GOOD HORSES ARE IN FAVOR There le Growing Demand for the Bet ter Claes of Driving and Car riage Animals. "The horse was never in higher fa vor than at present, and it was uev er harder to find a good one," said Ar nold I,awson, an ardent admirer of the horse, recently, "Ten years ago line horacH were common and prices were moderate. Today a matched pair Is almost Impossible to find, nnd the price named by the dealer Is ap pnling. Horseback riding is going to be one of the fads of the summer, and the woman who has grown stout nnd listless will take to the bridle pntliH ngnln to reduce her weight and bring her back Into form. In consequence of this society will veer hark to the horse." Among the wealthy people of Bos ton horseback riding in the parks and bridle paths along the boulevards Is now becoming more and more notice able, says the New York Herald. Hun dreds of fashionable women are tak ing a morning canter on horseback and an afternoon drive behind a pair of line horses There 1h a growing demand for the better class of driv ing nnd carriage horses, and prices are Increasing with the demand. Many wealthy men and women, who sold most of their horses when the day of of the automobile came, are now in the market for good horses with which to refill their stables. Prize Winner and Foal. Mr. Lawson, who la an ardent ad mirer of the horse, says that horses are more desirable today than they ever were, and that because of the fact that so many dealers In fancy stock have been driven out of busi ness have practically cornered the market for good hnrsos and uro sell ing them at prices which are almost fabulous. It Is said that at Dream wold Thomas VV. Igtwson's stock of fine horses Is as large as ever. He uses his automobiles for long trips, but his horses for pleasure. It la Inti mated that he will have a stable of show horses at the National next fall. "There Is nothing, to my mind, that can take the place of a' well-bred horse," said Arnold Lawson. "1 do not know of any thing that affords more pleasure than handling the reins over a high-stepping spirited, blooded horse Whether it Is true or not that there Is a corner in the supply they are certainly very hard to obtain, and fancy prices are being paid for such • us come up to requirements. "Horse dealers all over the world have been gathering up the finest horses to meet the reaction that they have seen was bound to come. The supply has been greatly diminished, of course, because el the small demand of recent years for riding and driving horses. This has made fancy prices possible." BUILDING CHEAP HOG HOUSE Convenient Structure for Animals May Be Placed in Side of Hill With out Much Expense. (Bv W. 1*. NKA1.K. Missouri.) A very convenient hog house may be constructed in the side of a hill without much expense. If the hill slopes to the south so much the better. An excavation can be made in the side of the hill the desired size of the house. The dirt may be thrown out so as to form an embankment to the north, east and west. Posts can be set in the ground nud two by tour pieces nailed uu them upon which boards Kir the covering may rest. The roof should slant to the north, so that the sun may shine under as far as possible. Good ventilation must be provided at the top and draughts shut out. This will be an excellent place for brood sows to farrow in, for they will be protected from the weather. Raising Bull Calf. Good bull calves can be bought cheaply. Get one and raise it. It will be ready for service at about one year old. In this way you can afford to have the best stock. Work Horses Carefully. Work the horses carefully these hot days. Gse judgment and practically as much work will be done and not Injure the horses. Much depends upon •the driver. When to Sell Lamb. When a lamb gels so it weighs 80 or 100 pounds, sell it. You will get a good price for it and the rest will heavy truffle, for there is no doubt but that the time saved to light vehicles and the greater pleasure de rive! front their use over good roads far surpasses the economy in heavy hauling. USES FOR GASOLINE ENGINE Device of Six-Horse Power Will Do More Work Than Dozen Men With Pitchforks. The Denver Republican prints the Illustration shown. This devloe is at work on the Washburn Jersey farm,1 and the Republican says: "The gasoline tank Is half hurled In the ground til some dlstnnee from tin | engine on account of the danger of an explosion. Tho little engine, a six horse power one, works faster and better than a dozen men with pitch forks, and those who study agrlcul tural conditions declare that the new machine will prove of great value in Slacking Hay. putting up hay quickly in the face oi an Impending rntn. The