1 PUPPETS
fuppet" ""d manikins! Torn ttiat- are
with a thumbscrew, a cord, or a keyl
w" ilintfl on th ball that la noatlng
around
In the blue of a vapory sea,.
iinnfts and manikin wonnd by the hand
That stays not to wind us aRain;
Dinra we. and finally fall to the strand
0' which all our glancing waa vain.
Punnets and manikins! Made to obey
'fhp turn of fate's wonderful whel
D,n. inn and whirling about for a day
a'o drop at theend of our reel.
mnoets and manlktnst Slaves to the will
61 something we never can know;
unnlng our time then Inert, prone, and
l toy tbat no longer can go.
vnpnets and manikins floating In space
(ArUt on a world-driven ball;
Duiclng with awkwardness, lamanesa or
gi ace
Running about til we fall.
turana W. Sheldon, In the New Tork
Times. '
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UNNECESSARY SACRIFICE
By Marion Porter.
Bundles and all Molly had reached
her own front door. By a great ef
fort she shifted her burdens In to
one arm and tugged at ber purse for
her latchkey. It was only then that
the saw that the front door was al
ready ajar and marvelled greatly
thereat. Could it be possible that
jYed had co rue home so early? He
didn't get an hour off very often.
Could be be sick? The last thought
frightened Molly so much that she
Hipped into the front hall as quietly
as though it had already assumed real
llty. Fred did not sound sick, though
and tie was evidently not alone.
"I only did what I did to eave you
from being the good-for-nothing you
promised to be," said a strange voice;
an old, sharp voice. "I should think
by the appearance that I'd partially
accomplished my end."
"You're wrong," Fred said very
quietly. "It took someone else to do
that" There seemed to be an elo
quent silence. Then Fred spoke
again
"Sit down," he said. "We'll agree
to bear each other no ill will if you
want to."
"Fred, you've struck It," said the
other voice eagerly. "I tell you I did
what I did for the best. I may have
been wrong and now I want you
back. It's a hard thing tor an old
man not to have his son to gladden
his old age. I want you to come home.
I've crossed the water to look you
up myself and tell you. Will you
come back with me?"
Fred waa silent again for a moment.
"Things have changed for me in
more ways than one since we parted,"
he said. "I'm married, father. I'd
have to ask what my wife thinks of
your proposition."
"Married!" echoed the voice, this
time in dismay.
"It was like this,' sad Fred. "After
that lttle scrape of mine which led you
to turn me out, I drifted over here in
search of adventure and change. I
hadn't had a great deal of. discipline
you know, father, you always in
dulged me in every way, until that
time when I displeased you and I
was pretty wild. I wasted what
money I had. I wasn't prepared for
any work and I Idled my time away.
I got shabby and a little ragged your
on ragged, father and sometimes I
was hungry. And then I got to thlnk-
tng I didn't amount to anything any
ray and I lost what ambition I had. I
don't know what would have become
of me If, one day as I was sprawling
on a bench in a strip of parkway near
here, a girl hadn't seen me and taken
pity on me. She knew I was hungry
and she shared a little lunch m that
would have been pretty scant for her
self. And then she told me how she
worked in a dry goods store, early and
late, to take care of herself. She told
me to brace up and try. And some
bow, when I saw the brave little thing
and heard her talk, I got courage to
put my pride in my pocket and go
look for honest work. And I got it and
by hard labor I bettered myself little
by little until I -was making enough
money to take care of two. Then I
made her leave the store and I hired
tills little place and she and I started
life together. That's all. What's the
matter?"
"Some provision can be made," gasp
ed the voice, "a girl from a store your
wife! Something must be done. We
must settle with money "
"None of that," Fred said, sternly.
"Don't ever say a thing like that in
connection with her again."
Someone rose hurriedly. "You must
give her up or I'm through with you.
You'll never get a penny of my money.
The old place will go to my nephews.
Think it over, Fred. I'm going now.
When you get your senses back and
con come and tell me that you will
make some arrangement, I'll see you
again, not before." -
He was evidently about to come out
of the room. In a panic, Molly drop
ped the bundles confesedly, and fled.
She did not know where to go, but sWe
walked rapidly, her mind in a whirl.
She saw everything at once now. Why
bad she never suspected, when she
bad admired Fred's handsome per
son and his gay, gallant ways, so dif
. ferent from those of the men tfhe had
met, that he belonged to a different
olass than she represented? Why had
he ever let him marry her? Her one
collected thought at last was that on
no account would she hold him down.
