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MS SISTERS DOWDY The dinner was a success; we all were In most excellent spirits; we all of the party was going to the country of colors, sunshine and romance "Now I think It Is rather dangerous of you,” I said suddenly. “What Is Imprudent? Going to .Koine?" one asked. "Yes," I said, "It Is dangerous to go to Rome, for you may be forced Into marriage there.” My friends laughed and begged me to relate my experience there. "Now I must tell you that during the year I lived In Rome 1 was In the habit of getting shaved every day by a certain barber aud hair dresser, Bqptnl. I wanted to keep up a good appearance and could not think of be ing seen with a two-days-old beard “I was greatly surprised one morn ing to discover that a big, dark-skin ned fellow, who resembled a bandit, bad taken Bonlnl's place In the shop. “He noticed my surprise and said In the suavest manner: "You will have to excuse Olcom Bonlnl today. He Is In bed very sick, I am afraid. I have come to take his place.' "As he saw I was about to answer and possibly object he went on In his most angelic manner. “ 'You must not doubt my talent. Signor I dally shave the French min ister, two cardinals three senators, a Spanish duke. Milord Abercrounny and a colonel, who has just returned from cy glorious war In Tripoli "It not necessary to say that much to convince me. I must have a barber and might as well have him ad any one else, so I gave myself Into his hands. But what hands! Gigantic and muscular, they seined to belong to an executioner rather than to a barber. I trembled when 1 saw him stropping the razor “Then he began to talk to me of Tripoli and a thousand other things. Suddenly he drew a deep sigh, and a tragic expression came into his swarthy face. “ ‘Alas,’ he sighed, T had a sister once.' ” 'ls she dead then?' I asked, try ing to appear Interested, “The tragic expression was follow ed by one even more sinister, “ 'No, she Is not dead,' he moaned ‘lt Is far worse The miserable crea ture lives the life of dishonor. Some accursed foreigner has carriedhhre r off I do not know where they are hiding, but If I only knew the name of the villain I would kill him within an hour. If I ever meet him with my poor poor sister. Battlstlna. 1 will have the lives of both of them or my name Is not Paolo Capponl’ "He kept on raving furiously HIS hand which was on my throat, trem bled convulsively As for myself, I was In a state of deadly terror, and beads of cold perspiration rolled off my forehead. "Suddenly the virtuous Capponl seemed to grow meeker and more con ciliatory. ‘Yes, I will kill them noth unless he marries my sister.' "And softer still he added; “‘Or give her a dowry A small a very small dowry But he must give it to me. Paolo, who Is the head of the family.’ "His razor was moving round mad ly. At last he finished and T Jumped out of the chair Paolo Capponl, the strong champion of morals, took me before the big mirror and said In his sweetest voice, while he wiped his In strument of torture: “ ‘Will the signor please notice clean Is the shave, how velvety your skin, and not the slightest scratch If. therefore, the signor would be kind enough to give me a little tip, say, 200 Hres, he will never hear of md again Bonlnl Is sure to be well to morrow.’ "Two hundred lire! This was evl dently Battlstlna’s dowry. Then he Informed me that the girl 1 had hired as housemaid was his sister. Battls tlna He frightened me Into paying the 200 Urea, but 1 discharged the girl on tnv arrival at home "That Is why I say It Is dangerous to go to Rome.” —Chicago American On the Wrong Key. Whenever Representative Richmond Pearson Hobson of Alabama goes campaigning for votes, he puts all his heart and soul Into the work Polite ness, affability, and enthusiasm are his long suits. On one occasion dur ing his last political fight he was given a reception at which he was Introduced to a middle aged woman who showed a great Interest In poli tics. "This Is a great pleasure, Indeed,” said the congressman. "I remember your husband so well. He Is one of the best friends I have In the county He did me a great service In the last campaign, and I know he’s my friend In this He always sticks to me.” "Is that so?" asked the woman haughtily. "He died In Georgia fifteen years ago.”—Popular Magazine. Compromise. Chester, two and a half years, be came very unruly, romping through the parlor, drumming on the piano, pulling portieres, etc. That night while he was saying his prayers his mother told him he should ask God to make him a better boy. After thinking awhile about It. be said; "Please, God, don’t rake me any worse than I am.” Busy Business Man. "Why are you reading those old newspapers?” “Just going over some of last sum mer’s baseball games. I’m trying to pick up the language again.” The Formal Plea. "Prisoner," said the court officer, "are vou guilty or not guilty?" "What's the use of my sayln’?” asked the old offender "My reputa tion for truth and veracity Is so bad nobody would believe me," Enjoying Himself. "Cot my family In the country now.” "And how do you like country life?” "It ain’t half bad 1 manage to miss the train out about three nights a week." i NOTES fPfln MEADOWBROOK ftm *C)\ SB IUMaMM The