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TH E EXTREM E PENALTY. She— “ What do you think of his execution?’ He— “ I ’m in favor of i t.”— F rom Punch. Device For Teaching Fractions. School teachers assert that they experience little difficulty in teaching small children numbers up to 100, as parents generally impart this knowl edge of figures to the child before it goes to school. Their most trouble- Divides Into Fractions. some task is to instill fractions into the youthful mind. In the illustra tion a device for facilitating the teaching of fractions is shown. It consists of a sphere divided into halves, and the halves again divided into a number of segments. The sphere is supported on wires on a frame, the individual section being prevented from rotating, but can, nevertheless, be moved and separated from each other. The sphere can be quickly divided into halves, quarters and eighths, and the pupil given a practical demonstration of what seems to him an intricate problem.— Washington Star. blned that serviceable outing suits, jackets, skirts and many other ar ticles of dress are now being pro duced. The new textile, if so it may be called, is cream colored, and may be washed without injuring the surface, and is marketed for a ridiculously small price. Sufficient xylolin, as it is called, to produce a complete plain suit costs but two or three dollars. Doubtless a means will soon be found by which the finer fabrics may be reproduced through the use of paper, to which end numerous inventors are now at work.— Kansas City Journal. ■ Was Where “Robinson Crusoe’’ Written. Referring to our article on “Rob inson Crusoe's I s l a n d ” in the October number, it is interesting to learn that the house in which Defoe penned his immortal classic is still standing, The Home of the Holy Grail By HAVELOCK ELLIS. The mystic shrine of Monsalvat, Ih^ home of the Holy Grail, borne' away from human strife to that re mote corner of the world, long haunt ed the medieval mind. As the orig inally Celtic tale of Sir Percival slow ly developed in Germany, Monsalvat became an essentia! part of the le gend; it was inevitable that when in modern times that legend again emerges in the crowning achievement of W a g n e r ’s genius, the Grail is still preserved by a religious order at Monsalvat, in Gothic Spain, not far from the land of the Moslems. The northerners who dreamed of Monsalvat in their moments of fer vent devotion or romantic exaltation had heard a rumor, but for the most part they knew little or nothing of its kernel of fact. Yet the rumor itself is the most potent evidence of the world-wide fascination which the ancient mountain shrine of Montser rat exerted over the imagination of men for more than a thousand years, and, indeed, still exerts even to-day. It is in vain that one climbs the heights of Montserrat with memories of Amfortas and the \pure fool.\ When we have made our way up, be yond even the shrine and the monas tery, to the great ravine which is said to have rent the summit of the mountain at the moment of the Cru cifixion, and when we have passed the fantastic row of rocky pinnacles to which the name of “Guardians of the Holy Grail\ has been assigned, we have seen all t h a t there is to con nect the real Montserrat with the legendary Monsalvat. Perhaps we should be well content that so sub lime a symbol has long been borne away to an invisible home, and that ; the Holy Grail should have its sole ! and immortal shrine in the human ! imagination.— Harper's. / O F - INTEREST _ -TO T m - - / F A r m B R PIGS ARE LIKE BABIES. Baby pigs squeaj for t h e same rea son that human babies do. There iz generally something wrong with both of them at such times. It’s your duty to find out what the trouble is and remedy it.— F a r m e r 's Home Journal. MOISTURE IN INCUBATOR. Beginners often have trouble in regulating the moisture in their in cubators. It is pretty hard to be governed by any set rule. Eggs of different breeds of fowls vary in thickness of shell. Then the con struction of the machine has much to do with the necessary amount of moisture. CLAY TRACT FOR CHICKS. One authority on chicken diseases says the worm that produces gapes is the parasite of the common earth or angle worm and the chicks get them when they eat the earth worm. The best means of prevention is to keep the birds on a board floor for the first few weeks of their lives. It has been found that if t h e chicks are kept on a clay tract they are not so liable to have the trouble as those kept where the soil is excessively rich.— F a r mer's Home Jourjal. Henry F. Harms Groceries and Meats Corner Main and Pine Streets FREEPORT, L. I. * 2 3outh Shore Telephone 61 b . Long Distaneo Telephone 48 a Author of the Uncle Rem u s Stories. Joel Chandler Harris, teller of the famous Uncle Remus stories, is L^own almost everywhere. He lives at Atlanta, Ga., and is now fifty-eight near Mitcham, in Surrey. Our illus tration depicts the back of Defoe’s residence, and the second window from the ground at left of photograph still lights the room in which youth's favorite romance was born.