Changing th St&rs l. ' r xwm. a r j enan'BaaM- iw ApffWM The admission of Oklahoma Into the Onion has necessitated the rearrange ment of the stars on the flag to admit the symbol of the new State, arid it has been a big task to rearrange the stars on all the military flags of the country. . Various Ideas have been advanced for the simplification of the field of stars on Old Glory. The difficulty In adding new stars Is that the rows are neces sarily made up of uneven numbers, and AFTEB LONG YEABS. Dear, whom I would not know If I passed you on the street, So long and long and long ago " Are the days when we used to meet, You may be glad to hear That somewhere out of the blue Come vague sweet dreams that bring you near, That I often think of yon; That now and then I thrill At a rustle in the dark ; That I start as the wind sweeps over the hill, As I see the fire-fly's spark. Somebody stepped on my grave? Or somebody slipped out of yours? I cannot tell! There are ghosts that crave A bit of the love that endures. Harper's Magazine. AUNT HANNAH'S PARTY "Dear me. Ezral" said good Aunt Hannah, "I do wish something would happen 1 Land o' liberty 1 I get so aw ful tired of this monotonous life not a single neighbor less than a mile away an' not a chick or child at home. I ought to be ashamed to complain, and I ami But I do wish something would happen right here In front of our house ! Something to look at!" Aunt Hannah, good soul, little dreamed that before three hours had , passed something would happen. The one great event In her monoto nous life was the daily passing of the overland passenger trains, which brought their eager tourists to Califor nia or carried home returning wander ers back toward the rising sun. In Aunt Hannah's dally life this sim ple passing of the trains grew to be an event of importance. 8he could catch tantalizing glimpses of women's fair faces and the laughing eyes of little children as the Overland flashed by, not three rods frora her own front door. Sometimes she waved a snowy dish towel at them as they rushed past, and looked wistfully after thrm till the long cut hid the curving train. But on this particular day Aunt Hannah's heart almost stood still in her ample bosom. For the Overland came into sight, running more and more slowly, and finally coming to a labor ing, clanking stop almost at her very door. Such a thing had never happened be fore, and Aunt Hannah was filled with wordless excitement. Something had happened at last ! Uncle Fjsra was stir ring around near the house, keeping a watchful eye. upon old Dobbin, the white horse, which was patiently walk ing never-ending miles In the treadmill which pumped water for the house and garden and the neighboring orchard of young orange trees. Aunt Hannah speedily lufornied him of the great eveut. and Uncle Ezra, as wonder-fllled s she, walked down to the railroad track to see what might be wrong. Aunt Hannah, from the porch, heard him say hospitably to the conductor: "Why, yes, we've got a telephone. Come right In an' use it." And in a few moments that won derful creatnre the blue-uniformed, brasa-buttoned conductor of the Over land was standing on Aunt Hannah's bright rag carpet and talking In crisp, curt, masterly tones to some unseen de iiuqu&ui st the city ten miles behind. It appeared that some one bad blun dered. The passengers swarmed out of the cars and waudered aimlessly along the track. Then the women and children bejjan to stray luto Auut Hannah's onQlD " this makes It Impossible to arrange a field of stars that Is perfectly balanced. In order to obviate this difficulty It has been suggested that the stars be placed In a circle, so that no matter how many new States and stars are destined to apply for a place in the future they could all be provided for by the simple expedient of adding constellations to the end on the circular line. This is a radical departure that has found some favor with the government oflJ front yard, looking with genuine tour ist curiosity at every little common place thing that met their eager gaze. For this was a trainload of brand-new tenderfeet from the far East, most of whom were stepping upon California soli for the first tlmjfe in their lives. Aunt Hannah was radiant and over flowing with hospitality. Before ten minutes had passed she had discovered an old lady from her own town In Iowa, and a young lady from Boston who had known a second cousin of Ezra's first wife's nephew or some such near relative. Aunt Hannah was In her element. Every rocking chair she pos sessed and every straight-backed one as well, she brought out into the front yard under the great drooping pepper tree, and her unexpected guests sat around and asked highly Intelligent questions of every official they could waylay. Noon came, and the long train stood powerless to move. Un accustomed rivulets of perspiration trickled-down the portly conductor's face as he walked up and down in ill concealed impatience. Aunt Hannah's hospitable soul ex panded. "I'll fry every egg on the place," she said, "and steep that five pounds of coffee I've Just got, and cut up the six loaves of bread I baked yes terday, and open every glass of Jelly I've got, but these women and children