fly Is a nuisance. Work for a reputation. Look out for the curcullo. Gather eggs at least once dally. The Kelffer pear is the standby of the masses. The farmer Is known by the amount of clover seed he sows. A bran mash and a day In the pas ture —for the horse off his feed. Outdoor subjects animals to sun shine and compels them to exercise. Be sure the mares and colts In pasture have shelter from the hot sun. Charred corn fed to the fowls occa sionally will prove an aid to diges tion. Egg growing rests not solely with the ben, much depends on the man in charge. We cannot grow pigs profitably without feed enough to keep them gaining steadily After the crop expert has prescribed for your sick soil, Introduce him to the boarder cows. In setting out strawberries, pinch off most of the loaves and the plants will take hold better, Corntneal and skim milk make the best of feed to hurry chicks along to the fry and broiler stage. The calf should be cleaned Immedi ately after birth by carefully rubbing It with a dry cloth or straw. Give the hens a chopped onion oc casionally In the mash It Is excel lent as a disease preventative. Red cedar, Colorado blue spruce and Black Hill spruce are excellent evergreens for the yard or windbreak. Since the first reaper was Invented and put on the market the silo Is the greatest boon that has come to the farmer. If your asparagus turns yellow It Is a sign of rust. Every affected plant should be at once cut out and burned or well sprayed. When setting any of the bush fruits the top should be pruned to corre spond to the root pruning the plant gets In transplanting. A good many farm gardens are too large. A small patch well cured for will prove more satisfactory all around than a field of weeds After the third day a mixture of broken grains Is good for the chicks Before that they are better off for hav ing nothing but grit and water. There Is no danger of having an oversupply of good country butter. In the metropolitan centers It has be come almost an unknown quantity. A wide range In summer feeding may be used at the start of the feed Ing period with profit, but It must get narrow as the feeding period ad vances. If everybody would begin feeding new oats carefully, horses would not have so much trouble with colic. lie gin very light, gradually Increasing the amount. Bee-keepers who do not keep queens for more than two years clip the right wing of queen In even years and the left In the odd years. The age of queen can thus be told. Do not use poison on any of the trees or plants while In bloom, as do ing so may result In the death of many trees, which are of great neces sity In the garden and the orchard. Hens forced for egg production by high feeding and stimulants may give the desired number of eggs, but the future generations will show the ef fect In weak constitutions. Forcing a cow for a short period cannot always be accepted as the legi timate measure of the capacity of any breed, no matter how well authenti cated any great performance may be. When pigs are once afflicted with "bull-nose” there Is no cure. The dis ease may be arrested by smoking with camphor gum. This Is done by con fining the animals In a tightly covered box and placing a little camphor gum on a red hot stove lid. They will in hale the fumee. The trouble Is no doubt Infectious. It Is a good plan to have a grazing lot of some green crop near the barn, where the cows may pick at night. It helps (o keep up the milk flow during the hot months. While more good dairy cows will be found among the dairy breeds than anywhere else, the mere tact that a cow belongs to a dairy breed Is not proof positive that she la a good dairy cow. srea SELL THE CULL EWES EARLY Far Better Policy to Fatten Animal* and On Market Before September Than to Keep Them. It Is a very common but a very poor practice on the port of fanners to keep the cull ewes which they have discovered In their flocks until along late In the fall, and then fatten them and sell them. By fall range sheep are coming onto the market in great numbers, fanners are selling their lambs pretty generally and as a re sult there Is little demand for these old ewes. They seldom bring a good price at that time. In our opinion. It would be s far better scheme to get these ewes fat tened and onto the market early, that Is before September, anyway, sits a writer In the Farm. Stock and Home, Brices for all kinds of stock are good now and will remain so until the sup ply Is much greater than tit present. Where there Is n scarcity of meat, as at present, the market Is less discrim inating, and old ewes can be sold to far better advantage than later In the fall, when more choice Is possible We should not, however, advise farmers to sell their cull stock with out first fattening It up well. It Is poor policy to put extremely thin stuff on the market The percentage of waste Is very high la such animals and the quality of their flesh very poor, so that buyers buy them only at a great discount In seasons of shortage. They have to pay only a low price for It in order to protect themselves. A farmer will make more money to wean his lambs. If any of these cull ewes have hail them, then give the ewes an abundance of green pasture and enough grain to put them Into a good