A HOG COT GOOD FOR
SUMMER OR WINTER
ROUND THE CAPITAL
AShapcd .Structure Which Is Equipped with' n Door and
a Ventilating System.
Information and Gossip Picked Up Here
and There In Washington.
The A shaped lio;? col Is ud.-i)t ()
to Imtlr trammer nnd 'winter condi
tions. It Jstim a permanent floor. ;i
door In o.ali- 'iid, nnd a ventilating
system. It is constructed by nailing
Incli b.iardx on six joint, two ln lies
liy four.,.ipehes, eight l"M't long for
the door. Ilcimiilh tile joists lire
unili'd three strlitgeis,' two Incliiit by
r.ix hfchcsYliJit feet long, wliirh servo
as ninrii'ii for moving the bonne. Next
Is spiked 'a' piece' two Indies liy eight
inches. ni':i feet four inches long, nt
the ends cf the Joints, having Hie bot
tom of the two Incli liy eight incli even
with I lie bottom of the joist which
will allow It to project above Hie Hour
three Inches. It will also extend out
woven incheH nt each end. This two
inch by eight Inch forms a plate to
which the rafters and roof boards are
milled. The seven-Inch extension of
(he plate at the ends supports the low-
Front View of
or corner of the roof which other
wise wonM- hp easily split off. These
2x8's, hesldes strengthening, tho lious",
raise tlierafter8 and roof boards
nailed lo them tit least three Inches
off the floor and thereby materially In
crease the. floor space and the capac
ity of the house. If the house Is to be
lined In 'extremely cold weather a
movable door is necessary. The lllus
t ration shows a door two feet wide
Bud Iwo feet six InohoB high, made
to slide ip unit down unit held In place
liy cleats'. It Is suspended by a rope
which passes through a pulley nt the
lop and Is fastened to a cleat nt the
nldo near the roof. The cut also shows
two Iron eyes bolted Into the front
joist of the building to which the
liltch Is jnade, when the building is
moved.
Stable With
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The ground plan shown above Is for
A stable 44x70 feet. The arrangement
Rives throe box stalls In each end,
w hich can, If desired, be arranged Into
stalls. Tho two cross feed passages
are six feet wide. Stalls for rows six
feet wide nnd six feet long from front J
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The front should be toward the south or east to avoid the worst storms
framework covered with canvas enables It to be closed at night Per
feet ventilation can be obtained by this means and In fine weather full ad
vantage can be taken of the sunlight. Wire netting is used to cover the
windows. '
Provide Plenty of Water. Although
turke.VH will eat snow, they should
not be permitted to do bo, but should
to given pit niy of fresh clean water.
They Sell Best. When raising tur-
koys for market medium sized ones
will be found better than extra largo
Cities
A rear door. Identical in Blze with
the front door, Is held in 'place by
deals nailed nerosH'It on the Inside
and by buttons fastened on the out
side. Till door Is not opened regu
larly, but provides ventilation In sum
mit and aids in handling hows nt far
rowing (line.. Above the rear door Is
a small sliding door, 8x12 IiicIich. to
admit light and air.
Another important feature of this
house Is the ventilator, which is a
small cap covering a hole at the top
and the center of the roof. The hole
Is made by sawing off opposite ends
of two roof boards and covering it
willi it cap so arranged us to leave
openings three inches by 12 Inches on
each side of I he roof. This Is suffi
cient ventilation for two or three, ani
mals when all the doors are shut, and
If more ventilation Is desired it can
easily he secured by opening the small
A-Shapcd Hog Cot.
sliding door In the rear. Thin simple
plan of ventilation avoids any direct
drafts upon the animals and proves
vt ry efficient.
