1 ) Nap ¢ > %: VALUE OF SHADE FOR POULTRY. In many parts of the country means for affording relief from ex- cessive heat must be improvised as they are not naturally available. Where the poultry keeper Mves upon a Place having woods or abundant hedgerows his work is very greatly simpl'fled. For instance, under these conditions, if he, ‘with the advent of wann ‘weather, will remove his fowls to the shelter of the trees or hedges be will find that they will grow fas- ter. We know from our awn experi ence how welcome, upon a hot sume mer's day, is the shade, and what is true of ourselves is equally true of our fowls. If they are placed out In the open and exposed all day to an excess of sunshine, they bave the same feeling of discomfort that we experience under IJlke oonditions, Consequently the effect is seen in re tardation of the development of the body, and sometimes in loss by death, Moreover, under these circumstances there is a lessened activity on the part of the fowls. We have only to watch them in the open flelds to see that they cower, during the greater part of the day, under such small shade as is available, whereas those having the shelter of trees or hedges are active and happy. They seem more or less constantly engaged in seeking natural food, and in short are living under conditions which must tend to their development and to The profit of their owner. My ad- vice, therefore, is that wherever pos- nature has provided be given. Under these circumstances there have taken place, even earlier than Tae VAI ANTI) PY Pe FATE RE RT SR LS She would be a total failure as a roast, anyway. SKIMMED MILK FOOD. Skimmed milk is a splendid animal food fori growing and laying hens. It contains all the essential elements of the egg, and has the advantage of being diluted with water to fur. nish drink as well. It is good fed in a natural state or mixed with oth- er feeds. Clover and alfalfa are good egE-producing feeds, tain protein for the egg and lime for the shell, and they may be fed winter or summer, green or dry. It is best to grind them to a meal for dry fead.—Farmers’ Home Journal. DON'T CHANGE OFTEN. There is nothing to be gained a constant changing of breeds. a breed, The main reason is that one will be more interested in the work and will give it study and closer attention. The ret of the entire matter is to ary’ Home Journal, DUCKS PROFITABLE, Within the last few years | have become one of the mow profit. | able varieties of poultry. This is es pecially the case near the large cities {and great summer resorts. It used | to be thought that only farmers with plenty of water on their places could | raise ducks. Now water in any © siderable quantity is not found to necessary.—Farmers' Home Journal be the growing stock is accommodated. to places which will give them abun- dant shade or at least against excessive Michigan Farmer, protect them SUMMER CHICKS With the exception of early hatched thers is spring pullets ft as is probable much clear money in year. The pullets make the summer layers, the ready for market at cockerels a Is no easier or cheaper season mwonths, savs a correspondent in Na. tional Farmer and Perhaps 1 should have ing” instead “hatohing.” During those two months, it is true the breeding stock if yarded is likely to give eggs with fertility and vi 24 Ants Stockman said of lorw ed most conditions favor they have plenty of shade. in brooders the can the them 44 need little heat and ground about all the ie : be on ought to be at this season. If raised with hens they can be given to them in large flocks. more feed than at any other season and animal feed is abundant corn fields, meadows (if shady). pas tures or open wood lots and chicks will grow to chickens on less food and care than at any other time. VERMIN, K the people took the precaution to rid their fowls of vermin during the winter and early spring months, the percentage of less in young chicks would be considerably less. Lice kills most anything else, and yet people who keep poultry employ no means whatever to exterminate them. This is almost as foolish as looking the stable after the horas has been stolen. door lice as young chicks, though ther, too, are often killed by. vermin. A few lioe on the sitting hen means a multitude on the Home Journal. TURKEY LOGIC. Disoumsing the necessary care and methods to insure success In raising turkeys Profitable Poultry says: “Because they can find a living for themselves the cawner should not consider that they need no other feed beyond what the fields afford them. Growing turkeys should not be al. lowed to go a single day withoat grain feed of some kind. They should be given every evening a liberal feed of grain, of which corn should be the smaller part. This evening feed of grain keeps the young turkeys growing rapidly instead of making glow progress during the hot weath- er. It also gets thom in the habit of coming to the house every night, and they sleep at home instead of on the most convenient fence, as they of ten do when not fed daily during the sunvmner.” Avold exciting the geese: let them very long-lived and have been producers even at the age of hundred years, If you have Govse that does well, keep ber, matter if she is older than NOTES. no natural provide place for con- It you have ghade the fowls, venient Look ly these hot suffer, Do not neglec { month in a S0INo after the nests days or large hens $v oy nr et, wrap prompt ' will growing chicks this because have some size ton them. Keep them busy. The hot mid-summer days usher