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To put these parts together, tie stout thread through the holes at the ex- tremity of the neck and tail, 1 and 1. Fasten the neck and tail to the body by knotting strings through the holes 9 made for that purpose in the body and 9 3 in the neck and tail. Carry threads at the ends CID of the neck, and tail down good distance, unite them and at least foot below the bird hang a musket bullet or something of equiv alent weight. As this swings, the loosening of the string on one side and it's tightening on the other will cause the head and tail alternately to hop up and down in a very ridiculous and anus ing manner. The head and tail of the bird may be decorated with any gay feathers that can be procured and by
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10 olie wiling of several hundreds of eaterplilars the importance of these nlghf expeditions can in a faint way be imagined. Some of the females of tba.a nouns have the most rudimentarv wings. as in the case of the tussocle moth, and never move far from fine chrysalis that has given them shelter in 1aet most of them cling to the ont slde of their old home. At night these females can be easily found. for the males that are always we'll winged flut- ter around them and can be caught one after another.
 When she has allured enough to their death, 1t is most important, for she will do more harm than all the males put to gether. Within a few hours of chang ing from the larval state one of these moths will lay enough eggs to hatch out caterpillars that will make small work of more than one well leaved elm tree.
 Although the most advanced scien. tltie ideas have been used in the destruc- ton of the moth, and though millions upon millions of them have been killed Prof. Southwick is compelled to keen up constant warfare, understanding that If the struggle is discontinued the park will be literally overrun. and the trees ruined beyond redemption.
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their waving will add considerable to the general effect. A row of five or six of these birds screwed to q board, jerk ing their tails up and down and peck ing away for dear life at the stands that support them is sight to be re- membered. The same simple device may be used for other toys, as, for instance, the two wood choppers here shown. In this case, the stand, the log and the flgures-exeept the arms and axes-are all cut from one piece of wood which can best be done with q scroll saw. A pocket knife, however, will answer the purpose in sllillful hands. The right arm of the figure at the left, and the left arm of the figure at the right, are cut out with the axes; the other arms are cut out separately and fastened to the former with a short peg as shown in
 diagram No. 4. The hands of this arm
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md trainers fight shy of these "insti- tuition boys" as they are apt to be such ttough citizens" as not to be amenable 10 the strict rules laid down in well organized racing stable.
 If you want colored boys, all that is necessary is to walk through the streets Of any southern town where niggers are as plentiful as flies with us, and pick up q likely boy off the street, find out where his "mammy'' lives, and secure her consent-the daddy doesn't count in this instance-too many mo account Iliggahs" down there-and the little imp of darkness is yours. When the negro is good horseman he is superla tive-like Isaac Murphy; but usually little success turns their heads and makes them useless for all practical purposes. Some trainers, like McCaf- ferty, use no apprentice boys, prefer ring to pay little more and secure experienced exercise lads-but the lat ter are very scarce, because as soon as they commence to grow, they get too heavy; a boy that weighs over no bounds has not much chance as an ex. ercise lad in racing stable.
 These boys are apprentlced for three years under the state law from 14 years up to about 19; if depends entirely upon the boys weight-if he weighs 75 pounds at IA, he is not likely to gain too much weight before reaching man. hood. For the first year they receive two dollars a month pocket money; the second and third years $10 and $15 q month respectively and, of course, are fed and clothed for the full term of their apprenticeship, and, as I have full reason to know, well-fed and well-clothed. During a recent visit to the Sheepshead Bay race track, I saw two little chaps brothers-who had been sent down from Rochester to join MT. Belmont's stable; they were putting on their new outfit of underwear, shoes, stockings shirts, neckties, clothing, hats, over coats. surrounded by an admiring crowd of stable men, vigorously tguy- ing and hazing" them as at any other institution of learning. Compared with the clothes they had just ''shed, ' they looked like little princes; before they were allowed to put on their new clothes, they had their hair cut and were washed down vigorously under the stable pump.
 During the apprenticeship the money they earn in extra fees is either held ID trust for the boy or handed over to his parents, as the latter may direct. If the boy should run away-which some times happens-he is advertised for,
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LIVES OF THE STABLE BOYS.
How tho Racine Stables Train and
 Treat Their Apprentices.
Their Day Hsgins at Haif-ragt Three in the Morning and They Go to Bed at Eight at
 Night.
lropYn1nur. 1Sas l


