Poultry Notes. ]£RRB For Hatching. It is a mistake to sell off all the old hens and depend entirely on the pullets for the eggs used for hatching. Chicks hatched from eggs laid by hens one, two or even three years old, are stronger, and usually make better fowls than those from pullets. Hens after the first year lay larger /eggs, and the chicks from them arc, as a rule, hardier than from younger hens. The old hens are more patient setters and, as a rule, are better mothers. IVo think It better to mate the two or three-year-old hens with cockrels that have fully matured, and reserve the pullets, except those early hatched, for market eggs. Much of the worry in raising chicks is the result of weak stock, and the more we guard against such defects the less will be our trouble.—Homo and Farm. There is no doubt that gapes are caused by a small worm gathered from ' the filth of the yard—usually in an em bryo state and being warmed in the crop of the chick develops the small •Form which gradually interferes with breathing and produces that gaping which eventually cuds in death. Incubator chicks have never been known to have gapes, neither have those that were kept in clean, grassy plats. Only those that have had runs on bare ground. Where filth was al lowed to accumulate, have ever had gapes, and all tests have shown exclu sively that filth produced the disease. If the chicks are under the care of a hen, see that the yards are kept clean and change the location of the coops every few days. Keep lime scattered over the ground where there is no grass and do not let the chicks cat their food amid filth and mud. Ducks' Nest!. The accompanying sketch represents an easy way of arranging plain nests >fOr ducks. Make them out of inch boards, twelve inches high and sixteeu Inches long. Set boards fifteen inches apart and nail on a three-inch strip in front close to the floor to hold together. Never use a wide strip across the front, as the duck is liable to injure herself by falling over the strip in front of nests. These nests for ducks are ar ranged against the wall. They are simply fastened to the wall by one wire nail driven in at top of each board, as shown in sketch.—Lewis Ol sen, in The Epitomist. Geese Are Profitable. As advanced ideas in farming con tinue to spread and better grades of stock and poultry are kept, the rais ing of geese continues to be more popu lar, and as the demand increases the business becomes more profitable. The old-time goose that weighed four or five pounds has now almost entirely disappeared, and in its place we have the Toulouse and Embden, both grand fowls that will weigh from twelve to fifteen pounds each. They require no expensive houses, but will need a dry, warm shed during the cold months. They should never bo kept In the horse or cow lot, as they invariably get crip pled by being trampled under the feet of the animals. When being prepared for market they fatten very rapidly on corn or corn meal, and are ready to be dressed within two weeks after having been put on full feed. Geese are prof- Sitable and are always in demand, and She little attention required to raise them will justify the outlay in start ing. Food For Laying FTens. A comparison of feeding a part of the ration in the form of ground grain with the entire ration composed of whole grain has been made by the West Virginia experiment station, and the result is published in bulletin eighty-three. One flock of fowls was fed a mash in the morning, a second flock the mash at night, and the third flock had only whole grain. Results showed very little difference between feeding the mash in the morning or at night, but a material gain in egg pro duction in the use of a 'mash in com parison with whole grain. The pens which were fed mash at night laid lltiti eggs, the pens fed mash in the morning 1159 eggs, and the pens re / reiving whole grain 1000. Trials with d yearling hens gave a less difference in t favor of the mash. Somewhat similar work has been carried on by the New York experi ment station at Geneva, with White Leghorns and Buff Cochins. The Leg horns having their grain food only dry and whole, nte more food at greater cost per fowl and for the live weight than did two similar lots having about thirty-seven per cent, of their grain ground and moistened. With the Co chins better results were obtained where all the grain was fed whole. .This was probably due to the benefit derived from having to scratch in the litter for it. The Hatch experiment station lias found but little difference in the number of eggs produced from , feeding the mash in the morning or at _/ night.—New England Homestead. A Fortune In n Desk. A millionaire named Galland left to the city of Geneva all his property ex cept his desk, which went to a lawyer named Couchet. When this desk was about to be handed over to him 222,000 francs were found in it. The city claimed the money, but after a legal contest Couchet got it CURIOUS FACTS, Only the church steeple at Zudyco tee, near Dunkirk, now rises above the sanii which overwhelmed the en tire village in 1777. In view of the scare as to the per manency of typewritten records, the Italian minister for justice has ordered that no typewritten documents will be accepted as legal in Italy. There is at this moment In the American Museum of Natural History a single butterfly which cost its owner, the late Dr. Strecker, of Reading, Pa., between $7500 and SIO,OOO. This rare insect, a female, occurs only in Sierra Leone; and the collector in question had to fit out an expedition and main tain it for over two years with no other object than the addition of the Insect to his boxes. Dutch fishermen make astonishing catches by means of q very simple expedient. They put a number of live worms and insects Into a bottle partly filled with water, which is then securely corked. The bottle Is dropped into the water and the fisherman sinks his line alongside. It appears that the wriggling contents of the bottle so tempt the fish that they fall easy vic tims to the baited books. It is discovered that nearly twenty five women are serving as rural de livery mail carriers. No women are appointed as mail carriers in the cities, and the rostoffice Department is op posed to women doing such work any where, it being deemed too severe for them. The appointments in the rural free delivery service would not liave heen made if it had been known that the candidates were women. The development of the modern rail road and steamship makes possible a trip around the world in twenty-seven days, as follows: From New York to Hamburg. 