' . .overboard in about everyport yOu can
17-mention, an' I aih’t. dead yet. The-boys
Ecl’us keeps a watchful eyebn me, know~
' in’ my failiu’, an' when they see' me
, out."
one! kind old face has slept for':years be-
.‘I‘han’when she rubbed
.Edith Stokely, in Youth’s Companion.
VWatcr Fascinatcs Him
.island.” Mackey continued.
MY AUNT 'PQLLY.
The greenest grass. the sweetest flowers.
grew at Aunt Polly’s door, . .
The finest apples, miles around, Aunt Pol-
ly’s orchard bore; . - _
Aunt Polly’s cows were sleek and fat, her
chicks a wondrous size. .
And Jabez Smith, the hired man. was witty,
great and wise. ~
I used to go with Jabe at
ing pails to milk;
Sometimes he’d let me fe-ed‘the colts and
rub their coats of silk; _ .
And the moon that rose in those days, just
behind the' cattle bars,
night, with cliuk- l
, \Vas twice as large as it is now—with twice l
as many stars.
Aunt Polly was a quaint old soul—a busy ,
bee—by day, ‘
Hiving‘ the honey up for all,,with never
thought of pay. '
How’many dawns we watched the sun, up—
rising in the east, ,
Shake out its banners o'er the hills and
drive away the mist! _
Gold-winged arrows pierced the
, valley. wood and nook,
Bright flocks of crimson rode the clouds
, _ ,f'an'd tumbled in the brook,
Gave back with cheer thespple’s hue, the
" -_ ‘pumpkin’s andthe souash, i
Tl-ll‘dear Aunt Polly would e'xclaim: “What
a perfect day to wash!" .
gloom ' of
What steam of incense then would rise
from dear iAunt Polly’s tub!
For sun' and sky her heart gave praise with
, . each all-cleansing rub;
No skylark’s note, no poet’s song,.more
, praiseful than the tune '
She hummed, while her linen white upon
_ the grass lay strewn.
Aunt Polly, faithful, gentle, en‘teredlong
since to reward;
neath the churchyard s.ward;'
For her has dawned another day. more per-
fect, bright and glad , ‘_
‘the’Snowy clothes,
while I stood’by—a lad.
“_‘ ATCH cold—not much! ‘Tain’t
no worse’n bathing in summer——
only a little colder.”
Mackey the sailor shook the dripping
water from his': shaggy beard like a
_.._. . _._ _.___._.....-_.._._—.~
Newfoundland. dog. and then walked
leisurely down Front street toward a.
saloon for a drink of hot Scotch after ;
being in the river.
“I al’us manage to drop in the river
a dozen times or so in winter. It sort-
er freshen-s me mind up—makes me
sober, too, sometimes. I ain’t. never
full inside but. I have ter make straight
for water. It fascinates me. Then I
tumble in, 2111’ when they yank me out
I’m sober agin. Mlebbe it’s ’cause I was
bitten br *2 ~~.~_= ‘ 3 when a youngster.
- , ‘ mad then, but I
' mad when I get
n I want. to go for
.u. 2 _ . .natIhankcrfurwa-
lCI‘ inside. Oh, no! that never fasci- ’
nates me. It’s jcs’ outside.”
To the mild inquiry whether he
wasn’t afraid of getting drown-ed some '
day, he replied. promptly; “Perhaps
so, seein' I can’t. swim.”
“Not swim. I thought you were. a -
sail-or?” ,
“So I am. but what’s that got to do
with it? Can’t a. man be a sailor"an’
not know how to swim? “'e don’t
swim the seas—we let the ship do that
—-we just sail her. No, sir, I can’t
swim, an’ neither can more’n half the
tellers that. I ever sailed with. What’s
>5 ,‘,
H1:
,_l
"A-TAIJiIN' ABOUT DISPOSIN’ 0’ MY
‘ THINGS."
the use of swimmin'? If you tumble
overboard somebo-dy’ll throw a line, an‘
that‘s all there is to it. Now, the best
swimmers I ever knew al’us mt
drowned. They get- foolhardy when
they know how ter swim. an’ then some
day they. go down and don't come up
agin. I don‘t swim, an"they al'us get
a line out ier me in a hurry. I’ve been
liquored up an‘ startin’fur the water,
they jes' say: ‘There goes Mac; get
the rope .rcady.’ Then "they let me
tumble in fur the ‘sake of haulin’ me
After warming up yvith the beverage
which a salt sea milor considers essen-
tial to health after a dousing in the wa»
ter Mackey and his friend wandered
down by the water front.
