INDIGESTION OF HORSES, An old horseman says that work. ing horses when long idle in tha winter are sometimes fed too much and this brings on indigestion, that indigesticn is usually produced by ir- regular and improper feeding, such 2 horse getting access to the grain bin, a too sudden change from one kind | of food to another, or a too sudden increase in tha amount of grain fed The last named cause has probably produced more cases indigestion, especially in farm horses in the win. | ter, than any other, and we do not need to look far for the reasons. Most farm horses are comparatively idle in the winter, but often hap- pens that some business on the farm necessitates a long drive, or soma other hard day's work, and the own- er will give probably twice as much | oats for breakfast as the horse has | been in the habit of getting in order | to brace him up for a hard day'ss work. The horse, being soft for want of regular <xercise, will naturally be- come weary on his journey, and the stomach will become weary, 100, in | sympathy with the muscular system when it too often refuses to perform | {ts functions. The process of diges- | tion ceases when fermentation of th? | undigested mass In the stomach takes place, Gases are formed which cause the animal to bloat. He will show symptoms of pain, and a case of in- | digestion is the Now, if the | horse had received only his ordinary | grain raticns the chances are that before he had weary on his journey the stomach would have com- its work and empty, of is result. become would have been | in hich al f indigestion would ! ana Far | pleted completely case very acute attack o have mer, s v «ax is 1a oeen IMPOsSsioit CROW MORE GRASSES i attempting farm without | the farmer is lifting He is hind dull saw. say study In to grasses a lever. on the with a 1 would grasses and the fertility of able to grow large crops of the most | nutritious grasses. You may conver: | the grass into milk and its products i withont the load | cutting | a1} pul wheels: grow |; up | all ail bull first of * how to vour soil so as to be | into flesh, into manure for grains, or | you may sell it by the ton, according | to the facts of your particular local | ity. It ig foolish to talk about farming | without grass to land that can be | made to produce two tons of the best grass to the acre. The greatest thrift that 1 have seen amonz the farmers in various parts of ten leading States | has been on farms of about one hund- | red acres where grass was the basis of thelr farming and where this grass was fed out to the animals that were kept on the farms Without grass it Is impossible to | keep up a rational! rotation of crops | and build up the fertility nf tha fields | for future crops A farmer cannof | affere to grow half a ton of grass to | the acre any more than he can afford | to rrow ten bushels of corn and | wheat. Such crops will keep him poor forever By practicing a good rotation of! feeding out his grass he will be able to grow two tons of hay and sixty Jbuthels of corn on most of the so ealled poor farms and the sooner he studies out how to rotate grass and graln crops the better for himself, his farm and his pocketbook. —Cor- respondence in Successful Farming. NOTES FOR THE FARM. Our plan is to keep all the early pullets that are good lookers, and that have been good growers, no ugly runty omnes are kept, and select the ted-combed, bright eyed and clean shanked hens that are not over fat, Much care should be taken in this selecting business, for the ones kept spell success or fallure through an- other season, All the: discarded pullets, all the cockerels, unless a few nice omes for sale for breeding” purposes, and all He seedy looking, over-fat hens are either’ ‘digpoged of .at onge or elsa confined by themselves until disposed of. The price Ts tmually within a half or a cent of what it is In February, go taking everything into considera. tion the profit is greater now than it would be, were the selling post poned until - Felruary. Give thelr ‘room, and the time required for thelr ‘fare to giving more room and better care to the ones reserved for another PEAT... .. Among the later pullets there are always some that are worth keeping over, the quick maturing ones, and the ones that show hen shape the soonest, are really worthy keeping over. ‘While they will lay when the first layers get broody and thus keép the egg supply up to the profit notch. Give the selected oned free range of the fields and orchards; let them roost out doors as late as possible, and let the house have a good clean. ing up. Remove all accumulations to the field or garden, burn all nest Ing waterials, and smoke the boxes | and fill them with new clean straw; white wash the walls; use coal oll on the roosts, and roost support; fill in the floor, if a dirt floor, with coal ashes or clean sollor gravel, and when the davs get a little cooler, batten all cracks, thus preventing colds and roup.