£or i\)t Jjwitg. 
I suppose many of yo i have seen lime 
slaked. You know what a heat and steam 
are produced when water is put on quick¬ 
lime. It is dangerous, handling tho lime. I 
saw this heat made use of the other day. A 
man was working on a new building. When 
the dinner hour came, he got two raw pota¬ 
toes at a store, and after wrapping them in 
cloth, put them in a tin pail. He put the 
cover on the pail aud then put it into a great 
box of smoking lime. Those potatoes were 
cooked as well as they would have been on a 
stove. _ _ 
I have often wondered if the day will ever 
come when more of this heat which now goes 
to waste, will be saved for some purpose. 
Suppose we could store up beat just as we can 
now store up gas. Then suppose we could 
store up power, so that we could make use of 
it whenever we needed it. We < au do that 
now to a certaiu extent, as, for instance, when 
we wiud up a spring in a clock or watch. 
The power is there, and when we need it we 
can make use of it. Some of our inventors 
will discover wonderful things in the next 40 
years. 1 think we shall then be able to handle 
this heat aud power so they will work for us 
as now we caunot make them. What a won¬ 
derful world this will be ! 
Speaking of wasted power, I suppose we 
all throw away more than we use. When¬ 
ever we work to a disadvantage, whenever we 
do foolish things or waste our time and 
strength on little trifling things we throw 
away just so much power. A man who could 
so control his strength that he could put it 
just, where it would do the most good would 
be a giant, wouldn't be? When I weut to 
school there used to be a small boy who could 
easily throw aoy^f the other boys in a wrest¬ 
ling match. He was one of the smallest boys 
in school yet none of us could ever stand up 
agaiust him. He would wait until he got hold 
of you just right, and then down you would 
go. That boy never wasted his strength, you 
see, he had it all just when he wauted it 
most. It is just the same with working the 
mind. Those who let their minds go wander¬ 
ing about, never settling upon one thing and 
thinking it all out, will always be second-rate 
people. Their thoughts will scatter like shot, 
just when they most want them to go like a 
rifle ball. 
A great many boys get discouraged be¬ 
cause ihey have to work in the shadow so long. 
What I mean by working “in the shadow” is 
to work for poor pay at disagreeable work, 
when you know you are able to do better 
work and earn more money. Few really 
know bow hard it is to do such work. You 
can’t stop, because the pay you get, small as 
it is. is the only thing that can keep you from 
starving. You are not appreciated, either, 
and that makes it all the harder. No wonder 
boys who work in this way get a little dis¬ 
couraged at Limes Life seems pretty black 
to them. It pays to stick to it, though. All 
at once, sometimes when you least expect it, 
a great flash of light comes into your life. It 
seems to me like a person feeling his way 
along by the side of a high wall. It is dark 
and black, aud one rod of the distance seems 
just like another. All of a sudden you get to 
a corner. You turn it and there you are right, 
out in the sunshine. The dark journey along 
the wall was only a part of the way you had 
to come. If you had given up aud stopped 
trying you never would have reached the cor¬ 
ner at all. Now then, we’ll all get to the cor¬ 
ner tu the wall of life if we only stick to out¬ 
work and do our best. We will liud the pros¬ 
pect around the corner so fine that it will be 
worth all the hard journey. Fortune and 
happiness never will come to ns, we have got 
to earn them. 
I TAUGHT a school once where some of the 
pupils believed in “charms.” One dav I asked 
a little girl a hard question in arithmetic. Who 
missed it. She put her baud into her pocket 
as if searching for something. “There,” she 
said, “I knew 1 should miss that, because I 
have lost my rabbit-foot.” It seemed that she 
carried u rabbit’s foot in her pocket because 
she thought it brought, her luck. She thought 
if she had had the foot in her pocket I would 
have asked her an easier question. Many peo¬ 
ple still believe in luck and charms. Huch 
people are unfortunate. They get careless, 
because they thing they are safe—that they 
can’t be injured. They tiud out too late bow 
foolish they have been. 
People have some very strange beliefs, even 
to this day. Au English writer has recently 
called attention to a few remedies that are 
practised, in the country, in England. To 
cure_the whooping cough some people have 
the hair shaven from their heads and hung on 
a bush. If the birds carry the hair away, the 
cough will go to. Nobody seems to know 
where the cough goes to. In another place 
they bold the head of a live trout in the 
patient’s mouth, or put a large caterpillar in 
a bag and bang it around the neck. To cure 
the ague a live spider is swallowed in one part 
of Ireland. To cure pimples they rub the 
face with the tail of a black cat. To cure 
sore eyes the eyes of a live frog are to bo 
licked. To cure rheumatism a toad is to be 
burned aud the ashes worn in a silk bag 
around the neck. Toads are also supposed to 
cure bleeding noses. I don’t recommend any 
of these cures. 1 only speak of them to show 
what strange ideas some people have. I have 
no doubt we all do things that seem very 
strange to the people who use these remedies. 
THE INTELLIGENCE OF THE CITY 
HORSE. 
A recent number of a child’s Sunday school 
paper contained the picture of a horse which 
had picked a little child up iu its teeth and 
deposited it safely by the side of the street, 
out of the way of the truck wheels. We are 
apt to look upon such pictures as fables in¬ 
vented to “point a moral or adorn a tale,” but 
evidence of us great intelligence may be wit¬ 
nessed any day among the horses in the streets 
of our large cities. 
