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tie Orst ttme. evidence is
Merited- that' the( stoij of• Lln
.... substitute Is correct—evidence
official.
from ihe federal, gov-
,.w exemption of the president of
.ttsilMUU- States from. the taking up
lii or serving on. an actual field
fe.ls^provided -for by a special'
'd*»w® uptomeet such a .con-
V-'
a Private of
:p6i'C..
,i^^«UJi(iMBRFIELOv«TARLEs i.
^Iffipl|!s':' Substitute." From a' Pho
,(ogrsph Takeh «t the Tlftie He WSnt
•to the Front, in Lincoln's ftead.
fa-'the- ranks of the Grand) Army of
ifee^ Republic asspred 'me that they
^are Certain that/'Old Abe" was un
IN9resented In the rajikd of the boys
fa hlue.y For all Wat it seemed to me
S•a*'ohe
it the story was something more
of ithose romantic incidents
'jjjj&'ifrequently, quoted as having oc
m- «nred
ln
£t
the lives 'jit- famous men aft-
r' ftfey had passed 6ver to the great
^niaJbiMty Incidents lendlng color to
laudatory biographical sketches, but
'.'rejected' py the', thoughtful historian'
.4ris being formed of "the stuff dreams
'are' made of." Lincoln, Vi^i Kls ex-:
"l^'iiited Ideals, his' stern 'devotion to
•I'doty his undying love: for the Union
aad all that lt^ represented, was ex
actly the type of man to consider him
self at' fault if he neglected to make
every possible sacrifice in his power
"'•s -J* the cause he held .dearer than, life.
y\, I corresponded with -the federal au
.'^librlties at Washington on the sub-''
f*ct, but the replies I received did not
tfttd to bring me any closer to'the,
1. Instead they asserted' positively'
the reported tradition was entire
ly without foundation* A letter from
the war department stated emphatic-
I
A A N
BRAHAM LINCOLN bad ft
:.' substitute 'wbo"Berved aa
a defender of the. Union
through the bloody and
^epoch-making period of
^'the Civil yMr. Tblis asser
tion .has been made many
times before, fit haa
aroused bltterv contro
versy various .quarters
TimIn
It
given birth to col­
umns of print, both In
Sand denial of
v,
Its truth,
But there is nothing to
—wsout- the' nation's chief executive
•ending forth a substitute to
In 'bis place, although Lincoln
he.only- occupant of the White,
whomever took .advanUge of,
fact. The manwhoi represented
his person that of the martyred
it waa! Johnf8umm'erfield Sta
wtoee body nowllee at restin1
MMe cemetery- at Stroudsburg.. Pa.
tombstone above hip grave, pho
to of wblcljilalMr^
"not only .to-" Staples' 'war',,
bat states ta: granite, letters
,,tte flet of Ills having'served as Abra
'Uncoln's substitute. Thelnscrip1.
to (question reads aa f6llpws:|||p
^SraunerSeid Staples,.:•$$»'•,.
17® Regt, P..,.WfS -',
^AlsoaMember of the A'
2 Reg. D.:C. Vols., as a
1
Substitute for
ABRAHAM lincoln.
Med' Jan. U, 1888,
iHd 41 Tears. 4 "Mm., 25 Days:
grave also'.bearstheiG. -A. .R.
vametalllc star upon which
,/tt* words'
His
,J^ost160"
.ptared to be tbat
suMtitute
appear. A pmall
i/ijawrlnsn flag, flutters in, this breeae,
~#a|-'the outside world seems little in-.
as tb the. career, of: this patrl
^btfe-aad distinguished soldier boy.
1 hadfheard the tradition that Lln
during the dark days of 1864 had
asat1a substitute to the front'"'But
J|&ti(-'eeollrm- the truth'of the tradition
onlte another matter. The popu-.
opinion of those I consulted ap
the tale of Lin
.. .TH jed in the myth
{allegory, and baA iA%qra'foundation'
ta iober faot' than tbe legend of Wash
^|t.,Mfa|toB.and the cherry .tree. Men hig&
P#W_i'
v(i" y,,v
ft!*** ('J-CJS'
I
t^Does History Repeat Itself?
V* jf
rt
Rome, is like some ftunous woodland
glade that every artist paints she Is
like some problem in bridge-building,
at wblch every engineer tries his
Sand. Thus, in the days |When his
tory consisted of wars and battles,
men studied Rome as the great man
ual of military experience and when
car conception of history advanced so
as to include governmental problems,
it was Rome that was the great text-
"Limit"
'|b
in
8hort Welaht.
Ve. AV. P. King, assistant secretary
'§t lAe state board of health, has found
wfij.t he terms "the limit" in short
weights. He wrote to a sporting
goods house a few days ago to buy
some dumbbells for his daughter, and
'In "hefting" a pair found that one
Was lighter than the other. He called
Che attention of the salesman to his
discovery and the dumbbells were
placed on a balance and weighed, and
one found to be fourJounces short:of
J. 8UMMERFIELO STAPLES.
"Lincoln's Substitute." From a Phbr
tographTaker
His
ken. a FeW Years Before
Death*
ally: "It does not appear from the"
official records of the department
that President Lincoln, ever [furnished
a substitute." Anotber Informed me
that "Abraham Lincoln was not liable
to draft," a fact'of which
kI
was al-:
ready weli awiare. Had not sucb b(een
the case th«| employment of ,&--substi
tute would have lost all significance.
