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REEKINGWITH FILTH Report ol Commission on Chica go Packing Houses. PLAYING SHYLOCK. CONDITIONS MOST DISGUSTING Words Not Minced, Repulsive Facts Not Blinked, in Telling Unan ilary Conditions Found. Washington, Jane 5. The following Is the report in brief of Commissioners Neill and Reynolds to the president on the pecking house situation in Chicago: "No statement as a fact which m not verified by personal examination." Floors, carts, tuba are of wood, water oaked, only half cleanstd, meat scraps and grease adhering to them and col letting dirt. Meat racks and conveyor inadequate ly cleansed, grease and meat scraps ad tiering to them, even after they are washtd. Closets for both men and women cat off from workrooms by thin wooden partitions. Lunchrooms often adjoin them. Washing sinks not tarnished at all, or small ami dirty, with neither towels, oap or toilet paper. Men and women directly from the closets plnnge on washed hands into the meat. Men sometimes relieve themselves on killing floors and swell the sum of nau seating cdora from dirty, blocd soaked, rotting floors. One New York slaughter house ia model in contrast with Chicago, con structed largely of Iron and cement, flushed and thoroughly cleansed every day. Workmen climb over heaps of meat, elect piece they want and throw it on dirty floor. In cutting, they hold meat against aprons of leather or rough sack ing, indescribably filthy. They stand with dirty shoes on tables on which meat is handled. At lunch hour they it on these tables. All this is undir eye of superintendent. Meat shoveled from dirty floors, which are damp and soggy, piled on tables rarely washed, pushed in wooden box carts, fathering dirty splinters, floor filth and expectoration of tubercu lous arid other diseased workers. Rest grades of sausage prepared for export to be eaten uncooked is carted in barrow with handles filthy with grease, thrown on table, on which em ploye climbs, handles meat with tin washed hands, kneel! with dirty apron ami trousers in contact with meat. Inspection does not extend to prepar rd meat ford, though these products bear label stating they have passed gov ernment inspection. Not yet prepared to report on nse of dyes, preservatives and chemicals. Fresh meat shoveled into barrels and regular proportion of stale scraps added from dirty floor. Meat scraps, dry, leathery and unfit to be eaten, among which were found pieces of pigskin, bits of rope and other rubbish, to be used in making potted htm. All these canned products bear labels aying they passed government inspec tion and quality ia guaranteed. Labels washed from old canned goods, which are then heated to "liven up" contents and given fresh labels. Superintendents seem t.) ianore all conaideratioi except those of the ac count honk. Tuberculosis la disproportioi.ately prevalent in the stockyards, and victims expectorate on tloors ot workrooms, from which fallina scraps ot meat are shoveled lip to be converted into food. Callous disregard is mown for com fort of employes. Girls stand ten horns dv at work which could Le as well done sitting. Conditions are a degradation to mor als and menace to health of employes. Meat liould be inspected after lsuehter on killing beds. Hogs should ha insoected for trichinosis for Ameri can as well as foreign consumer. No meat should le marked inspected unless Inspected at every stage of preparation. Secretary of agriculture should he given nnr a make rules reearaing satura tion and construction of buildings Transportation ot uninspected meat from state to state should be prohibited. Number of inspectors should tie largely Increased. Special government mspec inn .honld be carried on continuously c.n.Lr.L of inspection should be tudied and published. Insurance Companies Knock Off One Third San Francisco Losses. Oakland, Cel., Jane 4 The word inuranc is all on hears in Ban Fran cisco today and the language used re garding the dilatorytactics of the in- surance companies is far from com nil nienmy. The people have not the slightest faith in the statement given oat that most of the companies