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r F A S H IO N HI to got a mlnuto’» peae« from mites and ether pests Is not the right kind of exercise." The truth Is obvious. Give the fowls plenty of encourage ment to scratch for their grain feed by keeping a portion of each pen deep ly bedded with leaves or straw. There Is nothing like It for promoting thrift and contentment among a flock of fowls In the winter, and It Is also a great aid toward getting fertile, hatch- able eggs. T he M etropolis or the W orld « 1900 ;i|p B L> 2 Small Farm*. The farm unit Is gradualljr becom- A homemade arrangement for driv lng smaller with the advance In the J ing plies or posts Is shown in the price of land. A well known real es sketch. I consider a post driver one tate agent In a certain locality told us of the most useful Implements that I recently that he had ten times as have on the farm, writes- J. L. Ma- many calls for 40 acres as for 160 acre comber In Farm and Home. This de farms. The small farm Is the best j vice Is of very simple construction, and farm, all things considered, and peo- | aside from the few pieces of Iron, pul pie are gradually coming to realize It th : 1 leys and the rope, any farmer can and to look for small farms when put- j 7-&XL1M. \H\rm •nake It at home. chasing. The farmer of to-day Is be- The runners, a. are 9 ft. long, made glnntn»; to learn tlrnt It Is better to j i-3 of good solid oak 6x4 In. thick. The tramp over less ground and grow more we tm . to the acre. The taxes and fences on a large farm sometimes amount to | more than the crops. There is great <Hi M « « * as economy In all lines In the cultivation l i l i Mi a a m u t and management of a small farm. | When the farmer knows that he has W *ÎS-ï*îlU but a few acres to plant to corn, or S I I any other crop he will use better seed, j fertilize more heavily and cultivate better. If he grows seventy to eighty v$ bushels to the acre, say on ten acres, he is much better off than the larger Russian influence is strongly 1 farmer who cultivates twice as nl’ l< some of the newest fashions, b ...... and gets only thirty to forty bushels Btreet and evening wear. The ac of corn to the acre.—Chicago Weekly j riving sketch shows a walking of cream aerge, with trimmings o; Inter Ocean. der and cream braid. It is ver The Klllinic Weed*. and attractive, and is one of thi [ gar A great deal is heard about cheml pretty things now made for southert i wc cal weed destroyers and Improved [ M TELLS OF H IS FAMOUS I ac methods for eradicating weeds. Some TH E HOMEMADE POST DRIVER. i sc of the Improved methods are worthy Faces o f Street Audience Uav crosspieces, b, are of 4x4 oak, placed I be the means of destroying many of later Inaplrutlon for “ Life iJ about 3 ft. apart. Firm braces, c, of the weeds. Many of them, however, Surrounded by a model of I 2x6 scantling, will strengthen the are not practical and should never be gun, a piece of cable, life buoy| frame. The uprights, d, are 14 or 16 considered by the farmer. phone, wig-wag flags, tatlboa ft. long, as desired, of 4x4 oak. The Professor Beal of the Michigan sta j talnlng Instructions to sailors i braces, e, may be 2x4. For the weight, tlon conies forward with an entirely f, a wooden block may be used, which new means of destroying weeds which, life ropes, the Rev. E. S, Utj and! is either square or round. It should If followed, Is certainly the most prac- Rockland, Me., evangelist . . . be about 18 Inches In diameter and 2’^ tlcal of all other methods, except the •* the famous revlva hymn ft. long, of solid oak or hickory. Some hoe. The professor says that where Out the Life Line, sat placid 1,| wood that will not split readily Is best. soils are reasonably rich as a result of these mementos of fearful Grooves should be made In the side the growth of legume, there are few , ^ v e raged along the Nfl ‘ r i a of the weight to ta1<e in the full width weeds. Lands which have been 1n al- coast, In the l nlon ^tatloj of the uprights. It Is a good plan to falfa or clover for a number of years lnS for his train to Mlnneap bore an inch hole through the rear have few weeds. For all weedy lands Des Moines Register and Lead end of each runner, through which the professor suggests that the farm- The Rev. Mr. Ufford Is an ey a peg may be driven to hold the de ers seed the land down for either al ; and this paraphernalia, whl vice In position while the post Is be falfa or clover.and to make sure that been actually used in the re ing driven. W I L L T H E W O R L D ’S M E T R O P O L I S O F T H E F U T U R E LOOK L I K E T H I S ? the seeding is sufficient to cover the sailors from wrecked vessels i j The working of this device Is