But a: personal search through the
official records of the Civil war,
brought to light a reference to "Abra
ham Lincoln, .principal, and John Sta
ples,' rechiit, both of the District of
Ccdumbla." And on apother page ap
peared in entry to the effect that Lin-,
coin wished a representative recruit^
and saine was assigned as' private to
Company of the Second regiment
D. C. infantry. J^lth thepe entries as
a base. of operations it' became jtos
sible t^o trace the substitute, and the
dlscovenr was made' that John/8. Star
pleS' WU bufled,ln Stroudsburg, Pa.
Further details were furnished by Mr.
John .W.: Burnett of Massachusettes,
a comrade of Staples, In the following
letter:
"I well recall the"
military career of
J. S. Staples of my regiment The
awful losses of the Union army east
and west, were weighing heavily on
dear.'Lincoin. and he, wlth oihers in
public life, were' considering the de
sirability .of having '/personal repre
s^itatlve|i|i In-the field for those not
eil(^ble' fbr aervice .At' all. Acoording
to my recollection in the fall or late
summer of: 1864 Mr. Lincoln l^id a
committee 6t cltizens\ of t^e District
of Columbia search
(for SsV|«rfect
Therefore.-tli^/acts. In the case/
dier.
were, laid before the federal authori
ties, |&nd I received from the office of
the commissioner^ of .pension at Wash
ington an official statement confirming
the entire trietditibn concerning Lin
poln, and hiB substitute^• This docu
.menit| reads follows:, 11 .•
'V'.^par^cmi''df!'uB. iaterlor,
Bureau jofvPensiona
4
Washington) May 11,1910.
"John. Summerfield Staples, residing
at Stroudsburg, Pa., filed an applica
tion for pension in 1882, stating, that
in the Civil war he had served in Coin
pany -C. One liundredand Seventy
sixth Pennsylvania militia, ^nd after
wards in Company f&, Second Dlstrlpt
of Columbia infantry, and that in his
second enlistment lie was a substitute
fbr President Lincoln.
"The records show that said soldier
enlisted November 2, 1862, in Com
pany C, One Hundred and Seventy
sixth Pennsylvania
tdrafted
ijr
militia,
that he was honorably discharged
Mfy 5, 1863, and that he afterward
enlisted April i, 1864, in Company H,
Second District of Columbia- volun
teers, from which he was honorably
discharged at .. Alexandria,! Va., *Sep
tembe^ 12, 1865, and the recofd also
show that in this last service he waf
enrolled as a representative recruit
.for Abraham Lincoln, who was' not
liable 'to draft
T'lt is shown by the papers on file
in this case tbat during the war Presi
dent Lincoln decided that he would
place in the army a substitute to the
credit, of the) District of Columbia, and
that he communicated bis desire to do
so So .tttje provost marshal tof the dis
trict, with a request that he select the
person who should be placed' In the
service, and that the provost marshal
then sent for Noble D. Larner, then a
prominent cltlcen of this city, and
stated to him the president's wishes,
and Mr. Larner afterward succeeded
in getting the substitute in the person
tit
,t
a
s'peciihen iof physical inanhocMl as
could be foond to' become jhis repre
sentative recffiult' -This commlUee, or
some of:'them^, met my deir comrade
(Staples)V.on the streets 6f tQeorge
to*f^ s^d seei^--^ftmi^^^com-.
pact lorm, and beinr'at "once sitipfied
tiie?mm-' ^wiarrtiy-be
^lnc^Wtrepreseiltatlve in the airmy,
ttiey ihwle "ia. proposition' to hlna^- and
the loy^l'Tboy—fpr he^vr'as but a boy—
atj Qf^ce signified his desire to fill this
honorable position. He was. soon' aft
erward Introduce^ to President Lin
coln, :an| the latter gladly choie him
sis his representative."
yiVAitnbugh.' the I communication re
fieived from Mr, Burnett was as con
vincing as one could) wish, yet it was
clear. that without governmental sanc
tion there. still would remain doubting
Thoniases who would dispute the
claim made In bebalfsof the dead sbl-
1
k,
book in tbe history of legislation. In
very recent days we have suffered
reaction from the formality of the
classical school of history, and we
havq entered upon the orgies of real
ism,., Starting out from a' hilt-digest
ed theory that because antiquity in
some, respects resembled the pres
ent, therefore
must have been ex­
actly like ,the present, we have
reached stimnge and marvelous re-
"I don't believe the misbranding
could be handled under the' pure food
law," said Dr. King, "but Isidor Wulf
son might take the case."
