MOLDING FAST. Oft when tbe tide of joy M at it flood, And hope nd zet of life are sailing home. There creep an alien bark with blackened hull Into the harbor of my consciousness. This stranger cmft whose portent none can tell but my atartled fear of life'a mischance, A worldieas, trackleaa dread of coming ill, Obtruded on my hour of happiness. But for a moment doea the pang endure, And then rebound, my heart with joy untold. That He who rule the deep of earth and life Sends only ahip of good unto my aoul. The New Idea Woman's Magaiie THE $12,000,000 BUBRf 4 TRUE ST&Y OF THE FINDING OF THE FAMOUS BUNKER HILL MINE By F. a. MOORHEAD Dutch Jake tells the story with bis jeet against the window sill of bis irlvate office; on the second floor of Die most famous some call It the nost infamous music hall In the r7est. The geneRis of "Bill," the 112,- 100,000 burro, Is shrouded in mys lery. The Important thing is that bout the time he was sweet sixteen e belonged to a Arm of Westerners y the name of Cooper & Peck, who considered It n good risk to grub Itake one N. S. Kellogg, burning with ambition to tramp around In the mountains of Northern Idaho with a pen in one hand and a hammer In the other, hunting for gold. Kellogg lad a hunch and he wasn't the sev inth son of a seventh son, either. But He could tell when he saw color of rold and if somebody would only lee to It that he had enough to eat Bhlle he was out by himself In the wilderness he'd And gold or bust. That was the sentiment; Kellogg's irords were a trifle more emphatic. Dutch Jake tells the story flrst aand, because he was around when It all happened and there Isn't a man living who knows more about It. He lells It in a broken Dutch dialect his last name Is Qoeti and he's Dutch dear through but the story's the thing, not the dialect. "It happened back In '85," snys Qoetz, "I was then at Murray, In the gold belt of the Coeur d'Alenes, where my partner, Harry Baer, and 1 had a saloon. We were partners, '). Id mining deals and did a little (ambling on the side. I was about Ihirty years old aud had something like twenty-five thousand dollars It was easy come, easy go in those Says. Say, I was the real thing as a pioneer, having gone Into the Coeur 1'Alenes in '83 on snowshoes with twenty feet of gnow on the ground ind helped open up a lot of towns: Murray, Mullen, Ragle, Burke, Kel logg and Wardner. VI fell In early with Phil O'Rourke, an old Colorado miner, who was counted the best prospector In those days, and Baer and I grub Itaked him to prospect for us. Dutch Jake has always been pretty lucky, fcs. "" "O'Rourke and I'd been out look ing at some claims early hi '85 aud when we returned we met Kellogg, who had been provided with a burro nd $18.75 worth of provisions by Cooper and Peck and told to hunt around until ho found color or never show his noso in civilization aguln. The $18.75 worth of grub dldu't Inst long, but the burro's goln down In history. You see It was this way." "Dutch Jake" invariably takes an extra long puff on his fat cigar and perches his black sombrero further back on his head. "The burro did It, that's the God s truth. Kellogg had been plugging around in the mountains for a good long time aud hadn't hit on anything that looked good to him, till he was Plumb disgusted. He was for getting back to the settlement, where there was always something doing, even if the grubstake hadn't panned out. So he made his last camp up In the Coeur a'Alenes, tied the burro "Bill" to a rock and hunted around for another life of bacou that'd make hlui thln'i of homo aud mother. "The burro whiffed the bacon find began to think about his own ajpe te. He gnawed thoughtfully ot the rope that held him. but gavi !t tu rn disgust. He wanted something to eat just as much as Kellogg did. finally he got so blooming mad he "norted and reared around, pawed OP all the loose gravel and bowlders and then lot out with his heels as though he'd kick the lining out of e sky. Kellogg gulped down his oacon and wandered over to see what ailed Bill. "I guess Kellogg never did think : flve th' burro anything to eat inat night. He even forgot his own nuugtir, f0r Blll had uncoverod B eage of iron-galena ore that certaln f l0lied good to Kellogg. There .' was' Plenty of It, riches for every body, but Bill, the burro, was just " hungry as ever. townhe .rXV dtty KellogK Bot ,nt0 CW 8 8howe hla specimens to John M. Burke about It. Burke had a treat rep. but ft man.a make mistake, now and vbeu He worth iJ? aly a sn""ng ore. not Peck , tth,e1r",B about CoP' " ton r WOrd for 11 aud f K BD th "? 