—From Chicken Talk COUNTRY MANUAL TRAINING. Even manual training needs new direction as it touches country life, It may not be necessary to eliminate formal exercises of model work but some of the practical problems of the home and farm may be added. How to make a garden, to lay make fences and labels, are problems. How to off straight, to drive out manual board a sharpen a saw, to paint a fence, bewildering from their very number, Manual training can be so taught In in the agriculture Common wealth. —L of any COW AND CALF. a different respects to that Dr. Roberts, Veterinarian, THE Cows require fecding in some beef animals, and Wisconsin State of is 40 pounds of silage, 7 hay, 8 pounds grain, The cows that are socn should be fed on succulent as sithge or roots, bran, ha er of fo {ead, little oats Keep the do not feed or after heavy on calving After calving mash warm the drinking water for a Allow the calf to suck two days and then feed milk from a pall fk about three quarts twice a that reduce with skim warm water, at the fourth week the calf will all skim milk or very bran days 0 about a ey A after or 2 » - day; go that of the be getiing reliable stock tonic to ald di oats with little mixed with it. After ground gradually to eating whole oats, best feed for him ground meal a the feed, et him used this is the to six months old be bred until months old about 15 or FEED FOR YOUNG ANIMALS, The younger an animal the mors When very young pigs are in proportion to size and consequent ly require more phosphates in thelr condition. Milk contains all the nec essary substances for pigs, but after £1 Li about eight the milk as es as much water In there are solids. To supply this deficiency corn meal Is added, but corn meal is deficient In mineral matter. Bran, ground oats, shipstuff and finely ground clover hay (scalded) in addition to the milk anl corn meal, will prove advantageo” —Epitomist, Olling harness is a task that far mers generally put off too long. It is just the work for stormy weather. One quart of neatsfoot oll will be sufficient for double harness. Wash the harness well with soap and water and hang in a warm room over night to dry. Next day it will be in good condition to receive the oil. Add o little lamp-black to the oll to. color it; apply with rag or brush, rubbing it well into the Jeather and hang In a warm room over night. Next day rub well with a dry cloth and it will be ready for use, Harness thus treat ed Is. much. easier-to handle and far less liable to cause galls to the horges and will wear much longer. —Epito mist, BLACK LOCUST POSTS. A reader asks if black locust can be grown for posts, without very much trouble. They can be grown all right enough, but they will require some care. They must be well culth vated for several years, and that pest the locust borer, must be kept 'In check. Indiana Farmer, ¥ J Emperor Joseph of Austria twles a week holds an audience, when ha fs accessible to the richest and poor est of his subjects, Every soldier in the Russian army is to be proyided with a com pass with a luminous needle, and 800, 000 compasses, costing £80,000, have Leona La Mar ---and Why From The San Franclcco Argonaut 25e5e5esese Se s2seseseseseSesesese The dally papers of last Saturday | morning contained a pitiful story of the misfortunes of a young woman, Lecna La Mar, who, after searching f.ve days In San Francisco for em- ployment, hungering by day and sleeping in the ruins bys night, threw herself before a Fol- | gom street car in a desperate effort | end her troubles. Thero is, we believe, no question as to the general tru:hfulness of this me olramatic and harrowing story But why, let us ask, should anybody, man or wo man, have any difficulty in finding work with the means of living by it in San Francisco? Leona IL.a Mar is young and physically competent. Why should she not have found the means of living in some one of the ten thousand places which ery aloud for willing hands? Why should a young woman starve, and seek to dle in a city among whose chief social problems {3 the difficuty of finding hands to do essential and pressing werk? The Argonaut knows the rea. son perfectly well. It Is because our fool system of education is and has been this ten past breeding into ovr young that which Is fatal to practical ecapabilily. If Leona L.a Mar had been taught for labor, and {f she had gained! simple training In some industrial way of lie, there would have been not the 8 ightest reason for hunger, homeless. ness or despair There no encration {to years pe ople respect is obligation upon rious any and on- of #80 morally = as that ing generation for f rye ne In Qf prepar.ng fi the tu iness It is time we soberly asked how are meetl ohligation With all of our ational = prepare our Ba.VEeSs preme ration we fairly for the the race zation Ga "ner We 4 ht g L318 edu work which must gustain 11 be malntaing 10 be overelaborate is to ¢ is hoped for our education the end of equipping the ris ing generation the which they must thinks not or no for duties Argon aes is of no every. Much and de real face? Th ur Kyste oe aut little ace the workaday equipment for day and commonpiac less does it that concentration essential iy voltion to humdrum things Even where it pretends to be effici:nt, the work of educational sm is the degree of degener- Our schools rarely turn out a or a girl competent to read in bed ount of nee we xl 4 world, the meeting Bre provides of duties give discipl no : O Leg the svat acy boy with that discipline of character es sential to any Kind of steady-going To be specific, the editor Argonaut has been for weoks looking for a personal assistant com. petent atl the points of reading intel ligently, writing directly ani plain. ly. and of presentable office manners He has dea't with applicant after ap plicant, only to be disappointed aud disturbed in his work. In the end he has been compelled to abandon the search for youthful. competence and to seek aid from the ranks of veteran efficiency under old-fashioned and