THE ROADSIDE.
Nearly all farms extend to the mid-
ile of the roadway, and farmers should
aot overlook the fact that they have
sertain rights on the highways. Each
‘armer should look after the trees
slong the roadside in oruer to add to
he attractiveness of his farm, and the
veeds which grbw outsiae of the fences |
should be kept down, as it is neglect |
»f the highways that gives weeds and |
nsects their greatest opportunities for |
iamaging the farms.
THE STRAWBERRY BED
“When shall [I take the covering
‘rom my strawberry beds? The
slants were late in the fall and |
wovered with autumn leaves. 1 also
sifted over the bed a compost of coal |
ashes and well rotted manure.” Re. |
aly: An old, well grown bed might |
32 uncovered earlier than yours. |
Wait till the grass is green and dan
ger of hard frosts quite past. If not, |
you will have your plants heaved out
Qake the covering in between the
‘ows, and leave it. When the bed
lorked turn under the compost. You
ask, further, as to the plan, which |
suggested, of growing your t in
strawberry rows. Your bulbs should
have been planted last fall. If kept
in a cool place, and not too dry. they
will probably have sufficient vitality |
10 grow. Thrust them down about
three or four inches into the soil, and |
{et them take care of themselves. You |
will probably get nothing but leaves
the first year, but the next you will be
well compensated.—New York Tri
bune. {
set
iv
ulips
IN WARM WEATHER
warm weather*that
have for
greatest vigilance will
have to be exercised in the care of
the dairy utensils. The milk strain
ers will need the greatest care, as the
holes will become clogged If a cloth
strainer used it should first
rinsed in water to take off what
may adhere to it, then washed with
the hands in warm water to take out
the milk, and afterward well scalded
It should be put through the weekly
washing besides. The wire strainer
will need to be rubbed often with salt,
to keep the holes in the open
and pure. The seams and all places
that cannot be cleaned with a cloth
will need to be scraped with a knife
or fork. The ears pails and
ans will also need to kept clean
L.et me speak right here of the dish
cloth. If not thoroughly washed out
and scalded and put in the sun to dry,
it will soon become sour, and such a
cloth is not fit to have around. Burn |
it up, and get a new one
trying to clean it to used again.
Beware of all foul .odors around the
dairy, for they will injure tas butter,
and destroy the reputation of the good
butter maker.—Mrs. Rena A. Osborn,
ina The Epitomist.
OAIRYING
During the
are to
months, the
we
sure about three
is be
cold
sieve
of the
be
be
MAKING THE BOIL FERTILE
The farmer who uses manure and
fertilizer thereby gains from the soll
more than he applies, because the
terials which he adds to the
serve to render soluble the inert plant
foods existing in the soil, and, as it
takes capital to make money in busi
ness, so it takes manure and fertiliz
ers to make the soil more subservient
to the demands of the farmer. Every
dollar expended for plant food to be
applied to the soil is an investment
which in the future is sure to bring
good returns, because of the abund
ance of raw materials existing in the
soil ready for use when proper meth
ods are applied for deriving them
from the vast stores which are always
within reach with the aid of suitable
appliances. The growing of green
crops for manure benefits the land
ma
soil
instead of |
which may have been derived there.
from, and from the air, but also
through the chemical action of plant
roots, which have the capacity of
changing the characteristics of the
ground grain, sharp grit, fresh water,
milk, green growing stuffs, clover
hay or alfalfa or vegetables for green
stuff purposes and such natural foods
of fowls will not produce eggs, when
sald fowls are judiciously fed and
warm afl comfortable in their homes,
then there is something wrong with
the fowls themselves, No matter that
a hen is supposed to be an egg ma:
chine; forcing her with condimental
foods {8 not going to better the condi-
tion of affairs any length of time. The
reaction will come. Pampered, pep-
pered, stuffed, doctored fowls will
pay. And the solution to the
problem of an increased egg produc
Breed for a bet-
natural mai _2r
New York Tribune
sensible,
in
rational,
Hawkes,
SITTING HENS NEED ATTENTI
My hens are
up for that purpose, with
those in which they lay. When one is
ready to sit, and her service is want.