in trying in poultry It the lice and mice were not thorough ly eradicated earlier in the season, | thay will get in their best work dur “+ thav Ley in life. period | ing the heated term, unless a merci { less war is waged upon them It took the precaution to rid their fowls of vermin during the { winter and early spring months, the | percentage loss in young chicks would be considerably less, Lice kills more young year than most anvthing yet many people who employ no means whatever to exterminate them people of hicks every and keep poultry else, A Pajama One. “The late Col. A, K. McClure was { a brilliant raconteur,” sald a veteran i Clover Club man. “I'll never { his pajama story. “Col. McClure told this story at a | Clover Club dinner in the old Belle { vue of Philadelphia. It was a story | about the Soanish War “There was a regiment, it seems, i recruited from Conshohocken, Cinna- taninson, Wawa and Manunka Chunk and the ladies of those Pennsylvania towns got together after the regi ment’'s departure and made a lot of pajamas for the soldlers. Pajamas were a new thing in those days; smart, exclusive, and so forth: the ordinary man wore a nightshirt. “Well, these pajamas, dozen big packing cases went duly Cubawards, but no word of their ar- rival ever came back. The ladies waited about a month. Then they wired to the colonel, a genial, whole souled Conshohockener: "“‘Anxious to know if you got the | pajamas Iast month.’ “The colonel had never pajamas. - He wired back: "“'Story is a lie out of whole cloth, probably fabricated by enemies to | ruin me politically. Admit am not total abstainer, but never had pa jamas last month or any other time." "” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Nearly an Accident. Forty-six years of uninterrupted service at the throttle of a locomotive, during which time he was never in an accident nor suspended for deviation from railroad rules, Is the enviable record of Charles E. Chew, a veteran Baltimore & Ohio locomotive driver, who, having served the full quota of forget heard of road's pension plan, has just quit on Dec. 12, 1848, and began his rail road career on the Ohio as a messenger at Frederick, Md, on March 4, 1363. He later secured a position as fireman and was promoted to engineer on Apri! 1, 1889. Mr. Chew's first work on the Baltimore & Ohlo was in the days when the railroads were using the “grasshopper” and other early types of engines, the monsters of the pres. ent day never having been dreamed of, and the fact that in all these years this veteran of the throttle and reverse lever has kept his record as spotless as a schoolgirl’s diploma is considered remarkable by railroad of { ficials Baltimore Sun. Fifty minutes twenty-two seconds ia the world's running record for ten miles. ‘There are thirty-nine letters In the Russian alphabet, ; 3 Washington, D. C.— Explorers and | Arctic experts the world over now al- | most unanimously hall Dr. Cook and | Commander Peary as dual discoverers | of the North Pole | credit for reaching the top of the] earth belongs to America. Even the German critics, who at first doubted | Cook's story, agree that Peary has| succeeded. Letters from Commander E. Peary are in the possession of his friends, which, when made public, are | likely to arouse a storm in the scien- | tifie world. In one of these letters Peary is sald | to have made an attack upor Dr Frederick A. Cook In it Peary | charges that Cook took undue ad-| vantage of his own preparations to reach the pole, and cites as an exam- ple Cook's taking for expedition pur- poses the dogs which had been bred and trained for Peary. It is also said that Peary gives facts and figures to show that certain re- ports made by Cook could not be sub- stantiated. One of these letters, the publica- tion of which will prove the opening gun in a scientific battle, is said to be in the possession of Mra. Peary in the Peary bungalow at Eagle Island. Caution will be the watchword of the National Geographic Society, ac- cording to the decision of the Board of Managers, which met to consider the subject of the discovery of the North Pole, The soclety will await the detailed reports of both Commander Peary and Dr. Cook. They will not accept the word of any one regarding the details of the trip to the pole until it has been subjected to the scrutiny of a qualified geographical commission of recognized standing. This action is not taken for the pur- pose of throwing any doubt on the veracity of either explorer. It is un- likely that the action taken would have been brought about by the sim- ple announcement from Peary that he had discovered the pole. It would Robert | an official capacity. It is the fact that there has devel. It is feared in Washington that the known rivalry between Dr. Cook and Commander Peary will de. velop a contention——certainly a long one, and perhaps an acrimonious one, Commander Robert E. Peary's claim that he was the first to reach world. It struck home. It reached Dr. Frederick A. Cook in Copenhagen, and this was his answering volley: “Commander Peary, of course, can say what he wishes, I am not accus- tomed to Indulge in controversies, All 1 have to say about Commander Peary is that, if he says he reached the North Pole, I believe he reached the North Pole.” Says Conditions Were Favor. able to Both Explorers. Berlin.