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Lincoln's Pastes Not Honored.
Lincoln's humor got him out of try'
log situations and tempered his re-
fusal of favors, as happened during
the civil war when a gentleman asked
him for a pass through the federal
lines to Richmond. "I should be happy
to oblige you." said Liscoln, "if my
passes were respected. But the fact
to. within the last two years I have
given passes to Richmond to 250,000
men, and not one has got there yet.
Some men only feel like working
when there ia nothing for them to do.
Superior quality and extra quantity
must win. This is why Defiance Starch
U taking the place of all others.
at
High Animal Life.
A teacher having explained
length about the three kingdoms then
asked If anyone in the class could tell
her what the highest degree of ani
mal life was. A bright-eyed little
girl raised her hand and answered
"The highest degree of animal life
la a giraffe "
$100 Reward. $100.
m.T?*.""1.''™ of this paper will be pltaaed to lean
"® dreaded dlaeue ibat science
t^?„uvc"re ["•" 1U that la
« i!^ c,, rr'> lur« '■ the <>aly poattlve
°.!,.n .° th* fraternity. Catarrh
iwlnt a Constitutional dlaeaae. requlrea a ron
Hall-. Catarrh Cure la taken in-
i'T^re"'* uP°n l'l""d ami roucoua
oC ",e thereby deatroylnx the
•?ren/rl°h h ,ud n' lnK the pa.lent
•i "y ',ulldl"K "P the Constitution and aa*lm-
IS mD,MJee i.k I"1?* "* work- TU propr'elora have
K''?11' In I" curative p., were that theyoffei
eur. a! 5^ D.0"*™ f'" that It fall* t«
for llitof teatlmonfau,
Y-J CHENKY a co., Toledo, O.
gold by all Ilrugglata, 7Sc.
Take Ball'* Family Pllia for conitlpaUoa.
Greatness.
Those who are born great think
they have achieved greatness; those
who have achieved greatness think
they have had it thrust upon them;
those who have had greatness thrust
upon them think they were born great.
•—National Magazine.
Important to Mothera.
Examine carefully every bottle of CA8TORTA,
a aafe and aure remedy for Infanta and children,
and aee that it
Bean the
Signature of
la Vat For Over SO Yeara.
The Kind You Have Always Bought
Key to Perala.
The city of Treblzond is one of the
most Important cities and porta In
the Black sea. It is about 480 miles
from Constantinople and 100 miles
from Batoum. It Is the port of entry
as well as the distributing point for
the Interior, viz., Erzerum, Bitlls and
Van, and for the caravan route to and
from Persia.
IMMENSE TOBACCO PURCHASE.
forty-Eight Thousand Dollar* Paid
for a Fancy Ut of Tobacco.
The biggest purchase of high grade
tobacco ever made in the West by a
cigar manufacturer was made fast
Wednesday by Frank P. Lewis, Peoria
III., for his celebrated Single Binder
A written guarantee waB given
fai
cigar.
that the entire amount was to be fancy
■ elected tobacco. This, no doubt,
makes the Lewis factory the largest
holder in the United States of tobacco
of so high a grading.—Herald-Tran-
script, Deo. ti, isot.
The musical composer sometimes
borrows money on bis notes.
s
Vegetable Compound
A Woman's Remedy
For Woman's Ills.
POULTRY
Sweet Skimmilk.
There lg no better ration for the
ca f than sweet skimmilk. After the
calf has been weaned it still has a
craving for the kind of food that na
ture provided for it. The feeding of
nearly sour milk has been practiced,
and the feeding of whey, but we are
sure that the calf has no particular
liking for that kind of food. Under
modern methods of dairying it is pos-
sible on many farms to have the skim-
milk sweet. Where hand separators
are used, of course it is an easy mat-
ter to have milk of the kind we have
indicated. Even where the milk has to
be hauled to the creamery, the farm-
er can, if he will, have milk that is
sweet when he gets home from the
creamery. If it is not, he has himself
or the creamery to And fault with
about it. If it is the creamery, he
should take the matter in hand at
once. In many cases it is the fault
of the other patrons of the creamery,
if the skimmilk Is sour when the
farmer gets home with it. The said
other patrons have got Into the habit
of hauling to the creamery milk that
Is sour or nearly so. Perhaps they
are "every-other-day" men. The milk
they bring is skimmed and of course
the Bkimmed milk goes into the tank
from which each man draws the skim-
milk to which he is entitled. The
sour or nearly sour milk thus mixed
with the other and better milk acts as
a starter and sets the whole to sour-
ing. All the farmers on returning to
their homes from such a creamery
find the milk sour. This is a matter
they should look into. There is no
reason why «ll should allow them-
selves to be injured by the few.
