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‘wvfiv'v'fi7-_rw. ' O O O O O O C o 3.0%. $0,“... ‘o.o‘o.mo.o‘6:o-f:0 so; 3*; ‘JOE AND THE “:5 Mo 0 ’0 v 0 O .9 Ms 0 O O O ~:mzmo:o‘o:o-0:o~ ozo‘ozv\o.~bo,o‘ an 30 "Your account’s out just one loaf, young fellow,” the foreman of the bakery, Mr. Jacques, said to the boy who stood before him. Joe Marston tried to think of any sale for which he failed to make colâ€" lection. His business was to deliver bread a day old throughout a disâ€" trict in which poor people lived who preferred the stale loaves because they were a cent apiece cheaper than the fresh ones. Mr Jacques was a gruff man, and apparently without the kindly disposed heart that is sometimes thought to be hidden under a rough exterior. At any rate, he held the drivers of the bread waggons to a very strict ac- count. "Oh, I know, sir,” Joe suddenly exclaimed, as a recollection came to him. “Old llh's. Machon hadn’t had anything to out since yesterday, and I let her have a loaf until to-mor- row. "Then why didn’t you pay for it yourself? We're not running a charity hall. If she pays you back all right; but you’ll have to fork over now.” ~ Joe handed out the four cents, looking as if he had committed some crime. When the foreman went away (he was a stockholder in the company) some of the working girls expressed their opinion of him in vigorous terms. "The mean old thing! I don't be- lieve he’s got any heart," said one. "You did right, Joe. I guess the Geim Baking Company can stand four cents! Here, Joe, you’re not going to lose it,” and Joe was of- fered the money. “No, I won’t take it, ’cause I ought to pay for the loaf myself. I see it now, but I thought I was do- ing right. The bread wasn't mine to give away, and I won’t do it again unless I’m willing to pay for it." Although he saw where he had done wrong the sympathy of the girls was very grateful to him and restored his confidence. He-was so poor himself that he had a hard time to make ends meet, yet he felt glad he had given the loaf to the destitute old woman; or rather, trusted her with it, for he was to be paid on the following day. But [he now saw he had no right to trust other perople’s property, and that he ought to have paid for it without being; told by the foreman. After his delivery on the next day Joe handed in his report. "Correct this time. Didn't find any poor old starving body, oh?” the foreman asked, jcerin-gly. Joe did not make any reply, but went to his work, while the girls turned up their noses at the back of the foreman. . The place where they were workâ€" ing was on the fourth floor, and a large quantity of flour in sacks had been piled there recently while the basement was undergoing some reâ€" pairs. Suddenly there was a creaki- ing, groaning sound heard, and the floor began to sink. Those nearest the windows, which were open, ran towards them; but only three reachâ€" cd them before the building collapsâ€" ed, the walls bent inward, and maâ€" chinery, flour, men and women went crashing through to the basement. In a moment screams of agony came up from those below who were crushed in the wreckage. Joe had caught hold of a window sill, and had no difficulty in drawing himself to a seat on the ledge; but the wall itself was tottering and he was in great danger. The cry came from someone near him, and Joe looked inward. 'l‘Wo girls who had expressed their symâ€" pathy with him when he was repri- manded by the foreman, were hangâ€" ing to the sill. To let go meant to fall to the basement and, almost certain death; yet they could not hold on longer then a few minutes. Joe felt his nerves tingle at the thought. He turned to the outside. The fireâ€"CSCape was about six feet beâ€" neath him and although twisted by the bulging of the wall, it ran up to the window where the girls were hanging. He dropped to it, and then made his way to the upper window as rapidly as possible, brac- ing his feet against the iron railing and his shoulder against the side of the window be grasped the arm of the girls and pulled with all his might, telling her to help herself at the same time with her other hand. She did so and was soon leaning ihrOUgh the window, from where she made short work of getting out on the fire cecape. Then Joe tried to help the other girl in the same way. lint she had been holding on for a few seconds longer than her companion, so that when Joe took her by the arm she let go of the. window with the other hann also. weight on him, and he was drawn inwgr‘din spite of his utmost en- eavor. _ I it was a terrible moment. With every muscle strained until his eyes seamed to start out of his head, and the sharp corner of the easement cutting his shoulder, he felt himself being overcome. As he thought of the terrible death for both of them 9 â€"/ This threw her entire if he was drawn ov'er the lodge, for her if he let go his hold on