ed, a clean box treated with
and carbolic acid
air-slacked lime
built
When
nest
ON
fitted
nests like
all set in a room
kerosene
is sprinkled with
and a good, soft nest
ally of dry grass
11 stay on the
1 thereon,
the nest
is
if she
Food
room, a dusting
her,
therein, gener
sure the hen wi
Deing
in and
after place
eggs are put closed
Next morning the
and the hen taken from it
not off without
drink are given in the
box and grit are bet
she has been off
allowed to find ner
it alone, if possi
yet learned the she is gently
caught and carefully replaced on her
nest, and again shut in
are removed and all is
morning As |
the
I never have just the
each day, and
work of hatching
have in this way |
once, and to me it
method ever
tendant can
the hen is
soiled
with
nest
opened
does
come and
ore and when
long enough she
nest and into
If she not
gO
ble has
Way,
Droppings
done until next
alwavs two
set or
same time, however
to attend to
time in the
to ten
for at
satisfad
one
thus save
From
cared
two
eT
§ the at
while
tory
examine ach nest
off, and egKs
can quickly
water, and the
removed
seventh
they
warm broken
ones, if any,
On the of incubation
the eggs are tested, and infertile ones
taken out to cook for young chicks. |
usually
and gi
keeping
Is
day
feed sitters nothing but
oniy
them
corn,
water to drink
for
ads
Weakness
ve never
thi
Likin
for
When
rag dipped
and rub through
feathers, fally along
inside of wing quilis where [ find
lice have egEs, t 3
put her out with the fowis if
not needed for young chicks
Fisher, American Agricultu
broo as
induce leg
hatching, |
some Se may
in
th
Ree sa
coal oil lightly
hen's espe the
the
their het
deposited
other
in
RAISING FOR PROFIT
I have been fairly su
ing turkeys for profit
method i my
ing from four six
easful in
and this
own hens,
and always
specimens. |
mate them akin, In
bronze gobbler I can get, keeping
him until two years old When it is
time them to begin laying,
is usually about April 1, 1}
them carefully, as are
hiding their
are never lousy if permitted to do sc
« gather the eggs every
one with date,
Tas
is my
ralse
to fer
est
for
they very
day,
place and turning twice a week I de
fearned
the
have
Junz is
weather
setting. |
perience that
the
by ex
month
being dry
warm, which is essential for them
I do not allow them
time they are broods They break ug
+asily and begin laying within
ten days When the turkey wants
set the second time, | fix the nest care
fully, giving her eighteen oggs,
ering some brush over to protect from
crows, At the same time | set a hen
on nine eggs, giving all the poults tc
the mother turkey They hatch
twenty-eight days, and must not
for
and
to set the
first
will
COV
in
be
i
roots of plants appropriate carbonic
alkaline matter,
are formed.
acids, and there {8 a constant tendency
to effect chemical changes by reason
of the use of green foods, manures.
fertilizers, plaster or Mme. The soil
various compounds
he can draw, but he must first make
his deposits. Cultivation, tile drain
age, the use of certain crops and a
knowledge of the characteristics and
requirements of the soll will give the
intelligent - farmer a great advantage
over him who does not carefully con-
sider the reserve of plant foods in the
8oll.—~Philadelphia Record.
DETRIMENTAL FEEDING.
Fowls annually stimulated to death
as well as stimulated into spasmodic
egg producing for a time, number
thousands all told, and I almost dare
to put the figures into the million
mark. I have been forcibly reminded
of these facts this winter, because of
the apparent furor created over the
deluding sort of writeup given by a
schemer who claimed a most wonder.
ful output of eggs from every flock
of hens that might be fed with red
albumen and red pepper mixed in the
feed. Blood meal, fed with judgment,
is an excellent thing to mix with
ground grains, scalded and cooled. In
winter it helps to supply the usually
missing allowance of animal food that
fowls hunt for themselves in season.
able times of the year. But why pay
60 cents a poudd for it when it can
be purchased in fifty pound sacks at
«about three or four ceats a pound? It
When the poults are twenty-four
hours old remove them carefully from
the nest so as not to injure them
(for they are very tender) or frighten
the mother, and place them in a tri
angular pen made from three board:
12 inches in width and 14 feet ir
in the orchard, where
they will get the morning sun and the
shade during the hottest part of the
I feed the mother corn or buck
wheat night and morning, and the
little turkeys ‘stale bread soaked unti
soft in sweet milk, with a dash ot
black pepper every every other day. |
squeeze the bread dry, only putting
down a little at a time on a clear
board, and taking care not to feed toe
While in the pen I feed them four
times a day-—at 5 o'clock in the mora
ing, at 10, at 2 and at 7 in the sven
ing, supplying them with crushed
eggshells, pure sweet milk an! wate:
at all times. I keep them in the per
until they are strong enough to jumg
out, which will be In from ten day:
to two weeks. After this feed mostly
cornbread in the same way as the
white, but only twice a day-—early ir
the morning and in the evening-—and
let them roam at will; but If they are
not at their feeding place by § o'clock
I hunt them up, as [ always feed then
in the same place, They soon learn
to come themselves. As they grow
older I give crushed oyster shells ir
place of eggshells. When ten week:
old they will need feed only evenings
«8B. L. Davis, in New York Tribun:
Farmer.
