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AUOUT I'OULTRY PROFITS.
Why a Lossy Man Makes
n Poor
Chicken Kaiser.
No business 1b better than the poul
try business provided It 1b conducted
In a buslneBB-llko manner. Maybe it
1b eo that "anybody can raise poul
try," but It Is not so that everybody
can raise them successfully or prof
itably. Yes, there's money In polu
try, but a good many people can't
get It out.
A lazy man makes a poor poultry
man. So does the man who has fail
ed at everything else and takes up
poultry keeping "because It Is easy."
The person who thinks poultry
breeding for profit Is a soft snap, and
who has some money to lose, only
need to Invest It In poultry.
The most successful poultry men
are those who glvo their own person
al supervision to the business; super
intendents and general managers
must occupy a subordinate station.
The road to success In poultry keep
ing, which reaches tho goal of profit,
Is not all smooth and level. When
the road Is most difficult, the owner
himself must drlvo, for personal ob
servation Is necessary to avoid rocics
that wreck.
Feeding Young Chicks.
In tho morning tho chicks should
not be allowed to eat too much. They
should bo kept somewhat hungry, so
that they will exorcise during tho
middle of tho day by scratching for
tho hard grain and seeds scattered In
the litter. For small chickens theso
grains should bo cracked very fine,
tho pieces of corn should not bo any
larger than half a kernel of wheat, j
Egg and rolled oats makes an excel- l
lent food for chicks for the first three
weeks, and after that a mash of corn i
meal, wheat bran, wheat middlings
and beef scraps can bo substituted
for tho ore and rolled oats. Tho
are a number of infertile ones taken I
from tho incubator. The best food
is the cheapest for you will sur-
prised how fast tho chicks will grow.
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t pays you in the end to feed hem
the proper food and to feed it to ;
them properly, if hoy are well ma.
lurea uie puucis wm ue strung viB- ;
orous winter layers and the breeding
pens will produce chicks with iron 1
constitutions. tanners Home jour- 1
nal.
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PRIZE LEGHORN PULLET.
Clover Hay for Poultry.
We wish to again impress the Im
portance of laying in a supply of hay
lor the poultry this winter. Of all
hays clover is the best and is usually
the easiest to provide on the aver-)
age farm.
In the winter when It Is fed, It
should bo first cut in bits about an
inch In length, then placed in a ves
sel and hot water poured over It.
Leave In the water for an hour or
two, then add enough corn meal or
oats chop to absorb the water and
feed the mass to the chickens. The
feed is also good for birds which are
penned at this time of tho year, If It
Is not possible to supply them with
chopped green grass. Farmer's
Home Journal.
Keep Hens nt Work.
We see that the hens take the
proper exercise, wrltos a poultry
man. Our houses are large and com
fortable, built on the scratching
shed plan. We never overcrowd tho
flocks, and as the scratching shed la
always heavily littered there la no
trouble to keep tho hens at work.
Twice a day noon and night the
grain is thrown among this litter
and the fowls are compelled to
scratch. Good vigorous exercise la
highly Important for good, strong
fertility.
Sunflower Seed.
Sunflower seeds are a very valua
ble feed for fowls. They are tho
best egg-producing food known, and
aro also very warming, as they con
tain a large quantity of vegetable
oil. But they should not be fed too
heavily, or they will cause the fowls
to lose their feathers. Twice a weeli
Is sufficient.
. , Fresh Air Needed.
If the henhouse walls are dripping
with sweat and the floor wet and fil
thy you may expect a sickly lot of
fowls. Open up tho doors and win
dows and let tho fresh dry air in.
Use muslin on a south window open
ing or two and let the fresh air In
all night long.
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For a
Theme:
THE MODEL WOMAN
OF TO-DAY
4. .
By Rev. William M. Carr
fr fr 4-
Text: "Many daughters have done
virtuously, but thou excellest them
a.Proverbs, xxxi., 29.
4.
