, to the literary portrait painter--"warts and all." He did not say just "warts," but "warts --and all." Only thus can we have a living likeness painted with fidelity to troth. It is a wholesome tendency to paint in the warts, but it can be easily overdone--^when nothing but warts are ehown. •Ny* Among the ancient Peruvians there was a system of expressing thoughts without pronouncing them or writing them. In language. This consisted in a method of intertwining strings and tying various knots, it was called a qnlpu, and was composed of one thick head or top string, to which, at certain distances, thinner ones were fsstened. The top string was much thicker than the pendent strings, which were fastened to it by a single loop; the knots were made In the pendent strings snd were single or manifold. Ths length of the strings varied. The transverse or top string often measured several yards, and sometimes only a foot The branches of pendent strings were seldom mote than two feet long, and In general they were much shorter. The strings were often of different colors, each having Its own particular signification. The color for soldiers was red^ for gold, yellow; tor silver, white; for corn, green. The qulpu was especially employed for numerical snd statistical tables, each single knot representing tec; i each double knot stood for 100; each i Le?lon of Honor, triple knot for 1,000, etc.; two single knots standing together made 80; snd two double knots, 200. In this manner the snclent Peruvians kept tho accounts of their army. On one string were numbered the soldiers armed with slings; on snother the spearmen; on a third, those who carried clubs. This method of calculation Is still practiced by the shepherds of Puna. JEKYLL AMD HYDE IN MARSEILLES Bad Chock9 Load to DUootb ^jpgyy of Body in 0tiV*~ ^ tor's Cupboard.1 Paris.--Trance succeeds in having at regular Intervals murders of such dramatic mystery that one no longer wonders at the sources of her romantic detective tales. Her fiction can never rival facts. Today the mysterious disappearance on March 14 of one Jacques Rumede, a bill collector of Marseilles, has been explained and Paris is enjoying the "cupboard murder." No dew could be found by the police last March, no explanation of the disappearance of M. Rumede was forthcoming. The mystery was solved by chance when some question of fraudulent checks brought detectives to the house of Dr. Pierre Bougrat, a physician, member of a socially prominent family, and a chevalier of the Aiwrh That Poverty h Punished oi Crime B in a common cant phrase among the comfortable classes that poverty is not a crime. Like most cant phrases. It Is a lie. Poverty Is a crime, or the world would not punish It so severely. Any man who has been poor--I do not mean "hard up" or short of money, but actually poor, and born among the poor, as I was--has something of the resentment felt by a man who has been in prison. For he has suffered as much as any man who commits a serious crime against society. But with the difference that he does not know what offense he has committed. I received the first punishment early In life, asd it was some time before I could discover that my offense was poverty and humble birth. There Is no relief for that suffering So long as boys born among the poor dare to have brains and fine feelings and a desire to escape from mean streets, ae long they shall be made to pay the price of their daring.--Thomas Burke, in Hearst's Internatlonal-Cosmopoli- Wlthout any idea that they were stumbling upon a new Jekyll and Hyde the police were going through the doctor's papers, when they noticed a strange odor. It came from the laboratory. Nothing could be found and a gentle tapping of the walls failed to reveal any hidden recess until suddenly the detective's baton dislodged a tapestry and the wall behind it gave a hollow ring: The section of wall was broken into and a long coffin-shaped cupboard discovered. Lying on the shelf, doubled up and partly decomposed, was the body of a man, Jacques Rumede; A twitm After Taming It Birmingham. Ala.--H. O. Bernard, secretary-treasurer of the Southern Pipe and Foundry company of BLmlngham, claims he Is the only experienced HA rfdsr on the gulf. Mr. Bernard with three companions Is spending s vacation at Panama City, Fla. According to the story he and his companj \ tons tell they were driving along ; St Andrew's bay when they spied a fifth six feet long which had been stranded behind a reef by the receding tide. Mr. Bernard plunged Into the water after the fish. After a struggle Mr. Bernard tamed the fish and $ rode It safely to the shore. |) Mr. Bernard is having the fish • s mounted as complete proof that i. his tale is truthful. <> _ 1-- FMJU HIS AID IN HEROIC DEED' Negro mTalked te CodT Wkdo .Risking Life. ' fv'*- Voting for the Right Man Wherever there Is a county courthouse, a number of loafers are always about and the number varies according to the size of the courthouse. Several days ago s group of men was lined up on the small curb that fences the Marlon county courthouse yard. Several were colored. A colored woman who had just obtained a divorce from her husband in one of the Superior courts passed triumphantly by and stopped before the group long enough to remark: "You didn't vote for the right man last fall. It's all your own fault. Tou wouldn't be out o' work If you had voted right"--Indianapolis News. X-Rays Remove Corns Science is coming to the relief of the man with corns. It Is now claimed thst with a single treatment with Xrays, a large corn can be removed in one piece wltb no vestige remaining, and leaving a smooth, healthy skin.