.
PROTECT THE MILK.
milking in a stable where the cir
culation of air carries the dust out,
wiping the udder with a damp cloth
and scalding the utensils with live
steam from bolin gwater will not only
reduce the bacterial content of the
milk, but largely increase its Keep-
ing qualities as well tha: the
finished product.—Farniers Homi
Journal.
as of
CARE OF CATALPAS
The Forest Service gays that
practice of allowing atalpa
to grow two three vears
pruning not
since although a
ly secured it
heavy and easily
wind when the
better plan is
straight from
crooked trees,
jury has been caused
rabbits, the should be cut to
the ground regardless of their
trees
or before
to be recommended
long stem
apt to become
damaged Mh
wet
is
3
is
the
foliage is The
to
the
or
Keep
1 asea Of
in-
start nc
where sev
by mi
trees
ALC...
HIGH VALUBS IN SHEEP.
well
distant
fact
were
the
there
be recall
no
It may
that at
raised in New Eagland
lambs that were sold for
thousand dollars each, and
came the foundation
the finest flocks of
world. What haz become
dustry and this enterprise in
England—thi; rich reward for brains
ind effort? Had tho children of these
pecple kept pace with the
ment ane of the stock
upon the their
ancestors,
tO
da y
that be-
stock of
in
this
the
in-
34 sheep
’
Of
fevelon-
value
farm: parents and
uld find them
members cf t
of
w
£0 generally
{ grumblers
Amer Cultivat
we Dow
and
Lan
or
A BIG INFLUENCE
The bull is one-half }
The cows are
bull exerts his influence, hi
over every cow in the he
it be for good bad f
ing cr pedigree is of the
that is, for example,
sort, hig influence
young stock will not b
that develop into useful
influence ig not on ons
the herd With cows
If, in herd, there be a
her effects are felt
calvag
ters in
according to
good bull will
ties felt in all
Cultivator
By
the other
ar
is for bad
the
ae
Onij
while the calves of her
the herd will be g
a i Pid good aor poor, !
cow. Tha
his good
COWS. —Am
the individuai
make
the
quail |
ican
er
WHEN TO PRU
question
some
can
the
NE
fv
The
with
spring
COUrs
is to
s00m
and
age
arises en
how
gaf
of us,
we oly D
way to avol this i
be beforehand and prune just
the severe weather
leaf growth
pruning is always m
detrimental to the
shown by recent pruning tes
gear old Kieffer
M. Soper, Magnolia,
scrided by the Department Agri
culture Some trees pruned |
early and severely; others early and |
moderately: others in and
moderately and fall
age and severe
ing up best
severely pruned, aad
and moderataly next best The |
fate prunning was a disadvafitage
Whether it better to
late rather than net at all
til the following apring is an
question, depending somewhat on the!
age of the tree and the for
thinning out the branches —Farmers
Home Journal.
ag
before
tres
pear orcl
Delaware
were
full foliage
others - in
ly Th
the
fail
ow
and |
th early |
were carly
Fe
is prane |
un |
open |
need
SUGGESTS RULES FOR THE COW
The Broome County (New York)
Medical Society having promolgated
a lot of rules for dairymen to follow,
a “Farmer's Son” becomes sarcastic
and suggests the following additional
rules. These he declares are about
as sensible as some of the society's:
(a) Every cow must be provided |
with a phonograph. It has been
found that ga phonograph is a perfect
substitute when her bawling calf is
taken away, and prevents a mourning
cow from giving sour milk.
(b) Every cow must be provided
with & Merry Widow hat. All cows
are merry widows, and a becoming
hat which appeals to their vanity will
oweeten the milk.
(e) Apply the hat same as sun
bonnets are placed on horses.
(d) If the cow's Merry Widow hat
is trimmed with yellow, there will
be more yellow cream on the milk.
(6) Every cow must be provided
with pepsin gum. The Medical Cer.
tified Milk Society has observed that
all cows devote quite a large portion
of the time to chewing gum. The
B. C. M. Soclety therefore orders thal
only pepsin gum be provided: this
will cause the cow to furnish pred!
gested milk, suitable for infants, and
for physicians’ prescriptions at two
dollars a prescription —American
Cultivator,
CAUSES OF DELAYED CHURNING.
