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?w WK5 cl- 31 y- SWilSTF- r . arKf ' !j--. t. !.. tsr-Mi -,--- w- .-iJ -v .i Ri" . H- m (Mum v? - fcgjp-W . -a : -V S C ' 12 :is -- ,-s - . jZ ' VOLUME XXVIIL-NUMBER 44. COLUMBUS, NEBRASm. WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARV 9, 1898. WHOLE NUMBER 1,448. 8WS - - -1 - Ig-.' a? K rr. m "EJ""" i"' Sr-2;T.r- V 9 o - o- i o o O o i a c i& ?o X k . L- J- 13. - - -V. -.- THE OLD RELIABLE. 1; Columbus State Bank (Oldest Bank in the State.) Fajs Merest cs Has Bcpoats lals Laac n Beal Estate, X8BTIS KQHT SURS 0 Omaha, Chica-o, New York aa all Foreign Coamtriea, SELLS STEAMSHIP TICKETS. BUYS GOOD NOTES Had halgm its custoaers when they need keif - OFfTCKXS X3CD DtHECTOSK Leasueb Qerrakd, Pres't. R. H. IIeskt Vice Pres't. M, Becggeh, Cashier. Jons Stacffee, Wit BuciiKa. L OF COLUMBUS. NEB., HAS AS Authorize Capital of - $500,000 Pal4 in Capital, - - 90,000 orriczKS: C. H. SHELDON. Pres't 1L T. H. OFHLKICIT. Vice Pres. DAN TEL fKTHRAM. Cashier. FRANK UOREE. Asat. Caah'n DIRECT RS: C, H. SnELaos. H. P. H. OehtjCH, Jonas Wkixhi, W. a. McAllisteb, Caul Riexxz. S. C. Guat. Frank Ronaim. STOCKH LDERS: Sakeij)a Er.T.is. J. Heniiy WcnweaiA rUHKGlUT. HEXIIY LOSEKE. Daniel rcn ram. Geo. '. Caixet, A. F. II. Oehluich, J. P. Bfxker Estate Rebecca Becked, H. M. Wesslow. Bank of Deposit: Interest allowed on t!c deposits; buy and sell exehace on United 6tare and Europe and buy and sell avail able securities. We shall be pleased to re ceire your business. We solicit your pat ronage. Columbus Journal! A weekly aewspaper de voted tha best interests of COLUMBUS THE COHflTY OF PLATTE, The State ol Nebraska THE UNITED STATES AND THE REST OF MANKIND Taenaitof i iwitk $1.50 A YEAR, rr fazd nr astastcbv Eat amr limit of asefnlaesa is not prescribed br dollars mm.il cents. Esmplo eopiss sent free to sny address. HENRY GASS, UNDEETAKER ! Coffiis : axd : Metallic : Gases ! CkTStpairing of all kinds of Uphal mterg Osods. Ut C0LUXSUH.5ZSXASKS, Columbus Journal PASTD TO lusjiaa UQCXXXD OVA PRINTING OFFICE. PPMHTHT. COMMERCIA (E1afftrFS-sR ffflri r"Va Mi mpi a h5 N a February morning, in tne classic days ol old. A gallant youth sat dreaming cf a maid with curls of gold. Her voice vras sweeter than a flute, her step was like a queen's. And net a waist in all the town was neat as Eveleen's. Oft before her ivied window in the snowdrifts or the dew He had lingered, looking fondly at the tapers shining through. But the maiden was as bashful as her beauty was divine. So now he sought to woo her with a dainty valentine Before him on the table lay a rose of velvet red. A fillet wrought cf silver just to fit her curly head, A string of coral, rosy like her glow ing finger tips. And frosted sugar plums to melt like kisses on her lips. And yet he could not make a choice, till Cupid, straying near, Behind his gilded quiver hid a nil& that held a sneer; "Go write," he said, "a pretty note, and ask her to be thine. And seal it with a kiss to send by old St. Valentine." The lover took a scented sheet, in hue of palest pink. And on it with a slender quill he wrote In blackest Ink: "Dear Eveieen! sweet Eveleen! thy . same is my delight, It maketh music in my heart from morning until night. Tls mating time for all the birds, and happy things are they. I But I am left a lonely man to sign my life away To sigh my life away, -my love, if thou wilt not be mine. Oh, come to me, fair Eveleen, and be Tnr Vnlpntinat' Across the purple eventide, and over hill and dale The moon, a silver crescent, flung her glory like a veil. And still he sat a-dreaming of the lips he longed to kiss, When inward swung the oaken door what vision fair was this? A slight and graceful figure all in ruby velvet dressed. With a tear upon her lashes, and a lily on her breast. , He felt her arms about him in their snowy whiteness twine; "I come to thee, my dearest love, to be thy Valentine!" Oh, ye laggard lover pining like the youth of olden-times For a shy and lovely maiden, find a lesson in my rhymes. Do not woo her at a distance, sighing at her garden gate, Lest another boldly enters and you find yourself too late. Do not send her cards of satin scat tered o'er with flying doves. And a wreath of roses tended by a host of dimpled Loves, But a frankly written letter, with your heart in every line; And she will come, like Eveleen, and be your Valentine. Minna Irving; THE IOST YEAKS. WO crimson spot3 appeared upon Miss Jemima's pale face when she heard the gatelatch click. She knew that