~— j
ple and Inexpensive That Every
body Can lint e It..
A tight barrel makes an excellent
coop for chickens, as it is almost
ready for use as it is. Throw a lot
cf dry loam into the bottom, when
GOOD BARREL COOP,
turned on its side, to make a level
floor, and nail two strips at the front,
as shown. Malt? a front of laths as
shown in the cut and place against
the strips. A nail at either side will
liold it in plac£. During th*- day let
the slatted part be at the bottom,
to the chicks can run in and out. At
night simply turn the front arwund
in its place, so that the more solid
part may come at the bottom to keep
out prowling enemies and to keep the
chicks in.—Orange Judd Farmer.
PRESERVING EGGS.
Formula t'*e<l liv Specula torn and
Dealers
on a Lnrgre Scale.
Numerous methods of preserving
«ggs are in use. The idea of all of them
is to keep air out of the eggs, as by
euch absence of oxygen decay can be
arrested for a considerable length of
lime, especially if the eggs are perfect
ly fresh at the start and are kept in
a cool, dark place. The standard meth
od most used by speculators and deal
ers is to put eggs in lime water. The
process is as follows, this recipe having
been widely sold at five dollars under
pledge of secrecy: Take two gallons of
water, 12 pounds of unslaked lime and
four pounds of salt, or in that propor
tion according to the quantity of eggs
to be preserved. Stir several times
daily and then let stand until the liquid
has settled and is perfectly clear. Draw
or carefully dip oft' the clear liqufd,
leaving the sediment at the bottom.
Take for the above amount of liquid
live ounces each of baking soda, cream
of tartar, saltpeter and borax uim! an
ounce of alum. Pulverize and mix these
and dissolve in one gallon of boiling
water and add to the mixture about 2U
gallons of pure lime water. This will
about fill a cider barrel. Put the eggs
5n carefully so as not to crack any of
the shells, letting the water always
stand an inch above the eggs, which
can be done by placing a barrel head a
little smaller upon them and weighing
it. This amount of liquid will preserve
150 dozen of eggs. It is not necessary
to wait to get a fuli barrel or smaller
package of eggs, but they can be put
in at any time that they can be ob
tained fresh. The same liquid should
be used only once.—Michigan Trades
man.
Shipment of Drejmed Fowl*.
It is a common saying that the mar
ket is never over-stocked with the best,
and this is probably correct. Whenever
the market is overstocked it begins at
the poorest quality to reject. If the
market does not reject the low quality,
it at once reduces the price to a point
below cost of production and market
ing. Therefore the only people that
stand a chance of making money are
those that send to market good prod
nets in good shape. In a way markets
are always over-stocked, except in
times of special scarcity, P.ut the mar
ket is never over-stocked with choice
fowls. Great lo«s to the producers re
sults from the munner in which
fowls are dressed and shipped to mar
ket. One man says that the quantity of
fowls daily dressed and sent to market
ir an unsalable condition is enormous.
»—Farmers,' Iteview.
Poultry liouMe DIm I n flit n (n.
It is well to keep the fact in mind
that pure air and sunshine are the best
of disinfectants. They discount every
thing in keeping the nursery coops in
condition. Turn these coops over fre
quently so when the hens and tlieir
broods are out on the range the sun
may shine on them all day. If this is
regularly attended to and their loca
tion changed so as to occupy a fresh
epot of ground once a week you can re
lieve your mind of any fear of foulness
which will be injurious to the chicks.
This kind of disinfecting costs nothing
in the way of labor, and is one of the
cheap things which is thoroughly good,
—Farmers' Voice.
~\V1!«I Onion In I'luturcii,
The wild onion is the bane of the
pastures, but it can be eradicated en
tirely if attention is given it. One
of the remedies suggested for the
wild onion odor in milk is to stable
the cows about three o'clock and give
bay, allowing their regular food as
usual. The odor will jwss off in the
secretions in three or four hours.
Every tteason, however, the wild onion
regularly appears and increases, yet
the pests are easily destroyed by pull
ing theen up or keeping them cut
down. Tliii may be tedious tut
•while, but pays well io the end.
THE BORSE BUSINESS.
Thone W lilt liaise (lie Hlftlit Sort of
Animal* Have Never Vet Made
a Failure of It.
At the round-up institute in Wiscon
sin last year. 11. A. Briggs, an extocsiva
breeder of thi.t state, gave the fol«
lowing good advice in regard to the
brood mare:
If you are going to raise draft horses
see what kind of brood mare you have.
Don't try to raise a draft horse from
a 1.000 or 1,100-pound trotting mare.