Sometimes the farmer is himself to
blame in not having his cans In proper
shape for \he reception of the milk
at the cieamery. it may be that he
himself is bringing milk in cans that
have "starter" in all the seams. If bo.
he should clean up and clean up vigor-
ously. The sweet skimmilk is what
he needs especially if calves are to
be fed, and the sweetness is wort1
Btriving after. The younger the calf
the more need there is that the milk
be sweet, for the more delicate is the
digestive apparatus that is to handle
It. For such animals some feeders
assert that sweet skimmilk is worth
twice that of skimmilk such as is
usually received from the creamery.
Scours is one of the greatest causes
of calf mortality. It is induced by the
kind of food the calf receives, and It
is believed that both sour milk nnd
unusually cold milk help along the
bad effects. Sweet milk is of too
much value on the farm to be Ig-
nored.
Utility of the Wyandotte.
It is claimed that the unusual com-
bination of so many breeds in the
make-up of the Wyandotte causes it
to produce eggs of uncertain shape
and size, says a bulletin of the De-
partment of Agriculture. If this con-
tention is true, why is not the same
true with all crossbred (or made
breeds) fowla? Whether this is a
fact or not, only careful observation
will determine. It is a well-established
fact that the egg production of fowls
hatched from their eggs are generally I
more vigorous than are the birds
hatched from the eggs t>f pullets. It
is also probable that they are more
fertile and that one hundred of the
eggs from mature hens will give a
much larger percentage of chicks J
than will the like number of eggs laid
by pullets. Finally, the real value of |
the mature hen as a layer can only-
It was All Off.
An old bachelor who was very bald
fell in love with a pretty widow, whose
late husband's name was Robin. One
evening the bachelor dropped In to
have a cup of tea with the widow.
After tea was over she commenced to
sing "Robin Adair." The bachelor
picked up his hat and said "Madame,
Den BS 8 Ia>tr only even If your husband did have hair
menta .numerous inreiul <'*perl- It's no fau't of mine that I haven't."
ments. A few experiments are mis Then he fled —Exchange
leading, for the Individuality of the —; .
birds in that case assumes too much I ^ man's opinion of his neighbors is
importance. No station is at this 8'ener®"y governed by his neighbor's
time making any experiments that we ' °Pinion of hlm-
Clairvoyance la Illegal.
The Paris courts have decided that
a doctor who makes use of clslrvoy*
ance to diagnose and prescribe for
the maladies of his patients is guilty
of illegal pracuce.
know of along this line, and It is not
probable that private persons are try-
ing to discover the truth of this mat
ter. It would be interesting indeed
to follow the carrying out of tests to
discover the approximate truth of the
relative value of old and young hens
for egg production.
Duck Houses.
Duck houses should not have as
much light as hen houses, but should
have a shed open on one side at-
Effeet of III Temper.
If you should ever happen to think
an ill temper Is good for anything—
good for anything good, you might
consult an analytical chemist. Tho
chemist can furnish proof of the dis-
astrous effect of violent emotions on
the body by analysis of the ordinary
perspiration which exudes from the
millions of ducts of the skin every
minute.
Tin Deposits in Durma.
In the province of lower Burma,
India, near the Slamose frontier, tin
deposits have recently been discovered
and valuable coal fields located. Tha
tin ore is said to be of as high a quail-
ty as that mined la the Straits settle
ments.
Insist en Getting It
8o:ne grocers nay they don't kse®
Defiance Starch because they have a
stock In hand of 1J os. brands, which
they know cannot be sold to a custo-
mer who has once used the l( os.
pkg. Defiance Starch for same money.
Like cures like except in the diseaaa
known as love.
- — . rIso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used
tached for feeding and watering. They 'or ail aitrctions of the throat and lungs-w
should have no nests, but be bedded | E Dai.«T. Vanburen, lr l , Fob. 10, imo
down every two or three days with
A Creamery Afloat.
From Mille Lac, Minnesota, comes
the story of a floating creamery, in
operation, or about to be put in oper-
ation, there. It appears that the men
owning land adjoining the lake found
It difficult to realize much from it of
merchantable value, and conceived
the idea of going into buttermaking.