her brother was bring ing in the maH,and as he entered the room she bent low er over her work, her crochet needle flew faster and she coasted a slight cough. She knew, without looking up, that her brother brought in a pile of valen tines in his hand, and that when presently he should have finished dis tributing them to his eager sons and daughters, her nephews and nieces, he would, come and bring one to her or els&7. He would not do this last. It was this dread that brought the crimson spots to her cheeks. If there was one for her he would presently come, and leaning aver her shoaWer, he would say; as lie dropped aposiaer lap the larger, handsosker one thai all the othersr 'This Hooks Mighty SBsaickms,. Sis Mistie? Each, year for seven years her broth ar had tenderiy handed, his sister her nteittif. Afiar at id a tfn ios rr. . i Ml ,MMa& laaDPHr Tr Sa5eBn XK:,Byt)B.;ATa? I Wf-f S4B(S "--' -rx k 111 7 ip;t' I laFWrilT "-3Jia8JE. 7 iaw r -.-. . . . ."" - " - "' " n atf6 e Qoljy ty (lie oaken newel lSci,ihriikiiw naoae nigh) 0 to citd) Ihe dimly jewe-i Jiw Her an qCly! Jery cantiody 'nd still I Tijjt, rHakjnc not a. sign, And 1 hear "I wonder will ' Get a. Valentine?; jjdilh, sWs sure to have one WfW ! Vvfat wiii wasoste PoHy I '- Will -ske icorn aw Wt H etfere-i On the cat 0irti iay ?: of psia and confusion that followed his playful teasing in presenting tne first one, Ire had never mora than rt lieved the moment by & pissing Jest. The regular coming teC "Anzt Jemi ma's valentine" was a mystery in the housebote. II had been thirteen years since she bad quarreled with EU Taylor, her lover, and they had "parted in anger, never to meet again. Sines then shs had stayed at home" and quietly grsWn old. Fourteen years ago she had been In the flush of this, her only romance, and St. Valentine's day had brought a great, thick envelope, in which lay, fragrant with perfume, a gorgeous val entine. The oldest children had been very small wheft this resplendent confection had come Into their home. Some of them had not been borr, but they had all grown up in the knowledge of it. Shortly after she received it there arose a foolish lovers' quarrel Eli had gone away in anger and that had been the end. Disputes over trifles are the hardest to mend, each party finding it diatcUlt "THIS LOOKS MIGHTY SUSPiClOUS, SIS MIMIE." to forgive the other for being angry for so slight a cause. And so the years had passed. For ten long years the beautiful val entine had lain carefully put away. For Ave years Jemima had looked at it with tearless eyes and a hardened heart. And then came the memorable first anniversary when the children of the household began to celebrate the day, and tiny comic pictured pages be gan flitting in from their school sweet hearts. In the youthful merriment of those budding romances Miss Jemima seemed to see a sort of reflection of her own long-ago joy, and in the faint glow of it she felt impelled to go to her own room and to lock the door and look at the old valentine. With a new, strange tremor about her heart and an unsteady hand she took it out, and when in the light of awakened emotion she saw once more its time-stained face and caught its musty odor, she seemed to realize again the very body of her lost love, and for the first time in all the years the fountains of her sorrow were broken up, and she sobbed her tired heart out over the old valentine. Is there a dead-hearted woman in all God's beautiful world, I wonder, who would not weep again, if she could, over some of life's yellowing symbols symbols of love gone by, of passion cooled who would not feel almost as if in the recovery ot her tears she had found joy again? For the first time since the separa tion she clasped the valentine to her bosom and called her lover's name over and over again, sobbing it, with out hope, as one in the death agony. Miss Jemima, in her suddenly real ized young-love setting, had bscome, THE FOCVTAINS OF HER SORROW WERE BROKEN. to her owa eoascioasaeas. old aad of a date gone by. But there is apt to eeme a tisat ia uie ws im. luc uc Biajue wasflS OL I -y fOTtTfAebaliveaaaga-wiaiJalsaWwfrfc 1- - - ' e iace 01 even negative aaa aarec tionats dlsparagtmeat shs k to declare aerSelf: 6aa thing, indeed, it waa to yellow, , time-stained vaJeafiae; aa quits a different 6ae to be bf the din pled throag who crowded the. Joaes- viUe postofflce on Valeatine's day , "I reckon them young ones would think it was perfec'ly re-die'leas el I was to git a vlentih8 a my: time cf life-, Miss Jemima