four tablespoonfuls of milk, one- Ye 'spoonful paprika, five drops onion ento and serve with French dress- : Hints for Busy Recipes and Other Valuable Informaticn of Particular Interest to Women Folks. Housekeepers. ---- SALADS. add one pint of cream, three-quar- Cheese Salads. -- O; ters cupful of sugar, whip light Uihiae. or twa OS aren or fill mold to overflowing, cover with half teaspoonful salt, one-half tea- juice, and stir well. Make into a roll; put on ice to harden. Cut im slices and place on lettuce leaves. Cover with strips of pim- mg. This is a very effective sal- ad, the white, red, and green mak- ing it so, and delicious. Cabbage Salad.--One head of cabbage chopped fine, one pint cupful of chopped celery, one cup- ful of peanuts. Mix with mayon- naise dressing. buttered paper, tie cover, and bury ia salt and ice for four hours. Un- mold on a lace paper napkin. Parsley Jelly.--A_ delicious sub- stitute fer honey: Take six bunches of parsley, rinse and freshen in cold water, then place in a deep kettle with just enough cold water to come to the top of the parsley when pressed down tightly. Let this come to a boil and simmer slowly for half an hour; take out the parsley and let the juice simmer ten to fifteen minutes longer; after this take cup for cup of juice and granulated sugar and boil until it _ Water Cress cut fine to one one-quarter of a small sized. cab- bage. The leaves of cresses cut away from the stem; cut fine one- eighth of a small green pepper, and a small sized onion; put all to- gether in a basin of cold water standing for about one hour before serving to make it nice and crisp; drain off the water, add in to taste | olive oil, vinegar, salt, and pep- per, and serve. The cabbage and eresses together have a fine flavor. | Corn Salad.--Two cupfuls_ of corn, add to this a small head of cabbage, one cupful of sugar, mus- turd, and salt te taste. Also add red peppers to taste. Cover it with vinegar and mix well. Put on the stove and let the whole simmer about twenty minutes. If canned this will keep a long time. Tip Top Salad.--One cupful of vinegar, one tablespoonful of mus- tard, half cupful of sugar, one tea- spoonful of salt, a dash of cayenne pepper, one tablespoonful of flour, one small lump of. butter. Cook well. Then add four to six eggs. 'Beat eggs light with egg beater. Add whipped or plain ¢ream be- fore serving. Spanish Pepper Salad.--Dissolve half box gelatin in half cup cold water and half cup vinegar. Add half-cup of sugar, juice of one le-| mon, scant teaspoonful of salt, one cup of boiling water. Mix with six canned pimentoes, two cups celery, one cup shelled' pecans. Mold into individual molds, serv- ing on lettuce leaf with mayon- naise dressing. This will serve twelve guests. THE SEWING ROOM. Saving Time Sewing.--One can gather by hand and baste at the method: Suppose you plan to ga- ther to a gauge of once and a half. Cut a piece of cardboard one and | one-half inches long, with a nick @ end of the inch. With your) 'needle gather up one and one-half inches of goods, draw the gathers up into an inch space, and set a smal! basting stitch 'the wrist, so to speak. Intervals of an inch will be found close enough fer ordinary basting. If not, draw three-fourths of an inch into a hulf inch space. "of ten who read this: will say the ~ duck. ~ your fingers will Sewing on Buttons. -- Buttous have such an unfortunate way of popping off the garments belong- ing: to the little folk at the most in- epportune time, and when busy 'mothers are employed in a count- less number of duties that any simplification is acceptable. I re- member well how delighted I was when the discovery was made that in vewing on buttons if the knot of the thread is on the right side of , article (instead of on the wrong ide) under the button, and if af- r the button is sewed on secure- ly the thread is vound around it three or four tinfes the buttons sel- dom comes off until the clothes are worn out.--Mrs. Samuel J. Huber. THE LAUNDRY. Clothes Pin Hints.