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METHOD GF MAKING
THE WOMEN TALLER
»ondon Veterinary by Taking
Thought Can Add Sev*
eral Inches.
SOME GAINED TEN INCHES
tt Costs Only $100 an Inch, Which Is
Cheap Enough if One Is Really
Anxious to Be Tall and
Willowy.
London special; Solomon In his wls- |
dom said: “None of you by taking
thought can add one cubit to his stat
ure," which was doubtless true In Solo
mon's day, but cannot be considered
applicable to this year of grace In
which a large number of once short
English folk are strutting about with a
stature artificially Increased at so much
per cubit. This doesn't mean high
heels and deceptive garments; It means
an actual permanent stretching of the
body, for the sake of cutting a better
figure, or for the sake of being admit
ted into the army.
Figures quoted recently in the house
of lords by the earl of Meath proved
conclusively that the British race* Is
losing stature, and a commission was
forthwith appointed to Inquire Into this
physical degeneracy, which most af
fects the working class, the chief
source of recruits for King Edward's
army That Is what they always do In
the house of lords. If some dignified
peer should protest against the absence
of sunshine in this month of November
a commission would be appointed at
one© to inquire Into the rnntter.
A Private Solution.
While no more will come of the com
mission to inquire Into the decrease of
the British workman's Inches than of
a commission to Inquire Into peculiar
behavior on llie part of the sun,
wealthier citizens of abbreviated stat
ure have taken the matter into their
own hands, and as a result the British
aristocracy Is In ihe aggregate a good
many feet taller than it was.
The trick came Into vogue first among
fhe men about the time the Boer war
broke out. To have any standing In so
Sclety a man had to get Into the army
somehow. But to be an officer In the
British army a man has to attain the
height of 5 feet 8V& Inches. The situa
tion was a desperate one for many a
drawing room favorite, until some one
I whispered news of a scientist named
Atkinson who hud discovered how to
" lengthen people. Since then Professor
Atkinson has hnd his hands full and
ha- probably become rich. He holds
| forth .. fashionable Park Lane, and I
1am told that ills charges run to about
1100 an inch—in other words, that
'tents pay as a rule $500 for a course
of treatment which adds, on un aver
age, live inches to their height.
Candidates for the British army gen
ii erally enter at Sandhurst or Woolwich
when they are between 16 and 18 years
of ago. At that period a large propor
tion of them Is greatly below the re
quired height, but they pursue their
studies and trust that Providence will
render them tall enough for the final
measurement. A large number of cadets
hdwever fall In this respect, and It has
become the fashion to go to Professor
Atkinson and l>e stretched. It is said
that nearly 400 of the cadets have been
through the process, which means that
over 1G0 feet have been added artl
Ulally to the British army.
MODert* i oo anori.
It Is Interesting to note in this con
nection that both the present com- i
rnander-lu-chief, Lord Roberts, and his
predecessor, Lord Wolseley, would be
precluded from entering the army at
' the present clay on account of their lack
of Inches. Indeed Lord Roberts, It Is
said, obtained Ills commission only
through a much used device. When he
presented himself to join the Bengal
artillery, after leaving Addlscombc Mil
itary college In 1853, he was too short
by a quarter on an Inch, but this diffi
culty was overcome by the youthful
"Robs” subjecting himself to a crack
on the head from the stick of a com
rade, which raised a bump so big that
the hero was Just able to touch the
standard and thereby enter the corps.
In this unscientific manner the com
mander-ln-chlef was admitted as a
subaltern, but things have changed
since 1853, and the would-be British of
ficers have acquired a distinct distaste
for hard knocks.
Stretcher Is a Hose Doctor.
The Ingenious "professor” who per
forms the miracle that Solomon declared
Impossible doesn't appear to be a quack.
He does not Advertise, and his claims to
distinction as an expert on bones and
cartilage have been recognized by a good
many of the medical profession. He is a
Fellow of the Royal Veterinary college,
and Is an authority on wrestling. He It
was who, after curing the dowager duch
ess of Sutherland, who had suffered
mightily from stiff joints, was called In
to attend the king, then prince of Wales,
when he had sprained his knee from a
fall down the steps of Lord Rothschild's
house some five or six years ago.
