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THIS faff, 7arfor a 5! 9t i. far fa f/j/ I ART ARCHITECTURE OWED um murrn building is designed in an at tractive manner. The cost to bmld la $3,200. The plan has many excellent* features. The underpinning is baift Of red brick laid up in red mortar. The superstructure is sheathed on the ex terior, apd then covered with clap boards and painted a rich red color, brilliant in tone, with ivory white trimmings. The roof is covered with shingles and stained a moss green in harmony with the remainder, of the color scheme. Di mensions: Front, 28 feet side, 57 feet, not including the veranda. Height of sellings: Basement, 7 feet first story, 10 feet second story, 9 feet attic, 8 feet. The interior arrangement is excel lent, and is finished off in a handsome FRONT ELEVATION OP SEMICOLONIAI, RESIDENCE., SMS :i afar/ jus :j '36/a -7/rtf floor— manner. .. The half is 1 it contains trimmed with cherry, and it contains an ornamental staircase turned out of cherry, with handsome newel posts, balusters and rail, and it is lighted effectively by deli cate tinted glass. The parlor is treat ed in ivory white and has an open fireplace, trimmed with tilefacings and .hearth, and mantel treated in ivory white same as the trim. The library is trimmed with cherry this room and parlor are separated -v Frmlt Pits ID Demand. Growers of stone fruits can count up on a new source of revenue. The pits of peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums and prunesj heretofore thrown away or used for fuel, have a market value. Es pecially is this true of peach and apri cot pits. This year there is a strong de mand for them at from eight to ten dol lars a ton, delivered in San Francisco. The kernel is the product sought. From the apricot kernel that delicious French "nut candy!' is made, displacing the almond. Cinnamon, allspice and nut meg are adulterated with this same pit, gtotind and highly prepared for the purpose. Prussic acid and essence and oil of almonds are made from the peach and prune pits, and these flavors are used in a thousand different ways. The pits are cracked in San Francisco and the kernels- are then sent east. Unhealthy State Pencil. The ufee "of slate and pencil by chit dren ia denounced as unhealthy. It has been forbidden in the schools of Zurich, Switz**laad, and pen, ink and. paper have bam.-substituted instead. The reasons .given are that the light gray marks on the .slate cannot be followed without straining the eyes. Velocity of Human Blood. It ia estimated that the velocity of the Uood movement in the arteries is about 12 inches a second, and that the length of time required for the blood to make «n entire circuit of the vascular system is about to seconds. llvr •VJ? H*«..'jg, KSTEciAixv yoitui mm. lrom the halls by archways supported upon colinpns rising up,, and finishing in Ionic capitals at archways. V:?- The fireplace in the library t+rlo ia trimmed with .tiVts.an^^nished with carved mantel*- The dinifijg room ia trimmed with oak! It iafuraished with a paneled wainscoting, ceiling beams .A •?. ... ••i. -e .'v\ -K i. 1 v".. ,\»! f* and buffet of handsome design built ia the nook shown on plan. The center window-is French-window- and runs down to the floor, opening onto the balcony at side. The kitchen'k and pantries are trimmed and' wainscoted with yellow pine, and are fitted up in the best pos sible manner with all the modern and necessary fixtures. The rear hall and toilet are conveniently arranged and fitted up. v7 J'V. jj',. & tTf&fTfbtl0 -i njj* {faflTnocr Jix/J* •ffl Chamber ftiambtr fhamhrf jo T. n/a —Seepnd /7oof— The second floor contains five cham* bers, some of which are treated in cherry, while the remainder are treat ed in white. The bathroom is wain scoted and furnished with porcelain fixtures and exposed nickel-plated plumbing. The attic floor can be fitted up with chambers, store room, etc. The basement floor is cemented and fitted up with furnace room, coal rooms, laundry, fruit room and other necessary rooms. GEO. A. W. KINTZ. Crocodiles Eat Blf Stones. Crocodiles, like ostriches, swallow pebbles and small stones, which serve the purpose of grinding their food. The natives assert that it is possible to tell the age of a crocodile by the number of stones in its- stomach, for they swallow one each year. In point of fact 15 stones have been found in