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Or Mews Everywhere -ï? ♦ « * Two men were killed by a train at j Strader, La. Mount Vesuvius, in Italy, is again in eruption. A mob attacked the Australn Con sulate at Saltillo, Mexico. A plot to assassinate President Fi gueroa was discovered in Salvador. The London press favored the American central bank of issue plan. Orville Wright broke the aero plane altitude record at Berlin. It is reported that European grain crops would surpass estimates. France claims Robert Fulton, the Inventor of the steamboat. George B. Colton will succeed Reg is H. Post as governor of Porto Rico.. President Diaz, of Mexico, cele brated his seventy-ninth birthday. The boundary dispute between Pe ru and Boliva was settled at La Paz. A sensational search of a resi dence for liquors took place at Mo bile. A balloon and wireless telegraphy were used effectively in the German army maneuvers. Mrs. Nelson Morris, of Chicago, was killed in an automobile accident near Paris, France. H. H. Lukens, of Philadelphia, was run over and killed by cars at Mont gomery. The senate committee on Indian affairs will investigate the Balling er-Pinchot controversy. David O. Moise, formerly of New Orleans, wa^ drowned in the Potomac river. Congress may remove the tax on oleomargarine in order to reduce the price of butter. It was anounced that the new Jap anese budget provided no increase for the army and navy. The port of Mulege, on the east coast of Lower California, was over whelmed by a tidal wave. Bishop Seth Ward of Houston, Tex., killed a bull elephant in Afri ca. Twelve persons were killed by an explosion in a fireworks factory in Italy. El Roghi, the rebellious subject of the sultan of Morocco, was put to death. There is a warm contest in the army over the selection of a new chief of staff. William Jones and R. Gentruch, a Swede, are reported to have been killed by tigers in Costa Rica. The convention of the American Bankers' Association at Chicago ad journed. The Halley comet was sighted eflirough a telescope from the Yerkes Observatory at Chicago. Russia allowed a larger percent age of Hebrew students to enter the «ehools. C. H. Treat, treasurer of the Unit ed States, resigned, effective next month. Robert E. Peary, the explorer, it ts said, will make a dash for the South Pole. Prince 'M.^uel of Braganza and Miss Anita Stewart, of New York, were married at Dingwall, Scotland. David E. Thompson, American am bassador to Mexico, has secured con trol of the Pan-American Railroad. Spencer F. Eddy, of Chicago, Unit ed States minister to Roumania and Servia has sent in his resignation. Congressman Good, of Iowa, wants congress to investigate the Sutton case at Annapolis Naval Academy. Regulations to protect the boats of the President's river fleet from collision were Issued at Washington. President Taft's letter exonerating Secretary Ballinger will not end the forestry controversy. L. R. Glasvis, who filed charges against Secretary Ballinger, was dis missed from the government service. ♦ 'The campaign for a constitutional ^meniment for prohibition In Ala bama was launched at Birmingham. It was announced that the United Fruit Company would issue a stock dividend of 10 per cent probably Sep tember 30. Delegates to the bankers' conven tion in Chicago were divided in their opinion on the central bank issue plan. The steamer Nicolas Castania was wrecked on the coast of the Isle of Pines, Cuba. Twenty-nine lives were lost. Three indictments charging liquor ■selling were returned against John Allen, a member of the Chattanooga City Council. German officials began the study of the American tariff with a view of making suggestions for a new tariff agreement, s' President Taft will use the "big stick" if necessary to force congress his favorite bills at the next » to pass session. collectors are Internal revenue finding great difficulty in listing cor porations for assessment under the new corporation tax law. It was predicted that the rate of discount of the Imperial Bank of Ger manÿ would be advanced to 4 per cent. There is considerable interest at Washington in the significance about the organization of the National Con 8ervation Association recently formed There is supposed to be i at Chicago, politics in it. - Mexico's Independence Day was celebrated in that country. This was the ninety-ninth anniversary, of the day j Mrs. Morris, wife of the late Nel son Morris, the Chicago packer, died | in France from injuries received in j automobile accident.Sept. 10. * The experts for the fiscal year \ 1909 indicates that the trade of the j gulf ports is increasing more rapidly 1 than the amount of business handled by the Atlantic ports. In the matter import trade the gulf ports also ; 1 an \ of show a very high rate of increase. The Halley comet was seen and photographed in Heidelberg. Two men were killed at Chicago by the collapse of a building. President Taft at Milwaukee, W!s., advocated postal savings banks. Mrs. James McKay, of Canton, Pa., was killed in an automobile accident at