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I 'H m K ------- EK A WOOL-TYING BOX. Efcftl Convenient Device Which Aids the HRy Small Shipper in Market- 30E Ing Hla Wool. IkwWi! A very useful ilevlco (or tying fleece HttKln n compact bundlo ia lunvn In 11 HHl lustration. It Is mado of one-Inch SRtoards hinged together on n central BfrBQuaro piece. This It one foot square Bjr and tho sides n ore thrco feet long at K3 HOW WOOL TYINO IIOX IB MAUi:. B; tho bottom nnd 14 Indies at tho top. V fTho pieces b nro cut ono foot square. R To uso tho box, explains tho Furm H and Home, strings nro laid across, as B shown by dotted lines. Then the fleeco Bflfl' Is placed upon tho center piece and R tho edges folded in. The two sides, a, BflW nro drawn upright in position and Bflfl; then tho two sides, b, nro forced up- BBK ward nnd In until they nro perpen- HHJ; diculnr. The small clamp, c, mnyy HHK then be hooked over tho sides to hold BflV- them solid. Tho fleece may then bo B; brought down into tho box nnd tho Ejfl utrlngB tied It makes n compact bun- HBt dlo nnd leaves the wool even upon the HJB outside. HHf A GOOD COW. HJBc Story of One Animal of Jersey Strnin HJHf Who Fnld Her Owner n Hflw Good Profit. V A dairyman who does not own many Hl cows, nnd thoso good ones, recently K gave tho following flgures concerning B one of his cows, a pure bred Jersey, to K. the Ohio Farmer. H' Her first calf was droppod in 1897 B: a heifer now a valued member of tho K herd. Her next calf enmo in 1S0S, with Kj n successor each year up to tho pros- B ent, mnklng nlno calves in all. Threo Hi were females nnd six males. Tho hclf- H crs have been retained In tho herd and Hr tho hulls Bold at an average of $50 fl each. Valuing tho heifers at tho same, BB, the nine calves represent nn earning ff- of $300. With her second calf she Bft" tuado n test of 280 pounds of milk In Bk fcncii days, churning 14 pounds, four BBB ounces of butter. Her nvcrago milk V jleld has been 7, COO pounds, sold to a Htk creamery at nn nverogo of $1.20 per BBw 100 pounds, nn aggregate for eight BT.A jears of $720 Adding tho value of tho BtF calves to the amount received for milk, BflWi, her gross earnings nmount to $1,080. K These, figures nro very eloquent for tho BBB? good special purpose cow, hut wcro not B'. given to me, nor do I record them, as B, anything extraordinary. An nnnunl B, yield of 7,500 pounds of flvo per cent B milk, while. Indicating a cow of great K merit docs not rnlso her nbovo thou Bflfl' sands of other good cons. Sho has BBC broken no records but sho has kept K tho faith. Sho has alwajs h.id good HF, rare, good feed and plenty of it. She Hi' has locn given a chance. Sho Is a T row of robust constitution, a great E feeder, a strong milker and a rcllahlu H breeder. Df1 Her feed had been tho ordinary feed Hf' of tho herd. Tasturo and soiling crops B,' In summer, corn silage, mixed liny, B' corn meal, wheat bran nnd oil meal in Hj, winter. Sho has never been fed ex- Hj,, ccsslvcly, but has never gono hungry B! nor In nny wny known ahuso. BS. THE LIVE STOCK. H Toor fences mnko good jumpers. B'" Clean cows result from proper stab. BB Toed, from tho hand of tho master, H fattens. fcjf Tho new stnblo should have several BBS windows. K Tho cow holds her own in all kinds B of H Anything irregular affects tho por- jf centago of buttor fats. Br If tho horso has soro shouldors, it H is n protty sura sign that his collar H does not fit him. H( A now milker will at first got loss K' milk from a cow than ono to whom K tho animal is accustomed. Hif Culls and owos that do not own or Hr roar their lambs properly, may be V turned off In tho same way. B Old shcop should now bo separated Htt from tho rest of tho Hock and given H; extra care. Thoy can bo Improved In Bj flesh and sent to markot, whoro some i roturn enn bo rcall.ed from them, Hfj, Farm