Woman Wins in Oklahoma.
Miss Kate Bernard is the first wom-
an to hold office in the new state of
Oklahoma. She lives in Oklahoma
City and was nominated for state
commissioner of charities and correc-
tion on the Democratic ticket in the re-
cent primaries. She had no opposi-
tion. She made a picturesque cam-
paign in spite of her dearth of rivalry
and spoke to thousands of voters.—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
A Cheerful Hint.
‘Among the -presents lately showered
upon a Maryland bride was one that
was the gift of an elderly lady of the
neighborhood with whom both bride
and groom were prime favorites.
the dear old soul
of - cardboard
had
she never failed
Some
accumulated a
mottoes, which
framed and on wi
to draw with the greatest
occasion arose.
years ago
Suppiy
sh rorked. and
freedom as
In ch
pended by a. cord
over the table on wh
ents were oupecd, 17 thé niotto:
“Fight Mn; { ver. '—Austin
Carleton in Hone Compan-
fon.
The Sexes in. America.
Amer is the
harmoniously
of das Ewig-W
domineering male. Woman
to man, . but: different
from him, as Stendhal would say.
Nevertheless the two sexes are
ly approaching. The man of today is
more feminine than his predecessors;
that is, he is more gentle, civilized;
while the woman, casting away old-
fashioned = incrusting prejudices, is
more masculine, i. e.; she is not snly
more athletic in her tastes than her
grandmother—she is mentally broad-
er and firmer in her judgments. (Some
day she will be so far ‘‘evolved” that
she will be charitable to her own sex.)
The franker association of the sexes
has proved tonic to the woman, re-
fining to the man. These are school-
boy truisms, but they will always
stand quotation.—James Huncker in
Everybody's.
ica which
be the differ-
ences
eternal
is not inferior
yliche and the
slow-
is
Beauty and the Feet.
Acording to a writer in the current
number of Smith's Magazine, the care
of the feet has a great deal more to
do with a woman's personal appear-
ance than we generally imagine.
«Phe feet,” she. writes, “exert a
much more important influence upon
a woman's appearance than even she
is aware. If a woman is awkward, it
is, nine times out of ten, because her
feet are ill at ease. If she ‘walks
badly, it is because her heels are eith-
er too high or too low. If she stands
ili, if she enters a room uneasily, or
if she sits wrong, it more than likely
that the fault can be tracked right
down to her feet.
“There are those who claim that
wrinkles come from feet that ache;
and it is very likely that they do. The
nerves of the feet and of the face are
very closely allied, and when the feet
begin to be painful, there is very
quickly a drawn look around the
mouth.”
Source of Bird Plumage.
It appears that a great deal of
plumage is now imported from China,
and it might be supposed that the
opening up of this new market would
help to keep prices at this normal
rate. But such does not seem: to
the case. So great is the demand
that even fancy feathers, for which
the farmer and the provide
the raw material, are fetching fancy
prices.
Flowers are more used in the trim-
ming of winter models than usual. It
might be assumed that this is a way
out of the difficulty. Not ‘so. The
flowers patronized by the leading mil
liners are of the most expensive sort.
Not only are the blooms themselves
made up of specially woven materials,
velvet, satin, thin silks and gauzes,
but also the leaves, and the varied
coloring applied to them is obtained
by hand-dipping or hand-painting
with dyes.—The Millinery Trade Re-
view, New York.
be
trapper
Deadliest of Guests.
Next to the person who never wants
to be alone and can’t amuse herself
for a moment, the deadliest guest in
the world is the unresponsive individ-
ual who receives every new plan with
a saccharine early-martyr smile that
drives you to the verge of distraction
with trying to guess whether she is
enjoying herself or not. tl is ghastly,
and every summer [ seem to have
one of that kind. :
Then there is the sort, too, who
knows evactly what she wants to do,
and does not hesitate to propose it. A
second cousin of Georg€'s came to us
for three weeks last spring. She an-
nounced boldly the first day of her
stay that there was nothing she real-
ly enjoyed like going to the theatre.
Well, to go from Summerbrooke, you
know, you have to dine at a painful
hour, drive four miles to get the train,
and then come out on a fearfal local
that stops at every barn door. We
could have motored if the chauffeur
hadn’t been ill, though even motoring
isn’t always convenient, and the road
into town is none too good. Every
morning after breakfast that dreadful
young person got the paper and read
over the list of plays, and announced
what she wanted to see. There
really no diverting her—we simply
had to take her.—'"The Joys of the
Hostess” in Ainslee’s Magazine,
“Fluffy Ruffles.”