are anxious to settle promptly and dollar for dollar. Their doubt appears to be well founded, for the insurance com panies, with a very few exceptions have shown a tendency to slice off about a third of their liabilities when settled. Cases such as this are common. J man who had $400 insurance on good worth 00 gets about f 300 when he is through with the adjusters. He has really been compromised with. The insurance company has driven a bar gain. It has been estimated that, of $170, uuu.uuu owing, ttie companies will pay ahoat 1120,000,000, holding out 50, 000,000 which belongs to the insured It is dirBcul to compile facts, as the insurance officials are not communica tive, bat it is estimated that the basses already settled have been on a third knock-off basis. They call it stealing here. While the people are gradually be coming wrought up and may attempt to force action by the insurance com panies, they know they are practically helpless and that legal action will only cause farther delay. They must rely on the adjusters and take what they get. Everyone ia awake to the situation of the two home companies, which per force can only settle slowly. Their se curities and tin basis ot their securities are destroyed and the people whom they count on to cash them are nnable to do so. They must unload slowly or not be able to settle at all. NEEDS DRASTIC LAW Roosevelt Will Send Message to Congress on Meat Packers. i weighing1 w0RLo; Da, T-IU ", " Stieuce .UK... 0 JrtV. rU To. the nienlu niorl over the door wner ine dreadful tragedy of the Lynches was acted in 113. If Galway la the Home of Coiiuaught J mum Lynch I'luste- DEFENDS HIS INSPECTION BILL. Crumpacker Says It Is Against Inter ests of Beef Trust. Washington, June 4. Judge Crura' packer, ot Indiana, today met the in sinaation that his bill to provide for the inspection of meat offered for inter' state and foreign commerce is "the packers' bill" by the statement that, if the fees to be charged to the packers by the lleveridge bill were eliminated, the Reveridge measure would meet with unqualified approval from the packers. "The Beveridge bill." said -Judge Crumpacker, "would act so as to drive out of business all of the small inde pendent packers and would put the beef trade entirely in the hands of 'the beef trust. The small sellers of beef and other meata throughout the country could not afford to pay the fees for in spection and they would have to hand over their business to the trust. As for the insinuation that my bill is framed in the interests of the packers, I will say there ia no packing interest in my district; that I have seen no packers about the measure, and that I stand lor it as calculated to meet the demands ot the situation. I don't care what the packers want. I care for what the country ought to have." Drue Firms Summoned. Indianapolis. Jane 5. Sixty drug .ml nroorietarv mediicne firms in various parts of written appearances court today as locate 1 the country filed in the Federal tlelenuama iu of the United mates againsniie on i i.-vl.tion ol Retail Druggists The bill of complaint was recently filed hy United States District Attorney V-..U. nnder the direction of Attor- i- -.1 Moo.lv. in an effort to break arlTo as the 'drug " defendants in the case M.iw Rain at Bay City ,. it Jnna 5. Heavy rain, accompanied by high winds. P'1 hare last n gnl. ana mi ,--J led throughout the northern po't-on o Ihest.t. I VtMa" ilar conditions were experienced at th a mVcd the year. Wally. the r.jn all veTterd.y wis 0 20 inch, faking the seasonal --.n.ratiVflT lit tl caused by the nrM nation i 4...:nf an lit, a .hiii-iiii. rain throughout the fuges camp. Will Welcoms Bryan Home. k i raM'atnttnn. vfW York. June , ' from in all over trie take part ivmocrais " :,. lnr'.td to YJ r" 'Ii V., William Jennings Will IW Itrvan on the worl Bryan will August 1 rhi. return from tro.ronnJ t. I. .wr.ee ted that Mr. IDIS arriva In o .e Mines U"der City. w. nr' 1 SV0O0.00O. was organ capiwuseu . ni 0P, e THEY HAVE FORCED HIS HAND Neill-Reynolds Report Intended Only . for Private Information, but Will Be Made Public. .Washington, June 2. President