CHEYENNE ---^ Bars you been to Cheyenne? There's the loneliest place? The drearest and searest You'll find on the face v - Qf the earth, and hard by Lieth Laramie town, Once a camp of Renown As the houie of Bili Ny e. Empty bottles and gravel And cactos and cans, Broken vows and old hoops? Scent the hot wind that fans She parched plain. Going back To the bottle and can, I was broke in Cheyenne, Years alter I sat - In the manager's car A3 it slipped o'er thc steel :'Tsai} -with nc per a jar? ?ad oat train orders; ran tte by way^Of Cheyenne. ' What a wonderful change Had come ever the placel Qb, tho women were fair! v There was one "who had eyes Just the hue of the skies, And the low winds Veresoft, And the things that were quaffed- . Well, we laid over there, .y. ."; . _ , *' *" "Ah, so mach depends,-V .i^t^liashsh, . Aa the hoar* flew by, * ,**?iLa friend and his friends. .. Say, D?fcei; how can We go vray from Cheyenne?" Warmaa in 2few York San. mg^H?JOHES' COOK. > ; **Bekty; Mrs. Hughes is ia such al state! That immaculate new cook of a lot of money, new Parisian seeil lerrr?^Mis. her^ce 3ra? a Nell paused to laugh, and Betty Lov? ell looked up from the_dainty toque she was trimming to ask amusedly: '^^kS?*tja%e awfoDy ar^rj?~Wby, it waa bidy lat? week she called here and extolled h??*o the skies-faster, if ^ossiblo ? Lnckily she offers high wages,, sosbein. his arms and kissed her, she added* demurely : "And I'll have that ?goldpiece fram? ed!"-Forget Me Not _ . Appreciation of American Swells. And the Englishman said : ' 'Our aris? tocracy, with their airs and assump? tions, were inherited by Us. They are, in the main, about 1,000 years old. Yours are the manufacture of yester? day. You have women over there in New'York and Boston and Philadel? phia, and even Chicago, who strike us as mightily droll. Why not? Because, in plain terms, we can't help consider? ing them brummagem imitations of our own duchesses, marchionesses, countess? es. Why should you .resent our judg? ment? Would you pnrchase a Sevres cup or a Dresden plate if you thought it spurious? And is not your attempt at playing patricians the most spurious one conceivable? We don't specially respect our own 'lords,and 'adies,' but we permit them to exist and often to make geese of themselves (or something a good deal worse) because they are plantes la -because feudalism and superstition brought them upon us-because to do away with them wonld entail a revolu? tion, shaking our country to its roots. "It is a fact that we jeer at the men of our own land who gain new titles. We are in spirit far more democratic than you. Our society, as it exists today, is a vast concourse of gentlefolk. You have no society, so far as we can learn ; you have only a collection of plutocrat? ic strugglers, and these, if we are not mistaken, have poshed to the wall even those who had some vague claim to birth, this feature being especially no? ticeable in your Now York, where tho families descended from your early Dutch immigrants (plain and ordinary enough persons even as late as (50 years ago; have been superseded by rich up? starts, the bold and saucy human prod? ucts of your railroad and mining game? sters."-Collier's Weeklv. A Broad Hint. Visitor-Is Miss Rosa at home? Servant-No, sir. Visitor-Why, she has just come in! I saw her. Servant-Yes, sir, and she saw you too.-Nuggets Blondel, the harper, did not discover {he prison of King Richard. Bichar? paid his ransom, and the receipt for it * among the Austrian archives. EXHIBITION FOV/LS. Do Not Overlook the Useful Qualities Sj* Poultry. There are' breeders of fancy poultry, says Henry L. Allen in The National Stockman and Farmer, who aim to pro? duce exhibition fowls without regard to egg prod action. The farmer who secures his stock from a breeder of this kind is likely to regret it, if be does not become disgusted and join the army of men who after a similar experience declare that Bcandard bred poultry is far iuferior to scrub poultry from a practical stand? point, and comparing standard bred poultry raised under the conditions here outlined with scrubs well cared for and selected with reference to their practical qualities they are right. There are, however, many breeders of standard bred fowls who never lose sight of the practical qualities they know will make their fowls of twofold value as compared with those bred for exhibi? tion purposes alone. It is not a difficult matter for a breeder to keep the practi? cal qualities of bis fowls developed in a satisfactory degree and at the same time not interfere with their usefulness as exhibition birds. A breeder who aims to have his fowls excel in both respects need only give them the care necessary to induce the production of eggs, and which, in fact, consists of keeping them in the most vigorous and healthy condition imagi? nable, rejecting for breeding purposes such as fail to