The Major's Experience.
From the Detroit Free Press,
One of the staunchest supporters of the
doop-water way fron the Great Lakes to
the ccean Is Major A. C. Blshop, of 715
|
his profession. He was assistant engineer
has since conducted Jarge
operations, He bas been located in Detroit
since 1851, and has a large soquaintance
among the business
this city.
Bishop was in the hospital, For
months he had the best of medical atten-
dance, but when he was discharged he was
not like the Major Bishop of old, When
I had my last speii of sickness and eame
could not ga'n my strength, and could not
walk over abloek for s2 oral wenks,
ACRES OF DUCKS,
———
RAISED BY THE THOUSAND ON A NEW
JERSEY FARM.
tle Food Keeps Them Fat Water Bad for
Young Ones.
Acres of wild
extravagant
ducks 18 a
descriptive
wild geese is one of the
al
lowance is usually made for the state
ments, but there need be none made
that on a New Jer-
four miles of Tren
Some
sey farin within
articles in
newspapers re-
garding
lams' Pink Pills
for Pale Peopls,
which convinced
mea that they were
worth trying and
hought two boxes,
{did not take them
lormy complexion
but for strength.
Alter using them
I felt better, and
know they did me
worlds of good. 1
am pleasad to ree
ommend them to
fovalids who need
a tonic
a shattered constitution.
ir to build
an
Subseribed and sw
eight day of January
Rorent E. 1
The pure, pow
in Dr. Williams
Supply Cie
in the bi
to build
long »ug
to
tentinfue
bein
taken Diy
their
disease.
sn cams sen UE IIIs... sss
Economy.
Mrs.
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B. 3 : my husband doesn't
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Mrs
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A Short Fight
ry 1
they will wors
Courage is a ve Ign ia
men wiil die before
Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Sys
teething, softons the games, re
tion, allays pain, cures wind co
p for children
ng inflamma:
c. Zc. bottle.
are me lopg-feit wants which
1
should never be [filied,
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No-To Bas for Fifty Cents
GCuarantced lo em weal
men sirong., Guy isis
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prove the rule to be
Exceptions {requently |
bad.
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va fits ar nervons.
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permanently cu
fter first da
The rosy cheek | be greatest side show
on earth.
Don't Tobaceo Spit cud Smoke Tour Lille Away,
To quit tobacco ¢ i
vetie, full of life, ner
Bae, the wonder worker, ¢ r
trong. AH druggists, 0c or Hi. Cure guarsse
teed Booklet and sample free. Address
Bterling Remedy Co, Chicago or New York
d vigor, take No-To
akes weak men
The Newest
A corset has just
If. sd $ret ine Bisad la
HAG JUBSLIOR OUSLIe
Buastie.
been invented with
attachment,
faults of the old
a bustie still It
and when closed it
it may be easily slip-
box after the corset
It is a curious look-
made of fcur pieces
with sateen, and may
may be easily adjusted to conform to
the natural outlines of the figure. The
bustle is as light as a feather and is
fastened to the corset just below tke
walst line, where a hollow is generally
seen in toe average figure. The corset
Is provided with little straps, and the
bustie is attached to it by means of
four fasteners. The two lower
teners are so arranged that they cause
the bustle’ to add to fuliness of
the hips, and at the same time they
vemedy the faults of the back. The
corset is not unlike the other corsets,
win the exception that it is specially
re-enforced with triple strips to pre-
yent the bones and steels from cut-
ting through the material, Anothar
advantage of this corset bustle is that
it is one of the cheapest of the well-
made corsets in the market. It can
be bought ready made, of course, in
white, gray and black, or can be a
more expensive made-to-order affair,
n
which corrects
bustle
opens
ae
all the
and yet ls
and shuts,
iz 80 small that
ped in a corset
has been packed
ing little affair
of seel, covere:
A
Fo
the
a —
Fighting Yellow Fever.
tically freed from the standing menace
of yellow fover as soon as American
methods can be brought to bear on the
question of sanitation in our newly ac-
quired provinces. Santiago is a very
paradise of filth, and there is not for
one hour any reasonable assurance
that an epidemic may not break out
there. The sacrifice of the principle
cities and ports of Cuba through their
purification by fire will be a cheap
and eminently suitable operation, pro-
vided it eventuates In that cleanliness
that comes by fire alone. The im-
munity of the South from such =a
scourge will be secured at a most rea-
sonable rate, if the predictions of the
phygicians are fulfilled. They claim
that with Siboney, Santiago, Havana
and a few other points subjected to
such vigorous treatment, there will be
little, it any, difficulty, in controlling,
if not absolutely stamping out, this
dread disease. This is the first time
that yellow fever has been attacked in
its stronghold, and the fact that most
of the cases are of en extremely mild
type ls a mattér for most decided re-
doleing.
