SOUTHERN HAWK TRAP. Tennr«*pp Poultryiiiu 11 Dc*c*rll»e» ■ Tim I In lliiNnl on Common- Sonne Principle*. In this part of the country I find in nse an ingenious and very effective hawk trap. It consists of an ordinary steel trap, not too large, mounted on the top of a common fence rail or a long pole, set firmly in the ground. It is best located on some moderately high point in the middle of a wide field, where there are no trees or other ; L ] t -47H Cauc/t. ! I •' 1 A OOOD HAWK TRAP. objects upon which a bird may light. No bait is needed. The trap is simply opened on top of the pole, where the bird sets it oil and is caught in the act of alighting, a. Of course the trap must be firmly secured to the pole. The device is based on the principle that birds of prey habitually light on prominent objects in large open spaces, where they will have a good outlook for game. A trap well placed will, during one season, catch all the hawks within a radius of several miles. Owls and ot her large birds are also frequently found in the trap. The longer and the more substantial the pole, the better it is.—Orange Judd Farmer. ABOUT YOUNG TURKEYS. filioulil He Forced Korwnrtl a* Much H* I'oMNilile Immediately Al'ter the Ifntehlnir. For the first food give some finely cut onion-tops mixed with hard boiled eggs, and crushed wheat or breadcrumbs. Finely chopped onion tops are always relished. The young turkeys arc keen on picking out from their diet those articles which they most prefer. Stale bread and curds are accepted. Dampness, whether from rain, dew or from any other cause, is fatal to very voutig tur keys. In a few weeks the diet may consist mostly of grain and a varie ty. In addition it is a good plan to tie up a vegetable of some sort just so high that the birds must stand well up to pick at it. This is good food, and the exercise is beneficial. Where grain is grown the birds as they come on should be given the run of the stubble-fields, where they will pick up much food for themselves. A point in feeding young turkeys is to give them food four or five times a day—all they will eat—but clean away that which is un eaten, as it may ferment and injure them. A little millet-seed rnav be scattered for them to seek, and they may be turned out with the hen from nine o'clock in the morning until five in the afternoon, but must not lie allowed among other lots of tur keys or chicks, in order to avoid lice. The large lice on the heads come from the hen turkey and quickly de stroy the young ones. Dust them with insect-powder, and rub it on their heads. Hatch the first eggs un der (chicken) hens.—Farm and Fire side. DniiipncNM CauxcM Many lit*. Protection from dampness is of the greatest importance. More injury comes to chicks from dampness than from all else besides. If they can find a dry spot for their feet drr ing the day and a warm, dry place to stay in at night, they will do fair ly even during a long v:?t ptriou, after tlicy are three or four weeks old. Small chicks suffer very much during wet weather, and should be protected from both wet and dampness. Cold and dampness pro duce colds and bowel trouble, either of which is very disastrous to a brood of chicks. During wet weather it is not amiss to tie a small piece of gum camphor with a small stone in a piece of cloth, and putin their drink ing water. It is one of the best sim ple remedies for colds.—Country Gen tleman. TeaclitnK ChlckeitN to Roost. The best method to follow for the smaller breeds is to teach them togo upon a roost as soon as they are old enough. Place a roost in their coop as soon as they are old enough to leave the hen or brooder, so that they will learn the habit of roosting, as it keeps Iheirlegs in better shape as to smooth ness and color. This will not do so •well for larger fowls, as they are so heavy and clumsy that it is not of ben efit to them, for the reason that it often bends their breastbone out of shape. The best plan for them during the summer is in open sheds upon clean sand, protected from all roving animals by wire cloth fronts to the sheds, 'liiese sheds or runs should be cleaned up every morning and raked over so as to keep them clean and ■weet. —Country Gentleman. GOOD HIVES FOR BEES. Work Tliii I Shuulil IS«» Dune n* Soon 11 m the lliin v Little Insects lit--' uiu Their Work. Hives become unfit for good manipu lation, and if not cleaned up every spring and putin good order we