MANAGING VICIOUS BULLS. As a rule, the wisest way of hand- ling a bull that is inclined to ba vicious is to hand him over to the butcher, as an animal of this class fs never safe to trust. If he be one that has proven to be an extra good sire, and it is deemed desirable to keep him for service, the safest and simplest means of handling him is to blindfold him. He may be man- aged by means of ropes and pulleys, giving him room to move out of his stall when required, and bringing him back to his place; but it is a " oumbersome method. Blindfolding quietly conceit cut of a blusterer. A broad bandage of double sacking securely fastened over his eves, may serve the purpose ordinarily in the stable, This device may be used to good advan- tage in handling a nervous or ex- citable beast while being led to mar ket or drawn in a wagon to be shipped on a train, I remember a case of a heifer re- ceived on the train being so wildly excited that she would jump at a perzon appreaching her to untie her halter, but, by throwing a blanket over her head, and afterwards tying a sack over her eves, she was quiet. ly unloaded and tied behind a wagon which she followed as meekly as one could desire. Mismanagewent or lack of thought makes a great deal of trouble in the handling of stock. How often do we see men chasing pigs all over the place in the vain effort to get them into a pen, the porkers always going in the direction contrary to the one they are desired to go; while, by hav. ing a pair of low light hurdles, hing- ed together, forming a V-shaped guide, tte animals can be handled quickly, and with the use of no un- seemly words, Vicious bulls are generally made g0 by unwise treatment when young, giving them too much liberty, or us ing them cruelly It is well to nse them kindly, but they should be trust. ed no mcre than is necessary, for it sometimes a bull that tas been and unex- pectediy becomes vicious, and maims a man for life or gores him to death. It is the part of wisdom to handle a bull with a strong staff and a safe connection with his nosering, no mat- ter bow quiet he may be —W. H. Un- derwood, in the Indiana Farmer. takes all the happens that quiet, suddenly FARM NOTES Don’t forget that a wire door is as beneficial in winter, in summer, for the hen house Dor't advertise yoursell as a specialist, or an expert, if you have not exhibited your stock at thé poul- try shows The farmer generally gives less consideration to the roosts and nests than to any other part of his poul try house. This is not right Desiring to save labor, the roosts are nailed to the walls and the nests are so fastened as to become a part of the building itself In many cases Under such conditions it is impos gible io thoroughly clean the poultry house and rid it of vermin, for as lonz as there is a crack or crevice in which a louse can hide there will be a rapid increaze of the pests as a single female lays encugh eggs in a day to furnish the foundation for a million in a weck. The perches should be built so that they do not touch the walls at any place, for the red mites or lee which do the most harm do not stay on the fowls during the day-time but come forth at night to seek their prey. If the perches do not touch the walls at any place, the lice will have less opportunity to hide, and then if the roosts are thoroughly wetted with coal oil once a week for & month or two, little difficulty will be encountered with these {ice Coal oil is instant death to them and if the roosts do not touch tha walls they cannot get away {from the liquid but will have to stay and “take their medicine.” ; The instinct of self-preservation prompts fowls to perch on the high est point possible. when taking their quarters for the night They naturally ‘esire t6 be above danger from be. screen as the appearance and are very likely to sour~American Cultivator. ECONOMY IS PRODUCTION. Although fourteen bushels of wheat is about the average yield in this country, yet our farmers have not comprehended the importance of doubling the yield. Having plenty of and they look more to the area than to the substances from which crops are grown. Millions of gallons of Hguwid manure are wasted every year because no adequate provision is made on the farms for preventing this loss, and farms become poorer because a portion of the products of the farms flow away with every rain that comes down upon the man. ure heap. The waist materials that are of no value, such as weeds and rubbish, are allowed to damage in various ways, and even the solids of the manure lose much of thelr value because of not being properly kept. This condition is fourd mostly on {arms that have too much land in proportion to equipment. The labor that should be applied where it would prove most valuable is be- stowed on too much land. The ef fort