--Try putting the clothes pins in the oven until they get real hot; on wash day never get cold ghile putting out a large washing. go put all the sinall pieces, such ag napkins and kandkerchiefs, in a} bag or pillow case and pin on the line; it saves so much in the wear, as well as time and cold. ' Washing Easily Done. Wash- ing easily and quickly done. Fill two boilers half full of soft water, eut up one bar, north, west, or any good laundry soap, put into a mus- lin. bag and tie end. When the water,is boiling put soap and water into the washing machine cloths equivalent to five sheets, turn washer ten min- utes, wring out, rinse through one cold water and blue. Your @loths are steam washed and as white as snow. You may wash five washers full if you wash steady and put in and keep the machine closed so the | water will not get cool. Nine out boiling water will set the dirt, but st try it. Caution: The water st be boiling, the washer must be fall of water, and blood spots it be washed out. "UNUSUAL RECIPES. 'New Apple Sauce.--Add orange fuice and the grated peel of an . to apple sauce Ww dweet and sefve with wi Pineapple and Orange Loaf.-- Salad.--Chop or} bunch of cresses | Thus you have | drawn your "once and a half" in-| to the proper space and have done | your basting all with one turn of ich is nog | Gidea iat ae "ined ms ishing may be freely in ulged jellies. Add vanilla extract ac- cording to taste. ter in March and April than in January. : a ok LONDON'S RAT CATCHER, Issues a Challenge to Capture 1,000 Rats in Threc Nights. Johu Jarvis of Camberwell, who has just been appointed official rat- catcher to the London County Council at a salary of £18 12s. 6d. per annun, is a ratcatcher not only by profession, but by instinct, says the London Daily Mail. Since 1803 each male member of his family has devoted his life to catching rats, and so it was with the greatest confidence that recent- ly Jarvis issued a challenge to all the ratcatchers of the kingdom to catch more of the vermin in a giv- en time than any man living pro- vided that neither dogs nor ferrets were employed in the hunt. Furth- WELSH SPOOK IS FRISKY _ THREW BOTTLES AND STONES AT INMATES OF TAVERN. Constable, Who is a Teetotaller, Heard the Sound of Padded Feet. Another tale of spooks comes from Llanarthy, in Wales, and in to be_ 'peculiarly vicious, hurling missiles through the air being his chief form of amusement. 'The mysterious happenings which have terrified the peaceful villagers have taken place at the Emlyn Arms Inn, and a local correspondent says ap- pearances go to show that this old- ermore, he said that with the as- sistance of his uncle, J. Dalton, he would undertake to catch 1,000 rats in three nights. he fondled half a dozen tame white rats, while his sev2n-year-old | Clove Apples.--Clove apples for 'cold meals, three-quarters of a | pound of sugar, two cupfuls of | water, and boil to a syrup. Drop jin quarters of apples, pared, and | when they are cooked lift out care- ifully with a fork. When all the \fruit has bee» cooked drop some of 'the skins in the syrup with one- jhalf dozen cloves. Cock about |\twenty minutes, remove the skins, ibut pour the syrup with the cloves lover the apples in a jar, and cover lup This is inexpensive and beats ali kinds. of chutney. If it is desired to have the cur- tains a light ecru shade rinse them in weak coffee, and if you want a dark shade use strong coffee. a | Sa ADVENTURE WITH GRIZZLY. A Trapper's Narrow Escape With a Huge Bear. Captain Williams, an old-time trapper, who voyaged alone in a frail canoe for hundreds of miles on the great rivers of the interior, had many thrilling adventures, one of which is related below. Uap- tain Williams always took the pre- caution at night of tying his canoe to the shore with a piece of raw- hide about twenty feet long, which let the canoe swing from the bank that distance. In case of at- cord that bound him to the shore, and glide off without noise. He al- ways slept in his canoe. One night he was roused from sleep by the trampling of some- thing in the bushes on the bank. The captain's first fear was of ] 4 | Indians, but reason told him that same time by following this easy | no Indian bent on mischief would {approach the canoe in that care- iless fashion. Peering intently in- to the darkness, Captain Wiilli- ams watched the shore, and soon tceward him, its head upraised as it sniffed the air. The captain snatched his ax, deeming that the best weapon to defend himself from such a foe, and stood with it uplifted, ready to strike the huge aggressor. The bear came on, and placed its fore paws upon the stern of the canoe, and nearly upset it. Like a flash descended the ax upon one foot, which was instant- ly withdrawn; but the bear held on with the other foot. The captain raised the ax again, and brought it down on the ani- mal's head. Instantly it let go the canoe, and sank, stunned, into the water. Although Captain Williams watched intently for the grizzly's reappearance, nothing more was seen of it. In the morning two of the bear's claws were found in the leanoe, severed by that doughty | blow of the trapper's ax. 