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Cleanliuep* in the Hen lloiue.
Keep the eggs clean by keeping the
hests and everything about the henhouse
cleau. When eggs get dirty, as
they sometimes will in spite of all precautions
they should be washed before
being marketed, but it is better not to
have to wash them. Receivers of eggs
say that washed eggs will not keep,
and that the solutions sometimes used
to make dirty eggs look nice and clean
destroy the keeping quality.
Automobile* On the Farm.
Automobile mowing machines pro.
pelled by gasoline engines were ex
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oiDiiea ai me rans ?
were pronou-iced a sa-*.- ess. They
were given a *ai m test m tre presence
of the officials and many leading agriculturists
in a field of second growth
lucerne and were able to cut about an
acre an hour. There were no accidents
or breakdowns. One American
firm uses gearing to transmit the
power from the motor to the kinves
and another uses the chain. The-steer- lag
apparatus is controlled by a lever
from the driver's seat. It is said that
he principle is to be applied to other
machinery.
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Effect of Colored CI tss on Plants.
In* European experiments, with four
small greenhouses, they tested the effects
of red, blue, green and white
glass upon mimosa plants under them.
At the end of three months those under
white glass had made a normal growth
and were about four inches high.
Those under blue glass were alive and
apparently healthy, but made n) g: owth.
Under green glass they had made
about twice the growth of those under
white glass, but were not as well developed
or bushy, but those under red
glass were four times as tall as those
_ under white glass, and 15 times as
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they had blosomed which none of the
others had.
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Immature Wood on Fruit Trees.
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We would urge on every one whose
fruit trees start to make much new
growth this fall, since the growth of
' wood was checked by the drought that
they cut this wood off. or at least twothirds
of it. as it will be so immature
and tender as to be killed by freezing
during tbe winter* We have seen this
result more than once following a prolonged
drought in summer, and mos:
|v . frequently upon young and thrifty '
iyV v trees, and it seemed to injure them
more than it would to have cut them
back. We do not think this heading
In of rank-growing branches is any inJury
to the tree any way, excepting
that it should be done so late that it
will not start the growth of new wood
to the centre of the tree?American
Cultivator.
Lifting Boots,
ij The work of harvesting the Swedish
turnips may be done much more easily
by running a plow along at the side
of the row, turning the soil away from
the roots. While some varieties root
Very deeply, there are others which do
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carrot and parsnip may also be taken
up much more easily, but it needs one
to throw them out behind the team if
; > ?>' tbey are so closely planted as not to
v give space enough for the horse to
walk between the rows. Where they
are in double rows between two rows
? < "'of celery, or have been in alternate
rows with onions, as some grow them,
they can be reached even without
throwing the roots out of the way.
To one who has not tried this it would
be astonishing to see how easily a
? carrot a foot long will lift when a
I .furrow six inches deep has been made
? \ at one side of the roifr.
Talae of Different Sheep Breeds.
It is undisputed that the breeds of
sheep most valued for mutton are more
i * prolific than the fine wool sheep. To
grow as many lambs as there are ewes
Is rather unusual with the fine wools,
while the mutton breeds will bring
twins usually from half the ewes, if
they are properly cared for, and it is
Hot unnsual to have 15 good lambs
. from ten ewes. This is an important
9 Item in considering the relative profit
of the different breeds, especially if
one can get the lambs early enough to
sell at about $5 each. The extra lambs
more than make up for the less weight
r. c of wool. The Shropshires have the
reputation of being the most prolific,
with perhaps the single exception of
the Dorset, which can be made to
breed twice a year, though this pracI
f-.j Mtice is not approved by the best breedT'Kott
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mutton of most excellent quality.
p \ ]:frobab!y much of the matter of twin
- v ' bearing depends upon the method of
feeding and caring for the stock, as we
sometimes v see reports from smnll
flocks where twins are almost an invariable
rule, and triplets about as
frequent as single lambs.
A Ten of Breeding Dnt-k*.
In the beginning of the breeding
r yv
. -*J season, which is now, one drake to
^ r; four ducks or two drakes to eight
ducks is about right, and ought to give
the best fertility, if stock is properly
fed. Later, in warm weather, one
drake to five or-six ducks will do.
As to a house for a small flock of
\ ducks, a weather-tight structure is all
- that is necessary. Ducks should not
be kept too warm: they can stand a
great deal of cold and exposure. They
will prefer to remain out in all the
snowstorms, and will seek the hou<e
? ^ or shelter only at night. There is one
impo.tani point to be cbserv d in housing.
Although they are natural y \
water animals, they cannot stand
, ,, damp bedding. The litter must be
' ? kept dry. otherwise they will be cr p
pled witb rheumatism. Give them, at
this time of year, as well as in worm
weather, all the exercise possible.
Yard them, if you will, but let the
yards be of fair size.
A good ration for breeders is kaif
corn meal and half wheat bran, to
which add a liberal handful o.; coarse
black or builder's sand; mix all thoroughly
together with water ard feed
in rather moist or sloppy cons.stency.
and never dry. Three times a Week
add a small portion of soaked ground
beef scraps to this ration. Add also
boiled and fine-chopped vegetables,
and give whole cabbages every day. j
Whole grain. I ke com. is not a natural ]
food for ducks, although they will eat j
it. Soft and moist food more to
their fancy. When they are fed. wh'cli
shu'd be only twice a day. resh w t'w
should be w th'n ens - r;> eh. ;.s t li y
h?rdl take a : ill"nl of fe?d rd t' v.
prash it witli ^yater. if the water .
