THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1000.
HINTS
FARMERS
Feed for Draft Colts.
As soon ns a colt 'will oat grain food
him all lie wants In a separate box
from his mother. Oats, bran, molasses
feed and a little shelled corn and oil
meal fed once a day will inaUe a great
Improvement in the appearance of the
colt. As the colt grows Increase the
feed. The feed won't hurt him, and
the more ho Is fed the quicker he will
become a horse. Many persons think
that because a colt Is little ho requires
a small ration, but these same people
always kick about their colts being
runty and small, while their neighbor,
who gives his colt plenty of feed, has
big boned colts, with good square
bodies to go with them.
It is not a saving of grain to cut
down on the feed of colts, because it
takes more than the feed saved to
bring them out of this dwarfed stage,
and it is a well known fact that a colt
can be made to weigh more by sys
tematic feeding than by feeding heavily
for awhile, then feeding him a cut
down ration, then back to good feeding.-Cieorge
Max wort by In Kansas
Farmer.
' Advantage of Disking,
IiMvihg after harvest is now being
recommended by men of study and c.v
peiienee as an Important preliminary
treatment of wheat land. The advan
tages of this practice can lie readily
understood when we remember that
usually at harvest the soil Is free from
weeds and in good condition to plow.
'Soon niter harvest and before it can all
be plowed, and especially If there is
a wet spell, the weeds grow and inter
fere with vte plowing, especially the
Russian thistle. What is worse yet,
they take away moisture which should
be saved for the succeeding crop. If,
on the other hand, there is drought in
stead of wet weather, with weeds or
without weeds, the laud becomes too
dry for best results in plowing, and the
plowing breaks it into great clods or
else this operation must be deferred
unwi auoiuor goon rain. mci. ma, ,
come or may not ueioro seeuing ume.- ,
C. K. McClelland, Kansas Experiment
statIon- I
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not vcavinn uuuui wwi ii.
Fodder corn, when sown in drills,
should be harvested with a corn blnd-
er, but can be harvested quite success
fully with an open elevator grain bind
er, writes a correspondent of Orange
Judd Parmer. The bundles should be
of medium size. Let them lie on the
cround for a day or two to sun cure.
They will then be only half as heavy
as they were when cut, which means
only half as much work when shock
ing. The shocks should be big, thirty-five
to fifty bundles per shock. Set the
bundles quite perpendicular, fill up all
holes, have the outside row particu
larly tight and make the whole shock
as nearly symmetrical as possible.
Draw the tops tightly together with a
rope having a hook or pulley attached
to one end aud tie with binder twine.
In this condition it will cure well. The
shock will withstand any amount of
wind and rain aud may be left in the .
field until needed in the feed racks.
Wisconsin's Milk Law.
Wisconsin lias passed a new law to
prevent the sale of unclean and in
sanitary milk aud its use in the man
ufacture of products. Reasonable
lighting and ventilation must charac
terize barns, and milk taken from a
cow where the stables, are filthy or
kept aud transported in dirty vessels,
milk that is stale or with any foreign
substance in it, is declared insanitary.
The law further provides that cream
separators shall be thoroughly cleans
ed after use. A penalty of not less
than ?25 nor more than $160 for each
separate offense or jail sentence vary
ing from thirty to sixty days is pro
vided to make the law effective.
Saving Young Trees.
In the summer time the young trees
suffer most from the droughts. The
trees grow lively in the early spring,
when rains nre frequent; then when
the heated summer months come and
the rains cease the trees lack moisture
aud become stunted or perish. In un- i a trade in live day old chicks that runs
Irrigated countries the best way to pre- up into the millions. Wo have hail
serve the life of the tree In dry times i calls from all directions for chickens,
is by a mulch. It may bo of straw or ' Parties order from five to ten bun
old refuse hay. Even weeds that have J drcd in a bunch and report few dead
been mown about the place make a I on arrival at destination.
very good mulch. Pile the mulch thick
about the tree as soou as the weather
turns off dry. The moisture will be
maintained and the tree will uot
perish.
Keep the Henhouse Clean.
Cleanliness is an important factor in
maintaining the health of poultry, it
should be made a rule to dally gather
up tho droppings and cover the drop
ping boards under the roosts with sift
ed coal ashes or dirt. Plenty of kero-
sono should be used n the roosts and
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in the nest boxes, and every spring and
fall the Interior of tho houses should
bo whitewashed and several times a
year the premises fumigated by burn
ing sulphur. The drinking fountains,
too, must bo kept clean nnd the water
never allowed to become stagnant.
