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MODERN CHICKEN COOf 3.
Ono* TnUHnr Lath, Have Oivea Wajt
to Wire Nettiag.
Men whose memories go beck, say,
40 years will remember that in t wee
days when a man wanted to bui d a
i * chicken coop he bought a bundle or two
<rf lath« and built it There are ifiighty
few lath chicken coops built nowadays.
| Even the smallest chicken raiser, who
I keeps a few in his back yard, makes his
cooper runway of poultry netting. The
I ■ chicken house, or shelter, is made of
beards, often of two thicknesses and
with tarred paper between, for better
protection from the weather, and with
openings at the bottom and under the
projecting roof for ventilation.
Laths were cheap; poultry netting is
still cheaper. It is made of steel wire,
galvanized, in various widths and in
various sizes of mesh. The netting most
commonly used is six feet wide, with a
two inch mesh. The chicken raiser sets
up a frame and tacks the netting to it
Narrow nettings of smaller mesh are
used in various ways to keep in little
chicks—sometimes a foot wide small
mesh netting to run around at the base
of the inolosure, the regular netting
being set above it, .thus increasing the
total height of the netting. Sometimes
the small mesh netting is run* around
inside of the regular netting, thus mak
ing the lower part of the netting doable.
Sometimes it is used to make separate
small inolocures within the large run
way and perhaps to make a number of
Small inolosuips to keep separate broods
of chicks apart. The narrow, email
mesh netting is made up to three and a
half feet in width.
There is nowadays a use for wire net
ting in chicken houses. A netting with
• square mesh is laid on the floor of
chicken houses to keep out rats and
mice. ' \ ■
There are now many large establish
ments in this country for the raising of
chickens for commercial purposes, for
market and for breeding, and there are
as many men as ever who raise chickens
at home, from the many who keep a
few in the back yard, with a simple
chicken house and coop, to men who
raise many chickens and maintain an
elaborate plant for their breeding and
keeping. But under whatever conditions
they are raised, chickens are rarely seen
nowadays in coops made of laths, such
as were familiar 40 years ago.—New
York Sun.
AN ECLIPSE OF THE SUN.
Somber and Terrible Was the Scene at
the Moment of Totality.
Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd, writing in
The Atlantic of an eclipse seen in Ja
pan, says: “Just before totality, to oc
cur at 2 minutes after 3 o’clock, I went
over to the little lighthouse, taking
up my appointed station on the sum
mit, an ideal vantage ground for a spec
tacle beyond anything else I ever wit
nessed. Grayer and grayer grew the
day, narrower and narrower the cres
cent of shining sunlight. The sea faded
to leaden nothingness. Armies of crows,
which had pretended entire indiffer
ence, fighting and flapping as usual on
gables and flagpoles with unabated fer
vor, finally succumbed, and flew off
with heavy haste to the pine forest on
the mountain side. The French man-of
war disappeared in the gloom, the
junks blended in colorlessness, but
grass and verdure suddenly turned
strangely, vividly yellow green.
“It was a moment of appalling sus
pense. Something was being waited for.
The very air was portentous. The flocks
of circling sea gulls disappeared with
strange cries. One white butterfly flut
tered by vaguely.
“Then an instantaneous darkness
leaped upon the world. Unearthly night
enveloped all things With an inde
scribable outflashing at the same sec
ond, the corona burst forth in wonder
ful radiance. But dimly seen through
thinly drifting cloud, it was neverthe
less beautiful, a celestial flame beyond
description. Simultaneously the whole
northwestern sky was instantly flooded
with a lurid and startlingly brilliant
orange, across which floated clouds
slightly darker, like flecks of liquid
flame, while the west and southwest
gleamed In shining lemon yellow. It
was not Mice a sunset; it was too som
ber and terribla”
Sane Advice to Yon ng Artists.
“Don’t give in” was about the gist
of what Sir Wyke Bayliss said to the
English art students in a lecture at the
South Kensington museum. He told
them what ought to be their watchword:
.“Do not believe, he said, in the in
sidious lie that the devil is always
whispering to the soul of the artist
that the golden age of art is past and
that what was done yesterday cannot be
done today, for art is in its decadence.
Such an assertion was the danger of the
time, and he would have them track it
to its source and kill it there. It had
two forms—despondency and tempta
tion—but he urged them not to be in
fluenced by either. Let their study be
based upon knowledge, the knowledge
that had accumulated during the ages
and was formulated in what was known
as academic trailing, and let their
knowledge in turn be based upon their
own study. ”
a Certainly that is the best of advice,
Tor what has been done before can be
done again.