She must get away somewhere some
where that he would not think to look
and keep hersolf there until be ceased
to feel any obligation to ber.
"Of course be'd stay with me," she
thought proudly. "He wouldn't be the
Fred I love and am so proud of. If be
wasn't as loyal as be could be. But
I won't let him saorlnce himself."
The thought that she had no money
to make a journey did not trouble ber.
Already she bad formed a plan of go
ing t New York; she bad soma rela
. tires there of whom she was sure
Yed knew nothing. She could get the
Uttle money required for tbs trip from
some friends at tbe other aids of the
cKy. ghs took ber way toward their
bouse, still revolving her trouble In
ber mind. It i seemed a long time
before the reached the bouse and then
to ber fear and disappointment, there)
was no e at home.
"There'll be someone here, soon
there, must be," ehe'snld to herself.
She sat down on the piazza to wait.
Her heaj ached. She wished she
could cry and relieve that dull, ach
ing pain She wondered when there
was a train to New York Finally
she was wondering a number of things
together and then nothing.
When Molly awoke, she thought she
bad had a very bad dream, for though
the ahce was still In her heart she
was lying on the familiar couch in
the sitting-room at home. Fred was
the ache was still in her heart she
would have smiled In a moment, con
vlnced of the dream, when that other
voice spoke.
"You must reconsider Fred, you
must!" it said pleadingly.
"Don't say anything more about it!"
commanded Fred. "I told you yester
day what I would do and I haven't
reconsidered. Why the old place and
your money don't amount to a rap"
Molly opened her eyes and looked at
blm.
"Fred," she murmured, "Don't you
let any mistaken sense of duty to me
hold you back I know I heard that
other time he came, and I don't want
you to stick to me through gratitude
or anything "
"I never thought of that," said Fred.
He looked a little amazed to think he
had not. "I only thought of my own
part. I love you so, that I couldn't go
where you didn't."
"That," said Molly, dreamy with
happiness "makes It different." '
Somebody else spoke then. "Well,"
said the sharp old voice, not un
kindly, "I've got to have my son any
way, so I may as well make up my
mind to have his wife."
"That," Molly heard Fred say, un
conscious that he was repeating her,
"makes everything different." Boston
Post.
WHEN DOGS POINT GAME.
EROM A WOMAN'S VIEWPOINT
They Do Not All Behave Alike One
, Extraordinary Case.
The wonderful intelligence of the
well broken bird dog Is often strik
ingly shown at field trials. The field
trial, which Is becoming more popu
lar in this country, gives a good
chance to study the psychology of
the dogs, the instinct to point game
affecting them In various ways.
A litter brother to the consistent
and high class field trial winner
Uncle B. at times did a most unusual
thing when he found birds. If the
conditions were such as to make the
finding very difficult and he was
obliged to search far and wide for
them, constantly getting a good dis
tance from hlB handler, when he
found a covey he did not break his
point, retrace his steps and look up
his handler as many dogs do and
then by actions lead back to birds.
' But he would draw off a suitable
distance at his own Judgment where
he knew he would not flush the birds
and would sit down on his haunches
and bark, bark, bark short, sharp,
loud barks until his handler -came
to him, then he would go right
straight back to the birds, assuming
a long-drawn out pointing position of
the cautious style.
Many dogs whine and squeal while
on point, many drool and snap their
Jaws during the excitement of point
ing, but very few draw off and bark
a good, resounding, locating bark.
Oq a cold perfect winter day Mr.
Tonillnson was handling the noted
field trial winner Uncle Sam. He was
In normal health and very keeu. Af
ter hunting about two hours his
handler cast him over Into a patch
of low growth sedge and the party
watching him run came up near a
fence to get a better view of his
work. Just as all eyes were turned
upon blm they saw him tumble to
the ground fiat and limp, Just as
though he had struck an obscure
stump or stone.
Mr. Clemson, his owner and a
party of friends went cautiously up'
to blm; there he lay, stretched list
lessly on his side, not a muscle mov
ing, his eyes dull and glazed. Con
solation 'was offered Mr. Clemson by
the gentlemen witnessing the sad
death of so capital a field performer
as Uncle Sam and the very remark
able manner in which be had died.