4800 miles, seven and three fourths days; Hamburg to Vludlvo stoek, 7500 miles, six and one-fourth days; Vladivostock to Seattle, 7000 miles, ten and one-fourth days; Seattlo to New York, 3300 miles, two and three-fourth days; total, 22,C00 miles in twenty-seven days. The disappearance of aboriginal peo ple before our advancing civilization, as seen in the islands of the Pacific, is being repeated in various settle ments of the far North. In twenty years the inhabitants of Labrador have decreased from 30,000 to 15,000. The natives of southwestern Green land now number but 10,000, and they require assistance from the Danish Government. The extermination of the seal, walrus and polar bear by whalers has reduced the Alaskan Es kimo from perhaps 3000 to about 500. The Eskimo at Smith's Sound, who a dozen years ago numbered 300, nre re ported by Peary as being reduced to about 200. ißrenklng It Gently. After the ship which had come from New Zealand was tied up at the wharf, Larry O'Brien was told off by his ship mates to cnll upon Mrs. McCarthy and break the news of the death of her husband, which had occurred on ship board the preceding summer. The Brooklyn Eagle tells how he did it: "Good morning, Mrs. McCarthy," said he. "Is Denny in?" "Denny?" said the surprised woman. "My Denny? No, he's not in. Is the ship here?" "Sure, it is. And Denny's not homo yet? That's quare—unless something has happened him." "What would happen him?" Mrs. McCarthy asked, anxiously. "There's plenty of things can hnppen to a man," said Larry, delicately. "He might have got liurted, or ho might have took sick with the fever. But there's one comfort, as Father McGln nis said once, and that is that time heals iv'ry grief." "What do you mane, Mr. O'Brien?" "I mane if anything happened to Denny, you wouldn't feel as bad about it a few months after it happened as you would right at the time, would you ?" "I suppose not," said Mrs. McCarthy. "I mind whin I lost me first husband I thought I'd never get over it. But, as you say, in a few months it was uisier to bear." "Then, Mrs. McCarthy, you'll be glad to know that it's now four months— nearly five—since Denny died. Sure, it can't grieve you now as much as it would if you'd known it at the time." A Tjpoßrnplilcal Tragedy. "You must have a bunch of humor ists working on your linotype ma chines, haven't you?" asked the poet, as he entered the office. "Haven't noticed that any of them have any failing in that lino," an swered the editor. "Well, you're a poor observer. Do you read your own paper?" "Occasionally." "Did you read my poem, 'To Agatha,' in yesterday's issue?" "N—no." "I thought not. In the poem I wrote a line which rend, 'I love you better than I love my life.'" "That was a neat line." "And one of your linotype humorists made it read, 'I love you better than I love my wife,' " "Er " "Exactly—my wife. And my wife, not being acquainted with the failures of these key thumpers, thinks the >oem was printed exactly as it was written, and hasn't spoken to me since It was published." And after taking a kick at the desk he crossed the hall and fell down the elevator shaft.—lndianapolis Sun. The length of a honeymoon generally depends upon the amount of money you Mart out with. WOMEN IN THE POSTAL SERVICE. Their Important I'art in Uncle Sam's Greatest Business Enterprise. The following is copied from the Spare-Time Study: Women play a most important part in the administration of the affairs of Uncle Sam's greatest business en terprise. In no other field of Govern mental activity nor in no private in dustry are there employed anything like so many members of the fair sex as now help to conduct the United States Post Office Department. The women engaged in the great public communicative system and those who are dependent upon them for support would form a good-sized city. More over, no other sphere open to feminine workers embraces so completely every portion of the domain beneath the Stars and Stripes. There are hundreds of women employed in the immense building at the National Capital, which constitutes the headquarters of the postnl system, but they have co-work ers in almost every town and village and hamlet in the land, and within the past few months the field of op erations has been broadened and post women are now penetrating the rural districts, carrying letters and papers and pnreels to country residents pre viously so isolated as to have been practically beyond the reach of mail privileges. Some of the highest salaried women employed in the world, are in.Hie W vice of the Post Office Department at Washington. More than a third of these women are past middle life and fully one-fourth of them are over fifty years of age. Indeed, toiling six and a half hours each day in the struc ture which forms the heart of the postal system, are a number of women each over seventy years of age, who receive salaries ranging from S9OO to SIOOO a year. Included in this army of women, however, are some of the most skilled workers of either sex to lie found anywhere in the world—the famous "blind readers" of the Dead Letter Office. The experts nt the Dead Letter Of fice at Washington—and they are al most without exception women—per form some of the most difficult and most interesting tasks in the whole range of human endeavor. It is their duty to take charge of the six million pieces of mail matter which every year go astray because improperly di rected, or for some other similar rea son, and see that these waifs of the mail bags get to their proper destina tion, or, if