Farm and Garden SAFE DEHORNING CHUTE. 8lmplo Daviee That Will Not Hurt the Animal, An authqrlty on the dehornlug of cattle furnishes the following Informa tion on the- construction of the chute for the operation: Make the chute strong. Next make a plank table In front of the same about PLAN FOn DEnonNINO CnDTE. two foot wide, throe feet long and two and onc-linlf foot from the ground. Then preimro a square with an eight Inch side out of plank and hinge it to the tnble n few Inches from the chute at right angles to the face of the same, so that it can move freely from one side to the other. For the hinge use two good pieces of strap Iron, prefer ably wagon tire, and let each extend BA.FB AND EASY FOR THE ANIMAL. clear across each side of the width of the square. To make the hinge wrap the end of the tire around a bolt staple secured to the table by taps beneath. Through the end of the tire opposite the hinge and about an inch from the top face of the square bore a hole large enough for an inch and a half rope. You will then have two ropes attached to the top face of this square, and these are lutcndedi to pass over the neck of the nnlmal and be secured by a lever at one end of the table. An other identical square is prepared, and this Is set on the table facing the hinged square, but distant enough from It for the neck of an animal to be sot between. The second square Is braced firmly In n vertical position with blocks and steel braces. Two holes are bored through the table near the front side, through which a rope Is passed to bo placed over the nose of the animal. The head of the animal to be dehorned Is held In position by the stationary square, against which the neck of the animal Is bound by the hinged square. In this position there Is no danger of on animal hurting It self, and the work can be done much quicker than if the head is less firmly held In position. Farmer May Make Cigars. At intervals after the cigar leaf to bacco crop has been harvested inquiries arc received concerning the right of the farmer to manufacture cigars for home use or to sell thetobacco to a person oth er than nn authorized dealer or manu facturer. For the information of all such persons nn explanation of the laws nnd regulations of the treasury uepartment has been obtained from the ofllco of the commissioner of In ternal revenue. "Under existing laws," writes the commissioner, "a farmer or grower of tobacco has a right to sell leaf tobacco of his own growth and raising to any person in any quantity which may be desired, provided the condition of such leaf tobacco has not been changed in any manner from that In which it was cure on the farm. The manufacture of cigars in a. small way by any per son for his own use and consumption is permissible when the cigars arc manufactured solely for tho use of the person making thorn nnd nro not re moved from tho placo of manufacture for consumption or sale. No taxes are required, nor is the person so manu facturlng required to qualify as n manufacturer or make any reports. "Unless tho person Intending to man ufacture cigars as nbovo desired should be a farmer or shall secure his stock of tobacco directly from tho farmer nil other sources of supply would bo closed to him by the require ment of the law, which provides that dealers in leaf tobacco shall sell only to other dealers nnd to manufacturers of tobacco or cigars or to such persons as aro known to bo purchasers of leaf tobacco for export." V GOING AWAY 'GIFTS. Set of Cuthlont Far Steamer Chair. Folding Workbox. Of the making of bags there would seem to be no end in these days of re vived interest In practical needlework, and some recent productions In this line are worthy of special reference. A few of them arc here pictured, fash loncd from denim or cretonne In strik ing looking floral patterns. Tho laundry bag made of heavy den lin in a serviceable shade of blue dlf fers from tho usual collection of such iff FOLDING WOHKBOX. receptacles by reason of the extension piece at the back, which permits of tho bag being hung against the wall for Its full width. This is a practical nrraugement nnd effectually discounts tho old time laundry holder with a drawstring at the top. There are two new workbags In flowered cretonne one In tho shape of a fetching little chafing dish npron, with a hoop handle, and tho other the conventional shirred typo except for tho outside pocket, which Is nn added convenience. The regulation steamer cushion, with its familiar "Bon Voyago" Inscription, has not lost prestige, but It is supple mented by a set of cushions connected by straps