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J. Pierpout itiUi (,teU is trying to cor
ner the old masters.
Why this fuss about the man who
sold his wife for $5? Wasn’t she
worth it?
Eggs are now said to be full of mi
crobes. That is calculated to jar that
egg-nog habit.
Baron Nathaniel Rothschild has just
given $4,000,000 to charity. Wonder
where he got it?
“Starving Men Desperate,” says a
headline in the Washington Post. ,
They generally are.
When girls play baseball they have .
to conscript one of their number to i
wear a mask and stomach protector. <
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Mr. Rockefeller is trying the Kneipp
cure. If the morning dew helps his
Ceet he will try it on the top of his
head.
It appears that the Italian with
whom Miss Croker eloped has a title.
This being the case, how could she
help it?
In view of the recent developments
in the army, the navy can hardly be
blamed for putting on a slightly su
perior air.
How much the world thinks of a
baseball player, who does not drink,
smoke or swear, and who plays pretty
good ball!
Philadelphia’s city council proposes
to investigate itself. The market price
for whitewash in Philadelphia ought
to rise rapidly.
Having evolved a live volcano and
a defunct sea serpent, Nevada will
now rest from its labors for another
fifty years or so.
It has just been discovered that Ju
piter has a seventh moon. Jupiter
must be a poor place for private street
lighting companies.
The lesson of the disastrous Zeigler
expedition is that now is the time to
begin organizing an expedition for the
relief of Explorer Peary.
“Fads and Fancies” is expected to
explain monkey dinners, and all need
ful points in connection with them,
and furnish a list of those who attend
them.
This report that whisky drinking is
declining in New York will cause no
surprise. Most of the members of the
smart set are out of town at this
season.
Granting that 10,000 persons are
killed annually on the railways, do
the scorching automebilists think it a
laudable ambition to wish to beat that
record?
The census bureau finds that there
has been a steady decline in the birth
rate in this country since 1860. The
percentage of poor families must be
decreasing.
The poet Whittier rhymed “trust”
with ’’nursed.” But we must remem
ber that he was a New England poet,
and in his neck of the woods they pro
nounce it “nussed.”
More than 5,000 people are said to
mysteriously disappear in this country
every year. That’s nothing to the
number whose money mysteriously
disappears every day.
A New York man cut his throat be
cause he could not get his book pub- 1
lished. By the way, we should think
some of these authors would cut their
throats when they saw their books in
print.
Mary Mannering has canceled her
theatrical engagements in order to
take care of her little baby. Mary will
deserve all the advertising she can
get on account of this extraordinary
proceeding.
An observation tower to the memory
of Ethan Allen was dedicated in Ver
mont recently. This is creditable to
the Vermonters, but a man whose
country is full of his namesakes needs
no other monument.
“Honesty,” says a thoughtful edi
tor, “is the one thing to be desired in
office.” The main thing undoubtedly;
but remember how Palmerston onc«
described a most objectionable official
as “a very honest fool.”
An English doctor says all the dis
eases that human flesh is heir to can
be cured by marriage if there is a
proper selection. It must, of course,
be understood in this connection that
such things as bow legs and cross-eyes
are not diseases.
A climate that causes whiskers of
mildew to grow on a corncob pipe
surely has its disadvantages. A Pan
ama employe, who says he is helping
to dig the canal with a typewriter,
registers a public kick and thinks
Uncle Sam’s employes deserve more
pay. However, only the highly paid
resign.
A contemporary thinks it has dis
covered that a man who works all the
year round, without a vacation, short
ens his life. And yet the men who
never work at all are always short.
When Prof. Agaziz was asked to do
some work in which there was good
pay, he refused, saying he “hadn’t
time to make money." When the may
or of Saratoga was asked to stop the
gambling there, he replied: “We are
too busy to reform.” Human exped
ience has no example that shows such
a wide difference between met.
“Baltimore,” says the American of
that city, "is doing things right these
days.” If this is true what should
hinder Baltimore from at once becom
ing the earthly Paradise?
The Cosmopolitan.
