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VOLUME LXXIT ISmmm 3§« m BY fHE FAJLliAWUM GO, \Iilwirty and Union*-Now aa4 3*orever«-0n© and Inseparable^ \\ '\\\\I \\ IfTII ' ' \ IJ • II wuGm$msm ... 383£ MAIiOHE, FKANKliII? GO„-N. Y* t *fftfRSBAY, MAX 20< 1909. iftalon'e ff>al!aburrn Established in 1835. ,: hshed every Thursday morning^ by THE PALkADHJM COMP&KY. . .KDERICK J, SEAVEIk President* JOHN M. NOLAN, Manager. PALLADIUM BUILDINGS, oroer of Main and Catherine Streets, -\. Matone, Ni Y, \- , ' ' TERMS: • One Yeaiv : - ? -^ - Six Months, - -j - ..•*.' Payable in Advance, $100 50 Ad vert ising Bates on Application Advertisements should be marked the length if time to be inserted, pr verb- ally stated to the publishers at the .first insertion; otherwise they will be con- tinued till forbid, or at the option of the publishers, and charged accordingly Legal advertising at the rates, by law. Business cards, not exceeding ti ve lines, $5 per year.. Each additional line* 75 cents. BUSINESS DIRgCTORY • A, A. General Insurance FLASAQAH BLOCK, liALONE. WABBEN N. CHASE, aTTOBHSE\ JJU>-OQinKHtiOB AT taW, HO- gaaaWirglJ. H.Y. MAIN, COG2JET & Office over Duffy's Clothing Store, : MALONE, N. Y, Branch Office at Chateaagay, N. Y. Open Satihrdaye,-.;.-. A. K. 4TTORNET ASD aae Lafie N. V. BOTSFORD, OOUNSIWJB AT iAW, 8ABA- WILLIAM 8. WADJSi s TT- iHNEY AND COOMSXtOB A^JUsW, TOTO1B ^je, N. Y. Personalattention«1T*B. to-basiiwgj »: piercefleld, laast, Axten. Derrick. CMMWoW aod Mood , R. N. PORTER P. l)*& f AUtOMOiaea Af*# T«E FARW. There-isone mora problem which the automobile inventore mast solve before their machine will supplant Uie horse. The* must contrive ambter vehicle which can be used on the farm. It most plow, barrow, haul the potatoes to the depot and carry the family to the GraDge meet- ing and church. iNot one or twoof these things most it do, hot all of them, This is what a good team of horses will now do, and the automobile which takes their .place can not shirt a stORle one of their tasks* Whether an efficient farm motor at a reasonable price will ever, be supplied or not is an interesting question, What in the nature of things is there 0 hinder it? Already the difficulty of weight has been, overcome. Motors of great power have been constructed which weigh conr- paratHely little. PerhipSagreaterdifB- culty is to find out how to make the \tow- chines go slow enough to suit the farmer's purpose, or to combine slow motion with greater speed for roads in the same ma- chine. .\ If the farmer could obtain a motor which would do his work as well as a team of horses the economy of it would be great, even if the first cost ran up pretty well toward a thousand dollars, lb order to have two horses all the time for use a farmer must keep three, which, makes the in vestment in a team far from trifling, while the feed tbey require from One year to another exceeds the expense of fuel and repairs to an automobile. , At any rate, it exceeds the neoeasary ex- pense for these items if the automobile is not extravagantly put up and is fairly well taken care of. The boast that this is an age of gaso- line and the other sources of automobile energy is only half true so long as the aew. motive powers leave the farm out of the'reckoning. Say what you will, up to the present the motor, car is a luxury. A good One is far beyond the reach of a poor man. The price must come down without lowering the quality;, before the* automobile will become a really popular invention. When that happens the horse will disappear from the country, and the, warfare between the automobilist and the farmer over the right to the road will find surcease.—Portland Oregooian. ,: TO PRESERVE GAELIC. William Elliott reports that after care- ful measurement the old park elm split upw into seven anft- one-half cords pf wood.. By and by, we would like to get authentic information as to the age, of that tree. Mrs. Esther McKnight re-, members it back in her childhood, some seventy-five years agp.aa even then a tree of good sisa, but other citizens say they can remember that fifty years ago, the boys of those times had to be watched to prevent that tree and others; from being beat oyer ta sport to the ground. It would seem to ui that lira. McKnigbt's recollection is the more accurate, since the writer counted sixty-seven annual rings in the tree trunk as it lay felled.— Madrid Herald. The Society of the Friendly Sons of Sr„ Patrick in the pity of New York has taken active step* to earnestly recommend to the senate of the National University of Dublin, Ireland, that twttricutatlQnat the university should require en. adequate knowledge of the Irish language. T<fe Friendly Sons, afterr a meeting at Delmonico'son March 1st, sent a petition »•> the senate of the university stating its. views on this subject. In ft the society \expresses fervent hope that through; en lightened guidance the National Univer- sity at Dublin will become the focus of a moraland intellectual eminence worthy 0/the Irish nation. To attain this emi- nence It is essential tbat^tbe National University should in its character be dis- tinctively Irtsb, and this chiiraoter can only be acquired through the genius of the Irish language. . - -' \Your great jpowers ajg well as responsi- bilities,\ the petition continues, \are fully recognized, as is also the splendid oppor- tunity presented which enables you to reinstate the mother tongue of the people and to give it the stamp' Of scholarly authority! to which by its purity and etnoio antiquity it is so justly entitled. That you may sO ordain by your constitu- tion or statutes requiring as a condition to matriculation an adequate knowledge of the Irish language isrespectfully urged by this society.: Were this a matter of religious or political import or of concern only to the people in Ireland, thisentraaty would not be made, but it la made and its justification Is derived from the historical fact that the language is tha heritage of the raoe, and its recognition and preser- vation are of vital interest to every man of Irish birth or descent, wherever he may be, who prides himself on his ancestral :Wood.