“Now. on the last trip with the Mary
Ann I. tumbled overboard three times
uni-a balk—once in. Boston ha rbor, t’oth-
or {time at. sea, an’ the last time down
the bay jes‘ afore wegot. up to Guvnors
“An’ the
half? 015, that was of Cape Cod. It
was a cold nightjes’ More Christmas.
an’ on my watch I had to take a drink to
keep warm. I guess I must hev taken
a drop too much. I. jes’ had sense
enough to‘know thatI wasstartin’ fur
the water; I,knew then "I..-waslost if
somebody didii‘t see me. So Ijes' let
out a. wild yell that, could be heard a
mile away. I couldn’t. stop, so strong
was the fascination of the water fur me,
an’ I jes’ tumbled. overboard asI beerd
my mates come runnin’ up the‘cOmpan-
ionwey. .I heerd one on ’em say: ,‘There
goes jMac overboard; get a rope quick!
Then I didn’t know no more." '
“Well, what else?” . ._ _
"wen, chs' woke up an’ found that
I hadjo'nly half fallen lathe water._ .3!
feet wns‘sfnapginfiin. but my head In
arms was mixed up in the rigging of
the pro-w. I couldn‘t see the deck, but I
could hear ’em talk ’bou-t me. It
sounded queer like, fur they was a-
talkin’ about disp'osin’ o’ my things.
“ ‘Well, he’s gone fur sure this time.
Poor Mac!’ Jim Lacey was a-sayin’.
“ ‘Oh, yes; he tum-bled overboard
onct- too often,’ chimes in Tod Wiley.
'1 al’us told him he’d die that way. I
guess he believes me.’
‘f‘I—Iedon‘t leave no relatives, does
he?’ asked Jim.
“ ‘None what I knows of.’
“ ‘Then I guess his things b’longs to
us, an’ we might divide ’em.’
“,‘Yes, . but "afore he tumbled over-
board Mac says ter-me that I could have
his pipe an’ baccy an’ that new suit of
clothes of-his’n. I don’t care- fur none
0’ the rest 0’ his duds- an' you can have -
’em an’ welCome.’
“ ‘No, you don’t, come no such game,
as thet- on me, Tod Wiley,’ Jim an-
swered, quick. ‘It-’ll be a. fair divvy, or
,none at, all. I want half the ’baccy an’
the pipe. or the clothes.’
“ ‘D’ye mean ter say that I’m a-lyin’
tcr ye?’ demanded Tod, sharp like.
Tod al’us wasa better fighter than Jim,
but Jimawas plucky.
“ ‘I-ain’t. sayin’ what. I think you’re
doin’, 'but. I’m a-goiu’ ter have my
share." ' ' V
“ ‘Ye are, eh? Well, ye just shut up
now, or I'll send ye overboard after
Mac, an’ you can settle it with him
down at the bottom.’
“ ‘I .guess two can play at that. I
ain’t ar-feered of ye, Tod Wiley, an’ if
ye want ter prove it- jes’ sail in now.’
“There was a sound of scufilin’ on
deck right over the bow where I was a-
hangin', an’ I knew they was. startin’
in te'r settle among themselves what
each would take of my things. So I up
an’ yells like bloody murder, shoutin’
first. to Tod an’ then to Jim. You can
bet, they stopped fightin’ in double-
quick time. "hey was. both so scared
that. I couldn’t get- neither one of ’em
to help me for a. plagued long time.
“ ‘It’s Mac voice,’ I finally heerd Jim
say, ‘but it. was a-quaverin’ so I hardly
knew it.’
“‘No, it’s his ghost,’ replied Tod;
‘it’s come back ter settle this dispute
atwecn us-.’
“ ‘No, I ain‘t a ghost,’ I yelled back.
‘I’m jest as live as any 0’ ye. Jes’ drop
a rope down here an’ I’ll come up an’
show ye.’