lose a great part of their usefulness. Hees carry in large quantities of propolis or bee glue, and piaster it over the inside of the hives and over the frames in such quantities Ihnt it almost disqual ifies the frame hive for the use it is intended. Bees also build burr combs around tlie edges of the frames, and about in the inside of the hive; this also blocks good handling. While hives are made to prevent the building of burr combs as much as possible no hives entirely prevent it. During the honey season bees fre quently build out some of their combs in which they store honey so wide that they can scarcely be placed back in the hives without bruising the combs and killing bees. These combs should be trimmed down to the proper thickness by shaving off the surface with a sharp knife. The frames should be cleaned of propolis and burr combs, thus putting the frame in the best shape for good handling during the honey season. We can clean tip the hives nicely by beginning with a clean one a nd set ting t he frames wit h contents, bees and all, into it from another; then this one may be prepared for the next colony, and so on until the entire number of hives are putin good shape and with but one empty hive to start with. This is the important work to be done in spring and should be clone just aft< r the weather gets warm and the bees are beginning work. Transfer ring bees from old hives into new ones, and all the work of cutting out and straightening up the combs in the frames should be done at this time. Some who are not well posted become diseoviraged with combs that have turned black and think them worth less, but by no means is this the case, for after brood is reared in combs they all turn black, but are not im paired from usefulness. —A. 11. DufF, in National Rural. HOUSE FOR BANTAMS. A Hint or Two for Country Hoys Who Drsirc to Own Some of These ('harming Hiriln. The boy who owns bantams, tor who has .*lll ambition to own some of these charming little pets, can build a fine little home for them according to the plans illustrated herewith, Get three large grocery or dry goods boxes and HOW TO ARRANGE THE liOXES. place them together, side by side, as portrayed, first having cut down the two end boxes along the. dotted lines. The opening in the center box is cut out for a window of two panes of glass. A little door in the rear admits the bantams. The roofs are put on as shown, being hinged to open, as sug gested by the dotted lines. One side room serves as a roosting room, the Other side room furnishes the laying THE HOUSE COMPLETED. quarters, while the central room is for the scratching quarters. The outside and center boxes have openings cut through between them. This little home will accommodate from six to twelve inmates, according to size of boxes. It can be placed undtr the shade of a tree in summer, and taken into the stable or into a shed in win ter. If the floor is kept well covered with dry chaff, the birds will lie very comfortable.—Webb Donncll, in Farm and Home. NOTES FOR SHEEPMEN. Stick lo your brc?d. The conditions for <* healthier wool trade are more favorable. Less crossing and better blood line breeding would be a blessed good thing for the country. More sheep will be imported this year than ever before, particularly of the very high class variety. Each succeeding week shows signs of an increasing wool trade and the outlook is more promising. Advices from abroad reveal a very unsatisfactory condition prevailing in the woolen manufacturing centers, many of the factories producing only a very small percentage of their full capacity. The London wool auction sales now in progress are not at all satisfac tory, Merinos barely commanding a price equal to the closing values of the last scries, and all cross-breds have declined from five to six per cent. —American Sheep Breeder. I'l-oiAi-emt In Agriculture. Progress must be the watchword of all of our farmers and progress con sists iu finding out thu best meth ods, and adopting them. Let the farm er diligently give attention, and what he has learned for himself let hitn teach his children at home, and then send them to school, where that MJU cation can be continued tuid enlarged. CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1901. | SIXTY DOLLARS AN HOUR. IC«tliiintr<l fowl 10 tlie < IliieoiiK of Ko«- 1011 of Keeping Watch mi Two Hal Molcn tlio Oilier liny. This is a story of a rat and