m Of Interest to Dullders Prof CharlcB L Norton of the Mas sachusetts Institute of Technology pays that a great deal more caro ehould bo taken In protecting steel work and wrought Iron work from cor rosion Concrete Is a far better safe guard than stone orterra cotta agalnBt Gro ho says The Boston skyscrapers are viewed with suspicion by Prof Norton Women are sure all men have hab its of extravagance which need cor rection Smajlest Monarchy op Earth Tho sovereign who reigns aver the nmallest monarchy in the world is the king of Cocos a group of islands near Sumatra Tiyeae islands were dis covered about 200 years ago by tho captain of the Keeling but were corn paratlvoly little known till 1825 When Mr Ross an Englishman visited them Jie was struck by their beauty and took up his abode there It is his grandson George Ross who novr holds sway over the Cocos Making it Emphatic Concerning a certain archdeacon in he English church a talo of modesty f s tdhT Ho forbade one of his friends to- call him doctor saying If you call me doctor I will do the same for you Oh but you cant replied tho other I am not a doctor You soon will be was the answer Ill be if I am came the retort Elephants Long for Freedom In captivity elephants always stand up when they sleep but when in the jungle in their own land and home they lie down The reason given for the difference between the elephant In captivity and in freedom is that tho animal never acquires complete confidence in his keepers and always longs for liberty n v- Lightning and Trees Prof Assmann one of the German government meteorological experts says that lightning seldom strikes in a forest -where the trees are dense and qf about the same -height Danger- exists only where isolated trees nBO high above their surroundings Try me just once and I am sure to pome again Defiance Starch Unresisting Victims of Button Trust Why are there two buttons or even one on the sleeves of a coat The writer took a census of hisj buttons and found that60 of them were un necessary He Is particularly anxious as to the two buttons behind on a frock coat Taking a survey of the whole human family lie finds that there are 800000000 buttons worn all of them useless Philadelphia Led ger Wife Drove Pests Away A Yorkshire man whose poor rela tions1 pestered him continually mar ried the worst scold in the county in order to have a guardian who would protect him from the importunate legacy hunters The venomous and incessant vituperation of the woman 1 ad the desired effect Insects Dont Touch Rice A remarkable fact connected with the riceiPlant is its almost entire im munity from the attacks of insects and from those diseases which infect the cereals and other vegetablo growths as also that it supplies a -wholesale diet for one half the popula tion of the world Force of Blus Whale A blue whale harpooned by a New foundland whaler in Placentia Bay in March 1903 towed the steam whaler Puma 122 miles the screw being re versed at full speed the whole time and not until twenty six houra elapsed was exhausted and killed BUILDING FOOD To Bring the Babies Around When a little human machine or r large one goes wrong nothing is so important as the selection of food which will always bring it around again My little baby boy fifteen months old had pneumonia then came brain fever and no sooner had lie got over these than lie began to cut teeth and Lelng so weak he wax frequently thrown into convulsions says a Col orado mother I decided a change might help so took hira to Kansas City for a visit When we got there lie was so very weak when he would cry he would sink away and seemed like he would die When I reached my sisters home she said immediately that we must feed him Grape Nuts and although 1 had never used the food we got some acd for a few days gave him just the juice of Grape Nuts and milk He got stronger so quickly we were soon feeding him the Grape Nuts itself and la a wonderfully short time he fat tened right up and became strong 8nd well That showed me something worth knowing and when later on my girl came I raised her on Grape Nuts and slio isxastrong healthy baby and has been You twilL see from the little photograph L send you what a strong chubby 3oungster the boy is now but lie didnt look anything like that be fore we found this nourishing food Gi ape Nuts nourished him back to strength when he was so weak ho cculdnt keep any other food on his stomach Name givea by Postum Co Eattle Creek Mich Ali children can be built to a more sturdy and healthy condition upon Grape Nuts and cream The food contains the elements nature de mands from which to make the soft gray filling in the nerve centers and train A well fed brain and strong sturdy nerves absolutely insure a healthy body Look in each pkff for the famous little book The Road to Wellville I POULTRY Temperature of Sitting Hens A close observer of poultry says that hens differ greatly as to the tem perature of their bodies at brooding time Some hens have a high tem perature and such are good produc ers of chicks as the heat is very necessary for the work of developing the chicks A hen with a high tem perature will