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The main features of the paper this week are left off because of a scarcity of help and having to move. Call over Taylor Bros, store A LITTLE NONSENSE. HOG RAISING. BEET PULP SILOS. Loir Cost ArrmiBementn For Koeii- inc Stiprnr Bert Palp. Sugar beet pulp accumulates In large quantities nt the sugar factories, and It Is evident that an economical use of a material with so low a feeding vulue depends upon an inexpensive method pf handling and storing it. In a recent bulletin of the California experiment station are described silos that are be lieved to possess the. desired require ments for preserving the pulp, since they confine the required quantity In a email space, reduce the exposed sur face and may bo strongly built nt a comparatively low cost. It has been observed that when a pile of sugar beet A—OPIKf SILO. B—TlUOtOH HILO. pulp Is exposed to the weather the sur face decays to a depth of six or eight Inches, forming a crust which protects the remainder. In the, silos described -this fact . Is taken advantage of. Ono form consists of n large open bln with sloping sides built on the surface of the ground, the other of a trench or exca vation with sloping sides and a tint floor hovered with plank. * Silo A may be made of refuse lumber -and of nny size to suit the convenience of the feeder. That shown in the flguro was 12 feet wide, 30 feet long and fl feet doep and'would hold about two car loads of pulp. The silo B Is simple And Inexpensive and may be convenient ly made by excavating a passage -through or in the side of the hill. It Is recommended that the bottom should always be planked and provided with means whereby the water may be enelly land quickly drained from the pulp. Tho planks should he set up well from the .ground and be far enough apart to Heave a crack between thorn after they .have swelled. The sides may or may, not be planked, hut less pulp Is lost If ' they are covered with boards. A silo ■of this sort was 000 foot long, 00 feet ■deep, 20 feet wide at the base and 80 feet wide at the top. The bottom only was planked and had a gutter under the floor which thoroughly drained the pulp.. It was filled by means of carrlors which brought the pulp directly from tho sugar factory. Small silos can be readily tilled by driving u wagon along side of .the top of the silo and shovel ing the pulp Into it. It is not necessary to cover either form of silo with a roof. How the Poore Family Announced .Their Return. “N ow, Jennie,” quoth Mrs. Poore ns she descended to breakfast, "have you thoroughly mastered that story about the Italian marquis falling in love with you at Narragansett Pier this summer?” “Yes, mamma.” “And Mary,” to her second daughter, “you haven’t forgotten all the details of the flirtation until tho Now Y'ork millionaire that I took so much pains to coach you up in ? Re member, it happened while we wore at Saratoga.” “I’ll not forgot, mamma.” “Of course, John, you’ll bear in mind that you became engaged to a California heiress at Newport?” “Trust in me, mother.” “Well, if you all know your parts,” and Mrs. Poore breathed a sigh of relief, “I suppose we may as well get home today. The Up- pertens next door arrived yesterday. After dinner, John, you get those empty trunks out of the barn and have them brought around to the front door by an express wagon. Then we’ll open the shutters and get a breath of fresh air. It’s been insufferably close in here all sum mer, and we’ll all be glad to get out doors again. Bo sure to gush a great deal, girls, about the charming time we’ve had at the seashore.”— Brooklyn Eagle. FOR THE LITTLE ONES. It Pays to Herd Turkey.. A peculiar thing about herding tur keys, especially if the poults have tur key mothers, Is that once their, day’s route lp established they will go tlie same round each day and generally on schedule time. The best plan Is to keep the flocks restricted to tho territory ad jacent to their coop until the poults are feathered, when the broods can bo flocked together and started out to the woods and fields. Here Is where the herder is needed. The losses from va rious sources — strays, hawks, foxes, mluks and weasels, hunters and dogs a little later in the season—make big in- -coqds Into the flock unless guarded. Ordinarily this would be rather dull work for a boy or girl, and none should Attempt It unless there were two for ■company. The route taken by the flock could be through all the