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FARM HINTS.
Breed In May for fall pigs.
Don't get Into the habit of trading
boraei.
The oiled collar wears itself and the
horse's shoulder less.
A crust is a gcod thing on pie, but a
ba dthing on a corn field.
If you have a rough pasture, fence
It and turn In brood sows.
Teasing or tickling horses renders
them vicious and Irritable.
Be sure there are no lice on the colts
when they are turned out to pacture.
Don't let too many chicks run to
gether. Big flocks are prone to disease.
A stout buckskin string tied to some
part of the harness often comes mighty
handy. ,
Be sure that your cows are treated
kindly and not hurried to and from the
pacture.
The cows should be milked both clean
and quickly, and at the same hour ev
ery day.
If the Utile colt does not get milk
enough feed it milk with oat meal
gruel in It.
The duck Is the coming fowl. Post up
on raising ducks and Increase your
ank account.
Clean, fresh water Is indispensable
for poultry. Don't let them suffer for
It this summer.
Keep the hens well supplied with grit
to keep them healthy and to produce
firm-shelled eggs.
Instead of throwing stones at the
scratching hen, mend the garden fence
and keep your pets tame.
You can afford to pay a good price
for a good bull. A poor one is a reck
less extravagance as a gift.
The earlier the weed is killed the eas
ler the task, the more effective the job
and the less Injury to the corn.
If there Is no fishing In your neigh
borhood make some. It Is a poor farm
that won't support a fish pond.
The, corn planted In ground In good
condition will pass the corn planted two
weeks earlier In cold, wet ground.
Corn put In cold, wet ground will
make only a sickly plant, but the grass
and weeds will make a good growth
The folly of farming without fun Is
fully found when the boys begin to
talk about enlisting for a campaign of
aln in town.
If corn and potatoes are not up, har
row promptly when the soil Is dry
enough after a heavy rain. There Is
money In It.
Attractive appearance often makes a
market where none existed, and the
appearance of things Is usually In con
trol of the producer.
A well that la not clean and so con
structed as to keep out all contaminat
ing leakagea Is misnamed. It should
be known aa a "sick."
Keep a sharp eye on the laying qual
ities of your hena, ao that when the
time comes to cull you can get rid of
the unprofitable one.
If your horses or cowa shrink from
you in fear when you approach them
It Is evident that some one about the
farm needs a lesaon In klndnesa.
It takes lota of good aervice from a
dog to pay for the fleaa and foul smells
he produces; and It's lucky for the dogs
that ao few of us caat up accounts.
A flower bed Is not so contemptible
as to be unworthy of a few minutes cf
a man's labor. It may afford s much
pleaaure In Ita way aa a cornfield or a
cow,
Keep a barrel of lime In the hen
house, with a shingle stuck In It. Ev
ery few days then It la handy to acattcr
lime around where It will do the most
good.
Time la not gained, but lost, by
planting corn before the ground Is well
warmed; and the ground may be cold
when the sun and even the air are
quite warm.
The man who would get up a corner
In the r.ecersarles of life and reap a
fortune therefrom ia r.o better than a
thief, and ought to le ar.t to the pen
itentiary. If you have all the p'ana laid out for
your season's work It may be a good
Idea to let your wife take a kodak
aquint at them to ac-e if they are prac
tical or not.
If you have been breeding from pure
bred alrea, and have high bred grade
atock, don't Improve them further by
Introducing a new breed. That Is the
road to acrubdom.
Horses oyer twelve yeara old often
auffer from toothache, which prevents
mastication and rauaea poor condition.
Every horae ahould ba examined an.
nually by a veterinary dentlat. It paya.
I have found out that !t paya to let
the wife have her way In the garden
i- fati.t.. in th knma anil
. . .... ... fired it point blank into his wife's face
tact I have com to think about It. It la mmctlngwounds in both eyea-onVol
Mwalty M wall to let her etert her In. I which aha haa completely loet, the ath
jLjaass aiaaaat aawhare. er belag severely Injured.
