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The United States Patent Office Is-
fined 408 patents last week; the most
: noticeable and curious of which em
braced a scrubbing machine patented
to a Kansas woman, operated like a
carpet sweeper and embracing a set of
revolving mops and brushes. A New
York inventor received a patent for an
apparatus for dispensing fogs with
which he hopes to realize a fortune in
. . London alone. A Providence inventor
got a patent for a pin and a New York
. inventor one for a needle having a
thread opening in the shape of the
figure a Then follows a method of
producing photographs in colors pat
ented to a Washington inventor, a de
, vice for utilizing the power of waves, a
.removable armor for pneumatic tires,
a curious fly catcher comprising a
reservoir hung to the ceiling having a
depending string, upon which string
the flies alight and arc held and pois
oned and a German invention compris
ing an electric plow. Free informs
. . lion relating to patents may be had of
Sties & Co. , Patent Lawers, Bee Build
ing, Omaha, Nebr.
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A MALAY GIRL'S LIFE.
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Oae Tear Old.
An able and suggestive symposium
under tlia title of "The Engineer in
Naval Warfare" is presented as the
opening feature of the May number of
the North American Review, 'the con
tributors to it being such eminent au
thorities as Commodore George W. Mel
ville, engincer-in-chicf of the United
States navy; W. 8. Aldrich, professor
of mechanical engineering in the Uni
versity of West Virginia; Ira N. Hollis,
yrofctsor of engineering in Harvard
University; Gardiner C Sims, of the
American Society of Mechanical Engin
eers; and George Uhler, president of
the Marine Engineers1 Beneficial Asso
ciation. Houghton, Mifflin fc Co. have ar
ranged for the American publication of
the unpublished letters of Victor Hugo.
These will probably be comprised in
two volumes, the first containing Hu
go'i letters to his father while study
ing in Paris; a charming group written
to his young wife; an interesting series
to his confessor, Lamennais; letters
about some of his volumes, "Hcrnani,"
"I.e Iloi s'atnusc,"' etc; to his little
laughter, Lccpoldine; and a very in
teresting .series to Sainte-Itcuvc, who
was in love with Madame Hugo. The
second will include his letters in exile
to I.cdru-Kollin, Maz.ini, Garibaldi,
and Lamartime, with many of curious
autobiographical and literary interest.
Eighty-fhe er rent of the f-eop'e who
me Jaiue nre nfllicted on the loft side.
People as a ru!o hrnr I etter with their
riht than with their le t ears.
I lelicvo my iroiiijt ums of Piso's Cure
i-reiciitud iiik consumption. Mrs. Lucy
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N THE HONEY
moon, as in every
thing else, the
times have greatly
chauged, says the
New York Record
er. Two young per
sons who are to be
married this month
have planned to
spend their honey
moon in Siberia. They expect to stay
at least a year, and the bridegroom,
who is something of a writer, con
templates gathering materials for a
book upon the social and political con
ditions of the country before they return.
Another couple will journey slowly
around the world, spending a season
at Nice, a winter in Egypt, a summer
among the Norway fiords, several
months in the orient and Australasia
and a leisurely return homeward across
our own continent.
Last spring one happy pair took a
trip through Alaska and returned
home with innumerable t-.ouvenirs and
native trinkets.
Another bride and groom spent six
months upon a yacht cruising about
the Pacific ocean, and still another pair
took their introductory journey into
the realms of matrimony by means of a
carriage drive throughout their nativ
state.
An athletic newly-wedded couple of
New Haven, Conn., are reported as
having "biked" it through three states,
and one notoriety-seeking pair even
rode to church and back on their wheels
instead of using the conventional coach
and white horses.
Many men and women have been
united in the bonds of matrimony while
at a considerable altitude from the
ground in balloons, but it remained
for two natives of the Wolverine state
to plan a honeymoon in one of these
ships of the air. Owing, however, to
the extreme nervousness of the bride.
an early descent was made and the
distance actually traversed was but
trifling.