of self material and designed for tho back and seat of the chair, with CUSHION FOB STKAMER CHAIR loops to slip over the frame at the top. These cushions may bo folded up when not in use and occupy but a small space In the trunk. Tho folding scrap basket has been the boon of the traveler, and now comes a folding work box or basket covered with cretonne in a pretty de sign. Tho customary pockets and straps are attached to the basket, and tho illustration shows the basket fold ed and open. Apple Superstition. Tho ruddy winter apple Is much used as a lover's test. Itomau lovers used to take an npplo pip between their fingers nnd thumb and shoot it up to the colling. If the pip reached its, destination It was regarded as a sign that their love was returned. An other method once much used was to throw the pip Into the fire, uttering the beloved one's name. If the pip burst with a loud report it was a good sign, but tho love would not last long if tho pip burst silently. Many rustic lovers used to place tho pips upon their closed eyelids. If the pips dropped when their eyes were opened it denoted unfaithfulness'. Swiss maidens often follow tho follow ing custom: They buy on apple from an nged widow tho uglier she is tho better and eat half of it with a salt ed herring Just before the mystic hour of midnight. Tho other half of tho apple they place beneath their pillow, nnd prophetic dreams are sure to fol low. Kitchen Stools. Only tho woman who owns a sizable kitchen stool knows the comfort of it. If she has two or three, so muen rhn bettor. They are not expensive articles, and therefore It does not strain tlin lmnsn. keeper's purse to provldo her kitchen wun enougu or them to make work comfortable. Tliero should always be one to slip under the kitchen table. It should be high enough to put tho worker in a comfortablo position for using her hands. She will And herself using it hours during tho day that otherwise iho would have spent on her feet. The laundress who knows how to' take caro of herself has n high stool with rungs for her feet, on which shei may Bit when sho Is Ironing tho light' pieces. It will glvo her renewed itrength for tho next day's work. Shapely Poached Eggs. If you want poached eggs that have not spread out of shapo in cooking, itlr tho boiling water until it is whirl ing ropldly, then drop tho egg In quick" ly and cook until set. This kcops tho eggs round nnd imooth, nnd If lifted carefully on a (lot cako turner tho egg will ho as lhapely as if it wero cooked in a poacher. In serving poached eggs uso freshly toasted bread, thickly buttered, r, what is still better, rounds of bread fried In butter llko a crouton, c5 BY, C.M.BARNITZ RIVERSIDE CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED Copyright, 1909, by American Press Asso ciation. These articles nnd Illustrations must not bo reprinted without special permission. AWAY1 AWAY TO THE COUNTRYI When seeking for tho balm of life, Turn not to patent quacks. Nor stay within those dusty streets Where noise tho brain racks. Come, con'ie awny! Oh, come with me Where air Is puro and health Is free, Tho pnraiUse of valo nnd tree Out on tho farm In tho country! Coma whore you ntmln't llvo In lints, Where neighbors light like dogs nnd cats. Come from tho car man yelling "Fare!" Come from the city's mad dog scare. Rush from bad smells nnd Salome's rnnros Out Into Hod's sweet country airs. Yep, join tho song birds In their glee ,Out on the farm In tho country. , Oh. come away from tin can faro, With deadly acids lurking there! Hun from those nwful rots and spots That 1111 up cemetery lots. Here get your eggs laid while, you wait. Spring chickens fresh from pen to plate. Knock that dyspeptic misery Out on tho farm In the country. Away! Awny! Leave care behind And that Mccssant offlco grind. Hero Is the placo to rusticate. Where fresh 'milk's making while you wait. Hero Indies may kimonos wear And lay aside their golden hair. They even climb a cherry tree Out on the farm In the country. C. M. n. SETTING TURKEY EGGS. Smart Aleck will nature fake by set ting turkey eggs under clucks, but If he just know that n chicken's tempera ture isn't equal to the hntchlng heat of n vigorous turkey he would then have the know-how why ho doesn't get livable profitable poults. Then there's that shell game! If a looter loots a bank, ho takes out the nest eggs and puts In his note. When Smart Aleck robs the turkey nest ho puts in a nest egg nnd takes out the turkey egg, and mother turkey keeps on laying. So by this hog-in-tlio-turkey-iiest-pollcy ho makes the turkey hen an egg machine and the