The Cosmopolitan (New Tort:)
shows that it is fully able to live up
to its claim of being the magazine of
timely interest. At least three arti
cles In the September issue are dis
tinctly of that nature. None of the
other periodicals of the month con
tains so interesting and important an
article as that by Garrett P. Serviss
on the “Artificial Creation of Life.”
Mr. Serviss describes in great detail
the latest developments of Dr. Loeb’s
experiments with parihenogenetic
creation, and also tells so far as may
be of the English scientist Burke’s
work to create life by chemical ac
tion. There exists no more fascinat
ing subject than this attack on one of
Nature’s most impregnable secrets,
and it behooves every intelligent read
er to keep pace with it.
Enamel on Cards.
The enamel on address cards is
produced by rubbing over the card a
| mixture of Kremnitz white, which is
a fine variety of white lead. When
! dry the surface is rubbed with flannel
dipped in powdered talc and polished
by vigorous rubbing with a hard
brush.
Ole Bull the Patriot.
Ole Bull, the wizard of the violin,
is everywhere known. Ole Bull, the
patriot, Norway’s lover and beloved,
is a character less familiar to the
general public. A most fascinating
bit of history is the record of Ole
Bull’s passion for his* country and his
share in Norway’s development; and
this is the subject of Margaret E. No
ble’s “Ole Bull as a Patriotic Force.”
announced to appear in the Septem
ber Century. “One of the world
voices,” Ole Bull is called, “one of
those world-voices in which perfect
command of a difficult technic is
made, in its turn, only the instrument
of a higher impulse—the heart of a
whole people pressing forward to the
utterance.” The recent secession of
Norway gives timeliness to Miss No
ble’s paper.
Laugh at Sultan’s Jokes.
When the Sultan of Turkey “com
mands” a theatrical performance he
orders a number of his own jokes to
be interpolated, the court being care
fully coached that they may laugh at
his creations and politely ignore the
more genuine humor.
Everybody’s Magazine, September,
1905.
Comparison of the City of Today
with the City of the Future is a
cheerful exercise. And plenty of ma
terial for the comparison is offered in
the September Everybody’s. There
is, for instance, the intensely modern
biography of James R. Keene, the
great Wall street magician, whose
contests with Jay Gould and with
“Standard Oil” are brilliantly describ
ed by Mr. Lawson in a particularly
absorbing installment of his “Frenzied
Finance.” It is a chapter from the
very heart of the life of today, this
story of a man, according to Mr. Law’
son, "of infinite strategy and daring.”
Japs Are Born Sailors.
A Japanese marine officer has ex
plained why Japan has such good sail
ors. Most of her coast vessels are
small, but there are a great many of
them, and almost any man taken from
a fishing village has had enough ex
perience to enable him to become an
efficient sailor in a short time.
O. Henry, Champion of the Down
Trod.
O. Henry's “Unfinished Story” in
the August McClure’s was a stinging
lash at the snug employers of girl
labor at starvation wages. Whether
the author had any deeper motive In
writing his caustic little tale than the
compelling force of the tragedy the
conditions suggest, only O. Henry
knows; but down in Texas, the au
thor’s native state, the official organ
of the State Federation of Labor lift
ed fhe story bodily from the magazine
and accompanied it with an editorial
giving it direct application to some
department store owners whom they
accuse by name.
Remarkable Memories.
Extraordinary memories, such as
seem to have been common in the
old times, are still to be encountered
in India, where there are Hindu
i priests who can repeat the 300,000
! lines of Mahabbarata accurately.
Every housekeeper should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time, because it
never 6ticks to the iron, but because
each package contains 18 oz.—one full
pound—while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up in %-pound pack
ages, and the price is the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from all Injurious chem
icals. If your grocer tries to sell you
a 12-oz. package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he puts in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every package in large let
ters and figures “16 ozs.” Demand De
fiance and save much time and money
and the annoyance of the iron stick
ing. Defiance never sticks.
Bagpipes From Norway.
It Is a curious fact that bagpipes
were invented in Norway and thence
imported into Scotland in a period
when a portion of the country fell
into Scandinavian hands.
Word from Br’er Williams.