respond to such treat? ment. Many fanciers use this method of breeding, and so anxious are they for the public to understand the fact that thc utilities of their fowls are beginning to be a feature of their advertisements This being the case, perhaps the safest. course to pursue when . buying fowls or eggs for hatching is to do so only when assured that one is buying from a breed? er who has not allowed the utility quali? ties of his fowls to become dormant in an endeavor to produce prize winners regardless of other considerations. It is a noticeable fact that where a few years ago only about ene breeder in 20 mentioned the useful qualities of his fowls ic his advertisements fully 15 out of 20 nc w call attention to those quali? ties. Tlis is "a most encouraging feature of the business and shows that the pop? ular demand for a combination of use? ful qualities with perfection in form and fea'her has been more effective than many h ive believed possible: Breeding Stock. Good ' breeding stock-that from which the future layers are to come-is the foundation of success. In saving breeding stock for next year keep the old turkeys, geese and ducks and also hens that have done good service. It is possible that they have fallen behind those tl;at are young, but it is a rule that th 3 strongest young stock is pro? cured from the matured birds. The hun? dreds o ! chicks that fall by the wayside and perish from no apparent cause are the offspring of pullets. . This breeding from the younger stock every year is de? stroying the turkeys. With geese the fault is hot so frequent, as old geese are not salable in market, the young ones only being sold, and the result is that geese give less trouble in raising them than any other class of poultry. At the present day there is too much reliance placed on young-ducks for breeding?pur? poses, ?md the fact is being.brought out that th 3 losses of ducklings are increas? ing every year. When the old ducks only are used and breeders will select the best and most vigorous for breeding purposes, the difficulty of weak off? spring will be overcome.-Farm and Fireside. The Two Hundred Egg Hen. Can we produce hens that will lay 200 eg^s per annum? Without a doubt. How? By scientific breeding, as for a good I utter cow or a good milker, as for a totting or high jumping horse. Experiments have been made to increase the nu n ber of rows of cora on the cob with success. The same method ie ap-, pl i ca bl a to poultry breeding. JWsvilK start with a hen that lays 120 eggs.' Some of her chicks will lay, say,*15Qfe per year. From these we willpjfcitout layers, and so on till 200 or be$te?are the result At the;same time it ;iV*|nst as essential to breed our malesYrom prolific layers as it is the females. In fact il is more sa If we look after the breeding of the females only we will in? troduce on the male side blood which is lacking in proficiency and thus check every attempt at progress. It is just as essential that the male should be from a hen which laid 175 eggs and from a male that was bred frcm a hen that laid 150 eggs as it is that the hen was from one that laid 175 eggs and whose moth? er laid 150 eggs. makins: Hens I .ay at Will. The North Dakota experiment station has a well appointed poultry farm with which some interesting experiments have teen made, and the following is a report cf one of them: "That food has as much to do with the egg production as it has with beef cr butter there is but little question. We placed two pens cf fowls under exactly the same condi? tions as fur as the temperature, room and care were concerned, but fed them with an entirely different object i:i view. Ono pen we wished for breeding purposes and did not want them to lay until the breeding season opened, so that wo caa get a more steady egg production than if they were made to lay duri:;:: the entire winter. " Tiie Cost of an Eeg. The cost of au egg in the eastern states is estimated at 1 cent, but this depends on the prices of grain. It' meat, milk, cut be ne, chopped clover and cooked po? tatoes are given, the cost will ba less, hot because the meat can be purchased at less than the grain, but because the feedkg of a variety and a balanced ra? tion will induce the hens to lay more eggs. 'The greater tiie number of eggs laid the lower the cost proportionately, and it is possible to produce eggs at a cost of only half a cent each.