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An Ostrich ivace. , la selecting ostriches for menageries or zoological gardens, the swiftest tre chosen; not because it will be necessary for them to run in their new quarters, but because swiftness is a rood indication of health and robustness. One of these agents visited a pen of ostriches in Africa. At his call, two beautifr.1 birds came up to him. Being desirous of testing their speed, he arranged with the keeper that they ahould run a race; so he caressed the birds, and showed them a handful of figs, of which they are Tery fond. The ostriches were !eld while the Tisitor walked to a certain distance. At a signal they were set free, and began to run for the figs. They came bounding alcg at a terrific rate, taking twelre or fourteen feet at a strike. They ran neck and neck for more than half the distance, their wings working like arms and making a great ound. Presently one drew ahead, and, looking behind, as a boy in a foot race might do, to see where his rival was, and finding the other one beaten, the winner slackened his pace and gently trotted up for the prize of flg3. Found at LMt. Alston, Mich, March 13th. (Special.) After suffering for twenty years from Rheumatism and Kidney Troubles, and spending a fortune in doctors and medicines that brought aim no relief, Mr. Ji.mes Oulet of this place has found a complete cure for all his aches, pains and weakness, in Dodd's Kidney Pills. Naturally Mr. Culet feels much elated OTer bis cure and gives great credit to the remedy thac gvve him health. "Yes," Mr. Culet sars, "My Rheumatism and Kidney Troubles are all gone and I feel like a new man. Dodd's Kidney Pills did it Before I used them I spent a small fortune on doctors and one remedy and Another. I cheerfully recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills to anyone suffering ' from Rheumatism or Kidney Trouble. Dodd's Kidney 1111s always cure ick kidneys. . Healthy kidneys take all uric acid the cause of Rheumatismout of the blood. That's why Dodd's Kidney Pills always cure Rheumatism. Social Equality in Cambridge. Eefore Longfellow bought the bouse In Cambridge so associated with hii memory it was owned and occupied, by old Mrs. Craigie. Mrs: Craigie was a woman of many eccentricities, Moncure D. Conway says in his recent book of "Reminiscences." Some one once tried to persuade hei to have her trees tarred to protect them from caterpillars, which also in yaded her neighbor's trees. She refused to be so cruel to the caterpillars. "They are our fellow worms, she said. Salser'a Home Bnllder Cora. So named because 50 acres produced sc' heavily, that its proceeds built a lovely home. See Salzer a catalog. Yielded in Ind. 157 bu., Ohio 160 bu Tenn. 193 bu., and in Mich. 220 bu. per acre. You can beat this record in 1905. i

WHAT DO TOU THDOC CT THIS 3 YIELDS? 120 bu. Beardless Barley per acre. S10 bu. Salter's Nw National Oats per A. 0 bu. Salzer Spelts and Macaroni Wheat, 1,000 bu. Pedigree Potatoes per acre. 14 tons of rich Billion Dollar Grass Hay. C0.00O lbs. Victoria Rape for sheep per A. 160,000 lbs. Teosinte, the fodder wonder. 4,000 lbs. Saber's Superior Fodder Corn rich, juicy fodder, per A. Now such yields you caa Lav im 1905, if you will plant my seeds. JUST SEXD THIS 270TICZ AVO lOO in stamps to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse. Wis., and receive their great catalog and lots of f armseed samples. C. N. U. Bow Chicago Is Spelled. In sorting over the letters for Chi cago a man in the general Chicago office has kept an account of the number of different ways the word Chicago Is spelled. Recently the record showed 197 different ways. Some ripe scholar in Finland sent a letter to his brother and spelled the name of the Garden City, Zlzzazo. Still another foreigner, possibly with a sinister motive, spelled the word Jagjago. Hipaho, Jajijo, ßcheechacho, Hizage, and Chachicho are also prime favorites. The Difference. "You are ruled," said a Briton, "by lot of vulgar rascals whom yon would never dream of meeting socially, don't you know." "Yes," replied the American, "but in England you are ruled by a lot of people who would never dream f meeting you socially." Philadelphia Ledger. Very Low One Way Colonist Bates to the West and Northwest via the Nickel Plate Road, March 1st to May 15th inclusive. Half rates to children of proper age. For full information call on Agent or address C. A. Asterlin, T. P. A., Fort Wayne, Ind. (528) The interest of the latest Parisian play centers in the death of an inventor who is killed while on a trial trip in his airship. The disaster is shown on the tage in the course of a realistic accent from the Eiffel tower. Two bottles of Piaos Cure for Con gumption cured me of a terrible couph. Fred Hermann, 209 Box avenue, Buffalo. N. Y., Sept. 24, 1901. Bullets that have failed: to penetrate pasteboard three inches in thickness have passed through a five-inch pL'jik,- with the same weight of powder used in the same weapon. A GUARANTEED CURB FOli PILES. Itching; Blind. Bleeding or Protrn'Uhn Piles. YouTdrng'srUi win refund money If PJ ZO OINTUXNT I alia to ear you In 8 to 14 rlayn 60a In the herring season, which extends from the. middle of August to the end of December, the fishin boats of Yarmouth. Eaglandcaught 535,378.800 herrings. All the leading hotels, restaurants and dintsg cars serve Mrs. Austin's Pancaaes foi breakfast, llaca Utter than otkers. A man does not marry a woman for the" mere, pleasure of paying for her board and washing. ' t T. DstU Eon? rvrlU X!ew !y la to both MtN ud !!. Cur Kidrsy a& lirsr empUimt. sma puriäM Us blood. 4jfc ail drscalat. Nam eonething with two htada and sue body. Ans.- A barrel. X'r. TTi-'IaWs Coomri Crrrr Or Caillrw

