t
IF
HOPE
SICK.
FORMER CABINET MEMBER ILL,
Condition of Lyman J. Gage 8eriously
Alarmed His Friend*.
Grave fears for the recovery of Ly-
man J. Cage, former secretary of the
treasury, who was critically 111 at his
apartments, 14 East Sixtieth street.
New York, were entertained last
| week.
The cause of Mr. Gage's Illness was
said to be inflammatory rheumatism,
j The fear of attend ins physicians was
that the malady would attack the
heart.
Since his retirement from the Pres-
ident's cabinet, Mr. Gage has been
LIVE STOCK
- -1 jBffi*-
MRS.
HENRIETTA
MARSH.
A VICTIM OF LA GRIPPE.
Mrs. Henrietta A. S. Marsh, 769 W.
ICth St., Los Angeles, Cal., President
Woman's Benevolent Ass'n, writes:
"I suffered with la grippe for seven
weeks, and nothing I could do or take
helped me until I tried JReruam.
"I felt at once that I had at last
secured the right medicine and 1 kept
steadily Improving. Within three
weeks I was fully restored, and I am
glad that I gave that truly great rem-
edy a trial. I will never be without
it again."
In a letter dated August 31, 1904.
Mrs. Marsh gays: "I have never yet
heard the efficacy of Peruna question-
ed. We still use it. I traveled through
Kentucky and Tennessee three years
ago. where I found Peruna doing its
good work. Much of it Is being used
here, also."—Henrietta A. S. Marsh.
Address Dr. Hartman, President of
The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus,
Ohio.
Ask your Druggist tor a free Peruna
Almanac for J 90S,
m
Lyman J. Gage.
president of the United States Trust,
company.
With a marked improvement in the
condition of the patient, physicians
are now satisfied he is out pf danger.
Bricks are now belrfg: made of clean
sand and ground quicklime that are
said to be as substantial as granite.
They cost $2.50 per 1,000. According
to Country Life the mixed Ingredients
are forced into a strong steel cylin-
der mold by means of a screw. After
the air has been sucked from the cyl-
inder hot water is admitted, the rock
being formed by the resulting pres-
sure and heat.
Certainly Fair,
Of all troubles humanity Is subject
to none perhaps cause more acute dis-
tress and more frantic efforts for re-
lief than many forms of Itching skin
troubles. We will tell you a remedy
that rarely ever fails—Hunt's Cure.
One box only 1b absolutely guaranteed
to cure any one case of itching trouble
—no matter the name. If It falls your
money is cheerfully refunded.
WEALTH IN LAVISH DISPLAY.
Ccstly Fashion Set by Mr*. Cornelius
Vanderbilt.
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt has start-
ed the fashion of having an opera
! cloak to match each gown. Every
time she appeared at the opera in
J New York she wore a different cos-
| tume, including the outer cloak. On
the opening night of the opera Mrs.
Vanderbilt's gown of white satin was
covered by a cloak of the same ma-
terial, lined throughout with ermine.
Her next gown was bluish green vel-'
vet and the cloak of velvet was
trimmed with strips of chinchilla. Her
next gown of pale blue with irrides-
cent spangles had a harmonizing
cloak of the same hue, with collarB
and cufTs of Russian sable. Monday
night young Mrs. Vanderbilt wore
white velvet with trappings of pink
roses and lace. Her cloak was of
brocade and the sleeves of the loose
mantle were filled with lace.
We sometimes find that while we
have been standing up for our rights
all the more desirable seats have
been occupied.
Hundred* of denlors say the extra
quantity and superior quality of De-
fiance Starch is fast taking place of
nil other brands. Others say they can-
not sell any other starclx
After a boy has learned to say no.
he should teach his father, in order
to be quite safe.
WENT THROUGH CIVIL WAR.
iVife of Confederate General Pryor
Enjoyed Unique Distinction.
Mrs. Roger A. Pryor, now a silver-
Paired hut still charming matron, is
the only woman who from start to fin-
ish of the civil war was In Confeder-
ate camps. Her husband was one of
the most distinguished Southern gen-
erals and thus it was that she en-
joyed the unique and perilous privi-
lege. Besides being a social leader,
Mrs. Pryor is an author of national
note and is also the possessor of what
is acknowledged to be one of the
sweetest voices ever heard. One en-
thusiastic admirer declares that "her
tones are like molten sunbeams
poured on a bell of virgin gold." Mrs.>
Pryor through the last year of the
war lived within a stone's throw of
Robert E. L*ee's headquarters. One of
her most treasured trophies is a pic-
ture of the great general on his
world-celebrated charger Traveler.