-P. H Jacobi in Farm and Fireside. THE LAYING BREEDS. GOOD POINTS OF THE SPANISH AND POLISH CLASSES. Habits and Temperament Mast Be Con? sidered-Form and Feathe rs May Be Im? proved, but ?Racial Trait? Cannot Be Eradicated-Evils of Overcrowding;. Theodore Sternberg, in The Conn try Gentleman, speaks of the Black Span? ish Minorcas and Andalnsions as among the best laying breeds. Where one lives in a location free from hawks and does not care to keep large flocks, bnt desires a strictly egg breed, also at liberty, the Polish class opens np a wid>2 list of beau? tiful, ornamental and most excellent layers. The list of these attractive fowls is a long one, and no fow]s excel them as layers-the White Polish, the Black with white crest, the Golden and Silver Spangled; these last in the same colors, with muffs and chin whiskers. The va? rieties mnst be nearly a dozen. In re? gard to the size and temperament of fowls, Mr. Sternberg says : "?s a general role size and quietness run along in parallel lires, the little breeds being the most ac rive, the most impatient of restraint, and this habit being modified, m the pjroportion thpt size increases, All'.hreeds do best when at liberty, but some breeds thrive better in confinement than do others. All breeds thrive^best in.small flocks, but some breeds thrive better in large flocks than do others.' Of course it is under? stood that the fancier can and, does breed all breeds in confinement "But I must confess that for the pur? pose of the farmer, either in eggs o^in meat, for sale in the ordinary market, it will not pay at all to keep any fowl in confinement, and he must select his breed with reference to its habit and temperament and capacity to thrive in large flocks. We know that fanciers have by selection made changes in the shape of old breeds, have made the col? ors brighter, markings more distinct, but the peculiarity of the nonsitting kinds is old, older than we have any record. Habit and temperament the fancier does not produce. These, like MIKOI?CA COOS EBEL. racial differences in man, have their origin in ages long past How, when or where they were implanted we do not know. Man selects and improves form and feather, but the inward racial traits are beyond him. "As the breeds I have referred to are nonsitters, in order to keep up tfce stock some sitters will be required. On strict? ly egg farms I am very sure that it does not pay to raise chickens, except to the extent necessary to keep up the stock to the required number. One of the most serious faults in poultry keeping is stocking the farm with hens for laying to its full capacity, and then hatching ont a great lot of chickens, thus crowd? ing the grounds beyond the limit. This fault is also a grievous one with fan? ciers and with breeders for sale Over? crowding is the most common and the .most dangerous to.health, and the most profitless fault in all poultry culture. "Overcrowding hens on the farm is similar in egg results to overstocking a pasture with dairy cows. You get your milk from the grass, the cow is only a machine for converting grass into milk You can only get so much milk from so much pasture, but before you get any milk at all the cow must have sufficient grass for her own support A pasture which will support 10 cows and enable them to make a profitable return of milk will fail to pay if stocked with 20 cows. So it is in a general way with poultry on the farm. The hen dees not create. She is a machine, and as some machines are better for some purposes than are others, so some fowls are better for some purposes than are others. "As good a way as any to keep up the stock is to buy enough common hens which are broody and set them, and kill them off as soon as the chickens are able to care for themselves. All the breeds I have been writing of grow quickly and need not be hatched before May or June and into even July. Th'is saves lots of care, as the weather is usually line in these months. I am very sure that in all these breeds hens are useful and profit? able up to ? or 4 years old. In all farm poultry fer eggs I believe it wise to have a place purposely fixed to keep the cocks separate from the hens all the time, except in the breeding season. Tho hens are much quieter and attend better to their knitting when relieved from the demands of society. ' ' T~2LZ Hens' fc'scs Seldom Hatch. A correspondent of The English Fan? ciers' Gazette says he has been watch? ing his hens and their eggs and the hatching of their eggs and has discover? ed that the eggs of the abnormally fat hen seldom hatch. The chicken dies about the tenth or twelfth day of incu? bation. The eggs from the most active and healthy hens hatch first and often a day or two in advance of time. Iuva- I riably the egg froy the sleepy, lazy hen hatches late. Helbas two hens whose eggs he has never fonnd fertile, though he has mated them with different roos? ters, and they are the worst tempered hens in the yard, always quarreling and beating the others. * I UT I latin er the Teeth. It is curious to what aa extent the mutilation'of teeth goes on among sav? age nations, acd even among certain civilized people, such as the Japanese. "With them a girl is never married with? out first staining her teeth black with a repulsive kind of varnish, and the cus? tom is especially adhered to among members of the richer classes. On the west coast cf Africa a