1 nd KOld he could grub 0t that 18'75 wor" f other I?9 me" 0na 1,,ok fr " wo t have to look far. He ihoWwed1Uhl.UleU T" ame n h,m' It .lidn? . ii ,ainPlM t0 O'Rourke, o that4 Ph'1 "Ut 8 n'0uleat like "he r ,.Balena or wbonato JBou. pfff that md Colorado fa and sal!, Called me t0 on "Jo to go cahoof TLdn,t d0 brttor round " th Kell" 'U ,tak,,,s "r ctty?1Bl. j agreed- tur"J over nnd. hey ,truck rlnt off for the wlUnTer,'Z1dlin't ,0t any ra8 out on! I6. They wore one nu..i. v. . " whnV7. nna iost another ,efch ot Tn KeI1BB went In ruleh to loni, . " "Urted UP Mi'o "iuea. At the be4 of ti creek he found some galena float and though it was dreadful hard work to get through the brush and fallen timber, he climbed up the hill about Ave hundred feet and there he stumbled upon the great Bunker Hill ledge sticking right up out of the ground. There was nothing to It but glittering galena, and Phil knew he'd found the greatest thing ever dis covered In the Northwest. He wai so excited he sat right down and never said a word or took his eyes off that galena for a half-hour. Fin ally he rushed back, found Kellogg, and the two staked out the claim. "Next morning the two men start ed up the gulch about two miles to make the location, but their cayuses had strayed r-way. And what do you suppose they saw, not a great ways from the Bunker Hill ledge, which they'd given that name because of the battle In the Revolutionary War? Nothing but that ornery, kicking bur ro, Blll by name. He was white originally and still white enough to show up against tho black and brown and green, and there he was pawing and kicking around right where he'd mode the big find, just as If the fever for prospecting had got In his veins, too. You set when Kellogg had quit Cooper and Peck he'd Just turned the donkey loose, Blll not belonging to him and not being wanted any more. Cooper and Peck hadn't bothered about old Bill, and he'd wandered disconsolately back up the mountain side till Kellogg and O'Rourke found him, and seeing as how nobody seemed to claim him they just appro p.iafed him themselves. "The sight of the samples those two men had set the camps crazy, lost all his money of trouble as tefl. The Harry Orcll ard story of the blowing up of the concentrator and the trouble At the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines need not be re-told. But wealth has made men forget hardships, danger and toil; and wealth the spot has certain ly produced In abundance. The mines were sold eighteen years ago for million and a half dollars, but to day they're valued at twenty million dollars, and not for sale. The credit is the burro's; that much has been positively settled. Af ter the lucky find there was the In evitable dispute, which was carried Into the courts. Cooper and Peck heard their burro had been with Kel Jogg and O Rourko, and though they hadn't cared enough for Blll to give him food, shelter or even a pleasant word, a lawsuit could be babed on his participation in the find; It was worth trying, anyway. Cooper and Peck tried, and won. The case was tried In Murray, Idaho, before Judge Norman Buck and a jury. Cooper and Peck wanted a half Interest in the whole find. The jury listened intently and brought In a verdict for the defense, disquali fying tho burro entirely. But the Judge shook his head and had the last word. It Is recorded in the Idahc scrolls of Justice: "From the evidence of the wit ness; this court is of the opinion that the Bunker Hill mine was dis covered by the jackass, Phil. O'Rourke and N. S. Kellogg; and as the jackass Is the property of the plaintiffs, tbey are entitled to a half Interest In the Bunker Hill mine and a quarter Interest In tho Sullivan claims." The case would have been ap pealed, but the disputants came to gether on a chance to sell out. Coop er and Pack compromised on. $76, 000; Harry Bner and Dutch Jake got $200,000 in cash in p lump sum; Phil O'Rourke more; Kellogg. $300, 000 and Co Sullivan $75,000. The burro got a square meal three times a day for six years. Kel logg bought Bill and paid a man at Forest Grove, Oregon, $50 a month to care for him. Bill lived In