: Nor AnyOtheiS Creature. ( By lna Wright Hansorv. S uooKiug ui> fro" 1 a l° n g drawn reverie before the unfinished picture on my easel, 1 saw lolantbe beaming at me from the doorway. "Come on!" she cried. "Put up your work and come with me into the coun try. I believe you don't even know it Is May day. Don't you remember 'the month of May, when the air is so full of sweetness and love that even one shaving begins to feel an affection for another shaving?' Come, let us a May ing go." "I can't," 1 answered. "I'm up against it. I'm crowded to the wall. I'm broke." lolanthe laughed—the sweetest sound in this wise old world. "I had f.n intuition so. but that doesn't matter. This is iny treat. You see, Isabel 1> ry took me to dinner yes terday, so I have enough to take us pic nicking today. Come, brave knight, put on thy hob and hasten." I hastened No one could resist lo lantbe. 1 li t-!; her little covered bas ket, and we went s:'ong the ball and down the stairs, with mock-doleful : wwian yfl.i foil twit '' US froul OUT fellow workers, who • e : ; '' '' out into the blosomir.g '. y y \ < rid. "What car . <• we • to take?" I asked as We r ched t!:e street. lolanthe bin m 1 de'. •> !y. "We are not h t>t :■ a car. You see, I got so inter; ted i•: l aying a scrumptious' Innch ths.t 1 -got about the car, and" — "I see," 1 said gravely "And you ; don't know 1 w glad I am that we are t i walk It is so much healthier. ; Then we won't have t • mingle with the plebeians on a comm m ear. When rich aristocrats like us"— lolanthe glanced up at lae rather -harp'y, I thought. It couldn't be that j -he knew—of course she couldn't know. : No one knew but my uncle's lawyer ' and myself, and maybe my uncle. I wondered if my uncle did know in ; that unknown country be had lately I entered. By and by I should tell lolan- j the that, wlii'4 the preliminaries were over, I should have enough money to buy her everything she wanted, even ! !f on this blithe day I had not a pen- j WE ATE OUR "SCRUMPTIOUS" LUNCH. uy, and all due to a never known rich old uncle, now dead, But lolanthe was proud, so first I would win her prom ise—win it while she believed me poor 1 as herself. Purity and courage and gentleness and beauty—that was my iolanthe. Mine? Ah, when our May day was over, should I be calling her mine? "Who are you today?" she asked, stopping tn till her lungs with the buoyant air. We bail a habit of playing we were other folks w hen wo went 011 these ex cursions— childish uo doubt, but we were never going to grow old, we said, so It was 1M st to be children a IOIIS time. "Why, I n:.i King < '■ >i>lietu.i." 1 au- MVfiv.i |iroi! pt!\, with a great Inflat ing of my kingly chest and throwing bad: ..f my I- ingl. bead as we walk ed on. "Her arms across licr l.rcast she laid; Shi. was moru fair than words can say. In robe anil crown the king stept down To meet and greet lier on her way." "Who are you today. lolanthe?" "It's a pretty .story," she mused, not answering my question, "but suppose it were turned around. Suppose that it were Queen Cophetua and the beg gar man. Would he be good and let i»or lnv<- t0...•> Atirt woulil |». i u . will ing to sit ou the throne with her?" "Oh, that's different!" 1 said. "Of course a man could not take favors from a woman. The beggar man would have togo out Into the world and win his fortune. lie couldn't take it from his queen. You know he couldn't, don't you. lolanthe?" "No, I don't know anything about it," she said a l it crossly. Hut lolanthe never could stay cross long enough to make It pay, so in a moment she was talking merrily cgaln. Presently we reached the spot we were bound for, a spot of sun and shade and running water and new spring flowers. We ate our "scrump tious" lunch, and then we sang and talked and had long spells of social silence, and all the while I was won dering how I should make her say "yes" if at first she happened to say "no." "I am going to tell you a pretty srory," she remarked after one of these silences. "It's a true one too. I am invited and so are you. and you'll go, won't you?" "Oh, sure!" I answered recklessly. 