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"Hall to the Chief!" - Tills Is half the title of an old song. The lialanco Is, "Who In triumph advances." The public, the press and the medical pro fession chant this refrain as especially ap plicable to llostctter's Stomach Bitters, chief among American remedies and pre ventives for malaria, constipation, dys pepsia, liver complaint, nervousness, un quiet sleep, rheumatic twinges and the troubles incident to advanced age. It is alsc universally recognized as a reliable tonic and appetizer. Asa family medicine par ticularly suitabie to emergencies it has no equal. The nervous, the feeble seek Its aid, ami the happiest results follow. The con valescent, mo aged and the infirm derive infinite benefit from its use. Against the in fluences of impure air, bad water, unaccus tomed food, overwork and exposure it is a genuine preventive. l'eas In a rod. S. M. Andree, a Swedish scientist, has collected tabular information show ing1 the average weight of peas in their jxmIs. The lightest peas were always nearest the ends of the pod. The aver age weight of a pea was greater the larger the number of peas in the pod, so that the largest pods contained the heaviest peas. The weight of the peas next the point of the pod increased with the increased number of peas in the pod. With the exception of the first and last peas there was but a very small difference in the weight of the peas in the same pod. Haifa Catarrh Care Is taken internally. Price 75c A qirtj only 8 years old was arrested for drunkenness at Lowell. To com- Jdete the disgraceful picture, tho police ct her lie ten hours insensible in a cell without attention. The Modern Heauty on good food and sunshine. Thrives with plenty of exercise in the open air. Her form glows with health and her face blooms witii its beauty. If her .system needs the cleansing action of a laxative remedy, she uses the gentle and pleasant liquid laxative Syrup of Figs. There is no self-deception. deception so dangerous as "When riches lly they do not do it with a broken wing. It i-nt tho biggest best fruit. treo that Ixjars the Ilrgrman'aCatnpHnr Ice with Glycerine. Tlii:oriciiiiil:inilptil genuine. Cures ChaptMHl llamls mid Kite. Cold Sure. &c C. CJ. CLirk Co..l!a.vD.Ct- Wc cannot sow bad harvest. teed and reap a good "HatiKotTs JIulc Corn Salve." Warnuitl luruinir timtiry ivfunuVil. Afck your druggbvl for it. Trio-13 ni. Borrowers far to get it. of troublo never have to go I If tho llaby Is Cutting Teeth. P.snre aiidiix? tl:atM and well tried remedy, Mus. Wi.vsixiw's SuuTiiimj Si bit for Children Tecthlng- It never -nys to do wrong, how much p.iy is promised. no matter THK l'KIKSTS OF FAI.I.AS. Grand Parade, TiieMlay, October 2. The Priests of 1 'alias at Kansas City will parade this year Tuesday evening, October -, and tho K.oile who witues it are assur ed of seeing the grandest j roeession of tho most lieautliul tloats ever produced, litis popular organization can nlwnys bo depend- j ed tiKin to lurnish entertainment that will 1 fully repay nil tho people who may visit Knfisas City iiam this occasion. 1 Tho subject cho-en this year is one of un- ' usual interest, nflording an excellent op ortunity for brilliant, artistic effects, and tho Priests and their largo corps of nrtibts ) have taken advantage of the occasion to , chnrm tho seeker for the lenutiful and to gratify the student of tho intellectual. Col- ored fires and calcium lights will render j night brilliant and many of tho leading ( bands of Kansas and Missouri will partici jcite. A one-fare rate for tho round trip , has leen mndo for this occasion by tho Union Pacific System, good Octolcr 1 to 8, ! from points in Kansas within 2.V) miles of Kansas Citv. and Nebraska points within "00 miles, ami many special trains will Ik run. Karnival Krone parade on Thursday, j uctober 4th. mternoon ami evening. See vour nearest Union Pacific ngent. k L. LO.MAX, J. 11. FKAWLEY, G. 1. & Tkt. Agt., (Jen'l Ag't, Omaha. Kansas Citv, Mo. Trials never make us weaic. They only show us that we are weak. Tho man who lives only to please himself has n hard master. It is n great mistake to money can buy happiness. suppose that 1 The: Testimonials PnblishoWfvi'cl'alf f Hood's SarsaparlUa aro not purchase!. rn-f hi.y .written up in our office nor are they from our employes. 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Thayer, ev-governor of Nebraska, makes reply to the attack made upon him and other republican leaders of his state by Editor Rosewa ter of the Omaha Bee. Gen. Thayer has kept silent so far, but being in Chi cago Saturday he granted an interview to a reporter for The Tribune in which he makes an extended statement of the state of political affairs in Nebraska. Gen. Thayer has lived in Nebraska forty-one years and ten months. Thirty-six years ago he was one of a group of men who met in a hotel in Omaha and formed the republican party of Ne braska. He has been a leader ever since and has fought hard in every cam paign. He was colonel of the First Nebraska regiment during the early part of the civil war and afterwards at tained the rank of brigadier general. He has sat in the senate of the United States, representing Nebraska; he was four years territorial governor of Wyo ming and five years governor of his own state. Sow! i at Gen. Thayer has to say of Nebraska politics may be considered to have some weight, lie thinks the republicans will carry the state and keep on carrying it despite internal fights, or populists and democrats. He says: "The popolist party in Nebraska has steadily declined in numerical strength and political force since its first state campaign four years ago. The partial fusion of the populists and democrats, which has resulted in two populist con gressmen, one populist United States senator, and the controlling power in the lower house of the last two legisla tures, has been unsatisfactory to both the parties. The conduct of Senator Allen and Congressman McKeighan at the national capital is galling to the self-respecting democrats who assisted in their election, and the disposition of the populists, in the division of the spoils, to have 'the whole hog or none,' makes further fusion between them, to any considerable