Dr. King /recalled that when Ben
Hur was a .slave on the .Roman galley
he represented to the overseer that
keeping a galley slave ctained to one
side of the ship all the tiflw developed
him on one side only an# that the
owner was not able to get full value
received for bis prfce for the slave,
and that as a result the slaves were
the
Mi
t-J
U* i* A'
ft -ivN f~ -A
of Mr. Staples, and he was afterward
mustered into ,the service.
-*Thls is about all the information I
can give you, with reference to the
matter, and would suggest that if yon
desire to learn anything about the
private life of Mr. Staples you might
write to the postmaster or some other
person at Stroudsburg,/ Pa., where
Mr. Staples lived and where be died
January 11, 1888."
(signed) J. L. DAVENPORT,
.Commissioner."
There are ^several people. still living
in Stroudsburg who knew Staples and
remember that to him belonged the
unique distinction of.: representing'
Lincoln on the field of battle. Among
their number sire J. T. Palmer, post
master 'and principal of' the public
school C. L. Drake, .editor' of the
Stroudsburg' Times, and Represents-'
tlve A. Mltchell .Piumer of Pennsyl
vania. It' wai characteristic of Lin
coln that he kept the matter ^om thai
public press, and. a:, like, modesty
s^emi.oipiihave imposed sllence pn the
young'scMier whorservsd'lis ebuntry
One does, not have to makf fa"vsry
exhaustlveCstudy of Llncoln'a 'Charac
ter .in. carder to understand the -.motive
whlu led htm to send, a substitute to
represent him in the scenes of the
bloody drama ,~then being enacted
throughout, the-land,' Bis cohscienc«|
was not of thatVeasily satisfied variety
which contents Itself with alloMic
things to riimaln as they sre, without
lndul^ng In exertlon.for the common
goeld. His -was- the hand. whtch was
steering the Ship of State through
tempest and crash of hostile, guns,, yet
gnat as, was the task assigned, him.
he pert^elved'wltti the eagle eye thit
watched the' course of action, a post
still unfilled, an unoccupied niche
where a combatant £ould be placed to
str|ke l^\behalf of the Union. To that
post he resolved to appoint' a repre^
sentatlve, that he mlgh^ be practical
ly In. person—a« lie- was already 'In
sp|rit-^-on. the red field of carnage. It
w^s done quietly, In that simple, unos
tentaiious manner that distinguished,
all of Lincoln's acts, whether in offi
cial or.private life. He neveiuplaxed
to the gpllery and the verdict of .hls
own v' conscience was. -jSll v, be cared
a S
While this is probably the only case
in1' history where the leaderi of a na
tlon sent a substltute ttf flll hls' place
In the ranks of fighting men, a sort of
precedent may be said to* \e found
in the custom, but recently fallen into
disuse, of appointing a r-klng's cham
plodv" who was suppqsed to offer,his
body ln opposltion to feny challenger
of tbe relgnlng monarch of Oreat
Britain ''Until -the accession of the
late) King Edward VII.1' to' .the -jcrown
of England, this functionary- yras: a
n^ember of the royal entourage.'! When
ever the new king «ias publicly crown
ed the "champion'* appeared before
Grave of J. 8ummsrfleld gtaplss, IP
-the ^Cemetery at Stroudsburg, Pa.,.
1
the assembled multitude clad in mar
tikil gear. and casting down a gsiuhtlet
upon the ground, defled-to mortal com
bat' any person or persons having
quarrel with or denj^ng the. right of
the .potentate to reign over the land.
This custom dated back to the stren
uous days when a monarch was also
an active* man-at-arms, and Ukely to
meet In a hand-to-hand engagement
with some persistent foeman at any
time* o^r place. Hence the Institution
of "king's champion," appointed to
keep all challengers at bay,' a heredi
tary Honor, and one that was held for
many generations by the desceimanffe
of the Dymoke family.' But Edward
vft., who possessed an unusually
strong sense of the ridiculous, refused
to permit this heroic burlesque of a
mediaeval custom to 'be introduced
into the splendid pageantry at bis cof
nation and abolished'the office of a
warlike substitute forever,
.1"
.'^Nourishment for Invalids.
Wh«| the.appetite has tailed, as in
the case of convalescents aad many
weak 'children, nourishment is of
prime Importance. There is a capital
way to administer it, which rarely falls
even in extreme cases. To the white
of an egg add the juice of an orange
and the least bit of sugar.* Strain the
mixture carefully and set it away un
til it is very cold. Then It may be
served,as "orange jelly either with or.
jrlthout a cracker.
suits. Yet this presupposes that hls-
tory repeats itself. We can of course
never prove that it does not but we
can assert that it does not, with all
the' intensity of the faith that is in
us. We are not squirrels going, round
In a cage, and could we See any com
plex epoch In tbe past aB well as we
can any period In the present, we
should see the difference and' where
the eye of the mind' falls we have tbe
right to see by the eye qf faith.—
Jesse -Benedict Carter, in the Atlan
tic.
ship to the other. In this way, Ben
Hur. was enabled to maintain rugged
health and strength until he'escaped.
"Since dumbbells are used for
physical development, a pair ought to
be of equal weight, in order to balance
the development," said Dr. King.—In
dianapolis News.
