Ligonier Banner., Volume 43, Number 14, Ligonier, Noble County, 25 June 1908 — Page 2

The Figonier Bauner LIGONIER. - - INDIANA.

: Record of the Most Important - Events ~ Condensed for the ° Perusal of the Busy " Man.

CONVENTION NOTES. For 45 minutes the delegates and spectators in the Republican national convention wildly, cheered for President Roosevelt. The vast throng in the Coliseum was crazy with enthusiasm and some people fearéd that the threatened Roosevelt stampede wasabout to take place. The demonstration was started by Senator-Lodge's speech as permanent chairman. The credentials committee reported, seating all the Taft delegates, and the convention voted down the proposition tq reduce the representation of southerns states in future conventions. At an all night session of the credentials committee of the Republican national convention 110 -contests brought by the “allies” were- considered, the decisions being in favor of the Taft adherents. "A sub-committee of the resolutions committee labored over the platform, modifying many of the planks. Gov. Cummins of lowa became the leading candidate for the vice-presidential nomination, with Fairbanks a close second. ) The Republican national convention was callell to order in the Coliseum, at Chicago by Chairman New of the national committee. Senator Burrows of Michigan was made temporary chairman and delivered an address, and the other officers of the convention were installed. The question of the vice-presidential nomination was no nearer settlement than ever. o With the arrival of niost of the state delegations in Chicago, the vice-presi-dential -nomination became the chief topic of discussion. Many asserted that Dolliver was certain to be on the ticket, but the chances of Sherman of New York and of Vice-President Fairbanks grew better. It became evident that there would be a warm contest over the platform as¥many leaders urged that the prepared resoJutions be materially modified and the Taft adherents insisted that they would not permit this. Speaker Cannon made a hurried trip to Chicago to confer concerning the anti-injunction plank. .

: PERSONAL. By the will of Oliver H. P. Belmont, Mrs. Belmont is to receive all the real and personal property and she is named executrix of the estate. The value of the estate is not given. < M. F. Bramley, president, and H. C. Lang, superintendent of the Cleveland Trinidad Paving company, Dpleaded guilty of bribery at Columbugl, 0., and were heavily fined. Commander John Blish, U. S. N: (retired), was elected .president of the First Church of Christ, Scientist, at Boston. - g : : Secretary Taft’'s daughter won "a Pennsylvania . scholarship in Bryn Mawr. President Roosevelt told the District of Columbia commissioners to order all stray dogs in Washington - muzzled for 60 days. . H. C. Taylor, a ‘capitalist of Seattle, Wash., was robbed of $lO,OOO ‘in ‘cash at the Union station in St. Paul, Minn. Mrs. Mary Grill was whirled to her death by her hair on a huge rapidlyrevolving wheel in the McCormick International Harvester works at Chi~.Ernest P. Bicknell, superintendent * of the Chicago bureau of charities, has been appointed national director of the American National Red Cross. - ; Gov. -Hughes absolutely. refused to ‘become a candidate for the vice-presi-dential nomination.

. GENERAL, NEWS. The federal grand jury at New York found a third indigtment against Alfred. H. Curtis, president, and Charles W. Morse, vice-president National Bank of North America, charging them with making false entries in reports to the comptroller of the currency and the misapplication of funds for speculative purposes, amounting to about $1,250,000. “The president of the Russian revoIntionary republic was sentenced to 15 years at hard labor. ' Two physicians in the Roosevelt hospital, New York, performed the delicate operation of sewing up a human heart that had been cg& open .by a dagger thrust. Darius Hicks, a wealthy farmer, committed suicide by shooting at his home near Blandinville, 111 > An attempt to assassinate Gen. Piquart, French minister of war, was made by a man -named Bellanger. The state of Zulia, Venezuela, is afflicted with a plague of locusts. Emperor William received Dr. Hill, the new American ambassador to Germany. : ;The warships of the Atlantic fleet began assembling in San Francisco ~ harbor preparatory to their long trip home. S -~ Ney Dunne, captain of the Univer sity of Minnesota football team, committed suicide after a quarrel with his Negro wizards in Cuba killed & C Sand Scs oßfdeas and herself. e ) ilt's *.¥“*‘k““¢'§§l» ,gb"*l"_’i;‘

Three Black Hand members were killed and a fourth wounded by a wealthy Italian merchant of New Orieans from whom they had attempted to extort money. © : : The Cunarder Lusitania was stopped for 20 minutes in the narrows at New York because. the great guns of Forts Wadsworth and Hamilton were being fired in the “war game.” The Democratic state convention of Mississippi instructed the delegates to vote first and last for the selection of William J. Bryan as the presidential nominee.