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ia omitted they sometimes choke.
Breeding ducks should not he allowed
to become over-fat.?Count: y Gentleman.
The Treat men t of Konp
Roup is one of the most dreaded of
diseases. It is sometimes spoken of as
i the winter disease, but it may appear
at any time and remains in some flocks
the entire year. It is similar to a cold
or catarrh in human beings. The nostrils
may become stopped up with
mucus, causing the bird to make a
sniffling noise. The face often becomes
swelled and filled with pus. A discharge
will, at times, gather in the eye
and run down the face. Sometinus
the patient will be troubled with a
thick coating on the tongue, which is
often called canker. The throat becomes
inflamed while in nearly nli
cases the breath of the fowl smells
badly.
The direct cause of this horrible dlsi-i.!
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?.-as>e is luiuiig vuiu, ;i?> r o.i.i.
may result from damp weather and
quarters. The fowls get wet and cold,
and breathe a damp atmosphere, causing
congestion which breaks out in
one of the various forms of roup.
Then the fowl may have been subjected
to a draft either from some
crack in the poultry house, or from
roosting in tree tops, or it may have
been housed in a poultry house with
a ventilator, which is the largest and
most successful death trap the poultryman
ever invented. Neglected and
filthy quarters will also start this disease.
In this case, as in many other
diseases, a preventive is worth a dozen
cures. You may treat an Infected
bird and cure it. as you think, but in
a short time it will be as bad as ever.
Bathe the head with some disinfectant
and then rub it well with sweet oil.
Make a tea of lobelia and mullen, adding
a little salt. This will be found
a good disinfectant as well as healer.
Some use coal oil?kerosene?only, and
report good success.
Disinfect everything about the
premises as soon as you see any signs
of the disease. Whitewash everything.
Put lime in the drinking water, and
give the hens some good condition
powder. Too much care cannot be exercised
in choosing your poultry powder;
so much contains drugs that are
worse than the disease.?P. W. Hearn,
in the Agricultural Epitomisb
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Beef Cattle an 1 Wheat Raining.
In my opinion, a grass rotation and
the growing and finishing of beef cattle
would best fit in with wheat-growing,
for the following reasons: By a
grass rotation you retain or store up
humus and fiber in the soil, as well as
get a sod on the surface, which is
bringing it back to something like its
original state. By continual cropping
we have the surface lying bare for the
greater part of the year, and, as a
natural consequence, it becomes dried
out and loose, so that in spring and
early summer, which is, generally
speaking, when drought affects us
most, it is very liable to be so dry and
drift so badly with high winds as to
materially affect the crop. Now, my
system is in preference to summer-fallow:
to seed down with not less than
S pounds of timothy seed to the acre
mixed with the grain?either wheat or
barley?and drilled in as soon as possible
in the spring, so as to get it started
before the soil becomes too dry. I
have never missed a catch this way
when sown early in the spring. I do
nothing to it after the crop is cut until
next spring, when, as soon as the
growth has started,' I give it two
strokes of the harrow to break down
stubbles and chick weeds. Then'it is
left until fit to cut. Nothing is done ,
to it after the hay is removed, unless
we have well-rotted manure to spread
on it. Generally, nothing is done until
after the second cut of timothy is taken
off, when it is plowed about three
inches deep and disked down to start
weed seeds. This I find a goo 1 way to
clean the land of most noxious weeds.
The second crop is lfkely to be light,
but I think it pays to leave it for the
extra # sod it gives the land. Land
treated in this way gives two good
crops of wheat, is generally clean, and
ripens much earlier than summer-fallow.
Now, here is where the cattle
come in for converting the hay and as
much straw as possible into manure to
be put back on the land. Finishing
beef cattle or attending to them in
winter when there is nothing else to do
fits into wheat-fanning well. My reasons
for preferring beef to dairying are:
because during our short summer season,
^rhen there is always such a rush,
particularly during harvest and fall,
beef cattle, if provided with pasture
and water, need little or no attention,
wherei# dairyingneeds the almost constant
attention of trained and competent
persons every day of the year.
Of course, a man's situation and personal
tastes would have to be considered.
Ours is decidedly a wheat or
grain growing district. There are no
natural hay meadows and no vacant
lands to pasture licrds on. There is
also no reason why a couple of brood
mares of the right sort, propei ly mated
and cared for, should not be profitable
on a wheat farm if given proper a
tentiou. They will do*a lot'of work
during the rush of spring and harvest
and fall work. Hogs may also be
handled with profit but I think dairying
and hog-raising go better together.
Timothy has done well with me as
a hay crop, and it is good for fall pasture,
but is too late in. starting in |
spring to be an ideal grass for permanent
pasture, and it runs out in about
three seasons and becomes very weedy
and dry.?John Sweet, in the Farmer's
Advocate.
The Prince htii! the Gliillie.