Journal. Hw It you kcop thrco or raoro cows it K will pay you to have a cream sop. Bi n rator. Bcforo buying, send for tho K catnloguo of nil tho makes you find H advertised It will pay you to Inves- B tigato this question. Bft Every man that has n large number B of hogs should endeavor to glvo them B' a Eou Pitsture. Too many brcodors B Br0 contontcd with a hog pasturo that HPr is covered with native grasses only. HL.T Clovers nnd bluo grass make a good H pasture for swine. H Science In Hog- liaising. BBVk' ho fact that wo liavo hcon nblo to B mnko money out of hogn oven with the BBkI. most unscientific methods of breeding Bt and cara Is proof that undor proper K conditions tho hog will mnko his own- BBh er rich. Scientific management means H tho caro of swlno to keep nwny ul Hl eeaso, obtain tnrly maturity and keep HJK up the natural fecundity of the anl- K9't mala. IN FMSON AT CHIHUAHUA THREE MEN AWAIT DEATH IHURLBERT, MITCHELL AND HARLE UNDER SENTENCE FOR COLD BLOODED MURDERS. WERE GANG OF LIFE INSURANCE SWINDLERS Killing of Their Victims a Part of the Scheme by Which They Had Made Large Sums Had Another Victim Marked for Death. Chlhuahun,. Mexico. Through n skein of plot and counter plot, that, If evolved by a wilier of fiction, would have been considered extravagant, the story runs of the crime of tho three men, Hurlbcit, .Mitchell and llurle, now under sentenco of death hero. Tho crime fev which these three men aw to die .h murder, an Incident of their scries of carefully planned life insurant c swindles. 'llio particular company victimized is ono of tho greatest in the world, and only carelessness on tho part of tho plottors resulting from ovcr-conll-dunce, baed It from n heavy loss. l'ructluill in its entirety tho uttulr Is us follows: Commenced in 1002. it was In thu spring of 11)02 that a life Insurance company was called upon to pay two death claims In Chi huahua, tho first on tho lifo of Hurry AI. Mitchell for $15,000 under n policy assigned to his sister, Helen Ulchard Eon, and tho second on tho lifo of James Dovcrs for $10,000 under n pol icy of which ono Willis Meredith was tho beneficiary. Mitchell had died on February 11 of that year, and Devcrs on March 1M, and tho agent in both cases ha'd been C. T. Richardson, who had formerly been in tho employ or the company at Chihuahua, but was now living In Dallas, Tox. Now, life Insurance agents in Chi huahua, Mexico, even thoso who sub sequently movo to n town Ilka Dallas, do not, as a rule, support private teams, nor drive out in stylo with negro coachman and n footman or two. All these things were Included In Ilichardson's establishment in Dallas, to tho great amazement of n repre sentative of tho lifo Insurance, com pany, who went down from tho HI Paso olllce, where tho check for tho Devcrs policy had been forwarded, to P05QNMG -MlKtCLL V. ItKiK Into tho mattei Theso things i were reported to tho home otllco, and under tho direction of Second Vice President Kingsloy, Iiuny H. Uoitomo, a luver of Now York, and a detective, who may remain nameless, got busj on tho case , It was discovered that Dovers had born in Chihuahua a fow weeks botoro Ills death, and that nothing was known about him except thai ho was a hard driulior and of a tpo of social out cast common enough In that tcirltoiy This strengthened a theory that the ory possession of a $10,000 ollcy by huc a man icqulroil bomo further oxplimitlon, let alouo posslblo suspi cious circumstances attending his float li So tho Investlgitors turned to tho puymoiil of tho Devcrs policy ut tho 111 Paso olllco, otter tho company had unsuccessfully tried to hovo tho tliock sent fiom New Y'irit Intercepted in transit. First Evidence Secured. It appeared that tho check had been forwarded from tho VA Paso olllce to tho Poit Woith olllce at tho request of Meredith, and when it came back after collection