Western Poultry Jowrnnl.
Bitter Rot In Apples.
Bitter rot Is found t be most preva
lent under the following conditions; A
period of hot weather accompanied by
frequent rnitis nnd heavy dews at a
period when the apple crop Is ap
proaching maturity viz, from tho fee
ond weolv In July to the end of August.
Also when there aro nuinerouH sources
of Infection, such ns cankers on tlw
limbs nnd mummied fruits left hang
ing inoii tho trees. Illinois Experi
ment Station.
THE HOUDAN.
If Paris dictates to American girls
the stylo of their headgear, It can't
make us chicken fcllov.i believe that
the Iloudau, "made i:i Trance." is the
best and'ouly rooster Pi the world.
Nope. Too much Plymouth Itock In
our makeup for that, not even If the
Iloudau is the Trench a la mode, is
nnmi-d after the town where it was
hatched and Is "zo line, zo vera line,
bootlful fowl."
John U. Gough, the famous orator,
exhibited the llrst Iloudans In this
country In 1807, nnd the pretty breed
lias many devotees today. It Is a
compactly built, full breasted, long
bodied, short shanked, live toed, white
men tell bird, and certain fanciers de
clare these points prove that it is half
Dorking and the remainder Polish.
In its checkered career the bird has
worn the strawberry, buttcrtly, antler
and V shaped combs, all "made in
Trance" but the last. The butterily is
style In Paris and Loudon today: it
may change tomorrow, but American
fanciers originated and demand the V.
In color the bird Is mostly glossy
black, one white tipped feather to ev
ery three black, except wing lligiits
secondaries, sickles and tail coverts,
whli h are edged with white.
P.eak Is dark horn; face. eye, cn'ii''.
wattles red. ear lobes white and the
T11U 110UDAX "MADE IS ntAKCl."
five toes and shanks pinkish white.
moltled wn 1)hR.k
TlJ .. sIk)u(1 1r ful, h
pI(,,ulnPf undlvMeilf woll flttw,
and balanced on head, falling back-
ward on neck, and of feathers like the
' hackle.
Its main points aro beauty, good
size, quick growth, hard-, small eater,
easily confined, does uot sit, lays early
and long, lays large white and very
fertile eggs and furnishes much lenu
tlful, jii ley white meat with very little
waste.
The mala objection is to the crest,
which, when wet, dries slowly and is
apt to cause colds.
STANDARD WEIGHTS.
Pounds. Pounds.
Cock 7 lien 0
Cockerel C Pullet 5
FEATHERS AND EGGSHELLS.
The practice many fanciers have of
stating the value of a hen at $10,000
and a rooster at 1,000 Is getting very
common. AVonder if these nmusemont
makers wouldn't drop If they could get
takers.
Accordlncr to catalogues, the ?,00 eniz
,)pll ,s alnlost bero Theso advertising
lists declaring the laying average of
pens make very, little impression on
the thoughtful buyer. Wouldn't some
men be awfully In debt if hot air had
a value?
We have found planer shavings ex
cellent betiding for brood coops and
brooders, but feed should not bo
thrown into it, as the chick will swal
low the shavings nnd get indigestion.
When a hen digs deep down into
her feathers it's a sure sign of lice.
In pluming they generally dress the
surface.
Dust the roosters often, for, as men
have more faults than fair females, so
crowers have more crawlers than
cacklors.
Did Josh Hillings ever tell a lie?
Terhaps he wrote the following ns a
satire oil some fellow who eggs-ngger-atcd
about his 50 egg hens:
Someboddy stole my old blew hen.
I wish they let heer bee.
She used to lay
Tew eggs a day,
And Sunday sho'd lay three.
Reports in the poultry journals show
, -viiy did hens start to set so late this
, season? They got a "tlareback." Wash-
iugton is the center of the universe,
aud that awful snow squall just radi
ated to every point of the compass.
A warm spring hens sit;
A cold spilng, sit, nit.
If Mr. Roosevelt wishes to secure
specimens of llarred Rocks aud Wlilto
Wyandottcs in Africa ho will not have
to hunt much.
Extensive shlpiaents of the finest
American bred birds are being sent
i from Xew York to Cape Town.
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Thirty-four years ago poultry judges
were licensed, and the whole thing was
a fizzle. Recent licensing of judges by
the American Poultry association seems
to be going the same way. When a
school of Instruction Sir judges is or
ganized and no man ftcts a Heenso
without passing a thorough, impartial
examination, then the license business
will amount to Homethlng.
On tho HOth of April snow surrounded
our brooders and Ice formed In the wa
ter vessels. We thought of tho words
of a friend In Cnllfornla. Said lie, "I
would sooner be poor In California
than rich' in Pennsylvania." Hut, say,
he didn't move to that state till nftor
the earthquake.
9 Ta-tKvu .
AN IDOL OF STONE,
Like Pygmalion of old, Lorenzo
Thompson became Insanely enamored
of his Galatea. Where the man Thomp
son rendered n dogged devotion to Sibyl
Thurloe the artist Lorenzo offered up
an almost fanatical worship to the idol
ho lmd fashioned by the cunning of his
hands. The idol of marble was set up
In Lorenzo Thompsou's studio, nnd al
most jealously he issued invitations for
a private view before its dispatch to
the academy.
Of one thing Lorenzo was feverishly
determined, upon one point Thompson
was sternly set Sibyl must pledge her
word to come Into his life when tho
idol passed out from it.
The small Chelsea studio was
thronged with an uiui-MinUy enthusi
astic gathering.
The Idol looked dreamily down upon
them nil, upon the man who had done
everything lint breathe the breath of
life upon the girl whose Image It bore
and who, living and mo-ring, yet rivaled ,
it In coldness and lack of feeling: upon j
the polite congratulatory crowd, upon
the painful little scene enacted at its
very feet.
Tor there, close to his handiwork,
when twilight had fallen and the room
was practically empty, Lorenzo Thomp
son laid the heart Cod had gleu him
and the fame Sibyl had helped him to
win as offerings meet for the girl's
acceptance.
lint she sullied, frowned and held up
her hand to silence him. Then, with a
petulant movement, she turned away.
Lorcn.o caught her hand aud with
tierce persistence forced her to face
lilni. his long pentup love carrying
away all barriers of reserve. Whether
for good or evil, for weal or woe, he
must speak now and be answered.
Sibyl pouted becomingly and found
the interview tiresome.
"You were like a brother to me," she
assured him artlessly. '"Did I not often
tell you so? I never cared for you, ex
cept, of course, with an entirely sis
terly affection, but Mr. Baxter is in
candles, you know. Trade is every
thing nowadays, is it not? And he says
lie will give you your own pridf for
the marble. We are to be married be
fore the end of the summer."
"Pray accept my congratulations!"
said Thompson smoothly as he stood
away from her, with a low bow, to let
a stout dowager pass and inspect his
work. "My thanks to Mr. Baxter, but
you she is not for sale."
The familiar studio became a very
hell to Lorenzo's maddened fancy as
he battled with his tempter and looked
with burning eyes upon his idol the
idol that they would wish to buy from
him with their accursed gold.
Thompson courteously bade his
friends goodby, standing on the thresh
old of his studio and holding aside the
quaint old tapestry hangings.
ilo closed the door, dropped the cur
tains Into their place and was at last
alone alone but for the idol who
looked down upon him with unfathom
able eyes.
He crossed the room aud stood star
ing down from the window into the
dreary Chelsea street.
Lorenzo saw nothing of what Thomp
son saw. There was no studio to shut
him in from the outer world, no Lon
don to hem him about by her black
river and miles of busy thoroughfares.
He was watching a girl who leaned
in a studied attitude of grace against
an old sea wall, her gray eyes gazing
far away to where the dim sky lino
came softly down in mist to meet the
sea. He thrilled at the tender encour
agement of her voice, made doubly
musical by the rhythmical lap-lap of
the bay waves.
This present vision was all Loreuzo
believed in. It at least was real. All
the rest was some trickery of his over
wrought brain.
Thompson turned back into the room
with a quick sigh, realizing that the
past with all its sweetness was dead.
And then at last Lorenzo awakened.
With a harsh theatrical laugh he
stooped and picked up his chisel and
mallet from where, with boheinian
carelessuess, he had left them at his
idol's feet. lie looked up into the
eyes that could not see or pity, the
eyes that only spoke to him now of i
heart that could not feel.
His idol! The very personification of
his ideal! His angel who had existed
solely in bis imagination!
The lovely, graceful figure that was
to win him name, fame and fortune!
Tho beloved creation of Ids hand,
i brain and heart, of his very life's love!
It was Lorenzo who vowed, with an
evil little oath, that he w.ould not pan
der to a selfish woman's heartless
vanity, Lorenzo's ruthless hand that
savagely demolished his idol of art aud
love, Lorenzo's unbridled passion that
swept aside all chance of Imme
diate fame for the base, momentary de
light of a wholly petty revenge.
Chisel and mallet! A strong arm
witli temporary madness to aid it, nnd
Lorenzo had laid his own heart and
Sibyl's pride in the dust.
Thompson Hung away the tools and
looked with dull, bewildered eyes on
what Lorenzo had done.
His love? Nay, but his love had
never been only in a dream.
His love his gentle love with dove's
eyes and a heart of gold, fcilse, false!
Such n one had never lived or been
loved or lost!
Rut his idol his beautiful idol that
hp lrfmself had fashioned from a more
stone,
I)renzo Thompson stood with lwwed
head amid the fragments of the Idol
that Lorenzo's hand lufd cast from Ua
throne, fighting out tho bitterness of
his complex grief.
His Idol-tlm Idol that had been nil
his own, the Idol he had created, set
Up nnd worshiped! Good God! Ills
shuttered idol!
Humor and
Philosophy $
By TiVftCAJi M. jrtSITt!
v
THE SUMMER ATTRACTION.
CJEATTLl. wonder city,
The marvel ot the west,
Fixed up with company manners.
Its von Sunday best.
With hand outstretched to welcome
Tho one who ventures there
Oh, occidental sister,
I'd like to seo your fair!
They tell mc it's a dandy.
A dream of shade and light,
A plctuie in the daytime,
A marvel in tho nlht,
Where men of every nation,
Garbed i-traimely, runic and tre.
And that It beats u tliuus
Or any three rln Mhiw.
A mountain for a barUiiioutul,
Snow capped and in thr- stars,
A sort of next door neighbor
To little ulster Mars.
A water front majestic
That's large unough to hold
A half a dozen navies,
Or so I have been told.
lmetiiion. art aud Fcicnee
Have given a helping band.
The nuggets from tho noithland
Ity grizzled miners panned
Displa.v cd in stately buildings,
A line anil dazzling show.
Not ni itebi'd In all creation.
1 i;m -s I'll have to go.
To Talk Against
It.
"Where is your
wife?"
"Visiting out
west."
"Aren't you
afraid she will
meet a cyclone':"
"I hope ah
does. They will
enjoy each oth
er's society."
Long Wait.
"Do you think babies should be
kissed?"
"Not until they reach the age of dis
cretion."
"That would bar the poor things
forever. There is no age of discretion
when it comes to kissing."
Amiable Person.
"I do hate to be so uncomfortable."
"Then why distress yourself?"
"Oh, I mustn't stop."
"Why?"
"It makes Mrs. Brown more uncom
fortable than it does me."
Modest.
"I suppose you had an elaborate wed
ding."
"Well, not so very. We just walked
up to a justice of the peace, and after
looking us over lie said, 'You're it;
2.50. please.'"
Next Higher.
To be a Ttoman was greater than a king,
That's what the people said about the
place.
No doubt the natives meant by such a
'.'ling
To i"? a Roman was to be an ace.
Some Excitement.
"What is that man across the stream
waving his bauds aud shouting about?"
"He says we are fishing on his- pri
vate grounds."
"Oh, It's the call of the wild, is It?"
Unique Reason.
"You say you like to feel sorry?"
"Yes."
That's queer. Why?"
"Because it is apt to mean that 1
have been having a bully time."
Enough.
"Johnny, what is Boston celebrated
for?"
"Its beans."
"I don't mean that"
"Oil, yes; Its bull pups."
He Sticks Around.
Tho plodder don't get there as soon a
the man
Who llashler methods displays,
Who rattles around llko a stone In a can,
But when he does get there lie stays.
Their Part.
"You know the meek Inherit the
earth."
"Well, then the earth must consist of
slights, snubs and leftovers."
PERT PARAGRAPHS.
Being compelled to be contrary is
one of the penalties of being stubborn.
Keep a youthful heart and maybe
Father Time will be a Mstor to you.
Many clever people are merely vend
ers of secondhand opinion.
Getting into trouble is a bad tklug,
particularly when It is other people's
trouble.
it Isn't a bad idea to keep continu
ally hammering away at something
while you stand and wait.
What we object to in a flattering
tongiM: is having it labeled when it
speaks of us.
In theso strenuous days it Is a poor
rule that won't work any, old way.
An easy way to mako the average
person weary Is to tell him to be
thankful for what ho has got.
When tho coffee turns muddy In the
honeymoon the honey in fast becom
ing treacle
gfeort Sermon
For a
Theme:
STRENGTH OUT OF
WEAKNESS
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By Edwin Whittier Caswell, D. D.
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Text: "Out of weakness vere made
strong." Hebrews, :!., 34.
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The one hundred thousand specta
tors witnessing the Olympiad at Lon
don were lil'jd with wonder when
tliej saw ii mere boy from Now York
City, the smallest of the lifty-llve com
petitors, win the gieat M..rathon race.
Littleness was better than big::. :s;
quality than quantity. That tho un
seen forces of will, courage, purpose
and faith are iniRhtici than visible
prowess was proven when David met
Goliath, when the .lapano.-.o defeated
the Russians, ami when John Haye3
won the twenty." Is mile race.
Conrciouiiiiesj of weakness means
preparation, discipline, progress and
development, end tlii-e mean victory.
Necessity is cnlktl the mother of in
vention; therefore if the young man
of wealth feels no necessity he will
fall of the greatest achievement.
Cnrrcgie and Rockefeller struggled
up from the weakness of poverty to
the summit of wealth and Influence.
Dante, Ruskin and Carlyle fought
against the weakness of bodily ills
till they attained the climax of intel
lectual greatness. The handicap of
blindness enabled Milton, of England,
Milhurn and Mathewson, of Scotland,
to heboid visions of thought and beau
ty beyond their fellows.
Hardships, deprivations and great
difficulties in early life lifted Lincoln
and Grant into their loftiest seats of
power. Prisons have palaces proved
to minds like Paul and Bunyan, where
they were inspired to produce pen pic
tures that have delighted and blessed
markind in every land. Is it not a
sublime truth that there is a pathway
upward for every one? No wonder
that. Paul gloried in his infirmities,
per.-ccutions nnd distresses, for he
oxc'.alirod, "When I am weak, then am
I strong, for the power of Christ will
res upon me."
The little child becomes strong be
cause it stretches out its hand to the
parent. The father is nobler when he
bears his child out of danger into
safety. So the sinful and troubled
soul that stretches out its hands of
faith to tho Heavenly Father feels un
derneath the everlasting arms and
nestles in the bosom of forgiveness
nnd fatherhood; and who shall say
God is not happier and mightier be
cause of His embrace of helplessness?
Do you feel crushed by the law of
"the survival of the fittest," or that
"the weakest go to the wall"? Heav
en's law of grace creates fitness rnd
meetness for the highest inheritances.
Do you agonize in the convulsions of
pain? It is the Divine Hand leading
you to greater riches, as earthquakes
reveal the gold in the ronded rocks.
If God in nature can produce the
diamond from the black carbon, the
white lily from the black earth and
bulb, tho great tree from the tiny
seed, He can bring purity out of sin
fulness, strength out of weakness and
heaven out of hell. His power will
enable the soul that trusts in Him to
overcome dangerous hereditary tend
encies, untoward environments and
unspeakable difficulties, so that you
may become the author of opportuni
ties and the creator of circumstances,
and though at last, like John Brown,
you go down to ignorminious death,
your liberty loving soul will go
"marching on" through all millenni
ums, In blessed companionship with
Him who arose from the weakness of
the manger, the cross and the sepul
chre to become Conqueror and Ruler
of all worlds.
If we put our little crosses at the
foot of His great cioss He will lift
them up until they become transfig
ured into crowns of glory for ever
more. Fountains of Happiness.
If self be denied for tbe good of
others, we receive immensely more
than we bestow; we multiply our ave
nues of enjoyment; we are refreshed
and gladdened by every stream and
rill of beneficent, kind office aud gon
ial feeling tllht flows from our abund
ance or trickles from our scanty re
sources; wo have as many fountains
of happiness as there are hearts and
lives to whose happiness we minister.
Andrew Peabody.
Taking No Thought.
It is one thing to tako no thought
for waut of thought, and another to
tako no thought from sufficing
thought, whose flower is confidence.
The one nay is tho lovely way of God
In the birds, tho other ills lovelier way
in his met and women. George fllnc
donald. Flames Not Needed.
God discovers the martyr and con
fessor without tho trial of flames and
tortures, and will hereafter entitle
many to tho reward of ac.tions which
they had never tho opportunity of per
forming. Addison.
Patriotism.
In pence, patriotism really consists
only in this: that every one sweeps
boforo bis own door, minds his own
business, also learns his own lesson,
that it may be well with him In his
own house. Goethe.
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