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A 3gv ==g© W52 ■Fattening: Swine With Corn. While tills' practice Is by no means to be commended, for the reason that it is not so profitableoreconomical, and often prepares tlie* way for disease by getting tlie digestive organs in an un¬ healthy condition, yet by those who persist in this way of feeding, some suggestions as to the uses and abuses of corn as a feed for hogs may be acceptable. In the first place, it is necessary to grow that variety of corn which con¬ tains the largest per cent, of protein, tlie flesh or muscle making constituent which is essential for the proper de¬ velopment of the frame of any young animal. This corn may be obtained by hand selection, but the better way is to purchase the seed from a repu¬ table seed corn breeder. There is a general opinion prevailing that yellow corn is of higher feeding value than the white varieties. If this is true, it is because the yellow corn contains more protein and less starch than tlie white, as a class. There is undoubted¬ ly a difference in varieties of either color, but in all varieties it is essential that the planting should be early enough for the corn to thoroughly ma¬ ture without injury by frost.—Orange Judd Farmer. Sinking Hone ami Muscle. Assuming that the fowls will linvc more or less range during the summer, it is a good time to experiment some in grain feeding in order to determine which combination gives the best re¬ sults. With the pullets who are to lay tho coming fall and winter the main thing is to feed them so they will get bone and muscle and just the right amount of plumpness; this they cannot do wholly on grass and a little grain. Take a liberal ration of various grains and figure that the pasture is furnish¬ ing only green food anil animal food in the shape of insects and feed the grain as one would if the fowls were in con¬ finement. If they get too fat cut down the ration or change it gradually, nil the time carefully noting results. By this plan of operation and carry¬ ing it into tlie fall the pullets ought to go into winter quarters in prime condi¬ tion, and you be in a position to know to a nicety just what combination of grains will give tlie best results; bear in mind, however, that, the 'supply of green food pud of animal meal must lie furnished in some form during the fall and winter in order fo obtain re¬ sults. It i<f unfair to expect results when we cut off the green food which has done so much for the birds during the summer.—Indianapolis News. To Make a Wool llox. Take three boards ten inches wide and thirty inches long; the two side hoards are loft whole, but the centre one is sawed twice, making throe pieces, each ten inches square. The three pieces of tlie centre board arc hinged and tlie side boards also hinged to the middle board. Tho side boards must have springs let into tlie wood to bold the end pieces after tliev are pressed in place. The lumber used should be inch, dressed on both sides. Little slots should be cut in the boards as indicated to bold the wool twine; these should be out wedge shaped. J3L JsL r 3—4 fa c 0-f so as to draw the string in tight, Gather up the fleece in your arms and put it with as little mussing as possible the white side towards tlie board, turn tlie edges over so none will hang over tlie edge of board and then turn the sides of the board up and with the long hooks fasten them together. Now roll the edges of tlie fleece in a little and press the ends up in place or until they pass the springs and they fly back in place so as to bold Now you have your fleece in a square form and are ready to bring the ends of the string together and tie each loose end into a loop. Unhook the sides and the board will fly back flat and leave a very nice square bundle well tied. For coarse wool use a inch box instead of ten inch.—C. M. Goodspeed. in The Epitomist. Kaldins Calves €»n Skim Milk. Almost any stock can be raised out sweet milk better than calves, Hogs may be successfully grown or suitable grains, ground and cooked, but not so with calves. They should have sweet milk or else their appetites fail and they do no good. It is often the case where cows are kept for dairy purposes that the calves are failures. If they can have the skim milk before it sours they will do well, for the oil which is removed in the cream can be replaced by adding a little oil meai or oil cake. It should be scalded before mixing with the milk to render the oil more soluble. One of tlie common est errors in feeding calves is that of thickening the skim milk with corn meal or bran. Our experience has been that calves, after partaking of a few meals of that bill of fare, lose their appetites and have indigestion and dretl disorders. Oats and bran are good for calves, but we have best Cfss m feeding it in a,dry condition. They eat slowly fr*L but as they grow larger and tli? system demands more nourishm at they eat more. Eat ing such food in a dry state causes them to need more water, especially in warm weather, but they can soon be trained to drink water by offering them clean, pure water when thirsty before feeding the milk. Calves fed this way should do well if of good, well bred, healthy slock.