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CANNIBAL IN THE INK.
He Was from the South Sea Islands
and There Was Character
In His Writing.

Rather an amusing incident was con-
nected with the return to San Francisco, en-
route to Washington, of Justice W. L.
Chambers, who has been for number of
years chief justice of Samoa. The judge is
,well-educated and highly cultivated Ala
baman, with that polish of that rara avis,
the Southern gentleman of the best type.
In an interview, published at Honolulu on
his way up, the chief justice was so serious
ly misrepresented in his alleged statements
regarding Samoan matters that he took the
wise precaution in San Francisco Of writ
ing out his views on the more ticklish mat
ters concerning which he was interviewed.
Like most gentlemen, Judge Chambers pen
manship would never be taken as model in
district school. A printer on morning
paper to whom it was given to set up was in
despair.
"1ook here" he said, "this is positively
the worst writing ever was up against"
But that was written by the chief JUS
tice of Samoa, man. Look how much char
acter there is in the writing"
Chief justice of Samoa" snorted the
compostor. "That accounts for it. There is
character in his hand. might have known
he was South Sea Islander could smell
canibal in the ink!-San Francisco News
Letter.
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,s,sss.sss..s.. s,,s,s,a.a.a.as
PLANNING A DEPARTURE.
An Author Who Would Get Out of the
Beaten Track and Give
the Real Thing.

"What We want" said the publisher, els
a good, realistic story of army life. Some.
thing that will show just how events move
among the soldiers"
II see," said the author; II was in the
army myself, T know exactly how things
are conducted"
Something that will thrill the reader to
the marrow and make his hair stand on
end"
II thought you said you wanted some.
thing out of the ordinary
chats what am AFTER"
swell, in that case, we won't have any
thrill in it. OF course, it's there, but it
comes so suddenly and is.so soon over that
you hardly have time to know what thrilled
you. If you want to get right down to
hard-pan realism and sound the keynote
of the soldiers general experience, you
want to leave out most of this description
of hero rushing headlong through strug-
Cling men and over fallen horses, waving a
gun with one hand and the star spangled
banner with the other, while singing My
Country, IT'S of Thee at the top Of his
voice. Well get out of the beaten track of
fiction and relate how many hours a day he
spend currying his horse and polishing his
weapons, and how many miles day he
travelled, and how often he wanted to talk
back and didn't dare, and how he would
have been willing to give four dollars a
square inch for beefsteak, and all the
rest of the little details which play so i'm
portant part and which writers of fiction
have hitherto so strangely neglected. =
Washington Star.
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especially in view of freezing when
zero weather occurs. Use shears or
scissors instead of a knife so as to pinch
the blood vessels and mitigate the
flow of blood.
The operation is not so painful as
might appear, we will state for the
benefit of the Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Animals. Nature evil
IDENTIFY provided that the comb and wat
ties should be comparatively destitute
of feeling. As during the thousands
and thousands of years the males
fought for the possession of the females
and the combs and wattles were the
parts seized upon in the struggle lack
of sensitiveness in these appendages
would be perpetuated and augmented
on the principal of natural selection.
So Indifferent is fowl that after be-
ing dubbed it will unconcernedly fall
to eating it's own comb and wattles if
allowed the privilege. This dizziness
or fewness of nerves of feeling in the
comb, when understood, may alleviate
the pangs felt by many persons at the
mention of what has been wrongly
called a cruel practice. 1t is easier
for a fowl to stand clubbing than to
endure a frozen comb.-H. H. Stod-
dard, in Farm and Home.
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New Dat. Not Good Feed.

There is great temptation on farms
where. old oats are scarce to give new
oats in their stead, some farmers cut.
ting the green oats in the field and
chopping off the heads in lieu of thresh.
ing out the grain. But such feed is sure
to give working horse the scours, un-
less dry feed is given with it. A small
amount of dry wheat flour busted over
the oats will partially offset their laxa-
tive effect. But whatever precautions
are taken it is better to feed old oats
until the new crop has dried out than to
attempt to feed oats of the present
years growth. If the oat heads are
chopped off and placed in an evaporation
they will be dry enough in three days
to feed safely.-American Cultivator.
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PRESERVING EGGS.
Directions for the Use of Water Glass
Furnished by Prof. Ladd, OF
North Dakota College.