Presently his handler came up, and
saw him lying there Just as the
others had with glazed, dull eyes
and no perceptible breathing. . Jta
Tomllnson said "Poor Sam!" he
thought he noticed just the slight
tat movement of his tail; he spoke
again and was sure of it.
Turning to Mr. Clemson and his
friends, he said: "Gentlemen, there
are birds here. Though I cannot
explain the actions of the dog, I am
positive of It; be Is very close to
them."
At that be kicked the tufts of sedge
directly In front of the dog's nose,
who all this time bad never moved
nor regained his animated - expres
sion.. Suddenly Tomllnson flushed
three close lying birds. To the sur
prise of all the dog was Instantly on
bis feet eager again to be cast off.
Country Life In America.
A Snob.
Paul A. 8org, who recently drovs
four-ln-hand from. New York to At
lantic' City, a distance of 134 miles,
has, like so many rich young society
men, a hatred of snobbishness.
"Sorg ," said a member of the
Knickerbocker Club, "called one aft
ernoon t the bouse of a ' nouveau
rlche. A card tray stood in the draw
ing room and on top was the card of
an English duke. Sorg, waiting for
bis hostess to descend, took this card
and quietly stuck It under the carpet.
"A week or two later be called
again. The duke's card was back in
Its place. It bad been carefully
scraped and cleaned. Sorg put It be
hind a mirror.
"But It was found again, and
though afterward be bid It la flower
pots and vases and coal scuttles It
always turned up, scrubbed clean and
carefully dried, on the top of the card
tray.
"So at last Sorg hid It In the fami
ly Bible, and that was the end cf It
Mrs. Nouveau Rlche went into mourn.
Ing. Washington Star.
Puppy Love In Marriage.
The hopelessness of it all in the
marriage of extreme youth is that
nine times out of ten love, which is
the only thing that can possibly coun
teract poverty, proves in such cases
to be a virulent attack of the "pup
py" variety, and soon develops into
a condition to be relieved only by the
divorce courts. Woman's Lite.
Short 8klrta at English Levea.
I hear through an official who was
present at both courts that the style
of dress displayed on these occasions
was for the most part astonishing.
The younger ladles especially affected
the quaintest of quite short skirts, off
the ground all round and displaying
In many cases wonderful shoes of
gold or sliver tissue or morocco,
with high heels.
When their trains were spread out
these young ladies looked rather like
belles of the late Regency period, an
epoch which up to now we have not
been wont to think of as famous for
good dressing. The Queen keeps so
rigorously to the conventional cut of
court dress that she can hardly have
regarded with a favorable eye such
very curious innovations. Gentlewoman.
The first sulphur matches appeared
la m.
Refuse. to Pay, She Says.
Mrs. Dora Monteflore, the English
suffragette who for three years re
fused to pay ber taxes and had her
goods sold by the bailiff in conse
quence, recommended similar meth
ods to the New York Legislative
League at the Waldorf-Astoria, says
the New York Tribune.
"If you are willing to sacrifice your
selves," she said, "to endure even the
degradation of going to prison, you
will be able before long to help not
only yourselves but the human race."
Mrs. Lillle Devereux Blake, the
president, was re-elected, "probably
for the last time," she told the wom
en. "I am now seventy-six years old,"
she said, "and I don't believe I'll
serve again. I am getting to the
point where I feel that younger wom
en should take the helm."
Nurses Now Want Votes.
The trained nurses are tne latest
body of professional women to Join
the suffrage movement. Dr. Mary
Halton is taking the lead in getting
them together. All the nurses of the
other registries have been Invited to
Join.
Dr. Halton admits tbat the major
ity of the nurses, while not pro
nounced "antls," are not as yet very
keen on the subject of votes, but she
says that most physicians are in fav
or of woman suffrage, and she thinks
that their opinion will have weight
with the nurses. Of the ninety doc
tors In the Sydenham Building, Madi
son avenue- and 57th street, she
found that nearly all wanted women
to vote. The reason for the compar
ative indifference of the nurses, Bhe
says, is that they haven't time to
think of things outside their work.
New York Tribune.
Legal to Hold Up Husband.
A wife has a right to rob her hus
band, according to Judge Oemmell,
of the Municipal Court, Chicago. Gus
tavo H. DeKolkey had his wife ar
rested for taking his money by force.