WORK Of THE

Indianapolis correspondence: The last was one of the . busiest and most interesting days of the" entire legislative session. The Sixty-fourth General Assembly adjourned sine die at midnight. Wit, anger and pathos wee stirringly mingled during the closing hours. The last half day developed a light between the Senate and the House, which for hours threatened to make a special session Imperative. Cool heads counseled wisely, however, and the Assembly was adjourned in good fellowship. During the closing minutes the lawmakers forgot their animosities and indulged in much sideplay. Through it all a spirit of good fellowship prevailed. Humorous speeches were made and there was a deal of merrymaking and jollity. But a strain of pathos dominated it alL The legislators were parting after two months of close companionship. Some had served their full term and were leaving not to return. A note of regret rang through even the humorous speeches and the spirit of levity was at times tinged with thoughts which seemed to depress. Thanks were voiced by the lawmakers for the able and just way in which their presiding officers Speakers Cantwell and Lieutenant Governor Miller had conducted the sessions. Partisanship had no place in the legislative chambers and the members of both parties clasped hands in mutual friendship and admiration. Governor Closing; Word. At 11:45 Governor Hanly sent his final message to the two houses. This was a word of thanks and encouragement. It was read amid a profound stillness, which remained unbroken for a second or two after the concluding word had been uttered by Union B. Hunt, the governor's secretary, who read the message. The governor said: Gentlemen The Sixty-fourth General Assembly of the State of Indiana Is about to end by constitutional limitation. In a few hours It will have gone Into history, there to be Judged for Its deeis, whetlier of omission or commission. There Is In the record It has made so much of the good and so little of the bad. that I' cannot forbear a word of commendation before you depart to take up again the duties of private citizenship. Incessant labor, high ability and lofty purposes have characterized your services to the State throughout the session, lou have earned the gratitude of the people whose servants you have indeed been. The volume and the character of the legislation you have enacted bespeak for you the continued confidence of your fellow -cltlxens, without regard to their party affiliations. The measures you have passed are In the Interest of the peace and the repose of society, and of Its Improvement and elevation as well as for the material Interests Of the Commonwealth. Your work may contain Imperfection doubtless does the work of no man or set of men can be expected to, be perfect. Some of these Imperfections may not yet be apparent and may not become so until tried In the crucible of actual experience. In the main, however, your work is such as to Justify the partiality of the people whose commissions you have borne. . . . All has not been obtained that I desired, but it has been more nearly obtained than Is usual in public affairs. We have sometimes differed, but our differences have been at all times the fearless differences of courageous, sincere and honest men, who were moved by a common Impulse a desire for the welfare of the State and the happiness of its people. Personally, I beg to thank you, one and alL You have been, without exception, considerate and tolerant. Of your kindness I am deeply sensible, and In these, the closiag hours of what I believe will be looked upon as an historic session. I beg to make grateful and public acknowledgment thereof. On the whole, you have bullded better than I had hoped, and, in fact, better than any General Assembly convened in the State In many years has bullded. Commending you to the considerate judgment of an appreciative people, and wishing you safe retnrn to your homes and your families, I bid you good-by with siucerest concern and desire for your future happiness and for the prosperity and advancement of the people of Indiana. The press of business at the close made it necessary that the hands of the clocks be made fast in order that the hour of midnight, the time set by the statute for adjournment, might not arrive and find the session still on. At 12 .