that be impracticable, to return them if possible to the senders. To decipher addresses that would be absolutely unintelligible to tile average person and supply deficiencies where insufficient or wholly erroneous ad dresses are given, requires talent of the highest order, combined with ex perience, and some of the women who are employed in tlds wonderful identi fication bureau are as nearly indis pensable as it is possible for any worker to be in this world. The principal expert in deciphering tangled chirography and putting mis directed letters on the right track is Mrs. Patti Lyle Collins, of Mississippi, and she has asfirstassistant Miss Caro line Chllds. So great is the skill of these two women that tlicy handle all the particularly difficult specimens. Naturally, in view of the great quan tity of stray pieces of mail which come to them they cannot do more than glance nt each address and If Its interpretation does not. suggest itself promptly, the waif is put aside for in vestigation nt. leisure. All the women engaged in this line of work must of necessity possess some knowledge of nlmost nil langunge, for foreigners very frequently embody fragments of their own languages in the addresses of their letters, and the fnmllinrity witli geography, which is essential, would astound by its SCODO any student or traveler. In Washington are over twelve mm dred women who, although they are not on tlie pay-roll of the Post Office Department, in rcalily spend a consid erable portion of their lime in the service of the postal system. These are the feminine employes of the Bureau of Printing and Engraving who print and gum the millions of postage stamps used in 1 lie United States every year. Ail (he United States postage stamps printed each year would, if placed end to end, en circle the globe nearly four times, and tlie major part of the work of prepar ing these miles of postage stamps for use is entrusted to women. The stamps are printed in sheets of four hundred, and although the opera tion of the hand presses on which the printing is done is performed by men, each pressman has a feminine assist ant who lifts the printed sheet from the press and replaces it with a blank sheet of paper. Here another class of skilled feminine workers are employed —the women whose task it is to detect flaws in the newly printed sheets of stnmps. These operatives turn tho sheets of stamps, as one would the leaves of a book, almost more rapidly than the untrained can follow, yet tho smallest speck in this mass of flutter ing leaves would be instantly detected and tlie faulty sheet of stamps with drawn and destroyed. Political Advertising. A campaign manager in St. Paul says that he put into display adver tising in the newspaper but a small sum as companred with what is com monly expended for campaigning in other ways, yet tho known results were vastly greater than from all other means of arousing the public. He is sure the time will come when tlie greater part of the campaign fund will be used in newspaper displuy adver tisements. It is bettor to do one thing well than to do a lot of things that are not worth doing. More About Wireless Telephony. The principles at the base of wire less telephoning are well known. It is sufficient to recall that if the varia tions of current produced by a tele phonic transmitter are suitably trans mitted to a direct current feeding an arc lamp the words pro nounced into the transmitter are heard as if they originated in the arc. This phenomenon is due to changes in the volume of the arc consequent upon changes of tempera ture caused by the variations of the density of the current. The changes of temperature of the arc also cause changes in the emission of light from it, and these latter changes are utilized in the transmission of wireless tele phonic messages. The fluctuations in the emission of the light are very rapid and cannot be seen by the eye. Mr. Ruhmer has lately sent such messages over a distance of more than four miles by day and by night. (In the day time the appartus must be screened from the direct rays of the sun, nat urally). To direct the beam Mr. Ruh mer uses a 12-inch parabolic mirror. The arc lamp employed requires 4 to 5 amperes of current for a distance of 1 to 2 kilometres, 8 to 10 amperes for 3 to 4 kilometres, 12 to 16 amperes for 5 to 7 kilometres. The receiver con sists of a parabolic mirror like the transmitter, in whose optical axis there is a cylindrical selenium element in series with two telephones and a bat tery. The selenium varies in resist ance under the action of the varying light. The luminous beam from the transmitter determines these varia tions of resistance corresponding to the microphonic currents of the transmit ter. Similar variations are produced in the receiver and the spoken sounds are thus reproduced. The process here described was tried by Dr. Graham Bell in Washington, who was not suc cessful over such long distance. The Day of Influenza. To sneeze or not to sneeze? That is the question. Then we sneeze and it changes to an exclamation. Everyone is doing it. Headache, bones ache, coughs, colds and the pestilence of grip is upon the face of the land. In Brooklyn Hills the worthy burgher sneezes an early curfew from his front porch ,and the sound is mistaken for blasting in the tunnel. And when the shades of night draw down, he sneezes across the field to his neighbor; "Come over this evening; we're having a little snack before going to bed. Got some hot mustard and quinine, and some thing in a bottle." Then far into the night the rich,mellifluous sneeze chorus rises from that house. This is a hard blow to the warnings of the doctors who assert that grip is a serious mat ter, and not to be sneezed at. Lawmakers Want Passes. Members of the Montana Legislature are protesting because a railroad in that State issued passes to them good only for 60 days, the term of the ses sion, when each for the most part does little traveling. PAINFUL PERIODS arc overcome by £,y hlla.,i'u. 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