, “Yo got de gold fever, all right,”
said Brother Williams, “but you ain’t
got de diggin’ principle.”—Atlanta
Constitution.
It is not so irritating to be guilty of
an error of judgment; the maddening
part of it Is the knowledge that some
one is standing by ready to shout, “I
told you so."
Usually the son of a self-made man
begin* to descend the ladder from the
point at which his father stopped
climbing.—Chicago News.
In Norway there is a law which
prohibits any person from cutting
.djwn a tree unless he plants three
saplings in its place.
The Bugler.
Booming the shot, and laughing at the
shell,
Behold the Bugler. At his shrill behest
The haggard hosts press from hell to
hell
Until the flag floats proudly on the crest.
We are the ones who need him; we who
sit
In slothful ease and comfort, while each
day
Our rights are shelled and shattered;
we who knit
Our brows when Duty calls us, nor obey.
—Howard Sutherland, In San Francisco
Star.
First Battle Experiences.
"I was jokingly called chicken heart
ed,” said the sergeant, "when I en
listed in the Union army in April,
1861. I could not bear to see anything
or anybody hurt. I found in a few
days that I had lots of company, and
wondered if any of the tender hearted
squad would ever oecome hardened
to the inevitable cruelties of war. My
own baptism in a new order of life
came in our first engagement. The
sight of the enemy’s wounded sicken
ed me and I was keeping as far away
from them as possible when I was or
dered to lift one of the most severely
wounded onto a stretcher.
"Stooping to take hold of the mac’s
legs, it seemed to me I could not
touch him. But, as my hands sought
along hfe bloody trousers for a place
to take hold, and became red with
blood, I realized how much need there
was for help in such extremity, and
my nerves were as if made new. In
that instant my nature, so far as re
vulsion against blood was concerned,
was changed. After that I never hesi
tated to help a man who needed help,
no matter how he looked.
"One of my old chums, a jovial fel
low of good parts, not only became
hardened to scenes of blood, but came
to tee amusing features in battle
tragedies. On one ocasion when &
comrade’s foot was shot off by a shell
and hurled into the air. Dick called
to the prostrate man, shouting: ‘I
say, John, see your foot spin.’ The re
mark was not hysterical. Dick told
me later that the spectacle of a spin
ning foot struck him as being very
wonderful and very amusing.
"At Cold Harbor Dick wore a straw
hat and was very proud of it. In the
heat of the fight a shell exploded over
Dick’s gun. One piece of the shell
killed his corporal and another grazed
Dick’s head, tearing nearly all the rim
ofT his favorite hat and taking it off
his head. Dick watched the whirl
ing hat until it touched the ground.
Then he picked up the remnant and,
crowding it on his head, said, as if
addressing the enemy: "If you no
like hfta fer this kind take ’em fer the
odder kind.”
"I thought at first that it would
break my heart to see a comrade shot,
and even as late as Stone River I was
afraid I might bolt if men near me
were shot down. The first man struck
was one of the tallest and largest men
in the company. There was nothing
distressing about it. I heard the ‘spat’
of the bullet, and saw Charley topple
over and settle down in a restful sort
of way. Then a little fellow at my.
side was struck in the right arm as he
was ramming home a load. He looked
at me in a puzzled sort of way, then
smiled and raised his left arm to ram
home. Another bullet struck his left
arm, and a third bullet struck him in
the leg. He didn’t seem excited or in
pain, but exceedingly annoyed.
“I turned then to our color bearer,
who wras waving the flag and making
a splendid picture of himself. 1 saw a
hole appear in the center of his high
forehead, saw him put the flag In an
other man’s hand, saw him lie down
and cross his arms on his breast. It
was all simple and dignified and I was
not greatly disturbed. A bullet cut
across my leg above the knee, a
something struck me on the side of
the foot, a splinter of rock seemed to
pierce my ear, but all seemed trifles.
It did not occur to me that I was hurt.
I didn’t feel sorry for myself or the
color bearer. We seemed to be doing
pretty well, and I waited, for the
slaughter to begin. But the battle was
over when thirteen of our men were
down.