Willi these Improvements the cost
in building the A shaped house is
noniewhal Increased. All the hoards
except these used for the floor should
be dressed on one side,
The follow in',' lumber la necessary
to construct this portable house: Nine
pieces 1x12 in.. Hi feet long, and 11
). (J. hat tens 1(5 feet long for roof; 5
pieces 1x12 In., II feet lung, for ends;
1 piece 2x4 in., 10 feet long, for ridge;
2 pieces 2xS In., 10 feet
plates; 7 pieces 2x1 In., Hi
for rafters and braces In
long, for
feet long,
frame; .1
pieces 2xfi In., 8 feet long, for stringers
and 4 pieces 1x12 In., 1(5 feet long,
rough, for Ih.orlng.
Box Stalls
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of manger, to rear of stall. The main
door can be made In two doors and
six feel wide, which will admit of a
stone boat or sled being taken In to
clean out the stable. There will be
space enough to drive in a horse and
turn around.
Laying House
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Have Plenty of Litter.-If hens are
confined to the noultry house on cold
days see to it that they do not have
to stand on the bare floor. Use straw,
corn stalks, corn husks, or other dry
material for a floor roverliiK. Hens
with cold feet will not lay very many
eggs.
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ITIi CANYONS, BROKEN RIDGES. PINNACLES AND
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mw through cucwet:
Oradually nature's wonderlands in
the United States are being brought
under government control and set
apart as parks, reservations and mon
uments for the use and enjoyment of
this and fuliire general Ions, so that
what otherwise would he lost and ob
literated as the years ueni on is given
a permanent character.
The latest slop in this direction Is the
recent proclamation signed and made
public by President Koosevtit creating
II1HHIIHMIII llimle
VCtV THROUGH CRWCK
the Wheeler national monument. In
the Hlo llrandc! National Forest, Colo
rado. The tract Included by the proclama
tion Is situated on the south slope and
near the summit of the continental
divide at an elevation of approximate
ly 11,500 foot above sea level.
The principal value of the land ns
n national monument lies In the fact
that the fantastic forms resulting from
the rapid erosion of rock and soil
make the spot one of exceptional
beauty.
The numerous winding canyons, bro
ken ridges, plnnneus and huttes form
such striking and varied scenes that
It will he much visited by tourists
when it has been miide accessible by
road or trail.
GRADE TOUCH ON TYPEWRITER
Good and Bad Work on Machine Easily
Distinguished.
"When In anything typewritten you
see the periods and commas punched
black and deep," said an experienced
typewriter, "you may know that tho
work waB dono by a beginner or by
one who has not yet done sufficient
work to have acquired a perfect touch.
"The reason for the deep punching
of the punctuation points Is very sim
ple. Naturally enough, the beginner
nt typewriting plays upon all the keys
with eqiinl force, hut, as the types at
tached to the keys yreBi-nt unequal
amounts of printing surface, It follows
that equal force applied to all the
keys results In more or loss unequal
printing on the paper.
"For liiBtuuce, a certain amount of
Historical interest also attaches to
the region as It Is believed that the
ill-fated expedition of Oen. .lohn C
Fremont was overtaken by disaster li
this Immediate vicinity and was forced
to turn back.
This expedition which proved so un
fortunate was the fourth which Oen
Fremont made across the continent,
and was undertaken at his own ex
pense after he had resigned from the
army in .1S4X. Ills object was the
finding of a practicable passage to
California by way of tho upper waters
or the Uio Grande. With :!:: men and
120 mules he made his way through
the country of the I'tes, Apaches. Co
manehes and other tribes of Indians
then at war with the I'nlted States.
In attempting to cress the great
Plena, covered with snow, his guide
lost his way, and Gen. Fremont's party
encountered horrible suffering from
cold and hunger, n portion of thoni
' being driven to
cannibalism. All
of lils animals nnd
one-third of his
men perished, and
he was forced to
retrace his stops to
Santa. IV. And It
Is supposed that It
was In this spot
which has beoi
designated as the
Wheeler national
monument that
this terrible trage-
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VW THROUGH CH& yCS
dy was enacted, nnd skeletons of
mules, hits of harness and camp
equipage found there give credence
to the belief.
