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Ay I under the changed conditions of government due to the trl
VV I umph of Young Turk party and the deposition of Sultan
ADaui naima u. win rapidly rise to the status of their sis
ters in other European lands, according to Reouf Ahnad Bey,
acting Consul General of Turkey in New York City and sec
retary oi me lurmsn legation in Washington. Aa quoted by
the New York Sunday World, he said about the recent changes and their
consequences: .
"As the years go by the Moslem women will not feel bound by the con
ventions that bind them now as part of the old order. They will adopt
the ideas of conventional association of men and women; receptions and
social gatherings that are, with you, everyday affairs, lending useful recre
ation to women and enlarging their knowledge, will soon be as common
in Turkey as they are In Western countries. The men of Turkey are at
heart as liberal In this regard as other men.
"It may be a quarter of a century before Turkey achieves prominence
as an Industrial nation, but that is only a day In her long history. In the
next few years you will witness such activity in the fields that Turkey
will be supplying foreign markets -with breadstuffs, and in five years from
now, I flmture to predict, she will be among the first of the cotton-growing
countries. We can raise better cotton than Egypt, which now is supposed to
raise the best, and we can raise Infinitely more of It The possibilities
of cotton growing in Mesopotamia are boundless, and the new govern
ment will encourage it in every way. A large company has been formed In
Constantinople to colonize Mesopotamia for the purpose and the govern
ment has issued $45,000,000 of bond3 and employed an English engineer to
establish order.
"The Turkish people are progressive. Government oppression has not
diminished this spirit in them nor quieted their desire for liberty. That
the masses have made no advancement Is not because they are less capable
of helping themselves than the masses of the people everywhere else, but
because they have had neither Incentive nor opportunity. The government
gave them nothing and took everything from them. All they could make
at their best was taken from them in taxes to enrich the personal retainers
of the Sultan. Until now Turkey has been a government for the betterment
of palace officials only.
"From top to bottom of the social scale all the people of Turkey, with
the few exceptions that it Is not necessary for me to note, are in favor of
popular government, and, understanding the principles of it as they do,
are ready for It. The franchise will be as free In Turkey as it la In the
United States, and you will see that an intelligent use will be made of It
"It is like an impression' here and abroad that the Turkish people con
sider the Sultan a sacred being, something more than human. You pos
sibly have heard it said that the Turkish soldier fights desperately in the
conviction that he is fighting for a deity in doing battle in the name of
the Sultan. The Turk has no such illusions. No lack of proof of this is to
be found in the fact that seven Sultans before Abdul Hamld have been
deposed."
Portable Hog Home.
A small house which can be occupied
by a brtod sow and her litter Is the
best for raising strong, healthy hogs.
It is the most cleanly and sanitary,
and with well-arranged yards the pigs
can be cared for with practically no
more labor than in a long house.
A very economical and useful house
Is shown In the accompanying cuts. It
FRAMEWORK AND DIMENSIONS.
Is set on 2x6-ln. runners and the house
If ft. 4 in. long and 7 it. 6 iu. wiuo.
A tight, smooth floor, with no cracks
or knot holes, is essential. The frame
will allow 16 ft. boards and battens to
be sawed in two.
At each end of the house is a door 2
ft, wide and 2 ft. 6 in. high, which
Blips up and down between grooves or
cleats, and is held up by a rope passing
through a small pulley at the ridge.
It Is quite desirable to have doors at
both ends.
A necessary adjunct to a sanitary
pen is the ventilator In the roof. Two
of the 12 in. roof boards are sawed off
COMPLETED IIOQ HOUSE.
a few Inches from the ridge. Strips 2
In. thick are nailed above the battens,
which will raise the ventilator 3 in.
above the roof boards and give ample
ventilation while preventing . direct
Grafts. Farm and Home."
Milk and Milking.
Many people believe that milk la
teady-made and stored In the udder of
the cow simply awaiting the milker.
This impression is corrected ljy the
statement of the well-known scientist,
John Burroughs, who says: "Most
persons think that giving down or
holding up the milk by the cow Is a
voluntary act. In fact, they fancy
that the udder Is a vessel filled with
milk, and that the cow releases or
withholds it Just as she chooses. But
the udder is a manufactory; It is
filled with blood from which the milk
la manufactured while you milk. This
process is controlled by the cow's
nervous system; when she is excited
or in any way disturbed, as by a
stranger, or by taking away her calf,
or any other cause, .the process is ar
rested and the milk will not flow. The
nervous energy goes elsewhere. The
whole process is as involuntary as is
digestion In man and Is disturbed or
arrested in about the same way. In
diana Farmer.
