VENEZUELA GAME COCK Of NATIONS. Latin Republic That May Fee! the "Big Stick's" Weight. ITS RULER AN AUTOCRAT. Character Study of President Castro, Who Has Insulted the World For Years and Violated All Rules of Di plomacy—A Farmer Boy Who Is Now Immensely Wealthy. The noisy little bantam that makes sharp discord in the barnyard of na tions—that is Venezuela. Changing the metaphor, Venezuela Is the tormenting, aggravating small boy who escapes the chastisement he so richly deserves be cause the big boys he pesteirs are afraid j of being called bullies If they strike so j small an antagonist. But there is always some one whe j eventually takes the clamoring infant j terrible over his knee and administers the right remedy in the proper place, and events appear to be pointing that j eluty to the United States, the self ap- j pointed and unthanked guardian of the j Latin republics, says the Kansas City Star. Several European nations have had the noisy pest In the proper atti-' tude and the slipper poiseel to apply the | smart, but the Uniteel States has al j ways felt in duty bound to regretfully *9 ie rpose the Monroe doctrine to stay the chastening hand. Now Europe may j have the pleasure of seeing us put oui j obstreperous ward in the closet until he promises to be good, as plans are be- j ing elaborated in detail for the mobili- J station of a joint military and naval; force in Venezuelan waters as soon as j possible after President Itoosevelt ob- j tains congressional sanction to resort j to force against Castro. It may not be j deemed necessary by the administration to make this martial demonstration, but the war and navy departments arc both i mapping out a tentative military move ment. There is only one explanation of Ven ezuela's insufferable insolence. The "land of stanel still" believes It is the peer, if not the superior, of any power on the globe and able to hold Its own with the warrior nations of the earth. One man more than any other is re sponsible for this exalted national ego tism. That man Is Cipriano Castro. One almost falls into the old language of royalty and adds "by the grace of j God" president of Venezuela, for Cas tro the ignorant, Castro the relentless, ! rules as if by divine right just as des- ! potleally by grace of the farcical suf frage of the Venezuelans as does Nich olas in Russia or Abdul Ilnmld In Tur key. Ignorant Cipriano Castro may be, but he is not unintelligent. If history both ers with him at ail It must do him the | justice of admitting that he is a states-! man subtle enough to have sailed the j stormy seas of international diplomocy j for nine years and escaped the punish- j ment richly earned by playing one na- j tion's cupidity against the anger of an- i other to the end that Venezuela has al- j ways managed to slip away and leave! the bag in the other fellow's hand, j Something about this extraordinary man is ne>cessary to a correct under standing of a situation that has ex- [ hausted the patience of President Roose velt anel caused Secretary Root to say that diplomacy could de> nothing more. It may explain a little of his character to tell that there is Indian blood in his veins. He was born In an obscure vil lage in the mountains, and the fact that he Is an "Andlno" (.born in the Ande's) is one of his greatest blemishes in the eyes of the aristocrats of the nation.! That he has risen in spite of that great | drawback is only one more proof of the ) man's natural ability. First a farmer boy, Castro later i worked in his father's store, where j liquor and groceries were sold. Among j the lads of the village be was a leader, i and he early established a reputation as a rider anel a fighter. Some writers j have called Castro a coward. He is not. He fights, and lie- fights well. No enemy has ever found him a lag gard in war. The sword raised him to power. That lie is ready. If need be, to ejult the palace for the field makes Ills sway secure. Castro, the boy, got what education the Inadequate village school afforded, i He supplemented this with reading, and it is certain that lie can speak and write fluently. He is densely ig norant. writers assert, of the power and extent of the nations outside of Venezuela. He has Iteen heard to de clare that he did not believe there was a finer city in the world than Caracas. One eif tlu>se revolutions which are so common in that part of the world came when Castro was a young man. He supported the government and led the forces of his state against the rev olutionists. Victory rested with him so persistently that, in the extravagant Spanish-American style, be was hailed as the "conqueror never conquered." But Castro's valor did not avail. The revolution triumphed. Castro tied into exile. For six years lie remained on a ranch in Columbia. Among Castro's literary acquisitions was a life of Napoleon. The moun- i taineer saw in himself a counterpart of the Corsican. Castro took unto him- I self a star and became a man of des tiny. The spirit of revolution stirred ; vlthin him. A handful