—Thomas W. Lloyd, in Tribune-Farmer. It Pays to liaise Poultry. Poultry is and has been, since the “feathered flock in the dooryard” be¬ came known 1o the human family, a needful adjunct to the table: produc¬ ing eggs and meat, according to the need of the day, in abundance: After one decides to raise poultry, the next question arises. What breed sliali I raise? Can I make scrub stock do? Yes, you can make scrub stock do, if you are so situated or located that you cannot get the pure bred stock—for home use the common fowl docs quite well except it may not lay as many eggs as a pure bred hen would. There is not quite so much meat on them, and when you wish to sell eggs for setting they only bring you the market price, \ while those of pure breeds of recog¬ nized stock will bring twice the mar kid: price when sold by the “setting.” Now for mother hens l prefer such liens as the P.uff Cochin or Dominique or Bralmia.- They cover the eggs more comfortably when set and have also the advantage of being able to cover tlie chicks until they are feathered, And when they are used for meat on tlie table you have more of it than you could get from a Black Spanish or Brown Leghorn. But for laying quaii ties, I bet on the Spanish and Leghorn hens every time. They like fo forage, and if they are placed on a good range will pick up a large part of , their- food. True, they lay a smaller egg, but it brings as much in the mar¬ ket as the Cochin eggs, and they have the advantage of “keeping on,” laying j an egg every day. year in and out un¬ less allowed to hatch and raise chick¬ ens. I always keep some Cochins i for mothers and use the Cochin eggs ! on tltc table. I keep tliese liens in a run by themselves with a few cocks. When they set I put Leghorn eggs un¬ der them. The Leghorns or layers I keep in a large park or the orchard where they may range to suit them¬ selves. I sell all the eggs the Leghorns or Spanish liens lay—only reserving enough eggs to use for hatching pur¬ poses—I buy “settings" of eggs from i poultry breeders to furnish cocks every year or two so that my flock will not become diseased or puny from inltreed ing.—Cecil -Abel Todd, in The Dpi to* mist. Making Goorl Honey. Tlie modern apiarist must of neees shy u e e foundation if be wishes straight combs that can be emptied by extracting, or choice, fancy section lioney comb honey, and nothing else will sell in tlie markets to-day. The broken, dark lioney of our grand¬ father's days cannot be sold at any price. Sugar syrup could be fed to the bees to put in boxes, but it would still be sugar syrup and taste like it, and not like lioney, and so much of it would be used by Ihe bees tor increased brood rearing that it would not be profit¬ able even if it were honest. Extracted honey can be best raised by the farmer and comb by the spe¬ cialist,’ since it requires more skill and experience to produce the latter, and when raising it the bees usually swarm in the farmer’s busiest season, the haying time, and if not immediate¬ ly hived go to tlie woods and the profits are gone from that eolon.v for the sea¬ son, for it is the first swarm that us ually gathers most of the honey. Bees dislike very much to work in the small section boxes and sometimes sulk and refuse to do so imtilfthe best part of the honey flow is over, and if more than one swarm is allowed to issue while working for comb lioney, very little honey is obtained from any of them. With extracted bogey it is very different. If plenty of empty combs are given to'a colony in tlie be ginning of tlie season they seldom swarm, find with such a large working force, a much larger amount can be obtained. ’ In the fall, when the press of farm work is over... tlie combs can bo removed from the hive and placed i'n the lioney extractor and the lioney thrown from them by centrifugal force, very much as cream is separated, and tli * frames of comb can then be stored away until another season. We have combs that have been