stubble fields where sufficient grain food would be gleaned, In the pastures and cut meadows, where the poults would do good work on .grasshoppers, crickets and other in sects, and into the woodland, where they will dust themselves In the fino ■dust of some rotten log to rid them selves of lice. Evenwhen it Is Imprac tical to guard them the entire day much ■enh be done by way of Insuring their safety brt having them roam in the di rection snowing least danger. This can he done byi starting them right In the morning and feeding them a short dis tance away from home on their return At night —Cor. New England Homo- An “Extreme Cotton Planter**’ Vlcim on Hogs, Cattle nnil Gran. In the Inst few years (he high price of meat nos drawn the attention of our people to raising hogs, and only In a small way has It been done economical ly and at n profit. I am an extreme cotton planter, but have always given much attention to hogs, cattle and grass. Let the negro make nil the cot ton ho can, for It is all he will success fully do on the fnrtn. Then If you are a large Inndowner raise nil the grain, hay and mont yon can. You can got tho negroes’ labor cheaply when they are not needed in the crop. Make them plant almost exclusively cotton and sell thorn their rations nnd horse feed.) Most of them want only a little money! Christmas. I fprnlsh that to them. ^ Give all your idle nnd spnro time to your stock and grass. To be a success ful .stock raising nnd bay farmer you must have knowledge, uud that can bo acquired here only by long years of ex perience and a thorough reading of our southern magazines. You must know what kinds of grass nnd grains to sow that arc sultnble to our climate and soil. To raise hogs cheaply yon must have good grazing for them every day In the year. 1’lnnt your corn next to you-.' summer pasture, plant ground pens In the drill of your corn nnd fill all water furrows with pons nnd have your corn field fenced. For summer pasture you must have red clover, Johnson grass, mollllotus and Bermuda. Melltlotus and red clover will furnish you good grazing In Febrn ary, Johnson grass In March and Ber muda all through the .summer. Then I pull your corn last cl September and j turn your hogs hi your ground, pens and field peas. As soon ns they eat up ono field sow It in grain early in Octo ber. Then put your breeding sows in your grain fields tq,.Tuly with their pigs. Leave them -In {het: till Inst of March, take them off, sad ns soon ns grain is In the-nillk I put them back nnd let them eat It up, then plant again In corn nnd pens. I feed pigs In pens liberally. They are the only hogs I ever feed- corn to.* I sell my hogs off the pea field without any com, either gross or dressed, and I sell hogs from October till April. Get yon a 'good breed of hogs. I hnve tried every breed of hogs, nnd 1 prefer the Berkshire hog. He Is thrifty, prolific and his meat is very, superior. You want good fences, and the best and In the end' the cheapest fence Is tho wo ven wire. It costs about $75 per mile and will last a lifetime. It will take from $3,000 to $5,000 to go Into the hog business; then from that $3,Q00 you should sell $1,000 worth of meat be sides eating thirty or forty sliotes a year and having your own meat. But hogs are Hke chickens—you must look after them every day In tho year.—E. Napier In Southern Cultivator. “I spent all the money I had in the world on flowers for you, dar ling.” “Well, dear, it wasn’t your fault that you didn’t have more.” Business. “I see you have chicken for din ner.” “Yes, suh,” sand Mr. Erastus Pinkley. “I hope you bought tho chicken.” “Well, no; but de transaction were strictly regular. Dat chicken has been roostin’ on my fence foh months wifout payin’, an’ I reckon ed it were about time to fohclose.”— Washington Star. A Neglected Resource. Butter making Is an undeveloped re source of giant possibilities In the; southwest. Estimate the value of ai carload of butter valued at 21 cents’ per poqnd, or $400 per ton. Not less than 1 100 cars of this product comes to Texas annually. Our farmers are growlug boll weevils and neglecting a. crop that the western farmer sends to our state that sejls for $400 per ton.’ Hero Is virtually a half million dollari crop that our people are blind to. Turn on the light or remove the scales fromi the eyes of our people. — Farm and' Ranch. How Mr. Frogglo Sheds His Coat Ones Each Year. Frogs change their skins after tho winter is well over and there is no more danger of sharp winds and nip ping frosts. And this is the way they do it: A froggie whoso skin is “ripe” will go off nil by himself and sit under a big, broad plantain or burdock leaf in the shade, just blinking his eyes for an hour or moro. Sometimes ho will shiver, nnd his skin will seem to creop, and presently ho will “hunch” his back and sit in tho funniest round shoul dered fashion. Then a big crack will appear in tho thhi, dry outer most covering of his skin, often from the middle of his flat head to tho tip end of his broad body. As soon as lie fcols this ho begins to wriggle, and the dry, husky skin splits wider ntod wider and rolls back further and further until he can reach tho ragged edge of it with •ono of his feet. Then he begins to scratch nnd at last pools it off his legs and over his head just as little people pool off their tight fitting llnnnels sometimos. And then- dreadful to relate, though Mr. Frog- gio enjoys it hugely—ho rolls it all up in a little bunch and eatB it I How to Make Big Soap Bubbles. It is crent sport to make soap bubbles, but it is twice ns muoh fun if tho bubbles are big oneB, strong enough not to break when they are floated to the floor. Bubbles twice as big as your head or ns big as tho biggest kind of football can ho easily blown by any one who knows how to mix up the soap bubble ma terial. To make theso big bubbles take a piece of white castilo soap about as big us a walnut. Out it up in a cup. of warflv water and then add a teaspoonful of glycerin. Stir well and blow from a small pipe. This will make bubbles enough to last all afternoon; and this is all you really care to make in one day. A Cheap and. Handy Device. An Iowa Homestead correspondent gives a little sketch and explanation of a very simple de vice for stretch- Hunt the Whistle. Play this in Biimll numbers, ex cluding the majority of tho party till the trick—for trick it' is—has been performed upon all who de clare they don’t know tho game. Blindfold one of the party and let the rest sit in a circle. While the blindfolding is being dono tie a whistle to some portion of tho dross of the blindfolded ono. Let it hang at the end of a ]ong piece of Btring. ! The game consisfs’ in the circle of i players getting hold of the whistle | and blowing it, while the blindfold- ! ed one has to guess who has it. Of j course directly he has discovered the trick it may be played upon an other less wary. lng wire. Get a fork of any tough wood four or five feet long, split one A WIRE STRETCHER. on( j pl nce the wire in and begin twisting. Wire may be perfectly stretched In this manner. Drapery For the Bed. For the young housewife who is ever struggling for pretty effects and yet has to think of her pocket- book a charming way of adding to the daintiness of her bedroom is suggested. A simple and graceful drapery which adds to the beauty of any style of bed is easily arranged. It consists of one length of what ever material is chosen. This is passed through a large ring of wood or brass hanging from a staple in the ceiling or from a rod projecting from the cornice at the head of the bed. The ends of the material are drawn apart in cur tain fashion and carried to the sides of the headboard, where they are held back by means of .bands or chains. A few rods of .'cretonne in one length will permit this style of drap ing. Elsie’s Spelling. One day- when little Elsie came home from school her mother asked her whal she had learned that day. Elsie replied: “I learned to spell man.” “Tell me how you spell it, dear,” said mamma. “M-a-n, man,” replied Elsie. “And how do you spell boy ?” ‘‘You spell it the same way, only with smaller letters,” replied Elsie after a moment’s thought. Brief Mention. Texas fever Is reported as existing among cattle In the Netherlands. The culture of capers Is suggested as a possibility for some of the southern and southwestern states. •it Is a popular misconception that bamboos grow only In the tropics. : Japan Is a land of bamboos, and yet 1 where these plants grow it Is not so i warm in winter as It Is In California. | From the talk at the Georgia horti culturists’ convention it appears that they are enthusiastic as to the fruit' fu- i tnre of the state. I Cotton Is still king In the export rec- cords of the United States, and its rec- pnss that of any preceding re marks an exchange. It is considered a fair day’s work, far one hand to Out and hoqse 100 sticks of tobacco, says Dr. Killibrew In Home and Form. I; .