'They ' were fondly preserved as trophies of the adventure, and were always 'exhibited when the captain told ithe story of his encounter with the | ' | grizzly. SPAIN IN WINTER, | Algeciras is the Most Successful : Resort. | The most agreeable winter cli- }mate in Spain and probably in Europe is that of Malaga, which has }a mean winter temperature of 55 jdegrees Fahrenheit. The climate lis extremely beneficial to sufferers \from rheumatism, but it is not at 'all recommended in highly nervous |cases, says The Queen. | There are at times unpleasant jwinds, but extremely little rain during the winter months. Though a healthy place, the sanitation of the town is not good, but the un- sanitary effects are to a large ex- tent neutralized by the dry climate, by the sea air and by the abundant and excellent water supply. Ronda is nearly 3,000 feet above the sea and has a bracing climate-- !too bracing in fact for winter. Al- geciras is probably the most suc- cessful winter station in Spain, and | since the conference which was held ithere a few years ago its hotels have been full of visitors during the | greater part of late winter and | Reing within easy reach of \ | spring. Cubraltar, the place is by no means i dull. | There are tennis courts, a golf course, polo ground (at Campamen- | to); and most of the meets of the | Gape Hounds are as conveniently 'reached from Algeciras as from | Yachting, boating and in and driving excursions may be made in the direction of Tarifa and Place blanched almonds in bottom Cadiz: More distant excursions in- a chilled mold, orange jelly made with gela- | Goo) one cupful of pineapple juice, | = at ma cover with li- | clude those to Tangier, Granada, Seville and Malaga. Madrid is too a: set on ice till firm. Sald and cold for January. It is at an alti- tude of 2,400 feet. Seville is bet- tack from Indians, he could cut the discovered a grizzly bear coming daughter at his side played with a jcouple of ferrets. "I have no son to carry on the business,'" he said, \"but Kit there and her younger 'sister both know pretty well all there is to know about catching rats. Kit often accompanies me on my hunting expedition, and she very rarely makes a mistake. You see any one can find rats, but very few understand how to catch them alive. Dead rats have no market, but for live ones I can get from 8s. to 8s. a dozen. "The means I use for catching them alive is a family secret, known only to my people for the last four generations. I won't tell you ex- actly what that secret is, put L don't mind letting you know that it acts very much in the same way as chloroform does on a human be- ing. . Chloroform would not do be- cause rats don't like it. 'The bait I use is even attrac- tive enough to waken a sleeping rat. A few moments after I have laid the stuff down the floor swarms with the vermin. One nibble is enough to 'dope' any of them, and all I have to do to revive them is to dip their noses in water. Some- 'times I don't even trouble to use the bait. Over my back I fling a huge sack connected with a trap- wear noiseless boots and black clothes. "As I walk down the passages with a bullseye lantern attached to my side the rats, scared by the light, scamper past me. As they run I can pick them up left or right hand and drop them into the trap- Tramp! tramp! tramp! sounded door. Gradually they work their the footsteps, which were ap-| Way around to the sack on my proaching the canoe. back. My, how they fight! Some- times when I fancy I have a hun- dred I find half of them are killed by the time I arrive home. "Not only do they fight each 'other but in the basement of one actually attacked and killed one of the best dogs I ever owned. "Onee as I groped through old Gaiety Theatre a huge leaped out at me, and fixing its teeth in my arm worried me for quite five minutes. When I had settled him I had him weighed. He turned the scale at 1 pound 9 ounc- es That was the biggest rat I ever found, but in Wigmore street late- ly I have come across several weighing over a pound. I have found some big ones in Park lane, too. I have had as many as 3,000 rats in my yard."' Jarvis is employed in various large buildings at fixed salaries. the rat x WATCHMAKER'S LORE. | Something About the Mainspring and Care of Watches. When on one of those cold morn- ings last week