This Is what the wise man tells us
of tho Ideal woman of his day.
A woman may be model, married or
single, but not Ideal. The Ideal wom
an is tho wife and mother. The model
wife roigns as a queen In her home,
exerting a tromendous Influence by
comforting and Inspiriug her husband
in life's battle. Such was the wife of
the late President McKlnley. Though
weak and ill much of the time, yet
love armed her for her task, and no
bly did she do her part in the world's
work. Of the mother somo one has
well said: "The hand that rocks the
cradle guides tho world." Her con
stant presence with tho children In
the home, while tho husband and
father tolls at his daily task, gives
her tho opportunity of exorcising tho
preponderating influence for good or
ill upon tho characters of the chil
dren in tho formative period of their
lives. During these golden days the
ideal mother will both by precept and
example mould tho minds and hearts
of her children Into beautiful symme
try. But there Is a model slnglo woman
hood as well. Multitudes of young
women, especially In America, are
single either by choice or by force of
circumstance, and yet nobly do their
part. Wo need but glance at the
great companies of deaconesses in our
various churches who have taken up
the work theso last years, as tho Sis
ters of Charity have for a much longer
oriod. of visiting tho homes of sick
ness and poverty, bringing aid and
comfort in the name of Christ, or tho
"my of nurses in our hospitals who
as brave in the consecration to
iluty in tho face of disease and conga-
V cn8t8 fQr
Ad, thQ untol(1 tl0U.
Qf g womon who flulotly
,iml m0(lesUv ugngo in service to
L,ko QUt faml'ly cxpcn8ua, to earo for
flUhcr or mother, or to educate for
tG.3 U!lttlo younger brothers and sis
ters. So that many a man would say,
if ho told the whole truth, "I owe ray
position in life to my self-sacrificing
sister." Shall we say of her as Gray
In his "Elegy": "Full many a flower
Is born to blush unseen and waste Its
sweetness on the desert air?" No,
the sweet sacrifice of such a life is
not a waste, but rises as an "odor of
sweet incense" to Heaven.
How much fills the lands and heart
of the ideal mother! The responsibil
ity for roaring correctly and the care
ful and proper training of tho chil
dren necessarily rests upon her. To
see that the children are properly
fed and clothed, and with tho passing
years to bo properly educated and to be
careful that the associates are all
they should be, devolve largely upon
her. Then there Is the temptation to
1 bo too strict on the ono hand or too
lenient on the other. If the former,
then the danger that when the day
comes when the child Is released from
all parental restraint there be a re
bound in the other direction and lib
erty bo turned to license; if the lat
ter, tho danger that the liberty per-
mltted be abused.
The American people know how the
mothers of President Garfield and
President McKlnley were asked to be
present when their sous were inaugu
rated a tribute of love and devotion
on the part of these noble sons, who
appreciated the part their mothers
had In their success. All are familiar
with the saying of tho martyr Presi
dent, Abraham Lincoln: "All I am I
owe to my angel mother." Thank God
for the opportunities for American
women, and thank God more for the
noblo uses made of their opportunl
ties. May not the words of the wise
man aptly apply: "Many daughters
have done virtuously, but thou ex
cellest them all"?
O, beloved, God pondereth the
hearts weighs them, weighs them,
weighs them, and turns back many a
petition because there are conditions
that make it impossible to link tho
petition onto God's power. There is
sometmng In the perfect holiness and
righteousness of God that leaps forth
to embrace the prayer of the righteous
man and it avalleth much, and there
la the same glad response to the mer
ciful man and the loving man and the
unselfish, self-denying man that gives
himself to God to spend and be spent
for others. God feels akin to them;
his love hounds and leaps to respond
to their cry. He opens doors for them
that no man can open; he takes them
through furnace fires without a smell
of Are upon their garments; he or
ders everything and everybody out of
the way of their chariots; he lets
them into lions' dens, but shuts the
mouths of the Hons. Just look at this
verse, "Whatsoever we ask, we re
ceive of Him, because we keep His
commandments and do those things
that are pleasing in His sight."