Sheep and Cattle Compared.
An Iowa farmer has made a com-
parison between the profits of sheep
and cattle raising, which shows up
sheep-keeping in a good light. He
says In the American Cultivator:
"I think if we take a series of tea
years together it will commonly be?
fountl that there is not much difference
between the market price of fat sheep
and fat cattle, if we compare all
classes, wethers, fat ewes, yearlings
and lambs, with steers, fat cows, heif-
ers and calves. The fat cattle are
now about |1 per hundred less than
a year ago. still choice fat steers are
now considerably higher than fat
wethers and yearlings, but fat cows
are about the same as fat ewes.
"It has been proved by our expert-
nient stations that, as a general rulo,
It requires about the same amount
and quality of feed to grow and fat-
ten a given number of pounds of
sheep or mutton as of cattle or beef.
According to this rule, ten sheep at
two or two and a half years old,
•weighing 130 pounds each, have eaten
jhe same amount of feed as a steer or
heifer of the same age and weight,
1,300 pounds.
"While the general rule holds that
Jt takes about the same amount of
feed to produce a thousand pounds of
beef as a thousand pounds of mutton,
ft often happens that sheep can be
jtept on cheaper feed. Sheep eat a
larger variety of plants or weeds than
Cattle, and rapidly convert even noxi-
pus weeds into wool and mutton.
, "Sheep can be well fattened in less
time than cattle. The one hundred
day fed steer is not finished, but sheep
in very moderate condition can be
well fattened in one hundred days.
"Another element of profit with
sheep is the Increased fertility which
they give to the soil. No other stock
equals them In this respect. Increas-
ed fertility means hetter crops."
Sheep Supply and Price.
So far in 1904 sheep are the only
meat, producing domestic animals that
have been marketed in as large number
as during the corresponding period
the previous year. The supply of cat
tie and hogs has been less this year
than last, while that of sheep has
been more. And, in spite of the large
real and relative supply, the price ot
fcheep has been steadier and better
maintained than that of cattle or hogs.
jThis situation should be an encour-
agement to sheepmen, for It shows
,that our people are gradually becom-
ing larger consumers of mutton, and
mutton production is the most profit-
able in sheep husbandry.
While the average price ol sheep
has been relatively higher than that
of other stock, the price shows a low
er average than It would if the mutton
quality of the K*ieep had been higher.
The people are learning to love the
taste of mutton, but it is good muttoc
that is craved and the markets of th|
year have demonslrated that the peo-
ple are willing to pay well for good
mutton. This Indicates clearly the
line that sheep _nen should follow and
develop. Let the production of good
mutton, marketed when In its primes!
condition, be the objects striven fo*
and the possible advantages of sheer,
husbandry will be more fully realized
I THE PACE THAT KILLS.
Organic Heart Trouble and Bright'*
Disease Carry Off Fast Livers.
In New York and most of the large
centers of wealth there has been an
alarming Increase of deaths from or-
ganic heart trouble and Brigbt's dis-
ease.
This need not worry the compara-
tively poor to any extent, for these
are aristocratic ailments. Bright *s
disease comes along with a rapid ex-
istence and late hours and rich feed-
ing and wines.
In 1871 In New York city the two
diseases mentioned killed 17.68 per-
sons out of every 10,000 of the popu-
lation. New York was a little slow-
thirty years ago. It had only begun
to learn how to burn up money. The
rich did the best they knew how then,
and were willing to learn more.
The pace quickened. an« so did the
death rate. You can't fool the Old
Man with the Scythe. You cannot
sneak late hours and highballs and
thousand dollar dinners in on him.
and so In 1883 the deaths had jumped
to 2,888 from heart disease and
Bright's disease, or 21.91 persons in
every 10,000. In 1903 the total deaths
from the causes named were 5,947,
and the number of persons per 10,000,
27.20.