Dr. 'W. F. King, for 40 years president of Cornell college at -Mount Vernon, la., resigned on account of ill health. Prof. James Harlan was chosen president. : Four hundred feet of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railway embankment, which served as a levee protecting St. Charles county (Mo.) farms from the Missouri river, gave way and 4,000 acres of farm lands were inundated. Miss Miriam Frances Bloomer, daughter of James F. Bloomer of Cincinnati, drank poison by mistake in New York and died.

Thomas Hagen, a marine, was killed by a blow over the heart in a boxing bout on the battleship Mississippi at Philadelphia. ’ Two hundred lives were endangered by an incendiary attempt to-burn a tenement house in New York. : Joseph Fangele, a wealthy merchant and brewer of Gallitzin, Pa.,, committed suicide. . The Lemoine diamond case came to a sudden end in Paris with the flight of Lemoine and the discovery that his formula for making diamonds is a fantastic farce. The Imperial hotel at Petoskey, Mich., was destroyed by fire, the loss being $120,000. It had not been opened for the season. T W. H. Stewart, an editor of Salisbury, N. C., killed Frank Smith, colored, who was trying to rob Stewart’s home. ;o The thirty-second national saengerfest of the ‘North American Saengerbund opened in Indianapolis, Ind. Three men attempted to hold up and rob a New Orleans street car, and one of them and the motorman were shot. - '

The government’s suit for injunction against seven coal carrying railroads that transport anthracite from their own mines was argued in Philadelphia. P Three men at Enid, Okla., accused of lynching a negro, were acquitted by a_ jury, § Mrs. J. D. Tuthill of Brooklyn, N. Y., sister of J. S. Pomeroy, cashier of the Security National bank, Minneapolis, committed suicide by jumping into Lake Minnetonka at Breezy Point. - Mrs. Mary Stuart Coffin, the only practicing woman lawyer in Detroit, Mich., committer suicide by taking laudanum. » The plant of the Royal Coal Mine company at Argentine, Pa., was destroyed by dynamite, the loss being $20,000. g Fifty Japanese fishing boats were wrecked in a storm, 350 men being drowned. The battleship Georgia made the world’s. record, taking on board 1,779 tons of coal in five hours and 12 minutes. : The supreme court of Arkansas decided that the Amis anti-racetrack betting law is constitutional. - The world’s centennial congress held exercises at the grave in Glens Falls, N. Y., of Willlam J. Clark, founder of the temperance movement in America. Pine Plains, N. Y., the concentration camp of the federal soldiers and national guardsmen, was torn up from one end to the other by a violent storm. Tents were all blown down and many horses stampeded. The, Hull-Prouty congressional election in lowa resulted in a tie, and must be settled in the courts. A motor car ran away and plunged into the North river in New York, two women, one man and a child being drowned.

Grand Army men hauled down a confederate flag which was hoisted by a printer in Ossining, N. Y. . A wireless message from Capt. Roberts of the steamer New York, which left New York for Southampton, announced that Miss Marion R. Hilford was aboard without funds or change of clothing. & - The Louisiana house of . representatives indefinitely postponed consideration of the Doussan bill ‘providing for a referendum on state-wide prohibition. %

-The physicians of Gov. William M. O. Dawson of West Virginia have informed him that he has developed tuberculosis. i :

J. E. Hall of Lawrence and Daniel Matthews of Arkansas, Kan., the latter a university student, were killed by a live electric wire at the University of Kansas at Lawrence. The application of Albert H. Patrick, who is serving a life sentence in Sing Sing. prison for the murder of William Marsh Rice, an aged Texan millionaire, for a writ of habeas corpus was denied by Judge Lacombe in the United States circuit court at New York. The Democratic state convention of Colcrado instructed for Bryan. In the Republican state primary in South Dakota, Crawford (progressiv defeated Kittredge (stalwart) as candidate for the United States senate. Fifteen thousand woman suffragists paraded the streets of London. Gov. Willson of Kentucky pardoned Caleb Powers and James Howard, convicted of complicity in the assassination of William Goebel. More than a dozen persons were hurt .at Capitol Heights, a suburb of Montgomery, Ala., when the platform used to accommodate participants in the unveiling of a statue to Gen. Robert E. Lee, collapsed. -

OBITUARY. Representative A. A. Wiley of Alabama, who served in Cuba as Gen. Lawton’s chief of staff and as civil governor of the eastern province, and a member of the last four congresses, died at Hot Springs, Va. “Blind Tom,” the famous negro pianist, died at Hoboken, N. J. ; - Louis Eppinger, manager of the Grand hotel in Yokohama and one of