Prof. Ladd, of North Dakota College
of Agriculture, in bulletin No. 35, gives
the following directions for the use of
water glass in keeping eggs. Water
glass is silicate of soda or silicate of
potash, the former being cheaper. 1t
is not expensive.
If wooden kegs or barrels are to be
used in which to pack the eggs, they
should first be thoroughly scalded with
boiling water to sweeten and purify
them.
10 each ten quarts of water, which
should first be boiled and then cooled,
add one quart of water glass. Pack
the eggs in the vessel and pour solution
over them, covering well.
Keep the eggs in cool, dark place.
A dry, cool cellar is a good place.
If the eggs are kept in too warm a
place the silicate is deposited and the
eggs are not properly protected. Do
not wash the eggs before packing, for
by so doing you injure their keeping
quality.
For packing use only perfectly fresh
eggs, for stale eggs will not be saved
and may prove harmful to others.
All packed eggs contain little gas,
and in boiling such eggs they will
crack. This may be prevented by
making pin hole in the blunt end of
the egg. 10 do this hold the egg in the
hand, place the point,of a pin against
the shell of the egg at the blunt end, and
give the pin quick, sharp blow, just
enough to drive the pin through the
shell without further injury to the egg.
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Long Lace Mitten..

Women with thin or red arms will
welcome the news that the long lace
mitten is the grand chic thing for full
dress, and the elbow mitten-also of
lace-the newest thing for afternoon
gowns made with elbow sleeves. These
mittens, when worn with a ceremonious
evening gown, are longer than the long
est gloves, running quite to the under
arm seam and joined to the shoulder
with short jeweled chains. There is
hole for the thumb, which serves to
hold them in place about the wrist and
hand. They are shaped like the silk
mitts worn eight and ten years ago,
but fit more perfectly, as they are
made to order. They afford a most
delightful chance to show off ones
handsome rings.-Boston Post.
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TRIMMING THE COMBS.
Birds, COnside ring the Com
fort 1t Assures.

The drawbacks of large combs and
wattles are freezing in our northern
states and the discomforts and strain
resulting from carrying so much
weight on the head. 1t appears as
though the circulation of blood in the
head is somewhat affected by these
excessive appendages, for it has been
observed that Leghorn having fire.
quent spells of giddiness and stagger-
ing can sometimes be quickly and per-
manently cured by trimming the comb,
and we would always recommend the
trimming of both comb and wattles
tor both sexes when two-thirds grown,
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How to Get Top Prices.

To get the advantage of full market
prices for eggs nothing is more i'm
portant than the style of the cases and
packing. OF course size and cleanness
are very important considerations, but
the first thing that strikes the eye of a
purchaser is the exterior quality. l
notice many lots of eggs, especially
from the south, which come into the
stores in all sorts of cases-scarcely
two alike, and none of them neat and
trim. These goods are generally con-
demned before they are looked at and
can only be sold at concession, no
matter how good the eggs may be-.
Shippers may accept it as fact that
while all eggs in first-class packages
may not sell at top prices, no eggs in
second or third class packages will do
so.--N. Y. Produce Review.
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TO ADoRN THE WALLS.
Some Things That Any Bright Girl
Can Easily Do to Beautify
q Room.