Roosevelt decided today to make pub lic the report of Professor Charles P Neill. commissioner of labor, and James B. Reynolds, of New York, con cerning the condition of the meat pack ing establishments as the found them on an inquiry instituted by the presi dent, primarily tor his own informal tion. The report will be accompanied by a special message of President Roosevelt, In, w hich he will take strong grounds in favor of immediate and drastic legislation to correct the evils which are exposed in the report. The President had not expected to make public the report of Mr. Neill and Mr. Reynolds. He felt that its publi cation might injure the meat packing industries in this country. Primarily, the information contained in the report was to be obtained to be used as a basis for the legislation proposed in the amendment to the agricultural appro' priation bill by Senator Beveridge of Indiana. He did not imagine there would be serions opposition to a propo sition to afford inspection ot such meats prepared for domestic consumption as is afforded to meat products intended for shipment abroad. The meat pack ers, however, rose in arms against the Beveridge amendment, being insistent in opposition to it, not only in princi ple, but on the question of paying for the proposed. inspect ion. Representative Wadsworth, of New York, called on the president today He ia chairman of the agricultural com in it tee of the house, to which the pro posed amendment will be referred. He indicated to the preeiilent the Intention of the committee to consider the amendment proposed by Mr. Beveridge and adoptel practically without divis ion by the senate, and to prepare a substitute for it that would "be fair to 11 parties concerned." The attitude of Mr. Wadsworth was not satisfactory to the president. In ew of the facts reported to him by Mr. Neill and Mr. Reynolds, thd presi dent is of the oplnoin that immediate egislation of a drastic nature ia neces sary to cure the evils which have been developed. He decided, therefore, to make public the Neill-Reynolds report. HERMANN TRIAL JUNE 10. GROUND INTO SAUSAGES. What Becomes of Some Employes In Packing Houses. Paris, June 4. Chicago meat will be barred out of France if the object of today's meeting of the League of Pub lic Hygiene, hacked by several scores ol French packers, can be attained. The league expects at least to get the governqient to inaugurate a new system ef inspection which will prevent taint ed meat from entering the country. A Frnch emissary, it appears, visit ed the stockyards in Chicago and ob tained employment for a year as French correspondence clerk. According to hi testimony, no meat coming from Chicago can be eaten with safety. The most sensational evidence was that cases had occurred ot workingmen fall ing accidentally into the sausage ma chines, their bones being giound up with other contents of the vat and issu ing in the form of food tor human consumption. Propose New Reserve. Washington, Jane 4. 'The forestry service has notified Senator Fulton of its intention to create the Heppner for est reserve, along the north fork of the John Pay river, near Heppner, to em brace about 13 townships. A map of the proposed reserve has (been submit ted to the senator, and he has been asked to make suggestions of desirable changes in the boundaries. He will take np the matter with persons living in the immediate vicinity of the pro posed reserve and transmit their views to the department. Pens Shoshone Reserve. Washington, Jane 4. The president has Issued a proclamation opening to settlement and entry a portion of the Shoshone Indian reservation In Wy oming, the area being approximately 1,150,000 acres. A registration ot ap plicants wilt be held at Lander, Sho shone, Thermopolis and at Worland, provided the Big Horn railroad is doing passenger traffic to the latter place, cementing Joly 16 and ending July 31 t he drawing will be held at lender, Wyo., commencing Angnst 4, 1906, and continued as may be necessary. City Will Chicago, Jane 4. elded to appoint vestigate the nvestigate. itie city nas tie- a commission to in- conditions at the stock