AT NAPLES

Smiling Round the quld e By A MARSHALL P. WILDER

(Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowles.) We spent five days at. Naples, and filled every hour of it with sight-see-ing. Of course we stoppe_({ at Herculaneum; but what can I add to the tributes that have been paid to that wonder of wonders? From its three strata of towns have been exhumed the rarest and choicest treasures that adorn the Naples museum. We walked upon the crust of the seething volcano of Solfatara, now half extinct—in fact, it has laid }torpid for seven centuries and is now spread with lush vegetation in th‘p spring- | time, and the walk to it, ati. that season, is through an inclosure like a lovely park of winding alleys and flow-er-¢dged paths. But in January we saw only the bare crust of the crater, from whose cliffs came puffs of white smoke, warnings that, at any moment, its hidden fires might break forth. We did not, as at Hawaii, drop our visiting cards into the clefts, only to see them burst into flame and consume in a few seconds, for we were not so curious about subterranean matters as when we were fresh and green in globe-trotting experiences; | .but we ventured out in obedience to our guide—in whom a long familiarity with craters had doubtless bred contempt—to a few feet of the center. He stamps upon it and says it is hollow. It certainly appears so. He jumps upon it, and the surface quivers. Yon begin’to feel creepy up and down your spinal ‘column, but, ied on by his urgent appeals and assertions of “No fear! not be 'fraid!” you follow him on tip-toe to the very middle of the rocking thing, hoping with all your soul that it will hold together until you are safely off it, when you come to a hole cut of which curls a little vapor and a curious murmuring sound as of some giant mumbling in his sleep. ‘And that is the moment in which you wish you hadn’t come. But you are induced to lean over and peer down into ?he hole, and are fascinated by the stirring and moving eof boiling mud—horrid gray mud that reminds you instantly of Kipling’s “great, gray, greasy Limpopo river,” only this is a lake, but gray and greasy enough in all conscience, and seething and boiling in the vent-hole, and rising and falling with the escaping gas that bubbles and bursts and then collects and bursts again,

A moment or two of this and I was gldd to speed back to the solid earth and to thank my" stars that .l hadn't fallen through altogether. | : - From Solfatara we looked down upon Pozzuoli, once the port of Rome, whose wharves resounded with the peaceful stir of commerce. ‘ The lovely Bay of Baiae, that was once lined with the palace-villas of the wealthy Romans, much as Newport’s shore is to-day, held our interest for a couple of hours. ‘We explored the ruins of a castle built by a Spanish viceroy which stands on tho site of Nero’'s villa; we compared’ it for beauty to the lonely temple of Serapis we had just left behind us near Pozzuoli, long buried beneath the sea, to be at last cast up by some mighty upheaval of’unseen internal force. The beautiful, curved shore, “so beautiful vet so deadly,” from the wilderness of craters which abound there, fascinated us completely. We lunched at a little inn at Baiae, where we had some of the faged wine of Posilipo and were amused by the importunities of the peasant beggars, who very successfully wheedled us out of our spare coppers by their whines and wiles galore. In Egypt it was ‘“backsheesh!” .in our ears from morning till| night; throughout Europe cries of “pourboime” and “trinkgeld” haunted one’s footsteps; but ancient little| Naples had a word all her own. It was “Spaghett!” Simply that, and nothing more. No last syllable, with lerisp accent; but the shortened, curt “Spaghett!” was hurled at us from every corner and followed, with deafening echoes, our . vanishing | carriage wheels. “Spaghett! Spaghett!” Methinks I hear it now; and I shall cer‘tainly never eat spaghetti again without being reminded of this slogan of the Neapolitan beggar. I Beside the Lucrine lake we stood and conjured up the spot where the villa of Agrippina, mother of Nero, probably stood; but the thought of her cruel murder at thé hands of her monster of a son did not mingle pleasantly with the peaceful lapping of the waves against the reeds, so we turned away and asked to be taken to the Grotto del Cane, or Dog Grotto, that amazing sepulcher of animal hopes ahd fears ‘which year by year has drawn thousands of visitors to its rocky sides. As if in keeping with its treacherous fame the guide who shows you the place is a full-fledged brigand, who, “when work is slow,” ekes out a subsistence by playing at guide. Ten to one hel has a little dog at his heels, and thereby hangs a tale. While you listen to the guide the puppy looks a; you with blinking eyes and a grin o confidence, the while his busy tail seems to say, “f know you'll never put me in that poisonous hol‘i will you?” And you can’t keep your eyes off his silly little face, until you find yourseif wondering if he’s like your little dog at home, your far-away “Buster,” whose friendly face and welcome bark you have missed more than you would careto say. Certainly this idiotic little pup bears no outward resemblance to ‘your far-away Buster; but inwardly— Shall you tell it to the guide? No, be's & brigand and might demand & E m for permitting you to live: o **y"x‘*%**‘ -5 .( *f&flfifi“«fiy B < R R :,:‘;w 3"* AR bty