1 "Where?" "A reception tomorrow evening to meet the richest girl you e«*er saw. She has so much money she doesn't know what to do with It all, but folks have just found It out. She bH pre. j tended to be poor for reasons. both going because you said you would." "I would do anything or go any where to please you, little girl," I I answered with so much meaning that j lolanthe flushed and her dear eyes ! wavered before my gaze. I don't know | quite how it happened, but suddenly I | had my dream in my arms—my unre-; slsting, perfect, red lipped dream—and I was quite mad with delight. Then presently she cried out tnat I must never let anything come between us * —i ~ t* " 'Nor height nor depth nor any otner creature,'" I said reverently. " 'Nor any other creature,'" she re peated after me and made me say it ! every little while all the rest of that wonderful day, and I did not tell her about my fortune after all. though I had intended to. When you come to think of it. money is a sordid thing to discuss when two folks are quailing nectar aud nibbling ambrosia. | The next evening I went to the re ception and was presented to the lady of riches. It seemed to me that all the | room bushed its breath and waited while we two went through what was i required of us. It seemed to me that I lived an eon before we were free from the great eye of the room and in some place where there were a splash of water and quiet and heavy perfume of i flowers. There i:i the dim light she stood, slender as nn English laburnum tree, swaying in her yellow silken robes i toward me. Iler hands, weighted with Jewels, were held out to me. Her mouth that I had kissed was smiling at me—was saying: 1 "'Nor any other creature!'" I stood there staring at this wonder ful new lolanthe, and all I could think j of and all I said was: •Tare? oted came the bog-Tar maid, r -: iv the king Coplietua!" TThr li. considering the circum stan •!•<. coiiid hardly have been more | absurd. lolnnthe's laugh r:;ng out; then she came closer ine, v.: ' her eyes grew : very grave. "Dearest," she whi ;■"!> !. "I was too rich to be happy, ni ' so [ ran away from everybody an 1 went to work in the studio. I wanted to accomplish something. 1 \ 1 IV 1 to say. 'She is a great paint' : : 'Mi •is the rich ; est girl in the country." Then 1 found you, and—and I diu .'t .. sv try more for fame, b ::use 1 vvai something greater, love—your i ive—and—you said 'Nor any other creature,' you know j you did!" "And meant it. too, my angel!" I ex claimed, coming out of my tra ice and taking her hands in mine. "You shall give me nil the inonej you liink I ; need, and 1 will sit on the throne with ; you like a good little man." "I am so glad you are goin? to be sensible!" she said fervently. And then 1 had to explain to her | why I was laughing. The Frozen Grail. I TTo Command r P arv and tils band ! Why sing tin. legends of the Holy Oral!. The dead crusaders of the sepulcher. While those men live? Are the great bards all dumb? | Here Is a vision to shake the blood of song j And mako Fame's watchman tremble at his post. | What shall prevail against the spirit of man ; When cold, the lean and snarling wolf of I hunger. j The threatening spear of lee mailed soli tude, j Slleneo and space and ghostly footed fear Trevall not? Dante in his frozen hell, j Shivering, endured no bleakness llko the void I Theso men have warmed with their own flaming will And peopled with their dreams. The wind from fierce Arctums In their fact's, at their backs The whip of the world's doubt nnd In their souls Courage to die—lf death shall be the price Of that cold cup that shall assuage their thirst. They climb and fall and stagger toward the goal. • They lay themselves the road whereby they travel And sue God for a franchise. Does he watch Behind the lattice of the boreal lights" 7n that grail chapel of their stern vowed iiuest. Ninety of God's long paces toward the north. Will they behold the splendor of his face? To conquer the world must man ren .:neo tho world? These have renounced It Had ye only faith Ye might move mountains, said th>- N / arm' Why, t! t-se have fal'.h to move (he ines of man Out to t hi- point where all and n< filne mi'i They catch the bit of Ileath ! tW'-t-n in one wild v> i• ■ tjc"< The •• ft: ~t I '-i The 1 •0 * r of this quest lis lull 11. world True to Its i lMt for a million year:?. And t ' a.I lie fail? They i-v. r fall wlv. light Their lamp ot faith at the itmvnv. ring flame Turnt for the altar service of the race Since the I -tinning. He shall find the strange— The white immaculate Virgin of »!ia North, Whose steady gaze n! tor ax him fer anything. K: v.,- f ve:i \ him an' ho seen us ou de street oi ! wliar his house wuz la- always 1 a piece or money fer us, haze I •" I oil we needed if. an' lie c t ; how we wuz Kltlln' " 'peate:- take de 1 igges' sort •• m trusi in i :r eomin's an' our (.v. , < ou. lie lies liacliully ktiowed us : seuce de time Wen freedom fust broke out. Par's lots er good folks In de wort', but (ley ain't no mo* des iak' j him!" Gold Tassels For Women's Umbrellas. Following on the craze for little golil anil silver tassels for neckwear for women and as trimming for blouses trad costumes of every kind comes "lUite a new departure to lighten up the funereal aspect of umbrellas. To improve the look of these Indispensable but often far from ornamental ar ticles, gold and silver tassels to match the handles are being made In London Bismarck's Appetite. Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, had an enormous capacity for eating and drinking. lie once told a friend that the largest number of oysters he ever ate was 175. He first ordered twenty live; then, as they were very good, fifty more, and, consuming these, deter, mined to eat nothing else and ordered another hundred to the great amuse ment of those present. Bismarck was then twenty-six and had Just returned from England. \ Settlement < | In Full. ) By LULU JOHNSTON. \ \ Copyrighted, 1907, by N. E. Daley. / Dick Staley, perched on a rurmiuie »rate, looked disconsolately at Billy i Elaine, who was regarding the wall i paper and trying bard not to laugh, j In spite of Blaine's efforts the twitch j tng corners of his mouth curved, and as he met Staley's eye be exploded in a roar of laughter which served only to deepen Staley's gloom. "Laugh, confound you!" growled Sta ley. "It's funny to you. It's not so funny to me. I've got to get this place settled in five days, and upon my soul I dou't know what to do first!" "The first step is easy," chuckled Blaine. "Get a man into scrape the walls. The paper is the worst I ever saw." "It looked all right in the book," said Staley defensively. "It was the pret tiest thing in the whole book of sam ples." "It may be all right in a sample," admitted Blaine, with another glance at the flowered monstrosity, "but there is only one square yard of the sample. It looks different, Dick, when you have a roomful of it." "I know it," admitted Staley. "but that doesn't help matters. It only servos to make them worse. I want ed to surprise the matter by bringing her to her own home instead of tak ing her to a hotel. She bates to give up her old home, and I wanted to make the change as easy as possible." The smile died from Blaine's face at the allusion to Mrs. Staley. lie was Dick's chum, and he knew how tender ly Dick loved the gentle faced woman wb i within the month bad lost both husband aud daughter. Now she was coming to live with Dick, and for weeks be had planned to take an apartment that she might not feel too keenly the loss of the home that bad been hers since marriage. "I'll tell you what we'll do. Dick," suggested Blaine. "I.et's go downtown for some lunch. I'll phone Nell for one j of those professional fixers for you. She knows a crackerjack, a girl who ; used to move in good society and whose father lost his money. She knows what's what aud how to do It, and Nell will get her to do it for you." Dick patted his chum on the liacU while his eyes glistenc d. Nell Blaine "COMPLETS V" sire isr N>, NOT QRN-I C ATCUINO nis MEANING. was the most accomplished matron of his acquaintance. She would extricate hiia from ids trouble. Together they left the apartment, and while Staley ordered lunch Hilly Hlaine hung over the telephone in the restaurant. "She'll bring her over tonight at 8." reported lilily as he took his peat. "Eat with a good appetite and con sider yourself settled already." Billy's words restored confidence, and when [tick Staley met Marion Wadleigh that evening his last doubt vanished. The girl did uot laugh at his blunders nor even at the wall pa per. She listened with sympathy and took from her chatelaine the tablets on which to make note.