The Prince of Wales used to tell a
good story about his fishing experiences.
says London Sphere. A highland
ghillie on Speyside was informed by
his mistress that the prince was to
honor them with a visit soon, and that
she hoped that he would have some
in tlip river as well as on the i
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moor. Donald was the guardian angel
of the salmon pools. Rather a
imique angel with red liair. red bushy
whiskers and a kilt: but he was an
expert fisherman, and nu other of his
class on Speyside could lift a rod with
him. Donald was in a great state of
consternation, as to how he should
address the prince, and accordingly
he approached her ladyship on the
subject and was told that instead of
saying "sir" he was to use the phrase
"Your Royal Highness." The day
came. Donald, to give the necessary
encouragement, kept saying as the
prince moved down the pool. "One
more cast and your royal highness
shall have him." Then seeing a boil
in the water, the evident sign of a
rising fish, and fearing the prince
might lose the hold thr ough not striking
in time. Donald, qr'fe forgetful m
his oxe't'M'U'f. blurt d cu i "Dp with
your rod. you soj: of a gun, or you'll
lose your fish"' 1
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TREATY LPIN SENATE
August Body Tackles the Meas*
are With Many Misgivings.
FORTIFICATION THE QUESTION
Hay-Pauncefote Measure Is In
Effect an Amendment to the
Clayton-Bulwer Treaty.
A Washington special says: The
Hay-Pauncefote treaty laid before the
United States senate Thursday after
noon, has an important bearing on the
construction and operation of the Nicaragua
canal.
The treaty is in effect an amendment
to the famous Clayton-Bnlwer
treaty, signed more than half a century
ago, by the terms of which the United
States made a contract with Great
Britain relating to thefcconstruction,
fortification and operation of any canal
that might be built across Central
America.
Under the old treaty the neutrality
of the canal was guaranteed and the
United States agreed not to acquire
territory in Central America and made
other entangling contracts which have
caused trouble for this country every
time the canal question came up.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty amends
the old tieaty so as to permit the
United States to acquire a strip of
land in Costa Bica and Nicaragua teu
miles wide through which the canal
will bo constructed, but in its original
form the Hay treaty does not reserve
to this country the right to protect and
fortify the canal if it so desires. This
is the main point involved and it is the
one on which the fight against the
treaty has waged for months.
The opponents of the treaty insist
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UpOll au uilieuuLucui icanug iuc ijutotion
of fortification opeD so that the
United States will be free to build
forts and adopt other protective measures
at any time.
The caDal is to be neutral and open
to the commerce of the world on terms
to be arranged by the United States.
The isthmian canal commission,
headed by Admiral Walker, recently
reported that the canal cannot be'constructed
for the amount specified in
the bill, but it would require nearly
8200,000,000 to construct it. The additional
cost will not prevent the passage
of the bill.
There is a bill pending, introduced
by Senator Mallory, of. Florida, by
request, to create a commission to
have charge of the construction and
control of the canal. The commissioners
are to receive salaries of $10,000
each per annum.
Senator Morgan, it is known, fears
the effect of the ratification of the HayPanncefote
trexty, as amended, on the
canal. He thinks there will be long
delay in the settlement of the diplomatic
question between the United
States and Great Britain involved in
the fortification amendment, and that
the administration will not be willing
to allow the canal bill to be passed until
this point is settled.
This may mean that the canal bill
will have to go over until the n^xt
congress. In the latter case it means
the old fight over again, as the bill
would have to go through the house
again as a new measure. Now it has
only to pass the senate and for this
reason Senator Morgan is anxious to
secure its passage in the senate at this
session, avoiding a hard and dangerous
fight in the next house of representatives.
So anxious is he to have
the mtetter disposed of at this session
he is willing to have the Hay treaty
ratified in its original form, although
lie appreciates the un-American conditions
attached to the instrument.
By a vote of 65 to 17, the senate
Thursday adopted the Davis amendment
to the Hay-Pauncefoto treaty and
immediately afterwards adjourned.
The prompt adjournment of the senate
was due to fear on the part of those
in charge of the treaty that if a vote
on that document was then taken it
would fail to secure the necessary twothirds,
for it was clear that the temper
of the senate was in favor of changing
the treaty very materially or rej
icting it altogether.
TWO TRAINMEN KILLED.
Head-End Collision Between Freight
Train* Kosnlt* Seriously.
In a head-end collision at Desarc,
Mo., Wednesday between freighttrains
two trainmen were killed and four injured.
Both engines were demolished;
The dead are: Engineer James Brit*
and Brakeman Edward,Bradley.
Barrett was pinioned beneath the
wreck aud it was found necessary tc
chop off his left arm to prevent death
from scalding.
LABOR WORLD.
The German Empire in 1SC0 had L>5C
strikes.
A settlement of the woodworker**'
strike in Chicago is said to be assured
In Toledo, Ohio, all of the city departments
are working under the eight
hour rule.
Miners at the Simpson coal mine*,
at Lafayette. Col., have struck for
higher wages.
The International Jewelry Worker*'
Union has organized a branch with lOo
members at Philadelphia.
The Cigar Makers' International
Union now has a membership of owr
34.000, and is growing rapidly.
The servant girls or .Minneapolis, i
Minn., are being organized into a union
by the trades and labor council cf titr
city.
The products of American workshops
exported during the nine months
ended September 30 last, were valued
at $338,078,243.