leave her nest for a con siderable time each day and still the results of her brooding be of the best There are other hens that have a low temperature and are very poor pro ducers of chicks whether theystlclc to the nest all the time or not We have not made a study of this mat ter and do not know how much truth there is in the opinions of the so called close observer Testing a num ber of hens by means of a reliable thermometer should shed some light on the problem More Yard Room Where fowls are kept yarded they do not often have the amount of yard room that should be given them On our farms restrictions of this kind are ndt necessary as land is worth too small a price to make it necessary to lessen the amount the fowls should have The small amount allotted to the poultry is often due to the cost of fencing But the larger the yard the less the cost of fencing If no top rail is used four feet will be found high enough for a wire fence if the yard is of good size The smaller the yard the higher will the fence have to I be as the smaller the yard the more strenuously wm tne iowis try to get out of it Turkey House In the accompanyingrcutsare sbpwa two views of a turkey house illustrat ed by the United States Department - TURKEY HOUSE FRONT VIEW of Agriculture In the front near the top is seen a ventilator which should always be open except in exception ally cold weather The roosts are placed near the front of the house and are on the level The back view shows the slide door which should be left TURKEY HOUSE BACK VIEW open during the day that the turkeys may go and come at pleasure Farm ers Review Geese TLe last census reported 5G00000 geese in the country and about forty times as many chickens This shows the relative importance of the goose raising industry to that of the chicken raising industrj It is doubtless true that it would pay ourN farmers to raise more geese than they do Goose raising has not largely passed into the hands of specialists as has the indus try of raising ducks The goose re quires a great deal of room to do well and for that reason the farmer has the advantage over the specialist Most of the geese in the country are raised on farms but generally in small flocks They use a large amount of pasture and this is one thing in their favor as fields of clover and alfalfa can be turned into goose meat at little cost The goose feeds very largely on grass but needs water to swim in to do the best The fact that the goose does not lay a large number of eggs and that it requires a good deai of room have conspired to render the goose popular witli American farmers In spite of this however the statistics show that there are more geese in the country than ducks The goose could be used much more advantageously on some farms than any other domestic bird There are on a good many farms marshy fields that are too wet for cattle or other farm stock that would make acceptable pasturage for geese Some of these fields could not be drained without great expense and some of them lis so low that it is doubtful if drainage would ever be effective This is just the place for a goose run the frequent pools of water giving them the places neces sary for swimming and hunting Geese raisers declare that geese do not thrive so well in large flocks as do ducks The why is not explained There may be no why except lack of care and crowding in too close quar ters It is probable that it is due to decreased opportunity to find food es pecially where the birds have to hunt much of it themselves The larger the flock the greater in proportion will - be the amount of food the fanner must give for the number of bugs found will be leas per goose Geese do not require much attention and that should make them popular with the American farmer who has more area than available labor After the gos lings are a week old they show a de cided determination to take care of themselves if a good range is given Perhaps this characteristic has been taken too much advantage of by some of our farmers and accounts for the lack of success with geese in some instances The geese of the country comprise a good many mongrels the parents of which were imported so long ago that their breed names have been lost The most profitable breeds are those that have been Introduced in compar atively recent years such as the Tou louse Chinese -African and Egyptian Canada or Wild Geese are fi eing raised to some extent The armer that goes into goose raising will find it will pay him better to grow the distinct breeds than to raise geese of no known breeding Quail on toast is a common del icacy that is in repute with epicures Some of them were shocked when they learned that squabs were being palmed off on them for quail They will perhaps be more shocked when we tell them that now the palmers have gone a step further and are palm ing off very young chickens for squabs Recently In visiting a poultry yard we were told that a dealer had been round and pajd good prices for chicks just beginning to lose their down He said he was buying them to sell to the market men for squabs who would sell them to the restauranters and hotel men who