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King of Slum'ii Decorations.
N The King of Siam carries back witli
^ him the gTand cross of the Order of
L 61 Andrew of Russia, St. Stephen of
^juJIungary, Saints Maurice and Lazarus
and the Annunciation of Italy, the
Elephant of Denmark, the Black Eagle
oi rrussia, ine Jjion 01 tne neiuerlands,
Charles m of Spain, the Conception
of Portugal and St. Savior of
. ' Greece. Of minor orderB his insignia
would|Ioad a Bangkok mule. But His
Majesty kicked furiously because he
was not decorated with the Order of
the Garter in England,
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French Village Mail*
One of the latest horseless carriages
in France is adjusted to take the place
of engines on steam railway tracks for
the delivery of mail late at night in
email villages, which is required by
the Gpvernment. The railroads find
their use an economio advantage.
Deep-Sea Diving.
' A record in British deep-sea diving
was created on the Clyde, when Diver
Walker descended 136 feet, and was
under water for forty minutes.
Slaughter on the Balls.
On the average sis thousand persons
are killed on the railways of this
oountry every year, and upward 01
thirty thousand injured. Hundreds
of employes are killed and thousands
injured every year while engaged in
ooupling or uncoupling freight cars.
/ The law of 1893 demanded that the
roads should equip their cars with
automatio couplers and air brakes.
After all these years much more than
half the freight cars remain without
1 even automatio couplers, and fewer
still are fitted with the brake. John
- K. Cowen appeared before the Interto
State Commerce Commission and reIt
- auested that the time within which
the roads mast comply -with the law
be extended for five years. This
looks like asking permission to kill or
maim a hundred thousand persons in
order that derelict roads may wear
out their old equipment without the
- expense of fitting it with the required safety
appliances.?New York Herald.
The Chinese Treaty Ports.
The best indication of th^ increase
of foreign trade with China is found
in the mercantile conditions of what
are known -as the "Treaty Ports." In
these treaty ports there are 672 foreign
firms, and there has been an increase
of sixty-nine firms during the
past two years. Of the total, 363 are
British, thus showing that the businofea
tWfiA nnrts is still larcrelv in
the hands of the English. But while
the English firms have increased only
by two daring the last two years, the
Americans have increased by nine and
< the, Germans by seven. There have
also been fifty-seven new Japanese
firms established in these ports, bat
French, Dutch, Portuguese, Spanish
and Italian are all on the decline.
The total foreign population of the
^ treaty ports is 10,855, which is an increase
of about 1000 during the two
fy]? years.
J A Closed Incident.
/f-" . So Captain Leonard A. Lovering,
the officer at Fort Sheridan who kicked
and prodded with his sword an ob1
etinate private soldier, is to be "rep^-vjTmanded."
The penalty, to a civ'
ilian, seems rather mild, all things
1 . ? considered, but in reality it is by no
means a light one, and the ends of
justioe will probably be met. An official
reprimand is not easy to bear
when directed at a man of bigh spirit,
s to whom reputation is a-matter of immense
consequence. Captain Lovering
has had his lesson. It is not
' likely that he will offend again, and as
no doabt he is a good soldier, the in,
cident may be regarded as satisfactorily
olosed.?New Yor? Times.
B?*t and Relief.
A piece of machinery run by steam and
overworked will become cranky, creaky,
and oat of gear, owing to some expansion
of metal from heat and friction. Stop its
work, rub and brighten and let It rest. In
a Short while it will be restored and will
eon smoothly. The human system is a
machine. Too much work and worry are
thrown upon It; too much of the heat of
, daily oares; too much of the steam of daily
hnalnA?n. The nerves become crankv: thev
. 'ore restless, sleepless and twitchy, and a
neuralgic condition sets in. Pain throws
the machine ont of gear and it needs rest
and treatment to strengthen and restore.
LJacobs Oil Is the one remedy of all peculy
adapted to a prompt and sure core.
Bo many have so freely testified from experience
and ase to its efficacy in the care
of neuralgia that it passes without saying
that It rarely cures. It will be a gracious
i' surprise to many after the free nse of it to
find how easily pain, cares and worry may
be lifted, ana how smoothly the human
machine goes on.
Eighteen Grandsons u Pallbearer*.
