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TO BE A PUBLIC SPEAKER.
You Should Talk as Though Perfect.
 ly at Ease Before an Audience.

In managing his voice the speaker when he is engaged In earnest conversa- tion commonly and naturally falls into the best tone and manner for public speaking. Suppose you are sitting about a table with dozen friends and some subject is started in which you are deep- ly interested. You engage in an earnest and serious dialogue with one of them at the other end of the table. You are per. fectly at ease,' not caring in the least for your nfanner or tone of voice, but only for your thought. The tone you adopt then will ordinarily be the best tone for you in public speaking. You can. however, learn from teachers or friendly critics to avoid any harsh or disagreeable fashion of speech that you may have fallen into and that may be habitual to you in private conversation.
 Next, never strain your vocal organs by attempting to fill spaces which are too large for you. Speak as loudly and distinctly as you can do easily and let the more distant portions of your audi ence go. You will find in that way very soon that your voice will increase in compass and power and you will do bet ter than by q habit of straining the voice beyond its natural capacity. Be careful to avoid falsetto. Shun initiating the tricks of speech of other orators, even of famous and successful orators. These may do for them, but not for you. You will do no better in attempting to imi- tate the tricks of speech of other men in public speaking than in private speak ing.
 Never make gesture for the sake of making one. l believe that most of the successful speakers whom l know would find it hard- to tell you whether they themselves make gestures or not, they are so absolntely-unconsciou in the mat ter. But with gestures as with voice get teachers or friendly critics to point out to you any bad habit you may fall into. I think it would be well if our young pub lie speakers, especially preachers, would have competent instructors and critics among their auditors after they enter their profession to give them the benefit of such observations and counsel as may be suggested in that way.-Scribner's.
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Sheep Scab

Among the acts of the last session of the Indiana legislature was one making it compulsory to dip all scabby sheep. The object is to stamp out this expensive but unnecessary dis ease.
 Scab is produced by an itch mite, that causes itching, rubbing, pulling and shedding the wool, causing bare and scabby skin. The parasite cannot live for any great length of time off the skin, and does not thrive in any other animal. It is therefore possible to stamp out the disease by killing all mites by dipping. Solutions of tobacco lime and sulphur and arsenic are effective for this purpose. The tobacco solutions have preference. They may be made by taking from twenty to twenty-five pounds of tobacco leaves and stems and soaking for one day in sufficient water to cover. Then boil for an hour and draw off after six hours. Dilute to one hundred gallons. Add twenty pounds of sulphur and use while warm. The lime and sulphur dip may be made by stacking eight pounds of lime in some water adding twenty-four pounds of sulphur and diluting to one hundred gallons. It is troublesome to prepare the tobacco solution and is about as cheap to buy the extract ready for use. The lime and sulphur dip is injurious to the wool. It requires on an average one and half gallons of dip solu- tion per head for more than twenty-five head. The second dipping is neces- sary at the tenth day so that the cost for material must be reckoned at about to 7 cents per head. The coal tar or creoline dips are excellent for ticks, but not as effective as they should be for scab.-New England Farmer.
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CHURCH AND CHURCHMAN.

The first Christian Science church was organized in 1887 and the second four years later.
 feet in diameter. St. Peters, Rome, is l39 feet across.
 The eagle in Episcopal churches sup ports the lecturn, because the eagle is the natural enemy of the serpent.
 In a sailors church in San Francisco the pulpit is a complete reproduction of the stern of noted clipper, and after services on Sunday tea is provided for sailors who attend.
 In the Unitsd States there is one church for every 33 |. people. Boston has one for every 1000 Minneapolis one for every 1,054. Twenty-four million people at lend church in the United States every Sunday.
 In the city of Heidelberg, Germany, there is church. called the Church of the Holy Ghost, which is unique in it's way, being the only church in the world in which the Protestant and Catholic serv- ices are held at the same time, partition wall through the center separating the two congregations.
 The late, Dr. Thomas K. Beecher of Elmira, N. r., was one of the most char itable of men. Nearly all of his $3,5OO income was given away, and when his congregation thought to improve his ap- pearance by sending him an overcoat the gift was turned over to a beggar. An other coat was at once presented and promise e$acted that it be retained.
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shall also be distinctly designated "renoYated butter.O
Have Something to Sell