the stomach of a crocodile 12 feet long, whereas the average number for younger ones varies between four and eight. So says Mr. Voltzkow, who has been studying this matter for several years. Dynamo and Dynamite. Till recently the employment of elec tricity in any shape or form in Constan tinople was strictly forbidden. Incred ible as it may appear the sultan naively imagined that1 a dynamo must have something to do with the manufacture of dynamite. Intelligence In Melons. Something like intelligence is often exhibited by plants. If, during a dry season, a bucket of water be placed near a dry pumpkin or melon, in the course of a few days it will turn from its course, and get at least one of its leaves in the water. Busies Regarded Sacred. In the northwest province the glass bangles worn by the Hindoo and Mus sulman women are ^regarded as sacred objects. If a glass bangle be accidents 'ally broken the pieces are gathered to gether and kissed three times. /A* LOUSE-PROOF'ROQSTtf- It Can Be Lifted Oik the Supports tor Oleiains and to Give Aeeeaa s. to the Home. Make a foundation' of four-by-four scantling, in the shape of a frame, about as long as the building and wideenough to make the roosts of suitable capacity/ For the perches uie three^bp-four or four-by-foyr scantlings, ripped through the middle so as to make two pieces four by one and one-half or four by two. The upper corners are rounded off as shown, and the perches are supported .A T** LOT7SE-PROOF ROOST. Oft standards of inch. pipe 18 inches long,«or half-Inch iron ro^s. An old fruit can is attached to each support by being soldered at th6 bottom of the can, the top being left open. These cups are kept half full of coal, oil or crude petroleum. The roosts can be lifted oft the sup ports for cleaning and to give access to the floor of the building. They may receive an application of coal oil or fee whitewashed themselves occasionally. Instead of using the framework for foundation the pipes or.rods may be simply driven Into the ground in their proper places. In the cut but one sup port and one end of a perch are shown. The perch may be any length, and is supported at the end not shown in the same manner as at the one illustrated —Orange Judd Farmer. AMONG THE POULTRY. Do not feed too much soft feed. Keep four ducks to one drake. Never use Imperfect fowls for breed ing. Feed milk and bran for growth, milk and meal to fatten. Generally, the better the scratcher the better the layer. When you get ready to fatten fowls, do the Work quickly. Separate the cocks from the hens they molt better alone. Game chickens, given a free range, are in danger of being overfed. Get rid of the hens you do not intend .to keep through .the winter. Hens .require a variety of food they get excessively tired of one kind. The most successful fanciers are those that keep one or two breeds. Hens should be killed when they are three years old they lay .fewer eggs after that. Grain is sufficient in lime and mineral matter, but brants rich in nitrogen and carbon. Scalding fowls before picking partial ly cooks the delicate skin, rendering it dry and wrinkled. While linseed and cottonseed meals are excellent foods, too mudh of them will causc a loss of feathers. It rarely pays to spend much time try ing to cure a bad case of roup or egg bound in hens. Use the hatchet. When your birds have bowel disease change the food for a few days and at the same time change the grit.—St Louis Republic. Some Advice to Shippers. Don't fail carefully to inspect your shipment before closing the box. Put in the memorandum ou your own bill head, or an envelope, showing the count and other data. Keep a duplicate your self, and thereby save much annoy ance and frequently a loss. Don't chase off into a new market with untried peo ple just because of a possible temporary advantage. Nine times out of ten you will lose. Keep in touch with a good house in several markets, and'use judg ment in shipping to any ofthem. Watch the reports and forecasts, and then al low for weather changes.—A Few Hens. Use F*nre»Bred Roosters. With a small flock of 15 hens, which should raise during the season a hun dred chickens easily, the use of a full blood cock of some large breed will add 100 pounds to those hundred chickens if allowed to grow to maturity. The extra hundred pounds of flesh will be laid on without any additional cost of feeding, for a scrub chicken eats as much as a full-blooded one. This gain can be made by the purchase of a single good rooster, and should not cost over three dollars at most.