Court Holds Witnessea Can Return to Portland In Time. Washington, June 1. Judge Gould having overruled the motion to post pone, the trial of Representative Her mann in this city nntil the October term of the court, the case will come np for hearing by or before June 10, unless the trial of the pending post- oltlce case continues longer than now anticipated. It ia believed the trial of Hermann will consume only three to five davs, and, in the opinion of the conrt, the witne'Ses who will be summoned to ap pear against Hermann here can give their testimony and then reach Port land in time to testify in the land-fraud trials, which begin there June 21. . If he can possibly arrange it, Francis J. Heney will come to Washington to prosecute Hermann, and immediately upon the conclusion of this trial will go to Portland to take np the land cases before Jadge Hunt. If Heney is un able to come to Washington, the prose cution of Hermann will rest in the hands of District Attorney Baker. It now appears that no further postpone ment of this case is possible. Deadly Effectof Wood Alcohol. Rawlins, .Wyo., jnne William Wardlow and Jesse Keating, convicts, died at the state penitentiary here yes terday from the effects of drinking wood alcohol. They were workers in the broom factory, where shellac varnish, is used in finishing the handles. They secured the varnish bottle, and allow ing the shellac to settle, drank the wood alcohol, which is need to cut the shellac. Both died in horrible con vulsions, havina first become totally blind from the effects of the drag. At death the body was black. Senate Wins on Statehood. Washington. Jane 2. The Republi can managers in the house today stated that the conference report on the state hood bill would be made today. This report will be an agreement on the bssis of the Foraker amendment of a year ago, which provides that the peo pleofArixona and New Mexico may vote on the question of joint statehood at a regular election held for the par pose ot electing a delegate to congress TKe amendment is to be reported ex sctly as it was introduced a year ago by Foraker. cepted figures They are coiuM "s Mti,IIW fo. tweutlem cru'-- ra. yards, with a view to determining how far the recent criticism of methols em ployed is justified Mayor lunne to dny, after a conference with Health Commissioner Wbalen, decided to ask the co-operation ct the Federal govern ment, and the authorities will be asked to nam several members ot the com mission. May Adjourn About July 4. Washington, Jnne 4. Members of congress who visited the While Hoase today predicted that final adjournment woo id not be had nntil the Fourth of Jaiy. Will Make No Changes. Chicago, June 2. Mavor Dunne to lay declared that nothing would be done to change the sanitary condition of the stoikvards beoynd routine in spection. He professed iinorance as t conditions there, and referred inquirers ss to his intentions to Health C-.mmis- ioner Charles J. Whalen. Dr. Wha'en was entered when told of the tharses. He Mid that he .li t not want any lonsbaired radicals eppo'nted to go into the stockyards to foment trouble." Postal Bill Sent to Conference. Washington. Jnne 2. The postoffice appropriation bill was sent to confer ence by the house today. Sims, ol Ten oeesee invaded asainst the Iniqnity of sending s bill will 83 amendments to conference without permitting tb bouse to consider them. ' a tweuuei" m. Ameri can, are to Ui -l la 1(.Ul th. world one. It may sound sl" b fa of weighing the rtk Bj yet bus tn do" tDi " to done again. More than half w'ntrr lume were awtti Airy, dlrec. turn, at the top V wttou, of ril list) coal pit TM c"0;pjrlon 0f their times of awing &m heavy the whole eirtn - -vna wltn tne outermoKt thin ihu 0f the thickness of th 1'n of the nl pit Since geologists ir.i to give l fair estimate of -!,lt of tli(i i(jr . ii .1.. e 2lt .a face sneu, i i me entire earth became s vert miiner of wulu plica tion. The same exprlln,' U to be relat ed by a scientific expulition from the Survey larmi"" 81 Washington. Ten dulums are to l ung it the apex of the great pjw' 1 la the cham iH-ra at lis center " Dane. lro,n