It is said to be good business policy to have something to sell when
 other peolpe have but short supply or none, and consequently prices are high. This is the main idea in winter dairying. But few send butter to market when the prices are the high est. The objectors to this plan say that it costs more to feed COWS in winter at the barn than in the summer at pasture, which is true enough, but as for several years we sold milk, and had, barring accidents, to deliver about the same number of gallons a day at the village at one season as an- other, we were never able to see that it cost less to keep COW year if her calf was dropped in the fall than when she came fresh in the spring. After few trials we became con- vinced that if we wanted to raise calf from one of the best COWS, we had better success with the fall calf than the spring calf. When the time came to turn it into the pasture, it was as ready to get it's living on grass or green fodder as the one that was six months older, and the fall calf at two years old was not behind the one of two and half years old, in growth or maturity. Of course, when selling milk the main point with us was that we could get cents a quart in winter as easily as 5 cents in summer, but while butter-making we had yearly contract at 50 cents pound, and even then we found that cost and trouble of cooling cream and icing butter for transportation in summer was not far from making summer butter cost about two cents a pound more than the winter butter-American Culitivator.
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was to be lost art. These people gleefully represented all farm dairy butter as greese, marketed in old pieces of the family linen, while public creamery butter was lauded tc the very skies.
 There were plenty of firms anxious to sell public creamery outfits, and il was greatly to their interest to unfold to the farmer rosy prospects of large profit and lots of leisure by patronizine a public creamery. The agricultural press all too laregly fell in with this, the better class of papers, with the best of motives, believing enormously that the latest thing must be the best, and that to be progressive and give their subscribers their moneys worth they must advocate the latest craze.
 The result is too well known. The creamery shark" is historic. Michigan is glorious illustration of the work of the shark. Abandoned public creameries in many sections, where none were needed, are the mon- ument to the gulibility of some people.
 The dairy commissioner of Iowa re- ports that at the close of 1901 there are thirty-four less public creameries in the state than in the previous year. This is fact that is significant. It does not mean that Iowa is going out of dairying, but that in many sections the farmer is returning to private dairying.
 Still more significant is the report of Maj. Alvord of the dairy department, bureau of animal industry, United States department of agriculture, in which he shows that, even in sections where the public creamery interests has increased in even geater propor- tions. The public creamery in those sections has not thrived at the expense of farm dairying.
 It would be interesting to have an opinion from such organs as "Hoard's s Dairyman" as to the falling off in the number of creameries in Iowa the last year. The end ot the farm dairy is not t.-H. "A. Carson in Massachusetts Ploughman.
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IN FIELD OF HUSBANDRY
Topics of Interest to Farmer
 and Orchardist ., !.
Poultry Pointers Crit is a Good Thing a-Butter Makers Are Now Protected Have Something to Sen-Sheep Scab
Poultry Points

A variety of feed is necessity if you desire healthy, profitable ''birds. :. Green bone contains large amount of phosphorus and lime, hence it is a valuable poultry food.
 ,Two-year-old toms are preferred to young ones, as you will be able to get stronger poultry.
 Cut bone may be fed separately or may be mixed with soft feed. A good way is to feed it with warm mash.
 A hen that is too lazy to scratch should be fed only in la thick mat of straw. Make her either scratch or starve.
 A sick hen is very poor piece of property. The best remedy is to take such care of the well ones that there are none sick.
 A gallon of water with teaspoon ful of carbolic acid makes very good insecticide; it is also good remedy TUT ulscdsC SCih hio.
 Do not expect the hen to water her. self, any more than you do the hogs or horses. Water regularly for the next month and note the results. - Neglect and carelessness will not bring success any sooner in the poultry yard than in the factory or other depart ments of business life.
 November prices for poultry are most always lower than at other sea- sons. That is the time most people are marketing their surplus stuff.
 There are six varieties of the Ham, burg class, the Silver Spangled Ham, burgs being the most widely known. They are handsome little fowls, and are non-sitters.
 If each hen you had last spring has not netted you one dollar your work has not peen up to the best. A flock well managed should give a profit of one dollar at least.
 If you have only mongrel chickens, and have never been interested in full Iqoods, get few good thoroughbred cockrels this fall, and then look for results next summer.
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LOS ANGELES NEWS
Ploughnan