Mo Need to Cry.
“Don’t cry, Buster,” said Jimmieboy
after the catastrophe. "Napoleondidn’t
cry every time his brother hit him acci
dentally on the eye. ”
“I know that, “retorted Buster. "Na-*
poleon did all the hittin on the eye his
self. Baaas,
Boro Felicity.
She—Such lovely bargains as there
are at that new place!
He—Ah?
She—Yes, silks at 18 cents, and in a
store so small that a hundred persons
crowd it to suffocation!—Detroit Jour
nal
A HARVEST OF HUMAN HAIR.
Millions of Founds Year Get Tangled
Up In Commerce.
Perhaps there is no staple article
about which less is known by the aver
age person than human hair as an ar
ticle of commerce. It will doubtless
surprise many when it is stated that
the dealers in human liair goods do nos
depend on clutnce clippings herq and
there, but that there is a regular hair
harvest that can always be relied upon.
It is estimated that over 12,000,000
pounds of human hair are used annu
ally in the civilized world for adorning
the heads of women. In New York city
alone over four tons of this class of
goods are imported yearly.
"Not a little of the hair used in this
country,’’said a New York dealer to
the writer, "comes from the heads of
American women, and it is fully as fine
in shade and texture as the imported ar
ticle. We had a big harvest during the
craze that the fair sex had not long ago
for having their hair cut short. Many
thousands of women who then had their
locks sheared have since bitterly regret
ted it, as in many instances their hair
has grown so slowly that they have
been compelled to wear a wig or a
switch since the fashion changed. After
the majority of women reach the age of
80 the hair seems to partially lose its
vigor, and if cut it will not grow long
again.
"Two-thirds of the ladies nowadays
use false hair more or less. The decree
of fashion, or the desire to conceal a de
fect or heighten a charm, is the reason
of course. One woman, for instance,
has a high forehead and wishes to re
duce it in appearance. Another has
worn off the front hair by continued
frizzing and would like to conceal the
fact Both make use of a front or top
-piece, with a choice of many styles.
“Ladies’ wigs cost from S2O to $200;
half wigs, top pieces and switches from
$lO to SSO, according to quality.
"The . largest supply of hair comes
from Switzerland, Germany and the
French provincea There is a human
hair market in Merlans, in the depart
ment of the lower Pyrenees, held every
Friday. Hundreds of hair traders walk
up and down the one street of the vil
lage, their shears dangling from their
belts, and inspect the braids which the
peasant girls, standing on the steps of
the houses, let down for inspection. If
a bargain is struck, the hair is out and
the money paid on the spot, the price
varying from 60 cents to $5 in our
money.
“A woman’s hair may grow to the
length of 6 feet, and I know a lady
who has been offered and Refused SSOO
for her crown of glory, which is over
6 feet long. A single female hair will
bear up a weight of four ounces with
out breaking, but the hair thus heavily
weighted must be dark brown, for blond
hair breaks under a strain of ounces.
There are some 2,000 importers, manu
facturers and dealers in human hair in
the United States.—Washington Star.
Valorous Cow*.
The editor of the Condon (Or.) Globe
saw a deed of cow valor that was worth
recording as well as seeing. A herd of
cattle, and among them two cows, ac
companied by their calves, were graz
ing in tall dead grass when the calves
became separated a little from the rest
of the herd.
Just then two huge, hungry coyotes
crept up through the grass, cut off the
calves from the rest of the cattle and
started in pursuit of them. After run
ning about 200 yards the calves came
to a high, five wire, barbed wire fence,
and, being small, managed to get
through it On the other side of the
fence was an open pasture.
The wolves quickly followed the
calves through the fence and were rap
idly running them down on the other
side, when the two cow mothers discov
ered what was going on. Each uttered
a loud bellow, hoisted her tail and
started for the rescue.
It appeared to be a hopeless chase,
for the wire fence intervened, and the
cows were certainly much too large to
get through it They knew well enough
that it was there, and could, besides,
see it plainly, but both cows plunged
together straight into it.
The watching editor, horrified, look
ed to see them hurled back, frightfully
wounded, but instead one of the posts
gave way under the onslaught, the
wires sank down, and in another mo
ment the mothers were on the pasture
side of the fence, badly cut and bleed
ing, but still able to charge the wolves
successfully and put them to flight.