Down in Alabama, quite near the
city, where the songster "dreamt he
saw a pretty yaller gal," an impecuni
ous pair decided on a novel wedding
trip. They traversed a considerable
distance, the groom trundling an old
wheelbarrow, which contained their
luggage, and, upon occasion, even the
bride herself.
Another enterprising couple of our
own city, who, for purposes of econo
my, combined with honeymonical bliss,
engaged, respectively, as steward and
stewardess on a West Indian passenger
steamer, enjoyed their tiip so much
that they have retained their positions
indefinite)'.
Along our northern frontier and
across the line in Canada, honeymoon
trips on skates, snow-shoes and in
sleighs, ice-boats and toboggans have
become of common occurrence, and
numerous couples havy occupied a
hunter's log cabin in the backwoods
during the joyous season.
It is interesting to note that a couple
swam the whole distance cf Long Is
land Sound as their wedding journey.
When, however, it is further explained
they were accompanied by a naphtha
launch and were both ptofessional
swimmers, the mystery it. not so mys
terious. Another experience that might al
most seem to rival the foregoing in
originality was the case of the Balti
more & Ohio engineer who received
orders to take his locomotive out with
in a few minutes after the ceremony
was performed, and, with the aid of
his fireman, smuggled his bride into
the cab and took her to the end of his
run.
But probably the most strikingly
original form of the wedding journey
that has ever been accomplished was
the one that took place last fall, the
happy pair being m.-.rried by tele
phone. The reasons for this were al
most wholly of an economical nature,
the bride's dwelling place being in a
New England city, while the groom was
engaged in business at Los Angeles,
Cal. After the ceremony the twain made
their respective way to the 'nearest
railway station, where they took train
and met, as pre-arranged, at Council
Bluffs, Iowa, the groom accompanying
his bride thence back to the home he
had prepared for her.
One admirable feature of the present
fashion of long-distance honeymoons
is the diversity afforded in choosing
suitable gifts. Thus the couple bound
to the tropics, the mountains of India
or the Aztec ruins of Mexico appreci
ate such articles as a camera, a pair of
ficldglasses, an alpenstock or half a
hundred other similar articles ol real
use or necessity, and the almost inevi
table duplicate butter dishes and olive
tongs are avoided. It is true that an
overplus of photographic or optical ap
paratus might thus result, but then
these articles are always more or less
desirable, even in quantities, and no
criticism is engendered by their absence
from a prominent position on the buffet
or dining table.
Some few years ago, when the happy
pair were accustomed to rumble awav
in their coach to take train or boat for
a few weeks' jaunt to some near-by re
sort, the minds of the wedding guests
were filled with naught but pleasure
and anticipation of the joys in store for
the departing newly wedded.
But when we begin to throw shoes
and rice after couples who have their
faces turned toward such romantic
parts of the world as Siberia, et al.. it
becomes a much more serious matter,
and many a heartfelt prayer for the
voyagers' safe return accompanies the
effusive congratulations over the happy
At evening, when the fierce son went
down behind the green banian tree that
nearly hid Mount Pulei, the khateeb
would sound the call to prayer on a
hollow log that hung up before the
palm-thatched mosque, says the Over
land Monthly. Then Busuk and her
playmates would fall on their faces,
while the holy man sung in a soft, mo
notonous voice the promises of the
koran, the men of the campong answer
ing. "Allah il Allah," he would sing,
and "Mohammed is his prophet," they
would answer.
Every night Busuk would lie down on
a mat on the floor of the house with a
little wooden pillow under her neck and
when she dared she would peep down
through the open spaces in the bamboo
floor into the darkness beneath. Once
she heard a low growl and a great dark
form stood right below her. She could
see its tail lashing its sides with short,
whiplike movements. Then all the dogs
in the campong began to bark and the
men rushed down their ladders scream
ing "Harimau! Harimau!" (A tiger! A
tiger!)