A Piece of Fiction,
Once thére was a man who retained
his friends when he was in trouble
in a story book.-—~New York Press.
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CIVILIZATION’S DEBT TO THE TROLLEY CAR.
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BY CHARLES TRIPLER CHILD,
Editor of the Electrical Review.
A EVER again is it likely that we shall see a repetition of the former condl
mT tions of manufacturing human the workers
swarmed about their work in utterly insanitary and evil closeness to one
Their crowded areas have been thinned out, the tenement has given
And
unex-
towns, beehives, where
another,
way to the cottage, and the town has spread into the pleasant country.
all this has been accomplished In fourteen years by a single and most
pected agency, the trolley car.
This statement
portation
of people.
preceded
may possibly be disputed, but it is self-evident that trans
facilities have
Nothing approaching adequacy as a means of
the trolley, and its effect upon
Boundaries were overflowed. and communities hitherto bound by
tance expanded of The
commuter of pilgrims of and
tendencies of aggregations
urban
released the centrifugal
practicaily immediate.
iimits of dis
cities was
thelr suburb Oct
the
+ centripetal tenden
and took vivifying breath
was joined by farms were
staked off and
an army trolley
sold for villa sites on every hand 1 ¥ was
checked gently and without shock at the center of and an entirely
new set of conditions brought into the problem of ¢ influx to popuion
places
Indirectly, by the upbuilding of suburbs, the trolley line encouraged the
more conservative steam railway to compete for the transportation of pas
{ 5 ft is aburban bit
sengers dwelling in the outskirt Ounce having formed the itburban nat,
many people, by reason of speed of the raliroad, wen
beyond the homes
the
natural question is
It will
convenient distance of the tr ey car to make
suburban area rapidiv and is today still
when and where will the extensi
mn
1
only bution of population
Tiger
: 3
stop with the d
that
collections of resi
its the modern
1 a period of
density will nowhere approach that of
ence place
while remaining as points of condensation of industry in
engineering advances,
But the
lation is deserting the
At
be those too
though propoait
working class, by whic
town center |
wider and further the last the |
center must inactive too poor
of the submerged
To prove the no one can
see all the elements wth of
nt
conditions) nt
the electri
competed with the
of present and pres«
status of
rafliwa
Improvements rapidil nade soon enabled
animals for
the
and
traction purposes Other improve
ment
length of e ric lines, at the same time
in its
short hi
vance from the 1 to a formidal
its possibilit s of reasonable ;
a
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Higher Education is for the Man : : : : 0
and Not for Mere
-
Livelihood.
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BY E. BENJAMIN ANDREWS,
Chancellor, University of Nebraska.
HE commercial demand for educated
i whole demand for them which exists
this, one must
* .
¥ .
SPr09we
people i@ far from exhausting the
in our country today. To appreciate
remember our peculiar Amerie idea
oe
The
an of higher education,
so rich as contrasted with that which prevails abroad ry that the supply
of highly
From
educated men may exceed the demand is an echo from Germany.
the German
which
people ‘ought
point of view, such a fear
different. The
to possess the fundamentals of edn
uniderstood, but
that,
can be not from
our own is wholly German theory is while all
ation-—reading. writing, the
elements of arithmetic, ig in
geography, history and religi
pla e only for those who contemplate a
on~-higher education
areer” of some sort As one German
youth resorts to a technical school wishing to be an engineer. or to
school to learn {factory management
teacher,
In every case, according to
another attends a university to
in the
the advan:
become a
a professor, or a clergyman,
or fo win a position civil service
ed education
it is for the function,
the thought of the Germans,
is justified by the profession for =
not for the man. This is
Germany Ag women
hose sake it is
sought
why women's education makes low progress in
land do not expect professorships or orders in the
sh to enter universities,
country. With us
for man, for
Kind, it cannot possibly
in this way higher education in
rger extent
in that
church, few people there see why women should wi
Fortunately, a different
education, like that of the
the function; so that, if
reach too many individuals. It
the United States has conserved
than in any land
This is not at all disproy
nation prevails in this
higher
cammon achool primarily the not
the educa right
haracier to a |
other
ed by the zr
owth of technical schools and courses,
partly, perhaps, at the expense of the since large and in-
creasing numbers of students in technical institutions or departments are there
simply to secure general education
literary or classical,
Cases of thiz Kind are far more numerous
han most people imagine
HANA AAAARR AR AAAdAAAAAY ASA Asada Ans AAs AAT aan
WHY TOWNSMEN SEEK THE COUNTRY.
br REBECCA HARDING DAVIS.