sha'n't go hungry !" So she bustled indoors and tied on her second-best white apron, made a "I DO WISH SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN.' fire and set things going in her usual capable way. "Land !" she said. "It's a long time since I bad such a run of company ! Of course, they could get their dinner on the train, but mebby good home cook In' '11 taste good to 'em ! Anyway, It wouldn't look right for me an' Ezra to set down and eat an' not ask 'em!" The young lady from Boston tied on Aunt Hannah's very best white apron, beautifully Ironed and smelling of old fashioned lavender, and carried plates and cups and forks and spoons' out to the waiting travelers under the great pepper tree. And when Aunt Hannah's famous coffee began to send forth Its enticing fragrance, one by one the men came, too, standing around looking sheepish ly expectant They sat on the porch steps and waited patiently for empty cups. Then the big pan of dougtnuts went around, and generous slices of Aunt Hannah's fresh bread and golden butter and de licious dabs of Aunt Hannah's finest Jellies and preserves. The two down eggs did not last long, but Aunt Hannah helped out with crisp slices of home-cured bacon, which, as the blue-uniformed conductor said, went right to the spot. The white-capped waiters served a few select souk In the dining car of the Overland, but Aunt Hannah's was by far the more popular lunch. She bustled about, flushed and happy. It was like a great beautiful party a surprise party! Something had hap pened at last Out of the abundance of her gener ous heart Aunt Hannah bad fed the multitude, but the multitude was not content to haTe it so. The brass-but toned conductor himself (who had set a very bad example by eating of Aunt Glory1 cials intrusted with the work of re arranging the flag, but it has not been thought expedient to adopt the idea without appeal to Congress and through Congress to the nation, for it is felt that such an important matter as the re designing of Old Glory is a matter of full national consideration. Far-seeing citizens have pointed out that in time the addition of new States and the unavoidable division of single States into double or treble common wealths will so crowd the field of stars as at present arranged that it will look inartistic and unsatisfactory. The . greater the number of stars the smaller will be the symbols, for the compara-1 tive size of the field cannot be changed without spoiling the flag and destroy-( lng the appearance of the finest banner ( on earth or sea. This problem is Demg discussed by patriotic persons whoake an interest in national matters, and a number of designs are on file at the war office that aim to provide an ar tistic and striking arrangement of stars that, like that suggested by the circular array, will permit of the addition of a I great number of constellations without making the flag look at a little distance like a striped banner with a Jack of pure white, as would be the case were the blue field crowded with stars. Wllliamsport (Pa.) Grit. Hannah's cooking instead of the col ored chef's) passed bis official cap and gathered in a shining shower of sli ver, which he presented with a neat little speech to Aunt Hannah. Then the ever-present tourist cameras came into action, and Aunt Hannah was taken with her big white apron on by at least a dozen amateurs. Then there were other snapshots, too Un cle Ezra In his overalls, the great pep per tree, the disabled engine, the per spiring conductor, and even old Dob bin himself. The old lady from Iowa and th. young lady from Boston insisted upon helping with the dishes, and there en sued a merry clatter from the kitchen. Some of the young folks gathered i around Aunt Hannah's parlor organ j and sang qld Gospel hymns, or looked ! over Aunt Hannah's plush-covered pho tograph album on the marble-topped center table. At last the conductor wiped his streaming brow and shouted "All aboard!" and Aunt Hannah's beauti ful party was over. There were hur ried handshakes, and one or two im pulsive hugs and kisses for Aunt Han nah, many cheery words of thanks and appreciation, and then they all ran to ward the cars and scrambled aboard. Aunt Hannah, looking and feeling twenty years younger, stood on the porch and watched the long train as It got into motion and slowly pulled out waving her white apron in response to a score of waving handkerchiefs, and could scarcely see them for the tears which dimmed her kind eyes. And thus she stood as the long trail. entered the cut and slowly disappeared from view. She and Ezra began to carry the chairs into the house. Aunt Hannah was a little tremulous from excitement. "Ezra," she said, "when I wished this mornln' that something would happen I didn't really want the Overland should break down, but I'm awful glad it did!" "My ! My ! I don't know when I ever did have such a good time ! And, Ezra, here's $2" that conductor took up in his cap. What, in mercy's name, can I do with so much money? Oh, I know ! I know ! I'll pay Ella's fare out here Ella's and the baby's! Seems like I ought to use it some way like that, seeing my opposition restaurant took a lot of customers away from the dining car on