"My wife robbed me right In my
own home," said DeKolkey.. "She got
a boarder and her brother to help
hold me. Then she went tbruugn my
pockets and got $11."
Mrs. De Kolkey was led up in front
of the court's desk.
"Did you rob him?" asked the
Judge.
"Yes, I did," she said. "There was
no other way to get ftioney out of
blm. He hasn't given me a cent for
over a year. So I decided to. rob him.
I called my brother and we held blm,
and I got what was In his pockets."
"This Is a plain case of robbery,
but it was perfectly Justifiable under
the circumstances," said the court.
"The defendant Is discharged. A
wife has the right to hold up her hus
band when he squanders his wages
and does not give her enough for her
support."
The Husband's Title. -
How should a woman refer to her
husband? H. S. O.
. There is an unwritten law that to
domestics and new acquaintances and
'In business dealings Mrs. Smith
should refer to her husband as Mr.
Smith; but to friends and older ac
quaintances of ber own circle she
mentions blm by his Christian name.
Just where she should draw tne line
among acquaintances is hard .to de
termine. The well bred acquaintance
would never speak of blm otherwise
than as "Mr. Smith" or "your hus
band," nor do all Intimate friends
extend their intimacy to the point of
dropping the Mr. and calling the man
John or Jack, as his' wife does. There
is an intangible barrier to the adop
tlon of this custom that Is still re
pected. Any woman of refined in
stlncts who has seen even a little of
society can soon make up her mind as
to' when and where she may properly
discontinue mentioning her John as
Mr. Smith, but the one without a
natural sense of fitness . cannot be
saved from blundering by written
rules.-rNw York Press. i
Outings Are Important
"Yea, ! am Just back from my an
nual spring flight, and feeling as
light hearted as the proverbial bird,
too," said the Woman Philosopher la
the New York Tribune. '.'There Is
mors than whim or bablt In this
springtime desire to be on the move
whether to transport one's house
hold belongings or ono'g self to new
scenes," she continued. "Why, bark
ing back to oldtlme Chaucer, they
wanted to go on spring pilgrimages
even In Us Cngland of the fswrteenth
century- ast eonvjaos that It Is a
practically Imperative demand of our
human nature to make a change at
that time to feel a change, to do
something different And lucky is
the Indlvldul who can obey the in
stinct. The cost and the bother of
the spring flight are nothing in com
parison with ts value. Just as our
winter clothing grows shabby to us,
and our appetites grow peevish, so
our minds need the stimulus of some
thing new, after the ordeal of win
ter. I always plan at least a few
days' absence somewhere about this
time. If I don't take 'the children I
send them away, earlier or later. I
even carry my theory so far as to
give each of the servants two days
off between April 1 and the middle of
May. By the way, such a plan helps
one to hold one's servants through
the next six months. Mrs. J., who
keeps up an establishment with
eight servants, deliberately arranges
for "them to have their spring vaca
tions, Just as regularly as her eon
and daughters have their school va
cations. "Mark my words: Your bit of out
ing at this season of the year Is quite
os Important to you as your new
gowns and hats."
Luncheons for Brides.
Every hostess takes pride in Invent
ing novel and pretty decorations for
her luncheons, teas and dinners, and
she takes special pride when the
guest of honor Is a young bride or
bride-to-be. It is never a difficult
matter to evolve something attrac
tive for a festivity connected with
marriage, for there are so many
charming designs that can be used
cuplds, hearts, wedding bells, wedding
rings and the like.
At a luncheon given last week for
an engaged girl the color scheme was
pink and white, pink being the fav
orite color of the bride-elect. The
hostess was the latter's closest
friend, and all the guests were inti
mates of the two, which made the
luncheon a very Jolly affair.
The chandelier, above the table,
was festooned with pink and white
tulle, and suspended from it was a
large golden hoop simulating a wed
ding ring. From the hoop streamers
of pink and white ribbon stretched to
each cover, held in place there by
tiny cuplds, each cupid bearing a
card with the name of the guest to
whom the place had been assigned.
Bride roses filled a cut glass bowl ini
the centre of the table, were clustered
In vases and bowls on sideboard and
mantel, and nodded in banks from
the low window seats.
Yellow luncheons are very approp
riate when the guest of honor Is a
bride, since yellow suggests sun
shine. At one such luncheon in early
summer last year a wedding bell
covered with flotd daisies with yellow
hearts and black-eyed Susans with
yellow petals hung above the table.
