LAW AGAINST DE-GRADING. Wisconsin (of course, Wisconsin) 00k the lead in this matter of horse- sreeding. They have a singularly ‘orceful veterinary surgeon at the University *of Wisconsin, who is $0 one of the most influential mem- vers of the faculty. (Fancy or Yale!) *ondition at Harvard His bill the import ier, and he “kissed” to help norse-breeding ure. He hid from the legislators had passed it. When nad become a law and its ment the owners of tallions shrieked But it was The Legislature had adjourned Alexander's law provides that when i man stands grade stallion pu st announce larg advertising matt fon general mi a through the full of it until after the biil enforce sven began, late a in e let er that a grade stall tking in a very animal of blood with f common!y a handso: fa 1 1 a ¢ * is unsafe to inferior blood in pring Alexander's { ealed ffs law, besides lllong to be advert absolutely proh with defect editary by the fons nounced her nary inspectors. nsin this Minnesota, have spreading passed Utah, now him aim The expense energy there and be exnende more La] ired food i8 around the i stores nothing on his body $ a f hat may used for som. pose than to please the Wa ing The breeding onl: fp therefore, have him more amount of at This will fat on it iL make nataral improve The soid his health fat on is wort! the hog that money in the market and should be put on freely. The anil mal should not. however, have so much fat that he is likely to go down when on the journey to market. The buyers of hogs like to have fat ones but they do not want them too fat An overfat hog is apt to become too hot when on the way to market and die before reaching the .end of his iourney. The custom that prevails now of marketing hogs at about ten months results in few of them being ton heavy with fat at time of mar keting. The fat on the mature hog is put on profitably, but on the half-develop- éd carcass it is less profitable. Too iarge a proportion of it consists of pure fat, and the price of corn is3 too good at this time to make that kind of a hog very profitable. Every pound of fat put on a hog by the use of corn is put on at a loss, and this loss has to be made up by the improvement in price of the whole carcass. ' The smaller the carcass the less chance is there of a profit. In fact, trying to put a big lot of fat on a halfdeveloped car cass is a losing operation at this time. —~W, H. Underwood, in tne In. diana Farmer, is to ha SHELTERING VEHICLES AND MA. CHINES, Notwithstanding the number of carts, and thowing-machines, and borse-rakes, and other tools that we see standing by the roadside or In the field, the year round, most farm erg balleve in the economy of housing all these things. They know that iron rusts, and that wood-work swells and mosphere. They think it is only a question of time that the new carriage house or shed shall be built, where | the scattered tools and vehicles will have a permanent home. This waiting | to provide the needed shelter is the most expensive kind of saving. The | elements are all the while at work, depreciating the value of the wool and iron that are exposed to the weath. er. A scythe and snathe hung in a tree through one season is old, warp jed, and rusty. Stored in the tool- | room it is little changed in look or value; no repairs are wanted, and it ready for soon the grass is ready new that is left by goes ! to sS00nNn is use as The roadside as cart the goon pieces, if the paint even off: painted, we the the heat rain cracks, the the sun ars and paint wood, cals loose, laid out under f an iy v roof and 4 ing t Keen cover out rain the ig is not neal 11 wood! ANEW of mols not need setting so often upon a back wall makes 4 and is within Weekly at once merchants as that is complain They made York the express companies assert profit is being too much as inflated capital, and they ask that the business be investigated Keon of the henhouse clean Great iderneath ¥ good testi much to do frozen manure perches is not monial for the owner and encouragement f{ tl niles un vel not for the hens hest The | larger their woodiot will out the chance hen ' tle itt! trees in the time. Cat be some them young Eggs are arge ones and give a Save some ( the best rposes from hens pretty worth not sae in be slOore will not | throw to or muck vOut creek as mix ime. Peet As an folks never for their hens the best to nee rheorbent. Queer that some think of providing shade in | hot weather! HOT BED FOR SWEET POTATOES ! Please tell me how to make a hot | bed for sweet potatoes, and the right time to put the potatoes in for early plants. A Reader Answer: —Make your bed perfectly flat, and a good size is 6x16 feet. Pu! manure in hot, and pack wuni formly. It should be about one fool in depth after it is well packed. When frame is set on the bed, shake in enough manure make four inches more after it is thoroughly packed as before. Then fill the frame nearly full of good mellow earth. The best soil for this purpose is well rotted leaf mold, and it should be at least geven inches deep. Cover the bed with straw to the depth of 8 or 10 inches, and above this make a roof of light boards, with slope enough to carry off the water. The bed should be prepargd about one month before the plants will be needed, which would make the time between the first and the middle of May. — Indiana Farmer, your to BULKY FOOD FOR HENS. The bulky meal, cut fodder, clov er shafterings, and vegetables, can be profitably given at noon, and enough of this should be given to completely satisfy the hens. Never but they will be hungry for their grain supper, est ration one can give the hens, so it would seem they would never want for it, but it is more bother, and too many expect to receive the profit from the egge, without the bother of aid ing the hens to produce the eggs. Indiana Farmer, Stamps up to the denomination of $500 have been issued by the govern. ment of Victoria, Australia ly i Business From His Gone--HMHousekeeper D. C.