simple. ground. Keep the ground In legume presented to him by captains J yon si -From the Chicago Sunday Tribune. Adapted from a drawing In the New York Tribune. Jaïunfl, The weight Is drawn up by horses for a number of years and the weeds . aavlng stations at Cape Cod r«ry V hitched to the end of a rope, and when will nearly all be destroyed. This ; tucket, Is used by him In hlsji lisio I die West. His commissions sometimes It arrives at the top of the uprights It way to save the tree now is to sur BRIDLE FOR GOSSIPS. sounds much more sensible than chem istlc services to Illustrate hisJ round It by a small lake and thus re amounted to $3,000 a week. Living eco Is released by the hook, 2, striking the It hai “ I was aiding a pastor In ical destroyers. lied, H o w S h r e w * o f O ld E n g l a n d W e r e store the ground on which the tree nomically he soon amassed a fortune. block, 1, unhooking It from the ring, ton one Sunday night in 18| id. r F stands to Its original condition. It In 1875 he was elected alderman from 3, which is attached to the driver Urtili! Tam t»<l— T a l k o f l l e v l v l n i r C u s t o m . Labor-Savin* Lon-Roller. when we were returning honj iB ollli Women In England who developed a must be borne In mind that the species the First Ward. The city’s finances block. Four or five blows will usually On every farm where there Is tim the service the BUbJect of convi| W. habit of spiteful gossiping or perpet of cedar to which the tree belongs Is were at a low ebb and repudiation drive a pointed post to the required ber of large size there ought to be a turned on evangelists and hy ual scolding used to be liable to be essentially a wet-ground product, as of bonds was seriously considered. Dr. depth. Two men and a team will drive canthook, an Implement shown In the began thinking about a hynj muzzled by legal Its name in Mexican, ahuehuete, “ old- Pearsons w nt to New York and ap one-half to three-quarters of a mile of picture from Farm would reach the people. Mjj peared before the Chicago bondholders' posts in a day. The cost of such an authority. Just now, man-of-the-water," Implies. World, for the and grandfather had been chi In the days of Cortez the tree mu it meeting, offered to pledge his personal implement is about $5, and will pay w h e n suffragettes purpose of moving ers before me and I had beenj are disturbing that have stood near the shore of Lake fortune to the redemption of the bonds 'or Itself In a short tl-me. heavy logs. It will that I should write a song till Since then the waters of and saved the credit of the city. Mrs. land, the Idea Is re Texcoco save a tremendous j |jve ]ong after j had passed ai S w in g fo r L o u d ln s F o d d e r , vived by s o r e l y this lake have steadily receded through Pearsons died recently and since than amount of heavy ] the afternoon of that Sunday There are a large number of contri t r o u b l e d me n , various causes, and for many years Dr. Pearsons has lived quietly at Hins lifting and one man to the village square and s| whose efforts to re now the tree has stood on ground as dale looking after the colleges In vances made for loading shock fodder with a canthook can do as much or non-ohuroh goers. As I lool strain these aggres dry as cinders. By surrounding the which he Is Interested through his onto a wagon, some better than others. even more than two without It. The the faces of those about sive women h a v e tree with water it la hoped new shoots gifts. At 90 years of age he is still The Illustration herewith shown Is one will rise, and that thus the tree will young and vigorous. He says he in that Is In use In some localities where handle should be about 5 feet long and upon which were written the failed dismally. Realizing that the perpetuate itself without the Interfer tends to live until he Is 100.—Chicago a good deal of fodder Is cut up. The the iron hook about 12 inches. Or If sin— they seemed to be like rear ladder Is substituted with a stout very large logs are to be used. 15 men In the billows of death, was oppnr- ence of .man The trunk of FI Arh.il Record-Herald. post, well anchored to the rack, on Inches. The hook should work loosely must have suggested to me thi^_,)<>t H tune for a favor- de la Noche Trlste is little more than F o r b id d e n b y U u e le Su m . i a bolt through the handle and the atlon for my version of the h ly me top of which Is a pole so adjusted as R ridle f o r g o s s i p s , able sale, a London a shell, the core having decayed many Fiercest of all the wild orgies of the to be able to reach out to one side for 'business end” be slightly curved In returned to the parsonage, si Bl1'' ‘ o collector of curios has Just extracted years