The weeds are Inclined to laugh when
they see a cultivator coming into wet
ground, for they know it will not hurt
them much, and it will put the ground
in bad condition and that is good for
tune for them.
It is a good plan to spend some time
training the colts when the weather
will not permit active field work. Colts
should be taught from youth up to do
what will be required of them when
older, thus paving the breaking re
quired of green horses.
The hen doesn't create eggs from
nothing, though on some places It
seems apparent that she does. She is
simply a machine for turning out eggs
from the raw material. If you supply
a hen with the material she will do the
transformation act.
It Is easier to cultivate corn that is
Just coming up than It Is to cultivate
after the leaves have spread, and it is
knowledge of this fad which enables
the wide awake farmer to do with a
harrow what the other fellow cannot
do with a shovel plow keep the field
clean.
It Is a lamentable fact that some men
would rather make (?) 15 trading
horses than to take proper care of their
cows, pigs and chickens. It is belter to
make an honest dollar producing some
thing that will contribute that much to
the sum total of good things of this
world than to make $5 in some doubtful
speculation, the chance for which may
never occur again.
Do not set milk or cream In a cellar
where potatoes or other vegetables are
stored. Do not set a trap In your corn
crib door; you might catch your neigh
bors" fingers In it. Do not et a hen
In the horse trough, old Dobbins will
eat the eggs. Do not nt still when Im
portant work needs to be done. It Is
well enough to set, and of vast Import?
ance to set everything properly.
Cattle often have rough brown spots
on the skin, something like large warts.
These should be touched or washed
with carbolic acid, diluted about one
third. Two or three applications are
usually all that Is necessary, and then
apply salted grease. These spots are
caused by an insect which burrows un
der the skin. They will spread if the
Insect is not killed. It Is mange.
Strawberry Shortcake Mix thorough
ly one pine bread flour, half teaspoon
salt, two level teaspoonfuls baking
powder and one tablespoonful of sugar,
and rub In one-fourth cup of butter.
Beat one egg very light, add one scant
cup milk (about seven-eighths) without
mixing .and stir this Into the flour.
Beat well and then cpread the dough
on two round shallow pans. Bake and
when done split, butler and spread with
fruit, sweetened and mashed.
The plow that ulll prow up bread.
butter and contentment, is a good one
whether It cuts fourteen or sixteen
inches wide. To make a bad plow go
well, the plowman should have happy
thoughts and he will not abuse his
team Our thoughts Influence our ac
Hons and actions speak louder than
words. I have observed dogs that
could tell when their masters were out
of humor even If they said not a word.
and I once owned a religious cow that
would kick a profane hired man aa fast
as he could get up.
CARE OP FRESH COWS.
A very large proportion of the cowa
In the country arr bred to calve In the
spring, and with the late season gcod
care will be r.eeded for the prevention
of the troubles to common at calving
time. Especially will 11 be necessary to
exercise care with the milk cows. No
cold water nor any of a much lower
temperature than blood heat, should be
given for at leas', a week after calving.
During this time at least, and often for
a long.- period, the cow Is quite fever
ish and very thirsty. If allowed to
drink water of the temperature of the
atmosphere, all the heat of the body
will be exhausted In raising the temper-
ature of the water to that of the blood.
This produces external chills, which ,ln
turn. Intensifies and protracts the fever.
As long aa the fever lasts, too, no grain
should be fed, but, instead, only bran
slops made with warm water, and
nothing but laxative food should be
given. Keep the udder milked clean,
and be on the lookout for any tender
ness of the teats. With milk cowa the
calf should be removed at least as scon
as the milk becomes normal. Many do
not allow It to such more than once a
day and some not at all, but Instead
milk and feed the colostrum, which It
Is necessary that the calf should have
In order that the digestive apparatus
may be regulated thereby.
NEW CURE FOR DRUNKENNESS.
Curtain lectures are, as benedicts
know to their cost, one of those amen
ities of life that might with advantage
b dispensed with, says the Berlin cor
reipondnt of the London Dally Tele
graph. And perhaps wives who live
on the Rhlr.e will henceforth avoid ad
ministering the cold water cure .when
thelt husbands return home In a Hate
of Intoxication.
