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TBI KIHXIKT KXntBIiLKB, HcHKKHT, ILL ' ' ,fS- *•* VSllt ^ 'fialady Has Been Confined ^to Two States; Cauag,. »}$ ,N"| _ "•» Not Determined. -- -ZrZ±; * .'£' . {Yiwp«r«4 fcjr tbe United States D*wrtBMt of Agriculture.) A ®«e»«e of winter wheat known as xS&^fOsette disease because of the excea- ^.r ,;-iive tillering in the spring and be- >; . ~*ause the affected plants reniuin in , '; • the rosette stage an unusually long .': I'roe, has appeared in Illinois and In- ^ • idiana tn infested fields every year " T -dince Its first discovery in 1919. For • "•everal years the disease took great ?"r \ lolls of the wheat crop in certain sections of Illinois and Indiana, aays the > United States Department of Agriculture. So far u is known, however. Jjbe disease has not been located in #ny other section of this country. The * -^fauee of the rosette disease has not . •T/-J'et been fully determined. but cer- . tain control measures have been ? >#«rlted oat by the department ^ V'f ' May Ruin AffectCcop^ *=-"• ^ , Farmers' Bulletin 1414 iiaa WOT ft " jlned by the department, covering the <inbject thoroughly. According to the jr; bulletin, where conditions are favor * dble for Its development, the rosette <§isease may ruin the affected crop. S; . Usually, however, the disease occurs fc more or less irregular, scattered ill pot 8 of different sizes. In ail except , the most severely affected fields, the • "*dN«ction in yield has been less than 90 per cent. 1 The disease ia recognized in the field * f Jtt the spring by stunted and resetted Ents and by the bunchy, dying plants the disease spots. All plants afted with this disease produce tiller* fixcessively and look bunchy. At first >they are dull blue In color, but they j|ubsequently turn brown and often z In late spring, this disease may be ;^yjhmfused with Hessian fly Injury. In feoth cases the color of the affected k plants Is about the same. The rosette disease, however, shows no symptoms fn the fall, while the fly causes marke<) Injury. Lr.ter, the rosette-diseased ,r->^flants may be distinguished by tbe sl?3||auch greater tendency to tiller. :V- Proflreaa With Control Measures. Various, control measures for the disease have been studied and tested, lr. ^nd important progress has been f^ lnade. It is known that the soil carthe causal factors, whatever they •>-"•gj^iaay be. Attempts to control tbe diaon Infested land by seed treatment, therefore, are useless. Numerous varieties have been studied to determine their relative resistance to the disease. Red Wave Early May. Shepherd, and Turkey are particularly Immune. The general use of these Immune varieties on Infested land la now serving to control the disease perfectly. A copy of the bulletin may be secured, as long as tbe supply lasts, from the United States Department at Agriculture, Washington, D. C. 7 How Producer Can Get More Than Market Price Start today! Now Is the time to start making a market for your products. Start by getting individual customers to buy your products and build up i trade that will last. You may not think that this can done, but other* have done It and there la no reaoon why you cannot. Put day-old eggs on the market In individual packages. Soon you will see that everybody will want your eggs. and then, when the demand is great enough, your price will also go higher. You cannot expect more than the market price unless you do create this demand Cor your eggs, thinks D. H. Hall, ex tension poultry husbandman at Clemson college. When eggs are 00 cents per dozen, Mr. Hall adds, we never receive calif to find a market--but when they are 25 and 30 cents--we are always called upon to find markets. The law of supply and demand governs the market to a certain extent, but when a person has his own individual market already established he need not worry about a flooded or low market. • United States Leads in Machinery on the Farm Farming leads all Industries as a user of power and. In turn, the American farmer has more power and machinery at his command than the farmer of any other country, according to E. W. Lehmann, University of Illinois. Most of the machines of production for the farm huve been developed during the last 75 years, and in that time the farmer has changed from "the man with a hoe" to a user of power and a large scale producer. , The last twenty-five years especially have seen a marked increase in the use of machinery and mechanical power on the farm. . WORK FOR THE INCREASE ' I T OF REINDEER HERDS K ON " « v'VAgricultural Department Is Conducting Investigation. - (Prtptrtd by the United Stataa D*p*rtm««t of Agriculture.) : / Although only about ninety tons of . feindeer meat were shipped from Jklaska~ to this country in 1023, lndl- * .' Rations on July 1, 1924, were that ^here would soon be a rapid increase : In the quantity shipped. In 1923 the • , #ntire number of reindeer in the terk 1|itory totaled about 241,000. according j v|o estimates made in 06 herds. The / V ^Increase in the number of reindeer In Alaska each year runs from 33 to 45 -|>er cent of the total number of anl- . £mls In tbe herd. This percentage 4an be raised by a better understand- " -I11* of herd management on tbe part v.