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,JV' ft* Vn r.i mjj iM 2 *i A em y*' 1 BT Coi'ELAND & OVEKSOBT. N. DAK. WILLISTON, fctyif-r i$fe UNCLE DAVID'S BOARDERS. We've been takln' summer boarders—they come down a week ago— Thought we'd make a little extry, kind of on the side, you know Had a piece put In the paper, so's to let the people see f" Jest what kind of 'commodations we could £ive 'em—ma and me— Purty soon we got a letter from some people up in town, Sayin' they had read about us, and they'd bring the children down. Ma and me done lots of plannin' when we'd got the bargain made, As to how we'd use the money that the summer boarders paid I says: "Ma, you've got to spend it buy in clothes 'n' things you need," But she shook her head decided and she answered: "No, indeed! You've been wantin' a new buggy 'n' the barn needs roofin' too— I won't touch a single penny, but I leave it all fer you." There Is purty Mrs. Plimley, with her little bits of feet, That, somehow, you're always seein', and her smile so awful sweet, And there's Plimley with his golf sticks 'n his coat as red as blood. And their little darlin' daughter like a rose jest in the bud, And, besides them three, another—if I'd saw him first I vow We'd of took no summer boarders and we'd still be happy now. First a wheel run the wagon, smash-in' things all UD, but oh Little Willie didn't do it! He's so inno cent, you know! Then we found the turkeys crippled—hit with stones 'n' sticks 'n' things Couldn't blame sweet little Willie—all he hasn't is the wings!— There's a dozen broken winders, 'n' the pump's all out of gear, And the chickens run fer cover since dear little Willie's here. Gates, somehow, keep comln' open, so the pigs go tearin' loose In among the corn 'n' taters, rootin' 'round to beat the deuce! Guess our fruit'll be a failure from the way it's droppin' down— Lord! I wish these summer boarders had to hurry back to town!— Barn most caught afire Monday—burned a ton of hay, but, oh, Little Willie never done it! He's too good for that, you know! Worst thing happened, though, when Plimley, with his red coat on, went out To the pasture, where the cattle had been left to browse about: He was busy knockin' golf balls when our Jersey bull caught .si&'ht Of that coat and come a-tearin' down the hill with all his might! There was bags and golf slimes llyin'— with a man up in the air Little Willie'd be an orphan if ihe fence had not been there. Well, the doctor's very hopeful—thinks he'll pull the patient through He has bruises most all over and a broken rib or two: And they say I'll have to settle—It'll be a whoppin' bill!— We've got through this kind of business- me and m? have had our fill!— don't wish those town folks blasted— that, you know, 'ud be a sin, But I've got a big sign painted: "NO MORE BOARDERS TAKEN IN." —S. E. Kiser. in Chicago Times-Herald. A Year Round Garden By Mary Peabody Sawyer. Tmight HE Carters were holding1 one of their usual "family meetings." As be expected, Evelyn had the floor. "The first thing to do is to state the situation. We are here in Santa Kosita, and we propose to stay here. We are in the middle of the 'rainy season,' but in spite of that fact anyone with eyes can see that the sun is shining, to the delight of the winter tourists and the disgust of the rancher. Frank, I will leave it to you to describe our sur roundings." "Small inland town in southern Cal ifornia. A store, blacksmith shop, rail road station and 'boom hotel.' Carter family composed of mother, daughter and son. Average health and sense. Living in cottage near hotel. Grounds around cottage not extensive. Possibly two acres under cultivation. Some or ange, lemon, fig and nut trees, and an alfalfa patch. For live stock, one horse, one cow and a small flock of scrub fowls." "All true," commented Evelyn. ""Now, the problem to be solved by the family aforesaid, is to turn what they bave into what they want. Please give suggestions, mother," looking toward bright-faced woman, who sat quietly knitting. "Well, children, you know I went orer to see Mrs. White at the hotel, last evening. She told me that she could not stand the food there much longer. She said that the vegetables were canned, the eggs stale and the 'chickens' tough. She would not have stayed as long as she has, only the manager is extremely kind, and the rooms very comfortable. I laid awake awhile last night, and while thinking about our prospects, it came to me that perhaps we might supply the ho tel with nice vegetables, eggs and chickens. "Now, that's a practical thought, mother. Don't you say so, Frank?" "That's right," responded Frank heartily. "Still," continued Evelyn, "we would sacrifice a little fine writing if we told our eastern correspondents