— From “The Captain.” Keep It to Yourself. You have trouble, your feelings are injured, your home is not pleas ant, your friends do not treat you fairly, and things in general move unpleasantly. Well, what of it? Keep it to yourself. A smouldering fire can be found and extinguished, but when coals are scattered, you can’t pick them up. Bury your sor row. The place for sad and disgust ing things is under the ground. A cut finger is not benefited by pulling off the plaster and exposing it to somebody's eye. Charity covereth a multitude of sins. Things thus covered are cured without a scar; but, once published and carried to meddling friends, there is no end to the trouble they may cause. Keep It to yourself. Troubles are tran sient; and, when a sorrow is healed and passed, what a comfort it is to say: \No one ever knew it till it was over.” WISE WORDS. Many a man who acts like a bear is foxy. It's easy to discourage a man who hasn’t any courage. Nearly all free-thinking men are I in the bachelor class. To-morrow is the only time to bor row if you wouldn’t sorrow. It doesn’t do a particle of good to yawp when some people talk. If you want a thing done well don't do it yourself unless you know how. As a matrimonial prize a homely girl makes good more often than a pretty one. When a girl shows a young man a photograph of herself she expects him to ask for it. A woman isn’t satisfied if her hus band’s life is an open book— unless it is a check book. As long as the earth is inhabited men and women will continue to stir up trouble for each other. If men were compelled to practice what they preach most of them would give up the preaching habit. Some people will be awfully disap pointed if they get to heaven and can't find anything to find fault with. And a good deal of the knowledge people acquire is about as useful in their business as counterfeit money. About the meanest thing a woman can do when her husband’s name is mentioned is to sigh, look resigned and say nothing. — From “ Pointed Paragraphs,’’ in the Chicago News. A HUNDRED ACRE FARM. Can any reader of your paper sug gest or advise what he thinks would be the best way to work a hundred acre farm, and what a farm of this size should rent for? — Dutchman, Bristol, Pa. [It is utterly impossi ble to answer this question. The value of a farm has very much less relation to the number of acres it contains than to the character of its soil, its situation and accessibility to markets, the quality of the roads, railroad connections, etc. On these same factors depend the best way to ! work the farm and the kind of crops and live-stock that may be most ad- ; vantageously grown. Not knowing these, we know nothing about it. If ' you will tell us what kind of a farm it is, where and how located, we shall endeavor to give you the desired iu- ! formation.]— Country Gentleman. years of age. Mr. Harris always wears his hat when he is a t work, and he declares that he cannot engage profitably in any form of literary labor without the familiar head cov ering. May Soon W e a r Paper Trousers. Sufficient attention has been di rected toward the warmth generated in the body by paper vests to demon strate the fact that there is reason for serious consideration of paper garment manufacture. There have been for some time past vests made of paper, also cuffs, collars, shirt bo soms, etc., but it has remained for a firm in Saxony to spin narrow strips of paper and cotton into finished fab rics of common use. Paper and cot ton an/1 paper and wool are so com- The Cubans are fighting for the apple, but Uncle Sam will get It. — Cartoon from Wahre Jacob (Stutt gart). The Unruly Chagres River. The great problem of the construc tion of a sea level canal, or of any canal at Panama, is the disposition of tho water of the Chagres River and its tributaries. As we have seen, the canal is to be constructed in the val ley of this river for twenty-seven miles, when it leaves the Chagres and follows the valley of its t ributary the Obispo. At the point where the Cha gres Valley and the canal diverge, the river discharges in the dry season as low a volume as 300 cubic feet a second, but it has been known at times of Hood to discharge, in round numbers, 80,000 cubic feet a second. This must be taken care of in somo way so as not to overwhelm the ca nal. The rainfall in that part of the Chagres Valley in which the canal lies is upward of 130 to 140 inches a year. Below the point where the ca nal leaves the valley of the Chagres there are about seventeen streams, the discharge from which must either be diverted from the canal or allowed to enter it.