“Well, they finally got back their
senses ’nough to drop me a line, but
when I crawled. up on deck they kinder
steered clear 0’ me. It was nigh onto
a week afore they were convinced that
I wasn’t. Mac’s ghost“,
,Mackvcy and his friend reached the
deck of the Mary An-nby this time, and f
as Mackey helped his friend up the
plank to her clean: deck he added, chang-
ing the. subject:
“She's arcg‘lcr downeas-ter—a spick—
an’-span..first—cla.ss Maine. schoo ner that
ain’t got. her s"perior on the seas. An’
her crew!—thcy’re. jes’ as good as the
ship, except maybe, the captain. He. is
a little queer at. times. Now, there’s
Tod Wiley Over there—see him with the
blue jumper 011.348’11’ tlhet’s Jim Lacey,
one o’ the best. sailors an’ swimmers in
the. country. But. what’s- he ar'ttr'yin’ to
do ?—get a cold bath?”
The sailor pointed out, as Lacey was
leaning over the bulM‘azrks as if trying
to inspect something on. the bottom of
theschooner. Suddenly,withoutwarn-
ing, he lost his balance and tumbled
with a splash into the river.
“Is that Mac overboard? Oh, no, it's
only Jim Lacey,” cried some- one.
Mac smiled at this remark.
they think he can take came of himself.
Now, if. it: was me!” '
He walked up~ toward the stern of
the schooner where a group of sailors
were laughing at) Lacey’s amtics in. the
water. The best: swimmer in the world
was acting very quc'erly, spluttering
and spl ‘1inig around, and going down
for some seconds at a. time. -, ,
“Jim’s a "good one—like a duck in.
water,” nemarked one of them. i
The sport was entertaining, and the
sailors seemed to; enjoy it; but Jim con-
tinued ‘to act queerly. ‘
“Mac. isn’t. llG”—-beg‘llll
friend. ~
But. Mac had gone away. The next
moment, there was a splash in the water.
Then somebody shouted:
“Hello! There goes Mac overboard.
Get. a line quick; he Cauli- swim."
How he. had managed to get in the
water soquickiy was a mystery, but
long familiarity with fire business had
made him-an adept. Thencxt momen t-
his head Came. up to the surface, and
he was floundering around. The active
sailors already had a. line dangling over
the schooner’s side. .
“He-re, Mac, take this!” ‘ ,
With a quick grab the. floundering
man. grasped the end of the rope and
clung tenaciously to it. His other arm
was around the waist of Jim Lacey.
“Say, jes" drop another rope down
here!” he shouted. “Jim has fainted."
When the- astonished sailors had
hauled the two men ondeck, they found
Jim Lacey so far gone that a big dose
of hot. Scotch whisky was necessary
to bring him to life again. Mackey was
only w’et.
“Sec, Jim‘s a. good swimmer, an‘ he
came ‘near gettin‘ drowned,” he said
with a leer. “But I can’tswim, an? was
inlno danger.” .
_ “Did you realize that Jim was drown-
lug?” his friend asked.
“Ce-rtainl y; be had cramps; 1 used ter
have ’em, but, I‘ve'bee-n overboard so
many times they don’t. hurt me any
more. Jim don‘t: take to the water in
thewinter, an’ it came near bein’ the
last of him." ’ "
Then Mackey winked so knowingly
Macke-y’s
. that his theory was almost convincing.
--N. Y. Sun. . . _ ‘
Highest Pam 01m: Singers.
. TwoNe-w YOrk women are the high est
aid choir singers in the world: they
--rcceive respectively 8;;509and $3,000 a
year. The men in the-choir of West—i. ‘j”
.mihster abbey receive salaries ranging,"
- from $400 to $500. ' _ at; '
".s'itiOn of prebendary’pof St.
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‘WILL Hat.) HIS Jon:
John H. Gear Reelected United.
States Senator from Iowa.
ni‘
Started in Life as a. Farm Boy and
Rose to Be a Man ot'Business,
Governor of a Great State
and. a National Leader.
j Years ago they calleddohn H. Gear,
just reelected to the United States sen-
ate from Iowa, “Old Business.” He was
then governor of the st‘ate,‘(1’878—1882),
and he gave the affairs of, the common-
wealth an attention, a care, adiscrimi-
nating fidelity such. as few governors
before him‘ had done. The title has
clung to Senator Geariever, since, al-
‘though he has gone on to higher honors
and has become a servant of the nation.