her am, he gasped: "Catch the sill with your hand, quick!" . She understood and tried to so, but her effort in reaching up pulled him so far inward that the moment greatly increased their perâ€" il, and caused her fingers to fall short of the sill by an inch or two. “I can’t!" she screamed in a. frenzy of fear, her fingers scratching the paint in their Wild grasping to secure a hold. Just then both felt an upward and outward motion to their bodies. The lgirl first rescued heard her counâ€" other do panion's wild scream, and at once seized the hand of the arm which Joe held, pulling outwards with all her might. This assistance came not a moment too soon, and with it. Joe was enabled to drag the girl safely to the lodge. They were obliged to rest a mo- ment, and then began to make their way down the escape. No time was to be lost, for coals from the fur- naCe had started a fire, and as gas pipes had been twisted off, the blaze would spread rapidly. On reaching the third floor a portion of the walls which had fallen across the escape was encountered, and they could go no further. Already the smoke and heat were in their faces. “Girls,” Joe said, there’s nothing to do but junip, so come on, and he started to assist them over, the rail- ing Of the escape, and in this way to let them dowu as far as possible before they dropped. But at this moment the firemen arrived in the alley, and although it Has checked with fallen bricks. they planted ladders and started up for Joe and the girls. One at time the latter were carried below. “Follow me down,” the fireman said to Joe, as he received the sec- ond girl over quick about it. iirg!" Joe turned to look at the apâ€" proaching flames, and on bringing his eye back it. took in the mass of ruins beneath him. “Go to the second floor!" he sud- denly shouted to the firemen, and he disappeared inward over the broken wall. What had led him to take such perilous step? a the railing, “and be The fire is comâ€" a Lying head down- ward over a beam, he saw Mr. Jac- ques and determined to rescue him. Sliding along a steel girder which inclined that way, Joe jumped to the place where the foreman lay, with his clothes caught on a spike. He was unconscious but still breath- ing. Had it not been for that spike, he Would have been buried under the ruins at the first crash. But other parts of the wall were occasionally falling in. the fire was advancing, and he must be removed at com or left to his fate. The beam, fortunately, was lean- ing outward towards the point where the wall had fallen away from it, and the inner end was hanging on a wire which was‘attached to it. When Joe leaped to the beam, all he had to do was to shove the shoulders of the unfortunate man on to the timber, in order to make it safe to release his clothing; other- wise he would fall, since he was too heavy for Joe to hold. To get Mr. Jacques’ shoulder the beam was no easy task. how- ever. for Joe's strength had been nearly used up already; but it was accomplished, after which Joe took out his pocket knife clothing away from the spike. is not likely that he could have guided the body (IOWn the incline, and all his labor Would have been lost but t‘lie‘firemen came to his as- sistanCc, having hurried to the secâ€" ond floor to see what had become of him. With their aid Mr. Jacques was taken out safely and sent away in an ambulance, while Joe, weak lo be of any further went home. The fourth day alter the collapse of the Gem Baking Company’s buildâ€" ing, Joe received 'a message to visit Mr. Jacques in the hospital. When he Was shown to the cot on which the injured foreman lay he found him as gruflly as over. “Well. you’ll not have a chance to give away any bread to hungry peo- ple for a few days, oh?” was the greeting he met with. Joe was so confused that he could answer only, “N-no, sir." “Should .think not,” Mr. Jacques grunted. " let hurt any?" “No, sir." “Well, I did. A broken head and a shoulder out of joint. Those girls up on the fourth floor seem to like you well, eh?" “Iâ€"I don't knOW,” Joe stammerod. “I do. ieen here and told me about how you saved their lives. Saved mine, too. didn't you, oh?” and the injured man looked and spoke as if he were ready to give Joe :1 lecture for domg so. “I helped to get you out of the buildini‘, sir." "Well. we’ll be running again in a few weeks and I want. you back at your work." "Thank you, I shall be glad of the chance.” "And you can give away a loaf of bread to anybody you find starving. Understand?" Joe was beginning to understand, on to cut the It too service, although Mr. Jacques talked as if he were scolding vigorously. "Now, here’s an order on our treasurer,” the foreman resumed, “to pay you your wages every week unâ€" ltil we get to work. Understnml'?” â€".