e»f his moun- ! talneers rallied under the banner of revolt which he raised. That feat which Castro now attempt ed was no task for a coward. It was fiCC miles over the roughest trails to the capital, where death woulel be the por tion of elefeat. Perhaps In an earlier age or a more historic clime thai mare-li might be compared to Ilanni bal's crossing the Alps. Castro lived on the country. The villages ho passed j yielded both provisions and recruits i Caracas opened its gates. Castro was supreme. .It is needless to tell of the revolu t* is Castro put down before he be I coja absolute. Ills hand was heavy and his enemies felt its weight. Cas tro was "elected" president In 1809 The Venezuelan term is for six years A president Is forbidden by the const! tutlon to succeed himself. Most rulers of Venezuela have .acauiesced In thi* i I wtiU cougnras ucviaic uuu I slonal president" for six years. Whet that time expires lie will be eligible foi | a regular election again. With Castro in power the Venezuelan ! congress became as useless as the pow ' erless senate of degenerate Home. II met only to sing the praises of Castro Days were spent In an attempt to finil i a title to fit ills august person. "Grand marshal of the armies of Venezuela,' "the marshal of victory" and"the founder of peace" were weighed and found wanting. At last the Inspiration came. Hail him "Castro, the restore! of Venezuela," It was suggested. And It was so decreed. The most extravagant laudation was poured out upon him. He was some thing sublime, something omnipotent, irresistible, as a sign to the nations, the bright, refulgent star to which the world turned in admiration and awe, to all of which Castro bowed his mod est head and replied: "But 1 ought to declare that I am hardly more than the agent of a some thing superior that watches over the fortunes of virtuous people, of nation, called to fulfill the high destinies of civilization and of progress." With his enemies dead, confined in dungeons, driven into exile or cowed into submission. Castro had time to de vote to "a vigorous foreign policy.'' There were various outstanding claims against Venezuela. These claims were held in Great Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Spain, Belgium, Holland. Nor way, Sweden and the United States. All of these nations tried to collect. Castro and his predecessors showed the collectors the door or made prom ises that were intended to bo broken Finally Great Britain. Germany and Italy combined in 1002 in a blockade of the Venezuelan ports. Then Castrc remembered the Monroe doctrine and appealed to the United States. The American r1 -.-r. Herbert W. Bowen. was given full power by Castro tc make an agreement with the creditors who came collecting with warships Mr. Bowen suggested The Hague tri bunal as a source of arbitration. The suggestion was accepted. The Hague decided that Venezuela should pay a certain per cent of its revenues to its creditors. Castro agreed. Mr. Bowen returned to Venezuela and found thai Castro was already cheating his cred itors. Castro has played equally fast and loose with the United States. The Eu ropean nations were merely creditors Castro hates the United States. The United States overshadows Venezuela. Therefore Castro's star is dimmed. The most solemn promises and pledges to the United States have been broken and Castro has sought to gain support abroad by giving concessions to Euro peans. Castro justifies his confiscation of American concessions by the assertion that they were secured illegally. It would be a tax on credulity to believe that this were not true. But Castro cannot cover himself with the cloak of morality. That stolen from the nation is not restored to the people even if Castro be the "restorer." It goes in stead Into the pockets of Castro and his gang. All visitors to Venezuela agree that the country is being robbed shame lessly. Taxes are confiscatory. Indus try Is stunted. The spoil goes to Cas tro and his supporters. Castro is immensely wealthy. There are several courses open to him. He may flee to some other country and spend the rest of his life in luxury. He might be able to continue his rule in definitely. A revolution may drive him from power or an assassin may cut short his career. The future may be i judged by the past in Venezuela as elsewhere. The safest prophecy is that , Castro's fate is bound up in one of the j last two possibilities. Tailored Waists For Women. "Tailored effects" are to be among the fashions in women's shirt waists for this spring and summer. Cloths bearing big stripes, checks and polka ilots will be favored. Blue, lavender, I tan and black and white are the popu lar colors. It. M. liowlby, a shirt waist salesman from Philadelphia, which, he declares, is the shirt waist center of America, made this explana tion of the foregoing the other day at Kansas City: "By tailored effects I mean three* j inch starched cuffs and plenty of plaits and seams, with a separate collar, man's style, to be worn with a man's style