-- «'f what she wanted. With increasing admiration Staley followed her through the vari ous rooms, noting the quick, business like way i:i which she condoned his errors and approved his successes. "I can do it over in four days," she said briskly when she had shut up her memorandum book and returned to the parlor where Nell Blaine, Billy's sister in-law, still siit in rapt admiration of the garish wall paper. "Suppose, Mr. Staley, that you drop in here Friday afternoon? Then you can suggest any last changes you wish made, and the plaeo trill ""odv for your mother Saturday evening. Snail ; i_- 1 "Can your' Staley had heard or tne servant problem, and lie had worried greatly. This businesslike girl offered | even to take that trouble < ff his hands, lie was rapidly coming to regard Mar ; lon Wadlelgh as a tailor mule angel. lie dropped In the next morning on i his way to the office and found a pa per hanging crew already installed, removing the paper that had proved so j disappointing. Marion was there in a gingham apron even more becoming than the cloth costume of the night be fore. and Hick's heart beat faster in 1 answer to her greeting. There was something "homey" in her appearance that appealed strongly ! to the man who for years had enjoyed but tin occasional glimpse of home in vacation time. The soft dark hair was hidden by a cap and the piquant face fas flushed with exertion, but the heightened color only added to her beauty, and the cap did not shadow the tender light in the brown eyes. Hick wont to his office with his head in a whirl. Kver since he bad come to the city he hail sunk himself in work. Fortune had come his way rap idly. and np to the present he had 'ound work all sufficient. Now he be gan to realize that the years had been lonely. Marion was not at the house when he dropped in the following morning, nor did he see her again until Friday afternoon, when he went to make his final inspection of her work. Hick gasped as he entered the apart ment. In place of the gaudy paper tile walls were now covered with quiet' tones and the flowered carpets had been exchanged for rugs whose soft tints harmonized with the new paper. | Instead of the solid offlcelike furniture: were lighter and more tasteful pieces, I and the whole apartment suggested a feminine presence. Best of all, Marion Wadleigh was 1 had been ex cr.augeti fur an arternoon costume, anil Immediately Dick decided that aft er all a print dress was not the most becoming costume which Marlon could wear, though that had been his impres- ! sion since he had seen her last. Quietly she moved about the place,! giving an nccotint of her expenditures, and Dick followed, hearing only the rich voice, full tones, without carina what she said. At last the tour of the rooms was ended, and she return I ed to the parlor j "If you like." she said, "I can buy! ! the material for dinner tomorrow and be here to welcome Mrs. Staley when she arrives. Mrs. Blaine wanted to come over, but she had to leave town last night with her husband." "I should be delighted If you could arrange to be here tomorrow," said Staley. "I am sure that my mother will wish to add her thanks to mine for the beautiful home you have pro vided. You will stay to dinner?" "I ouly suggested being here to wel come her," said Marlon, her face flush ed. "You see—ln business—it is best to maintain strictly business relations. You don't have to thank me for what I have done. My charges cover all services, you know." "But money could not pay for pull ing me out of a bole and settling me," Insisted I>ick. "Besides, I don't want to maintain a purely business relation ship unless you insist, Miss Wadleigh." ' I don't insist," the girl answered softly. "1 have been much Interested in your devotion to your mother, and I am sure that I shall lie glad to know her better She must be a dear old lady to deserve such affection." '•I want you to know her very well," explained Dick. "You see you have only partly settled mother. You have provided her with :t home, but 1 want a home of my own, and I want you to furnish it complete." "CompleteV" she asked, not quite catching bis meaning. "Eveu to a wife," explained l>iek. "1 don't ask an answer now, but will you consider the proposition?" "As a business woman I have always considered propositions," she said, with a laugh, I tit the look in her eyes be!lei the briskness of her words, and I tic k realized that when they should know HI II other better there was a prospect of being settled "in full," as he termed It some months later when he placed a solitaire on Marion's finger. FINED A FRANC. Whet That Meant to an American Who Was Living In Paris. When you are fined a franc In Tarla It means that you pay 12 francs 73 centimes, or just over half a sovereign, i This is the only conclusion to which one can come after reading the curl- ; ous experience of an American citizen who is slaying" In f'nrls to complete the education of his sons. He lives !n { an apartment near the Arc de Tri- | omphe, and the other morning one of j his servants committed the lrnpru- ' dence of shaking a carpet out of the | window after ii o'clock. A lynx eyed | constable