large proportion cf the teeth are deliberately broken when children reach a 'certain age. Both in the new world and the old the custom exists of extracting the two front teeth of domestic servants. In Peru tho custom has existed from time immemorial and used tu be a sign of slavery in the days of incas. This is al? so the custom on tho Kongo and among the Hottentots. Teeth are stained in various colors among the Malays. A bright red and a bright bl ne are not uncommon', and a bright green is produced with the aid of arsenic and lemon juice. Livingstone related that among the Kaffirs a child with a prom? inent upper jaw, was looked upon as a monster and immediately killed. On the up?er Nile the negroes have all Iheir best teeth extracted in order to de? stroy their value in the slave market and to make it not worth while for the slave traders to carry them off.-Pear? son's Weekly.' Converted by a Handshake. Here is a good story of the Bight Bev. Thomas Underwood Dudley. The bishop had gone to Beattyville, and the place was rough and desolate. A rough looking man came up to him. "They tell me you're from Virginia,*' said the man. "Yes." "They tell me you fought with the rebels." "Yes." "Give me your hand, pard. My name's Bill Delan, an J'in a blacksmith down here." "Bill," said the bishop, "I'm proud to meet you." That night Bill Dolan went to the service and heard the bishop preach,, and he went afterward too. Twelve years later the bishop went j to Beattyville once more. It was sun set. He was met by the town's clergy? man. "Bishop, Bill Dolan died yester? day, and before ho died I baptized him," said the minister. "In his last words he told me to tell the bishop that he loved him." "That," said the bishop, "was in? deed a compensation !'J-Louisville Cou rier-JournaL .1 > Suiting: Both Parties. Poor Wife (to husband, whose loud snoring keeps her awake)-Charlie, Charlie, do stop snoring. Turn over on your side. (Nudges him). Husband, only half awake, grunts, tums on his side and continues to snore. Wife has a happy idea. Bern embers a line from an article called "How to Prevent Snoring. " Gives her husband a second nudge, which elicits another grunt "Oh, Charlie, if you'd keep your mouth shut, you'd be all right" Charlie (semiconscious)-So would you.-London Answers. Perplexed. ""I cawn't understand this blarsted country, " said the English tourist. "Chap said to me, 'Golf makes me tired.' 'Ah,' said I, 'you play too much. 'You're crazy,' said he. 'Idon't play at all.' Now, how could he bo tired?"-Philadelphia Record. Senator Linasay*8 Luxuries. "If I had plenty of money to do with as I wished," said Senator Lindsay of Kentucky to a party of friends, "I'd have music played at all of my meals and get cigars made at $50 a hundred. Those are two luxuries I would most surely indulge myself in. I'd have the music played by a small orchestra, say a horn and two or three violins anda flute and a bass viol, and I'd have it play soft, harmonious airs while I ate, and now and then I'd have some vocal music given, ty colored voices. There's a peculiar harmony in a negro's singing tone. I'd have 'em sing such things as * When the Watermelon Hangs Upon the Vine.' That's a song calculated to inspire the most sluggard appetite. I remember hearing it once on a Missis? sippi river boat A lot of us were aboard, and in the party was Hooker of Mississippi. There were some darkies aboard who played instrumental music with banjos, guitars and a fiddle. I asked 'em if they ever sung, and they said they did sometimes. Well, they struck up ' When the Watermelon Hangs Upon the Vine.' Hocker had never heard it before, and it nearly set him crazy."-Washington Star. African Lion and Buffalo Bal!, The large horns of these buffalo are significant of their immense strength; their fegs are very short and powerful. Though tho lions make prey of them, it takes two or three to pull down a bull. The African lion of this section is the largest species of its kind, bat unless in packs will noe attack au African buffalo bull. When fighting, the bulls aro very quick on their feet, and they use nos only their horns, but their front feet also, which often prove the more dan? gerous weapon. My guide, who has lived in this country for the past ten years, relates many stories of men who havo been mauled by lions and who have escaped death, but ho knows of no instance where the African buffalo has left a human being until tbe life waj trampled out of him.-Arthur C. Hum? bert in Harper's Magazine For April. Not All Aimless. "Society women do lead such aimless Sves." "Aimless? Do they? Well, I know a society woman who can throw a teacup or a rolling pin just as accurately as a man."