All the gnrls who fondly believe
themselves evactly like the original
“Fluffy Ruffles” want to know wheth-
er the cutaway during the coming win-
ter will still be in style. As usual at
this season of the year, the reports
from Paris are contradictory, but
judging by many of the new drawings,
there will be numerous winter girls
with cutaways that fit like the green
covering of corn on the cob. The coat
on the figure, the
cutaway very abrupt. But a
like coat is becoming = neither:to a
“Fluffy Ruffles” nor to summer
girl who has gained-twent}
during va 3, Mrs.
very justly recommends not
piece, suit, but
courages. whole I
all the fam 5.she. de-
plores the plebeian of irt-
waist and skirt.. The ‘warfare against
the “shirtwaist is more
nunciatory his year.
woman of according to
the fashion azain
have whole every-
day wear. ~—DBrooklyn
and
sheath-
131 3 .
like a sheath
the
pounds
Osborn
the two-
coat that en-
below; for
the: long
dresses
like designer
BE1C1
de-
n
than ever t The
income,
should
for
small
dictators,
even
Life,
dresses
Hat.
much trimmed hat
that “the picture “hat will exist next
season. There is no question of ex-
pense without a proportionate amount
of trimming. The wide brim and the
tall crown “must be accomplished” as
the phrase goes; there is no intention
of exhibiting wide uncovered spaces
of brim, and the erown is often so con-
cealed by the volume of trimming that
its actual shape becomes a matter of
secondary importance. One hears of
fantastic prices paid for hats nowa-
days, not merely by a millionaire’s
wife here and there, but all kinds of
people. As your buyers will find to
their cost; prices are going. up
hats and bonnets. This is of course
in a great measure attributable to
the trimming heaped upcn them and
to the increasing scarcity of many
sorts of valuable plumage. Not -en-
tirely, however; milliners tell you
Trimming on French
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Solas
SONDAY
SERMON
Subject: Children,
Brooklyn, N. Y.—Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church,
| Hamburg avenue and Weirfield street, on the above theme, the pastor,
‘numerous element
Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, tcok as his text Matt. 18:3, “Little chil-
dren.” He said:
The Bible is a book for the child. I had almost said it is a children’s
book. It is written in the language of the child for tle most part and its
themes are so treated as almost entirely to be intelligible to youth. Its
precepts are for them. Its admonitions to adults are importantly in the
interest of childhood. Its counsels are largely to the young. Its history
is fascinating when properly delivered to the young. Its stories are fertile
for inspiration to the mind and soul of the child. Its invitation is to the
child in years and to the childlike in heart alike.
The greatest single character with whom the Bible has to deal was
and is superlatively interested in the child. For whatever clse Jesus was,
He was supremely keen in His appreciation of children, consummately
philosophical in His attitude toward them, pre-eminently conscious of their
ultimate value. .He loved them better than their parents did. He loves
our children more than we can ever love them. For He saw in the child
whom He took in His arms more than its mother ha#él capacity to discern.
He sees in our children more than we, scientific students after a fashion of
children as we are, dream. Jesus saw the soul value of the child, the
eternal relationship of the being of the child to the eternal kingdom of
Almighty God, far more clearly than any man before His time and far more
plainly than we have, with all our wisdom and attainments in an age of
surpassing scholarship and investigation, taken the trouble to see. And it
is not strange ‘that Jesus should have placed a high estimate upon the
child. It is not at all wonderful that-He should have given: special atten-
tion to children. : fiat z
For the child is the most important nd most promising as the
in the human race. He is int ypable. y» is the hopo
of the race. He is the field of our largest expectations.
reason for the endeavor and activity of the world. No st
mate, no man should underestimate, the child, as a factor in human his-
tory and in the future of humanity. Ile is worth all our care, worthy of all
of our expenditure of effort, time and money, worthy of a far more dis-
criminating and assiduous scientific study than he has ever been given.
As the result of the ages and the progenitor of the future of humanity
the child of to-day is entitled to the best breeding that possibly he can re-
ceive. His parentage should be far more the concern of society than it is.