this man came to wind his watch he broke the main- spring; and then he took the watch to the jeweller's, saying incidental- ly as he handed the watch over that he supposed more mainsprings broke in winter than in summer. But the jeweller said no; that contrary to the general impression he thought niore mainsprings broke in summer. He said that if you took a watch out of a warm pocket and laid it on a cold marble slab it might break the mainspring, but he thought that more main- springs were broken by electrical disturbances in the air in summer than by cold in winter. He added that a new mainspring might break the day after it was put in, a main- spring being a very fragile, delicate and sensitive thing. If a watch were allowed to run down it might on being wound up again keep a little different time, due to some slight variation then in the spring's tension. As he was going to have a new mainspring put in this watch the owner thought that he might as well at the same time have the watch cleaned. It had not been vleaned, he said, in about a year and a half. The jeweller applied a watchmaker's glass to his eye and opened the watch and _ looked in, remarking then that the watch was' last cleaned two years ago, in January, 1906. It seems that when a watchmaker cleans a watch he marks upon it the date "of the cleaning in an out of the way place, lightly and in characters so small that they are not discernible except with the aid of a magnifying glass. This watch, the jeweller went on to say, had kept in good condition, though it had not been cleaned for two years, but it would be well to have it cleaned now and it was wise to look after a watch at the end of a year. There is a watchmaker's saying that a man who neglects his watch does so at his own expense, meaning that though the owner may thus fancy himself saving something yet in the end it may cost him more As Jarvis made these challenges | 'closing the inn, Mrs. Meredith, the , door arrarcsiment at my side. of the big hotels a swarm of them | fashioned hotel must either be 'haunted or that a marvelous con- jJurer has been able to defy police 'and other detection. ; One night recently, just after husband was whose landlady, holiday ;spending his | Wales, ishe was tending the cattle. She attached no significance to this, 'but when her maid servant, 13 'years old, who was with her, open- !ed the door in answer to a knock, | a caridlestick came whizzing 'through the passage. Yet not a 'soul was seen either in or about 'the premises. More mysterious still, missiles 'were presently hurled from every quarter of the kitchen. 'Terrified iMrs. Meredith shrieked for help. | The wife of the village constable | 'and her sister, who were near _neighbors, hurried to the house, but iso eerie weve the antics of the presumed visitant from the spirit iwerld that neither dared to enter, 'nor would others venture therein | until the arrival of the police con- stable. HEARD PADDED FEEz. The constable believed that his | services were burglar, but search as he would 'no person could be found, although | 'he heard the tramping of "padded | 'feet'? on the stairway and in_ the upper chambers. Bottles fell at lhis feet and were smashed. A heavy | iblack varnished stone ornament 'Gumped" off the mantelpiece and fell close to his head as he was lar. The spectators saw box fall from Mr. Meredith's waist- | coat which was hanging in the | kitehen. iironed by Mrs. Meredith on the previous evening and she could not it been there then. in the morning mistress and maid | took refuge in a nearby house, but jwhen they returned later with a 'constable the mysterious happen- ings were renewed. These occurrences were witness- ed by other people, including the vicar and curate of the parish. The constable asserts that the story is true in detail, and that it is not | ber and he is a teetotaler himself. He had the house surrounded by workmen all the next day and had a burglar been at the inn he would have been captured. A BRITISH CITIZEN. The Experiences of a Hindu Gen- tleman in South Africa. Apparently to the average coloni- al mind a highly educated Hindu gentleman, a British subject, a bar- rister of the Inner Temple, is iden tical with a coolie. as a "nigger"' lina, and the British Government is incapable of protecting him against ized place is the natural result of such a view, says the Saturday Re- view. Mr. Gandhi first went over this case the ghostly visitant seems * in North, was pelted with stones as- needed to arrest a, looking under the bed for a burg-| a polished , The waistcoat had been | have failed to notice the box had | At 3.30 o'clock ; the imaginations of Christmas hi-. larity, for the spectators were so- | is regarded in Caro- | the treatment which in a less civil- | | whose father, grandfather tive courts and who is only resist- ing a law imposed contrary to the "missioner ? HEBULA, HYPOTHESIS, One of the Most Interesting Prop- ositions of Science. WHAT IT ACTUALLY MEANS. 