-■•< r , NATIVE PLATINUM. The “Noble” Metal. This Peculiar Subatauaeok On tlie slopes of tho Ural nnd In Brazil. California, AiranJralto,' Canada nnd many other coantrkr.a - cellar subHtnnco known os natlrv- plat!- - mini Is found. This is an alloy of tJ» metals platinum, palladium, IricUnm, osmium, rhodium nnd rnthcnJnm. to* gethor with a little gold nng'tMn. Ail; of these except the laBt mentioned: the “noble” metals. They do not tar nish lu the air and are not soluble in. any single acid. The most plentiful metal occurring In natlvo platinum to that from which It takes Its iujkhv. This metal Is of a grayish color and with one exception Is the heaviest anb- stance known. Its fusing point is ex tremely high, and this property, gethor with its froodom from tnmlsh- lng, causes it to be lorgely used for the' manufacture of crucibles and other vessels required by scientists to stand a very high temperature. It Is aloe sometimes used as n substitute for sold In photography, nnd whon deposited la a thin film on the interior of the tubes of telescopes It forms a dead black surface, which prevents tho light from being reflected by tbe polished Bides. Palladium Is of a lustrous white color. It Is tho most easily fused of tho motnls found In plnttnmn ore, and can even bo volatilized. A curious quality which this metal possesses Is that when heated to redness it Is porous to liydrogou gas, allowing it to pnss through somewhat In tho same manner that blotting papor permits the passage of water. The silvery white color of pnllmllum nnd Its freedom from tarnishing render It useful for mnklng scales uud division marks on scientific Instruments. A mixture of this motnl with mercury Is sometimes used for filling teeth. Osmium Is a' metal which possesses two remnrkabto properties—it in the most refractory of the motnls, resisting fusion at tho most intense hent, anil It Is also tho honvlest substance known, being twen ty-two and n half times heavier than water. Together with iridium, It oc curs principally In a peculiar variety of native platinum called osmlridlum. This minoral differs from ordinary platinum ore In that It contains a larger proportion of osmium and Irid ium than platinum. Osmlridlum Is found in small particles, varying In weight fropi one-sixth to one-third of a grain. Theso particles are extremely, hard and are used for pointing non-, wearing pens. Metallic iridium possesses a whits steel-like appearance. The knife edges of delicate balances and other bearings which require extreme hardness are often made of It An.alloy of 10 per cent Iridium and 00 per cent platinum has been found to bo very little affected In volume by changes of temperature and Is the substance of which the standard meter kept In the Internation al metric bureau at Paris Is 188$?^ Rhodium and ruthenium are metals of little practical use. Tbe former occurs In platinum ore to tbe. extent of 5 to 8 per cent. Tbe latter is found only in osmlridlum and averages about 5 per cent of that mineral. The metal which ranks next to platinum in price is zir conium, which occurs In hyacinth and some other rare minerals. Uranium is remnrknblo for its high atomic weight, tbe heaviest known.—Chambers’ Jour nal. Kaiian. Sugar Beet.. From the western portion of the stats of Kansas report shows that this has been a profitable season for beet sugar growers there. Twenty-five tons an acre are reported as common yields iq the western part of the state. In oni of the towns from which a report was sent —Lakin, Kearny county—it way said that the streets at tbe time were filled with wagons loaded with beets, The beet raisers are well satisfied with tbelr season’s work and will plant a larger acreage next year. Mrs. Block of Syracuse Is the agent of the state ag ricultural department far the purpose of paying state bounties, and she hi kept busy. The beet produet is shipped to Rocky Ford, Colo, where tbere is a factory, as Is generally known. It hi rumored that a similar factory will be established at Lakin, Kan. Mr. Frank McVaughn, who built tho Rocky Ford factory as well as four other factories in that section, says the beet sugar in- dustry will be a permanent thing in tbt upper valley of the Arkansas river, and If. the .government's prospective irriga- tton experiments are successful be look# for the entire upper valley to be plant ed with beets.. There are fire factoriesi now. a short time tbere will be tbirr ty.—Iowa 'Homestead. M .!■ ...