necktie. I'm talking only of me dium priced waists, but they're the sort you'll see most, for the high f.rlced Paris goods, and not Philadelphia, set the standard of styles." The Decline of the Cowboy. College trade demanded peg top cor- I duroy trousers. College trade i:ept on | demanding them until the peg tops sold in much larger quantities than the cowboy style in the same material. The result has been that this year all the corduroys in many large factories ! are made in "rah-rah" lines. "As long j as the cowboys don't object that will j be tin- standard.".l. A. Elting. a trou sers salesman from New York, declare 1 the other morning at Kansas City: ' "The peg tops are loose and comforta- ! ble. So why not?" The Proper Number. The summer resident looked curious- I 1. ... Perry Jones, the sexton of the * 1 «»'< :ry meeting bouse, as she fin ished lier survey of the little church ! "You say it seats 300 people?" she: said, raising her lorgnette to gaze at j him. "What a curious number!" "I don't know why 'tis," replied Mr. I Jones. Resentment at her tone was coupled with irritation at her calm survey of liitu through her impertinent eyeglass as he stared back at her. "Strikes me it's a very sensible num ber. Three hundred in the body of the church, four in the choir, one on the organ bench and a camps tool for Hollis Prouty that blows for Miss Cummings to play. "Perhaps down your way you'd think he ought to stand all the time, being only a boy, but folks see things differ ent In the country."—Youth's Compan ion. When She Looked Best. A reader for a New York publishing house gives the following, quoted from a story submitteel by an Indiana au thoress, as l>elng about the choicest bit of bungle he lias come across In many years: "Reginald was bewitched. Never had the barnne eetned to him so beauti fjl - •loment, when, in her '! . hid her face."—Lippin- BIG LONDON STADIUM Splendid Amphitheater Where the Olympic Games Will Be Held. FINE ATHLETIC QUARTERS. Great Inclosure Iri Which World Con testants Will Compete Has Cinder Track One-third of a Mils to the Lap—Room For 150,C00 Spectators. According to the official statistics and measurements issued by the English Olympic committee, the immense stadi um at Shepherd's Bush. London, Eng land, where athletes from all parts of the world will compete in the Olympic games of I'JOS, Is the largest structure of Its kind ever built for athletic exhi bition purposes. Some idea of the vast ness of the stadium can be gathered from the fact that provision has been made to accommodate more than 150,- 000 spectators eluriug the important meets of the two weeks' athletic car nival. Of this vast multitude close to 70.000, or a little less than half, can be comfortably scateel during the com petitions. The building, which has been erected j on grounds adjoining the Franco-Brit- ( ish exposition, is composed almost eu t ire-ly of cement, res-enforced by Iron and steel. It is so large that the Gre cian amphitheater at Athens could be placed inside the running track of the English arena. No effort has been spared to make it the most complete edifice of its kind ever erected, says the New York Evening Suti. The walls, which rise to the height of sixty feet, are built in the shape of a great oval, from which thousands of seats de scend on an inclined plane to the edge of the bicycle track. Underneath the great arches supporting the structure accommodations will be made for more than 100 rooms of various sizes for the , exhibition of all manner of athletic and sporting paraphernalia and the quartering of the competing athletes. In the latter portion of the stadium the teams of America and the twenty odd other countries that are expected to be represented will flnel the most superb conveniences awaiting them, i The athletes' dressing rooms will con tain lockers, cots, pool and shower baths, rubbing tables and every other training apparatus that past experi ence can suggest. Electric bells and signboards will be installed In every room in order that the competitors may be notified from the Judges' stand of the approach of events to which they may be entered to take part. The athletic arena proper, In which athletes from nil parts of the world will compete during the month of July, will be the most complete track and field that has ever been prepared for contests of the character which are seheduleel. The work in this elepart meut of the stadium building was com menced just about a year ago. when the foundation for the running anel bicycle tracks was installed and the turf seeded down in order that the grass might have ample opportunity to reach perfection before the date of the opening games. As a result of the j care and attention devoted to the com petitors' right of way. the field Is said to surpass anything of like character in England, whicli is already noted for several modern courses of great ex cellence. The bicycle course, whicli is the larger of the two tracks, has be'en built of smooth cement for a width of thir ty-five feet, with flie turns banked at the proper angle for fast speed. This track measures two and two-third laps to the mile anel will encircle the run ning track, which is only a few feet less in width anel measures one-third of a mile to the lap. Inside the two courses a perfect sod field has been laid out which will permit of lacrosse, football and other classes of field games being played at the same time that the tracks are in use if the neces sity for the double bill should arise. 