extent, lmpractcablc, so that republicans will not only elect a working majority for the next legisla ture and a republican successor to (Sen. Manderson, but the entire republican state ticket with an increased plurality over recent years. "Two years ago republican state officers were elected by pluralities ranging from 1.1,000 to 2-00U. The re publican plurality on governor was only 'J, 000, owing to the fact that the Omaha Bee, which generally handi caps any candidate which it assumes to support, had made itself officious in his behalf. This year, in the increased re publican pluralities, Thomas . I. Majors, republican candidate for governor, will head the list. There is a unity of action and an enthusiasm for the whole ticket, and especially the head of the ticket, such as we have not seen for years. MAJORS AX IXTKKKSTIXG FIOl'HK. "Col Majors is an interesting figure in our state politics. Like Jerry Husk, of Wisconsin, a plain-mannered man, a thrifty farmer, public-spirited and kind of heart, with a record of live years of gallant service as an omccr in the war 0f the rebellion, with twenty years of experience in public life as congress man, legislator, lieutenant-governor; a forceful and magnetic campaigner for years over the state, knowing person ally nearly every voter, he occupies a position of prominence and advantage peculiar to himself. No other man in Nebraska knows personally so many of our people, and no other man can go out among our voters and call to his aid so many personal friends and so many loyal followers. His pergonal following and political force have been supplemented and emphasized from year to 3ear by the bitter personal at tacks and misrepresentations of the Omaha Itee, which is a sort of free lance politically, occupying about the same position in politics as the gorrilla leader on the border line between the north and South during the war. It has no patriotic instincts that make it loval to any party or cause. Its in- stinct is to tight, to oppose, and it se lects as me oojecis tor its attacK sucti men. such measures, and such material interests of the state as will make its owner most conspicuous and best serve the purpose of a sensational newspa per. "Now, so far as Nebraska republi canism is concerned and the result of the coming election in that state, it is not necessary to refute any statement the editor of the lice may make per sonally or anything he may publish in his paper derogatory to our state ticket. His sensational methods are so well known, charging bribery, fraud, boouleism, railroadism and many other such patent phrases on which his mind seems to dwell, that he no longer has power to influence votes and is a factor in our politics only as one who carries about from one campaign into another a hoarded mass of stale charges which he has been accumulating for the last twenty years. I would not refer to his action in opposing republicanism and supporting the populist state ticket in this cam paign only for the fact that he has seen tit to air all his old grievances in a re cent interview in the Tribune and put before the whole country a stor3"of boodlcistn. railroadism and corruption in otlicial life that grossly slanders our state and the character of our people. Let me tell you something about Ne braska and the kind of people we are. We have a million and a quarter peo ple, gathered from Iowa. Illinois, Ohio, Wisconsin and other states, equal in average intelligence, in common hon esty, in personal energy, thrift, public spirit and patriotism to the people of any state in the Union. In the systems in vogue in our public schools, colleges and universities we surpass many of the older states. In Lincoln, the capital of the state, where 1 live, we have not only the s-tate university, which ranks as one of the foremost of its kind in the northwest, but three other large secta rian universities, besides two of the best normal colleges in the west, and many other smaller institutions of learning, bringing together the youth of our state from the farm and home of of the people, 4,000 to .",0i)0 annually. Lincoln is known as a city of universi ties and the state is known throughout the entire Union as one representing in the character of its people the best types of American commonwealths. Our material progress for the last twenty years, the thrifty and substan tial character of our farmers, the en terprise and rapid growth of our cities, and the splendid energy and efficiency of our railroad system are too well known to the American people to need more than a passing mention. In our state institutions, such as the normal fchools, our hospitals for the insane, industrial schools, blind asylums, peni tentiary and other institutions in this line, fifteen in number, our citizens take a just pride, not only because we are well supplied as a state in all these matters, that the building of these in stitutions are well equipped and all paid for, but that they are managed and controlled under republican state administrations efficiently, honestly, and economically. IIOW SEBKASKA INSTITUTIONS ARE KL'X. 'These institutions are conducted by two boards composed of state officers, including the governor of the state, the state treasurer, the attorney-general, and.' the commissioner of public lands and buildings. All supplies for the several state institutions are bought by the board of supplies, of which the gov ernor is chairman, upon competitive bids submitted for the period of one month to the several dealers of the state and if for any reason any supplies are needed that are not included in the estimate and provided for in the con tract the superintendents of the differ ent institutions are obliged, under the rules of the board, to submit a requi sition to that board for its approval or rejection before any additional supplies are permitted to be purchased. These supplies are paid for on vouchers which are submitted to the board of public lands and buildings after they have been examined, approved, and duly cer tified to by the superintendent of the institution for which the purchases were made The superintendent, un der the rules of the board, is obliged to personally see that the articles have been delivered, have been weighed