ago. ow i aborigines of North America Is the the fodder and the other with proper ward and always kept sharp. from his museum a specimen of this and wrote the hymn at once, rth, «I PHILANTHROPIST PEARSONS. fiesta which culminates In the fire old Instrument of torture and offered “It has been often thought nilai- S e le c tin g L a y in g H e n * . dance of the Saboba Indians, a small ired. It for sale, as a hint to the authorities. at one time must have been anv oi Daniel K. Pearsons, who says that tribe living close to the Sierra Madre Not enough importance Is usually ed with seafaring men to It Is a steel structure, shaped very l ' IÍE. I attached to the selection of laying much like the muzzle sometimes worn the joy of giving is the .most satisfying range of mountains, which walls off vivid a picture as the lyric de «ithy. joy that a human being can know, the seacoast of California from the hens. They must be properly cared ik by a vicious horse. St long bands, that I had dashed off the staaz the your ina for, If they are to lay well during worn round the head, are fastened and has given away more than $4,000,000. desert. witnessing a wreck of some IRY AS I both winter and summer. Houses must Up to last year, when the Indian locked on the back of the n e c k , ef Forty-seven colleges In twenty-four Neither surmise Is correct, It ■ he kept 3anltary and the fowls free fectually closing the wearer's mouth States have been the recipients of his bureau of the United States govern \ from vermin. Care must be exercised ply a mental picture which Rut the n|iporluuity haB passed. The bounty. His boast Is that he will givs ment finally forbade the holding of me a quarter of a century as these fiestas, the Sabobas had gathered to avoid their being chased by dogs government has been criticized too every year at the base of old Mount or other animals, or unnecessarily to be sure, but to which I at much for forcibly feeding Birmingham San Jacinto to sing, dance and gam frightened. Poultry houses mu3t be color.' B U f fr a g e f t e s to adopt tills instrument The Rev. Mr. Ufford is bul ble, and finally to throw themselves o f torture so close to an election. The well ventilated, and one or more win Into a pit of fiery coals, roll over and collector has had Ills Joke, hut his dows should be opened every bright unique ohuroh by popular sub over on the burning bed, and then financial gain was only n few dollars, day, so that the house will not become and from the royalties recelf dance with bare feet on the red hot for a private buyer purchased the gos warm during the day and grow cold his hymn. A large anchor la FOB LOADINO FODDER. floor of the pit. ed over the tower. The bul sip's bridle to Impress Ills household j again at night. divided Into two parts, an ai with the humanity of his domestic ad , everage, A rope or a chain attached L ie u t. S h a c k le tó n n« T a lk e r . * and a parlor. Over the rostl ministration, compared with moth ■ D a iry in g and P rice o f Land. ;o the short end of pole Is thrown People whom Lieutenant Shackleton (round the shock about half wav up, ods of Ills forefathers. He considers Dairying in Holland Is the principal painting by the noted artist, casually meets must be a trial to hto md a fork handle thrust through occupation. * The land Is worth from C. Murdock, and represents it a b a r g a i n ; also a callable object les j with their trivial questions, but he has above It so It will stay there and the $500 to $1,000 an acre, yet the people the act of saving Peter from son wnen curtain lectures are Impend j uaranl tornaci a merry wit. He was explaining how whole shock Is lifted on the rack.— pay their rents or Interest on the In The frieze around the audit Ing.—Exchange. it seas et the penguins set up nest keep ng. Mr. Farm and Home. vestment by producing butter and resents Columbus’ caravels J Penguin would feed his wife as she ust ree MEXICO TO SAVE FAMOUS TREE. cheese, which they place on the Euro America. The church Is appi ind re!ii Let H er S c r a tc h . sat on the eggs. He brought her pean market in successful competition located at the corner of W I f you prawns and the like, carrying them in. The Importance of exercise for poul with that produced in America on land j Ocean streets In Rockland. \ r l t o l * I*» II«* * i i r r o n a u l l h •Kt id circ his gullet into which she dipped her try might well be placed subordinate of less than one-fifth the value. The \ \ n t«*r l«» I ' r c v m l I t « l . o « « . Is in the church tower over!« beak. “ Are the birds monogainie?" only to good housing and feeding. But secret Is— efficient cows, excellent care, bay. LI \ c I k > 1 de la Noche Trlste. the old The asked the naturalist present. “ That a writer In an agricultural monthly co-operation and superiority of butter .