1 Some idea of the extent of the infield may be gathered from the fact that its greatest length measures 235 yards, while the width at the broadest point is lust about 100 vards An innovation in the arrangement tor the Olympic games has been the builil ing of an immense swimming pool, which will be located on the Infield di rectly in front of the grand stand. The pool, which is entirely constructed of cement, will be 100 1-3 yards long and a trifle more than 50 feet wide. The elepth at each enid will lie four feet and will gradually Increase until in the middle of the pool, where the high div- 1 ing contests will be held. It Is more than twelve feet deep. A system of water supply has been installed which will permit of a complete change of water once in every twenty-four hours, liml, ns flie swimming races and other forms of aquatic sports are to be fea tured. it is likely that the natatorium ' will lie the center e>f Interest for many ' days during the great athletic carnival. I The great structure, which, when completed, will have ceist more than ' $350,000, will be thrown open to the ' public on Saturday. May 2, when the 1 first of a long scries of strictly English I athletic meet:; will lie held in the sta dium as a sort of preliminary tryout 1 for the greater international competl- j tion which lias been set for the month ' of July. The programme for the Olym- 1 ■r'c meets will include every form of track and field competition, cycle rac- 1 ing, archery contests, lacrosse, football •' and open air nasties. Such ath- : letlc events ns are not suitable for the I stadium will be conducted on the 1 grounds of clubs featuring these sports J : In or adjacent to London. < Salt In Digestion. Wlssen feur Alle had a symposium to discuss the value of salt in diges tion. One of the physicians that, while salt in moderation is good j for the stomach and often absolutely | necessary, it ought to be taken apart: from the meals, in much the same j way as medicine. He bases his Judg-1 ment on the way artificial digestion j proceeds in the presence of marine salt "How old is you little brother, my dear?" "He's not old at all, sir. He's nearly 1 brand new." GREAT GAME OF WAR Novel Maneuvers In Defense of Coast Around New York. FOUR FORTS TO TAKE PART. Target Practice With Solid Shot and Shell Will Be Carried on In Lower Harbcr Next June—Over Six Thou sand Men In Action. New York will wake up to find itself in a state of siege some morning next June. Added to the rumble of traffic will come the of great guns at the forts down the Narrows, the roar of the twelve inch monsters at Port Hamilton and the spatter of the eight and six inch guns hi the big forts behind their grassy embankments on the Westchester shore of the sound. Troops from the armories In Harlem and the Bronx will be hurrying through the streets to re-enforce the artillerymen at the forts, and the screech of real solid shot and shell will go ricochetting over the heads of busy traffic in the lower bay and the sound. It will be nearer to the real war condition than the metropolis ever got j before in time of peace, and as New York was never besieged by a modern | fleet it will be nearer to what might happen than the civil war or any other war ever brought the city. Light and twelve inch shells will be shot and exploded, says the New York World, and at night the dull roar of plant mortars and the red stream of their flight will illuminate the heavens. In t'.iis novel feature of the coast de fense maneuvers around New York real target practice with solid shot and shell will be carried on by the mili tia coast defense companies of the city. They will be linked with the regular artillery in manning the guns of Forts Totten, Schuyler, Hamilton and Wadsworth. Th U will lie a distinct departure in the effort of the war department to In crease the efficiency of the coast forti fications through the development of an effective auxiliary of state coast de fense reserves. The liest that has been done in the past was the subcallber target practice in which the state forces participated with the regulars I last year. But now the coast artillery system has perfected plans Involving the use of the genuine article in pro jectiles, which are to be fired at fixed targets at 6.000 yards range from 6lx, ten and twelve inch breechloadlng rifles of the tnost modern type; also from twelve inch breecliloading mor tars. Under this well worked out scheme state militiamen will be allowed to fire the guns of nil four forts for the first time. While the reserves will manipu