A big flat dish of old brass, filled with
yellow lady's slippers, stood In the
centre of the table, and a wreath of
dntstes and smilax followed the curve
of the table, Just inside of the plates.
Daisy festoons stretcl;d from the
chandelier to the four corners of the
room, and daisies and black-eyed Sus
ans and tall feathery grasses were
banked on the mantelpiece and
massed in earthenware pots of
quaint and unusual shapes.
The place cards at this luncheon
were tiny yellow satin slippers filled
with rice, the Uttle card witl the
name on It half hidden in thn rice.
Other pretty place cards for engage
ment or bridal luncheons are hand
painted designs showing a girl's head
framed In a wedding ring, cupids
peeping through a heart design, or
twin hearts pierced with arrows. A
woman with some skill in water col
ors and a certain amount of Inven
tion, can easily paint the carets tur a
luncheou and, knowing the fads and
fancies of her guests, can get In lit
tle personal touches that will enliven
the luncheon Immensely. New York
Tribune.
';:
THE FARMERS HOME AND'ACRES I
Silage For Cows.
Silage provides a succulent food,
and milk cows fed on sllago will pro
duce as much milk In midwinter as
they will In June, other conditions be
ing similar. Silage and cotton seed,
either whole or ground, will make the
best possible feed for beef cattle, and
and thousands of cattle in the north
ern states are fattening on these ra
tions. Silage solves the feed prob
lems of winter or a dry fall, and with
silage but little hay or roughness Is
needed for either milk stock or beef
stook. Farmers' Home Journal.
Rid the Pasture of Weeds.
The cheapest way to rid the pasture
of weeds, as well as other parts of the
farm where sheep can be allowed to
run, Is to keep some sheep grazing
upon It I believe It Is also the best
way to keep down weeds as the sheep
wander over the same land day after
day and keep the weeds closely picked
down all the time, while If you depend
on mowing the weeds, It can only be
done occasionaljy and not very often
at best. A goodslzed bunch of sheep
wiH do more weed killing than a man,
and do It at a profit to the owner,
while the man would be quits an Item
of expense. Farmers' Home Journal.
Profitable Stock.
We are daily coming In contact with
the products of the dairy cow In one
form or another, thus It Is to the Inter
est of the owner of the dairy breed
of cattle to carefully select animals
when laying a foundation for his herd,
which will yield hira the best profit,
not only selecting animals which are
from a good healthy stock but animals
which are good profit producers, or in
other words, that yield a flow of milk,
containing sufficient butter fat, to war
rant the animal worth the while of
keeping upon the premises.
While it is always essential that anl
raals be well fed and tared for, it is
oftentimes found that the animal pro
ducing the largest amount of milk Is
not necessarily the animal which de
vours the most feed and for this rea
son the owner should learn the tem
perament of . each individual animal
and feed It accordingly, in t,his way
realizing profits which might otherwise
be wasted. Farmers' Home Journal,
The Best Ration for Hogs.
In a recent bulletin the College of
Agriculture of the University of Mis
souri has published the results of a
number of swine feeding experiments,
by E. B. Forbes.
These experiments prove that corn
good corn is a good feed for any
animal and that thero is no reason
for withholding It from any animal
needing food. At the same time, it
Is shown that corn alone is not nearly
so good or so profitable a feed as corn
supplemented by some proteld food
such as tankage, linseed ollmeal, or
soy beans.
If hogs fed exclusively on corn the
animal becomes very fat and chubby
and does not develop properly; the
bones are brittle- and easily broken.
81xy-flve hogs were used in this
experiment and they were divided into
lots of five each. Twelve different ra
tions were used with corn alone In two
of them and corn supplemented with
some other feed In the others.
The hogs fed on corn and linseed
ollmeal and those fed on corn and
tankage gained the most; those re
ceiving corn alone were most unsatisfactory.
Fashion Notes.
AI lover embroidery In colors t
match the suits Is good.
' Pearls In many colors are used fo
embroider taffeta suits Instead ot
braid.
Coarse blue linen frocks, embroid
ered with blue and coral silk, are
made for young girls. These are worn
with lace gulmpes, and are collar
less. On many of the lingerie dresses
English eyelet embroidery is used. It
is combined with voile de cotton,
much In demand now, because it does
not crumple easily.