*• f tJlrt the Eskimos and other owners, and '..'Setter business methods In marketing .•/J the meat will result In a higher out- ' ^ut. The biological survey of the iJnlted States Department of Agricul- - ijure conducts Important investlgation- !. >1 work in Alaska In the Interests of •? (he reindeer Industry, including tftudies of diseases and parasites, feed- 5 Jng experiments to determine the Nutritive values of different types of -" 'JMtlve forage, poison-plant problems, Aerd management, and breed improve- '*>ent. '-f" /'•' Through the establishment of eor- Dairy Calves Do Well ; on Dried Milk Ration , '•Raising the Dairy Calf When '.^jVhole Milk Is Sold" Is the title of Vulletln 215, which waa prepared from Studies at the University of Minnesota figri cultural experiment station, by J|)r. C. H. Eckles -and T. W. XSulllckx j|on of the division of dairy husbandry. Two plans of experiments were adopted, the fint to raise calves on *' the minimum amount of whole milk or £kim milk and the second to raise jtalves on dried milk, using powdered „ ftklm milk, powdered or semi-solid buttermilk, or malted milk. The results Clearly showed that good calves can be ,, Raised on a very small amount of %|vhole milk and that the manufactured material mentioned can be substituted after the calf has got a start |M1 the calves used In the experiment Ivere never off faed and were kept unusually free from sickness or digestive troubles. Dairymen everywhere will be Inter ; fsted In the findings reported In this Spew bulletin. Copies may be had by addressing the Division of Publications. University Farm. St PauL Garden Recreation The American people spend millions of dollars annually in recreation. They go on vaca tions in order to be better fitted to do their work when they return. Others who cannot afford the expense of a vacation trip often find recreation and dally change of scene In their ~own dooryard, either with flowers or with a vegetable garden from which they draw a supply of fresh and wholesome food. rals, herd owners are Improving conditions In their herds. Co-operative handling and management of some of the herds lias been practiced with good results. An additional Impetus has been given to the Industry by two American companies which are now operating refrigerating plants to receive re In neer carcasses for the purpose of shipping them to markets In the United States through Seattle. One of these companies operates refrigerating barges which can move from one point to another, mainly in the rivers, and the other company haa several small cold-storage plunts along the coast. Sour Milk of Immense Value to Poultry Raiser It Is at least possible to reduce the amount of meatscrap in the mash ration if you keep sour milk or butlermilk before the hens at all times. Some have found it possible to do away with the meatscrup entirely, but this is not always a success in cases where it hat been tried. It is best to reduce It to about one-half to one-third of tbe regular quantity called for in the mash, and then allow the sour milk or butter milk for the hens. Entirety aside from the food value In the utllk. there seema to be a regulative quality lo the sour milk. The fowla will remuin healthier if given the milk at all timea. It stimulates a healthy appetite, particularly for the laying mash. The sour milk seems to do away almost entirely with the difficulties generally traceable to close confinement, such as the clogging of tbe digestive organs, and for that reason, particularly for flocks In winter quarters, It Is bard to overestimate tlie valua of an abundant supply ef aour skim milk. IABMJACTSP The best corn in 1924 UQ £*U plowing. Seed property aetecte# to fa* llm insurance. • • Nix on the burning of teavaa; acv« them tor the hungry soM. • • • Is farm labor scarce? The hogs will harvest your corn and pay you for the privilege. • • • Don't forget that the poultry needs green feed all wlntet long, caatloo poultry workers. • • • No, time lant much to a fcafc bat a warm, dry place In the winter la, «M he'll gain faster for It A cow In these good days must be more than Just a cow; she must be a proved and profitable producer. • * • A' bin where two or three hundred pounds of scratch grain may be stored in die chicken house is a labor aaver • • • A covering of forest trees is the most attractive and profitable crop to use for hiding poor, unsightly land which to naturally unfit far lamina. * Foar-Heaimd Cabbage | Crown in Middletoum S Middletown, N, Y. -- Stagle- J stalked cabbage with four heads £ has been produced by T. F. J Welsh of this city. None of the * heads are less than tbt inches In £ diameter and they all taste like V cabbage. £ Walsh says he expects to rev- 2 J olutionize cabbage-growing by * J his discovery, and hopes that his | * hydra-headed product will re- f * duce the price of vegetables 2 * throughout the world. i FALL SS FEET IN DEATH GRAPPLE BtmkilUJ When Hm and Wifm Plunge Off Porch* BOYS HID BODY Indian Boy Tortured; « Suspected of Sorccry Vancouver, B. C.