Eighteen grandsons of the late William
* Belt, of Baltimore, Md., bore his body to
the grave a few days ago. No hearse or
earriages were used.
L There is more Catarrh in this section of the
P country than all other diseases put together,
g and until the last few years was supposed to be
I incurable. For a great many years doctors
I pronounced it a local disease and prescribed
iOV&i rwaeuiop. auu UJ WUOMUUJ AMMUB W
care with local treatment, pronounced it incurable.
Science has proven catarrh to be a
constitutional disease and therefore requires
constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure,
manufactured by F. J. Cheney <fe Co., Toledo,
Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the
market It is taken internally in doses from
10 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system.
They offer one hundred dollars for any case
It falls to cure. Send for oirculars and testimonials.
Address F.J. Cheney& Co.,Toledo, O.
, Sold by Druggists, 76c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervousness
after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatise free
Dr. R* H. Kltkk. Ltd.. 931 Arch St..Phlla.,Pa.
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children
Iteething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation,
allays pain, cures wind colic, 26c.a bottle.
We have not been without Piso's Cure foi
Consumption for 20 years.?Lizzie Ferrel,
Camp St.. Harrisburg, Pa., May 4,1694.
A healthful clearness is acquired by the sallow
skin washed with Glenn's Sulphur Soap,
Hill's Hair&Whisker Dye, black or Drown,50c.
Was Nervous
Troubled with Her StomachCould
Not Sleep?Hood's Cured.
"About a year ago I was troubled with
my stomach and could not eat. I was
I nervous and could not sleep at night. I
A grew very thin. I began taking Hood's
U fflarsaparilla and am now well ana strong,
PjAQd 0W8 II Oil 10 nyuu ? ougapaiuia.
iMaby Petebs. 90 South Union Street,
JBoehester, N. Y. Remember
iHood's Sarsaparilla
b [Is the best?The One True Blood PurifierI
'Hood's Pills are the favorate cathartic.
I JM UpaiVA MONEY TALKS : *20 win t*
F |HL|| m liwiltd 70a daily ?i home, lie Cu<
TlVtll w 'Mint. L'?o Km. Cc., CloclnD4!l, a
|GOOD ROADS NOTES. 1
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Toll Gates in New York.
Tho agitati on in favor of better and
cleaner highways has aroused a public
sentiment that is not likely to be
I satisfied until the roads are everyj
where both good and free. A lawyer
! in Albany, N. Y., writes as follows to
a local paper:
"By common consent the toll gates
and toll bridges which surround Albany
are voted a public nuisance that
should be abolished forthwith. Their
tolerance does not argue well for the
intelligence or morals of the community.
That they have been tolerated
for an hundred years in the past does
' in/ii'rto+a fKot thflv mnst.neeessarilv
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be tolerated for another hundred years
to come. Some time or other, and
that in the near future, these relics of
barbarism will be prohibited forever.
There will never be a time more favorable
to begin the preliminary proceedings
than the time being. I am
aware that the toll gate nuisanoe is
pretty well entrenohed in law; or the
the forms of law, but I deny that they
have, in justice, any right to legal
existenoe. I am also well aware that
any bill designed to abolish them will
meet with the desperate, sordid opposition
of those who claim to be endowed
with so-called 'vested rights,'
to wit, a perpetual right to plunder
the public until the end of time.
"Take, as an instance in point, the
old wooden bridge at Waterford. That
massive structure was built by a cor
poration, chartered in 18U3, tne oor|
porate life of which was limited
I originally by statute to seventy-five
years, after which the bridge, with all
its appurtenances, was to become a
free public highway, owned by the
people of the State of New York.
Many years prior to the year 1878,
with the usual disregard to the rights
of the people, that manifestly wise
and just provision of the charter was
repealed, and, consequently, this useful
and substantial structure, the
builders of which were amply repaid
for their investment, is now 'owned'
by a close corporation who render no
useful and necessary service to the
people of the commonwealth, yet who
admit that they divide, annually, a
dear net profit in cash of $8000.
"It is, perhaps, more than probable
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max i Lit) eoriiiugt), ur iun uumwuviu,
[ from this bridge are sufficient for additional
profits at least equal to that
I amount, which may be divided each
year in the form of liberal salaries to
the officers, but there is no informa'
tion accessible to the put lie on that
point. I have been informed, however,
that not infrequently the toll Collected
from those who have occasion
to cross the bridge amounts to nearly
or quite five hundred dollars within a
single twenty-four hours."