-- PojNJlar Science Monthly. Alsdfcs's Govnuiumt t, Alaska was created a territory T»y set of August 24, 1912. This act gave It a legislature elected by direct vote and a governor appointed for four years by the President Congress reserves the right to legislste on certain snbjeetn. y--" ' ^ . . . ,.v ^ Duteh Women Smokers Dutchmen as a rule are heavy smokers. When he gets up In the morning the average Dutchman Immediately lights a cigar and on going to bed puts his cigar case on his night stand. It Is no wonder, then, that Holland, with only 7,000,000 people, smoked 1,047,305325 cigars and 2,542,488,300 cigarettes last year. Pipe smoking is not mentioned in the statistics. It Is popular only among the working classes. But cigar smeking Is on the decrease, while cigarette smoking increases. This Is due partly to the fact that many Dutch women have overcome their objections to tobacco and have become smokers Ladles of an older generation, however, still consider smoking an Improper enjoyment and a sign of degeneration. Though there is a heavy duty la. Holland, cigars snd other tobscoo are rather cbesp. ' Application for Potent- A first government fee of $20 has to be paid on the filing of an application for a Unulted States patent as a part of the application, and if the applicatl «n is allowed a final government fee of $20 has to be paid In order to secure the grant of a patent No further fees are required, and the patent runs Its term ot 17 years without anything more being required of the patentees. In most foreign countries, however, tn addition to the government fees which by law have to be paid with the application, and In order to secure the grant of the patent, renewal fees or annuities have to be paid regularly, and the laws require the Invention that Is covered by the patent to be actually worked, .as by being manufactured, sold, ate* in the country d? the patent " Insect Cannibals In the struggle for existence many creatures are driven to live at Immense heights. The climbers of Everest saw a herd of wild sheep sitting on a glacier surrounded by pinnacles of Ice. They found bees, moths, and butterflies at 21,000 feet, and the last traces of permanent animal existence far above the Himalayan snow-line and 4,000 feet above the last vegetable growth. These were small spiders. They live In islands of broken rock surrounded by snow and Ice. There were no signs of vegetation or living creatures near them, and for food they ate one another. Wingless grasshoppers were found living at a height of 18,000 feet - Find Body of Ma*. mm of 12,000 franca which the Mil collector had had on the eve of his disappearance was gone and examination disclosed that he had died ot a mercury injection. Marseilles was aghast at the discovery, but soon complaints began to pour In to the police of other suspicious acts on the part of Doctor Bougrat. He was said to have robbed many of his patients sfter giving them drugs or Injections which caused them to lose consciousness. He was charged with other cases of attempted murder. It was wondered whether he was not responsible for other disappearances. All France Aroused. The eyes of all France turned to Marseilles in.horror with a realization of the crimes which a doctor, licensed to , Issue burial certificate^ and with drugs at his command, might commit For all his respectability it was found that Doctor Bougrat had been in serious financial difficulties since his friendship with a woman other titan his wife had forced him Into all sorts of extravagance. Hitherto unknown escapades became known, curious details of his life were discovered. The only explanation of having a dead man in a secret cupboard which he himself had advanced was that Rumede had committed suicide in his laboratory and he had hid the'body, • • Kansas City, Mo.--John Payn®, itt> foot negro laborer employed at the Liberty Memorial, believes his faith tn God alone gave him the strength tn perform a deed, 'akin to heroism, at the shaft recently In a violent windstorm. W. B. Beam, superintendent of the stone work at the memorials told the story. One of the great steel cables on the scaffolding was torn loose in the Storm. There was danger it wMH mar the surface of the shaft Mr. Beam decided It was too danger- ' ous for him to venture down a rope ladder to the scaffolding to secure the cable. John had followed him to the top. ij "Let me go," offered Payne, " ^ He climbed slowly over the ledga^ 180 feet in the air, and down the rope, 80 feet, to the scaffold. There he secured the cable and dragged himself back up the swinging rope ladder. H>e wind was so strong he had to keep his face almost against the side of ths shaft In order to get his breath. The trip took about six minutes. Mil Beam, waiting at the top, said H seemed like an hour. "John, I am sure glad you're twek" he told Payne. "Mr. Beam," John said. "If It hadaft been for my religion, I wouldn't be back. Yes, sir, it took all my faith. I talked to Him all the way down and I talked to Him all the way back. He let me get back." ! Ohio Game Preserves Cover 93,515 Columbus, Ohio.--Ohio soon wilt have more than 100,000 acres of land used as game refuges and will take rank with ti e lending states of the Union in providing sanctuaries for wild life. , -* At present, reiage land totals 3SJS1S acres, anil this will be angumented by rhe establishment of preserves In Jefferson and Columbiana counties, under legislation enacted by the last general assembly. • The largest of the traces Is the Roosevelt refuge, which includes 18,000 acres. The total number of refuges In the state is 102. In addition, the department of fish nnd game crates a pheasant farm at Wellington and a fish hatchery at. l*nndon. D. C. Thortipron,*chlef game warden, has completed plans to establish a miniature zoo at the Roosevelt refuge. By .liily 1. more than flfty cages to house native fur-benr'n? animals anl birds will have been completed and the zoo will be, thrown cpen to seeiti?