— From Secretary T a f t ’s “The Panama Canal,” in the Century. HOME GROWN OLIVES. “ Have you an olive orchard? If not, you can have olives just the same. Mock olives can be made from unripe plums. They should be pickled in a brine strong enough to hold up an egg. The Government bulletin tells how. There is also a good description of the 'hay box’ oi fireless cook stove, which has been in use in European countries for a long time, and has recently been demonstrated by the United States Army to be a very serviceable ad junct to the commissary. The oper ation of the hay box appears almost like magic— thoroughly cooking a fowl, for instance, without fire— hut the evidence is indisputable. From | the tests at Cornell, the ‘hay-box cooker\ is recommended to house wives as a means of saving fuel, and securing good results in cooking ce reals, chickens, • beans, macaroni, Irish stew, and anything requiring long, slow cooking or steaming.” I wish to announce that I now own and control the three beautiful properties at Freeport, L. L, known as Randall ParK WOODCLEFT and ALPINE These are all splendid locations with Graded Streets, Shade T r e e s , Water and Light. Size and location of plots can be made to suit; also price and terms of payment. Any purchas er may have free of charge the advice and many suggestions in relation to building and securing loans. Also plans and specifi cations prepared and contracts taken to build for any purchaser at lowest possible price. * * «> t * $ L e n d A v e n u e F R E E P O R T . N Y. t \ * \ * * * 0 <* \ 0 <> * O 0 0 0 O 0 0 * 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 w. c. Designers and Manufacturers of G a s BROOKLYN SHOW LOOMS t>:» UxDLiiHiLL A m :. Cor. St. Marks Ave. Telephone 4180 Pvospect N. V. CITY SHOW LOOMS -U W kst HI i n S tkekt Near Broadway Tde; i hone ‘J•'>*><) Madison WRITE OR TELEPHONE AND OUR REPRESENTATIVE WILL CALL Guilty or Innocent. Apropos of the recent court-mar tial at Portsmouth there Is an inter esting point connected with the trial of naval officers. After the voting as to the verdict the officer who is being tried is brought into the room, and a glance tells him his fate. His sword was placed on the table at the beginning of the proceedings, with the point toward him and the hilt to ward the president of the court. If now the sword Is reversed, the hilt toward the prisoner, he knows that i tatm s from decaying ho Is honorably acquitted, but if the ..... ......... -uts weapon’s point is still toward hint the accused knows t h a t he has to await sentence.— Tit-Bits. NURSERY OF THEN NEW HEIR TO THE THRONE OF SPAIN, YOUNG PRINCE OF THE ASTURIAS. .—Le Monde Illustre. THE t 'Si. Military Elephants. The W a r Department has selected the Fort Sill reservation as a mancu- vring ground. As a means of moving heavy artillery front Lawton to tho reservation a carload of elephants has been unloaded. These are tho first elephants ever brought to Okla homa or the West ior such a purpose. —K illtis City. GOOD GOOSEBERRY CROP. Since the advent of the practice o[ spraying with fungicides to prevent mildew the culture of the gooseberry has Increased. There is now no rea son why with a little care good crops of many of the best English varie ties may not be grown. The price for good fruit is usually high. A large part of the crop is picked green for culinary purposes. Some of the English varieties which have proved of value, having larger fruit- than the natives, are Whitesmith, Chau tauqua, triumph and industry. The propagation of the gooseberry is sim ilar to t h a t of the currant, although the practice of earthing up a whole plant, causing every branch thus cov ered to throw out roots is common with the European growers. The rooted branches are cut off the fol lowing spring and planted in nursery rows or sometimes directly in the field. Gooseberries should be set either in the fall or spring three tc four feet apart in rows five to seven feet apart. Select a rich, rather moist soil. The tops need no winter protection. If mildew and worms are to he kept in check spraying must be begun with the very first sign of trouble and be thoroughly done. ^ Plant now in your partially spent | hotbed sweet potato tubers, using j the whole tuber or cutting it in two I the long way, covering with two j inches of light, well farmed soil. Put j the sash on the frames and give onl> enough ventilation to prevent the po- I In ten or . twelve days young spro will begin to appear end the bed should ha wat- | ered. The sprouts will he found to have rootlet: at the* lower end and j alonft the stem. These sprouts - s: on Id be three* to live inches long j by the time the* ountl is warm enough to plant them out. Plant them in a r;dg • mad'* by plowing out a furrow four to six inches deep. Scatter manure in tho furrow and plow hack the soil so as to raise the centre of the ridge* at least sit inches above the level of the soil.— Wash ington Star. This M antel... 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