through a Tort Worth bank It bore Meredith's indorsement for do poslt. inquiry at tha bank In ques tion developed that booh after tho claim hud been filed on Dovers' deuth .Meredith had called at tho bank in compjny vvltt ".Ichtudson, nnd had obtained there a loan of $8,000 upon Richardson's nsmirunto that tho com pany had admitted tho claim under tho jKilicy nnd was about to pay tho money. This loan was paid In part In cash nnd In part by u draft on the Beaboaid National bunk, of Now York, and It was this draft for $7,000, to gether with Its indorsement to Hirh nrdson, that forms the first link in tho chain of ovldento that was to connect him with the crime. So tho search led back to Chlhuahun, and when mora light wns sought on tho manner of the deaths of Harry Mitchell and Devcrs it wns found that in tho first caso death had occurred In tho house in which Richardson nnd his wife lived nnd within half an hour after Mitchell hud talked with a friend in tho streot, apparently in perfect health. This was hardly con sistent with tho thry of spinal men ingitis advanced by Dr. Harle, the physician signing tho death cortlflcntc, who happened to bo also tho physician who had examined each applicant for Insurance upon his admission to the company. In tho caso of Dovers It appeared that death was duo to dysen tery, us might easily have occurred with a man of Devcrs' dissolute man ner of living. Of Richardson nothing could bo learned, except that ho hnd appeared in Chihuahua in the sum mer of 1001, with his wife, Helen Richardson, as an American looking for business opportunities In Mexico, nnd hnd secured an apiwlntment as oaopiiiiDDDDni linen ig - jm S$lk.l " MSSeL 5siGNlMGHI50Wr" niffiHB4 r'- jlllg j DEATH WARRANT jyJ 5 vflfeRffiflBx .. S lwfiBBflffBVBVBV. :mI JBflBflBBflBBN Xi vSsmvubVbVa bYjHbYJhbbYsYi HvbV BYsYsYsYsVsYsYsYsYsYflBYslBYsYsYsYsY b SwBvViF BvSvSvSVCBVBvBvSV ' MKiTvEM3-BB!l' AW 7iUj(bBBkzBBBBK $ .BBT cvVBflHyl WBKi ,& ' bV sf HttBlBBBBBBBT I BBBBKwSBlBvBBtBW V"aBBr & --SIp nillfiw SmBw agent for tho lifo lnsuianto company In tho territory Oray's Entry Into the Game It was at thlb stage o the caso that thero como to Dallas, vvhero tho Illrli aidons wcro llvlnt In stylo, n pro possebslng citizen named W. J. Gray, a dealer In lumber hnds, who opened an olllce of some sl?o and took n house in tho best part of tho town. Tho lUclninlsons happened to bo In Hot SprlncH. Ark , at the time, and ho (Iray, tlio lumberman, who wasn't In any hurr to got his D Ulan qffulrs mov ing an) wny, took a trip over to tho Arkansas icsort and registered nt thu sumo hotel with tho former lifo In suraiKo agent, his wlfo and child Tho two got iicqunlnted and bornmo famous friends. Then ono day Rich ardson proposed that ho should tusuio Cray's life. Cray demurred, but ho recalled that his wlfo hod u brother who wns 111 with consumption, dia betes, and several other troubles, and it occurred to lifm that if thero wero any way in which a pollcv might be issued on the life of this unfortunate brother-in-law ns security for some money he (Cray) nad advanced, he might coutemplato with more equa nimity his relative's approaching end. Richardson thought he could fix it, and tho brother-in-law was sent for from St. Inils. Now, the convenient orother-ln-lnw was about as much n relative cf Gray's as Gray was himself a lumber mer chant, but he was Indeed suffering from conslimptlon and diabetes and was so ill when Richardson wrote his $50,000 policy that he hud to oo propped up In bed In older to sign It. Richardson announced that ho hnd brlVd n couple of doctors to Blgn tlw physical exum lnntlon papers, and tho sick brother-in-law was shipped back to St. Ixnils, whence ho went out to Arizona a year later to die. Dallas Made Headquarters. Greatly did Giny admire tho skilled manipulation of tho brothci-ln-inw caso by his friend