in use for twenty years as good as ever for that? purpose, Never destroy a good frame of worker comb, for they are good property for the beekeeper to have. Store them in a cold, dry cellar and the wax-moth will not trouble them. Th-'v should lie wired, however, or they break from the frames while extracting. Extracted honey sometimes docs not sell quite as readily as comb, and why? It is the pure honey without the indigestible wax. Physicians tell us that wax is no more digestible in the human stom ach than leather or India rubber, and I believe was no more intended by our Creator to be eaten Ilian tlie skins of fruits or the shells of nuts. Pure extracted honey will always granulate or candy when exposed to continued cold, and this is the only positive proof of its perfect purity. It should lie sold in that form, and then the public could he sure of what they were buying. But as long as there so much distrust of granulated it will have to be heated and like canned fruit to keep it liquid, Most honey producers put it up way at the present time. To sum up, if you wish-a pure article of honey, buy it in tlie granulated state or of beekeeper who has a reputation to sus¬ tain—Mrs. H. S. Stockman, in Massachusetts Ploughman. JOHN PAUL JONES. '• %fa *■*■ i ■. m3 m mmm m *A “ _ n; *4 SS s V* if m ml 4. ■: m I- I wsm m fa hie m ll ■jm i m IP |.V y s PI nr wm m m m S5* u fa: fat m ms £faj ■ bfa fafa ■ - k WM pS l v* * "vi WHAT IS REGARDED AS THE MOST CHARACTERISTIC AND LIFE¬ LIKE PORTRAIT OF COMMODORE JONES. BABY CHARM. There are points of similarity fbe tween the baby of highly civilized parentage and the offspring .of the mi tutored savage. Both of them are de lighted with toys or play with the rattle, finding much delight in the sound. Nearly ail peoples nave doits for their babies, and in the museum at Cairo there are dolls exhibited which I I. 1 jiggg mm f*'sa£* , 5 - , . : M : 'T, • WM ri i . ; m ■ 5S® I are 7000 years old. Here is shown a j baby charm carried by a childless mar¬ ried woman in Vecliualaland. It is al j most similar to tlie baby rattle used by that savage tribe, and as a fetich it is believed to have peculiar potency. —New York Herald. . Tolerating the School. f The schools are our natural enemies, the oar and the bat our hereditary friends and allies. But, after all, one j cannot imagine an Oxford without its schools; if there were nothing to make ibe slacker do an occasional work and to spur tlie reading man on to further efforts life up here would be very drab.—Oxford ’Varsity. IN THE PUBLIC EYE. i ' 4- \ Hi IMS *• , . i V.-v m - ! '/ ■ ■ , m ■ ■ j , - j sCfgA , i ■ C.-.v .fa. fa;. ; ■ M i ■sun "*>T m COMMANDK R PEARY. He will sail in search of the North Pole in the staunch Maine-built vessel, | The Roosevelt. Th« Cork Tree In Arizona. E. O. Sowers, tbe mining man, has just come in from Pinal County and has brought with him a sample of cork bark taken from a tree on the Irions ranch. It is perhaps the only cork tree in Arizona and one of the very few cork trees in the United States, but the thrifty condition of it | proves that cork can be produced here.—Arizona Republican. “Big Frank” McCoy, touted as the klbg of bank robbers, is dead. A ROYAL MUMMY. . i ifa-Gih. fgS'Si KAMESES III. One of the greatest finds in the his¬ tory of archaeology was that of the royal mummies of Egyptian kings in 1881. To conceal them from the hand of the plunderer at a time when the law was weak, they were removed trom the royal tombs to a rocky cleft tn the Libyan Mountains where they remained hidden until IS< 0 ., Here they were discovered by some fellabin who did a thriving business in the relics found with them. After six years the source of their precious treasure was found out. One of these mummies was that of Rameses III., and whose well preserved face is seen in the picture which was taken from liis mummy now in the Gizeli Museum. Omission* of History. Jack Sprat livd just inf .ned his wife that he eoiildn t eat fat meat. “I think you’re-just as mean as'you can be!” tearfully exclaimed Mrs. Sprat. “You know I can eat no lean! , Boor' little Fido will get nothing but the bones!” - But the unfeeling nusband, picking aip the morning paper and becoming absorbed in the details of the beef trust investigation, paid no attention to her indignant protest.