Syracuse, N. Y. W. J. Bryan spoke on the tariff question before a large crowd at Dal las, Tex. Five women and a baby were seri ously injured in a taxicab accident at Pittsburg. The bodies of two miners who per ished in Death Valley from thirst were found near Skiddoo, Cal. Four forest fires threaten the San Gabriel watershed and the oil region around Whittier, Cal. H. W. Estes and Benjamin Mar shall killed one another in a street duel at Neosho, Mo. Four cadets of the Annapolis Naval Academy were dropped for "inapti tude." S. W. Labrot, of New Orleans, bought the Montrose Hotel in Wash ington for $150,000. Commander Peary was being paid $447 a month by the government while on his trip to the North Pole. Posses in a man hunt near Sandy Point, Tex.,- which previously had cost three lives, killed two negroes. Ollie Williams, on trial for murder at Quitman, Miss., testified that he killed his father in self-defense. Bishop William George McCloskey, the oldest Catholic bishop in the United States, died at Louisville, Ky. The body of Miss Florence Weber was found in a river at Canal Dover. Ohio, and foul play is suspected. The Black Hand is suspected of the murder of tw-o Italian children and the wounding of a third at Utica, N. is Y. Five bandits dynamited the ex press car of a DenVer and Grande train near Malta, Col., but secured no booty. President Taft delivered an ad dress at a banquet at Chicago while there on his tour across the conti nent. Dr. Cook sent a wireless message regarding his trip to the pole from the boat on which he was coming to America. Details of the loss of the steamship Nicolas Castania on the coast of the Isle of Pines, costing twenty-three lives, were received at Mobile, Ala. E. T. Elizey, a farmer of Pike county, Miss., was arrested on an in» dlctment charging him with the mur re of .his wife June 12, 1907. Resident of Taft, OkU., an exclu* sively negro town, object to the pres ence of three white merchants, on« of whose store .has been dynamited. President Taft delivered the firs) speech of his tour at . Boston, Mass., before leaving there, on his 13,000 mile tour of the West and South. Rio The nervous breakdown of J. W. Castle was attributed to the losing fight he waged against E. H. Harri man for control of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. Mrs. Mary Scott Castle will not be prosecuted for shooting William B. Craig at New York, the grand jury dismissing the charge of felonious as sault. Salvatore Arrigo, alleged to have been the head of the Society of the a preliminary and bound at Banana, was given hearing at Cincinnati, to the December federal grand over jury at Toledo. J. F. Hansen, president of the Cen tral of Georgia Railroad, in filing his answer at Atlanta to the suit for divorce brought by his wife, blames theosophy for his marital troubles. In a tariff speech at Winona, Minn., President Taft practically read out of the Republican party the Republican "insurgents" who voted against the Payne-Aldriçh bill. John W. Castles, president of the Union Trust Company, who committ ed suicide at the Grand Union Ho tel, was buried in Woodlawn Ceme tery, New York. A new strike was inaugurated at the Pressed Steel Car Company works at McKees Rocks, Pa., by 3,000 for eigners, who refused to work unless the bosses and sub-bosses of the plant were discharged. Judge Robert S. Lovett was elect ed chairman of the executive commit tee of the Southern Pacific Company in New York. William Rockefeller were re-elected directors and also members of the ex ecutive committee. Eight trainmen were killed and sixteen other persons injured in a collision between freight and pas senger trains Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad The bodies of Jacob H. Schiff and near Pegram, Tenn. five victims were cremated in the de bris. Louisville, on the Hanson^ Explorer Peary's a statement in negro servant, gave out winch he said that Peary was accom panied to the North Pole by one gro and four Eskimos. ne King Manuel of Portugal will vis it London in November. It is rumor ed that lie will wed an English prin cess. an man who had ever reached the North i pole and he is prepared to prove it. All of Edward H. Harriman's Robert E. Peary, the explorer, in interview at Battle Harbor, La brador, said he was the only white property, real and personal, is be queatlied, without restrictions of any j sort, to the widow, Mary A. Harri The will-was filed at Goshen, N Y | " • j g 0 widespread has interest in the * strange malady, pellagra, become \ among medical authorities and oth j ers throughout the country that Sur 1 geon General Wyman, of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, has decided to issue a weekly bulle ; tin dealing exclusively with the de 1 velopment® of that disease. TO PROBE INTO TARIFF. Tariff No Standpatters on New Commission. Washington.