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OX three weeks Mr. and Mrs. Simp-F-son had been looking forward to inis particular night, when they were to have a very particular celebration of a very particlar event. For did not the calendar show. that this day heralded the anniversary of their marriage? ‘And what more natural than the dissipation of a theater on so. festive and infrequent an occasion? . : i

, To be sure, the matter of so reckless an expenditure had been discussed with becoming gravity; but, Mrs. Simpson finally declaring that she would “save itiup in other ways,” the question had at last been decided. Mr. Simpson bought the tickets the next day *in order,” he explained to Mrs. Simpson, *to get the pick of the seats.” . :

The portentous day dawned brightly. Mr. Simpson went to his work with an exhilarating sense of something unusually important.and pleasant gbout to happen; “and as for Mrs. Simpson, her mind was completely enveloped in a glow. of happy expectancy. She accomplished her domestic duties with mechanical dispatch; but her thoughts were far away, dwelling on the delight to come. : As ‘the dining-room ¢lock struck six the closing of the Pfall door told of Mr. Simpson’s arrival. Mrs. Simpson was folded in a warm embrace and a few .things were said about her looking as young and charming as on the day Mr. Simpson led her to the altar. The pair were supremeIy happy. not to say jovial, and made very merry over the evening's enter-

tainment in store. S *“What did you say happened in the third act. dear?” asked Mrs. Simp<on, handing her husband a collar button. “Does the unfortunate girl fall from a precipice?” “Pushed, my love,” corrected Mr. Simpson, pulling his tie into place with muech exertion and a very red face. *“Pushed! By the villain who has been pursuing her and who has sworn to be revenged—" This dramatic recital was interrupted by Mrs. Simpson, who was plainly overcome. “Mercy!” she ejaculated. “Is she killed when she gets to the bottom?” “No.” replied Mr. Simpson, slowly, enjoying the appreciation of his audience. ‘“No, she catches at a hanging bush on her way down and holds on, suspended there until her lover, riding by in the moonlight, hears a cry, looks up, sees her, climbs the bare rocks and brings her down in safety.” Mr. Simpson paused impressively. -

“Wonderful!” eries Mrs. Simpson. “T can scarcely wait to see it.”” . “Well, see it you shall, to-night,” replied Mr. Simpson, as he sportively caught his wife about the waist. “I declare, T feel quite young and frolicsome. After all is said and done, there’s nothing like a little seeing of the world now and then for putting new life into a man.” The last touch being given to the toilet of Mr. Simpson, that gentleman inquired if dinner was ready. “Well, no, not just yet,” rejoined Mrs. Simpson, somewhat apologetically. “You see I've been pretty busy all _the afternoon putting new lace on my dress, so I was a little late about getting the dinner stdarted.” Mr. Simpson’'s face did not show quite the sympathy which such an explanation might be supposed.to call forth. : : : “Why didn’t you do that yesterday?” he asked, in what seemed to Mrs. Simpson a most unfeeling manner.

“Why not?” echoed the wife of his bosom, with some show of irritation. “Why, because I had so many other things t0.d0.” : “But the day before—" L > “The day before! Mr. Simpson. perhaps: you think T sit here days with folded hands.” Mrs. Simpson glanced with withering “sarcasm at Mr. Simpson. ‘Do you?” she added. “No, I don’t,” replied he, taking up a newspaper, “but I think if we're going to the theater you'd better not be sitting with folded hands now, or else we'll be late.”” .With which advice Mr. Simpson took out his paper and began reading. This last act Mrs. Simpson seemed to take as a peculiar grievance—and, in fact, as you may have noticed, after an unpleasant discussion or whatever passage at arms a man can do nothing more calculated to inspire wrath unspeakable in a woman than to take up a paper ahd calmly begin reading.