In home buttermaking one will oc
casionally encounter conditions which
make it necessary to churn an unns
ual length of time. Even the butter
entire churning is thrown away. We
{ have found that there is no need of
| throwing the . butter away in
such cases, Instead doing so,
try the following plan: If the
churmed cream looks like ice
cream add from three-fourths to one
patifal of cold water to it and set
aside for a few hours without stirring
it, letting the butter rise to the top
Then skim off all the thick cream
on top-and put it into a sack made
of clean, firm, white cloth, which
gheould wet, Now squeeze all the
water milk you possibly can out
of the butter in the cloth
| By the time the water is nearly all
| squeezed out the butter will hav
ed enough so that you can put
the butser bowl and work it
as any butter
accidentally discovered
of
be
and
creamy
gathe:
it
the same
i Wao
way of gathering butter
! churned
i casi
foun
i butter
| ed.
into
this
afte; had
We had oe
it again later and
it an excellent way when the
will not gather by being churn
Aithough it is more
| gather it this way than by churning
| it, still it is much better than having
to throw the churning away —Wm
' H. Underwood In the Indiana Far
mer.
we
for some time
nm to try
bother to
WHY CULTIVATE AN ORCHARD?
{ Fo: the same reason !
| tivate a hill of corn
| trees 30 feet apart, plant
corn three and a half apart, for
the reason that the foliage of an
bears the same te
that the follage of a hill
corn bears to three and a half
Also, that the roots of the tree
cupy the entire thirty feet
well as the
three and a
that we cul
We plant
while
annle
apple
we
feat
an
ple
Pit
flee relation
30 feet of
{foot
OC
of space
f
Ol
half fe
absolutels
roots occupy
tivation is as
tae one
will
inches d
bed.
break
. account
same finely pulverized
This bed contain t
Te ey
very
vating
vAaLIGE
inches
and make
surface
the
we dee
ure t
mois ) the
i
urface in a dry season
preparation and a fine,
cuitivation, we retain moisture to
tree-tops during a drought,
quently thrift of trees
fit,
kind of pr
the
and conse
iarge
Smooth
MArZaet
“ # 1 oi 1
apples, inde
for
cuitiva.
vad
of corn hai!
small ears of
aultivated, t jn
fame on, produ
fit for worms The
preduces corn. An
pasture
fruit
apple tree
for the
Bardly
f thousands of
a0
rea eR
downfall
orchards
commences
thelr foolish owners
to Eras and turn their
ir
ROW
them
stock in, and
* é Ini ry tee ¥ 4 i a
posEibie tramp them stili harder
they were hofore
around a tree about
is
a rope d a eriminal’s
ATOoun
be
if it
Mois iure, -
egpecially timothy
bbwr of Gree
FARM HINTS
fa y
armen
Know
is in his
ounce
is
A well Kept
buying an
reconciliation
better than a
reflects
ling
over a
lawsuit,
the
and _pature of the owner
The horse man's best friend,
therefore he Is deserving of a friend's
tregiment,
Den't forget that the bamyard man
is the best all-around fertilizer
can obtain.
Pasture makes the cheapest
An
ine
of
fence
lawn
is
You
hog
the best hog p@sture.
Don’t let money act as a paddock
on’ your heart, and shut in all the
kindness and happiness,
The animal that has a full, bright
oye it apt to be healthy And a
moist nose is another indication of
heaith.
Talk over with the good housewife
all the undertakings of the farm. She
will have some good advice to offer.
Don't borrow too much. i’ is
mor: satisfactory both do yoursell
and your neighbors to have tools of
your own.»
The burning of straw and stalks,
except in.special cases, is a wasteful
practice and has no place in judict
ous farming,
Bees help to make the crop and
pay the farmer for the privilege,
They are little trouble and may be
the source of a good income.
If the harvest and haying tool:
were not put In repair last fall ft
will be a pretty good plan to look them
over and order new parts now.
“Whatsoever a man soweth, that
shall he also reap.” Take heed to
this cld proverb,
bs SoA WA
Pup Keeps Cool.