lousy old cluck a turkey incubator. Now,, the man whoso brain Isn't a doughnut knows that a turkey lays several sots of eggs In a season and thc.llrst two are the finest. Well, he mates a strong young torn to twelve finely matured two or three year old hens, makes provision so he always has enough to brood and turns all these superfine early eggs over to thrifty turkey hens to hatch. Ills poults thus under mother turkey's care get the early worms and insects nnd nro prepared for the heated period and the Insect famine that comes with it. Chicken hatched poults, especially the late ones, can't stand a strain, seldom bring gain, and but few remain. Turkey hatched poults are best to grow. They win at tho show and bring in the money to make tho mare go. BILL OF FARE FOR YOUNG TUR KEYS. Mrs. Turkey says, "Feed little, but often." Good advice. Drop a fresh egg into cold water, boil thirty minutes, grind up shell ami all, add equal amount of dry bread crumbs, ti sprluklo of grit and feed this quantity to six poults twenty-four hours after hatch. Feed thus for two duy. Third' day chop tender onion tops, egg, curd and grit for breakfast; bread dipped In milk and squeezed dry for dinner; egg, curd and grit chopped up with dandelion or lettuce for supper. In a week gradually introduce rolled and cracked wheat, but don't feed chick feed nnd do not give turkeys corn until they "shoot the red" at three months. An overdose of onion physics; a rea sonable quantity Is a liver tonic, worm and cold cure. Don't boll curd, as It gets too tough to digest. When poults rufflo their feathers, drag their feet and don't eat they are overfed. Administer nn old style liver pill arid give ouo grain of quinine for five nights In succession. FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS. Get n good prepared chick feed to start tho peeps on nnd then branch off on cracked corn nnd wheat. A small mill for grinding grain, shell and dry bono costs 5 nnd pays for Itself In a season. Two sad 'deaths occurred In Pennsyl vania the past winter from tho gun trap set to shoot chicken thieves. The men killed wero tho owners, who forgot tho traps were there. Too sad for comment. A young girl In tho middle west cleared $310 last year raising peafowl, receiving ?15 per pair, while a boy In tho suburbs of Philadelphia cleared .$150 on his Whlto Itocks. Buy your boy somo good stock' nnd le,t him com bine pleasure, pots and profit. Tho claim Is mndo that you can inako on ducks to $1 on chickens. Wo believe thero is money in ducks, tint back of such claims wo often find q fellow with an ax to grind. IP; 8 PACK TO NATURE, THOU FAKER! No; you shouldn't let lousy'old clucks play stepmother to your pretty turkej poults. No senso or cents In it. Biddy's too kind to them. Sho Just sings all day, "Come and fill up your little turkey glzzardl" nnd sho Just turns things upside down to keep them stuffing from morn till night. She leads them to the corncrlb, tho chick en confectionery, and they stuff with yellow pellets that paint yellow spots on their -little livers, nnd they resign sine die. Sho steals across tho barn floor Into the grannry. They gorge In the grain bins and become has bcens. What a scavenger she Isl What n dirty tablecloth! What filthy food she spreads before those sweet voiced, delicate little poults! She scratches down in the lousy, red mite, dirty microbe hencoop nnd raises a cloud of germ dust over her tender charges. In the filthy old rat hole hogpen, where tho hogs nnd rats get 'cm If the microbes don't, she digs up filth and maggots. In tho oozy, germ breeding barn yard sho roots like n hog to turn up decayed vegetable matter, rotten ex-1 crement and wriggling death dealers for the poor little birds and then In vites them to drink from the horrible barnyard pools, where tho dunghlller hens drink In part of their "puro fresh farm eggs" that change so quickly to "rots nnd spots." Now, do you wonder that scientists hiivo found tho lii-ecdlnrr nlnri nf thn ' deadly blackhead parasite that do- .NVJMf1TT&. BACK TO NATURE. stroys the turkey in the digestive tract of the dunghill hen? "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; go back to the turkey hen, thou rcverser of nature." No nature faking In the'. turkey coop! Mother turkey lays her 'eggs on tho pure earth, out among the tall grasses, fragrant ferns and flowers! Her pretty babies open their wondering eyes, not In a lousy nest under a scabby legged old cluck, but on God's pure, bright, beautiful world. Mother turkey never stuffs her turk lcts. Sho raises them for you to stuff. When you wish them