—NMNrs. Willlam Howard Taft, “first lady of the has assumed duties ceremony or oath of o welght of responsibilities, of importance, d« of and lack of compesiation eomparison President his oath with President without oath, gocinl and White House th Washington, without public flee which, in magnitude execution have licaey no sent AR near of as 1 private off ance a formed police ed doorkee and in th in Mvery ir place For tained on duty in the m room inside the main another on the second mansion The rights nized by the safety an officer is re iniature office entrance, and floor of the i ibiie are recog. maintenance of the hour from noon o'clock, when ad mission is granted through the east entrance to historic East Hoom and the parlors of the mansion Mrs. Taft has abolished the tion of steward, and will ¢ domestic arrangements woman housek: While the season fleial is over, dicted that the new White Honse will conduct a informal during apecial session of Congress which wi bring renewed animation and 1 life to the sed: h th v f the p until 1 tha poO®i- her rough a ribed of- it may be of aories of sha the 1 dinners pre tenant the aoncial functions gncial io ture duri the Taft regime President Taft goera by walking services at All Souls’ was accompanied by Charles P. Taft The few | ng months of surprised democratically Church io He is crowd of cu- to see the new President were expect. fng him to arrive in an automobile, the doors of the church before the expectant throng realized that Chief Executive had walked through the erowd without being recognized. | | e doors him saun- gtreet, again gathered at th the sidewalk to brother on se6 emerge, and with his red up Fourteenth some distance a hundred or so of admirers followed, but they event- y dropped off one by one President Roosevelt always caught the « on his way to and from ur id gait, and the 4iM- had t« f¢ quietly rowds ch His ri: the S«¢ pace attract the Mr. Taft declin 0 Lise vier i thie veq al § sterret, his ace Hot news purchased at Va with lar. Edwards, his ald; Archibald Butt and ex-Presi. Roosevelt's orderly, MeDermott, a twelve-mile ride over the pewly constructed Potomac speedway Automo es will be almost the ex elusive method of locomotion of Pres. {dent Taft and family The White House automobile will have the right of way throughout the Dis. triet of Colu fa and will know no speed limit Two fine new automobiles already have been purchased with the $12. 000 appropriated by Congreas for this purpose, and Mr a thorough trial weather and General Rn Captain dent military one went for his mw ms Taft has given them Ope is a good big touring r and ca painted in This will the machine, a etachahble top, dark green of three be the one most used by dent. The other car has a limousine body painted black, and was pur- chased for the use of Mrs. Taft. Both bear on each door the official coat of arms of the United States The cara are in charge of men sent from the factories, who will turn the machines the White House head chauffeur, who will receive $100 a month He will have one assistant The White House garage will be in the present stables. Besides the two Prosi. over to of Secretary Carpenter and hls assist. The only horses which will be used by President Taft and his family will be the new saddle horse recently pur the street or at the chureh Chicago. —""Peminine deceit is all right. Love piracy is all right. Keep your husband loving you by any hook or crook. But for heaven's sake don't go to bed with a quarter of an inch of cold eream on your face to tip him off on how you keep beautiful.” These pregnant thoughts were vouchsafed 300 of Chicago's wives | Arts Building, by Mme. Hatton, mat- | rimonial philosopheress to the Windy City's Smart Set, “1 don't care what method a wom. an uses to make her husband think she's prettier than time has let her be. If she succeeds in that and holds him true to her, cosmetics are the real agent of morality. But scores of married women | know of deserve to lose their husbands. They think so much of him that they leave their toi. let articles lying in full sight about the house, confess they go to massage artists, throw rats carelessly about and even admit to strenuous gymnas- tics to keep down weight and give ar- tificial lustre to sinking eves. “Women ought to keep their hus. bands guessing ¢ll the time-——juet as the coy girl of romance plays hide and seek with the grande passion, un. til she has her sweetheart groveling | and trembling lest the ‘Yes’ she has secretly meant to say from the start won't be said at all. “Here's the secret of keeping a husband. Stay beautiful and don’t let the male half know the reason. Also, don't eat too much, Given the | ald of modern corsets and lacings, the American wife is indefensible if her husband deserts her because she has | grown fat.” | Football and Baseball Give Har. { vard a Surplus of $20,001, Cambridge, Mass, — A surplus of $26,091.10 in receipts over expendi tures in all lines of Harvard athletics | 1a shown by the report for the college {year 1907-08. T total receipts {were $127,318.44 and the total ex- | penditures $101,227.34, The total net surplus exceeds by $14,450 the surplus of the previous year, the gain Seeks Gold Fifty Years; ! Finally Gets $1,000,000. Ban Bernardino, Cal.