For the child has largest relations with the society at large, .and society
has a claim upon him which no family tie, no matter how sacred and beau-
tiful that tie may be or just, can nullify or deny. So long as children con-
stitute an integral and important part of the social system, so long society
will be under compulsion, to them as a matter of obligation and to itself
as a matter of self-concern, to procure for every child that is born into
the world the best birth that can be obtained. That is to say, that it ought
to be impossible for a man to be permitted to get drunk by the consent of
the State so that in a state of maudlin intoxication he may be able to send
a soul into the world. That is to say, that it.ought to be beyond the pale of
possibility for any person who is mentally, morally or physically unfitted
for the duties of parentage to enter into the contractual relations of wed-
lock. The State ought, and is under obligation, to provide for the future.
The field of prenatal influence is one which is too largely neglected.
most
! And yet, under the guidance of the wisdom of God, and in fidelity to the
| And shall we be ashamed of the wonderworking, of
for: |
that everything is dearer than it was, |
when they charge an extra five dol-
lars or so for a hat that no valuable
plumage adorns. This niay be true in
a way, though not to the extent they
would make us believe, but some
ex- |
aggeration is to he expected—The Mil-
linery Trade Review, New York.
Traveling Without a Chaperon.
A great many mothers think noth- |
ing of letting their daughters travel
across half the continent without an |
escort. An article contributed by An- |
to the last number
will make some of
think. The experi-
nette Austin
Smith's Magazine
them sit up and
of
ences told in it are vouched for as ac- |
tual facts, and some of them are start-
ling to say the least. In comparing
eastern and western men in their
treatment of unattended girls, Miss
Austin says that the westerner has
more cordial generosity, but less deli-
cate consideration for a woman's feel-
ings. She adds that the real bustling
type of westerner is not to be found
in the far West, but in Chicago and
other towns of the middle West.
“Everywhere in the West,” she says,
“I noticed the open-hearted generosity |
of the western
toward women. They were willing to
accept them on an equality, to
their obvious duty wherever it
and good-will
ap-
men |
fulfil |
peared; but where the situation called |
for conscious unselfishness, or
jcate tact, they fell short of the
mand.
a street car, hut
in the middle of they
the sidewalk;
for del- |
de- |
They would give up a seat in |
ride a bicycle down |
would take off their hats in an eleva- |
tor, but neglect to remove their cigars |
in a crowd.
“During my. stay in California, 1
asked the question often and various-
ly of farmers, ranchmen, and city peo- |
ple, as I had asked it in Texas, wheth- |
er it was considered safe for a young |
girl to travel alone in the West, and |
almost invariably I received
the an- |
swer: ‘Undoubtedly it is, but it is not |
to go unattended.
plenty of men
for her
always
customary
There are
around, and it is easy to furnish her |
with an escort.
“That ‘plenty of men around’
tomizes the situation in the West.
There are four men to one
epi- |
woman |
everywhere, and that partly accounts |
for the seeming good treatment she |
receives. A woman is more
or less |
of a novelty in the West, and as such |
is regarded with timid curiosity and |
some reverence.” She goes
escorted |
usually, not because it is the proper |
thing or the safe thing, but because it
is the easy thing, and the natural re-
sult of a superfluity of men,
“It was in the middle West states,
strange to say, that I found most
strongly accentuated the characteris-
tics which are presumed to be dis-
tinctly western. :
“It was there, in Chicago, Detroit,
Cincinnati, and Indianapolis, that I
found the pushing woman and tae
pushing man—and fate take care of
the hindmost! How I ever got out
alive from the crush in the Chicago
terminal, where I was to change cars
on my way back to New York, I hard-
ly know,” ‘
‘shop and the woman of the unclean life.
Gospel of Jesus Christ, there is no more wonderiul, as there is no more
fruitful or sacred, field for study and research, than the life of humanity in
the fashioning. Why should we be so eternally mawkish? God made us!
the handicraft of
deity? A woman should be ashamed not to know, a father should be
ashamed to neglect, the everlasting truth of God that the prenatal life of
a child has more influence upon its character and condition, its physical,
mental, moral and spiritual capacities, than all the influences of after life
combined can ever have. Knowing this we shall be more careful not to
curse our children before we send them into the face of the hardships and
trials of this earthly pilgrimage, trusting to the influences .of the after life
to overbalance and to eradicate those qualities that are, by our own un-
wisdom, quite ineradicable.
Children: deserve study and they amply repay it. The Government
spends good money and much of it to study crops and cows and sewers and
trolleys and posts and ships. It spends generous appropriations to make
two ears of corn grow where one grew before, to eradicate lice on plants,
to destroy the pests that destroy products that are valuable commercially.