California "Goodroads" League.
Out on the Pacifio coast they write
the name of their new association in
one word, as they say that they have
plenty of "roads, "but few "goodroads."
I For ten years they have had educa|
tional talk and unsatisfactory legislation.
Two years ago a Bureau oi
Highways was created to visit all the
counties and collect data and statistics
on road matters, with a view to
preparing suitable road legislation in
1897. As a result of their report,
three bills were framed, one creating
a Department of Highways, anothei
defining its duties, and a third providing
a special tax for the work of the
department. The Governor signed the
first and vetoed the others, thus creating
a department without duties tc
perform and perfectly useless. The
"Goodroads" League was therefore
formed to cultivate good roads senti'
ment, disseminate information anc
secure such legislative and exeoutive
action as will ensure good roads to the
State. It is proposed to form associa
tions in every county to affiliate watt
the' State association.
Government Road Work.
_ Daring the past year the Bureau oi
Koad Inquiry of the Agricultural Department
has devoted most of its at
tention to practical work, but has beer
limited by the fact that no money it
provided by Congress for actual roadbuilding.
What has oeen done hat
been by meanB of contributions from
those interested, the Bureau simply
superintending and controling the
work. Under these oircumstance 8 the
Government should not be blbmed foi
the location of the sample pieces oi
road that have been built. So far thej
are five in number, and are at New
Brunswick, N. J.; Geneva, N. Y.:
Kingston, E. L; Warren, Penn., and
Ithaoa. N. T. General Stone thinkt
that, if the manufacturers remain willin
or fnrninh the mafihinerv free, an
expenditure not exceeding $500 bj
the Government for each locality woulc
call forth enough subscriptions tc
build from $2000 to $10,000 worth oi
road at most of the 116 agricultura
colleges and experiment stations.
How Road Repairs Are Made.
A sample of wasteful and extrava
gant road work was lately noticed bj
the Government Road Commissioner*
in a Canadian town. For seventy-fiv<
years broken stone and gravel ha(
been placed on one street until tlier<
is a depth of from two to three feet o:
stone. The money spent on it was
sufficient to pave all the streets in towi
with asphalt, brick or other good ma
terial.
A Practical Lesson.
Towns in South Carolina locatec
near to the State line and not far fron
Charlotte, N. C., have lost much trad*
of late, as the farmers prefer to hau
over the good roads into another Stat<
in preference to using the poor roadi
of their own State. This experienci
has been instrumental in inaugurating
a movement for good roads in Soutl
Carolina.
Items of Interest.
Neglect ruins the best roads; ue<
nnltr woora t.llAIYI
Each rod in width adds to the roac
two acres per mile.
Poor highways are incompatible
with the public welfare.
Keep the roads clean and the attention
thus called to them will soon re
suit in their being still further improved.
Facilities for easy travel and foi
hauling freight long distances are
amply provided for by the railway,
W? now want equally go od facility
for short-distance travel on the com-1
mon roads.
Pnhlin nninion is all DOWOrfnl.
When free roads are demanded by the
people, means to make them all free
will readily be found.
A legislative committee in Connecticut
is giving hearings on the subject
of bonding the State for money
with which to build good roads; to
give it authority, or at least veto power,
in the choice of roads to be improved;
to develop continuous lines of
well-made highway, and to make roadbuilding
easy for small, poor towns.
A RHETORICAL MUSEUM.
Unique Collection of Exercise* to Determine
the Proffreis of Fapils.
F. N. Scott, Junior Professor of
Rhetoric at the University of Michigan,
has commenced a collection certainly
unique, and possibly of great
future value. He calls it a "museum
of student composition," and intends
to embody in it specimen exercise?
written at stated intervals by children
in the schools of this and other countries.
The compositions eo gathered
1 together he believes will make it possible
to determine with reasonable accuracy
the stages of growth of a young
person's faculty of expression and to
trace a law of normal development bo
that in individual oases it can be ascertained
whether the pupil's power is
up to the average or whether special
oro T>OA/lad
atbCJLllliUU auu xuov1 uvmvu m?v mvv?v%?.