So great is the boom in the patternmaking
branch of the iron-working industry
that employers literally have
had to hunt for workmen.
Common laborers in Spain get from
thirty to forty cents per day in the
larger towus and from twenty to thirty
cents in the rural districts.
The employes of the New Castle
(Penn.) Engineering Works have been
asked to accept a wage reduction of
irvpiitv-five to thirty-live cents a day.
. Sixty lace finishers employed in the I
corset factory of I. Newman & Sons
at Xew Haven, Cotiu.. struck a few
days ago against a twenty-five pe>
cent, reduction of wages.
- Shipping firms at Portland and Baih
Mc., are unable to find crews for their !
vessels, a number of which are lying
at the wharves unable to leave .or
the reason given. The cause of the
scarcity is that a great number of nun
have shipped on transports lor Mav
ila and China. i
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WANT PAY FOR WHIPPING.
Ten Citizens of Hart County, Ga.,
Sued For "Whitecapping"
Man and Woman.
Ten prominent citizens of Hart
county Ga,, are defendants in a sensational
suit for whitecapping which
was brought in fhe federal court at
Atlanta by Benjamin W. Evans and
Miss Emma White, in which the latter
ask for damages amounting in the
aggregate to $100,000. Each of the
plaintiffs sues for $50,000.
The defendants named in the petition
are Agnus L. Alford, Florence
M. Carter, John A. Dickerson, Solomon
M. Bobo, Samuel W. Peer, E.
Berry Benson, J. D. Mathison, Harold
M. Griffiu, D. A. Perritt, L. ?.
Meredith and John E. Stevens.
Evans charges in his petition that he
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morniug of October '22 and set upon
by the defendants. He says his clothes
were torn off and that he was beaten,
choked and struck at with a heavy
club, and his collar bone injured. He
charges further that the defendants *
broke open his wine house and destroyed
350 gallons of the beverage,
worth $1.25 a gallon. Further, he
charges that the defendants broke
open his trunk and stole $33.50. He
also says they beat his three small
children.
Emma White, 20 years old, was acting
in the capacity of housekeeper for j
Evans, ?he says. She charges that I
the same ones who beat her employer I
also beat her with buggy whips, and
that, too, while in a mortifying position.
It is said that a band of men went
to Evan's home some time ago and
thrashed his two daughters and compelled
them to leave the county. It is
understood that they are now in Atlanta.
The suits are the most sensational
that have been filed in the court in
some time, and the outcome will be
watched with interest by the citizens
of the county where ihe plaintiffs have i
been living.
ENULAM) IS DILATORY.
Her Obstinacy a Stumbling Block to
Peace to Negotiations In China.
Such reports as the state department
has had from Mr. Conger up to
the present fail to develop a satisfac
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British government in amending the i
Pekin agreemeut on the one hand and j
for the hesitation of the foreign min- !
isters to sign the agreement on the
other.
A close perusal of the British suggestion
still fails to show that it is in
any sense material. As stated already
it appears on its'face t6 be nothing
more than the elimination of an explanatory
phase, which in no degree
affects the action proposed in the section
of the agreement to which amendment
applies is left to stand by itself
without a statement of reason which
would not even qualify or limit the j
taxation, which in this case relates to
the punishment of the boxer leaders.
Consequently it is believed in Washington
that this disagreement will be
merely temporary aud the most serious
consequences that can ensue iaan annoying
delay at a moment when the
worst phase of the negotiation seems,
to have safely passed.
IMPORTANT QUESTIONS UP.
We Will Soon Know Whether Uncle Sam
Owns New Possessions or Not.
Monday the supreme court of the
United States began hearing argument
with the view of determining whether
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tne rnmppines, .rorioiuco, ijruam aua
the Island of Jolo are American territory,
governed and protected by the
constitution.
Several cases involving the question
of whether the constitution follows the
flag are before the court, and the
learned judges wili soon determine the
relations that actually exist between
the new possessions and the nation.
Attorney General Griggs appears
for the government and former Secretary
of the Treasury John G. Carlisle
for the people of the islands, as represented
by the petitioners.
Hunlsville In Gr^t Luck.
Rowe & Co.; of New York, fcave decided
to build a 8300,003 cotton mill
in Huntsville, Ala. This new industry
was secured through the instru- .
mentality of T. W. Pratt, who has secured
four cotton mills for Huntsville
in the last three years.
RULES WERE SUSPENDED.
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House Takes Advantage Thereof and
Passes Many Bills.
Under suspension of the rules the
house Monday passed bills, to divide
Kentucky and West Virginia into two
judicial districts, to create another
district judge in the northern district
of Ohio;, to refer to the secretary of
the interior for investigation the claim
of the state of Texas for moneys expended
on, public improvements in
Greer county before the decision of the
supreme court placed it within the
jurisdiction of Oklahoma.
BRITON'S WIN THIS ONE.
lioer Force of Two Thousand Is Given a
Complete l>efeat.
The report of another severe battle,
resulting in a Britir.h victory, is current
in London. According to the
story the fighting began at day break
31 outlay and lasted lor several Honrs.
The Boers, who numbered from 1,500
to 2,000 men, were surrounded at the
Orange river and totally defeated with
veiy heavy losses in killed and wounded.
A number of Boers, it is added,
were captured.