two holes in the ground. The holes were very small holes, just big enough to lot two rats into the eellar of 1 li<* Old South meeting' house, and prob ably more than big enough to let tliem, wiser and leaner rats, out again, says the Lioston Evening Tran script. Those two holes, with the intermit tent assistanee of the rat. entertained the good citizens of lioston at the rate of 2,000 an hour for an indefinite period in the middle of one day re cently. It is easy enough to reckon. During the show there were from to :jj people standing in choice posi tions along the Milk and Washington street railings of the fence about the tiny yard of the Old South meeting house a constantly changing crowd that renewed itself every minute. Now in this crowd were all kinds of persons, from the office boy at three dollars a week to the broker at S3OO. Everyone watched his min ute before he went about his busi ness; for some the monetary loss was only the fraction of a cent; for oth ers it mounted up in the dollars. A low and conservative estimate of the average monetary value of these peo ple is ~0 cents an hour. Thirty peo ple standing for one minute are equal to one person standing for half an hour. But the entertainment extend ed over many minutes. An hour of it for a,OOO people was paid for by Lios ton employes in SOO worth of time. What did this SOO crowd of -.000 persons see for its money? Most of the people two holes in the ground; some of them the bright, beady eyes and the whiskered nose of a rat. The poor fellow was probably trying to get away to some less hallowed, but more fruitful surroundings, when the tirst observing eye saw him and by looking collected the audience, lie lay low for many long minutes, so many that the whole crowd about ;tlie fence was in utter ignorance of •what it was watching; but still the crowd hung on, looking at the holes, or gazing up at the sparrows which twittered in and out of their nests in the close ivy growth on the wall. Kvery time the rat looked out one or two saw him, and then everybody devoted his attention to the holes again. And neither rats nor liolea can have known how much they were •costing the employers all over Bos ton. Water Flowed Like <limiipH£iio. "Speaking of diplomatists, reminds me that Mrs. Hayes, who, as you re member, was a stanch teetotaler, ar gued with me for an hour over the first dinner the president was to give to the foreign representatives. I tried to make her see that it would be no sacrifice to principle on her part to set wine on the table, but only the civility we always show to guests by recognizing their ways of living at home. "'l'm afraid,' she declared, 'that l.the ministers will have to make up ! their minds to be sociable with water.' "And I shocked her dreadfully by answering: 'Mrs. Hayes, 1 have never known people to be sociable with water —except in a bath.' " "Did Mrs. Hayes carry her point?"' he was asked. "Yes. indeed." he responded, with a dry chuckle. "She had the dinner as she wanted it, and the water flowed like chuuij,vi£ue."—><. Y. Post. The Old. Old Story. Dr. Nacnamara, M. P., is skeptical of the origin of most of the witticisms ascribed to children. He asserts that they arc manu factured by children of an older growth, chiefly because they make good reading. But in his own experience he lias come across some genuine witticisms, some of them unconsciously humorous, by school children. At an examination in Scripture the question was asked: "What did Moses do for a living while he was with Jethro?" A worldly-wise youngster replied: "Please, sir, he married one of Jethro's daughters. —London Chronicle. One Miiii'm WiNdoin, New Clerk —That young lady in front wants to look at some rings exactly like she has on. Says she is thinking of purchasing a duplicate for her sister. Old Jeweler—Huh! You needn't waste any time on her. The ring she has is an engagement ring, and she merely wants to find out what it cost. —Chicago Daily News. CoitNolntlon. Miss Lingerlong—l shall never marry! Maud Brisk —Oh! Cheer up, dear! You should remember that Xaomi, the daughter of Enoch, was 580 years old when she mar ried !—Puck. Haste Ts Waste.—Dollard—"'Bis dat qui cito dat.' That's Eye-talian, I guess. What's it mean? Do you know?" Scollard —"Lit- erally, "He gives twice who gives quickly.' A freer translation would he: 'He wiio gives quickly gives twice as much as lie would if h.c stopv'."i to think it over.'"