 The personnel of a great racing stable consists first of the trainer, second the premier jockey, thirdly of the stable Toys and fourthly of the apprentices; these last form the last rung of the ladder that leads to turf fame and for tune. These apprentice boys form about one-haH of the stables help; to q string of 90 horses there are usually ten men and ten boys, and nearly all the latter belong to the apprentice class. The reason for taking advan- tage of the apprentice law is that if the green boy turns out well, no unserupu- lous competing trainer can lure the boy away from his original employer. And again il places the boy under legal con trol, so that his parents know exactly his and their rights.
 The majority of these boys are se- cured at the express wish of their par ents, who know that the boy appren- ttced to the stable of Mr August Bel mont, the Messrs. Keene, Morris, Beard, Dwyer, Hobart or even to the smaller stables, will be we'll fed, clothed and looked after generally. It is not alone humanity that prompts this good and even liberal treatment, but self interest as well, because fl maltreated or poorly fed the boy will run away.
 Some of these boys are secured from various reformatory institutions and homes Harry Griffen, the premier jock ey for MT. August Belmont, who won this years suburban with Henry of Navarro, is a boy out of the Catholic protectory in Westchester county. and is an exceptionally well hammered and well behaved young man. and one of the best jockeys this country ever pro duced. He was apprenticed to James Shields, and learned most of what he knows at Gutenberg of malodorous fame; but it did not spoil Griffen, who TOW earns salary of $15,ooo year, besides the usual fees of ten dollars for losing and $25 for winning mounts. Generally speaking, however, owners
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the situation was explained, the lawyer

the situation was explained, the lawyer remarked:
 "The company has employed me to look after it's law business. I have drawn up the bill, which is proper and reasonable measure, and is not op- posed to any private or public interest, Now if you wish to employ this man to bribe committees and legislators, and to pay commissions to lobbyists, you do not need my services. If you hire him, my connection with your company will be at an end. I have been opposed all my life to legislative corruption, and can have nothing to do with work of this kind You will have to choose be tween a notorious lobbyist and an hon. est lawyer"
 The lawyer might have shrugged his shoulders, and, like Pilate, ostenta- tiously washed his hands, and then have been ready to go on with the business of the corporation after the officials had taken full responsibility for employing the lobbyist; but he would not do this. He preferred a pecuniary sacrifice rath- CT than to tolerate wrong-doing and have any partnership with bribe-givers.
 The official consulted with his busi- ness associates and concluded to let the measure drop The lobbyist did not get the job. The services of the honor able lawyer were retained for legltl- mate business.
 This is q true story, names and places being suppressed. It is told in the Conn panion because it enforces a moral which cannot be too strongly empha- sized in American public life.
 Tn euse of money is the greatest evil in honest politics. Honest men ought always to set their faces sternly against immoral practices in political cam paigns and in legislative proceedings.
 The young man who is beginning to take an interest in politics should carry his conscience with him, and be honest in all the relations of citizen ship. whatever results may follow Youths Companion.
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and all trainers are warned neither to harbor nor employ him.