To carry out his idea Professor Scott
1 has issued a circular to those interested
1 in educational matters in most of the
large cities of the country, and in
Ohicago has arranged with Professor
Nightingale, Superintendent of High
1 Schools, to obtain sets of exercises
from all the high schools of the oity.
1 The plan limits the writing of exer1
cises in this country to high-school
pupils, and sets six subjeots for composition,
with stated times for writing
each. The exercises are to be written
1 in the school room within a period of
one hour, no revision is to be allowed
and other precautions are taken to
1 make the series a fair test of the power
of expression. Only those who entered
school during September, 1897, are to
1 write, and the compositions only of
1 those who complete the four years'
course and write all the exeroises will
' be preserved. In this way Professor
Soott believes it will be possible to
secure material for an exact comparison.
The subjects for this year are such
as are easily within the. grasp of the
first year high-school pupil, but allow
full play to the pupil's power of expression?the
writing of a letter to a
' friend giving an account of some
thing that happened during the summer;
a short story on the lines of a
plot given; a description of some person
known to the writer; an explanation
of a certain quotation to a person
younger than the writer in such terms
as can be easily understood, and a
composition persuading a "boy or girl
1 of the pupil's own age to read a book
which the pupil has lately read and
! liked.
Subsequently the circular will be
sent to the various foreign countries.
, ?The Pathfinder.
1 Bened Without Wordj.
A dear old clergyman once ex'
changed pnlpits with a younger broth1
er minister well known for his aggressiveness.
Speaking to him be[
fore service, -the resident pastor told
his substitute that the window be'
hind the pulpit was broken, but re*
quested the latter to say nothing about
* it, as he had spoken several times
' without effect. He added that the
> hymn books wore badly torn, and
5 finished by saying, in an apologetic
tone, that "he didn't dupoysethe peo
pie could afford new ones."
L The young minister promised to re>
frain from making any remarks upon
! these matters. After beginning ser*
vice he found the draught from the
1 window unendurable. He quietly took
his overcoat and stuffed it through the
broken glass. The deacons became
vArv nneasv. inwardlv resolving to |
remedy this at the earliest possible
moment.
When he announced the second
hymn he found tha last two stanzas
missing. He read what ho had, then
said to the congregation: "These are
all the verseB in my book; if there are
any moreinyourp you may sing them."
Needless to say, the window was
mended and new hymnals provided
before the next Sabbath.?Vogue.
Moral Geography.
The largest river is Time.
The deepest ocean is Death.
The highest mountain is called Suc'
cess.
1 The most highly civilized country is
' To-day.
' The region where no man hath ever
' set foot is called To-morrow.
I The region where no living thing
I hath habitation is called Yesterday.
c* Few reaoh the top, save those who
I watch sharply for the passing of the
spirit of the mountain, Opportunity,
who carries upward all those that
seize hold upon him.
r The greatest desert is called Life,
} and it hath many oaBes. These ara
i called Hope and Ambition and Love
I and Charity and Home; and of them
3 all the last is the most beautiful. BeP
sides these are many others, smaller
( in extent, whence the traveler obtaineth
refreshments during the jweary
JUUi UOJ Li-Li. UU^U IUO.
Matches of the Future.
There is a prospect of the wooden
I match industry being appreciably afi
fected by a new invention for manu3
facturing matches of paper, as the
1 best -wood for this purpose is con;
stantly growing scarcer and more
3 costly. The new matches are con3
siderably cheaper than the wooden
j product, and weigh much less, which
i counts for much in exportation. The
sticks of the new matches consist of
rolled paper immersed in a solution
of wax, stearine and similar sub5
stances.
I A Duke's Endowment.
On the occasion of the wedding oi
the Duchess of Teck to her handsome
5 but impeounious husband,her brother,
the Duke of Cambridge, gave vent to
' his unfortunate habit of thinking
aloud. When the Duke of Teck sol
emnly pledged himself with all hie
worldly goods to endow the bride, the
Duke of Ca nbridge marred the sol>
emnity of the occasion by exclaiming
, quite audibly: "Well, by Jove! And
3 Wales gave him his shirts!"?Orypt.
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Cellar Wintering.