--A weird tale of witchcraft torture and murder came over the wires from Faraway Telegraph Creek. It was a message from a Royal Canadian mounted policeman announcing that after trekking for a year through northern British Columbia he was returning Vo civilization with an aged Indian squaw and four accomplices who killed a young brave by Inches because his "sorcery" brought the wrath of the evil spirits upon his tribesmen. Atol Mocassin was the victim's name. The name of the squaw charged with his mnrder was not contained In the policeman's dispatch. There was only a brief account of the crime. A year ago, the message said, hunting suddenly became very poor among the Indians of the northern wilderness. A long, cold winter followed and starvation, disease and death cut swaths in the rnnks of the tribesmen. The superstition of their religion taught the Indians that some one of their number, some sorcerer and maker of "had medicine" whose witcheries Invoked the wrath of the evil spirits, had brought calamity upon the tribe. Suspicion fell/ upon the youth Atol. Led by the aged squaw, the tribesmen invaded his shack at night, found him mumbling stranjre words over his tiny wood fire and laid hands on him. The.v tied him to a sapling, head downward. and let him hang for days, slowly dying. At length the aged woman grew Impatient that Atol died so slowly, according to the policeman's telegraphed account and cot his throat wi tvHHjHMk n i r • >. li.'iTi camp to camp, the through the mnU^H^BHRnri one of Its members set forth to bring the s|ayera to Justice. Used Tomb us Sleeping Place; Others Saw Ghost Los Angeles, Cal.--Persistent reports that the historic old Spanish cemetery here was visited nightly by a ghost or ghoul led to a police investigation which ended in the arrest of Manuel Blanco, fifty-six. who is alleged to have been avoiding high rents by using an empty tomb for a sleeping chamber. "I have been sleeping there for a month and no one has disturbed me until now," he was quoted aa saying as they booked him at the city Jail on a charge of ^agrancj "Shot Self; Didn't Hart Mother's Boy is Dead Lamar. Colo.--William Kindali, Jr., five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. William Kindali of Holley, near here, ia dead from a self-inflicted bullet wound through the cb^it. Picking up his father's revolver from the table, the boy pressed the muzzle to his chest and Bred. He then ran to his mother, declaring, "I shot myself mother, hat it doesn't hurt a bit" Eagle Slaghet Hunter ' Rockford, III.--Edward Palm was severely gashed on forearms and wrists by the talons of an eagle which he brought down, while hunting near here. Palm thought he had shot a bawk when he picked up the wounded bird. •JMOF THEIR 314m CHUM IN SWAMP ' ' • • . Break Down and C«nfm» After Helping Hunt for Chicago.--Locked In a furions clinch, Andrew Zajac, forty-four, and his wife, Rose, forty-four, crashed through the railing of a rear porch of their third-floor flat at 1429 Emma street and fell 55 feet to a cement passageway. Zajac waa killed--his neck broken and skull fractured. Mrs. Zajac suffered a broken neck, a fracture of the skull, a broken shoulder and other Injuries. She is dying at,the Bridewell hospital. The flght had started, Mrs. Zajac told officers before she sank into a coma, over her Sunday morning' efforts to upbraid her husband for a Saturday night liquor party. The argument began at the breakfast table, and Zajac left, apparently to go to work. He returned about 10, a little under the influence of liquor, and the quarrel was resumed. Mrs. Zajac struck her husband in the face, and he, retaliated by aiapping her. "I'll kill you!" the woman cried. Their two sons--Frank, nine, and John, fourteen--saw them sway about in the flat and finally out upon the porch. The woman, muscular and athletic, gripped her husband about the throat and pushed him backward over the railing. He waa clutching.Tjjjjqr throat and kicking at her. With an echoing crash the railing gave way and they plunged down, each still clinging to the other. % J<*w York.