A separate blouse must be In every
one's possession. The newest model
Is formed of ribbon the same color as
the material of the skirt, and Is worn
over a lace undersllp.
Lace and more lace. It perches in
huge bowg on - bats; it covers silk
evening gowns; It forms beautiful
wraps, either in separate glory or
combined with gold tulle. 1
Scarlet cloth V used here for. ex
tremely short coats, belted In with
black patent leather. Black satin ro
vers decorate these Jackets that are
giving a touch of color to the lawns
or porches.
Little girls are wearing bats tht
have departed from the simplicity so
popular In America. A mass of lace
and frills crowns each little one's
head, no matter bow plain the coat or
-dress may be. , '
The Hedebo embroidery in many
respects Is suggestive of the sxqulalu
Madeira embroidery. The designs,
however, are distinctly different, be
ing far more suggestive of filet net,
than any other kind of handwork.
Paisley effects are again with us. la
chiffon, net, satin, foulards and pon
gee, giving touches of rich colorings.
Indeed, the Paisley printed pongee,
Is used extensively as trlmlng tor
frocks and suits of natural-colored
pongee, shantung and tuaaore.
Horse Distemper.
It ia known that a horse with dls
temper can communicate it to a heal
thy horse, and the germs are found In
the discharges of the nostrils. In most
cases distemper appears before horses
are five years old. The veterinary of
the Colorado agricultural college says:
The Constitutional disturbances
caused by the shedding of the teeth,
and cutting same, as well as Impure
air in poorly ventilated stables, over
worked and poorly fed animals, are
factors that weaken the resistance and
make Infection possible to produce the
disease.
The disease Is more common In the
spring and fall of the year, particular
ly the former, on account of the chill
received as a result of the sudden
changes at these seasons of the year.
The disease can also be transmitted
from dam to offspring through the
milk.
Young animals should not be
brought In contact with those affected
nor watered out of the same bucket,
nor come In contact with any other
property until It has been thoroughly
disinfected. An animal should not be
castrated while suffering with distem
per. '
A vaccine made from the specific
germ causing this disease Is prepared
In the laboratory of the Veterinary
Department of the Colorado Agricul
tural College. '
This vaccine la very useful In com
bating distemper, both as a preven
tive and as a cure, and promises to be
of as great value as the antisuppura
tlon, vaccine made In the some labora
tory from the germs which cause poll
evil, nslula, and wound Infections.
. like, the anttsuppuratlon vaccine, to
get' the best result It must be used
by one who Is trained In the diseases
of the lower animals and understand
the use ot vaccine on same. It Is
therefore advisable to have It used by
a competent graduate veterinarian.
Breeding and Laying House.
Tie question of bousing is one
much discussed and one on which a
treat many disagree,
A successful poultry hcu' need not
be a fancy affair nor a v-ry expensive
bonding but It should bj well built
and constructed so a not to allow any
drafts whatever, us a draft Is th one
urs road to the many annoying d;
,eaies common to poiil'.vy. ".
All poultry buildings should be lo
cated on a high, dry place sc to It
that there Is no possibility of water
standing near It Plenty of Yresb, pure
air and sunshine is the most essential.
All houses should face the south, for It
is from that direction that they get
the most of the sunshine, and In an
open front house the sun's direct
rays enter and penetrate into the dark
corners and assist so materially in
decreasing the vermin.
Through many experiments it lias
been taught that the open front house
Is by far the most sensible, economi
cal and practical of all houses a house
built with the Eust, South and West
walls thoroughly tight and draft proof,
and with a good sized opening from
one-third to one-half the entire front
wall In the opening, and then a frame
made and covered with domestic to
cover the entire opening.
This frame should be hinged at the
top and a hook put at the
tnottom to fasten it when closed,
be hinged at the top and a hook put at
the bottom to fasten It when closed.
The frame can be opened by means of
a rope run through a ring or pulley la
the celling and tied to a hook in th
wall, to keep It open la the day an'
on pretty clear nights.
A frame of this sort will keep the
wind and rain out of the house and at
the same time will jonnlt the fresh
air to enter the house diffused and
thus avoid drafts.
The size of house to build depends
entirely upon the number of hens you
care to keep. Five square feet of floor
space Is really sufficient for each bird
In the pen, but if you can allow eight
or ten square feet, the results will
easily pay you for the difference.