-01 the Senators left the chamber singing "America In the rotunda of the State House they met the Representatives, the latter singing "Auld Iang Byne." The sixty-fourth General Assembly was a matter of Indiana history? Work of the Session. According to the journals as prepared by the clerks of the legislature, there were passed in both branches of the General Assembly during the session 207 bills. Of this number 107 were Senate bills passed by the House, and 100 were House bills passed by the Senate. This would make 207 bills passed by both Houses, and would leave a discrepancy between the House and Senate records, and the governor's records, which show that he received 100 bills. The total number of bills introduced It) the legislature on both sides was 793, of which 422 originated in the House and 361 were introduced in the Senate. Of the bills passed by the House and sent to the Senate, the records show that forty-four were killed by the Senate and 100 were passed. Of the bills passed in the Senate and sent to the House, the books show eighty-eight killed or failed to be acted upon, and 107 passed. It was an assembly which passed many good laws and in the big majority of cases it took a -stand for the best Interests of the State. Its work is done. It now remains for those into whose keeping Is intrusted the enforcement of the law to determine whether the remedial measure-. tk.it have been enacted shall really operate for good or be allowed simply to adorn the statutes witnout life or effect. . After all, t the . chief thing is the en The Original' Hack man. "Say," queried - little George, addressing the historical cherry tree, why don't youbranch out?" 4I wood leaye'this place," answered the tree, "if I had some way to , move my trunk." '' "If that s all that holds you, said the embryo daddy of his country, "I'll see that you get a hack." Whereupon he hurried over to the woodshed in search of his little hatchet. ' ' Profitable. "I don't believe there is anything in palmistry." "I do." "Indeed! May I ask what business yea are in 7" "Certainly. I am a palmist," Cerions Pait. "You seem worried," said the caller. "Yes," rcrponded the irate father, "ny ecu is the cause." 1 tsar LiJ mid Is urccttlzi." "Ho; It is tia tilla tilt era cic:ttlcd." '

LEGISLATURE.

forcement of law. If a law is good it is almost axiomatic that it should be enforced. If it is bad the enforcement of it will the sooner bring about its repeal. So, good or bad, the thing to do is to make the laws operative. The bills passed have beea with perhaps some few exceptions good, and many of them are of very great importance. Five or six bills prepared by the codification commission have become laws, and one was rejected. The cities and towns bill was carefully considered, and, as a result, it was much improved and strengthened. The legislature passed a railroad commission bill and gave the city of Indianapolis the needed power to provide for the elevation of railroad tracks. A new insane hospital, which was greatly needed, was provided for. An adequate appropriation was made for the Girls Industrial School. The law authorizing the construction of a new deaf and dumb school also Seems satisfactory. The legislature made an appropriation for the creation of an epileptic hospital, and ordered that attention be first given to the epileptic' who could be helped or cured by treatment. It also enacted a bill for the regulation and control of private banking, which, though deemed inadequate, is nevertheless to be commended as recognizing a principle, and as a first step in the direction toward efficient control. A bill providing for the punishment of the vote-buyer was also passed. The Nicholson law was strengthened, and the sinking fund, which we shall not need for several years, was temporarily turned into the general fund for the purpose of providing for extraordinary and much needed expenditures. Of course, there is something to be said on the other side. The defeat of the anti-trust bill Is to be regretted. The legislature also refused to pass Senator Hugg's primary election bill. That ' is probably the most important piece of work left undone. The weakening of the private banking bill and the failure of the machine voting bill are to be deplored. But the general judgment of the session seems to be favorable. To accomplish all this work, to do It intelb'gently, and to get through In sixty days, is something of an achievement. For State Institutions. An unusually good record was made In the line of legislation for the penal, benevolent and educational institutions. Among the laws of this kind was the one to establish a State village" for epileptics, a class of dependents that has received State care only when the epileptics were Insane. Sane epileptics have been poorly and often miserably cared for In poor farms and sometimes In Jails, although they have committed no crimes. Other new laws for State institutions were: One to establish a southeastern hospital for the insane to relieve overcrowded conditions In Insane hospitals and to relieve jails and poor farms and homes; one to separate the Girls' Industrial School from the Women's Prison; one to establish practical schools for the teaching of trades at the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonvllle; one providing for the cultivation of State lands near the State prison at Michigan City, and one for the relocation of the School for the Deaf. Codification Commission's Bills. Five' of