Select your largest mares and cross
thejn with the breed you like best,
a pure-bred draft horse, whether he is
imported or American bred, you must
get size and quality. If you are going
to breed carriage or coach horses, se
lect your mares that have size and
quality, and cross them with the very
best carriage horse you can. lam not
going to point out the particular breed
you should ha\ e. Among our American
trotters we can get as good a pe of
coach horse as there is in the world, if
we look to size and quality, but there
are not enough of them. If American
people had paid as much attention to
producing good carriage horses as they
have to producing speed, and speed
alone, we would have the best coach
and carriage horses of any nation in
the world, and we would have a na
tional reputation for producing car
riage horses equal to the one we have
had for producing little trotters. That
has been the one great trouble with the
men who have been raising trotting
horses, they have lost sight of every
thing except the speed and the speed
pedigree, and the result in many cases
has been that not one in 25 has been
fit to put on the market to sell for any
kind of legitimate use. Get the idia
of trying to raise trotting horses out
of your head; if he can't do anything
but trot you do not want him. because
you would do more harm to yourself
and your family in a financial and a
moral way than anything you can do
on the farm. But if you have a good
standard trotting mare, and can cross
her with a good French or German
coach or standard bred horse you can
make money in raising coach or car
riage horses. Such horses are sell
ing all the way from $l5O to $1,500.
They weigh from 1,150 to 1.250
pounds, arid stand from 15% to 16
hands high, with all of the style and
nice, easy action that you can get in
a horse, not a low shuffling gait, but
one that gets his feet up and shows
nice kne? action and nice hock action.
That will give you an idea of the kind
of horse that I think is advisable for
the farmer to raise. You may have
the very best breeds of either one of
these kinds, and if you neglect feed
you will have the veriest scrub that
ever grew on a Wisconsin farm.
A GOOD HOG TROUGH.
I*l|r» Cannot CJet Tlieir Feet Into It
and Cannot Get In theMny While
Slop In I'oured In.
I send sketch oj a hog trough I have
had in use for some time, and it is a
success. Pigs cannot get their feet into
it and cannot get in the way when pour-
TROUGH FOR HOGS.
1 ing In slop. The height (E, II) is two
feet; width of opening at 1., two inches;
C, 1), 6 inches; D, E, eight inches. Slop
is poured in at A and runs down
through the two-inch opening into
trough, the rear side of which slopes
forward so that the pigs can reach all
the slop in bottom of trough.—Ohio
Farmer.
TIMELY SWINE NOTES.
The hogs are mortgage lifters this
year.
Converting corn into pork this sea
son has been a paying business.
Do not. let the harvest work or culti
vation of the crops interfere with the
care of the pigs.
The wheat that did not pay to cut
can be harvested by the hogs to a de
cided advantage.
Let the hogs run in the orchard now
and they will destroy lots of worms
and insects by eating up the dropping
fruit.
A farmer who cannot find pleasure
in handling the swill pail for the pigs
is not able to enjoy all the pleasures
of the farm.
Hogs are filthy animals only when
they are compelled to be filthy. They
enjoy clean quarters as much as any
other animal, and will keep them so if
given a chance.—National Stockman.
Slicep hn Knrin Fertilizer*.
Prof. Roberts, of Cornell university,
says the fertilizer produced by a sheep
in a year is worth $3.17. While the
most of this is left in the pasture, its
value to the farmer depends much
upon the condition of the grass there.
Many pastures are in such condition
that they need breaking up and re
seeding as much as they do fertilizer,
and until something is done to remedy
this trouble the vaiue of the manure
made by the sheep would to some ex
tent be wasted. We know that the
sheep improve the pasture by killing
many varieties of weeds, and thus give
the grass a better chance, but the
sheep should not be forced to live en
tirely upon weeds and bushes. If they
are, it will be a question whether the
bushes or the ilock ot fchsep will iw
killed first.
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1900.
SON HAD THE ADVANTAGE.
Hie Repntntlon n* itn Athlete Made
Him Better Known Tlinn Ills
Studious i'ntlier Was.
William Scott, of Pittsburgh, who has
been brought so prominently before the pub
lic recently through being Mr. Carnegie's
lawyer in the famous "multi-million-doTlar
controversy" between Frick and Carnegie,
asked one question too many the other day.
Kvcryone interested in legal affairs knows
how the two millionaires have always con
sulted the same law fit-nj because their in
terests were identical, and that when the
split came this firm, of which .fudge Reed,
president of the Lake Erie railroad, is the
head, refused to take sides with either client
and that new attorneys had to be chosen.
Mr. Carnegie chose Mr. Scott, a brilliant and
well known Princeton alumnus of the class
of '6! l.says the Philadelphia Post.