to raise fourteen bushels of wheat on an acre Is twice as costly as to double the yield, as a profit may be possible in one case and im- possible in the other. Everything not sold off the farm has value and is worth as much to the farmer aa to the buyer of his produce. It is as important that he save and utilize his product, whether in the form of #tock, crops or manure, as it is to send such to market to be sold for cash. —Epitomist. MAKING ALFALFA HAY. The best alfalfa hay is made by raking and cocking while fairly green and allowing to cure for several days in the cock, On account of the un- certainty of the weather, however, this method is often found impractic- able and a quicker method fn which the alfalfa is dried in the sunlight must be used. It Is always very im- portant that the raking and as much of the other handling of the crop fa Is sufficiently green to retain its leaves, as the leaves are by far the best part of the plant. A method of handling the crop which has given good satisfaction at the Maryland station is to out the alfalfa In the morning as soon as the dew ig off, allow it to remain in the swath as late in the afternoon as possible and yet get it raked before the evening dews fall and then put it in tall cocks, if it looks like rain: otherwise leave it in the winrow over night. HM the next day is sunshiny the hay is scattered after the dew is off, allowed to dry until late after. noon and put in the barn. If the weather is not favorable for drying, more than two days will be required to cure the hay. Hay put in the barn or stack when only partially cured {is likely to mould or to char and be dusty, so that it is practically unsalable, and in some cases sufficient heat is gen. erated to ignite the whole mass — Weekly Witness. HORSE COLLARS SHOULD FI. A badly fitting collar makes the young team horse troublesome. It Is of the greatest importance that &he collar should fit perfectly, so that it does not cause discomfort to the ani mal nor wring or hurt its shoulders. The shoulders often become more or less tender at first through the pres. sure of the collar against them, and in order to harden the skin on them it is a good plan to bathe them with a solution of salt In water (or alum in water) when the young horse has finished its work for the day. —Week- iy Witness. TO SECURE RICH YIELD OF MILK. An experienced farmer recom. mends, for the securing a large yleld of rich milk from a cow, that she should be supplied with water, slight. ly warm and slightly salted, in which bran has been stirred at the rate of one quart to two gallons of water. The amount of the drink iow. For this reason, perches shonid all be on the same level, and not one Higher than the other, or there will be crowding and fighting for the highest positions —Frem “Roosts and Nesta” in the Epitomtet AND MARKETING POULTRY. * The condition of dressed poultry when sent te the market largely de ter vines the price. Frequently paul. try rifscrs complain of the low price they pet for their chickens when in truth tie spe dmens sent should hase been used for home consumption rather than for marketing. Poultry whic, makes a good show alwavs meets. a ready sale and brings good _provts, Poultry dressed and paclkeq every conceivable way, without regard to appearance; seldom pays te shipper for his trouble, and, as a rule, he literally bas to give it “away fo pet It off his hands. This is wrong. A few poor birds in a erate of good ones rain the sale of | the whole lot ay first class birds, and DRESSING 't wenld be hotter to throw away the shso'utely poor ones then to lower necessary is an ordinary water-pall fol morning, noon and night. For those who stable and soll their cows, this will be found a good practice. Weekly Witness. REMEDY FOR SHEEP. Look out for stretches. The symp toms are known by the sheep spread. ing Its legs out and stretching it. tell. The cause is too much dry feed. The remedy is a bran mash and an ounce of raw linseed-oll.- Farmers’ Home Journal THE ONECROP BYSTEM DON'T %.. PAY. hi A onecrop system followed year after year upon the same land tends to the breeding of insect enemies and to the development of fungous disases peculiar to the crop which Is being ralsed.