â€">-_ 01“ "Yes, sir. and thank , you very much." "Well, I’m doing a little thanking in my own way, too, so that's all right. Now, the doctor says I got such a shaking up that I mustn’t talk to anybody very long at a time, so I guess you'd better go." "Very well, sir, good-bye.” "Good-bye." Wlhen Joe was about ten feet from the cot, Mr. Jacques called him back. For the first time since he knew him, Joe saw a wistful, kind look in the foreman's eyes as he asked: "Couldn’t you come back to see me day after tomorrow?" "Yes, sir, and glad to,” Joe an- swered, feeling a lump. rise in his throat, he could not tell why. ___...+_.._ ALBATROSS EVERYWHERE. Sailors Look Upon it as Bad Luck to Kill One of Them. Of all the strange creatures seen by travellers not the least interest- ing is the wandering albatross. This great, feathered wanderer, some- times mcasuriug 17 feet from tip to tip of his wings, ‘will follow a ship for days at a time. Some travellers and sailors declare that they have seen a particular bir'd fly for weeks at a time without ever being seen to alight upon the waves; It notinerely follows the ship, but wheels in great circles around it and above it, high in the air, as if to show that it is not tired. Some- times the bird will be seen to hang in the air with its wings apparently motionless and the sailors say that then it is asleep. Not only in pleasant weather will the albatrbss follow a ship for days and weeks, but through the most terrific storms it will continue its untiring flight. In fact, to find an albatross otherwise than on the wing is like finding a weasel asleep. Once a year the female albetross flies away a few thousand miles to the great, lonely island rock of Tris- tan d’Acunha, which lifts its deso- late head for in the South Atlantic, or to some equally remote place, and there lays one egg in the hollow of a rock. The albatross has always been a bird of mystery, and in ancient times the people believed that these unwearying sea birds were the com- panions of the Greek! warrior Diomeâ€" dos, who were said to have been changed into birds at the death of their chief. When America was discovered and ships began to sail abroad to the Pacific Ocean to double the Cape of Good Hope and to explore the “sev- en seas” generally, the old belief about the. albatross had been for- gotten by the sailors and explorers, but in their long and lonesome voy- ages over waters which were cut by no kccl but their own, and upon whose vast expanse they saw no other sail but theirs, the presence of the albatross following the ship day after day became a great source of comfort and companionship. So it came to, be a belief that illâ€"luck would follow any one who killed one of these birds; and that belief is common among seafaring men to this very day. Coleridge’s famous “Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner” is based upon this belief. Though the superstition about the killing of an albatross bringing bad luck is only a foolish one, it has served a useful purpose for many years in preventing the slaughter of these beautiful and gallant birdsâ€"- the sailor's friends and ' the lands- men's wonder. Up in dreary Kamchatka, that outlying part of Siberia which cuts into the North Pacific. the natives, never having heard of the superstiâ€" tion about the albatross, catch him and eat him. ‘But his flesh makes such poor food that after all the legend may be said to hold good, for he is indeed in bad luck who has to make a meal of it. ._._.___.+___....._.. WA RNED ITIM . He. stood before her father. "Well, sir,” said the older gentleâ€" man, “I suppose you have come to ask me for my daughter?" “Iâ€"lLâ€"yeâ€"es, sir, if you please.’ - “Um! Have you stopped to think what getting married means; what you will have toâ€"â€"â€"" “Oh,” the boy interrupted, having regained his selfâ€"assurance, _ “you needn't give yourself the least un- easiness on that account, Mr. Scad- dsleigh. Without wishing to boast, 1 can assure you that I shallâ€" be able to support her in the style to which she has been accustomed. I have a fine position in my father’s bank, to which I have worked up unaided and alone, and I am to be made a director of the institution just as soon as I have found out the differ- ence between collateral and assets." “Very well; but that’s not what I intended to refer to. Have you look- c'd over .luliet’s mother carefully?" “I don’t believe I quite understand rou.” “How ‘do you like my wife?” ’ “I have the highest respect for Mrs. Scaddsleigh.” “You have, ch? Well, sir, when she was twenty-four she was just as sweet and pretty and coy as Juliet isâ€"was just like her, in fact." “Ah, how charming!" "Do you still want her?" “Life Without her would be hatc- ful to me." “All right. I suppose, then, that I must yield. But,” he said to him- self as the young man was rushing away, “my conscience is thank l-l'eaven!” clear. because his owner furnishes no other SOME DRINKING PROBLEMS. We cannot be too careful about the