The police court at Mayence has
sentenced an old man of 61 to a year'a
Imprisonment for the mode In which
he resented his wife's Ideas of applying
a remedy against drunkenness. He re
turned home one night visibly In his
cupa, whereupon his wife gave him a
very sharply worded curtain lecture
Not being one of those who are satis
fled with Inflicting stlnga by linguistic
combinations alone, ahe added forct
to her scolding by pouring- a bucket uf
ice cold water on his head. The man
thereupon took up loaded pistol and
THE IDEAL HUSBAND.
(Mrs. Clark-Hardy, Red Cedar. Wis.)
With advancing years one's Ideals are
likely to become slightly modified. Ex
perience teaches us that humanity must
even be of the earth earthy ways and
we are willing that It should be so,
realizing that we ourselves, having so
little of the angelic in our makeup, are
much happier walking in close compan
ionship with one who has his share of
the faults and frailties of humanity,
than we could possibly be with a being
so perfect in his spiritual nature that
he would never be able to make allow
ance for our own inherent depravity;
and so, roy ideal husband is Intensely
human, and ever will be until he at
tains to that sphere where they neither
marry or are given In marriage.
But my ideal husband must be first
and always a Christian gentleman. He
must be clean, morally, mentally and
physically, and love must be the dom
inant principle of his whole life. Love
for his family and his home. I think
that the Apostle Paul had an Ideal
husband in his mind's eye when he said
"Husbands, love your wives even as
Christ loved the church."
Such love as this will secure to the
wife perfect confidence, perfect peace
and perfect happiness and will be a
safeguard to the husband in the hours
of temptation, precluding all dishonor
or unfaithfulness.
To my Ideal husband home will be
the deareBt spot on earth, and the home
circle the very best society, and he will
remember that marriage is a yoke
which must be borne equally by hus
band and wife, and as she has given up
much that was dear to her heart, the
home of her childhood, the tender, pro
tecting care of her parents, and much
of girlish pleasure to become his wife,
and all for love's sweet sake, he, too,
will gladly forego many of the pleas
ures .and the freedom of his bachelor
days for the sweeter Joys of domestic
life. He realizes that the word hus
band signifies "house-band," the band
which binds the home and family to
gether, and he willingly gives them as
much of his society as Is possible, while
he tolls uncomplainingly that his loved
ones may be maintained in comfort,
and he finds in the love and apprecia
tion of his family a fitting recompense
for all his labor. His home Is to him a
safe anchorage from all the storms of
life, and In its peaceful moorings he
finds his greatest earthly happiness.
My ideal husband is kind and courte
us to his family, and remembering that
love is a wife's wages, he does not
skimp In his pay. He remembers also
that loving word3 and kind deeds are
the flowers that make glad the heart of
the living, while green grass on a well
kept grave gives no Joy to the pulse-
lees heart that lies beneath. My Ideal
husband understands that, as his wife
gives of her time for the making and
maintaining of -the home, even as he
gives of his own for Its support, she is
lustly entitled to share equally with
him in thf proceeds of their Joint labor,
and he never forgets that she is not
only his wife, tut an Individual whose
rights are at sacred as his own and
these rights he is bound to respect and
protect. In conclusion we will say the
Ideal husband is not so rare as some
people suppose. There are plenty of
them, as many a wife will testify, and
may their number never grow less.
Is not this just auch an ideal hus
band aa one would expect our friend,
Mra. Hardy, to depict?
Mrs. Hunn portrays her Ideal In
rhyme, and really does It all In the very
first verse, though the second and buc
:eedlng verses add touches to the pic-
lure which make it one not easily to be
forgolten:
THE IDEAL HUSBAND.
(Mrs. F. J. Hunr., Arrlngton, Kan.)
My Ideal husband
A man must be
Whom I can be proud of.
Who'll be proud of me.
With lots of affection
Not hidden away.
Rut convenient and ready
For use every day.
A constant companion,
My pleasures to share,
All my Joys to Increase
By his loving care.
He need not be handsome.
May even be plain.