Shabba
the fields the
with large and small
white Pekin ducks.
is the duck farm
Mr. MacAvoy
The farm borders on the
kong road, and
road are filled
of pure
beside
er. Fifteen years
ago
health gave way and he wag advised
to move into the country. He
a farm, and embarked in the
business. He was one of the ploneers
in bottling milk. He was
in of
COWS, built
an
Ww
also a plonee;
ensilage food for
a
improved
the use as
and
with
large silo
tion
pointed es barn and
were i
destroved
years
DOOUL for
He started
broilers
room in
HBS
or ten
¢ iran
mature
by
“rt
feed
the wri
“Not
Heved™
that
quires litt
get all t
are fed six
ones
“But
sw
he replied,
if ducks
fod
keep
are y it re
fat. They
an he little
times a day and the
*"
le to
hey « eat, Ones
t grown
three times,
them
raised
for
be
You have no ponds
Ducks cannot
can they ¥
im
to
without
"No. They
enn
in,
water,
all ti}
given
troughs, [It hem
fo in There is a
at the end of that fleld
grown ducks that
market. They are
they must the
of the
snend
get 1 water they
to them in
to drink: not
creek down
that is for the
are ready for
80 fat that
cooling
for their bath,
their
trees in the shade,
shelters for the others, in which they
run to from rain-storms and
from the heat of the san in the middle
you know, wa-
ter is not healthy for young ducks”
in explanation the duck
on:
use, but it is
in for t
swim
have
creek
much of time
under the
ese pe
leaides,
went
dick before its feathers
duckling” will die.”
Adjoining the fleld of breeders is
the field for the ducklings, in one end
of which are the runs connected with
a row of low one-story frame houses,
about 200 feet long. Flocks of 200 or
300 are placed In each run, as it ls
found that they do not thrive when
allowed to run in one large flock. In
the field they wander about in flocks,
and when disturbed by the visit of a
stranger each flock will start in sin.
gle file for its particular runway. Ap
parently they know where they be
long, as some occasionally get into
the wrong runways and quickly go
ont and into the right one,
The ducks, large and small, appear
to know Mr. MacAvoy and the dozen
men and boys employed to ald In ear-
Ing for them day and night. These
attendants go about the flelds, and the
birds pay no attention to thom.
Neither do they mind the two large
English mastiffs and five fox terriers
that guard the flocks against thieves,
tats, foxes, and other unwelcome vis
ftors. Besides the dogs there are
grow, the
watcamen employed day and night
Few visitors are admitted,
The principal food of the ducks is
a mixture of ground corn, bran,
broken crackers or biscuits, and meat
scraps, the meat and bone being re
duced undér steam pressure into a
Haquid mass and then mixed with the
in hugh troughs.
Broiler ducks when fit for the mar-
ket should weigh from five to seven
pounds, and this weight Mr. Mac
in ten weeks from the
Beginning In February,
three shipments a week, in-
to five a later on in
the season. Under the same roof that
the duckling leaves the
brief career, the
adjoins that containing the Incubate
Here they killed in the
culiar fashion demanded by the trade,
sealded in boilers, picked,
dressed, and packed for market. The
themselves make quite an
item in the income of the farm, They
Snowy and soft as
down breast, for
they when they
oe. he
makes
week
Ogg closes
ns killing room
he
Ors, ire Prd-
steam
feathers
whiteness
a
doubtless
are of
the on ZOOSE' 8
which
reach the hands of
rss
Le pillow makers,
are well satis-
Farmers
i
ordinarily
they got egg
but Mr.
yield from
ill-
fl 8Core
duck in a season,
MacAvoy
1:25
saves his ducks
10 150) each
ion was
AND DERELICTS.