or measured, as the case may be, at the institution, and each item carefully checked, and his certificate of approval indorsed upon the vouchers. "Nearlj' all of the states have what is known as the trustee system for the government of their benevolent insti tutions. That system never gained a foothold in Nebraska, and the governor of Illinois not long since called atten tion to the fact that the appropriations made in his state for the several insti tutions were drawn by the board of trustees, and that practically there was no check upon the board, and he recommended the establishment of a system founded practically upon the system that has been in vogue in Ne braska for several j-ears. True it is that during the tension of the legisla ture, composed largely of populists, in the winter of 1SD3, six officials and ex officials of the state were impeached, the charges being that supplies had been paid for 011 the certificate of the superintendent of some of the institu tions that had not actually been fur nished. It is also true thai the charges made against these officials were made by the Omaha lice, and that when the legislature came to consider those charges those officials addressed a com munication to the legislature denying any connection whatever with the same, and demanding that tiic articles of impeachment as prepared be adopted in order that they might be given an opportunity to vindicate themselves before the people. At their request the articles were adopted. As to three ex-officials the case was dismissed and as to the other three a trial was had, resulting in their acquit:al. It is also true that under the char ges made by the Omaha Itcc the demo cratic prosecuting attorney of Lancas ter county had the court of that county call a grand jury to inquire into the al leged swindling of the state bv certain contractors and employes at the hospi tal for the insane at Linco'n. A large number of indictments were found, not against the superintendents of the asylum, nor against a 113- of the state officials. Thirteen of these indictments were tried by the democratic prosecut ing attorney before a jury in Lancaster county, each of which resulted in the acquittal of the party charged, ami the indictments wcic polled by the state's attorney. "I cannot go into detail and point out the many favorable conditions under which our people live and pros per, and only refer casually to the mat ter because Mr. Hosewater, editor of the Omaha Hee. has seen fit in the in terview referred to to assail in a gen eral way the reputation of our people and the general character of the state, l3' making it appear that official cor ruption and railroad domination con trol and are endorsed by the republi can party. Whatever is wise and ex pedient in our state constitution and our statutory laws; whatever is liroad and progressive in the general man agement of our state and public affairs; whatever has conduced to the general prosperity ami upward evolution of our people, is due largely to the fact that republican thought and republican energy have dominated and controlled the state from its earliest histor,; and in my judgment our future prosperity and financial credit ret secure in the assurance tiiat the republican party will continue to lead the destinies of our people. -MPCII THAT IS CI.APTKAl. "I'ccause a populist legislature made up of irresponsible men bent on a gen eral upheaval of all social and economic communis had discovered the misap propriation of a few carloads of coal by a subordinate in one of the asylums and had thereupon sought to impeach republican state officials and the whole republican party in general, Mr. Uose water would have you believe that the people arc ready to turn the state over to the populists and institute in our state government such conditions of confusion and general discredit as have humill.ated and disgraced Colorado, Kansas, South Carolina, and other populist-ridden states. "Let me tell you that all this clap trap about railroad domination, boodle ism, impeached state officials, and the importing of lewd women to debauch legislature has been hurled at the re publican party by the Omaha Jlec with out effect for the last fifteen years. "'1 here are four distinct and separate factions in our present state campaign. The republican party, backed by the business interests of the state, by the manufacturing interests of the "state, by the railroad interests of the state, by the thrifty and intelligent farmers of the state, by the industrious and home loving artisans and workingmen of the state, and by the law and otder loving pcopleof the commonwealth, are deter mined that the best thought, the most patriotic and progressive mind force shall control in the future as in the past, so that when the present financial cloud shall be lifted from our land we will be in a position to attract emigration and capital antl renew the activity and progress of former years. That s one element in this campaign. Then there is the pop ulist clement now being chaperoned by a cyclone" from Texas, Cyclone Davis, I think they call him. We have 'Cyclone' Hryan and a few other cyclones of our own. but it seems that Texas is oveisnpplicd with these pro fessional 'cyciones and is sending us a few in a sort of missionary spirit. Then there is the democratic element, somewhat disfigured and disheartened, but still in the r.ng. and last, least, but most pedantic and somewhat con spicuous personally, is Hosewater of the Omaha Hee. lie is an element in and of himself, and if he had a follow ing would be taken into account iii es timating the lcsult of our elections. He aspires to be a little Napoleon in his way and glories in his prowess as a fighter. I only wish he might find a better way to use his energks than in fighting the republican party and in going away from home to slander and misrepresent our state. ilis instincts are to attack antl tear down, regardless of consequences, only so he may be con spicuous. If he cannot Le loved and respected as a leader he will be feared as a uesirover. l-uce l.auv leazie, ne ." .. .. .-. - -. . v-v. .--..i would rather he thoiiff.it ill of than not xo ee uiou-.