.as well as of Iowa. . '
Senator Gear is New York born. He
belongs to the generation of young men
who abandoned farm life, and small
commercial pursuits in the early years
of the nineteenth century and came
west. to find room for their ambitions
and energy in which to work. Born in
1825, at Ithaca, ‘he was 18 when he made
his way to Burlington, 1a., taking all
the chances of travel of that time and
facing poverty for the reward whichla-
bor might bring in the year's'to came.
He was a- merchant, in Burlington When
Chicago was a- struggling village, be-
fore the Union Pacific was constructed.
when St. Louis was the commercial
mart of the west, when the Missouri
was to be the great‘navigable stream ,
of the middle country, when there was
not an operated railroad west. of Ohio,
not a- mile of telegraph. line, nor any
means of transportation but steam-
boat, stages or one's own feet.
Burlington was a. town of consider-
able importance at that time, having
a wide trade and a- class of merchants
noted for their progressive ideas. Sen-
ator Gear, beginning with small capital,
increased his field of‘operations until
he was one of the best knowu merchants
in the state. He was shrewd in driving
a bargain, paid great attention to de-
tails,‘ worked incessantly, paid his bills
promptly and laid the foundation fOr
JOHN HENRY GEAR.
(Re-Elected United States Senator from
the State of Iowa.)
the honorable nickname which he now
bears. He did not show an aptitude
then for political life, nor did he make
any effort. to enter it. He was a. repub-
lican as soon as the new party was or-
ganized and uncompromising in his at-
titude on the questions raised during
the civil war, but until 1863 he did not
solicit the votes of the people, and then
only to become the mayor of Burling—
ton, a position which he filled with
“Jim’s a good swimmer, you see, an‘ . ”9‘1“-
When his term expired he. retired
again to private life, from which he (lid
not emerge until 1872, when party ex-
igencies demanded his election to the
legislature, and he was sent- to the
house. In‘1874 he was elected speaker
of the house, a'nd again in 1876 the same
office was given him. His first term as
the governor’s chair, where he-served
four years. Retiring from the govern-
or’s chair, he became a. private citizen
again until 1886, when he was elected to ‘
congress and reelected in 1888, practi-
cally without oppostion. .
The landslide against the republican
party in 1890 defeated him for reelec-
tion to congress with four other cou-
grchnien of the state, but he served as
assistant secretary of the treasury for
some .time. In 1892 his party again re-
turned him t'o congress, and in J anuary,
1894, he was elected to the United States
senate asthe junior senator from Iowa.
Ilis present term will end March 3, 1901.
He was conspicuous in congress for his
work on the committee on ways and
means, where he had charge of the
sugar schedule. He is now chairman of
the senate committee on Pacific rail-
ways, and it. was through his efforts
that the governmentavas successful in
realizing $117,000,000 from them instead
of the $20,000,000 offered. '
Of Interest to Smokers.
The briar pipe is not. made of briar-
wood at all. The word “briar” is a
corruption of the French word “bru-
yere,” meaning “heath,” and the wood
used isreally that of the heather.
When these pipes were introduced into
this country the tradesmen found that
the French word was rather too diffi-
cult for the ordinary smoker to get
hold of, and they soon twisted it into
the familiar briar. The supply of this
wood‘from France is now almost ex-
hausted, and is only found in any'qua’n—
tity‘ in. the Alpes Maritimes.
l‘lalso a. Church Dignitnry!
' tis but little known thatin addition
.tovhein-g “defender (if the faith” by
virtue of her position of sovereign,
Queen Victoria is also the oldest dig-
nitary of the church by virtue of hcrpo-
. ' David's
”cathedral, Llandaff. ~ " ' "
Lost Human Muscles. "51f":
There are many muscles in'tli'c-‘hu-
1
“loan body, control of which
.y .
f'iost‘ through [ages of disuse. - -
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hasfibee n:
W .11." w R‘IV f: N“ waif-
t
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- coma VERSUS QUALI'I‘ ._
,\Vhy the Matter- of Mere Beauty
Should Be a Secondary Consideh.