the aw-lmr of thts-e pHKiuiumi the p,,....,,... tlve weights of the anj of th(j nvritmld can he leantm, ami the wnMit of the pyramid Iwvlin Un estimated, the weight of tt worn will be. as In the case of the Airy niKrlmeiit, a mere matter of uiumi'U"1"'. All this may 1 little pawling to the lnv mind, but Hsnatlon Is noi difficult Asked to ilwcrlbe the method of weighing tli v.or4 , ,uli) un technical langims official of the Survey Ix-partine"' and: 'The prlnclp's that the weight of a body Is proportion to the attrac tion which It exerts. By tho pull that the sun exerts over it erth shown who sent a clerk and nephew of his own back In young Lynch a ship to Salway to settle accounts. On the fif teenth day young Lynch threw the Spaniard overboard. Coming back to his own country, he reformed bis life a little and was on the point of marrying one of the II hi ken. Burkes or Bodkins or others, when a seaman who had sailed w ith him, being on the point of death, confessed the murder ki which he had been a participator. "Hereon the father, who w-aa chief magistrate of the town, tried his son and sentenced him to death, and when the clau Lynch roso in a body to res cue the young man and divert sucu a disgrace from the family It la aald that Art ' TsaT i am i IK sSVt av " a-a. Potato (attlu Tahl. When one has a lurge area to lul to potatoes the work ot cutting seed tutors In the ordinary wuy la noi Inconsiderable, lino w ho la handy cau Fltzstephen Lynch hanged the culprit romllly Ulllke t, oed cutter here do- wlth bis own hand. A tragedy called The Warden of C.alway' haa leen written on the subject and was acted a few nights before my arrival." New York Tlmea. SUCCORS WOUNDED ANT. Lord Avelluar Cuavlaccd that the ! rt la Possessed of Heaaiia. Lord Avellng, better known aa Sir John Lubbock, the famous acleutlat writes: "In one of my nests waa an ant which had come Into tlia world without 'antennae. Never hnvlug pre- can work. vlously met with auch a case, I watch ed her w ith great Interest, but she nev er appeared to leave the nest At length one day I found her wandering about In an aimless sort of manner, ap parently not knowing her way at all Start the Pis Hlaht. The man who starts off his pigs on the corn ration alut as aoou as he can after they are weaned Is laying l" a store of trouble for himself later. There is a trouble known to swine nilwrs as contracted stomach, which remilta from au improper ration. The animal la ap- pnreiitly "off Its feed." but the fact I, the ration has lieeu so poorly balanced that the stomach has not grown with the grow th of the rent of the ImmIj-. If the young pigs ure to be allowed ft range they will do more or less root ing, eating of soil and sod; as this is tl.clr mUiire, It will not hurt them, but If they are placed where one does not wish the sod uprooted, then the ani mals must l ringed. If middlings end ol Inu al are Introdmvd with tho corn ration there will l considerably, U'kh trouble. Some of the stock foods on the market have their greatest valuo to tho swine raiser who does not feed a balanced ration ana lr mese sioc foods can le obtained practically free from drugs or condiments, they are scribed and save considerable lime in preparing the seed for planting. Hulld a table uUiut three feet deep ano sn feet wide, setting on It lege It will stand atHJut twenty-nve indies rrom the floor. Just high enough so the av erage mail can get his knees under it comfortably when sitting down. Have a hack to the table a foot high, wltu . . . . - . . .lii.tr I mrv vslimlil.k In Hil.