“A week later I went to the hospi
tal to look up our wounded. The fact
that wounded and bandaged men
could be so clean afld seem so com
fortable and cheerful was a shock
to me. I caught a bright
look from two black eyes
that I knew and went over to
shake hands. Both arms were dis
abled. and I didn’t shake hands. 1
was disappointed and depressed when
he of the black eyes said, ‘We licked
’em, didn’t we? That was a great
fight, my boy.’ Then my big man
said, ‘Did you see me lie down in that
corn field? Never felt so disappoint
ed in my life. But I had to do it, and
I lost most of the fight.’
“I have no disagreeable recollec
tions of that hospital and its scores of
wounded. I have no unpleasant recol
lections of the men shot dead at Stone
River. There is no tremor of nerve
if I recall the fighting when the lines
closed in. I am as tender-hearted as
I ever was, but I am not faint-hearted
when men need help.”—Chicago Inter
| Ocean.
Winning the Medal of Honor.
The idea of the medal of honor
originated with the late Gen. E. D.
Townsend, adjutant general of the
army during the civil war, and the
regulations which govern the award
ing of it are so stringent that it may
be said to stand In every case for
heroic and distinguished service. Hun
dreds of those who wear it, if they
are so minded, can tell thrilling
stories of how they won it. Thomas I.
Higgins, now of Hannibal, Mo., was
awarded his medal on the testimony
of his former foes. During the civil
war he was the color bearer of the
Ninety-ninth Illinois regiment, and
held that position at the siege of
Vicksburg. In an assault on May 22,
1863, the Ninety-ninth Illinois was
ordered to charge and not to look
back. The Second Texas regiment
confronted the charging Illinoisans, re
pulsed them a short distance from the
Confederate breastworks, and drove
them back in confusion. But Higgins,
unmindful of the retreat of his com
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rades, still bounded forward, with
colors flying. As he advanced word
was passed along the Confederate line
not to shoot him, and all firing ceased.
When Higgins discovered his predica
ment he started to retreat with his
colors, but instantly several men ran
out and led him within the Confeder
ate lines, where he remained until
released on parole. Twenty-four years
later a number of veterans of the
Texas regiment who had witnessed
and remembered his charge made af
fidavits to that effect, and on these he
was awarded a medal. Higgins could
have been vouched for by members of
his own regiment, but the novelty of
recommendation by his former foes
led to that course—the first instance
of its kind.
Capt. Harvey M. Mursell, now of
New York, won his medal as color
bearer of the Ninety-ninth Pennsyl
vania at Gettysburg. His regiment
was stationed at Devil’s Den. where
centered some of the fiercest fighting
of the second day. All of his color
guard of eight men had been killed or
wounded, when in one of the charges
a shell burst directly in front of Mun
sell, hurling him headlong into the
hole it tore up in the ground. The
flag fell with him, and the report went
out that he was killed and the flag
captured. He was so close to the
enemy's lines that he dared not move,
knowing that if he did he would be
dead without a question. So he lay
still, with hands over the flag, until
the next charge of the Union troops,
when he jumped up and ran back to
his regiment, waving the colors.
Reminiscence of Army Nurse.
Miss Adeline L. Miller, who resides
on Arapahoe street, Los Angeles, was
sent out from Chicago in June, 1861,
under the auspices of the sanitary
commission by Dorothy Dix, who had
charge of the appointing of nurses.
For three months she was in a hos
pital in Cairo, 111., and was then trans
ferred to Paducah. Ky., where she
served in various hospitals. In the
fall of 1862 she was sent to Columbus.
Ky., to serve on a floating hospital
where contraband slaves who had fol
lowed the army as it moved through
the country, were cared for, after the
soldiers had been removed to hospitals
on shore. The following March she
was assigned to the floating hospital
“Nashville” at Milliken’s Bend, where
Grant’s army was gathering.