— Weekly Witness, The city ot Milwaukes has almost aholished the use of horses in all municipal departments, bo Ad LR ———— ‘he gale of the good ones, : 4 Says Country Will Be Astonished Washington, D. C. — The Senale i Committee on Appropriations, which {is carrying out the Senate's instruc tions to Investigate the operations of | bodies employed under the Adminis- tration, already has obtained suffi- { elent Information to show that in the last year sums of money aggregating about $20,000,000 have been expend. ed in secret investigation under the direction of the President. This knowledge will be used by the Senate | committee's sub-committee of inquiry ‘as the basia for a rigid examination into the uses to which such a vast amount of money has been put. Much of the money expended was not ap- { propriated specifically for making in- vestigations of a secret character, but was taken from lump sums placed at i the disposal of the Ececutive to meet { contingent expenses. The criticism of the lavish way in which Government fonds have been used for purposes of investigation is becoming very pronounced amoung Senators and Representatives, and they think it is about time to call a ihalt. Where all the $20,000,000 was | spent is a source of wonder at Lhe | capitol, In spite of reports to the contrary it is denied that there is any real basis for the belief that in undertak- ing to investigate the workings of the Government's secret agencies the Sen- ate and House are making a first step in the direction of causing trouble for the President. The purpose of these inquiries, it is asserted, Is to ascer- tain and prevent further abuses by the Executive and not to place obsta- cles in the way of the President in performing his legitimate constitu- tional and legal functions. There is good reason to belleve that the Senate Investigation will result In an effort to define in unmistakable terms the relations between the Ex- peutive and the legislative branches of the Government and to make clear that moneys appropriated by Con- gress shall be used only for the pur- poses for which they were specifically appropriated. “The enormous ramifications of the system of Federal espionage which has grown up largely under the Ad- ministration, extending even to the domestic affairs of citizens,” are shown by figures quoted by Represen- tative Tawney, of Minnesota, chair man of the House Committee on Ap- propriations. During the last session of Congress the Administration, which is now complaining because $10,000 was taken off the usual appropriation for the Seeret Service division of the Treasury Department, called for very large appropriations for other secret investigations, and these appropria- tions were actually made by Congress, The several amounts reached the enormous total of $5,128,000. While it is only fair to say that a part of this large sum was not ex- pended for investigations essentially secret in character an enormous amount was intended to further the secret police and investigation work of the Government; the rest was for various inspection work. Re ntative Tawney and other mem of the Honse Committee on Appropriations declared that large by Wha! Committee Will Reveal sums have been aivertel] for other purposes than those des nated or intended by the law investigation about to bes begun the House is intended to un many of these abuses as pos Speaker Cannon named Re tatives of Pennsyi chairman; Currier, of Now shire; Young, of Michigan: of Georgia, and Bowers, . sippi, as members of the special com- mitiee authorized by the Tawney res. olntion to investigate the branches of the Government Service. Messrs. Brantley and Bow- ers are Democrats Mr. Bowers of money Olmsalead, Various Secret i8 STORY TELLING A FINE ART A girl who has her way to work through college is doing it by her knack of keeping children amused. When the question of meeting the expenses of her education arose the girl seemed to have no means of earn- | lng money, 2s she had no bent or | raining. One day as her small nephews hung | entranced on a fairy tale she was re- | peating the idea of story telling for | profit came ‘to her. From childhood | had the power to keep children | kappy, no matter how restless. | The college the girl attends is in | 8 large city, where she had but few friends Those she had im- | mediately written and thelr fluence solicited a teacher in | a large private school, introduced her to a number of the patrons, were only too glad to have thelr tie oneg amused for an hour or so mn the afternoon Another friend lived in ment house, and had often ry for the lonely the children in {it the were to in- | One, who | 1 Iit- apart- been sor- many of after school hours were over. She spoke to a number of the mothers about the girl's por. ject, and story-telling class was arranged three afternoons a weak. The children were collected in one room, and were kept for an hour and a half at a time with stories, Bo successful was plan that other mothers heard of it, and the girl soon had leisure hours em- ploved Che an lives of a for happy the all Aid sold attempt or see that turned to their homes The stories told were of all Many were tales from history bits of fiction were adapted ish language There tales, mythology, the child stories Kipling, Seton-Thompson, the old-time only her time the and made no to collect children they were safely ro. were