-u 01 at au. weak sroTs ix Tin: KniTon s armor. "Railroad domination in politics has been one of his chief hobbies for the last fifteen years. He has hurled this at republican candidates ami publi men continually. On the lailroad ques- ttr.r. i,;c -.,;.,o i,..ni,r. ,..,. i;.,- .....i ..,.. ...o ....... u..o ....... .,.... r.v...w..i, ..uv. , for that reason what he says on that J subject has but little effect among the I people. For instance, a couple of years j ai. nnre ami SWeet If a large bucket ago he went to Salt Lake City and in a ful of charcoal is placed in a damp eel full page interview advocated the can- )ar where milk and other foob is kept cehng of the second mortgage on the tliere will be no danger of its becoming Union Pacific road, and the facts and ; tainted, lijrures in this interview, which must i " have been furnished him by tome one on the inside of the business depart ment of that road, were afterwards used for lobbying purposes at Washing- ton. Since that time he has behaved m a friendly way toward that corpor ation, but has sought to maintain his reputation as a railroad fighter by still more furious attacks on the Burling ton. He now charges that Col. Majors, republican candidate for governor, was nominated through the domination of the Burlington. As to this, it is well known that two years ago Majors was defeated for the republican nomina tion for governor and that the Burling ton made no secret of its preference for Gov. Crounse, who was nominated and elected. "At that time Mr. Hosewater was bobbing in and out of the Burlington headquarters, consulting their officials and making himself officious in behalf of Gov. Crounse and against Majors. Notwithstanding his bitter opposition to Majors, which was characterized by the continued publication of all these matters which he now charges, Col. Majors was put upon the state ticket and elected as lieutenant-governor by the highest plurality on the whole ticket. The candidacy of Col. Majors for governor has invited and aroused the energ3 of his party and put into the old soldier element of the state an enthusiasm such as we have not seen for years. I first met Tom Majors as a lieutenant in my regiment, the First Nebraska, at the beginning of the war. He was then a young man of 19. He was under my eye at Dcnelson, ishiloh, and other battles of the war. He was conspicuous during the five years of his service for personal bravery, popularity, and for his fine executive force in han dling men. "I want to say in conclusion that no state in the Union has made a better record for devotion to the republican party and good government than Ne braska, and when the republicans of Nebraska indorse a man for governor of the state with such enthusiasm as they are now indorsing Tom Majors, it is a certificate of character that any American citizen might be proud of, and the atempt to traduce him at this time will only stimulate the activity of his party, increase his popularity and add to the contempt already felt for his traducer." Esquimaux Carpentry. Tho builder selects snow of tho proper consistency by sounding a drift with a cane made for the purpose, of reindeer horn, straightened by steauring, nnii worked down to about half au inch in diameter, with a ferule of walrus tusk or the tooth of a liear on tho bottom. By thrusting this into the snow he can tell whether the Inyers deposited by succes sive winds are separated by bauds of soft snow, which Mould cause the blocks to break. When the snow is selected he digs a pit to the depth of eighteen inches or two feet, or about the length of the snow block. He then steps into the pit and proceeds to cut out the blocks by first cutting down at the ends of the pit and then nt tho liottom afterward, cut ting a little channel about an inch or two deep, making the thickness of the pro posed block. Now comes the part that rcquiren practice to accomplish successfully. The expert will, with a few thrusts of his knife in just the right places, split off the snow-block and lift it carefully out to await removal to its position on the wall. The tyro will almost inevitably break tho block into two or throe pieces utterly unfit for the use of the builder. When two men aro building an igloo, one cuts the blocks and the other erects the wall. When sufficient blocks have been cut out to commence work with, the builder marks with his eye or per haps draws a line with his knife describ ing the circumference of the building, usually a circle about ten or twelve feet in diameter, The first row of blocks is then arranged, the blocks placed so as to incline inward and resting against each other at the ends, thus uu'ordiug mutual support. When this row is com pleted, the builder cuts away the first ami second blocks, slanting in from the ground upward, so that the second tier, resting iion the first row, can bo continued on and around spirally, and by gradually increasing the inward slant a perfect dome is constructed of such strength that the buildei can lie flat upon the outside while chinking the interstices betwe-'-n the blocks. The chinking is, however, usually done by women and children as the building progresses, and additional protection secured from the winds in very cold weather by banking up, with a large wooden snow-shovel, the snow at the base often being piled to the depth of three c r four feet. This makes the igloo per fectly impervious to the wind iu tho most tempestuous weather. When the house is completed the builders nre walled iu. Then a small hole about two !cet square is cut in the wall on the side away from where the entrance is to be located and is used to pass in the lamps and bedding. It is then walled up and the regular door cut alnmt two feet high and niched at the top. It would bring bad luck to carry the bed ding into the igloo by the same dtxir it would Ik' taken tint. Before the door is opened the bed is constructed of snow blocks, sind made from one to three or four feet high, and occupies three fourths of the entire space. The higher the bed and the lower the door the warmer the igloo will be. From an Arctic Explorer's Jlcminiftcciicat. Sonic Ojnecr Epitaphs. Epitaphs that can be termed ridicu lous and nonsensical are happily "few and far between," though not so rare as we must wish. On the headstone of William Itymour, Cupar