the Overland !" New Or leans Times-Democrat Art In Spanish Bank Note. To baffle the counterfeiters who are both numerous and cunning In Madrid, the Bank of Spain has pursued the policy of changing its notes with great frequency and retiring each issue as fast as possible, says the New York Sun. The bank has now determined on a new plan. It has placed an order for a series of notes with an English concern and it will rely for safety upon a special color process. In ad dition the notes are to present pictures of well known buildings In Spain, ex ecuted with a perfection that will defy counterfeiting. "The pictures are to be so beautiful that amateurs will be tempted to frame them," says one Spanish newspaper. "Hardly, rejoins another, "the cost of the set will be 1,675 pesetas, yon see." To the Spanish mind $338.50 is a great deal of money. Then the Quarrel Cu4, They were having the usual family quarrel. As was also usual, she could not convince him that she knew where of she argued. "Didn't I go to school, stupid?" she screamed. "Yes, dear, you did." he replied calm ly. "And you came back stupid."- The Bohemian. Make your services so useful that employers will hunt you in the day time with a lantern. A Gate for the Born Doorway. When the horse stable opens into the buggy room and It Is necessary to keep the door open for ventilation, I find that a small gate constructed of light material is an excellent protec tion against horses getting loose and injuring the buggies. The cut here with shows a light gate we have in use In our horse barn. It is very simple In construction, but serves a very im portant purpose. Were it not for this light gate we would find It necessary to keep the door closed between the horse stable and buggy room, thus shutting off ventilation. The gate is hinged onto the rolling door with light strap hinges, explains a writer In the Tralrle Farmer, so that when the gate is not in use it swings ... i I I LU SLAT STABLE DOOB. around and fastens to the large door out of the way. For material in mak ing the gate wa use inch strips of good pine for the horizontal pieces. The up right pieces are light strips gotten out for fence pickets. I find a light gate of this character a good thing to keep poultry out of the barn during the sum mer months. , The Colony Plan. If you want vigorous chickens and hens that lay do not overcrowd them. Forty or fifty In one flock are suffi cient If you have more than this num ber by all means make a change, for your chickens are probably costing you more than they are worth. If you do not care to sell any of your birds then start into the chicken business on the colony plan. Divide your flock Into colonies of about forty fowls each and build houses for them in different parts of the farm. For Instance, if you have one hen house on the east side of the barn, put another house on the west side. Then if you have enough birds put another house down by the calf lot and another to the farther end of the barn yard. A dozen different places will suggest themselves If you look for lo cations on your farm. If you have made a failure In raising chickens or your hens "don't amount to much," try this method. It will surprise and please you. Your hens will be healthier, will lay better and will require less feed. The reason for this will be easily seen when you have once tried it Chickens, or anything else for that mat ter, cannot stand crowding. Also the colony plan gives the fowls wider range and encourages the birds to hunt for their living. Exchange. Bracing Corner Post. This method, while cheaply devised, is used very effectively In bracing cor ner posts. Use as a brace a pole nine or ten feet long, four or five inches in diameter and square at both ends. Fit one end of pole to the post half way between its middle and top and place other end of brace on a flat stone. Se cure one end of a wire around bottom of post, then take it to outer end of brace and back to post again, fasten ing securely. With a short stout stick twist wires together until very tight METHOD OF, BRACING. and your brace is complete, says Farm ers' Review. This brace comes in line with your fence and by fastening your wire or boards to It prevents it from slipping sideways. Hen tor Cuba and Mexico. Some of the coast country farmers m'hlfa t-luftin (T HnlrofitAn earn tliAt mn.w IT, U 1 V . . i ' ' 11 EMIT. IUC1. UIOVU hogs from distant points in Texas and Oklahoma were oeing snipped to Cuba . and Mexico and returned home ini , pressed with the Idea that if it paid the j North Texas and Oklahoma farmers to i raise hogs for the Cuban and Mexican markets, it would pay the coast coun j try farmers to do the same thing. Galveston News. . it Ton Doubt It, Try It. A man once oacKea muiseir lor a large amount which he subsequently lost to move an ordinary brick attach ed to two miles of cord along a level road outside Chlcbter. He failed to move the brick, and it may be roughly estimated that the friction of the cord on the road Increased the weight of the brick (about seven pounds) and cord to a dead weight of not far short of a ton. Fry's Magazine. i s mm What Beet Met. Tninn ai nm DAIRYING IN DENMARK. The 'success attending the use of silage in the dairy business has created Land Worked for Hundrodi of Yeara much interest among beef cattle men. - still Beats Ours. Snage furnishes a succulent food. Airican armeri ,d promoters which is quite essential to the dairy aiculturml industries are rather sow in keeping her digestive system in opportnuties, and good condition. The same will be found B f"? ' ..