said, aloud, to her looking glass one morning; It was the day before St Valentine of the year following her day of tears. "But I'll show 'etal" she addedVwith some resolution, as she turaed to her bureau drawfr; ,r And. she did show them. On the next day a great envelope, addressed to Miss Jemima Martha Sprague came in with the package of lesser favors,. and Miss Jemima suddenly found her self the absorbing center of a new in terestan interest that after having: revolved ibeat her awhile lew aC &r sastiHta tflwaM. iriti hac1ielbriff-wWdwetwitiIaa raiHhs 61 thirty miles of Jonesville For ten years her self-sent valentine was a mystery to the other members of the family. As the years passed If lief brother began to 6uspect he made no sign cf It save in an added tenderness: And, of course; he c6yiti E8t know; r On Ine anniversary upon which this little record of her life had opened, the situation was somewhat excep tional. The valentine had hitherto always been mailed in Jonsville-fref own town. This gosiffiarS had been noted and commented upon, and yet it had seemed Impossible to have it other wise. But this year, in spite cf many complications and difficulties, she had resolved that the envelope should tell a new story. The farthest point from whih with in her possible acquaintance, it. would naturally hail wSi the raiiroad lown lit us call it Hope. The extreme difficulty in the case lay in the fact that the postofflce here was kept by her old lover, Ell Taylor, Here, for trt years, fie had lived his reticent bachelor jlays, selling plows and garden seed and cotton prints and patent medicines, and keeping postof flce in a small corner of his store. As Miss Jemima pondered upon the thought of sending herself a valentine through her old lover's hands, the col or or the scheme began to change from impossible green to rosy red. Instead of dreading, she began ar dently to desire this thing. But the only possible plan by which she could manage secretly tn nar! the valentine mailed in fope-a pjan &ver which she had ibst sleep, and in which she had been finally aided by an illit erate colored servant going there, to return next day it must reach her on the day before Valshtihe'S. This day had come and gone, and her valentine had not returned to her. Had the negro failed to mail It? Had. It re mained all night in ths postdffice in. possession of her lover? Would she ever see it again? Would her brother ever, ever, ever get through with the children and finish giving out their valentines? Miss Jemima had not long to wait, and yet It seemed an ag, before th distribution was over, and s&e felt rather than saw her brother moving In her direction; "Bigger an' purtier one 'n evef for Aunt 'Mimie this time looks to me like," he said, as at last he laid the great envelope upon her trembling knee. "Don't reckon it's anything extry in partic'lar," she answered, not at all knowing what she said, as she con tinued her work, leaving the valentine where he had dropped it: not touch ing it, indeed, until she presently wound up her yarn in answer to the supper-bell. Then she took it with her work-basket, into her own room, and dropping it into her tipper bureau drawer, turned the key. As she sat to-night looking at the outside of the envelope, turning it over and over In her thin hands, great hot tears fell upon it and ran down upon her fingers, but she did not heed thenii It was even dearer now than ever before, after this recent passage through her lover's hands. At thi3 thought she raised it lovingly and laid it against her cheek. Could he have handled it and passed it on without a thought of her? Impossible. And since he had thought of her, what must have been the nature of his thoughts? Was he jealous jealous because some body else was sending his old sweet heart a valentine? This year's envelope, selected with great pains and trouble from a sample catalogue and ordered from a distant city, was a fine affair profusely decor ated with love symbols. For a long time Miss Jemima sat enjoying the luxury of nearness to her lover that the unopened envelope had brought her before 'she felt inclined to confront the far-away romance typi fied by the yellowed sheet within. And yet she wanted to see even this again to realize its recovery. And so, with thoughts both eager and fearful, she finally inserted a hair pin carefully in the envelope, ripping it open delicately on two sides, so that it might come out without Injury to it3 trail, perforated edges. Then,, care fully holding its sides apart, she