Richardson. So when the latter suggested that thero was plenty of ensy money to be mudo by similar undertakings down in the border country whore people nro not watched too carefully, Gray fell In with tho gamo at once, nnd the two went back to Dallas, where Gray's lumber olllco became shortly their headquarters. Gray used to hear from Richardson how it wasn't really neces sary to bribe a doctor in an insuiancc case, but simply to tuko a dummy be fore the medical man to pass the physical examination, and Richardson had Just tho dummy that filled tho bill, a young fellow named Moron, onco a miner in Chlhunhun. So tho months went on, and It was in October of 1002. Tho Groy-Rlcliard-son-Mnson combination wis now in good running order, nnd It was planned that they should go to Hi Paso, whero Mason would tnko out $100,000 lnsurnnco in tho name of Marshall D. Sangulnetto, nn Individ ual whom Richardson said ho knew to bo dying of consumption in Mxlco. They wcro to muko Gray tho benell clnry of tho policy, wait until Sanguln etto died, und then collect tho $100, 000. Rut a hitch arose Richardson remembered ono day that nls friend Sangutnctto, wns a young man of middle age, whereas Mason wns but a youngster of 23. Why not, then, hovo Gray take out tho policy as Sauguln ctto, mnklng Mason tho bencncUry, and then collect in tho usual way? Gray Marked for Murder, Gray was not overanxious to mako his death a osslblo sourco of profit to RIchafdbou nnd Mason, hut ho con sented to bo Sangutnctto for the pur poses of tho policy, and to own Mason as David SangulneUo, his con ami heir. After various intioductlonb tho policy wns mudo out and the denl closed apparently. What introduced n now clement into It that Rich ardson and his friend Mason had not counted on wns the fact that Harry Ilottomo and u couplo of detectives hod been keeping in nightly touch with Gray nnd Incidentally hnd been doing u little work ou tho aide, listen ing to convocations between Rich ardson and Mason when Gra) wasn't around. It was In ono of theso con versations thnt Rlchardbon glecfuUy remurked that Gray had been tho eas iest thing Imaginable ta xno Sanguln otto coC, ar.d added: "Wo won't do a thing to him when wo not him ovor tho border" Ilottomo nnd his men decided th it matters hud gono far cnouyh They laid their information boforo tho dis trict attorney of III Paso county, and wnrrnnts wore Issued for nil three, in cluding Groy, for it was Inexpedient Just then to hove on exposuro of tho part vvhlcn tho lumberninn-dotectlvo hud played In tho caso Gray, however, was soon released, and tho next step was a churgo filed In tho City of Chl huahun accusing Richardson and Ma son of the minders of Mitchell and Dovors. In tho preliminary hearing Dr. Huile was called as a witness, nnd testified that Mitchell did die of strych nine polbonlng instead of spinal men-, ingttls, but that Richardson had told him that tho caso was ono of sul cldo.nnd wanted to liavo things hushed up. Dovors, Hatla still declared, died of dysentery llurle said tint ha had been called In to attend him by a half- j brother of Devcrs, William Meredith. Harle was not cross-examined, nnd ho left tho stand thinking ho had "got nwny with tho goods." Confession from Harle. At this point Ilottomo from 121 Paso telegraphed Harlo that ho was com ing to Chlhunhun nnd wanted to seo him. llnrlo thereupon started for El PnBO, and Uottome, when ho wus well on his way to tho Mexican town, got a vvlro on his train that ho would Porh tho train on which Harlo was traveling In mid-route. Uottnmo loft his train at n convenient station nnd boarded tho other. Then, ns ho did not know Harle, ho sent a porter through tho car with a Western Union telegraph envelope addressed to the doctor, and Harle tumbled Into tho tran. Ilottomo nnd n dctcctivo led Harle Into tho smoking compartment and started n qulzz