A man who became a convert to the
system and was permitted to take some
photographs of It says that the patient,
after the removal of some of his outer
garments, Is placed In u seat that might
be a cross between a bathtub and a bar
ber's chair. • Aan air proof mackintosh,
which fits tight around the throat, Is fas
tened around him. Beneath this Is fixed
a pipe which conducts hot alt'. After sit
ting In a high temperature for some time
the patient Is massaged by the brawny
••professor." Then the height lnoreaer
starts operations by placing his left hand
on the spine, and his right on the back
of the neck, gently but powerfully manip
ulating the cervical bones, squeezing
them apart, to put it In untechnlcal lan
guage. The same process Is repeated with
the spine, the Joints of the knee, of the
ankles, of the wrists and of the elbows,
each Joint being rubbed, for three min
utes. After this the patients are subject
ed to a hot air and electricity bath and
are then ordered to dress and have ten
minutes’ exercise with Indian clubs or
dumbbells. They then pursue their ordi
nary occupation until the next day. when
they return for two hours’ treatment.
In this way the height Is gradually In
creased, from three to eight and even ten
Inches In the space of about three months.
The explanation of the seeming miracle is
that the hot air and electricity render the
Joints supple, and the powerful manipula
tion to which they are afterward sub
jected causes the layer of gristle which
nature places between each Joint to thick
en. thus Increasing the height, while the
use of the dumbbells and Indian clubs,
by broadening the chest and strengthen
ing the arms, kecpB the rest of the body
In proportion.
In the Craze for Tall Women.
Numerous titled people are Indebted to
Professor Atkinson for their height and
.figure. The son and heir qf the Lari of
Meath, it Is notewortny, had six Inches
added to hU stature in the space of four
month*. And white the craze for tal
women lasted the professor was rushei
to the point of exhaustion by society girl:
whose Inches were not up to the standarc
required by the marrying man. The av
erage number of society women who sub
jected themselves to the stretching pro
cess was about six a month.
Unfortunately, however, a reaction hai
set in and tall society women are golnf
out of fashion In the matrimonial world
and short, petite brides are the rage. A
great opportunity exists for a sclentisi
who will discover a method of making
the tall short. The Japanese do this sue
cessfully with oaks, firs and other foresl
trees, which they are able to dwarf to th<
dimensions of a small geranium. Whj
should not the Twentieth century science
now It is able to make the short tall, b(
able to converse Its methods and make
the tall short?
AN IDEAL SCHOOL.
It Was Seen on a Little Journey lnt<
Utopia.
From Impressions Quarterly; "The
school house itself, to begin with, Is
not a barrack. It's a charming build
ing, as much as possible like out
homes. The views from It are glorious;
It’s full of the j)urest air; its gardens
and shrubbei^r are fine; Inside there
are flowers everywhere; and It Is fur
nished beautifully* hung, too, with
good pictures—good ones, not the
dreary sort of«J.hing with which clubs
and art assoefctlons and graduating
classes. In their Ignorance, so often
endow the unhappy schools of the land.
Why, I know, and I dare say you can
parallel It, of a school that has on Its
walls a huge staring photograpli of
broken columns, labeled 'Roman
Forum;’ a colored print called 'My
Mary, She Minds a Dairy;’ a 'platln
ette' of coquettish slender angels in a
belfry, entitled ‘Christmas Bells,’ and
Snrgeant's never-falling ‘Hosea,’ the
pleasant young prophet In a becoming
burnoose. The money for these was
raised by a woman’s club, and they
were chosen from the catalogue of an
'educational company,’ by a committee
of eminent citizens and their wives,
who 'knew what they liked,’ and got It!
*‘Oh, I’m 'setting myself up,’ I’m well
aware. But who can help It when he
sees such—bumptiousness? for that’s
exactly what It Is: confidence In your
self as the measure of all things under
heaven. It's the note of the American
life; Just the bad side, I suppose,
though of a general tendency that's
sound.
"But our school. As the building Is
different In many ways from others, so
Is the life that is lived In It. You'll see
but a handful of pupils In any room,
six or eight or ten. They gathered
round the teacher Informally, They're
allowed to whisper! Think of that! O
temporal That Is, If one of them Is
burning to make Rome comemnt to an
other upon what Is being said or done,
an* will do It without Interruption or
discourtesy to the teacher, it's permit
ted. ‘Communication! You will allow
communication! an excelent woman
once said, while visiting us. If she'd
said 'Matricide! You encourage matri
cide!' her tone couldn't have conveyed
more horror. She had 'taught.'