that 'nn der the soft skies of California, with the perfume of orange blossoms waft ed into our open windows, and the song of the mocking birds making the air vocal with melody,' we were engaged in growing the savory broiler and the business hen," she ended with a peal of girlish laughter. "The iiext thing on the programme, sis, is to interview the genial manager of the Hotel Santa Rosita. If you think best, I'll call on Mr. Black, but to tell the truth, I think you'd make a better impression," ended Frank, shrewdly. "Oh, I'll attend to that little matter at once. The sooner the agony is over, the better, and then we'll know what to depend on." The Carter family all knew Mr. Black, since while waiting for the ar rival of their household goods from Massachusetts, they had boarded for a week or two at the hotel. Mr. Black was an old-time Califor nian, naturally hospitable and easy going. He understood how to make hi• guests feel at home and keep the commercial side of the business in the background. It did not take Evelyn long to lay her plans before the kindly manager. "Why, certainly, Miss Carter the hotel will be glad to buy at market rates whatever garden truck or poul try you may raise for such a purpose. But, as an old resident, I am bound to tell you that there is no money in it. We have plenty of land belonging to the hotel, and one year we tried making a garden. NThe rabbits and go phers ate up most of it, and what was left made a feast for some chickens we undertook to keep. Then the coy otes caught the chickens, all but a few that the roup soon finished. So we buy our green things from a Chi naman, who drives over from the next valley once a week, and get the rest of our stuff in cans. It's a great sav ing of labor in the kitchen, just to open a can instead of being obliged to stop and go to the trouble of prepar ing vegetables." 'May I tell you a criticism 6n your bill of fare?" "Of course you may, and I hope to profit by it." "We have had friends at the hotel who said to us: 'I like everything about the Hotel Rosita, but its lack of fresh vegetables, eggs and chickens. With a good table it would be a de lightful place.' Mr. Black flushed a little at these plain words, but said: 'Then I'm to look to you for an op portunity to improve our menu. I wish you may havg the success that your enterprise deserves, but I fear you will be disappointed." Evelyn hurried back to the cottage. Her cheeks were pink and her eyes bright with animation." "The hardest part of the battle is easily won," she announced as soon as she opened the sitting-room door. "Mr. Black will buy the Carter prod uce, and, though he is very nice about it, I know he thinks we are as green as our prospective lettuce." Frank was studying some brilliant covered seed catalogues and Mrs. Car ter had her lap full of poultry maga zines. 'From what I learn, I think we may have the earliest eastern spring vegetables in midwinter, while in the spring and summer we can do the best with the varieties that need the most heat. Tomatoes can be grown all the year in a sheltered place, and we may have strawberries from January to December," was Frank's contribution to the family fund of information. "One of the things we need to avoid," said his mother, "is planting too largely of one variety at one time. My father, who was a successful mar ket gardener in New York state for many years, was noted for his early and long continued crops. The top most prices were brought by his first vegetables, and he kept a new lot com ing on till checked by the cold of au tumn." 'But what I want to study up," said Evelyn, "is the poultry business. I've loved chickens ever since I used to squeeze them to death, when I was three years old. My 'succession of crops' will be broilers and fryers with plenty of young laying hens. Just think no freezing weather to stop the filling ol the egg baskefcand spring chickens at^hristni)|tf|HH| The Carters had spentmarly" a year in California before the beginning of this story. Coming to the state for the benefit of Mr. Carter's health, after his death they decided to re main, if possible. The son and daugh ter were 19 and 21, and had true New England spirit and energy. The family's availaule resources were limited to the cottage, its be longings and a little property that paid about $300 a year. This was all that was left after the expenses of traveling, illness and death were met. Besides this they had enough ready money to buy the needed seeds and garden tools, poultry and fencing. This money was carefully laid out and many "family meetings" were necen sary. At first they made some mistakes. They took the well meant advice of neighbors and built their hen houses of laths and gunny sacks. But it did not