WRECKS
The Ves
Menaces to Navigation.
wrech
* also has
destroyed a ders
hileh ox ft 5¢ hie was, ow
obliged
shod oF Yi g
and sheil
torpeodes
Crowninshileld when
“RKearsarge,” rv
obstruction to nav
May. A x
there
of Captain
was surprised, on reaching
find
upper the lower end
fifteen foot
inconceivable
“] a
tion, off
Curious
ga Lape
was reported sunk in twelve
fathoms water, Crownin.
the
io the heels of two masts
tot the Lint
above
fnanner,
have unstepped
a sunken and t
had swang up. the ends of the spars
being held down by the rigging
shattered with torpedoes,
the other pulled out by the “Kear.
sarge” and then destroyed. It was
protruding
i waier.
sone these
nus become
masts
from vosgel, he heels
there was enough water above it,
The “Vesuvius” was very success.
ful as a wreck-destroyer. Some of
the obstructions are difficult to locate,
The same wreck may be reported in
three different positions by as many
different vessels: and with so many
clues to follow, it is not easy to run
down the game. The “Vesuvins” has
found a wreck with only two feet of
spar protruding above water—and two
feet of spar sticking out of the broad
Atlantic is rather like the traditional
teddie in the haystack,
A i AIM OANL
Cost of a Naval Battle.
“The cost of a navl duel between (wo
modern battleships in the value of
projectiles and the probable damage
to structure ix estimated as easily ap
proximating $1,600,000,” says The Age
of Steel. “This little bil would be
filled out in the space of sixty minutes,
provided all the armament of each
ship was in active rervice for that
length of time. Should one or both
ships be lost in the fray the loss would
add tremendously to the above fig.
ures. 400 %
¥
FARM AND GARDEN NEWS.
ITEMS OF INTEREST ON AGRICULTURAL
TOPICS.
Gypsum as a Fertilizer Transplanting Trees
Sore Eyes in Cattic—Care of Breeding
Poultry —Etc., Etc.
FERTILIZER.
ns
GYPSUM AS A
Gypsusy ig usually
fertilizer which, however,
little directly to the support of plants,
but recent experiments by Messrs,
Cockeredl and Gareia at the New
Mexico Agricultural Experiment Sta-
tion, Mesilin Park, N. M., have proved
regarded a
contributes
piants as well as ordinary soil, or bet
ter. Wheat and peas were grown by
them in a wsatural of wi
sand on the east side of San
Mountains, New Mexico, with
The composition of the sand
is gypsum, 97;
deposit
SUC CeEN,
carbonate of magnesia, 06;
12 per
minerals, It is
came by its
of and
apparent
nitrogen
magnesia, cent,
the peas migin
arid §
Peles i Li
TRANSPLANTING TREES
" . .
Fhe fall season of antin
hand, and
+ F
:
ais
if the
them ont
cent. solu
a day and ecalo
Hale #
1 ng t
lattes
“guns” in
The !
ne
rough one of «mall
HON use powder
will relieve the trouble and!
prevent
The
ier
hands with
giving
usually
of the ft
wash
mpairmen
temdant should his
st 4 Lounn £4 %3
solution ailer fle
for there is
se Dei
humans
a
ONY eyed
tianta
possibility
ng from |
Journal,
FARMING ON
cannot be denied that sandy soll
with which it can be
quick response jt
manures, and in its
mi from the flooding which
r woils are always liable has |
advantages for the cultivator.
who has long owned a sandy |
and had made Ht a success,
that within 24 bours after
the worst rainstorm ne conld always |
plow or culivate his land If it needed |
it. The farmer on sandy soil is!
himself to blame if he Is troubled |
with the annual weeds that are the
plague of the lowland farmers whens |
ever a wet time follows the plant. |
ing of hoed crops.
The difficulty with sandy =oil is in|
Keeping up its fertility, It has very
ittle vegetable matter, so that the |
manure does not not hold In the soil |
18 it does when applied to those of |
Teavier character. To secure vege |
able matter in the soll clover must |
e¢ sown as often as every third year,
tl If #t can then be allowed to grow
vo pears before plowing, this will
nly mean one cultivated orop in
ree years, the other two the clo
er occupying the land, To be sure
something is made by feeding the
‘lover, though It is not as much as
the average of farm crops. The re.
sult is that sandy soll is almost ev.
crywhere devoted to growing crops
where earliness Is the most Import.
ant requisite. It Is a good soll for
gardeners, though where a sandy soil
18 used for a market garden, It will
fequire greater amounts of stable wma.
SANDY SOILS,
ts
in the easiness
vorked
in the
es 10 { roe.
heavy
fo,
sepia
farm,
boasted
pure amd also of commercial fortis
zera than any other, In sheltered
sandy soll, welllmanured crops can be
started several days before the helvy
soil Is ready to be plowed, Eailiness
does not sectire an it
once did, ax all kinds
vegetables ure brought
South ali
when home product for
market, It always that
brought from the South, and the ear-
Hest of
sandy
monopoly, as
frais
of
from
cities, Yet
to Northern
the is readyy
Spe rsedes
out
home-grown vegetables
doors always
soil,
The man wno
alwnyw
Or more
nection with it
he will
better started in
COMCHE
fron
has
io
i
rin
reenionses
Almost
Ow
sandy
ought fromm one
three 2 in con
all the vege
his f
y
!
o
=
when
tables £1 on Arm maj
1h
$id
be
and
801!
ie
from
Outs
there removed
le
been
sandy
will not
has wWarme
land,
Yiae
ii
a firm subsoil dry om
if
w E111
BU Ose .