“At Young’s Point,” says Miss Mil
ler, “I witnessed from the deck of
Gen. Grant's boat the running of the
blockade. In the spring of 1864 I wras
sent to Nashville to care for the poor
whites in the refugee house there,
who had lost their all through the
fortunes of war. About this time the
Christian commission, in charge of
Mrs. Wittenmeyer of Philadelphia, be
gan fitting up diet kitchens for the
special care of the very sick and from
that time my work was principally
along these lines. I was sent to the
Bragg's Barracks hospital and Con
valescent’s Camp at Chattanooga and
afterward to the Number Two hospital
in Nashville to fit up these diet kitch
ens. In the crude state of affairs we
were sometimes helped out by the
regular kitchen force, who in some
places sent us a barrel of toast daily
which we prepared and served as hot
as possible to the poor sick boys, one
of whom remarked in apprecia
tion, ‘I know there is a woman around;
everything tastes so good.’ ”
Gen. King’s First Order.
Comrade John R. King. Senior Vice
Commander-in-Chief of the Grand
Army of the Republic, assumed com
mand of the organization, and issued
his first general order on July 18. The
order paid a high tribute to the late
Commander-in-chief Wilmon W. Black
mar and directed that the colors be
draped-for ten days at every head
quarters and every post of the Grand
Army of the Republic.
Comrade James M. Schoonmaker,
at his own urgent request, is relieved
from his position as Chief of Sr.aff, and
Comrade J. J. McCardy, Past Depart
ment Commander of the Department
of Minnesota, is appointed in his
place.
The Adjutant General will continue
in the performance of the duties of his
office during the remainder of the year
and until his successor shall be chosen
in the encampment.
All other officers of the staff are re
spectfully requested to remain on
duty according to the appointments
heretofore made.
Oaths That Did Not Count.
“There were many army chaplains,’
says Gen. Josiah Pickett of Worces
ter, Mass., “who adapted themselves
to conditions, and were none the less
religious in consequence. Our regi
mental chaplain—‘Fighting Tim,’ we
called him—would sometimes grasp a
rifle and get into the thick of the
fight. He was up in front one day,
during a brisk skirmish, peppering
away with my company. Stopping for
a moment at his side, I noticed that
the men about him were ‘swearing
like troopers.’ It was a habit some
men had when under fire; men who
were never known to use profane lan
guage in their calmer moments. Out
of respect to the cloth, I reprimanded
the men, reminding them that the
chaplain was among them.
“ ‘Never you. mind that, captain,’
broke forth ‘Fighting Tim,’ as he bit
off a paper cartridge, ‘any man who
dies here will go to heaven so quick
that the devil will never know he’/
dead.’ ”
Pension Bureau Statistics.
The, work of the Pension Bureau h
i still being carried on with celerity
For the month of May the Commis
sioner reports the total number oi
certificates issued to be 12,233 ar
average of 471 certificates for eact
working day of the month. The num
ber of unsettled claims on file In the
bureau shows steady reduction. On
July 1, 1904, thev numbered 285,523;
on June 1, 1*05, they numbered 229,
428. New applications to the numfoei
of 19,517 were filed during the montfc
Trees in Poor Soil.
Among the numerous varieties of
trees now in cultivation, there are
some that do better on poor soils than
on rich soils. On rich soils these
trees grow so rapidly and form so
much wood that it does not harden be
fore winter comes. This Is the case
with the European larch. This tree is
one of the most famous trees in Eu
rope for the production of building
material. Larch wood is found in Eu
ropean structures that are many cen
turies old. The trees from which
those timbers were produced grew on
the tops of mountains in poor soil. It
was believed that the larch could be
made a valuable tree for our western
prairies. Many thousands of trees
were planted in all sections of the
prairie states. The rich soil of the
prairies caused a rapid growth, and
the wood produced lacked entirely the
quality of the European larch. The
tops of these trees frequently froze off
in winter, and the wood when used for
building material or for fence posts
quickly decayed. Our tree growers
have long since concluded that if the
larch is to be grown at all, it must be
grown on poor soils and under hard
conditions What is true of the larch
is true of many other trees.—Milton
Knight, Cherry Co., Neb., in Farmers’
Review.
The Common Yellow Bear.
This is an Insect that is found in
our gardens fiom June to September.