thorough-going standards. We know of no more desperately bheipless creature in the world than the boy or girl graduated with what they call “honors” from cur public school system, with no eapacity to to figure accurately, to do simply aad efficiently what be or she is told to do, with no respect for superior years or authority, no seriousness of pur pose, and no manners. And this is precisely the type of young petson which our schools are spewing out to be assimilated somehow by the business and working worlds No wonder that poor creatures like Leona La Mar, untaught at every practical point, ambitious beyond sense or rea son, impossible to instruct beause of their self-sufficiency, useless and bur densome in any relation, find no plate in a world eagerly looking for ef flolency, and so fall victims to that desperation which comes to those who can find nothing to do because they know how to do nothing. The fault is at home as well as in the schools. In other days every boy was taught to do some kind of use ful work, If it were nothing more than choring around. and every g'ri some how learned simple domestic duties Today what proportion of boys in. this or any other city are taught to do anything, and what proportion of girls learn jn their father's house how to cook a beefateak or jron a shirt? We are told that the average work. fngman is coming to look askance upon matrimony beemuse the average American girl has no practical ac | complishments. Not one young wo- man in ten, so we are told, knows on her wedding day anything about the mysteries of household economy, with the ways of doing things which must be dome if she is to have a wholes | rome, healthy and happy life. Is It necessary to suggest how aserious this condition is as it relates to the es. CREEP CURE FOR CHILDREN. German Doctor Finds That Standing Overtaxeg the Spinal Column. Prof. Klapp, of the University of Bonn, believes that creeping is the true and natural remedy for half the troubles of infancy. Every ehild should be allowed to creep plentiful ly before it is taught to he says: it is nature's law, and when thig is neglected he return to to injuries to spine, joints and muscular sys that result from a premature habit of standing erect. His attention was first the subject by dogs which had suf fered nervous breakdown and showed symptoms of paralysis as a result of training in tricks for the stage or ¢ircus ring. He undertook to treat some of these and naturally began with a rest cure, including stoppage of tle requirement to stand upright on their hind legs. To his surprise he dogs recovered strength and tone without further treatment, and he concluded that the strain on the spinal column from the unnatural erect position was the sole cause of the symptoms. From this it was an easy step to the deduction that walk, prescribes undo a creeping the called to found that the nervous showed nervous symptoms and gen eral breakdown were victims of strain placed om the vertebral system 100 soon, too suddenly and before they were fit to bear it. He experimented with a creeping treatment and It is sald has achieved such results that several children's hospitals are adopting the system that he has introduced in Berlin. The children, even up to 6 years of age, encouraged and even forced to about the floor of their ward Creeping games are provided and the nurses see to it that there is as little standing or walking as possible, The attitude of creeping prevents gpinal curvature in lateral direc and the weight of the body forces he vertebrae to adjust themselves in the natural forward curve at the with shoulders thrown are creep i tion 00 walst line the SACK The neck is strengthened by porting the the shoulder sup and abdominal and hip her The stand ped gradually weight of the head, back ireng is redey iE Are # iner that the body it gradually A DROP OF WATER. It Has a History That Is Full of the Wonders of Romance. Water th now in the ocean in the river has been many times sky The history of a single rop taken out of a glass of water is a No traveler Ever plished such distances particle may have palm trees of coral is and caught the sun ray + arch that spans a cloud clear of Cum- kt Is ¥ the reany romantic one acc n life That ed the have the y from valleys or California may have been carried by the stream from the shore of Flor of Cuba be turned into a It gulf fda or to streets of Spitgbergen may have hovered the london and formed a part of murky fog and have glistened on the young grass blade of April in Irish fields. It has been lifted up on heaven and salled In great wool pack clouds across sky, forming part of the Zioud moun- tain echoing with thunder It has hung in a fleecy vell many above the earth at seasons of still weather over it has to refres’: the earth and has sparkied and bubbled In mozsy fountains in every country in Europe. And if has returned to its native skies, having accomplished i's pur pose, to be stored once again with electricity to give it new life pro ducing qualities and equip it as heav- en's messenger to earth once more. THE DEAD AWAKENED. Immediately. Something happened at the Baith ored employees to wish they had been elsewhere. “Anyhow,” at the new station, because then |] would be uneasy the balance of my life. I'll only have a few days more hete, and If I think ghosts are after me 1 ean get out of the way.” place if Montgomery county was re celved at the station. It was the kind of a box that is used by under kets, but it happened to be empty when it was received. “Let's have some fun with the col ored poriers,” suggested one of the railroad employees, calling another employee and having him stretch hime gelf upon the bottom of the box. The lid was placed upon the box and the colored men were called upon to remove it to a traih that was In waiting. The colored men were pro coeding slowly slong the platform It took the quarters inside the bullding.