The remedy is sane living. That
doesn't mean that one can begin liv-
ing sanely after he has sowed wild
oats for a quarter of a century. The
jrops put in must be harvested. It
jneans sane living; from childhood up.
A look at the vital statistics quoted
ought to make the average poor man,
who has robust health fairly well sat-
isfied with his condition—Bridgeport
(Conn.) Post.
You can't play truant from the
| school of experience.
They sure do knock colds out—
| Cheatham's Laxative Tablets, guaran-
! teed.
HE WAS A GOOD BOUNCER.
St. Louis Fair Yarn About the Great
Leaper.
The top of the wireless telegraphy
tower at St. IxjuIs was a favorite
place for sight-seers, says the Illinois
State Journal, and, while they gazed
Colds and Roup.
About this season of the year there
come symptoms that are alarruhiK
The flock has been healthy all suui
tner and now they do not appear to be
as bright as they were, their appetite |
is not so good and there is more or
less running at the nose. Occasionally j
one will b«> found with Its eye shut or
Its face puffed out.
These usually come at this season, j
of the year when the house has not.
been made ready for cold nights.
There may be draughts of air or open-
ings that will cause the trouble. Poul-
try will huddle to keep warm when
ailing anti when they separate they
will become cold and trouble begins.
We have been advocating warm
houses and now comes some of our
best poultrymen who feel that cooler
houses will be the ipeans of less dis-
ease. Perhaps this is true if care is
taken that fowls do not roost in
draughts of air. In any event we do
not want ventilation all taken out
of a house In order that it may be
made warm. Houses can be kept too
warm for poultry and when exposed to
outdoor air they get colds and conipli-
cat ions set in.
Oon't house coo closely until very
cold weather comes. Keep the air
pure as possible and keep the flock
thrifty. Remember that, some very
batl colds come where fowls are very
much crowded. With only a few fowls
and a closely kept house at this sea-
son of the year there will be trouble.
Having become accustcmed to fresh
jiir all summer they will go wrong If
deprived of It at once.
Provide Plenty of Nests.
"What sort of nest boxes do you use?
At least once a week a man soph
the prettiest woman he ever saw in
his life.
~Dealers say thj t as soon n« a cus-
tomer tries Porta nee Starch it 1b Im-
possible to sell them any other cold
water starch. It can be used cold or.
tolled.
Another hope that deceives males
only: That a man may buy a gun In
the fall and pay for Its cost by spring
in tho difference in the meat bill.
M"r«. Wlnalow** Soothing Hymn.
Forolill.iren leuthlng. Mliru theRtiraa, rmlucfw
OMUintUon, allays pain. «^urei wla.l collo. feoabotU. _ _
In a very^ni!. ii "town nit re i, ■ Many women are denied the"
same demand tHat a widow romem- happiness of children 111 rough
ber her dignity a  ihero is in an derangement of the generative
, . 4I . ..  nt n . Too many poultry raisers attach too
in admiration at the picture of the | o fWll„0i. They
hi  uiu..bu«u ](ttle lmportance t0 thi8 matter,
air spread before thenn. employe* of " tha( lf a hen has a de-
he company used to have fin with, n ,f s|](,
the visitors and to throw In a few hor-
rors not down on the programme.
think
sire to lay
has to drop the eggs around like a
.duck. This may ail be so, and she
"Is the man going to jump off to- 1Iiay (|0 jt a time or two, but very soon
day. Bill?" one would ask innocently, you will notice a wonderful falling ofT
as though jumping off were a part of ju ^ eg;g Bupply, unless you have
the regular programme. already mado provision for plenty of
The crowd starts back in amaze- nests for your flock. One nest to four
ment. Finally one young lady recov- or aix hens will be all right; but, if
ers her breath and, looking timidly possible, do even better than that,
at the ground far below, asks, "Does Itfens do not like to stand around on
a man really jump ofT?" ,,ne foot, waiting for their turn, any
Bill ignores her question, but to a more than a busy man likes to spend
fellow employe replies, "No; since the his. time waiting on his slow neigh-
accident last week they haven't found i,or. If you wish to encourage early
a man to make the jump." I Jaying among your hens, provide plen-
Everybody wants to know about the j ;t v of nests. They cost but little, -and it
accident and Bill explains: "The 4s money well spent.—Farm-Poultry,
pneumatic boots that they use to |  
towns about a preacher.