-h PH K.rt. sliles cut so inai ai me iwni -" "w - will be not more than six Inches high. A similar board Is run down the cen ter, thus making a table at which two In the aide pieces, atxmt three Inches from the end that Is ohii. the front end, out a bole eight Inches long. . A basket Is set under this hole, ti the floor, and tlie CUl tuners are passed through the hole Into the bns- , . . .," . .1 " J'.";' ' V. . A ' i i FOB CUTTINO POTATOES. f old Killed Weevil. Ia the cotton growing season the farmer Is prone to forget the many new facts, developed within the past live years, coinvrnlng the protection f his primary crop against Insect. The leaf worm U easy enough. lhe ImiII worm succumbs to poison and machine gathering. Tho sharpshooter and cotton square borer can bo suc cessfully fought with pari green, ac cording to the U'st authorities. The) boll weevil must be studld further before final results can 1h announced. Fortunately, the severe winter Just past has put so many of these pests out of business that the cotton crop of Texas will be exempt from devastating attacks from that source this season. Furiu and Itanch. J" ' F i.' 1 -J THE ORUAT I'VUAMID OF KOYIT. by the enrth"s motloi we estimate that Its attraction ll 3na) times as great as ri.e earth's and therefore that the .i.n-u i. .l,f .n. times greater ,h.n h s a. ...rth. Knowing Trt it in rnnj the aun by this the weight of thi'T' eMtlniHtA the u-pfif method of con.I-rl"n- lu 1118 Bn"18 way the weight "f Jupiter, Saturn, e nus. NeDtune or a'f other planet may be ascertained by winparlsou with the w eight of the uu. basing the calcula tlons on the ninouut of attraction the sun exercises ver these iilancts. Hut flrMt tho earth's weight must Iks estl mated to form basin for the other calculation. The same principle , applied The pyramid will be UH as a basis for tic flrxt estimate. A plumb-lob will be swung from the iii 0f the pymmld. ohsorvntloii and takulatlon will deter mine the force or th attraction of the mil Ixidy, nnnf!;, the pvramld. for the plunib bob nfli tlie greater attrac tion of the lar:4 My, the earth, for the plumb lion. 1 weight of tho py rninld having lm entlmnted, the weight of the enH calculated by multiplying li pyramid's weight by the numler of times tlie attraction of the earth for U pIumb-lMjb Is great er than the attrjflon of the pyramid for the plumb-boB. rmn the standard thus fixed the wefchtof all other bodies In the solar systciipjn i,. pfin,.p.t "Here are soin old the number of cul mijp, n the eflrth Is alwut !V" v),(,io; enrn CU))C mile contains 14Wi.nno,ri(io cubic feet and each cubic fox, upon the averaee. weighs 6.6i iinf much as a cubic foot of water, or.j p,1(js 0 ounPH svolrdutols. tif'. it out for j-OIlr. self." I FIRST CASE Or LYNCH LAW. Haas-las; M m,rrrr hy f I la Hrrla la tha at I,.aad. So many different versions and ex planations of the term lynch law have at various times tsn given and occa sionally are even jet a,i,ipj t0( tn(lt lt seems fitting to reount ,he trnRlc ,ncl. dent which has slno gvon a nfln)e tQ so many calnniltou, occurrences not only In our land but on occasion also In that of others. The very nam of "Lynch" gives the direct clew to tne Und of ttg oriin Ireland. And - roa.n the fact that during the lttsr ltrt of th- ,T. enteenth century tlKre was compara tively a large ln"U!irat(m from the north of Ireland and the south of Scotland, comlnl settlers to the Csr ollnas. from wbifb mUrn of ,nU terlal spread H"rd nt Kentucky and Tennessee, and. realizing the tenacity with wbif b thf. peoples hus hnnd, nourish " I "rjtuate their f.dklore and tra tln, ,t nMvJg onIy to relate the Inc: l-nt which Thackeray In hi "Irlh PW.'t-h ii.,, phlcally re-ount to h- w natural It was to apply the nieni' rle, ir)(, BU(,h a tprm to the Indlvl.lu! M of justlc, an.l punishment Thackeray, la the t,,k fpni to and In chapter 1- which tgts of Oal way. thus spe of an occurrence within lta prft'T which In 1945 and probably f0 th, GaTbor the grewsom 1"nto" ao grimly de aerlbed In the wMs following: -Then there Lntabard street oth erwise railed rMdasn-, Un wltn s tawX-ti and dossbooe, t bm- kr Thla Is done so tlint ly a move ment of the hand the cut pieces may 1 dropped Into the basket, rather than have the cutter reach over or around to drop the pieces, w UlcU wouni ou necessary If the baskets were tniilnd him or at the side. Tall baskets ure used generally, although the ordinary peach basket will answer the puriiose, A shelf Is placed at the top or tne cut ting bench at the back, on which knives and any other tools needed In the work may be kept. The Idea Is plainly shown In the Illustration. Iudlunupolls News. Good Word tor Cialaeaa. The Guinea fowl may yet become