to eat more she trills them away to the Vtreen hills and vales afar, where delicious turkey food abounds. There, drinking from crystal rills. wandering through cool woods, flow- cry meadows and fruitful orchards, they gather those dainty titbits that help to make them the beautiful, vig orous fowls the Creator Intended them to be. DON'TS. Don't imagine because you've won a cup your away up. Many a slip be tween the cup and tho tiptop. V Don't stuff your hens all day and ex pect thein all to lay. Make them scratch for a living, as you do. Don't neglect to tamo your fowls. Cruelty is foreign to a true fancier, and friendliness counts everywhere. Don't get mad. if others differ with you. It's a sign of a kink In your think. Don't run that incubator in your barn nor have your brooder In among tho mites and lice. Don't raise Leghorns for market fin ishing. Big breeds for fattening feeds. Don't expect an order from every in quiry nor waste your gray matter on long business letters. Don't strain yourself to sell birds to cranks. I matters not, you get no thanks. Don't thi'h because severe winter Is hard on fr N that warm weather is not a dlso.i e breeder. Don't lor ihoso young turkeys run in the fil'hy barnyard nor expect squabs to develop In dirt. Don't f'"ed much corn In the sum mer. On nnd wheat for grains, add brau and 'd mash for gains. Don't keep crippled chickens nor one eyed roup victims in your pons. It spoils tho picture. Don't have a beautiful farm and a flock of spotted culls. They don't match. Don't advertise thoroughbreds and hide part of your stock. That looks fishy. Don't have a beautiful cut and a largo display ad. and expect It to pay if you sell what Is bad. Don't worry nbout the trouble of to morrow nor leap ahead to seek some future sorrow. Soon will come tho sot ting sun and your work will not bo done; then you'll bo bad nnd sad whero you might have been good and glad. Don't forget that neatness nnd dls patch in shipping gain a customer's nrproval. Fine goods, well sent, make tho best advertisement. Don't fall to change drinking water In tho brooders often. Tho heat makes it stale. Don't buy largo quantities of crock cdborn except for immediate uso. Tt hen,ts and molds, FACTS IN FEW LINES Shanghai exports up to 30,000 deer skins a year. There is cno postofilee In Switzer land to every 1)10 Inhabitants. Every cat In Berlin must wear a : metal plato containing Its license num-! bcr. Tho flour mills of the United States represent fixed invent ments of about $300,000,000. Tuberculosis germs can sustain the greatest cold nnd succumb only at 2.G degrees below zero. Turkey has more aged people In pro portion to her population than any other European country. Tho fifteenth son In tho fifteenth year has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Chris Boiler In Noble township, Cass county, Ind. A New York stato farmer has re quested an Insurance policy which will protect his property from damage by airships as well as bylghtntng. Ordinary corncob are worth 10 cents per eighty pounds in India. They are ground to a coarse meal, mixed with molasses and used as a food for cat tle. Trofcssor Enrico Batolll of New ITn ven, Conn., has composed n musical composition to tho memory of Consul nnd Mrs. Arthur S. Cheney, who lost their lives In tho Sicilian earthquake. A "foot" measure varies In China from eleven. Inches to fifteen inches. Each district lias its own foolrules, its pounds nnd Its pecks. An effort Is now being made to Introduce n uniform sys tem. The largest chimes in the world are being Installed In the tower of the Metropolitan Life Insurance compa ny's building nt Now York. The four bolls weigh 1,!j00, 2.000, r,000 and 7.000 pounds. Two English inventors claim to save from 50 to 73 per cent on gas bills by tho use of their machine, which carbu rets tho air with a small portion of pe trol vapor, producing a highly Illumi nating nonexploslve gas. An odd wedding which took place In Washington recently was that of Jesse E. Jevons of Philadelphia and Jessie E. Jevons of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Both the parties had been married before, but despite their simlliarlty of names wero In no way related to each other. Thanks to the present efficient state of the Siamese navy, sen robbers are no more to be seen, and the confidence of the people in the protection of the government is now so great that they have no further apprehension in car rying on their coast trade with free dom and protection. Tho long war with Yaqul Indians in Mexico, in which scores have been killed at different times, Including