Stevenscn, favorites of Sophie Series were told to a new mittes eral laws in the last few years, with other reasons, the number of men em. ployed to discover violations of stat- utes has Increased nearly twentvfold within a decade According to Mr. Tawney, the number of these men on the Federal roll just prior to the Spanish War was less than 200: 1o- day it exceeds 3000, and the appro- priations for their maintenance have fumped from a little over $1,000,000 to seven or eight times that amount. This is aside from other expenditures, Some of the large items contained in the current appropriation act, that is, those that were passed last winter, were shown by Mr. Tawney and Mr. Smith, another memter of the Ap- propriations Commitiee. They are ag follows: For the detection of violations of the postal laws, $1,105,000. For the detection of violations of the internal revenue laws, $125,000, For the detection of frauds on the customs, $200,000. For the detection of counterfeiters, $115,000, For investigations by the Bureau of Corporations, $175,000. For special agents and inspectors in the enforcement of the Interstats Commerce act, $450,000. For the detection and prevention gt depredationsm publiclands, $500, 000, For the investigation of Anti-Trust law violations, $250,000. For special agents for the Pension Bureau, $380,000. For the enforcement of the Meat Inspection law Congress appropriated $3.000,000, the bulk of which is said to have been expended for inspection services. Similarly a large part of an appro- priation of $826,000 for the enforce. ment of the Pure Food act, it is as- serted, Is paid out for inspectors. A sum approaching $1,000,000 annual. ly is said to be expended for the en. forcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws, All this is aside from appropria- tions for the collection of evidence iz, the ordinary litigation which ocen. ples the time of the Department ot Justice, Including ‘he pay of United States marshals, special attorneys and experts of various kinde. It readily can be seen that with appropriations made in lump form, such as the fore. going, it is difficalt to segregate the amounts paid out for actur! work of detection of all kinds, and it is this, among other things, that the investl- gation is expected to disclose, Costs Santa Fe $2,000,000 to Re- place Telegraph With ‘Phones. Chicago. ~The Atchison, Topeka road announced Forty-two Kentucky Counties 8 to Stamp Out Bad Men, Lexington, Ky. —A call has been is- gued from Jackson for a great mass meeting to be pated in by dele- gates from riy-two counties in Eanefn, Kentucky to be hela Jn Jack son early a gon. eral situation will ba discussed ‘and plans put forth for the out ing of mesti is Mach good over and over poetry again until y and tales of adventure and glories omitted There is little attempt at discipline children be interested forced into Sometimes but not the little ones they the are hour usually when rogtioss for more In the summer the girl goes to the seashore and has storvielling classes keep her busy most of the dav. this season of the cindes many nature tales in her list and the children gain in knowledge as | well as in entertainment, Buch an occupation requires that is not possessed by There must year she in- a all love at lan be a real besides a happy gift putting things in picturesque guage New York Times. women, FASHION NOTES Cloth top boots are to again be in YOgue, Black is in the height of fashion for opera gowns Many skirts are unlined, and cling as never before One of the newest stiff linen collars, color. Soutache of seil-shade often trims | the corsage and it is a pretty relief | Many new dancing frocks are made | of tulle, embroidered with beadwork. | Heavy serges are being used ox | tensively for both morning and after. noon suits, The simulated buttonhole, elabo rately worked, is seen on every varie is for with | fancies trimmed Classical lines will govern the even. ing modes of the present season, as well as the daytime wear It is a season of myriad colors Everything is seen from the faintest tints to the most gorgeous hues Russian turbans of white mara bout and spotless ermine are destin. ed to be taken up for visiting hata The Cossack turban sits flat on the head and covers the forehead as well as most of the back hair. Although it is not at all becoming. this bar barous-looking furban has taken Paris by storm. The separate collar is a happy idea for the woman who likes to give a good gown good, hard wear. With the collar she has a luncheon gown, without it a dress for the restaurant or theatre, A marked feature of the new closing. They almost invariably fast. en on the left side of the back. al though the bodices continue to close in the centre, . Afternoon gowns that are suitable for receptions, teas and other