It attacks grape vines, apple treea,
currant bushes and gooseberry bushes,
and even other trees and shrubs.
When young the caterpillars are blu
OL
ish white, but are of a pale cream col
or when fully grown.
The eggs are round and yellow and
are placed on the under side of leaves.
The moth is the miller we find in our
rooms at night. In the illustration *‘a”
is the miller, “b” the pupa, and “c”
the adult. The caterpillars must be
picked by hand.
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Thin the Branches of Shade Trees.
It is a common mistake to permit
the branches of shade trees to become
too thick. This is true whether they
be conifers or deciduous trees. In the
case of conifers, like the spruce trees
and cedars, the branches, being thick,
prevent the sun from reaching the in
most branches, which die. If one will
lie under some of the thick-branched
spruce trees and look up, he will see
immediately surrounding the bowl of
the tree only dead twigs, and these
sometimes extend several feet from
the trunk. Such trees are unsightly.
The trees would be just as beautiful if
the branches were kept thin, and
there would be only green from
the tips of the limbs to the trunk of
the tree. Shade tends to thin out
branches. This is nature’s means of
pruning. When a deciduous tree, like
the maple, is allowed to form all the
branches it can, it invariably kills all
the grass below it. Where shade
trees are grown grass is generally
also wanted, and the owner of the tree
tries every known art to make grass
grow under the tree. The only way
for him to succeed is to keep the
branches of the trees thinned out suf
ficiently to allow some light to get
through. This will not disfigure the
tree, and will save the grass. Thick
ness of branches does not add beauty
to a tree, for it is obvious that limbs
that cannot be seen do not increase
the beauty of a tree, yet they prevent
the passage of sunshine. By thinning
out the inside branches the beauty of
the tree can be saved and the grass
at the same time.
Preparation of Orchard Soil.
If an orchard is put out right, the
soil will be prepared for it
several years In advance, if
the soil is what is known as
virgin soil. It is always a mistake
to dig holes in virgin soil, and plant
trees therein. Ground for orchards
should be plowed for one or two years
and crops grown on it that need culti
vation. Such crops as corn, potatoes,
and garden produce are especially well
adapted to fit the land for orcharding.
The points to be borne in mind are
to get the soil stirred deeply, have it
thoroughly pulverized and supplied
with plant food.
No Apple Belt.
There is no such thing as
an apple belt, although apples
can be grown much more successfully
in some localities than others. But
generally speaking, apples can be
grown everywhere in the temperate
zones. The apple, above most fruits,
has a wide range of latitude, and is lit
tle affected by longitude, except where
such longitude indicates aridity. The
apple adapts itself readily to a great
many varieties of location and eleva
tion. While the apple naturally likes
a clay soil, It adapts itself to many
varieties of soil conditions and tex
tures.
The Hardy Mule.
Hardiness is a quality i^at is com
ing more and more to huve value in
the eyes of our farmers. The animal
that is hardy can be more
cheaply raised than the ani
mal that lacks in that Important
quality. It is declared that the mule
is more easily raided than any other
farm animal intended for labor on
farms of this cotmtry. He has a pow
erful digestion, that makes it possible
for him to u*se the crudest hay for
nourishment Above all, the young
mule does wot often die from the ail
•nents that affect the offspring of
the hon»e. Especially in the sent
the mu*e is very profitable as a farm
labor«>, in spite of his bad temper
ande* certain circumstances.
Keeping Milk in Hot Weather.
The problem of keeping milk during
the heated term is very much greater
than that of keeping milk at any other
time of the year. All bacterial life
thrives and the laws of bacterial life
have provided for enormous increase
of bacteria in a very short time under
summer temperatures. Conditions
that would permit milk to remain
sweet for 24 hours in the winter time
will result in milk turning sour In 12
hours in the summer time. In the
winter time a poorly washed can
would infect the milk and result In
time in souring it. The multiplication
of the germs would be very slow, how
ever, and most of the milk would be
used cp before it had had time to
sour. In the summer it is necessary
that excessive care be taken in the
washing of the milk vessels. They
should be first washed and rinsed in
cold water, which washing will re
move most of the casein from the
sides of the vessels. If hot water is
used first it will result in coagulating
the casein, and the latter will stiek to
the sides and seams. At ordinary
temperatures it is the butter fat that
sticks to the sides. Therefore it is
reasonable, after the casein has been
rinsed out, to detach the fat by the
use of boiling water. In cases where
the vessels of tin are not new, soda
should be used in each can, as this
will combine with the casein. It
should be made certain that the water
is boiling hot and that it remains long
enough in the cans to destroy all germ
life. This may be assured by cover
ing the cans, as by this means the
heat will be retained for a long time.
