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MILK RIVER VALLEY NEWS
HARLEM, MO >4 f.
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TJnch* Gain will <lln tlmt canal In a
way that will proop tlip world.
The whole world kccidh to Ik* brush
ing the dust off Its war material.
. They used to ask where all the pins
Went to. Where does all the looae
change go?
The per capita circulation is now
S3O .21, tbe highest point ever reiu'lieil
In thin i-ountry.
There are nearly live hundred rhria
tian ehurrhea In .lapan and over one
thousand missionaries.
Eastern society haa taken up the fad
of wearing wooden shoes at aoelal
gatherings. 'lTiat beata the Dutch!
Tin-horn imitators of Bat Growe's
horrible example are still trying to do
business. But there’s only one I’. 0.
Russia haa abolished the censorship
on foreign dispatches, but continues to
deny to Russians what she grants to
the rest of the world.
Possibly Cuba’s In raising
that S3ft,tXX>,UOO loan has given the
Porto Ricans a dazzling misconception
of the beauties of Independence.
A .Louisville woman died from the
•fleets of swallowing a small eleetrle
light bulb. That should keep those
advocates of a light diet quiet for a
few days.
The inquiry Is made in one of the
£astem papers: Are our great guns
safe?” That all depends on whether
you are the man behind t nr the
man In front of it.
Scientists claim they have fully
liroven that malaria Is earrhsl by mos
qultoes. As* they seem unable to ex
terminate mosquitoes, they should try
to cure them of their malaria
A woman ran stand It much better
to have a rainstorm mine up when
»he Is out In ber good clothes than
to have It clear up when she is out
In her old ones which she wears only
In bad weather.
Wages In Russian factories are 2
cents an hour and upward. There
are thousands who work for a cent an
hour and tens of thousands who do
not receive 30 cents a day for ten.
eleven and more hours' work.
A Bditon mail who had been steal
ing for lyears and Juggling the hooks
was discovered in his wrongdoing pure
ly by accident. One ofptlie, wonders
of the age is the ease with which
hooks can be made by an expert to
cover up shortages.
A Chicago bank Is trying to enforce
a rule that Its employes shall not mar
ry until drawing a salary of at least
SI,OOO a year. Of course it Is presumed
the restriction would not apply to a
fascinating SBOO clerk who happened to
be proposed to this year by a beautiful
blonA> millionairess.
Whnt an extravagant, wasteful
thing is war. What enormous sums
of money are spent In getting ready
and how short a time it requires fre
quently to destroy that which thou
sands of hands have spent, months or
years In building. Extravagance nnd
waste are pan of the wickedness of
war. Producers are converted Into
consumers and the means of consum
ing and destroying products are mul
tiplied many fold. An army costs fear
fully even In comparative repose. In
actual conflict It Is a bankrupting and
paralyzing Institution
It s a hard lesson to,learn Hint people
after all are only folks, A Texas man,
starting his boy out on a "career"
away from home, said to him: "You
may see a heap of people who have got
more money than you have; a heap of
people who have got more brains nnd
more success. Don’t yon* worry about
that. Whenever you meet u man who
allows he's your superior, you just look
at him and say to yourself: 'Afti*r-ap
you're Just folks.’ You want to re
member for yourself, too, that you're
Juat folks." That's often the trouble.
We look at othet people and wonder at
the great stakes for which they are
playing, and we-say to ourselves: "it's
no use for a peewee like me lo go
against a big game like that," and ho
we spend our lives eating at rite lunch
counter Instead of dining at the club.
Wo're all "folks" playing the same
kind of a game, only playing it on dif
ferent, scales. Now, how’s your nerve?
Blr John I.ubhock said lie was ells-
Posed to think that the readers of the
next generation will hot lie the lawyers
and doctors, shopkeepers and nuiuufac
turers, but the iuborerx and mechanics.
“Does not thnt seem natural?" says
the eminent Kngllshnmn •The former
.work mainly with tlielr head; when
their dully (lntleK nre over the hrnln
la often exhausted. ninl of their leisure
time much must he devoletl to air and
exercise. The laborer and mechanic,
on the contrary, hesldea working often
for much shorter hours, have In tlielr
worktime taken NUtHelent bodily px-
Wrclse, anil could, therefore, give any
letaure they might have to reading and
■tudy.’’ If (he ohaervatlon la tnie In
England, It 1* especially true In tills
country, where thinking Is less train
deled by clans and tradition. In
deed, the prophecy of Blr John Is In
a, large way to I•• realized In this
country In this generation. American
workingmen tire well Informed. They
read nnd think. They invent niaefflnes.