clover till he died aged twenty-one years, and his grave is marked with a stone to-day. Dutch Jake didn't learn of his death in time or he'd have bought the skin and stuffed It. He showed his appreciation by having twostalned glass reproductions of the scene where Bill kicked up pay dirt put over the bar in the Coeur d'Alene sa loon in Spokane, where no patron can possibly miss them. The other characters in the drama have gone their ways. Old man Kel logg died a few years ago, having Phil O'Rourke The Qceen's Maids. The Queen demands of her maids that I bey shall be musical, neat In i their attire and eschew picture hats! I Otherwise, she is very easy-going with them, and in the kindest way minis ters to their pleasure whenever It Is possible. A maid of honor no longer receives the coveted "dot" of a thou sand pound on her marriage, as of yore, but the rank of "honorable ii still hers. London Gentlewoman. Ixitb. There has been a good deal written about dorman mother-love, but tho fact that there Is a sentiment as father-love seems to have kept well In the background. Masculine America flies from sentiment or from the irowal of sentiment as from a plague or the confession of a crime. Yet It would be a poor country that confined Its sentiment to Its women. The natural emotions are the inher itance of both sexes, even If It Is but one which has the courage to confess them. Delineator. so many people think, nor Is It neces sarily dimpled. Whether the skin be white or tanned to a deep brown by the rays of the sun. It must be smooth and Arm and well cared for. Even a bony hand, under these conditions, Is at tractive to look at, and ten minutes devoted each day to the care of the hands land nails will reap a rich re ward. New Haven Register. I 5? j 5 HOW A BOY WORKS. It Is remarkable how hard some people will work to com bine business with pleasure. I have had this discovery borne upon me by noticing frequently during recent years the laborious operation of going after the cows with a bicycle. In fact I have studied the innovation considerably and have come to the calm conclusion that there Is in it more work than fun. This conclusion, however, is not universally reached, and I have only recently Been cowboys doing the trick and thinking they were having enjoyment. A bicycle ride after the cows may be mapped out as follows: A hundred feet on the road to the first pair of bars. Dismount. Take down all the bars. Mount and ride through. Dismount. Walk back six yards and put up the bars. Mount and ride two hundred feet through the first lot the path as rough as ever a road to Dublin. At the next pair of bars and the next and the next, unto seven times, repeat the exercises of dismounting and mounting, and then maybe you have reached the pasture lot. Now fly around among tho blackberry bushes and rocks and get the herd together. Then mount and dismount, race, chase, holler, swat and threaten till you have got the cattle up to the road. Does it pay? Watch the line of cattle file Into the barnyard, and behind them on the hard road that easy lad on the wheel. He never says a word about the rough places. That last one hundred feet of smooth riding has repaid him fov all his labor. To-morrow morning he will do it all over again. "Coasarn" the boys, anvhow From the Newark Evening News. but nobody knew JuBt where the lucky find was located. Phil tool; me off to one side and advised me to locate the extension to the Bunker Hill. He thought I'd better take Con Sullivan along, Con being a sort of side partner of Phil's. That night at 10 o'clock we set out In a furioui rain, without even a pack horse. We thought we could locate the mine by the directions that O'Rourke gave us, but as it turned out he made a mis take in describing the location and we took the wrong hog-back and nad dreadful time. We wandered around for four days and got com pletely lost and had nothing to eat or drink two days but some snow that had lain in a gully from the last winter. Sullvan was pretty nearly done for, his tongue sticking out and he could hardly move. You see we were walking all the time, day and night, except for the little rest when we would sit down to get our bear- in.