late the artillery, the range finding ap paratus will be worked by the regu lars, the object of this being to develop team work between the state and fed era' artillerists. Plans have been developed in detail for the New York maneuvers after voluminous correspondence between the war department and New York national guard officials. The defenses of the metropolis are the most impor tant along the coast, and the federal government is especially solicitous about the part the militia of New Y'ork may piny in the eastern and southern sets of forts guarding this great port. The coast defense exercises commence at Mobile May 1 and conclude at Bos ton June 00. Between these dates guns will boom ail along tho Atlantic coast, with the New Y'ork maneuvers as the crowning feature of the great war game. The Empire State will contribute more reserves to these exercises than any other state. She wi!l furnish thirty state coast defense companies, which are to be supported by two full regi ments of state militia. The nearest ap proach to tills contingent will t>e the fourteen state coast artillery compa nies of Connecticut for the New Lon don maneuvers, which will be held at New London simultaneous with those at New Y'ork. All of these maneuvers will be In continuation, but one step in advance of those undertaken under the direc tion of Colonel Murray, chief of artil lery, last summer. Their purpose is the same—the creation of enough interest along the seacoast states to induce the j states to form enough state militia coast artillery companies to furnish 50 per cent of the number of coast artil lerymen necessary In time of war for one manning relief of ail Atlantic de fenses. Sixteen hundred men aro necessary toman the eastern artillery district of New Y'ork at Port Totten. Willet'S Point and Port Schuyler, on the West chester shore, and 4,500 are needed for the southern artillery district, compris ing Fort Hamilton, at Brooklyn, and Fort Wadsworth. at Staten island. Be fore last year's maneuvers Atlantic seaboard states had organized only twenty-five militia coast artillery com panies, twelve each in New Y'ork and Massachusetts and one in Maryland. So beneficlni were these maneuvers that by stat*' legislation New Y'ork now has thirty militia coast artillery com panies. Connecticut fourteen. Rhode Island sixteen, District of Columbia four, Georgia four and Alabama four, while Maine, North and South Caro lina are seeking state legislation for additional companies. The New Y'ork maneuvers will ex tend from June 13 to 20 and take place simultaneously in both the eastern and southern artillery districts, but the problem of each district will be inde pendent of the other. All thirty of the New Y'ork militia compaules will act us artillery reserves. Anaesthetics Known In Middle Ages. Lecturing before the Association ot Surgeons of Munich on narcotics Pro fessor Klein said that the process ot reducing the sensibilities of jiatients with a view to making operations pain less was known and practiced In the middle ages. Bishop Theodorus of Chervira wrote a prescription for a pain destroyer in the twelfth century j which contained opium, morphine and hyascuin. A medical work printed in 1460 contains the first known treatise on inhalation, and we now inject tinder the skin the soothing mixture which 1 In 14G0 was inlialeok a' here! If ye wos t' take all tli' colors In th' lock er so's ye 'ad lots o' red an' yeller in, ye'd find a sky t' match it. Ain't ye never 'card o' what them dagos calls blood o' Chris'—them dagos wot loads ye hallest in th' I'late?" I had not heard. "Well, it's a sky like that, an' It comes afore one of them 'pamperos.' "Mln" I wos lyin' in Monte Video oncet, an' we 'ad a sky all blood red an' never a cloud, an' th' fishln' boats wos all comiu' In; not rowin' shipshape, same 's me an' you 'ml do; them shovin' th' oars 's if they wos pushln' a barrel*." lie spat into a dark corner and said something more about dagos, then continued: "Nex' day we 'ad a gale. 'Owlln', it was, an' her drivin' into it same 's we wos off th' Horn, an' a big German bark driv' down on us an' took th' fore to'gal'n'inast out o' 'er an' th' boom an' started all th' 'eadgear. Two ships wos driv' ashore, an' that's wot comes out o' them skies wot they calls th' blood o' Chris'." It was an Impressionist picture that annoyed my mate—an Impression of a scene in dock, with masts and funnels and hulls all mixed tip. The coloring was good, but the ships might have been ninepins or egg boxes or any thing. At first he was perplexed, then amused, then indignant. "Oh. !" he said. "What's this? Ships b'gad, or I'm a Dutchman!" lie burst into a tit or rude laughter. "Ships it is, mister, an' look at them tawps'l yards! Ships wi' tawps'l yards below the main, an' a hangman's gibbet fer th' mizzen gaff. Them fellers 's got some cheek, mate. That's wot I calls it—cheek—t' be paintin' things like that. 