shook It And now Something happened. One of God's best traits is that He doesn't tell all He knows and sees. How Miss Jemima felt or acted, whether she screamed or fainted, no j one will ever know, when, instead ot ! the familiar pictured thing, there fell J into her lap a beautiful, brand-new I TVatinc. It n-j certainly a long time before she recovered herself enough to take the strange thiag into her tmndi and when she did so, it was with fingers that trembled so -violently that a bit of paper that came within the valen tine fluttered and fell beyond her reach. There it lay for fully several minutes before she had strength to more from her seat to recover it There was writing oa the fluttering fragmeat. but what it was and why Misa Jemima wept over it and read it agaia aad again are other trifling taiags that perhaps God does well not te ten. The details of other people's ro- are cot always laterettiag to Hftwefrer in tats aartkalar ease, it be tatereeting t knov that the who took cfiarfi 0t the eU 's room ia Hone and who baa investigating way with her; pro seven, or eight torn scraps ot per collected at this period from his p basket, oa each one of which written la slightly tafyinf termsi of rough sketches of a note In ch occurred brokea sentences like - .. . .: .. .. .,,- -3 xouowing: senaing yau tnis ne entine just as hearty as I sent tha one eighteen years-" 'You aha'nt never want for a fresw I. again frer? year lohf as" 1 liref esB.yott take" J4 if your waat the old onfr bacst and me along with it." Miss Jemima posted a, note on the 'Ikjwing day, and a good many .inter ring things happened in quick .suc Ah4 then? .There was a little., quiet, fiiddie: weddiag- ia the church on Easter r.. R.wa ta M lover's idea. to bavixrt"Wea;ras'sa1oHDe1fT "Sap piness was a resurrection, from the dead, an,d belonged to the Easter sea son, and there was no one to object Misa Jemima Ahawed her new valen tine te the family before lite Wedding came off. but ia spite of ail their coaling and begging she. observed a rigid reticence in regard ts H those that had come between that and the old one; and so, seeing the last one actually In evidence, and rejoicing in SHE LAID IT LOVINGLY AGAINST HER CHEEK, her happiness, they would only smile and whisper that they supposed he and she had been "quar'lin' it cut on them valentines." "I ain't fitten for rod. jemint?, honey, ho mo'n I was eighteen years ago;" hi said, his1 arm tiinidly. locking hir chair, the night before the wed ding, "but ef you keered enough about me to warm over the little valentine I sent yoti nigh twenty year ago, and to inake out to live on it, I rackon I can keep you supplied with jest es good ez thet; fresh every day an' hour. But befo' I take you into church I want to call yo' attention to Ihe fac' thet Tm Hmfaal-H'ele to the- state's prison for openin' yo mail an if you say so, why, I'll haf to go." "Well, Eli," Miss Jemima answered, quite seriously, "ef you're li'ble to state's prison for what you have done, I don't know but I am worthy to go to a hatter place for the deceit I've prac ticed:" "Well," said Eli, "I reckon ef the truth was told, the place where we jest nachelly both b'long is the Insane asylum for the ejiots we've acted. When I reflect that I might 'a been ez happy ez I am now eighteen year ago. an' think about all the time we've lost Well How comes it that Easter comes so late this year, any how?" FINIS. Sad Fate of a Joker. 1 Mr. Short Lengthy, old boy, you'd a died laughin' to see the comic Valentine I sent to Hawkins. Ha, Ha! I happened around just as he opened it Ha! ha! ha! Say, but honestly it's a shame to guy the poor fellow so. But I must go down to the club and tell the boys about it 2 Lengthy Yes, I would if T were you. Ha! ha! ha! la Laaacy Coatacfoas? Miss Agnes Wells, a seamstress em ployed in the insane asylum here, be came insane and had to be placed un der severe restraint. Miss Wells lives at Elizabeth, Wirt county, and is an estimable woman. Her derangement is supposed to have come from con stant association with insane patients and worry over the prospect that she would lose her employment as she was an appointee ot the democratic ad ministration. Spencer (W. Va.) cor respondent of Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Caaaeaad Effect. Mrs, Goodwin "John we will have to get rid of that parrot His Ian- J goage is getting to be simply awfuL" Mr. Goodwin "Well, my dear,, you should have known better rftan to hang aim where he could hear the re marks the neighbors make