But a dude or a fop
I will always disdain.
His breath must be free
From tobacco's vile smell,
And alan the odor
Of strong drink aa well.
In vulgar, bad language
He must not take part,
For the words of the llpa
Proceed from the heart.
He must not seek pleasure
Where I cannot go,
Nor have sly companions
Whom I must not know.
Should he meet misfortune.
And troubles press aore,
My labors shall help drive
The wolf from our door
Should alckness assail him,
Or accident malm,
I'll shoulder his burden
And carry the same.
Thus we'll double our Joy
And our aorrows divide
Aa we travel through III
Walking aide by side.
Then leaving this world
For a home up above
We'll dwell there forever
In Joy, peace and love.
FRILLS OF FASHION
Velvet cord neck chalna strung with
coral beada are one of the seaaon'a nov.
eltlea.
The new molra allk woven with floral
deelgne la aa toft and pliable aa oriental
aatla.
Vary pretty are the coetumea of allk.
warp mohair, drap d'eta and crepon
etu, trtmmed wHb shepherd's-orook
Ilk la vartoua mw arttetle eoter aal
(arm
SANTA CLAUS POSTAL SERVICE
Reindeer will Ba Brought From SI
berlato Carry Klondike Mall.
There will be a new field for poetrj
and romance when the United Stater
reindeer postal service Is started ir
Alaska. What tales of Journeys ovei
mountains, river and glaciers to taki
to some lone miner or trader the news
of home will be told by those who ar
drawn by the swift animals! Wha
lives will be saved by the tidings ol
privation that will fly over the snow
and Ice and the quick return of succor
From the frozen shores of. the Arc
t'c, far up where the whalers go lr
summer, to the shores of the North
Pacific the swift, patient animals wll'
make their track. Gold hunters, trap,
perg, lumbermen will hear of stirring
affairs of the world and of loved oret
at home. The pony express gives way
to the reindeer and the sledge.
The problem of Arctic transportation
since the rush to the Klondike has
caused much anxiety to the postofflcf
department, and has been finally solved
only after an expenditure of much
time and money by the choice of the
domesticated reindeer as the only prac
ticable and speedy method of distrlbuc
ing the Alaskan mail. Now, to carry
out the plans the revenue cutter The
tis is being fitted out for a cruise along
the Siberian coast to secure the swift
est of these animals from the Siberian
herders. Lieutenant D. H. Jarvls, one
of the most experienced of Arctic offi
cers, will be in command.
The nearest market of the domesti
cated reindeer Is on the east coast of
Siberia, Just across the Bering strait.
Here the animals have been herded and
trained by the nomadic tribes that
roam up and down the coast, sub
sisting mainly on the products of
the herds and bartering skins with the
coast natives for tobacco, firearms, am
munition and other commodities. The
Thetis will meet these tribes along the
coast, purchase the best of the deer and
transport them across to the Alaskan
oast.
The present methods of transporta
tion In Alaska are by dog trains, Indian
packers and boats. By boat it Is impos
sible to travel nine months of the year,
and dog team travel is limited, slow
and uncertain, as the greater part of the
load has to be taken up by food for the
animals. The history of every expedi
tion that has penetrated into the coun
try with Indians or dogs has been one
of great Buffering and hunger. Not only
in carrying the mall will the reindeer
be of service, but to explorers, miners,
missionaries and settlers they will prove
a pure means of transportatlng supplies
and will greatly aid In exploration and
development.
The reindeer rcpjepses all the re
quisites for Arctic travel. They are
swift, tractable and self-sustaining. The
moss upon which they feed covers the
whole of Northern Alaska and they
reach It by burrowing through the snow
with their deeply cleft hoofs. A swift
reindeer can make 150 miles a day under
favorable conditions, and twelve miles
an hour Is the fair average rate of speed
drawing a load of 300 pounds. The aver
age price of the reindeer Is $10.