1 'That the Sun, Planets and All Matter Were Once a Vast Mass of Incan- | descent Gas All Jumbled Together In | an Enormous Chaotic Cloud. | Everybody has heard the phrase, the nebula hypothesis, but what is it? | Ina few words this is the meaning of "nebula hypothesis:" That the sun, 'the planets and all that is in them were at one time in the inconceivably remote past a vast mass of chaotic, in- ' eandescent gas all jumbled together in an enormous nebula, or cloud. To begin with, the first conception | that science has dared to make, how- ever, takes Us one step further back Without mentioning the origin of mat- ter itself science conceives that in the beginning all matter was uniformly distributed throughout space -- that there were no stars, no planets, no satellites, but that all space was filled / with the matter we now have divided | up into very fine particles some dis- 'tance apart. The consistency of such material was perforce very thin in- deed, much more rarefied than the highest vacuum we can obtain now by air pumps. From this state to the nebulous state the theory has a miss- ing link, one that can only be satisfied by supposing divine command, for it assumes, in the words of Professor Todd, that "gradually centers of at- traction formed and these centers pull- / ed in toward themselves other parti- cles. As a result of the inward fall- | ing of matter toward these centers, the | collision of its particles and their frie- 'tion upon each other the material masses grew hotter and hotter. Nebu- lae seeming to fill the entire heavens were formed--luminous fire mist, like the filmy objects still seen in the sky, though vaster and exceedingly numer- _ ous." This process is supposed to have gone on for countless ages, faster in some regions than in others. Many | million nebulae were formed and set in rotation around their own axes. This happily can be explained by science. Whenever particles are attracted to- | ward a center and are kept from fall- ing directly to this center a whirlpool | 4s formed, rotating in ove direction. | An example of this, though humble and not exactly analogous, is the rota- tion of water in a basin when the stop- per is pulled out of the bottom. Gravi- ty attracts the water immediately above the hole, which starts flowing out, thus leaving a space to be filled. The rest of the water rushes in from | all sides to do this, and the whirlpool is the result. Now each of these whirling nebulae became exceedingly hot, | formed what is known as a star or sun, our sup being one. and other planets had not then come into separate existence, of course, as | it is supposed that they were thrown off later from the sun. Our sun tn its nepulous form and ro- tating swiftly on its axis gradually flattened at its poles on account of centrifugal motion. This phenomenon is entirely familiar to those who have | seen a ball of clay on a potter's wheel gradually flatten. The motion was so swift and the mass:so nebulous that the sun to be took the shape of a disk. | As time went on the outer part be- ' eame cool and somewhat rigid, while | the inner part continued its cooling and contracting. Tas the inner part drew away from the outer, leaving a ring of matter whirling around on the | outside. This breaking off of the ring He is regarded | is supposed to be hastened by the in- | ability of the outside to keep up the swift motion of the central mass, both | on account of the slight cohesion and of the centrifugal force. But this par- ticular part of the argument bas noth- ing to staud on if the first law of mo- tion is true, |. In the successive stages of the sun's and uncle were Prime Ministers at na-. solemn promise of the High Com-} and each. The earth, to Seuth Africa to conduct an im- | portant lawsuit in 1893. His earli-| contraction this process was repeated est experience was to be turned out VF and over again, until several of a first-class railway car and or- | rings were Whirling around the central dered into the "'vaatompartiment,'"| tO, Shey. woes