about him." Doa't kiss your sister before another rtfrL Always klar the other girl first. ll Sip- DAIRY AND BOULTKY. Mtcrbsting chapters for OUR RUaAfc READERS; f thm WmrwtA Few ftlMe i 4 Can f Un mad Tomlttj. Dairy Ia4aky H irtfaatt. According to the registrar geHoral's' report says British Dairy World, the number af milch cows in Ireland in 1896 was i,45,79o, 6? M.423 below the average 3t the preceding ftv years. From this-is would seem as if foreign competition In butter was telling its tale. While ft Is a "good thing tor study dairy breeds, it Is even better to study dairy cows. Success with the cow is tfci fttadftMAatal problem in dairying. The dairy industry is sasia districts aaa made aboat aa maca. imacanTMKAC, as Rm HndeFpresent conditions, un til the" co anii fier fflansgament is im proved. It is" trniversaily mdgniaed that many of oar butter mdkefs risk among the foremost of tha world, but too many of our dairy herds, as a 61333; feil tar bihtcd. One of the first essentials is to be ditf t distinguish a good dairy cow from one that is nOt a dairy, eew atalL It will be observed that there is wider range of varia tion between the individual cows rn any one breed than between the breed themselves r so the selection of a breed iS dnl ui initial aiep in dairying. Gen erally there Is a wider fslativa varia tion between the cows of a single dairy" herd than' &cCwe the several dairy breeds. A great many farmers say they have to time to read. This is just the reason, as a rule, why they do not succeed bet ten The man who doe9 not read may bS a hard Worker, but he is apt to have a1 poSf judgment A Jeofe ever the country will convince any man thsfc the most successful farmers are invariably the most Inteiugent- At a meeting of the Edinburgh Association of Science and Arts, Mr. John Laing, F. L C.. reld a paper on "Dairy Products, from the Producer td the Consumer, as We Get Them, and as We Ought id Get Them." In order to get the best, re sults from the dairy, cows should be fed and kept under the best possible conditions. He was ot opinion that grass grown on sewage lands was not a proper or clean feeding for milch cows. Milk obtained from cows fed exclusively on sewage grass was very mucii inferior; from every point of view, to the milk obtained from cow3 fed on natural sweet meadow graii Milk ffoni sewage grass gave way very readily, not so much to acidity, but to putridity, and the butter and cheese from such milk were very inferior in quality; r . Cslac Paper lUalacs. Information has reached us that some of the Westers solicitors, for New York houses have been telling the creamerymen that there wa3 no neces sity for usin parchment paper lining in their tubs, and that goods packed in that way would not sell any more read ily nor bring a higher price, says the New York Produce Review. We are surprised at the length of time it takes to gpt a god idea through some men's heads. Why anyone ccnyfrsant with the New York trade.jmd who attefHpts to keep in touch with the changing needs of this market should try to con vince a butter maker or a creamery secretary that paper lining is unneces sary and has no practical use is be yond our comprehension. "The proof of the pudding is in the eating," runs an old saying, and the value of the paper lining ha3 been determined by the severest kind of use for more than a year. It has grown in favor steadily and a very large number of creamer ies are using it all the time. Page after page has been written about ita value as a protection to butter, the aid given in stripping, etc., and buyers at home and abroad have come to look upon the paper lining d3 essential to perfeet packing. As soon as foreign buyera became iriterested in our but ters they asked for tubs with the1 parchment lining, having learned to know the value of that class of goods in the English markets. Now comes an interesting demand from home buy ers for that style of packing, and there are strong evidences to prove that within another year three-fourths of the trade will call for paper lined but ter. There have been instances al ready this season where the butter brought a little more money because the tubs were lined with parchment and most receivers can cite cases where the preference was given to that kind of packing over other consignments. It will only be a matter of time when creamerymen will be forced to use the paper lining to maintain the standing of their product, and the sooner this Is recognized and the newer method adopted the better it will be for the