'Oly sailor! Look at them." Boiling a Fish. In boiling any fish you should put enough water in a largo pot to enable a fish to swim in If it were alive. Add to this water half a cup of vinegar, a tablespoonful of salt, one whole onion, one dozen whole black peppers, one blade of mace. Take any fish and sew it up in a new piece of cheesecloth fitted to the shape of the fish. Put In the water and heat slowly for thirty minutes; then let It boll hard and fast for about ten minutes. TTuwrap and serve with drawn butter made from the liquor in which the fish was cooked and add to it the Juice of half a lemon ' < 0"'" pouim^^gi NOTES C.MBAIiNITZ RIVERSIDE . \ CORKESPO.VDENCE " solicited U/x Jrl — -Q.# ' THE WAY TO PERFECTION. All's not gold that's told in ads., even though It's a Gold Rock ad. Winning birds are seldom mated, though this oft has been related to sell eggs and you. Not natural for a silver cup sport to sell eggs equal to his own to hatch show birds to compete with him at tlio next contest. You're a bird if you be lieve it. Ilis "best in the world" aren't going to be sold to another sport who may turn a new breeding trick or have a now fake card up his sleeve to make the "best" better and thus relieve him of a quadruple cup. When breeders mate up they don't always take win ners nor perfect birds. They might hatch something too perfect, just as people may get too awfully goody good. And then somp of these perfect prize birds aren't just so perfect as they seem. Some have homemade perfect combs and spliced feathers and pluck ed shanks and snowy bleached backs and indigo flight feathers, and when you buy them for a big price in the showroom and take them home in a month there is as big a difference be tween their "before and after" as in the pictures of an anti-fat advertise ment. All's not silver that shines, even if it's a Silver Itock silver cup winner. So fair fanciers concede that it's not always best to mate prize winners nor perfect birds. Too much varnish spoils the picture. Had traits come from somewhere—maybe three generations back. Anyhow the perfect birds, espe cially colored breeds, aren't generally a success, and so they adopt a plan that you wouldn't. They mate imperfect birds. This is the plain truth, if some one is doing fancy lying. In this perfect mating of imperfect birds they select a male and females and make the good traits on one side balance the bad traits on the other. A hen's good traits may cover the bad traits of the male, and the male may have some perfect points the hen is weak in, and thus, bred together, ev erything may even up and the off spring be just right. A long legged Leghorn with poor color may lie bred to a short legged hen with strong standard color. A Silver Laced Wyandotte with a poor hackle is matched with a hen of perfect hackle that may be deficient in some points in which the male is true. A Brown Leghorn may have a four point comb. To get the live point some will breed a live point female, while others will take a sis pointer, claiming that the four and sis point combs will neutralize into the regular five point comb. Imperfections are thus offset by per fections to get the perfect. Then there are the cockerel and pul let matings—not that cockerels form into stag parties and pullets organize girl bachelor clubs, but breeding pens are matched to bring certain color cockerels or certain color pullets. For Instance, some Barred Itoclt fanciers like a rather dark cockerel, and they mate fur it. They want pullet feathers to have narrow dark tips and all feathers .to be barred to the slcln, and they mate accordingly. So it's not so simple after all, and when a man at St. Louis paid SI,OOO for a lien It was not because he was a fool, but he ap preciated the science required to build that hen and knew the pleasure and profit that come from such a bon ton brain product to breed from. In society you have often noticed people try to even up in the same man ner. A brainless man will try to mar ry the new woman to make himself look intellectual. A man with a slim Income will strive to wed a woman with a fat bank account. But, as the chicken mating may be a failure, the brainless man may seem more non compos mentis, and the fortune may be a fizzle. DON'TS. Don't use all the adjectives in the English language to sell a three pound rooster. Nuf sed. Don't be a rotten nest egg fossil. China eggs for nests. No rotten nest eggs for customers. Don't mate more than six hens to one gobbler. You'll not have many Christmas turkeys to gobble if you do. Don't fail to exterminate the rats. If you can't hit a barn door, call out the N. <; They can make corks pop ftraight. Don't forget to And the turkey's nest. The skunk will get there If you don't. Hope you don't meet and quarrel. Ex cuse us from the peace council. Don't forget that you are an un classed specimen of t'ap fool species if you lick" your boys for getting the chicken fever. It's an attribute of greatness, and if you never had It pre pare for a severe attack of non compos mentis. Don't envy the prosperous poultry man. I'eople running machines get their fingers caught in cogs