“This all means that our school work
Is vital. The children have the same
sort of eager Interest In what Is going
on that a grout) of brothers and sis
ters has at home, when the right kind
of father or mother gathers them to
gether for Instruction. Perhaps I
rnlgfct claim that ns cur Ideal—to make
the school as similar as possible to tha
best child-life In the best home. Usually
It resembles too much a ‘zoo,’ where the
poor animals shift restlessly about, In
cage not too clean, and dream of free
dom. Even the very best schools are
full of bad air and languidness, and th*»
children pay for their knowledge of
partial payments apd the restrictive
relative and the magnetic meridian
with headache nearsightedness and In
digestion."
I* Our Language Becoming Corrupt?
In hla article on this question In Har
per’s Magazine for December, Profes
sor Lounsbury cites an amusing Imag
inary dialogue by Beattie In which
Swift, Mercury and a bookseller were
supposed to be the participants. It
shows what were then considered cor
ruptions of the English language:
"Swift Is disgusted with the expres
sions used hy the tradesmen, and begs
Mercury to translate Ills gibberish Into
English. A few of the words and
phrases, then Indicated as corruptions,
are still strange to us; but most of
them are now used every day by those
who are In a state of distress because
of the Impending ruin of the tongue.
"It Is both suggestive and instructive
to learn a little of this new language
which had Just come Into fashion, as
Mercury gives Swift to understand.
‘Instead of life, new, wish for, take,
plunge, etc,’ he told him, ‘you must say
existence, novel, desiderate, capture,
Ingurgitate, etc., as—a fever put an end
to his existertee. . . . Instead of a
new fashion, you will do well to say a
novel fashion. . . . You must on no
account speak of taking the enemy’s
ships, towns, guns or baggage; It must
be capturing.' This last word, we are
told, had been Imported about twenty
years before. Sort and kind were un
fashionable nouns, and indeed quite
vulgar; description, on account of Its
length and Latin original, was better.
Instead of undervaluing your enemies,
you set no store by them. Unfriendly
and hostile had both given place to In
imical. This word Is said to have come
In at the same time with capture: but
though a great favorite, It was pro
nounced differently by those who used
it.
"There are many other words and
phrases censured, some of ivhich the
majority of us would now think we
could hardly get along without. Line,
meet, marked, feel and go, we are told,
were employed on all occasions wheth
er they had any meaning or not. In
stead of saying conduct. It was fash
ionable to say line of conduct. Y'ou
meet a person's wishes and arguments.
You are received with marked ap
plause, or contempt, or admiration.
"The words am and be were In dan
ger of being forgotten, having beer
crowded out by feel. Accordingly, In
stead of using Is with the following
adjectives, one says he feels anxious
afraid, warm, sick, ashamed. Instead
of saying that one's arguments proved
certain things, we must assert that hts
arguments went to prove. For refor
mation, again, everybody was learning
to say reform, this latter being i
French word and the other vile oh
English. Instead of for the future li
had become fashionable to say In fu
ture.”
"Billy” Oliver, one of the Waldor
crowd, stood on the floor of the stool
exchange In New York the day. aftei
the Helnze decisions apparently pre
pared to take everything offered. Foi
half an hour everything came his way
One broker In particular sold the Us
all round. Oliver took Atchison, Antal
gamated, Union Pacific—in fact, ev
erythlng. The bear trading weakenet
gradually. The Belling movement wai
entirely checked. Oliver stood In thi
middle of a crowd, cool and collected a;
ever. Picking out the chief seller o
stocks, he asked:
"Haven’t yon anything to sell?”
"Not now!” said the other.
’Til give you a dolbu for you
boou'.’’ said Oliver,
AN AMERICAN PERIL.
Dr. Buckley Returns to the Consider
ation of Dowie and Mrs. Eddy.
From Dr. J. M. Buckley's "Fanaticisn
In the United States," In December Cen
tury; This country appears to be exposed
to fanaticism for reasons peculiar to th«
American people. It Is the most conglom
erate large nation on the globe. The free
dom allowed and exercised, the Incessant
experimenting, the extraordinary genlui
of the people for free and full speech, th*
Immense proportion of half educated per
sons. the phbllcatlon of all sorts of truths
half truths, errors, and chimeras, the im
portatlon of all sects In religion by Im
migrants from all lands, the method oi
carrying on political campaigns—muncl
pal, state and federal—by the press and
the malls, by a house to house canvass,
and by countless speeches under exciting
circumstances, by alarming prohecies, at
tacks on personal and political character,
and the scattering of distorted statemenU
far and wide, might naturally be expected
to generate fanaticism.