\ : ; ' . . -— • \\•;; '•Free from all entangling questions;\ conoludes the petition of the Friendly Sons, \of a religious or political char aoter, thiaaociety has faithfully adhered toils, chartered purpose of benevolence to the indigent natives of Ireland and their deeoendants. - During the 125 years of its existence it has garnered on its roll of membership the names of men that fiave shed luster on the Irish name in Amerioa, and in its social sphere it his msintained the highest .ideas of Irish honor and manhood. It is therefore with singleness of purpose prompted hy lore for the old land and veneration ^ for its ancient history, traditions and language, that yon are addressed on this subject.\ The petition was forwsrdei yesterday to Archbishop Walsh, of Dublin, with the following letter: \The Society o£ the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick respectfully request you as chancellor to present the inclosed letter to ihe. senate of the Na- tional Univeraily^—New York Sun. MOORE & BERRY. a. M . MOOSE ULWTBBS B.yr.Bxmz at Court 0ome,U^me.S,T. 1st Door! KEX.LAS & ©ENAIW'AT ATTOENITO AH© COOMan^BSIjlf iAW^ OT aee over CJark A *»•» gar*.-.. tottMoo war Pep- pie's Nattonai Bank* IWM^t^v.^.^..* i. P.KU&A8. , J. W. GXTUWAT. MeCLARY & AJ-JLEN COWNSEX.1VORS AT MW Oyer People's Bank:, Malone, N. Y CANTWEItL '* ATTOBHCT8 AHD COUN8KiOB8 At LA w i ace onsr StoetweU A FttoaganJ ««»- ' • THoa CASTWUX. J. J t CAMITWBJ*- Q*- H. D. HICKOK, D. D. S,, DENTAi OrriCE, KING'S BLOCK. NXW 'PHONI. Term* ra«*on»ble and all wort warranted. H. H. STIGKNEY, OPKBATTVS AHD UtCRAHlCAL DINTIST, CON- stable. S. Y. S. A. BEMAN. OmCI IN SY- > aomltted; to alt and District iTT'iaNS? AND COUSSKI^IB. •.I.,.D.!., = AOSssa Block, Kara practice la UlO Onfted SttttS CS HENRT **^RNESS, p miciAH AKD eBigmmJf^Hj* *-j* office and reridence, HO. * . WeWw 8fc* wftaw aista calls a&osid M WE m SELL roafi EEAL ESTATE A. B. PABflUtI.BB & SON AsatosnicK Tnaut LAKDS ASD \ 'TiLtAGi paopsKrt Aiso oassaAi. BKAI ESTATE \'\. ; . /AGKNT9'; ©EO. W. DU8TIN, r ^ . Manager. DON'T POOR FLOUR 'WTien a few cents' more per barrel will buy the b#si. There is no esonoifcT in using cheap flour, because v ^6u will 8 po ;1 enough bread ; to more than piy ^ e : differ^\ 5 ^ ^ price betweein .the good and :r.e poor.. Resides there are raore loaves to the barrel of good flOUTi. PillsbitfyV ?saie-and Retail Dealejr in; CiRAIN, (irindirig a S^eeialty ; 0. 5. Lawreiice, Maione, N* V. Daily Paper for $1 -•'• you ar« a subscriber to the Palladium, vau can Qet the Albany Daily . Journai 0 to 18 pages) for Orders to Palladium If Paid for Before July ist PUT IN YOUR ORDER NOW. BEST AND CLEANEST COAL IN* THE •„ _-aWJRKET/ .\-. .-.',-.'. C. WAMeiieQ., 20 Amsden TERMS, $1M m ABTAHCE AN INTELUGEfiT APE, I Good clotli. bindings. Oyer 100 titles of re- cent iietion. BEVERLY OF titleis every week* almost 63 East Haiii JStxeet liialone. Mew York; . A new watch has been invented for the use of physicians and nurses in: counting the pulse. The watch indicates, without mental calculation, the number of beats of the pulse in a minute. It operate* on the principle of a stop watch. Br press- ing the push button a large second hind is set in motion, and the counting of the pulsations begins* At the twentieth pul- sation the motion of the band i* stoppad by another pressure of the push botton, The dial accurately indicates the exact number of pulsations a minute. A third pressure on the push button brings the Oand back to the starting point. The use of this instrument does away with the neceseity of observing the progress of the watch while taking the pulse, and in addition insures an absolutely correot record. The instrument is atsaa'chrono- graphic counter, facilitating the making of observations, which are automatically resorded in minutes, seconds and fifths of a second. A small dial placed below the twelve, records minutes from naught to thirty. The large hands records seconds ahd.fifthaof aaecond.^ .' .A. lawyer charges a man HO'.fpr ten minutes' conversation. The man insists on paying it. A doctor charges one dol- lar for a prescription, and the patient 8ayS: ''Ohvpsha*, is thai enough?\ -An undertaker' gets $100 for conducting a funeral, and he la just perfectly lovely with everybody inside and outside the: family. A man buys a gold brick and apologizes for hot having bitten before. The publisher of a paper walks a mile in the hot sun to get facts of a death or wed- ding or social function and spends, two hours writing' it Up, and tells lies: braising people until he bates himself. Then, if he: makes an insignificant omission or .charges five cents straight for three extra copies he is a stingy, careless, good-for- nothing old cuss, who never gets, any' thing right and charges four times the price of City papers twice as large. _ •.,-„••' •?'.., p ,'i:';> M.-'—w—-\ : ' u A Danish company has been organized to insure and reinsure young women wko for one reasoirCr another do not marry. Its scheme, it is said, was devised by Fran Wiebe Bereny, and these are the conditions attached to it: A girl who takes out a policy pays a fixed sum every year. If she finds a husband before she reaches the age of forty, she ia presumed to have received her money's worth, and the policy lapses, the sums she: has paid going into a general fund for the benefit of her less fortunate sisters. If she is un- married when sho is forty she begins, to receive an annJaF pension, which con- tinues through the rest of her life, or until she marries. Th» perfcrmaace-of \GQn|ui* w the chimpanzee now being exhibited at the London Hippodrome, Is prob»Wy the mort remarkable in the history of trained animals. The variety and intricacy of the ape's series of gestures and actions, are as astoniahiDga-j their uncanny like- ness to the actions of a human beiatg. Ue goes, straight through his \turn\ iviih. the utmost readjueis, almost without a hint or a reminder of what he is to do, He comes funning Is dressed in ordinary man's clothef, and b#ng» op trtt hJa hat •and then his overcoat oh legs on a stand. Then he proceeds to have lunch. He is lifted into a chair by his valet, a napkin Ishande|ltcb!lP»»iandb»rt«c)u} it round hUoeok. Then he touches the electric belt at bisside, and looks round with an air of polite boredom for the waiter, The waiter brings him a plat* of carrot t which he eato, using a knife aid f^r*>*». mostly with rather bad manners, th* knife. At intervais, while: eating, he drinka out of a wine-glass; he pours Jhis claret and water out of the bottle with -._> left hand, and lifts the glass with hit ri k «ot band. Having finished the oarrots ana ilaret, he touches the bell again, and th* w.