Excavations made-.of late 'at the
summit of the Mount of Olives in
Palestine reveal the remains of an
early church, supposed to have been
built about A. D. 320.V
^7 v.. -.*! wr.
ML
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a
WILL BE IN NO HURRY
-V
Postmaster General
8«m Taking Over .Til*
graph. ServlceMay, Be Pro^^fe
Uncle
It appears from Mr. Carnegie's t'estl:
mony that he recommended Philander
C. Knox to President McKinley .for.
the. position of attorney, general. The.
'appointmpnt
:was
LITTLE RE0 RIDINFI HOOD AND THE THIRD-TEF^M FYOLF
W t' V? vr
&
mm
QOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP MAT*
TER FOR CONSIDERATION.
..
Hitchcock's Idea
l'NIe of Cvil Rikults.
Postmaster ^Oensral Hltckcock/suc
ceeded in creatlng something ofs a-sen
sation by his -advocacy of governmsnt
ownership of tye telegraph service.
Not because t|iere Is anything near In
the Idea Not because almost iny
thln^: sensatioi^ai
vmlglit:
be expected
from .that. source—for Mr.' Hitchcock
long^has .manifested a desire' to at
tract publicf attention to h|mseft| S|!
But the statement of the pbstmuiter
generalls purpose and policy hi|s :cpme
without thje stamp of White Hous^ .ap^
provil.. Therein lies the sensational
feature' of: the matter, -r'\
'. .. The country'will b«i ,ln' na b'aste'{Jte:
adopt,the Hitchcock plan. Pleii^l.bf
oppbrtunity w|U be allowed to jmwrre
tl\e workings of the system abrm^.
England' has offered Itself' aii^^Sit*
ing ^ound for government con^of of
.both telegraph and* telephone lihef...
In^"tbe United States, for many
years,' arguments have'been presented
'and efforts have been madei .ln 'favor
of'the est^lishment of, aiich a^pblicy
as ^ngland now has. Tiie argum«it«
have.s^enied to possess certaii?^ele
ments of fairness, loglc.and force,,The
effort8 have been earnest and seenQng
,ly intelligent. y'"
But ourspeople have. not been rjBady
to enter, upon any such arrangement.
j'Stout and. effective opposition hasten
manifested .against transtprpiinK -jpubr
He utilities employes into an-army of
supporters of whatever. par^y might
happen to be in power when such a'
policy should bp adopted.
Now, we shall, be content to'sit up
jtnd take notice pf,the results of Eng-
NATURAL CAUSE FOR WONDER
i-,.
In What DVay-Dld''#ecretai7 Rnox-.Re:
pay the-Steel Trustyfor Its Ald
H's
made in 1901 .and
Mr. Knox served In that capacity until
the'end of Mr. Roosevelt's first term.
Everyfady knpw that Mr. Kihpx
was bdrrowed from the steel trttst's
ses
legal'department for/cabinet purpoi
at ^Washington, but the fact that he
wis selected at Mr. Carnegie's request
and/that during all his service as at-'
:iqTnfy:'loJ the steel trust he never
cAjse^d^lsea'1 iilis ielleiits^on the sub-,
jeqt- of the-anti-trust laW is news ln
.fleed.^i" .:.y -y. v.' O'.-'i
Knox is no'sv assisting a third'
Republican president as secretary, of
state, In which place he has developed*
what is known as ytollar diplomacy..
The "Republican party has been very
gopd/to.Mr. Carnegie. •/It gave him a
tariff on, iron and. steel that enabled
him, to .retire with several hundreds of
taillibps and it placed his lawyerJ atf
the head' of the Department of Jus?
tice, .• wbere h6 .was quite certain to
keep, right on ignoring the anti trust
law. .-J. ..
We wonder what Mr. Carnegie did
for the Republican party in the hoodie
'campaigns of 1896, i900 and 190-i
I^Hs'a Not of, the Shrinking Kind.
Asi(.another of Mr. Roosevelt's
frlenos explains, the colonel will not
actively seek a nomination, .but if his
party "hurls" it at him, he wll) not
dodge. Thus the only question Is
how much of a shilling mark, he will
make of himself In order to invite the
hurling—New York Evening Post|^
Tariff All-Important.
Mr. Carnegie greatly prefers a part
nership to a corporation, but what is
a partnership worth—without a pnh
.tectlve tarifff
7
Sporting Fashion.
Belle—It la a wonder that the hobble
skirt has not 'made way for the foot-'
ball skirt
Nell—And what la the football akin
like?
Belle—A fullback, of course.
Careful Man.
"Speaking of that bear yon killed."
-What about itt"
"1 notice you modify its sits to
your' various listeners."
"Well, 1 never tell a man more
than I think he'll believe."
1
-.The Real issue. -'9i
'Husband—And, Mary, a woman
came in our office today and told ale
something that will bligEt our whole
(married life.
Wife—Oh. John, ,what did she have*
jon?—Harper's Basar.-.^^^,.j
SEES LITTLE HOPE FOR TAF1
Harper's Weekly Concedss Hie Neiii*
Inatlon.ButThlnksRe-Elsctlon
Hardly a Posslbillt'y.