A cute little Boston terrier pup
showed some of his higher brothers
in the Darwinian seale on Massachu
setts avenue, Cambridge, how to keep
cool yesterday, He was trotting along
behind an jee wagon, and each time
it stopped to make deliveries the
cunning chap sprawled out under
neat®” where the chilly trickles from
the melting Ice would strike his
fevered body. The way he squirmed
in delight ; when the drops splashed
on his pink stomach made all the
sometimes refuses to gather and the
bystanders long to follow suit Boe
ton Post, “
i
TURNS!
“=
GROUNDS ! (
I
Er
fn Ten, AGS
RAT? mots
SHAR YOUR Own!
\
PAR ATiAnTa Thovotal®
duced int
and blandishments™ of
i widow, shall betray
paints,
Theres has been intro
‘wiles
whether 4
sf the State by
the women
ar into
scents
false hair, iron stays,
waists, lace, variegated,
means or artful pract . uy
who introduced the bill
drop-stite
wen, the 1
semblvinan Glenn
Assembly a timely bill relating to
ie measure provides that if any woman
matrimony any unsuspecting male subject
waters, artificial teeth,
high-heeled shoes, V-cut
or by any other deceitful
m conviction, shall be null and As
represents a summer resort
hoops or
youd
listrict
——
Bay President
0 Mrs
her
Grover Cleveland,
prociamation
informing
has signed char yf th
San
Nn
of The
letter is
Bay. 1808
Dea i ‘leveland it
i has
10 RIED A
“My
recently been my
proclamation changing name of
the San Jacinto National Forest
the Cleveland National! Forest May
I express to you the very great pleas- |
ure it gave me to take that action—a |
pleasure mingled with a keen sense |
of the loss to our country and to our
citizens in the of Presi
Cleveland On February 22,
President Cleveland signed the
Iamation creating the San Jacinto |
Forest Heserve in Southern Califor- |
nia The date February 22 was |
no mere accident, since signature |
wae timed to!
privilege
the
Anant
agent
death
1897, |
proc. |
the 1
the ciamation
coincide with
President
“President
the first
preservation,
San Jacinto
es, with a
the birthday of our firs:
of
Cleveland was one
ognize the need of for-
and the creation of
and forest re-
total area of 25.8586.
acres, was one of the results of
foresight in this direction
yughout his life he took great in
st in ving natural re
and I particu-
ability to attend
vernors in Mas
because that meeting was in part the
he had sown vears be-
The name of Grover Cleveland
will always be identified
with the movement protect the
forests of the United States, and it
seemed io me eminently fStiing that
one the forests which he created
should bear his name throughout all
tO rod
other
Conse; the
rees of the
regretted his
fruit of seed
{fare
tye 5 at ly
Irominent]
io
of
“Sincerely yours
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT
BROTHERS TRAPPED,
KILLED THEMSELVES.
inoffensive
Henton Hard Mich
s2, who without known cause
fatally wounded an In-
offensive meat pedler named James |
Kirk, and his younger brother, Fred |
Gross, lost their lives in a pitched
fight with Sheriff Tennant and a posse
seven men who went to the
home to arrest August Gross One
of the officers was injured The
Gross brothers are both supposed to
have been insane
After shooting
raded himself
or. Both Au-;
gust Gre
shot and
of
Kirk. Gross barri-
in his farmhouse,
twelve miles from here, in Pipe-|
stone township, and through the!
night exchanged occasional shots with |
the crowd of farmers and officers who |
were guarding the premises to pre- |
vent his escape i
Fred, joined him in the defense of the
house, and the aged mother of the |
two men was also in the building. |
The officers found her almost pros- |
trated with tefror when they finally
broke into the house
i
i
The posse ‘rove {o the Gross t
les from Benton }
bor Shortly before thel ival the
Gross brothers had ri the
house and taken position with thelr
near the front feace After
siiots rad been at
who replied with rifles
August left his cover
the house Fred was
wounded through the leg. and when
found that he was unable to fol
fired a bullet through his cwn
Expecting Au-
gust to open fire momentarily, the
posse closed in on the house, entered
it and found the crazed man dead on
his own bed. A siogle shot from a
shotgun had pierced his heart
August Gross was a well educated
man Worry over his failure to get
financial returns from a sight which
he had invented for military rifles is
said to have unseitied his mind, al-
though it is declared that fosanity is
hereditary ia the family.
ii 1h
BORiES
fired
the officers,
and shotguns,
ran for
Chicago. ~~ Woe for the college
youth, the negro gambler and the
flashy bartender. The tailors’ con-
vention. figuratively speaking, tore
freak clothes to tatters. What was
trousers cuff, the frilly ponaet
and other innovations of the season
wasn't enough to interest a ragpick-
er. Indignation of the tallors over
bizarre garments rose to a high pitch
and they vowed even college boys
would have to submit to conservative
clothes in the fall, even if the foot-
ball gatherings came to look like a
campmeeting.