In order to teach the Alaskan Es-
qulmeaux the art of handling the rein
deer experienced Lapland and Siberian
herders, with their families, have been
employed by the government at a sal.
ary of $27 per month and food. The gov
ernment station le at Port Clarence. The
reindeer, besides furnishing transporta
tlon, provides food, clothing, house.
furniture, Implements, weapons and
harness to the natives, and to the white
Inhabitants reindeer clothing Is the
most serviceable.
The most remarkable reindeer trip on
record, and one which undoubtedly In
fluenced the postal authorities In chooS'
Ing that animal, was made recently
by W. J. KJellman, superintendent cl
the station at Port Clarence. With two
herders and a reindeer team he trav
eled 1,000 miles through a trackless
country to the valley of the Kuskowim
river, south of Yukon, to obtain mall.
The deer at the nd tf the trip were In
good condition, and after a few daya foi
rest and feeding the return was made
to Port Clarence without miBhapa oi
lessening of speed.
The first of these animals were taken
to Alaska in 1892, through a bill Intro
duced by Senator Teller, appropriating
115,000 to Introduce Into the territory
reindeer for domestic purposes. They
were to furnish a permanent supply of
food for the 20,000 natives who were at
that time on the verge of starvation.
The revenue cutter Bear made several
trlpa to the Siberian coast and took
fifty reindeer to Port Clarence. Varlou
other stations, with additional herds,
have since been established.
A systematized reindeer mall express
will be of great Importance to the own
era of whaling fleets, who have millions
of dollars and 1,000 Uvea at stake. Suck
a service would have saved much anx
iety laat winter If It had given Informa
tion that the icebound whaling fleet
waa In no peril.
To the half hundred missionaries Ir
Northern and Central Alaaka, aa well ai
to the thousands of Ice Imprisoned sea
men who yearly have to apend th
dreary Arctic winter at Point Barrow
this new aervice will be a boon. Onlj
once a year haa the curtain been llfteC
for them, upon the arrival of the steam
er with provisions and mall. With thi
proposed reindeer service a monthl)
mall packet can be established.
A unique little candle haa Ita owt
electrto plant all to Itself. The candle
stick la of Iron, with a compartment
In the baae Into which can ba fitted I
small battery.
The battery la connected with th
little bulb at the top of the opaqui
white glaaa candle. The Incandeacen
light thua produced la Just the props
hM for the flame of a real candle, an
the whole can ba carried about tt
ovat with tntlra safety.
INSULTED A HOC.
720,000 Damages For Defamation
of trie Porker's Character.
George C. Council has begun a suit
In the circuit court in Springfield, III.,
to recover 120,000 from Charles A. Vigal
because Vigal has said the hog that
Council sold to a syndicate as a famous
porker known as Klever's Model was
not Klever's Model at all, but just a
plain, every day "ringer." Now the
term "ringer" as applied to swine does
not mean merely a pig adorned with a
ring in its nose to keep it from the un
pleasant habit of rooting up young on
ion beds. The syndicate that bought
the hog of Council calls it a "ringer"
because, Its members say, it is not the
hog that Council claimed it was at all.
The hog the members of the syndi
cate wanted to buy was a proud, aristo
cratic swine of the Poland China breed
called Klever's Model, and they paid
$5,100, said to be the highest price ever
paid for a hog In the United States,
for one they thought was Klever's
Model. But after they had the animal
In their possession they claimed to
have discovered it was, Instead, only a
low, common, base-born porker known
as Columbia Wilkes, which they say
would have been hard to dispose of at
$40. They refused to pay a matter of
some $1,000 on notes they had given
Council when the hog was bought.
Council sued on the notes. They had
Council Indicted by the grand jury.
There have been suits and cross suits.
The litigation over the hog already has
cost over $10,000. The last time Coun
cil sued to recover on the notes the
Jury declared him in the right and
gave him Judgment. Now he has start
ed after the men who said Klever's
Model was a plebeian hog in disguise
and haa begun by suing Vigal for $20,
000. .
The story of Council, the syndicate,
and the hog is a long one, but every
child in Sangamon county knows it by
heart. It began in 1897 at the State fair
grounds in Springfield. Council decid-
d to publicly auction off a famous hog
he owned, known as Klever's Model
The hog came of an ancient and highly
espected race, and. his fame was known
the country through, so when he was
put up on the block on September 8
to be sold to the highest bidder stock
men from all over the country were
there, anxious to secure the prize.