S •.
Mr. Taft will be nominated .but af
ter tlrnt," what? Can °he do anything
between, nqw and nextx June to
strengthen ra poisiUon that. even his
warmest frlepds are forced to admit
is deplorably weak?- 'How.ls.he,' Ke
tweep June and November, to inspire
his followers .with confidence? Cast-,
ing aimlessly about in their- despei*
tion to find something thatvwlli work'
a' miracle. Mr. Taffs poliUcai_ mana
gers have decided:-that 'tbe .time- bas
come fOJ: hlm"'td play ^iblltlcs.'y ^t ls
the counsel of despair)'.To the credit1
of Mr. Taft be' it said b^cannot 'pl^r
politics .he can aio more play politics
than OrbVer. Cleveland' could jr would.
Thejtolitlclan's.'idea of playing polltlca
pointments or to do something so pal
pabjy dishonest that it ^deceives not
even the credplpus. .There have'been
presidents anT presidential candidates
oircumstanced %u». Mr. Taft is' who
found in
yforeign
1'Carnegie's
MTRB5! PI
J* 1
5U**rf
rIftVVj'£.Sl^
a
rl
complications: the
means' to divert attention from do
mestic problems, who played with'fire,
purposely if or the sake of, scattering
tbe Sparks!' That ganiie can no longer
be' playedi Any attempt to create a
war' scare* would turn doubt into j.cer
tainty. There is, of course, no prob
ability of ^s(^ Mr. Taft: Is too ?eqs
Eclentlous and values too hlghly hls
self-respedt to' purchase flection by
methods he knows- to tie, unworthy.
We are spared that^danger and shame.
Temperamentally Mr. -Taft cannot
play politics, "aipd It. wbuy do bin* no
good if he did *The trouble is too.
deeplyJaeated for that Mi*. Taft -owes
his present unfortunate -V predicament
not to tftie tact that he has not played'
politics in thtf 'ordinary-sens of' that
term, bptr to three things, of which
any one a.lone wOuld probably have
swamped, him whiles combined they,
left no escape from destruction. These'
things were the' Roosevelt lega'cy,
bad advice, ^nd plaln.^aimple, ortin-.
a*y il'lJiick.—A.Iaurfce Low, In Har?
per's Weekly.
TO ANY
ENTITLE6
Andrew
HMOTTO
Achievements
-. Surely Sufficient 'to Allow Him
privllege.^.,^^, 1
Mr. Carnegie' bas been *«u» interest
ing and decidedly picturesque witness
in the steel trustilnypstlgation. From
tbe time be borrowed, money to en
gage in'business, down through year#
of bis shr^d,and successful financial
ventures to the present hour, he has
ibeen the central object-of Interest in
'connection with the enormous growth
of the steel business.
So manifold and varied have been
his methods and wbrklngs tljat,„on.the
witness, stand, W was obliged to ask
bis counsel io refresh hls memory on
what- to him was the simple matter ot
securing tbe appointment, of ''one 'of
hisyAttorneys to ayplace Jn .the' presi
dent's cabinet.
'. His repetition, of his former em
phatic statement thrft .the steel busi
ness needs .no tariif iB: entertaining,
In view of the advantages accorded
that business as the result of existing
he
f»'"All ris well, 'since all goes better,"
according to his statement, Is the
lrcMamaster's motto. Exactly what he
means is not clear. But'the man who
can select cabinet members and defy
the robber tariff,, while enjoying the
enormous tyMrefits of the^ system may
have'any- sort of'motto-he may choose^
fft-^lmp'ropsr Assumptipn/j^i'^' j:
The assumptlon^which used. to be
in defense of the protective pol
icy, that domestic competition in the
home market would induce ..'economy
and efficiency,' keep down cost and
prevent excessive prices, has not been
justified by experience.
Roosevelt Bug Mimti.
(The
,':
Cautious.'
The Prisoner—There goes my hat
shall I run after ItT
policeman Casey—Phwat? Run away
jid niver come back agin. Toushtand
here, and I'll run after your hat!—
Satire.
Roosevfelt bug is more danger­
ous to American institutions than the.
hookworm, pellagxa and tuberculosis
cabined are to American health.
A Warning.
"Fred tells me he has made it one
of his good resolutions this year to
pay all his debts."
"Then, take a friend's advice and
steer clear of him, or he will be com
ing to you to borrow the money.
The Ueual Sign.
•Tjook bow excited and angry'the
crowd of people coming from the build
ing are! "1 wonder what's the mat
ter?" ..
'"I guess they have been having a
peace meeting inside."
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From Bucket to Brush.
She (in art museum)—They say that
famous marine artist was once a plain
farmer's boy.,. I wonder where he de
veloped his talent?
He—Probably drawing water on the
farm.—Boston Transcript
STORM DOOR FOR HOG
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"Jinks bought a place In the. country
that has a shady record."
"Why did he buy it, then I
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"Possibly because he thought tt
would be a good thing to have ahate
In the country.'