- We wandered around almost in a circle In those mountains and ut last came out in the south fork ot the Coeur d'Alene a little above Kingston. My, but I thought we would drink that river dry! "A half-braed woman on a ranch gave us something to eat and we went on up to Jackass prairie. By that time we knew where we were and Sullivan went over and located the extension." vDutch Jake" has finished his round-bellied cigar by this tlma and without a word arises and beckons his listener to follow him luto the music hall. Above the drop curtain Is a large painting, well Illuminated by a circle border of electric lights. "That's the picture," he proudly, with a wave of his hand "I ain't much of an artist myself but I sketched It out and I had a lirst rate painter do the rest. That's how It looked." The painting shows the famous Bunker Hill and Sullivan mines ot Northern Idaho as they appeared twenty-three years go, the distant mountains snow-cappod, the green of the pines adding color to the scone. To-day that spot Is one of the busiest and most productive on Mrth. Divi dends averaging cne hundred and eighty thousand dollars a month are paid to the owners out of tho ore brought to the surface by the eight hundred miners at work all the yeai around, their wages aggregating oue hundred thousand dllurs a mouth. The mines have already paid a total of approximately twelve million dol lars, the few shares to be had on the market being held for thirteen dol lars ouch. They've boon productive went to Alaska but returned aud is now living in Kellogg, Idaho, being cared for by philanthropic people. Harry Baer and Dutch Jake erected a handsome office building in Spo kane, at a cost of $230,000 and the next year lost It in the fire which destroyed the entire business district of the city. They took their $70,000 insurance money and built the fam ous Coeur d'Alene music hall, which is the next thing to a gold mine. Oiitlng Magazine. Risks of Railway Travel. The comparative immunity from Injury and death enjoyed by travel ers and employes on English rail, ways has often been the subject ol comment, and the statistics of the English roads for the year past lend added weight to the comparison be tween these roads and our own In tho respects mentioned. From thit shoeing it appears that in the period named In Great Britain 0 passengers were killed, or 1 out of every 199, 75ti,000 carried, and 534 were in jured, or 1 out of every 2,244,472 carried. In the United States, in thj same space ot time, 2G2 passenger were killed, or 1 out of every 2,730, 600 carried, and 534 were Injured or 1 out of every 14 9,107 carried With regard to the railway employes the net result Is that In America 1 tn every 357 was killed and 1 in 19 injured, while In Great Britain 1 In every 845 was killed and 1 In everj 80 was injured. It should be added In justice to the American railway management, that the risks of travel and employment on American roads are necessarily greater, Blnce tho dls- says tances traveled here are much longer. many or tne roads newer, and the physical obstacles to be overcome much greater, in many instances. Leslle'sWeekly. It U'uNii't Fire Nor Water. A. M. Dowues, late secretary ot New York's Fire Department, related at a dinner a fire story. "At the end ot the first act of a drama," he said, "a man leaped hurriedly to his feet. 'I heard an alarm of fire,' he cald. '1 must go aud see where It Is.' HI wife, whose hearing was less acute, made way for him In silence, and he disappeared. 'It wasn't fire,' he said, on his return. 'Nor water, either, said his wife, coldly." Everybody's ihitfuzlno. Unlit Her Own Summer Cottage. Miss Josephine Louise Reynolds, of Hull, a telephone girl, has demon trated that one woman, at least, can drive a nail straight and saw a board vertically and to the line. She drew the plan of a small sum mer cottage and with her own hands, fearless of callous and splinter, con structed It, the workmanship being good In every detail from foundation to rooftree. With her own hands Miss Reynolds will paint, decorate and furnish the cottage, the accommodations being for living, cooking and sleeping. When it is completed some time dur ing the latter part of this week she and her sister Grace will occupy It for the lummer. Boston Globe. Rnllwny Station Master. Whlppingham, on the Isle of Wight, has had a woman station mas ter for twenty years. Mrs. Merwood is, In fact, a whole station staff, for she does everything but remove the baggage to and from trains. The sig nalling