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PORTLAND Ml or Mr.r TlBhtln Hob" Kvnns. durlnir hlfc Init atny In Washington, was one cvon- I ii a guest fit a Iiouho whero he met a number of tho younger set of the capl-la, Ah tho admiral was Icarlnir ho chanced to pick up from the door n rery dainty handkerchief, edeed with loco. IIo wbh gravely Inspecting this "trlllo, light as nlr," when it rather effemlnatO'looklng young man hastened forward to claim It "liour slater's, no doubt," said the ad miral, an he handed it over. "Oh? no," said tho youug man. "It's mine." Erans scrutinized the young man closely. "Would you mind telling mo what Blr.o hairpins you uso?" he asked. aftor a pause. Dom Pedrn'a Midi Joke, Doin Pedro I,, Emperor of Ilrazll, was one of royalty's strong men. On tho occasion of a carnival ho arronccd matters so that ho was standing on tho bow of tho royal barge botwoen two of lila stateliest courtiers. Suddenly, In tho midst of tho festivi ties tho King reached out, grasped a courtier with each hand, and, after holding them for a few moments squirming In the air and begging to bo released, bo relaxed his grip and al lowed them to drop plump Into the wutcr, amid tho frantic applause of tb Iiubo crowd that Imd assembled to view their monarch. The King Joluid heart ily In tho general hilarity; but what the drenched courtiers thought about this exquisite Joke is not recorded. Omitted, The two old neighbors bad mot ea tho street "Mornln', Sam," said the first "1 hear your son Hill has got througb col lege successfully." "Yep," said the other, "Learn any thin' V "Yep." "What's he got out of It chiefly?" "lie kin speak seven languages." "Flnol" "Oh, I dunno. Trouble Is they forgot to teach hi in any Idres to express 'wltb 'em." New York Herald. C. Gee Wo The Chinese Doctor Thl wondef ul man baa madoallfoatudyof the propertlea of Itoot; Herb and IlnrV ami Blvlnjr tho world tho ucneiitol HI ervleea. No Mercury, Poison orDruealhted. No Operations or Cutting- h!l.a"irom PeHn fn.1 i- fht r: ..""Wllna- In'lU work." di:""'eaiL wri. . . . i.i--.. CON uli?mtln UmP' Tha r LUT,0N rwcc t. Gki Wr. Mnut St., ear. u-..i . .. . Armor on Wnrlilpa. Ttie thlckticHS of armor on modern warships Is truly aKtonlshlng. The side armor of a first-class battleship usually varies from sixteen nnd one-half Incbei thick at the top of the belt to nlnt and one-half Inches nt the bottom. Tbi gun turrets are often protected by or nior from fifteen Inches to sevetrtoes Inches thlckj Unparalleled. There had been a fire la the aBrtmnt kulldinr, wltb heavy loai of property sad many narrow etcape. "Were there any acta of eoasplnoui heroism?" queried the reporters. "Yea," aald one of the victim. "Wltb a self-abneeatloa never before wltaeated In a cat of this kind, sir, we all turned In and helped to carry out the piano that was en the second floor." Iliad Predicted Greataoaa. "How do you like running a streei car?" "It ain't so bad," replied the boy graduate. "Uowover " "Year "I don't think much of our clasi prophet" Louisville Couricr-JournaL Leant Note. A London city man recently wrote to a lawyer In another town asking foi Information touching the standing of a person there who hnd owed tho Lon doner a considerable sum of money fot n long time. "What property has he that I could attach?" was one of the questions askeiL The lawyer's reply was to tho point. "Tho person to whom yon refer," ho wrote, "died n year ago, He has left nothing subject to attacu raent except a widow." Punoh. Ilocky. Ur, Wiggins, In his study, was en deavoring to concentrate his thought upon a bit of writing. A perpetual noise In the Hat above annoyed him be yond human endurance. Rushing Into the sitting room, he crlod : "What Is that confounded racket?" "My dear, It Is only tho lady abovo rocking her baby to sleep." "For heaven's sako, run up and tell her to use smaller rocks I" Judge. Only Qaaatlon of Tlaaa. "George," aiked Mre. Ferguion, "have rou written rtiat letter to Aunt Ilepay ret to aak her t come and apend the winter with us?" "No, but I'll not forget It, Laura," an iwered Mr. Ferguson. "I've cut a notch a my thurab nail, and when I come to It In trimming the nail It will remind me f It." ... "May I ak where you out tuat notour "Er tt the root of the nail, Laura. yVi rear!. The pearl Is nothing but carbonate of lime, and vinegar or any other acid will eat away the polished surface In a few momonts. as for tho opal, hot water is fatal to It, destroying Its lire, nnd some times causing It to crack. Soap Is a deadly enemy of tho' turquoise. If a turquoise ring Is kept on tho hand while washing, In a short timo tho bluo stones will turn to a dingy green. SHEEP-RAISING ON IRRIGATED LANDS IDAHO R'NCIItR VERY SUCCESSFUL Stop Coughing! Nothlee Uall down th licalth w quickly andpoMlirelyaiaptrmtfnl eouh. II youbavaeouh i atleotloa now. Yojj I can teker. II quickly wiuSPlSO'S CURE. Famoui f or half a ctalury U rc&tU remeJy tot eougha, coldi. hoamncu. bronddu'i. aithraa aod Undicdeaownu, Fiof(culdro. At all druaiUt', 28 D. C, Mullen, of Nampa, Tells How Ho Started Illustrates Many Interesting Points. The following article, by D. C. Mul len, of Nampa, Idaho, is one of three contributions to the lloisc Capital