-.il ; true for the beef animal. Twenty sre danger efbexag outgeneraled !U pounds of silage per day will supply - of the world unless they all the bulk and water needed in a improve their methods, it the belief of fattening ration. The other roughage Dean James E. Eutsell, of Columbia may consist of either long fodder or University, New York. Tesn Kussell mixed hay. The economy of. using was recently a visitor at the state col slliage for fattening purposes is well ege, and during his stay there ad brought out by rrof. A. M. Soule of dressed an assembly of the teachers of the Virginia station, who has stated the the Inland Empire who were attending - , . , the teaohert' institute m Pullman. Hela fo l owing conclusions: ,. juit ffientioned( B. "There was a difference of from .3 " . to .6 of n pound of grain per head per j "Thirty years ago New York was day in favor of the silage-fed cattle. 'Mnding butter and cheese to the Lon Thev nlnn flnlahpd nut better and in 'don markets. New York butter and. any discriminating market would tainly bring a better price than the dry-fed cattle. "Of the three forms of roughage fed, the silage was eaten with the greatest relish, and there was absolutely no loss, whereas with the stover the loss amounted to 13.5 per cent and with hay 4.16 per cent. Where a large number of animals are fed this would make a considerable difference in the cost of ration, except that the shredded stover can be utilized to advantage for bed ding." Silage as It is put up to-day Is bet ter than when the practice was first started. Good silage of corn is made when the grain has passed the milk stage and has commenced to glaze a yt tle. Silage Is made also from sorghum, corn and cowpeas and pea vines. Double Brooding Coop. The double brooding coop shown in the drawing is four feet square and three feet high at rear, two and one half In front. It may be built of tongue and grooved stuff or straight-edge boards one-half or three-fourths Inch thick. The hinged lids sBould have two cleats each to make them firm. In front is a one-inch mesh wire netting and at the edges are strips of three quarter by one and one-half-inch stuff, to insure rigidity. In one corner, as shown, is the nest, four inches deep and fifteen or eighteen inches square, according to the size of the hens kept The board floor, explains the Orange DOUBLE BBOOD COOP. Judd Farmer, is covered with sawdust or sand. Food and drink are more readily supplied through the door, which preferably lifts in front, as showlL Corn Leading Western Crop. , The statistical bureau of the Union Pacific passenger . department issues a statement compiled from government reports showing the value of farm products in seventeen States west of the Mississippi In 1907 to have been $1,091,000,000. Corn leads In produc tion, being valued at 'nearly half a billion dollars. Winter wheat is next, valued at $200,000,000, and domestic hay was valued at only $2,000,000 less. Rye, oats, barley and potatoes follow in order. The report also shows an in crease in live stock of 250 per cent since 1870. Color ot Egg: There Is no difference in the color of the yolk of the eggs laid by different breeds, nor individually. But the color of the shell is a matter of breed and mating, and the color of the yolk Is governed by the food given. The aver age length of a hen's egg is 2.27 Inches ; diameter at the broad end, 1.72 inches; weight about one-eighth of a pound. Farm Notee. Alfalfa seed is now selling in many parts of the West for 10 to 12 cents a pound. Egyptian cotton land produces nearly four times as much per acre as that of this country. . " ( In four years a pair of rabbits could secure a progeuy of nearly 1,500,000. A doe rabbit produces as many as seven families a year. Many important drainage projects are under way in the marsh land in Lou islana. which will ultimately make it a great agricultural country. A dairy train which recently went out from Lafayette, Ind., covered 500 miles on the Monon route, and 4,000 people heard the lectures which were delivered from the cars. The Sacramento Valley, in Califor nia, shipped over $3,000,000 worth of oranges last year, and the growers of that section estimate that the new crop will be worth $1,000,000 more. It is estimated that if the cattle ship pers of Iowa succeed in establishing their claims against the railroads for excessive shipping charges in Chicago they will get back fully a half million dollars. Great Britain now import every year about 9,000,000 bushels of apples, one-half of which come from the Unit ed States. Canada sends ovewiaboul 3,000,000 bushels ad Australia nearly all the rest. ; . . -.: . ' An effort Is being made to establish In the Ozark region of Missouri an ex tensive breeding station for farm an finals. The project has the approval o: Secretary Wilson and Dr. Mel in. n: the Bureau of