and recording of passing trains, ticket selling, lamp lighting and blll posting are all part of her duties, and besides she finds time to attend to the station garden. The place is no sinecure, either, for the Btation Is between Ryde and Cowes, The Wrong Dope. An Atchison bride Is worried to death. She has been reading up for several months In the women's col umns of the papers how to keep a husband's love, and In all of them has found the same advice: "lie your husband's constant companion. When he comes homo saying he Is go ing on a trip, have a handsome tailor made costume all ready, some fresh shirt waists and a little traveling bag packed ready to accompany him. Look at him with a winning smile and Bay sweetly: 'Take me, dear.' He will, and soon will not know how to go without x you," etc., etc. The bride's husband is a traveling man, but every time her Husband has left for his territory she has carried out the plan offered by the women's col umns in the papers. He took her once or twice and she was nearly dead trying to keep up with him. Yesterday, when the bridegroom started for his trip, the bride ap peared with her tailor-made suit, her little traveling bag and her winning smile. Her husband looked at her and said: "Great heavens, are you crazy? If you are going to keep this up, I shall feel like putting you In nn asylum," and then he left the house, without kissing her goodby, slam ming the door after him. Atchison Globe. I I I Ml P.B I , ,, , I I ! W Granny Caps Worn by Girls. Tiny "great-grandmother" caps havo been adopted by the "river girl" in England. A beauty specialist who has been threatening the modern woman with baldness is responsible for this fashion. "There Is no doubt," she says, "that the river is responsible for scanty a-nd dull colored hair. The 'river girl' puts on her hat directly the day begins and spends eight hours out of twelve in her boat. All this time her long-suffering hair Is lacking the sunshine and fresh air It requires. It is a most criminal thing to keep Making Rby Beef. The more unsatisfactory the milk ituatlon becomes, the more anxious e are to turn our attention to other Vranches of farming, which will be more remunerative. If we could take jp raising beef or sheep, we should (till have our manure and a good siroflt from our stock without so much worry over the labor problem and trying to .meet the difficult require ments of the city people In regard to milk production. Perhaps the most promising new Held Is that of baby beef. Baby beef Is a prime butchers' beast, thoroughly fattened and ripe for the block at from 12 to 2 4 months of age. Growth has been artificially promoted by con tinuous heavy feedlnc from birth with the object of obtaining In the snortest time possible the maximum weight of well-matured beef. Its es entlal features are early maturity, auallty, finish and thickness of flesh. The next question Is, where can we get stock from? We can either raise the stock ourselves or buy young :alves from the range at weaning Urn?, when they will weigh from 350 to 500 pounds, and cost from 4 to 5 cents a pound. Should wo decide to raise our own stock, we should pur chase either Hereford, Short-Horn, Angus or Galloway cattle. These need not be registered stock, or at least the cows need not, and should It be found advisable good young grade heifers could be bought In Texas, which if mated to a registered bull would produco excellent stock for baby beef. The next point to consider is how to feed our babies so as to meet the market requirements. What are the requirements? The illustration shows very clearly what are the most val uable cuts to the butcher, and we will io well to bear this In mind when we arc raising our young stock. Our calves must be fed for growth from the start and the food provided must be composed of ingredients that :an be easily digested. Whole milk, 3t course, heads this list. This, fed Jresh and warm from the cow until j weaning time, will produce the best I calf for any purpose. This gives the youngster a chance to take a little at I a time and often and so avoids over I loading their stomachs. At the pres : nt prices of milk and labor, it would comparative advantages of producing baby over long-fed beef: ONK STEER. Days on feed Weight, when put on ex perimeot, lb eight when alaush tered. lb Gain during feeding pcnwi, io Daily rate of gain, lb.. Feed eaten: Roots and ensilage lb. Hay, lb Bkim milk, lb.. ,. Rape, lb. . . . r Meal, lb Pasture, months Total cost of feed Coat per 100 lb. increase live weight Soiling price per 100 lb live weight Long- Baliy fed bee! beef (av. (av. of 10 of 10 steers), steers). 