water supply of our stock. Too often it is allowed to stand and magnate in tank, trough or pail in summer, while in winter it is suppli- ed ice cold or is frozen over most of the time so that some of the stock may not gain access to it dur- ing the entire day. Some of the aniâ€" mals may obtain all they Want while others are kept away from the tank by those which are “boss.” Dc- horning the cattle will prevent this latter trouble to a great extent. WATER 170R COWS. The cow requires a liberal supply of water. She can subsist on one drink a day but two or more are highly desirable. Supplying them individually in the stable by means of pails or troughs established conâ€" ditions which are apt to breed filth and stale water. clear spring or creek is an ideal watering place in summer, but in winter it may be frozen or require a long journey Uhrough the snow to reach it, and with such conditions the cow Will often remaln thirsty rather than brave the trip to the drinking place. Experiments have shown that an ordinary cow will drink from 50 to 100 pounds of water per day, or about 4 pounds of water to each pound of dry Iced consumed. It has been found that when a grain ration was replaced by roots the water con- sumption fell off materially; when ,fe-d on dry feed, the amount drank [was about double what it was when lfed on green pasture. The New 'York Experiment Station concludes that each cow should have access to eight gallons of water daily. The same station found that“When cows were dry they drank but 65 per cent. of the. amount these same cows drank dluring lactation. In a trial in Germany it was found that when cows which had been given water twice daily were changed to stalls having a constant supply, the milk yield increased about one pound daily with no de- crease of fat content. WATER FOR ~Li'iORSES. The amount of Water required by horses varies more than for any other animal. It is greatly affected by work and food, being about twice as great when the horse is at hard 'work, and much greater when fed on 'dry roughage than whencfed on a concentrated ration. In one experi- ment a horse while Walking required 27.5 pounds of water daily, While trotting and performing work he re- quired 50 pounds. ' WATER FOR SHEEP. The necessity of a continual water- supply for sheep is a much corntro- verted point. We are unable to find any definite and decisive data on the question, and think it would make a good topic for our experiment sta- tions. There are many farmers who Would like to know whether the pasâ€" turing of sheep at any or all sea- sons of the year in a lot where water is not accessible is a losing practice. We believe that experiâ€" ments would prove that it is, as we can See no reason why they are so different from other stock as not to repay some attention to their water . supply. True a sheep in fairly green pasture Will subsist and appear to do well with no water except that supplied by the feed and dew, but the feed so often dries up and the dews become light, and then where is the moisture needed for bodily growth to come from? Miller says that a perfectly fed sheep will reâ€" quire little water but that in gener- al they require from one to six quarts. We all know that sheep will drink a great deal of water if they have access to it and we will not go far wrong in supplying it where possible. It is, hmvevor, true that the. water content of the body of the sheep is less than for any other aniâ€" mal being but 35 per cent for very fat sheep. The fat calf has 63 per cent, the fat ox 45 per cent. and the fat pig 41 per cent. METHODS OF “"A'l‘lil SUPPLY. Probably the most satisfactory water supply for the farm-er is the Wind mill and storage tank to supâ€" ply smallcr tanks at the places of consumption, these tanks being kept filled by means of float valves. Where one is sure of the wind or has a gasoline engine, emitting the large storage tank will insure acooler, fresher supply of water in summer, but these ideal conditions are not often practiCod. Again, small drinking tanks may present difficul- ties in heating during the winter. but they are offset by the constant supply of fresh water which they furnish in summer. Where but a few animals are kept, water may be pumped by will or by hand as fast as needed. The spring, creek, river, and pond are desirable in the order named. Standing water in small pools should be avoided. “HEATING DRINKING WATER. It is a well established fact that ice cold water is desirable for nei- ther man nor beast. The former drinks it in hot weather because he likes it and suffers the Consequences: the latter drinks it in cold Weather 'and again the. loss due to reducerl ,of the drinking water. yields and profits falls man family. King, of Wisconsin, supplied water of 70 degrees to one lot of cowl. and at 82 degrees to a second lot eqaial in all respects to the first. In the