affairs of more or less informal nature, aro made of broadcloth, chiffon velvet, and silk cashmere, and are in sweep length. To part the hair in the middie 1s just now the fancy of the Parisienne, the waves being brought well down over the face, while the hair is turn. od abruptly back at the sides over two cunningly inserted side pada. COLONIAL HOUSEWIFE'S “HELP “If the city woman who feels she must reduce the complications of lv. ing by taking refuge In a moderna apartment could only dias Ella Morris Kretschmar, Housekeeping.” “We justly rebel against today's demand (in cities) for $5, $¢ or $7 a week, ‘with po washing or ironing, no window cleaning or rug beating, with half me Thursdays and me Sun. days off, and relative unreasonable. ness in town and country on the part of all who seek service In the family. in “Good of today's heen all malcontents would have heavenly deliverance from the intclerable conditions of Colonial time. “For ‘help’ choose the Colonial woman had between an Indian who not yet African savagery, the town sold to highest bidder, bound convicts transported for crime, creatures who been bos carried dictated: ‘blackamoors’ outgrown 8 “ae had to ships that i tual slavery, and free- and compacts bound them. Occasionally she had a chance to engage a respectable young woman who had from England or Holland to but she never failed discontented ime. the willers’ under for end of the some service, her With such an amount of work which the mother and housewife had to do, what wonder that even the disheartening choice enumerated was regarded as possibilities for which to thank Providence!” find to lose appalling Colonial ONE WOMAN'S WAY preserves flowers by placing in weak camphor water She keeps colored socks and stock. ings fading by soaking them over night in water which turpentine has added. salt fo remove stain egrs on the She them f irom tepid to a cup of She been nges the made by She silver, takes examine that she it not alr trouble to all of the canned If the Bure goods bulge outward is a they been have properly and that has got She of her salt, in ber kit- little to the wa. boiling out enameled them nines pipe flavor coffes pinch She keep wy of chon and 1 ter when she is Ba 8 Wane to cleanse perfectly. She clear of potash Just before re. pours the mixture into the the sink During the acts on the grease sO that of water turn ed on In morning will wash {t away and the pipe will be as clear NOW Now keeps water by dissolving in One quart tiring rhe water pipe night the lye the first the pound one of water of current as York Mail, WOMAN AND THE EXTRACTES. A top all the reproach woman has launched at men these many de cades for going out between the acts become guilty of the prac- tice More than that the theatrical manager encourages her Else why the velvet carpeted behind the auditori newest theatres? And making most of her op- The matinee girl began it, the only offender against that one should stay the rising of the cur she has herself places woman is portunity but is not from same with no commutation for good behavior in the way of limb-stretch. ing during the intermissions. Nor does woman restrict herself to saunt- ering about the lobby. She takes her door check manfully and fares abroad for the fow minutes ‘twixt a harvest in the sale of For what pleasure could woman find in the newly usurp ed privilege did she not enjoy it al- ter the manner of him who, until late, guarded it jealously, though somewhat shamefacedly?—New York Correspondent of the Pittsburg Dis patch TRY ON NEW BOOTS. You would hardly believe that there are special times and seasons for the trying on of mew shoes. But so it is. You need a larger pair of shoes in summer than in winter, and it is always best to try them on in the latter part of the day. The feet are then at the maximum size Activity naturally enlarges them or makes them swell; much standing also tends to enlarge the fest. New shoes should be tried on over moderately thick stockings; then you can put on a thinner pair to ease your feet it the shoes seem too tight. It is re markable what a difference the stockings make. If they are too large or too small they will be nearly as uncomfortable as a palr of shoes that are too tight. New shoes can de worn with as much ease as old ones it they are stuffed to the shape of the foot with cloth or paper and pa tiently sponged with hot water, save Woman's Life. Or, if they pinch in some particular spot, a cloth wet with hot water and jald across the place. will cause immediate and Jasting re. lief. Milk applied once a week with a soft cloth freshens and preserves boots and shoes. i. USE OF A FIANCE. Girls nowadays seldom care to get are willing to met engaged, and many would hide her head in shame,”
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