—The greatest irapor ance is attached to the appointment commission or of the new board by President Taft. A glance at the personnel of the commission makes it clear \hat the tariff president has made the commission up of men who are anything but ultra high tariff men and stand patters. v * The chairman of the commission, Prof. Henry Crosby Emery of Yale, is ranked as a radical tariff reformer of the school of Sumner and Had ley. Assisstaat Secretary of the Treasury James B. Reynolds cannot be classed as a tariff reformer, but he has an intimate knowledge of the workings of the tariff, and his incli nations are in the direction of lib erality and moderation in treating it. Alvin H. Sanders of the Breeders' Gazette of Chicago is a pronounced downward revisionist. He is in favor of the idea of reciprocity and of mu tual trade concessions. Mr. Sanders' appointment will appeal to the farm ers and producers, and especially to the cattlemen and stockmen of the West. Here it is believed that this action of the president in selecting a tariff commission that will probe deep into the tariff and afford the president facts which he can use in any way he chooses to compel changes in schedules will be followed by some plain talking on the tariff on the Western trip of the chief executive. The president is expected to align himself with the movement for furth er downward revision and for the election of men to congress who Will represent the revision sentiment. NO MOISTURE ON MARS. Can Exist on the Life, However, Planet, Says Astronomer. San Jose, Cal.—People on the Planet of Mars, if any live there, breathe an atmosphere which is al most destitute of moisture. This is the conclusion of Director W. W. Campbell of Lick Observatory, who returned recently from making ob servations from the summit of Mount Whitney, the highest point in the United States. "Mars does no^ have watery vapor in sufficient quantities to be detected by the spectroscopic method," says Prof. Campbell. "This does not prove that life doqs not or cannot exist on Mars. The question of life under these conditions is a biologist's prob lem rather than astronomer's." BIG GRAIN COMPANY FAILS. Wreck Adverse Legal Decisions Great Concern. Little Rock, Ark.—With the filing of a petition in bankruptcy H. K. Cockran and C. C. Kavanaugh, of this city, were named as receivers for the T. H. Bunch Company, one of the most extensive grain dealers in the Southwest. Chancellor Martineau, before whom the petition was filed, required each of the receivers named to give bond in the sum of $100,000. While the schedule of liabilities was not announced, it is declared that lo cal banking institutions are involved to the extent of $300,00o. COMET IS SEEN. Halley's Wanderer is Seen With Naked Eye After an Absence of 24 Years. ' Chicago.—For the fir3t time in 24 years, Halley's comet has been ob served with the naked eye. T.he ob servation was made by Prof. S. W. Burnham of the Yerkes observatory at Lake Geneva. Two photographic negatives were secured. Halley's comet, according to the scientists, will not be visible to the naked eye, without a telescope before next spring. The sighting of it with the eye through the telescope is consid ered a great feat by the scientists. OFFERS $25,000 TO SEALERS. Schooner Seized by Argentine Gov ernment Four Years Ago. Victoria, B. C.—The Argentine government has offered Capt. Balcom and his associates of this city $25, 000 compensation for the seizure four years ago of the sealing schooner Agnes G. Donahue, which was taken by an Argentine gunboat while seal ing in the South Atlantic, Capt. Ry an and crew of twenty being thrown Into prison at ' Montevideo. The schooner was released several months ago and the sealers were freed after serving several months in prison. The owners claimed $52,000 damages. NEW DEPOT FOR DETROIT. Michigan Central Station Will Cost $2,000,000. Detroit, Mich.—The common coun cil by a vote of 28 to 8, has adopted an ordinance embodying the terms of agreement between the city and the Michigan Central Railroad in regard to the erection by the latter of a new depot and terminals to cost $2,000, 000. The railroad is given sitxty days in which to accept. MEYER IS ARRESTED. Chicago.—Maurice H. Meyer, head of the Frisco-Santa Fe Land Com pany, indicted with two others in the United States Disrict Court at St. Louis for alleged fraud, was arrested by Federal authorities. The Indict ments against Meyer, James S. Platt, secretary and treasurer of the com pany, and J. C. Combs, charge them with defrauding many persons in con nection with the sale of 10,000 acres bf land in Texas. TO HUNT FOR SOUTH POLE. Capt. Scott Now Organizing an Ant arctic Expedition. London.—-Capt. Robert F. Scott, is organizing an expedition to the South Pole. The extraordinary stimulation of public interest in polar explora tion is hown in the receipt by Capt. Scott since the announcement of his expedition of $35,000, and offers to join the expedition in various capac ity In addition to a large number of letters inclosing subscriptions toward the expense. __ « "'S L? f'S r^II^ * C A A v >» Vit S Women and Leap Year. Many women have no initiative ip love matters. It would never occui to this type of woman to fall in love with a man until he had first signified his approval of her, but no sooner does he declare his affection than she forthwith blossoms out into a devout lover. Her affection is due merely to a negative reciprocity. Leap year would be of no use to a woman of this kind.