‘ utioh to Bee-Keepers.
There has been quite a rage foryellow
bees, and breeders in this country have “
catered to the general demand to such .
an extent that bees ofthe Italian race
found in Italy. But theftvide seems now .,
turningfnind the demand is rather for "
’ beesthat' give a large surplus than for
handsdme bees. E. R.- Root, editor 01:.
Gleanin'g‘s, says: . ' " ‘ '
“I' hope the race for color has had its"
day; and while there havebeen several.
specimens of bees'flaat have been good ‘.
workers, as well as beautiful, the ma-
jority of those we have tested have had
some bad traits, either in temper,
swarming propensity or slack of hardi-i
ness for wintering. Let. the matter of
color be-onlya secondary consideration.
Put first, ability to get money; second,
wintering qualities; third, disincline-
tion to' swarm; l-tempe'r next, and color
last of all. 'But other things being
equal, I should veryrmuch prefer gentle
bees if at the same time. they can have
the other three desirable qualities. Col-
or really amounts to nothing.
“0f color or markings it may be said
that, of whatever blood the queen may
be, she must be pure, whether Carni- '
~‘ olan, black or Italian. A hybrid queen
l
l
- such a queen.
with an' ancestry of hybrids back ten
years might be able to reproduce her
kind Without sporting toward either '
the blacks or Italians. Dr. Miller has
Her bees outstripped
? everything else in the apiary last sea.-
son, and he is going to use her for a
breeder.
“Hybrids are apt to be more or less
cross. It has been observed, I believe,
that the cross or “snappy” kind are the
ones that produce results in honey. Did
you ever notice that it. is often the
“snappy-"’kind of people who can get out-
a big day’s work, even though they are
not, perhaps, the most popular among
their fellows?” -
EGGS FOR HATCHINGF
How to Keep Them So That the Germ
Is Not Killed and the Egg Thus
Made Useless.
As to keeping eggs for hatching, the
incubator people remind us that the
yolk is specifically lighter than the al-
bumen, and is buoyed up by it, and the
germ, which always lies at the top, is
only kept from pressing against the
shell by the weight of the denser al-
bumen forming the chalaza, this hav-
ing a tendency to drag the yolk down
and steady it. If the eggs are kept at
' ;too high a temperature, the albumen
will get somewhat fluid and the yolks
gwill be pressed upward against the
Shell, and, if allowed to remain so,
. speaker‘cam‘e at the end of thefamous _
deadlock'in the grange legislature of.
1874. From the legislature he passed to
of I . .
will become fixed to it. Any length of
time and temperature. that would re-
sult in this would have killed the germ
and thus rendered the egg useless. The
more handling the egg has the quicker
this derangement will be effected.
Place eggs for hatching in a basket-or
box with regard to position, cover
with a cloth to prevent undue evapora-
tion by direct exposure to the air, and
leave them undisturbed until wanted.
They will be better than if handled
and turned. Any cloth will give suf-
ficient ventilation to keep the air
around the eggs sweet if the apart-
ment is pure.—Plowboy and Country
Farmer. ' ‘
ARE BEAUTIFUL BIRDS
Bull Turkeys Are Not us Popular In .
tlxc'\Vcs~tcrn States as They
Deserve to Be.
I‘m” turkeys probably resulted from
seitL '. ed crosses of the bronze and white
breeds. In size and general qualities-
they resemble the White Holland, but
do = "
. ._¢é 1‘. 1'
—' PURE—BRED RUFF
"‘O
TURKEY.
with pure buff plumage. The full color
is hard to get and every hatch includes
birds with black or white in the
' plumage. This difficulty is perhaps the ‘
chief cause of lack of popularity. Buff
turkeys are seldom kept on farms, al-
though thcy are considered equal to the'
other small breeds for general pur-
poses.——Orangc Judd Farmer.
NOTES FOR BEEKEEPERS.
Keep bees to make your honey, but
begin with only a few hives.
Strong colonies protect themselves
from robbers and bee moths.