of tho "third do greo" order that wound up thnt night with n 60-p.igo confession Implicating Harle in tho death of Dovcrs, nnd telling enough of tho circumstances of Harry Mitchell's death to Indicate how his "suicide" had been nrranged. Harlo said thnt Devcrs hnd been brought from Chlhuonun from El Paso by Richardson in December of 1001, nnd that Richardson had sold that ho hod explained to Dovcrs thnt Dovers wus to bo used in swindling one Wil lis Meredith out of n lot of money, For this purosc Dovcrs wns to post us tho half-brother of Meredith, nnd also to take out a lifo lnsurnnco pol icy in his half-brother's fnvor. Ilul Devers never signed nny papers in thli connection; that wns all nrranged bo tween Harlo nnd Richardson, so that when Willis Meredith, who turned oul to be Mason, arrived on the night ol Harry Mitchell's funeral with a wom an who posed ns his wife, it was neces sary only thnt tho final propnrotloc should bo mado to put Devers out ol tho way befaro collecting both of the polities. Theso were easily arranged, Tho bogus Meredith nnd Dovcrs went to live together. On February 2i Harlo was called to seo Devcrs, who appeared to bo suffering fromncute dys enter). Harlo guvo him somo medi cine to eabo his pain, but shortly nftci ho died. In his confesslou Harlo said he knew Dovers was being poisoned, nnd sup posed that bichloride of mercury was ' given him in whisky. Harlo filled oul i o fake burial certificate and tht other papers necessary to collect on tho policy, after which Richardson, nnd Mason, who hod now become Wil liam Mitchell, tool: it to tho El Paso agency und eventually raised tho $8, 000, of which wo have heard, at tho bank at Port Worth, Harlo, of courso, was Immediately arrested, and event ually came to trial with tho other men. Hmlbert's Criminal Record. Hut in tho meuntimo photographs of the trio had been distributed through the usual police channels throughout tho country, and when they renched Rochester, N. Y., tho photograph of Richardson was recognized as that of I-ester 13. Hurlbeit, a lawypr, who hod Jumped thnt city in May, 1901, after the exiwsure of nn extenslvo divorce mill which ho had operated in tho cities of Rochester and Iluffalo. Wil liam Mltcholl, or Willis Meredith, or Mason, as ho wus variously known, turned out to bo the brother of Harry Mitchell, who was killed in Chihua hua in order that thu gang might col lect on his $10,000 policy. Mrs. Rich ardson was identified us tho wlfo of Hurlbcrt, nod Investigation in Roches ter dovoloped the fact that sho was tho sister of thu Mltcholl boys. Wil liam Mitchell's trail, indepd, wns fol lowed oven to Hot Springs, Ark., where tho ' wealthy lumberman" Gray had his brother-ln-lnw Insured, for "Mason" was tho engaging )oung mnn who hod himself examined by thu Hot Springs doctor as John J. Evans. Tho trial of the threo men had been reported In pi'rt In tho papors through out the country, and it srved only to dovelop tho facts In tho remarknblo uiho which linvo been very simply nar rated above. Tho verdict ct guilty quickly followed tho presentation of tho facta to tho Jury, and It remained at length necessary only for tho oxe cutloners to carry out tho sonteuce o: tt'j court. BflBJ STORAGE CRATES. H Convenient Arrangement by Which BBfl Comb Honey Can Be Safely BBI Kept in Small Space. BBBJ Tho engraving shows a pllo of stor- BBJ ago crates filled with sections except H tho top ono, which is empty, tho bet- H tcr to show tho construction. Tho BBJ engraving is n little faulty In that tho BBJ tops of tho sections in the filled crnto BBBJ nearest tho top do not show ns they BBBJ should, through the open bottoms of BBJ tho empty crate. Theso cratei nro BBJ mndo of nny cheap lumber, tho only BBJ THE BTORAtin CltATU FOIl COMUl BBBj IIONUr. BBBj point whero n mlstnko is likely to bo, BBBj mndo being tho making of thorn