0
will
HOWevVe
throughout
bresding
FARM
Give the
AND CARDEN
mounting
NOTES
a bit
2
oil
and
Hens
Miaal
meal
nn fact
good for
bone or
Wels, Carrots,
apy
potatoes,
most vegetables
ary
if
clap
the hog house is a
of a thing and
cheap rattle
is smelling badly,
It is unprofitable to breed from ani
mals that are too old or from thos
cholera are, of
with cholera, some
treatment, bat most
I'revention is the only
Hogs with
Tike
well
them
«afe
oOourse
peal
under
do
thing.
The whole theory of ege production
in trying to make fit
spring time to hens the year round
Fowls that are kept warm, but not
warm, and do pot miss their
spring supply of animal food and
green staff are likely to show a pret
ty good record every season of the
year,
Ducks and geese should never In
kept with chickens, They are sure to
breed disesse in the flock.
Carefully carding... brushing
vet
of
not,
consists seem
and
will acknowledge, make the animals
good.” Besides, a cow well
cared for in these respects does not
lose her hair so continuously, nor are
the hairs so loose that they will be
earily rubbed off during milking.
A soll is a mixture of broken rocks
aml decaying vegetable matterr fu
which plants grow and thrive.
Whenever a working team bas an
unusually hard job it is the habit of
some farmers to feed It extra, thus
giving Hs stomach an addition la.
bor and thus lessening available pres
ent strength.
Within the last five years several
millions of the Pacific coast salmon
have been placed in Lake Superior.
They are now frequently caught
weighing ten to fifteen pounds, and of
excellent flavor, a little milder than
~
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A WONDEEFUL SIGHT.
The Tree of Ten Thousand Images in Thibet
Of all the wonderful sights reported
by the Jesuit missionaries, Hue and
Gobet, during their explorations of
Thibet, by far the strangest is what
they have gay of the Tree of Ten
Thousand Images They heard
nderful tree long before
they reached the loealit
5
and, as they approached the
io
had
about this wi
of
Curiosity
| thousand
Here is
f 4
Three Layers of Atmosphere.
H. Bigelow
nditiow
the
atmosphere
Istinct car
an eleva
tres, the
2500 to
4.000 metres
one A 6.000 to
surface of the
are, to an extent, sepa-
rate currents flowing each with its own
At the bottom of each ¢f the
at from
i om
above
These 0
velocity.
at the
and
occur the
that
of
top of each of the lay:
clowds This
originate at
moving current and
It is probable,
then, that the stratus owe their origin
to the difference of velocity and tem
perature of the two layers, while the
cumulus
suggests the
the bottom a
the cumulus at the top.
©rs
siratus
air.— Bostot
Transeript,
Brought the Cat from Ireland.
The first Irish cat brought to
this country by an immigrant arrived
on the Cunard liner Servia, and nat-
urally enough the fact that an immi
grant should take the trouble to bring
such a possession three thousand
miles or more attracted consideraole
attention among the Barge Office offi-
ciale. The Immigrant who left home
and country behind, but who would
not leave the cat, was Mrs. Mary
O'Sullivan, of Ballybunion, County
Kerry, Ireland. In talking of her af.
fairs, and incidentally the cat, Mrs.
O'Sullivan sald: “Sure, me darling,
Ol hated to lave the ould sed, but
Ireland Is now a poor country, an’
thot's no lol. Stl Of hated to give It
up. But me childer are all in Amer
fea, so Of hev come over to spind me
last days wid them. Oi was sad In.
dade whin Ol had to lave the onld
cabin that Ol was born In, 23° me
mother afore me, but Of couldnt aring
the cabin wid me, so Ol did tue next
best thing, an’ O1 brought the kitten,
You know Oi couldn't lave the poot
thing behint me, as the neighbors
wouldn't care for puss lolke Of hev
done. An’ so here she is, as good a
mousetrap as wuz iver invented OF
hope yex hev no laws agin farrin kit
tens in this country, because she is
ever
that of the salt water salmon.
well-mannered, an’ wouldn't harm ao
one," —New York Tribune, We