“Mr. Simpson,” began the lady, in unpromising tones, *‘if ever a man should be ashamed bf himself you should. To speak to me in that cruel manner and then to read the paper—” This last thought was too

UNCLE H!S OPINION. I ke a man that’s noble, an’ I like a man . that's proud— . The man who has the habit of a-laughin’ . good an’ loud When somethin’ strikes his fancy, as 4 sayin’ full o’ wit—11ikeé his happy nature, an’ I envy him a bit. I feel a sort o' kinship with a feller who can work g When luck seems plumb against him, ocne who's never learned to shirk The least of life’s hard labor, and my heart goes out to such, : But the man who's simply wealthy never interests me much. : By this T do not mean to say that wealth is a disgrace, But men whose sole ambition’s bent -on : winnin’ in the race For round, “almighty dollars,” those who measure men, ’tis plain, By the bigness of their purses, not the size : of heart and brain, Seem so.cold, and small, and narroew, that 2 I pity them anéd vow. I'd rather, than be like them, be as poor as I am rnow. e ¥ I have a heart abhorrent to the miser’s fevered clutch, And the man who's simply wealthy-never - interests me much. . A man, though worth a million, may be talented and smart, His soul may not be sordid, ar.d he still can - have a heart; e For such a nauly feller I have only words of praise — : May happiness be with him to the end of all his days! < But wealth an’ nothin’ with it's a condition, gad to state, - That calls for more of pity than ¢f envy-or

much for Mrs. Simpsen. She pressed her lips tichtly together a .l. leaning back in her chair, rocked fast aud furiously. *Well, well, my dear, let us say no more about it,” remarked Mr. Simp‘son, trying to save the situation but. glancing nervously at the clock.

“I was hasty. But now do see about the dinner, that’s a dear.”

: M_rs. Simpson, with the manner of one who forgives, though not forgetting the injury, left the room and soon the dinner was placed on the table. . .

- Mr. Simpson, after several unsuecessful attempts to restore the former tone of hilarity to the conver,sati(m, desisted, and a frigid silence ensued. Thi® was broken at last by Mrs. Simpson, who noticed her hus.band’s failure to eat in his usually healthy manner, I ' “Why don’t you eat the lamb?” she g asked in hurt tones. ' | “Because’ it's underdone. It's too ‘ rare,” replied Mr. Simpson, in an . equally hurt voice. : e 1 “Well!” exclaimed Mrs.. Simpson. | “The brutality of some men heats ev- ' erything. This is” the second time | you've found fault with me this evenling. llf I had such an awful temper {as you, Mr. Simpson, I don’t know | what 1 should do.” l “Temper?”’ said Mr. Simpson, try{ing to be calm. *I don't know that I T've shown -so much temper. Come, §_t:ume,'let us use common sense.”’ ; | Mrs. Btmpson . tapped the edge of i the table impatiently with trembiing !ﬁng(jrs. ae . G :

“That’s right,” she said, raising her voice, “Insult me. Tell me again I have no sense. Tell me I am an idiot, while you are about it. You might as well.” : : .

Mr. Simpson felt himself justly exasperated. “If you want the truih,” he said, ‘you are behaving very much like one.” : ;

This was the last straw. Mrs. Simpson burst into tears and left the room. . e :

Mr. Simpson gazed after her, muttering things about women in general. Finally he got up and opened the door. *“Mrs. Simpson,” he called, “vou'd better stop this foolishness and put on your bonnet. It’s time to go, at once. The play begins at eight, and it's a quarter te, now.”

“You can go to the theater, if you choose, Mr. Simpson,” she said, brokenly. in accents of deepest pain and injury, “but as for me, I am going to bed” o o

‘Mr. Simpson sat down and reflected. He felt very sad and angry. He thought of their evening's pleasure gone while almost in their grasp. “T{'s almost: past 'belief,” -he - said, “that women should act so. There’s no telling how to please them. And this is our wedding anniversary,” ne said, gathering new indignation as he pursued the bitter train of his reflections. ‘A fine anniversary for a man to come home to. It's a tragic thing. That's what it is.” :

Mr. Simpson flicked a bit of dust from his shining boots with his handkerchief. . :

‘What might have been the unhappy outcome of such meditation one dare not conjecture had not Mr. Simpson at this moment thrust his fingers into his mnew waistcoat pocket. and extracted the theater tickets therefrom. ' .

He gazed at them ruefully.: “To think,! he said, !of the money [ spent on those! All wasted. AN-—" But as Mr. Simpson was about w relieve his mind further on this:subject a sudden light came into his eyes. He looked again at the date on the tickets. He started up joyfully and ran into Mrs. Simpson’s room.That .ady was lying upon the sofa, evidently in the last stages of despair. Mr. Simpson advanced and clasped the partner of his sorrows to his breast.