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STOCK
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Animals Will 8oon Laarn'Way to Q«t
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In—-Slatted
-Affair
Used in Summer.^ $
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Here Is a storm door-for a 'hog
bouse that has glven me fine results
says a writer in the. Missouri Valley
Farmer.. Make your door.fit.the open
ing and staple loo'sey.' an. -old end
gate rod under the top cross piece.
Then put up a- bracket oni.^ach side
tor the ends of the tod.' For'-'summer,
Double Aetle
Hog Door.
a slaved ,[door may be made on the
same plan,' To teach,, the hogs bow
to' Operate the door, prppa it up imd
drive them l'n then let drop in place.
They wlll sqoh flnd their way out and
a few moire trials will teach them, to
JUDGE SHEEP FO^.ITS WOOL
Portien Jiist Over Animal's Heart
BMrs' Fineet Fleecf, WHli#
ky Cosrsest Is Ovsr Thlgh.y
'.
y'To judge '.sheep for wool produc
tion -one'should remember-that the
long wool breeds show coarser' fiber
than those, of. 'the short wools, says
ail' Oregon bulietM ^Thls"^raeness
should .not be' afiowed to beepme ex
treme. The fleece should be thick
and clean the' fiber strong, bright
and free from dark -or greased
spotsi In the mediumxwool8 a thicker
fleecer ts djesirable—thlckn^ss^ suttl-,
clent to turn, rain. The* fibers! as in
the long' wools, should be relatively
long, clean, lustrous and cpntaln an
a an a
To examine a fleece, the' portion*
Just over the heart is noted- to dis
cover the/finest wool and that on the
thigh the coarsesJ^ There should be
as little difference, in, the/.-fieece on
these parts as posslble- To open the
ileece, plac& hands palm down on the
fleece, and, pushing ..down -slightly,
pull the hands apart. This •breaks thi
fleece without tearing. If.the fieiece.ii
heavy It breaks on a smoother. line
than if ligh't, Wl)en5 the fibers are
quite likely to be lntertangled.
HAY DOOR IN BARJ^ IS HANDY
When Put in Rlgh't They Are Suratp
Give Entire Satisfaction and-
W. 'c. 'Hollen*of Decatur coiinfy,
Iowai furnishes the:' accompanying
sketch and,plan for a -handy hay door,
says the Homestead. TWs illustration
shows,one door open In.prder to, show
how the rPpes^ are arjranfced. Thie =V
shaped lines ne wind guards two by
fpur biocked out and bolted to, ratters
at top and a two-inch block at bottom.
The stop block at hlpi stops the
trucks 'These.doors should be made
nine feet wide and nlne feet iotg in
End Hay .Doer.
two pieces, 'each piece four and? one
half feet wide. If these doors are
put up right they ahould give absolute
satisfaction and can't go wrong." They
can easily be bandied by one man.
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'Protect Sheep From"Dog's: -®v
A Minnesota '^Farmernsays that he
keeps' dogs "away from his flock by
putting up in bis pksture the dummy
of a man holding a stick for a'gun.
This -dummy is' taken down every
morning [and put up again In the eve
ning iat different places from night to
night He say's a sheep-killing ydog
will not go near enough'to *he dummy
to discover tliat it is a bogus man.
8beep ishould be protected frbm
dogs at night by putting tbem into the
iBheep barn or inclosing them in/fine
weather by a high barb wire fence.
^ivery sheep owner who dftcovers
'a stray dog on hls' place should not
hesitate to fill hisii full of buckshot.
He is a trespasser and the law will
not touch a-man whb kills him if?
Corn for Qrewlng Pigs
., 'A" Successful grower of swine says
that be finds corn tor growing pigs: in
connection with milk and shorts, Det
ter than corn at any other age. After
his hogs have passed the "pig" age
he reduces the"corn, allowance until
finishing time. He. considers skim
milk the beit of all-feeds for all hiogs
of all ages and conditions. Milk gives
swine appetite for more feed, as well
as furnishing valuable' nutrients,
Good Feed for Cattle.
Chaffing fodder and straw add noth
ing to their nutritive value,' but with
proper arrangements it Is- more con
venient to feed cut fodder, and when
mixed with corn chop and wheat bran,
horses, cows and sheep will eat cut
straw and corn fodder as greedilv as
good mixed hay.
tJ1-
Horaes Not Up to Mark.
If you are feeding full rations,
of grain and co^n, and your horses
corn,
are not looking
say
(up
to the mark, change
your rations. Feed oats and corn
ground, together, four' quarts' twice
dally, and keep up the hay rations just
the same.
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To Balanee Ration.
/Where corn is extensively fed,
eltber in silage or as ground feed,
some such feed as bran, oil meal,
cottonseed meal, clover or alfalfa hay
is needed to balance it"
DRAFT HORSE IS PROFITABLE
Breeding of Animal Haa Come to" Be
Money-Making Adjunct to Dl
'u? versified Farming.^
,"f|
The breeding ofthe draft horse has
come to be a very profitable adjunct
to diversified farming, -and at no
time during the last fifteen or twenty
years' has' the- price been- higher for
good' draft and heavy' farm horses.