Christian Standard.
The only man who really knows how
hard it Is to find a woman's pocket Is
the one who marries her for her
money. Puck.
HAY FROM OATS.
Good Qualities of Feed From Sev
eral Crops.
The practice of making hay from
oats and barley Is becoming moro
common, especially where these
crops are used as nurse crops for
clover. In order to get a good qual
ity of hay from these crops they must
be cut at the right stage. If they are
allowed to stand until the straw bo
gins to turn yellow their hay value Is
practically lost. They should be
cut earlier. This Is best for two
reasons: It gives a good quality of
green, palatable feed, and early cut
ting must be done In order to give
tho young clover plants a chance.
This grain hay should bo carefully
cured and mowed away, and while I
do not consider It as good as timo
thy, yet all stock except horses like
It, and will thrive on it. When tho
crop Is grown principally for feed as
It does In tho Western states, tho
berry Is allowed to mature Just to tho
dough stage, and then straw with
grain makes a fairly good feed. In
Washington, whore not much corn la
grown, they food wheat hay almost
exclusively, and I must say their
horses look much better than our
corn and oat fed horses.
Ventilation of the Barn.
The ventilation of barns Is a mat
ter which deserves more attention
than it receives, but I will not tako
time to go Into details. There are
frequently cracks and open spaces
which servo the purpose of ventlla-
tlon, but which often cause drafts,
resulting in colds, rheumatism and
other ailments. In like manner, tho
drainage around tho barns should
be examined, as bad results often
come from Imperfect drainage. Then
there Is tho watering arrangements
All horses ought to be watered be
foro and not after feeding. The
horse's stomach is comparatively
small, It only contaius from seven
to nine gallons, so If you feed him
heavily and then water him, the to-
suit will be that a certain
amount of the food will be washed
down Into tho Intestines in an undl
gested condition. This is a frequent
cause of colic and other troubles,
and can easily ho obviated by water
ing tho horse when his stomach Is
comparatively empty.
Sorghum Equal to Hay.
Analysis shows that considering
the amount of protein and fat con
tained in sorghum it is about equal
to timothy hay as feed. In point of
tho amount of nitrogen, free oxtract,
it is about half as rich in these ele
ments as timothy. Timothy contains
5 per cent, protein, 45 per cent,
nitrogen free extract, and 3 per
cent. fat. Sorghum contains 4.5
per cent, protein, 23 per cent, nitro
gen free extract, and 3.25 per cent,
fat.
Make the Farm Profitable,
A farm properly handled should ho
worth moro money every year. Any
system of farming that sells off In
crop! more than Is returned means
bankruptcy in a few years. You can
use up soil fertility and return noth
ing and expect to go right on raising
big crops. Look at the proposition
sensible now.
Humus For Potatoes.
Potato soils should be well sup
plied with humus to increase their
capacity for retaining water. Drouth
is a serious enen.y of the potato crop.
Humus is best supplied by plowing
under clover. If stable manure la
used it should be supplied a year
ahead of the potato crop.
Dispose of tho Stalks.
It Is a good thing to get stalks out
of the way as soon as possible and
begin disking, but don't get in a
hurry and start plowing until the
ground Is dry and has settled,
piece of ground turned up in
spring wet, is hard to handle
through the season.
A
the
all
Weed the Orchard.
Keep the ground In the orchard
and garden free from rubbish and
weeds. In these many of tho Insect
pests spend an important part o:
their existence, and if they are de
stroyed many of the pests will per'
lsh with them.
Wash For Tree Trunks.
Hero Is a wash for the trunks ol
fruit trees which it is said will keep
xnloo and rabbits from gnawing them:
To ono peck of lime add, while warm,
ono quart of crude carbolic acid, four
pounds of Bulphur and one-half gal
lon plna tar. Stir well.
Plant Trees Apart.