TO MHK A < «H.I> I.N (INK DAY
Take Laxative Hmmu Quinine Tablet*. All tlrug-
■Ui« refund the nivjuey If It f tl  to cure. W.
Grove's alynitura It on tub bus. -.ftc.
He lives not who lives not in tarn-
JMso'k Cure In th« toest medicine we ever asrrt
for all affections of t He throat and lunjrs. "Vm.
0.1.nxjsi.iv, Vaubureu.lnd., Fob. 10,1U00.
There is no load a man carries
heavy as self.
Storekeeper* report thnt the extra
qunntity, together with the superior
quality of Deflu nee Starch makes It
next to Impossible to sill any other
brand.
A good many of the difficulties we
complain of are difficulties only be-
cause we complain.
FITS ETirr
*1. Kofltior
Dr. Klin*'* (Ii
iwrrotiiotM after
t dtr't u   or Or.KUne'a (treat N«>rve Heftor-
E\ H«n<i for FHRIfi l '4 .110 trial bottle and tr-atiM.
n. K. U. Kuxs, Ltd., IS1 Arch Street, Philadelphia, Pa
MoHt of the shadows of this life are
caimed by standing in our own sun-
shine.
break the force of the fall were
pumped too full of air, so when he
struck the ground he bounded back
and kept bounding and was unable
to stop."
"And how did they finally rescue
him?" asks the horror-stricken young
lady.
"They didn't," replies Bill. "He
Frozen Eggs.
The Poultry World says: In the
winter season quantities of eggs are
frozen, and It is generally considered
that such eggs are worth but little, or,
to say the least, are much injured for
cooking purposes. This, however, is
not strictly true, for if properly treal-
they are but little injured. Instead
Rest and Sleep.
Few escape those miseries of win-
ter—a bad cold, a distressing cough. I
Many remedies are recommended, but r
tho one quickest and best of all is
Simmon's Cough Syrup. Soothing and
healing? to the lungs and bronchial pas-
sages, it stops the cough at once and
gives you welcomo rest and peaceful
sleep.
When a preacher's wife expects her
husband to light fires and carry In
wood, the women of the church won-
der that lightning doesn't strike her
for being so impious. | |
If you don't g<-t the biggest and best
It's your own fault. Defiance Starch
1h for sale everywhere and there Is
positively nothing to equal it in qual-
ity or quantity.
Sunday School Teacher—We ought
never do in private what we would
not do in publio.
Little Mary—How about taking a
bath?
organs. Mrs. Beyer advise*
women to use Lydia E. Pink-
ham's Vegetable Compound.
"Dear M ks. Pinkiiam I Rnffered
with stoma*-h complaint for years. I
j ffot so bud t-hrt I could nut carry my
children bu^ live months, then would
have a miBoarriiige. Tho last time I
became prep-nant, my husband arot me
to take Lycl la E. Pink hum's vege-
table Com pound. After taking the
first bottle X was relieved of the sick-
ness of stottaach, and began to feel bet-
tor in every way. I continued its use
and wnn e'uoblcd to carry my lt>aby to
maturity. I now have a uiee baby
plrl. and can work better than I ever
could before. I i:mlike a new woman.**
— Mrs, Fka. SK Bkykr, 22 H. Second St.,
Meriden, Conn.— fSOOO forftn If original of
about litttr proving ftnulnentss cannot bm product*.
FREE n STOICAL ADVICE TO
WOMAN.
Don't hesitate to write to Mrs.
Pink ham- She will un(lei-Ntiui<i
your ease wcrfeetly, ttiid will treat
you with liiiuliiesH. Her advice
Is free, an <1 the address is Lynn,
Mums. n«* woman ever rep:retl ett
having w ritten her, aud  1i<j has
helped thousands.
Tbe Famous Byrne
Simplified Shorthand
taught in three months, speed 150
words per minute or no charge.
Byrne Practical Bookkeeping actual
business from start to finish. Our
practical systems and up-to-date meth-
ods of teaching will save you both
time and money.
Write for free catalogue of the old-
est. largest and best School of Book-
keeping. Shorthand and Typewriting
In the Territories. Capital City Busi-
ness College, Guthrie, Okla.