HAT is the reason for the recent exodus of well-to-do American from our
wu towns into the country? It increases with every year What is the
cause of it?
As I look into the matter, some curious facts come to view which I think
{ will set down here.’ The subject is not one that requires close reasoning. Per-
haps a little gossip may throw more light upon it than any argument would de.
I have here a queer book, printed early in the last century in the old town
of Cumberland, Maryland. It is the autobiography of a hunter, Browning by
name, who, before the Revolution, shot deer, bears, panthers, and sometimes
indians, in the wilderness of the mountain ranges in Virginia and the Carolinas.
in his oid age, somebody who could read and write took down his recollections
of his early days, and made a book of them. They give us some startling and
suggestive glimpses of the condition of human nature when it is brought, during
the solitude of many years, close to the brute nature, and to the old mother
herself.
Here is one story, for example. Browning, in his old age. lived with a
married daughter in a town in civilized fashion. But his two sons, who were
trappers, came down one winter from the mountains and begged him to go back
with them for a last hunt.
The old man, then over eighty, went, and at first was rheumatic, weak, and
{rritable. But, after they had been in camp for a week, he went out alone, ono
day, and got scent of a stag. He followed, lost it, and then “winded” another.
For two days and nights he ran through the mountain passes like &8 madman;
the snow was deep, and the jungles of thorns tore his clothes off his body.
During this time he had not a mouthful of food except the nuts which he took
from the squirrels’ storehouses. At the end of the third day, his sons, who
were searching for him, frantic with fear, found him maked and exhausted on
one of the peaks of the Cheat Range. “But,” he says, “lI was none the worse.
I had the ‘woods fever’ on me, and, therefore, I felt neither cold nor hungry,
While the ‘woods fever’ Is on you, you are never cold or hungry.”
Some Swift Fish,
Recent experiments show that the
dolphin, when pursued, can go through
the water at the rate of about thirty.
two miles an hour. This is great
speed, but the salmon can do better,
since it has frequently been known tv
swim at the rate of forty miles au
hour.
Among the smaller fish it is doubt.
ful if there is one which is more swift
than the Spanish mackerel. As a rule
however, all those fish which prey on
others are remarkably swift, which is
only natural, as, if they lacked speed,
they would be unable to bunt success.
fully for prey and would often be
obliged to go hungry.
"—
Heartless Swindling of Housewives.
i A swindle recently worked en some
women of the Bouth Side is good
| snoueh to deceive any one The
| housewife would be called to the front
| door and there she would find a wo
man from the country, especially as
| the basket she carried was filled with
oats, from which white eggs were
peeping *
Somehow CEES ap
fore: #0 bona fide and trustworthy as
| Mien they are packed in oats. One
feels morally cermin that the eggs
| have come warm from the farm. The
| country woman's story entirely
worthy of belief
“1 have been delivering eggs to Mr
Crawford's house up the street.” sald
‘d've him six
lozen a morning |
found out had gone away and
or other never
was
{ she been bringing
week, but this
his folks
I thought mebbe some of the neigh
th od
bors might want the
NOW whether
them or not,
sisting the ten
IZ that i
from
at
man
nay be
affect
vid thing
ften the surplus in red hair
carbon in black appears in the
vidual's acts and thoughts
Russian Laoyaity to the Czar
the
Crear
an American, an
8 Frenchman, or a native
heroic deeds Is devotion to his native
| land, to his Fatherland, to that
¥y which is as “country
which Russian
to 8 man next to
commands his faith
stands to him his country
a contributor Magazine
The first « Roman,
The
the
trioat lar ¢
patriotism oi
ie > Th ab
iy 0 the i nat
Englishman
enti
known
the
who,
i That
vot
moves ia de
on God
religious
to Sert 8
onceptio #%
of the Western
Oriental
3 wasn
LATER
and subtle
inteiioct
pertains to
in decadence
i# this feeling the personal
Cavalier and the Jacobite to
Stuarts, or of the French
the house of Bourbon. The loyaity of
its
the
Nicholas or to the Romanoffs, a famil
of mixed chiefly German an
hundred years ago o
The intense Rus
sian loyalty is to the crowned and con-
secrated Tear, whoever he may be
the head of the State and the head of
the church, next to God in their pray
ers
¥
blood
less than thres
rank of boyars
Uses of Apricot Pits.