take long to remedy this blunder and substitute warm, well ventilated buildings. The long rows of vegetables were in closed by a rabbit-proof fencing and the chicken runs by a six-foot wire netting. A good dog discouraged the night prowlers and was a faithful friend. The whole place was so well kept that it almost gave one a good appetite to look at it. When it was producing enough to supply the table of the Hotel Rosita, the delighted guests would often say to the man ager: "There's one great attraction about your hotel, Mr. Black, and that is, your crisp, fresh vegetables, your delightfully tender chickens and new laid eggs. I have staid with you weeks longer than I at first intended, just for that reason. When I thought of going somewhere else, I could not bear to run the risk of a change of food. You would hardly believe it, but usually my appetite is very poor, un less there is something to tempt it." Evelyn Carter found, at the end of the first year, that her "poultry out put," as Frank called it, was outgrow ing the demand of the local market. So she made arrangement with the best hotels in Los Palomares, the nearest city, to supply them with fancy dressed chickens and fresh eggs. She packed lier eggs in neat cases, sealed and stamped. In this way she was able to command the best prices, and to guarantee their freshness. In time her business became so large that she leased all the available land in the vicinity of the cottage, and hired some young Mexicans to help her. One bright morning in February, Mr. Black came over by invitation to look around the "Carter gardens," as they were known in the village. Though the far-distant peak of "Old Baldy" was snow-capped, the oranges hung in golden clusters on the trees, and the mesas were gorgeous with wild flowers. "It astonishes me, Miss Carter, to see how everything flourishes," were Mr. Black's first words. "Maybe those bright smiles of yours hasten the growth of vegetation, but really, I am happily disappointed, I must confess." "I don't know whether my smiles are responsible for the rapid growth of everything on the place, but if that is true, it will be so much easier for me to smile than to work, that I may get very lazy," said Evelyn, laughing and blushing so bewitchingly that Mr. Black was almost tempted to speak the words that had been trembling on his lips for the last month. But instead of a romantic avowal, he remarked: "One never could think of you as lazy. You have energy enough for several ordinary men." "Thank you, Mr. Black. But seri ously, our success is not at all due to luck or magic, as many of our neigh borhood friends seem to think. We studied, discussed our plans, experi mented, sometimes failed, tried again and improved. We always wanted to understand the 'why' either of success or failure, so that we could omit the failures and duplicate the successes." "There ought to be more young women like you, but there is not a sin gle one," remarked Mr. Black, appar ently to the nearest fig tree, and Eve lyn continued earnestly: "Though we were often tired, we were never really discouraged. Just what I call a 'good tired' enough to be hungry^, but not enough to be ex hausted. It has seemed to me for some time that this lovely fertile val ley ought to furnish anyone with a support who is not a chronic invalid. I think, too, that many who are classed with the invalids could gain strength by gentle, gradually increasing out door exercise." "I agree with you there, and most heartily. What I know from sad ex perience with the average hotel in valid would fill several volumes. By the way, how does your brother en joy his part of the work?" "Much 'better than any office em ployment. He has gone to the city to-day, or I would let him speak for himself. He has branched out, too, and has added a fine lot of Belgian hares to our other fancy stock. He has been hiring a man part of the time, and is making a good profit. We carry on separate concerns' and yet work together. Some time I will ex plain how we manage our little busi ness affairs. We have no chance to feel homesick or complain about the climate, I assure you." "This is all extremely interesting, and many thanks to you. I have long been wanting to mention a plan which —I mean a suggestion that—well, any way, are you willing to let me call on you this evening?" said the hotel man ager, flushing and stammering in a way which made the young girl won der if he was losing his mind. "Frank will be glad to see you, I am sure," she said, with that feminine wickedness which characterizes the most sensible of its sex. "Oh, excuse me for not making my meaning clear, but when I call, it will be for the purpose of seeing you on a very important—the most important matter to me at least. But I must say good-by and hurry back to the hotel. I am expecting a large party of ex cursionists on the noon train, from Boston. What is that? the whistle at River station? Excuse me for leaving you so abruptly, but I must hasten, or the train will be in before I am at my post."