It teaches the horse breeder how to develop the horse and the farmer how
scientifically to fertilize and plant and till and harvest and reap. Multi-
tudes of men know more about the fine points of a dog than they do about
the points of a child and how to develop them. But with a delightful lack
of the sense of proportion and of the propriety of things we give spas-
modic, poorly supported scientific examinations into the nature of the
child, the best way to breed him, the best way to develop him, the best
way to improve him. And so we pack them off to the mines or we pack
them with the same mental filling in the schools. We are too busy or
too lazy to understand them. The veterinarian for the dog that growls;
for the child, the lash. And simply because we do not understand or take
the trouble to. It is not badness in us so much as confession of total in-
capacity to know just what else to do. No two children are alike. No two
of the same parentage are alike. Why, therefore, should we deal with
them alike? No man would catalog a dachshund in the same class with a
spaniel. Why, then, shall we class our children with nothing save ages to
differentiate their scholastic ability? Why group dull boys and bright to-
gether simply because they happen to be of an age? Why group boys
and girls of diverse tastes in the same category? Why? Because we are
either too impotent or lazy to devise a better way.
Children should not only be studied, but they should have their rights
maintained. Their interests should be guarded. Their prerogatives
should be conserved. No man should be permitted to steal their youth, no
matter how profitable it may immediately be. It is a bad bargain in the
long run to allow it. No man should bes<permitted to give them the taste
for drink or to gratify it. It is demoralizing. No man should be permitted
to ply a business which will ruin their bodies and destroy their souls. No
expediency and no private or political consideration whatsoever should be
permitted to intrude itself between them and the fullest possible develop-
ment of their faculties. If we cannot have coal without children being
damned, then let us go without it. If we cannot have windows without
children being damned, then let us go without them. If we cannot have
clothes except at the expense of the soul careers of the youth of America,
then let us go naked. It were far better that a mill stone should be hung
about our necks and that we should be drowned in the depths of the sea
than that by any fault or consent of ours God’s little ones should be de-
prived of the fulness of life and of life eternal.
There is nothing more criminal than the ignorance of their physical
beings that so many children have. Many a boy would be kept from the
path that tends toward vice, many a girl whose life is wrecked or is being
cast upon the rocks of wickedness would be kept from the way that leadeth
to perdition, if a little careful, wholesome parental advice had been given
upon the sacred operations of our physical beings. It is no wonder that so
manyghboys fall into evil ways and that so many girls are doomed to the
life that is worse than death when so many fathers and mothers, so many
Christian fathers and mothers, are so unnecessarily and so mistakenly, I
had almost said so criminally, modest. For I know whereof I speak when
1 say that what a boy or girl fails to learn in a decent and godly manner
from a father or mother is gathered in a wholly vicious and ungodly man-
ner or in the hard school of unnecessary experience.
Children should be instructed and inspired intellectually. The child
is entitled to the finest results of the intellectual advances of the ages. It
is for us to start the child where we have left off. All that precedes is
simply of historic interest. It’is explanatory, it is indicative, it is exem-
plary. But it should be only that. The less the retrogression our children
make as practical laborers for the advancement of the world, the faster
will be the progress of humanity toward the kingdom of Almighty God.
But much as our children need to be instructed physically and intel-
lectually, still more do they require moral and spiritual guiding. For the
social order depends upon a clean manhood and womanhood. The soul
life of the world is dependent upon the clarity of the spiritual vision and
the spiritual alertness of every human soul. Nothing is more important
than that we should inculcate into the minds and souls of our youth a
proper conception of the moral and spiritual realities of the universe. We
shall be indeed childish if we think they can mature properly in these
fields without experienced and expert guidance. The moral training of the
formative years of a child's development will persist; the spiritual train-
ing that we afford our children in their callowest vouth is the training that
will endure.
guidance, nothing in later life will be able to overthrow it. The moral
and spiritual development and culturing of the child pays eternal divi-
dends.
It is not sufficient that we shall instruct our children. It is needful
that we shall take care that they be not misled or made to stumble. It is
idle to instruct, the while we propagate and foster and palliate temptations
that attack the very qualities we have been culturing. He is a poor cotton
raiser who tests the quality of his cotton and the resistance of the plant
with the boll-worm. Not otherwise is he a silly preceptor of the child who
tests the moral and spiritual vigor of the child with the factory, the dram-
Children are najurally grateful to Almighty God. They may be
easiest fitted to His kingdom. They are openminded. They are expectant.