Here scores of communities of fanatics
have been formed and have long pros
pered, several of them based upon ideas
Incompatible with morality. A conspicu
ous example is the Oneida community,
with Its branches in Vermont and Con
necticut. This system, involving strange
and unnatural relations between the
sexes, was founded on a perverted view of
the scriptures and the doctrine of perfec
tion by John H. Noyes, an alumnus of
] Tale and a Congregational minister.
I Here modem Spiritualism arbse, and
spread as in no other part of the world.
Other forms of superstition have monop
olized many of the class which furnish
its believers, and the present generation
cannot realize how that wave, with its
excrescence of free love, spread through
the states, as rapidly in cultivated Mas
sachusetts as In the scattered and partly
j educated communities on the frontier.
Here Mormonlsm originated; and con
trolled, concentrated, and stimulated by
thr powerful personality of Brigham
Young, has become a religion which, after
the lapse of sixty years, In spite of the
opposition It has encountered, shows ele
ments of permanence, and sends out mls
slonaries to all parts of the world.
Here the spectacular Dowie exercises
; a despotism over his adherents which be
comes grotesque when at his call they rise
! by the hundreds and furnish the testi
mony he needs, whether to the soundness
of hts views on the eating of pork, his
financial ability, his miraculous healings,
for his being the special messenger who
was to come In the spirit and power of
Elijah. His votaries, undismayed by his
many failures to heal, and not undeceived
even by the complete contrast between his
methods, manners, utterances and spirit,
and those of the Founder of Christianity,
do ills bidding as they might had he vis
ibly descended from heaven in their pres
ence. Fortunately, unlike some other re
ligious fanatics, Dowie warns against
vice and inculcates a rigid morality. His
present cluims and Inconsistent spirit are
the natural evolution of a career marred
in every stage by evidences of Intense
fanaticism.
Here Mrs Eddy succeeds In fascinating
large numbers by a copyrighted Bystem
In which she claims to destroy disease
without depending in the least on hygiene
or medical treatment, and to eradicate sin
and disease by steadfastly denying their
reality. In the beginning pf the chief ele
ments of her control were ner dominating
personality, her calm contradiction of
natural science, and the equally calm sub
stituting of a half truth for the whole.
Ever a wholesale denial of common be
liefs has more potency over many minds
than a properly limited and reasoned at
tempt to modify them. Her organization
being perfected, she now rules by Delphic
oracles and Sibylline .leaves issued by a
secluded personality, Inaccessible to the
many, though at rare intervals exhibited
at state fairs as a passing show, to dem
onstrate he" actuality Her head Is al
ready surrounded by halos of mist and
myth, and the exalted few who mediate,
between her and the world Increase the
effect by the under-breath reverence with
which they speak or w'rlte of her. Hence,
although she has been compelled by her
failures and those of her followers to sur
render the treatment of physical injuries
to tho surgeons and to cease from treat
ing contagious diseases; and though
through the whole land many of her dev
otees having thrown away the learning
and experience of mankind In treating
diseases, are dying or making pitiful de
nials of their obvious debility, disease, or
the natural effects of age, such of them
as are in good health, and some who are
not (many of them highly intelligent on
themes and things outside this subacute
fanaticism), smile and prattle on con
cerning the “errors of mortal mind" as
respects Bright’s disease, the "claims"
, of consumption, the “false belief" in bilu,
and the “delusions” of dropsy and dyt
'lepsia.
PAPER OF THE FUTURE.
The Many Advantages of the Afternoc /
Over the Morning Journal.
From an interview with W. J. Pat-,
tison of the New York Evening Post
in Printers' Ink: "I incline naturally
to the conviction that the afternoon
paper is the paper of the future. These
are a few of my reasons, and I have
never seen them successfully contro
verted: A careful comparison by a
disinterested party would probably
show that from 85 per cent, to 90 per
cent, of the news appearing in the
morning papers every day for a stated
period appeared in the evening papers
of the day before, and it would also
be shown conclusively that it was only1
occasionally that news found in the
morning papers and not covered by tha
evening papers of the day before was
of any material Importance. Therefore
as newsgatherers they do not compare
favorably with the evening papers.