Misled by the darkness of the sky and the slush in the street the crew of a San Pedro street car kept on going at 6 40 Sunday evening when the end of the track had been reached at Thirteenth street. The momentum of the car was so great as it left the rails that it kept straight on, crossed the track of the Santa Monica branch of the Southern Pacific railroad with some awful bumps and never stopped until it got half way to Jefferson street. The car then slowed half way around and came to a standstill. Every pane of glass in the car was shattered.
 An innovation was inaugurated when the new Twentieth street school was dedicated The school was opened to pupils for the first time Monday morning and at l 80 the dedicatory ser vices were held. The program in- cluded special music, addl esses by President Washburn and Directors Smonton and Foely of the school board, and by Superintendent of Schools J. A. Foshay. A flag raising completed the program.
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Grit's a Good Thing

Grit is the life-giving power for all fowles; almost the first meal of the newborn bird is the angle worm which is so full of sand and grit. This gives the chick the small particles of grit to begin the grinding process for life. The "pigeon-milk," the first meal of the minute, squab is prepar- ed within the crop of the parent bird, a mixture of small grain and proper grit to start the speedy consumption of food that is to bring about the sur prising development of size which a squab reaches within few days. More depends on proper grit supply than most of us seem to realize. The Feather.
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Sleep.

Sleep is the resting time of conscious ness. The more active and energetic the waking life of the normal individual has been, the deeper will be his sleep. A man exhausted physically or mentally re- cuperates those portions of his brain in which are located the centers presiding over the exhausted functions during the sleeping period In these exhausted nerve centers the unconsciousness is deeper than elsewhere, in order that the rest may be more complete.
 This is the best appreciated when we remember the effect of sleep upon the brain of "a person who has suffered in- tense grief. When such a person sleeps, grief is completely forgotten; no dreams recall the misfortune. The Lethe of the ancient Greeks finds it's exact counter part. Even on awakening it is a little time before the exact nature of the mis- fortune can be remembered. At first there is vague, uneasy feeling of mental suffering, a sensation of sorrow, reali zation that pail has been spread over the life, but it's exact nature is located only by distinct mental effort.-
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SEull DOrers.

A remarkable application of Biblical precept is still to be found among the Serbs, who do not all live in Servia, but are also scattered over Turkey, Monte negro, Bosnia and southern Hungary.
 They are very quarrelsome, and the vendetta fourishes among them. It follows that bullet holes iu the skull are by no means uncommon.
 Now, according to the unwritten law a man who has made hole in anoth- CTS head must submit to having his own head perforated in like manner, unless he prefers to pay about $1OO damages. which is seldom the case. So there has arisen among the Serbs pe- culiar profession, that of the "medigs," or trepanners, who for moderate fee will bore hole in your skull and guar antee the wound to heal in two weeks.
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Butter Makers Protected

The Groute oleomargarine bill (which finally passed the house February l2,
 imposes tax of 10 cents pound on oleomargarine made in imitation of "butter in any shade of yellow" but when not so made the tax is Ii of cent per pound. The bill also provides a penalty of not less than $50 nor more than $500 for sdealers, hotel proprie- tors, restaurant and boarding-house keepers, or any person, for coloring the uncolored article to initiate butter and then selling or furnishing it to others. All renovated butter shall be branded and labeled, and all packages
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The Farm Dairy
Farmer.