and all trainers are warned neither to harbor nor employ him.
 Work commences each day in the rae ing season at 3:3o in the morning: the string" of 20 horses is divided into two ''sers' of ten each; the first set is exercised and then hreal.fast for all hands at six o'clock; after this the sec. ond set is exercised; this is finished about nine o'clock. Then everything is cleaned up about the stable. racing gear stable yard and sheds; after the work is over play for tho rest of the day. At eight o'clock in the evenin@ everybody goes to bed To experience just how we'll they fare in one of these great racing establishments, I was in- vited recently by the trainer of stable belonging to one of the most distin- try to dine with him, informally of course. The menu consisted of potato soup with rice, deliciously seasoned, roast mutton, boiled potatoes, green peas, fried bananas, cabinet pudding. cream sauce and tea! Now, do you know many who dine so much better than this! The boys get the same, They are great on hot biscuit and pie, and without both no racing stable can ever have any luck. It is considered hoodoo to run a stable without these conditions, particularly pie. Of course there is a cook attached to each stable who markets for the entire establish nent when he is good steward; if not, the foreman or sometimes one of the. men.
 The strietestdiseipline is maintained If a boy comes late to meal he is shut out of the dining-reom and goes hungry until the next meal. Fights, bad lan- gnage and general cussedness, when displayed, are punished by fines, extra work and in the case of the smaller. boy, in extreme cases, he learns to know the taste of a strap.
 While the stable is in winter quar- ters, the teacher from the nearest school village comes every night to the farm to teach, attendance being ob- ligatory on the boys. Three prizes are distributed every week among the best scholars. Attendance at church on Sundays is also obligatory.
 The stable buildings are two in num- Der, opposite each other on either side of quadrangle, which forms the stable yard. Around all runs covered walk, called the 'shed," where the string"
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is walked in bad weather. Attached to each stable is a house, containing the dining-rooms, kitchens and, up- stairs, some sleeping room. There are no stairways; everything goes up and down, stable fashion, by a ladder. The boys sleep upstairs on either end of the stables. This is not d good arrange ment, but is the fault of the jockey clubs in not providing better accom- modations; in winter quarters the boys fare better as to sleeping berths.
 The first work in the saddle the boy is given after he joins the stable is sit ting astride of a quiet horse and ac- euiring a. "seat." The trainer can tell at once if the boy is going to make a good exercise lad If he sits down squarely in the saddle, sits still and does not wobble all over the horses back, if he takes the reins easily and
 naturally, without fumbling, and if his hands rest unconsciously on the horses withers, that boy will be horse man and perhaps some day successful jockey, for each trainer endeayors to develop out of each boy a jockey. To encourage this plan the jockey club occasionally gives a race in which ap- prentices only are allowed to ride; in other races an apprentice boy is allowed five pounds advantage in the weights. Col Ruppert recently entered maiden year-old colt in one of these races, eX pressly to give Q promising apprentice boy a chance to ride his first race. The boy rose with the rest of the help, and after galloping the colt he was to ride that afternoon he proceeded to the stable and dressed himself in the stable eologs and then sat around for the rest Of the day, in solemn and solitary grandeur.
 The race was the fifth on the pro- gramme and would be called about five o'clock. Nothing could induce him to eat, either, he was so afraid he would be overweight" The colt was brought down to the paddock; but on being warmed up" through the stretch got frightened at the noise made by the people in the grand stand, bolted into the fence, injuring itself so badly that Col. Ruppert was obliged to ask the stewards permission to have the colt withdrawn. When the lad heard this he cried the rest of that day and far into the night. Since that time this boy has become quite q jockey, consid- ering weight and years and experience.
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HE WAS THERE.
But Not Prisoner, as His Mother First
 Thought.


 Thought.
 "Epigrammatie sentences are inter esting, but there is such thing as be- ing too strongly epigrammatic," said K. F. Barnett, of Louisville.
 q was going into Louisville from Memphis. On the train was a white haired old lady, with whom chance drew me into conversation. We be- came quite friendly, and she told me she was going to visit her son, whom she had not seen for two or three years. He lad written a few weeks before, asking her to visit him in Louisville, naming certain hotel. She arranged her af- fairs as quickly as possible and went. At the depot she was greatly disap- pointed not to meet her son, and I ac- companied her to the hotel it being the one I was in the habit of patronizing.
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TOY WOOD CROPPING.