Bees may be successfully wintered ^
In cellars, if properly managed, bnt ^
it takes care and experience in most ^
cases to make a sure success of it. A tl
cellar used for bees should be for bees
alone and not for other purposes,from &
the faot that a cellar that oontained S(
decayed fruits and vegetables would g
not be as healthy for bees, besides g
frequent visits to the oellar would an- a
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uuy wit? ueeO UUU luaj lODUiu xjll Uioag I]
ter to them. A part of a cellar that ^
is securely partitioned off exclusively a
to itself might answer, if proper pre- t<
caution iB always taken on entering it, &
or doing any work in it while the fcees
are there.?Agricultural Epitomist, y
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Cat Straw on the Floor. ^
It is well to again call attention to ^
the importance of using cut straw on ^
the poultry-house floor after cold
weather begins, as it serves to keep ^
the house warm. Leaves are also ex- ^
cellent, but the supply is soon ex- ^
hausted. It is important to cut the
straw Bhort. If only one inch in ^
length, all the better, and use it liberally,
spreading it on the floor to a ?
depth of two or three inches. When
feeding whole grain to the hens scatter
the grains in the cut straw, and do ^
the same with millet-seed. The hens ^
will be induced to scratch, which will ^
be beneficial to them, promote the ap- f
n n 1 in W
petite ana inauoe laying.?x arm
News.
Influence of StocJc on Scion. ^
The Aoademy of Science, Paris,
France, sends out a report of the effect a
of the stook on the soion in the oase of ^
two pear trees, fifteen years old, which a
had grown side by side in a garden
where they were apparently subject to ^
the same conditions, with the excep- ^
tion of the stocks into which they ^
were grafted. The variety was the '
Triomphe de Jodoigne, and one was a
grafted upon a seeding pear, the other 8
upon a quince: Each tree bore about
300 fruits each year, and for three 8
years the fruits when mature were col- c
lected, compared and analyzed. The c
color of the fruits was very different, ^
those upon the pear stock (being green 8
and those on the quince stock golden 8
yellow, .with a decided rose blush on C
the side toward the sun.. a
Ten fruits from the quince stock
averaged to weigh 406 grams, against
280 grams on the pear stook. Both
fruit and fruit juice on the quince
stock had greater density, and it alsp ?
exceeded that on the pear stock in
acidity and in content3 of sugar. The li
sugar was in the proportion of eleven
kilogrammes of the quince stock to ?
seven on the pear stock.
These observations were in the main ^
confirmed by others made some years a
ago on Winter Doyenne scions on
seeding pear and quince stook.?Bos- ..
aw PnlfitrofA*
Onr Farm Homes. , ^
Our farm homes have not yet been
readjusted to modern ideas, modern I
conveniences and modern necessities, J
says a writer in Voice. This change r
has taken place in town life; and so
left the farm house far in the rear, o
Attempts at readjustment have almost a
invariably b^en erroneous, if not fool- n
ish. For instance, there has been an
effort to recreate rural architecture, ^
but it has not been in the way of ^
creating a distinctive farmhouse, ^
adapted to those needs whioh have ~
grown up around and with country
life. All about the oountry our new ^
farmhouses, for the most part, are ..
poor imitations of city houses. Some- ?
times they are nothing more than oity
houses, built far away from the need 8
of any such building. A little thought
will show to any farmer that such a
house is exactly what he does not 0
need. The city house is lifted higii ^
up into the air from necessity, with 11
little consideration for outlook, but
with a good deal of consideration for r
neighboring houses. It is built to be t
adjusted to city waterworks and gas v
and paved streets. All these ' the v
country dweller does not have. i
The country house, on the contrary,
should be adjusted to entirely differ- ?
ent needs. It should he broad, and f
not high; it should be surrounded by f,
verandas, alcoves, porches, and all D
other possible outlooks. It should, in fc
other words, be adjusted to land and
landscape. It should have three
things about it?first of all, plenty of ^
room, second, plenty of trees and c
vines, and third, plenty of water. The ^
farmer, in building a house, should j,
provide for these three things or consider
his home a failure. We may
now add one more point that modern ?
invention at last is making it possible 11
for us to secure. I mean that the 8
country house should be built for bo- J
ciety. The rural telephone service is *
easily adjustable to farm houses, so as ^
to break up their isolation, and bind
X At A - - _! li#- VI
Ciiem logemer iuiu a eouiai iiie miijr "
as pleasant as that enjoyed by the in- F
habitants of town. The cost of snch t
service is insignificant, and the resnlt a
is the abolition of that isolation which s
has rendered farm life of late almost b
intolerable. About six farm houses
may thus be bound together so as to fi
enjoy the most familiar intercourse ii
and be able to call upon each other for a
assistance in time of need. This new t
farm grouping is rapidly taking place, ti
and it seems not improbable that by l
1900 will have fairly covered the whole
country.