The difficulty was to get the milk to
any central point, as the farmers on
the opposite side of the lake from any
one point would be too far away to be
able to deliver the milk. Rowing It
across the lake was out of the ques-
tion. Then some one hit upon the
plan of having a creamery in the lake
afloat, which would make a daily
round of the lake and gather the milk
at specified points. A Mississippi
steamboat of small dimensions was
secured and hauled overland twenty
miles to the lake. There she was
fitted up with all the modern appli-
ances, and at last reports was ready
to begin her rounds. She v;as to have
twelve stopping places, and things
would have to go by clockwork, as
the creamery was not supposed to
stay longer at one point than was
necessary to get the milk weighed in.
It will be interesting to note the suc-
cess of this undertaking.
SILVER-LACED WYANDOTTE PUIS
LET.
can be improved In both number and
size if attention is given to the se-
lection of breeding hens. Only those
that lay the greater number of the
larger size eggs should be selected.
If the greatest attention is paid to
inbreeding for form and color, the
number and size of eggs produced
by each hen will grow gradually fewer
and smaller, while, if the whole pur-
pose is toward more and larger eggs,
that result will be obtained, and form
and color will gradually decline. The
Wyandotte, having been for years the
favorite as an exhibition fowl, it may
be possible that some of the most
extreme line-bred strains have suffered
in number and size of eggs, but this
fact has no bearing upon the average
utility flocks that are kept for pro-
ducing table eggs.
All records place the Wyandotte
about the equal of the Plymouth
Rocks in egg qualities, although the
Plymouth Rock is credited with an
average of somewhat larger eggs per-
haps juBtly so; but eggs are sold by
the dozen, and an ounce or two in a
dozen counts for little. The value is
in the number produced. At the same
time, the larger egg is more attract-
ive, and it is well to give attention to
increasing the size. No fowl can sur-
pass the Wyandotte for market poul-
try. At any time of Its existence,
from the small broiler to the roasting
fowl, it is always plump and attract-
ive. The close, compact body, the
plump breast and rich color of meat
and skin give it many advantages
over others. It looks better than the
long, lanky type of fowls, even when
in inferior condition.
baled shavings. The houses should
be cleaned out at least once or twice
a year. No egg boxes are required,
as the ducks lay on the floor, and If
the bedding Is added often the eggs
are not soiled much. For twenty-flve
birds the yard outside should be 25
by 100 feet. The inside of the houses
should measure 12 by 12 feet. There
should be a trough 12 inches wide and
6 inches deep of any length desired.
I water the birds in a 1C quart pail. I ark Tom clothes radeiit
In the winter I feed in the shed and I Ked Cross Bull Blue and irako them
in the summer out in the yard. No whileaSain- Large a oz. package, 6 cents,
running stream of water is required.
Divert Will Dive Deeper.
The discovery of a London physi-
cian Is claimed to have increased the
safe depth for diving and cassion
work from 100 to 206 feet. The sim-
ple remedy Is slow restoration of nor
mal conditions, the evil and fatal re-
sults having been traced to the sud-
den removal of the excessive atmos-
pheric pressure.
TRU88E8 VSfs%V*S:
•io« FutK. riaveii, 'SLn.cyyy'
FREE TRIPS TO THE WORLO'S FAIR.
Only opportunity ta America. Send dim* and
•tamp for particular. JOSEPH PENEIRA,
1103 N. Grand Avonuo, - at. Louis.
The gable overhead next the roof
should be stuffed with Btraw, with
two little doors in each gable to open
In damp weather. This keeps the
house dry. in cold weather theso
doors should be kept shut.
W. R. Curtiss.
Niagara County, N. Y.
Why Milk Varies in Fat.
At most of our creameries the man-
agers have settled down to the com-
posite teut as the one that is truly
reliable. The test of a cow's milk
for any one milking or even for any
one day rarely shows what kind of a
cow she really Is. The fat production
through a long series of days is very
uniform, but it is constantly varying
from milking to milking and from day
to day. The cow has some power of
holding up her milk and she seems to
have a still greater power of holding
up the fat that goes into the milk,
though she doubtless is all the time
manufacturing it. It is evident that
if by some undiscovered power she
holds back- part of the fat at on.*
milk at the next, and this produces
milking she must let it go into the
remarkable variations in the test as
made at the creamery from day to
day. When all things go well the
cow goes right along chewing her cud
and making milk and butter fat. In
such a state the production of fat as
well as milk is about uniform. But
if anything comes in to disturb her
the effect is quickly seen in the milk.
Tho things that can enter into the
disturbance of the milk producing
Turkish Canal.