^" ,,. v • •sN Pensions for Professore Exemption from duties with s slon "equal to the Income they may enjoy" is obligatory for professors of secondary, commercial and special Instruction in the public schools of Chile, who have completed 30 years of service and have reached the age of fiftyfive. The government may, for very special reasons, authorize these employees to continue performing their duties for five years more. This Is provided in degree law No. 887. promulgated March 12, 1925. and officially reported to the State department by WUUam Miller Collier, United States gmbasBSdor st Santiago. Lighting Earth's Interior * Vlelng with the lighting of the Timpsnogos cavern In Utah, Is the Illumination, recently completed, of the Shenandoah caverns of Virginia. Hundreds of electric lights, ranging from 100 to 500 watts, are scattered through the caves, requiring over eight miles of lead cable and a complete generat- Courtesy Olirtesy is the one medium ef exchange that is always accepted at par by the people of every country on the globe. Courtesy radiates a spirit of good feeling and suggests that we are not working entirely for the material returns of work, but for the friendly human associations ss well. Life Is not too short, and we are never too busy to be courteous. Courtesy is the outward expression of an inward consideration for others. It Is always an effective lubricant that smooths business and social relationships, eliminating friction.--Philadelphia Public Ledger. Saved by CoMn Clinging to a cofllr for 15 hours on a storm-swept rock off the New Zealand coast was the experience of five Maoris. They were taking the body ot a relative to Nelson for burial, when the launch was wrecked on a submerged rock. The Maoris spent 15 hours on the rock in bitterly cold weather, doggedly clinging to the coffin all the time. They were In the last stages of exhaustion when rescoed. Cut Flowers With Knife* It Is s wise plan to use a sharp knife rather than scissors when cutting flowers, because scissors hsve c tendency to squeeze the stems so that they take up less water than thej sh*ni.d«. -'*.1 . Ancient Civilization Relics now In the Brighton (Eng.) museum, which Include pottery snd cooking utensils, indicate civilized people lived in the British Isles as early u 700 & a Majority of Freed Convicts Successful Milwaukee.--"Exactly 85 per cent of those who serve time in the penal Institutions and are discharged make good," said F. E. Lyon, superintendent of the Central Howard association, .Chicago, speaking at the Sumruerlield Methodist church. "During 1924 we placed 2,384 men and 1M>.VS In Industry who had been discharged from corrective Institutions. These earned $260,557. The association is carrying on rehabilitation work in eight states: Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana. Kentucky, Ohio, Michigan, Iowa and Mtnn^(|tn, Fish Caught in Garden Eating Carrot Tops Mlddletown, N. Y.--Louis Bell waded into his garden at Bloomburg when It was covered with water as a result of the Shawangunk Kill overflowing and found a 15-pound German carp making a breakfast of carrot tops He killed the carp with a spade. Several farmers told Constable Miller that carp had done serious damage by feeding on their lettuce slid asparagus beds. The constable set a numberof fish traps tn the flooded section and .baited them with brussels sprouts, which he said no carp could resist Mother Saves 3 Childrefk, Killed by Street Car New York.--Deliberately sacrificing her own life to save those of three of her eight children. Mrs. Lena Tartnr, forty-six years old, of Brooklyn, was mortally Injured when she flung the children from the tracks of a street car on the Canarsle Shore line. The mother stood fast and the car mowed her down. Mrs. Tartar w|s leading the children, Tessle, five years old; Isadora, eight, and Hyman, six, across the tracks when she glanced up and saw the car almost upon them. Swinging a child from each arm and pushing Isadore, she flung them from the tracks. Tessle failed t<> clear the car and was struck by the eilpe of the plgtfonn. suffering a fracture of the skull and possible internal injuries. Kirs. Tartar stood still in the tracks and the car struck her. Her skull was fractured and she died on tftc wa^ ln the hospital. ; - y*- «• <•* • . (urn Rooster a Fighter Globe, Ariz.--W. P. Reynolds was trying to catch a chicken for the evening meal. A large rooster In the flock became enraged at the effort and sunk his spurs Into an artery In the/ ba^k of the man's knee. .4 ,< . Bean Kills Babe Evanston, 111.--While playing on the floor Lorraine Yucker, one year old. swallowed a bean. It lodged In the windpipe, and a few minutes >Star Ae „ rflwl frnm wtTTvnilaMjm ' • . . • . - : - * , : • jf&f •. • - - ^ .. .rt •- ... T • • j. . 1 = ?f '• . .v. • .'if -. . ^ , Cv.,. •• -V „ . H.41 \ 1 * iiil, - Tries Five Times to Schoolhouse in R<evenga Glendale, Cal.--Because Glendale barbers drew the color line and refused to trim his hair, Jesse Rlleyi* negro truck driver, tried five times:fee burn down the Doran street schoolhouse here, according to police. Burning down the schoolhouse was his idea of a fitting revenge on the community at large, officers said he explained^ The five fires caused damage ^ mated at $12,500. Rliey Is awaiting arraignment «a a char arson. Bolt Hits Nest Searcy. Ark.--Fire <>r sparrow's nest caused ii. ing to several hundred home of Clyde On II* passed down an elect the nest is the eaven. Steals i Indiana* • was taken rro&; t.^e kitchen Of thief while ths housn»-