—Boston Budget. A HAUNTED APPLE TREE. A Murder Committed Under It and Now Ita Fruit Is Streaked Blood Red. "It is probable that to the town of Douglass, Mass., alone belongs the rep utation of having 'a haunted apple tree," writes Samuel S. Kingdom in the Ladies' Home Journal. "The tra dition of the town is that a foul mur der was committed in the orchard many years ago, and that since then it has been haunted by the spirit of the victim. As the story goes, a ped dler, whose custom it was to sell goods from house to house from a pack, laid down to rest at midday under a tree in the orchard, and before the day was ended he was found with a cruel gash in the neck from which his life blood had ebbed away. Suspicion rested on the owner of the orchard, and he was said to have been con stantly followed by the spirit of the victim. In an attempt to escape from its dreaded presence he moved away. Then the apparition became a terror to all who had occasion to pass over the road at night. So potent was its influence—standing, as it had a habit of doing, under the apple tree, with one hand at its throat and the other extended as though seeking aid, and uttering shrill cries that could be heard half a mile away—that the lo cation of the highway was changed and it is now a long distance from the orchard. The old trees still bear fruit, and the apples from the one beneath which the peddler was killed are said to be streaked with red, resembling blood, the streaks extending from skin to core." A Trjrlng Occasion. "You are late, madam." "You said 11." "Yes, madam but yesterday." "My! how stupid! Did it matter?'* "It always matters with me, madam." "I am sorry. I beg your pardon." "It is granted, madam. Slip this off, please." "The waist first?" "Oh, certainly. There. Erect, please." "How is that "Better. Emile, the pins." "I'm sorry, now, you didn't let me have the other material. This looks—" "Tut, madam. This will be perfect when it is completed. -But—'' "You must allow me to be the judge, madam. Your elbow, please." "The sleeve seems awkward." "You do not know. Wait." "Can I stand that so tight around my neck?" "Certainly, madam. It isnecessary." "I am afraid that color—" "Madam, you do not know. I am the judge." "I think I am about to faint." "How dare you, madam? Don't you see that I am in a hurry?"—The Smart Set. Anticipated. Prospective Tenant—There isn't room in these flats to— Janitor—All tenants have access to the basement, where the largest cats can be swung with ease.—Puck. Folly. It is folly to draw a sight draft on a blind man.—Chicago Daily News. A LITTLE NONSENSE. He—"I asked your father's consent by telephone." She—"What was hia answer?" He—"He said: 'I don't know who you are, but it's all right.'" —Harvard' Lampoon. "I don't care much about the cir cus," said the boy. "I only go to give father an excuse for going." This ter rible falsehood illustrates the influ ence of heredity.—Detroit Journal. First Fly—"Say, what are you doing in that ash barrel?" Second Fly—"Do you see that baldheaded man at the window? Well, I'm going to put ashes on his head so I won't fall off." —Chicago Daily News. She (poetical)—"Do you notice, dar ling, what beautiful azure tints the sun lends to the bosom of the ocean?" He (practical)—"That, my dear, is the dye out of some of those cneap bath ing suits."—Illustrated' Bits. Cutton—"Were you careful, when you took your bicycle apart and cleaned it, not to lose any of the parts?" Dryde—"Not to lose any of them? Why, when I put the machine together again I had nearly a dozen pieces left over!"—Answers. The Professor—"Wonderful! Your bump of love for your fellow man is abnormally developed!" Mr. Bloomly "That was developed- in 1863." The Professor—"Ah, indeed!" Mr. Bloom ly—'"Y-a-a-s kicked by an army mule."—Indianapolis News. "Faith in a familiar maxim put me in prison," said the convict. "Someone said a policeman was never around when he was wanted. I hadn't got my hands on the horse before a cop came around the corner and nabbed- me."