the dog. Fixing him with your eys you begin: : . “The; fleas bothered my dog so, I concluded I'd teach 'em o lesson I learned long ago, but never put in praetice. I sent and got a piece of liver and put it near the dog. The fleas all hopped onto it and stuck. Just as 1 was getting ready to throw it in the fire I turned my back a moment and the dog ate the liver, fleas and all Now, he’s fleas lined.” * But about the Dog Grotto. Well, it's filled with carbonic acid gas, and for generations guides have made money out of tourists by shoving some poor little canine into the cave and keeping him there until his legs began to totter and his head to whirl, when they would haul him out and souse him in the near-by lake until he revived; 'and revive he must, for was there not another tourists’ carriage coming down the hill? But sometimes doggie didn't revive. Well, he was only a dog, and there had been instances where men had perished in the foul-smelling cave. But that was ages ago. There was a French king who brought a donkey to the grotto and tried the effect of the gas on him. The animal died. But why the king tried it on a donkey I dont know, unless that a fellow-feeling makes us—but, no—l won’t. Then there was an early Spanish viceroy who wanted to decide whether the gas was in prime condition or not, so he put two of his slaves in the cave and they were brought out dead. Spoke well for the gas, at any rate. \

Nowadays the question as to the virtue of the gas is more ' humanely settled. The guide takes a burning torch and plunges it into the cave. Instantly it goes out. But if the act is repeated several times the gas, impregnated with smoke, “assumes the appearance of a silver sea, flowing in rippling waves agamst the black wall of the cavern.” A good story is told of the guides of that region. As a matter of fact they are wholly unreliable, with - their high-sounding names of this broken wall or that defaced inseription. - It is said that they keep a little dog which they offer up as a sacrifice on the altar of the tourist’s curiosity. "~ “Shall I throw him in?” they will ask the visitor; and if he be of a humane disposition he will quickly reply, “Certainly not! What d' you think I am?” o And the guide will say—making a shrewd guess—‘l teenk you are American. Englees he say, ‘Yaas, bah Jove, t'row leetle beggar een!” But once there came along an American, whom the guide took to be English, and when he asked, “Shall I t'row leetle beggar een?” the Amerf can replied: “If you do, I'll throw your d—d carcass In after him!”

The thing to do while at Naples is to go to the pink coral grotto, so to the pink coral grotto we went. It lies between the Bay of Pozzuoli and that special little bay where Pliny kept his navy. We went out in a boat with four rowers, the chief of whom gave us large bunches of taffy about our country—‘“beeyuteeful America,” “fine New York,” etc.—he had traveled, oh, yes! he had been to Jib-later (Gibraltar) and to America—'beeyuteeful country!” etc., until it came time to return, when the fellow demanded that we pay them a franc each then and there, instead of the equivalent of ten cents each on the return to the shore. Upon refusal he worked himself up into a hysterical sort of paroxysm, and - shrieked:’ “No! not shore! In de boat! In de boat! But my American nerve rose to the occasion and I flatly refused, notwithstanding that the situation began to get strained, to put it mildly. Sulkily he gave in, and gave the command to return to land, and slowly we were propelled—so slowly, indeed, that I had serious misgivings that we were to spend the night upgon the darkenlgg sea, while the muttered abuse of our country—*“Vile ' covatry—people villains—dirty New York—America all thieves!”-—made me long to knock the rascal overboard and have done with him. However, as we approached the shore they became more civil and, as we alighted—glad to be back with a whole skin—they bowed and scraped, cap in hand, begging for a settlement at once. But no, the game ‘was now in ‘'my hand, and marching up to the hotel I demanded of the manager how it was that he sent his guests out with a parcel of rascals and extortionmists, terrifying hapless foreigners ' and indulging in foul abuse of their country, etc., etc. He rolled his eyes to heaven and protested that he knew nothing of such methods; they were honest fellows, and hard-working, and, by the Madonna and all the saints! he had no knowledge of such iniquities; it was incredible, impossible! etec., etc. ‘“Here!” said I, “here i 8 your money, according to the agreement I made with you. I will pay no extra extortion, nor be terrified into doing so. And, furthermore, for the protection of my countrymen, I will publish far and wide, I will print in every newspaper of America the name of your hotel and the rascally deoings of your employes—" . ; : I got no further, for the fellow, with a howl of anguish, fell upon his knees and -with clasped hands implored me not to “put it in de paper—not to ruin hem!—hees famlee, dey starve! Do not put in de paper!” ~ Suppressing the laughter which' his ridiculous terror evoked I consented to relent and peace was restored. When we entered our carriage the rowers" were waiting cap in hand, quite civil and ingratiating; but I ignored them completely, and we drove off, followed by a storm of curses and maledictions hurled at the American whom they found they couldn’t bluff.

