3X POINTS IN HORSE BUYING. Never have a horse brought out, pr up or down, to you, but go to his stall and investigate for yourself cer. sain detafls, which, once you Know them, require no special acumen decide upon, or to be aware of, writes F. M. Ware, in the Outing Magazine. For instance, is there grain in the manger, and the hour for feeding gome time past? He may be a bad feeder. nervous, delicate—well to call ‘he veterinarian’s attention to this point. Is the straw under his fore feet unusually trampled or May be of thesa irritable, vous “weavers” which ¢ stantly to side) who are generally bad feeders and poor property. the stall posts or sid kicked? may or spoiling other is cial horses to one {horses from side also Are battered a kicker (by his own rest horses). Does he SWay es or be night, r that of day and tear in or eat lankets? Is way or si are? Is he b any as handle—no on the on and or he or rest he ing to pulling back stand one square or i ly from 3 ie back quiet up each hind leg g spasmodic jerking? turn EANEWAY smoot! es he 5 Feri permitting l tions attention parture from abs nt; portme 1-BZTOWN our northern marke! cw that hot house ch must be profit In my experience in growing spin. gch I find that it requires a light, warm loam soll, but will grow on almost any land that will good crop of corn It almost im- possible to make ground too rich for it. I usually apply about 10 good loads of manure to the acre, gold too low to any is the 197 AX with phate gives which from 100 to of ammonia the plants a consumers li} pounds of sul acre, This green color bost inereases the crop considerably. I have found that if abo iz inches ner ars Le the seods are sown the apart will be The [Qeeded in produced variety 1 loser stand the Roma bushel after to the the dead leaves and the roots are taken off and they washed and drained Wm. Un derwood, In the Indiana Farmer. most rapid gains In pig feed. are commonly made by dalry farmers who understand how to feed out dairy by products In connection with grain foods. Professor Henry, of Wisconsin, who is high authority on feeding domestic animals, says, regarding the value of skim milk as food for swine: “Skim milk has a value as food for stock that Is higher than merely serving as a. dubstitute for grain. All of the constituents of milk are digestible, and this valuable byproduct of the dairy 18 rich in bone and blood bullding constitu enis.” : The ing FARM NOTES. There is one advantage in teaching a horse to walk well-and that Is, he # not injured in the least in any way for any other galt Many lovers of fine horses are am- bisdaus to breed their own driving [ horses breeding high class trotting bred mares to Hackney or Coach Stal lions for beauty and action. Do not buy a horse with a narrow lor shallow chest, or whose forelegs are together, he has but sul ficient room for a rest of strong lungs i and will not long winded. Pine tar generously appiled to the ses of the sheep at shearing time will prevent grub in the head, i Dairying is ready money | ness, and no branch | stock keeping compare close be busi- live it a other of can with for enrich Three cor making are churning and strong butter over- first and in in, The sccond rripe It over-working means butt soft butter. careful third Re bath ural good dust nat ridding for fowls, only means a provide ba nd +h th, an a will mites Al shed breeds tho quare room cach sheep of small Ars nn f and fifteen { from twelve 10 iT Even cange the manure under them fermenting and heating as liable it it is allowed to get It would be well to clean out shed late the fall, again af midwinter, and early in the spring, land between these times keep plenty lof clean, dry, bedding under them | This larger breeds. more frequently the may be in to do tf wet, the in i PIP = Wl * Par Canutraty Te yond.” a Ringside photographs of lite the Temperance Champ, and «Demon’’ was put to slec). © i PUBLICITY 4 Officials Find the Wrelks J Chicago Publ with having the Harriman tween twenty and n the § eo is indicated by Julius Kruttschr tenance and ope riman, of a nov { tried on that systs Besides £ licity has served, it prove disciplineand in and also has prote against newspaper and unfair bostiiit communities Wher ing the fullest i was first broac schnitt, It was cold sides, Finally he ting it tried On the Un now all the Harris The new molhe gpuccess largely the cause of Lf eli nat thr AFL 10 decrensing caused Mr the base a great Kruttschnitl is efficacy of pa tendent, master m neer of the division scone and organis composed of 1 more leading citize ity. If this board the eause of ihe accident, board is formed of the general intendent, general su motive power, rinoot tenance of way aud one or more zens of the community Sho board in turn fail, a third b | formed with the general its head. In only one Bem SUDer- $ and on inienas ’ ox mi rd instance has os. AP YoRets Mei TING. Lasts Dont gots wt orgs. | Bereshed gacvta INS fiw askiad at and oT | of Conn T Ha Cuppres tov! OF NEW YOLK LWAYS IN ONE WM ~ Uni “en “lw ously . shows there were dur s month 121 car collisions, 894 persons and vehicles stroek by ear 652 persons injured when boarding ears and 1233 when alighting from Forty-one of the victims were a - a tricity. needs an absorbent -—American Culti | valor LACK OF MATERIAL The laying of softshelled eggs ie caused by lack shell-making ma | terial, in the shape of crushed oyster ghells some other form of lime. | The hens should have plenty of good grit Half time the fowls are left’ without good supply of gril of or the a being Inadequate or inferior, lay ftshelled Home Journal CEES. IN TYING CHICKENS. When markefing chickens do no! tie movoral of them together. get string twisted around thei: jegs and it cuts them, Take the chickens to town in a coop, or some other humane way. They are in abso lute forture when several are tied together, the — ——— Poisonous Nettles of the Tropics. In tropleal regions there are nettles far moré powerful than that of ow own country. The one called Urtica ‘stimulans which Is found in Jawa, and tha! called Laportea crenuinta, found Ir Hindustan, when bruised emit an ef eyes and mouth, and if handled pro duce convulsions and serious swelling and pain in the arms, which may las’ tor three or four weeks and in sony cases cause death.