Breeding stock to be kept In the
best of condition need plenty of room
to exercise. Fawners' Home Journal.
fhOME IDEAS ECONOMirisJf-
New Orleans Soup.
Add to two cupfuls fresh or canned
tomatoes a tcaspoonful of soda. Set
over the fire and simmer gently white
a quart of milk Is set to boll In anoth
er vessel. When it reaches the boiling
point add the tomatoes without
straining, cook five minutes longer,
add salt, red pepper and butter to sea
ion and serve with croutons. Emma
Paddock Telford In the New York
Telegram.
Sliced Oil Pickle.
Slice thin about 60 cucumbers, four
inches In length, and one cupful salt
and let stand over night. In the morn
ing, rinse with cold water and drain,
thoroughly. Add six tablespoonfuls
pure olive oil, one tablespoonful each
celery seed and white and black mus
tard seed. Mix the seedB and oil, then
pour over the sliced cucumbers, blend
ing thoroughly. Put In Jars, cover
! with cold cider vinegar and seal.
Farm Notes.
How many thousands of dollars ar
farmers going to lose by letting the
stock run down?
With feed high the dairyman musrt
get more for the butterfat. The price
Is bound to advance.
Cut off at any time, any sucker you
may flind growing at the foot of fruit
trees or on the trunk or main limbs
where branches should not go.
The alfalfa' grower does not get wor
ried when mill feed goes up in price.
His dairy herd Is provided for If th
alfalfa crop is in the stack or barn
Make free use of the straw In bed
ding the cattle. You provide better foi
the cow and at the same time increase
the amount of good fertilizer for tha
fields. ,
A pig is a money making machine
and should be fed ail be will eat
cleanly from the time he is able to
nibble; then keep him going until be is
on the block.
The greatetf the capacity for food th
better the milker. A cow cannot pro
duce a large quantity of milk If she
does not have the capacity for food
tbat makes milk.
Virginia Sweet Pickle.
Mix together two quarts each sliced
cucumbers, onions and green toma
toes, two quarts butter beans that
have been cooked 15 minutes, and two
quarts chopped cabbage. Add one
thiid cup salt iiml one pint vinegar
and scald for five minutes. Add eight
cupfuls sugar. Then mix three-fourths
of an ounce of tumeric with a cupful
! of flour, and one-half ounce celery
seed. Add a half pint vinegar and stir
until It thickens.
German Mustard Pickle.
Have ready one quart each small
whole (ilium.. eis, lnrge sliced cu
cunibere. grei n tomatoes slio
ed, small buiou onions and green
peppers cut line. Make a brine with
four quarts water and one pint salt,
pour over the vegetables and let stand
over night. Heat JtiBt enough to scald
in the morning and turn into a colan
der to drain. Mix together one cup
ful flour, one cup sugar, six table
spoonfuls mustard, one of tumeric,
one-quarter cupful celery seed with
cold vinegar to make a paste. Next
add enough more cold vinegar to
make two quarts in all. Cook until
smooth, add the vegetables, cook un
til heated through and turn Into
Jars. . , .
Spanish Catsup.
Peel and slice one-half gallon green
cucumbers, and slice enough cabbage
to make one-half gallon. Sprinkle with
alt and let all stand for six hours.
Chop one dozen onions and let them
stand in boiling water half an hour.
Chop one quart green tomatoes, one
pint string beans, one dozen ears
preen corn. scaM and strain. Mix all
the other ingredients together, then
I add two small cupfuls white mustard
seed, one small cupful ground mus
' jtard, one pound sugar, three table-
spoonfuls tumeric, two tablespoonfuls
grated horseradish, three tablespoon
fills celery seed, two tablespoonfuls
olive oil, one tablespoonful each mace,
cayenne, and cinnamon. Place in a jar,
mix well and cover with boiling vinegar.
NEW YORK'S BIG GRANGE.
It Has 90,000 Members, 8000 of Whom
Joined Last Year.
City folks who think that "tin.
Grange" and "the Grangers' are obso
lete expressions ought to have at
tended the thirty-seventh annual cou
vention of the New York State Grange
recently held In Wr.tertown.
Organized In 1873 with twenty-one
subordinate granges and a small mem
bership, the state grange has In this
brief period Increased to 723 granges
with nearly 90,000 members. The
granges are now established In fifty
four of the sixty-one counties of the
state, including practically every agri
cultural county.