Cigar “leafers” have been busy up and down the country during the past few weeks, collecting dead chestnut leaves for the making of cheap cigars. Armed with a long spike, the expert “leafer” seeks the most perfect specimens of chestnut leaves, selecting only those of a darkish brown color,’ The leaves are soaked in tobacco juice and made into cigars, which sell at a penny each, The outside leaf of these smokes ~which rejoice in some such cognomen among the elite of Whitechapel as “Flor de Cabbage”—is generally of real tobacco. During the “leafing” ‘season an expert “leafer” can make ”:;j Bhillings & week—P, T, 0.

OIS 7000 7!2?% S ONBROOK M™ RRrM By Willlom Ot~ R Ay

A small. patch of sunflowers as a crop pays. ! :

~ Cream which js ripened without scouring gives good flavor to butter.

It is a poor excuse which tries to excuse the presence of the poor cow in the herd.

= Sunflower seed is one of the best feeds for chickens, especially during the molting season. :

Increasing the egg production of hens is accomplished by saving only the best layers for breeders.

You cannot keep your flock of sheep free from ticks unless you dip them at least once a year; remember that.

Be sure you have got the best out of your farm before you allow discontents to encourage you to sell out and move. °

Four ounces of molasses, one pint of water and a nickel’s worth of quassia chips mixed together and boiled makes a cheap fly poison. g

If you allow the weeds to take the moisture and nourishment needed by the crops you need not wonder.at the *mall growth and poor yield.

A thrifty apple orchard is the best kind of insurance. It will pay you dividends in a few years and will bestow a valuable legacy upon your family when yeu are gone.

When planning for better machinery for the farm work, machinery that will save labor, don’t forget that there are many things you can provide for the kitchen and dairy which will lighten the work of the wife also.

Set the few poor acres on the farm into trees and start a wood lot. Any of the quick growing trees will return a profit in a few years on land that would otherwise not yield enough to pay the taxes and the interest:on the money invested.

Do not wait until the hay crop is ready to cut before looking over the mower and seeing whether repairs need to be made. You may be put to aggravating loss by having to wait for new parts. Find out what you need and send for the parts desired at once.

After fowls have been kept for some time on soft food, whole grain cannot form a considerable portion of their ration without a loss. The organs for grinding and digesting hard food have been so long in disuse that they are quite unfitted to perform the office required of them when hard or whole grain is' provided. -

A shelter in the fields not only is good for the stock but it proves handy for the men folks when the sudden storm comes up. Not mueh work to erect a framework and put roofing paper over the top, but it means a mighty sight of comfort in an emergency. And think of the time: you save in not having to run to the house for shelter.

It is poor management which tries to do the work of the farm with the young growing horses and then marketing them as soon as they are mature. In the first place, young horses that are worked too hard cannot be developed properly, and, secondly, the work of the farm is bound to suffer. Raise your horses, but don’t expect too much work out of them while they are maturing. :

2 S One reason why spraying gives such unsatisfactory results oftentimes is because the materials out of which the sprays are made ‘are adulterated. To check this evil Senator Kittredge of South Dakota has introduced into congress a bill prohibiting the manufacture, sale or transportation of adulterated or misbranded fungicides, paris green, lead arrsenates and other insecticides.

Here is 4 stock breeder’s method of training horns to graceful growth: He bores a small gimlet hole in each horn about one-fourth inch from tip of horn. Take a small wire, such as is used for baling hay, run this through the hole in each horn, wind the wire once around each horn back of the holes; then twist each end around main wire and fasten in center. Leave wire on until horns are well started to curve,

Plain English is good enough for our‘ able Secretary Wilson of the agricultural department. The story goes that the other day he called into his office at Washington the architect of ‘the‘ new agricultural building and asked: “Goddard, what is the meaning of that word, ‘Fructus,’ which you have carved out there on a pillar?” “Why, Mr. Secretary,” said Goddard, “that means fruit.” “Oh, does it! And you pay by the letter for that carving?' “Yes, I believe sO.” “Well, why not carve the word fruit instead of fructifusifuss?”’ “Oh, but that is not classic!” “But it is understood!” “Certainly.” “Well, 1 now request you to cut out the words fructus, cereales, forestes, flores and carve Instead the words fruits, grains, woods and flowers in their places. ‘That is all at this time!” and Farmer ‘Wilson went out to gather the eggs

Break your colis early. Get the mower in good repalr You will need(_it soon. : Brush fences look 'untidy and are breeding places for pests of all kinds. Declare war on the Cana&ian thistle, inaugurate a yvigorous campaign and grant no quarter. -

The milking machine seems about as near being on a practical basis as the flying machine. = -

Try and be more sympathetic than the fence board which separates your land from your neighbors’.