While the aujtomoblie may, to a cer
tain extent, have .replaced the hones
for ci^y. dellveryiVwrites George P,
Grout, of the Minnesota station, still
the" Iralk of the fshn work is done
wi^h -horses and the prices for good'
stock are /as high or higher .than
ever. jThere Is hot the demand: for
medium quality aifd light weight
horses that there used to be, but
go^, amooth draft.and heavy farm
.horses are brlnging good prices.
... .Therelslitie reason j'why-y the
fariner ^should not continue ^o raise
horses ot ithla kind, slnbe brood
mares and stalllona, too for that mat
ter—will produce strpnger and better
colts for having been kept steadily at
work':"\oh'the ,-fa.rml.'/'y"
'On tbe home farm we hive rtUBed
some ot thii cleanest, best colts and,
worked the marea right along. There
are certain conditions under which It
does not seem to be practical to put
the breeding stock Into harness, but
on many farms these condition* are
not met/ Where a
farmer
must rely
almost wholly oh hlred help to drive
his teams," It may not 'be practicable
to put pure-bred stock into harness.
If .the farm boy Shows an. Interest in'
horses, raise some good drafters.
Put, a good harness on them. and
tell the boy. th1s is his team to 'work,^
and there will be no question about
thefcare they wlll get^, You will flnd.
the. boy. after ja day's ^rork out curry
ing .'off the horses, making sure their
are comfortable, I speak from ex
per|ence,''and know that when these
horses' are offered for sale they^, will,
bring a good price.
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CHUT£ FOR HOGS ON WHEELS
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Device Is Easiljr.Handled and May Be
Placed Wherever It May Be
Wanted."fdr-Ueei'-'',.v
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The sketch shows a handy hog
chute on wheels which I have used tor
several years
1
writes John' D. Walter
in the Farm- and Fireside.: The up
rlghta are of t'wo-by-fours, live
Jeet
high for lipper end "and four feet high
for lower end.L The flv^fopt ones are.
placed one and one-half feet trom end
of chute. and the foi^r-foot ones are,
p|aced'three feet'from end. The floor
Is one-inch oak lumber two and one-,
half feet jwlde^lnslde. and ls nalled on
two-byrfourlf,'^which are spiked tp the
uprights' two feet8lx,lncbe8 from .bot
tom of uprights to floor at up'per end,
and at lower end fburteen Inches from
bottom of uprights to floor. One-Inch
boards are ailed underneath the' two'
by-fo»r whert the-flbor'is Ph. Cleats
are nailed on flooi^ to keep hogs from
slipping/ The wheels are rokn an old
yC- 'A'
Hog-Chute'Vn Wheels
corn-planter, and the,'axle, ls trom an
old cultivator arch. The arpb ,1s fast
ened undeo the floor with wlre^ This
hog' chute/ can
.be handled easily by
taklng hold of upper end. You "-can
shove it wherever you^want it, and
A gre^t deal has bees said and
sal|d rightly, on the subject, of the
advantages of, keeping sheep on eyery
farm. The sheep haa several good
points in which it expels all other do
mestic animals. and consequentlylt Is
to the bineflt of evw faraier Cp keep
themi It Is a refined animl, hd not a
gross, feeder,-So jthat there is not the.
great^ amount of labor that attends
'the {growing and fattening of the hog
for example. Then -too hp "is, a close
graxer, and fwill, find :a good living,
where fethery animals srp5uld? stanre.
He will get fat on weeds which would
otherwise'}
tiiix the. land heavily.:
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Skimmed. -Milk.
flnd that the skimmed 'pallk: just
from the* separator-'atil.l ffesb and
warm! is worth twice as much as milk"
from pans or returned from the fac
tory, says a writer in an, exchangfe.
I{ agrees better with' the stock and
keeps them i^healtb. and growing
rapidly.
Corn fodder- is hardly as good tor
horses as kafilr cPrn.
Young pigs are peculiarly subject to
various kinds of intpatinal wo$n?.
Colts and calves 'often develop, small
warts In large numbers, apout ", the
face. ,, -~V' .-7 ...'' "_//
Sore mouth will sometimes attack
slMep In pens 'and run through the en
tire flock. ... ,(-\
There is a posslblllty'b^ underfeed
ing an anlmal as -well, as overfeeding
tor beat reaults..
r.
It your heart is la the right place,
you Vlll see that your animals are
made comfortable for the winter.
Horses cannpt now be grown aa
cheap as they -were when land wais
half tie price and grain balf-the prl e'.
A blocklsh-bnilt mare with a.large
barrel on short legs la likely, to pro
duce a better toal.'thah the U4i,vleggy
kind. ..
Lambs that are four weeka old may,
be pushed'Tapldly,tor market by feed
Ing oats and bran with eome ground
corn. ..J-V
The best raUon for the steera de
pends largely on the weight the
steers, the feeds available"^ and the
prices of this same.
Idle horses Which are'gettlng all the
oat straw and born atover they wish
to eat should recelye enough of this
fixture to keep them up in good
flesh.