-Chieago ( ri nine. Brief Hut Klo<|u*»tit« A small boy’s contribution to legis¬ lative literature is as follows: Ihe legislature is necessary. We’ve got to have it. Paw Says he’s goin’ where the Legislature is. Paw ain’t never had much to say at home, but he says he's goin’ to have Ids say in the Legislature—If he don’t see Maw in the gallery.” Mrs. Partington said, “Good healtl is a great blessing, qieclaliy when you are sick.” CLOSES I Legislature of Georgia Ends After Strenuous Session. IMPORTANT WORK DONE At the Windup Bills Disbanding Col. ored Troops and Making Drunk ertnsss a Crime Were Rushed Through. Tlie general assembly of Georgia was adjourned at Atlanta sine die ac exactly 9:40 o’clock Friday night. During the evening session, the last discord in the house on the general tax act gave way to harmony by the recession of the house from its po¬ sition on liquor taxes as regards so¬ cial clubs and dining cars. Several other bills were passed, but most of the evening was given over to felici¬ ties of one sort or another, including the presentation of a handsome goltd headed cane to Mr. Hall of Bibb by tho new county committee. After the final adjournment, the members began bidding each other farewell, while a large group gathered in the center aisle and sang “God Bo With You Till We Meet Again" and "The Oid-Time Religion.” The house on the last day of the ses sion waded into senate bills in a busi nesslike manner and many measures cf importance which originated in the upper house , were enacted . . into . . , laws. Between senate bills now and then, there was a report of a conference committee on some subject or other, the liquor tax, the reformatory bill or appropriations, but the house stuck to its work and senate bills were dis posed of in prompt order. Only a few senate measures, to which there was some objection, or which were too long and complex for proper consul eration in the closing hours, were put on the table. The house passed bills to make drunkenness and disorder on -public highways a misdemeanor; to increase the salary of the attorney.general; to provide more superior court judges; to make it a felony to shoot or throw rocks into a passenger train; to re quire sheriffs to keep bloodhounds; to ma ^ e c }ty and county bonds accepta* b]e ag depcsits by insurance comp.”. nieg . tQ rev{ge the m „ !tarv , aws 0 f } . . 4ersi , - other measures S wide de • ' imDO ‘ tance ’ | ■ th 1S the a so reached tl an general agree.,.e appro j W1 s “ r ;f e on e ! P«ations . b:ll, the state reformatory ! till and the general tax act, the latter ! delaying the adjournment until the night session, After some discussion in the senate ! Friday afternoon the bill by Repre semative \\ light of Richmond, making i: A misdemeanor to buy or attempt t0 buy a vote at a >' rimar > r election, was passed by a vo e of 26 to 1. A large number of important gen era l bills were passed by the senau’ ; at the morning session. Among these 1 was the “$75,000 appropriation for a water works system at the state sail'. ; tsrium at Milledgeville, the measure I disbanding the negro troops of the s t at f e ^ the hill 6 exantins telephone the rizht compl of em n domain to nies, the bill providing for local ooun ty taxation for school purposes and a : bill providing for a special appropria | tion of $25,000 for erecting a building at the Georgia Normal and Industrial : college. DRAG RIVER FOB CORPSES. j- Thirteen . ... Bodies 0 f . Excursionists _ . . _ Re. : covered and Five Missing. I A Norfolk, Va., dispatch says: The ; removal of the two Atlantic Coast Line cars which plunged into the Elizabeth river Thursday aflternoou revealed the fact that there were but i two bodies in the cars, making the number of beodies recovered thirteen, ; ahd with five reported missing. A careful examination of the bottom ; of the river revealed no more bodies, ; and the Coast Line officials are con¬ vinced'that the death list is now com¬ plete. | CAR LOAD OF HYMN 3DCK3 Adopted by Northern and Southern Methodists Shipped to Chicago. The largest single shipment of a re I liglous qmblication ever known, ac- I 1 cording to the book publishers, was made when the Methodist Book Con- ; ; cerns at Cincinnati sent a freight car j containing 21184 copies the «rs, con • ignment of the new Methodist hymnal i to 'he branch house in Chicago. The new hymnal is the only one on which the two Methodist churches, | north and south, have united since ' 1846. The book contains 717 hymns and 600 pages. i j SCORE BURIED UNDER WALLS. | Theatre Building at Pittsburg Cot- j I lapses, Entombing Many Workmen. At 6:45 p. nn, Sunday, the walls and | first floor ceiling of the Avenue The¬ ater building at Pittsburg, Pa., which | was burned some time ago, and was being wrecked, preparatory to the con¬ struction of a new building, fell with crash, carrying down about , a twenty i Italian