Stoppage ol Milk Flow,
A very common trouble in every
dairy la to find an animal with the
point of the teat closed, either due to
a bruise of teat itself or to infection
of the milk duct which causes a lit
tle scab to form, and unless this is
properly handled with care and clean
liness the Infection is apt to cause a
loss of the entire quarter. Thoroughly
wash the part in an antiseptic solu
tion; then dip a teat plug Into a heal
ing ointment and insert It, allowing
same to remain from one milking to
another. In this manner closure can
be overcome In a very simple and sat
isfactory way A milking tube should
not be used If It can posslhiy be avoid
ed, as there is much danger of infect
ing the entire quarter by its use.
Denver Field and Farm.
Vigor In the Flork,
The period of usefulness of good
heep varies much with the breed as
well aa with individuals of the same
breed. Some become unprofitable at
three or four years of age, others at
ten or twelve or even older. Whenever
a sheep begins to show signs of weak
ness, evidence of disease ot lack of
thrift and vigor It should be removed
from the flock. "All is lost that la
poured into a cracked dish;" all is
lost that Is - put Into an unthrifty
sheep worse than lost often, for a
diseased sheep may do great damage
to ths flock, and when one loses thrift
it loses Its natural power to resist dis
ease. Nature has marked such a one
for destruction, and the shepherd
should forestall nature by disposing of
It. Orange Judl Farmer.
The Farm Cream Separator.
Butter making in the home dairy
and creamery has been almost revo
lutionized by the introduction of the
farm separator, which separates
cream from milk by a centrifugal
process. The shallow pan or crock
system and the dqtp-settlng system
have been largely eliminated, and
with their exit a considerable part of
the drudgery of the household disap
peared. The farmer Is now no -longer
required to make the dally trip to the
creamery; he can retain the skim milk
to feed his calves and pigs and de
liver the cream, sweet, every other
day, when properly cared for, and
this substitution of cream delivery for
milk delivery by creamery patrons
saves them labor and millions of dol
lars yearly In expense. Report Secre
tary United States Department of
Agriculture.
The Lot Cod.
"I wish," said an experienced veteri
nary, "that I had all the cloth which
ha8 been wasted in manufacturing
cuds to replace those "lost." This is
one of the dregs of superstition which
still clings In some places. The cud
is returned to the mouth after enter
lng the first stomach, and its loss li
eenprnllv an indication of Indigestion.
This Is most prevalent In winter,
when cows are heavily grained. Should
It appear in summer when they are on
pasture, t but receiving some grain, it
Is well to remove the latter ration for
a few days. After a day or two give
1 pound of Epsom salts and 2 ounces
ground ginger root mixed in two
quarts of warm water. After she re
sumes her cud feed for a time on
green grass and good hay, gradually
working back to the grain ration.
Dynamite for Tree Planting;.
Holes for tree planting, according
to the Engineering Record, have been
excavated by the Long Island Rail
way by blasting with dynamite. A
hole about two feet deep was first dug
with a posthole augur at an angle of
about 35 degrees with the surface and
loaded with half a stick of 40 per cent
dynamite. This shot makes a hole
about two feet deep and three feet In
diameter, leaving the earth In the
bottom pulverized suitably for plant
ing. It is stated that two men can
thus excavate 250 holes per ten-hour
day at a cost of about 7Vj cents per
hole.
Flcmeri aa Food.
An Interesting development of the
use of flowers for food is recorded in
the dally papers, says the London
Globe. The use of candied petals of
the violet as a sweetmeat has long
been known, but the practice is now
arising of preserving flowers whole.
You may now buy a bunch, Bay of vio
lets, for your buttonhole, and after
ward eat them. As a matter of fact,
a number of flowers are habitually
eaten. Cloves, capers, cauliflowers and
artichokes are all flowers, or parts of
flowers, before the blossoms have ex
panded. Engllah Ilarneaa Blacking;.