News made by that gentleman, who is a rnlichcr near Nampa: The editor of the Capital News hav ing kindly encouraged me to write a little more on the subject of sheep on the farm, I will try to give a few fig ures on what I have done in a small way. These articles arc not written for entertainment, but are strictly for business. My sheep arc lambing now, nnd I have but little for anything but business. Work on the farm at any time is anything but a lazy man's job, but winter finds us with the most spare time, and I like to have the lambs come early, so I can give them full attention. The one time that you must look after sliccp is in lambing. If weather is cold they may chill to death; occa sionally a mother will not oWn her lamb, and in case of twins you must see they keep together at first. Wc have little pens to put them in, where there arc twins or mothers arc in clined to leave them. However, they are generally the best of mothers, and grieve over their dead lambs in a way to make your heart ache. On the ranch there arc none of the dreadful cries of starving orphans that you hear one the ranee. My first sheep was one of these orphans. Wc made. one visit to the lambing ground, and that was all I ever wanted. I can hear those cries yet, and the time will come when such things will not be tolerated. There will be laws to cover this, just as there is for feeding and watering stock in shipping. These orphan losses in a financial way are also favorable to ranch sheep. VVe al ways have a few for some unavoidable reason, but we raise them on cow's milk like a calf. Rangcmcn tell mc it is better to have lambs some later, so thev will have green grass to cat, and that they do better. We do not find it so. The lambs will begin to nibble at the hay when three or four days old, and soon cat as well as their mothers. They are all started and care for themselves when spring work is on, when most farmers arc worked to death. The rangcmcn forget that when they are lambing that is all they have to do, while a farmer has many o(hcr things to attend to. Conditions Differ. I find in nearly every way that sheep on the ranch and range are en tirely different businesses. The range man, from a money point of view, just lets his orphans die, loses stray sheep in the brush without bothering about it. and the sick must get well them- Lselvcs or die. But such methods on the ranch would be a disgrace. Wc will expect to keep a better grade, or even pure breds, and so cannot afford such losses. Here is where I suffered. When I started in on sheep, only one man that I knew of was handling them on the ranch, and I had no one to ask advice of when in trouble except the range man, and all he knew was to let them die. I could do that without any help, so just had to blunder along reading all I could find in papers on the subicct and studying my own. I forgot to say how little I knew of stock, and of farm work except wnat I had read, until I came to the ranch here eight years ago. I scarcoly knew a sheep when I saw one, so it is very evident if I could make it pay at all that any farmer raised to the business ought to make a big thing of it. Dis cussions on sheen in the papers have been a great help to me, and may wc hope these lines on my mistakes may help some other farmer from going the same rough road. Let us consult together and profit by others' mis takes. Sheep Vary. Before I give my figures I would like to say that my sliccp arc the ordi nary scrub, ranee sheep, that I have picked up anywhere from one to half a dozen. They arc all sizes, and coarse and fine wool of all grades. The one trouble in getting started on the ranch is that range men don't want to sell a hundred or two, so you have to pick them up wherever you can. So mine are in no way a selected lot. This simnlv emphasizes what I said above about my making any profit. Pure bred sheep or goou graues, iikc any other stock, will pay better than scrubs, and I "can say right here I don't intend to always have scrubs; but they proved both cheap and profit able, and arc especially good to prac tice on, for a beginner is bound to lose more or less, and, in fact, any one in stock must expect some losses. I will only give jny last three years' receipts; 1005 Average fleece, 10 pounds, at 15jc, $1.55. 1000 Average fleece, 7 pounds, at 20c, $1.40. 1007 Average fleece, 0J pounds, at 10c. $1.24. This is a bad showing, as every year my average was lower, but let me ex plain. In 1005 my sheep were aH good ewes, only one old range sheep in th,c lot, and that sheared 4 pounds. They averaged just a trifle less than 10 pounds. The next year I made a bad break buying some old range neltcrs. I figured that the wool and lamb would pay the bill and would not count the old sheep anything. But it didn't pan out. They only sheared 4j and 41 pounds, and some died, more a unuiup, Tcss Mr. Dumley'B Just tho mean est man. Ho told me last ovenlng ho'd teach mo how to whlstlo If I'd pucker up my Hps jess Ob, that old scheme I Then ho kissed you, eh? Toss No, tho stupid thing I Ho didn't kiss mo nt all. Philadelphia Press, Tho pooplo always catch It; tho poor man nays "tho pooplo Bnub him" the rich man says "the pooplo are toadlee," had no lambs, and what lambs