a very profitable branch of farm poultry raising. The scarcity of certain kinds of game which resemble in flavor the Warm and told Wlntrra. According to tho director of tho weather bureau nt tho Missouri State I'nlverslty, tho time may not be far distant when the I'nlted States weath er service can tell us at least six months in advance whether tho win ter will be warm or cold. It has al ready been determined, he says, that there are great world eddies of air sweeping around tho glolw which lt Is thought cause tho difference in our winters, and ns soon as stations are established everywhere so that the progress of these may lie watched, tho bureau will likely lie able to give In formation by tho last of Septeinlx-r concerning the weather In January, February und March. After awhile she fell In with some ants of another species, who directly at tat'llml hop. "I at once set myself to separate 1 Guinea, esinselally the Western prairie tliPin hut. vhi.ti.or .i-in ... th. I chicken and grouse, has led to a sub- wounds she had received from her ena-1 stltutlon of young Guineas on hotel and 1 ,e 2xl Inches by 1 feet. The side arm Cora Marker, Runners of this corn marker ahonld mles or to my rough though well-meant handling or to both, she was evidently much wounded, and lay helpless ou the ground. After some time another ant from the same nest came by. Sho ex amined the iMior sufferer carefully, then picked her up and carried her away Into the nest It would have been dllllcult for anyone who had witnessed the scene to have denied to this aut the Kjssesslon of humane feelings. "In face of such facts ns these It Is lniMMslble b regard nuts ns mere ex quisite automatons. When we see nn ant hill, tenanted by thousands of In dustrious inhabitants, excavntlng chnm-Ix-rs. forming tunnels, making ronds, guarding their home, gathering food, feeding the young, tending their domes tic animals each one fulfilling Its du tiesIt Is dllllcult altogether to deny to them the gift of reason, and the preceding observations tend to confirm the opinion that their mental powers differ from those of men not so much In kind as In degree. COLLECTING DOUBLE. Wk th Minister Had tha Ilaek- af.r at Ilia Merer. Gov. niunchurd, of Louisiana, was describing the precautious that a cer tain veteran physician had taken against the spread of contagious dis ease. Knowing the people he had to deal with," Gov. Ulanchard said, "he suw thnt'hls rules were carried out before one of these people left their homes. Tl ey bad tricked him In the past He would not be tricked again. He was like the Camden clergyman of my boy bood. This clergyman once married a cer tain huckster who, after the ceremony, declared he was unable to pay the wedding fee. and so, willy nllly, the clergyman had to let him off. Some years later the good man found the same huckster before him with another woman. His first wife had died. Now he desired to yoke with a second. . A The minister was willing enough to remarry the man. but this time b. would take precautions. So leading the bridegroom to one side, he held out his hand and aald In a low voice: " 'My ft-" - Jik .m. of course,' said the hnck- -"' ' . . i - . V and ue piavvu a ... onnruM-nu, note In the clergyman's palm. -Thank you.1 the clergyman. .,tn . bland smile. That Is for the t tlme. Nw we will hav. the fee for this occasion, phase. la aoort. her daughters In ha'a hrlnglng up ' . . ..ki..,o.1 sensible an oii "She !' way. -Tea. Any of them can go Into the Itchen and make a good, chemical an r,l." Philadelphia Bulletin. A colored man saw a sign In .torw Za- "Brlcsbrae for sals," and window ..lit -I fa brlckbata for aala." a stort has restaurant bills of fare. Guineas or about tlie broiler age. weighing about one Dound and a half are of an ex ceedlngly fine, gamy flavor, and seem to satisfy the consumer. In this way the restaurants are able to dodge the game laws In certain States and serve "prai rie chicken" on the hill of fare nt all leasons. Gamchouses nre paying high prices for young Guineas, and lt would eoni that large farms might lie devot ed to them pr fitably w herever turkeys and pheasants