Then again, the evening paper is es
sentially a home paper. The evening
paper is either bought by the male
member of the family on his way home
or else is served to him by his news
dealer at Ills residence. In either case
it Is read not only by himself, but by
! most of the other members of his fam
ily, and after they have finished with
it it usually falls into the nands of the
servants and is read by them. From
1 the point of view of quantity this home.
I circulation cannot be overestimated.
For example, say the Morning Demo
; erat has a circulation of 100,000, and
the Evening Independent, by actual
count sells 35,000 copies. Us circulation
Is therefore slightly more than that of
the Morning Democrat, owing to the
fact that It Is easily read by at least
three times as many people. In addi
tion to this, the evening paper is to be
found in all clubs, libraries, reading
rooms, etc., at a time of the day when
these places are frequented by many
more people than at any other time.
The careful reading which the evening
i paper gets not only by one, but by all
the members of the family, should be
■ kept constantly In mind by the adver
*| User. It is read during the leisure
■ part of the day, when business and
i housekeeping cares have, at least, for
| the time being, been dismissed from
the mind. The morning paper, in a
comparatively few instances, is re
i ceived by the male member of the
; family at the breakfast table, but in
■ most cases Is purchased by him on the
i way to business. In either case It is
; hastily and generally read by only one
member of the family and then thrown
away or destroyed. The value of an
I "vening paper as an advertising me
• ! alum is not to be compared with that
' »f a morning paper."
Cheap Trough for Swine.
The average trough used for feeding
swine Is a food-waster usually because It
Is not well made nor made so that the hogs
cannot tip It over. The Illustration shows
a trough that Is not expensive yet one
which will wear for years and be an econ
omizer of food If properly built. The
trough may be of any desired length but
the planks used should be two Inches thick
and eight inches wide. The plank selected
should be two feet longer than the trough
when finished, this two foot length be
ing cut off the end of each plank to be
used for the end pieces as described. The
two long pieces are spiked together edge
wise and form the body of the trough.
Take a piece of plank ten Inches square,
saw In two diagonally and nail In either
end of the trough, then cut two pieces,
one for each end of the trough, like that
shown In figure 1 of the Illustration.
These rests are three feet long and cut
from 2x6 material, notches three Inches
deep being cut In the center In which the
trough rests. This not only gives strength
to the trough but prevents its spreading
apart and leaking. To give additional
strength and also weight, cut two other
pieces of board the same size and shape
as the rests, but without the notch, and
nail across the end of the trough as
shown. To the top of the frame bolt a
two by four Btrlp of board the length of
the trough to prevent the animals from
stepping Into It. Of course It Is under- :
stood that both ends of the trough are
alike and like the end Illustrated. •
Curing Colic in Horses.
It would not be fair to say that the fol
lowing remedy would always cure colic
In horses for there are several kinds of
troubles coming under the name of collo
and arising from different causes. The or
dinary colic or spasmodic colic as It Is
known to veterinarians may be usually
corrected by the following remedy. Take
four ounces each of essence of pepper
mint, tincture of opium, tincture of ginger,
sulphuric ether and spirits of nitre; mix
well. Put two tablespoonfuls of this mix
ture In a pint of warm water and give to
the horse from a bottle. Repeat In twenty
minutes. If relief does not follow give
half doses every half hour until the pain
Is less severe. In case the bowels do not
move freely give the horse a pint dose of
pure raw linseed oil. This remedy for
colic should be kept on every farm, for
while some cases of colic may occur which
are beyond the reach of the remedy It
will be found to effect a cure, or at least
give relief, in the majority of cases.
fcggs and Breeding stock.