--Four young boy* have confessed that they hid the body of their chum. Ernest Schwer, Jr., thirteen, after he was accidentally shot and killed by a gun with which they were playing ten days ago. After two of them had been trapped In contradictory atatements recently, the four boys broke down and Jed detectives to aa ash dump in Richmond Hill, Queens, where the body ol the Schwer boy was found under a pile of brush with a bullet hole in his temple. During ten days, while police, tiremen, boy scouts and army airplanes searched for trace of the missing boy, his companions stuck to the story that they had last seen him In the swamp near his home hunting mnskrats. They even assisted in the search. But the other night two* of the boys were taken to the place where they said they had parted from Schwer and csked which way he had gone. One pointed one direction and one in Ufe other. Break Down and Confesa. Then, under threat of arrest they broke down and told the story of accidental shooting, which their two companions later corroborated. TJiey said that the five of them had gone into the awamp with a rifle they had i They Hid the Bed* purchased, and while taking turns shooting one of their number discharged the gun before he intended to and the bullet struck Schwer In the head. The boys are Arthur, twelve, and Harold Meighan, eleven, brothers? Adam Rotunda, twelve, and Charles Hirschtield, fourteen years old. Terrorised by the thought of the possible consequences of tbe accident, the four boys said they dragged Schwer to the nearby ash dump, pulled his cap over his face, tossed some brush over the body and then concocted the tale they had stuck to for ten days. Aged Mem Risks Lih in Fire for Savings Philadelphia.--An aged man who braved death to rescue his life savings when his home caught fire, was found lying beside an old trunk, with a wallet clutched in his hand, and was carried to safety by firemen. He Is Patrick Powers, seventy years old. His wife, Anna, and two children of their daughter, Mra. J. V. Penny, also were led from the building. Powers went Into the cellar to combat the flames when the fire was discovered. He was forced to come back to the first floor, and, thinking of his money, ran upstairs into the smokefilled room in which it was hidden. Hardly had he succectied in locating the wallet when he collapsed. His wife, asleep on tbe second floor, was rescued by Mrs. Penny, with whom the aged couple live. Mrs. Penny ran to' the room In which her children were playing and carried thein from the house, as firemen arrived. Powers, when revived smiled happily as he grasped his wallet. "Well,' I got tbe money, anyway, even if they did have to carry me down a ladder with It" he said. Indian Physician Father of 33 Children Danville. Va.--Dr. Ernest Jones, a Cherokee Indian of Milton, is believed to be the most fatherly man In this section of the country, as he has 33 children. The youngest is twelve months old, and this baby has a brother who is sixty-eight. Doctor Jones has been thrice married and boasts of 96 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren. * Doctor Jones, who is eighty-six, attributes his advanced age to careful eating and a well-balanced diet. His only known Illness was an attack of rheumatism several years ago, which he successfully shook off after treatment. All at his children are healthy and robust. Woman Whips Man Sapulpa. Okla.--J. C. Howell, local furniture dealer, was attacked and beaten with a horsewhip on one of the main streets by a woman said, to b« hla recently divorced wite. Crow* Rout Eagle K "the»eis. France.--The straupe slgM | of a huge eagle being pursued by « • flock of crows estimated at some 3,000 caused the townsfolk to crane their necks here. The eagle eventually sought refuge at the Chateau de Cussy, where keepers shot it, whereupon the flcck of crows diebanded. . Wiom Who "Look" Won* Than Thoae Who Nag} There are wives who "say things" aid wives who say nothing look quite a lot, aays London Answers. It might be thought that the nagger --tbe wife who "says things"--would be a tar worse affliction than the wife who "looks things." But la that rsiiiy so? A husband haa every Justification if he cleans out to his club to escape the tongue of the nagger. But what la he to do If his wife merely "looks" t Vision him for a minute. He comes home, has his evening meal, and proceeds to smoke a first a second, and finally a third cigarette. Hla wife Just "looks." But her look "speaks volumes." "That's your third cigarette!" aays her look. "The third! Three tn twenty minutes! More money wasted! It doesn't matter what I want or have to go without or what is needed in the house-^-oh, no! There's always money for cigarettes! Three In twenty minutes!" The fire dice down, but he doesn't notice it. So his wife puts more coal on, and when her husband makes a belated move to help she just looks at htm. And he feels warm. He comes home late one evening. His wife says nothing, but Just looka at him and then at the clock. He offers his explanation--that there were things to be done at the office. And she looks at him