The next morning she found that her
pet dog Patima, named after herself,
had been killed by one stroke of the
great beast's paw. Once a monster
python swung from a cocoanut tree
through the window of her home and
wound itself round and round the post
of her mother's loom. It took a dozen
men to tie a rope to the serpent's tail
and pull it out. So the days were passed
in the little campong under the gently-
swaying cocoanuts and the lithe Malay
an girl grew up like her companions,
free and wild, with little thought be
yond the morrow. That some day she
was to be married she knew, for since
her first birthday she had been en
gaged to Mamat, the son of her father's
friend, the punghulo of Bander Bahru.
Saved by a, Drink.
A child 6 years of age had developed
a bad habit of rising in the night to
drink from the water bottle, and ha.d
been forbidden in vain. On the night
of a recent storm his parents being
away, his aunt tucked him safely in
bed.
"Now, Dickey," she said, "remember
I can tell if you go to the water bottle."
"Oh, no, auntie," he smiled slyly,
"how can you?"
"I can tell," she said with conviction.
"But how?" said Dick, skeptically.
"I can," she repeated; "and since you
won't promise, you naughty boy, I shall
empty the bottle." And she did so, to
the young reprobate's consternation.
In the midle of the night the gable
of the house was blown down, and
crashed like thunder through the ceil
ing of master Dick's room. As his aunt
and the servants rushed in a terrible
sight met their gaze. The bed was al
most hidden by masses of bricks and
masonry, two iron feet at the head be
ing driven completely through the
floor. With a shriek his aunt fell on
her knees. "O. Dicky, poor Dicky!" she
cried. "He's been killed."
The words had hardly left her lips
when there came a light, faltering step
from the bathroom and as they turned
there stood Dicky, his teeth chattering
with cold, a candle in one hand, and a
full water bottle in the other. For a full
moment he surveyed the bed with its
ton or two of debris, and then shook his
head with sorrowful admission.
"Yeth, aunty." he declared; "you thed
you could tell if I did." Boston Globe.
DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
OUR RURAL READERS.
How Seeeeaafet Faraaers Operate Tata
Departaaeat ef the laraa A raw
HlaU as te the Car ef Uva Stock aad
Pealtry.
Y poultry experi
ence covers about
eight years. I have
kept the single
comb Brown Leg
horns and Buff
Leghorns. My
house Is just an or
dinary one, with
windows on the
south side. In the
morning I usually
feed soft feed of some kind, and feed it
hot. Then I feed oats, wheat or some
similar grain, hoed in the and, so they
will have to dig for it. Corn if fed at
night, and meat scraps once or twice a
week. We have never grown fowls for
market till last year, when I was able
to dispose of our last of June hatch at
15 cents per pound. We have had good
success in raising chicks. We feed
boiled eggs once a day till the little
ones are two weeks old, with bread
crumbs at the other meals, with cdrn
and oatmeal. We have had little loss
But men may learn now to milk. Ii
when you go home you will induce the
young men to weigh the milk right
along, you will find that it will make
a great difference in the interest they
take in the milking. Buy good milk
ers,, make friends with your cows aad
test them.
Mr. Morse. I have an old German
woman in my employ who does this.
She has made friends with the cows
and they like her and yield a good sup
ply of milk when she milks them. Re
cently she took a vacation, and I tried
doing the milking. I treated them
right, but the amount of milk they gave
shrank at once and did not greatly in
crease. But when she came back they
at once yielded their accustomed
amount, of milk. I think that women
are better around cow stables than men,
if the stables are kept clean, as all
stables should be.
Q. Why will some cows keep clean,
while other cows standing beside them
and under like conditions will get
dirty?
Mr. Helm. Nearly every cow stable
in this state is fixed not to keep the
cows clean, but to keep them dirty
at least, that is the natural inference
of the conditions under which they are
kept. The great difficulty is that the
mangers are too low and the cow has
to back off to lie down that compels
ber to lie down in the filth. I build
mine so that the cow can put her head
under it when she lies down, and she
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Disease la cattle, sheep and swine is
a pretext that is always at hand for
national stock Inspectors to use when
it suits their Interests or fancies. When
a nation wants to protect Its home pro
ducers by keeping out foreign grown
animals, all it has to do is to go on
an exploring expedition after some
disease. They are sure to find it soon
er or later, and if they do not find it
they can scare up something enough
like it to answer the purpose. As there
is ao part of the world where the do
mestic stock does npt suffer some from
disease, therefore it becomes an easy
matter to exclude wherever exclusion
is desired.