In the center of Kildine, an Island
In the North sea, Is th« most curious
lake in the world. The surface of its
waters is quite fresh and supports
live, fresh water creatures, while deep
down it is as salt as the greatest
depths of the sea, and salt water fish
live in it.
Don't you know that T>fl*nce Starch
besides being: absolutely superior to
any other, is put up 16 ounces in pack-
agc and sells at same price as 12-
ounce packages of other kinds?
Got $10 for Not Talking Fast
This is a horse trader's story:
"Never was glad for this impedi-
ment in my speech but once." said the
man from the country.
"When was that?"
"Fellow asked me how much I
would take for a horse, and while I
was trying to tell him $40 he offered
me $60."—Mall and Breese.
Reburial of Body of Scout.
i The bones of "Jim" Bridger, pioneer
| tcout and discoverer of the rreat Salt
.ake. have been removed to Mount
vVashington cemetery in Kansas City
'rom the grave near the little town of,
Dallas, in the same county, where1
hey have lain since Bridger's death
n 1881. From 1824 until the late 'GOV
je was the most noted frontiersman,|
fuide and fighter in the west. He It
was who selected a route for the first
•ailway through the Rocky mountains.
The expense incident to removal and
he payment for a handsome granite
monument are being attended to by
3en. Grenville M. Dodge, who was en-
gineer for the Union Pacific when that
Une crossed the plains.
FREE ft"sii
I llklhi SuClTfflL ilRRIDTTI BONK EONDOUT. B. T.
\\* ANTED.—For the!'. 8. Army, able-bodied
unmarried men, bet w#-«n o21 and
86; oitieens of United Hinton. ofgo-Kl character
luid tehiperate habits, who can apeak, reed nnd
writ'- English. For information applv to Re-
cruiting Officer. Poetofllce touildintr. Oklahoma
City, Okla.. or Tulaa, InJ. Ter.. Enid. Shaw-
nee or Guthrie, Okla.
UNITED STATES
£5J1 Importing
iivt I C anad i an
wheat is
ow a fact.
Oeta Tr«e Oomoiead it Western Canada, or buy
lomeofthe best wheat laoda on tho continent, and
lecome a producer.
The average yield of wheat tb!« year will be about
wrmtjr bu bela to ths acre. Theoit and barley crop
rill alto yield abundant I v. Splendid climate aood
t-hoola aod churehea. eicdlent marketing facUftlea.
^pplf f°r Information to Superintendent of lnirai
rrwion* Ottawa. Canada, or t<- authorised t anadlan
Jorrrntnoi t Agent—.1. S. Crawford, No. 1JS W.
<intli street. Iiaataa c ity. MUaourl.
W.N.U.—Oklahoma City-No. 52. 1904
> PISO'S CURF. FOR
m "III! waElt lu till r«l
ImI Heat ( ougta Hjrup, Ta-teKliK*
CD In time. Bold by dxuggtau
iiiL*
lbr (lruKKlata. *
IHdfoslMil
Sightseers Annoy Dewey.
Admiral Dewey's peace of mind has
ieen greatly disturbed lately by
"sight-seeing automobiles," each car-
rying thirty or forty people, which
stop In front of his home three times
a day, in the effort to get a glimpse
of the admiral or Mrs. Dewey. Even
more annoying than the stare of for-
ty pairs of eyes is the witticism of the
guide, who shouts through the meea-
phone in a voice that can be heard a
block away: "The red house to the
right was given by the American peo-
ple to Admiral Dewey, who destroyed
the Spanish fleet in Manila bay and
came to Washington to be captured
by a lone woman."
Adulterated Foods in Paris.
Dr. Brouardel, chief of the Paris
/aboratory. writes thus of the trials
of the digestion in Paris:-', "When a
man takes milk for his early break-
fast preserved with formic aldehyde,
when he eats at luncheon a slice of
bam kept good by borax, with spin-
ach or French beans made green with
sulphate of copper, and when he
washes all that down with half a bot-
tle of wine cleared with an excess of
plaster of parla, and that for twenty
years, how is It to be expected that
such a man can have a stomach?"
A Good Sign.
It is a good sign of prosperity in
j any branch of live stock when new
people are getting into it nnd the
} old ones are broadening out. This is
j the case at present in the sheep bus!