Fife, Scotland, we read : Tlironcli CJirUt I am not intcr.or To Wihiam tho Conqueror! Quite true, but rather afar-fetched com parison. The following is simple, at all events, and is to be found iu West Churchyard, Tranent, Scotland : Tllllllet; shtil Miuml, archangels rry. Come fort'j, Iitalie! .Mikho!', ami meet William Math iKou In the Ay. Here is a very precise inscription on a soldier, in the kirkard of Dumfries : Here Hf Andrew Maophernon, Who wa a pecu'iiir j.crepn ; lie tool six fo.t two Without !:i fchoe, Ami was n'ew At Waterloo. The nest is less commnnicativo : Ilrre he wrxt in elzy The lwMy of William Wrsy. I haw no more to ray. Jane Carthew's epitaph at St. Angus, Cornwall, England, lias a very cruel re mark : Here lies the lily of .lane Carthew, Born at Si Colmb, died at it. Cue; ChiMrrn hbe had tie. Three are dead and two a'iie: Thof c that are dead chnooinR rather To die with thtir mother Uitn liie with their father. IlisInfeetantK. A mixture of one pound of charcoal, powdered, to four pounds of plaster of paris sprinkled under porches or in damp corners will prove an excellent disinfectant. Chloride of lime is also rood to be used for the same purpose. Disagreeable odors arising from decay-! ing vegetable matter can be destroyed at on.e by pouring over it two pailfuls of water, to one of which has been ' j . ;: I ' 'Toro' nioriue 7,"' ; , " T. 7" 1...r..1 " , ! uiiiuniiuui iiuic. n iimuvsu JJUOIl give the cellar one coat of whitewash at spring cleaning time, and then give it a second coat at midsummer. If cop peras is added to this last coat it will tlo much to keep the cellar free from iii(imn IV TMn - tir lie i fumn n,,.!! I , . . .. ,. "f r . anil cannoT, rje tnorougiuv ventilated a fcw lrsMS of charcoal set aroundon the I j!oor. sh1VM and lcd.rcs lviIi mnht. th I Solomou got a rood deal of bis wisdom in the school of ej erieuce. Notody ever ii ade life any Lrighter another by growling and grumbling. for DAIRY AND POULTRY. INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR RURAL READERS. Bow Saeeeaafnl Farmers Operate Thla Department of the ITomestead Hlnta aa to the Care of Live Stock and Fealtry. Kxperlence With Foultrr. To the Pabmebs' Review: In your issue of Aug. 1 1 read an article from the Poultry Journal where a writer gives it as his opinion that 100 hens can not be profitably kept together in one flock. Of all subjects pertaining to agriculture, stock and poultry, I be lieve those of poultry are of the most variance. I have read with much in terest the report of poultry raisers and egg producers in the Review this past season and find we can learn something in nearly every article; among other things that I am not alone in the world by not agreeing with all my neighbors' ideas. We keep about one hundred hens on an aver age. On Nov. 1, 1S93, we had twenty seven hens, 1 to 3 years old, and seventy-seven pullets, hatched the pre ceding April, May and June, and four cockerels. We gathered from ten to twenty eggs per day from Nov. 1 to Jan. 1, but kept no record. In December we finished our hen house, 12x10 feet, with a space of Sx20 feet devoted to the fowls, and on Jan. 1 began with a record. Their feed mainly was wheat; our method in feeding is, in the morn ing, mess of boiled culled potatoes with bran, three or four times a week, and wheat every morning with corn and some oats in the evening, and meat generally before them; abundance of fresh water always. During Janu nary, February and March wc gathered 107 1-6 dozen eggs. That averaged 10 cents per dozen on the 2!la k ,ijsk -9HaH!jSHHaHHBifl HNi -iiLiaLiLSLB2IHaiaHLnrf9P 'aB 52-vfc. - '-':-' 's'sJGMMalW'FJlSaaHa ' ix MpMyansMl1lrWBaWriiWllaffTHWWiiBaaW'ri VaisffSMMaiaiaiaiMaiaW THE ABERDEEN-ANGUS COW, "PRIDE OF ABERDEEN," AT FOUIi YEARS OF AGE, WITH HER HEIFER CALVES "PRIDE OF 1SALLI0L" AND "PRIDE OF BENTON." FARMERS-REVIEW. market, owing to the pressure of farm work our record keeping was aband oned in April, however the hens kept on laying, and we have raised better than 500 chicks since March 1, and are -now marketing them, which weigh thirty-three to thrity-seven pounds per do.en, and at 8 cents per pound. While this is not a boasting record we think it just about as good as those we read, of smaller flocks in propor tion to size. The feed for the three months, at the market price then, cost us exactly 9 cents per day for grain, the potatoes not being marketable, and the meat we obtained by buying a yearling for $0, and saving S." worth of meat from it for the house, leaving a nice margin of profit during the three coldest months of the year. Those farmers that say there is no profit to the farmer in poultry has no argument to base such talk on. Our stock is far from the best, being Par tridge Coachin, inbred for four years (we bought them with the farm), our belief is that a cross on a well-bred Plymouth Roek hen or Partridge Coachin hen and a thoroughbred B. Leghorn cock are among the best. Raytown. Ma C. A. S. Chickens via tho Itrooiler. It is a fact, not to be disputed, that we can successfully hatch chickens by artificial means. But to raise these little lumps of down, so hatched, is by far a different and also a somewhat difficult problem that not every one who uses an incubator can boast of solving, says a writer in Western Ploughman. Here is a little of my experience and method with chicks and brooders: In the first place I leave my chicks in the incubator until perfectly dry, then transfer them to the brooder. I like the hot water brOoder overhead heat much the best, which I keep at such a temperature the first two or three d&3's or longer, according to the extremity of the weather, as will cause the little fel lows to lie around in a drowsy sort of a way. Give no food whatever for thirty-six hours. I believe this is ab solutely the best rule to go by. I would rather say forty hours than any thing under thirty-six, from the simple fact that the very last thing the chick does before breaking the shell is to absorb the yelk, and this should be given sufficient time to di gest before any food is given. I then give each about two drops of cream and nothing more for eight or ten hours and this is then about their bed time, when I repeat the dose and leave them for