And they are a tile to hold their own IB
any discussion of current themes. "Es
peel ally Is this true of.skilled work
ingmen and those who exercise tbelr
thinking In the trades unions. And
the farmers. Much of the straight
thinking of this generation, Is being
done by ibe farmers. Conditions on the,
farm ace favorable to consecutive and
sound reasoning. The farmer linn time
for a deliberate, long look at tilings.
He has time to walk entirely round n
proposition and view It from all sides,
ills conclusions are usually anno. In
fact, If Slr .lohn l.'uhtmrk will exumtne
our history he will discover tliHt out
"working classes" have always he
longed to our "thinking classes."
A big national bunk In Chicago bur
served notice that ’’employes of this
bank receiving a salury of less than
SI,OOO a year must not marry without
first consulting the hank ottlrlals and
obtaining their approval.” officials of
the institution explain with the state
ment that It is foolish for, a man tc
attempt tu Chicago to support a wife,
to say nothing of a family of children,
on less than the Income named. The
soulful Interest here shown, by tile
bank olflclals In the welfare of their
employes Is touchingly beautiful! Yet
it might be pertinent —or tuuybe Imper
tinent—to Inquire ns to what propor
tion of Chicago families actually ilu
live on less than SI,IXX> a year. In the
absence of exuct statistics. It Is safe
to guess that at leaat half the families
of Chicago live on less than that
amount. The average Income of fam
ilies in the I'nlted Starts In less thnn
$!V)0 a year. It Is natural that In a
hank, where money Is the whole thing,
Income should he regarded as the prime
essential of happy marriage. But, ar
a matter of actual fact, It Is the leesi
important. Who will say that the mil
llonaire, with his immeasurable sources
of turbine. is happier in Ills home life
than the mechanic who Is limited tc'
his $2 a day. The poul of merry laugh
ter —do you hear It come fnmi the man
slon'/ Or from the cottage? The ra
diant. care free look—do you see It In
the face of the flue lady In her carriage
wltli her berlbboncd and scented poodle
in her lap? Or In the face of the work
ingman's wife. who. with lier babe at
her breast, and her hourly tasks, feels
that the world holds much for her
worth having? The things absolutely
essential to the happy home are
strangely few. Chief among them are
labor and love. Neither of these costs
money. But both of them often fly
from It. A hank clerk does not need
to eat any more than any other work
ingman; he does not need to wear any
more clothes; be needs no more shel
ter; no more warmth. But he puts on
more frills and feathers. He feeds his
vanity more, which costa money. The
cost of living cannot be fixed hy any
standard. It varies from S3OO a year
for some preachers to $300,000 a year
for sonie fashion leaders at Newport.
Even a great Chicago bank has not
power to control the financial affairs of
the humblest family. It is oie of the
comtnonest rights of the citizens of this
blessed country to spend all they've
got. Certainly, it's a man's right, even
If he be a Chicago bank clerk, to sup
port a wife on less than SI,OOO a year,
If the woman Is willing. The great
majority of married men In this coun
try do It. And they are the Intellec
tual. moral nnd political stay of the
republic.
The Craze fbr Quinine.
"The use of quinine is growing
apace on the part of the general pub
lie,” Edward D. Driscoll, pharmacist,
tells me, "and a large number of the
people possess a veritable craze for 1L
They dose themselves with qulniue
on the slightest provocation, nnd ap
pear to regard It ns a universal cure
all. Not only is It demanded for colds
and fevers, blit for stomnch disorders
and n score of other Ills.
"One customer of mine recently be
came slightly nauseated after eating,
and he took quinine. In the full be
lief that It would put a period to the
sick feeling, while another entertains
a theory that quinine Is good for the
kidneys aud takes the drug regularly
when he fancies there Is anything
wrong with his organs. These nre Just
n few of the foolish beliefs that many
people entertain regarding quinine- -I
-could quote scores of Ideas about Its
use for other physical troubles If It
were necessary. How such beliefs
have ever sprung up I cannot imagine,
but I know persons who dose them
selves with quinine for everything,
from a pain in their foot to puetuno
nla.