«|ter: brihg* # teapoti * oup, milk andatjgar. He pours out * oaf of tea, addi> milk and sugar, and then tastes the tea witfc *> spoon tw,o or three tune*} then, finding it_as he likes it, he drinks i§ off-rather quickly, so as to get the sugar at the bottom of the cup.- Then he rings the bell again, and looks round for a cigarette. , .\.. > •.' The cigarette, in. a holder, is brought with a box of matches; he puts the cigar- ette-holder in hi* mouth, strikes a matoh t lights the cigarette, takes it out of his mouth batweea his Angers, blows out the match, replaots tha cigarette, and Jaias round in his chair, throwing his arm over thechairback with the Contented indol- ence of a smoker atpeaoe with the world. After a little he decides to go to bed, and undrewe* bim»*lf carefully, taking -off coat, waistcoat, trousers and shirt (the shirt is the uncannie*t of alt}; he is then left with his boots, which h* unlace* and pulls off. Before going to bed, he washes at a basin, sluabes his bead and neck, dries his faoe with a towel, brush** fats teeth, and is ready for the night. He blows oat the candle; than it is tim* t» get up again. He gau tip, 'goes through a few Physical exercise*, dresses, and, rides off th* stag* on a' bicycle, himself leading the, applause by clapping bis band* a* he ride* out. . Sow has fa* be*n trained to-do it all? you ask; and you are. told that \Consul\ has never, in the ordinary sense, been trained at all. Be has simply lived with afamilyof human beings sinoe he was nine, months old, and he just does what be ha* seen those around him do. He always; sleeps in bis own bad, like a human child. He has a bath every morn- ing, and, also like a child, he bates com- ing out of tbe water. Hedresses himself.• he eyan mend* hif-owa underclothes, threading his own needle; be can also use a sewing macbin*. He sits up. for breakfast, - and e*U anything that to going—an egg, perhapsi Ha began to s.moke whan he was about two years oldj he is now seven, and he smoke* twenty- four cigarette* m a day. . •'\• '.\.'-'-': He baa tea and ooffee for breakfast; for lunch be generally has claret and water, or drinks made from fruit*. But he will also flniah a bottle of beer, and hiarul*is a lit tie whiskey before gomg to bed. He has learned to write his own nam*, though It ^is rather a\ slow basfnassj itr take* him nearly a minute. But h* writes extremely carefully, and always forms his letter* in precisely the. same Way, He invariably- make* an '•o, n for instance, as if the bottom naif of the Jetterwe»a'%*lli!»iCJaoy**Wte, SCW« acoompli*hment enables him to sign his own checks; and the manager of the bank wher* he hat his account says that his signature is far more regular and uniform look of puxtled anger on his face sever varie*. Yoit may- watob Mm twist a doses rope* and swing on them one after another, and each tim* whan ha falls the same stupid rage glowers In his eyes, Then the paia of the fall leaves him, sad he goes to pall more straw. He is not really so intelligentras \Delia the youngest orangoutang. She is a baby of three, and lives ia the nursery downstairs. If you knock at the door, \Delia\ opens it to you; she will also rna to opeajfc when yoaleatalier. She drinks decently from a cup, and she has ether. t races; she is charmingly obedient, and oes whatever she is (old. She ha* lapses from uprightness, but only as an intelli gent thief. Onoe, ou a summer's day, when rt D*Ua w was allowed to wander loose out of doors, a nursemaid passed, wheelinjg a perambulator. In tha. per- ambulator a baby sucked what Is known in nuraerweasa comforter. \Delia\ saw it, and, desiring oomfort, topk the ,com forter, and sucked it herself. The nurse I maid, a discriminating girl, would OS Uke it back, and \Deli*\ kept it. K Is the Intelligence of ape* oapaWe of being developed to reach a higher level than has been reached by suoh an ape as f^Jonsul?\ Jii'.Hflliitfd/'Cton^dl^man- ^__,„_ ager, believe* that it Is. Ha believe* that » teapot, a cup, milk if you txiuMgetaaocceaiioti of cbimpan- aeefr-father.aDn, grandson, and so on-- living with * human family, the resem- blance to humanity would grow with every step in the •ucoession. Possibly, even physical difference* would disap- pear. The need for the distance between the thumb and to* digits would vanish with the ending of the necessity of Olimb- ing trees, and the ape's .band, perhaps, would become gradually nearer a human band. Bat the answer is invariably the •ame. Chimpanaee* will not breed in captivity; no chimpanaee* ate born ex: oept in the deep wild* of equatorial Africa. Each captive, brought to share his life with-hunian beings, begins always as a .wild ape among men,—London Spjeotow. ' ACORD OF WQOp. tha» that of most of his human custom'- - Had the 890 cords of 12 foot wood be*n What is a cold in the head? Noth- ing to worry about if you treat it with Ely's Cream Balm Neglected, the cold may grow into catarrh, and the air passages be so inflamed that you have to fight for every breath, It Is true that Ely's C^eam Balm masters catarrh promptly. 