—Gentlewoman. Forgot She Owned an Estate. The Axminster (Devonshire) Board of Guardians have been assisting a woman named Olsen, an inmate of their * workhouse, to çstablish her claim to an estate in America, which she is said to have purchased many years ago and apparently forgotten all about it until quite recently, when it was brought under her notice as a result of inquiries in England as to her whereabouts. It seems that Mrs. Olsen, who is about sixty years of age, on arriving in England some years ago, was in the possession of a considerable sum of money. This is stated to have been spent, and the woman, becoming a pauper in an East Devonshire village, was even tually taken care of in the union workhouse.—Woman's Life. Women With Two Souls. At last science has thrown a great fight upon that deepest of mysteries —the way of a woman. After solv ing most of the other riddles of life, the crowning victory of psychothera peutics is the discovery that women have two souls, perhaps more. We have the word of President G. Stan ley Hall, of Clark University, that there Isn't a bit of doubt about it, and it is upon this hypothesis that he ac counts for the "fickleness" of woman and "her erratic methods of jumping at conclusions, and her intuition." Wisely President Hall observes: "Woman is much more susceptible than man. There is good reason for this. We know that she has two or Tutti-Frutti Pudding.—Remove of stewed prunes and cut ful of stewed and sweetened and cut in small pieces one )f one cupful of sour cream, teaspoonful of soda dissolved salt and flour sufficient to out. Line a pudding dish fruit® in alternate layers with bits of butter and Cover with a very thin fruit in the same way as thirty minutes. Serve Ladies' World. ♦ ii e. o o £ û) • u ? t s O I é >* 3 o s U tS 3 Ob o She may love and hate more souls, at the same time and the same per She may say and think that she son. is sick or well when the reverse is really true. It simply means that one soul is in the ascendancy. These two souls may be absolute strangers to each other, but they certainly exist. We have proved it beyond the shadow of a doubt."—Kansas City Journal. New Theories of Dancing. Certain statuary in the new British Medical Association has been creating trouble since it has been uncovered, and Mrs. Grundy is having a spasm. Still, even if she can't look at nude statues without saying her prayers, she can go to see Maud Allen in the Salome dance, without turning a hair. She also welcomes a new dancer from Milan whose appearance in the Salome dance sent the newspapers in to convulsions. * This dancer, who seems likely to captivate society, has most remarkable theories. National dances, she says, are simply the little episodes of petty States. The . great dance, the Greek dance, is an epic for all time, she asserts. To perform it properly, she says, the dancer must be alone with her thoughts, as is the composer when he is thinking out music. Only those draperies, too, ««he says, which artists and sculptors know to be the ideal should be called into use in such dances.—New York ^ress. Women Fail in Business. Women as a class have not be êome enmeshed in professional and business life, which are about the same thing, through their own de sires, but through the working of economic forces beyond their coq trol, says a writer in Appleton's. The socialization of home industries has altered women's status, and in many cases forced them upon the world. But in the world they are not making the place for themselves that they formerly held in the home, as equal factors with men. It is clear that, in the professions tq-day, men are quite equal to the demands. There is no function of leadership, in other words, that any woman pos sesses that some man cannot exercise as well as she. The doors of oppor tunity are being closed to her again, because opinion seems to have crys tallized into the belief that woman has not "made good" in the sense that she can stand alone, well sup successful and unanxious, One does not ported upon her own work, mean necessarily that the nrofession al woman has failed, that she has not earned a living, or made a reputa tion, or both, but that she has not made herself an indispensable part of professional life, a factor of undis puted worth. The'opinion even of women on this subject is strangely unanimous. They are not satisfied with the position in which they stand in business nor with what they stand for. They have be come unsettled about themselves and their ability to fight successfully shoulder to shoulder with men, given ,the opportunity, and are looking to themselves, for a wonder, to see if the explanation lies within. Woman has failed to "make good" her pretensions* to consideration as an independent leader and thinker in the professions