Young queens, like young stock of
my kind, are superior to old ones. ,
Bees are profitable because they gath-
er up and store what would otherwise
in: lost. ' :1: '
To avoid in and out breeding it is
Well to introduce new blood from time
to time.
The point in favor of the Italian bee
' is that it is the most prolific and is gen-
llc and energetic. - .
Dry and warm is the rule in keeping
honey if you want to retain its flavor,
richness and color.
In rendering beeswax a tin, brass or
copper vessel should be used. An iron
vessel will darken it. -
Comb honey will .last for years it al-
ways kept dry and uniformly at- about
80 degrees. Under these conditionsit
will improve.——St. Louis Republic.
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i FLORIDA OSTRICH FARM.
Only Enterprise of the Kind in the
United States Which Has Ever
Proved» Successful.
» ._ . I
In Jacksonville, ‘Fla., has just. been
"established the/only ostrich farm in
".the United. States, which is the won«
' tier of all the country about; ‘ "
are produced much yellower than those -~
The ancestors of these o-striches
'were brought in a sailing ship 'from
South AfriCa, their-home, to Califor--
nia. Of the 52. emigrant-s two died
on the way: » The others suffered a
rapid declinein. ,tfhe Califorpia. cli-
mate. The few who lived were taken
to Florida, where a. process of rapid
“NAPOLEON."
(Said to Be the Largest and Smartest Os-
trich in America.)
breeding was carried on, and the
present. flourishing colony is the re-
sult. '
The average bird, says the New York
World, weighs 300 pounds and is eight
feet high. Their hunger is insatia-
ble, and in the matter of food they
have no preferences. They take great
delight. in a meal of ashes and kind-
ling wood. Onc of them ate a gimlet
the other day, and Napoleon, the larg- '
est ostrich of the family, once swal-
lowed a lighted pipe with no apparent
inconvenience.
Napoleon’s intelligence is almost as
remarkable as his digestion. It. is his
especial function to guard the pheas-
ants who form an annex to the os-
trich farm, and since he undertook
this duty the negro boys, who had
hitherto proved a. great annoyance,
subsided utterly. The big ostrich at~
tacked one of the marauders with such
ferocity that the others thought it
wiser to stay at. home.
Still more of a curiosity is Oliver
W., the first pacing ostrich ever
known, who can go a. mile as fast as
a race horse. The owner of the os-
triches also proudly displays theefirst
incubator-hatched.baby ostrich that
has ever been seen in America. The
incubating process occupied 42 days. .
Every nine months the birds are cor-
ralled, blinded, and such feathers as
are ready to drop out are picked. The
feathers are then prepared for the
market.
Green cm; .s for the orchard.
Bare soil Sum. loses its humus and be-
comes infertilr. '1 his must be prevent»
ed. Here is om- way of preventing it:
Plow the orchard in the spring, culti-
vate both ways'and keep all weeds down
till September 1, at which time the soil
will be in fine condition for a seed bed.
'Sow rye at the rate of two bushels per
acre. This will cover the ground well
before winter. and therefore protect the
ground from blowing or hard freezing
during the winter. Let the. rye stand
till knee—high in the spring, then turn
under and proceed with,_.el’ean cultiva-
tion through the summer.
School for Coachmen.
In view of the coming exposition and
the extra demand for local transporta-
tion, a school‘ for coachmen has been
opened in Paris. This school turns out
from 100 to 150 per month. A born
Parisian can graduate in two weeks,
but. an outsider is obliged to remain 3t
days.
YOUR PROPER WEIGHT?
Prof. Huxley Tellsl‘H-ovv' the Non
Man’s; Avulrdupols: Should,
Be Distributed:
ti
Prof. Huxley gavethe followihg
table of what a fulf~grown man should
weigh, and howhis weight shouldbe fl
divided:
Weight, 154 pounds, made up this: , 3’
Muscles and their appurtenances, .68
pounds; skeleton, 24 pounds; skin, 10355
pounds; fat, 28 pounds; brain, .-3,
pounds; thoracic viscera, 31/a pounds;
blood which would drain from body. 7
pounds. -’ ’ =
1{This man ought to consume 1.;1'"
diem: Lean beefsteak, 5,000 ' T‘s“
bread, 6,000 grains; milk 7,000 'grdi
potatoes, 3,000 grains; butter, 7‘.”- -
grains; water, 22,900 grains. ‘
His heart should beat 75 time's a ’
'ute, and he should breathe 15 tint .3"
minute. In 24 hours he would vii"
1,750 cubic feet of pure air to the' ' ‘- .~
of 1 per cent; a man, therefore, offing“
' we’ght menthned Ought. to' hetero
feet of well ventilated spacé.‘ _ 'T '
He would throw off by the skin
ounces of water, 300 grains of 801,
matter, and 400 grains of cdrbonic mild
every 24 hours, and his total loss diffr-
ing the 24 hours would be six poundiof
water, and a little over two pounds‘bf
other matter. ' '
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The Monks of flaunt Adios.