AT. nalmilnw
" "" e
As a rule, with any kind of setting ^
now practiced, the cream will all be p
at the top as soon as the temperature g
stops falling. It will, if the tempera- 0
ture is run down to forty-five degrees p
or below. The more rapid the cool- f,
ing the more rapid the separation. It f(
is not well to go below freezing. ti
It is best to remove the cream
while the milk is sweet, so that the
milk can be fed sweet to the pigs or
calves. No good dairyman favors let- h
finer thfl milk more than sliffhtlv be- a
gin to change before skimming. To g
let the milk lopper is positively bad, s
as it renders it impossible to remove o
the cream without taking too much p
I caseous matter with it. When cream v*
%
i added, thoroughly stir and mix it
ith the mass. Add no cream for!
reive hours before churning, as it
ill not ripen and churn, and will
lerefore remain in the buttermilk.
The cream should be churned as
aon as it beoomes slightly acid. If
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juriug goes ueyuiiu uim, wis auiu ueins
to out and waste the butter fats,
ome, however, let the cream go bo far
b to even lopper. This gives a posiive
lactic-acid flavor to the butter,
rhich many like, .while the extra
mount of caseine retained in the butit
makes up in weight for the loss of
ome of the finer fats.
It was claimed by' the elder
roelcker, chemist of the Boyal. Agri ltural
Society of England, and by
tie late Professor L. B. Arnold, that
tie 'finest-flavored and longest-keepig
butter is churned from sweet
ream and is free from caseous matter;
rhile some claim that such butter is
lsipid in flavor and does not keep
rell
But sweep cream must be ripened
y oxidizing before ohurning, and ex
erxmenters say tnat it must oe
burned at a lower temperature than
our cream in order to seoure the best
ield. .The best temperature in
rhioh to ripen cream is about sixty
agrees. It should be kept oool, not
elow forty degrees, and the temperaore
be slowly raised to the desired
oint of ripening and churning.
The oxidation requires shallow seting
or Bome other method of expostig
the cream to the atmosphere. In
11 deep setting, souring -the cream
ecomes necessary to develop flavor,
s the oxidation is only partial.
The natural butter flavor, developed
y oxidation,, is milder than, tho
actic-acid developed by eounng.
lenoe it is that many consumers preer
the latter, which they are naed to,
s nearly all the butter is made from
our cream.
The contradictory opinions in re;ard
to sweet-cream butter appear to
ome from different ways in which the
ream is handled, only a few knowing
iow to do it. But if one only makes
;ood sweet-cream butter it demontrates
the fact that it can be done.?
/olonel T. D. Onrtia, in Farm, Field
,nd Fireside. ' >
Farm and Garden Notes.
Fowls do not wear overcoats.
Only a little oraok or nail-hole?
>ut?
Only a small head roosting near said
ittle crack or nail-hole?but?
Only a little cold contracted from
he little draught?but? It's roup.
Olear, cold water is a great thing in
utter making, but hot water is quite
s essential.
Better cover the sides and roof of
he poultry house with tarred (01
ther) roofing paper, then there will
>e no cracks.
Don't let the animals become pdoi
?y trying to winter them too cheaply,
"udioious feeding and care the year
ound is what we are after.
.Always use paper on the "outside"
f the house first, and then line the inide
if thought necessary. It will be
lecessary for very cold climates.
The pigs will, if given the opporunity,
do muoh cleaning where
hreshing was done out doors; so will
kr\ svVtt/tlrnna InaiiiT>rr
LLC VUiUAVUO) auu TT1IIUUUV WAV
round up so muoh.
Let those who are building up theii
locks and herds not neglect to head
bem with the best animals obtainable,
'hese oan be bought right, while
crubs are dear at any price.
When it comes to quality, there ie
ar less difference in the best butter
lade by deep and shallow setting and
y centrifugal separating than dairyaen
were formerly led to suppose.