If the United States wanted to shut
out all foreign importations of animals
it could easily do so. It would not make
any difference if the disease Would not
reproduce itself in this country, the ex
cuse ought to be sufficient in the eyes
of our foreign friends. Take, for in
stance, the exclusion from a certain
foreign country of our beeves under
plea that Texas fever exists in the
United States. Though it has been ex
plained to them that that fever could
not possibly live in that country, and
that the disease is carried only by the
ticks and not by contact of animals, yet
the prohibition stands.
We do not suggest that the United
States resort to such underhand treat
ment of the subjects of foreign nations.
In all probability the animals brought
in are not more subject to disease than
our own. On the other hand, our ani
mals that are exported to foreign coun
tries are not more diseased than their
own. We realize that the above reason
is used In closing the ports against
American stock for the reason that ex
clusion without reason would expose
them to adverse legislation by the
American congress. Farmers' Review.
Stryehata far Prairie
I will give job a recipe that is adead
shot oa these pests. Three parte corn
meal, a part of graaalated aagar; mix
with water so that it eaa be molded ap
in little pieces one-half aa large as
hulled hickory nats. Feed these three
days, aad the 'fourth day add oae
eighth ounce of strychnine crystalliz
ed. Prairie dogs have a taste for graa
ulated sugar. Febraaryis the moath
to give this to them. 1 gave oae dose
to the dogs and picked up twenty-six
outside of their holes at oae time.
Kansas Farmer.
The Raek or Gibraltar
Is not steadier than a system liberated from
the shackles of chills and fever, bilious re
mittent or dumb aicue by HoMetter's Stom
ach Bitters, a perfect antidote to malarial
poison In air or water. Ills also aa unex
ampled remedy for bilious, rheumatic or
kidney complaints, dyspepsia and nervous
ness. It Improves appetite and sleep and
hastens convalescence.
Detae; the Rest.
Lady of the House What do yon
mean by sitting there all the afternoon
and doing nothing? Didn't you tell
me when I gave you your dinner that
I had only to show yo'u the wood pile
and you would do the rest?
Weary Wraggles Dat's wot I said,
and I been restin ever since, lady.
New York Press.
nail's Catarrh Care
Is a constitutional cure. Price, 75c,
Her Dearest Friend.
Flore Chollie told me last night that
he believed I could break a man's heart
with my smile.
Laura Chollie was just talking. A
man's heart is not like a mirror. Cin
cinnati Enquirer.
A FLEMISH MILKMAID.
FLOTSAM AND JETSAM.
A large factory for the manufacture
of razors by special machinery is being
erected near Berlin.
A French society is being formed in
Paris for the study 'and improvement
of the various breeds of sheep dog.
The Brooklyn Heights Elevated
Railroad Company has furnished a
reading and recreation-room lor its
employes.
Within a quarter of an hour on Tues
day, March 3, Londoners experienced a
thunder storm, a gale, snow, hail, rain
and sunshine.
The late Mrs. Charles Tileson of
Boston bequeathed to the Bostonian
society a map of Boston harbor in 1799,
with the shore and islands worked in
silk.
During the coming summer the
school grounds of Cincinnati will be
used as playgrounds for children. It
is proposed to provide s.ind piles for
the children to roll in.
The sea is infinitely more productive
than the land. It is estimated that an
acre of good fishing will yield more
food in a week than an acre of the best
land will yield in a year.
Several English theaters aro now
warmed by electric radiators, to the
great delight of their patrons. It is
said that all draughts have been done
away with by this method of heat
ing. The vital statistics of Steuben, Me.,
for the twelve months just closed show
a curious coincidence. During the
year there were in the town, sixteen
births, sixteen deaths, and sixteen marriages.
from diseases. We keep our coops
clean, with plenty of lime around them.