An orchard with tho trees fai
apart Is moro profitable than the
closely set orchard after the Aral
few years of bearing. But the dis
tance should vary somewhat accord
ing to soil and variety planted.
Motto For Formers.
"Good Stuff Well Sold." Farmeri
who live up. to that motto are making
money In crops that others product
at a loss. Paste the words over youi
dsk and think out the details to!
yourself.
HUSBANDS.
How to Mako Them Eat from the
Hand and Sign Checks at Will.
Husuands are the natural product
of most civilized countries. They are
plentiful in most of the United States
of America, being scarcest in Utah
and Massachusetts, where 'each lady
cwns but a fraction of a husband, or
none at all. Those owning no more
than a morbid Interest in a husband
are called old maids.
Although the best husbands in this
country are acknowledged by experts
to bo Indigenous to the soil, those
commanding tne highest market
prices are the Imported varieties, be-
causo of their expensive labels. The
"rown brand I rings the largest lig-
ure.
Tho husband Is a wary and elusive
animal, fleeing for safety at tho lirst
noise like a skirt to his lair in clubs,
olllccs and other remote caves of
his habitat; but ho may be cajoled
forth by an aprearance of lndlffer
ennce on the part of the trapper, as'
his curiosity can always be aroused
by tho strange creature who could re
main immune t his charms; after
which he may bo easily caught any
where in broad aayllght (though a
white nlght-llgut of moon-calcium is
preferable), In a trap composed of
frou-frou, talcum, golden locks and
(lattery.
There is a tradition to the effect
that tho earliest husband-catcher was
a clumsy contrivance made of fine
nand-sewing attached to a spinning
wheel, decorated with home-made pre
serves put up In a sirup of sweet dis
position and sealed in common-sense
jars.
Once secured with a matrimonial
halter tied in a diamond hitch, the
husband become quite tame and will
eat from the hand and sign checks at
will. There aro moro than fifty-seven
varieties of husbandt at largo and in
captivity, but they are broadly classed
as good and bad, "y their respective
owners or keepers called wives.
Since the wife is so constituted that
she can believe anything sho sets her
mind to, she can easily persuade her
self that a bad husband Is a good one
and vice versa u merciful provision
of Providence for martial happiness.
The American husband lq called by
his trans-atlantlc compeers a beast of
burden; to which ho may very justly
retort that the trans-atlantic husband
is a beast of prey, or otherwise, but
always a beast, and that it's a White
Man's Burden, anyway. All of which
proves that tho highest grade husband
extant has his permanent habitat In
these United States of America.
FUTURE STATE.
Mr. Ripley Tho inhabitants of
Arizona seem to be an orthodox peo
ple. Mr. Greenly How do you make
that out?
Mr. Ripley Because they hellevo
in a future state.
Clcerc All At Sea.
The gigantic steamship had faced
easterly gales all tho way across the
Atlantic, and the-' were uneasy bel
iowlngs from the hundred? of cattle
In the 'tween-decks.
"I wonder whether we shall ever
get to London?" cried Miss Manhat
tan, promenading the hurricane-deck.
"We're two days late now. How long
this voyage is! How long!"
"Quousque taridei-, Catillna?" quot
ed Mr. Teebw.lls sympathetically at
her side.
"What's that?" she inquired. "1
don't understand Latin, you know."
"How long, nray, O cattle line?"
Mr. Teebwells solemnly responded.
Harper's Weekly.
On the Desert.
An Irishman and a Scotchman were
discussing the horrors of living in a
prohibition State, when the Irishman
remarked:
"Sure, an' yo might get used to it
after awhile. Ye know they say a
camel can go eight days without
drinkln'."
"Hoot, monl" retorted the other,
"It'H little ye know about the Camp
bells when ye say that. There is na
one o' them could go eight hours
wi'out a drav of comethlng!"
Which ended tho discussion.
The Basis.
He I wonder if we can get along
all right
She Certainly. Wo can buy the
auto with the money father left me
and you will surely make enough to
pay for running it don't you think?