first trial the cows getting the warm water drank'from eight to ten pounds more daily, and have Q per cent. more milk. In the second trial they gave 1 per cent. more. The Indiana station found that the temperature of the water supâ€" plied to cows was reduced from 79 degrees to 38 degrees F. they fell off 8 per cent. in milk yield. The results seem to show that warm water is highly desirable for stock (milk cows at least) in cold Weather. The question is, will the increased gain equal the expense of heating the water? For a few ani- mals it may not, but where man animals are kept we believe it wil pay. Not only is warm water de- sirable for mllch cows but it will also decrease the amount of food consumed by the fattening animal. Tank heaters are generally employ- ed,to raise the winter temperature We can not enter into a discussion of the styles, cost, fuel consumed, or danger of fire, except to say that most of the objections to their use can be over- come. The fuel expense is trifling if the heater is of an approved pattem and rightly managed, and if the tank is some distance from stacks or buildings there is little danger of fire. , * In our vicinity most stock tanks are now built of cement. One which we have in mind is covered, the tank itself forming the foundation for the shed above. The doors at each. side are opened for drinkin two or three times each day. A other times they are’closed and in this way the water is warmed with little loss of heat. on the hu- MJLK AFFECTED BY FEED. A Scotch d‘airy'man has been carryh ing on some experiments to test the effect of feed, and time of feeding on the quality of the milk. He reports the following results: “It was found that changing from a narrow to a wide, nutritive ration increased the yield of milk, but deâ€" creased the fat content, the change being more pronounced in the mornâ€" ing’s than in the evening’s milk; and also that feeding all the grain ration in the morning tended to inâ€" crease the fat content of the mornâ€" ing’s milk. Feeding all the grain in the evening also tended to inâ€" crease the fat content of the morn- ing’s milk, but had apparently lit» tle or no effect on the evening’s nnilk. These changes persisted for a number of weeks after the conclus: ion of the experiment proper. "thile milking at equal intervals is believed to be the best method of preventing the fat content of the morning’s milk from falling below the legal standard of 3 per cent. and should be adopted wherever pos- sible, the results, nevertheless show that the fat ing stuffs in the morning. During the summer months the average fat content of the morning’s milk of the herd under investigation was on most days below 3 per cent. Simi- lar results have been obtained with other herds in different parts of the country.” _ .I SILVER FOR SURGERY. 'A wellâ€"known surgeon has made use, with excellent results, of a sheet of silverâ€"leaf in dressing wounds. The silver sticks closely to the surâ€" face of the wounded or diseased tis- sue, and a. small quantity of cotton soaked in collodion is sufficient to keep it in place. When the Wound is fresh, it heals quickly, without inflammation or suppuration. The antiseptic properties of silver are not popularly known. Some years ago Dr. Rollin, of Lyons, France, in cultivating microbes in a bouillon which he had placed in a silver cup, found that the microbes perished, and at the end of a few hours coma pleter disappeared. The fact was pleter disappeared. The fact was all the more remarkable, as the same microbes multiplied when placâ€" ed in another vessel. Pursuing his investigations, Dr. Rollin analysed the bouillon which was contained in the silver vessel, and found therein a small trace of silver, which infinitely small quantity had rendered the bouillon antiseptic. ..._____+_._.__. Ti IESE MODERN TIMES. it is true that, while civilization develops man in some ways, it also (legenerutes him in others. For in- stanc‘e, prepared foods weaken the stomach; whereas when men had to eat coarse food, they had only sound digestive organs, but magnificent teeth. ’l‘heso facts have led philoso- phers toâ€"day to prophesy that the time will come when man can live without a stomach by eating pre- pared foods. The principle of disuse is well exemplified in the foot. (Jon- (lcnslng the foot within an ill¥fltting shoe distorts it, makes the toes grow smaller, and is driving the litâ€" tle toe into disuse. â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"â€" un- NEARER THE MARK. Briggsâ€"“1m you believe that the world is divided into two classesâ€"7 those who borrow and those yfiho loud?" ,‘ Gregoryâ€"“No, sir; my experience is that two other classes are much more prevalentâ€"those who want to, hummus: and those .who won’t lend.” content of the mor’nâ€" ., ing’s milk may be increased by feed< _ when . can?" f‘ 'r' sax/<9? ‘. n‘:."f‘7’-i l. '9