Merely pouring hot water into the
cans and pouring it out again will
generally remove the traces of butter
fat, but will not necessarily destroy
all germ life. After the hot water
has been poured from the cans, they
should be again rinsed in cold water
and then sunned. This sunning IS
very important, and is made much of
by the condensing companies. They
prescribe rules that must be followed
by the men that supply them with
milk, and one of these rules is that
in summer time these cans must be
exposed for hours to the penetrating
rays of the sun. If one will, in hot
weather, go through a dairy region
that is engaged particularly in supply
ing milk to the large condensers, he
will see everywhere rows of cans on
racks and scaffolds so placed that the
sun’s rays will enter the interiors
The sunlight is germicidal in its ef
fects. Cleanliness is the first requis
ite of milk keeping. The second is
cold. The milk should be cooled as
quickly as possible, and to as low a
temperature as possible, and placed in
a room or in water that is cold. These
simple principles lie at the bottom of
keeping milk in summer.
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Drinking Places in the Cow Pasture.
Cows are animals that seem to pre
fer dirty water to clean. The cow is
the only farm animal that will drink
warm water from mud puddles in
preference to cool water from water
ing troughs. It is therefore necessary,
if we desire the cow to drink pure
water, to deprive her of sources of
supply of impure water. The obnox
ious weeds that surround the drink
ing places in the cow pastures are
frequently the source of taints in
milk, especially when such weeds in
clude garlic and wild onions. The
elimination of these polluted drinking
places in the pastures will to a very
large extent take away from the cow
the inducement to sample these ob
noxious weeds. It is always desir
able to give the cow only pure water
as in many cases the stagnant watei
in the pastures is a source of contam
ination to the milk supply. Here and
there are cases of stringiness or ropi
ness in milk. On investigation it has
been found that this abnormal condi
tion of the milk was produced by mi
nute fungi, which were found to thrive
in stagnant pools. Some scientists
say that the spores of the fungi pass
through the cow and into the milk
ducts, while others declare that the
udders of the cow come into contact
with the stagnant pools and that from
the outside of these udders the spores
fall into the milk pails when the milk
is being drawn. By whichever way
the spores reached the milk is of no
particular interest. As the stagnant
water was the source of contamina
tion in either case, the prevention of
such accidents requires the elimina
tion in the pastures of all such drink
ing places.—Elmer Ashton, Bureau
Co., 111., in Farmers' Review.
The Dairy Sire.
The dairy sire is receiving more
attention now than ever be
fore, but he is not receiving
the attention he deserves. The sire
for the improving of the dairy herd is
the bull that has had great female an
cestors, judged from the milk-giving
standpoint. Not till recent years ha^
a milk record been kept of cows, and
so It has been difficult to get the ir. 1
formation of the milking qualities ol :
the dams of the males we wish to
buy, but in the future the information
will be more easily obtained on ac
count of the records that are now be
ing kept. The dairy sire should be
well known by the performances of
his ancestors before he is used on tht
herd. A mistake in this matter meant
a great loss of money. ]
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The Cream Separator.
In this modern age no man can
afford to hold to the cid ■
ways of doing things if he j
-an find a better way. The man tha j
has ten cows or more certainly cai.
aot afford to be without a cream sep
arator. We do not say hand sep
arator, for a power separator is bei 1
rer, as the wind or some other me t
-hanical power can be harnessed t 1
t. The hand separator is better tha t
ao separator, but with wind powei ^
gasoline power and steam power a
around t us, to say nothing of h
iraul'.c power, it is a pity they ca
oi be used. We advise every farm E
nat has a good sized herd of po> d
o take his pencil, sit down and fi; E
ire out the profit and loss of boi ^
.vays of doing business. £
For Health
and Economy
use
Calumet
Baking
Powder
" Best by Test ”
Used in Millions
of Homes
John Milton in Russia.