As with mankind there are distinct intellec¬ 
tual grades among horses in the city. The 
bon-ton never associate with the lower classes, 
The lordly demeanor, the high-beaded arro¬ 
gance of the great Percheroms who in former 
years drew the safes of Herring and other 
manufactures, about the city was doubtless 
the source of envy and jealousy in the less 
favored brethren, or were they proud because 
of the wonderful development of their race? 
Lowest in the social grades are the horses of 
the licensed vender. They are the scrubs 
among the horses and an odd lot they are. If 
an exhibition of them would not excite so 
much pity it would be interesting as showing 
the different forms in which horseflesh is made 
up aud how little flesh, bone and muscle are 
required to make a “Wagon Boy’s" horse. 
Notwithstanding their nondescript appear¬ 
ance and general debility, they sometimes 
show a wonderful affection for their owners 
who are with them nearly all the time, shar¬ 
ing their prosperity or adversity. It is really 
wonderful to see them, with an intelligence 
almost human, follow their masters with the 
load of vegetable or fish, stopping every few 
yards while the familiar cry “fresh pogees” 
or “paehes,” “praties,” startles the neighbor¬ 
hood. They seem to know just when to stop 
or start, when to remain iu the middle of the 
street, the most conspicuous place or edge, up 
to the sidewalk. 
These horses are picked up everywhere and 
are generally used until they drop dead or are 
disabled aud have to bo killed. They vary in 
price from $10 up to 8200. Occasionally a 
licensed vender becomes quite wealthy and 
uses good horses. 
The next iu the ascending social grade are 
the car horses. Their duties are mechanical 
aud require very little intelligence. They soou 
learn to escape the cars whpu switching, and 
that one stroke of the bell or sound of the 
whistle means to stop and that two means to 
go on. The tow horse is however an excep¬ 
tion. He must learn to turn about in any 
direction quickly, not to start up until he is 
fast to the car and not to attempt to start the 
loaded car alone, but in concert with the regu¬ 
lar team. With car horses as with people, it 
requires a high order of intelligence to judi¬ 
ciously help such us are iu need of assistance. 
Experienced car horses have a remarkable 
power of escaping danger. The brakes some¬ 
times give out or the wheels, and the crushing 
of the horses often seems inevitable and yet 
they usually escape without serious injury. 
. The truck and cart horses develope the 
peculiar faculty of forcing their way through 
crowds. The most experienced driver, with 
a green horse has serious difficulty iu getting 
ahead iu a crowd of teams, but the exjjeri- 
enced horse will rush into an opening or force 
his way across a crowded street aud save his 
owner much valuable time. The express 
horses are usually the largest aud quickest, 
and will get through a crowded street without 
difficulty. The old stage lionsos were it terror 
to then- less experienced brethren with lighter 
vehicles, but thanks to Jake Sharp and the 
“Boodle Aldermen,” they are a thing of the 
past. The “safe” horses, which used to parade 
about, six or eight tandem, advertising their 
owners and delivering safes, have also disap¬ 
peared. UNCLE JAMES. 
LETTERS FROM THE COUSINS. 
Dear Uncle Mark; I am a little girl 11 
years old aud would like to join the Y. H. C. 
We live on a farm of 80 acres and rent about 
05 acres for corn and oats. We have 11 head 
of horses and six cows and five calves and 
about 20 head of jugs. I have one brother 
who will lx? 10 next September. We have 
about 130 chickens; they are all Light Brah¬ 
mas. I can unhitch and hitch up a team. 
We have good eating and cooking apples. 
My brother went to the timber last Wednes¬ 
day and shot two squirrels and they were real 
good. We have 0(1 acres Of corn and “5 acres 
of oats and four ricks of hay. Thanks for 
the seeds you sent. us. Three years ago the 
Garden Treasures did real well but for the 
two past summers it has been too dry for them. 
Your little Niece, 
JESSIE MARSHALL. 
Dear Uncle Mark: I have written to you 
once before. I do not live on a farm. We 
have one acre of land. I am 12 years old and 
am living with my grandfather. We have 00 
hens and 85 ehickeus. Our bens are mostly 
Plymouth Rocks. We sell 10 or 12 dozen of 
eggs every week and get 20 cents a dozen. 
Wc have an old hen two years old and do not 
know what kiud of a hen she is. She has 
white stripes down her neck and is black 
everywhere else aud will weigh eight or teu 
pounds. Can you tell me wlmt kind of a hen 
she is? Our Alaska peas had gone to seed be¬ 
fore any others had got ripe. My grand¬ 
mother has quite a large flower garden. Can 
you tell me which hens you like best? I have 
a little black and white kitten. 
Your Nephew, 
Gales Ferry, Conn. waldo s. wale*. 
[I guess that hen is a mixture of several 
breeds. I like Wyaudottes or Langskans.— 
U. M.] 
Dear Uncle Mark: It has been some time 
since I wrote to you. I was 12 years old on 
July 19. School was out June 28. The 
term will begin September 1. I went kazle- 
nutting the other day and got about a gallon 
Of nuts. There are lots of Brazil nuts along 
the Calpooia. We have raised about 100 
chickens this year. We have about 25 acres 
of grain cut and shocked, aud we have about 
40 acres to cut yet. 
Tangent, Oregon. willie smith. 
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" Last spring my two children were vaccinated. 
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Hood’s .Sarsaparilla saved my children to me.” 
Mas. C. L. Thompson, West Warren, Mass. 
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