saw her and immediately ' climbed the stairs, rang the liell, en tered the apartment and drew up a ; summons against the tenant. The j American was called and gave his j name. "I did not know it was a breach of the law," he said. "But ns I have IITOK I it 1 must pay. How much is it?" "You will L>e fined 1 fraric." replied the policeman. "There you are," answered the Americai), and he held out the coin. But the "aßent" refused to take it. "Later on,"he remarked as he with drew, "you will lie summoned before the Justice of the peace." Some days later the delinquent was invited to appear before the "Juge de puis" and obeyed the summons. lie was obliged to wait three hour? in an antechamber. Then he was admitted "Do yon admit." asked the mngls- trate, "having broken the law?" "I do," was the reply. "Good. You are fined 1 franc." "There you are, then." Ami the American again held out the franc. But the magistrate woulil have uoni of it. "Yon wIU |ay the sum later. Vou will be advised when. You may with ilraw." The American took his departure considerably surprised at so many for maHties in connection with a franc line. A few days later lie received a stamped paper Inviting him to pay. first of all, 1 franc, the amount of his fine, plus 25 centimes, tlie amount of the declines, plus 11 francs 48 cen times, the amount of the costs, making in all a total of 12 francs 73 centimes. The American paid, but as he left the police court he remarked: "In America a law which forced a citizen to pay §l2 when he had only been fined £1 would be considered a hypocritical and dishonest law. And we would not tolerate it long, you bet!"— London Globe. Sure to Get On. "Mr. Spudlong," began the youth, hanging his hat on the back of the chair, "I will occupy only a few mo ments of your time. I have come to ask you for your daughter. I" "Young man," said the elderly bank er, "do you"— "Yes, sir. I realize fully that she has been tenderly nurtured and that she is very dear to you; also that her home Is one in which she has been surrounded by every luxury. But she is willing to leave it." "Can you"— "No, sir; I can't quite maintain her in the style to which she has been ac customed, but 1 hare a good salary, and I am ready to chance It So is she." "Will you"— "Yes, sir; I will keep my life Insured for a sum sufficient to provide for her If I should be taken away." "Would you"— "No, sir; I would not expect to live with the family. I am able to buy and furnish a modest home for her." "Young man," said Mr. Spudlong, looking at his watch, "I rather like your style. You can have her. Good"- "Morniag, sir."—London Express. Experiment With Partridges. The state fish and game commlsslor of Connecticut recently leased 70C acres of land on Pratt hill, near Win sted, as propagation grounds for nun garlan partridges. There are many excellent covers, and the state's experi ment Is expected to prove a success. BATTLEFIELD PANICS. 1 Odd Events That at Times De- J moralize Veterans. HORRORS INCIDENT TO WAR. Two Terrifying Episodes That Oc curred During the Franco-Prussian Campaign—Madness May Seize Even the Most Hardened Troops. It is a peculiar circumstance that j hardened and trained troops will go ! through a long fight surrounded by j ail the horrors that are inseparable from war without flinching and with the utmost apparent callousness and the same men will bo struck terrified by a single trifling Incident. Every war of any Importance, par ticularly wars between civilized na- | tions, Is prolific In incidents of trivial j character in themselves, but so un- j usual and unnatural that they appeal ! to the natural instinctive horror of men more suddenly and intensely than perhaps the main terrors of days of carnage. Such an incident is the one, for example, which occurred at the battle of Worth, In the early days of the Franco-Prussian war. in the heat of the great battle a j wing of the Prussian army was charg- ' ed by the regiments of French euiras- | siers in the hope of turning the wing J and facilitating the falling back of the | French infantry. But the cuirassiers j wore driven back by the unflinching ■ Prussians. Again the cuirassiers i charged, and again they w ere driven j back by the withering fire. For a third time they came down i again, and as tho enemy waited for them to draw nearer a horrible, blood ! freezing terror seized the Prussians, | and for the moment it looked as if j they would turn and fly or bo cut | down without defending themselves, j But in a