Three ounces of turpentine and two
ounces of white wax are dissolved to
gether over a slow fire. Then add
one ounce of ivory black and one dram
of Indigo well pulverized and mix to
gether. When the wax and turpen
tine are dissolved, add the ivory black
and Indigo and stir until cold; Ap
ply thin. Wash afterward, and you
will have a beautiful polish. This
blacking keeps the leather soft and
Is excellent for harness and buggy
tops.
Waate In Manure,
Piling manure In the open Insures
a big waste. The Cornell Experiment
Station piled two tons of fresh horse
manure in an exposed place. In five
months it lost 5 per cent in gross
weight, 60 per cent of Its nitrogen, 47
per cent of its phosphoric acid and
76 pe;r cent of its potash. Here was
an average loss" of 61 per cent in plant
food more than the weight loss. In
other words, the rotted, concentrated
manure, ton for ton, was worth less
than the fresh manure.
Congreaalonal Seeda.
The National Government Is becom
ing more liberal to the agricultural
Interests each year. The appropria
tion bill has reported, covering all
appropriations made for the Agricul
tural Department, amounts this year
to $13,773,276, which Is an increase
of s $889,450 over that of last season.
The forestry service has secured an
Increase ot $500,000 for fire protec
tion. Last year's, forest fires were an
object lesson.
San Joae Scale.
The San Jose scale Is the Insect
that should be sought dut and fought
at all seasons of the year. It is a
soft-bodied Insect protected by a waxy
covering which can be penetrated only
by very corrosive chemicals. Owing
to Injury to foliage, these chemicals
must be used In winter or when tha
trees art dormant .
SOME MARRIED MEDITATIONS.
By Clarence L. Cullen.
Favorite feminine Bromldion: "All
men are perfect boobies when they're
sick abed."
The man who permits -his wife to
designate a certain little spot In the
house as the one place in which he
shall smoke deserves all that he gets,
and he never fails to get it.
Slathers of married women get In
bad by heeding the queer advice of
Lady Pensmlths (mostly spinsters),
whose dictum Is that the proper way
to hold a husband Is to hold him at
arm's length.
The highly exalted faithfulness of
women often is a matter of plain pol
icy. Plenty of careless men would
strictly toe the faithful mark if their
reward for so doing were to be agree
ably taken care of for life.
The man who knows the difference
at sight between at $25 embroidered
shirtwaist and one of those cute lit
tle ruffle-front $1.48 shirtwaists usu
ally is a male person whose opinion
Isn't worth valuing anyhow.
It is the woman who shrieks at
"Central" through the phone and calls
her a saucy hussy and such like who
wonders why it is that telephone girls
are so much more polite and prompt
In responding to men's calls.
Familiar quotation: "Oh, I've got
pienty of leftover summer clothes,
dearie. All I'll need to eke out will
be a few little linen sult3 and seven
or eight more shirtwaists and three or
four summery hats and some tan and
champagne-colored shoes and a new
supply of silk stockings JuBt a few
little odds and ends like those!"
Did you ever feel kind of onery
and things with yourself when, after
blowing $7.85 on a bunch of cheer
ful workers, you went home and found
her tacking some frizzled old sweet
peas on a last year's hat frame?
Extract from "The Dairy of a Neg
lected Wife: TIs now mid-summer,
and my birthday is In December and
my husband hasn't said one word
about it yet, nor what he is going to
get me. Gracious power, give me the
strength to go on enduring."
Ordera by Pigeon Poat.
An entirely practical use of homing
pigeons was cited recently in the Lon
don Daily Mail. The Inventor of the
system is a butcher's son, who employs
his birds regularly to carry orders
from outlying districts presumably
where there are no telephones to his
father's shop. The plan works excel
lently. When the boy goes to collect orders,
he takes six of his fastest birds in a
trap with him. After he has gone a
mile or two and collected a dozen or
ders, he liberates a pigeon with the
slips enclosed in a little metal case
attached to the bird's foot. Before
five minutes have elapsed these orders
are in the delivery wagon on the way
to the customers.
At the various stages of his round,
which usually takes three hours, the
other birds with more orders are set
free, and by the time the shop is reach
ed all the orders received by this pigeon-post
have been dispatched.
Only a rich man finds a $5 bill In
his pockets he didn't know he had.
Miss Boston The "picture was badly
hung. Miss Concord And yet very
well executed.
"Why are you so enthusiastic about
pedestrianism?" "Because I can't af
fqrd an auto." Pittsburg Post.