It is generally the man who has no silo who discovers that silage injures the cow’s teeth or works other ill to the stock. g

The fair season is coming Plan now to get something ready for the show, and do what you can to make your local fair a success. g

Don't ‘waste much time with the sick fowl. Separate at once from the rest of the flock, and if it does not respond quickly to treatment use the ax and shovel. :

We never will' know how many farmers owe their success to the management and good judgment of their wives, and what is worse, many farmers do not realize it themselves.

Colorado farmers have the organizing fever and are forming unions with a view to bettering their conditions. They expei:t-1 to make money by,ibuying in carlots and selling for cash f. 0. b. ]

Not téo late to sow silage corn. Get the corn in and then plan for the building of a silo in which to put it next fall. Your stock will respond to the feed next winter and repay you several times over for your trouble.

Machine grease can ‘be readily cleaned from the hands by a little kerosene and sawdust. The oil will cut the grease and the sawdust will absorb both oil and grease together, so that soap and water will have a chance to do its work.

Where the -cream of cows of .unequal milking periods is mixed together see that the whole is thoroughly mixed and ripened. Unless this is done a considerable portion of the slower cream is washed into the buttermilk as soon as the quicker cream comes to butter.

An Jowan reports the birth of a short-horn calf without a tail, the end of the backbone coming but an inch or two beyond the hip joint. The calf is healthy and doing well. This is not a common occurrence, but a great many similar cases are on record. The writer had a similar case when he was on the farm 20 years ago.

‘Under the head of fool farming may be enumerated such fads as raising frogs, squabs, skunks, and even raising ginseng. Such fads may work with those who thoroughly understand the business, but the average farmer will find that the potato patch will stand him in better stead than any of these schemes which séem on paper at least to offer big inducements.

The average dairy cow costs $3O per year to feed. It is easy to figure out that if the income from the sale of her milk does not exceed .this amount, the cow is clearly not paying her way. The only satisfactory method of determining this question is by weighing the milk and testing the per cent. of butter fat it contains by the Babcock test. A cow that does not pay takes up just as much room as a profitahle one. Sell her for beef. / This is the ration which a Pennsylvanian feeds his turkey poults with good success. The poults require no food until a day old, as nature has provided ‘for them, but water and sand should be placed within reach. ' The food should not be of a sloppy kind as that leads to bowel trouble. Curds or Dutch cheese is liked by them and they thrive on it. Stale bread moistened and squeezed dry is good. Onion tops and dandelion ' leaves minced fine should be fed each day while in confinement. Corn bread is the best food when two weeks old, and later cracked cormn or wheat should be provided.

If you are raising any calves this year with a view of adding them to your herd of milkers, remember that present handling has much to do with future usefulness. Feed to develop the paunch,and when the heifer comes fresh give special care to'handling and milking so that the udder may be developed as much as-possible. It is well to keep a heifer milking for over a year before going dry for another calf, as this establishes the cow as a persistent milker. A heifer that is allowed to go dry too soon after having first calf can never be made the cow she would have been if she had been milked for longer time. To be sure the small quantity of milk obtained oftentimes does not pay for the milking, but the future will more than repay one for the time thus spent.

In case of death of the mare or for other reasons she is unable to nurse her colt, proceed as follows: Take some of the freshly-drawn milk from the cow which gives the poorest milk —that is the milk which has the least | butter fat in it—add a dessertspoonful of sugar to a pint of milk; put it in a bottle or teapot on which you can ‘ slip some sort of a nipple. Feed the colt at first some ten times in 24 ‘ hours, beginning with a half-pint and increasing gradually. By the time the colt is four months old it will be pos gible to put him on skim milk and taught to drink it from a pail. Then is the time to begln to teach it to nibble at crushed oats from which the hulls have been sieved out. Later add wheat bran to the oats and a little oil meal. In case of a tendency to scours, scorch a little flour and put it with a little lime in the milk which 18 fed. hf:n the om;:;'hmm»,r the ocolt should be constipated, put & little mo lasses in the mile ReR ey IR BB ol R o S YRR N AST s