—Harry Par- sons, a desert miner, aged seventy. five years, left San Bernardino for Philadelphia to visit relatives whom he has not seen for fifty years. He goes back with a fortune estimated at 1,000,000, which he will share with his relatives. One of these is a sister, who, when he failed to find gold in California in 1849, gave him all she had, a little more than $600, to con. tinue his He amassed YALUE OF KHEPING COUNT. The holiday season long pass- ed, and it is time to get down | business and think of your bank book. This is a good time of year to save money. You will not need pew clothes before the spring, and if yon are wise you will bring the bank ac count along at an amazing place You will be surprised to find number things do with- out Every time yourself bank book Independence and will that case COMeS to turn for ald! If BAVeEe A BANK AC- is of can deny you you ETrOows is a delightful proud your you hye to know in 80 illness WAY or your you will not to your relatives or friend you are your KO 10 Don’t lend WOMAN changes DAY , electric THE If phe ity 3 chang OW occupa tions and women are scarce iv loss 80. says a writer in Appelton’s Within As astonishingly the t twenty-five yvears—an period for so emerg old © r of spinsterhood great a Jevs women from the home, from the T= DBArrOwWness in whether happy or unhapp’ ventiona: and the uncerta onditions of pendence most every field o red to They on than ntered a once sa men higher educat hat in less eration unheard-of a COomnon piace an Somber, seventies made it years women of the earls in a few ahort pink-cheeked ege ¥ hats and ai walsts possible chi of 18 to enter ool and 1a Te and pictu ry with her hf square being jonger rs ¥ ol flat heels no SY NON ymous with a knowledge Greek. Afeer they had become train. ed in the higher branches next step was easy, They entered the pro fessions of medicine, of law. of archi tecture. They invaded newspaper of- ficee and business offices; and there are now strong signs that they are invading politios, though it is prob- taking their fem- according to the and {he ininity with them, evidence of Mrs. who told in a speech at Cooper Union that the first remark made by one of her devoted band after she had been hustled into the Black Maria, was the immortal “I my hat straight?” As long as women still care for the proper tilt of their mill inery, you may scratch a suffragette and find Eve. NOT ALLOWED TO SMOKE. The recent decree of M. Caillaux, tite Minister of Finance, hy Which a traveller ean only introduce Into France ten cigars or twenty cigar ottes, or forty grammes of tobacco, whichever he prefers, has, as might have been expected, aroused a great deal of comment. But the passage which has oaused most surprise Ia that which forbids women and chil That children should be for. good, but why women should be tor. bidden to carry cigarettes when sc understood. In some cities in Ameri ea women are not allowed to smoke fn public, but there is no such re. striction in France, where women do as they like in this matter, and often smoke in the trains. No douht M. Calllaux’s only idea was to pro- tect the revenue, but he runs the considered ridicule ana of being means great danger prudish, which loss of authority. It is openly sald in France that if M. Calllaux wants to improve the sales of the regle he should insist on the tobacco being | made up without any admixture of saltpetre, which renders it bitter and | unpalatable If he would do so It would be a great boon to English smokers, who, being accustomed ‘o the best tobacco in the world, find | the French cigars and cigarettes very | unpleasant smoking But it rath er hard not to allow women intro. | duce cigarettes of some tobaceo London Globe, is 10 even twenty decent PIONEER CHAUFFEUR. i COme OCC upation the Directors ra ashion oth SOON ? extrem length will lowing wil like | which re nish with Few iress BOIints than the It can make ordinary difficulty ing any frock doesn’t in the + ng oth of a woman fo he Tr achiev making average devote thought more in own New York ap pearance Press that respect DISENCHANT BANDS. Pointed advice women of many degrees is contained in a little vol ume an Englishman has just publish ed Here are words of counsel tu average wife: “The euccessful MUST NOT HUS to of disenchantment; the one who an the fact it is a far moras difficult matter to keep her husbant sweetheart than it was to trane form a sweetheart into a husband. If natural existence she should set to work to make her self more charming and more pleas ing to him than to any one else: for it is very important to her bappi ness that she should outshine ull other women in his eves. Hers is the greatest gain in this respect Wiat geverer strain can a man's love be subjected to than that of seeing his wife compare unfavorably with every other woman he meets? To see her dowdy and frumpy, ever troubled with the petty cares of do mesticity; to return hGine in high good humor only to have his serenity shattered by a recital of her house hold disasters; what can be worse? «New York Press We must save our roads, warns the New Haven Register. If nothing so far produced will serve, our Invest. ors must keep up their quest until they find something. Nearly one-third of all the children born in New York city dls before they become 3 years S
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