the night. On the fol lowing morning I give them cracked corn about the size of No. S shot, and here let me say that if you are run ning the incubator constantly, I be lieve it to be a good plan to leave one or two 3-weeks-old chicks in each pen of the newly hatched ones, as by so doing the older ones soon teach the younger to pick and where to drink. Generally one or two days is all that is necessary, and you can then turn the "teachers" out with the older brood. Feed regularly three times a day. The Farm Day We do not look f. T-nilTit XT nTWin Tiic frknfinn-n Tin n .... J ,. ,.. . . M .1.VU .. V . .. d onthe farm as the ;od t t for hard la for hard labor. It is a slavish practice and never ends well. A man may oc casionally in some unforeseen way get into circumstances that compel such a sacrifice for a limited time, and this is excusable, but to go deliberately about . ... . - arrangiuz one s anairs wuu ine ex nnn.;nn ,.: ; i.; ..... f?ctUn of Put.tmS this amount of time at manual labor m each twenty- four hours of the season is out of reason. It is not consistent with the fundamental ideas of existence. From dawn till dark is a long time in early summer. It should afford a period of rest in the ruddle of the day for farm laborers who begin early and late. It will pay better in the end. Oleo and Butter. The Practical Farmer prints the fol lowing: "Lately we have had the spectacle of a United States senator rushing into print to point out that in his opinion oleo was cleaner and purer than dairy butter, and to t.is end, we give a few of the substances and ingredients that are used in its manufacture, for nearly all the con cerns make oleo under letters patent, and while they all work in unison to palm off the stuff as cow butter, they each work under tome form of manu facture and variety of composition of oleo. And as the letter press of a patent is open to public inspection, it is worthy of notice by those who "prc er oleo to butter," that according to nese patents the following are a few of the ingredients used in the manufacture of oleo which are taken from the records of the patent office and are embodied in their several pat ents: Nitric acid, sugar of lead, sul phate of lime, benzoic acid, sulphuric acid, chlorate of potash, caustic pot ash, bicarbonate of potash, salicylic acid, carbolic acid and many other in gredients equally deleterious. If these are not enough, it is being found in some of the later investigations that are being made, that paraffine wax is being used with the oleo com pound to make the butter firm. As this substance is of a character that acids have no effect, upon and is not aeted upon by any digestive Hi id, its effect upon the system when con sumed as a substance "supsrior to cow butter" can be readily seen. Mistakes in I'on.TUY Houses. While attention has been given the construction of poultry houses which afford the greatest comfort to the fowls in winter, the matter has not received proper consideration so far ai summer is concerned. It may bt stated that a poultry house suitable for winter will not serve for the sum mer unless at too great an outlay ii s&-- cost. The summer poultry house should cost but very little. An inex pensive shed, open in front, and which need not be built close, serves admira bly, provided the roof does not leak. If the house is closed on all sides, with only the window to admit air, the ani mal heat of the bodies of the hens, as well as the warmth absorbed by the walls during a summer day when the temperature is vcr3 high, is sometimes suilicient to destroy them during the night by excessive warmth, while lice will also multiply rapdly. For these reasons a cheap open shed should be preferred. Mirror and Farmer. T 1:1.1. v Cakr. Four cups of llour.one teaspoonful of Price's cream bakinj powder, two tcicupiuls of sugar, two thirds of a tcacupful of butter, three o'gs, one teacup'ul of milk, a little salt aud flavor to taste. Put half of the mixture in two oblong tins and add to the remainder three tablespoon fuls of molasses, one !ue cup of raisins stoned and chopped, one tea- bpuuium 01 cinnamon, uan a pi.unii i , . i,j. i, citron slieect Une, a taoiespoontul 01 Hour ana nan a tcaspoontui cacit ot clove and allspice, with the addition of a little grated nutmeg. Put this latter mixture in two tins in size and shape like the former; put the white and brown together alternately, with jelly or jam betweeu. Or, it will make a handsome marble loaf if baked in one pan, omitting the fruit, and pouring in the light and dark in al ternate layers. Dairying i.v Caxaha. The Balti more Journal of Commerce says: "The Pnited States consul at SL Stephen, New Brunswick, reports that the Do minion government is making special efforts to interest the farmers of the maritime provinces in dairying, and for this purpose is sendin out travel-1 ing aairies in cnarge 01 agents ot tlic department of agriculture. Meetings j are held throughout the farming dis- tricts, and information is intelligently ' presented, bach year shews a marked , increase in the number of large cream- eries established in the provinces of Ontario and Quebec, and farmers are reaping substantial rewards as the re sult of the enterprises encouraged by the agricultural bureau at Ottawa." - Sumo Stock twites. A mess of partially eaten food left in his trough is distasteful even to a hog, and makes him eat less in quan tity and with less relish than he other-! wise would. ' One of the principal advantages in , t ? ?-.- . r . i .l. I Keeping a variety oi ioe ou u.e , -s Ue tfau,e Q, most of the discascs farm, is that a large number can be arising from an unhealthy state of the kept in nroportion to the pasturage i lunffs and thtf livt,r- Aad the Hvcr is and the amount of food. ; Ure tQ t QUt of orJer and congested, A steady, every day growth will, in ; -f ;t is covered OVtfr wi.:, fat. The nearly all cases, cost less per pound lins must have plenty Df pure air, than cramming or high feeding; but, and"the nver mnStt be kept health v by this should never be made an excuse , exen.