would serve them to the customers as quail along with toast Now can some one find something to palm off in the place of the unfeath ered chick The color of the chick at time of birth does not indicate the color of the mature fowl that is to grow out of it This leads the amateur to con clude that certain chicks from eggs that he purchased as from pure breeds must have been wrong The amateur will have to wait till the chicks have matured before he can be certain of the variety they are A chick entirely black is not common and the chicks of black breeds are generally canary colored on the under part The colors come out right when the feathers grow The poultry raiser needs to concern himself more about the conditions that surround his flock than about the breed though the breed is important Bad conditions will spoil the results from the best of breeds The man that raises poultry largely for market will generally settle down to one variety but the man that wants to learn all he can about fowls will keep numerous breeds Chickens are like money they can always be disposed of at a fair ex change The prices for fowls are quite constant Model Dairies There are as yet few model dairies in the country but we believe that more of them will come into existence as the boards of health in the cities press the investigations that they are making into the conditions of the farms in the country that supply milk The Chicago inspectors have been going out as we have reported in past issues of this paper and they have found a good many dirty dairies and a few clean ones Reports say tat in other large cities the Boards of Health are taking the same steps Here and there they have found dairies that were models in every par ticular The barns were high and dry The light was abundant in the stables Cement was used wherever possible and water was supplied to every nook The stables were washed out after each milking and the cows were kept in the cleanest possible condition Some of the own ers of these dairies even insist that the cows be curried before each milk ing but most people will regard that as perhaps unnecessary Absolute cleanliness does not require that un less the cows are shedding their hair The appointments of a model dairy require that the ventilation of the barns shall be of the best and that the windows be large enough and so placed that light can reach to every part of the building The feed troughs should be washed out daily The lack in this regard is one of the causes of bad odors in the milk On some farms they are never washed out and at every milking the scent from them crosses the stream of milk that is falling into the pail It later reappears as a disagreeable taint in the milk or butter The Cheese Situation According to reports from various parts of the country the condition of the pastures thus far this summer has been such as to favor the mak ing of cheese The best quality was however made in the early part of the season the quality of the milk deteriorating as the weather became warmer and tne pastures shorter The cheese that was stored was large ly of the early made kind Most of that being made in the middle of the summer is shipped directly to market as there is no demand for it for stor age The market is said to be slug gish and almost no cheese is being purchased to send abroad Many a farmer has weakened tho constitutions of his animals by feed ing too heavily of corn TJjiis feed makes fat but when fed in too great abundance deprives the animal of visor and lessens the breeding quali tfcs n Peach Liqueur Take mellow full flavored peaches Wash but do not peel slice and put in a stone jar which must be set for six hours in a kettle of boiling water Cover the peach kernels with brandy and let stand till next day Strain off the juice from the peaches taking care not to squeeze the fruit j hard enough to make the liquid muddy Measure the juice and for each pint take a generous pound of the best re fined sugar Put sugar and juice to gether and let stand until next day then bring the mixture to a boil skim thoroughly and strain it again through a bag of double cheese cloth When it is cool add to it the brandy in which the kernels have been soaked putting one pint of spirit to two of tyrup Let it settle and if not per fectly clear strain again It ought to be either a clear pink a bright yellow or a white according to the fruit used Use clear glass bottles Put in the kernels also a blade of mace tied to a bit of yellow lemon peel and a frag ment of stick cinnamon Cork seal and keep in a dark place The liquor Improves with age For Toilet Details A capital notion is a large case of flax linen daintily embroidered with different sized receptacles for holding gloves veils cravats waist ribbons and the hundred and one detailsjthat nowadays go to make up a well-turned-out womans toilet Veils carefully handled will last a long time whereas tossed into drawer without being fold ed and stretched out to their original width they scarcely last a week in a condition one would term respectable The tendency of all these open mesh woven things is to shrink The fancy for the long gauze