' “Henrietta,” he said, eagerly, “l=t ~us make it all up and be happy.” Mr. - Simpson’s voice fairly trembled with idelight at the turn affairs had taken. “I made a mistake,” he went on, iw‘atching‘ his wife's face for signs of I.relenting, ‘'d mistake in the dats, Iwhen 1 bought the tickets. .We | couldn’t have gone to-night, anyway.” | Mr. Simpson laughed triumphantly ias he disclosed this bit' of “intelli- | gence, .as who should say "\Wasn't & | a elever man, now, to have made that blunder ?” : “But—" said Mrs. Simpson. “But,” echoed Mr. Simpson, as he | shook Mrs. Simpson’s arm playfully, | *“that is just the point. The tickets | are for to-morrow.” t A pleased smile lighted up the here- | tofore wan features of Mrs. Simpson. | “Then we can go after all, can’t we?’ | she said. “I-should just think we could,” re;plied Mr. Simpson.. He thrust his thumbs in his waisteoat pockets and looked at Mrs. Simpson with a jovial air. “We quarreled on the wrong evening, my love,” he observed. “So we did,” acquiesced Mrs. Simpson, looking very happy.—Chicago | Daily News. L '

So, with men of heart ar’ inteliect, I like to keep in touch, But the man who's simply wealthy never interests me much. —Roy Farrell Greene, in Success. Lives in a Trunk. Miss Celeste J. Miller, a Chicago woman who has done more traveling than any other woman who ever lived, has just started off on her fourth trip around the world, being the first American woman to make the tour of the great Siberian railway route alone. Miss Miller has penetrated to every nook and corner of the known world except Siberia and the Boer country, which she is now planning to visit. She always travels ‘alone; she invawviably carries two trunks full of dainty feminine apparel with her, and she has never missed a train or boat connection, never met with any serious misfortune and never failed to enjoy every moment in all her many journeys. Also, in spite of the 300 proposals now placed to her credit, she has never said “yes” to any man. : re Valne Fixed. . Mrs. Lawson—Fido swallowed a $2O gold piece yesterday. ; ~ Mrs. Dawson—What did you do? ~ Mrs, Lawson—Well, we decided right away that Fido wasn’t worth as much 8 s2o.— Somerville Journal.

LESSON IN AMERICAN HISTORY N PUZZLE

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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

A’ bust of the late Chief Justice Jeremiah Sullivan Black, of Pennsylvania, has been added to the collection in the law building of the University of Pennsylvania. It is the work of Mary Kimmel Plough, and was presented to the collection by Justice Black’s daughter, Dr. Mary Black Clayton. e Gen. DBaden-Powell, the popular English warrior, was at luncheon recently where a celebrated physician was his fellow guest. “ The doctor was chafling the soldier and said: “How do you feel after killing a man professionally?” The general replied inhis characteristic silky tomes: “Oh, I don’t mind it much more than you do, I dare say.” ‘ i “Vanumanutangi,” which is Samoan for the “home of the singing bird,” is the name given to her new residence in the Santa Cruz mountains of California by Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson. The spot is in one of the quietest parts of the great blue mountains, and much like the old home at Vailima. Mrs. Stevenson had a house-warming party at Vanumanutangi recently, where she made welcome all the leading social and literary lights of San Francisco.

Gen. Basil Duke is supposed to be about the most absent-minded man in Kentucky. He has been known to pass. his wife in the street without recognizing her. A short time ago the general’'s son, who has been away for some time, returned to Louisville and boarded a street car for home. At the next. corner the general got on and the yaung man rose and extended his hand. ' His father shook it heartily and said: “How are you this morning, and how is your father?” A good many of the very rich young men of New York are among the busiest people belonging to Manhattan island. For instance, Cornelius Vanderbilt and *“Jack” Astor are continually at work inventing something or othér, Harry Payne Whitney takes a deep intévrest in his father’s business, George Gould is up to his waist in big affairs all the time, Clarence Mackay is carrying on his father’s extensive enterprises and J. P. Morgan, Jr., finds ample occupation in representing his father in London.