—Guy E. Mitchell, in Farm and Fireside. Lane Fowls Are Useless. If the hen gets lame and continues EO it Is generally better to send her to the kettle. It has been the experience of many that a lame fowl stands round so much that she gets fat and stops laying. The queer thing is that she will be found to have no signs of eggs In her. This seems to be due to the fact that the fat has increased to such an extent that the formation of even embryonio eggs is discontinued. Why a fat fowl should stop forming eggs it Is difficult to say, but it is a fact.—Farm ers' Review. FEEDING IH XARPS Birds In OaafteauU. Heed Dlfcmt Batlrti from Those Bavins a Free Woodland Ban. -.y Poultry in confinement must be fed differently from, those which have a free run of,gra&* or woodland, in which latter they revel, hunting over all the leaves, an^ scratching away, around and undep old logs for their, favorite grubs and^ bugs. If you have not made it a busintes to watch your chicks and hens carefully, you do hot realize what a large amount of grass and green food they will e^t in a day when it is at hand and when rthey have not been overfed with grain or scraps. Fowls' need coarse food or something that gives bulk as well-as nutriment. Even though you feed the confined birds the same identical food they obtained for them selves on a good rim it would not be the same, fas they cannot select for themselves..and they would still lack the exercise so -necessary for their health, and, therefore, in confinement the same food would be too-much for them. This is why successful raisers of poultry in confinement always throw the grain to their fowls in straw, thus compelling them to work for it. Exer cise is necessary for their health, but If the food is composed mora of.-ni trogenous element and less qf the car bonaceous (especially of the oils and fats).tihere would not be so many dis eases to confront. There are people, who pamper their chickens, both old and young. Corn is useful in the poul try business, as lard or bacoii js in the kitchen, but not as a regular diet. If you want to fatten poultry or warm them in cold weather, or when a hen is poor, and on that' account not' laying, and needs a richer food, corn is excel lent, but should not be given almost exclusively, especially when fowls are confined. It is not difficult to incur a serious loss, where a good number of fowls are kept, by injudicious feeding. All kinds should have a sufficiency of food without being overfed. If the birds are kept in a state of semi-starvation the hens lay but few eggs, and those intended for killing become so attenu ated that a very considerable outlay is necessary before they can be brought into proper condition for the table, and will lack tenderness and delicacy. To feed too liberally is wasteful, and in the case of laying liens decidedly objection able for a hen when it becomes very fat ceases to produce up to the average, and is subject to various ailments. Full grown fowls should have just as much as they will readily eat and no more. Barley, either in whole or in ground state, is fairly economical used either alone or in combination with other food. Oats and oatmeal are of espe cial value for fattening for the table. Pieces of bread and vegetables of all kinds may be utilized, and scraps of meat chopped up rather small are of great value in feeding fowls shut up in small yards where, they are unable to obtain worms and insects. Potatoes boiled and mixed up with a sufficient quantity of coarse bran, when scalded to form rather a stiff-paste, are useful for helping out the corn.—Farm and Fireside. WARM POULTRY HOUSE. Although Dnllt on a Northern Slope the One Here Illustrated Is Rea sonably Comfortable. The cut shows an attempt at making the best of circumstances. The poul try house must face the soufh or the southeast, while, the ground where the house should stand slopes toward the north. The floor was dug level Intp WARM HOUSE ON NORTHERN SLOPE. the bank and a foundation .wall was put in as shown, the top coming up to successive levels to accommodate itself to the rising ground. A drain is laifl along beneath the wall to carry off'tiie water coming down the hill. A cement floor is laid the whole length and a large window is inserted in the south end. Such a building will prove very warm in winter, even though built as it is upon a northern slope.