The work of creating a new outlet
for the Hermus was done by Turkish
engineers and Turkish capital. The
new canal was cut through low-lying
plalnB a distance of twelve miles and
stands as a most creditable monu-
ment to the progress of a country
which has for many centuries been
almost constantly occupied with war.
More Flexible and Lasting,
wont shake out or blow out: by usln*
Defiance Starch you obtain better re-
suits than possible with any other
brand and one-third mors for -- —
money.
Ecclesiastical Anathema.
A German society has published SB
Interesting paper on the subject of
ecclesiastical anathema launched In
the middle ages against animals.
Among the maledictions cited Is that
of a pastor of Dresden, who In 1559
cursed the sparrows for distracting
his congregation.
FREE TO TWENTY-FIVB LADIES.
The Defiance Starch Co. will give
26 ladles a round trip ticket to the
St. Louis Exposition, to five ladies in
each of the following Btates: Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis-
souri who will send In the largest
number of trade marks cut from a
ten-cent, 16-ounce package of Defi-
ance cold water laundry Btarch. This
means from your own home, any-
where In the above named states.
These trade marks must be mailed
NEW HOMES
IN THE WEST
Almost a half million acre* of the fertile an*
well-watered lands of the Ilosebud Indian Res.
nrvatlon, In South Dakota, will tie thrown open
'o settlement by the Government in July. These
andi are best reached by the Chicago & North-
Western Railway's direct through lines from
Chicago to Bonesteel, 8. D. All agents ««1>
tickets via this line. Special low rates.
HOW TO GET
A HOME
Bend for a copy of pamphlet giving full inform*.
tlon as to dates of opening and how to secure 16a
acres of I and at nominal cost, with full descrip-
tion of the soil, climate. Umber and mineral
resources, towns, schools and churches, oppor-
tunities for business openings, railway rates,,
etc., free on application.
W. B. KNISKMN,
Passenger Traffic Manager,
CQICAQO. ILL
Every housewife floats
over finely starched
linen and white foods.
Conceit Is justifiable
after using Defiance
5tarch. It fives a;
stiff, flossy white-
ness to the clothes
and does not rot
them. It is abso-
lutely pure. It is
the most economical
because It foes
farthest, does more
end costs less than
others. To be had of all
frocers at 16 oz.
for ioc.
THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO.,
OMAHA, NSa
Progress in Buttermaking.
In no other industry has there been
greater progress during the last few
years than In dairying, says M. Mor-
tensen. The methods employed by
buttermakers ten years ago will now
not be recognized by any up-to-date
buttermaker. The machinery is dif-
ferent. The buttermaker who at that
time was generally chosen from the
ordinary walks of life is now a man
who has attended school for perfect-
ing himself in his profession. Some
years ago one of the leading questions
at the convention was, how to avoid
mottles. Tnls Is a thing not frequent-
ly spoken of to day. The buttermaker
as a rule now understands the me-
chanical part of buttermaking to such
an extent that he knows how to pre-
vent mottles. The question of most
mportance now is how to make a
high and uniform grade of butter pos-
sessing keeping qualities. We do not
aim to make the kind of butter that
used to win sweepstakes a few years
ago as that did not very often possess
keeping qualities. The butter now In
highest demands is quite different
from our fancy butter of a few years
ago.
Europen keepers of cows Ure said
to have a great advantage over Amer-
ican dairymen in the matter of milk-
ers, as they can secure the services of
women for that task rather than of
men. Women are gentler and more
cleanly as milkers than are men and
take greater care to have the udders
and flanks of the cows clean before
milking.
Laying Qualities of Old Hens.
We know little of the laying quail
ties of old hens. In the main It has
been assumed that a hen lays the
greatest number of eggs from the
time she is one year of age until she
is two, or from the time she begins
laying her first "clutch" till a year
from that time. It Is so wen settled
In the minds of some of our poultry-
men that a hen will not again equal
her first performance in egg laying,
that only pullets are kept and the tw<>
year-old hens are killed off. This in
general Is perhaps true, but what
about the exceptions? We know very
little about the exceptions, as not
enough experiments have been made
to bring them to notice. A few ex-
periments have been made with lay-
ing hens and those have seemed to
carry out the popular notion as to the
superiority of the pullets. Thus, one
instance is cited where two pens of
Leghorns were kept for three years.
They averaged 175 eggs per fowl dur-
ing the first year, 132% during the
second year and 116% during the
third year. The per cent of profit on
food was 188 the first year, 118 the
second year and 97% the third year.