—London Tele | graph. . Washington, D. C.--The National Conservation Commission has caused the first comprehensive attempt at a census of the standing timber i United States ever und» commission needs the Information to help complete {is inventory of the country’s natural resources, which it will include in ita report to the Pree. jdent, and since that report ls submitted on January 1 next it the information at once. quence the work on the census has been started with a rush. Petimates as to the amount . standing timber in the United St ! range all the way from 822,682,000. { 000 to 2,000,000,000,000 board feet, a difference of more than a trillion feet in the views of the best qualified authorities in the country. in the opinion of the forest service the most earefully prepared estimatos yet mado are those by Henry Gan- nett, published by the twelfth census fn 1900, which placed the total stumpage at 1,390,000,000,000 board feet. Mr. Gannett was recently cho gen by the President to compile all | the information gathered for the commission. The census is expected n winnie nn Fula i needs | : i i to give an accurate basis for comput. ing how long our timber supply will last The consensus of opinion is that present annual consumption of : i | feet, or something more than that One leading authority has placed il as high as 150,000,000.000 board {een Assuming a stumpage ol 1.400,000.000.600 feet, an annual use of 100.600,000,000 feet and neg: lecting growth in the calculation the exhaustion of our timber supply It feet, a supply for twenty-three veart is indicated. Letters to county clerks asking for statements of forest areas in their counties have been forward. ed. Beven thousand lumbermen and timber land owners have been asked to suuply similar information. In all, nearly 150,000 letters have beer gent. Theso letters also ask for » wide variety of information, ineiud. ing not only the lumbering and mill ing industries, but all others, even indict dependent upon the use of wood. | ! Russia's Naval Budget ‘ | Amounts to $44,007,500. H Bt. Petersburg, Russia.--The na- ! wal budget was submitted to the Du- mua. It amounts to $44,067,500, an 4ncrease over last year of $616,000. The construction account is $8,155, 000, of which $3,771,000 is for new | construction. This decreass fa dune to the fact that the appropriation for construction of 1008 has not been touched. The present program in. the bullding of four battle | ah five torpedo boat destroycrs ! and three guhmarines, Whole Village Frozen to Death in Siberia Seattle, Wash. —Frozen stiff and having evidently been dead for a long time. all the inhabitants of a village of Siberian Kesquimaus were found on the Siberian coast &y a party ol Indlans who went in a canoc last June to see their comrades. Their provisions exhausted, the Esquimans had eaten the walrus skin covers from their houses and the fotniog that covered them. This tale is tol by the Rev. Edward O. Campbell, a Presbyterian missionary. SERBK Youth posse ancy and for happiness, sition with Good heal great Eley a exhilaration whl until the of the 3 the p fas £8 4 sn 1 nti i th wealt nroduce prodau yo In | siege on Mouchard. In 1780 he ped paying part of ruin was about this time, but as a visitor writing about the tions the foundation of the tower as visible and speaks of the ! Af ter that it was filled arth and later the site became the nuns’ garden, and the of the ruin and the tradition attach. ing to it were forgotten Philadel phia Telegraph. site appe: have rent The : ’ the the WA cleared a late a af a place men in with « - nl part of POLITICAL a ue BQUALITY, of Women in four Siates the Union in whic are allowed political eq with men privileges that are the envy of th progressive sisie in other tions the land. One these the possibility of being chosen as delegate to a national nominal convention. A number of women ¢ enjoy rs the soc of of ng and at least two have had it upon them. The latler are of Utah, one being Mrs. Clark, of Brigham City, and residents lacy © the other Lake City. These ladies were se lected as alternate delegates to the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Mrs. Gates is the daughter of the late Brigham Young, and is of the Mormon Church, of which her ' father was the head. She has made Ler mark in her own State as 8, edu pator, editor and author. She found- ed a successful journal and has writ. ten numerous blographies of leading Mormons as well as fiction, ete. She is a member of the National Council of Women and of the National Press Club, and is connected with a num: ter of important organizations in Utah. ~~Loslie's Weekly. THE PAINED CULTURINE, “I've ust had a culturine visit mo,” sald the woman with the feath- Gwe T33 i -“ brightness and at} beneath them hae 3 8 been glorified i Mf silver tr ing tint eas fa obst) nats give witness, bears vi age in nu language, convincing as Bible family ACCORDING TO AGE In Japan women bave to admit their true age. A woman dresses ac cording to her age. Bhe wears gold pings until she is twenty five At thirty the ping are white, merely spot she wears plain shell combs Her shoes are also changed as the age changes. FASHION NOTES. The sash is usually of a bright hue, but 13 toned down by lace, Wonderfully effective Is the lutestring ribbon embroidery. Soutache is used extensively and large handsome buttons are added as decorations, A white linen coat is given a rath. er odd effect by having geometrical figures in cut-work, distributed all over it. " Mushroom color is an exceedingly soft shade when brought out in the silken fabrics, new
Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers