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POULTRY AILMENTS.
Vlgllnnco anil Conunonscnso Com
bined will Work Wonders.
Of tho causes for dlsonscs of poul
try and especially chicks, tho great
est 1b llco oi n wot spring,
or during n rainy summer,
tho llco will very soon get tho upper
hand unless one is very vigilant.
Tho llco can be mndo to leave the
chicks, before feathering, by cover
ing them with a coal oil sprinkled
cloth leaving the chicks under tho
cover for fifteen or twenty minutes.
All the lice that wore on tho
chicks will bo found on tho cloth
dead, und most of the nits on the
chicks will also bo dead, this rids
them of the pest for the time, but if
they run with lousy chicks or their
mother hen is lousy, or their coops
and run are dirty and contain nits it
will bo but a short time until they are
Infested again; so tho only chanco for
safety Is In continuing tho coal oil
wrapping every few days, or In thor
oughly ridding the rest of tho fowls,
and the. premises of all lice and nits,
and then In keeping them so ridden.
This is easier said than accom
plished, for one louse will soon have
descendants by the million, and tho
now batch Is always vigorously ac
tive. Keep a dry bath for all fowls and
chicks nil the time and as dust Is not
found In quantities yet, It will bo
necessary to use sifted ashes for their
bath.
Clean all coops and premises as
clean as tne proverbial pin; use
white wash, strong with lime and
coal oil, or other good liquid killer.
In quantities, copious enough to rout
each louse and nit; give the old
fowls a good dusting with fresh pow
der, use a dip on their legs; coal and
lard are good. Use fresh Insect
powder or fresh tobecco dust freely
in their dust bath; when you may sit
and rest easy for a few days.
Not for long, however, for eternal
vigilance Is required in this warfare.
Now that things are nicely cleaned
and started right, a half hours work
each and every day will result In
keeping them so.
If above Is done thoroughly, the
coops moved to clean quarters two or
three times each week, good, whole
some food only is allowed, and fresh
clean water In clean vessels always
at hand, the poultry aliments will be
a missing thing.
Not any chick or fowl can keep,
healthy when Inhabited with vermin,
or if given sour, or otherwise un
wholesome food, or impure water to
drink. Put your commonsenso Into
active use. E. C. In Indiana Far
mer. Feed Coop for Young Chickens.
The ieed coop shown In the illus
tration Is made by utilizing two old
castaway spring wagon wheel rims.
Then with three penny nails fasten
laths or light boards across tho ends,
leaving small openings between ac
cording to tho size of the chickens.
Place the ends 4 or 5 feet apart ac-
FEED COOP FOR CHICKS.
cording to the length of the material
at hand, and nail on other strips after
tho same fashion.
This coop is easily made and will
be found very practical for farmers
who raise only a few chicks.
Htiis und ICggs.
Hens ?red for phenomenal egg
records are not so.apt to havo strong
rugged offspring.
Extra heavy layers as pullets and
yearling hens are not so valuable In
their second year as teady layers.
There is no ouch thl g as an egg
laying type. The trap nest exposed
that theory beyond a doubt.
Hen3 forced for egg production
will in time produce u weak genera
tion. Pure food is tho safest stimu
lation to use.
Heavy winter layers are generally
poor summer layers und vice versa.
Tho largest eggs are produced by
steady layers.
Tho more eggs a hen lays tho
b jailer tho size becomes.
The color of the brown egg grows
lighter as the numbers of her prod
uct increases.
The hen that will produce from
thirty .o fifty eggs In succession will
not havo vigorous gorms In her eggs.
Successful Agriculture.
Fowls to Havo Animal rood.
Fowl, kept in confined runs Bhould
have an nmple supply of animal food.
Tils U not only necessary In order
that they may lay a great number of
eggs, but also to prevent egg eating
and feather pulling. These dopraved
habits are usually Indulged in by
lovls that are confined and fed on
too carbonaceous a diet. In sucli
conditions they havo an insatiable
craving for animal food, or In other
words for some protlen and they
strive to satisfy tho desire by eating
their own eggs and plucking out and
swallowing the feathers from each
other's bodlea
CUPID
En iih nn uu iin nn nS
My wlfo and I nro rather old-fash
loned people, but we occasionally dine
at a cosoy little rostnurant in the the
atre district. I remember our II rat
Introduction to finger bowls, but that
Is not at all what I winh to tell yon
about; possibly I never shall toll you,
ns I dwell upon tho occasion entirely
without joy. And tho wnltor, n
stumpy little chap ho was. For quite
a while I used to address him as
"Mister," wltn an inviting pause, hop
ing ho would supply his name. He
nevor supplied It, however, nnd ns I
am of a somewhat determined nature
persisted in this form of address, un
til on ono occason ho said to mo
"Would you mind, sir, not cnlling me
Mister'?"
"Not at all," I replied, as blandly as
I could. "What is your namo?"
"It is Hezekinh, sir, but most pec
plo call me Cupid, air."
"For Rhort, I presume?"
"No, sir," he replied. "I believe
there's a god by that name, sir, who
makes work for the parsous."
Tho evening wns rather a rainy
ono, nnd in consequence the dining
room was comparatively empty. The
waiter, therefore, had little to do but
attend us. "You see, sir," ho wont on,
"I'm of a very sentimental nature, sir
"Yes," I replied, with ns straight a
face aB I could muster, "It seems ns
thought I have heard of Cupid." And
from the table I received a remonstra
tive kick from my wife.
"I've figured in many a matrimon
ial deal, sir. Mnybo you'd like to hear
of tho one that gave me my nickname,
sir?"
"I should bo glad to," I replied, and
the waiter, warmed to his subject by
our receptive attitude, went on: "You
see those little numbered dining
rooms on the balcony above? Well,
ono night when I was working up
there, in comes an unhappy-looking
couple that quite evidently wants to
be alone, so the head waiter shows
them up to No. 25. No sooner was
they seated, sir, than another couple
gloomier even than the first, comes
In, and wo puts them Into tho next
room, 26. I was to wait on them all,
running in from one room to tho other
as was necessary. We waiters sees
funny things at times, but those two
couples was amazing. They squab
bled with each other, two by two you
understand, neither knowing of the
other's presence, and from soup to
nuts, sir, not one of tbem really ate
enough to fill a dicky bird.
" 'You had no business to take me
up so quick,' says the girl in 25; 'sup
pose I did ask you to take me out to
dinner, that's no reason why you
should have done so.'
" 'Now, see here,' says the man,
'this Is no picnic for mo, either. You're
a charming girl, and all that,' he says,
'but I can Imagine at least as pleasant
a companion as you are proving to
be,' he says. 'Confound tho little
minx,' he goes in a kind of musing
tone, 'God bless her,' he adds quickly,
'she had no business to disappoint
rne.' You see he was thinking of
some other girl.
"'And that odious Jack,' says the
girl. 'If he hadn't been so stupid, I'd
now be with him instead of you.' And
so it went on, each mad that they
wasn't with someono else. And In
the next room it was just as bad.
They weren't so outspoken, but 1
could see that a more miserable cou
ple didn't exist that night. It didn't
take me long to put two and two to
gether, so to speak, and 1 knew that
through some misunderstanding each
was out with the other fellow's girl
and wLshln' he wasn't; and the same
with the girls. They had formally
'Mister'd' and 'Miss'd' each other so
much that I know all their names, so
finally I hit on a scheme that I
thought might clear the atmosphere.
"I goes into 25 and, begging his
pardori, asked If this wasn't Mr. At
kins? H was. Well, Mr. Atkins was
wanted at the telephone In the man
ager's ofilce and 1 showed him tho
way to the 'phone. Then I goes Into
26 and asks wasn't this Mr. Brown?
'That was his name,' he says, looking
nt mo as If he"d like to bite my head
off. Well, Mr. Brown was wanted at
tho telephone at the cashier's desk,
and I shows him tho way, which was
in n different direction. I had it all
fixed that there was a mistake, and
that the gentlemen really wanted had
already answored tho calls. While
the two men are gone, I puts the num
ber 25 on Hoom 2C, and vicey versey,
so to speak. You see those curtains
up there with tho numbers on? Well,
It was an easy matter for me to do
this, and when the men got back each
goes Into the other man's place. I
was tnklng some chances, but It cer
tainly worked fine.
"Of course it had to come out right
away what I had done, and such hap
py looking sets of peoplo I've never
seen before. Thoy run In huro
quite frequent now, all four of them
together, and they always calls me
'Cupid.' There's one thing nbout It,
though, that I never could quite make
out, not being very good at figures,
sir."
"And what was that?" asked my
wife and I in unison.
"Well, you see," said the waiter,
"Mr. Brown's check wus for J5 and
Mr. Atkins' was for $7. Now, each
nan paid the other man's check with
a $10 bill, and ooth of them told me
to keop tho change. Which one do you
think lost by It, sir?"
"I'm sure I don't know," I laughing
ly replied, handing him a ten myenlf.
"But go thou and do likewise."
"Thank you, air," said the waiter
And he did. ELIZABETH HUMPHREY.
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KING AND HIS CABINET.
International Bible Lesson for Jan, 16,
1910 (Matt. 4:12-25).
Tho selection
of a cabinet for
presidents and
kings Is a most
important nnd
serious undertak
ing. Peculiar fit
ness is necessary
for executivo of
ficers and royal
counsellors. You
cannot Imagine
King Edwnrd go
ing down to tho
Liverpool docks
to find a prime
minister, or President Taft searching
among the fishermen of Mnrblehead
for a Secretary of State.
Yet that Is precisely what tho King
of rhls kingdom did. He deliberately
passed by the wise, and Influential
and mighty and took the mnjorlty of
his earthly cabinet from the fishing
boats of Galilee. Imagine tho scene.
In the background the lake in tho
grey morning, tho mist slowly rising,
the deserted boats drawn up on tho
shore. An old man, Zcbedeo, standing
with a bewildered look upon his face,
trying to Imngine what ho would do
without his sons, nnd what they would
do without him; nnd In the foreground
five men walking along, four of them
without the least Idea of where they
were going or of what they were go
ing to do. That Is the beginning of
the king's cabinet, Could anything be
more ridiculous? Doubtless other
fishermen talked It over among them
selves that day and said, "Simon Pet
er and Andrew, James and John have
left their nets and gone off after that
man, Jesus of Nazareth, who Imagines
himself a king. He has made them
believe that he is the Jewish Messiah
and that he is to set up the kingdom
of heaven1 upon earth, and they have
forsaken everything and gone off on
a fool's errand after him. Well. They
will soon realize their mistake, they
will be back again. Fortunate for
them Zebedee will keep tho fishing
boat3 nnd tho tackle, that they may
have something to fall back upon
when they discover how they have
been deluded."
It is almost impossible for us to real
ize what it meant in thoso days, to
those people, when Christ made up
his cabinet. Where was there ever
such a beginning? How could any
thing be more ridiculous In worldly
eyes weakness in the Leader who
had such dreams of universal domin
ion, weakness in the followers to
leave a paying business of which they
knew so much to take up a stupendous
task of which they knew absolutely
nothing.
And yet, as we look back upon that
scene, we recognize It now as one of
the grandest and most logical begin
nings the world has ever seen. No
wonder Paul says of It, "God hath
chosen the foolish things of tho world
to confound the wise, and God hath
chosen the weak things of the world
to confound the things that are
mighty, that no flesh should glory In
His presence."
Tho trouble with almost all men
who enter the service of Christ Is that
they havo so much to unlearn before
they can qualify as witnesses, they
know so many things that aro not so,
they aro so much In love with their
own Ideas and opinions, they have
such an overwhelming conviction of
their own Importance, that they
consciously taint the water of life
with their own personalities, and hide
their Master behind themselves. Thoy
aro not satisfied to deliver Ills mes
sago until they havo rewritten It and
taken tho heart out of it with their
explanations, which do not explain
The king's cabinet was not troubled
with any of these things. They were
to be witnesses unto Him and they
knew no moro than to Intelligently re
peat Just what thoy had seen and
heard. Thoy never attempted to
argue n case, they took the witness
box and unflinchingly told Just exact
ly what they knew of Christ Thuy
had nothing to unlearn, they wero not
troubled with the intellectual, social,
spiritual, moral, political, sectarian
difficulties of the high-browed profes
sors and worldings of their day. Their
minds were like unsoilod paper on
which tho King could wrlto his mes
sages to Bult Himself. Thoy carried
tho seed of tho kingdom in untainted
vessels, nnd all they had to do was to
30W it far and wide. Thoy wore to bo
merely tho echo of His voice without
any attempt to originate Ideas or to
speak their own messngo, Ab itiner
ant preacherB whoso work would do
mand physical stamina and oblivious
ness of weather conditions, thoso
brawny, sun-burned, rugged Gulllee
fishermen were Ideal timber for the
sills of tho spiritual tomple Christ was
about to erect. The moro ono thinks
of It, tho more ono comes to realize
that when tho King formed His cnbl
net Ho showed His Infinite wisdom In
the selection of the men who were to
carry on His work In tho development
of His kingdom. No wonder the apos
tle In describing the church long after
ward said, "Wo are built upon the
foundation of the apostles and
prophets, Jesus Christ, Himself, be
ing the chief corner atone."
TAUGHT TO BE HONEST.
nante Revealed the Method Used to
Reform Him.
A few years ago thero was a shifts
less colored boy named IlanBom
Blnke, who, after being caught In a
number of potty delinquencies, was nt
last sentenced to n short term in tho
pcnltcntlnry, whero he waB sent to
learn n trade. On tho day of his re
turn home he met a friendly white ac
quaintance, who asked:
"Well, what did thoy put you at In
prison, Itanso?"
"Doy started In to mako an honest
boy out'n mo, sail."
"Thnt's good, Hnnsc, nnd I hopo
thoy succeeded."
"Dey did, sah."
"And how did they tench you to bo
honest?"
"Dey done put mo in tho shoo shop,
sah, nnllin' pasteboard ontor shoes fo'
leather soles,' eah."
"LADIES AND GENTS."
"Have you many married salesla
dies in this store?"
"Yes, quite a few."
"What do their husbands do for a
living,"
"Er their wives are still sales
ladies."
Blind Justice.
We meet our philosophical friend
and observe that he Is smiling con
tentedly.
"What has gone wrong, now?" we
ask.
"Nothing has gone wrong," he ex
plains. "Something went right Sprig
gins owed Hennott ten thousand dol
lars, and put his property In his wife's
name so that Hennett couldn't col
lect." "But that isn't anything unusual."
"And last night Mrs. Sprigglns
eloped with Hennett!"
Fulfilling Instructions.
The managing editor wheeled hip
chair around and pushed a button In
tho wall. The person wanted entered.
"Here," said the editor, "are a num
ber of directions from outsiders as
the best way to run a newspaper. See
that they are all carried out"
And the ofilce-boy, gathering th6m
all into a large waste basket, did so.
Her Interest at Stake.
She never imagined how stingy he
waB until after the honeymoon was
over and he said:
"I'm going to do the best I can to
make you happy. I'll give you half-a-
dozen kisses every day and a dollar
every week for pin-money."
"I think, dear," she replied, "I'd
be happier if you reversed that."
Twas Ever Thus.
The nights were growing colder.
"Well, au revoir, old chap," said
tho Front Gato. "I'm off for my vaca
tion." "Mine is Just over," rejoined the
Parlor Sofa with a sigh; "and now I'll
havo to get busy again." Chicago
News.
Unusual.
Woggs Anything unusual about
the bank failure?
Boggs. -Yes. Tho absconding cash
ier wasn't a member of any church,
was far from being a respected man
In the community, and the directors
had been suspicious of him for a long
time.
Taken at His Word.
Duke Needsome Dear .Miss Gould
erbltz Geraldlne for some time I
have realized that I could not oxlst
without you!
Miss G. Dear me, Duke! I had no
idea you were us hard up as that!
Unofficial Orders.
Cook And wasn't you told never
to como begging around hero nagln?
Weary William. Yes, but It was
only the missus that told me. I havo
nover been officially notified beforo.
Teacher (to dull boy in mathema
tics). You should bo ashamed of your
self. Why, at your age George Wash
ington was a surveyor.
l'upll. Yes, sir; and at your ago
ho was President of the United States.
Same Dope.
Sho Do you believe In love In a
cottnge?
Ho Do you believe In Santa
Claus?
Imperfect Philanthropy.
Knlcker Did your father give you
an auto?
Bockor Yea, but he didn't endow
It
At a negro ball, Instead of "not
transferable" on tho tickets, notice
was posted over tho door: -"No gen
tleman admitted unless be comes
himself."
AROU8INQ FAL8E
HOPES.
Tho rocent newspaper announce
ment of tho discovery by two homeo
pathic physicians of "Tho-rad-x," tho
most powerful therapeutic agent In
tho world," which like all other cure
alls "will revolutionize tho practlco
of surgery," has been mado tho butt
of rldiculo in serious medical papers.
It Is asserted that radium has hardly
lived up to the promises which were
originally held out After all, It must
bo confessed thnt we are still much In
the lark as to tho therapeutical value
of radioactive Biibstances. Tho in
discriminate publication of such "dis
coveries" cannot but havo nn evil ef
fect in so far as they arouso false
hopes.
FRANKLIN'S
CONVERSION.
Benjamin Franklin, premier printer
nnd philosopher, when sixteen read
Tom Tryon's vegetable vagary, be
camo a convort nnd thought fishing
murder, but a nosey curiosity showed
him llttlo fish In the stomach of big
fish. Benny said if big fish eat little
ones, it seems not wrong to eat big
fish; also philosophized how conveni
ent was reason, for It provides a good
excuse and a reason for anything you
want to do.
NOTE FOR
WIVES.
It is said that no man can tell a
fib and keep his big too still. If the
women will Induce their husbands to
take off their shoes beforo they be
gin to question them they can catch
them in a falsehood every time.
Europeans may soon develop into a
race with eyes in the tops of their
heads if Zeppelin keeps on flying
around.
Holland conducts its famous her
ring fishery with a fleet of about 750
ships perhaps 45 of them steam
boatsand only 10,000 men.
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