Tho Letter.
Etktl But why don't you open
and read It?
FthPlfrld' - '.' -- .'
SHE WAS CALLED "POOR THING"
nnd a Way of Sitting Silently at
Her Work, Listening.
Pity Is certainly a kindly senti
ment; nevertheless It can be so bo
stowed as to cast a doubt upon its
right to a place among tho virtues.
There was an old-time seamstress of
East Hentley who, If words were all,
was beyond doubt tho most tender
hearted person in the village; ln-
deed, her favorite expression of com
passion had finally passed Into a
nlcknamo for horself. Sho was
known behind her back as "Poor
Thing."
Poor Thing was not much of a
talker. She had a way of sitting
silently bont over her work, always
with a mouth full of pins, listening
to what other people had to say.
Only at the end of the conversa
tion would she extract her pins long
enough to contribute her share. Per
haps tho speakers had been eulogiz
ing tho abilities of a noted house
keeper. "Yes, poor thing!" she would sigh.
"Fortunate, now, isn't it, sho can
turn her mind to preserves and
pickles and pie-baking, the way she
does. She couldn't take much com
fort In her children, that's sure
forth-putting, rampageous creturs.
I s'pose It's a compensation."
Or tho beauty of some blooming
young girl would have received a
tribute of praise.
"She'B real pretty-appearing," tho
seamstress would agree, mournfully,
"She cortalnly is but then thoso
delicate-fcStur'd, llght-complected
folks never keep their looks moro'n
a few years. She'll fade right out
before she's twenty-five, poor
thing!"
Again, the prosperity of a neigh
boring farmer was discussed and
his nbllity admired.
"Drivers, both of 'em Mlrandy
and he," she would agree, promptly.
"I don't doubt they've earned every
mite of it. I never knew such folks
for driving. There ain't .any loafing
'round their place, nor any resting,
either. My land, but they keep
things moving! I can toll you thoy
mako tho children stop lively about
chores. I dare say It's good for 'em,
or It would be if they weren't so
little but there, I can't help pity-
'cin, poor things!"
Poor Thing was a good worker,
but she never became popular with
her fellow villagers, which, consid
ering her concern over all their
woes and fallings, was rather hard
on her poor thing!
ELECTRIC EGG HEATER.
Much Time and Lnlior Saved by This
Invention.
Electricity having been used for
almost every purpose under the sun,
now it has recently been harnessed
up by a Jersey City man to beat eggs.
In any hotel or bakery where eggs
ar used in large quantities and
wl 're they require beating as for a
cake, this electric beater will bo a
welcome addition. It not only saves
much hard work for beating eggs
ELECTRIC EGG BEATER.
Is no child's play but It doea the
ob better and much more expedlt
ously than It can be done by hand,
jiko most electrical devices It Is a
lease of you press the button and tho
machine does the rest. The beater
f-onsists of a vertical support, with
fin arm holding tho egg-beater shaft.
Below this is an adjustable bracket,
Provided with a bowl In which the
feggs are placed. By pressing the
button the beater revolves swiftly In
tne bowl and as the power and speed
bf the stroke does not vary the eggs
are beaten with unusual consistency.
1 Washington Star.
Testing Baby's Bath.
Theoretically every mother ought
(to have a thermometer to test the
taby's bath water; obviously every
iono does not. However, it is mani
festly unsafe to rely on the time
honored method of testing with the
hand, as much Infantile discomfort,
even real injury, may result from the
practice. A good substitute for the
thermometer is tho mother's bared
elbow applied to the water. Not be
ing accustomed to extremes of heat
and cold, as is the hand, the flesh of
tho elbow responds quickly to tho
slightest change of temperatures
from blood heat, thus Indicating the
degree of warmth required.
Society of Wliales.
Tho Society ot Whales le a new or
ganisation. Every young wife In
town belongs and the title of the so
ciety in taken from the faith a bride
has in her husband. She would
believe him If he asld he aaw a whale
swimming up Commercial street.