The most popular author in all Rus
sia is John Milton, whose “Paradise
Lost” is read in every peasant's cot
tage. “Paradise Lost” is the bool»
most in demand in the village libra
ry At a fair in Moscow there were
seen five or six different translations
of “Paradise Lost,” with illustrations
at a few pence apiece. Milton is tc
the Russian peasantry what Shake
speare is to the Germans.—Sphere.
Two English Golf Stories.
Here are a pair of this season's golf
stories imported from England. A
golfer drove a low ball over a river
and a salmon jumped at it with suet
vigor that it jumped right out on the
bank and was secured with the golf
ball in its mouth. Another player
killed a lark with a &olf ball in his
morning round and another with th«
same ball in his afternoon round.
Function of Frsh Bladders.
The air bladder of fishes is the pro
vision within their bodies which en
ables them to rise or fall in the water
According to the dilation or contrao
tion of the bladder they may regu ,
late the depth in the water at their
pleasure.
Lesson for Women.
Jersey Shore, Pa., Aug. 28th (Spe
cial)—“Dodd’s Kidney Pills have done
worlds of good for me.” That’s what
Mrs. C. B. Earnest of this place has
to say of the Great American Kidney
Remedy.
“I was laid up sick,” Mrs. Earnest
continues, “and had not been out of
bed for five weeks. Then I began to
use Dodd’s Kidney Pills and now I am
so I can work and go to town without
suffering any. I would not be without
Dodd’s Kidney Pills. I have good rea
son to praise them everywhere.”
Women who suffer should learn a
lesson from this, and that lesson is
“cure the kidneys with Dodd’s Kidney
Pills and your suffering will cease.”
Woman’s health depends almost en
tirely on her kidneys. Dodd’s Kidney
Pills have never yet failed to make
healthy kidneys.
Hunter Death to Tigers.
A traveler return from India re
lates that Andarkoh, in central In
dia, he killed four full-grown tigers
with five shots in under six minutea
the first three befng single shots.
CUTICURA GROWS HAIR.
Scalp Cleared of Dandruff and Hair
Restored by One Box of Cuticura
and One Cake of Cuticura
Soap.
A. W. Taft of Independence, Va.,
writing under date of Sept. 15, 1904,
says: “I have had falling hair and
dandruff for twelve years and could
get nothing to help me. Finally I
bought one box of Cuticura Ointment
and one cake of Cuticura Soap, and
they cleared my scalp of the dandruff
and stopped the hair falling. Now
my hair is growing as well as ever. I
am highly pleased with Cuticura Soap
as a toilet soap. (Signed) A. W. Taft,
Independence, Va.”
Lake Turns Red.
Lake Morat, in Switzerland, has the
;urious property, every tenth year, ol
;urning red, owing to the presence of
certain water plants, which are not
’ound in any other lake in the world.
Piso’a Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as
i cough cure.—J. W. O'Bhism, 322 Third Ave.
^.Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6,1900.
Feat in Telepathy.
Tom I can read your thoughts.
Clara—I can hardly believe it, for if
■ou could you wouldn’t sit so far
tway.
Try One Package.
If “Defiance Starch” does not pleas«
rou, reurn It to your dealer. If it
loes you get one-third more for the
ame money. It will give you satis
action, and will not stick to the iron JK
Parasite Destroys Cod! in Moth.
A colony of codlin moth parasites
mported from Europe and set free re
ently in the apple orchards of the
’arjaro valley, California, is clearing
hem of the orchardists’ enemy in
reat style.
“Thanks!” is Enough for a Nickel. ,
A man gave a baby a nickel this
lornlng. The baby is a year old, and
ldn’t say thank you. “That is the
lost Impolite child.” the man said to
le mother, “I ever knew.”—Atchison
lobe. *