On June 9. at the opening of Nassau's com
mencement, when Princeton took the base
ball championship from Yale and young
King Scott, Mr. Scott's son, had the honor
of being substitute pitcher for Hildebrand,
Mr. Scott was among the favored guests.
Mr. Scott is fond of getting evidence from
people, and when a freshman who idolized
King Scott came up to shake hands with the
father after the game Mr. Scott asked him
what he thought was the best thing ; n col
lege life.
"Athletics, sir," was the freshman's eager
answer. "It's the greatest thing of all. It
does a fellow tio end of good."
"And why athletics?" insisted Mr. Scott.
"Well, sir," was the answer, "it's just this
way: I guess you were a good student here,
Mr. Scott, and read a heap of books —but
nobody has ever heard of you, and the whole
world knows about King."
Something for All Senson*.
In an uptown political club they are tell
ing a story at the expense of the wife of one
oi the members—a man who had suddenly
arisen from poverty to comparative af
fluence through a garbage contract. A new
house had been purchased in a good neigh
borhood, and the wife spent many busy days
in furnishing it. When she reached the
item of mattresses she went to a big depart
ment store on Maiket street and made
known her wants to a polite salesman. "I
presume, madam," li*« said, "that you waut
the best spring mattresses." "Not at all,"
was the quick retort. "You needn't think
because I'm rich I'm easy. A spring mat
tress, indeed! Sure, 1 want mattresses you
can use in spring, summer, autumn and
winter. I'm not buying a mattress for every
season in the year. ' —Philadelphia Call.
» li' nuiiiii n and ChrlHtiuii.
A Chinaman of great dignity and some
splendor of dress was getting off an ele
vated train at Twenty-third street the other
day when a white rowdy called after him:
"Say," said the tough, "are you a 'box
er?' "
The other tough added some abuse arid
roared with laughter, after the Chinaman,
who got off the ear, then turned. He waited
till the gates were closed, then he answered
in pretty clear English:
"S<v, you Clistian?"
Then the gateinan and some passengers
laughed, and the toughs slunk into the ear.
—N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
When a mar. gets down, he not only has
the right, but it is his duty to get up as soon
as possible. No man should consent to
sprawl in the mud forever because he has
accidentally fallen into it. —Atchison Globe.
In running to a fire, a man becomes dis
couraged in less than two blocks, but a
woman runs until she reaches the front
gate of a friend's Jiou.-e, when she realizes
that she isn't dressed fit to be seen on the
streets, and stays until dark.—Atchison
Globe.
Military Cyclist—"Look, here, old chap, I
can excuse explosive bullets, white flags and
all that sort of thing, but to deliberately
fire at and burst a fellow's tire is not
warfare. Why couldn't they have fired at
me instead ?"—Alley Sloper.
Irrational.—The trillionaire startled his
entourage terribly, to-day. "I am hapyier,"
he observed, "than 1 was when I hailn.'t a
dollar!" It is clearer than ever that he is in
sane, ami will presently have to be immured.
Certainly nothing could be more irrational
than this remark of his.- —Detroit Journal.
The missionary perceived that he must be
very adroit if he would induce these Chinese
women to give up the practice of foot-bind
ing. It was not enough tliat he had collated
statistics to show that there is more real
agony in wearing a 2A shoe on a 4B foot,
after the manner of civilized women, than
in binding the feet, after the Chinese cus
tom. if the benighted < hinese women could
begot to believe this, all would be well; but
they were exceedingly superstitious.—De
troit Journal.
L'Enfant Terrible—Little MilliceTit, the
infant prodigy, daughter of Montmorency
Mugger, the eminent comedian, had par
taken copiously of a light lunch of green ap
ples. Shortly afterwards she remarked to
her papa: "I feel just like a store window."
"\\ hy.' asked papa, in the tone of one who
carries on a conversation for the purpose of
supplying cues to the orchestra. "Because
1 have such a large pain in my sash." This
joke will be tried on an audience in Wash
ington early ntit season.—Balinuioi* North
American.
Ten
Years
Pain
"/ am a school teacher,
have suffered agony
monthly for ten yearsm
"My nervous system
was a wreck. I suffered
with pain in my side and
had almost every 111
known, I had taken treat
mentfrom a number of
physicians who gave me
no relief >
" One specialist said no
medicine could help me, 1
I must submit to an
operation.
" I wrote to Mrs. Pink
ham, stating my case, and
received a prompt reply.