again. Perhaps friends drop In and, manlike, he Bays or does something he shouldn't. His wife looks at him, and If looks could kill him he'd die on the spot. And so it goes on. Of a truth, "looking" is worse than nagging, for a nagger may make herself ridiculous by repetition or wild statements. But the "looker" is on safer ground. "I just looked at him, my dear, and that was enough!" Can't you hear her saying It? That's not to say that now and again a* reproachful look, with hurt love behind It, magifcpot do good. But that Is quite different from being a regular "looker." WRITERS DIFFER ON REAL "ROUGHNECK" Anyway, Farmer Testifies to Animals' Understanding. When Woodson Hobbs, a farmer living near Kokomo, drove his favors lte horse Into the business part of the city recently, the Indianapolis News relates, the animal showed a keen sense of observation. At the in tersection of Main and Walnut streets, the busiest corner In the dty, the horse stopped suddenly. "Uid-dap," clicked Hobba as he slapped the reins over tlie Animal's flank. The horee stood serenely still for a few seconds, however, before he finally moved on his way. Then Mr. Hobbs looked down at the street and saw why his horse had stopped Across the pavement In large white lettering waa printed the word: "Stop." The street had been marked, a nlgtit or two before in compliance with th« provisions of a new traffic ordinance. "Horse sense isn't to be scoffed at,M said Hobbs. "I have observed horses all my life and many of them come close to manifesting human intelligence, at times. I once had a horse that could count the corn rows and never make a mistake when it #m< to the right place to turn." One Explanation Does Not Seem to Satisfy. The Klondike poet, Robert W. Service, who has a prodigious reputation hundreds of whom can quote pagea and pages of his verse, has finally launched a work of proae fiction, called "The Roughneck." I have often meditated on the origin of that word, and tlie paper jacket which incidentally is full of other interesting information, gives Mr. Servvice's explanation: "I think the origin of 'The Roughneck' dates back to tbe time when to shave the back of one's neck was a sign of sartorial grace. In my early Alaskan days every barber would ask you If you wanted a 'neck shave,' and not to have one put you in the category of those who were indifferent to their appearance, or too unsophisticated to conform to the fashion of the day. You were & man with hair on his neck; in brief, a roughneck. The fashion soon passed, but the expression remains." Now when I was a boy, my virgin aunt, who, like all virgin aunts, knew far more about the world and was far more In sympathy with it than one's mother, said to me emphatically: "Don't you ever allow any barber to shave the back of your neck." She knew. Whatever may later have been the reversed dynamics In Alaska, she knew that a man whose neck waa shaved was outside of the pale of polite society. I was particularly Interested In Mr. Service's explanation, for during the last 20 years in these United States, my observation proves just the opposite. I have never seen a genuine tough who did not have the back of his neck shaved. And I divide all barbers into two classes--those who, without asking you, attempt to shave the back of your neck, and those who would no more perpetrate such a monstrosity than they would shave off jour ears. It is. as Barrle's policeman would say, a test absolutely "infallible." No New York or Boston barber lias ever done any necking on me; but in every small town west of Buffalo, unless 1 am alert. I get a large dose of lather under the cerebellum. But how tn the world did Aunt Llbble know this test 45 years ago? That was some time before Mr. Service was born.--William Lyon Phelps In Scrlbner's Magazine. R Mother Understood- She ia a wonderful little mother, lovable, sweet, decidedly unsophisticated and always concerned over the welfare of her big boy, whose late hours had worried her not a little. "What time did you get In laat njght?" she Inquired at breakfast. "This morning you mean, mother? It was 12:15." "And where were you, might I ask?" "Went to a dance and had a little dinner afterward. Cover charge and all didn't make It very costly." She had heard of cover charges at auch affairs, but had never quite understood. She studied a moment and then: "Rather expensive, I should think. It seems to me that you'd get tired of paying for table covers."