took her to the parlor and volunteered to find her son. The clerk had not seen him, but gave me a letter for the lady. As soon as she had read the first line she fainted, and I hurriedly sent for a physician, picking up the letter. The first paragraph was:
 My Dear Mother: I am now in the penitentiary.' I was shocked, but read further. The next paragraph said: T have ! good position with the contract ors and it is impossible to get away. Come on to Frankfort. I have already rented house for us to live in
 'It took us three hours to bring the mother to consciousness" ."-Washing- ton Star.
 The railways of the world carry over 100000 passengers weekly.
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< pAU) AGAlNol' MOTHS.
:. FntomoIogist of Central z " 7 pioats the Tree Killers.
,,, Lanterns and Treacle-Mii- s'd e Moths Destroyed in Night |pi z .r,,e the Iilumined Trees -'f with an Engine.
rcopYR1oHT. 1896. ]

nocturnaI scenes are being
 1f9ai ;n Central park, New York,
 dsq sad s no counterpart in other
 o'clock in the morning, when
 " If Gotham is supposed to be
 rs9 porlS Entomologist Edward B.
 .,.E, who is acknowledged to be lsii9 Isading expert in his line in the
 f' states, sallies forth bent on the
 .tion of the night moths. Many
 moths are strikingly beautiful.
 asse .ser fly in the daytime, and vis= i n the park are unaware of the svouisite coloring they possess. i , southwick at present has been
 " ~ these nightly excursions alone.
 sries an opera glass to locate the Tfe that is so destructive to the E. Until recently he was accom-
 s bv part of his force of insect
 Y. Then at midnight in the dark tbere was flashing of many '. among the trees, a pounding. l tbpmping of some iron lnnged ma buzz of many voices and a gn of many feet. It was an unae- .able scene, until one understood
 Y was brought about by Expert |phTick.
 an because it is only then, as has \, found, that the conditions are |.,-,ble for the destruction of the |b Like many other insects, these |sbs are confirmed drunkards, and 1 {, weird scenes at night are the out |,atorm of preparation for general ,E among the moths. In the small |,m which stands close by the scene, |,mologist Southwiek and his men Is small barrels filled with molasses \ aale beer. This is smeared on the N af the trees, and as a destructive [pt is one of the most successful |e known. The treacle acts as q |tiast, and by morning the trees E treated will appear to be studded
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dead moths, the greater number Whom would otherwise have been
 aylng eggs for another genera a ieaf-eating grubs. Besides the slfee borer and tussoek moths, in as ueacle traps are found golden
 ana the larger species such as the aae, Bombacidae and the Imperial FN, but these latter, of course, are
 and far between, compared with numbers of the smaller family of 'lu' Southwiclx does not depend on their sense of smell to bring aa'ea enemies to their fate. The N Halderer in the parks will here
 4ere come across 2 bull's-eye lan-
 sleamlng on a clump of trees. trees you may be certain are we'll slsa with the beery treacle, the 4Only being beacon to more surely ss hquor- loving moth to his de- sa0n' and 1t does it most effectively. ee busy scenes at night have not !" frequent of late, for MT. South .s aas been making midnight excur- ,ut nimself, taking observations ' m iueure work of his men. He does
 ae ag 10 be interrupted in his work, ], - not tell much about it. Even ,s, an ms men are working together,
 sss are not wanted, and must
 on from afar.
 ss.s strange machine, which makes s,,s ,A n noise, and directs the wanderer Enls. aie moth killers, is the new |hsl motor, and is used as an addi- |ngsaM means of destruction. It is (m n,. " gasoline and the Gould %c "inch sends a solution fatal to l |aoea " into the highest trees, and
 great survice. Prof. South .aa T S speaking s of the matter recent Ese b ~ thought he was a little ahead kplf ss thls year. but as he only had |ebnp qua four men helping him, it Ea@ is work. The solution the pro- E1s os sslng this year consists of six ae tva v, sort soap, four quarts of ker- |lbas oe S quarts of carbolic acid to 100 |k t1o e' water. This solution not only fasb to osa'efpillars, but is strong ne grub. ''sh the cocoon ana ilNa,se ae female moths which Prof.
 ss A as, looks out for most. They aurs anlerous than the males, and
 sttraete e'l,'ng' but a glaring light eA ana [, 'ile most diflident of fe- hnna Nnen 1t is remembered that
 ' one female is equivalent
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MAKE YOUR OWN TOYS.
Amusing Automatons That Gan Be Whittled Out with a Knife.
To Delight Little Invalids-A cignr-sox VIII Furnish Material, and It Is Great Fun to Get
 Them Up.
fcoPYR1GHT. 1896.