“This Is the/ttme of year when the
craze for qufnlne Is most noticeable,
anil I think the people ought to know
thnt while It Is n good thing for r-or
taln ailments, when Jaken under the
direction of a physician. It has some
whnt Injurious effects when taken pro
miscuously and for any old trouble
whatever. If the heart Is weak a
heavy dow 1 of quinine will have a'.biid
effect on It. prouttciug palpitation In
many cases. It will also cause trend
•aches. Congestion In tile nasal passnges
and quite n few niter Ills." St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
To Cut a Bottle.
Here Is a way to do something j' ol)
think is Impossible. You can cut oil
n bottle by wrapping a cord saturated
with coal oil nrould il several times
Then set fire to Hie ,-oril. Just when
It lias finished burning plunge the bot
tic Into colil water and tap on tile eni*
to break It.
Teach a hoy to know himself and
stop feeding him on the stuff dreams
are madu of.
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THE BUSY CHILD.
I have so many things to do,
I don't know when I shall be through.
To-day I -had to watch the rain
Come sliding down the window pane;
Ami 1 was humming all the time.
Around my a kind of rhyme;
■And blowing softly on the glass
To see the dimness come and pass.
1 made a picture with my -breath
Rubbed out to show the underneath.
I built a city on the floor;
And then I went and was a War.
And I escaped from square to square
That's greenest on the carpet there,
Until at last I came to Us;
.But It was very dangerous! ’
Because if I had stepped outside,
I made believe I should have died!
And now I have the boat to mend.
And all our supper to pretend.
I am so busy, every day,
I haven't any time to play.
—Josephine Preston Peabody.
GRANDMA'S COMPANY.
"Dear, dear!” said little Nora, flat
jening her face against the window
pane. "Where do all The snowflakes
come from, I want to know?"
It was a wonder, to be sure. When
she looked out toward the meadow,
they were so thick that she could not
catch a glimpse of the big hickory
tree, and when she looked straight up,
Bhe spied them as far as she could
see, flying down and round like a
swarm of bees. And It was too bad.
Nora thought, for she had a new pair
of skates, ami had Just learned to
stand without slipping down when
the snow came, and covered the Ice
all over. And now she could hardly
tell tjie pond from the pasture.
“Did you evpr see such a storm?”
said Nora, nestling her head in grand
ma's soft, smooth lap
"Yes, I remember a heavier fall of
snow than this," said grandma, click
ing her need/es cheerfully.
“Oh, wxm't you tell me about it? Or
have you got to count your stitches?"
asked little Nora.
“No," said grandma. “I can knit and
talk both at once.
“It was when I was a little girl, and
we lived at Beechwoods. It was rath
er a lonesome place, and we were all
glad wfien~*Uie time came for the
Friends’ quarterly meetings. Then
our house was always full of company,
for father and mother were Quakers.
We children loved the nice old ladies,
with their motherly ways, and their
dove-colored bonnets and dresses. Be
sides, we though! it was splendid fun
to sleep in the garret, and so make
room for all our visitors.
"But this time the meeting was not
near us, but way over at Bear’s Cor
ners. Father and mother and dome
of the children went to it in the loag
boh-sltdgh, but the rest were left at
home —my sister Rachel, my lit lo
brother Amos and myself.
“After the others were gone It be
gan to snow and blow furiously, and
before, dark we could not see a feme.
Rachel and I helped little Amos sho/el
a path to the barn, and how our Aug
ers ached before we reached the btrn
door! Wo fed the cows and sheep as
fast as we could, and hurried back to
the big fireplace.
“Whew! Didn’t the wind roar In
the chimney! I was afraid, and lotted
'the door, hut Amos and Rachel
laughed at me. 'Who could come In
all this storm?' they asked.
“Just as they said that there vas
a thump on the door that made us
start. -*>Who could be out such a night
as this? Amos peeped out of the vln
dow and said, softly. Tt’s three In
dians! Big fellows!’
"Oh! O-o-oh!' I began to cry.
"’Sh! Girls make such a nohu!’
he whispered. Keep still, anil they
won’t know we are here!'
‘‘‘Why, Amos, 1 am surprised at
thee!’ said Rachel, in her quiet vay.
'The poor Indians will freeze It we
keep them out In this storm.'
"So she opened the door herself,
and let them come in to the fire."
i, “O grandma, did they kill you?"
asked Nora, with round eyes.