of un-i BBBj seasoned lumber, so thnt tho sldo, CBBj pieces, when thoy shrink, aro less thaw BBBj tho height of tho section. I pile those BBj crates up, ovon wjion full of honoy, a? BBBj high ns I can reach; nnd it is neces- flBj sary that this weight should not como BBj directly on tho sections. In piling up BBj sections that nro to stay any length BBj of timo in tho crates, always lay n BBj plcco of paper over each ono, which, BBS makes it practically dust-proof, cs- BBS pccially If tho paper is long enough to BBB extend down over tho ends of tho Bfl BBB Pllo your honey in n hot, dry place, Bflfl cautions tho editor of Gleanings In BBBj Deo Culture It thero Is nny bus- IflJ plclon of coolness or dampness about flflj it, do not put tho honey near the floor Bftflj or in n corner. Hnvo it nt least n foot BBB from tho floor, and whoro tho air can BBB circulate freely all around it. BBBj EFFECTIVE DUST BATH. ' Clean Bust Mixed with Fine Ashes Bfl and Sulphur Enjoyed by BBB Hens. BBB As to mites, I do not bclicvo thnt I BBB hnvo any in my houses, says a New BBB Jersey poultryman. I use proventn- flfl tlvo remedies, spraying tho houses nnd B painting undcrBlde of roosts nnd roost B rests with crudo mrbollc solution, nlso B fumigating with sulphur and white- BBB washing, using tho sulphur onco a -BBB month nnd whitewashing about four fl times a yenr. Tho nbovo I hnvo found BBB sufficient for my purpose. I bclicvo BBB tho mites nro very difficult to got rid BBB of onco they get n foothold In n house, M and n house infested with them will BBB need very thorough cleaning nnd fl spraying, being very particular to got BBB tho spray Into nil cracks nnd croviccs. M As to chicken lice, I keep tho houses HHJ supplied with dust baths, using clean Hftl dust mixed with fine ashes and sul- B phur. When I had n small number of M fowls, it was an easy matter to In- M spect each individual, nnd dust thorn H with Insect powder, but this Involves M entirely too much labor whero a largo H number of fowls nro kept; bo now I M rely on dust baths mixed ns nbovo, I M ' nm not nvvaro that I have over lost H nny poultry from Ilco or mites and . Bfl bcliovo If tho nbovo plan la faithfully 'IJ followed tho trouble will bo reduced HH to n minimum. Fnrmor's Review. IJ GOOD SHELL MATERIAL. Where Production of Eggs Is Large H Much Lime Must Be Fro- HHJ vided. B A great many of our people forgot H thnt thu modem hen produces several H times ns ninny eggs us thu nnclont H hen thnt was tho progonltor of tho HHJ ono wo now have. That hon laid H 30 or 10 eggs u year nnd hnd no trou- H bio to find the llnio In the natural jH food Dut It is a very different mat- tor when a domestic fowl must pro- H duco good shell material out of hor HHJ food for two hundred eggs during tho SH year Tho modern hen probably eats ' Mm no more lime in her food; thureforo !&nr tho farmer that does not provide tin- JjBF portnnt supplies of llmo, will have ipr. troublo with his Hock. Tho egga will arifi lmvn thin shells, nnd thnrn will I... tf'jPj mnny soft sholled, egga which will "be w$i a tompiatlon to tho poultry to begin lrS egg eating. It Is ensy enough to fur- j nlsh tho matorlnl If ono does not for- Vi got. Tho professionnl poultry mnn !S$V never forgets; but tho farmer docs, v'i'' becouso poultry with him is merely a M.i. side Issue. '$&'f at' (I Curing Roup. 'IM' 1 Sovoral honioinado remedies fulled $? to cure tho roup so I tried swobbing 43vJL tho chicken's throats with turpentine. Ttfy?' I usod a feathor dipped In turpentine "1c.4 and followed it by giving a teaspoon 'WT of goose oil. Since then I have not aFtll lost a chicken. aBi Sulphur for the Hens. flH A llttlo sulphur In tho hens' feed ;HJ occasionally is a boneflt, but don't put HHJ It on the elttlng hens or those (hat '! havo chicks. It It gets Into tho chicks' H eyes It will mako them blind. ilflHJ