 1here are quite number of attrac- tive toys capable of affording consid- erable amount of pleasure both to those who make them and to those for whom they are made. They are quite easily constructed by any boy - or girl for that matter-Of ordinary mechanical ability.
 Especially may they be made useful in amusing poor little invalid folks who
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Is proteoted bv Cowboys.

Dr. Kate G. Horner, of Fender, Neb., was recently elected coroner of the town. The cowboys call her an angel because of her self-sacrificing life. Whenever she goes on trip over the nrairie to visit some sick person some oallant but bashful cowboy follows at a distance to see that no harm overtakea the pretty young doctor.
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Our Oats in Europe.

Our oats found market in Europe to the extent of 56o,977 bushels, valued at $2o0.793.
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nocturnal scenes are being I1fl9ai n Central park, New York, Esisq aad I no counterpart in other
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-09
Kansas City Races.

Kansas City, July 9.-First race, five
furlongs, selIing-Thurman won; En-
ma Long, second; Kittie West, third.
Time, 1:O3M
Second race, four and a half furlongs,
selling-Emma W won; Impetro, sec
ond; Lady Cain, third. Time, so.
Third race, mile, selling-Areless
won; Howhat, second; Montell, third.
Time, 1:441A.
Fourth race, seven furIongs, owners
handicap-Little Nell won; Alva, sec
ond; Wild Tartar third. Time, 1902.
Fifth race, five furlongs, selling
Comeaway won; Winchester, second
Corean, third. Time, 1:O4
Sixth race, five furlongs-Ben Harri-
son won; Darwin Wedgewood, second;
FurIong, third. Time, 1:O415.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1896-07-09
TO DISPOSE OF GARBAGE.
Councilman Nettels Has Plan to
Keep the City Clean.

Councilman CHI. NetteIs of the Third
ward is working on new system for
dispOsing of the garbage of the city
and he expects to have it in ordinance
form soon.
BY the present system many people
throw their garbage into the alleys. 1t
is plainly forbidden by ordinance but
that does not matter. They have no
place else to put it and into the alley
it goes. Probably four-fifths of the peO-
pie in the city dispose OF their TaDle
and kitchen refuse in that manner
The sanitary officers are supposed to
make regular trips through the alleys
and when they find one that is espec-
tally filthy they serve notice on the
owner to clean up Sometimes he does
what is ordered and sometimes he
does not but the sanitary officers do
not often come back to see whether
their orders are carried out or not.
Councilman Nettels' plan is to pass
an ordinance requiring the sanitary or
other officers to make the rounds of the
city with a closed dump cart. The citi-
zenS are to supply themselves with
metal boxes which are to be placed on
the back part of their lots and into
these boxes the refuse will be emptied.
About once a week the sanitary man
with his cart will make the rounds of
his district and collect the contents of
the boxes. It can be disposed of at the
city dump which would make no extra
cost to the city
It is figured that the plan will cost
but little, if any more than the present
system, the inspection would be much
more thorough and the city would
have cleaner alleys.
In speaking of his plan Councilman
Nettels said: THE present ordinance
which prohibits people from throwing
refuse into the alleys amounts to little
less than oppression. Many people can
not afford to have it carried away every
day and they are not allowed by the
ordinance to throw garbage into the
alleys or into the sewers. As a rule
they throw the refuse into the alleys
in spite of the ordinance but the person
ding so is liable to arrest.
If some method can be devised to
care of the garbage it will be a good
thing for the city at large and the in
dividuals and I figure that it can be
done with little extra expense.
I shall present an ordinance to the
council embOdying my views in the
matter and ask it's adOptiOn."