700 913 123 107 1.297 1.233 1,170 I.IZW 1.88 1.38 13,793 19,329 1,190 1.3 15 1,45 1,692 70 .,..7, 3.909 1,408 9 Sftt on a-,0 m ' 3.33 5.29 802 4.78 These young beeves should be ted Indoors In the winter, and In the sum mer should be protected from tbe hot sun and flies by keeping them In a darkened Btable during the hotteat part of the day. Prime young beef can be sold right on the farm where they aro raised, and tbe demand far exceeds the supply, This lnduatry U certainly worth considering. A. D In The Country Gentleman. . ' m - "Managing Vv Hy Crop." As a rule too HiSuv farmers delaV the cutting of their hay crop until a large proportion of the feeding value Is lost on account of the hay becom ing tough and fibrous. Our whole aim should be to cut nnd cure our hay at a time when it will be the most palatable and the easiest for our animals to digest and assimilate! The analysis of early cut hay and that which Is cut later does not jus tify the cutting of the hoy crop early but actual experience in feeding ani mals will prove that early cut hay, will produce better results when feil to all kinds of farm animals than mat which Is cut later. We may feed our animals on late cut hay during the winter and they will become thin. but when they are turned out on thd same grass in the snrine thev will shed off their old hair and take on a ZZ B ! S Cereal With Banana Surprise. Turn any left-over break fast cere.il. while still hot, into cups rinsed in cold water, half fillir.- the cups. When cold, scoop out the centres, and fill the open spaces with sliced bananas; turn from the cups into a buttered agate pan, fruit downward, and set into a hot oven to become very hot. Remove with a broad-bladed knife to cereal dishes. Serve at once with sugar and cream or milk. the two chief industrial centres of the Island, while the proximity of Os borne House, first as a royal residence and then through King Edward's gereroslty as a training college for naval cadets, has added to its im portance. New York Times. Dress For Business. Anna Steese Richardson talks to business girls in tbe Woman's Home Companion on the importance of good taste in dress. Said a Frenchman to Mrs. Richard son not long ago, as they sauntered through a model department, store: "Your working girls they are wonderful. See, they are ladies! Such well-kept hands, such beautiful ly coifed heads, such smart shoes! They must spend much time to make themselves ready for work. Nowhere else in the world will you see such girls earning their living." "The self-supporting women In America have won an enviable repu tation for good taste In dress," says the writer. "Not even in Paris, where every woman is supposed to be chic and to have an 'air,' do the self-supporting girls bear the stamp of gen tility in clothes that you can noe In any large city or factory town in the United States." the head covered up all day in the summer months, and the 'river girl' is undoubtedly the chief offender in this respect. The little caps exactly meet the difficulty. They are pretty trifles of lace, muslin or embroidery and can be threaded with baby ribbon. They are made In the design of a little Dutch cap, and many of my clients who have houses on the river have picked up designs made of antique needlework in Holland. The 'river girl' puts on a hat when she is in the full glare of the sun, but she is ready to, remove it when she reaches a cool, shady place. Her difficulty then is her carefully arranged curls will be disarranged. The 'great-granny cap' fits under the hat, and a girl in a white muslin dress makes a charming picture when she pulls out her hat pins and discloses the bit. of lace on the top of her orderly curls." New York Press. b P lbs30 lb 68 IbJ ?2 -,b5 WW 7 VV -JL p2& ROUND - ZSnttni CHICAGO RETAIL DEALERS' METHOD OF CUTTING BEEF. Biack velvet is an effective trim ming for cretonne. The scheme of contrast is used on black hats with chic effect. Sleeves on most of the new dresses are long, transparent and shirred. A rose pink scarf and spray of pink roses are used for trimming