In the campaign against the cher.
ished fads John E. Spann sounded a
“keynote' in his speech:
“Your salvation les in steramiug
‘the torrent of freakish garments,” he
sald to the assembled cutters. ‘The
tallors originated ¢ so-called gine
gerbread styles for their college pats
ronage, but they have got beyond us.
They were seized upon greedily by
the manufacturers. They were just
what the makers were waiting for,
but the curves and frills conceal de-
fects of it. Long coats cover up the
misfit of the ‘barrel’ trousers. Con-
gervative styles with a draping effect
that require careful tailoring will
prevail in the fall.”
The cutters were urged to pad the
shoulders only when ‘aosolutely nec
essary to give the figure proper shape
and to balance the garment sufficlent-
ly to give the wearer distineticn and
individuality.” Unusual fabrics were
algo selected by the tailors for the
discard. Conservatism in shades will
replace the ‘zebra’ styles and other
summer novelties.
Colors will be toned down to con-
form to the greater conservatism of
design. Brown, it was said, would
be the prevailing hue for fall suits,
with a strong representation of green.
ish tints,
“Overcoat styles,” said one speak-
er, “will be ‘boxy,’ three-quarter
lengths, with a tendency to shortness,
For morning wear black-braided, sin-
gle-braakted frocks of vicuna or chev
fot will be in great demand, to be
worry with a fancy waistcoat and
striped trousers.’
House of Seven Gables
Now Girls’ Settlement,
Salem, Mass. -—- Miss Caroline 0.
Emmerton, one of Balem’'s richest
women, has just purchased the cele-
brated House of Seven Gables, about
which Hawthorne wrote.
She will use the estate in settle
ment work. Speaking of her plans
she sald:
“For years a settlement house,
where young girls of the city ean en-
joy some advantages, has been need.
od. By this purchase will one pf the
landmarks be preserved.” i
Dog Seizes Wire and Dies ff
to Save Young Master.
Colorado Springs, "Col. —Apparent-
ly scenting danger for George Brad.
bury, a seventeen, should he se
cure a firmer grip on a live electric
wire, a bulldog made a leap at the
wire and tore it from the hands of
the senseless boy. The dog was Killed
instantly, but his master escaped with
a severe shock. )
Bradbury started to push the wire
from his hand when the dog made the
leap to save bis life. TLe boy
unconscious for five minutes.
oN
How Russia. Ruies
The Caucasus
By H. W. Nevinson,
FOUND
sodden
ts villas {yg :
ae villagers piltecusly ones
For
rocks
ruins thelr homes
vasion they had lived in the
hiding
away
Ol Ome
ing ca
from the soldiers and
any grain or othe;
burning. At the first
their girls and women
had received orders from
were found A boy ,was
his mother. Many women
Many mothers went mad in wpld
misery Some wandered frantic far int the higher mountain nd per
in the snowdrifts and or ey
The fate of the men
homes
of a
shelters
ridden
the soldiers
women
ating
hunger
with
ished
dnd Lrave the
village
wWOOd
tussian
village
ind soldiers,
bulldings,
When
columneg of smoke
Magazine
upon
of and
when
ne
the bit
whole
tationed
ing
PG Die
nav
the
Pluperfect Propriety
In Language
By Professor T. R. Lounsbury,
. ¥ OY §1
" SYVery community
cussion, a body of
158.00
Saturday, u
Tomorrow is
. 3 belonged
he belonged to it. If he chance be in the company one
v
unhappy
0 him
who
y sole
if
iatls
remark as this
This foreg
scholars as an |
nite
training Yet in 83
cings of case
where the idea of
word phrase in
3 Ol 10
under consid
future
0 iness It does not trict belgng
here many inslances
tine 8 «
In
“0%
OF Lae genience
subject tomorrow
lake
lay
isually
if . , ”
: ny pe
gitimate to ask him {if
engagements will
finds time 10 answer In ¢
future tense Occas
factly le t day i
sell else
of courses
Important
ike he EERATY
the sake of contrast, uring va
ordi iy its employment add
ari
It
16 Se
oF
sought! to be said therefore
the other hand, th of the !