—Farm and Fireside. PROFIT IN SQUABS. A Few Snasestlons from a Lady Who Has Made the Breeding of Piseons a Snccess. I have been raising squabs for four or five years, but only recently have ventured on a larger scale. Have 175 pairs of birds, common and mixed va rieties, writes Mrs. A. J. Smith. My plan is to make each pair of birds take a certain box for instance, if the birds seem to prefer a high box, give it to them if a low one, choose one nearer the floor one can always judge by their actions. All the empty boxes must be kept closed. It is surprising how quickly they will learn their own boxes, and once settled the male bird defies all intrusion. By so doing you learn all your birds by sight, and if there are odd or strayed ones in the flock, they may be removed. At night it is best to look them over. I have fed little besides corn and wheat, with a box of oyster shells and grit. To avoid disease, clean the boxes from which the squabs have been taken to kill, and scrape the floors once a week or every two weeks. Keep air-slacked lime and carbolic acid scattered about profusely and the disease will soon depart. This must be done frequently the year round, as perseverance and constant attention are the only way to success.—Farmers' Voice. Hens cease to lay when improperly fed or when in a diseased condition. pound TYTOMBN do suffer! W Even so-c&llcd healthy women differ! But they are not healthy! MAMMOTH" LMAlLOPDERj Moui $14.25 The marks left by pain are on the yotrng faces of many of onr daughters. Pain that leaves its mark comes from a curable cause. If that cause is not removed its influence reaches oat and overshadows a whole life. The reason LydiaB. Pinkham's remedy for woman's ills. Miss EMILY F. HAAS, of 148 Freeman I fct., Greenpoint, Brooklyn, N. Y., writes: "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM—I wish to state that I used your Vegetable Com Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. and I am happy to say it has entire ly cured me. JENNIE SHERMAN, of Fremont, ,Mich.. Box 748, writes: "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—I feel that I must write you ,and tell 'you what your medicine has done for me. I had neuralgia of the stomach for two years', so bad that I could not do any work. I had two or three doc tors, but did not seem to get any bet ter. I began taking Lydia E. Pink sham's Vegetable Compound and Liver i. Pills and improved from the first, had "abetter Appetite, FIRST WALKING HATCH, Resolved Itself Into a RaaDlag Hatch, and It Was for In 1706 William Penn bought from the Indians a tract of land bounded on the east by, the Delaware, on the west by the Nesh aminy, and running as fat* north "as a man can go in 1J days. After his death his son. Thomas Penn, thought it would be a gooa idea to sufvfey the boundary. On August 26, 1737. this was done. Three men lined up for the start, James X#ate», a lean Yankee Solomon Jennings a9 /Srw?r^ Marshall, an old hunter. The sheriff, the surveyors and a number of In dians who wanted to see fair play accom panied-them on horaeback. The tljree men ran. "You are not walking," protested the In dians you are running." "They are going,", replied the sheriff and that what the treaty says—as far as a man can 'go' in a day and a half." So the Indians went home. Yeates collapsed on the second day's run and died two days later. Jennings lived in shattered health but a few years longer. Marshall was tougher—in better training, we would say nowadays. He kept on, reached the end of the blazed trail, seized the surveyor^ compass and still kept going in the same direction. When Sheriff Smitn at noon said "Halt!" Marshall had covered 08 miles through rough forest, or twice as far as the Indians had expected. The sellers were "only Indians," you see. Xe WOtlQa 'I. HI* Last Fll(. As they bent solicitously over him, the man who had been kicked by a horse opened his eves. "Have you any last wish?" they askea him. "Yes," he murmured. "Have an auto mobile hearse at the funeral." Revenge, it seemed, was strong even in death.—N. Y. Press. A Model. Miss Antique—Is he a nice, quiet parrot? Dealer—Oh, yes, ma'am he never swears unless he's sworn to!—Puck. 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