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force applied to the It key might pro
duce of that type a fair Impression on
the paper, but the game force applied
to a period might drive that, a mere
point, clean through the paper. In
fact, it Is not unusual for beginners on
typewriters to punch holes in the pa
per with their periods.
"nut as the learner progresses In
her art she comes to realUe that ome
types must be touched more lightly
than others and gradually her periods
become less black and deep, and
with further practice sho conies lu
Btlnctlvoly, automatically, to grade hot
touch on all the letters and signs until
at laHt she is able to produce type,
writing that Is nothing less than" ar
tistic la effect, tr.ie and uniform and
beautiful.
"it Is soincihlni; fine to see, .tho
good work of tho Intelligent, sensitive
and truly competent typewriter."
Military Pomp to
WASHINGTON'. William Howard
Taft is to have greater military
pomp and circumstance attending his
inauguration than had Theodore Uoose
volt. The governor of every state In the
union has been asked by the inaug
ural committee to send a brigade of
troops to take pari in the great pro
cession up the avenue, and it is inti
mated that what Washington wants
In the way of state troops Is quality
rather than quantity. Crack organ
izations only need apply.
An enthusiastic member of the In
augural promotion body says that
there will be present in Wash
ington on March 4 next, 10,000 more
regular troops than appeared when
Mr. Roosevelt rode to the capitol four
years ago. He insists that Wash
ington will bo a great camp of regu
lars and guardsmen In the early
spring, a greater ramp than it lias
been since -the rcsjdonta entertained
Who Is Father of
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TIIH location In this city of Fta'.ues
of John Paul Jones and Commo
dore John Harry, both heralded as the
"father of the American navy" by their
respective admirers, will prove a dif
ficult task for the special commission
charged with that duty. This commis
sion consists of the '.u cretarv of war.
the secretary of the navy and the
chairmen of the senate and house com
mittees on the library.
For each statue congress appropri
ated $30,000, but no action has been
taken to decide tli controverted ques
tion relating to the navy's pedigree.
It Is for this reason that the location
of the -effigies Is regarded as impor
tant, as the prominence given each of
the heroes in the question of location
Is expected to give some indication as
Stories of Taft's
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SlPWUi-
SK.N'ATOit PHILANDER CHASE
KNOX, slated for secretary of
state. Is one of the 'most delightful
men .socially to be found any where.
Golf, aiitonioblllng and driving are his
outdoor recruit ions. illlliarda and
rending furnish indoor amusement.
When Mr. Knox came to Washing
ton as attorney general ills reputation
as a corporation lawyer caused U to
be assumed that he was one f f the
gruff, brusque kind. Instead of a
grumpy curmudgeon, he was revealed
as a polite, dapper little man w ho of
fered his callers fine cigars and start
?d conversation as If he Intended tell
Ins his inmost thoughts and furnish
lug diagrams of all he contemplated
doing and how he would do each
thing.
"Of course," he said, when tho con
versation got around to the point
where real Interesting things were
coming out, "I am talking to you gen
tlemen personally, not in your jour
nalistic capacity."
The standard Washington story
about Knox concerns the pair of road
titers he brought here nfter he ho
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Next Social Secretary of White House
Lgjipj
MRS. KLKANOK RKLYEA. n $1,000
clerk In the signal office of the
war department, will be the next so
cial secretary of the White House, and
Miss Isahelle llagner, who now dic
tates the social lists of the president's
wife, will step from that coveted po
sition back Into the ranks of govern
ment clerks by executive order, and
w ill be given a minor position.
Mrs. Relyea Is prominently Identified
with the social set in Washington,
though in a Benilolllclnl sense. She
has gained a certain amount of dis
tinction through her ability as abridge
player, and has taught many promi
nent society women of this city the
iftUUlU.
Attend Inauguration
Sheridan's marching hosts in the
spring of 18(m.
The I'nlted States troops are to be
gin the homeward sailing from Cuba
soon. The soldiers will return reg
iment by regiment, and it Is be
lieved that several of the organiza
tions will reach this country so close
to the time of the Inaugural ceremon
ies that they probably may bo ordered
to the capital.