"Nb. indeed," said grandma, lum(h
tng. "Bbor fellows! How Cold aitd
hungry they were! They had com,) a
long way on their snow-shoes. Kai-iel
gave them a good supper and let them
sleep In the kitchen. So they stretch
ed themselves out on thfe floor, with
their moccasin* so the fire.
“But In the night we were wakejod
by h terrible noise. I never li»»rd
anything like It! We opened the stair
door Just a craclc. and peeped down
Into the kitchen. What a funny light
we raw'
"Our Indian friends were bo com
fortable that they felt quite Jolly, and
they were dancing before the fireplace
and singing just the queerest tune.
The words were queer, too. We chil
dren fancied they were
“ 'Chippaquack,
Catch a snake,’
and tills they sang over and over. We
llstehed to them a long while, and
laughed till we cried.
"Well, when we woke the next
morning was gone, and
on the \fWhbn table lay a beautiful
mlnkskln. which they had left for a
present. Rachel sewed It into a tip
pet.
That's all my story; now run out
and enjoy the snow. If your skates
won't go. your sled will. Bo good-by!"
—Elizabeth H. Thomas, In Youth's
Companion.
THE SOLDIER ANT.
The lion Is the king of beasts, hut
all of his magnificent strength and
ferocity would avail him nothing
when he faces a mere ant. But this
ant is not the usual kjnd which peace,
fully goes about Its domestic duties
day by day. It Is the terrible driver,
or soldier ant, said to be the most in
vincible creature In the world.
M. Coillard. a French missionary In
the Barotse Valley of South Central
Africa, thus writes of these terrors
there:
"One sees them busy in innumer
able battalions ranked and disciplined,
winding along like a broad, black rib
bon of watered silk. Whence come
they? Where are they going? Noth
ing can stop them, nor can any object
change their route. If it 4s. an inani
mate object they turn aside and pass
on. If It Is living, they assail it ven
omously, crowding one on top of the
other to the attack, while the main
army passes on businesslike and si
lent. Is the obstacle a trench or a
stream of water, then they form
themselves at its edge into a compact
mass. Is this a deliberate assembly?
Probably, for soon the mass stirs and
moves on, crosses the trench or
stream and continues in its incessant
and mysterious march. A multitude
of these soldiers are sacrificed for the
common good, and these legions,
which know not what is to be beaten,
pass over the corpses of these victims
to their destination.”
Against these tiny enemies no man
or band of men, no lion or tiger, nor
even a herd of elephants can do any
thing but hurriedly get out of the
way. Among the Barotse natives a
favorite form of capital punishment.
Is to coat the victim with grease and
throw him before the advancing army
of soldier ants. The quickness with
which the poor wretch is dispatched
is marvelous, when it is- considered
that each ant can do nothing more
than merely tear out a small particle
of flesh and carry it off. Yet in a sur
prisingly short time the writhing vic
tim will have been changed into a
skeleton.—-Golden Penny.
A FORTY-YEAR CLOCK.
A jeweler, calculating that he would
In all probability live about forty
years, and during that time spend
about sixty days winding the house
clock- —allowing two'mlnutes each day
for the task—decided that he would
make a clock which would need wind*
ing hut once during that period. He
spent his odd minutes at the task, and
has succeeded iq producing a clock
which is the only one of Its kind in the
world.
Tills forty-year timepiece Is fifteen
Inches in diameter and weighs seven
ty-flve pounds. The movement Is so
geared that the burrel wheel, contain
ing the mainspring, revolves only once
In two and a half years. When this
wheel has made fifty-six revolutions
somebody will have to give the key
seventeen turns. The clock will then
he wound up for another forty years.
The first wheel from the barrel wheel
crawls around at the rate of one turn
a year. The dial plate is six Inches
In diameter. The movement Is fully
jeweled. The clock is put In a her
metically •sealed glass case, and It will
work In a vacuum, tlrus lessening fric
tion and preventing the oil from dry
ing.—lndian^polls News.
Gov, Taft Is undoubtedly right In
insisting that we must put tlfe finish
ing touch on the task of civilizing the
Philippines by building railroads in
the islands, says the Philadelphia
Record. Railroads take Into the coun
.try the products and the up-to-date
methods that are needed by the na
tives, and they bring out of the coun
try the products that are needed by
other people. \Vhen this exchange Is
once fairly under way all the rest will
come easily.
There are nearly five hundred
Christian churches ifi Japan and over
one thousand missionaries.
■ttw ® CsiM
A DOUBLE PROFIT IN SHEEP.