" Brunetiere, the French critic, was recently asked for a contribution to a symposium, the question being: *What do you think of the intellectual influence of Germany?” and “Is that influence still existent and justified by its results?” M. Brunetiere made this scorching reply: “I am not a slot machine from which by dropping your penny you get a package of cigarette papers, a cake of chocolate, a matured- opinion of Shakespeare or a criticism of Bismarck. I admire those machines, but I am not one. Go to them and get your penny’s worth.” Insult to the Imish. Magistrate Brann is an Irishman, and intensely proud of his lineage. It is one point upon which it is noi safe to chaff him. Recently a number of boys who had been arrested for some petty offense were taken before his honor. Among them - was one whose speech and general appearance stamped him as Italian. Somebody had told the boy to give an Irish name and tell his thor he was Irish. 5 : The magistrate questioned the boys until he came to the young Italian. “What’s your name?” he asked, . “Mickey da Casey,” replied the youngster, amid a roar of laughter. “I'm Irish.” “Oh, it’s Irish you are, are you?” smilingly replied his honor. *“Well, so am I, and I'll just fine you ten do!lars for insulting an honorable race.” —~Chicago Post. ) ‘As It Sometimew Happens. And it came to pass that the Sluggard, after consulting the Sage from Sageville, heeded his advice and weng to the Ant for the purpose of acquiring a job lot of wisdom. Bui when he finally arrived at the hill where the Ant toiled 18 hours daily he discovered a half-starved An:Eater making a one-course dinner of the Ant colony. - : “Verily,” remarked the Sluggard to ‘himself as he turned away in disgust, “if that is the reward of industry 1 shall continue to slug as heretofpre.” —Chicago Daily News, 3 . Between Kriends. Sue Perkins—Josh: Medders wept awful when I refused him, Hepsy Raiker-——Wnuz ye peelin’ on‘ions or gratin’ horse radish?—Judge.

WIT AND WISDCOM.

It’s easier to explain your neighbor’s failure than your own misdirected efforts.—Chicago Daily News. " Here is another reason why you should be truthful: It takes less time to tell the truth than a lie.—Atchison Globe. :

“I had something I like for my dinner to-day,” said the poor man, “but it didn’t do me any good.” *You don’t say. What was it?” el magnificent appetite.”.— Philadelphia Press. ‘ :

True Enough.—He—l say doctors are the meanest men going, and I can prove it.” She—*“How so 0?” He—*"Even when they treat a man he hak to pay for the drinks they give him.”—Dßaltimore American. ’

Good at Figures.—*“ls he good at figures?” “Well, rather. He can make almost anything out of nothing. Why, he’s the man who takes a city directory and figures out a population half again as large as the govexnment census gives,”—Chicago Post. Wife — “You’ll probably marry again, John, after I'm-gone; but I'm afraid you'll never get another woman like me.” Husband—*No, dear; 1 don’t think there’ll be any danger of that. I wouldn’t warry about it, dear, if I were you.”—Boston ranseript. ; :

Towne — “Rather absent-minded, isn’t he?” Browne—'Extremely so. Why, the other night when he got home he knew there was something he wanted to do, but'he couldn’t remember what it was-until he had sat up over -an hour trying to think.” Towne—*"And did he finally remember it?” Browne—*“Yes, he discovered that he had wanted to go to bed early.”—Philadelphia Press.

RIGHT ARM AND LEFT BRAIN.

Some Things About the Human Anatomy That the Doctors Cannot )7 Yet Expiain. ;

“Whether Ive was framed out of the left side of Adam, I dispute not; because I stand not yet assured whiell is the right side of a man or whether there is any such distinetion in nature.” Thus Sir Thomas Browne and not a few persons are to-day in like case, says the London Lancet. 1f any one asks, “How am 1 to know whic™ is my right arm?” it is by no means easy to give him an answer. At the Huxley Memorial lecture of the Anthropological Institute, which was delivered on October 21, Dr. A. €. Haddon, F, R. S, being in the chair, Prof. D. J. Cunningham, the lecturer for this vear, chose for his subject, “Right Handedness and Left Brainedness.” He pointed out how it is evident that as far back as we can trace man he was preferentially right handed. Thus Dr. R. Lehmann-Nitsche had examined the bones of prehistoric men from Southern Bavaria and had found that the clavicle and the long bones of the right upper limb weére distinctly heavier and more massive than the corresponding bones of the opposite side. All the evidence at our disposal goes to show that right-handedness is due to a transmitted functional preeminence of the left brain and this funetional preeminence was not a haphaz. ard acquisition which had been pickéd up during the lifetime of the individual; it rested upon some structural foundation which was transmitted from parent to offspring. Modern science, then, if we have correctly interpreted Prof. Cunningham’s meaning, would seem to show that there is a distinction in nature of the right hand. It is undoubtedly the one by which most delicate manual actions are performed with one marked exception—namely, the fingering in the playing of stringed instruments, which are played with a bow. . .

If, as Prof. Cunningham in referring to the crossing of the motor impulses says, *“it thus came about that the left cerebral hemisphere controlled and regulated the muscles of the right side, and its functional superiority over the right hemisphere was indicated by the subservient position which the left hand held with reference to the right and the manner in which all manual acts which required precision and skill, all the movements which specially required the highier guidance of the brain, were performed by the right hand”—if this be o, how comes it that the fingering of a violin, which surely is an act requiring the h.gher guidance of the brain, is zlways, so far as we know, performed by the left hand?

e URAL # 3 5 BREL | P @@&T i | fICP L SR LIBTS. // = )\ : N P i j 3 : e ¥:s¢ F\ ’eh.-m" : BN N N S N NN N ASNANeI e e N T NLNT NI NSNS TREATMENT OF HOVEN. Proper Name of This Disease, Which Is Known on Most Grass Farms Is Acute Tymphanitis, . This affection which is known by a variety of terms, as hoove blown, dew-blown, fog-sickness, grass-sick-ness, ete, is familiar to most agriculturists, particularly on grass farms. The principal cause of hoven is fermentation of the food and the consequent generation of gas in the rumen or paunch. The food most prone to undergo this fermentation is rich, succulent grass or that bedewed with moisture. All animals eat more or less greedily on being turned into the pasture, but if it be a fresh - one, particularly young clover, they rapidly, and with scarcely any mastication, gorge themselves. "The passage of atmospheric air taken down in rapid and large gulps, materially assists in the process of fermentation and adds to the accumulation of gas. This unnaturally overlgaded condition of the

\‘ ‘ ") Forin TR R 2 Y 3 »3(/3‘ iy, W N ‘ o "r,’ n \»/% /)bh) }:.‘ g i A }/ //n.”“‘ Y =z \ w 7 S 4 7,4 ] %}&‘ éﬂz*ti'\ /6/2'_..._‘),“___ 4T etE S L : M e« P P COW WITH HOVEN. ‘ (* Shows Where to Puncture to Give Quick : : R?lelf.)‘ . stomach soon induces suspension of the peristaltic action of the organ, and the digestive process being cheked active fermentation soon follows. ' Decomposed or frosted vegetables, particularly mangolds, will also give rise to hoven. Cattle badly fed during the winter, or taken from straw or other dry food, frequenuly suff(e severely from the first meal of grass, Tymphanitis is common during obstructions of the gullet, or choking, and disease or impaction of the third stomach as well as affections of . the second stomach. Tymphanitis occurs as a sign of other diseases and is apt to appear as a chronic affection. - The symptoms are most distressing. The paunch is blown up like a bladder and when struck with ihe hand sounds like a drum. Probably there aré few diseases in which the animal suffers more intense agony than this. He gets up and lies down; respiration is difficult, from the distended stomach pressing against the lungs; he evinces his pain by striking his belly with his feet; if no relief is given the brain soon becomes affected, evidenced by the animal becoming unconsecious; the breathing becomes more diffienlt, an? the poor animal falls to rise mng more. 'This disease runs its course very quickly, hence the necessity for prompt and decided measures. The first object:will be to get :il of the accumulated gas, and if :ilie paunch is very much distended ;nd the danger of death immediate. recourse should be had to punctusing that organ. This is to be dona on the left side, at the spot marked in the accompanying picture. The usual © directions for finding the proper place are to measure a hand’s breath from the last rib. The proper instrument for puncturing is what is called a trocar, the canula or case of which should be left in the wound for some time so that the gas generated may escape as fast as formed. It is not often that the farmer possesses an instrument of this kird. or if he does, it may not be at hand the instant its use is required. In this case a common pen-knife may be used, which should be plunged into the rumen and the orifice much enlarged so as to admit the finger. A small piece of elder wood will supply the place of a canula. In slighter cases, when time is not so rauch of an object, medicine may be given to relieve the animal and many nostrums are in use to effect thiz object. I have found good results from the use of aromatic spirits of ammonia, one-half to one ounce doses, repeated every hour or oftener. Carbonate ammonia in four-dram dJoses in hot water, repeated every hcur as long as required, acts well.

Hoven admits of no' delay or experimental treatment by medicines. Escape of the confined gas is immediately mnecessary. I usunally administer from one to two pounds of Epsom salts or a quart of raw lin. seed oil, after puncturing.—W. (. Fair, V. S., in Ohio Farmer.

Culture and Pear “llght

Does cultivation produce blight? From observation and experience, '1 would sayv ves. I have two Keiffers planted in the rear of my yard that have made rapid growth withoat cultivation, and are entirely fre: from blight. 1 have in my orchara a treeo about 12 years old, and, while Ihe orchard was cultivated, the tree biighted badly. but since cultivation cenzed it has not been affected by blight, About five years ago a neighbor plant. ed a row.in a young orchard. They have never been cultivated and are entirely free of blight.—Caleb, in Mid~ land Farmer.

To Test the Oleo Law.

At Cincinnati the oleo people have begun efforts to have the oleo law tested. They hope to have it declared unconstitutional. A 40-pound package of oleomargarine, made contrary to law, is the basis of the action, which is by the general government to recover fines under clause two of the act. Whichever way the federal court decides, the case will go to the United States supreme court. Both the oleo makers and the internal revenue authorities are anxious to have the matter of constitutionality settled.

TELEPHONES ON FARMS. ’l‘he}- Are Exerting a Fine Infiuence in Extending the Social Life of ural Districts. Talk about it as we may, and.considering every other excuse we may offer, the social side of his nature is what has driven the young man from the farm to the town in perhaps nine cases out of ten. To the fact that the isolation of the farm, under the influence of lat-ter-day invention, is becoming more and more a thing of the past, isinlarge part due the distinct movement, which now is recognized everywhere, back to the farm. Among the first of these is the farmer’s telephone, which to-day is exerting such a fine influence in ex-

tending theé social life of rural districts, annihilating distance and bringing the voices of the men and women and young folk of the nmeighborhood farms, near and remote, to the earin familiar' and pleasant converse, lighting up the hour, once so dreary with sheer lonesomeness. and peopling the home with kindred spirits.

There are some other things which do much for the farm in a social and business way—the trolley, for instance. But the trolley means the investment of many thousands of dollars. Not so with the telephone. A few dollars invested in wire, insulators, transmitter and receiver, a few days’ work in setting out poles and stringing of wires, and presteo! the world is at your call! We know of one Wisconsin farmer whose telephone cost him $l9, and he has connection with city and county ’phones, is a director in one Farmers’ Telephone company which has 60 miles of wire ot its own, and one or two sales made on the Chicago market, as a result of having the ‘phone in his house, paid for the cutfit many times over. In his case the telephone was not only not an @wnse. but a source of large gain, ald we are confident this has proved to be the case in thousands of instances.

Every farmer should have a telephone in his house. None may enum-’ erate its advantages nor cataloguie its uses. It not only encourages sociability, it creates it in many a life; it brings the doctor within call; the mer~ chant is always at hand; it saves many a weary journey and gives to real service many an hour that otherwise must have been lost. Now is the time to put in the 'phone wherever one is lacking. The long winter days and evenings will be made more pleasurable because of its presence to every member of the family. And the economy and vtlue of it may not be computed.-——Farmers’ Voice. . .

MILK THE COWS CLEAN.

Sugzgestions That Are Based on =a Practical Dairyman’s Years of Aciunl Experience.