Soon the cows were licking the res
cued calves affectionately, and the coy
otes were howling a disappointed duet
from the summit of a knoll near by.
Cat Basket.
Cat baskets are made especially for
the convenient carrying of cats in trav
eling, and they are also used to some
extent for small dogs. Those of Ameri
can manufacture are made of whole
willow and are oblong in shape. Cal
baskets imported from Germany are
rather more costly, and are made of
split willow. The German cat basket is
oval in form, made larger at the top
than at the bottom, and with the top
finished rounding. There is in the side
of the basket a grated door of willow
rods, which opens on hinges and gives
the cat light and air. In each end of
the basket, higher up than the door,
there is a small square window.
Cat baskets are made in various sizes,
and in the course of a year there are
sold a considerable number of them. —
New York Sun.
, Perhaps She Came Down Too.
She—So you are engaged to Miss
Spry?
He—Yes, but it’s a big come down
for me. ’
She —Why, I thought she was such a
sweet girL
He —She is, but she rooms on the
first floor and I’m on the eighth.—New
York Journal
CUSTARD PIE ASSOCIATION.
IU Aunaal Moetiuc. Hold F at Day, Is •
Boyal Feast.
Unique among tbeorgatifo cions of New
England is the Hartford (Ate.) Custard
Pie association. Its very n< ne is so sug
gestive as to excite curiosity < mcerning its
origin, its history and what is done at its
annual meetings. The association started
in rather a commonplace manner. Ono
toM winter morning in 1860 William B.
Cusbmhn and Charles Irish, neighboring
farmers of the town, met after some pre
liminary bantering, during which each
claimed to be able to eat the most custard
pie, and appointed the following fast day
for a custard pie eating contest, their
wives to be cooks and judges.
At the stated time they met with their
wives and two huge custard pies at Mr.
Irish’s saphouse, in his maple orchard,
and Mr. Cushman, who had spent the
forenoon in walking over the great hills as
a sort of training for the occasion, proved
tbe better pie eater. The next fast day
several other farmers of the neighborhood,
with their families, joined them, and the
meeting was changed from a pie eating
contest to a social gathering. After this
they met each fast day, and the story of
their good times spread until almost all
the farmers, with their families, for miles
In every direction joined the association.
The last meeting of this prosperous as
sociation was held at the residence of Wil
liam B. Cushman. About GO persons at
tended, each bringing a huge custard pie
baked in a two gallon milk can. During
the forenoon, while the women were pre
paring the dinner, the men passed the
time rolling ninepins, pitching horseshoes,
playing cards and in other rural amuse
ments.
When dinner was announced, a scene
was presented such as never was seen else
where in New England and probably never
in the world. The long tables extending
along tbe spacious rooms were loaded with
the great two gallon custard pies, made
of freshly laid eggs, rich new milk and
cream, sweetened with such fresh maple
sugar as city lips seldom taste, baked as
only country housewives can bake when
they make the effort of their lives, slightly
browned on top and sprinkled with fra
grant nutmeg. When this unrivaled deli
cacy was washed down with simmered
maple sap or country cider, sparkling with
the sunshine the apples had stored the
previous summer, it seemed the nearest
approach to the fabled nectar of the gods
that human skill had ever attained.
Toasts were proposed and happy responses
made.
After dinner the men again rolled nine
pins, pitched horseshoes and engaged in
other pastimes while the women cleared
the tables and prepared the rooms. Then
fiddlers appeared, and the party passed tbe
evening in the merry whirl of country
dances.—Boston Herald.
The Seed Becord Broken.
Over 20,Q00,000 packages of vegetable,
flower and field seeds have been distributed
by the department of agriculture during
the past spring. This distribution has
given to each member of congress 40,000
packages of seeds at a total cost of SIBO,OOO.
Over 1,000,000 of these packages were
flower seeds and nearly 300,000 field seeds,
the balance being a great variety of vege
tables. In the entire distribution nearly
every variety of vegetable known to the
agriculturists was distributed. There
were 80 varieties of beans, 10 varieties of
beets, 23 varieties of cabbage, 11 varieties
of carrots, 19 varieties of sweet corn, 18
kinds of cucumbers, 80 kinds of lettuoe,
19 varieties of muskmelons, 17 kinds of
watermelons and 15 varieties of onions.
The entire amount of seeds distributed
was sufficient to plant an area of 855
square miles, or about six times tbe size
of the District of Columbia.