the six bills drawn by the codification commission created by the General Assembly of 11K3 passed both branches. The private corporations bill drawn by the commission was" killed in the Senate and was never considered In the House except In committee. The Senate feared that the theory of the bill involved a serious departure in the direction of the laws of New Jersey and other State that give corporations a wide latitude. The codification bills were all greatly amended excepting the bill on criminal code, and It will take time to ascertain their effects. The cities and towns bill la modeled after the Indianapolis charter. The Important feature Is a centralization of ower In the hands of the mayor, but a imitation was placed upon it somewhat by an amendment which preserved the metropolitan police system in cities of between 10,000 and 33,000 population. The effect of this Is t put the police In these cities In the hands of boards appointed by the Governor. Another feature Is thii there will be elections in all cities and towns of the State In November this year and every four years thereafter. In order to meet the expenses that the construction of new State institutions will entail, a law was passed transferring for 1905, 1906 and 1907 the 3-cent sinking fund levy to the general fund. This will bring into the general fund In three years nearly 11,500,000. Act Relating to Schools. There will be an Increase of three-fifths of a cent on the $100 in the total State levy, as the result of the Kean law, designed to help the schools In poor townships that can not now maintain the legal six months' minimum term and pay legal wages to teachers, even with the maximum local levy and with their share of the proceeds of the 11-cent common school State levy. Another law of interest to schools and to parents that buy school-books Is the Batman-Mil-burn law, under which the State Board of School Book Commissioners Is required to make contracts for ten years, except In cases of geographies, histories and copy books, and unless two-thirds of the board votes for a change after five years. Advocates of this law said the people were protesting against the necessity of buying new books frequently. Although the House defeated the Senate bill creating a new deputy for the State Superintendent of Public Instruction, whose business, among other things, was to be to look after the teaching of agriculture in the high schools and after the township high schools, the general appropriation bill carries an appropriation of $2.000 a year for this purpose, and there will be ruch a deputy. There was another law authorizing the transfer of the special school fund surplus to the tuition fund, and another Increasing the salary of county superintendents to $4.50 a day and raising qualifications to at least a thirty -six months State license. The Farmer Fared Well. The farmer fared very welL A law was passed appropriating $25,00 a year annually for an agilcultural experiment station at Purdue University. Another law that may please the farmer provides punishment for the fruit tree agent who sells trees that do not produce the kind of fruit which the agent represented they would produce. For instance, an agent will hesitate henceforth to sell a 3?n Davis for a wlnesap. A law was passed authorizing the State Board of Agriculture to issue non-taxable bonds to raise money with which to obtain THE AMERICAN INVASION. American furniture shipped to every country in Europe. American paper used in England by English newspapers. American boilers installed In the Canadian sugar beet factories. American radiators installed In the palace of the Mikado of Japan. American threshers sold in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. American agricultural Impleemnts sold in every civilized foreign country. ' American cutlery shipped into Sheffield, England's cutlery manufacturing city. American locomotives, to the number of 100, sold In England in a single year. American agricultural implements logical products sold . all over the world. , American-built ships fiht the battles cf Jcpia, Rurila and other fcr-

title to and Improve the State Pair grounds. From the rural districts and cities and towns as well came an Insistent demand for legislation regulating the speed of automobiles. The Crumpacker bill became a law. .Autolsts do not have to stop their motors, but they must bring their vehicles to a stco on signal, and must not go faster than twenty miles an hour In closely built up parts of cities. State regulation takes the place of local ordinances. Uecent bank failures, particularly la northern Indiana, resulted In a law to regulate private banks. The law is not all that advocates of regulation desired, but It Is a start, and future Legislatures may amend the law. Senator Ganlard, whose name goes with the bill, insisted on annual examinations by the Auditor of State, but the private bankers in the lobby were able to defeat this. Railroads, Business, Insurance Shippers and railroads are directly Interested In the Newhouse railroad commission bill, which is the result of an aglt'itlou of several years on the part of shippers and business men against Injustice on