trade. Fecdlaa Toana- Lamb. While it is necessarr to feed the ees while they are nursin the lambs with generous liberality, it is also necessary to feed the Iambs as well, say3 a corre spondent of American Sheep Breeder. The ewes must not be overfed, for there is no other animal that will suf fer more easily than a sheep from ex cessive feeding. So it is desirable to have some ways provided that the Iambs may get their food while the ewes cannot reach it This is done by the provision of what are known as Iamb creeps, pens of any simple con struction, with entrances through, which the Iambs can pass, but too small for the ewes. Several cf these should be made about a large pasture. and one or more in a. small, one. To prevent the wool of the Iamb3 from being torn, or the lambs getting fast in the narrow entrances, tha sides of those are fitted with upright rollers set on some kind of simple springs, so that as the Iambs press to get into the enclosure they push back the rollers aad get in and out with ease. This de vice, and the feeding made possible by it, will largely increase the growth of the Iambs. The excessively wet and stormy weather of the past few weeks has beea disastrous to young Iambs. The cold heavy rains and chilling' winds have killed thousands of new born Iambs even in the "Sunny South." A aew born Iamb needs a little warmth, or at least a dry coat for a day or two, to get strength to withstand the fu ture storms. Proverbs are notahlv a-rMsatifia", ad tie tatpbtrt IMi I that, to the effect that the winds tempered id the shora Idartev i aot ts be depended apon. Shelter Shoni4 ft praVMed, aaa the shepherd skdWd take care tflat aa the iambi are drop ping they and the dam sbooli be led 6Y urfrea trf the sheltering" ataf, which seeds c?B!y' the simplest prcttotlea agaiast winds mostly,- eat also against the cold rains. The dr? cold wind m aot nearly so- iajurious to the weak iamb a the cold raia. This evapora tion fra the skfsT produces excessive cold, whici b ftal to- did weaklings. .In choosing a area: ft must be con sidered that the mutton wffl to the main source St profit for the future, the fleeces being the second considera tion. Consider an example. J small ficckwell maaaged may bring even as macii as o dollar a head for the wool! But. witir eodallygood maaage meat the lambs, may bring fa waea 8 dr f ioaths old 3 of "Iff a head. Aad it may eaiflj T that hese Iambs may be oae aad a half or even twice" as t masr aa.taa ewea The Tims may ccst8Sr"widfnx thirilliieBi'B'hw-f 2 a head. The balaace goes to show the greater profit ot M meat We mast think of this and at tEc ame flme also think, not so mucb of the special ntflfrkefe lamb reared in a hot house at grea eSst. but these that come in the early spring eV"sting noth ing for care or feeding over" ta pas ture. Let the wool pay the cost of keeping the w' and tiiere Is a prcflt J of 100 per cent fronf th mutton alone! The prevalent disease of yonng lambs during the first three months of life is diarrhc-3 with cramps and suasms. bv which th? wealc young thinn nerisb verv auicklv. T2J9 is W most "51 : due to something wrong with the feeding of the ewes. The ewe escapes because the poison 13 carried off through the milk, and wc ilrttt al way coEmst th- roaulta of- any dis ease in a nursing ew" e a. c much pois on to the sucking lamb. Then the ewe must be treated, but with care, for the same reason that the medicine will af fect tie" niint It will be sufficient to 6hange the food or" water of the ewe and givc the iamb d single teapoanful of castor oil, f&llowed in an hour by aldose of Ave to ten 5ro-s" of a mix ture Cf tinctures of laudante, rhu barb and ginger This will allay the spasms, while a few feed of linseed ind bran mash will tend to pit the ewes fn A healthful condition. Dairy men are specially careful of the feed ing of their cows; the shepherd must be equally careful of the feeding of the nursing ewes. 1 Tha 1Vatr Froblem. Now, let us consider the question of Water. It Is ft very important question and one which has not received much special attrition, writes E. 0. Rcessle in Country Gentieinan. It has scnne thin to do with egg production, more, in fact han most of us imagine. Thcri is no more sertotlir mistake made in caring for a flock of layers' than to give them Ice cold water, at 7 o'clock ic the morning. With their food. And yet how many thousand breeders are doing this every winter. If we give thni a warm fitash and sometimes put red petfper in it, we do It to warm them up and then we