— Philadelphia North American. NATIONAL CONVENTIONS. The "Galleries" Are nn Important Part of Them as They Are Now Conducted. Goldwin Smith, describing in his history of the United States the con vention which framed our federal constitution, says that it "sat with closed doors, as every assembly must if it means really to deliberate, not to talk to the galleries and the re porters." Once in fcrur years, after the great national conventions for the nomina tion of candidates for president and vice president, says Youth's Compan ion, many persons are of opinion that spectators ought to be excluded from these assemblages. It is not pro posed to exclude the reporters, which would be done were the doors strict ly closed, in the sense referred to by Prof. Smith, but to limit the conven tion to the delegates and alternates, the newspaper reporters and perhaps a few distinguished guests. The system which permits the pres ence of many thousands of visitors, applauding and shouting, permits them also to exert great influence over the deliberations of the dele gates, and renders the convention subject to the control of passing fren zies of emotion. As conventions are now conducted, the spectators, or, as they are popu larly termed, "the galleries," play a not unimportant part. They do the cheering they raise banners under an enthusiastic leader they have been known to start a march through the hall in behalf of some candidate whose name is before the convention. The delegates are naturally influenced by such demonstrations and yet it is far from certain that the galleries typify "the people" outside, for the galleries are often packed in advance with friends of a particular candi date. However desirable more deliberate conventions, state and national, may be, the proposed change does not make headway. It would take away "half the fun" of a convention, and would thereby disappoint a great number of people. But, after all, "the fun" is the last thing to be consid- I ered when men are selecting the rulers of the nation. TAKE THE SHORT CUT. Pedestrians In Chicago Bnsineas Cen ter Use Hallway* to Save Time and Avoid Weather. In these days of blistering heat more people are using the hallways of public buildings than usual. It is not known to very many thousands in Chicago that a great deal of heat, rain or wind of any sort may be avoid ed by walking through buildings with passageways which connect street with street, says the Chroriicle. There are more of these buildings than is generally known, and a great deal of disagreeable weather may be avoided by taking these short cuts. Not all the people seen entering sky scrapers and retail shops are going in there to make business calls or pur chases. Many of them are merely using the hallways for convenience. By so doing they can walk under cover, through ways which are cool in summer and warm in winter, for a considerable distance, pometimes com ing out into the open air a block from where they started. Those whose business requires them to be on the streets much know these se cret ways and always take advantage of them. They know, for instance, that the city hall and county building each of fers a cool passage for a block north or south between Randolph and Wash ington streets. They know that in several retail shops on State street there are ways of getting through to Wabash avenue without being ex posed to the sun's rays. They are aware that the Board of Trade and the Rialto buildings offer a passage way from Jackson to Van Buren streets. There are many hallways in the shape of an L, such as are seen in the Stock Exchange building, by which they may avoid windy corners and disconcerting crowds. Collect ors, messenger boys and others whose duties require them to be on the streets a great deal know all these devices for saving time and trouble and escape many a drenching rain storm and many a headache from the sun by reason of that knowledge. Mysteries of Kature. She—As a rule, big, strong men are good-natured and jolly. He—Yes and as a rule, weak little women are pert and saucy.—Chicago Daily News. WINDMILL GRINDER. How to Arrangre and Pnt Up One That Will Saw Wood and Grind Corn for Feeding. One of the best plans is to secure, in the first place, a good windmill, and second, a good thoroughly-automatic feed grinder, which will regulate the amount of feed strictly in proportion to the speed at which the mill is be ing driven, and which will stop empty whenever the mill stops1. With such a feed grinder as this-, arranged prefera bly directly upon the driving shaft of the geared mill, a large amount of feed may be ground wherever there is any considerable amount of steady wind above a velocity of 12 to 15 miles per •M A WINDMILL GRINDER. hour. In order to get the maximum amount of work out of the mill in the way of feed grinding, it is necessary to provide a large bin above the grinder, in whioh the grain to be ground can be placed, and then have this* arranged in such a way that the grain feeds di rectly into the mill whenever the mill is running. W ith this arrangement must also of course be provided a bin into which the ground meal can fall out of the way of the grinder. Such an ar rangement is shown by the cut, taken from the Wisconsin agricultural experi ment station bulletin No. 82. The grinder there shown is arranged di rectly on the driving shaft of a 12-foot geared windmill, and upon the same shaft is shown a driving pulley, to which a belt may be attached for the purpose of sawing wood or driving any other piece of machinery which the mill has the capacity of handling. This driving pulley can be used to drive a machine set anywhere on the circum ference of a circle surrounding the shaft and without disturbing the feed grinder it only being necessary to throw the grinder out of use when the driving shaft is desired for some other purpose.