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