; ness. Breeders say i.iere never was
| such an urgent demand for pure-bred
! rains, and this inquiry is not limited
to any one part of the country. West-
| ern men are especially active in an
i endeavor to build up their flocks, and
! are sparing no expense to do it. Ic
j the east, the small farmers are gradu-
I ally going back into the sheep busi
J nesB because they are convinced that
| the sheep can restore fertility to the
j soil as no other animal can. Anothei
stimulating factor has been the high
er price of wool during the past year.
The sheepman has his ups and down?
but with his flocks graded up to 8
higher standard, the downs are get
ting scarcer.—Live Stock World.
When Roots Are Fed.
Judgment is needed in the feeding
of roots to hogs. They like the roots
and will sometimes eat more than is
profitable for them to eat. That Is,
they fill up on roots and the work of
Ithe stomach goes to digest a lot of
material that has in it very little
nutriment. When water is given In
^addition to the roots the result is even
;more in the direction we have Indi-
cated. If the hogs have a good quan-
tity of roots they should not be given
water; for,the roots are almost nine-
tenths water. But It is better to give
ithe swine some water and reduce the
amount of roots they are to receive.
Roots are a great adjunct to the grain
ration.
Ban on Political Play.
The Governor of the province of
6randenburg lias dismissed the appeal
of Herr Blumenthal, the presentation
of whose play, "The Dead Lion," was
not permitted in Berlin. The Gov-
ernor says it Is clear that, though the
drama is dated the fourteenth century
and placed in Spain. It is a representa-
tion of tho fall of Prince Bismarck,
and that in a monarchical government
It is impossible to allow political
events to be made the subject oI a
play.
Charcoal for Hogs.
In the press of gathering corn and
| getting ready for winter, our readers
should not forget to keep their hogs
i well supplied with charcoal. The
j tource of this charcoal will differ in
rifferent localities. In the timber sec-
lions wood charcoal is easily available
I ;nd Is perhaps the best. In the larger
I portion of our territory, however, our
| readers must depend on charcoal from
I :he corn cobs. This Is very easily
obtained and is about the best use to
which you can put this annoying litter
pn the stable floor or in the pens and
pther places where hogs are fed.
The best method Is to dig a circular
hole, say two f&t wide and as
many deep. Build a flre of chips and
kept bounding and bounding and final- of (as was the custom) putting them
ly they had to shoot him to keep him
from starving to death."
Village Typea—The Spinster.
Her nanii' it was Lucinda Brown.
Tho prettiest In all the town—
At least 'twas so reported when
Shf won the pri*<* at the glasH show,
Perhaps her graces blinded men
Some thirty years or more ugo.
Her features they wer
Her  ann cheeks bore
Ah' then they used
Those poet sinpera
Who praised her bei
i regular.
ne'er n. mark,
to rhapHodize,
of tin* parts.
iuty to the skies -
Demurely she glanecd over all
The swains who came at heclc and call.
She'd buggy-ride with them all da,y.
Or lean with them upon the
When they talked business she'd stay
Their fervor with: "If* growing
late."
Her mien. SO said, it was ;\ thing
To win the rapture of a king.
Her dainty head, in equlnose
tTpon her sloping shoulders*, won
The ardency of all the hoy*—
Hut Cindy only called It fun.
The sweetest old maid In the town—
Her name is still I.uiinda Brown.
She courts the sunny side the street,
Where little children romp and play,
Antl In their laughter gay and sweet
She hears the songs of yesterday.
-Horace Seymour Keller In New York
Sun.
Ripeness of Bananas.
According to a large dealer In tropi-
cal fruits, the prevalent idea that ba-
nanas are never as good In this coun-
try as in the land where they grow, be-
cause they are picked and shipped
green, Is entirely erroneous. This
dealer says that bananas ripened on
the plant would not be fit for fqod. be
cause the inside of the fruit would
then be dry and tasteless, resembling
the pith which is to be found on the
jnside of cornstalks and Bimilar plants.
This statement, however, is open to
the question as to what "ripe" means.
It Is probable that by the time the
pithy condition has been reached the
banana has not only ripened, but has
continued farther and gone to seed.