I took Lydia £« Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound and
followed the advice given
me and now I suffer no
more• If any one cares
to know more about my
case, I will cheerfully
answer all letters."— i
MISS EDNA ELLIS, Hig
ginsport, Ohio,
If Von Have
Pimples, Tetter, Eczema or any disease of
the skin or Mucous Membranes that can be
reached by an outward application, it can
he cured by using Palmer's Lotion, the
jreat beautifier and Skin Curer, which
|kuul<l be kept in every household ready
itrf any emergency. Palmer's Lotion Soap
possesses all the medicinal properties of this
Lotion, and should be used in connection
with it, in preference to any other soap, as
it will greatly assist in curing all such af
flictions. If your druggist does not keep it,
send his name to Solon Palmer, .'174 Pearl
Street. Xew York, and receive free pamphlet
of testimonials with sample of Lotion orooap.
A Shinliiß Mark.
Borrows—Easy, is he?
Graphter—Well, I should say. I wrote
to him once and asked him to lend me two
dollars. It seems I spelt "two" t double o,
and forgot to cross the t. He sent me SIOO. —
Philadelphia Press.
More Cheap Kiportlimt to Colorado.
Special Trains, one night out to Denver,
Colorado Springs and Pueblo via the Great
Rock Island Route, will leave Chicago Au
gust 21, Sept. 4 and 18, at 4:45 p. m. On
these dates excursion tickets from Chicago
to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo, Glen
wood Springs, Salt Lake City anil Ogden,
Utah, will he sold at rate of one regular fare
plus $2.00 for round trip, return limit Oct.
31, 1900. Tickets also good on regular trains.
For full information, berth reservations and
beautiful book "Colorado the Magnificent,"
sent free, address John Sebastian, G. P. A.,
Chicago.
Casen Alter ClrenmstnneeM.
Maude—Would you marry a man you
didn't love?
Clara-—No, indeed!
"Rut suppose he had a million?"
"Oh, then I'd iove him."—Chicago Even
ing News.
l.ane'H Knrally Medicine.
Moves the bowels each day. In order to
he healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on
the liver and kidneys. Cures Kick head
ache. Price 25 and 50c.
FIxInK th«* Illume.
Critic—Your picture doesn't resemble na
ture.
Artist—The picture is all right. If nature
doesn't look that way, so much the worse for
nature.—(souierville Journal.
An English tourist, who had left a water
proof on a train, went back to look for it.
On asking the occupants of a third-class
carriage compartment whether they had
seen anything of a "mackintosh," "Na, na,"
one of them replied, "we're a' Macphersons
here."—Glasgow Evening Times.
NEBRASKA
THE LAND
OF PLENTY
I wonder why it is that so many
men spend their days working hard
on rented farms, barely making
enough to get along, with no great
prospect ahead of owning their
own homes, when within a few
hours' journey is a land of plenty
Nebraska—where all kinds of
grain and fruit can he raised with
the least amount of labor; where
cattle and hogs fed on corn bring a
handsome profit; where the climate !
is healthful and churches and l
schools abound; where land is
cheap and can be bought on very
easy terms.
Think of this, and if you want
information about the country send
to me for"The Corn Belt," a
beautifully illustrated monthly
paper that tells all about Nebraska,
and also for"The West Nebraska
Grazing Country," an interesting
illustrated booklet containing a
large sectional map of Nebraska.
On the first and third Tuesdays
of each month during the balance
of this year cheap excursion
tickets will be sold over our road
to Nebraska, so that people may go
and see for themselves. Ask your
ticket agent about this.
P. S. EUSTIS,
C«n'l P«u'r A fl t. C. B. A Q R. R.
CHICAGO. ILL.
ILLINOIS FARMS FOR SALK IN TRAITS of 40 to
400 A( KKM. G. W. HTHIAN. NEWTON, ILL. «
eganiHMiimMiiiinHairii "iinmiui MAM-M-MA
ggWffljSjl |i|j | DON'T YOU HEAR BABY CRY?
I i j Do you forget that summer's coming with
%j]|||||iil| all its dangers to the little ones—all troubles
\® bred in the bowels.
S a' The summer's heat kills babies and little
children because their little insides are not in
clean, strong condition,
j Winter has filled the system with bile.