We have found the Buff Leghorns very
good layers, and last year we had
cockerels that dressed two pounds at
eleven weeks ojd. Having seen the
experiences of many, in their success
and failures in crossing, we tried two
crosses last year. The first was a
Buff Leghorn cock on Golden Wyan
dotto hens. The chicks matured
early, and the pullets are excellent lay
ers. The second was a Buff Leghorn
cock and Light Brahma hens. The re
sult was not so favorable as in the first
case. The chicks matured very slowly,
and, while the full bloods and the
chicks of the first cross had plump and
very meaty breasts, these latter were
all skin and bones. I am inclined to
think that it pays best to breed from
standard breeds of some kind, and for
me, none are so satisfactory as the Buff
Leghorn.
B. W. Fellows.
FADS OF FAMOUS WOMEN.
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LINDSEY OMAHA-RUBBERS!
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W. X. U-, OMAHA 20-1896
When writing to advertisers, kindly
mention this paper.
A War Romance.
A little romance of the war was ap
propriately rounded out at Harlem
Courthouse, Ky., a few days ago. In
1862 a fine young fellow of 17, named
Jesse Baker, a confederate, was
wounded in a skirmish near that place,
and was left by his command at a
mountain cabin owned by John Cal
leen, a bushwhacker, who was helping
the Yankees. John and his wife were
absent, and only their 13-year-old
daughter, Nannie, was at home. She
cared for the wounded boy, nursed him
through a three months' sickness and
fell in love with him during that time.
But Baker went away, forgot Nannie,
and at the close of the war married
another girl. His wife died.
A little while ago he moved to Har
lem county, where he discovered his
benefactress, Nannie, and found she
was a widow. A few days aeo thev
were married. Philadelphia Times.
Helen Gould has a fad for charaties.
They are her recreation.
Mary Anderson (Mrs. De Navarro)
has an especial fad for housekeeping.
Celia Thaxter had a taste for gar
dening and made a "fad" of raising
poppies.
The incomparable Sarah Bernhardt
prides herself on her wonderful youth.
"Marion Harland," or Mrs. Terhune's
fad is her kitchen, over which she is
queen.
.Louise M. Alcott used to pride her
self upon her skill in getting up even
ing entertainments.
Miss Kathryn Kidder delights In the
regulation French doll, and has one al
ways near at hand to fondle in her
leisure moments.
Miss Lilian Whiting has a liking for
pnotographs. Especial favorites are
seen in her apartments in a dozen dif
ferent poses.
Mrs. Bernard Beere, called "Eng
land's Tosca," has a curious fancy for
dancing dolls, music boxes and other
mechanical toys.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton's fad,
in her old age, is playing upon the
piano. Her favorite music is the quaint
tunes learned in her girlhood.
Miss Kate Sanborn, the breezy lec
turer and authoress, has a decided tal- '
DlKuim; the Con.
(Condensed from the Farmers' Re
view stenographic report of the Michi
gan dairymen's meeting.)
Professor C. D Smith opened the dis
cussion on the cow. He spoke first on
the selection of the cow. Where we
used to select a cow on the total amount
of milk she would give we now pay
more attention to the relative amount
of butter she will make. She i3 a good
cow if her percentage of butter fat is
large, provided she gives a fair amount
of milk. The chief attention of the
experiment station during the past two
years has been toward this point. Is
it true that the cows that have the
typical dairy form make butter most
profitably? Is it true that the internal
capacity of a cow is made manifest
by exterior signs? I am ready to as
sert that such is the case. Our best
cows at the station conform most close
ly to the best dairy type. However, few
of us have time to become good judges
of external signs of internal quality, so
that most of us must buy our cows
judging them by the weight of milk
and by the test for butter fat.
Q. Can we judge by the young ani
mal what kind of a cow she will make
in the future?
A. When I picked out my wife, I
did not do it when she was a little
girl, but when she had grown up. And
the same theory holds good in picking
out a cow: you must wait till she is
mature before you can tell definitely
what kind of a cow she will be. We
cannot predict with any certainty what
can thus lie down where she stands.