sin-ceed. tulnnr Hoaae tor Pica. Small houses built after the follow ing description may lie readily moved to any desired locution on the farm. The house Is very InexiwiiMlvely con structed, consisting of two large dry goods Isixi's; the ends of the lsixes nre removed, the tops cut off on a slant and the edges of the ends lire fastened toegther with small cleats of wood or straps of Iron; these latter are better from the point of strength. A cleat of hard wood covers the rough ends of the bead of the floor six Inches wide. All nualls are clinched on the Inside and all cracks lietween boards are bat tened. The door Is cut In the end and 1 I t,U V-A 1 . rs' C3 movarlc house roa nas. A crook should be Uken aaaight to jail. holes, eight Inches In diameter are cut In the upjier front for ventilation. Bmall covers of wood may be fastened with screw s so that they can be closed over the openings when the weather is very cold or stormy. Blowlaaj Oat Stamp. To remove a stump bore nnder It a slanting bole twelve or eighteen Inches deep and use half a stick of dynamite or a whole one If the stump lie large. Adjust the fuse and All the hole with dry sand, t se a two Inch augur for Isirlng the hole. The stick of dynamite under a large Niwider will usually t.resk It up ao that It can be moved easily. There are many different kinds of weeds, stul some of them start orr early In the spring, almost before the frt leaves the ground. It Is the early weed that give the farmer the mt tron de. If the land was p owed last fall, cross plow It the coming spring, and then harrow or cultivate It as often as sn done nntil time to put In the sed. Every time the land Is cultivated more weeds will germinate to be killed, snd the more weeds thst can be destroyed before the regular crop start the fewer there will be to combat later on. Is fastened to sled on a swivel, and IS pulled along hy attaching a rox to shoo and hooked to singletree as shown. This arm Is mado lljilt-j Inches and MAKKFR 1'OR COHV. lo'.j feet long, for rows .'I'i feet apart Of course this arm Is reversible. W I nlrr t hlrkena. Chickens can be hatched In the win ter months and profitably raised. You can hatch them from Sept 1 until Juno 1. Other mouths nre unprofitable. Chicks can endure cold weather In-tter than extreme heat Hlsense, lice and mites always come ' with summer months. The exjiense of feeding Is no greater In winter. I'm fits can be real ized from broods hatched In Novemlier, Iiecember and January. Of course, win ter chicks do not grow quite ao fast but they produce a heavier coat of feathers. They grow more compact and solid If hatched early In the win ter, and will be Just right for April and May, when the price Is at the highest point What Mat Dora for l.aad. Farmers often say that they do not need to use lime, because they use large quantities of It In fertilizer. Ground bone and other forms of phos phate contain lime. We cannot obtain phosphoric acid In ordinary fertilizers without lime. Such farmers mistake the most neoesssry function of lime In tlie soil. Air slaked lime has a chem ical action which aweetena the soil, makes It more compact or sets frea other forms of plant food. This Is quite distinct from Its power to provide sc tual food for the plants. The lime In the bone or phosphate may In time aerve as plant food, hut the air-slaked lime Is needed fur the more Important service. It Is claimed by a New Tork fanner that wlreworms will not live In ground where buckwheat Is growu for two sea sons snd mat tiito land may be clesred of these worms by growing buck w heat The hard exsTli-tne of l.i.f y.nr tr.nght many of the Southern tni'k growers the obi 1-miii of di versifica tion, or In oth-r word, not to put sll their fZ Into one liHski-t. This year many of the farmers who staked sll on one crop snu railed iat year, are now branching out a little more Into fruit growing, etc.. as well ss the cul ture or vegetable erftrs. j he Indica tions sre for a prosjierous sson for Southern tnvkmen. but It is slwsys dangerous for a man of small capital to grow nothing at all but one line of produce, American Cultivator. Hancock.