3 /MJ ij i Belching, vomiting up of sour food, rash,
V J constipation, all testify that the bowels are out
I ' If you want the little ones to face the coming; dangers with
_ll i &Cout anxious fear for their lives, see that the baby's bowels arc
* Z/t2mm4w 11 : I gently, soothingly, but positively cleaned out in the spring time,
/ t ll' P an< * ma^e stron 9 an< l Wealthy before hot 'weather sets in.
vl/ The only safe laxative for children, pleasant to take (they
ask for more) is CASCARETS. Nursing mothers make their
milk mildly purgative for the baby by eating a CASCARET
now and then. - Mama eats a CASCARET baby gets the
benefit. Try it! Send for a 10c box of CASCARETS to-day and you will find that, as we
guarantee, all irregularities of the little and big childrens insides are
25c. AH if*! QRU^STS
To any needy mortal suffering from bowel troubles and too poor to buy CASCARETS we will send a box free. Address
Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago or New York, mentioning advertisement and paper. 4iS
"This boy of minp," said the distressed
parent, "lias always been backward in his
lessons. He doesn't seem to be smart
enough.' "You leave him with me," said
the old-fashioned pedagogue, significantly.
"J"II make him smart."—Philadelphia Rec
ord.
Diddler—"Do you think your tailorwould
trust me with a suit of clothes, old m«n?"
Kobinson (dubiously I —"Does he know
you? Diddler—"No." Kobinson—"Oh,
then he might. Try him."—N. Y. World.
All poods are alike to TVTVAM FATIPI.FS?
I) rKs. as they color all libers at one boiling.
Sold by ail druggists.
People resemble pianos when they are
square, upright and grand.—Chicago Daily
News.
Piso's Pure cannot be too highly spoken of
is a cough cure. —.1. YV. O'Brien, 322 Third
Ave., >J., Minneapolis, Minn.. Jan. (i, 1900.
A few men are self-made, but many more
are self unmade.—Chicago Daily News.
To Cure n Cold In One liny
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All
druggists refund money if it tails to cure. 25c.
"No, Geraldine, the partition of China is
not the same thing as the Chinese walk-
Indianapolis News.
Throw physic to the dogs—if you don't
want the dogs—but if you want good diges
tion chew Beeman's Pepsin Gum.
A great bar to education is the habit that
ignorant people have of getting angry when
they cannot understand.—Town Topics.
Hull's Catnrrfi Cure
Is a Constitutional Cure. Price, 70c.
Danger cannot be surmounted without
danger.—-Chicago Daily News.
WALTHAM WATCHES
The name Waltham engraved on
every movement the American
Waltham Watch Company makes,
guarantees the movement absolutely
and without any reservation
whatsoever.
The Perfected American Watch ", an illustrated book
of interesting information about watches, <will be sent
free upon request.
American Waltham Watch Company,
Waltham, Mass.
® The - e is no end of 9
■Old V lrginia Cheroots 2
■ to waste, as there is no finished end to W
■ cut off and throw away. When you ■
u buy three Old Virginia Cheroots for 2
2 five cents, you have more to smoke, JJ
J and of better quality, than you have •
• when you pay fifteen cents for three •
# Five Cent cigars. , £
Three hundred million Old Virgmii Cheroots smoked this
m year. Ask your own dealer. Price, 3 for 5 cents. 4 |jg
CHICAGO 10 OMAHA
Double
Daily
/ TlillAifJ \ A m
Service
New line via Roek
\ \^QEEHS!y^^/ font. Dubuque.
\
cil Bluff*. Kuffct
llbrary-smokirig-
carn. sleeping cars, free reclining cliair cars,
dining cars. Send to the undersigned for a fno
copy of Picture* and Note* En-Route illustrat
ing this new line as seen from tire car window.
Tickets of agents of I. r. K. j<. arid connecting
lines. >. 11. HANSON. G. I'. A.. Chicago.
I AniFC When Doctor*ami others fall toreli< vo
bHIIICdt you. try N K. M. It:11 never f.-iiln. Bo*
fm- Mm. 11. A. Rowuu. Mllnuukic. Wihi.
Ifl ?UCATIO N A L. ~
FRANKLIN COLLEGE il-,« &EK
nnciafcOMiniHtf*-; total.llWa year: book* fr«-. . Ih.uhl
and iiion sl. fitlinnc(i«'ti n<-t>ul< <>rix; catalogue t)
with |»lan to rnrn fuoilk Ml.oir.t. W. A, niLI.IAUS, D.D., I'ri-i.
ST. MARY'S ACADEMY
NOTRE DAME, INDIANA.
Conducted by the Sisters of tlio Holy Crr.sc.,
Chartered 1X55. Thorough Knglish and Classical
education. Regular Collegiate Degrees."
I:t Preparatory Department students care
fully prepared for Collegiate course. Physical
and Chemical laboratories well equipped. Con
servatory of Music and School of Art. flvm
nasium under direction of graduate of Roston
Normal School of Gymnastics. Catalogue tree.
The 46tli year opens Sept. 4. 1000. Address.
DIRECTRESS OF THE ACADEMY,
St. flary's Academy, - Notre Dame, Indiana.
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