moment they had pulled J themselves 'ogetlier and beaten back for the third and last time the gallant cuirassiers. The sight that terrified the Prussians appears nothing very much In black and white. It was a regiment of cui rassiers led at a dashing rate toward them by a headless officer sitting up right in his saddle and apparently en ' cohraging his men. It was no less a person than Futzum de I.nscarre of the Third regiment of cuirassiers, whose head had lieen carried com pletely off his shoulders as the troop broke Into the third desperate charge ; by n cannon ball, which also took off another officer's hand and cut the j bugler In two. It is remarkable and singular that at j the battle of Forbach, which took i place the same day as Worth, a very J similar incident occurred and did more J to shake the nerves of the Germans j than hours of roaring cannon and j fighting had done. ' While n regiment of Prussian infan try were standing in reserve watching the fight as well as they could from their position of shelter a charger be longing ton French dragoon regiment, one which was practically destroyed In the battle, galloped right Into the midst of the men, who rushed to arrest it and immediately fell back In alarm, for swinging to the bridle was the whole left arm of the charger's rider, the fingers of the hand firmly grasping the reins. The arm appeared to have been severed a few inches below the shoulder and was certainly that of an officer, but who the officer was has never been satisfactorily established. So moved were the hardened men of battle at the horrible sight that no one would touch the horse, and the animal T-as allowed to gallop off to be killed a few minutes later in crossing before some Prussian guns. Thrilling its the Incident was, many of the brave fel lows who witnessed it declared that their first, almost Irresistible, impulse was to throw down their arms and i bolt. Yet It was with the help of just such men that General von Golien routed the French that memorable day In August. IS7O. It Is a well known fact that the finest anil bravest troo;>s the world can : produce have uo Immunity from that ; strange and mysterious madness known to military history as "war panic." A heavy war. ' frequent sanguinary en gagements, night marches and sur prises sometimes play havoc with sol diers' nervous systems and render them more like high spirited colts than men who have taken the field prepared to suffer immeasurable horrors and take death cheerfully. During the peninsular war two Brit- ish regiments, the very pick of the army and seasoned veterans, were marching along in good order when a rumor rau down the lines that the ene |my was at hand. The next moment the line of orderly soldiers was changed I into an elongated mob of armed men throwing away arms, baggage and all they carried, running away in every direction, blind terror In their hearts, their faces blanched and their ears deaf to the thundered commands of their officers. For the moment they knew but one sentiment, one emotion, a sudden, pas sionate, blind terror, and they fled without thinking whether they were running into the arms of the thing they dreaded or not. It was a terror j that was madness, and only its mad ness redeems it from dishonor. If anything were necessary to demon strate the unnaturalness of the panic It would be done by the grand fact that the moment It became known that the enemy was really at hand the men in stantly fell In and showed the utmost eagerness to attack. Such war panics are mysteries Even the most experienced military of fleer cannot satisfactorily explain them Classified. One-t'ilrd of the fools In this country think they can beat the lawyer in ex pounding the law, one-half think they can beat the doctor at healing the sick, two-thirds of them think they can beat the minister In preaching the gospel, and all of them know that they can beat the editor In running the newspa per.— London Tit-Bits. Shameless. Persons belonging to the higher walks of life are to be seen promenad ing In short jackets and chlmnefpot hats without the slightest symptom of awkwardness or shame.— London Tat- ' lor and Cotter. 