Their hearts are tender. Their souls are responsive to the invitations and
ministrations of the Spirit. They welcome knowledge. They are without
conceit.
They are worthy of imitation. Their readiness to be informed, their
susceptibility to divine impulses, their simplicity, their inaccessibility to
importunate truth are patterns for us.. If we would rest upon the bosom
of a loving Lord we must be like them. If we would know God and enjoy
Him we must become as a little child.
Nothing can eradicate it, and, with proper safeguarding and |
Three-fold Value of Tillage.
Thorough tillage destroys
but accomplishes more. It breaks
up the caked surface of the soil thus
obliterating the capillarity that
brings moisture to the surface and
allows it to escape; a dust mulch is es-
tablished. Tillage lcosens the
and admits a free circulation of air;
in this way oxidation is promoted. At
the same time roots penetrate the
loosened snil more easily.—Geo. P.
Williams in The Epitomist.
Roots Better Than Alfalfa.
An exchange c¢ :
advis it
rout
It re
the
grow
will Le
ing
Both
We
Handling
Professor
the Scparator.
of the Kansas st
makes: these four specifi i
getting cream from tie
1. The speed of t
fluence 1
from
on the ere
speed
changes the percent the
eream.
2. The
fects the cream. 16 milk is
the cream will than
cold.
3.: The amount
is another f
temperature mill af-
warm
if it is
actor. his is cially
important. For if the milk is uneven-
ly fed into the bowl, ‘the thicknsss of
the cream is vastly influenced.
Value of Hen Manure.
I keep 10 to 20 hens and make
practice to spread the ashes fro:
stoves under the roosts. [I thus
pretty thoroughly - mixture of
and hen manure and after the
den has been spaded or plowed I ap-
ply this mixture to the soil not to
exceed an inch in thickness. My
neighbors say I have the garden
spot ‘hereabouts and I do tell
them the reason. I placed
trench .for Black-eyed Marrowfat
last year and the vines grew
that they broke over a 4-foot
netting, went to the ground and near-
ly to the top of the netting again. 1
have used it a good many years and
think it the strongest fert there
is. unless it be surpassed by hog
manure. The ' only danger seems to
lie in using it too liberally in whic
nase it causes too rank a growth.—A.
F.'8., in Michigan Farmer.
ashes
£ar-
best
not
some i
rank
wire
S50
Sure Cure for Mange.
Of the many diseases with
dogs are afflicted, none are r:ore dif-
ficult to cure than the mange. There
are many alleged cures and some of
them are very good, but nearly all are
slow in their operation and merely
suppress the disease for a time and
when it breaks out again the condition
5f the animal is worse than it was in
the beginning. However, here is a
remedy that will cure quickly and
thoroughly and the cost is very small
Two ounces of muriatic acid and 2
ounces of sulphate of potash; take two
one pound baking powder cans, put in
each cone pint of water, then put the
acid in one and the potash in
other. Now wash the perfectly
clean with warm water and some good
toilet soap and let him dry thorougzh-
ly: then get an old ind
dog on a box, a convenient height,
pour acid and potash together and
with a soft rag or go all over
him, bathing every spot on him while
the mixture is foaming, or as fast as
{n four or five days repeat
the. same treatment in every jparticu-
lar and in four or five days repeat
again and you will have a complete
cure and a handsome of hair on
your dog. This will. cost from
cents to $1 all told.—The Epitomist.
which
dog
yESse!, st tle
sponge
possible.
coat
o
Halter Breaking.
Horses are not naturally vicious, and
with proper attention in colthood, bad
habits would never be found. Th
habits can generally be broken by in-
telligent management.
A very troublesome habit is that of
halter-breaking. Once a horse finds
he can break the halter, he is ever-
lastingly at it. To cure the habit is
not nearly so easy to keep the
horse from learning However,
two tried remedies halter-break-
! ing may be given. + Horses that are
inclined to pull and break their hal-
ters when fastened In the stalls have
often been cured in the following way:
Two straps are lightly attached to a
rope which passes through a ring fas-
tened in the end of the halter strap,
and are fastened to his forelegs. The
halter strap passes through a ring in
the stall. If a horse endeavors to go
backward suddenly he finds that the
harder he pulls the greater is the ten-
dency to draw his forelegs from under
him. A few attempts will cure even
i the worst halter-puller.