The bidding rose higher and higher
and finally Klever's Model was sold to
a syndicate for $5,100. The syndicate
was composed of James E. Snare of
Wyoming and George A. Heyl and A.
M. Caldwell of Washington. They es-
:orted Klever's Model home In triumph.
All was serene until Council's hired
man whispered about the country a
oorrlble secret. He was a Swede, named
named Arthur Thlelander. He said his
:onfclence troubled him bo that he felt
ne must ppeak. He declared the big
Poland China hog that went under the
name cf Klever's Model was not Kie-
ver s Model at an. me real severs
Model, he said, had died nearly a year
before the auction sale of one of the
pestilences peculiar to the hog race.
The hired man said he had been
with Klever's Model when It lay down
and died, had been chief mourner at
:he funeral, and had acted as under
laker for the deceased porker. He re
ated how at the dead of night by the
tlckly glare of a barn lantern, he had
mid Klever's Model in a grave. The
.iext day, he said. Council built a straw
itack over the grave and put a new ,low
oorn heg, Columbia Wilkes, In the
place formerly occupied by Klever's
nodel. This degraded hog waa Intro
duced around aa Klever's Model, so the
.tired man alleged, and finally sold as
the original animal.
When the members of the syndicate
heard the hired man's tale they were
greatly exercised. They sent a man to
exhume the remains under the Btraw
stack on the Council farm. The grave
waa opened, but Instead of finding the
skeleton of one hog they found all that
remained of two. Council had not de
nied the existence of hog bones under
the straw stack, but said they were
those of two hogs that had died of
cholera, and he had burled them to pre
vent the disease from spreading. Nei
ther of these hogs, he declared, was
Klever's Model, which he Insisted he
had sold to the syndicate.
The ayndlcate men, however, were
not satisfied. They took the hired man
over to see the hog they had bought
and the hired man pointed his finger
at it and said, like the hero of a melo
drama. "I know you now. You are not
the aristocratic Klever's Model, but the
base-born Columbia Wilkes."
So the syndicate men posted off to
Springfield and put the hired man In
the grand Jury room, and the hired
man told the grand Jury his story and
Council was Indicted. The case came
up for trial and the state's attorney
waa preparing to wage a vlgoroua pros
ecution against Council and the false
Klever's Model, when he received an
affidavit from Thlelander atatlng that
he had aworn falsely before the grand
Jury and that the real Klever'a Model
was alive and not mouldering In the
lonesome grave under the haystock.
The state's attorney thought this set
tled the matter and dismissed the case,
but it waa not to end here. The syn-
Jlcate members claimed Thlelander had
been bribed, a position In which they
were enthusiastically sustained by the
versatile Mr. Thlelander himself dur
ing the trial of a suit which Council
brought against the membera of the
ayndlcate to recover on the note. In
the flrat trial the jury disagreed. In
the second both sides brought experts
from every part of the country to swear
for the defendanta that Klever'a Model
waa Columbia Wllkea la disguise, and
for the plaintiff that Klever'a Model
waa the only original.
Over eighty witnesses war examla
ad, and the Juror were aa muddled aa
they had been at the first trial, when
Council won his suit by checkmating a
move -f the defence. The defence had
exhibited to the Jury the hog which
they had bought as Klever's Model, but
which they said was Columbia Wilkes.
Council went out to his farm and came
back with a hog that he proved to the
satisfaction of the Jury was the original
Columbia Wilkes. With Columbia ac
counted for, the jury decided that Kle
ver's Model could be none other than
himself.
So the case was decided for Council
and now he has begun suing the men
who have insisted that Klever's Model
was Columbia Wilkes with another ring
in his nose and his tail trimmed off.
Meantime the hired man is silent and
mysterious and is expected to come
forward soon with a brand new sensation.
PLANS A BAND A-WHEEL.
Salvation Army Musicians will Now
Mount Bikes and Pursue Scorchers.