There are some things about this test
however, that are not shown. One of
them is the individual performances
of the birds. Were there not one or
more that laid as many eggs the sec-
ond or third year as the first? Then
how about the weight of the eggs'
Were not the eggs the second and third
year heavier, each one, than when
the hens were pullets? Every poul-
try raiser has noticed that pullets-
eggs are usually very light and that
the eggs from mature hens will run
much heavier. What was this differ-
ence?
These things must be taken Into
consideration when summing up the
whole matter for and against the old
hens. We doubt not that the older
birds have more in their favor than
has over been granted. Wo know that
now In the market an "egg is an egg "
and that a light one frequently bring-
as much as a heavy one. But thai
condition will not always last. The
time will doubtless come, as It should
when eggs will be sold by the noun.,'
Instead of by the dozen. Then the
mature hens will have their time of
popularity.
One poultryman says that he keens
some of his best layers till they ar«'
ten years of age and that some of
them have laid well till that age
There Is one thing |n favor of the inn
ture hens and that Is that tho birds
i t0 and received by the Defiance
process of the cow are too numerous Starch Co.. Omaha. Nebr., before Sep-
to be menti«no^ Among these | tember 1st, 1904. October and Novem-
to be mentioned here.
may be mentioned fright induced from
any cause. Sometimes there is a bat-
tle between the cows, sometimes a
new cow enters the herd and her com-
ing Is seen in the lessened milk sup-
ply at the next milking. Sometimes
the milkers lose their tempers and
abuse the cows. We have seen a cow
that had been kicked by a milker hold
up her milk so that none could be
drawn for hours. These things must
be avoided if we are to get a uniform
quantity and quality of milk.
Legs and Feet of the Sow.
In the selection of the sow, partic- I
ular attention should be paid to the
legs and feet, as these have much to
do with the serviceability of the sow. [
The legs should be of medium length
and the feet and pasterns should be I
strong. If tho sow has not these |
she will not handle herself in a proper I
manner and if she bccomes heavy will
fail to take exercise. Weak limbs, pas- |
terns and feet, are detrimental to the
health of the sow, and hence to the
health of her progeny. When we con-
sider that she is liuely to transmit
the same qualities to her offspring we
can Bee that strength in the parts in-
dicated is important. A long-legged
sow is never to be desired, as the
hams are certain to be inferior in for-
mation and quality. There is another |
consideration to be looked after in the
matter of the sow having strong limbs
and that is that at farrowing time she
will be unable to handle herself skill-
fully and will almost certainly crush
some of her pigs. This is a matter
that is of such importance that a sow
that has killed several of her pigs
in this way should be rejected for fu- |
ture breeding operations.
The Creamery Ice House.
Where ice cannot be secured from
ice companies It is necessary to have
an Ice house in connection with a
creamery. The dimensions of the Ice
house depends on the purpose and
capacity of the creamery. Ordi-
narily an ice house of 150 tons
•apaclty Is ample for a cream-
ery handling from 8,000 to 10 000
pounds of milk a day. As a cubic foot
of Ice weighs fifty-live pounds, an ap-
proximate estimate can be made from
this for the conditions In this latitude
An ice house may be built of single
or double walls, depending upon the
<-ase and cheapness with which ice can
be secured in winter. It is not gen-
erally advisable to have an ice house
turoeuy connected with the creamery
building, but It Bhould be located close
ber will be the best months to visit
the Exposition. Remember that Defi-
ance Is the only Btarch put up 16 of.
(a full pound) to the package. You
get one-third more Btarch {or the
same money than of any other kind,
and Defiance never sticks to the Iron.
The tickets to the Exposition will be
sent by registered mail September
5th. Starch for sale by ail dealers.
Many a fellow has gained a reputa-
tion for patience when he is simply
lazy. H 3
FREE to WOMEN
A Large Trial Bos and book of In-
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paid, enough to prove the value of
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tios-lasts longer—
fees farther—hat arar*
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Joet more goad than may
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. In,loc«' treatment of female Ilia Pax tine Is
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thoroughness. It is a revolution in cleanslor
and heal1 ng power; it kills all germs wiiiclv
«u lnflttinmation and dischargee.
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best. Get DEFIANCE. No
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no more cracking or breaking. |fc^
doesn't stick to the iron. It gives satis-
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cost is io cents for 16 ounces of tne best
starch made. Of other starches you get
but 13 ounces. Now don't forget. It's at
your grocers.
rUNUFACTURED BV
THE DEFIANCE STARCH CO.,
OMAHA, NEB.
When Answering Advertlaements
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