veil with deep hem border grows apace That these spend quite half their life thrown back over the hat in nowise aiects their popularity Indeed for such were they apparently ordained the smart French and American elegantes flagrantly adding an ordinary fine russian net for actual use Batiste With Embroidery The value of a tasteful wrapper that can be slipped on with ease and which invites relaxation is well understood This one is exceptionally attractive at the same time that it is wholly simple and is adapted to a wide range of materials As illustrated however it is made of white batiste figured with pale green and is combined with a collar and frills of embroidery The fronts are plain and loose but the back is laid in inverted plaits which provide additional fulness and to the lower edge is joined the gathered flounce The quantity of material re- r - j a i fti M M 7FI mmm mmm 73SM L mJJMTviVO by May Maiuon juired for the medium size is 11 yards 27 1033 yards 32 or GVi yards 14 inches wide with vi yards of all over emboiiry and yards of edging 8 inches wide Symphonies in Colors Color symphonies are engaging the attention of both milliners and dress makers at the present moment when novelties in the way of new modes are no longer forthcoming All sorts of fantastic ideas are being employed and so that the colors harmonize there is no limit to the quaint and lovely conceits that a true artistic modiste can achieve One of the most original of these creations for eve ning wear but it is alas only for the fortunate few is a sunrise frock in which all the tints of the sky at sunrise are skillfully blended The soft cool gray of dawn rose pink an indescribable blue and a sort of mauve haze that trembles into white are all intermingled so softly that one is conscious of no details of the gown only of the wonderful general effect Girls Apron Pretty aprons are ever in demand This ce is novel and becomes orna mental at the same time that it serves the vractical end of protecting the frock As illustrated it is made of white lawnywith trimming of embroid ery and fancy stitching but all the materials used for aprons are equally correct white for the better sort col ored charabray gingham and the iike for those of harder uago The apron is made with a yoke thtt is extended at the front to give a stole effect fronts and backs -The main portion is gathered at its upper edge and attached to the yoke and front and the closing is made at the center back The quantity of material required Mm Mil Ik ml Site for the medium size 8 years is 2V2 yards 32 inches wide with 2 yards of embroidery to trim as illustrated Pretty Necklaces Gold beads look very pretty worn above the low collar of a summer blouse They are confined to day wear at present while longer chains of rare stones are liked tor evening Coral necklaces as well as those of turquoise beads have come in with the reappearance of gold ones and when becoming either of these is a very effective ornament In one ol the prettiest long chains the fine gold links are interspersed with oblong bits of cut aqua marines and swung on the end of the chain is a large locket trimmed with the same stones onl smaller and in the center rests a sin gle diamond For Tailor Made Gowns Chiffon cloth is being largely usee for tailor made gowns this summer Ii is pei haps tho most fashionable of al the thin fabrics and while it has al the suppleness and evanscent beauts of chiffon it also possesses the dura bility of cloth and works up into the most fascinating of dresses In the soft pastel tones it is exquisite and il lends itSelf so very easily to the pic turesquc draperies and gagings thai are now the mode Lace is a charm ing adornment especially that of a fairly coarse weave and it looks wel in conjunction with galloon or sill braid or even embroideries Shepherds Plaid in Early Shepherds plaid has made its ap pearance earlier than usual this year As a rule one encounters it only when summer is drawing to a close and the ping pong of the sportsmans gun is heard echoing across the moors But for once in her career fashion has an ticipated matters and shepherds plaid is included among the check patterns considered modish in the way of taf fetas and voiles Some very becoming shepherds plaid gowns have been seen in singhams andi fine lawns but the insistent little black and white check looks at its smartest in chiffon cloth The Collar for Silk Frocks For wear with silk frocks and rib bon stocks there is a decided demand for the modified medici collar which takes the place of the plain niching now rather out of date The new medici rufile is of net or lawn edged with Valenciennes or mechlin lace Lnifp pleated and is from one ami a half inches to three inches deep stands out very stiff and somewhat saucily from the stock A Mew Fad in Ties Grass green tape ties in white can vas golf and tennis oxfords are a late summer fad at the country clubs links ind tennis courts Both men and women have taken to wearing them No Time Lost A mother after days of preparation for a weeks absence from homo- sud denly remembered after the train was well under way that she had left a