Soim of tlie picturesqiieness of the
Roosevelt Inaugural will be nilsslng.
It Is understood that there will- be no
rough riders present. Four years ago
they not only added much io the
parade ns a parade, but they added a
great deal of joy to the Inhabitants.
Some of them were new to the ways
of the capital city civilization and
broke the conventionalities in a whole
hearted and perfectly inoffensive way.
The "Flying .Ninth," the black troop
ers of Col. Guy Henry's old command,
the men who followed him on
the trail of the Sioux and recked
nothing of hard riding, semi-starvation
and wounds and death, are not
to lend color and their personally
proper pride to the pageant. There
will be gallant, cavalry regiments
present, however, regiments that have
fought In Cuba, in the Philippines and
on the. western plains.
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the American Navy?
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to their respective- merits In the com
petition for the honor of lit-ijig the
"father of the -mivy;
Some time ao. it was proposed to
placo these statues Idee lo face on a
single site, but that was opposed by
tho adherents of the heroes. Many
sites have "been suggested, but up to
the present time there has been no
action looking to a settlement, of the
question. The statue of John Paul
.lonea Is now under wav ami a rnnme.
j tit.'on will soon be entered upon to do-
tide who will be the favored sculptor
for the making of the statue of Harry.
Work Is now In progress for a Etat
ue of Gen. Grant to be erected west
of the capitol grounds, but this will
not be completed before two years.
Next tpiing statues of John With
orspoon, a signer of the declaration of
Independence, and of Longfellow, the
poet, will be presented to the govern
ment by memorial associations, and
they will he erected in this city.
Other statues which have been pro
vided for by congress and will be
erected here in the near future are
those of Von Steuben, Pulaski and
Kosciusko.
Secretary of State
came attorney general. Mrs. Roose
velt was invited to ride behind them
and as Mr. Knox was driving away
from the White House the group of
newspaper men fell to speculating as
to why one of them had not had
wiis about him enough to ask
lds
the
names of the horses. One of the party
said their names wore Highball and
Siphon. A serious minded chap there
upon wrote a story about it and s;:nt
It to his paper. When it appeared
Knox was very angry and the upshot
of It was a retraction by the news
paper. Another story that angered Knox
was to the effect that he Imd told
the
late Senator Hoar that of course
he
bud quit the employ of the Carnegie
Si eel Company before accepting Presi
dent McKInley's offer of the attorney
generalship. He regarded it as an insult
to McKinley 'to imply that he would
appoint a man who would consider It
necessary to give assurance that he
had observed the ethics of the profes
sion. Senator Knox bought his magnifi
cent home in Washington from Mrs.
ir. V. llillds. It Is one of the 11m
it
nouses in Washington and Is
well
adapted for receiving the diplomatic
eoips on .ew i ear's day, according
to custom.
Mrs. Knox Is considered one of the
most ctiarmlng women In official
Her entertainments are anions
most elaborate in Washington.
life.
the
One of her nromlnein .,,i,.o
Mrs. John K. McLean, and it Is under
stood that Mrs. McLean was Instru
mental In obtaining for Mrs. Relyea
the position at the White House for
which a hundred social secretaries in
Washington have yearned. Mrs Rel
yea was appointed to the war depart
ment from Connecticut on July 9 1907
She Is a woman of culture anil has
a wide acquaintance among the social
colony, not only In Washington, but
in New York and Newport. She I. the
widow of Albert Relyea, formerly a
chief of a division In the treasury de
imrtment, who commuted suicide sev
eral yours ago.
Never before , 80ctt, h
hud the position of social secretary at
the White House been so Important.
Hie privilege, of the oftW ll!ri.aB0S
nnd the only ono which has not been
accorded Miss Hagner up to dale for
the reason that It has been agast
u 1 social and official precedent. Is that
of assisting Mrs. Roosevelt the 1
room In receiving her tuwU on for
uiul occasions.