I nail a 2x4 in front of her two fore
feet, and another 2x4 in front of her
two hind feet, and fill the space between
the two joists with bedding. When
she lies down, she will He on this bed
ding and keep clean. With calves, we
do not nail down the 2x4s, but merely
lay them down against cleats, which
can be removed to increase the length
of the bed as the calf grows.
Q. Are not those 2x4s in the way
when you milk?
A. The milk pail sits on them, so
they rather help than hinder the milking.
Natural Starter.
In an address before the Ayrshire
Breeders' association Prof. H. W. Cown
said: "Natural starters. These are
easily made by any butter-maker. The
method of preparing one is simply to
procure a few quarts of good sweet
cream from a source which is the most
reliable for being clean and pure, and
allow this cream to stand in a warm
place until it sours. The cream thus
soured will contain mauy bacteria and
commonly, or at least in many cases, if
the cream is from a reliable source the
species of bacteria which develop in
it will be the species that pro
duce pleasant flavors. Such soured
cream may then be poured into
the large vat of cream for a starter
and the result will be that if the starter
does have the proper kind of species the
cream will ripen more rapidly and pro
duce a better quality of butter than
when it is allowed itself to ripen nat
urally. Thus the natural starter simply
allows to grow in the cream the species
which are already present, but if the
cream is from a good source the results
are found in practice to be very favor
able."
Slzteea Years a Ponllryman.
We have kept poultry for the past
sixteen years, but did not make much
of a business of it for the first four
years. We have tried the Brahmas,
Cochins and Barred Plymouth Rocks.
We like the Barred Plymouth Rocks
best, and for twelve years we have
kept no other breed. We keep nothing
but pure breeds and use them for stock
and for market. Our housing is not so
good as it should be, just a singlc
walled wooden house with the cracks
battened. To my old fowls in the win
ter time I feed wheat, corn and oats,
equal parts, in the morning. At noon
I feed wheat and oats and give them
milk when I have it. To the little
chicks I feed corn bread. We sell the
little ones as soon as we can get them
big enough for market. We are careful
not to keep many of them till late in
the fall, when the markets are glutted.
Our market is Chicago. Our hens have
laid all of the past winter and do every
winter except when it is very cold. Then
we have to shut them up in their house
and that soon stops their laying. We
have lest a great many from different
diseases. In hatching we have used
both hens and incubators and have had
good success either way. As to doc
toring hens we always do that with the
greatest care and in many cases we
succeed in curing the fowls. As to
value of breeds I will say that I have
neter had hens that produced more
eggs than the Barred Plymouth Rocks
and for early maturity I think they are
the best. My experience sIiowh that a
hen house should be kept dry and clean
and that a ground iloor is the best.
C. II. Stahl.
Lake County, Ind.
Why Kipling Deri in.
Rudyard Kipling declined an offer of
81,000 for a 1,000 word article telling
"Why America Could Not Conquer Eng
land," on the ground that no true Brit
ton would betray state secrets. Thus
Rudyard ingeniously avoided confess
ing that no reason exists why America
could not whip the British, and inci
dentally he is getting more than 51,000
worth of free advertising. Boston
Globe.
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Needs assistance It may be best to ren
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ber to use even the most perfect reme
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KENNEDY'S
MEDICAL DISCOVERY.
MALI KEMOY. OF ROXJUtT, MASS.,
Has discovered in on; of our common
pasture weeds a remedy 'that cures every
kind of Humor, from the worst Scrofula
down to a common Pimple.
He has tried it in over eleven hundred
cases, and never failed except in two cases
(both thunder humor). He his now in his
possession over two hundred lertiticaies
of its value, all within twenty miles of
Boston. Send postal card for book.
A benefit is always experienced from
the first bottle, and a perfect cure is war
ranted when the right quantity is taken.
When the lungs are atlect'ed it causes
shooting pains, like needles passing
through them: the same with the Livei
or Bowels. This is caused by the ducts
being stopped, and always disappears in a
week after Liking it. Read the label.
If the stomach is foul or bilious it will
cause squeamish feelings at first.