engine was made especially for the hay stacker with a view to much moving from field to field and considerable hard usage. As seen in operation at the dairy farm yesterday the machine was tossing the hay into great stacks as fast as the hay could be hauled from other parts of the field by four teams i with sleds." It is said that this engine will dc J twice the work that is possible when horses are used. Feed for Cows. All cows do not like the same kind of food, neither will they do so well as they would on some other kind INEBRIATE IS DEAD WEIGHT Progress Is Pushing Drunkard to One Side With Relentless Force—Old Order Was Kind. If conditions GO, 70 or 80 years ago were considered, the decrease shown in inebriety would be most striking, one drunkard being found in a thou sand where former!} there were prob ably 30 or 30. In the early days of the republic, whisky was an article of wide consumption, made so because it was the only alcoholic stimulant eas ily obtainable at a distance from the sea coast, and because large quanti ties of grain could be profitably con verted into liquor in the interior com m ttui ties. Economic causes have operated pow erfully lo diminish hard drinking. Fit' ty or CO years ago there were thou sands of communities in which profes sional men could drink to excess with out suffering in public opinion. Now such offenders would quickly lose their standing, and not only professional men, but workers in all the trades, •“specially those in which machinery is employed, are obliged to keep sober in order to hold their places. The in ebriate is a dead weight in modern society, says New York Tribune. The older order was more than kind to him, but the newer is relentless. The younger generation has accurate views on that point, and the proportion ol joimg men handicapping themselves with drinking habits is becoming small or every year. Young men nowadays tire too intent on other things to be greatly attracted by the cheap lure ol dissipation. All progress in the past half cen tury lias helped the cause of modern lion. Legislation has been appealed to both to end the stile of liquors and to regulate It. Hut economic and ed ucational pressure has done more than legislation to put a rigorous ban on inebriety. THEY ARE SOBER ENGINEERS Stringent Rules Against Drunkenness Enforced by Brotherhood—One Notable Example. It Is safe to say that no other union, club or organization of any sort ap plies qitte such heroic treatment to undesirable citizens as the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers. One thing that the brotherhood most strenuously insists upon Is that its members shall not drink. Thirty-five members were expelled for getting drunk in 1909. and their shame was publicly proclaimed in the Journal. The treatment does not stop here by any means. The brotherhood will not ! risk the lives of Us members and the general public by permitting a drink ing man to run an engine, writes ! Charles Frederick Carter In Century. 1 When a man has been duly convicted of drinking and punished according to the laws of the order, the facts are laid before the proper authorities on ' the road that employs hint, and his 1 discharge is demanded. In one no table instance the engineer of a fast train got drunk during his layover and disgraced himself. He was tried, con vleted and expelled, the tnnni’cement was Informed, and the offender's dis charge requested In regular form. Hut as the engineer had been a good man, the railroad company demurred, say ing that he had not been drunk while j on duty. “But," said the brotherhood, "there is no telling when a man who gets drunk ofT duty may take a notion to get drunk on duty, and we do not in tend to take any chances on having a drunken man tearing through the country at sixty miles an hour, endan gering the lives of others. It is un fair both to the efplovees In your serv ice and to your patrons.” The culprit was discharged He can never be employed on a railroad again. Temperance in Ireland. Increased (axes on whisky have had a tendency to decrease its consump tion in Ireland. It is shown that with tile decrease of consumption there has been a corresponding decrease in the number of nrr sts for drunkenness ;’o great has it > >n !'