-Cleveland Plain Dealer All the suitors for a girl's hand iu Borneo are expected to be generous in their presents to her. These presents are never returned. Therefore the wily young lady defers as long as possible a positive selection of the happy man. Roasted His Store Tea. The country storekeeper was engaged in a lively argument with Colonel Bili Cottonhead as to the probable effect of the Bradley-Hunter split upon the fu? ture of the Republican party in Ken? tucky, when old Tom Moseley, one of the oldest mountaineers in Letcher county, rode up and dismounted. "Hev you un3 airy bit of store tea?" he queried, as he rifled his yarn sock for an annoying cocklebur. "Why, yes, Moseley, plenty of it," replied Brown. ' ' Would you 1 ike to have some today?" "Well, I guess not terday, Frank. Jess never hed seen eny, an I thought ef you uns hed eny, I'd laik tuh look at hit." Brown considerately took the old man back into the rear room, where a freshly opened caddy of Young Hyson was standing alongside the counter. Run? ning his fingers down into the depths of the lead colored mass, he drew out a handful, which he held up to the old man's gaze. The old fellow's eyes sparkled, and a strange quivering was noticeable about his lips, "Waal, I swow. An thet air store tea, air hit?" "It certainly is," Brown asserted. "Better put up a pound for you?" "Whut mont hit be wuth?" '.'It's worth 75 cents a pound, Mose? ley ?Jant as you are an old friend and have never tried any of it you may have it for 50 cents." x "Yuh kin put me up er poun." Five days later the old man dropped into the store for a tobacco supply, and Brown, after a lengthy conversation " touching on mountain topics in general, queried : "How did you like your tea, Mose? ley?" "Fa'r.tuh middlin, Frank; fa'h tuh middlin; mcuter bin bettah, but I guess laikly thuh olo woman used a leetle tew much,grease in roastin hit"-Louis? ville Post Chic Dogs. . The chic dogs of Paris form a well known colony and are recognized by the public as quickly and with as much deference almost as crack horses are on the field. Whenever Kiki-a beautiful white and siiver gray caniche-appears, all Paris knows he belongs to the Countess Mailly-Nosle, whose favorite, he is, and in the same way a fine dark chestnut dog of the same variety is rec? ognized as Count de Reilhac's constant companion. The Orleans princesses adore toy terriers and small bulldogs, while the Duchess of Chartres will look at no dogs but her black and tan terrier. The Rothschilds-as a family-have the greatest love and admiration for dogs in general, owning a great number and sparing no pains for their comfort. Baroness Alphonso de Rothschild shows off her family of yellow terriers with greatest delight, whereas Nathan? iel de Rothschild's pride is centered in his butterfly dog-a microscopic red and j white creature, with long, peculiar ears resembling a butterfly's wings. Arthur de .Rothschild's preference is for grif? fons, hut his son, Gustave, takes no in? terest in any but great, fine Danish mastiffs. The beautiful Ainerican'Mme. Ferdinand Biscboffsheimes' favorite is a surly, fighting wolf dog, but whose affection and gentleness to his mistress and her friends are endearing.-Phila? delphia Ledger. Papa's Encouraging Talk. "Miss Willikius. " he said, 'I met your father at luncheon tnday, and we had a long and confidential talk." A glad light came into her big, soul? ful eyes, and in low, happy tones she asked: "Was papa in a pleasant mood?" "Yes, he spoke very, tncouragingly to me." For a long time she was silent. It was evident that she expected him to go on. But be only sat there, looking off into gpace and triging at his mustache. At last she drew a tremulous sigh and murmured : "It is strange that papa didn't say anything to me about it at tea this evening." "Well," Henry Twickenham replied, "I suppose it had passed out of his mind. He is a very busy mau, you know." "Still," she said, "he wouldn't be likely to forget a thing that-that so directly concerned me." "Ah, Miss Willikius," he cried, "do you, too, take au interest in me? I as? sure you this is very flattering. Did you read my plea to tue jury in the Mundie versus Binkbam case? It was that upon which your father especially congratu? lated me. He said it undoubtedly pre? saged a bright future for me." Then it suddenly began to grow chilly thereabouts, and 15 minutes later, when Henry Twickenham had been frozen out, Gladys' Willikins clapped her soft white hands to her temples and ex? claimed: "I wish that fool and his Mundi? versus Biukham case were in Skagnay. ' ' -Cleveland Leader. Are much ia litt?e: always ira^ BBB ready., efficient, satisfac- Hj| ? fe I ^ t:>ry: prevent a cold or fever, fi S I Si cure ali liver ills, sick head- T ? ? ? *mw ache, jaundice, constipation, ere. Price '-5 cents. The Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained and all Eat-f |ent business conducts for MODERATE FEES. ?OUR OFFICE is OPPOSITE U. S. PATEN TOFTICEJ >a::d wc can secure oaten:ia less time than Cause! 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