Certain It Is that travelers return-
ing from the -tropics tell of having
Into cold water to take out the frost
and waiting several hours for the
thawing to take place, and then find-
ing the yolks in such a solid state
that they can be used with no satisfac-
tion In cooking, try the following
method: Place them in boiling water
and leave them there from Ave to
twenty minutes, according to the
amount of frost in them, when, upon
their beip.g opened, the yolks will be
found soft and in such a state that
they can be used for almost any culi-
nary purpose.
Fancy Fowl Fad.
There are signs of a craze in the
breeding of fancy poultry, says the
Field, Farm and Fireside. The Ameri-
can Farmer recently recorded the sale
of four chickens at Hope, Ind., for
$i*oo, and the fact that the seller had
a rooster for which he was asking
$2J00. Now comes a story that a
breeder at Racevllle, N. V., has sold
sixteen chickens—thirteen hens and
three roosters—for $3,400, to be shlpj
ped to Berlin. This Is heralded as thd
record price of the world for the same'
number of fowls, but to a common
layman it looks merely as a case of
"gold brick on the part of the German
buyer. Of course, no poultry, fancy
or otherwise, are worth this amount
of money, and it is time a halt was
called lest we run into a fancy poul-
try cra>:e as fatal as Hollands experi-
ence with tulips.
Profit in Hen Keeping.
Uniess chickens have the proper
conditions for health and growtT. vhey
can not thrive. That they live and
lay under most disadvantageous con-
ditions Roes to show how enormously
profitable they would be with the right
care. We have all heard of the flocks
"that are never fed a mouthful, never
knew a hen house, and kept laying all
winter." There Is always a reason for
this. Give hens the run of the barn
with full feed bins and a mow of clo-
ver hay, let them roost wnere the
warmth from the cattle keeps them
picked bananas fresh from the plants j cornforfable, and if they are in range
and found them delicious and of supe- jQf grj( an,i water they will do some
eaten in this aRt.0nl"hfng laying, but you never saw
rior flavor to those
country.
Popular Canadian Priest.
One of the most popular priests In
Canada is Father O'Gorman (Janan-
ogue, on tho banks of the St. Law-
rence. His reverence Ik a keen judge
of horses and docs, never falling to
have at least one Irish setter at every
bench show in New York city. At the
recent exhibition there his entry won
the first prize, on hearing of which a
friend said to him: "1 suppose they
will make you a bishop now." Father
O'Gorman, who is not at all averse I
to a Joke on himself, answered read- j
ily: "My dear sir, if I knew as much ,
about theology as I do do about Irish
•ettera I'd be a cardinal this minute."
Queen Draga'a Nephew.
In strong contrast to the ceremonies
corn cobs and when well started fill I lately taking place in Belgrade Is the
pilgrimage to London and Paris of
the ill-fated Queen Draga's nephew,
a young Servian officer, George Petro
vlch, who is endeavoring to dispose of
the Alencon lace wedding gown and
much of the Jewelry that belonged to
his aunt. He was on the "black list"
on that fateful June 11, and owed his
life to the fact that the soldiers sent
to arrest him mistook his address.
up the entire hole with corn cobs and
when they are sufficiently burned,
cover tightly and thus smother them
out before the entire contents are re-
duced to ashes. Then add salt and
any wood ashes you may have and
put in a place where the hogs can
eat it at will. It Is no cure for chol-
era, nor Is It a preventive, but it Is
a preventive of indigestion, which is
sometimes taken for cholera.
cn egg laid out of nothing.
The Farm and Poultry Plant.
The farmer that does not have a
well-equipped poultry plant loses the
opportunity of adding very materially
to his Income and he also misses that
very Important end—the providing of
his family with several kinds of luxu-
ries, poultry meat, and eggs. We
might gay that he misses seeing his
family enjoy broilers In the late
spring, old hens and roosters in tlfe
ummer, spring chickens in the fall
and fat cockerels and capons in the
winter, as well as the eggs. One of
the compensations for living in the
ountry is to have all of these things
Iresh and at will without sending
nany miles for them. Moreover, the
family of tho farmer need not stint
i.:self in these things as the family.
)f tho citizen must do ont of reasons
if economy. This should be the first
•.bject with the farmer in the keep-
i ik of poultry. Now and then we*
i nd a farmer who sells all his best
I roducts and keeps the poorest for
f.s family. That Is a poor way of
foing. The family should have at
I -ast as good as goes off the farm.
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