This is the largest distribution of seeds
ever attempted by the department of agri
culture, and it is said that seedsmen all
over the country are complaining that
they do not make sales to farmers and
others because they are getting all the seeds
they want free from tbe department of
agriculture. .
The distribution of seeds in 1893 amount
ed to 8,800 packages for each member of
congress, at a total cost of $66,548; in
1894 each congressman got 16,000 pack
ages, the entire cost to tbe government be
ing $57,000; in 1895 the number of pack
ages of seeds distributed was tbe same as
in the previous year, but the total cost
was reduced to $47,000. In 1896 congress
men got 15,000 packages each, and the
government paid $80,500 for the whole lot.
During the past spring each member of
congress has received 40,000 packages of
seeds, for which the government has paid
$130,000. —Washington Star.
Manner of an Introduction.
It is mortifying to note how many per
sons pay little or no heed to what may be
styled the etiquette of introductions. To
the lover of good form there is something
that sets one’s teeth on edge on hearing an
introduction so worded that a woman is
presented to a man or an elderly woman
to a young one. The rules with regard to
Introductions are so simple and sensible
that it would seem that tbe wayfaring
man or woman, though a fool, could
scarcely err therein. A man is always in
troduced to a woman, and it may be well
in passing to add that a lady’s permission
should usually be asked before such a pre
sentation is made. It is a simple matter
to say, "Miss Smith, may I present to
you, Mr. Jones?" before uttering the for
mal, "Miss Smith, allow me to Introduce
Mr. Jones."
The man is, of course, always brought
to the woman whom he is to meet. The
woriian should never be led to the man.
These rules might seem superfluous were
It not that one so often observes their in
fraction among people who should know
better. At a tea a matron who years be
fore had arrived at the dignity of a grand
mother was piloted by her hostess to a
young girl of 20, and they were made
known to each other In the well meant
words: "Mrs. Knight, I want to present
you to my dear little friend, Mabel Day
Mabel, dear, this is Mrs. Knight, of whom
you have so often heard me speak.”
If tbe ladies were amused by tbe speech,
they were so well versed in that knowledge
of good form in which their hostess was
lacking that they showed no consciousness
of her error.—Harper’s Bazar.
Indians Employed as Train "Spotters.**
An educated Pueblo Indian boy and a
squaw, attired in full Indian regalia, have
been traveling over the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe road between El Paso and
Trinidad for the past month, paying rail
road fares in cash to the conductors and
acting as "spotters." As a result eight
or ten passenger conductors have been de
tected in "knocking down "and have been
discharged. It is said this is the first time
in history that innocent looking Indians
have been employed in tbe secret service
of any railroad company.—Santa Fe Let
ter in St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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WANTS HAMS, NOT ARTISTS.
A Music Ball Manager’, Complaint of Aa*
tore Who Are Abov* Tholr Basin ere.
“I don’t want any more artista,” said
the music hall manager who gave the
burlesque. “Tbe people I want are
bams and nothing bnt hams. Whenever
I get an application from an actor who
calls himself an artist, I’m going to
tear up the letter for fear I might lose
toy presence of mind and engage him.
If the play’s a success, the artist did it.
If it’s a failure, it was the author.
Sometimes I wonder, when I hear thesi
artists talk, what is the use of their ever
having plays written for them at all.
They’re independent of the dramatists,
and I should think they would just step
on the stage and talk their plays. But
they don’t do that. They merely con
tent themselves with refusing to speak
this or that lino because it’s‘rotten,*
substituting something of their, own,
and then saying it’s the fault of the au
thor that nobody laughs at their stupid
gags. I happened to have a bunch of
’em here, and that lasted me for the
rest of my life. Hereafter I’m out of
it.”
“What are artists?’* asked the inno
cent.
"They’re chiefly actors who’ro con
demned to come and act in the music
halls for three times as much as they
ever got in their lives before. What
they do is to call everything rotten, de
cide that they know more about the
play than the man who wrote it and
walk around as though it were beneath
them to do anything more like acting
than that when it came to the question
of acting in a music hall. ”
“And hams, what are they—the sort
of hams you mean?”
‘ ‘They’re chiefly variety actors accus
tomed to hard work, rough maybe, with
a quality of get there that makes the
audience interested. They’ve come up,
and the artists think they’ve gone down.
The difference's between trying to do
something well, because it’s the best
opportunity you’ve had, and taking no
interest at all in it because you’ve been
in the habit of doing what you think is
better."