In order to milk the cows clean, one does not need to sit an extra minute or go back to the cow to do it. 'The strippings are very rich, but time to most dairymen is very precious. The heifers should be milkcd by the best aud fastest milkers on the farm. They will soon learn to give their milk right down, and give a good-stream to the last minute. With one or two cows and plenty of time, a man can ‘strip” to his heart’s content, but many farmers in this country have from 30 to 60 cows, and each milker must milk from: 10 to: 15, The writer hasy often milked 20 the year round. It would not do to encourage a large number of cows to give their milk in strippings. If cows are stripped, they soon become accustomed to it. and éxpect you to come a second time. A cow in good milk would give down a little every hcur in the 24. Would such milk be all strippings and test like strippings? Who would lik» to try it? ' Fifty pounds of strippings wnu\]d he a record breaker, making five or six pounds of butter in a day. DBut how long could the cow stand it? It is often wise to milk cows, especially heifers, three times a day for awhile after they first calve: Howaver. I cannot do it long in winter. because 1 cannot feed my turnips. The ten-hour cow cannot throw off the turnip taint in five or six hours. Tn general. cows shounld be milked night and morning, 12 hours apart, and milked quickly without pulling too long.—A. X. Hyatt, in Prairie Farmer. : .

HANDY WINTER BARROW.

“or Hauling Heavy Loads Over the | Snow the Device Here Illustrat--3 ed Is Very Useful. ; A handy winter barrow is here pictured and is described by W. D. Jacobs, one of our subscribers. There is a single front runner, t, and two rear runners, cc, made of brace iron or wooden wagon felloes. The {front e D I T R 'l BAFROW TO USE IN SNOW. runner is of 11, inch hardwood and should be sroned. The bed pieces, aa, are 21, inches wide, 1 inch thick and 31, feet long. 'The braces, bb, are 1 inch thick, 21, inches wide and 16 inches lonz. 'There are two pieces, e, 8 inches long, made of hardwood and built to the frame, aa. The rocker pin, g; is the width of the bed and this fits in the froat runner. The dash, d, may be of any desired height.—Orange Judd Farmer. B : Leaks That Lead to Ruin. Among the leaks which take money out of the farmer’s pocket is neglect in keeping fetices and buildings in proper repair. Inferior fences allow his own and his neighbor’s stock to injure his crops, artd are a source of constant worry and loss -of time. The old proverb, “For the want of a nail the horse was lost,” is very appropriate in such a case. A dollar or two spent in lumber or mnils will often result in a large saving cf feed and increased comfort to the stock during the winter months. Neglect nf a leaky poof is often responwible for Teavy losses of grain or fodder, and in {he timbers of the buildings.. Many & good frame has been ruined by a leaky roof.—Farmers’ Voice,

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Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound whenever I hear of a girl suffering, for I know how bard it is to work when you feel so sick.” — Miss Mayiz Kemrxs, 553 9th Ave., New York City. Women should not fail to profit by the experiences of these women; just as surely as they were cured of the troubles enumerated in their letters, just so certainly will Lydia lE. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound cure others who suffer from womb troubles, inflammation of the ovaries, kidney troubles, irregular and painful menstruation, nervous excitability, and nervous prostration; remember that it is Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound that is curing women, and don’t allow any druggist to gell you anything else in its place. Miss Amanda T. Petterson, Box 131, Atwater, Minn., says: o “Drar Mrs. Prxzmay.—ll hope that yoa (A - : Aamaem ~ - will publish this testimonial so that it may : Lo B rcach others and let them know about your (N e wonderful medicine. ez : s§7 —~ —~p_ “Defore taking Lydia E. 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~ The best lamp in the world 1s not best, without the chimney I 'make MACBETH. My namé_z on every one. If you'll send your address, T'll send you the Index to Lamps and their Chimneys, to tell you what number to get for your lamp. = MacseTH, Pittsburgh, DROPSY Jit titovhss s Frve. ook iAy 00s Ber g v eht

%A R = SO HCLUN {s\ssan ‘?QE'BUTE/-“ N ILRO au | Via Dubuque, Waterloo and Albert Lea. Fast Vestibule Night train with through B Sleeping Car, Buffet-Library Car and Free Reclining Chair Car. Dining Car Service § enroute. Tickets of agentsof L. C. R.R. § and connecting lines. A. H. HANSON, G. P. A., CHICAGO. o S Fruit Farms this vicinity ; writ ANTISDALE. LOONMIS & SHRIVEL, Bonton Barbonahen: WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISERS please state that you saw the Advertise« ment In this paper. e el - AN K—A 1948 o i e ee S B ießtoy | X NTo] B M RES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS, : H ough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use § - 2 in time. Sold by druggists, v o B SEET SRR CIV