meat producing condition before he undertakes to sell them Whatever may have been your cus tom in the past, separate out the ewes that for one reason or another you do not want ui keep, fatten them and put them on the market early Then keep tab on the prices and see If you have not made more money by so do ing than you would have to have kept them two or three months longer. MAKES FEEDIMG SWINE EASY Trough Shown in Illustration Is Con venient and Has Nothing to Get Out of Order. Here is a pattern of a hog trough which has good points. Simply cut off the lower panel of the fence to make an opening large enough for the - > Convenient Hog Trough. trough to project about a foot out side the pen, writes J. S, Wade of Wel lington, Kan , In the Farmers' Mail aud Breeze. It Is convenient to use and has nothing to manipulate or get out of order. TO MAKE SMITHFIELD HAMS When Cured According to Directions Given Herewith They Are Con sidered About Perfect. After the hogs have been killed and the meat thoroughly cooled the fresh surface Is sprinkled with tine salt peter until the meat Is white, says The Farm Magazine. About three or four pounds of saltpeter is used to 1,000 pounds of hams Fine salt is then rubbed over the entire surface and the hams are packed in bulk not deeper than three feet. In ordinary weather they should re main thus for several days, at least three Then break the bulk and re salt with fine salt and again pack Each ham should remain In bulk at least <ue day for each pound of weight. The hams are then hung up and gradually smoked for thirty or forty days with hickory or red oak bark. When the smoking Is complete they should be repeppered and placed in canvass bugs to guard against vermin. The Smithrteld hams cured as indi cated Improve with age, and are con sidered about perfect. Mineral Composition. The mineral composition of food stuffs is very Important. This Is rep resented by lime, phosphoric acid and several other substances. Those sub stances go to mak up strong bone and corn Is very deficient In these elements. Alfalfit. (lover and other forage and pasture t ■ ps supply these deficient elements in the cheapest aud best forms Flashlight Pistol. An electric flashlight pistol looks so much like a real weapon that it might do duly In a pinch to scare oft a burglar or other marauder, but it would do no more harm than to shoot a ray of light to light up a dark cor ner. It is built on the lines of the modern repeating pistol, and Is made of blue pressed steel. The handle contains a small battery, and the bar rel a tiny tungsten Incandescent lamp. Pulling the trigger causes the lamp to glow. RAISE GEESE ON FARM Vacant Places Unfit for Cultiva tion Quite Suitable. Fowls Occupy Same Place Among Poultry That Sheep Do Among Live Stock and If Given Care Are Profitable In Proportion. Contrary to common belief, geese mturc just as rapidly away from Streams or ponds as near them. A generous supply of fresh drinking wa ter is all that Is required. There are many places on a farm worthless for cultivation that could be used with ex cellent results for geese raising. The cost of food for geese Is propor tionately small In comparison with other birds bred for market. A goose on range will eat grass, Insects and other animal and vegetable matter found in the Welds. Geese occupy the same place among poultry that sheep do among live stock and If given proper care are as proWt able In proportion, says a writer In the JlaltlmoK American. It Is Just as nec essary to pluck the leathers from a goose as to shear the wool from the sheep, and the product has a great demand The feathers may be picked four times during the summer, and each goose of the larger breeds will yield about two pounds of Wne, soft, downy feathers. For the best results 1 feed my geese an egg-producing food, consisting of four measures of wheat bran, two An Excellent Trio. measures of shorts, one measure of beef scrap, one measure of oil meal unci one-half measure of sharp sand I give them a small quantity of this food twice daily and allow them free range. 1 do not allow my geese to hatch their own eggs, because they are so clumsy that they break them, besides I wish to keep them laying all i the time. Though more geese were raised last year than ever before, yet the markets are not oversupplied, and the demand is grow ing all the time. Geese mature very rapidly and attain an enormous size. The young are hardy and easy to raise. After they are five days old they should be left to find their own feed on the range and require no care except shelter during severe rain storms and at night until feathered out. They live to be very old. Some breeders report them living and doing well at twenty years of age. Another Important fact about them is that they are not susceptible to disease, this in contrast to most poultry. HOW YOUNG CHICKS ARE FED Wisconsin Expert Gives Method Em ployed at the University in Car ing for Little Fellows. "For the first 10 to 14 days, we feed the chicks at the university farm a little commercial chick feed, which Is thrown into a fairly deep litetr of hay chaff three or four times a day," writes Prof. J. O. Halpin of the College of Agriculture of the Uni versity of Wisconsin in reply to a question regarding the feeding of young chicks. "In the middle of the forenoon and the afternoon," says Professor Hafedn, "we feed a little mush made up of equal parts of coarse ground corn, wheat bran, wheat middlings, and 1 rolled onts. Once a day we mix a raw egg in with this mash, one egg for about each tin chicks. As they i get older, we gradually increase the amount of raw egg, adding enough water or. better si ill, milk to keep the mush from being sticky und sog i gy. As fast as they learn to eat it, we mix more and more wheat and j cracked corn into the chick feed, so i that by the lime they are three weeks old they are eating cracked corn and wheat entirely. From the start we give access to dry mash made up at first like the wet mash, ex cept that the roiled oats is omitted after the second week "Flue sand on the brooder floor, covered with short cut Alfalfa hay. j Is ideal. Ground bone in little hop i pars, so the chicks can help them selves, la also good. A few drops of potassium perniungnate stock solu tion, just enough to turn the water red, or just enough Zenoleum to turn the water whitish, may be put Into the drinking water." Watch the Chick*. Keep close watch of the little chlcka during this hot weather and see that they are not troubled with head lice, especially those that run with the ben. Protect the Eggs. The steady rays of the sun will soon cook an egg these days. A canvas ' cover for the egg basket or crate on | the way to town makes a big dltfer j dice. As a rule the heifers calving at about two years old develops milk giving ten dencies which grow with her growth | and strengthen with her strength. Properly managed, the silo will In crease the amount of milk that can be produced upon the farm and will also aid to cut down the cost of production Sheep that get lazy and don't want to go round are apt to be sick. Make them exercise, If only to go a half j mile to get a drink. Better for them 1 every way. JUST A LITTLE SAM WAS JUST COMING BACK Georgia Negro Receives Purse of $2 1 to Sleep in Haurted House and [ Then Disappears. A certain haunted house down In Georgia was held In terror by all the j negroes In the vicinity except Sam, | who bravely declared that for $2 he i would sleep there all night. A purse was raised and Sam was told to carry out his end of the bargain and to call In the morning for the money. When morning came no trace could be found of Sain: the house contained nothing hut evidences of a hurried departure A search party was organized, but without result. Finally, four days later, Sam. cov ered with mud. came slowly walking down the road "HI, dere, nigger!" yelled a by- j slander, “where’s you been de las’ fo’ ! days?" To which Sam curtly responded: i "Ah's ben coinin’ back.” —Everybody's Magazine. Muffled Knocks. "Hobby, you mustn't put your sticky I Ungers on Mrs. Kuwler’s nice dress; j It's the only silk dress she lias." "No. Mr. Smyjer, 1 haven't the j sltghtesl obectlon to your smoking in my house; let me offer you a good [ cigar." "Old scout, you always pitch a good game of ball —except when I'm betting uu vou." "You live In Outsoraehurst, do you. Mr. Ulubbins? Has that suburb a re spectable residence section?" "You show good literary Judgment, Mr. Lee; you're always stealing my stuff," “Won’t you let your Utile boy come to our Sunday school, Mrs. Jerdle? It can't make him any worse, and it may do him much good." Why, Indeed? “Papa, this story tells about u man who was very cruel." "Very cruel?” "Yes He was lying stretched out upon his dying bed." "1 don't see —■ —" "Hut if the bed was dying why did he embitter its last moment by lying upon It?" Excellent Feint. "So you’ve got a phonograph, have you?” asked the lady ou the fourth floor. "Yes; can you hear It up In your apartment?" asked the lady on the second Moor * "No, we cannot I suppose It has some other good points, too?" Clever Deduction. The train stopped for a few mo ments and the passengers looked out "Everybody In this town seems to look perky and contented.” remarked Dr. Watson. "The town evidently has a winning baseball team," deducted Sherlock Holmes. SHE WAS A HUMORIST. The Brigand—Why do you Imagine 1 abducted you only in jest? The Malden —Oh I I'm not used to being taken seriously. Making Good Parrots. Macon—l see telephones are used to teach parrots to talk In a London bird school. Mrs. Macon—Well, there’s one thing certain: telephones can't swear with out help Too True. "Our washerwoman says it's funny about colors in dress goods." • What s funny about them?” "That folks call ’em last when they won't run ” Soul System. "Alg.v writes to seven girls.” "It s a wonder lie doesn't get his j love a "fairs mixed." •Hi kr a card index." Well, That, Yes. Yeast—Don't you think woman is a puzzle? (Timsonbeak—At times, yes. Yeast —Nobody can ever tell what I she is going to do. Crimson beak -Oh. yes; anybody can tell she’s going to talk. Children Cry FOR FLETCHER’S CASTOR I A Children Cry for Fletcher’s Tlie Kind Yon 1I nve Always ] Sought, and which has been in use for over 30 years, has borne the signature of . - and has been made under his per ■/y - sonal supervision since its infancy. '^&^ c y/,y &sCc/u/b{ Allow no one to deceive you in this. 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