Parker Rye
NONE PURER,
NONE BETTER.
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PORTRAIT CAMEO CUTTINC.
Only One Exponent of the Art In This
Country.
Chicago claims the only portrait
cameo cutter in the United States.
There may be other cameo cutters,
but portrait cameo cutting is as far beyond
ordinary cameo cutting as is portrait
painting beyond photography. It
is an art in itself.
The only portrait cameo cutter is A.
Ilylen. a native of Sweden, where he
learned the art of engraving on metal,
which is the basic art of cameo cutting.
He learned cameo cutting in
Vienna. Like other fine arts, cameo
cutting requires infinite patience, besides
artistic sense, and it was not
until Mr. Hylen had worked for somctlnnk
like 40 years that he considered
himself a competent portrait cameo
cutter.
Cameo* cutting is one of the oldest
fine arts. It probably originated in
India, but was carried thence to Egypt,
where it flourished before the time of
Moses. It was carried from Egypt to
Persia. In those early days it is believed
that the art 6f cutting precious
stones was a part of the literature of
the times, rather than a means of expressing
the artist's sense of the beautiful,
and it was not until the art was
taken up by the Greeks that it attained
that perfection which has since
distinguished it. With the decline of
the Roman empire it became a lost
art, but was revived in the Renaissance
and became more prominent
than ever. ,
Up to that time the art had been
one of engraving on precious stones,
but the artists of the later period not
only discovered that it was possible to
put pictures and portraits in shell, but
they carried it to such perfection that
shells are now universally employed
for the finest work.
.The shells used are the large conch
shells found in the Bahama islands.
Only one or two pieces of shell suitable
for cameos can be cut from one
conch. The pieces are ground to an
oval surface and then are examined
for flaws and bad coloring. If the least
flaw is discovered or a color which
would destroy the value of the cameo,
the piece is rejected. If the surface
shows pure white, the cameo cutter
sketches an outline of his portrait or
figure on the surface and then examines
the thickness of the white part.
He removes the superfluous parts of J
the white surface outside of his out- j
line, and then gradually works out his j
design, taking care to work uniformly ,'
so he can compare his figure with the
photograph from which he works. The
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most powerful magnifying glasses
must be used, and even then the cutler
can work only ten or fifteen minutes
at a time. After those short intervals
of application he has to rest
his eyes for an hour before taking up
the work again. Considering the slowness
of the process and the long time
required for the artist to become competent
for his work, it is easy to understand
why genuine cameos are expensive.
Many fraudulent cameos are
made in Europe and sold in this country
as genuine. Most.of them are
made of opaque glass, which is ce- j
m.ented to a background of onyx or i
other stone. Ivory is sometimes used |
in the making of spurioui cameos,
but it soon becomes yellow.?Chicago
Times-Herald.
A Contrast ih Cooks.
In an article contributed to a London
paper, John Strange Winter, who
has been living for many months past
in Dieppe, compares the French to the
English cook, rather to the detriment
of the latter. "In the French kitchen,"
she says, "there is no waste. It would
seem that the French mind does not ;
run to waste or revel in it, as the j
lower class English mind* invariably :
does." 4
The French cook will not only do a
bit 5f the housework, but she will do
it cheerfully and as a matter of course.
"You cannot buy your French cook
too many pans, and her soul loves
copper in her kitchen. Certainly an |
English cook would grumble if she !
was expected to keep a kitchen full j
of copper pans bright and clean; but a j
French one has them In a condition i
akin to burnished gold. Her pride is j
gratified if her kitchen walls-are hung |
with these ornaments, and even if she
does the greater part of her small
cooking in little enameled pans, she
will daily rub up the copper ones
which hang on the wall."
An Arizona Ballot Box,
The ballot box for Bellemont precinct
was left in charge of a proper
person at the last election, who stored
it- in a proper place, or supposed he
did. Now the ballot boxes used in
Coconino cpunty are made of steel and
are handsome to see. A Mexican woman
saw the box, and not knowing its
use concluded that it would be just
the thing to store her finery in. She
appropriated it and had it shipped to
Flagstaff. She intended going to New
Mexico on a visit. The ballot box or
trunk, as it had become known under
its new ownership, was taken to the
depot, where L. L. Burns, thinking
it a little too early to be sending' out
election paraphernalia, made inquiry
about it. He notified the county officials,
who summarily took possession
of it, much to the inconvenience of the
fair scnorita. who was proud of her
handsome and convenient trunk.?Coconino
Sun.
Ene'ish Taste in War Relics.
Has the shoddy patriotism of the
present day left any sense of decency
among us? I see it announced in the
Morning Post, without a word of comment
or reprobation, that the shell
whicfr killed Colonel de VilleboisMareuil
has been mounted and presented
to the officers of the Nottingham
Yeomanry and is now on view
in a London shop. Imagine that some
English soldier-peer, say Lord Methuen,
had volunteered for service in
the Spanish army during the Cuban
war and had been killed by an American
shell, and that the shell had been
mounted to be preserved as a trophy
by an American regiment; should we
rnnsider this a decent or a friendly
act? Or should we denounce it with
all the strong language at our command
as an outrage alike on good taste
and on international friendship? A
British officer writing to me on the
subject says: "Thank God for one
thing; it is not regular soldiers who
have been guilty of this act" But
there is no similar consolation open to
the auxiliary forces or to Englishmen
at large.?London Truth.