and in business. Al most nowhere in the high places do we find women. Very few. art they among physicians of note, few among lawyers, and few as executive heads of colleges or holders of professional chairs, few among the ranks of edi tors. And in the teaching and news paper fields they have had great op portunities, whatever may be the caso to-day. Ready-to-Wear Garments. That the dressmaker who makes Individual dresses for Individual wo men will ever disappear entirely is not likely, but there is no doubt that she is being pressed harder and hard er by the ready-to-wear trade. A sta tistician who had occasion to compile a record on this subject says that the individual dressmaking trade shows a falling off of thirty per cent, in the number of persons employed since 1890. By natural increase, had there been no disturbing factor, the number ought to have doubled in this time. At the same time a tremendous fall ing off has been noted in the dress goods departments of retail stores, the decline in the last three years having been eighty per cent. The great variety and cheapness or the ready-made garments, the surpris ing smartness of many of them and the great convenience of buying the garment ready made, appeal to an in creasingly large number of women, and the manufacturers of such cloth ing are constantly improving their stock, both in variety and design. One manufacturer announces, according to Crerand's Cloak Journal, that for the fall of 1908 he has three hundred models to select from. This means everything from the simplest jumper dress up to magnificent creations of Irish lace and wonderfully wrought silks, sq that if a woman needs a pretty gown on the instant for any occasion she has only to telephone for It. In one Western town, with a popu lation no greater than Yonkers, N. Y., a merchant advertises that he has eighty models of women's gowns to select from for the summer, ranging Pudding.—Remove the pits from one cupful them in small pieces; rub one cup apricots through a sieve; steam one dozen plump figs. Make a crust cream, to which has been added half a in a little warm water, a little to make a paste that can be rolled with a portion of it, and put in the until half is used, dotting each layer sprinkling them lightly with flour. layer of crust and use the rest of the at first; cover with crust and bake warm with any preferrel sauce.— in price from $9 to $90, and the New York market supplies between $3000 and $4000 worth of women's dresses to one Chicago firm alone. One manufacturer of women's coats in New York has expended $30,000 on samples alone. They are not called samples, to be sure, models being considered a more elegant term, but samples they remain, and as such they will be sold at half the cost of production before the season is very old. Designers of women's dresses in the big factories of New York receive from $2000 to $20,000 a year, and the trade employs 50,000 persons the year round, and from 150,000 tc 250,000 in the busy seasons. The •sales in women's cloak and suit de partments in retail drygoods stores have increased 100 per cent, in the •last four years.—New York Tribune. Ffî/LL% . FASHloM V II Jumper frocks are worn by both young and middle-aged. The tight and long sleeve is seen on both coats and gowns. Chamois gloves are popular for traveling and everyday wear. The scarlet and green sunshades are often worn with white dresses. The truly fashionable woman matches her gown with her parasol. Brown is fashionable and is met with in all shades and all materials. The two sides of the newest gown are not the same. That is, the bodice The modish short skirt is between two and three inches above the ground. We now not only have Russian de signs but Russian colorings, called. Tussor and net is a combination of material^' much favored at the present time. If you are up to date you will speak of "Charlotte caps" not "Charlotte Corday hats." Puffings and pleats of tulle or silk are let into the brims and crowns of the hats of straw. As a relief from plain coats with striped skirts, striped coats with plain skirts are seen. Feather trimmings and ostrich, os prey and egrets in particular, are heaped upon dress hats. ^,Be sure your hips are sufficiently graceful in outline if you desire to wear one of the new scarfs. A lovely leghorn from Carlier is swathed in a cloud of tulle—faint pink and yellow and blue and laven der. so Cravenetted satin is one of the more expensive bathing suit ma terials in favor with those who are partial to silk. Although there are stencil patterns to be had for decorating blouses we have yet to see a waist thus decorated in actual use. Is there any prettier trimming for a leghorn straw than pink roses and a well-placed touch of black ? will be draped perhaps on one sid® with a part of the border of the ma terial while the other side will be of 7he plain. t K'æ § GARDEN. TARM and CROPS [■r SUGGESTIONS ... FOR THE UP-TO-DATE & §d AGRICULTURIST V » The old saying, "Don't count your chickens before they are hatched" seems to be slightly out of date when applied to poultry, as the modern in cubator intelligently operated is . go ing to thru out chicks to its full ca pacity as long as fertile eggs hold out.