hats. Ostrich plumes are atlll in vogue, and white flowers aro as always favored. Tbe German Baptist Brethren have organisations in forty-ona of tbe States, with 1154 churches, an In crease of nfty-elgbt over Ue last re port. A Hint For Tall Girls. Here is an interesting extract from "The Secrets of Successful Dressing," which appeared in the Royal Maga zine: "The tall girl may add a large hat to her attire, which, It worn by her small sister, would bury her beneath It. Far too often the Amazon, so greatly embarrassed by her superflu ous inches, makes the mistake nt in juring picture millinery In favor of 1 The new hat are certainly charm tiny, flat, pill box toques that seem to ln witn thelr cntc decorations of cry aloud: 'I am so tall already that ' 8reat Pointed wings. I muBt not add one-hult inch to my ' Coral pink and Copenhagen blue stature.' are favorites In color and are extreme- "The (yt need not, Indeed, have 'y charming and youthful, eccentric feathers sprouting erratlcal-1 The cretonne touch at collar and ly from it on every side as well a. up- I cuffg of a tallored ault ,9 80 d h right nor should It be aggressive as one fee,8 gurQ wi nol(L to color; that would be absurd. But It should be artistic as to line. The' u ulmPa of dotted net shows very tall girl mr.y also wear a feather tD,e newest Parisian sleeves, with the boa, or one ot ;he big Pierrot ruffles 8Blva8e ruffle ot tne materlal. that frame a swaullke throat so pret-' 11118 Parasol of cretonne is an ac- ly. " cepcea ibci, ana nownere aoes tne ma terial appear at better advantage. l'ritly Hands an Added Charm. Lace dresses have lost their popu- The matter of keeuins: the hands larlty, and very few of them are seen. young and pretty is one that every i White linen seems to have taken their woman should consider seriously, and P'ac- before the Urn? that it is really neces-1 Tho empore style and tbe long eary for her to do so, mvys ths Deltn- clingingfskirt with little trimming eator. Tho hands begin to age at ' are being adapted in a form which 1 thirty, aud there is no greater telltale graceful and not outre, ol a woman's ago than hands not j Very remarkable dresses at the properly cared for. I races at Autenil Fr.nr, The- woman whose hands are short natural tussor. with chasubles of the and thick, whose nails look as If they had been chopped o3 with a coupon clipper, has much to contend with. She arouses antagonism the moment any one looks at her hands. With out well groomed bands a woman Is unclaHsvd; she can not possibly Im press one as being refined. And, after all, well-groumed hands are merely a question of care. Women nowadays are beginning to realize that pretty hands are second only In charm to a pretty face: a same materlal edged with black passementerie. All the designs, show that the Pa risian elegantes are wearing ties and Jabots with everything. The tie of black satin looks warm Indeed, but It would be undoubtedly becoming. There are 300 paint factories In this country, making over 100,000,- 1 000 gallsus of paint a year, and tbe business demand Is Increasing faster ' pretty band ii u fat and i u Ni , sm than Uu facilities. I robably pay to let the calves run rlth their dams from 4 to 6 months, mpplementlng this diet with a little ihelled corn and oats mixed, after he first few weeks. On the other land, should any of us bring our lelves to believe that there was any iroflt in milk at 3 cents, we could, ifter the first few weelts, milk our :ows by hand and feed the calves 'rom a pail. The great point to re nember is not to give the youngsters iny net-back, wean them gradually ind don't gorge them, Warfleld says: "The weaning is in a great degree t crisis in a calf's life. It cut off from lature's diet too early, bad results tot infrequently ensue; but if allowed ;o go on to that period at which in .he natural sequence ot events the :alf would find his milk ration more ind more insufficient and his capacity ;o eat more and more perfect every lay, the transition, instead of being riolent, is at once natural and easy, ind therefore without injurious con lequences. The great thing Is to eep the growth of the calf from suf fering any serious check. It this J ro wih goes riir.it along, all is well. If, however, the weaning is followed a period of pining and real need t the milk diet, and the calf Is for a !ew weeks