If ono keeps fowls for egg production It
Is reasonable to expect that they will be
stimulated as much as possible in order to
obtain the eggs, but when this Is done
one ought not to expect that the eggs
laid by these hens will hatch well. It Is
asking too much from hen nature. It is
not meant to convey the Idea that the hens
which furnish the eggs for market cannot
be expected to furnish eggs which will
hatch, but.only that one should not ex
pect the percentage of returns at the
hatching period that might fairly be ex
pected from hens that had not been pushed
so hard during the winter. The best way
of keeping up the flock from the eggs
raised on the farm Is to select the best
hens from the breeders and, during the
three months before their eggs are needed
for hatching, feed them rations which will
give them strength and vitality without
Inciting them to egg production. If any
great quantity of eggs was required for
hatching it would not, of course, be pos- j
slble to do this and still obtain the eggs
needed for market. In such an event it
Would be best to buy eggs for hatching
from some reliable breeder. It Is not an
easy task to properly handle the flock so
as to have eggs for market and also eggs
for hatching, and this Is where many of
the failures come in which discourage
farmers in poultry raising. As one gains
experience one also gains discrimination
and then the work of obtaining the com
bination Is easier.
Using Insecticides on Orchards.
One of the readers of this department
objects to the space given to advocating
the use of Bordeaux mixture and other In
secticides on orchards because “farmers
have not the time to give to this work.”
The only reply one can make to this ob-»
jection is that the farmer who cannot And
the time to properly care for his trees
would better cut them down and use the
land they occupy for crops which he can
And time to cultivate. In objections simi
lar to that given lies the cause for many
of the failures in farming and fruit grow
ing. The best orchardists In the country,
those that feed and cultivate the soil in
which their trees are standing, recognize
the fact that even this good care will not
ward off the attacks of Insects, and they
use the spra^ as a part of the requisite
culture. The man who cannot find time to
do all of his farm work properly . would
find it a good plan to cut off portions of
it until the work Is well within his capabil
ities, for he will make more profit than by
his present method of working. It Is the
men who "cannot find time" whose fowls
roost in the trees and feed around the
kitchen door and who complain that
poultry keeping (?) does not pay.
Making Barn Conveniences.
On the majority of farms considerable
time Is spent in the barns during the win
ter, and yet there is scarcely one barn in
ten that contains any of the little con
veniences which will enable one to work
to advantage. Two days’ labor and a
bundle of old newspapers and a few tacks
are all that Is necessary to fill In or cover
the cracks so that the wind would not
blow In and chill the animals. Then a
few boards laid over the cracks In the hay
loft would prevent the dust from coming
down on the horses and cows and save so
much cleaning. A few days of labor and
a few planks will put a gutter in opera
tion by which the liquid manure from the
stables can be conducted to vats and
saved. Twenty-five or 60 cents invested
in hooks of good size will provide places
for hanging harness, blankets, ropes and
other things that are frequently used and
not always to be found under the present
plan of keeping them. Than there should
be proper hooks provided In different parts
of the barn where a lighted lantern may
be hung without any danger of Its being
knocked down. There are a dozen other
conveniences which all farmers think of
having some time and most of them may
be had at the expense of a little time and
less money. Why not have them this win
ter when there Is time to get them to
gether?
and plate and through the center of the
Iron circle and a bolt, shown at B, provided
which Is kept in place when the tongue Is
straight. When It Is desired to turn in
either direction simply remove the bolt
and the tongue slides on the iron circle.
When the team Is turned straight again
slip the bolt In place. This sliding tongue
is a labor-saver and will cost but little.
Buying Stock Food Cheap.
Food for stock Is high this winter and,
naturally, there are many dealers who are
taking advantage of the situation and
palming off mixtures which have little
value. Here is an opportunity for every
farmer to make good use of his state ex
periment station. If It Is necessary to buy
stock food obtain samples, buying a bag
If necessary to get an honest sample,
and send a portion to the director of your
experiment station for examination. Tell
him In a letter that you must buy food,
cannot afford to be swindled, and ask his
opinion of the sample you submit. He will
reply quickly and give you an honest and
correct opinion. He Is likely, however, to
place the value of the food low for he will
cut out of his calculations the manufac
turer's profits and expenses, so If he re
ports that the food Is worth $10 a given
weight you would be reasonably safe in
paying $15 for It, provided the contents
were suitable for your stock. As a rule
avoid buying mixed foods. Buy the grains
separately for there Is less chance of mix
ing in foreign substances, and they are
more easily detected than In the mixed
foods.
Scrub vs. Pedigree Cows.