In order not to be left behind In good
works, and realizing that his satanic
majesty utilizes all up-to-date methods,
the Salvation Army officials have put a
bicycle band in the field against the co
horts of sin, says the New York Jour
nal. Adjutant Anderson, In the finan
cial department in the Fourteenth
street armory, is the leader of the bi
cycle band, and in a few days from
fifteen to twenty members, Including
bass and snare drummers, will start out
to carry their warfare Into the midst
of the bicyclists who spin up the bou
levard to Grant's Tomb or down the
bicycle path to Coney Island. Accom
panying the band awheel will be the
bicycle squad connected with the ar
mory headquarters, numbering between
twenty and thirty wheels.
"We have had considerable difficul
ty," said Adjutant Anderson, "in han
dling the baas drum, You see, it is an
unwieldy instrument and offers much
surface to the wind. Aside from that
it is a difficult instrument to manage
In a crowded bicycle path with the
'scorchers' and racers dodging in and
out. Lieutenant Stimson, however, has
about mastered the situation, and by
an arrangement of heavy wires he has
so adjusted the drum in front of the
handle bar that he can steer his ma
chine with one hand and pound away
with the other.
"Then, again, you know, we all play
more or less 'by ear," so that we do
not have to carry music with us. If we
used notes the necessity of gazing at
the music would istract our attention )
and render our career decidedly wob-1
bly. Then our snare drummer, if he ;
goes alone, will have to play with one(
hand, but we are trying to arrange a
double wheel, which will give the!
drummer the use of both hands. AMI
of the other instruments are so ar-.
ranged that a one-hand manipulation!
will furnish all the music we are after.
We expect to be ready in a few days
to start this branch of the army out;
upon the war path and we expect good,
results."
All the army officials are exhibiting
much interest in the bicycle musician
and while a number of the officers and
"lassies" have already mastered the
wheel, others are dally practicing, so
that before the summer Is over the .
bicycle squad will be greatly In
creased. "We recognize the fact," said an offl-
cer, "that bicycling has taken a firm
hold upon the people and that many ;
have deserted the church service to
speed away to the country on the Sab- I
bath and holidays. The only way to'
reach those people is to go along with (
them. The only way to get near them :
Is to utilize the bicycle and keep
abreast of them as well as abreast of
the times.
"The bicycle squad and band will
wear no different uniform, but will
carry a haversack upon their shoulders
to contain their traps. The men will;
wear clasps on the bottom of their
trousers, while our women will wea;
sklrta slightly abbreviated. There will ,
be no divided skirts Just the plain
blue affair."
Potato Cure For Rheumatism.
Among the many curiosities pulled
out of an Irishman's pocket one day in ;
a vain search for a coin was a little,
black object that looked like a hard, '
round piece of agate. A friend ex
pressed astonishment at the man's car
rying such a thing In his pocket, and
asked him why he did It.
"Why, man alive," Pat exclaimed,'
"that is not a stone, but Just a potato,
and, sure, I carry it with me to cure
me rheumatics. I have two about me,"
said Pat, diving down in his other pock
et and bringing forth the mate of,
the first curious looking potato, as Pat
swore It was,
Upon investigation It was found that
Pat had much method In his madness.
Potatoes among old country people have
been looked upon for many years aa
a preventive of rheumatlam. Small,
round, smooth potatoes are chosen, and
are put In each pocket of the trousers.
Soon the potatoes become black, but
they never rot; they seem to be petrl.
field, and it Is claimed they take the
poison of the disease out of the system.
At any rate, the remedy la a elmpl
one and well worth a trial.
"I gave that poor man $1 a few
days ago and told him to come around
and let me know how he got along."
"Oh, that waa good of youl He waa
your bread cast upon the waters."
"I suppose he waa. Anyhow, ha cama
back 'soaked.' "-Philadelphia Bulletin.
Dentist Did you aver taka gas be
fore T
Farmer Haycede Look her smarty,
that Joke's gona fur enough, Vfoah
'Imlghtyl Reckon that oonaaniad total
(rttrk'a Mra tail's, ran about It, taa.
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