“But isn’t it better, as Sam Bernard
says, to be a has been than a never was
it?"
"Maybe it is, but it’s rough on the
manager who pays his money out for
them. I had one of them here, and he
was going to be so original that he
not use the lines the author
wrote, but promised to tickle the audi
ence to death by some entirely original
grinds of his own. When the test came,
he went on the stage and did the same
things he had done 11 years before. He
was never able to do anything else dur
ing the rest of the time. I had some
others like him, and that is why I say
now that I only want hams, not artists
—hams that work hard and know how
to make an audience enjoy itself, not
artists too fine for anything.”—New
York Sun.
Fresh Figs For Northern Markets.
Fresh figs are not known or appreci
ated in northern markets, and conse
quently the demand is too limited to
encourage shipments. It seems doubt
ful if the distant shipment of fresh figs
will ever become a profitable business.
The fruit is more perishable than any
other that is generally marketed. It can
be handled only by the most careful
and experienced persons, and even then
it is not in a condition to show its best
quality. Ripening in midsummer, when
the northern markets are crowded with
many well known fruits and not being
especially attractive to the eye, fresh
figs would at best gain favor slowly.
The fact that many people do not care
for them at the first would be another
obstacle in the way of their popularity.
Moreover, the fig is a tedious crop to
handle when in proper condition for the
market. It is necessary to pick the trees
over carefully every day during the sea
son or much fruit will be overripe.
With large trees this involves much la
bor. The acrid juice of the immature
fig eats into the fingers of the pickers
and packers, while rainy weather oc
casions heavy loss by the cracking of
the fruit, which renders it unfit for
market.—Southern States.
Home Duties of Indian Children.
There are home duties as well as
pleasures for the children. Boys are re
quired to look after the ponies, to lend
a hand in planting, to help in the har
vest, and they are often made to do ac
tive duty as scarecrows in the newly
planted field, where, like little Bopeep,
they fall fast asleep. The girls help to
gather wood, bring water and look after
the younger ones. As they grow older
they are taught to cut, sew and make
garments. In former days, the old Oma
has say, no girl was considered mar
riageable until she had learned to tan
skins, make tents and clothing, prepare
meat for drying and could cultivate
corn and beans, while a young man who
had not learned to make his own wea
pons and to be a skillful hunter was not
considered fitted to take upon himself
the responsibilities of the provider of a
family.—“ Home Life Among the In
dians, ” by Alice C. Fletcher, in Cen
tury.
A Peculiar Dutch Custom.
A peculiarity among Dutch farmers
who live at a distance from a town is
to have a coflin in readiness for their
burial. It is by no means uncommon to
see a still sturdy old patriarch going to
an outhouse and gravely contemplating
that which is to hold his body when he
shuffles off this mortal coil. This Char
acteristic has also appeared in President
Kruger, who has recently imported a
coffin, and at a cost, too, of £lO9.
Precautionary Measure.
Patient—lsn’t it a little dangerous to
administer anaesthetics? Must be terri
ble to have one die in your chair after
you have given him ether.
Dentist—Yes. It was for that reason
that we adopted a rule that where an
anaesthetic is administered the patient
must pay in advance.—Boston Tran
script.
AN OPEN LETTER
To MOTHERS. ■'W" I
WE ARE ASSERTING IN THE COURTS OUR RIGHT TO THE I
EXCLUSIVE USE OF THE WORD * C ASTORIA,” AND
“ PITCHER’S CASTOBIA,” AS OUR TRADE MARK. H
I, DR. SAMUEL PITCHER, 0/ Hyannis, Massachusetts,
was the originator of “PITCHER’S CASTORIA,” the same
that has borne and does now on
bear the fiic-simile signature of wrapper.
This is the original “ PITCHER’S CASTORIA,’’ which has been
used in the homes of the Mothers of America for beer thirty
yegrs. LOOK CAREFULLY at the wrapper and see that it is
the kind you have always bought m
and has the signature of wrap-
per. No one has authority from me to use my name ex
cept The Centaur Company of which Chas. H. Fletcher is
President. ,
March 8,1897. .... . *.».
Do Not Be Deceived.
Do not endanger the life of your child by accepting
a cheap substitute which some druggist may offer yo*»
(because he makes a few more pennies on it), the in
gredients of. which even he does not know.
“The Kind You Have Always Bought”
BEARS THE FAC-SIMILE SIGNATURE OF g
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Insist on Having
The Kind That Never Failed You.
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