Breeders and others who are familial
with pedigree cows are fond of talking
and writing abput their pets. They urge
farmers to get rid of the scrub stock, buy
the pedigree stock and change their loss
In the dairy to profit. Unfortunately this
Is only half the story. We are quite ready
to admit that the pedigree cow Is superior
to the scrub cow, but why should any
farmer sink his money in pedigree cows
until ho learns thoroughly that such ani
mals would be little better than his scrubs
under the present plan of feeding? If
those who urge the pedigree cow would
take some trouble to educate the farmer
In proper ways of feeding there would be
more pedigree cows sold than now. It Is
the man who has learned to feed properly
who most quickly sees the value of the
well bred cow. A high bred animal is not
likely to do any better, If as well, on a
ration of corn and corn stalks than the
scrub cow. The chances are nine out of
ten that failure to make the dairy pay is
due to Improper feeding of the cows. Cor
rect this fault and one will quickly see
how much better the dairy would pay with
better cows back of It.
« i nousana nen rarm.
• It is safe to say that dozens of inquiries
come to the editor of this department
monthly about the possibilities of making
a living from the poultry industry. Most
of the writers figure that if 100 hens will
pay $100 a year profit, 1,000 hens should
pay $1,000 a year profit. It does not follow
that such is the case, for any one
who has handled a thousand hens realizes
thoroughly that it is a vastly different
proposition from handling a hundred hens.
From years of experience in the poultry
business we have discovered that it is
unsafe to venture beyond the number of
hens one can care for himself; this num
ber varies according to location and condi
tion, but whatever the number may be
when one gets beyond it then comes the
question of hired labor, which cannot be
relied upon, the necessity for more watch
fulness to avoid disease, the danger of an
epidemic if disease once gets in and a
number of other things which Increase ex
penses without a corresponding increase of
income. Still, many men are so situated
that they could have a thousand hens and
make them profitable, and if such men will
start with a few and learn the business as
they go along they will find more profit
in a poultry farm with less hard labor
than In any other branch of ordinary
farming they could pursue.
The Annual Weed Fight.
All farmers agree that the annual
growth of weeds is the most disturbing
element in their work and many of them
get so discouraged over the problem that
they let the scythe and the mower take
the place of eradication by cultivation.
The statement has been made that the
Russian thistle takes from the soil more
potash than would two crops of wheat
covering the same area. Other weeds rob
the soil in the same way or in other ways
quite as Injurious. Nor is that all; they
frequently upset the whole plan of farm
ing, making it necessary at times to depart
from the crop rotation that will do the
soil the greatest amount of good and put
in a crop that can be cultivated in order
to rid the soil of the weeds. The weed
fight is an everlasting one, perhaps, but It
is one which no farmer can afford to
abandon. His greatest success will come
in making his cultivation of hoed crops
thorough whenever they occur in his crop
rotation. Do some studying on this point
this winter and lay out a campaign
against the weeds.
A Sliding Sled Tongue.
Any farmer who has occasion to use a
sled, either on the snow or as a stone car
rier, knows how hard it often is to move
it when the horses must pul! in a straight
line. The sliding tongue shown in the il
lustration makes it possible to swing the
horses so that they may pull sideways in
either direction. A notch is cut In the top
of the tongue and over it is placed an iron
plate which is bolted on at either end. The
circular Iron. A. which Is two Inches wide
and one-haif inch thick, slides through this
notch. A hole is bored through the tongue
VNECDOTES FROM ANYWHERE.1
They are telling a good story on a
prominent citizen of a New York town,
who tried to repeat a joke to his wife
and found the joke was on himself. It
seems that the citizen was In a down
town hat store one evening, after clos
ing hours, and the proprietor from
some Incentive said: ‘‘I will give to
any man here a new silk hat If he will
swear on his word of honor that never
since his marriage has he cast a lan
guishing glance, or the eye of love, on
any woman other than his wife.”
A young man stepped forward and
paid: 'Give me the hat."
“Are you ready to so swear?” asked
the shopkeeper.
"I am,” replied the young man
firmly.
’ "Take the hat," said the hatter, who
then added: "When were you married,
p>y the way?”
“Last night,” replied the young, man.
■ This was the joke—the joke on tho
patter—which the prominent citizen
ran home and repeated to his wife with
piuch gusto.
After he had finished the wife did
not seem to appreciate the humor as
keenly as had been anticipated by the
husband.
“Why don’t you laugh?” asked the
latter. “Don’t you see It Is funny?”
; “I was thinking,” replied the wife.
[‘Why didn’t you bring home the hat.
flear?”