Every one who follows general
farming realizes the value of some
kind of stock that will clean up the
waste places. No stock usually kept
on the farm will do this as effectively
as sheep, and I often wonder that so
many farmers never keep them. A
few can be kept on almost every farm
at a merely nominal oost. In fact,
their presence is often a decided ad
vantage. There are certain weeds and
growths of vegetation that no other
stock will touch but that sheep eat
greedily, and they bite so close that
these noxious plants are completely
eradicated.
I have an orchard of about two
acres, usually pastured with hogs,
where the burdock has held almost
undisputed sway on parts of the
ground for several years. Too thick
to be dug out, the high price and
scarcity of labor considered, they
seeded the* ground thickly and effec
tively every year, and It looked as
though they had a clear title and
peaceable possession; but last spring
I turned six rams In that field, and
a war of extermination began right
away. They not -only nipped off the
tender leaves and shoots, but with
their sharp teeth scooped out the
crowns of the plants right down Into
the ground, as they would turnips.
The result was the extermination of
the seed bearing plants; and one more
seasou of close pasturing with sheep
to kill the plants that statt from the
seed of this season will, 1 think, do
the business for those burdocks.
Whitetop has been very prevalent
In our meadows for the past few
seasons. Sheep are fond of this plant,
and a large flock, say ten to the acre,
turned on a meadow for two or three
days, when the weeds are from six
inches to u foot high, will completely
destroy them without materially in
juring the grass, thus insuring good,
clean, marketable hay at no cost, but
with a positive benefit to the sheep,
for they delight in frequent change of
pasture.
Sheep are almost as foud of browse
as goats, and, if given a chance In
early spring, when the shoots are ten
der, briars and bushes stand a poor
chance with sheep In the same field.
Because they clean up the waste
places so effectually and at the same
time, If properly handled, bring in a
prbflt, every farmer should keep at
least a small jhock of sheep.—E. P.
Snyder, in Tribune Farmer.
FARM NOTES.
Never kick or strike the dog.
Do not allow smoking in the barn.
Kindness to animals is conducive to
thrift and profit.
Whipping the frightened horse is
not good horsemanship.
Good common sense is a necessary
article on the stock farm.
See that the horse’s legs are well
cleaned before you close the stable at
night.
Hay green in color and sweet in
taste Is the only quality that Is fitted
for a cow,, in milk, to eat.
Keep an old pan in the horse stable
with a little salt and ashes mixed in
It, and give the horses each a tea
poonful once or twice a week. This
will prevent colic and Is almost a spe
cific for worms. E L.-V. 1
Keep out of litigation. Out in Mis
souri a calf got into the courts and
hanging to Us tail the lawyers drew
themselves Into business amounting
to $3,500. The calf Is now valued, at
one-hundredth part of that amount.
The spring pullet that wants to sit
before she wants to lay, had better
he laid in the pot. A cluclty 'pullet is
an unlucky pullet. "
Keep a record of both your sales
and expenses, and don’t forget to give
the hens credit for what you consume
In ydur own family.
One farmer rigged up four ropes
ending In loops to two beams over his
wagon shed, letting the looped ends
hang level with the tltp of his “shel
vlnV or hay rack. Then when he
drove under he could slip a loop over
each corner himself, and drive off,
leaving the rack swinging, and put
ting it on the same way, thus saving
hard lifting.
THE WAY TO HANDLE MILK
Kxtrus and fancy grades of butter
cannot be made from milk full of dirt
and germs. The Vermont Dairymen’s
Association has Issued a set of good
rules showing how to start right on
the road to choice butter making. The
milker should lie clean, and his
clothes, likewise. Brush the udder
Jiist before milking, and wipe with a
clean cloth or sponge. Milk quietly,
quickly and thoroughly. Throw away
Into the glitter the first few streams
from each teat. This milk is very
watery and of very little value, and
Is quite apt to injure the remainder
of the milk. Remove the milk prompt
ly from the stable to a clean, dry
room, where the air Is pure and sweet.
Drain the milk through a clean flan
nel cloth, or (lirpugh two or three
thicknesses' of cheesecloth. Aerate
and 000 l the milk as soon as it Is
strained. The cooler It Is the more
souring Is retarded. If covers are left
oft the cans, cover with cloths or mos
qutto netting. 'Never mix fresh milk
with that which has been cooled, nor
allow it to freeze. Under no clrcum
stances should anything be added to
milk to prevent It souring. Such do
ings violate the laws of both Ood anil
man. The chemicals which are usefl
for this purpose are slow poisons.