-—War' ington Star. Arrangements are, being discussed RA OI THE PULPIT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY | THE REV. G. G. MILLS, Subject: Spirit of the Lord's Day. 3rooklyn, N. X.~The Rev. Grover | G. Mills, past f Pilgrim Chapel, preached Sunday morning on “The | Spirit of the Lord's Day,” taking as his texts Romans 12:56: “One man esteemeth one day above another; an- other esteemeth every day alike, Let it every man be fully persuaded in his {own mind,” and Mark 2:27: “The | Babbath was made for man and not | man for the Sabbath.” Among other | things Mr. Mills said: ' The glory of the Christian religion fs its universality. It fits all sorts and conditions of men, and when un- | derstood as Jesus meant it to be un- { derstood, they receive it gladly, for His appeal was always past tradition to truth. The court of final appeal is | the spirit in man backed up by the experience of the race. Christianity is not the acceptance of a set of opin- | fons, nor the observance of ritual, sa- | ered places and days, nor the reiter- | ating of numerous moral maxims, but { it Is getting the loftiest point of view with regard to things in general and one's relations to one's fellow men in particular. All Jesus’ teaching looked progress is from wunity, up | a higher plane. In the beginning the “Thou shalt not eat the fruit of the tree” | that is, “Evil Is deadly, do not med- dle with it.” Here we have the re- Later men’s notions | | of evil became hazy and we had the ' books of the law and the ten com- ! religion of restraint. It meant a se- ries of “thou shalt nots.” Every. thing was to be done by rule. The ‘evil was to be separate from the | good, one nation separate from an- other to preserve its holiness, one meat set apart from the others, one day sanctified. Then came Jesus with a desire to put a spirit into religion which should give it perennial fresh- ness. Man was no longer to consult | an authority to find whether hel should or should not do a certain | | thing. He was to accept the guidance of the inner light. He was not to “overcome evil with good.” was to make the radiance of the one | day suffuse all the days; he was not universe go. but as breathing, closer than hands or feet’ he was not so much to be concerned with getting men to heaven as get- ting heaven into the world. This is what may be called the religion of the spirit. of this, and as revived in great part by the gpiritual nicely religion regulated by Everything rule, But was the is in danger of moral atrophy. The body needs exercise or it will become diseased; the intellect must be used or it will become flabby; the con- ish into nothingness The | ulty of conscience as free play as con- ditions will permit. On the other hand, the strong peo- ple, those who tend to question au- thority and who demand a reason for more and Thus it is dangerous to multiply restrictions be- yond what is essential; because men, feeling themselves cramped, break | more blindly reactionary. of gulltiness, their consciences are hardened and they stand ready to break every law, as opportunity of- fers. The old Sabbath, therefore, was legalistic, it took no account of a We ase the result of it in the Pharisees, who were strict observers of the Sabbath, but did not hesitate to practice hypocrisy, to grind the poor in the dust with un- just taxation, and in general to leave fellow feeling entirely out of their re- 2. But the question is immediate- ly put, If the old Babbath be abol- ished, has not Sunday taken its place? Not at all. Observance of Sunday was commenced after the death of Jesus. It was not to take the place the two ran side by side, Christians keeping the Sabbath, with all its re- strictions, on our Saturday, and cele- brating the next day (our Sunday) with great rejoicing in honor of the Lord's resurrection. At the outset, that this was as it ought to be that we read in the “Epistle to Turibius,” “The Manicheans have been convicted in the examination which we have made of passing the Sunday, which is con- secrated to thé resurrection of our Lord, in mortification and fasting.” Truly, here is a case of the tables turned. All reasonable Christians will hold that this is what Bunday ought to mean--a day of cheerfulness and rec- reation. There should be nothing “blue” about it. It should be, in truth, “the golden clasp that binds the volume of the week.” But when we seek cheerfulness and recreation we should be careful that we get no gpurious substitutes therefor. Ree reat means just what it says. Re- create, that fe, to fit for the duties of the week. To put new life into your Some men think they can do this best by assembling at the house of worship, some by walking abroad in God's out of doors, some by at. tending some innocent place of amusement, some by just staying at home and resting, some by a com- bination of these. i We must not lose sight of the fact that “the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.” It is to help man, it is something to satisfy a teases ord a . ; of man and ly Americans is