—F. H. King, in Rural New Yorker. BOGUS FOOD PRODUCTS. They Can Live Only So Long*ias Theljj Real Character Is Hidden by L)lne Labels. After all, something is to be hoped for from national and state laws. While it is true that many laws on our statute books are. dead as to enforce ment, or only partially enforced, yet it is also true that some of the laws that we supposed would be of little effect have been enforced to the letter and have accomplished all that could be desired. We will instance the na tional law against "filled cheese." It was not m-any years ago that one could hardly buy a piece of cheese and be sure it waswhatit claimed to be. Filled cheese has demoralized the home niar ket and destroyed most of the for eign demand for cheese made in the United States. The filled cheese law was passed, and the result has been the almost complete obliteration of the industry of making filled cheese. It can still be made and sold, but it cannot be sold for anything besides what it is. What, is the result? It is found that no American wants to buy the stuff, and so none is sold in this country. Two factories in Illinois still make filled cheese and sell it to English firms. But even there the de mand is growing less. English mer chants last year imported 636,944 pounds, made in the United States and Holland. It is made in no other coun try. The amount used in England last year was not half of the amount used two years before. Recently there have been some prosecutions in the English court on account of tradesmen having sold filled cheese for the pure article. It is probably true that- all of this cheese now leaving the United States is going out fully branded under its own name, but it is altogether probable that the consumer on the other side of the water buys it for full cream cheese. Its decadence proves that it and all things like it can live only so long as their real character is hidden by a mask. We need therefore only tear off the mask to destroy most of the imitation food products.—Farmers' Review. AMONG THE POULTRY. Keep one cock for ten to fifteen hens. Let the fowls fast a few hours before killing. Hens lay best at the age of one to two years. Always give fowls plenty of fresh, pure water. Hens over two years of age make, the best setters. Fowls must have a range or a supply of green food. Have a portion of the hen house part ly darkened for nests. Sitting hens must have a daily run to insure them good health. There is no danger of the poultry business being overdone because the demand is rapidly increasing. If a scratching place is provided where you can bury corn, your fowls will receive much benefit from the ex ercise. A quick way to fatten geese is to put a few in a darkened pen and feed a pound of oats per day to each one. They fatten in Voice. tvjo weeks.—Farmers' ABOUT BELGIAN HARES. Breeding? of This Animal as nn Indus* try Began, It Is Now Claimed, Ten Tears Ago. In answer to a number of inquiries in regard to the Belgian hare, we find, upon investigation, that the breeding of this animal in this coun try as an industry began about ten years ago. The breeders are natural ly enthusiastic and possibly are too optimistic in their view of the future of this constantly enlarging business. It is claimed by them that no other line of breeding offers anything like the profits that the breeding of the Belgian hare does. Both the meat and the hide are valuable. The cos* of producing the meat, it is claimed, is not over five cents a pound at th* most, and we have been informed by, breeders in the vicinity of Denver, Col., that the meat in that market sells from 15 to 25 cents a pound. The meat of a young Belgian hare is highly extolled by those who are ac quainted with its quality, and all such unite in saying that as a toothsome article of diet it cannot be excelled by any meat that comes to our tables. The hare is exceedingly prolific, the doe sometimes producing 35 to 50 young hares in the course of the year, and does begin to breed at the age of six months. The food is that which is common ly eaten by sheep, and should be a variety which can readily be provid ed from oats, clover, 'roots, bread and milk, etc. All the shelter that is needed is an open shed that will always be dry and must be clean. Cleanliness in the hutch must be maintained. Three by four or five feet is large enough for a hutch. The nesting box, which must be provided for each breeding doe, should be three feet long and two feet in width and height. A portion of the cage should be covered with wire netting. Cover the bottom with fine straw. A litter is from six to a dozen. When about two months old the young are weaned and the sexes separated. The weight' of a Belgian, if pure bred, at ma turity is from eight to ten pounds.