-15is anti proper feeding. Few for stinting the ration. ' fows are iurt fro:n under feeding. Lack of care has more to do with but n..ariv all are hurt by over fee l the wearing cut of farm horses than , ;n in tropical climates, where so has hard work. The race horse is ytllc fat js r.ecded for the body to sue good at twenty years, often, because ceiSfiiv withstand the rigors cf a he has the best care intelligence and : cold wjnter.f COrn should be fed spar self interest can give. j jn?riy. if you are fattening for the In breeding it is not tufficient that tabl corn ,s the thing: if von want the individual possesses good qualities, c.?cs eschew corn. .lust "remember but his ancestors must have them, and j lnjs as a masim "heap cDrn, no esrgs; the greater number of generations ! heap e,Sj litt-le corn." Exchange, back, the greater the power to trans-1 -mit to its offspring. I Tuiornv, though one of the best For healthv pizs in summer, grass ! and clover, as much as they can eat, with plenty of sweet milk can be given with profit. If the milk can be thickened with middlings.orwith bran and oil meal, all the better. The younger animals are the ones from which you expect your future in come and profit. The foundation for Price's cream baking powder, three their future growth and development fourths of a pound of butter, five eggs, is in the present care. If you leave ! c-ne gill each of wine, brandy and them to shift for themselves they will ; cream, one pound of currants; citron. bring only disappointment. Cost of Butter .nd Che, THE HIGHEST AWARD. At a Wisconsin dairy convention Royal B powder speaker made the foUowtng estimate: . , " . ' Food required for 100 pounda of ! o per c..t. Ab-v.it. milk when feeding cornstalks: -.. R v ""T"'?" t. .1. 193 pounds of cornstalks. AJS ?ojral 1'al"n- Vowtlcr s, ho 0 u"uo y 'i enviable record of having received tho 25 pounds of corn meal. highest award for articles of its class 3j pounds of wheat bran. greatest strength, purest ingredients. Food required for 100 pounds of but most perfectly combined wherever ex- ter when feeding cornstalks: hibited in competition with others. In 3.8S0 pounds of cornstalks. tne exhibitions of former years, at tho 514 pounds of corn meal. Centennial, at 1'aris, Vienna and at the 719 pounds wheat bran. various State and Industrial fairs. Food required for 100 pounds of herc. il !,a.s. bcen exhibited, judges milk when feeding mixed hay: fcTi 7,i " "i'1 , . - . & , , J Jsaking rowder the highest honors. .1 pounds of mixed hay. At the rnt World's lair the ex- 20 pounds of corn meaL amination for the baking powder 30 pounds of wheat bran. awards were made by the experts of Food required for 100 pounds of but- the chemical division of the Agricul- ter when feeding mixed hay: tural Department of Washington. The 1,348 pounds of mixed hay. official report of the tests of the baking 500 pounds of corn meaL powders which were made by this de- 700 pounds of wheat bran. partment for the specific purpose of as- ,, , , , j . .,, certainmg which was tnc best, and i ood required for 100 poundaof milk which ha u.en nade b,;Ct shows the when feeding clover hay: leavening strength of the Koyal to be CO pounds of clover hay. ico cubic inches of carbonic" gas per 26 pounds of corn meal. ounce of powder. Of the cream of 37 pounds of wheat bran. tartar baking powders exhibited at the Food required for 100 pounds ol Fair, the next highest in .strength thus butter when feeding clover hay: tested contained but 13?. cubio inches 1,179 pounds of clover hay. of leavening gas. The other powders 513 pounds of corn meal. Save an average of 111. The Koyal. 71S pounds of wheat bran. therefore was found of 2D per cent. From the data here given one can Sreatr leavening strength than its easily calculate the cost of food neces- nearest competitor, and H per cent. J . . .nn , above the average of all the other sary to produce 100 pounds tests. Itesuperiontv in other respecLs. of milk or butter. Supposing hay is , however, in the quality of the food it worth S3 per ton, then the corn- ; makes as to fineness, delicacy and stalks would be worth $2."G, or one t wholesomeness, could not be measured tnird the value of the hay, as shown by these experiments Suppose fur ther, that bran can be had for S 12, and corn meal for S15 per ton. As suming these prices we will find that the food necessary to produce 100 pounds of milk costs, as the average of the before detailed experi ments, about i cents, and the food :o produce 100 pounds of butter costs about S12.SI. Inattention to Cow KxP4nive. A. W. Putnam says: "Why is it that dry cows and young Rtock.claie 1 as animals at rest, are often so poor in the spring, when fed on salt-marsh and meadow hay? It is because, though classed with animals at rest, they have no opportunity to rest; an animal can not rest unless it is com fortable. On one of the coldest morn ings of last winter I went to a neigh boring town for hay. At the barn where I loaded I saw cattle eating the same kind of hay that I was after; they were very poor, and looked as though they were growing poorer. Why? The barn was very open and eold nearly as outdoors the hips and hides of the cattle were covered with fro;:en manure; they were curled up and shivering with the cold. It made my teeth chatter to look at them. And, when I ashed for soma water for iny horses, they told me that their stock drank cut of a hole back of the barn; but horses not used to it would not drink it; they would bring ' me some from the house. It is not strange the stock was poor, but it is that they were alive. Now , iook :lt tho conditions r under which I ; fcd lfce ame ,.ind of 1 iw nit; auiuu iiuu ui uuy. i lie auiuc morning, with the thermometer below zero out of doors, the one hanging be hind our cows stood 40 degrees above zero; the cows were clean, and they had clean and dry betls to lie on; they had an opportunity three times a day to drink as much good well-water as they wanted (temperature of the water about forty-six degrees); and they had the privilege of drinking in the barn, where it was warm. The cows were comfortable; they were at rest; and under these conditions the ten-dollar hay kept them in fair con dition, at a cost of lu cents per day. Pot i.trv ix rm. Garim..