«hii 'hueie tree under which Hernando "My church will be know | 62 M > r we could not determine," replied the pertinently remarks that "scratching and cheese. C oro*, conqueror of Mexico, la said Temple of Galilee, or the j Great Iceman “ We frequently saw to IjRve sat and wept on the night of church, and will always be j a male penguin feed another bird's PLAN OF S T A B L E . hi* <K c ' by the Aztecs, will he saved people of al! creeds.” wife, hut we could not say whether his fr. nt ifc ill in n novel manner, In E x tv n u n llu n . motives were absolutely disiuter t or t me lime the sentimentalists limili! ested." A little girl between 4 and I I t« been at their wits' end In Me* i *aa r BO X of age came running in from| * the tree, which (or some 1 BOTO hrw to Tho«e Dear Men. ceiL» JTAkL j one day and exclaimed ts rVw n evidence, of rapid hi- years h "Ah, me valet tells me I’m going: to L Mexico correspondent vf j er: “ Oh, mamma, did you — csv, a t DANIEL K. PEARSONS. a wedding to-morrow. Miss William , ■1 j rr. re Herald says. Many the Ni" : down? I went like thunder!” son's to be married to some fellah, methods hx . i _ sted but all j away his entire fortune before he dies, To her mother’s astonished i you know, hut I cawnt think of his cow so far have the approval lir. Pearsons was born in Bradford, confounded name." as to whom she had heard /*»9sr j r * 0 i( ** 4 rA B i t At one time It was Vt„ April 14, 1S20, and grew up among of those Inf- ; the little one replied, “Well, i "Why, old man, you’re to marry her Y old tr-e down and the granite hills In poverty. He be proposed to v ■ 1 X 1 ■■ 1 ■ you know you said one day yourself." *\ riga lu Its place. came a school teacher and then a phy plant one of as lightning,’ and It always "By Jove- so I am. What a mem i 1 This plan was ri A 1 on ;lt. ground sician, but not being able to make after It lightens, doesn’t It?” i-<* - á_____ i__L_ ttn/j'-C" > would merely money rapidly in the East he moved ory you've got, deah boy!”— Pick-Me- that the young Up. _____ i i i i usurp the prou postatoti Its parent to Ogle County, 111., where he engaged A widow's plea of popular Ac OAf occupies In the Mexican mind, and in farming. In 1860, at the age of Save the men call her "irre&I* A P r e llm ln n r j S tep . that tor this reason It'youId never tip 40, he came with his wife, who was “ Why in emigrating to America uoai is ootamev. in many —i— c --------- El Arbol de la Noche 1 rlste— the tree Miss Marietta Chapin of Massachu have you planned to leave your young k ey \ New Zealand, but the chief of the sorrowful night. setts, to Chicago. He had $5.000 in est son behind?" If In the Westport district, iu Recently It was proposed to graft cash and began business as a real es- "Oh. I guess he’ll follow later. He lue accompanying plan Is a veiy convenient stable arrangement and son; the Grey district, in a healthy shoot of the old tree on tts tate dealer. His firei cuuiUilsaion was has Just been appointed cashier In a economical of room Rolling doors are shown on almost all the opeulugs j Otago and Auckland, own root. This, however, would place j to sell 14.000 acres In Champaign Berlin bank.” — Meggendorfer Blaetter. d“ r* ca,n ** •«‘»turned If desired. Corrugated iron Is recom- coals occur In the two foi In jeopardy the little vitality the old County. He went out among the farm bi onW i u .,3 V T ’ th* W° ° d C0Tirln« ,0 whlch roofing Is attached may Westport mines producing T h e L im it . trunk has and for this reason met also ers of the State and when he found be only 1L, x 3 Inch strips spaced 20 to 24 In ch « on Renters. About forty scarcely equaled throughout with general opposition. "Is that a dry town?" one dissatisfied. Induced him to move. one squares will cover roof snd to give nicely proportioned building the Things went as tar aa the appoint He made It a rule never to misrepre "I should say so! It ts that dry that rafters exclusive of projections shou’ d be the same length- on both mar T h e R iv e r Jordan * I ment of a special commission of agri sent his properties, and the result was when they have opera they won't stand The historic ri ver Jordafl| t t P* ° f the I,0™ 6,' ° U,d b' 56 d* « - “ from the* h orlxontl Z cultural experts by the government. that In a few years he gained a tre for a singer with liquid note«. "—Bal origin in one of the iargeet i This body has discovered that the oaly mendous following throughout the Mid- timore America«. w oe,d°fc ^ e aU hoPu Pr ,2 W o ;n * “ ^ T° “ d aloni the world. A Post J D r iv e r . J INSPlrl J üi^ aaa SïïliÂklP Ui Mmm V I J J ft th if A T !