necessarily be in and when he took the stage coach the same plane. Now, these rings, not he was knocked down by the driver (a Dutchman). He was not admit- ted to the Grand National Hotel at Johannesburg, and was kicked off the path in front of President Kru- ger's house by the sentry. In Na- ing on a campaign of disabling bills against native Indians, and here he started on what may be called his political career as the leader of the Indian community in South Afriea. On his return from India, whither he had proceeded to fetch his wife and children, a mob of three thou- sand persons prevented the ships for some time from landing their Indian passengers at Durban. During the war Mr. Gandhi or- ganized the corps of Indian stretch- er bearers, which rendered fine ser- vice at Spion Kop and elsewhere. This splendid volunteer work might well have been the beginning of better relations between colonists and Indians, but the new English administrators were not sympathe- tic. was passed and compiled with under protest. and the promise to repeal it was then broken. ' Puring the plague outbreak of 1904 and the Zulu rebellion of 1906 Mr. Gandhi-and other Indians were of great assistance, but they did not receive any better treatment in consequence. They have since en- tered on a campaign of "passive resistance.' This has cost Mr. Gandhi two sentences of two months imprisonment among the most ruffianly scoundrels, white and black, which the colony can produce. Some of his experiences in prison will not bear quotation. What must be thought in India of such treatment by a British colony of a refined and well educated man for repairs, tal he found the Ministry embark- | The insulting registration law) being uniform in mass or thickness, would each gradually accumulate to- ward the densest portion until they, -too, would form a ball which would subsequently flatten, and if the sub- stance continued nebulous and the ball was large enough they would also slough rings. Of course the rings the sun discard- ed have become the planets, which, as required by the theory, are all very neirly in the same plane. The rings that the planets formed have become moons or satellites. So we are driven 'to conelude that our sun at one-time filled: all the space from his present position to the farthest plauet in the solar system. From this theory there is another thing that we have to believe, and that is that every star in the heavens has gone through this same process and has a family of planets sailing around it, just as our sun has. It would be fmpossible to see these planets, of course, for it is impossible to see a | except as a mere point of light. As regards the proving uf this neb- ula hypothesis, of course it cannot be don». Butveverything points to its ac- euracy. Many nebulae are seen even | now among the stars that seem to be 'going through the delayed process of 'world forming. Around one of the | planets of our own solar system, Sat- jurn, are three rings, which are proba- i bly destined in time to become moons, 'in the opinion of some scholars.--A, 'T. Hodge in New York Tribune. His Stroke of State. She-I'll wager you have told lots of other girls that you loved them. He-- Well, if such has been my misguided career it is now in your hands to put a stop to it. Without foresight judgment fails by its own weight.--Horace, star, even with the greatest telescope, | THE BABY TURTLE. He Has to Paddle His Own Cance From the Moment of Birth. Just so soon as a baby turtle emerges from the egg off he scuttles down to 'the sea. He has no one to teach him, no one to guide him. In his curious little brain there is implanted a streak of caution based upon the fact that until a certain period in. his life his armor is soft and no defense against hungry fish, and he at once seeks shel- ter in the tropica! profusion of the guif weed, which holds within its branching fronds an astonishing abun- dance of marine life. Here the young turtle feeds unmolested while bis ar- mor undergoes the hardening process. Whatever the young sea turtle eats and wherever he eats it, facts not gen- erally ascertained, one thing is certain --it agrees with him immensely. He leads a pleasant sort of life, basking in the tropical sun and cruising teisurely in the cool deptbs. Once he has attained the weight of twenty-five pounds, which usually oc- curs within the first year, the turtle is free from all danger. After that no fish or mammal, however ravenous, how- ever well armed with teeth, interferes with the turtle. When once he has withdrawn his head from its position of outlook into the folds of his neck between the two shells intending devourers may strug- gle in vain to make an impression upon him.