A ton of butter taken from the farm
emoves scarcely any fertility, while a
on of wheat removes about $8.50
rorth and a ton of corn about $5
rorth. Surely, the dairy farm should
uiprovo.
Men who have made great records
q any department of live stock, have
irst learned how to handle the stock
or Best results and then got the anicials
that were built for that kind of
msiness.
All that a farmer has to do to inugurate
a system of improvement in
is poultry is to kill off every scrub
ock and replace them with thoroughbreds;
next season they will be half
ireeds, a long step ahead.
If a young man is thinking of being
breeder of any improved breeds of
ive stock, and he has not learned of a
uccessful father, he better put in a
ear for some man who has mastered
be business, rather than start without
bat experience.
Compared with well-rotted barn mature,
there are 48.60 pounds of phoshoric
acid in hen manure to six in
am manure, forty-one pounds of potsh
to ten in barn manure. The analyis
is based on a ton each of hen and
iarn-yard manures.
There is no good reason why the
amily flock of poultry on every farm
a the land should not be graded up to
high quality by crossing with pure
red males; at this season of the year
bousands of pure bred cockerels are
9r sale at reasonable figures.
Evnporated Onion?.
A company at Bath, engaged in t>.e
vaporating business, has successfully
iscovered a process of evaporating
otatoes and onions, and can reduce
oods into one-tenth the space they
riginally filled. The evaporating
rocess for onions is highly successal,
and a carload will be made ready
or the Yukon market.?London (Onario)
Advertiser.
Spain's Substitute For Telephones.
*r? n??t iL.
Jin opam, wuere tus tciopuuuc 10
irgely used in place of the telegraph,
n ingenious application of the phonoraph
to record the telephonic mesftges
has been made. The receiving
perator repeats the message into a
lionograph, from which it can afterrard
be transcribed at leisure.
i
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Paatear's Forgretfulneia.
The late Dr. Pasteur was as absentminded
as Edison. Even on the morning
of his marriage he forgot all about
the approaching ceremony and went
off to his laboratory. The bride and
the attendants went to the ohurch, bat
oo Pastenr tnrned up. A search was
instituted and Pasteur was found deep
in chemical experiments and utterly
oblivious of the fact that he was to be
made a benedict that day.?Philadelphia
Record.
He Baved Hli Hat.
At Scotch weddings some yearsago
it used to be the custom to batter the
bat of the bridegroom as he was leaving
the house in which the ceremony
took place. On . one of those .occasions
a newly married couple (relatives
of the bridegroom) determined
to carry out the observance of this
custom to the letter., The bridegroom
heard them discussing their plans and
dispatched a messenger to the carriage,
which was waiting, with his hat
some time previous to. his departure.
Then, donning the hat of a male relative
who had ploted against him, he
prepared to go out to the carriage. ,
No sooner had he got to the door
than his bat was furiously assaulted
and almost destroyed. He walked
out of the house amid the laughter of
the bystanders and entered the vehicle;
then taking his battered hat
from his head he threw it into the
bands of its proper owner, exclaiming:
"Hey, Mr. Dougall, there's your hat,"
and donned his own, amid the cheers
of all present. Mr. Dougall was the
onhappiest looking man in Scotland
for some time after that.?London
Telegraph.
The Walking Flab.
Becently very remarkable fish have
been captured is this country, found
many thousands of miles from their
native seas.
One was caught on the Pacific coast
the other day near Betterton. C. O.
Warner, of Philadelphia, caught the
curiosity which turned out to be a
native of the Indian Ocean, and which
is known the world over as the walking
fish, so oalled because it really
does have feet which it uses as a mode
of locomotion. As a matter of fact,
the walking fish is a ghoulish-appearing
thing, for the little claw legs which
are seen, two on each side of the creature,
are decidedly uncanny.
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The largest fortunes have be?n made by small ii
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stockholders of this company have set adde J,500.(XX
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ditlonal shares as follows: To the first applicant frot
each; 2d 100 purchaser* BOO shares each; Sd 100 purchi
each: 5th 100 purchasers 76 shares each: 6th 100 pnrc
each. EVEBY PEBSON WILL BECEIVE ATXEj
> by post-mark on letter, so all stand equal chance for
appears but once and In all papers same lssne. This
anyone of which outfit to develop a BONANZA, and
All mines have excellent showing of gold on surface
ought to pay dividends In few months. Wortingef
60 CENTS ENTITLES YOU TO 10 8HABE8 AND A
sent by return mail Stick 6 dimes to letter if larg?