TEMPERANCE LESSON

LESSON TEXT. — Ephesians 5:6-21. Memory verses 15, 16. - - : GOLDEN TEXT.—“Be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit.”’—Ephesians 5:18. ; SCRIPTURE REFERENCES ON TEMPERANCE.—Gen. 9:21; Deut. 21:20, 21; 1 Sam. 25:36; 1 Kings 16:9; 20:16; Esth. 1:10, t 1; ‘Prov. 20:1; 21:17; 23:20, 21, 29-35; 81:4, 5; [sa. 5:11, 12, 22; 28:1; 3,7; ‘'Dan. 1:3-21; 5:13; Hos. 4:11; Amos 6:6; Neh. 1:10;; Hab. 2:15; Matt. 24: 48-51; -Mark 6:22; Luke 21: ¥; R0m..13:13; 1 Cor. 5:11; 6:10; 9:25-27; Gal. 5:21; Eph. 5:18; 1 Thes. 5:6-8; 1 Tim. 3:2) 8,8; Tit. 2:2-4, 6 12;1 Pet. 1:13; 7] 5:8; 2 Pet. 1:6. ; o~ TIME.—Paul visited Ephesus twice, the second time remaining more than two years. This letter to the church he founded was written from Paul's prison in Rome, A. D. 53-61 or 60-62. : PLACE.—Ephesus was a splendid city on the western coast of Asia Minor, south of Smyrna, on the Aegean sea. It was the capital of a Roman province, rich, idolatrous, luxurious, with the immoralities of Rome. It had an amphitheater which would hold 24500 persons, and a magnificent temple to Diana, one of the seven wonders of the world. ; Comment and Suggestive Thought. - “The specific note of this epistle ‘g its idea of the church as the body f Christ, or, in other words, of the uew humanity created in him."—Expositor’s Bible. The first three chapters teach the theory of it; the last three, in which the lesson lies, teach the practice of it. The argument of the first three chapters is that Christians ate to live, move and have their being in Christ; the aim of the last three is to show how this union -with Christ ‘affects the daily walk and conduct. The key-word of our lesson is, there. fore, “Walk,” and its analysis is:

1. Walk in love ‘(vs: 1-5). 2.. Walk in light (vs. 6-14). ; 3. Walk in wisdom (vs. 15-21). To “walk in love,” means to go on errands of love. Let your daily “walk and conversation” 'be in_ the atmosphere of love.. Rejoice in the prosperity of others, and seek in every way to increase it. That is what God does, and living thus is imitating him. The temperance applications: 1. No one can “walk in love” of his brotherman and not be a total -abstainer. 2. Intemperance is closely and.inevitably associated with. the three great sins -which Paul names: Impurity, covetousness and foul speech. Houses of evil repute have always saloons connected with them. The saloon is kept up quite as much by the greed of the proprietor as by the appetite of his customers. The profane and indeéent language of drunkards is a matter of common observation.‘ “When the wine ig in, the wit is out.” - Paul gives many answers“how we may walk as children of light. 1. Seek the “fruits of the light” (R. V. verse 9), which is “all goodness and righteousness and truth.,” Have Lkigh ideals, drawn from the Bible. - : 2. Prove “what is acceptable (R. V., ‘well-pleasing’) ‘unto the Lord” (v. 16). Take as your standard of pleasure the actions that give God pleasure.: This is the test to apply to all “doubtful amusements” — could you take Christ into them with you? : - 3. Do nothing that you would wish to iconceal. Live in the open. Ask your )self every night whethesyyou would be willing for God to publish the entire history of your day.. : 4. Let your light shine into the dark places (vs. 12-14). Publicity is one of the most potent remedies for evils. Take down the saloon screens, and the young man will hesitate long before he ‘will be seen there. Turn the search-light of public opinion into the ways of the saloon lobby at the state house. Cause the railroads to publish their accounts, and the insurance com‘panies, and the trusts. All evil loves darkness rather than light, as fungus and mold luxuriate in dark cellars, and disease germs multiply in dark bedrooms. Let in the light! sl : 5. Remember that the light is not in you: “Christ shall give thee light.” Paul is not quoting literally, but is translating into the terms of Christian experience several passages of the Old Testament, such as Isa. 60:1. Walk in Wisdom.—Paul - has - been speaking of “love” and “light” as regions through which the Christian should walk; now he passes on to consider the manner in which the Christian should walk: “See then that ye walk circumspectly.” R. V. “Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise.”. . “Drunkenness may come from anything wherein is excess; from over-in-dulgence in society, in pleasure, in music, and in the delight of listening to oratory. Fullness of the Spirit calms; fullness produced by excite-. ment satiates and exhausts. The world of fashion either is or affects to be proof against surprise and to have lost all keenness of enjoyment. We want the vision of a calmer and simpler beauty to tranquillize us in the midst of artificial tastes; we want the draught 6f a purer spring to cool the ‘flame of our excited life; we want the fullness of the Spirit which can never intoxicate!”—F. W. Robertson. : Practical Points. ' ) «“Alcohol is a mighty magician. The tired laboring mgn by its aid can leave aching limbs and dull care behind, and taste, if it be for a feverish moment, of the joy of bounding life. “The removal of temptation will accomplish’ little, unless higher tastes are formed. “Drink was not -the curse in the east then which it is with us now. But I cannot forget that this same tolerant Scripture, with its ample recognition of the genial side of human life, contains some of the most urgent warnings that can be written against the horror of intoxication. =