--Harper's Weekly. LINCOLN'S LESSON. The Way He Learned to Tell When a Thing ts Proved. -- Abraham Lincoln was once asked how he acquired his wonderful logical powers and his acuteness in analysis. Lincoln replied: "It was my terrible diseouragement which did that for me, When I was a young man I went into an office to study law. | saw that a jJawyer's business ts largely to prove things. 1 said to myself, 'Lincoln, when is a thing proved? That was a poser. What constitutes proof? Not evidence; that was not the point. There may be evidence enough, but wherein consists the proof? I groaned over the 'question and finally said to myself, 'Ah, Lincoln, you can't tell' hen 1 thought what use is it for me to be in a law office if I can't tell when a thing is proved? "So I gave it up and went back home. Soon after 1 returned to the old log cabin I fell in with a copy of Eu- clid. I bad not the slightest notion of what Euclid was, and | thought i would find out. 1 therefore began at the beginning, and before spring | had gone through the old Kuclid's geometry and could demonstrate every proposi- tion in the book- Then in the spring, when I had got through with it, I said to myself one day, 'Ah, do you know when a thing is proved? and I an- swered. 'Yes, sir; I do. Then you may go back to the law shop,' and I went." Tombs of Abelard and Heloise. Of the hundreds of thousands who 'make a pilgrimage to Pere Lachaise on All Saints' day few doubt the au- thenticity of the most famous tombs. One in particular is never questioned | --that of Heloise and Abelard, the story of whose unhappy love is so | grandly told by Pope. This monu- ment is the work of Alexander Lenoin, ' the sculptor, and dates toward the end of the revolution. The tomb was | built by Lenoin with fragments of a chapel of the convent of the Paraclete ' at Nogent-sur-Marne, of which Heloise was the abbess. Lenoin managed to , bring some glass from the windows ; of the old chapel, and two medallions | which adorn the tomb the sculptor _ purchased from a religious house in | Paris. This is all that is genuine about the tomb.--London Globe. That Headache! "This is such a beautiful treat," said , the impecunious man. at the matinee i where they went on her pass, "that } want to take you to dinner afterward if my beadache gets better." "Is your headache getting better?" she asked him after the second act. "It's terrible," said he. "I can hard- ly see." After the third act she again ap- | proached the subject. '"'How does your headache seem to be getting?' she queried solicitously. "Worse and worse," be frowned. When the perforinance was over he held his head with both hands. "My head aches so," be moaned, "I'm afraid I'll die of it." "] knew it," said she as they walked on home.--New York Press, { Enlightened. "Before I married," said Mr. Hen- peck, "I didn't know what it nreant to support a wife." "I presume you know now." "Yes, indeed. I looked up the word 'support' in the dictionary and discov- ered that one of its meanings is 'en dure.' "--Birmingham Age Herald. Spoiling a Poet. "He has been spoiled ag a poet." "How so?" "A judge recently gave bin. thirty days in default of a ten dollar fine." "How does that spoil him as a poet?" "Oh, it gave him an exaggerated idea of the value of his time."--Pitts- burg Post. A Ready Compliment. Sbe--Some day I want to show you our family tree. He (looking at her admiripgly)--I should like to see it. T am sure it must be 2 peach.--Somer- ville Journal. | ESE | One Thing Ho Hadn't Done. Howell--You are getting absentmind: | ed. Powell-- Well, 1 | blacked my teeth and put tooth pow I . | der op my shoes.--New York ['ress. The Glad Hand. "What do you mean by the glad hand?" "that will beat three of a kind."-- Washington Star. \ Sekai A Dull Point. 4 Blobbs--Saphedde is always talking about his point of view. Slobbs--Yas, but unfortunately it isn't sharp enou: to penetrate anything. -- Philedelp! Record. id Let us watch all dur beginnings, and \pesults will manage themselyes.