—Farmers' Home Journal. Parasitic Worm. As Is generally known, gapes are caused by a parasitic worm in the windpipe. They may be cured by dis lodging the worms with a feather dipped in coal oil. Doctoring gapes is a rather tedious task; prevention is much better and can usually be achieved by putting all the young chicks as they are hatched on fresh ground and grounds. If this does not prevent the gapes putting the chicks on a board 3oor for a couple of weeks will prove cffecti ve.-r Far mers' Home Journal. cultivating the old Select the Birds. In buying male birds' great care should be used' in selecting them of some well known breeder who makes h specialty of utility fowls. This is possible as there are many breeders of poultry who keep these points in view while developing their flocks. On the other hand there is danger in buying birds from a flock that has been tco highly developed along meat or egg producing lines alone, for there has been so much specialization that a 'point has been reached where practi cal utility has been* ignored.—Farm ers' Home Journal. 1 i ■ ' Faults of Horses. Breeders should not close their eyes tc the faults of their horses. On the contrary they should study careful ly to learn in what respects they are faulty or in what qualities deficient, and try to make such selections in mating as will strengthen those qual ities or rectify the faults in the off spring. Many eliminated *or subju gated in a few generations by care. Never mate a mare that is weak in some quality or faulty at some point with a stallion that is weak in the same quality or faulty at the same point.—Rural World. Watch Hens Setting. Keep a continual watch on all set ting hens, so as to detect any little hitch that might occur. If they should break any eggs, It is their keeper's duty to wash all waste matter off at once, using lukewarm water, dry, and put back under hen, to avoid chilling. On the nineteenth day dip eggs in luke warm water, dry them and put them back under hen at once,,which will prevent chilling. The water moistens the shell, thus allowing the chick to free itself sooner, and in a stronger condition than it would be if left otherwise.—Farmers' Home Jonrnal. Well Ventillated Coops. Coops for chicks oftçn do not afford sufficient ventilation, particularly af ter the chicks are almost half grown or larger. À number of chicks of this size huddled together in one small coop will generate a great deal of heat and moisture during a warm night, and unless this can escape and permit fresh air to enter, the chicks will soon suffer. When confined in a close coop, the chicks will emerge in the morning presenting a draggled ap pearance and with their feathers al most as wet as if they had been out in a shower of rain. When the coops are well ventilated, this condition does nî>t exist, and the young birds thrive better. Fresh air is invigorat ing and leads to héalth and thrift. As the natural tendency of heat is upward, the openings for ventilation should be near the top of the coop. This arrjangement also prevents draughts of air. Holes at the front and the back of the coops near the top will give free circulation of air, without any danger of draughts strik ing the chicks directly. On unusually warm nights it may be necessary to leave the front of the coop entirely open in order that the young birds may not get too warm. If there are rats or cats around this is hardly a safe plan. Doors of wire netting may be put on the coops, however, to avoid this danger. Any one can soon learn by a little experimenting wheth er their coops provide sufficient ven tilation or not. After the chicks have settled down for the night, place one hand inside the coop through a small opening. If the air feels unusually moist and warm, one may know that insufficient ventilation is provided. No matter how well ventilated a coop may be, it is impossible for the air to be pure and healthful unless the coop is kept clean. If filth accumu lates unhealthful odors will be thrown off which ventilation will not entire ly remove, so the coops should be kept clean.— W. F. P. In the Indiana Farmer. Good Butter Cows. Personally, I prefer the thorough bred Jersey to any other breed of cat tle. Where object in view is butter fat, there is nothing that excels them, and only the sister breeds Alderneys and Guernseys, can equal them. The chief objection raised against them is that their small size makes them un salable to the drovers who buy cattle to calve and that the young stock is too small to sell well. This objection is true in and of itself, but the equili brium is maintained in another way seldom taken into account. If butter is the object, veal and beef are only side issues. There is usually a local market for the good Jersey butter oow at a good' price. Pound for pound, she brings as much as the heavier an imal when sold for beef. She has us ually paid