SOUTHERN HAWK TRAP.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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'".
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