bottle of a certain well known remedy within reach of the meddlesome little fingers of her thrc year old sen She remembered ten that there was noth ing that the child loved better than the aromatic contents of that particu lar bottle Hurriedly calling the porter the arxjou s motner prepareu a message i to be telegraphed from the firtr sta tion It read Hide bottle of Robbies medicine I Left it on table in my room An hour later she received this net altogether scathing message from the boys father Too late Bobbie got there first Chicago Record Herald Few Americans in Europe Traeier returning from Europe de clare that the scarcity of Americans at continental resorts very notice able thi season and hotelkeepers are complaining that not in years have they come upoN such hard times WISH BLUE Costa so cents and equals 20 cents worth oS any other kind ol Diuing Wont Freeze Spill Break Nor Spot Clothes DIRECTIONS FOR U8E around in the taater AX aHwiio Grocra Wild Dogs of Central Africa The wild dog of central Africa an explorer writes Is common enough He is an ugly looking beast with a pied body coarse hair short head and large upright ears These wild dogs play fearful havoc with game occa sionally clearing out whose districts precisely In the same manner as the red dhole of India before which even the tiger Is said to retreat Pert Stammering Pen stammering Is the name giv en by Dr Bertillon of Paris to a diffi culty in writing analogous to stammer ing in speech Many persons he says are Incapable of writing even one of the letters of a word as long as any one is looking at them Hypnotic sug gestion he thinks will cure this nerv ous trouble as well as writers cramp Greater New Yorko Pay Roll Some Idea of the size of Greater New York may be gained by the state ment that there are 40000 employes sn the pay roll This is a greater number than many South American republics and petty monarchies of the old world carry including their stand- j ing armies Old Mans Secret Alpena Sept 5 Special -Seventy-five years of age but hale and hearty is Mr Jerome K Four nier of this place and to those who ask the secret of his splendid health he gives the good advice Use Doddt Kidney Pills When asked for his reason for s strongly recommending the Grea American Kidney Remedy Mr Four nier related the following experience I recommend Dodds Kidney Pills because they cured me of Dia betes i suffered with my kidneys for a long time and suffered terribly from these Urinary Troubles that are so general among aged people Then I started to use Dodds Kid ney Pills and eight boxes ofv them cured my kidneys regulated my wa ter and made me feel like a hearty young man Dodds Kidney Pills make the old feel young because they make sound kidneys Sound kidneys mean health and health is the other name for youth Most Spoken Languages There are 382000000 Chinese speak ing the same language making Chi nese the most spoken language There arftso many dialects which are entire ly different that they seem scarcely to belong to the same tongue The in habitants of Mongolia and Thibet can barely understand the dialect of the people in Pekin Putting Chinese aside the most spoken languages are as follows in millions English 120 German 70 Russian G8 Spanish 44 Portuguese 32 Condemns Top Hats The London Medicol Press thus is sues a call for heroes The top hat is ugly unhygienic and embarrassing Irs sole claim to support is the ui it fciJtiaaujiuy it gives It only a few medical baronets would drive to their consultations in Pana mas and cloth caps they would break the tyranny of habit over health and fomeliness and at the same time earn the undying gratitude of their humb ler confreres Refreshments in Church Family pews were introduced at the beginning of the seventeenth century Some of these had a table and fire place also curtains and window blinds so as to secure the utmost privacy This led to abuses In some of the closed pws card playing was not uncommon and the tedium of n long service was sometimes relieved by light refreshments The Reliquary Snake That Store While working close to a farm house at Fulbeck In Lincolnshire a laborer was astonished to see a snake over a yard long swim across a stream With some trouble he cap tured it and found in its mouth a cheese cake which it had stolen from the farm house larder on the other siue of the river London Daily Ex press Allens Foct Ease Wonderful Remedy Have tried ALLENS FOOT EASE and find it to be a certain care and gives com lort to one suffering with sore tender and swollen feet I will reconuaend ALLENS FOOT EASE to my friends as it -a certainly a wonderful reaituly Mrs IN II Guilford New Orleans La University Celebration The University of Freiburg had a grand celebration recently proces sions fireworks illuminations ad dresses the occasion being the round ing out of the number of students to 2000 One of the speakers referred to the fact that the number 1000 was reached in 18S5 and he was much ap plauded when he pointed at a babe in the arms of a nurse as the future our tlrousandth student its but a slipper step from smart ness to sin 1 U i f n 1 j yi t i r V f 1 -- 4 M r