— Philadelphia rro ; j\ Hattie—"l hope you don't believe all Fred Thompson says about your good looks and your brilliant conversation, and all that sort of thing." Bessie —"Can't say as 1 do; but what of that'/ If he did not think a good deal of me he wouldn't take the trouble to flatter me.'' —Boston Transcript. Easily Fixed.—"A man named John .Tones," said the country editor's assistant, "writes to us to stop his paper, V>ut he doesn't his address." "Well," replied the editor, "drop hiin a postal and tell him we can't stop his paper unless he gives us his addrws."— Philadelphia Press. 1 USE Va" C 39, p Kfj CUQCQ UNION FE %} I INDIVIDUAL TREATMENT B [f FAST * ' * TV«ADE. B for obstinate chronic diseases can be secured at a comparatively small cost by WB £1 cVELFTr- ®2X' -\ v . or V h " r V l ' 1'; *f; 6 »JJ* Ke»s! wfcv 1 ' ■WTJ. H addressing the Interstate Physicians League. \\V*y. «iiiVi t ° c i.i*. I?.'. „.".?!** ',£)) This association i 3 composed of prominent and experienced specialists in D ■ ,'ii ut p ''r, e - t ninno tip hoit Ay M The services of leading specialists in our liae are in this manner procurable. 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' _ " ' CPMT potrcr A. 7-,KX,T..1-:IT, R» M TON«HOR. | Ot=.rc 1 rrett. Ko«.nir.4«. 18 South FourtUßt.. St. l.ouf, 1I«. 8 rirafjCT'fflilSl fliflUlift iWlfiil AUGUST POST, Moult-on, lowa. ~Z A. N K c 1863 ~~ M Bj ran _ ■ ■■ _ - mi (w| Dest Cough fyrup. Tontes Good. Use Wj oOZOdont *"*• reeth an<" Mouth 25'; i Everybody Happy. A gentleman who had been intrenched behind a newspaper in a crowded car hap pened to look out of the tail of his eye and to see a lady standing whom he knew. Me rose and was about to offer the lady hi* seat when a colored man, who thought he was vacating his seat, slipped into it. "Look here," said the riser. "I was going to give that seal to this lady." The colored man instantly arose with a profound how. "Suttinly, sail." he said, "I'm something of a lady's man myself, sah." And the lady was bowed into her seat amid smiles all around. Pittsburgh Chron icle-Telegraph. Hoir'a lliis? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Calarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Prop:.., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney lor the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac tions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. West & Truaac, Wholesale Druggists, To ledo, O. Walding, Kinnnn & Marvin. Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot tle. Sold by all Druggists. Testimonials free. Hall s Family Pills are the best. A Ilai'd Task. Johnny Wise—Paw? Mr. Wise—Well, my son. "Xoah had two of every being on the ark, didn't he?" "Yes. my son." "Well, paw, it must have kept him busy herding the microbes."—Baltimore Amer ican. South DaUotn Farms Ts the title of an illustrated booklet just issued by the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, descriptive of the country between Aberdeen mid the Missouri River, a section heretofore unprovided with rail way facilities but which is now reached by a new line of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul R'y. Everyone contemplating a change of location will be interested in the information contained in it and a copy may be had by sending a tsvo-cent stamp to F. A. Miller, General Passenger Airent. Chicago, 111. More SuliNtaatlnl. Tilobbs Why did she jilt you? Slobbs—She detected the odor of beer on my breath. "A prude, eh?" "Not at all. but there was another fel low whose breath smellod of champagne." —Philadelphia Record. A Letter from Dewey, Some time ago when Mr. S. F. Dewey was living in C'arrolton, Montgomery County, Ohio, he wrote: "No physician has done me one hundredth part of the good your Lo tion has in relieving me of Barber's Itch, with which I had been afflicted more than nine years." Palmer's Lotion Soap pos sesses all the medicinal propertiesof the Lo tion and in all cases should be used in con nection with it in preference to any other soap. In some cases it may be used tem porarily in place of the Lotion. If you drug cist doesn t have them, send to Solon Palmer, 371 Pearl Street, New York, for samplesof Palmer's Lotion and Lotion Soap. Mother—"How did that young man come to kiss you?" Daughter—"Oh, m-rn-ma, b before I c-c-could tell him he c-c-couldn't he'd d-d-done it."