Afte'f she has boon married for a
few mqnths.she droj?s frojnthe club-
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NEVER HEflCO OF ROOSEVELT
Startling Ignorance Displayed by Al
bert Courtney, Who Comes In
from American Deserts.
Loa Angeles, Cal. -Albert Courtney,
a mining prospector and British sub
ject, heard a few days ago for tho
first time that Queen Victoria had
died. He refused to bellevo tho re
port and is looking for an English
paper to confirm the news.
The namo of Theodore Roosovolt
was a strange one to him. Vague
rumors came to him along In 1898
and 1899 that Spain and tho United
States were at war. Not an echo of
tho Boer war reached him.
Naturally ping pong, dlnbolo, the
plays of George Bernard Shaw, tho do
feat of "Bill" Squires, tho suffragist
movement, the recall election and all
tho other great facts and occurrences
of recent years wore matters of which
he was ignorant.
This hiatus in the life of Courtney
arises from tho fact that in the last
fifteen years he has been lost to tho
world on tho desert of Nevada and
Arizona. Ho WU3 a recluse and did
not see a book or newspaper during
tho entire period.
"And 'ow is the Queen?" was ono
of his first questions.
"Roosevelt? Uoosevclt?" ho said
to a query. "Never 'card the name
before. And who in 'e?"
Courtney is seventy years of age
and is well preserved physically and
mentally.
INDIAN RUNS DOWN WOLVES.
On Overtaking His Tired Quarry Uses
Club to Kill Him.
Superior, Wis. At Solon Springs,
near here, lives Charley Taylor, a
half-breed Indian, who might bo a
good man to "enter In some of tho big
Marathon races.
Taylor is in the wolf hunting busi
ness for the bounty there is In it and
catches me wolves by running them
down. Ho hit the hot trail of ono of
the timber beasts recently, and over
took the exhausted animal three days
later. He killed it with a stout club
which he carries when "hunting."
Taylor says that ther 3 Is nothing re
markable about hunting wolves In thl3
manner. With snow shoes a man can
run down a wolf, whose pace is slow
er In snow, in from one and a half to
two days, but Taylor was without
snowshoes. All ono needs Is endur
ance, patience and tho ability to fol
low the trail of the wolf after dark.
The Indians usually hunt In pairs.
SWALLOWED HIS SAVINGS.
Gold Coin Found in Grave When Body
Was Moved.
Paris, France. "Gold from tho
grave" might bo the caption over a
curious incident that has happened at
Thaon, near Eplnal. Twelve years
ago a workman died there, and his
relatives could find none of his sav
ings, although he was known to have
accumulated a small sum in gold.
Recently his body was moved by
the parish authorities to another
grave, his son being present at the
transference. When the remains were
exposed he was astonished to see a
little pile of gold coins lying among
the bones. They were the dead man's
savings, amounting to $185, which he
had swallowed to prevent his family,
with whom he was on bad terms, get
ting hold of them.
SCARED BY BATTLE IN CLOUDS.
Sham Sight of Troops, Reproduced In
Mi..n. I7lnhtinfH V11lanrR.
Heidelberg. A terrifying pheno
menon in the heavens recently alarm
ed tho superstitious villagers of Dorz
bach and Oberunzbach, on the fron
tier of Baden and Wurtemborg. In
the clouds, just before 10 o'clock in
the forenoon, there appeared a bright
red streak, on which could be plainly
seen a landscape, with fields, streams
and woods, among which two bodies
of troops In battle formation were ad
vancing toward each other, firing vol
leys. The puffs of smoke were clearly
visible.
Half an hour later the picture sud
denly disappeared, but the excitement
and fear aroused among tho villagers
lasted until next morning, when the
explanation appeared In tho newspa
pers of the district that a sham tight
had been held by the garrison of Mer
thentheim. some twenty nilleH dis
tant, and had caused tho mirage.
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