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Colds, Couehs, Sore Throat, Influenza, Bronchitis,
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treats upon about every subject under the su
and will be sent, postpaid, for 50c. In stamps, p
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For Insomnia. 1
A doctor who has tried it, says that
if two or three dandelion leaves be
chewed before going to bed they will . M
induce sleep, no matter how nervous
or worried the patient may be.
;
One Problem She Can Solve.
There is no woman in the land so
bad an arithmetician that she could not i
calculate how much her husband
would save if he did not smoke.?Lon- - ,
don Figaro.
How to Wuh With Care.
Hard .water, - strong, lye, .or ..Inferior
laundry soap are responsible for the yellow :.Jj|
clothea seen in many households. To wash ^
properly, fill a tub nearly full of hot ;
water, pat the white clothes in first, rub is
with Ivory Soap, scald, rinse and starch.
When dry, sprinkle and lold down.' fever ' /
night and Iron carefully. Eliza B. Pabxxb.
A NotcI Exhibit.
The Kansas farmers will exhibit at the |
Omaha Trans-Mlssisslppl Exposition a carload
of canceled mortgages.
i To Cure A Gold In One Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Qnlolne Tablets. All .^V';
Druggists refund money If it falls to core. ISO,
Oar Trade With. England. '
British Imports for the present year will .
exceed the exports to Amerloa py $815,- .
000,000. , im
Chew Star Tobacco?The Best. '
Smoke Sledge Cigarettes.
How the Flnmr Nails Grow. V
The nails of two finders never grow
with the same degree of rapidity.
The nail of the middle finger, grows
with the greatest rapidity, and that of
the thumb the least. It has been
computed that the average growth of
the finger nail is oqe. thirty-second of
an inch perweek^ora little more than , .<
an inch and a half per year. The
growth, however, depends to a great
extent upon the rate of nutrition, and , < |j
during periods of sioknesa it is retarded.
Authorities differ with regard to the
equality of growth on both hands,
some holding that the nails of the
right hand grow faster than those of
the left, but others can perceive no
difference between them. According M
to the rate of growth stated, the average
time taken- for each finger nail to
grow its full length is about four and
a half months, and at this rate a woman
of seventy would have renewed her
finger nail one hundred and eighty-six
times. ,''
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p, or whooping cough, there is \
as Ayer's Cherry Pectoral.
roughs, colds, and all diseases *
w put up ig fcatf sice bottles at 4 'J
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SF0R50CTS.
i n.mining CO.. of Snokane.Wash. 1
CAPITAL STOCK, 86*000*000.' , '!%
investments In legitimate GOLD MINING. It ooeU
irgest mining corporstlousln the North wtat Tb* < - ']
) shares of their stock to be sold (If eold quickly) at
nick sales first purchasers will receive TBEE ad- (
n any Bute COOO saves. 1st 100 purchasers 1000 shares- W
iseqs S6ti shares each; 4th 100 purohasers 100 shares ;
baeert 60 shares each: 7th 100 purchasers ? share*
UJT 10 SHABE8. The order of purchases decided
large block*, regardless- of-residence. This noticecompany's
Interests are in NIKE GOLD MTKKS.
I If so, your stock will be worth from CI00 to *10.000. i
and It is desired to immediately develop These mine*.
mines paid for out of sales of treasury stock. EACH
. CHANGE FOB LA8GE BLOCKS AB ABOVE. Stock %
it amount send P. O. money oMIr. Writs name and
of SUte or any Bank herepf our reeponsihilltT.
CO- ggl ?622Roakery, Spoknx-, wJj??
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worth treble Its boot. Full
pound bars at all sorts of stores.
U'Lget DRETDOPPEL SOAP.
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household articles, etc. Write F. 8. APPLEMAN,
Patent Lawyer. Warder Bid#., Washlngton,
P.O. Free circular and advice. Low fees.
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great riches, etc. We do a regular patent brndness. r.
Low feet. Advice free. Highest references.
Write us. WATSON I?. COLEMAN, Solidtor
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