A few years ago when the public creamery came into existence. there was great hue and cry that the farm dairy was going rapidly to the dem- milton bowwows. According to some would-be lights of dairy science and economies, butter making on the farm
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On the other stones merely the birth and death
dates mentioned. 1t is evident that among the
children OF the first settlers from Holland the
Dutch language was kept in vogue. for the in
scriptions the stones all in Dutch up To
1865 The generation. however. had already
adopted the English language. for the reading on
the tombstones with later dates is In English.
The collins placed beneath the earth. and. as
in the cemeteries of Holland there is Il total alb
of vaults
In the book by Benjamin f. Thompson entitled
The History of Long Island, published in 1913. it
is written:
"A patent granted to Gusbert Op-Dyck
May a. l644 for Coney Island called by the Dutch
Conynen Eylandt probably from individual of
that who first lived upon it,
Judge Benson says:
The name referred to the abundance of rabbits
'conijen is from a Dutch family named Coniien'
Brookynite differs. however, with both
thors for the following
Bearing in mind that the first settlers from the
United Provinces adopted such names for their
minded them of their former fatherland il is evil
dent that, when taking hold of that island known
struck by its great resemblance to the dunes of
near Haarem. with its sandy hills covered with
brushwood and so abundant with rabbits that in
called it 1T Conijen Eyandt.'' They realized that
n he a o In which heY found the island in tine
similar to that Of the dunes near HARLEM in the
habted by the 'caninenfaten' a arr tribe wv which
derived its name from the principal pursuit OF
making living. viz. catching rabbits or, in Dutch.
'konijnenvatters."
Although IL may be considered 20 be a big Jump
from the days of the Caninenfaten to the time
that Benjamin F. Thompson gave his description
of Long Island up to the present time, lS43. yet
may be of interest quote of his closing
marks in the light OF developments which have
taken place in the last few years:
The completion of the Long Island Railroad is
destined to work greater benefits Long Island
than have ever been dreamed of by It's most san
gune projectors. About fOrty-siX miles of this
road completed and the travelling upon IL
already very great. cheapness being combined with
expedition. The distance from Brooklyn Green
port is ninety-hv miles. and good part of the
remainder of the road is partly completed When
the whole is finished and connected with the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-28
HOW THE KAICHI BLEW UP.
JAPANESE OFFICER TELLS OF CHINESE
CRUISERS DESTRUCTION.
From The Shanghai Mercury.


CRUISERS DESTRUCTION.
From The Shanghai Mercury
correspondent on board fae 9 th
ton of the Chinese cruiser kaichi at Marking on
June arrived i've With this snip Sunday Marking
and anchored two cables length away and on the
g4arter of The i k beF cable and While Ra a
looking at the kaif tbe W6oe poop main and
mizzen mast were shattered; in fact: the whole Of
h bhe al to pieces This followed Immediately
by volumes Of s ferTfac s report followed The con
cussion was great. and men, spars' deck; boats
6 6hG INTO The air several hundreds of feet with
numerous shells exploding on our The ei'F Eachi
Sank at before ne OF the debris aad e eae
so much so that the captain save oroeFS 10 'ne
men to run i eIn6ke Cleared away there
nothing to be but huge mass Sol OF n n
wreckage with only Two men on these n mem sailor
who was blown out of port hole on the Forward
Sere not seem native ifeboat saved him The
United States man-of-war neleha and All ber
boats We're Immediately sent TO assist but there
were no lives to SAVE Was fhe log book Of the un
fortunate vessel On the huIk ou f d I 'o-
Of n;ncas Of human bodies floating on the
wresage An the gI a5 board the uashing They
felt II badly as they were lying OF the port beam
The first portion of the vessel that was as blown
ont was a niece OF the main deck with pe.ilii at
tsched 10 some angle iron. weighing about three
hundred pounds This and piece OF r0n pate late
were blown on shore some hve htnoreo yhIus uls,
tant from the wreck. Another piece was reported
10 he found much further away A quantity OF
glass was broken at the custom house winch was
three-nlla of mile away, ana the shoCh was
salt 81 TIA british consulate. six mics OFF
Two sarpans that alongside the cruiser AT the
time were destroyed and the occupants kIIied + or
three hours the ram and tib boom were showing
out of water above twenty feet She was anchored
IN tuanty-two athoms of water. half of the yes
sci must have been completely blown away, and
the forward half standing on end perpendicu-
larlv TIL 3 80 D. m when II tumbled over
THE number of lives lost is estimated at aeout
one hundred and forty TO one hundred ana nlty
The captain had just landed and three offcers
were in Shanghai leaving four officers on board
Some of the men were shore on leave IN
doubtedly IL was magazine that blew up
Upon inquiry I learn that she had four tons or
gunpowder board. The captain Old. seeing US
coming in when he landed. left word that MS men
were the salute of the Atago. so / sur
mise they in the act Of getting the necessary
charges from the ma gazne for this purpose when,
through carelessness, perhaps. the explosion
took place"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-28
IN OLD DUTCH LANDNARh.
THE LITTLE CHURCH OF COWENHONEN
INTERESTING ORIGIN OF
"CONEY ISLAND.
BROOKLYN.