••* Improvement Cmt '■ Mr. I.lojt! <" ■ ■ . • 1 • net hesitate,! to I say "that it . u d h criminal on the part of nnv . urn: lit to reduce th impost ’ '> had produced such i n mediate and : atisf u t. rv result in ihn \ Improve!"1 at of the lialiits of tu ! people." In ■ ;hv'r words, the lo ,s to the nail, i ; I xchequer is more t'•■•v recouped in toe increased prosper!:, to the nation and the consequent i a provement in its ability to meet the calls of the tax payer. Temperance in Germany. The cause of temperance is making steady progress in Germany, and ac cording to the latest statistics Just published there are over 140,000 mem bers of the different temperance asso ciations throughout the country, the most important being the Internation al Order of Good Templars, with 40, 000 members, th* Blue Cross associa tions with 33,000 members, and the Salvation army with S.000 total ab stainers. The greatest number of eon verls have been made durilng the last year, in which time ihe International Order of Good Templars increased its membership by nearly 400 per cent STRONG DRiNK IS RUINOUS Men Preeminent for Intellectual At tainments All On Side of Temperance. Such brilliant lights as Burns and Pot* have been cited to prove that strong drink is an incentive to Are the imagination to lofty heights of fancy impossible to be reached in sober moments. Both Burns and Poe were victims of the drink habit and both geniuses, but their cases so far from supporting the claim of alcohol to usefulness ar gues against it. If Burns and Poe, God-gifted as they were, had kept their faculties clear and their reasons undimmed, what might they not have done? The for mer might have become the Homer of the Eastern and the latter the Dante or the Western World. As it was, these twin stars of the Armament of literalure scintillated fitfully for only a few years. They simply reeled through life until they came to the verge of premature graves and tot tered into them ere half their time on earth was spent, writes Madison C. Peters in an exchange. 1 lie age or Johnson may he termed the golden age of English literature. Its sky was studded with brilliancy, but bow long did the light last? Men of such transcendent gifts as Gold smith, Savage and Shenstone did not know the meaning of life. Their brief careers wore spent i nriotous living Charles Lever, prince of Irish novel ists, represented the Irish squires and gentlemen ns hard-headed, hard-drink ing, rollicking fellows, whose chief amusements were fox hunting, love making, and breaking one another's heads. For the most part this por trayal was true, but there were some notable exceptions to Lever's crea tions among the gentry of Ireland. The men who did the most for Ire land, who reflected an undying glory on her cause, were, if not teetotalers, at least temperate. Grattan, Flood, Wolfe, Tone, Fitzgerald and Jim met were temperate. O'Connell seldom drank a glass of wine. The Duke of Wellington was an abstemious man. Parnell in the heyday of his fame could not be induced to touch liquor. His head was always clear in the house, and this was the secret of his political foresight, which enabled him to accomplish so much. The great lenders of English poli tics, both In the past and present cen tunes, have been strictly temperate men. Gladstone only touched light wines on rare occasions.. Morley, a01 four, Spencer, Harcourt, Salisbury, Chamberlain, all early took their places beneath the temperance ban ner. At royal receptions and ambas sadors' balls none of these men could be induced to take liquor in any form. The well known literary men of1 England in our time have almost to a man been temperate. Dickens, though he drunk a glass of ale be times, never exceeded discretion. Ueade, Hcsant, Paine, Muchanan, Ten nyson and Crowning were all on the side of temperance. Tile same can bo said of the leading statesmen and writers of Germany. France, Italy and other European countries at i lie present day. The same is notably true of emi nent Americans. Have any of our great inventors been drunkards? They have spent their days and nights in ceaseless activity, perfecting their de- ! signs with clear brains and steady hands, only desisting to obey the call of exhausted nature. Edison, the wizard of electricity, never touches intoxicating liquors. Could the Wrights and Curtiss, Zep pelin and Hleriot have conquere 1 the j air with rum-drenched brains and 1 jangling nerves? Our great scientists and medical men, knowing well the dangers that lurk in the sparkling glass, shun it as they would deadly poison. Kelvin, Crookes, Roentgen and Koch have all been total abstainers. Drink saps the vital organs and dulls the brain. It has stripped the crown from the brow of manhood and engirdled it with a crimson band of shame; it has plucked the flowers from the garden of success and in their place has strewn the weeds of failure. It h:.s wn tubed the sword of victory from Hu hands of conquer ors, turned it into a ourge and driv en them from tie ictta of time into the darkness of < b ii 'y; from royal brows it has t ik -n it. -eriai crowns I and dashed t: in > -a;-., nts on the stone of