laborers, burying a number under the debris. I LOST 72 POUNDS. W “ Faat IXriftluK Into the ol Kidney . Sickness. I Dr. Melvin M. Page „ Co., Erie, Pa., writes: *»p akj DtlCJl many iced drinks in New York ,0 ° ft | a 4k w wasted from 194 to 122 pounds, j time , I started using Doan’s At the Pills abscess KliW 7 an was forming right kidney. The on JJ trouble was q U checked, however, and tho cured me, so that I have been since 1896 and weigh 188 well Foster-Milburn pounds.” Co. Buffalo, N Y For sale by all druggists. Prk* w t cents per box. ’ ONLY HALF TRUE. She—They say that every woman has a secret sorrow. Do you believe it? He—Well, she may have the sorrov all right—but it’s no secret!—Detroit Free Press. j RAW ITCHING ECZEMA | Elotctie* Hand*. j on Kara and Ankle, F« Three Year* — Instant Kellef » a <l i Speedy Curo by Cuticura. “Thanks to Cuticura 1 am now rid o( that fearful pest, weeping eczema, far th# first time in three years. It first appeared , on my h a nd ’, a growing into several blotches, . , and then • on mv ear* Tain They were exceedingly itching, and always raw. After the dm day’s treatment with Cuticura Soap, (Jint ! ment and Pills, there was very little of tbs ! burning and itching, and the cure no* j i^seng^Agen't bITu if*' 1 ^ Washington, D. C." j THE FAMILY VICTIM. ! Having Made a Fortune, This Old Man is Now Under Discipline. Every morning at 9 o’clock precise jy an 0 i<j gentleman, walking with tin a ij 0 f a stout cane, enters the side door of a Broadway saloon in the Nineties and takes a seat in a corner : where he is comparatively safe from observation. The bartender, without asking questions, carries to him a 4 gar and a drink of whisky, and til old gentleman smokes and sips in aj Parent contentment. Just before tit : cigar is finished he takes another drink - Then he walks slowl >' dcw ! to Riverside Drive and sits in a stady spot until lunch time, when he eater! ; a flne manslon near by a nd is seaa unti i the following morninj “That’s a funny case,” said the bar¬ tender, as the old gentleman went oal after his customary cigar and drinks, “He’s a retired banker and lives ii luxury. He has a large family and, they have everything they wish for, £ b e old man i 3 looked upon si a sort 0 f necessary evil about tho house. He is not permitted to smoka j n the house, and as for drinking why, any member of the family would I have a fit if they saw anything of a« alcoholic nature on the premises, “Now that he lias made the money which supports them, they relegate the old man to the rear, and he is a- s that age where he hasn t spirit tort' bel. So he comes in here everyday and S° 69 ‘sneaks’ back home his contented. drink and smoke ' n aj a Q ueer world? New Yoik Motor Cars and Dust. After experiments he daily, with the the chier motofj sur car which uses veyor of Essex finds that at a speal not exceeding ten miles an hour Jj motor car creates comparatively L tie dust uoon a properly made how,| roai| but at flfte en fo twenty miles an especially with heavy cars, the sancp , s into j CT able. The expense i treating the main roads of the co® try outside the urban districts ta r macadam would be £1,611,0^ WRONG SORT Perhaps l’laiu 01(1 Mfat. Potato 1 ” * Kreail May BeAgainlt YouEora >- J A change to the right kind of can lift one from a sick bed. A I Welden, 11!., says;. Bedfast ^ “Last spring I became ied» severe stomach trouble accompT sick headache. .1 got worse and until I became so ldw I could SCH ‘ retain any food at all, although every kind. I bad become . ly discouraged, had given up - and thought I was doomed to s ,ir . ^ ea th, till one day iuj to And something I could retain Lome sotllR Grape-Nuts. “To my surprise the food ^ ^ H fle8 h iwhioh had b«» ~ ■ ^ mv ‘ health and imi»r° m» v ^ every way and e ver y day. tew weeks I gained 2<> P° un | Grape-Nut* so fffl tliat’for weight. I liked otb?r ^ 4 months I ate no and always felt as well satisfleu had sat down 1 a eating as if I banquet. the misem 1111 “I had no return of ^ sick stomach nor of the heat ar ^ I used to have when I ate 0 ail ® -< I am now T a well woman, that W , f e > own work again, and feel worth living. S 0 ’ “Grape-Nuts food has been a a to my family: it surely saV< fa r ; f #| and my two little boys have py it wonderfully.” Name giv f!1 • turn Co.. Battle Creek, Mien. There’s a reason. Roa* Get the little boob, “T ke Wellville,” in each pkg. Be “t me home wlft a terrible attac ki dney trouble bad acute • I eo ngM . ' on 8harp Pain in K ziness. attacks of t “8 '' fie, gave out, and m the languor sleeplessness a . d disease of the