'But you Know the old; saying about' the ounce of. prevention. There-' fore use Cream Balm when, the cold in the head ahoWa itself. All druggists^ 60c.ior mailed by Efy BroSi, 5© Wftrren Street, Wow York. w w Kay ew<?9£ »way- in m fa«Rtf pzo^erty^ that It Ixas tafeea y<m a life time to^acqu- tnulate^ ma Fortifies you againat su^bm emergency and enables you tb rise undaunted team. stiQnacalaml^r, Eojk: Indicates that, whett the best ie none toe good, you shouia seek nothing but the BEST ia insurance. ••* The place t«* aacare the BEST W witu the Conservative and Reliable CHANNEL AGENCY, Malone, N#*^ York ESTABLISHED IN 19BO. era. But signing check* is as far as be gets in writing. He can not write with a typewriter; he manages th* machine and the p«tper all right, but lie fills bis page with letters jotted down anyhow, StiJL he has learned the six keys that make his name, and when he has filled his p*ge he never takes the paper from the machine until he has signed 4, CON8trL\ in capital letters In the t;Tght-h*nd bottom corner. As to his. general disposition, he is » very good-tempered ape. He has always been very affectionate, and likes to Jhsva! notice taken of him. But he doe* not like children Very much; he ia a little jealous of them, though If nobody takes any notice of the children.be tolerates them. He ia sometimee fractious, like a child; he has never bitten his manager. When is a cord cot a oord? - •>,, To tb* fanner harvesting his small wood-lot and to the man laying in tog* for the large flreplaoe of his country or seaside Iwme.vto tb* paper manufactur*r buying pulpwood and to the proprietor of the ordinary city woodyard—to all of thee* men this question has an important dollar- and*o*nt masaisg. .. ' • Queer to**y, anicontr*ry to the belief of most people, there are many Ume* when a cord isles* then a oord, indm$ny condition* wh«n it is more. School arithmstic* say that a oord of wood is 138 col^fa*t,orth*ooatent«o/ apil* eight feet long, four fe*i higb and four fe*t wide. Wood ia marketed, on. this basis A pile who*e length, braadth, and height multiplied together give* thi* number of cubic feet flu* tbi* r*quii*Biept, nomatter whether, U» *tiolui ax*-lpng « short, straight or crooked, round cur*piit, unless there Is an nnderstanding to the contrary. Nevertheless,, a oord, though it comes up qaaatity, *v*o whan the sell*r' i* honest and the buyer aatisfled, v ' A lumberman may hav* a tract of pulp- wood whk* heaelhtOa paper mill at |5 a cord, for JUI many cords as it will make. It is In theoontractthathe shall cut and stack it. He cuU it in 13 foot lengths and when the jobi* complete, it measure* «»cords, and n*TlraosivM #1,000 for it. Would he have mad* or lost ty patting H* would havelost in the nr*t place from th* additional labor required to cut 4-foot wood, but hia principal loas would have resulted from a greatly diminished numbarofcubio feet, due to the fact that •faortstk^s lieciotar together than larger ones.* • ' -,-•' '• *' /.\ • •-•- -~ * ]ie*surem«nts and experimental teats have been, made to ascertain exactly- hew much actoal wood is In cords of different lengths, siaes, shape* and species. WASHifAlGTON'S MOTHER. - There has been a story in circulation for a century, and it has found its way into many books, partiuolarly British and tory publications, that Washington allowed his mother to live and die in poverty and privation, while he and his wife were surrounded with luxury. But aU the local traditions and all the circumstantial evidence point to its untruth. She was by habit and preferengea woman of the strictest economy and frugality; and in later life denied herself many comforts 'that were enjoyed by her sons and daugh- ters, but it was from choice and not from necessity. Her will, which may be seen in the clerk's office at Fredericksburg show* that she had oansfderable property of her otm and several slaves ana horses, which were-dftrided among her childreni- Itite olear tbat-she wt^ a -woman of strong characterjand ; many peculiarities, Including an independent spirit and a sharp tongue.- She did not change the fashion of her raiment for more than twenty years, and cut and made her own garment* in defiance of.pubic opinion and .changing styles. When she went visiting the sight of her as aheapproapbed caused every member of the household to seise a broom or dustbrusb, or in some- manner to assist in straightening up tbm^s, so that her fastidious and critical taste might not be offended. She per formed her daily duties at precisely the same hour, in precisely the same manner, regardless of changing conditions and circumstances, and. the neighbors set their clocks and watches by the ringing of her dinner bell, Her death, at the age of 88, was from cancerous tumor, the re- sult of a bruise left by an accidental blow upon her Breast. \..'' ' '-.:.- •, • .',' \:. On the day that. Washington received notice of hia election to -the jPresldenoy he galloped over from Mount Vernon to Fredericksburg to carry bis mother the news, andremained with her until it Was necessary for him to start for New York. This.. was their last interview, Four months later he received the announce- ment of her death by a specialjpoet rider, who made the journey from Fredericks- burg to New York in five days. During:the last months of her li'e the venerable lady spent much time among some great gray boolders, shadowed by a clump of treei, upon a gentle knelt not far from Kenmore, the home: of her daughter. The place was called \Oratory Rooks,\ no doubt because some one at some time hadmade a speech there. It commanded a delightful View of the Rap- pahannock river and a panorama of com-, fortable homes and fertile^ farms. She often went there to read and to rest, tak- ing a basket of meuding or her knlttiDg, with her Bible, Baxtertj \Saint Best\ or aome other religious hook of the times, Befo-e she dlsd she asked that she might be * uried there, although her husband: ana several other members of the family werelyingin the Episcopal cemetery. It was regarded as one of the whims of the eooentrio woman, but her daughter Betty respected it.—W. E. Curtis in Washing- ton Star. :.'' •'• :•-•\\: \\ -. ^\.-..-- TEAGH1 NO A CfHLDTO •TEAL. vvuyti u? Mf!W a^ivt, a/aa-vvua <JL.MS *aaaizap^«Ntt !*•».-*»^na> **jaa* ^twrn^wgn Mr. HilUard, nor his valet, bat he did. half of on* percent. once bite his valet's-wife—not severely. It is fortunate, perhaps, that his temper is as good as it &, for his owner reckons that, although he is a comparatively small ape, he has the. strength of two men. To str*ng*T3 he is quite polite and friendly; \he like* you to take notice of him,\ you are told, \and would kiss yon if you asked him, jU3t as he kisses, his valet wbe'n he goea to had. JButif yon showed him that you disliked him, he would be contemptuous, and take no further notic* of you. If. you were afraid of him, he would know it at onoe. That is easily believed. It Is more diffi- cult to decide whether It is natural: that \Consul\ should have pete like a man; be has a fox terrier and a cat, which he is very fond of, and pat* frequently. You wonder what the animals think of ft—Or, rather, the otbar animals, . Tfioae wbo remember \Sally the chimpanzee who lived for many years at the \Zoo may compare her aoGCmpUsh- ments with ••Consufs.