--Indianapolis News. World-Famous Painting The famous painting of Christ believed traditionally to have been begun by St. Luke nnd to have been finished supernaturally has betn, as a preliminary to the celebration of the Sixteenth centenary of the foundation of the Basilica of St. John Lateran, Rome, removed to the Basilica from the Sanota Sanctorum, adjoining the Basilica, where It usually is enshrined The ceremony last took place in 1913 on the occasion of the centenary ot the edict of Milan, and previously io 1900, the last holy year. It will alsc be exhibited next year, which tea been declared a holy year. Happy Endings "Happy endings to stories and playa are nearly always fal*e endings." said Brand Whitlock at a luncheon in New York, "and I am glad they are going out" "It la falae to aay that life ends happily, and it Is equally false in play or story to say. when the lovers kiss, that iheir troubles are over, for in real life, of course. U la then that, their troubles begin." rf.. Cymeal French Proverb After pleasure cornea repeniMfita after repentance, virtue. Modern America A woman friend dropped in the other evening to chat with the wife, and was surprised to find the husband enveloped in an apron, washing tbe dishes. "Where's the wlfe7" tlie visitor asked cheerily. "Over at tlie barber abop," sale the grumpy reply. Brilliant Analysis President Julius H. Barnes of the United States chamber of commerce paused in a success talk In Cleveland to analyze a failure. "From the start," said Mr. Barnes, "he uaa one of those chaps who pride themselves on the excellence of their ^ Better Than Average Mayor Lunn of Schenectady, N. said at a luncheon: "The machine candidate, the machine politician--why do we always support him? "A machine candidate got elected to the senate. Six months went by. Then John Citizen met one morning the boss who bad put the machine candidate In. " 'Senator Swank,' sneered John Citizen, 'promised us great things if we'd elect him, but what's he done? I ask you--what's he done?" " 'What's he done?' yelled tbe boss. 'Why, he'B got himself made special counsel for the railroad trust, the light trust and the food trust; he's bought himself a town house and a country seat, and he's started in collecting old masters. That's what he's done, darn it--and all in six months, too!' "--Los Angeles Times. Who Am I? I have scattered bread crusts, egg sliells and paper plates from the Rio Grande to the Great Lakes. I have hacked trees and broke* down farmers' fences from coast to coast. I have hooked peaches from a Georgia orchard and pecans in southern California, apples from the beautiful Genesee valley in New York and cantaloupes from a Colorado truck patch. I have thrown tin cans into tbe Grand canyon and empty bottles Into Niagara's roaring tumult. I have seen all, heard all and in my weak way have managed to destroy much. I am the American toutiat--Blaine C. Bigler in Judge. Progress "When I was learning my trafle T served for a time in the German army," a Detroit barber remarked as he tapped his closed scissors. "They let me practice on the other soldiers. All were young men. I did my biggest day's shaving once when I cleaned 150 faces of stubble beards. I hired a boy to do the lathering, and I seat ed my customers in the chairs. Then the latherer prepared the faces, and I started. Every man hnd to wash his own face, and none got any bay rum, or any pampering. You see I was paid only a few pfennigs for the shave. With one good customer today I make many times what I got from the whole 150." Athletics for Babies A gymnasium for babies has been opened in Berlin by a former physical Instructor In a Potsdam military school. "Every a|x-months-old baby should do five to ten minutes' daily exercise with its mother or nurse," said the Instructor. "If my advice were followed, the appaling number of cripples in this country would be greatly diminished. Regular graduated exercises ensure harmonious development, correct posture, and firm bones." The gymnasium, with Its furnishings of miniature swings, ladders and bars, is for the professor's older pupile-- that is. those from eighteen months to five years old. GOOD DEFINITION OF i ;. JtAN OF EDUCATION" Knowledge of English Indispensable, Says Professor. { f; There have been of late, perhapa, - •tore than the usual number of at-| tprnntd. hnth hy nrnfatiiioital fdnontrinU and by writers for the popular naaga~|- zines, to define what is meant by be-j ing educated. More than twenty-flvef /ears ago George Herbert Palmer, pro-f fessor of philosophy in Harvard unl-|. versity, said In a commencement ad-| . d r e s s d e l i v e r e d a t t h e U n i v e r s i t y o f f Michigan: "Good judges have said; that he, and he alone, is a well-educat-r ed person who uses his language wlthi power and beauty." Later hla addresaf was published under the title of "Self-t Cultivation In English,'" and It Is to-L day as applicable and stimulating as| : ever. Every teacher, every schools principal and every member of afcv school committee In the country should^ read it for its excellence as a piece of^ literary composition no less than as a|. source of inspiration and guidance, ad-| vises the Youth's Companion. > Although Professor Palmer's remark! is of universal application, it