Cleanliness and cold are the ouly pre
servatives needed. In hot weather,
jacket the cans with a clean, wet
blanket, or canvas, when moved in a.
wagon. Musty, sour food, dusty litter
or fodder should be out of the way
at milking time.”
THE FARM ORCHARD.
Set trees in a solid block on good
land. An old way was to set apple
trees along the farm walls and fences
says American Cultivator. But tree*
In such locations are a nuißance.
tempting lireaehy cattle, and difficult
to care for in a businesslike manner.
Of course a few trees will worry along:
anywhere and anyhow. But for profit,
buy first-class trees, set on good, clear
land,- and keep it well cultivated.
Orchards can be grown without culti
vation, using manure and mulch, but
It Is a long wait before they reach
profitable size. The writer has a gx>o<l
young.orchard planted in a blueberry
field with little cultivation except to
keep bushes mowed and apply manure
or nitrate of soda. But growth is
slow and uneven. It would have paid
to break up the rough, stony field and
cultivate it as well as conditions per
mitted rather than to follow the plan
adopted. One of the best plans is to
set trees in freshly broken sod land
thoroughly worked with disk harrow.
Grow corn or potatoes, sowing red
clover at time of last cultivation, and
plow it In the next spring. 'Corn or
potatoes will do well a few years, but
unless clover or other green stuff
Is plowed under every year, the soil
will soon reach a point where manure
will not produce profitable crops
among the trees, and the growth of
the trees themselves will not bo what
it might. The land will not be laiij
down to grass, but the same effect
toward restoring the soil may be had
by plowing under green stuff.
TALKS ABOUT BUGS.
Professor Steadman told of the In
sects which have been most numer
ous during the last season. The ones
which were most uumerous were fruit
tree bark beetle, apple aphis and
canker worms. The first-named Insect
attacks diseased and weakened trees,
making a hole In the bark, the larvae
burrowing beneath the hark. In a
short time the Insects will lie very nu
merous, and the tree is often com
pletely girdled by these insects work
ing under the bark. Healthy trees
are seldom affected, and the reason
the insects have been so numerous
lately is that the trees were weakened
by the drouth of 1901. The apple
aphids appear In spring, while the
leaves are very small. They belong
to the sucking class of insects and are
killed by spraying with kerosene
emulsion or with a 10 per cent, mix
ture of kerosene and water applied by
one of the pumps which mechanically
mix oil and water.
Canker worms are hard to kill when
they attain their full growth, but
when trees are well sprayed with
parls green, when the insects first ap
pear, It Is a comparatively easy task:
to rid an orchard of this pest.
Professor Steadman said that arsen
ate of lead has lately proved to be the
best insecticide. It can be made by
the orcharillst, although this is not
recommended, and can also be pur
chased ready made under the trade
name of Dlsparene.—Green's Fruit
Grower.
AN ECONOMICAL ARRANGEMENT!
One spring wo managed In the fol
lowing manner to avoid expense of
building a separate house and yarff
for the dozen hens we selected from
our flock to mate with the newly pur
chased, pure bred rooster. One-fourth
of the house was partitioned off with,
slats, a slat door being placed in the
center of partition to allow of our
entering the back room to clean it
and to gather any eggs laid therein-
A yard, enclosed with palings, ad
joined the house; this fence was re
paired, and a smooth wire stretched
above the palings, all around. A door,
just large enough to allow the chicks
to pass in and out. was cut in the par
tltioned-off end of the hen house. lit
the yard were placed the grit and
dust boxes, several weather proof
nests omd the drinking vessel. This
arrangement proved entirely satlsfac
tory. After we were done setting and
selling eggs for setting purposes this,
yard was used for the little eliick.
yard. Tills Baved us buying more
than one rooster, and by selecting
twelve of the best hens, our chicki
were much better.—E. 0„ In Indlani
Farmer.
What to Give.
“Give tq your enemy forgiveness.
“Give to your opponent toleranc".
“Give to your friends your heart
"Give to your child a good exampe.
"Give to your parents deference.
“Give to everybody sunshine."
—Philadelphia Prest.
The healthiest place In Bruisels
seems to be Beho. Of Us 1,40* ln
hablants not one died iu fl.'teea
months.