cA A LOA WBE ANI the day a real day of rest. IL is the “soul's library day.” On other days it is all too true The world Is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending we lay waste our powers. Suppose you lived in a splendid geven-room house and some friends should come to call on you for a You would give them the {ree- all would im- not the game, at least that the great parlor stands off by itself with a dig- nity all its owp. You go in there dreesed in your best clothes and feel. ing that there is not quite the same freedom there as there would be in the dining room, but von rather like it. You would not think of having your house without a parlor. It is that which exalts the whole. Bo it is with our Sunday, it is the “golden clasp.” We may be a little stiffer than on other days, but it should not be the stiffness of the prisoner hemmed in by restraint. It should resemble the dignity of the king, not doing all that we have a right to do. The question of Christian liberty now arises, and it is really about this point that the whole storm has raged of late. There have been exiremists on one side and on the other. Bome have maintained this to be a Chris- tian country and that all who come to our shores must fall in line with the views of our Puritan ancestors. All places of amusement are harmful on Sunday and should be closed. On the other side are those who maintain just vigor- ously that New York is a cosmopol- ftan city and therefore should be a wide-open town Each party sees only one side truth. If the t herelore as of the have a full-orbed view, a reasonable solution. It is true, as Burke says, “all government, indeed every human benefit, every virtue and every pru- dent act, is founded on compromise and barter.” Those who stand for a strict observance of the Sabbath forget that to some this would mean much misery, because all men are not built alltke. To compel an {lliter- ate man to read his Bible would be robbing him of his day of rest, while to others it would mean real repose. Those who stand for no observance gervance as we have had hitherto. It is because many of our citizens week after week have maintained their re- lations with religious institutions that the backbone of the country has been kept When a8 man or nation loses grip the higher things, when the windows of the soul are closad and covered are pre- on and of with cobwebs, to for we look decay. Wheat, then, are we to the beneficant w Ho that are we to do? arrange matters so yf Sunday ob- and yet r “blue,” save % Certainly not books the law that ording to the de- practically results « retail A b ghall be day Ir a wrong keeping on the yow there recently do Act rendered, prohibited, including even stereop- ticon lectures at churches. Up till last week the law was evaded, It quiet down a little. This will promote disrespect for all law, and this would be more demoralizing than a liberal law Permit this mes as with those who on the one side think that driving people away from Sun- day vaudeville will drive them to the saloons. I know many people in this neighborhood who attended these per- formances and none has as yet taken to the bottle. These people are not after all very different from our- selves. They are ordinary American citizens. Nor have I any great belief in the wisdom of those who think people can be driven to church by driving them out of the Sunday thea- tre, and if they only come to church because there. is no other place open, I doubt whether it would be worth their while to come. The spirit in which one attends is evervihing The solution, then, seems to be to have a law in which are specified those forms of amusement that the great majority of the citizens are agreed are harmless and which shall not disturb the public peace or ser- fously interrupt the repose and re- ligious liberty of the community. Bul this is only the first step. The law must have public sentiment behind il or become a dead letter at the outa. This public sentiment should be kept aroused by the moral teachers ol the community as well as by the news- papers and by all good men. We shouid then have a day which would mean for all a day of rest, for rest does not mean inaclivity, bot har- mony. It means doing that which is most congenial. The man who loves his fellow men and longs for the day when there shall be one brotherhood on the earth and men shall have one aspiration-—to do the will of God— may repair to the assembly of wore ship and renew his allegiance to the old ideals; the brother who, worm out with the toil of the week, felt that he needed all his time to re- create himself by barmless amuse- ment, would not be hindered, though he might well be pitied. All would have more regard for the weightier matters of the law. Mirth and Medicine. I know of nothing equal to a cheerful and even mirthial conversa- tion for restoring the tome. of. miad and body, when both have been over- done. Some great and good men, on whom very heavy cares "and tolls have been laid, manifest a constitu- tional tendency to relax into mirth when their work is over. Narrow minds denounce the ine congruity; large hearts own God's goodness in the fact, and rejoice in the wise provision made for proloag- ing useful lives. Mirth, after ex- haustive toil, is one of nature's ia- stinctive efforts to heéal the part which has been racked or bruised. You cannot too sternly reprobate a frivolous life; but if the life be
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