— Epitomist. SUCCESS IN FEEDING. Some of the Methods Pnrsned by the Man Who Is the Envy of Less Prosperous Neighbors. The man who stands by the hog all the time is the man who knows how to make the business pay, and here are some of his methods: He has good, well ventilated shelter for his hogs by the time cold weather arrives, or in the event of hard, cold storms. He feeds at regular hours his troughs are always empty when the hogs have finished their meals, yet they show signs of having had enough. He has a feeding floor and iceeps it clean. He has provided pumpkins or squashes or roots, for he knows that in connection with grains these things have a nu tritive value that the chemist doer, not give them credit for. He knows how much his hogs are paying for his corn and other feed, and he knows he ought to sell them when they do not pay the market prices for it at least. H|ft^Ojgs are not wasting flesh root $^^^^lPFcgrouhd*'for alkalies to aid digestion, for he sees to it that salt, charcoal and ashes are within easy reach all the time. He has his fall litters separated from the spring pigs and feeds the first milk and a mixed ration that will develop bone and mus cle and not fat, which is not what they want to lay on at this stage of the game. He has rye for late fall and early spring pasture and his brood sows, old and young, are separate from other hogs, that they may re ceive the food and care they need in their special business. He gets well paid for his labor in the manure he saves and applies to his fields and that would be lost to the farm if his feeding stuffs were sold away from it. He is delighted with high prices, of course, but when they are low he fails to see any market that will pay him better for his produce than well-fed and well cared for hogs.—Farm, Stock and Home. LOW POULTRY HOUSE. It Costs Bnt Little More Titan "Shed" Hoofed Affair, and Is Prettier by Far. In cold climates the poultry quar ters must be built low to conserve heat. The cut shows an excellent house of this sort. The rear is but LOW POULTRY HOUSE. four feet high, but in the front th« re is height enough for even a tall per son, and the work can all be de-ne in the high part. Such a building looks much better than a "shed" roofed affair, and costs but little more. By removing the sash and substi tuting netting, or slats, it may be converted into comfortable summer quarters.—Farm Journal. Soondajr Rest for Horses. Except in haying and harvesting I never permit a team to be worked in the middle of the day when the ther mometer is high. There is no need of it, if the farmer has his work in hand. Getting to work two hours before breakfast and working until dark will give a very long breathing spell in the hottest part of the day. It may re quire some extra help to do the chores, under such a system, but on a farm on which considerable help is employed affairs can be so arranged that some of the men who are not driving teams can do the chores night ana morning, including the milking. At all events the saving of the horse in the middle of the day is a valuable feature in farm management.—Agricultural Epit omist. Save seeds of everything from the best in the patch. Do not forget this. KIDNEY TROUBLES OF WOMEN Mfa. Frederick's Letters Show Bow She Belled on Mrs. Pinkham and Was Cored. Dear Mbs. Pctkham:—I hare a yellow, muddy complexion, feel tired and have bearing down pains. Menses have not appeared for three months sometimes am troubled with a white discharge. Also have kidney and blad der trouble. I have been this way for a long time, and feel so miserable I thought I would write to you and see if you could do me any good."—Miss Edna Fbedebxck, Troy, Ohio, Aug. 6, 1899. Dear Mrs. Pinkham :—I have used Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com pound according to directions, and can say I have not felt so well for years as I do at present. Before taking your medicine a more miserable person you never saw. I could not eat or sleep, and did not care to talk with any one. 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