sometimes renders far more effec
ATEUIOR against
would hav
have given
Concerning Social Leaders
By Winifred Black.
woman is coming
now fo
eader
born
ants
COMmpany
a v8 +4 we fially
and aw; ’
the
autiful ant 1}
a collage
Ax
particu
ros +E 3
periorm
gues’
A baby 8 ye
for ball an .
0 important this social lead She burried back and forth and
everybody
0 a fine pro
burden bearers for her, a Jit bDOY in Da CER and sandal came
along and set his wanton heel wae dead i
didn’t notice any great mourning ia lead=r Half
an hour later I came back and some
I wonder if wouldn't have
short life in comfort and ease
I wonder if it hurt any less when
jeath because she was the social leader
Social leader, dear, dear! I'd rather be a fish
that flies the air, or a plain, everyday, real
and real bates, and real babies, and real frie
joys than to be a pasteboard thing in
call society, woulda" you?—New York
& &F
Cleopatra Still
Mistress ¢f the Nile
By Marie Van Vorst
NE famous figure stands out in the history of Egypt and the Nile
giving river, country, and seaport a charm All along
the river, from Philae, above all at Dendera, the shores are per
sonal with the recollections of the woman than whom no queen
was ever more brilliant, whose charm, seduction, wit, aad hu
man fascination have been made immortal by the masterpieces
of the world Antony. as did her subjects, called ber Egypt
And the country, whose shape is a totus, whose emblems are the serpent and
the papyrus, is instinct with the grace of this empress, Alexandria, her cap!
tal and playground, was a garden, a pleasure park for her, a banquet hay
where beside her on her couch Mark Antgny delivered up Caesar, Italy, fame,
and honor into her beautifal hands, giving all the treasures of his life that she
might dissolve them in the winecup from which he drank to her. In Alexan
dria, Cleopatra's temples filled the squares; through the streets at night
touching elbows with Roman, Greek, and Egyptian, with slave and noble, the
Queen and the mad Antony made sport of the etiquette thay hedges royally
Here, where she had originally bewitched Caesar, she held Antony, until
kingdoms and his old glories were nothing to him: and here in Alexandria she
{ifted him. defeated, broken, into his tomb; and here beside him. she herself
dled. So intense is the cartouche that Cleopatra has left on Egyptian history
and on this marine city that the ugly bustle of commerce, where Jows, Greeks,
and Egyptians fght today for stocks and bonds and land specuiations in the
modern cosmopolls, is lost and forgotten as the old capital rises like a mir
age on the edge of the desert and, as one thinks of Cleopatra, shines aguin
with something of its old glory. The Queen's pink obelisks (one of which is
now in the New York Central Park) are seen again in thelr old place, and
the shouts and cries tremble upon the air as the people call her. Cleopaire
is going to Cydnus in the golden barge hung with purple! The pecple kise
the ground her feet have trod; she is a goddess; she is 1sis-~Hathor;: she ie
Dmpress of Upper and Lower Egypt; Mistress of the Nile. Put she i, above
all else, a woman whom Antony has named his “Serpent of Old Nile" Her
ship out for sea, and the seaside crowded with citizens is black like a
pall. As she sails away, the heart of Bgypt goes with her, and the great riw
er and the land have in all their history Do more sumplious memory than the
momory of her—Harper's Magazine,
3 SLA ERAS SST
The mean height
On
Wiis
ittle arms around
had mars
her funny
once
3
wan
ani ail at
cogsion
just as she
of
i ‘ nd she
the ant hill of the social
her place
had just
CA
one
she had a better time if she lived
her
the crushed ber tc
that
human
8, and
the little
Amer
gwims the sea, or 3
being, with rea
rea! sorrows, and
pasieboard world
bird
joves
real
we
1# #31 00
ABN
“af
| BB
RR RA ASR mn
as being 1,000.feet. The mean depth
at least 12,000 feot.
% y ir
CARSEAT A AS
of all the land now