"What happens when a man's tem
perature goes down as far aa it can
go?" "He has cold feet, ma'am."
Bride Here is a telegram from
papa. Bridegroom (eagerly) What
does he say? Bride (reads) Do not
return and all will be forgiven.
First Office Boy De boss' grand
mudder died last night. Second Office
Boy Gee! I wonder if he's goln' to de
ball game. Philadelphia Record.
Mrs. Knlcker Do you let Bridget
eat with the family. Mrs. Bocker
Yes; it's much cheaper than to have
her eat with the policeman. Puck.
"I see Robinson's married again
married his first wife's sister." "Yea.
He said he didn't want to have to
break in another mother-in-law."
Judge.
He Congress will never be com
posed of women. She Why do you
think so? He Can you imagine a
house full of women with only one
speaker t Judge.
Dr. Plllem You needn't worry about
your wife. She has a remarkable con
stitution. Henpex Say, doc, you
ought to see her by-laws, rules and
regulations. Life.
"I see that young Noodle and Miss
Sharp have made a match of It. He'a
got no head at all, but she's a clever
girl." "Well, you can't expect a match
to have two heads to it."
Mistress Well, Bridget, do you
want to leave or stay? Cook Don't
thry to boss me. Faith, I dunno. If
yez want me to shtay, I'll lave, an' if
yes want me to lave, I'll shtay!
A tall man applied for a position aa
overseer. "What do you know?", he
was asked. "I don't know anything,"
he replied, "but I'm tall enough to
look over all the men you've got."
Teacher Jimmie, suppose you had
ten apples and ten oranges, and gave
nine-tenths of them to some other lit
tle boys, what would you have? Jim
mie I'd have me head examined!
"Little boy, don't you know that
you shouldn't go fishing on Sunday?"
"Sure I know It, but you see the 3h
ain't been educated up to keeping the
Sabbath yet." Detroit Free Press.
"My lazy son has at last decided on
a profession that he thinks he'll like."
"Good. What has he chosen?" "He
wants to be a lineman for a wire
less telegraph company." Cleveland
Leader.
"And you wouldn't begin a Journey
on Friday?" "You bet I wouldn't!"
"I can't understand how you can have
any faith in such a silly superstition."
"No superstition about it. Saturday's
pay-day."
"Yes," said Mr. Dustln Stax, "I have
succeeded In life, and by the hardest
kind of work." "You don't look as if
you had much personal experience with
hard work." "Of course not I hired
It done." Washington Star.
The guest glanced up and down the
bill of fare without enthusiasm. "Oh,
well," he decided finally, "you .may
bring me a dozen fried oysters." The
colored waiter became all apologies.
"Ah's very sorry, sah, but we's out oh
all shellfish 'ceptln' algs." Every
body's. Was there ever a better example of
the witty and concise form of expres
sion than the answer of the grim man
who, when asked about the character
of a neighbor, sententiously replied:
"Mister, I don't know very much about
him, but my impression is, he'd make
a first-class stranger."
"I declare," says the young house
wife. "I don't know what we are to
do, when round steak costs as much
as porterhouse. It is outrageous."
"Yes, mum," agrees the marketman.
"What's a body going to do if this
keeps on?" "I would advise you,
mum, that beln" the case, to eat porter
house." Life.
Young Wife (rather nervously) Oh,
cook, I must really speak to you. Your
master is always complaining. One day
it Is the soup, the second day It Is the
sh, the third day it is the Joint In
fact, it is always something or other.
Cook (with feeling) Well, mum, I'm
sry for you. It must be quite hawful
to live with a gentleman of that sort-r-Phlladelphla
Inquirer.
Mr. Youngmarrle (tasting) What
makes the oyster stew bo thick and
sweet, dear? Mrs. Youngmarrle I
can't imagine, John; I made it exactly
according to the recipe: "one dozen
fine, large oysters and one quart of
rich milk." The milk was lovely, and
it came in cans, and I had to use four
cans to make the quart. I think the
grocer called, it "condensed" mllk-
The Bellman.
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IN SYMPATHY WITH HIS AUDIEN
Gushing Musician D'you know, it makes me feel sad when I play.
Hostess (seeing too late her unintentional double meaning) That is
because you feel in such sympathy with your audience! London Opinion.