The meat of apricot pits is largely
‘ used in France, as elsewhere, as a
| substitute for almonds, being cheaper
| and slightly more acrid. Confection.
| ers use it in powdered form, waich is
| quite indistinguishable from saimond
| powder. Chemists employ it both in
| powder and extracts. Bakers make
“almond paste” of the powdered pits.
It is used also in the manipulation of
certain wines. The consumption of
apricot pits in all these forms must
of necessity be very large. The do
mestic supply 13 very great and the
neighboring countries—Spain, Italy,
Algeria, and, in short, almost the
whole Mediterranean littoral-—are the
home of the apricot. At present this
supply seems to be sufficient for home
consumption and also for a consider
able export trade, including, among
other countries, some shipments to
the United States.
An Excellent Regulation.
He is a man of ready wit. Business
called him to the navy yard and at the
yard it was necessary for him to take
the little ferryboat to the Cob dock
The line between the sheep and the
goats is very strictly drawn on that
boat. The man didn’t know it, so he
carelessly walked up in front and took
a position swept by the ocean breezes
of the brig. t spring morning. He had
been there about a minute when a
‘gergeant of marines accosted him
with: “Beg pardon, sir, but this part
of the boat ie reserved for officers.’
The man looked the sergeant square
in the face and then sald: “A mos!
excellent regulation, sergeant, most
excellent.” “Excuse me sir,” gasped
the sergeant, and he withdrew with
little dignity.~New York Sun.
PENNSYLVANIA
BRIEFLY TOLD.
Special Dispatches Boiled Down for
Quick Reading.
PATENTS AND PENSIONS GRANTED.
National Grand Orders Pastor Held for As-
sault Battle With aa Eagle Womens as
Mige Firemen — Was Sene When He Married
Killed by a Ball Player Accused of
Throwieg Acid Hospital Trusices Named
Patents
Pittsburg
Frank An
hos
granted H. Acklin,
apparatus;
range,
et le
paper
and A
ts
hine
arinan
David Bower
hole digger: W W
drill
Peter
ge 8)
Peter Hefiner
en
>
passing 2a
concealed, pepper in
snd then a moment later threw
face,
1 extent that
Ditzler, st
of carbolic
face 1 ving her
11 msane
sane
Mary
prove
married
nse
since 1900 a Was
Married
An effort was m
Was insane
enat , ha een appoir assistant
irgeons, the former in U {hird and
i latter Regiment
Company Re ent,
brdered to The Tenth
Regiment is authorized to place silver
rings color staves wich
shall be engraved the names of the en-
gagements in which it participated dur
ing the Spanish-American War and
Phalippine insurrection
B. F. Hess, of Laporte, was inspecting
the Williamsport & North Branch Rail.
road near Ringdale, when an eagle at-
tacked him. The battle continued fof
half an hour and Mr. Hess was getuing
the worst of it, when he succeeded in
getting hold of a club, with which he
broke the eagle's neck. A few days age
near the same place Ernest Kiess, aged
13 years, was attacked by an eagle and
received severe injuries
Governor Stone made the following
reappointments: Trusices of the Dan-
ville State Insane Hospital, Levi P. Shu-
maker, Wilkes-Barre; A. J. Connell,
Scranton, and Henry M. Schoch, Dan
ville Trustees of the Wernersville
State Insane Hospital, Walter T. Brad:
ley, Philadelphia; Thomas C. Zimmer-
man, Reading, and Jacob M. Shenk,
Lebanon.
Bert Anderson was arrested at Scran-
ton on smspicion of being the murderer
of Mary Quinn, who was found outraged
and dying in a Tonely field in Keyser
Valley two weeks ago.
A tramp who applied at the home of
John Roscoe, at Stowe, for something to
sat became abusive and when Mr. Ros.
toe ordered him from the premises the
tramp drew a pistol and shot Roscoe
through the leg. The tramp escaped by
swimming the Schuyliall River.
For stabbing Frank McNichol, Ed-
ward Cooney, of Ardmore was commit-
wed to the Norristown jail by Justice
Warner i default of $1,000 bail. The
wea used was a carving knife, with
4 blade nearly a foot long, about four
nches of which penetra McNichol's
the Sixteenth
C.. Fourteenth
4
i in
be disbanded
on
upon
ack,
Henry Taylor and Charles Davis, ne-
Ke murderers, condemned to be :
ins
this month, were tized into the
{st Church at he ittshury ail,
timmersed in the prisoners ing ,
Henry. Forday, of iphia, was
found unconscious near Reading with a
bullet in his head .