Money doesn't always control the
homelike atmosphere of place, for
some Of the costliest of houses are veri-
table refrigerators, and no more re-
lated to solid comfort than a corner in
furniture store. But the real bright
woman who proposes to have her house
home will cultivate atmosphere.
Onyx and solid gold aren't necessary
for this-a little taste will answer the
purpose. Now that the camera has be-
come family affair it can be put to
good use, too. A certain young matron
has a novel scheme of decoration for
one of the contest of homes. One room
she calls her portrait gallery. In it
she has dozens of pictures of beautiful
women that she has taken from the
magazines. They are mounted on mats
of various sizes and colors and are
pinned to the wall with artistic irreg-
ularity.
Another room she calls her "outing"
chamber. Here are all of the souven-
IRIS and relics of outing days. The
amateur photograph plays "leads
here, and there are pictures of the cot
tage, the hay rack ready for the ride,
a bathing group upon the beach and
many other characteristic scenes.
Then there is a net, a racket, a SOM
brero, a mountain stick, strings of sea
shells, any! number of other things that
find their way back to the house after
the summers outing. ~ >
N-o %ho 1o;- ~ tho rooms is
filled entirely with pictures of chill
dren. These include everything from
water color paintings to newspaper
half-tones.
This scheme of decoration can be
enlarged in great variety OF ways.
Flowers and animals-each is a subject
sufficient to fill room.
There is no entertainment in bare
walls, and pictures such as have been
mentioned are too often thrown away
or packed in piles and put under the
table or in out-of-the-way places where
they are of little use to anyone. If
photographs seem too small to be dec
orative they can be easily separated
from the cardboard and remounted on
an attractive background. In remov-
ing do not attempt to take the photo
graph from the cardboard, but peel off
the cardboard layer by layer until it
is thin enough to remount. The small
est sized tacks can be used for holding
up such pictures. They need be driven
in but little way, and they will not
injure the wall. Too much reverence
is often paid to bare walls-many a
time they have doomed up CHASTITY and
unadorned for years just because 'the
landlady wouldn't like it if you'd drive
tack in the wall.'-Detroit Free Press.
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TOauea for the Fall.

Toqres, whether of tulle or straw, are
now turned up in front or more de-
cidedly so on the left side, the latter
arrangement being most invariably
chosen when flowers are used for trim
ming. These are arranged in large
cluster covering the whole of the por-
ton of the turned-up brim, which rises
rather higher than the crown. Medium
sized Observation-Disclosures roses, OK
eyed daisies, peoples, cornfowers, and
for the early autumn, asters and small
dahlias-are most appropriate to the
purpose. For trimming hats, on the
contrary, large blossoms are preferred.
A sudden furore for the grandi-flora
clematis has lately been evinced. The
particular shades of mauve and lilac
natural to it are the favorites in these
colors, and has helped to bring them
into Observation-Disclosures Trade Review
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How to Ruin Machinery.

What is the meaning of all these
moving machines, reapers, horse-rakes
and other farm implements being left
out in the weather? Have they Just
been taken out temporarily for some
reason? No, not much. They have
been left to stand where last used, and
if we mistake not they will stand there
in the fields or in the fence corners I'M
til wanted again. What kind of way is
this to do and expect to keep the bal
ance on the proper side of the ledger?
Wet and sun will spoil the best iron or
steel and the best wood. This sort of
practice don't happen in isolated cases
by any means. Why not take the par
lor chairs out on the open porch and
leave them there through the fall and
winter-Farmers' Review.
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SET YER TEETH AN CONE Ae,N

Z n
Don't loaf around an kick when luck
Don't seem to come your way, but buck
Agin adversely till you
Through breakin' clouds kin see the blue.
Don't think because the skies are black
The sun has jumped his job, but stack
Yer nerve all in a bunch to win
An set yer teeth an come agin!
In every life some rain must fall,
In every sweet there is some gall,
An every earthly trail of ours
Must have some thorns among the flowers
II fortune treats you rather rough
Look on its GOODNESS as bluff;
At every knockdown wear grin
An set yer teeth an come agin!
The man who wins success mus fight
His way up fortunes rocky height,
Mus battle bravely day by day.
An never loiter by the way.
Reverses of'n come; the foe
Will deal you many stunnin' blow,
But solid nerve is bound to win
Jes' set yer teeth an come agin!
The field o. life is thickly strewn
With men who lost their nerve too soon,
Who lacked the gritty nerve to stay
An give an take in many way.
Choose fur yer motto: win or die"
When sent to grass don't never lie
An sadly say: 1T might have bin!
But set yer teeth an come agin!
When you have reached the goal at last,
With not cloud to overcast
Yer sky of life, when, day by day,
All things jes' seem to fall your way,
Then you kin take yer lazy ease,
Kin loaf around jes' as you please,
An then you'll say with CHEEKY grin:
s"I sot my teeth an come agin!
Denver Post.
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PRETTY FANC1Es.
Various Tribes Which Are Now P0pu-
lar with Followers of
the FaxhiOns.