her way after two years old and it does not cost nearly so much to raise her. The large, beefy animal eats a large quantity of hay and comes to matur ity several months later than the Jer sey. This, as I see it, evens things up between the large animal and the small one. If she brings less she has cost less and she begins to pay divi dends sooner. Of the calves I always raise the heifers to maturity. There is nothing in the line of stock that will sell so readily as a handsome two year-old Jersey heifer just ready to come into milk. The cajves not want ed to raise can be vealed if desired. They are small, but it will not take nekrly the amount of milk to grow them to four weeks old that it will to grow a large calf, so the balance of profit is maintained. The Jerseys do not relish rough fod der. They are often colled dainty, but I have had a small Jersey and a grade of large build stand side by side in my stable. The large animal ate a third the most hay and gave a third the more milk, but she did not make a third the more butter—she did not make so much. It would not take a mathematician long to figure out who was the most profitable cow, or to figure out how long it would take the large animal to eat up the extra money that her body would bring for beef. It is possible to breed the Jerseys much larger than the prevailing size. Their early maturity and*the using of immature breeding stock all tends to keep the size down, from the largest animals and keep ing a good male until he is several years old, instead of keeping him only till two years old, as is nearly always the case, would improve their vigor and their size. They are such gentle, peaceable an imals that a person with a heart can not help becoming attached to them. When one sees the great records of some of the world's famous Jerseys and considers that with care and at tention to breeding he can own a herd that will come near to equaliz ing it, it is worth while to try.—C. J. Wiltshire in the American Cultivator. \ ( Raising stock ( i Farm Notes. Comfortable quarters for the cows and a good silo are important factors in butter making. A Aerd of high-grade cows, well fed and well cared for, is the starting point in making high-grade butter. Good butter can be made in the kitchen, but a separator and special dairy room is almost essential in modern butter making. Skimmed milk is worth about fif teen cents a hundred pounds to feed to pigs from weaning up to a weight of 125 pounds. The old-time spring house is no longer an indispensable factor in farm butter making. The separator has made it unnecessary in most cases. Butter should come granular if it is to be of high grade. Butter which , comes pasty is never of high quality. The cream was too warm when it was churned. Don't work a misfitting collar. A sore or swelled shoulder will most certainly result. Then your horse will be on the pasture when you need him at the plow. An occasional pinch of saltpeter mixed with the salt given work hor® during hot weather will be found beneficial—it is cooling and will keep their kidneys active. ■The old-fashioned dasher churn has now gone into disuse except for very small amounts of cream. Barrel and power churns are easier to handle and give more satisfactory results. A good article deserves an attrac tive package. The different size butter tubs should be nicely lined with para ffin paper. Usually the home butter maker can sell his product to better advantage in pound cakes. Separation is a much cheaper and more than skimming. These hand separa tors are valuable for small dairies. Send to each manufacturer for his catalogue, then choose the machine best adapted to your needs. es efficient method of creaming Fat Foods and Their Uses. It is impossible to say what will please in the way of fat food. The only way is to experiment, feeling sure that the right thing will eventually appear. When commonplace fat of- J fends, something new and strange ; • will often inspire respect and he re- ( ceived with delight, scorn fat in the abstract seldom re- ] fuse a light, well made suet pudding. j Toast and dripping is a combination that has been known to charm when less humble fare is declined. Toffee, which is a combination of equal parts of sugar and melted butter, is a high ly nutritious substance that is a gen eral favorite among children. Given at the end of a meal, it can seldom do ha*'m. Equal parts of chopped fat meat, lean meat and bread crumbs, the whole lightly seasoned with pep per and salt and a dash of powdered sugar, make an agreeable filling for sandwiches that are often acceptable to those who insist that they do not ■ 1 like fat.—Dr. L. P. Bryson in Harper's Bazar. /; Children who i 2 f I Staging the War Drama. "What properties will we need for the battle scene?" "None whatever. TJie stage will be bare. The men are supposed to bo wearing invisible uniforms and firing/ smokeless powder from noiseless gunsi —Kansas City Journal. ■ Last year's purchase of ties by the country's railroads were only tw*> thirds as large as those of 1907.