give them Ice cold water. Of course this is not consistent, and it is in my opinion injurious. If ycu have a flock of fifty dunghills running at large in your barnyard and roosting in oaf wagon, shed, do they run at day light to the horse trough for a drink of Ice water? This is an instance because it i nature. No farmer would bother himself fo" water these hens in winter. When they want water, they know when and where td gel it If you watch such a flock carefully, y'oa will find them drinking after the sun has1 been up several hours and after they have picked Up a breakfast from the manure heaps and have actually done half a day's work, fs it necessary, therefore, for us. with our more valua ble thoroughbreds, to put water before them, tempting them to injure the very quality we are striving to cultivate, namely, egg production? Some breed ers give their flock hot water. This is a good idea, but difficult to follow if the flock is a very large one. With a few hundred head it would work per fectly, but with a thensand or more it would require too much labor. Winter layers, I consider, should not be wat ered until they are well toned up by exercise and food, or until the sun has warmed the ccops. Ten o'clock is a good hour, and it could be combined with the.grain feed at this time. Foaltrr for Mc-nomT- It seems hardly likely that any farmer readers of The Farmers' Re view lack a good flock of poultry There may be, however, readers living in the towns or suburbs ot town3 that have forgotten what a help the flock ot poultry is to the housewife. A small number of hens may be kept at no ex pense. When one has not a flock of hens the,, waste from the kitchen is painfully apparent Especially is this so if the family be large and more espe cially so if there be many children in it Much food must be thrown away because it becomes old before it can be disposed of. When one has a flock of hens all of this surplus food may be turned into eggs. Fresh eggs should be used in large quantities. Next to milk they are the most convenient form of food and have nearly as many uses. It is a pity that Americans can not be convinced of the necessity of husbanding their resources. It is said that the French nation couM live on what the American nation throws away. We need to Ieara how to util ize the side products and instead of throwing them away turn them into things of comfort for the family. English Butchers' Boycott The latest act of the Glasgow "Fleshera Trade Protective Association" affords a good Illustration cf a "boycott" gone mad. The secretary of that association recently addressed a. circular to ship owners saying that "in pursuance of cur defensive policy, en and after De cember 1st no member of our organi zation will purchase live stock carried from the. United States and Canadian ports by any shipping company or com panies who carry live stock: from such ports for any firm, salesmen, or ether importers who are not signed members of our organization." Ot course the ship-owners will pay no attention to such an impertinent demand. Indeed, they could not d otherwise under their obligatioft as common carriers. The courts would not permit such discrimination- Ex. It is still hard to get good cheese, hence the sale cf all cheese is hurt. Never tbrfw goft feed on, tin grout 1 YOU TO UVE IM ALASKA? UillsawHs The aaiversal article of diet ia that country, depended upoa aad indispens able, ia bread or atacait. Aad to make the bread and biatait, either in the camp r ayoa the trail, yeast cannot ba used it most be baking powder: and l the powder manufactured by the pro cesses of the Royal Baaing Powder Coapaay, miaers aad prospectors hare learned, is tha oaly oae which will stand in that pecaliar climate of cold and dampness aad raise the bread and biseait sasietactorilyv Theaw faeta are very importaat for every oae ptaaosiaa to go to Alaska and the Yukoa caaatry ta kaow.