there were did not amount to anything. These old pcltcrs evidently came west in the 00s, and .t makes mc swear iikc sixty when I think of them. It was a bad deal, and "no farmer should buy one at any price. An old, worif-out range sheep is the nearest' thing to nothing at all there is on earth Result on Lambs. There were also a number of lambs about a year old or less. This broughjt my average down to seven pounds. The next year was the same, only lots more young lambs. My propor tion of very young and very old was away above the average, so it dropped to Oj pounds. This is just the aver age sheep fleece in the United States, Idaho going a trifle better. I can say right here that good, fair, coarsc-wool mutton sheep will shear close to 10 pounds. In 1005 and 1007 my wool was sold to a hide buyer, who made several cents a pound on it without doubt. In 1005 is was sold direct to a wool buyer. The lambs for these three years arc as follows: 1005 Lambs $2.50, wool $1.55, $4.05. 1000 Lambs $2.75, wool $1.40, $4.15. 1007 Lambs $3.00, wool $1 24, $4.24. The lambs were sold to local butch ers in Nampa and Boise, and Weighed from 75 to 100 pounds. The average income for three years was $4.15, or call it $4 even up. Tliis is. counting lambs at 100 per cent increase; it will average close to that with care. This docs not count losses of ewes, of which there will be an occasional one. Now, wc find wc can pasture 13 sheep on an acre, and one acre of al falfa, counting four tons of hay to acre, will winter 20 sheep, and this hay land will also furnish pasture in the spring while regular pasture is getting a start, and also in the fall. These two acres, one of hay and one of pasture, will keep an average of 10, or say 10, sheep the whole year, or eight to each acre, anil an income of $4 each sheep makes $32 income per acre. Another thing, these sheep harvest their own crop on three out of every five acres. Now, every farmer knows it costs good money and lots of sweat to put hay in the stack. One of the strongest points in sheep raising is they are" so little work or trouble most of the time. For about eight months they will run on pasture. You onjy have to keep a little water running and corral them at night. When evening comes mine are all in or close by, and all there is to do is shut the gate and open it in the morn ing. Even this is not necessary if you have a coyote - tight fence, but wc sleep better when they are corralled, and most of them like to go into their house. In winter a farmer has only to feed them hay, when they have to be fed, artl only when lambing has he really to give them much work; but still they are always under his eye to see that everything is going right. Revenue From Wool. People say sheep and wool have been away up and you can't make such returns very long. Well, let us see. I sold my last wool for 10 cents. This same farm wooi in Ohio brought 30 cents. We shoull get the same, less freight, or 20 or 28 cents, instead of 10, and we will get it when enough farmers raise sheep so it will be worth while for wool buyers to look it up. As long as we have only a few hundred or thou sand pounds scattered all over the country, wc will have to be content with the best range prices. The same holds true of lambs. My lambs, if I had enough to ship to Chicago, would have brought me from $4 to $0 net last year instead of $3.. With plenty of sheep on the farms, buyers would be here every month, taking all the lambs ready to go, at prices away above .local, or the farmers could pool and ship themselves and get full re turns. The more that go into it the better, so you see I am working for my own interests as well as neigh bors' in this discussion. If we can ship east, prices can drop 50 per cent and still we can make good money, or wc can even cut the prices I got right in half and still make more money than selling hay at $4 in stack. I sell my hay to my own sheep at $8 per ton and. they gather three-fifths cf the crop. Q. I saw a dynaniito thawcr tlio othei day consisting of a rack uppn which tho sticks ot dynamite wcro placed, and underneath the rack was a pan of water heated by candle flames; tho steam given olt by the water upon boiling served to thaw tho powder. Is tho abovo ap paratua a safe arrangement! A. No; moro or less nitroglycerin OX' udes from tho cartridges wlien they aro ncatea-oim tins uroiis into tlio pan be ncatlu If, as may easily happen, tho water boils away, tho nitroglycerin in tho bottom of tho pan is subjected to the full heat of tho candle fianio and niny easily oxplodo. This typo of thuwer was tlio cnuso of nn explosion in tho Cocur d'Alono district last Christmas timo F. S. Thomson, Wash ington State Collego, Pullman. Q. A couplo of, noighbors nnd myself Intond to buy a bull, tho dam of which I understand has been troubled with milk fever. Is it likely that tho progeny of this bull would bo similarly troubled f Should wo havo tho bull examined rela tive to his health boforo buyjugf It. N. A. I do not think that because tho dam of tho bull you expoct to buy had tho milk fovor that his calves aro lia bio to tliis-disoaso, as wo havo not as yot recognized it as n transmissible disease. 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