During the last year over 8000 new
names were added to the roll. At the
Watertown convention nearly 1500
out-of-town de'egatee were present for
at least some sessions.
The grunge Is uniquely democratic
In Its organization," says the Survey.
"Practically any farmer or farmer's
wife, whether owning a farm or work
ing on a farm, is eligible to member
bershlp. About one-third of the dele
gates at the state meeting were wom
en, and not infrequently they brought
their husbands as associate delegates,
the women voting and the husband
merely participating in the discus
sions. Sometimes this was reversed,
Among other activities the grange Is
pre-eminently Interested in the Im
provement of agricultural educatlou
and urges the enlargement of the state
agricultural college, and a liberal a p.
proprlation therefore, as well for th
maintenance of the agricultural
schoools already established. . The
grange has established six scholar
ships at toO each at Cornell Unlver
Ity. Washington Herald.
Chow Chow.
one head of cabling? cut fine, two
j quarts of small string beans, one
j quart of lima beans, one dozen cucum-
I hers, one quart of small white onions,
i eight peppers, cut tine, one-quarter of
I a pound of mustard seed, one-half
pound of ground mustard, two quarts
of strong cider vinegar, one-half cup
ful of palt. Peel and cut the cucum
bers, mix wltli the cabbage and sprin
kle over them the salt; let s'and one
hour, then drain. Mix the ground mus
lanl with a little of the vinegar, and
scald the remainder of the vinegar;
when hot, add the mixed mustard and
L t It simmer ten minutes. Partly cook
vegetables, with the exception of th
cabbage, cucumbers and peppers.
(W hen this Is done and the salted ve
getables are drained, put all together
In the hot vinegar and boil five minutes.
A Prolific Bretd.
The population of Southern Cali
fornia, according to Colonel Drake,
who Is the world's foremost I'atistl
olan lu such matters, cannot fall, in
a very short-time, to exceed 2D.000.04iO
souls, for there Is a human - breei
there which multiplies with the nr
acu'.ous rapidity of Belg'an hares.
When. Long Beach bad a opu'atlon
of only a little more than a thousand
there sprang up in a few months,
from the smallest beginnings, more
tvan 900 real estate agents. New
York Pre.
' The Real Enemy,
"Why didn't you come to the danes
the ether night. Lieutenant-Colonel
Fcbmldt? I believe you were afraid
of all tha girls you have been engaged
to" ' .
Lieutenant "No, r.ot them;
ctl.eri." FIleKcndo Blatter.
Wild tVi-r t'iv l.n tHa mera)
flints r'-ceMtly it UarrJsburg. Pa.
Hint.
A handful of flour bound on cut
will stop the bleeding in a short time.
Dip the luk Bpot in pure melted tal
low; then wash out the tallow and
the Ink will come out of linen with it.
When the lamp chimney has been
smoked put it under the faucet and
;the cold water takes it all off nice
and clean.
A flannel dipped into boiling water
and sprinkled with turpentine and
laid on the chest will relieve cold and
hoarseness.
Put onions In a deep dish and fill
with cold water; peel from the water,
this will prevent them from making:
the eyes weep. '
When knocking the crusts off a'
slice ot toast, try using a wooden po
toto masher and see how much easier
and better the work Is done.
A tablespoonful of strong coffee put
into the gravy of melted butter, pep
per and salt to be poured over beef
steak, Impart a delicious flavor to it
A teaspoonful of vinegar put Into a
lamp or oil stove tbat smells or
moke, will cause it to burn with a
clear light and prevent It from smok.
Ing.
For the busy housekeeper who
wants to whip cream when It seems
too thin or perverse, try, setting the
dish of cream In a bowl of real cold
water; then take from the cold water
and put In hot water and the dis
couraged house wife will find the'
cream will whip like magic. , j
To clean an oil painting rub a
freshly cut slice of potato dampened
In cold water over tbs picture. The
lather should be wiped off with a soft,
damp sponge and then ' the picture'
should be washed with lukewarm wa-'
tt r, dried ''and polished with a piece
of soft, silk that ha been washed. ,
t Before washing, look over all linen,
for spots. Tea and coffee stains usual-,
ly yield to hot water when poured'
steadily through them., Fruit status.,
or In fsct any stain, can always be
removed by rubbing pure glycerin la
to them before putting Into water., Af
ter washing, dry In sunshine or
opeu air.