Never was lace in such demand as it
is to-day; every kind and description
for every possible use. 1t is the keynote
of young girls attire, and she never
was daintier than she has been since the
avalanche of lace descended upon her.
Skirts, seamless and all over lace; Dol.
eros ready to put on, parasol covers
TIMES and guimps, as well as lace
bought by the mile; polonaises of ex'
quisite limitations of Venetian point and
point de Flandre," ready shaped, are
among the lace connections of the day.
Guipure has been revived. Laces are
mixed regardless of their particular
era.
Wells of white and cream colored and
plain tulle without dots take the lead.
There is fresh rage for white gloves
The popularity of this article has di'
unfinished so very little that the sudden
demand is scarcely noticeable.
Orchids for hat trimming is new
idea this summer. When combined
with a darker shade of velvet they are
strikingly handsome.
Parasols, narrow tucked from the
center to the edge, is the greatest nov
city offered in any one line Of sun
shades in years.
Pique, linen, crash and duck skirts
are deliberately embroidered and ap-
pliqued.
A Partisan fancy is to be one flower
girl. A striking brunette who INDUCES
in this illusion wears all the shades
of violet, from lilac to royal purple
and green. The violet is her flower,
of course, and ladens her hat and her
corsage, is the figure in the cloth of her
gowns, and its fragrance on her per-
son makes her very real violet girl.
Silks with blurred designs are COM
bined with some vivid hue, usually laid
under lace insertions or lining ruff1es.
Spanish turbans, with jetted brims
and pompons of tulle, give dashing and
daring effect.-N. Y. Tribune.
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I'd like for sister. I'd sooner have
Gladys Thompson"
''Why, Eldridge isn't-?"
ooh, don't ask me. I've no patience
with that boy. guess he doesn't real
ly-I believe he only talks about her
to plague me. That's what brings her
round to our house so often. She pre-
tends to call to see me. Mommer is
dead on to her, though
'sWhy, you awful girl!'
II don't care. mean that mommer
is not deceived regarding her real mo-
tive. Is that what you wanted me to
say? Oh-h-h, Maud! Who is he? Isn't
he swell?"
A slender young man with pensive
expression and polka-dot band around
his straw hat was coming along the
street.. The girl in the tea rose waist
looked at him obliquely under her eye
lashes without moving her head, and al
most imperceptibly improved her at
titude. AS the young man passed and
looked up she assumed a look of
pleased surprise and bowed with sweet
graciousness to the jerky removal of
the straw hat.
81 think you're mean," said the
Merode girl, reproachfully, when the
young man had passed on. 'Why didn t
you let him come up? Who is he?
Hasn't he got the dearest little mus
tache! thought you were my friend
but it's all right for you, Maud Davis. .
'Why didn't you say you wanted him
How was to know? Here, I'll call him
now. Well, then, what do you want
You'd have been sorry if 1 had asked
him to come up; he isn't a bit amusing.
Besides he wouldn't have come"
eWhy not?"
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VfEilance Is Necessnrx

Any crumbs from the table are val.
liable for young chicks. Change of
diet is requisite. Do not let the chicks
get chilled, as they are of no earthly use
after that. I hear people say: 'soh,
I can't bother that way. It is too much
trouble" Well, I go into poultry houses
where lice get onto me in a moment.
1 say those people have no business to
have chickens. Our chicks will show
it, and it pays. Eternal vigilance is
the price of chicks-good ones, and 1
would want no others.-Mrs. Curry, in
Pacific Poultryman.
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Yorkshire ParLin.

Yorkshire parkin, if made as fol-
lows, will be excellent, but it should be
kept two or three days before serv-
ing, till it has become perfectly soft:
Take one pound of oatmeal, one pound
of dark molasses, one-quarter pound
of butter, one-quarter pound of moist
sugar, mixed spice and ginger to taste.
Rub the butter into the meal, with the
sugar and spice, then add the molasses,
melted if too thick, mix all together
thoroughly. and bake in fiat tins, such
as are used for yorkshire pudding, in
a slow oven for two hours or more
Boston Globe.
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ground eight feet apart and sever
strands of barbed wire are stretched
and stapled to them, as shown in the
cut. The lowest wire is close TO the
ground. The second wire is four inches
above the lowest. The third is five
inches farther up the post, the next sin
inches higher, while the fifth goes ur
another six inches. The sixth strand is
located eight inches above the fifth
while eight inches farther up is rail tc
steady the fence. Eight inches above
the rail is the seventh wire, which eff.
fectually prevents dogs from leaping
over the rail.-Orange Judd Farmer.
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OLD-FAsH1oNED PURSES.
They Are in Fashion Again, and the
HOneller They Are the More
Popular.