-- never yet bave | } "Anything," answered Mr, Bloochips, | PEF TEEE EEE HTH EE TY OO09444444444444444404 'BALT FOR DAIRY COWS. -- Good dairymen advise giving cows all the salt they "want by placing it where the cows may help themselves. They claim that salt is a necessity if cows are expected t keep healthy and give milk and lots of it. Some dairymen are careless in this respect, however, and salt when they think of it, of- ten no more frequently than once a week. Experiments have been made at the Wisconsin Experiment Station by Professor Babcock to ascertain what influence salt has upon the health and milk producing ability of cows. He found that in every case where cows had been depriv- ed of salt they exhibited an abnor- mal appetite for it, but in no case did the health of the animal as shown by the general appearance, the live weight, or the yield of milk appear to be affected until they had been deprived of salt longer than two or three weeks. The period of immunity varied with individual cows from less than one month to more than a year. In every case where salt was withheld a condition of low vital- ity was finally reached, in which a sudden and complete breakdown occurred from which recovery was rapid if salt was supplied. This stage was marked by loss of appe- tite, a general haggard appear- ance lusterless eyes, a rough coat 'and very rapid decline in both live weight and yield of milk. The breakdown was most likely to occur at calving time or imme- diately after, when the system was weakened and the flow of milk farge. In general the cows giv- ing the largest amount of milk were the first to show signs of dis- tress. They all suffered less in pasture than when confined to the stable. ; The behavior of the cows in the trial indicated that their food con- tained sufficient chlorine to main- tain them in good health while dry for an indefinite period, and it seems probable that under condi- tions existing in Wisconsin a dry cow or stecr would suffer no great inconvenience if given no salt ex- cept that contained in the normal ration. Professor Babcock calcu- lated that the ration given in the experiments contained chlorine equivalent to about .75 of an ounce of salt per day and he as- sumed that this is the minimum amount of salt required per 1,;900 pounds of live weight to sustain an animal that is not producing milk. If this amount is not present in the food it should be supplied directly. In addition to this a cow should have enough salt to compensate fer the chlorine in the milk pre- duced. It is recommended from this ¢xperiment that dairy cows in Wisconsin be given at least one ;ounce of salt per day, exceptional- ly heavy milkers requiring more. The uniform results obtained with all the cows in the trials in- dicate beyond question that salt in addition to that obtained in the food is absolutely essential to the continued health of a dairy cow while producing milk. LEAD POISONING. Lead poisoning in cattle usually takes place during the remodeling of buildings, painting of water tanks, fences, ete., or even while painting houses, painters thought- lessly serape out the old paint pot and dump it out into the bam yard where cattle have access to, the result being that within a short time one or fnore animais are noticed to have a loss of ap- petite, shortage of milk, a depress- ed look, and later excited condi tion. If permitted to run loose -- they are apt to go around in a circle, moan, press the head against fene- es or walls, indicating that the brain is effected, grate their teeth and act as if they were mad. While the treatment for lead poisoning is very unsatisfactory, it would be advisable to keep lead land paints out of the reach of cat tle, rather than permit them to come in contact with it and ex- pect to save cattle thus afflicted. --Dr. David Roberts. watiiee Bia ah eae ere NS BREAD AND BUTTER. The kings may care for capon And cake and jelly and wing, And some can do with kidney stew, é And some with a bit of chine But I tell you all and ever, If there's nothing else round to eat, What's better than bread and but ter, With hunger to make it sweet! How Customs Vary. She-In some parts of Australia whea A man marries eaeh of the bride's rela- tives strikes him with a stick by way of weleome into the family. He--Yes, and ip many parts of America when a man marries etch of the bride's recla- tives strikes him with a loan by way of welcoming him into the family.-- New York Times, ot Mr. Green--"Now. I'm going: to tell you something; Ethel. Do you know that last night, at your party, your sister promised to marry me? I hope you'll forgive me for taking her away?' Little Ethel--"Forgive you, Mr. Green! Of course I will. Why, that's what the party was for)?