when they watch the scenery. Try the "oil of gladness" on your rusty wheels anil shout over every fellow's success. Hump a little harder, and the band will soon serenade you. BILVER ROCKS. Dor.'t forget tho Golden Rule When you're selling hens and cocks, j If you do. you'll play the fool And be out tho Golden Rocks. Don't forget tlio Silver Rule When you're mating hens and cocks. Or you'll not bo In tho pool Where they coin tho Silver Rocks. Crossing Gold and Silver Dottes, You will mint a mass of brass; Neither gold nor silver spots And no Silver Rocks amass. If you're mixing Hocks and Dottes, Gold and Silver in one flock, You will lose the Golden Dottes And be out the Silver Roclu. j -- *,ut.ivs you uioea, straight your hens and cocks. Sixteen to one's the proper creed To coin tons of Silver Rocks. c. M. a. FOMULAE FOR FEEDS. C ' hick f0( -' a Pounds. Cracked wheat 25 t racked corn 10 Uillet 10 Oatmeal 10 This is the basis for true feed, and the following may be added if desired: Pounds. K a[hr corn 20 L'rarked peas io Cracked rice 3 Kape 3 Hemp 2 After a month or six weeks use this i-oarser scratch feed: Pounds. tVhole wheat 20 Coarse cracked corn 15 f>ats 15 fCattir corn 20 Barley 6 Millet § It* you desire to use forcing mash or broiler bread the following is the best. Forcing mash: Pounds. Commeal $ Bran . j 3 Flour mids 2 Beef scrap.*. g Broiler bread: Pounds. Cornmeal 2 Bran 2 Flour mids 1 Beef scrap Fine grit Mis well, stir in six raw eggs and milk sufficient to moisten. Putin greased pan and it slow oven. This cake should not bo sticky nor served with ice cream. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. If you are raising broilers, a good fattener is wheat, scalded overnight, fed every other day. If your poultry run is full of plau tain, don't let your hens gorge them selves or you will be plautia' them. What poultry prefer to eat is uot al ways fit for the end in view-. They prefer fat producers. Antifat for fresh eggS. Beware of beef scrap that smells like fertilizer. It's Chicago tankage. Re ject scrap that's yellowish. It's Chi li og-o cracklings. One reason why English poultry look so untidy in the showroom is be cause they are shipped in wicker hampers. They look 'ampered. Blackhead has about destroyed the turkey industry of New England. If baldhead was so fatal, there would be 110 deacons left in the front pews. When the small end of the egg is elevated during hatching, the head grows in the wrong end, and thus de formed chick cannot come out, but in this and other cases you often come out the small end of the horn. A poultrymau's work is a series of details. Itemize your day's duties and put the most important items first. Then shove them through, and do all if it's not beyond your strength. A small thing well done Is better than a big thing bungled. When you dress a fowl to sell feed it nothing for a day before. This is the law in some states. Thus the digestive system will be empty. If fowl is full fed and to be drawn, make an incision around the rectum and tie the organ with strong cord. There will thus be no accident, and your fowl will uot be foul. When you permit your poultry to drink from tho foul pools around the manure pile, just remember that an egg is largely water. No wonder your young turkeys die when allowed to wade through such a mess. It's enough to paralyze a hog. If your customers see the picture it will paralyze your egg trade. ueath of chicks in the shell has various causes—weak males, lack of moisture and improper ventilation in incubators, too high or low temperature,, old eggs and last, but not least, open ing the door during hatching to count the pipped eggs or to show off the wonderful marvel of nature to an awe struck multitude. The hard times, with the fall in prices, will count something to tho poultryman on the feed question. Both poultry and squab raisers culled down to a minimum and now have the finest pens and lofts ever. That much good the high feed prices did, and you'll see the best stock raised this season in the history of poultrydom. It's a delightful chance you have to make things hum this summer. Get out just the number of chicks or duck lings you can feed well aud care for. Then lay aside the spring fever and the summer prostration. After a good, happy hustle you may slack up in the fall long enough to receive congratula tions and then boost tile rooster for winter eggs. May you always get there. During the winter season In Califor nia ffesh eggs sold at 23 cents, storage extras at 17 cents, while wheat, oats and corn stood at $1.83, bran at SLOS 1 -.;. and mids at SI.OO. Now. you eastern knockers who have been buying wheat nt 05 cents, corn at 00 c >:its, oats nt 53 cents, bran at $1.30 and uilds at 51.40 and at the same time selling eggs from CO to 00 cents, yes. you had better quit your knocking raof! R.ellable TIN SHOP for all kind of Tin Rooflna> Spouting rind Conoral Job Work. Stoves, Heater*. Ran**** Furnaces, eto. PRICES TBB LOWEST! QUILITY TDK BEST! JOHN HIXSOJV no- lif a from; st.