\ But ^'Consttrs^ are, of course, far beyond ''Sally's.' 1 He has bfcd opportunities which she never bad, \Sally'* never had a banking ac- cooot, \Sauy'didnot live *« her life in the bosom of a bnman family. Still, she has had no succesaor. Tftere is no accomplished chimpanasa in th# Cfardens to-day; even ^*01d Micky,\ the eldest, has only a few tricks. The most intelli- gent apes at the \Eao or, at all events, those who exhibit the greatest power* of reasoning, are the orang-outangs* There *re three, \Sandy <*JwA>>' r \Delia..\ Sandy/'the largest and oldest, has ai-, ready developed the moroe& eccentricities of elderly bachelordom. He fiss his own notions of the time which an orang- outang should devote, to sleep, and if he h? called fa the morning earlier than pleases him be is foriou*! His whole day 1* spoiled. Erea on days^whan be has been called at the proper time, his out- look on lif0 is a ferocious silence. When his luncheon is brought him he peels his banana as any man with huge dark fingers would peel them, and muaohes them with quiet orderliness and without » stop. He has taught himself a new w*y of drinking, within reach of his cage, outside the wire, is a narrow tank of water. From hia bed he chooses a long straw with a good ear to it, hold* tb* straw by the stalk and waves the ear iota the water, brings th* ear back soaked, and sucks it much as natural as people eat asparagus, \Jacob the younger orang outang In the next cage, has copied the triok from him, and they frequently sit side by aid* drinking; the wet straws wave monoton- ously to sad fro. But \Jacob\ does more than drink with straw. Before h* was given a rope to swing with he u**d to make straw ropes for himself, and b* •till make* straw rose* when h* ha* tied hia hemp rope ia a knot *o that it will not swing. He twist* ta« straw much as coachman do, and than throws th* rope over a branch of hi* tr**,oatobes bold of both »*nd#, and swings. Aftar a bit, of coww, the straw slip* and gives, and \Jacob\ oofla** dowa with a thump. Probably b* to not hurt Mooo, hot ike out in 4-foot lengthl, there would have been only 78 cord*, an4: the owa*c .would hare r*c*ir*dfcrit $880 instead of J1.0W. It was, therefore, clearly to his advantage to cut 18 footlangth*, but it would have been to the buyer* advantage to have it out in 4 foot lengths. He would h*v* re- eved th***me actual quantity of wood for f 190 leas. - , it also make* considerable difference to tneiejler whethw wood is chopped or sawed. If chopped, the chips are lost. Where th* logs ax* large this losaamounte to no small total* In a oord of 4-foot Wood, with sticks 6 inches in diameter, the chip lose is from *ix to eigbtper cent., and, of course, the shorter the stioks are out.the greater the loss. If the Wood-Is sawed, the sawdust loss if *oaro2ly the The differenoe due to spaoee between thertloksof course depends very much oh the ship* and sixe of the sticks. Straight, smooth sticks tie close together, and a cord contain* more wood and leas iir; For given lengths, sticks of soft- woods are usually straighter and smooth* er, and when stacked lie closer together. Bat whatever the Jiind\* ootdf of long sticks are pretty aura to contain wore empty space than, cords made of short pieces.- Likewise, cords of split Wood contain less than ootfg of round stioks. The finer the wood is spilt, the Mom it makes. Hence the wood dealers are often willing to sell kindlings, all sawed and- split, tor the same price per cord as on-, split wood, They get biok the cost of labor in the Inoreased bulk. A Cord of 4 foot hardwood usually contain* about 83 cubic feet of soild wood; a oord of 9-foot wood averages 89% cable feet, and of 1-foot wood 85 feet. The oonl fere, soft wood, contain 80 to W cubic feet. Thus the purchaser receives on an average about two-thirds of a cord of wood and one-third of spaces. In soma countries wood ia bought by weight, and tb* buyer comes more nearly getting what he bargains tor, but even then he may misait it he receive* .green wood when he wants dry. According to timber testing engineer* of United States forest service, wood may iom faalf of its green weight in seasoning. Cedar for lead pencils Is bought by weight in thi* country, The pieces are so small and of such irregular site that they cannot conveniently be stacked and measured as oord wood. The bulk of nearly all wood* decreases «* seasoning goes en. A hundred cords green will make from 88 to 03 cords when dry. This i* a factor of no small im- portance to dealers who handle large quantities. Wood lot owners and farmers wbo have small forest tracts from which tbey ex- pect to sell oord wood are no less interest- ed than contractors wbo buy and sell large quantities. It wil stand tbein in band to know how much difference it make* whether the wood ia out long or short, chopped or sawed, whether th* sticks are round or split, whether large or small, and whether tb* measurements are to be made while the wood is green or after it ia •Basoned. • • »••-» Report* from agents and correspondents of tb* Bureau ol Statistic*, Department of Agriculture, indicate that 14.8 per c*nt., «qniT*l*at to 10,180,000 tons, of th* IMS hay orop remained on farms on May 1,1809. Of th* total bay orop, tt is **tl- matad that 77.8 par oeot., or 50,070,000 ton*, will b* f*d on th* farm wh«re j>ro- dooad.and about tt.i per osat., or 19,719,- 000 too*, will b* moved off th* farm. Tb*** estimate* am tb* first of th* kind made by tb* Boraaa of 8t*U*tio*. It seems to b***tti*dth*t there will be no iaoraa** of duty on stocking* and that ooff** and tea will ooatiaaa to b« ad- mitted frse. Paboe iinttnaant follows tariff revision saor* oJoaaty tfiaa in form**aatoaaohtl*. year*. As illustrating what it thinks is the general moral laxity that underlies, pro- duces, and explains the evil corporation methods against which the Very people who show that laxity declaim eo loudly, The .Wall Street Journal tell us of its editor'* own knowledge this curious story;*• '* - ' 1- TI la an apartment house not far from CoiumbU University, not In the \tene- ment*,^ but wbere the apartment* rent at |125 * month and upward, dwells a small family .whose single daughter oes #e anr'aoe ears on rainy days for a Ooitea block* to get to school. Her mother provides the child with carfare, but the child is explicitly told to e \ paying the conductor if she can.' ' -' Not only does the child do this, bat she shown that she perceives the moral wrong aheisoommitting, because she tells her youag companions that whsh the street car conductor fails to collect ber fare she does not, return it to her mother, but spends if for h* town purposes. There is nothing incredible about that tale. An amazing number of people who consider themselves fairly honest and pass** such with others will rob a street railway company by the misuse of trans fera • or by the delibentte evasion or de- ception of the conductor on his fare-ool l*cting tours. These people, of course, are, out-and-out thieves, though, prob- ably, they palliate to themselves the petH ty larcenies they commit by transmuting them, into revenge and a sort of wild justice for wrongs., suffered from, the transportation companies^ Women, for *o:ne reason, seem to be able rather eas- ier than men to retain their self respect while practicing these scurvy economies, and it may well be that here and there one of tham would teach her child the same sort of theft. Not quite so bad as these people, but hinob more numerous, are they Who, if the conductor fails to collect the nickel they have ready for him, do not deem it their duty to call his attention to the omission, and there is hardly anybody that feels obliged to pay if he reaches his destination before the conductor asks for bis fare. The excuse in these case* frobablyistbat it is not the passenger'* business to assist in the collection of fares—a poor excuse, of course, but bet- ter than none. A* for the child, It is doubtful that her robbery of the company and that of her mother areas closely co nected as The Wall Street Journal thinks. The child must be wholly abnormal, else she, too would \draw a line\ between robbing her mother and robbing a street railway.—N. Y. Times. LOGAViTEm Rev, D. Miner Rogers, one of the mis- sionaries killed in the fight between the Moslems and Armenians, at Adana, in Asia Minor, was well known at Saranao Lake, having last year epsntthe summer there with his father, who was ill. He occupied/ihe pulpit of the JJiresbyteriao church there one Sunday. A few days ago a rather bashful young woman went into a store carrying three chickens. She inquired the price of chickens, and at the same time put them on the counter. The olerk didn't know the chickens' feet were tied, and asked if they would lay there. She bother band- kerchief and said: \No sir; they are roosters.\—Taney County Repubjican. ' ivlt would in a sense be better tc wash eggs sent to market than to send them in a^dirty condition, tint washed eggs have no keeping qualities. The water appears to dissolve the gelatinous substance which seals the pores Of the shell, and air is thus admitted and soon starts.decom- poeitien. The better way to treat dirty eggs is to take a woolen rag only slightly : moistened with water and rub off the -dirt.' '.;. \ '-.' ' ; ?; Dr. J. W. Campbell went to Ogdehs- burg on Wednesday to recei-e treatment in a hospital in that city. For over a week he has been quite ill, atd on Tues- day ;DT: Madill, of Ogdenaburg, was called in consultation with local physi oians, but his condition was not consid- ered serious, On Tuesday evening, how- ever, it was deemed ad vifable that the patient be taken, to the hospital, where more thorough treatment might be ad- ministered; The doctor's many friends hope for bis speedy and complete recov- ery—Chateaugay Record. Statistics show that the corn fields of Amerioa, combined, measure a trifle more than 100,000,000 acres; an area larger than that of Norway or Jap in, and nearly equal to that of Germany or France. The combined wheat fieldVcover mora space on the reap than Liberia and Portugal combined, The cotton held* would spread over one of the Central American repub- lics like* blanket, with a generous mar- gin to tuck under, and eo would the oats fields. The alfalfa and hay fields s<-e larger than Saxony, and the; potato patches bigger than PortO Rico, ^ The news that the Easter collection in St. Bartholomew's church, New York, on Easter day amounted to $13,000 may: be read with a eigh by some $300-a-year pastor In some little place in New Hamp- shire or in Maine.\ We quote this from, an exchange, and as Sir Arthur says in the ^'Pantomime Rehearsal,\ \Wtet Rot I\ How mucb of a contribution was $13,000 for one of the wealthiest parishes |n. New Yorkcity? There are scores Of pew-holders in that Church who could contribute $12,000 and hardly miss it. The sum is nowhere near as mucb of a self-denial's demonstration as would be $300 for a small country parish, At their graduation fifty years ago the thirty members Of the class of 1858 of the College of the City of New York pledged themselves to meet every ten years, and in fulfillment of this agreeable compact ten of the thirteen survivors came to- gether informally on Friday evening. Eaoh of the veterans is past the seventy mark, but several are still in active busi- ness or professional life.. The mortality of the clasB seems high, but fifty years ia a long time, and perhapi the average college class of half a century's standing can show no larger proportion of living members. • Contemporary with- these Fifty niners of the Ci C. N. Y. were thirty-three graduates at Brown, and as ^ ago as 100*, when the Historical Catalogue was published, only seventeen of this number survived, The Springfield Republican seems to favor that proposition to try to set up looking-glass commnnication with Mars. There are lots of things we might ask of the people living on that old planet. For instance, as the' Republican suggests, it would be enormously helpful to hear how Mars settled his race questions and com- posed the quarrels of capital and lebor^ It might prove interesting to learn whether Mrs. Mars obtained equal suf- frage, and what she did with it after winning it. One can think of a thousand questions to flash up to the Martians— how.