Bismarck Memorial. ; The Walhalla at Regensburg, which contains the statues of many men who have contributed to the greatness of the German people, will receive an addition next July in the form of a Bismarck memorial. In his order to the Kulturminister directing the addition, the prince regent of Bavaria says that the step would have been taken sooner but for the rule which _precludes such recognition until ten yeare after the death of the great one. The Bismarck memorial will be unveiled ou the tenth anniversary of his -

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: - WISE CHE-ILD. : ./As‘,"fi?"‘?‘-?», : &7 R ‘4" N N ; ‘\'-_; \] 'y A \5 N o s (e 9 r - : b 4 > . “That horse must love- his ' work uncle.” - ‘“Why so, Eghert?” 5 “He’s so attached to the wagon.” - INVALID'S SAD PLIGHT. After Inflammatory Rheumatism, Halp ~ Came Out, Skin Peeled, and Bed Sores Developed—Only Cuticura Proved Successful.” : ‘“About four years ago I had a very severe attack of inflammatory rheumatism. My skin peeled, and the high fever played havoc with my bhair, which came out in bunches. I also had three large bed sores on my back. I did not gain very rapidly, and my appetite was very poor. I tried many ‘sure cures’ but they were of little help, and until I tried Cuticura Resolvent I had had no real relief. Then my complexion cleared and soon I feit better. The bed sores went very soon after a few applications of Cuticura Ointment, and when I used Caticura Soap and Ointment for my hair it began to regain its former glossy appearance. Mrs. Lavina J. Henderson, 138 Broad St., Stamford, Conn., March 6 and 12, 1907.” : : An All-Round Book. The book agent had spent a discouraging morning, and when he bad an opportunity to scan the face of EH Hobbs at close range, he felt that there was small chance of making =a sale. However, he had more than one method of suggestion. “Sitting out here on the piazza afternoons with your wife, this would be the very book to read aloud,” he said, in?ratiatingly, to Mr. Hobbs, taking the other rocking chair ang opening the large red-covered volmi. “I don't read and I haven't amy wife,” replied Mr. Hobbs, dryly. “Dear me!” said the book agent “Well, if your wife is dead, perhaps there are children. Now, children find this book—" : ‘“There are no children,” interrupted Mr. Hobbs. “There’s nobody but myself and my cat.” “Well,” said the book agent, “dom’t you ever want a good heavy book 1o throw 'at her, just to ease your feed ings?’—Youth’s Companion.

o A Family Matter. ’ Eph was before the high oourt of *justice for the usual offense. ° “Now, look here, Eph~ said the judge in an admonitory way, “dom’t you know it is wrong to steal chickens?” ; 4 “’Deed I does, jedge. I's & plunged Baptis, I is.” S e : . “Then why did you steal those chickens?” ' . . : “Dey wuzn't chickens, jedge; dey.. wuz ducks.” : . “That makes no difference.” | “’Deed it do, jedge,” Eph pleaded. “Ducks is kinder kinfolks to us Bap tises, an’ it's all in de fam’ly, subh.™ “TWO TOPERS.” _ A Teacher’s Experience. 1 “My friends call me ‘The Postum Preacher,’” writes a Minn. school teacher, “because I preach the gospel of Postum everywhere I go, and have been the means of liberating many ‘coffee-pot slaves.’ ; “I don’t care what they call me di‘ long as I can help others to see what they lose by sticking to coffee, and can show them the way to steady - nerves, clear brain and general good health by using Postum. * #While a school girl I drank coffes and had fits of trembling and went through a siege of nervous prostration, which took me three years to rally from._. ‘ ' -“Mother coaxed me to use Postum, but I thought coffee would give me strength. So things went, and 'hclng I married I found my husband and I were both coffee topers, and I cam sympathize with a drunkard who tries to leave off his cups. - o “At last in - sheer desperation I bought a package of Postum, followed directions about boiling it, served it with good cream, and asked my *bi ‘band how he liked the coffee. @~ ~ “We each drank three cups apiece. and what a satisfied feeling it left. Qur Egm@m@‘wm%fi»%