the part of the railroads. Shippers, railroads and the people of Ft. Wayne and Indianapolis are interested in the two laws for the elevation of railroad tracks in those cities. Indiana will soon begin the practical solution of the grade crossing danger. The Koemler law abolishes the old three days of grace and makes Saturday afternoon a half holiday for banks. All business men are Interested in this law. In the way of Insurance legislation the Gulrl law, admitting foreign mutuals with $50,000 cash assets and $100,000 in preialum notes. Is, perhaps, the most Important. The Stricler law on foreign inrurunce companies Is expected to rsnlt In the admission of several new jon'pinles to do business in Indiana. It alio the companies to furnish as asset required in Indiana bonds of cities and t&wns of other States or foreign countries where business is done. It also allows assets to be invested In the national bonds of foreign countries where business Is done. The lIeüJee law allows companies Incorporated la Indiana to invest in bonds of countries or provinces where business Is done. It Is understood that the State Life Insurance Company of Indiana desired to invest in bonds of Canada. Tiie McIIeny law widened the character of bonds which foreign casualty, health and accident companies could furnish as assets to file in Indiana, so as to Include the bonds of cities and towns of other States than Indiana. The bill of Moore, of Putnam, to create an Insurance commission with power to fix fire Insurance company rates and control the alleged Insurance combine, was chloroformed in the Senate Insurance committee. Marriage and Divorce. Peculiarly enough the bill to lessen the divorce evil, to which so much attention has been paid publicly and which was supported by some of the churches, was defeated, while the marriage bill, for which there was less demand, became a law. According to the new marriage law applicants for a license will be required to file with their applications detailed Information about their parentage and their health, and if a license is refused an appeal may be had to the Circuit Court Judge. What Is regarded as the most Important feature Is that which will make It difficult or Impossible for imbeciles, paupers or other dependents or epileptics to obtain marriage licenses. If a man has been an Inmate of a Foorfarm he must be able to show his abllty to' support a wife. The appropriation of. $33,000 was made for the erection of a monument of Oliver P. Morton In the State House yard. This law grew out of a demand on the part of soldiers of the Civil War and particularly the Grand Army of the Republic. All other monument bills wer. killed. A bill for a monument to Gen. Lew Wallace In Statuary Hall at Washington. D. C, passed the Senate, but was defeated in the ways and means committee of the House. In the interest of pure food and public health a State laboratory hygiene was created. An osteopath will bs added to the State Board of Medical Examination and Registration under another law. Still another Saw creates a State Board for the registration and examination of trained nurses. Bills Interesting Politicians. Of particular interest to politicians are the Kirkman legislative reapportionment law and the Hugg law which punishes the vote buyer and vote seller with fine up to $50 and disfranchisement for ten years but not Imprisonment. The House amended an imprisonment provision of the bill. Vigo County pot a primary election law, but the Marlon County primary election bill, which passed the Senate, stopped at second reading in the House, after it had bten amended In such a way as to defeat the unity of the bill. Cost of the Session. By the time all the bills have been paid the Sixty-fourth General Assembly will have cost the State approximately $119,000, which Is the appropriation made to cover the expenses. The orlcinal appropriation was $115.000. This was Increased $4,000 by an amendment to the general appropriation bill. A comparison of the expenses of the Indiana House during the last session with those of the session two years ago show that It was Just $2,161.23 less costly than the preceding House. The total expenses of the House, as summed up by assistant principal clerk George L. Ilellman, for the session Just closed, was $G0,6S3.27. Two years ago the expenses amounted to $C2,849.50. This year the per diem pjild to the members of the House aggregated $36.633, while two years ago It amounted to $36,900. The mileage given members this year was likewise less thn that of the preceding session, being $3,779, as agaalnst $3,817. The greatest economy of this year's session was In the employes of the House, there being a less number In every department. The amount paid out to employes In salaries this vear was $17,494. Two years ago it was $20,303. Election contests this year cost the State $743.60, and the postage amounted to $323. The total paid out this year on resolutions nets up $1,70S.67, as against $1,810 two years ago. While the work of the General Assembly of 1905 may be open to some criticism, the people of Indiana may perhaps be thankful if they never have a worse legislature than that which has adjourned.