-.they perfected flying-machines, how they cured cancer, whether their country votes \wet\ or \dry w how they regulate intercollegiate sports, what finally be- came of War, whether they have any use for lawyers, and whether they adopted socialism or the single tax. Going the rounds of the papers is the statement that recently a Chinaman in London was heard to wind up a dispute with another man with the Words, \Yon paper tigerl\ Asked what he meant, the Oriental replied, \Objjp China a paper tiger is a fool who.talks much, but is harmless. \When a man is very proud, what you would call •stuckup,\' he went on, \we compare him to a rat falling into a scale and weighing himself. If a China- man overdoes anything. we say, 'You hunchback making a bow.' A son who spends bis father's wealth quickly is 'a rocket,' while of some of your rich people who send money to the heathen* abroad «nd neglect your families at home we say, -You hang your lantern on a role which is seen from afar, but gives no light below.'\ Much of this is better slang than what we hear in the United States,,- .-'...-•.';' What's\ the good of spying boles in peo- ' pie's coat* when we can't mend them? Talk of my debts if yon mean to pay them; if not, keep your red rag behind In one of hi# talks to the Methodist ministers at Potsdam recently, Bishop McDowell gave them something to think about. He said if they w«re to do .better work they must firet of all be better preachers. He mentioned the fact that he had been listening le-oommittees from the churches and receiving letters in which the people said a great many nice things about the minister's wife, his chil- dren, and even about the minister, and woald conclude by saying, \But he can not preach. Send us a preacher,\ He said it was very nice to have so many good things said about a-pastor, hut fearful a thing to have it said about him that he could not presob, as that to say of a doctor, he has a fine automobile, is congenial and courteous, bat can not practice medicine, would be an anfortu- nate sit uation. The sameprinoiple would apply to machinists, blacksmiths, archi- tects and men of other pursuits. No mat- ter how many nioe things may be said of pastor, if it is declared that he can not preach the situation is most sad. \My Drethnm,\ said h«, \are you preaching any better than you did one year, two or throe years ago ? You certainly ought to be, and if you are not there must be a cause, and the thing for you to do fo to •earoh out that cause and remedy it. If yon are going to preach better you will have to work harder. We are living in the year 1009 and w* must be 1900 men. If yon are going to preach toe gospel better yon moat have a better under- standing of th* gospel, and with refar- «*o* to definite application* of the truths of the gospel. To say that the solution of all g*a*t present day question* 1* the gospel Is too indefinite. What would you •ay of a doctor wbo would say, \the eola- tion of all diseases is nwdioin*. I will ahipadrogatoretoyoo?\ • >'' >», in, Abdul Hamid was no doubt a oru*l and tyranaioal solau, bat there Is no record that h* *v*r ran down any on* with his Tbara w*» depths of ocini* towhioktvaalMivoaklaat not be advertised, and .even a stranger's should hot be pubtisaed. He who makes a fool of another is a fool bunself.. Don't get into the habit of laughing at other people, for the old Baying is, \Hanging's stretching, and mcefcmg's catching.** Jesting is too act to turn into jeering, and what was meant to tickle miked a wound, It is a pity when my mirth ia another man's misery. Before a than cracks a joke he should consider bow tm would like it himself; for many who giw rough blows have very thin skins. CUve only what you would be willing to take; some men throw salt on others, but they smart if • pinch of it falls on their ©»*» raw places. When tbey get a Rjla*j for their Oliver, or a tit for »tat, they don't tike it, yet nothing is more just. Biters de- serve to be bitten. R. R. Davis, of Qoaverneur, recently of Norwood, has a violin of the famous Stradavariua model which he claims was made as early as 1721, Toe precious in strnment was purchased by Thomas D. Davidson, of Sahd well, Va., on the said date. He gave it to his wife, Edith David- son, May 3d, 1722. From her it was banded down to her daughter, Leona, Saptember 18th, 1745, L ooa married Henry Adams January 8th, 1746, and in 1770 gave the violin to her son, Fred Q. Adatus. In turn it was banded down from him to hi* nephew, James K. Polk, September 28d, 1813. James K. Polk was born in Meck- lenburg county, N. C, November 3d, 1795, and died June 15th, 1849. He- was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, In torn President Polk gave it to hia son, William F. Polk, November lljh, 1886. He kept the Violin uutii the year 1858 and on Christmas day of that year presented it to ha daughter, Lillian Polk. AiMrbermarciaae.it was trans ferred to her son, J. C. Davis, Jane 16th, 1880, and on the birthday of B, R. Davit, the present owner, April 16th, 1896, it was mad* ever to him. Jsooh is th* his- tory of this famous viol* a* It ha* been h**d*d down from g*o«ratton K> genera* ttoo from the year 17S1 nntil the presaot BRIEF MENTION. Castro will sue France for $2,000,000 damages for hot allowing him to Stay at Martinique. He might as well have made it more.for he is not at all likely to get it. Some of the cherries on feminine hats are said to have been originally ping-pong. balls when that game was a fad. The millinery artist of torday is clearly con- vinced that nothing was made in vain. Russia has 91 public holidays and finds it limits production,, and proposes to reduce the number toOS. In this country we are constantly adding them until we may yet be as holiday keeping as Russia. Florence Nightgale, the heroine of the, Crimea, who has just sintered her nine- tieth year, has received a great number of congratulatory messages and bouquets. She is very feeble and is confined to her rooms at her home in England. ; ; China is making arrangements to.take a census. A perfect census of China has never been made, but the-population has been estimated at 400,000,000, and it is thought that an enumeration/will not show this guess to be far wrong. King Edward, of England, it appears,. sent