-. If circum stances oblige tl.e shutting up of the hens when the garden is planted, by all means give them a run a couple of hours before night and all day when it is raining lightly. They do little or no damage when the ground is wet, while they find an abundance of food. For that matter, ws do not believe the injury to a garden by reason of giving the poultry free run is anything like as damaging as many suppose. Of course it is provoking to find a hill of corn upset or a tomato peeked into, but this is more than olTsct by the good done in other ways. However, the whole trouble is reduced to a minimum by giving the birds a run in the early morning and again just at nightfall, and in these short runs they'll find plenty to occupy their at tention without minding the garden Ex. Tt i:i:i:cri.Ai: I):i:ask. Overfeeding grasses lor liaj-, is not wen adapted ior , permanent pasturage. The best is blue grass in every situation adapted to its ' growth. If the ialU-r does not succeed ; well, a mixture makes a thicker seed than aii3' one kind alone. Ol'ek.v Cakk One nound each of flour and su?ar, one teaspoon ful mace aad nutmeg to taste. y figures. I It is these high qualities, known and I appreciated by the women of the country for so many years, that have j caused the sales of the Uoyal linking i l'owder, as shown by statistics, to ex I ceed the tales of all other baking pow ders combined. Kjr I'nr Winter I'atturf. Rye sown for fall and winter pisturo and then given over to the ho.s in the spring will pay in almost any locality. Rye does not exhaust the land so much as wheat, and on low. wet lands where wheat will not grow at all. it will thrive. On clay lands that will not raise anything else we have secured a fair crop of rye. Asa nnre" for grass crops' we recommend rye. as it does not . have as dense foliage close to the ground as wheat or oats. Prairie Farmer. ainko Your Onrn lUttnrst KtPketei lry Itittir-. One package of SteUelee's Dry Bitters will make one Gallon of the Ivst bitters known: will cure itnlijrestion. jnins In tlio stomach, fever and asrae. Acts iimn the Kidneysand Bladder: theliest tonic known. Sold by druggists orsent by mail, pos"am I ri'paM. liie-l t't-s firlult. r tw irtoim fr SW cti. V s t.i!iiiH tnLrii in fntinenl. AiMicsj GEO. O. STEKCTKK. l.ian.I KailK Mich. Fried ! Cream. A Philadelphia firm makes a special ty of fried ice cream, which is pro nounced delicious by all who taste it. ! A small, solid cake of the cream is en veloped in a thin sheet of pie crust and then dipped in boiling hut lard or but ter long enough to cook the outside to a crisp. ervcd immediately the ice cream is found to be as solidly froen as when it was first prepared. The process of frying is mi quickly accom plished and the pastry so good a pro tector that the heat has 110 chance to reach the frozen cream. New York Times. PIEfJGE -f;:-:;, G3i?? OR nONEV KKTimXIil). For ul! chronic, or limp ring. Pulmonary or Chest Discuss, its KmnclitMs. I.irytiKiti', Sovero Coughs, Spitti!:-; of I'.Inod. Pains in Chest nnd Sides. !r. I'iiTii's GoltHi Medical Discovery is u sovereign rwiiedy. In Antlunu it is siveilt" To Luild up both Holt and strength, when re luri'il iielow tlio standard of iicnlth by pneumonia, or " liurj fever, HrlP- or ex- Ihaustitu; levers, it is 'the lvst restorative- tonic known. ! It. N'OltMAN. !).. of .lauii, (Sit.. rai: "I tliiut: the- '(lolilm M11I iiiil Dumvery is tii lx-f,t nii'iliciin- for l.ii:i in tin- chest that I l.avo eer known. I inn pound nii'I well, and I owi- it nil to the Dis covery. " V ' Mr. NntiMAN. The Ti.am ok Sti.usti Mr.i: isrs ON rill A I., -p J "pa TO -CT is rKcn.iAi: to Jr A Em a u? a MAILED FREE to any Tanner nr Farmer's Wi'.. Up to Date Dairying c containing full instruction how tu secure Higher firade Products, nuie PIHE BUTTER -bV-, BETTER PRICE aiuiwith Less Labored flore Money Rcrlevlngantl ei.lainii); in a i'ia tw-.i! minnr . . tmc Normandy Cmmcx) System, Danish dairy System ,. Elgin Separator System M( h Hire trj;;nt rriwjierity ami ne to the Lny firmer. Vri? fur ll Vn!mM- Infrmiti.n. XI W I I" I ! mi ar!i .itinn Knt y vim! aIt(rr , f n-t.'l. trmj fumci-l lii'". A.Mre K. LESI'INASSE, r Src r CnlumMan t 243 W. LKC ST Ulinoi Daity Aisfeoations. CHICAGO) UYffMinEr; cannot see how you on -"naaj Wire T AK0 PAy FREIGHT. rAjKli?s nor Srirawrr walaat trt oak Ibv Dr?d HUh Arts WoBrrIiir ro wMda iflntly finish!. irkI r!a.f..vl4rtr-l tu liht I as4 Ltarjr with; rnarntel for I Inrt; m"!i ShullKSir-SltUn Ve1l9at'lacrnr.. of Sll lttahBaat;Qlr,fl any bff'w 3d Da V Trial. NomnTrrinlmI In aiifv. 7 W0 now lunar. U'orM'a Fair Medtl awarded marMn anI attv n merits. Rit from ftfory anl aa dalr'a anrl atnt' fmf.t pnp Cat Thla Dot an! twirl to-iT fr marbln cr lire trm fKCt r..taIoen,tt!moni.h an t Mlmrftf lb WorMF'. 0XF0M MFC C0.:i3T7itiA7s.CHICAG0,ILl. WELL MACHINERY Illustrated cntalotmn Plionrint; WKI.T, AUCIEKS. KOOK VIIILLS, I1YD1CAUI.IU AND JETTINO MACHINKKY. ftc. Sznt Feo. Have been tested ami Sioux city Kncinu A iron work.. 11 tcarrunfrd, 8iiccef.sorti to 1'crh Mfe Co Nlnux t'ltjr. Iowa. 1117 Union Ave.. Knmia Cltr. Mo. SPECULATE Vliat nnw.il tlio I.ovrent Price of thi't'Ti ttiry. Corn crop m-arly rulneil. t () tmth-ts can Ix; tioticht on iVt mandn Klvin you th !rilflit of Mil ll Aclviaiire, hSHH-asif tiOUKht outrUrht. Semi lor our free booklet Ilmv to Trade ' . F VAN" WINKI.K CO . Koom 4., .'!l l.:t Salle St.. 1 liirK. w HARi EST EXCURSION SEPT. llth, SEPT. 25th, 0CT.9tii On these dates Round-Trip Tickets will be sold from Chicago, I'eoria. St. Louis, and other sta tions on the C. IJ. & Q. It. K.. to the principal cities and farming regions of the Northwest, West and Southwest at LOW RATES Many connecting railways will also 1I Harvest Excursion Ticket, on same terms, over this route. The undersigned or any ajient of the BurliiiKtnn Houte.aml most ticket agents of con-lie'-tiim rallwavs east of the Mississippi It'ver. will supply applicants with Harvest Excursion folders giving full particulars. P. S. EUSTIS,Gial?usriiir.clti-, romi ao. ia. Chicago, ill. Coaiusptlve nnd peoplu I who have weak luncor A;th- .anoaldnso Piso's Cure for Consumption. It lias cnrril tfcoaasada. Ithas not Injur ed one. mi nof. can to tare. It Is too beitcousn syrup. Sold eTerrwnere. 35e. lS 2 . Oiiisilm :! 5;ts ilcu ..iiistterlui; AucrtiseuieuL aaiul jtieutlou ttiU l'aptr. 0:-' wJy-" ''.r- SMI 7Mttn k. s J I feva&. ll i