J4. ^ .
NEW DISEASE IN TOWN,
It is Called "Crocers' Dyspepsia," and
Buyers Who Sample Are Victims.
Hundreds of men in this city are suffering
from a most insidious and
energy-sapping form of indigestion
known as "grocers' dyspepsia." Buyers
for grorar; nouses and commission
merchants are the ones who suffer
from this peculiar ailment, which
is caused by their inevitable propensity
to taste the crackers, fruits,
spices and other tempting forms of
food which are displayed by the wholesalers.
i
"Do you see that tall, lanky,
cadaverous fellow over there," asked
a prominent wholesale grocer. "Well,
what would you say was ailing him?
Dyspepsia? Well, sir, you have hit
tne na:i on ine neau. rmi 11 isn i any
common, ordinary sort of dyspepsia
from which he is suffering. Not a bit
of it. It's what we in the trade call
'grocers' dyspepsia,' and it seems to
me the name fits the case exactly.
Now just watch him.
"You see the first thing he does Is to
make for that open bag of roasted coffee
beans. There go some into his
mouth. Now let us see what the
clerk is going to show him. If it is
anything softer than a cocoanut, you
can wager he will sample it. Prunes!
Well, he is good for about an eighth
of a pound of those."
"Now that fellow?he's a well-known
buyer ror one of the largest grocery
stores up town, by the way?probably
visits from eight to ten wholesale
houses in the course of a forenoon. In
every one he will taste of something,
a cracker, a cinnamon stick, some dried
fruit or, worst of all for the state of
his health, a handful of cloves. It
doesn't seem much, to be sure, but he
gets the habit, and day after day he
goes through the same performance,
and then wonders why he is troubled
with indigestion.
"I was speaking to a doctor about ft
only last night. He said that eating
continually, as many of these buyers
and commission merchants do, is
enough to ruin the best digestive apparatus
provided by nature. The
stomach can't stand the wear a^d tear
of always being obliged to work. Then,
much of the stuff that these men can't
seem to resist Is bad enough, even
when taken with other food. When
taken alone they prove most pernicious
in their effects. Take spices, for example.
They continually excite the
secretion of the glands of the digestive
organs, and in time succeed in exhausting
the gastric juices. Then the
glanda themselves become abnormally
large, with the result that they are
unable to perform their proper functions.
"The punishment for these indiscretions
seems bad enough, doesn't it?
Yet I like to think of it as a sort of
divine retribution, for there is another
side to the story. You can readily
realize that the loss to us is considerable
when I tell you that some fifty
first boss did to me*'
of these men come in every business
day in the year, and that fully threequarters
of them indulge, so to speak.
I know no way to cure buyers of the
habit except to do with them what my
first boss did to me."
"What did he do?" was asked/
"Well," said the grocer, with a
slight chuckle, "when I was a lad, my
first position was with a wholesale
grocer. The morning I started in the
boss said to me: 'You see.a lot of nice
things around here?raisins, fruit,
crackers, cinnamon, etc^don't you?
Now, I want you to eat all you feel
like eatiug. Understand?'
"Being a most Innocent and unsuspecting
youth, I followed his direc-r
tions literally. I didn't do a thing to
those raisins. I also dipped into the
coffee and sugar, and polished off
about a half pound of crackers.
"The next day I stayed at home with
mother. When I appeared again, and
was greeted with a knowing wink from
the boss I tumbled to his scheme. It
was successful, for I never cared to
taste of the dainties I saw around after
that"?New York Mail and ExDresa
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Short and Useful Pointees.
Linseed meal is excellent for the
poultry while moulting.
Damp stables are injurious to the
stock. Don't have them.
Select your future dairy cows from
only the best heifers.
Pop o^rxi is better than field corn for
hens, as It contains more nitrogen.
Try changing the churning temperature
of the cream if the butter seems
long in coming.
The largest profit i.iways comes
from the animal tha-; has been fat>- '
tened up in good shape.
If your cows are of the best the only
way to increase the yield is by more
and better feeding.
Poultry dc not - require a large '
amount of charcoal, but they do need .
an uninterrupted supply.
Keep the hens a scratching. When
they are idle they get into bad habits
?especially that of feather pulling.
You might as well farm with the
old-fashioned implements as to try
and farm with the old-fashioned scrub
stock.
Good beef cattle are only those that
are able to take on flesh rapidly, ma
ture early, and stand ready to be rattened
at any age.
Don't empty meat brine where the
hogs can get It. The burying of hogs
is a very unpleasant as well as unprofitable
business to be in.
The way some people who keep hens
deprive them of a dust bath, you would
think it was gold dust that was re- '
quired instead of common road dust.
The farmer who keeps hens must
take his choice between lice or eggs.
If he persists in allowing the hens to
be lousy he must do without the eggs.
%It appears that the hog's digestive
apparatus is of the very best. In from
thirty to forty-five minutes after he
has eaten, his food will be fnlly digested.
If the hens receive better care, better
housing, and more comfort, it is
equivalent to "pushing the button."
The hens may be depended upon to "do
the rest."
A farmer should not satisfy his own
ideas in breeding. Find out what the
purchaser wants and try to comply
with his ideas of what constitutes a
good animal.