The Short Storj Art. The art of short story writing: has not become a widely popular accomplishment in this country, according to the testimony of the Judges in the Collier prize story contest. There were no less than 12,000 stories sent In for competition, and William Allen Wrhite, who was one of the judges, states that each of the first 95 in every 100 could be cast aside with five minutes' reading. Only one in a hundred contained the rudiments necessary to make a good story even a passably good story. The work of the amateur, says Mr. White, may hide itself for ten pages, and then stick up like a sore thumb In a trite handling of an excellency tuation; but the professional writer, the skilled workman, shows his presence in the first sentence, proves himserf in the first paragraph, and establishes himself in the reader's confidence during the first 500 words. Boston Herald. Practical Trat nine. SingletonYour muscles have developed wonderfully of late. Do you practice with health HfWV Wedderly Well, you can cp;i it health lifts if you want to; I carry all our coal up four flights of stairs. There's., a Coolness Between Ihem. For an illustratlDn of icy politeness watch an old maid chatting with a widow who's had three husbands. Pittsburg Dispatch. Growing Monotonous. Explorer--Can you tell me where I can lind the north pole? Native Sy, young feller, you are the 'fifth man who has asked me that question. What's the joke, anyhow? Life. The Important Ones. ' "Wrhat," asked the stranger within tne gates, "are the principal objects of interest in this town?' "Pawnbrokers," answered the native, who evidently knew whereof tpc-a,

TESTING COWS. A correspondent of the Michigan Farmer inquired if it was practical to weigh and take a sample of each cow's milk night and morning and test same one per month in a herd of ten cows and was replied to as follows: It is practical to weign the milk at each milkitg and this ought to be done. I think milkers will take enough more pains in milking, where they weigh and record the weight of milk each time, to pay well for the time spent in the practice. If a sam,ple of milk is taken from each milking and then a composite test made each week, you certainly know just what each cow is doing. For a breeding herd, where one wishes to dispose of the surplus stock at the highest price, this is entirely practical and necessary. But for the purpose of weeding out the unprofitable cows it is not necessary to go to quite this trouble. If you weigh the milk at eacn milking, so much the better, but you can weigh one day in a week and estimate the weight for the rest of the time from this and get a close approximation of tne yield of milk. Suppose you weigh Thursday of each week and a cow gives in the morning 15.3 pounds and at night 18.7 pounds, Tr 34 pounds for the day. Now multiply this by 7 and 238 pounds becomes the estimated amount of milk for the week. You will find this accurate "enough for weeding out the "star boarders." Iiook at the record from our experiment station where every making is weighed and take a certain day of the week right along for a year, making the estimate as described above, and you will find that you come very close to the actual number of pounds of milk for the year. I figured this out from the records of the dairy cows at the World's Fair at Chicago and the difference was only a few pounds. Again, it is quite sufficient for our purpose to weigh every 10th day if preferred, instead of every 7th day, and the figuring is much more easily dne. Take the same illustration a; before. The cows ' gives 34 pounds in a day and for 10 days you nave 340 pounds, or, simply move the decimal pent one place to the right. The greatest trouble with this, however, is that the milkers forget and do not weight every tenth day. But a bulletin could be posted up in the stable that would snow just the date the milk should be weighed and in a littlei while the hab.'t would become fixed. As to testing the milk, it Is not necessary, for the purpose j'ou name, to take a sample from each milking or for that matter every week. Cows vary but little from day, or from week, in their percentage of butter fat When a cow is fresh she does noc, as a rule give quite as rich milk as she does farther along in the period of lactation, and when she is nearly dry she gives the richest milk of any portion of the period. Hence, if you test for butter fat when the cow is comparatively fressh, again near the middle of" the period of lactation and once more near the close of the period, and then take the average of these tests, you will have a fairly accurate test of the percentage of butter fat the cow yields. There is no question whatever about your being able to pick out the good cows from the poor by means of such a test. But, as stated above, if you want to make official test or private tests that you can swear by, you must weigh and sample each milking. The average man will not do this, nor is it necessary for all practical purroses. He should, however, know i , 'what each cow is doing that he may keep his herd up to the highest degree" of efficiency and it can be done with little trouble, as I have Indicated. THE STEER'S RATIONS. The bunch of steers entering their second winter are no doubt getting along very well now on what pasture is available and eight or nine pounds daily of corn on the stalks, says Farm Field and Fireside. Their ration-is fairly well balanced by the pasture, particularly if it is clover in whole or part; and the bulky corn fodder Is preparing the animals in the handling of large quantities of feed. Very soon feeding in the lot will begin in the north. Some thing must take the place of the pasture, something that will help balance a generous corn ration. This will be clover, nlfalfa or pea hay, at the rate of about eight pounds per day for a thousandpound animal. Another change, however, must be made. The fattening period requires concentrates; the corn on stalk ration instead of being Increased so that more corn may be fed, la cut down gradually to onehalf