zach year some old landmark in New-AorK ana
tic surroundings must make room for skFscrtper
o- other modern invention so that the renllhiS-
carces of the first settlers grow less and less.
Fortunately Long Island still possesses seNe''i
,1acos where lovers OF historic spots are COM
nansated for their researches for souvenirs OF
olden times.
i visit to the little Dutch church OF oo"tiI-
bovan that modest white wooden structure oullt
ON a small elevation and surrounded by some "N
stelv trees is interesting ride in the trolley car
marked Flatbush-ave takes one in snort time
from, the Brooklyn Bridge TO that old Settleltill
cauad bv the Dutch ''Nieuw Ame-sfoordt- me
..arst grants for land bear the date or loo Later
when the entire colony became English It's hai'e'
IKE that of many other Dutch settlements
changed. and it became known as the town
IT Flatlands In 1888 it became part of the county
OF Kings.
How long the inhabitants kept up their Dutch
character is proved by the epitaphs on me stones
Of the graveyard near the church. when was
erected in 1S,l In the description of old burylhS
grounds on Long Island in Early Long island
nv, Martha Bockee Flint. mention is made OF
the following epitaph found on red brown stone
in the graveyard of that quaint old fashloneu
church Flatlands:
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EKTERTAINs POOR CHILDREN.

THE ATMA NEIGHBoRHooD ASSOCIATION. OF
FI.ATBUsH. GIVES AN ENJOYABLE LAWN PARTY
PoR LITTLE PEOPLE OF TENEMENT HOUSES.
The Atrna Neighbortood Association, Of the Flat
bush district of Brooklyn. entertained yesterday
afternoon hfty-two little boys and girls the
lawn and piazzas of Mrs. c. d. Ralston No. Isl
tinden-ave. Nearly all Of the children from
the tenement houses of the thickly populated
sections Of Brooklyn
The women the association assisted Eliza
beth Chaplin. the president and Miss Maud Raj
ston the secretary in entertaining and amusing the
children with various games. A great Dig swing
On Mrs Robert Gbson's lawn afforded great delight
TO both girls and boys. a luncheon Of candies
fruits and served upon the main piazza
at / O'Clock. not 20 the accompaniment Of slow
rausic. however. but while Miss Maud Ralston and
Miss Ria Bronson each told a story in honor of
pretty little Miss Dorothea MacAvoy, whose fifth
birthday anniversary 1t
Miss Chaplin is planning TO entertain the children
Indoors as soon the pleasant weather is over
Tnen she will give the girls simple lessons in cook
generously offered to cooperate next summer by
turning their beautiful lawns over to the children
romp upon each Saturday afternoon.
The Rev. James r. Edwards. pastor Of the First
8; l,-ist Church of F1atbush. was present AZ tho
Aea-:Y in this philanthropc work for The
and social betterment the little ones
upos whom Dame Fortune has smiled none too he
nigh 70. The work Of the Alma Ne,ghhorbooS
social. is not however related 10 any particuiar
church institution. does II exclude anv child
from IL entertainments on account Of nationality
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-09-28
FOR EEW BUILDING FOR ERASMUS HALL

THE LoCa-. SCHOOL BOARD OF FLATBUsH DE
MANDs IT FROM THE CITY
At ding OF the local school board of Flat
bush Er Hall Friday il was resolved
that the cit was bound TO erect new BUILDING for
Erasmus HI II. according 10 the terms upon which
the property was accepted by the city in 1897
The resolut set forth that the old part of the
buildings is from every point Of view utterly up6t
for school use, as Judged by modern standards.
that Erasmuc High School has no assembly room,
and tnat its library is so small to be at times
almost unsanitary because OF the foulness of tho
air. The board recommended that a building he
Immediately constructed. sufficiently large IN bol5
auditorium, library and laboratory rooms VIII
as many additional clasSrooms We're urarticabIa
but apon plan comprehensive enough ultimately;
to include the tearing down Of the present - ~
structures and replacing them with brick or stone
buildings 9'Oi1e