Pure-bred Pattlj# or other live stock
are what they are largely because of
the feed and care they and their anr
cestora have- received.
Do not deprive your'steers -of exei
else for best results, as health and
vigor are promoted where animals are
allotted to move .about
The old. notion .that cheap colli and
swine'disease are intimately, connect
«d one with the other has bebn pretty
thohrougly exploded thls^year.,
One
of the greatest mistakes made
by mare owners Is the frantic attempt
to produce draft atock from light
mares at first cross with big stalllona
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kijNo Credit Iven for That.
"I am glad to say," remarked Mr.
•eekton, "that I never ^poke a hasty
word to you."
"No, Laonidaa,'' answered his wife,
rather gently. "I'm willing to gW«,
you credit for not hurrying about any
thing."—Stray Stories."*
EJxamlne^careJulIy every'Sottlsi' ot
CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy foi
Infants and children, and see that 11
'-. Bears the
Signature of
InUse For^OverSO"
CREAM OF RYE
O S & A E S
IN O I O E S I O N & 5 0 S TO A
I S N E 5 5 & O N S I PA I O N
.tairef As^liiw.
amy he ehisiaed mast plsassaltr s«d
•art «M^ir«fag Sy*v
jfji»
Years.
Cihildren Cry for Fletcher's Caatorig
.V i,
Much Better Purpose.
MIss Charmynge—Don't you tmnk I
was made for a buslness wonian?
Jack Hustler—No, don't I think
you were meant for a business man.—
Stray, Stories.
For health and energy eat it foi
breakfast. Reduces cost of living, --fe
Free Silver. Spoon in every package, ,|(|
Ask your grocer fora package. &
.—"•
His Teat of Religion.
The ordinal man carea only" for
what religion does, and not a jot for
what-religion ia.
Dr. Piieree's' Pleasant Pellets xvgulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels,
Sngmr-coated, tiny granule*, easy to take
as candy.
Marriage separatee,a, bachelor from
a'lpt of.illusions.-'
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^TO CCBE A COLD 1N ONB DAT
SapvB'StfSBatar* la oa Mtofe boa.
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A woman wants protection, but fa
vors free speech. y.
FREEDOM FROM
fc
S O S
it
it is any distance, just hpok l| behind
a wagon, and It will come/along.
Sheep en the Farm.
1
I I I S N N A
A I O A I W O
Smtv rtoM, Jala (MMilr of
Bteontoa. Aluena.'^WmSSpimu^jMttm* *i
a«moTB»rtn^lMUalmKBci»arit
lhov«4btb«r«zcel-
va
.O''.
yijHtlWfljWlM tlf
tatftoiauus.
TbiSilirir Cop
|l JpOkSB«
totb9
euoiti ofsieiUeBt
lOcow^'auo
MinOMte..'-'
W
inVtV exeetUnt, Mtt the
(or
tlehieotv (ottlcra* .low lallwar
ran*. aMcrlpUTe.' lUnatmlcd
*UUlNtWMt"{HII( tm OK
SppUcaUooimnd other Infonaa
ttoa. la Sn*rt ot. InalcmUoa.
CHutwa, C»n..oro CSsaSlaa
imi|mntii«V (M)
«:«. si—»h«»'^«msi iiinlw.
We qaote the following low prices far
Cssh with Order:...
TROUT, H«4l» on'
or Headless, lb., 70
WHITEFISH, (Selkirk) Pressed. 8|e
YELLOW PIKE, Round, j- ,'??, «o
PICKEREL, (Jacks) Round fie
HERRING. Dresse£ 40
Other varieties plentiful and Phepp. Send
for complete price list If your require*
ments are small getyyour nijfghbdr to
order with you and save express chargea,
Nerthwa Fish Ck, (Nel lee.) Bex 4IS, Chicle
t»ri aao.
Sateer's
WhiteBpntnzaOiitiwonUieworld's..
.prise of 4900.00 offered by the
A a He a a A N
Marlnt ricldlnv oats.
,_Oyr MWll*IUT*sald Wfclt*Bnuwa
OUm dufirtm aS Ull ma»u
KyMU naDnfhtmm to ts* k«ah*la
'aoftittaiiMraatenOsaMcllaMs.
for tOeStamgg Wm JUmil
A SeekM
at.oiv KuaSSa Oitai taeatha
•rltka lot of ether.nra (am aaaCaap
Nine times In tea when the Ihervia
right tbe stpmach and bowela are right
CARTETS LITTLE
MVEBLL
fently butfirmly
Sitslasy
a liver
duty.
Curee Cm*
sKpetioa, la*
iii Diilivii After CfttfaM*
nUUXPt^ SMALL DOSE, SMALL PUGft,
85ES
looo WW
to
aM
Brown
»red
lor
"*lS
Mta, aa also nr lliaMk rafalasi
jroiaak.leraaao.- ..
UlhoraUrliii
aegt
Poultry
Finoi (applied.
loaablo. Aawiioao
Poultry Plant, Olerelaitf,Ohto.Price-rea*FaUota,'
PM
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IOHM I xaomaca,
ICO, Tror. M. it
to 1
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