—Town Topics. Private Mailing t'aril. Private Mailing Card with colored views of scenery on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, sent on receipt of ten (10) cents in stamps. Address F. A. Miller, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, 111. Skcptleii. Some skeptics are like the near-sighted man who skates right up to the danger sign to fee what it says.—Detroit Journal. Drugs have their uses, but don't store them in your stomach. Beeman's Pepsin Gum aids the natural forces to perform their functions. Lots of women will give up easy jobs and good salaries for the sake of working all the rest of their lives for their board and clothes.—St. Louis Star. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infalli ble medicine for coughs and colds. - X. W. Samuel, Ocean Grove. X. J.. Feb. 17,1900. Nothing dries sooner than the tears of a hypocrite.—Chicago Daily Newt. I This is the Smallest 1 WICKLESSF™"meOILSTOVE I J larger sizes. your acalef ■ A GIFTED AND DEADTIFDL GIRL Threatened With Nervous Prostration, PROMPTLY SAVED BY PE-RD-NA. *-r '"*"'•••' y I MISS KOSE CCLLEN, OP BUTTE, MONT. j Miss Rose Cullen, President Young Woman's Club, of Butte, Mont., writes from 921 Galena street, us follows: " Peru tin has many friends in Butte. / cannot say too much in praise of it. While finishing school / became very nervous and exhausted from over-study. / was weak and sick, and could neither eat, sleep, nor enjoy life. A couple of bottles of Peruna put new life in me. I find that having it in the house and taking a dose off and on keeps me in fine hea'th. " A large number of my friends place Peruna at the head of all medicines."— Miss Rose Culien. How Peruna <)uicU!y Curoi IS :ir Lathe-, the liiine of Womankind. MRS. G. W. HEARD, Hempstead, Texas, writes: "We have moved recently, and I must have lifted something that was too heavy for me in straightening things up, for I had snch a backache and could hardly stand on my feet at all. Beside, I was so tired all the time. My face was spotted and I was very thin. I took one bottle of Peruna and was soon real well. When I feel tired and all run down I take Peruna and feel all right before I finish one bot tle. I know it is a wonderful medicine, and both myself and husband praise Peruna. "There has been a great deal of sick ness through this part of the country, but, thanks to Peruna, which we use freely, our own family has escaped with ahnos't no sickness at all. "Could you Lint see our baby Ruby (to whom we gave Peruna for bowel trouble), you would see from her robust looks that you need no better advertisement in this little town. She is so fat and rosy, is nearly five years old now, and is a great believer in Peruna." —Mrs. G. W. Heard. Olvcn Up to IMc-All Docioru Falled-It l*rovt»ri to be Catarrh ot" Ntomaclt and Was Cured by J'eruna. W. A. Mitchell, dealer in general merchandise, of Martin, Ga., writes: "I wrote you some time ago con cerning my wife's case. She had tried all of the best doctors, and we got to where we thought all they did was against her. She weighed about 190 pounds when she was in good health. When she commenced with our family physician in April, IS9B, she weighed about 130, but kept going down all the: time. She went to Atlanta, Ga., and! took treatment, but it did liernogood. Then she went to Harmony Grove, Ga., and took treatment from the best physician there for three months.! She kept going down under his trea/t- : ment, although he was considere.d thej best physician in the county. Shej went down from 130 pounds to 08, ami i we saw she could not live long. She! was a skeleton. We consulted an old' physician who told her to use Peruna.; She gradually improved and got* l stronger. She has gained 38 pounds' since she has taken Peruna, and ist gaining every day, and does her own.' house/work. "She was well known when she was. so low, and now everybody wants to' know what cured her. She had in digestion and catarrh of the stomach. It is as good for children as for grown people. We haven't had 'to have a d<oe tor for one of our children since 1898." —W. A. Mitchell. If you do not derive prompt and sat isfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hart man, giving a full statement of your case and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice grajtis. Address Dr. Ilartman, President of The Hart man Sanitarium, Columbus, Oh'". 7
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