11. NOTES C.MDARMTZ /^^iA RIVERSIDE , '/ r \ COKKtSPOVDCNCX SOLICITED U/\ \o_f l' " 1 CHOLERA, "Chicken cholera" is as great a household phrase as liniment is a rural cure-all for family troubles from a sore corn to "yeller janders." "Chicken cholera!" say two-thirds of the neighbors when the other fellow's chickens are sick. But listen. Cholera cannot exist with frost, so there's your winter cry of "cholera" done. Cholera bacilli flourish best in heat of 85 degrees to 105 degrees, and it re quires an exposure of 15 minutes to 110 degrees of heat to kill the germ. That's hotter than the red pepper people prescribe for cholera, so there's your cayenne cure knocked out. Hot, moist weather, corn diet and filth is the fatal cholera triumvirate. What seems an epidemic of conta gion is not always so, for a whole flock may die in a day from ptomaine poison caused by eating indigestible or de cayed food. Diarrhea, while somewhat like chol era. i-; seldom contagious and may be quickly cured if taken in time, ltange birds seldom get it. The irregular feeding and filth make it common to yarded stock. Remedy for diarrhea, sulphocarlxilate of zinc, twenty grains to quart of water. Tainted ground and lack of exercise make yard birds easy targets. All kinds of fowls and birds get tin- dis ease, but fat stock are easy marl;-'. 1 tarred liocks and other big breeds go down quick. <>f fifteen Rocks and fif teen White Leghorns exposed in experi ment one Leghorn died to ten Hocks, and the other fourteen were little af fected. Why? Less fat and Leghorn activity. Ilot climate and sandy re gions have much of the disease. SYMPTOMS. Bird bows head, stands alone; wings droop; comb changes to white, bluish purple and black: ruflled plumage; bird drags feet, becomes ball shaped. Disease begins with yellow tipped excrement; then follows increasing ( IIOLEr.A MK'liOllC VICTIM, diarrhea enveloped in mucus, later greenish and bloody. No appetite, full sour crop, intense pain, great thirst, temperature rises to 110 degrees. Half a Hock may die in one night or disease may run three days. Birds die in stupor or convulsions. 1 nssection snows enlarged suit liver, reil spots mi internal organs, lungs ami blood vessels full of clotted bl 1. TREATMENT. Remove well l>irils to clean quarters, feed lightly whole oats, mix one |>ou; . Venetian red to the quart of water, and ol serve birds closely Venetian red is also used for In ;: cholera In dose from tablespoonftil 1.; In milk. It is uonjioisonoits. composed ol iron, lime and magnesia, and a h:U f pound kept in the drinking water through hot moi:ths Is file fowl tonic and sure preventive of cholera and diarrhea. Keep stricken birds in old quarters, which should be disinfected with slaked lime and whitewash, strong with crude carbolic acid. Give red water for drink, and to birds that do not drink give ten grain capsules of the powder three times n day. We have also cured the disease with operation given for hard crop. Dead birds and droppings should be burned. Cholera is often introduced by new birds, purchased eggs, by birds j and fowls carrying it in their feathers i ami germ dust in the air. j It may be carried on the feet of rats, eats and attendants and in dead car casses dragged by dogs. It may be taken from food, drink and droppings The disease may be local or it may be I national, as in 1 S3O. ISSO and 1800. DON'TS. j Don't let your turkeys run in the i j barnyard. It causes blackhead. Keep, j i them on the green for the "long j green." Don't aim too high. Too many chicks ! hatched for your capacity will do you j both. Don't bite off more chicklets than you can chew. Don't expect to be in the limelight of popularity if you don't use lime lime for lice and bad smells; lime- j water for that bad taste and big head. ; Don't fall to get rid of surplus breed ers and laying stock as the breeding season nears the end and slack laying and molting approach. Quick sales, less feed, more profits. A WORLD OF MICROBES. There are microbes In the air And microbes In the drink; There are microbes In the blood vessels And microbes In your think. Tuberculosis In the cow And cholera In the hog. Diphtheria in the pussy's fur. Distemper In the dog. The roosters, too. are crawling full, And ducks, though they are quacks. And turks and geese and guineas, too, Have microbes by the stacks. You drink them when you take your beer And breatho them In at prayers. This old world seems all microbes In concentrated layers. "Is there a place whore one may flee From microbe's murderous blow?" "Why, yes; the scientists tell me That place is down below." C. M. B. KURIOS FROM KORRESPONDENT3. Q. Can you tell me why my chicks have no head feathers? If a disease. It must affect them till over, for they grow slowly. N. A. Your chicks have head lice and have made themselves bald scratching. These