—~Dr., Hellman, Director of the Meteorological Institute of Berlin, had this to say on the polar achieve ments made known in the last week: “Several fortunate circumstances, but especially the favorable condition of the polar ice, having been encoun tered at the same time has made sible the discovery of the North Pole two daring and tried polar ex- plorers, each Sperafing du the same year, but quite Finis 2 ty of each ether.” A special cable says the Standards Copenhagen correspondent quotes Cook as saying “Having a suspicion that Peary had succeeded, | was more than eager to reach civilization in order to publish my results, which I hope Peary will testify to.” Evidently with coming conflict for covery, the National foresight of the the honors of dis- Geographic So- to an- ing “Heartiest congratulations” Peary in answer” to a message following guarded statement: “The board of managers of the Na- tional Geographic Boclety decided to take no action with regard to honors to Arctic explorers until after detailed observations and records are sub- mitted to, and passed upon by, com- petent authorities.” This statement from the heads of an organization of which Peary and Cook are both members showed plain- iy that the soclety, while not officially corroborating Peary's claim, declined to accept the decision of Danish scien- tists that Cook's records proved he reached the pole. Dr. Cook, according to his present plans, will arrive in New York Sep- tember 20 or 21, on the Scandinavian- American liner Oscar 11, which means that the two rivals for the first honor of the greatest feat of exploration in 400 years may reach their home city within a few days of one another— perhaps within a few hours. The following message from Peary, received by Mr. Bridgman, gave added assurance that he will claim priority over Cook in reaching the pole: Indian Harbor, via Cape Ray. Herbert L. Bridgman, New York.— Kindly Rush following “Wire all the principal home and foreign geo- graphical societies of all nations, in- cluding Japan and Brazil, that the North Pole was reached April 6 by Peary’'s Arctie Club expedition, under Commander Peary. PEARY.” Mr. Bridgman dispatched messages of London, Rome and Brussels. New York City.—The people In and around New York who lay claim to some knowledge of polar explora tion, astronomy, navigation, { suddenly been brought into the fore by the strangest coincidence in the ception all sort of telegrams of con Roosevelt somewhere up in the north and returned by rail to New York. In the flood of fellcitationthat poured the sponsors of Peary's many dashes for the pole, there was evident the first minor note of controversy which is bound to follow the arrival of the commander of the Roosevelt and the coming to these shores of the much- feted Dr. Conk, of Brooklyn. Prof. Shearer, of Cornell, Caustic About Cook's and Peary's Feats, Tthaea, N. Y.-~Louis C. Bement, of this city, who was a member of the Peary relief expedition of 1901 and Is a friend of both Commander Peary and Dr. Cook, belleves that both men have discovered the North Pole, Cornell scientific men are disposed to accept the statements of both men but doubt if their discoveries will aid J. 8. Shearer to what might be science” ouly. THE ART A hostess of is no easy, OF carefully her guests, ENTERTAINING, considers the Where money tively moderate can be that cost little your reputation for Every guest room should vided with writing facilities, cannot afford a handsome each room, at least have A common wooden table, eral coats of white paint and one of enamel, is decorative, purnose On this rack per and box for and stamps, and a tray, to hold holder, pencil, knife, ter. The the covered with a large bi eral blottger in the case with paper endar is a This equipment need not H give. Good looking made from boxes tonnes, or even match the room. I you can afford it, marked with your address home is in the should contain telephone wise have a stock of per that is in good taste Ni ties can be bought by the pound, and n to the im; guest has for folio that ing materials the wealthy but every one clls, and blotters, One hostess has ¢ ono the Though longings, them will call it not ing another's ply room These Good sizes, Guests are supm personal toilet is the woman who does n ally pack in a h hostess provides for ing on hang a —ifs their wrappers dozen fine used for no help out the pectedly or has They are kept done up pper the The in where 1 find even when one is ciregmeatances given a guest room but add much 1o thoughtfulntss, but many be If one desk a flat table. given sev and answers every should go for pa a envelopes, a and paper should top of table 11 {yy 5 fmaiier convenience desk sets covered with wall have £4 this paper and Other. praper & * country your address telegraph as well inexpensiy often prove a Lo who Kee gotten the sunpnls q ni {oes no and pals closet the with tiny are now makes to your are do for belong irry? them f toothbrushe haz hal which than stock and night gowns, other purpose girl who come SYorgotien.’ in Biue tig shelf { F 4 infornat sue guests’ is laughingly g them, so all ed Another of orange can be bought I« box, and often prove an acceptable equi; ment for bathroom washes They are desirable a down-sts lavatory. A small nail brush is also This need not be provided for guest, dut should de scrubbed with ammonia so the Dbristies clean and shining when the visitor appears. Have hanging on the door of each closet a laundry bag, and unless there is plenty of shelf room a shoe bag should be added to the door or wall Books and magazines should not be forgotten. Often one's and retiring hour is not that to which the guest has been accustomed, and hours can be spent in reading. Have these books attractive both inside and out. There should be an assortment to suit varied tastes —novels, essays, short stories, and on an u bathroom iver paper embarrassment i useful accessory is a box wood sticks Short ones r 35 cents a or in useful each out are It one is a country hostess and is thoughtful there will be a supply of extra wraps, capes, knit shawis and outing hats. These save many steps to guests whose “things” are vided for %eeping warm in an out door life. Should bathing be part of the daily amusement, it ia well to have sev. eral extra bathing suits in different One hostess, who says she has been done out of many a walk because rud bers have been forgotten, now keeps a supply In assorted sizes. —New York Times. TO BE STATURESQUE. The smart figure, ns has been said 80 many times before, must be statuesque. To occupy the least pos sible space in one's gown is the true fdeal. But to accomplish this end, the material and the color must be chosen with care. Velvet always gives an effect of heaviness—there fore should only be chosen by wom. en of slender figure. Satin, because of its brilliancy, should be used with care. Dull materials, rather weigh. ty, so that they cling to the figure, such as chiffon broadcloth, will look well with fiat garnitures. White or black gives the most slender lines. It one wishes to use heavy laces as trimming, they must be carefully tacked down, so that no wrinkles or fulness can be seen. The long, tight sleeve is very becoming if one chances to have arms of a beautitnl whmpe. The tunic style is good when made erepe de chine, if the bor with fringe of the fringe. finished weight of very graceful folds to gowns a soft material, In a word, and it can not He repeated too often, any- i thing that gives the effect of thick- ness must shunned, that | lengthens and makes ust be eagerly sought for One should take care | certain { to the botio skirt, inserting the {ing Avoid of the true notes of elegance tunic be The der silk gives of ang all slender m be to give mn @ m Ol a the in allow- iiness by better still, by either SEAMS or, it in the cut. the nieces piece for This gE one for the ing or drawing ex- oh extremes winter, whether a woman is order | costumes for forenoon, afternoon evening { the line tremes, and the hest Smart women are very rigidly against houses to wh | they give their pat ything leading jat ronage ar opposed 10 ever ¥ Th direction equal prominence this apwritten law more One ever that their taste is : that failing happen thar t meeis styles always the springs from a desire for further New Haven PEBRESS Five ed themselves hinted that any rich English take n Society showiness, individ 1 ogi negister PROMOTERS § recently into a circie form- have Am who sition 30 by put. + shape of among have anA ponial, ert can or man or woman desires to in Lond« ting down the up a definite pe } ¥ money on. If place in so ttain for her lord the po- on of which he is worthy gowned and entertain A third quintet is the wife of magnate who accept- a wellknown newspa- for to al his house 8OY- dress he perfectly also Wf the nehire from wr Dr permission proprietor rter to reside in {low a rem i renowned | during ereign who must be Those know hin th the ¢ the visit of a nameless ladies are interest new million may That heavy 1 due saying. Some fix Ki), others say it more 25,000 London the New York these who with wal g ¢ greatest for ning of the who, if they are bachelors, aires their lives me the feos will be expect the ti of # rye Pride tions goes without at § » id the price 5 u to will likely n Correspondent Press o! Her third burglar in two mooths was captured by Rose Meyer, hcouse- keeper in the household of Mrs Fan- { nie Michael, of New York city, and ! after the accused man had been held | in $2000 bail his fair captor recelv- | ed from Magistrate Cornell the com- plimentary comment, “You ought to wearing a police lieutenant's { badge.” Rose, who weighs in the neighbor ‘hood of 175 pounds, was called to | the door today by a man who gave { his name as Joseph Sell and who {rented a furnished room A little | later she saw Sell coming out of an | upstairs room with a big bag in his | hand She grabbed him and in a | minute he was flat on his back with | one of Rose's knees planted on his { chest. When the police arrived Sell was | pufing away at a cigarette which { Rose had given him permission to i make and smoke while waiting for the patrol to come. Rose” still had her knee on her prisoner's chest and tin her right hand was poised a trusty hatpin.—Philadelphia Record. be FASHION NOTES. Some of the newly imported hats are veritable masses of flowers, Black suede slippers with red heels are shown in some of the shops. The ridicule of cartoonists has driven out the extreme peachbasket hat. Gray, tan, khaki, and even darker shades, are more worn than the white linens. Belt buckles, neckiaces, hatpins and stickping are ablaze with amethysts, The onedlime princess dress is sup planting the separate waist and skirt. White buckskin shoes with wide buckles of burnished gold are very smart. A fancy of the hour ia the coat made of net to wear over the princess gown, New slik parasols have handles to match, made of enameled or lac quered wood. Stockings match every variety of shoes and the more fashionable dress shades. Soft, cool blouses of China or Jap: anese silk are very popular. Linens are either very fine and or else very heavy, almost like Rus. sian crash, \
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