and snapped or ear corn fed. The word gradually is important; the change to heavy feeding of concentrates when made suddenly only deranges the steer's digestive system. Haste here, " as elsewhere, makes waste. Easier on the steer's mouth than ear or snapped corn are crushed corn and corn and cob meal. Crushing la sufficient and cheaper than shelling plus grinding. Corn and cob meal has an additional advantage over corn, meal In being much more easily digested, less likely to founder on the whole, mucn more wholeEome. Animals now a year and a half old may be put on full feed by the middle of winter. By June or July they will be ready for market. At a fair price, then, profits may be expected; for the early feeding has been in large part Inexpensive roughage, which well balanced and bulky, prepared the animals for the proper handling of the heavy fattening ration. This ration; too, ha3 been made up ra important rut cf moderately priced materials

which have successfully balanced the ration. TROTTING STANDARD. When an animal meets these re quirements and is duly registered It shall be accepted as a standard-bred trotter: 1. The progeny of a registered standard trotting borse and a registered standard trotting mare. 2. A stallion sired by a registered standard trotting horse, provided hi? dam and grandam were sired by regis tered standard trotting horses, and he himself has a trotting record of 2:30 and is the sire of three trotters with records of 2:30 from different mares. 3. A mare whose sire is a register ed standard trctting horse, and whose dam and grandam were sired lyr registered trotting horses, provided she herself has a trotting . record of 2:30 or is the dam of one trotter with a record of 2:30. 4. A mare sired by a registered standard trotting horse, provided she is the dam of two trotters with a record of 2:30. 5. A mare sired by a registered standard trotting horse, provided his first, second and third dams are each sired by a registered standard trotting horse. PACING STANDARD. When an animal meets these requirements and is duly registered it shall be accepted as a standard bred pacer: 1. The progeny of a registered standard pacing horse and a registered 'standard pacing mare. 2. A stallion sired by a registered standard pacing horse, provided his dam and grandam were sired by registered standard pacing horses, and he himself has a pacing record of. 2:25, and is the sire of three pacers with records of 2:25 from different mares. 3. A mare whose sire is a registered standard pacing horse and whose dam and grandam were sired by registered standard pacing horses, provided she her'seh has a pacing record of 2.25 or is the dam of one pacer with a record of 2:23. 4. A mare bred by a registered standard pacing horse, provided she is the dam of two pacers with records of 2:25. 5. A mare sired by a registered standard pacing horse, provided her first, second and third dams are each sired by a' registered standard pacing horse. C. The progeny of a registered standard trotting horse ouc of a registered standard pacing mare, or of a registered standard pacing horse out of a registered standard trotting mare. TROTTING AND PACING STANDARD HORSES. In response to enquiries as to what the rules of the Register Association are we quote below the amended and existing rules as to standard trotting and pacing horses. All animale upon which rank depends must first be registered at the expense of the applicant. If a performer makes the sire or dam standard, it must first be registered. Let is be observed that the standard itself makes registration a condition and requisite to standard rank. CLEAN THE HORSE. To keep a horse in a good healthy condition constant care needs to be exercised in keeping the skin clear and free from scurf and dust. If the pores of the skin are closed, a large quantity of waste matter is retained, which in effect is as unhealthful as if the bowels were closed and the wastes of the system in this way were retained and absorbed. ABOUT THE CREAM. The warmer the milk whent set, the more complete will be the separation of the cream from the milk at any given lower temperature; and the more rapidly the temperature falls, the more rapid will be the separation of the cream from the milk. Cream rises best when the temperature is falling; very slowly when the temperature is stationary; and little or not at all when the temperature is rising. FEED THE CATTLE GRAIN. It may do to martlet grass cattle from the ranges, but grass cattle should never go to the market from the farm the farmer cannot afford it. No matter how good the pastures, grain enough should be fed to give solidity and weight SALT FOL SHEEP. The effect of salt on the health of the sheep is not generally understood. Its effect Is to give tone to the organism. The ash of the blood cf a healthy sheep contains about sixty per cent salt, and the ash of urine thirty-threo ; per cent. ' The scarcity of such an important constituent in the blood means a relaxation of vital energy. . AVOID CHICKEN LICE. You cannot profitably, raise chickens and lice In the same house. If the fowls have body lice, dust them with some good insecticide, renovate. and fumigate the house thorouf hly, paint the roosts, nest box"es and furnishings with & good lice paint, sprinkle a generous amount of air-slaked lime on the dropping boards, provide new litter and nesting material, and your efforts will be rewarded in increased egg production and general thrift of your fowls. Almost the entire commercial wealth of India, with Its population of 300,000,000, i3 said to be la the hands of less than 90,000 persons. Cane sugar cultivation Is makins steady prepress in Eypt-