Purses carried by women nowadays
are in fancy grains and fancy colors,
the grain of the leather giving an ap-
pearance of shading, while the edges
are bound in plain shade of the same
color or in contrasting color. These
purses are all made in the common pat
terms, with change and bill compart
ments.
There is a revival of an old German
purse, which is a big fiat pouch when
opened and has fiat top frame of steel
in four pieces. The sides of the purse
are fiat and bound with straight pieces
of steel, while the leather forms a bag
hanging from these side steels. The
end steels are half as wide and are
hinged to the side pieces, folding across
the top and meeting in the middle with
clasp like a change purse.
When opened wide the whole purse
is spread out about eight inches long.
There is place for everything and
everything in it's place in one big bag.
Its bulk, when filled with the usual
array of memoranda and samples must
be detrimental to it's popularity, as
it must be held clasped in the hand,
and it makes a pretty good handful.
The popular purse, however, is of the
plainest and homeliest type. 1t is the
''finger purse" named from the wom-
ems habit of carrying it with the fin
gers thrust through the big retaining
strap across the front. This purse is
made of three plain strips of roughly
finished pigskin, making two compart-
ments in the simplest form. One is
gusseted for change and the other
is fiat pocket for bills. The flaps of
both compartments slip through a
strap across the front piece. The
whole is sewed about the edges with
harness stitching, with no attempt at
ornamentation.
To individualize this purse there are
big brass initials, the same as are used
in ornamenting brass-trimmed sets of
harness. yHf sc are furnished with re-
tanning pins on the back, which are
easily thrust through the leather and
pressed down fat.
There is something rich about the
appearance of these simple purses, and
their oddly has made them the most
poplar among the young folk.-Wash-
ington Star.
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CONFIDENCE SHATTERED.
tails His Experience with East.
ern SchOOlma'ams.

"There is a big joke on some of the
teachers who went on the Los Angeles
excursion in early july" said Brook
Ign teacher the other day, land al
though it is at the expense of my pro-
fession shall have to tell it.
ION the beach there is a charming old
man who keeps curio shop. He has
been an expert mineralogist for 80
years, and is versed in conchology and
geology as well as mineralogy. When
he heard that lot of New York and
New Jersey school teachers were COM
ing to the convention his heart over
flowed with delight at the thought of
the delightful symposiums he would
nave with these learned women, who
would appreciate to the full his rare and
curious treasures.
For weeks he busted himself in
leisure moments in carefully brushing,
arranging and classifying his choicest
specimens, many of which he consid-
cred too sacred for the casual gaze OF
the ordinary tourist"
That his confidence in the intellectual
acumen of his prospective visitors was
misplaced may be CLEANED from the fol-
lowing bit of dialogue which he gravely
transmitted to relative here and was
furnished by the school teacher:
1.-The schoolmarms," he writes, ''are
thick here, and all of them are asking
questions at the same time. They are
net, however, offhe kind that I expect.
ed. We have devilfsh in jar in the
shop, and I will give you a specimen OF
our conversations:
"'Ho! What pretty shells! How do
you sell them?'
Different prices
"'What is in that jar?'
ga devilfish or octopus
"(All together) oh, it looks like the
devil!'
What is the price of this shell?'
Which one do you mean?
Have you got any for five cents?'
eyes
What is in that jar?'
"'Devilfsh.'
can together) Let me see that PIN
(The tray is taken out.)
Let me see that other tray
1t is taken out.)
(From new arrivaD What is in that
jar?'
"'Devilfsh.'
els it alive?
"'No.'
"(All together) What time does the
train leave?'
"'Don't know (Heaven forgive me,
did, thoughD
Did you get all these shells here 2
"'No.'
"'What comes out of these shells?'
"'Shellish.'
"'What matches out of them?'
"'Shelltish.'
els this coral real coral?'
eyes
Let me have five cents worth, and
pack it good
"'Oh, yes
els this the Pacific ocean?
eyes
'And so on ad infinitum."
What wonder that his confidence in
the deep, intellectual gifts of eastern
schoolma' ANS is somewhat shattered :
N. Y. Tribune.