his trousers to be pressed, and they came back creased on the. sides. So everybody else must abolish the front crease and have side creases. Still, if he doesn't turh his trousers hindside in front he will be forgiven. President Taft's foreign appointments all indicate that brains rather than wealth is being sought to properly^rep- resenfc this nation. He has put in men of experience and reputation who will seek to represent the country at the various capitals of Europe in something more than a mere social way. A wealthy Frenchman has devoted his fortune to the saying of masses for the souls of people killed by automobiles. He might better, perhaps, have used the money to convict the murderers who slaughtered the victims. There would, of course, be no use of saying masses for ex- ecuted chauffeurs because they have no souls. \A friend of mine came across a native sitting in the veranda of a house, from which groans proceeded,\ said a traveler at the Royal Society of Arte in London in a lecture on the natives of southern India. \He learned that the man's wife was sit- ting on a swing studded with sharp nails in'order to cure him by sympathetic magic of some trifling ailment.\ The reduction in the price of wire, pro- ducts is probably «n effect of tariff re- vision. The present \reduction On wire nails is $7 per too, on plain wire, $8, and barbed wire $10. This will be a great boon to builders and especially to farmers who use a great deal of wire, fencing. The large reduction shows how much the wire manufacturers have been profiting by the high tariff. A young man of very limited means, after the marriage ceremony, presented to the minister 27 large copper cents, all spread out on the palm Of bis right hand. \This is all Pve got, parson.\ he said. Seeing a disappointed look in the minis- ter he added: \If we have any children, we will send them to your Sunday- school.\ Possibly this may be true. We cut it out of a generally reliable news- paper.;. The order of the ^Vermont State board Of health that skim milk and buttermilk delivered to farmer patrons for feeding young stock must be scalded at the creameries to kill tuberculosis germs is proving disastrous to calves andvoung pigs in the vioinity of Barre. Several animate have died from the use of such scalded milkt.and, as a result, a number of farmers owning the largest dairies have purohased cream separators for home use instead of taking their milk to the creameries, Not Very long ago the manager of a telephone company in one of our large cities issued instructions to the exchange girls that tbey must not longer use the word \please\ in Conversation with pat- rons. It consumed too much time. \What number, please ?\ was shorn of its em- broidery and reduced to \What num- ber?\ By actual count it was found that the girls had been saying \please\ nine hundred thousand: times a day. Allowing half a second, to its utterance, here was an awful daily waste of one hundred and twenty-five hours. Needless to say that the operators were informed that if tbey continued to say please it mast be at their own expense. \Door plates are going oat of fashion,\ said a man whose business it is to make plates of all. kinds. \Twenty years ago every man of prominence had his name graven upon a plate and that plate-af- fixed to his front door, that all might know who dwelt within. The daily task of the negro houseman was to rub the door plate until it shone. It took the place of the Lares and Penates of the Romans, and was attended to just as carefully as were the ancient household gods. Everything is changed now, though. I suppose the reason is that people don't have homes as they used; to. They simplylive in houses and apartments and move around so much that a door plate couldn't possibly endure the peri- patetio existence. A collection of brass' door plates screwed to the portal of a big apartment building Would, I confess, look rather odd.«»LoaisviiIe Courier-Journal. In thi* busy, busy life, how few of. us find time to cultivate friendship. The '• cares o f our families, our business, onr professioD; the straggle to keep up with your ivory ridge. A friend's faults should the times, up wijh our neighbors, up with our competitors; the worry and work and anxiety of it all demand, every moment of our time, and leave us none for our friends. Why, some of ua hardly know our own families I We are up and away in the morning befo:e they are quite awake; we have no time to return at noon, and the evening meal finds as so weary and exhausted we scarcely can notica any one, or have inclination to say anytbirig, aa we harry through in silence and then drag ourselves off to our office or store to finish «p the odds and end* which the close of our busy day has found undone, and which we can not leave over to ^pother. And thus a life is *p*e>; it* Care* and perplexities keenly felt, and its sweets but seldom met and rarely en* joyed; and the question arises, is this all of life? Are we making the best of it ? A Gouverneur correspondent has the following: Thomas Harmer, who ia be- lieved to be the oldest mail route driver in the United States, has taken op his duties oa the Pierce* Corners Heuvelton route after resting from his labors for a x>d portion of the past winter. Mr, armer is oearing his 83d milestone, and began mail carrying oa star routes 41 years ago, and with the exception of por- tions of two winters has kept continuously at it ever sinoe and is still vigorous for a man of his years. The ronte which Mr. Harmer covers daily is 39* miles, or 193 a week, and much of the road fe rough enough to test the endurance of a much younger man. Mr. Harmer ha* handled horse* for upward of 75 year* asd for some year* traveled with Barnum'a oirovs, %?** T'& tb ? a***? •howaaaa on Jua trip through Northern New York, holding a responsible position with the taamatata. It was ovar half a century ago whan th* aged mall carrier seUl*d oa * small farm in Macomb, a short distance from Piaro** Comer*, and lea* than tea yean later a* swmred a mall carrying ooatraot, wbtoh he has oontinoed to n»n*w «**ry mm yearaaiao*. Mr. B*xm*?» wff* died warn \I] !: • 4' •J; fi'- ]i • ~M •n \ \i '- '••» / : 4i W 4- m St ft r.~r U*4\ :•;§ I' -t«: ^ i- •l I: l y :-:~a •.: id J '