If a cow can't make at least 150
pounds of butter in a year she Isn't
worth her keep. But before discarding
her make sure that the fault is
with the cow and not the owner.
^
Her Clever Scheme.
"Why, how do you do? Charming
day, is it not? How are all the folks
at home?' The woman- rattled this
off rapidly, sweetly, and with such
warmth that the victim she had selected
In the crowded street car
thought she meant it He folded his
paper, tipped his hat rose, offered the
woman his seat and began to stammer
something.
"Really, I beg your pardon; but I
thought you were Mr. Brown, of
'Steenth street Stupid of me, but
you do so look like him." Then she
settled herself in her seat and the
nn/1 IaaL'A^ TfOY*W ohoQ n
HIS CRIM REVENGE.
| Thousands of Bears Slain by Enraged
Husband.
; "Old Grizzly," of Tuolumne county,
Cal., is so called because in forty-five
years he has killed 4,983 grizzly bears,
and for the further reason that he has
sworn to make the number 10,000 before
he dies.
'Thomas F. Page was one of a backwoods
family of seventeen children.
He says that he was born "no account."
| Drinking, lying, fighting, cursing and
carousing, he used to go to San Prancisco
when gold dust was the medium
; of exchange. There one day he fell in
} love with a daughter of a prominent
' merchant, and she looked with favor
, on him. She wished to reform him.
Tliey were married, and she went with
; him to his mountain home. They were
; happy, save as drink occasionally made
I sorrow for the lonely wife.
A daughter was born to them, but
; there was no change in the father,
i Periodically he rode to the village of
i Columbia* and drank himself into a
stupor, in which condition he would
come home maudlin.
One morning his wife was not at the
door to meet him on his return from
town. He did not hear the baby. The
door of the cabin was open, too. He
crept to the back opening, and, peeping
in, 6aw his wife on the floor witfc the
; figure of a man sitting beside her. In
a blind rage he raised his rifle and fired
| at the figure. With a hoarse growl of
rage a big grizzly bear dashed at him.
i Twice more the repeating rifle awoke
the echoes and the great carcass rolled
over prostrate.
"Is that you, Tommie? O, Tommie"?
l And the voice of his wife was still.
I Only fragments of bone and flesh
: showed where death had come to the
; baby.
I It was then that fate exacted the
! great reckoning of Thomas Page. He
; buried his dead and left the haunts of
! men. He made a vow never to speak
again to a fellowman. He swore to
avenge himself by devoting his life toj
ward exterminating the grizzly bear
In the mountains, for more than fortyfive
years, he has been on the trail of
(rroat ni'oatiiroe and ho hflS been
a Nemesis that few have escaped.?
Chicago Tribune.
' The Earl of Minto is the presenl
| Governor General of Canada. His salary
is $50,000 a year.
;
LLlilLi U1U511CU auu ivuacu TV.1J vuvu^.
He was simply the victim of a bunko
game that some of the city school
teachers and perhaps other women,
now use when they want a seat and
find no man in a crowded car ready
to offer them one?New York Times.
Our Nation's Wealth.
Gold and silver are poured abundantly
into the lap of the nation, bat our material
wealth ana strength is rather in iron, the
most useful of all metals, just as the wealth
of a human being lies in a useful stomach.
If you have overworked yours untii it fa
disabled, cry Hostetter's Stomach" Bitters. It
will relieve the clogged bowels. Improve the
appetite and cure constipation, dyspepsia,
biliousness, liver and kidney disease.
. Full Blown.
He called her mouth a rosebud then.
But. ah. It makes him wince
To think they're married now, and It's
Been blowing ever since.
The Best Prescription for ClillU
and Fever Is a bottle of Grovs's Tastkmcss
Cbiix Tonic. It Is simply iron and quinine In
n tasteless form. No cure?no pay. Price Mc.
Forewarned.
"You can't believe more than half you hear."
"Which half of what you tell me shall I believe?
31 re. Winslow'S Soothing Syrup for children
teething, softens the gums, reduces Inflammation.
allays pain, cures wind colic. 2jc. a bottle.
Oat of Harmony.
"In't this a lovely puritan picture?"
"I sbould say not! Look at that puritan
maiden?wearing a rolled apron while she
picks a turkey."
Thirty minutes is all the time required to
dye with Putnam Fadeless Dies. Sold by
all druggists.
Signs.
Brlggs?Monkerly Is losing his Interest In
' golf.
Griggs - What makes you think so?"
Brlggs?I saw him at his office yesterday.
8100 Reward. 8100.
The readers of this paper will be pleaded to
learn that there is at least one dreaded disease
that science has been able to core in all
its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh
Cure is the only positive cure now known to
the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional
disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally,
acting directly upon the blood and raucous
surfaces of the system, thereby destroying
the foundation ot the disease, and giving
the patient strength i>y omitting up tne constitution
and assisting nature in doing its
work. The proprietors have so much faith in
1 its curative powers that they offer Oue Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials. Address
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O.
Sold bv Druggists, 75c.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
Holiday Zest.
"Well, now we can settle down and think
about t hristmas."