-for should ae be persuaded by same out fitter to take one of tha cheap brands of baking powder, it will cost jast aa much to transport it aad then when ha aaeas it for oae. after all his labor ia saehJaa it aver the loac aad dlmcalt or a lot of spoiled powder, with no strength and nselesa. Such a mistake might lead to the most serioaa results. Alaska Is no place ia which ta experi ment ia food, or try to economize with your stomach. For use ia sack a climate, and under the trying and fatiguing conditions of life aad labor ia that country,, everything- must b the best aad most useful., and above all it ia imperative that all food sup plies shall have perfect keeping quali ties. It is ahsnrd to convey over such difficult and expensive roates an arti- Cle that will deteriorate in transit, or that will be found when required for use to have lost a great part of its value. There Is no better guide to follow in these matters than the advice of those who have gone through similar expert encfl. Mr UUQwtratcir. -wno"Is"""cSneir "the father at Alaska." after aa experi nce of years upon the trail. In tha camp, and In the nse of every kind of supply, says: "We find ia Alaska that the Importance of a proper aiad ot baking powder cannot be oreresti aiated. A miner with a caa of bad baking powder is almost helpless in Alaska. We have tried all sorts, and liar been obliged to settle down to use nothing bat the Royal. It 13 stronger and carries further at first, but above aft things, it is the only powder that will endure the severe climatic changes of the arctic regioa." It is for the same reasons that the tTnited States government la its relief expeditions, and Peary, the famous arctic traveler, have carried the Royal Baking Powder exclaslvely. The Royal Baking Powder will not cake nor lose its strength either oa board ship or in damp climates, and la the mast highly concentrated and effi cient of leavening agents. Hence it la indispensable to every Alaskan outfit. It can be had of any of the trading companies in Alaska, but should the miner procure his supplies before leav ing, he should resist every attempt ef the outfitter to palm off upon hist aay of the other brands of baking pow der, for they will spoil and prove tha cause of great disappoiatmeat and trouble. PEDDLERS IN MEXICO. Way aa Old Wosaaa Woatdaft H.r Boa ae Oaa Tiasa. "While traveling in Mexico a few years ago I had a funny experience with a Mexican vender which goes to show what little business ability tha lower classes have," said E. F. Guig non of St Louis. "I was en route to look at some mines away up in the mountains. At the station where we left the train to take the stage I saw an old woman selling some honey. She dfd not have more than ten pounds of it altogether and as it looked so good I wanted to buy it all to take along wita us. I asked our Interpreter to buy it. Much to my surprise the old womaa would sell him but two boxes, claim ing that if she sold it all to him she would have nothing to sell to other people, neither would she have any thing else to do during the remainder ot the day!" FADS IN FLOWERS. , Florists' shops abroad are much dif ferent from the ones in this country la London, for ex ample, funeral freaths and em blems are displayed in the windows, with their prices attached. Some are attractive, others very hideous. Lichen i3 fashionable there far crosses and wreath3, and from this grisly-gray background calla lilies and white rosea peer. Set pieces, the "gates ajar," brokea columns and floral pillows, are always painful, far, in the first place, the nat ural grace and beauty of the flowers is destroyed, and in the next there is no excuse for the emblems. Flowers for the dead should be scattered in care leu handfuls then only are they com forters, with their graceful beauty un impaired. The modern custom of add ing to a death notice the word?. "Friends will please omit flowers,"may be traced to the reluctance of the sur vivors to be confronted with those ghastly set-pieces which have raged Z3 long. The best artists have always recog nized that flowers should be allowed to arrange themselves. Basketfuls. arm fuls or great bunches of loose flowers are justifiable, but crushing their beau ty into any systematized outline is un forgivable. Florists abroad have a fright t :I habit of "making up" bouton nlers .or men's coats,and these bunches of three or four violets a spray of fern, and a branch of forget-me-nats are seen on the lapels of the men who do not appreciate true fitness. A single gardenia tuberose or a knot of mig nonette is better than one of these hor rible mixtures. EFFECT OF COLORS.. Green needs sunlight to develop th yellow in it and makes it seem cheer ful. Red brings oat in a room whatever hint of greea larks ia the composition of the other colors employed. If Olive or red brown be used in coajunction with mahogany furniture. the effect la very different from what it would be if blue were used. Blue would develop the tawny orange lurif iac tf tha mahogany. 9 i -4g 4 s2;r-S r.-XH tl"- -r .. " -.. - - H -F - .. "---- & . , si'ssi&s&Si M-fessg-a SteS S?!"-'sh i-Ss-JEfcii JtSS-aj-&r"t-- Wifc!