many Americans, has been terminated by a treaty of peace agreed upon by three Indian chiefs and 1G0 of their followers nnd the governor of the state of Sonora, Mexico. There has been a considerable In crease In Japanese shipping losses. Some attribute this to tho trade de pression, which Induces shipowners to take more risks, while others think the mishaps are due largely to the Inferior boats, of which many wero ac quired during the war with Russia. A striking illustration of tho rate at which savings bauk deposits will grow Is afforded by an account at a bank In Worcester. This account was opened by C. II. Walters of Groton in 1S35 cvlth a five dollar deposit, which, with no other accumulation than the an nual interest, now amounts to $210.62. Edward McCouo of Dover, N. II., has in his possession a bauk bill more than fifty years old. Issued in 1854 by a bauk of Fall Itlver, Mass. Tho back of the bill Is plain and resembles a piece of brown paper. Tho bill came Into Mr. McCone's hands forty years ago and Is in nn excellent stato of preservation. Lancashire (England) medical offi cers are calling attention to tho dan ger of weavers In the cotton mills contracting Infectious diseases from tho practice known as "shuttle kiss ing" sucking the weft through tho eye of the shuttle. Diphtheria, con sumption and many other diseases are spread by this custom. Gold was discovered in tho Klondike placer gold districts a little over a decado ago, since which time this field, with an area of 25 by 50 miles square, has produced gold to the value of about $125,000,000. Nearly all of this has been mined by the primitive proc ess of pick nnd shovel nnd washed by the pan, the rocker and the sluice box. Professor W. II. Pickering of Har vard university has completed calcula tions which not only prove tho exist ence of an unknown planet In the solar system, but describe Its orbit, beyond Neptune. The discovery is much llko that; made by Lovorrier in 1S42, when Neptune was discovered through calcu latlons of tho eccentric motions of Uranus. Herr Bollagen, the celebrated fresco painter of Berlin, has been commis sioned by a German steamship com' pany to procuro In America accurate historical data and locol color for o series of pictures dealing with tho llfo and tho times of tho first president of the United States, Tho works are do signed for the Interior decoration of-a now vessel for one of the transatlantic lines. Tho Bev. Sydney Goodman, director of the Men's club of Atlantic City, N. J., Is being congrntuloied on tho success of his work.. Tl6 .Sunday night gatherings nt his ciif 1 knvo become a fenturo of AtlanVHMr life. They arc limited to tho malo sex. Cigars nro parsed around nnd tho men mado to feel at homo whllo the minister is preaching thoeospej to them. From a congregation of 200 in 1007 his church has now reached a total membership of mory tkan 2,00. We have iro Insurance against panics, BUT- Wo want to sell Kvcry. business man in Wayne county n eood sized llfo or en dowment nollcy tbnt he may use as collateral security for borrowed money-tldeyou over . tiKlit places when sales nro poor ami collections slow-possibly head oil Insolvency. We want to sell Kvcry fnrmern policy that will absolutely protect his family nnd home. We want to sell Kvcry laborer nnd mechanic a saving policy that will be Im possible for him to lapse or lose. If not Tjlfc Insurance Id'JJ.YryS.Wcc'yoorFHtK INSUUANCK. Standard, re liable companies only. IT IS HKTTHH TO DO IT NOW. THAN TO WAIT AND SAY "IF" HITTINGER & HAM, General Agents. WHITE MILLS, PA. JOSEPH N. WELCH Fire Insurance The OLDEST Fire Insurance Agency in Wayne County. Ollicc:'?.Sccond floor Masonic Build ing, over C. C. Jadwin's drug store. itonesaaie. Tooth Savers We have the sort nf tnnth hmslins thn nr mado to thoroughly cleanse and savoithe octh. Thev are the kind that derm tenth wlthmit lcavinc vour mouth full of bristles. We recommend those costln? 23 cents nr more, as we can guarantee them and will re place, free, any that show defects of manu facture within three months. O. T. CHAHBER5, PHARHACIST. Opp.D.&H. Station, IIONESDAtE, PA. For New Late Novelties IN- JEWELRY SILVERWARE WATCHES SPENCER, The Jeweler "Guaranteed articles onlv sold' WHKN THE ENGINE COMES s no time to be regretting your neglect to get insured. A little ;are beforehand is wortti more than any amount ol re gret. KRAFT & CONGER, General Insurance Agents HONESDALE. PA, CASTOR I A Tor Infants and Children, Tfta KM YwHtvt Always Bugfct Bears the fe'fefe A fly f - EHgn&ture
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