must be| taken in this country with reference! to English, for, no matter how well man may know any other language, hef': is heavily handicapped if he does no£ know how to use the language of the! overwhelming majority with a certain degree of accuracy and ease, if not "with power and beauty." It is in thiA, respect that our public schools hava: done perhaps their most useful workfe A common language is a great national benefit, and the established use of English throughout the United State* is something to be grateful for. Other languages have their place and value, but the official language of the country must be the common possession off. all. The story of the Tower of Babel la still in point. And knowledge of English does not mean merely the ability to read simple[ prose and to repeat the stock phrases^' of the day, mixed with slang. It, means, as Professor Palmer so tersely specified, the ability to speak andf write with "accuracy, audacity and range." Here Is at least one goal toward which all of-our educational in-* stitutlons can safely press forward; Shortcomings in other subjects can b«t concealed, but faulty English, whether? In speech or in writing, Is sure to re* veal Itself at the first contact. It fat only the masters that can afford td commit error®. iirw' M "7S V - |L ilii In Northern Canada . The country north of the Pas furred; but there are a great fnl ^ r white and Indian trappers in the dls« trlct, and one has to go quite a dis-* tance to secure a trapllne not already taken up, and a man Is lucky to make any real money at the game. Some of the trappers hardly manage to cover expenses many seasons. The country is fairly well wooded, lyUhough the timber is small and In a neV^ork o| waterways. Travel is by cuno^n the summer and dog train in the winter. Best time to leave the Pas is iate In September or early October, when a man can travel by canoe and locate his trapllne, build his cabin before, winter sets in. Would estimate cost£ of outfit for two, including canoe andlicense fees for a season, at about^ $800. A man wants to go out well pro«? vided because he never knows what is going to run into. „ Principal fur-bearers are muskrat, beaver, otter, wolf, lynx, marten, mink, ermine, wolverine, bear, skunk, fox.--. Adventure Magazine. * Vitality of Beet Seeds Beet seeds retain their germinating power for 17 years, according to experiments recently conducted by Frof. K. Dorph-Petersen of the Danish see<f testing station. A considerable amount^ of this stock was stored away 17 year* ago and some withdrawn for expert* ment every year. The tests showed 85 per cent of germination the second year and 24 per cent the seventeenth year of dormancy. Seeds of white clover germinated after 25 years. Only a few grass species tested showed much life after seven or eight years. Various environmental conditions may influence the length of time a seed may remfcln alive, Professor Docph* Petersen believes. Magic The atijjJect under discussion by'the grownups /was Douglas Fairbanks In "The Thief of Bagdad." They were commenting on the magic carpet, particularly, and how well done were the mechanical effects of the picture. The little daughter had seen the picture, also. "Well. I wish I bad a carpet like that," she said. "I'd just say 'Wblf and my 'rithinetlc lessons would be all dowe." Iwllaaspnile Ne*g% A Browning Story Feftbody Forthlngham, the poet, told a Browning story at a meeting of tbe Boston Browning society. "An aged banker," he began, "aald to an aged broker at the club: "•Your beautiful girt wife declarea that your face is like a poem--a poem by Browning.' " 'Yes?' chuckled the aged broker. 'Here, try this cigar. You'll have a drink, of course. So my girt wife says my face ia like a poem, does she?' " 'Yes,' answered the banker with a harsh laugh. 'She says your face> la like a poem by Browning bfteup lt'a got so many deep lines."" ^ Coats Do Damage Tbe Bulgarian sheep and goat sos for the current year shown that there is a pair of sheep, or a sheep' and a goat for every man. woman and child in Bulgaria, with a part of a sheep or a goat to spare. Sheep, , however, are much preferred to goats, by the Bulgarian government. Thet reason is that goats, feeding on the fresh, young tops of shrubs and that •mull trees, apparently are eating the^ country bare of forests. Hence stepat are being taken to discourage their in- **Loee*s Labor Lout" Little Miss Dorothy May Bovard^ 1852 North Pennsylvania street, ^who* has just reached the age of nine, waa| belt>£ quizzed the other day concern-* lng her "boy friends." This was the| conversation: J "Will. Dorothy, have ye|« be« «r* the visitor aske& ~ * Dorothy May's face lighted up and| smilingly she said: "Sure I have aj| beau," then her smile changed to sa<K| ness aa she added. "Bat 1* doeen't payet any attention to me."--Indianapolla • • • S"«fh A