unthrifty, the effect will ae apparent In tho animal's after !IIe; for these short periods of re '.ardatlon in early life count up large ly In the Funi. This is not an easy matter to Impress upon many men, and yet an animal that has an un broken calfhood ot thrifty growth will mature earlier and develop more :ompletely the possibilities of its na ture than another which with equal promise was suffered to get again and again out of condition by unwise sav ing in the first months of l life. Perhaps I should have said that tbe best time to have our calves dropped la In the fall; then by the time the pastures are green the following spring the youngsters are well started and can safely get part of their feed from the fresh grass. Mr. Ritzmau, of the United States Department of Agriculture, gives as the bust summer comblAition to furnish a proper bal ance with good pasture, shelled corn, or a little oats, with an occasional feed of a little cottonseed meal, gluten meal, linseed meal, just to stimulate the appetite. Bluegrass makes the best pasture, and next to that ranks clover or alfalfa, but ctre chould be taken In feeding the clover and alfalfi at first, until the cattle become accustomed to It, or they may overeat. For winter feed, many, Mr. Ritzmau says, have had great success with a ration made up of 16 to 25 pounds of ensilage, 3 pounds at corn meal, 2 rounds wheat bran, and plenty of clover hy. Feed regularly at stated limes; see that nothing is left lu the troughs from meal to meal; provide plenty ot clean, fresh water, and don't forget the salt. Oats, barley, rye, etc., should be crushed. The followlug table, complied by the United States Department of Agri culture, gives an excellent Idea of tbe look of prosperity and thrift, even though the same grass contains no more protein nor comes any nearer to producing a balanced ration. How ore we to explain this fact? The cat tle are not getting a different class of food as far as chemical analysis is concerned, for the dry hay contains the same elements as the pasture grass, but the great difference is due to the succulent condition of the green grass which is In a different condition. In order to make the best possible food out of our hay crop it should be cut when it will come tbe nearest to approaching the same condition as pasture grass. The nearer this grass can be preserved to the way nature provided It the better food It will make for the farm animals. It il by the feeding ot this kind of hay that we are able to get the best de velopment that our animals arc cap able of making. Epitomist. Treat the Boy Right I believe the boys have the right to be treated as partners in the part of the farm that they help to till, and the stock that they help to raise. Nothing will encourage the habits of Industry and foster a manly am bition more than to treat them as partners, rather than as servants. Al low them to have a Bheep or a calf that they may call their own and al low them the Increase from that one animal as reward for their labors. If not livestock allow him a patch of ground to till and allow him to add to this patch of srround with tima ' and means for its cultivation, the produce and proceeds which shall be his own. These little attentions and conces sions will work wonders toward de veloping the boy's manliness and at taching him to the farm and the oc cupation of his father. Such means will prove better than handing out a little change every time the boy asks for it, for it will make him self reliant. Most boys appreciate kind nesses of this kind and will try and make themselves worthy of handling more and larger gifts. It is unwise to try and pervert nature by making farmers of boys who are intended for something else. That is one reason why there are so many poor farmers. Epltomlat. Fed nt a Loss. The hen that eats her head oft should have an operation performed on her neck to prevent further eat ing; likewise the cow that is not worth her keep should go to tha block. Tbe first thing is to deter, mine with accuracy what animals are fed at a loss. Farmer'" Home Journal. F.ggs by Weight. Eggs are sold by weight In Iowa, as they should be everywhere. It la not Juctlce for one man to pay tha sme price for a dozen measley lit tie eggs as the man who gets a doxsa large ones. San Joss Maicury.
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