"Settle down? Get stirred up, you mean.*
Uncle Sam's Soldiers
Will eat Ltbby's Plum Pudding for Christmas
dinner. The U. S. Government has Just purchased
a large consignment of Llbby, McNeill
Jfc Llbby's famous plum pudding, which will
be supplied to American Soldiers in the Philippine
Islands and Cuba.
Inadvertently Pl#aeant"I
didn't know it was to be a comic opera."
"Well, you knew it was to be an opera given
by an tun at our company.
I am sure Plso's Cure for Consumption saved
ufa thpbrt taars a.co.?mm. tttor ron.
bins, Maple St, 'SorWlchTN. Y? Feb. 17~1000~
The Charm of Novelty.
"Don't you find the fad of collecting rather
tiresome?"
"Oh. no; now and then I quit collecting soznei
thing and collect others."
Dr. BulPsgHgS
Cough SyrapfeSTSrSBS
y Get Dr.Bull'sCoughS?iun.
' irsaiceVe^lJITfc?"PW?,i Eye Water
VPVffMS
Hlmxt
A Sign of Activity. $(m
Mrs. Strongmind?Oh, she's ft ni<? Jl
woman, but I don't consider her very,
active or energetic.
Mrs. Uptodate?No?
Mrs. Strongmind?Why, no. She ^
Isn't engaged in more than four or
five different crusades.?Brooklvn Life.
Owing chiefly to their blindness,
men hold many and varied views?i-* ^
Detroit JournaL ^
To Cure Cold In One Day.
rake Laxativi Bboxo Qcixik* Tabixts. All
druggists refund the money if It falls to care. 5 ;g
e. W. Gkotb s signature Is on each box. 23c. qk
The Plot That Faile-d"Araballa
doesn't look at all happT-"
"I?o; she married a man younger th hereeu &S2
under .he Impression that he would betaoce
manageable than an older one.
Best For the Bowels* r No
matter what alls yon, headache to ? .- <>
cancer, yon will never get well until your - jS
bowels are pat right. Cascaxets helpnature,
care yoa without a gripe or pain,
Educe easy natural movements, cost you
: 10 cents to start getting your health </ k.
Oascakits Candy Cathartic, the i
genuine, put up In metal boxee, every tablet
has O.G.O. stamped on It. Beware of SgpiS
Imitations. ? >
Expensive and Exclusive.
"What Is this social struggle we heir so much <4
about?" J*
"It is partly getting In yourself and partly . AJf
keeping other people out."
A Colonel In the British South A Mean '&M
army says that Adams1 Tutti Fruttf TW t
blessing to his men while marching. '' fl'^1
A Youthful Observer. . ;
Mamma?Don't lounge that way, Toipmy. .
Sit np 11;e a little man. v||l
Toramy-Whr. mamma. m?n sit down; ltfa
only dogs and things that sit up.
Feeds
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the Hair
Have you ever thought why g
your hair is falling out? It is j
because you are starving your *'J
hair. If this starvation coa-^| |
tinues, your hair will continue
There is one good hair foocLJ^ J
It is Ayer's Hair Vigor. It |
goes right to the roots of the ;|g
air and gives them just the'
food they need. The hair Jj
stops felling, becomes healthy, ' f |
and grows thick and long. 9
Ayer's Hair Vigor does
another thing, also: it always 1 ||
restores color to faded or gray J
One dollar a bottle. jft ^
Ii your druggist cannot supply you, gead^Js <
us ^i.oo and we will express a bottle to yoa. 3HH
all charges prepaid. Be sare and give tut : &SSR
your nearest express office. J.
C. Am Co., I^owell, KaM. - ' ]
Send for oar handsome book on The Hain || ' ; wjj
9 We make a specialty of mince ?-J? V %
I meat?employ the best skill?use I Ijfl
I the best materials. a >
I We stake our fame on it. We I f j|
I use it to advertise the many other I ^
good things that we make. 9
fLIBBY'Sll
I MINCE MEAT J |
# A package makes two huge pio.* ; J
I Your grocer will furnish it if you I
9 ask him. You 'will find it better M < ^
9 than home-made?better than aoy.?S ^
I a mince meat you ever tasted. You'll -
9 eat Iibby's foods thereafter. -.v9 .
| Itty, McfteS i LN*. Cttca*% :,''M
9 Oar book, "How to Make Good Things jm ??
to Eat," seat free. .
Two hundred bushels of po- J
tatoes remove eighty pounds ?
|| of "actual"Potashfrom the V
|||| soiL Unless this quantky-^^jj
is returned to the soil,
<gwM>8e.?3r|S3& We have books telling
composition, use and value
;^?|S&aMfe? fertilizers tor various crops. ~*jl ^
They arc sent free. 1 f- H
Saw Mills .
$129 TO $929 00
With Improred Rope and Belt Fee<L?
SAWS. FILES and TEETH ia Stock.
Engines, Boilers and Machinery
All Kinds and fiepalrs for same.
Shafting, Pulleys, Belting, Injectors, Plpas, , |
LOMBARD STORKSPPLTCO. v;|
ST. LOUIS, Mo/ ^
?jET -
MN UlttS WHtKfc U1 IU*. HUU>. |M ywjM
y BeetCough Syrup. Taste# Good. C?H - -%??
EteRSb* iNsr^MdMst
Free. Sr. X. X. OXXXX ItOXS. Bex 8. AIUmU.\
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