“Well, darn it! A silk hat never did
[ook well on me,” remonstrated the
Prominent citizen.
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Strangers In New York always notlcs
find comment on the childlike curiosity
of the crowds on Broadway. New
(Yorkers will stop and look at anything,
from the hoisting of a safe to the up
lifting of a fallen horse, and they chase
pre engines like boys.
1 An Incident of this sort Is related by
one of the older bankers. When Rufus
Hatch was in his prime there was a
little restaurant down town where the
men of finance Look luncheon. Hatch
went In one day and found every table
occupied. He was in a hurry. There
peemed to be no chance. So he said
to the man In charge, loud enough to
he heard all over the small room: "Ter
rible accident down at the Battery."
“What?” asked the manager.
“Full-rigged ship has Just gone down
In the channel, with a lot of people on
hoard.”
[ There was an immediate rush for the
poor. Tables we*e deserted, and the
pnen who were bating ran pell-mell
pown Broadway. Hatch sat down and
kite a quiet luncheon. Then he paid
Ills check and went out. The street
[was full of people running toward the
[Battery.
“What’s the matter?” asked Hatch.
“Ship gone down with a lot of people
on board!” gasped the runner.
"Gracious!” shouted Hatch. “Is that
so? 'i must see that,” and lje, too, ran
down the street, hoaxed by his own
[hoax.
* * •
One of those fledgling orators that
frequently are let loose during these
political campaigns was discoursing
(fervidly a few nights ago on a street
(corner in New York. He was new at
the business and was more than slight
ly attacked by stage fright. McClellan
[was his theme.
i "He was nursed In the cradle of de
Imocracy!” shouted the young man of
(the candidate. Then he worked off the
Pine for half a minute, when again
came the phrase:
“He was nursed at the cradle of de
mocracy!”
Once more he started on a new tack,
hut it lasted less than half a minute,
when the old phrase was repeated.
“Say, for heaven’s sake, get the can
didate away from that bottle!” yelled
v man in the crowd.
TWICE WON.
Wife Fall In Love with Unibanl “All
Over Attain.“
The wife of a well-known attorney
;at law of Seward, Neb., tells the tale
worth reading: “My husband was a
(soldier in the Civil War, and was, as
'he called himself, ‘an old coffee cooler’
and had always dranln very strong
coffee.
“About a year ago he complained of
a feeling of faintness every time afler
climbing his office stairs, and was also
troubled by terrible headaches that al
most drove him wild.
“He gradually grew weaker and
weaker until his affliction culminated
In nervous collapse, and for weeks he
seemed to be fading away from us in
spite of all onr efforts.
“The physicians pronounced him
strong and well, with no organic trou
ble whatever, and there seemed to bo
nothing the matter except the com
plete giving out of his nervous system,
“The doctors decided that coffee was
at the bottom of all bis trouble andl
ordered Fosturn Cereal in its place. Hs
Improved daily since he quit coffee and
began drinking Fosturn, and now says
he feels better than he has felt for 20
years, headaches ore gone, no more
fainting spells, and is gaining In flesh
every day, and he seems so much
younger and heartier and happier than
he has for years that l have fallen in
love with him over again.
“Now for my brother’s case; a few
years ago he had a peculiar trouble.
■ His tongue was swollen and sore at the
roots and covered underneath -with
festers.
“He thought his affliction was of a
' cancerous nature and his doctor was of
the same opinion. He could scarcely
eat anything and became so poor and
run down he was simply a nervous
wreck. He consulted various physi
cians, but none were able to diagnose
his case or help him In the least.
“At last a doctor to whom he ap
plied said he billeved my brother was
coffee pols ned und advised him to quit
coffee and drink Postum. He gave him
no medicine, but told him to give
i Postum fair trial and return to him In
6 weeks. My brother had used Postum
| only about ten days when the fester*
I disappeared from his tongue, and at
the end of two weeks the soreness and
swelling were gone and he began to
pick up In flesh and spirits.
I "He has never touched coffee Blnce,
1 but drinks Postum all the time and
has never had the slightest return of
the trouble.
“To look at my experience Is it any
wonder I can write a heartfelt testi
monial for Postum?” Name given by
Postum Co., Pattle Creek, Mich,
i Look In each package for a copy of
the famous little book, “The Road ta
Wellvllle.”
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