lice are gray and flat and are not easily seen. They suck the blood Bendereil hen fat will kill them. Q. Will you give me a good summer ration for my white Bocks? I wish to show in the fall and would like to keep them from getting fat and creamy. A. Whole oats, mash of mids and bran, beef scrap and greens. Throw in a little corn and buckwheat occasion ally. Quantity according to condition. Q. What is a fair price for an Incu bator from 100 to 200 egg size and a brooder for 100 chicks? There are so many prices I cannot decide. O. A. A dependable 150 egg incubator costs $23 and a first class colony brood er $lB. Q. What is a good cure for canker? It seetns to bother my fowls summer and winter. A. The best thing you can do Is to get now stock. Thorough disinfection, a dry house, no drafts, new stock and no range in snow, cold and storm will put you on your feet. Chronic canker no profit. T_"se chlorate potash or apply iodine. ! Q. There are various prescriptions I purporting to be the Douglas mixture, but I notice they differ. Can you give j me the true one? W. A. Sulphate of iron, eight ounces: ! sulphuric acid, half an ounce; water, | one gallon. I'ut your iron into a jug J containing a gallon of water. When ; dissolved add acid. When clear give j tabli -poonful to quart of drinking wa iter In glass or glazed vessel. Good for I general tonic, for diarrhea or for strvngthener during molt. Q. What height celling do you sug gest : >;. A We have had best success with a ceiling nine feet front and seven back. Lower ceilings make very hot houses, many broody hens, and if you art* trou bled with frost your birds are up against it. Then think of bumping your head three times a day. Q. My chicks seem so dull in the morn in','. I lose some every night and cannot account for it. I use the —. brooder and paid a good price for it. I'lease help me out. M. A. The style brooder you use ofteir smokes the chicks. Cement under neath, and if you then find soot under the hover discard. . "■ j - , •3- ! state where we haveTong rainy seasons. Our chick ens are on range and the wet gives them bowel trouble. Will you recom mend a preventive? A. During the wet season cut out mash, feed much oats in hull and keep Venetian red in the drinking water, a pound to the gallon. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. It is impossible to feed 100 or 200 young chickens evenly in a bunch. It's the easiest stunt to stunt stock there Is. Many poultrymen are taking up bees as a side issue. They certainly work overtime, require little care and gath er big returns on a small investment. Congress lias been seriously discuss ing the question, "What does It cost a year to keep a hen?" They are be ginning to show some sense at Wash ington, after all. A poultryman in New Jersey lost 3,000 duck eggs because the gas was shut off that was supplying the heat for his incubators. Is this another proof that corporations have no con sciences ? j The Society For the Prevention of ; Cruelty to Animals has come out against the shipment and sale <>f live : chicks for Easter gifts. It certainly is cruelty to give little chicks to chil dren fur Easter i >yThe sale of stuffed • hicks and little ducks in the ; stores Is b d enough. Our English friends followed TIK-col ony house plan the past winter. Hive us the long scratching house for lieu health and eggs. Then we don't need j to shovel so many paths. By the way. didn't the English try the colony plan jon this side and fail? Too many spunky, revolutionary roosters in the I colonial coop. J A number of our chicken brethren) | are keeping Belgian and Flemish bares, j They find their main enemies are rats j and heavy showers. The surface wa ! ter runs down the burrows and drowns j the harelets. They tell us that market 1 demand Is greater than supply, and Belgian and Flemish hares taste much : better than common red, white and j black hairs. Have you tried them? j It's funny, but it's true, that among I pigeons two cock birds sometimes) mate and If given eggs will ofteu hatch them out. liens more frequently ■ mate If they can't be suited and In.v . eggs, but hatch nothing but "stool pigeons." A cock bird will occasionally mate with two or three hens ami take turns at setting on the eggs. What a squabbling household among cooing doves! SIB IEW! A. Reliable TIN SHOP Tor all kind of Tin Roofing, Spoutlne nnd Ceneral Job Work. Stoves, Hooters, Ran«*e» Furnaces, eto- PRICES TBB LOWEST! QGiLITT TOE BEST! JOHN HIXSON SO. lit B. FRONT sr.