Another simple and effective meth-
od is worked out by the use of a long
i rope. One end of the rope is . fas-
tened to the manger. The rope is
| then threaded through the lower ring
as
it
for
weeds,
s0il-
the |
in the halter, back between the front
legs, then over the back and down un-
der the belly, between the front legs
again and up through the ring to the
other end, and then tied to the hal-
ter, The halter-breaker will soon find
a surprise in store for ‘him when he
leans back against the rope, as the
ll comes his own back, instead
pull on
the rope.—Country Gentlemnan.
of on
Dipping Sheep.
New York sheep grower says that
his and
refers to his: method as follows:
For the of a flock of 109
aw es lambs we arrange a
trian
he always dips. down sheep,
dipping
their
anized
top of whic
barn
from
ated ag
and, the
with the
escape
doorw
floor,
the
mail
than
water will do) to one
at least
they nove up an in-
taining a water-tight floor, so
drippings from their wool
back into the tank. After
some minutes they are allowed to go
down an ) the field. For
the purpose cof drying the lambs’ wool
§ the fore”
part of a warm, pleasant day as soon
as convenient after shearing. The
whole flock should be dipped, and if
recently purchased, with innumerable
parasites, a dipping ten days
later advisable. If the sheep are
properly shorn with a machines, there
will but few, if any. ticks on
'n sheep, and the lambs will
most of the ticks, but if the
dirped and the mother is not
puzzies mother’s in-
stinct she is liable to disown her
lamb. The above will surely destroy
ticks and lice and assist in a healthy
heavy fleece of But for
scab a stronger solution must be used.
—Indian Farm.
dip for
will run
into
as soon as possible, choose
secocnd
is
soon he
harbor
the
smelling
and
and wool:
Cleaning Out the
Agricultural
exceptions, in
reference to
handling of
Feed Lot.
with but
their suggestions
the preservation
manure, confine
to the best methods for small
farms under a system of intensive
culture, which of course will not an-
ply to forms of hundreds of = acres
with large numbers of live stock to
consume ‘the product of the farm.
Jn small farms the manure shed can-
not be dispensed with without a
heavy loss from waste of the most
valuable constituents of the manure
and therefore the well-known methods
of handling and rotting it can be per-
fectly employed. But on the vast
farms of the West, where feeding is
done almost exclusively outdoors in
a feed lot, distributing the manure
upon the land as fast as it is made be-
comes quite necessary, because in the
open feed lot it would soon
almost worthless by
weather. Under such circumstances it
to haul it out on the land,
even in winter, than to allow it to be
ruined by leaching and evaporation,
because if the manure is evenly dis-
tributed and made fine in the
ess of scattering it, a large portion
the volatile substances will be
sorbed ‘by the seoil on. which it
spread and the liquid will leach into
the ground enriching it for the com-
ing crop.
On
west, a
few
with
and
them-
writers,
selves
become
exposure to the
is better
proc-
of
ab-
is
many of the great farms of the
common road scraper is used
for cleaning the feed lot, the manure
being scraped up in piles and loaded
directly into the manure spreader,
hauled to the fields and spread at
once upon the land. It is usually SO
wet and sticky that it would be impos-
to scatter it the fields by
hand except in lumps where it would
remain until disintegrated by expo-
sure to the weather, resulting in a
loss of nearly all of its fertilizing val-
ue. But the manure spreader tears
the chunks of wet manure to pieces
and scatters them evenly over the
ground. No matter how coarse the
manure may be, the spreader improves
its condition and distributes it evenly
with the fine material at a mere
fraction of the cost of distributing it
by hand. Distribution of manure di-
rect from the feed lot to the field
where it «is needed is carried on the
vear round, whenever there is enough
manure in the feed lot or the barn
vard and stable to warrant the hitch-
ing up of a team to haul it away.—
Agricultural Epitomist.
sible
over
His Kick.
A traveller putting up at a small
hotel out in California brought the
porter up to his room with his angry
storming.
“Want your room
What is the matter?”
“The room's all right,” fumed the
guest, scorchingly. “It's the fleas I
object to, that's all.”
“Mrs. Hawkins!” shouted the par-
ter, in an uninterested sort of a voice,
“the gent in No. 7 is satisfied with
his rooms, but he wants the fleas
changed.”—Harper's Weekly.
changed, sir?