Animal Industry. cer-jtheese were ruling out similar products from Ontario, and other parts of the world. Just, thirty years ago Denmark began to think she could make butter ( and put it in the London market. The question was, How could she overcome the lead that New York already had in the. London markets! She sent men to London to study out the ground; to una what London wanted. Then she set about to give them the required product. "Denmark is a country or poor soii,t which has been tilled and overworked for a thousand years. Nevertheless, the Danish population annually sells in the markets of London $35,000,000 worth of butter. In 1903 the entire United States exported only $1,064,000 worth of butter. In additioa to the vast quan- ; tity of butter mentioned, Denmark tends out one-fifth as much pork at we do, and just as many horses; and cer tainly, we should lead the world in the , breeding of horses. In the meantime the Danish nation has taught the hens " how to work. Four hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of eggs were ex ported by this country in 1875, and in 1903 this export had reached a value of $8,092,000. In the last ten years Denmark has taken $8,000,000 worth of corn from Iowa and Nebraska, via New ' York, which she has fed to Danish eows and pigs, and then placed the latter in the . European markets in successful competition with similar products from America. I said a moment ago that twenty years ago the competitor of Denmark was the State of New York. In these twenty years the Danish people have y increased their exports from $1,000,000 ' to $40,000,000. In the same twenty years farm values in the State of New York have decreased $200,000,000. In - the last fifteen years Ontario has outbid New York in the same way in the cheese market. Twenty years ago New York companies received, Canadian cheese and put the- New York stamp on it to get one cent more in the English market. Today the New York farmers are sending their cheese over the Cana dian boundaries, and paying two cents per pound in order to sell it at all." Showing the superiority of European methods of education in comparison with American education, Dean Russell said: ' ' Wurtemburg is a small German state, a little larger than the Inland Empire of Eastern Washington, and having a population of about two mil lion persons. Thirty years ago Wur tsmburg began to realize that her pop ulation was beginning to dwindle; that something had to be done to maintain her integrity as a state. So she set ' about building up a system of schools for all the people; that would help the boy who wished to be a carpenter, a piumoer, or a farmer, m the same de gree, according to his needs, as they . would assist the youth who desired to be a lawyer, an engineer, or a phy sician.. Today Wurtemburg has a uni versity giving courses of worldwide fame; technical schools, weaving and manufacturing schools; two hundred and thirty industrial "schools in towns and villages; schools for metal workers, and workers in the textile trades; schools of art, of agriculture, of preparation for household management; and numerous farm schools, and high schools through- out the state. " Wnrtembur". a st ; hut little larger than the Inland Empire of East ern Washington, supports all these in stitutions, with an income of ten dollars per head of population. What would American citizens think, if in addition to supporting agricultural colleges, they were atked to support five hundred technical and industrial schools for every two million of population! .This is wh,t is being done in the small state of Wurtemburg, and from the point of " vierr of American citizens today, it is almost inconceivable; the contemplation of which must lead any American citi zen to infer that his country has much to do and learn before it can success fully compete with the old country in the products of industrial education." Answers t Queries. By J. L. Aihlock, Washington Experiment Sta tion, Pullman. Haverford, Pa. "Is it considered that hog-raising is practicable in the northwestern part of the United States!" , H. W. "It is probable that there is no place in the United States where the prices for pork products average as a high as in the Pacific Northwest. A condition of significance, too, is that the people of this region are not sufficiently alive to the necessity of their meeting the demand for pork products. Those who are in the business are making money. Conditions are improving, however, for at the present time we note a growing tendency among farmers to pay more attention., to this business. The Perk shire breed is preferable, in" my opinion, although'the Duroc Jerseys are making some headway. At the experi ment station we have about concluded that a eross of these two breeds would be better thaa either pne bv itself.' Eventually. Reporter Do yoa ever contribute any thing to foreign papers? Comic Bard Why er yes ; on look ing over the miscellany columns of the papers I find that I contribute loU vl stuff to the London Tit-Bits. ' Sane Everything-. Prosperous Clubman When I first ar rived in this town, forty years ago, 1 hadn't a shirt to my back. Old Clubman Worse than that; yoa hadn't a tooth in your head.