No change o! diet ever necessary. Eat
the best you ca.i get. and enough of it
Dose, one tablespnfui in water al bf4
time. Sold by all Druggists.
It is easier to get a wi.e by advertising
than it is to sel! a horse.
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er than anytbloc else. It is always reliable. Try It.
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other people.
a great lore to
It the Itaby la Cattlaa; Teeta.
ticimre ami ne that oM and veil tried remoij-, Kbs.
IVlisLoWs Sootiii.no St kit for CbiMrea Tecthlne-
Lifiuid Manure ai Top-Dressing.
A bulletin of the Iowa station says:
The application of liquid manure at
the rate of 4,000 pounds per acre in
creased the yield of grass 26.5 per cent,
equivalent to 650 pounds of hay per
acre. Observations will be taken on
the condition and production of these
plats during the coming summer to
note the continuation of the benefit re
sulting from fertilizing grass lands.
At this rate 80 tons of liquid manure
applied to a 40 acre pasture will in
crease its grass producing capacity
26.5 per cent, or cause it to grow 12
tons more hay the first year, and,
based upon these results, clover disced
pasture will increase its grass produc
ing capacity 65 per cent, or cause it .to
produce 30 tons more hay. The infer
ence seems warranted from the fore
going results that the grazing capacity
of many pastures may be fully doubled
by liberal top dressing r by the use
of clover seed and the cisc and harrow.
ent for farming. She has given us I two weeks, and she was kicking all the
some delightful books on the subject
Mrs. Louise Chandler Monlton in
dulges in a rather costly fad of col
lecting autograph paintings by cele
brated artists abroad. She has a large
and interesting coUection.
a heifer will make. There are certain ,Hnto 40 ac.r.?s.of th,n soiIed blue P-9
signs, of course, signs that tell whether
she has the beef type or the dairy type,
but you can not depend on the details
that may develop.
The next point was the stabling and
feeding of the cow. A member said:
It seems to me that with land at $40
per acre we cannot afford to pasture
cows at the rate of one cow for ever'
four acres of land. We had better feed
partly on the soiling plan.
Mr. Gurler. Now, I live in the corn
belt in Illinois, and there webave had
much trouble with the corn root worm.
He lives on corn roots exclusively. It
therefore becomes necessary for us to
rotate corn, keeping it off of certain
fields for a few years that this worm
may be starved out This having to
forego the use of corn fully and freely
would militate against the soiling sys
tem' with us.
Mr. Monrad spoke on how to milk the
cow. Get a good dairy maid. It would
be a blessing for Michigan if the girls
did the milking, for the men would then
have to fix up the stables and keep
them clean. I have seen a great many
stables where one had to put on long
boots to go into them. Why do I be
lieve that girls snould milk? Because
they are gentler. My experience of six
years taught me that to milk a cow
properly you have got to be on good
terms with the cow. I once had a white
heifer that was a beauty, but she was
"wild. I kept my temper for a little over
Inventions.
The number and importance of in
ventions in this day is not due to the
superiority of the modern brain over
the ancient, but is due to the social con
ditions of today. Liberty of thought,
absence of war, preservation and wide
dissemination of intelligence by print
ing make the platform on which the in
ventor stands raised high above the
scientist of the middle ages or ancient
times. Rev. Frank Crane.
time. Then I lost my temoer and used
the stool. I did not milk that cow any
more. I sent her back to my brother
who had a good many cows and did not
need to milk them all. In fact, he only
milked ten cows to get enough milk for
faaUly use.
The Coroner Verdict.
The verdict of the old-time York
county, Me.,' coroner's Jury on the death
of 'aVe Mary Hale, which has been un
earned by the Biddetord Times, lu
cidly declares: "We of the jury about
Mary Hale have agreed that, according
to the evidence given to us, that she
was accessory to her own death with
overmuch eating and drinking, we not
having any witnesses that she was
forced thereunto."
Cycling is injurious to some women
at all times, and to all women some
times, but not to all women at all times.