One of the strangestand most con-
servative of Christian communities is
the settlement of monks and hermit-
on Mount Athos. According‘to a cert
man scholar who visited the region
not very long ago, there are 21 large.
monasteries, 11 villages, '50 cells and
150 hermitages, which, tugether. 'ac—
commodate about 6,000 persons. They
' represent all nations, but agree in liv-
ing in perfect seclusion according'to ,
They are said '.
the rule of St. Basil.
Q.
to be tolerant and hospitable, but no .I'
Moslem is allowed to settle in thé
district. and no woman may set'fool ‘
en the mountain.
Foreign Capital in Russia. ‘
A good English authority estimates
that $1,000,000,000 foreign capitalis nest;
operating in Russia in manufacturing, . ‘
industrial, steamship and other enter- ,1
misc}; _ _ ,_ ____- .1..-”
TNA INSURANCE CI). of Bartfor'
Incorporated 181:3. Charter nerpé
capitaland Assets,‘8,902.222.04.
[sures against loss anddamage by n.
terms adapted to the hazard andconsn
withthelawaofcompensation
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L. HUN'I‘.A gent? ' I
The Nimit- Fre- Insurance
Has no wCompleté‘d'ts
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man Union Avenue. north of Unio.
Genital-y}:I Norwalk. Conn. Dealer in areas
House of. Houseand Bedding and Vege
ablePlants. Fruit and Ornamental Tree;
hubbery. Vines, Cut Flowers. always 9
and,andsll sorts of designs 1 n flowerg ar
auzed toorder. . -
WGradme and refillingcemeteri lotbat
tnded to.
Raymond &Son. -‘
Successors to GeorgeH Raymond
Furniture Dealers and
General Funeral Directors
46 and 48 Main St, Iorwalk. coon.
Residence, Berkelev Place.
telephone No 77-4..
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It’s u long life but devotion to thr
true interests and prosgierity of the
American People has won for it new
friends as the years rolled by and
the Original members of its family?‘”‘”
passed to their reward, and these
admirers are loyal and steadfast to-. ,
day, .with faith in its teachings, and,"
confidence in the l! for mation which ,‘
it‘brings to their 1]! mes and fire
sides. :
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joys in its old age all the vitality and vigor of its youth, strengthened
and ripened by the experiences of
over half a century,
It has lived on its merit =, and on the cordial support of pro;ress-
ive Americans.
It is'the “ The New York Weekly Tribune,” acknowledged the coon-I
try over as the leading National Family Newspaper.
those who desi c all of the news of the.
Recognizing its value to
State and Nation, the publisher of the Non
favorite home paper) has entered into an alliance w
WALK GAZETTE (your OWN“.
Weekly Tribune which enables him to furnish bot-h papers at the trif"
fling cost of $1.00 per year.
Ev. ry- ’armer and every villager
owes to himself, to his family, and
to the community in which he lives a. cordial support of his local newsg’ ,
paper. as it works 0 mstantly‘and I untiringly for his interests in every
way. i rings'to Iii-x home
hood, the doings of his
out. crupsithe-prices in home markets-,«and, in fact, is a we .
Whit-h shouldvbe found in every wide awake progressive faintly
all-the news and happenings of his neighbor
friends, the condition and prospects of difler- ‘
ekly visitor,» ,
_ Just. tuiukjjofyit.‘ Both of these papers for only $1.00 a year. ;}
Sen-.1 all ginseng ions to the “swarm.” Norm“. C-M- ,
ith the New Yorkie: ,
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