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MAEEED A YOUNG WOMAN'S HAPPI1TES3 POE SEVET TEAES. Interfered With Her Social Datlea and Threatened to Cause Her Retirement How Sh Was Cured. Every sufferer from nervous headache knows bow completely it unfits one for the duties and pleasures of life. Any little excitement, or over-exertion, or irregularity brings it on. Sometimes the pain is over the wholo head. Aain ii is like a nail driven into the brain, or &. wedge splitting it open, or a band tightening about it. At one time it is all icthe top of the bead, at another it is all at the base of the skull. Most headaches can be traced to some faulty Etate of the Llood. When the blood is scanty or charged with poison, and the nerves are imperfectly nourished and the digestion weak, one of tb.3 commonest, results is frequent and sovero headaches. The important thing is to get rid of the diseased condition of the blood thst causes the attack by the use of a remedy that will do the work quickly and thoroughly. "What is that remedy? The experience of Miss Ellen ilcKenna furnishes the answer. She says : " For more than seven years I was a great sufferer from nervous headache and dizziness. My stomach -was disordered, und I became so restless that I could net sit still any length of time. Dizziness interrupted my work greatly. At first the attacks were not so severe, but they gradually grew more violent, and finally became so acute that I was on the point of relinquishing my membership ia the different organizations to which I belonged." "What saved you from that necessity?' "A very simple thing; the call of a member of one of the clubs.who strongly advised me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills before giving up. I acted on her suggestion at once, and after steadily using this great blood and nerve remedy for two mouths, my headaches and iuy dizziness entirely disappeared. Miss McKenna is secretary cf the Associated Ladies' Guild, and resides at No. 4S Wait street, Roxbury, Mass. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills have cured manyhundreds of similar cases, and can be confidently recon. mended to drive all poisons from the bicod and to give needed strength to the nerves. Every druggist keeps them. Subservient to the Master... Even in these days of gallantry, a woman is constantly reminded of her old inferior position in the eyes of the "lords of creation." The word "lady," which Is supposed to be so complimentary, means "one who serves bread" a "waitress, nothing more nor less; so that when you address a countess even as "My lady," you are simply saying the equivalent of "my waitress." "Wife" is another word for "weaver," the woman who weaves her lord's and her children's raiment "Spinster" is, of course, a "spinner," a word reminiscent of the days when a girl bad to spin her complete outfit of house linen before she was fit tc be a wife; and "Mrs." is an abbreriation of masteress, the most flattering description of all, and yet showing that woman derives her position solely from her master. COMMISSIONER GARFIELD'S REPORT. It I Found to Tie Favorable to the Great Puckers. The report of Commissioner of Corporations Garfield on the beef industry, after about eight months' investigation in Chicago and elsewhere, shows that there has been an enormous amount of exaggeration in the statements that have appeared for souie time past in regard to the bref business. This investigation was set or. foot by a resolution of the House of Representatives adopted March 7, 1004, and the ascertained facts after a most rigid examination of the methods and general conduct of the business arecontained in a report covering 0S pages. Its figures and tables conclusively show that the popular belief in enormous profits . made by the large packers, such as Armour & Co., Swift & Co. and Nelson Morris & Co., and in the exclusive control of the business which many think they enjoy, i really without foundation. The report made to President Roosevelt by Commissioner Garfield is really the first official statement of the actual conditions of the beef buslnest that has been made, and as all the conclusions arrived at are based, as shownby him. upon data officially obtained, there seem3 to be no reason why they should not be regarded as reliable and in all respects trustworthy. This report 6hows why the price of both cattle and beef advanced to thehighest level ever known after the short corn crop of 1901, and states that because of the decrease in number of cattle and also in decreased weight, "the high prices of beef which caused so much complaint among consumers at this time were attributable wholly to these abnormal cattle prices.." All the figures of the live weight and live cost of all dressed beef cattlewere obtained from actual killing records and all information of every kind obtained by the Commissioner was voluntarily and freely offered by the packers, all books of record and p?per connected with the business having placed at his disposal. To make certain that the results of the investigation should be absolutely accurate, the Commissioner states that a double method of ascertaining profitswas adopted, and, without going intodetail heve. It Is found that the conclusion arrived at shows an average profit of 99 cents per head. The Commissioner says "the close parallelism in the results of the two methods of ascertaining the profits confirms completely the correctness of the general conclusions." It is clearly established that "western packers do not control more than half of the beef supply of theUnited States," the conclusion of the Commissioner being that the" business, done by them amounts tv "about 45per cent" of the total slaughter of th country. The whole report Is extremely Interesting and well worthy of careful perusal. As an official report it may beregarded as worthy of confidence and It certainly leads the reader to the conclusion arrived at by the Commissioner when he states that "the capitalization of none of these concerns Is. excessive as compared with its actual investment" and that from thorough and rigid examination of original entries in books and papers to which h had access there was also "indirect evidence that the profits of the packers in their beef business are less than is frequently supposed," as shown by comparison between the tstal prc-tD and the total amount cf tzlzz.

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