If women will only use the bicycle with
in the measure of their strength, the
use of the wheel may be recommended
to them under the same common sense
restrictions as men. Wheel.
Hens too Well Fed.
It is fourteen years since I began to
keep poultry. I have handled a good
many of the standard breeds, among
them being the Light and Dark Brah
mas, Buff, Partridge, Black and White
Cochin, Langshan, Silver Wyandotte,
White and Black Minorcas, White and
Barred Plymouth Rocks, Leghorns and
Hamburgs. I now keep the Barred
Plymouth Rocks for market fowls and
Single Comb Brown Leghorns for eggs.
Our house for winter is built three feet
into the ground, with floor covered with
one foot of leaves for scratching pur
poses. The roof and sides are doubled
and it never freezes. We have no ven
tilator. I have tried all ways of feed
ing and am now feeding wheat and
buckwheat as soon as they get off the
roost in the morning. By 9 a. m. I
give them boiled potatoes made thick
with 1-7 ground buckwheat, 1-7 corn,
3-7 oats, all ground and 2-7 bran. At
4 p. m. I feed oats in the leaves. We
ship eggs to New York, but sell the
fowls aliveat home. We get eggs in the
winter when we do not get the fowls
too fat About the only losses I have,
come from the depredations by hawks.
Leghorns are the best layers and ma
ture early. Our greatest obstacle has
been in feeding too often and getting
the birds too fat During the last win
ter especially we fed some meat to
them and thought they would do bet
ter if they got it twice a day. The re
sult was too much fat.
C. A. Waldron, M. D.
Lenawee County, Mich.
Observation on Hoc Raising.
J. M. Welsh, before the Missouri
swine breeders, said:
We are all aware of the influence of
a thoroughly bred sire upon the herd;
and yet it is a mistake to expect satis
factory results in breeding unless the
sows of the herd are bred to a point
where form, color, and potency become
fixtures.
The absence of uniformity in form
and color in a herd may be set down
as an indication of indiscriminate and
faulty breeding.
There is a tendency on the part of
breeders in some localities toward a
hog lacking in range and substance
sufficient to produce the desired weight
at a given age. This is due, perhaps,
to the erroneous idea that a hog with
much size must be a rough 'animal.
Also to the fact that the market de
mand is not for heavy-weights.
Hogs of rapid growth are usually of
good size at maturity, and if properly
bred they are readily prepared for mar
ket at any age. The swine breeders of
Missouri have, as a rule, maintained
better growth and size than is found in
some states where extreme demand pre
vails for particular finish in externals,
regardless, to some extent, of real
quality. Ex.
(own for a Cirl Cradualr.
A dress of white cropon made with a
five-yard skirt interlined with stiffen
ing' to a depth of fifteen inches. Hound
Waist in back, pointed in front, large
leg-of-mutton sleeves, belt and collar
of five-inch taltcta ribbon bowed at
the back. Ito.vplaid of the (roods down
thc.center front of the waist llrctel-
Ics of ribbon from belt to shoulders.
back and front, with short bow of four
loops and four ends. Ladies' Home
Journal.
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The short line to St Louis, and quick route
Knst or Houth,
Excursions to n'l oinf South at one fare
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JUNE If.th,
National Republican Convention at St.
Louis.
JULY :d.
Rational Educational Asfo-iation at
ItuuVo.
JULY Dth,
Christian Endeavor Convention at
Wa-hins;ton.
JULY i'nd,
National Teoplo and Silver Convention at
s-'t. Lou in.
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When you begin to talk about charity
beginning at home, you show people
that you have none. No wealth is real
that can be taken away from us.
Woman is never well treated where
God's laws are broken. No matter in
what way God warns the sinner, it Is
always done in love. The man who is
true to the best he knows, will not
miss heaven because he didn't know
enough. The devil feels at home in
the heart where envy dwells. God
will never send us where it will not be
for our highest good to ga. God pays
no attention to the prayer of the man
who locks up all his money before he
gets down on his knees. Everybody Is
willing to give up some sin, but only
the believer in Christ wants to give
up all Bin. Ram's Horn.
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