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| would advise all Western farmers to
ventilate their corn cribs well, and they
will have less spoiled corn. There are
annually thousands and thousands of
bushels of corn spoiled by not having the
cribs properly made, and by the want OF
ventilation. 1t is generally the practice
to make the floor of the cribs level, and
when the cribs are filled with corn, nine.
tenths of them will sag in the centre.
Then when heavy rain comes, the water
that is driven in the sides of the crib
will run to the centre, and warm weather
will cause the corn in the centre of the
CRIB to sprout, and when once started, it
Will depend altogether on the weather
when it will stop.
When building crib, in the first place
raise the floor in the centre of the crib
from to y inches, according to the
width, so that whatever water may run
In during a driving rain storm, will run
out Immediately. To make ventilation,
take four fence boards, six inches wide.
and as long as the height of the crib.
Make square tube by mailing these
together, and the ventilator is made.
Place as many of them in the centre of
the crib, at intervals from four to eight
feet apart, as are needed, according to
the width of the crib, and let the ends
OF the ventilator pipes go down through
the floor and up through the roof of the
crib, with rat and mice protectors on the
bottom, and storm protectors on the top.
Bore the ventilator full of small-sized
auger holes, so that the air that passes
through will penetrate to the centre of
the crib.-O. S. T., in Country Gentle
man
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the singular quality of making them
poor, and they should never be allowed to
eat it. If they are supplied with water
they will not eat snow. This treatment,
with very little variation and few ex-
ceptions, is the rule among farmers
The result is that millions of fowls die
annually of that scourge of poultry-the
cholera. Years ago the cholera was
dreaded As most fearful plague among
the human family. Towns and cities
were devastated by its ravages; but of
late years, by cleaning out the cess-pools
of filth in the cities, and by the proper
measures, it has lost its terrors.
Here lies the remedy for chicken
cholera-cleanliness and proper care.
This will do more to rid the country of
this plague than all the patent nostrums
in existence. With very little outlay
of money and time you can build a good,
comfortable house for your fowls. Let
it face the south, with windows to give
light and warmth when the sun shines.
Spend an hour each day in feeding, wa
tering and careing for your fowls. Keep
your house clean and well ventilated,
and you will have a plentiful supply of
eggs in winter as well as in summer, and
the time that you spend in the care of
your fowls will pay you larger per
cent. than any time you spend on the
farm.
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Wafer tor Stock.

In discussing the subject of shelter and
water for stock the Prairie Farmer re-
marks: "Stock should have water when
they want it, If driven to holes cut in
the ice once day, perhaps by some boy
or hired hand who feels little or no
interest in the well-being of the stock,
the master animals crowd forward, and
being filled, they there stand about the
holes, keeping the weaker ones away,
Then after while they are driven back.
1t is a wonder that many cattle shrink.
and have to be tailed up in the spring?
1t is indeed wonder that stock allowed
to drink only once a day from ice cold
water come through the winter in toler-
able condition? The wonder is how
animals SO treated survive the winter at
all. They generally lose about all the
flesh gained during the summer, and
have left in the spring only the frame
work to again build upon"
Every farmer should provide in some
way if possible SO that stock fed out of
doors may take water at will If this
cannot be done they should be driven to
water twice day. When water is easily
attained from wells, such water is alto
gether preferable for Stock. 1t is not
so cold as to chill them. Indeed, stock
will often refuse to drink pond water
when the surface is hard frozen, until
compelled by severe thirst. The reason
is, the water is so cold that it chills them
to the bone. The labor of pumping is
indeed considerable but a good wind
mill will obviate this difficulty. Thus
stock will be able to drink when they re.
quire it, or in any event it will be but
little trouble to drive them to water
after each feeding.
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FARM, GARDEN AND HOME.
The Entry of the Snow

BY DR.. ROBERT d. JOYCE: DEIRDRE."
But soon sll soft airs died and from between
The east and north strong wind blew full keen
For many day, and from the steely sky
The sun deceptive let his arrows fly
On bank and brake, and without heat 10 fall
zen gainst the gardens cleaning southern wall;
And colder still it blew, till one bright morn
1t luled lille upou the spreading thorn;
The held-fares bicsered at the ruddy haw
And loud the inches chirruped in the trees
While high DER all in blue, thin columns broke
From the tall chimney-tops the palace smoke,
All things shone crisp and cold till from the sea,
Between the east and north rose gradually
A great gray woody cloud that grew and grew
Noiuminous, till from the ether blue
1t blotted out The sun evenings hour,
And wrapt the ghostly garden, tree and bower,
In its thick folds obscure. Then from on high,
To earth slow sIdraling adown the sky,
The first great feathery snowaakes made their way
Till all the garden changed from black to gray,
From gray white. Then rose the wind again
From The fell north and growled against the pane
And round the house, and each successive blast
As the night fell grew stronger than the last,
Till, the great whales gathered in 4 shosl,
In some far bay anear the shining pole,
Gambol in thunder, while the waters boil
Around them like the Maelstrom'S whirling coil,
And high TO heaven the sheeted foam wreaths toss
50 that strong wind among the feathery floss
OF falling snow walled the Hvelcng night,
Tumultuous, till at length the morning light
Rose calm and clear, and upward sprang the sun,
And with his level beams serenely shOne
On the soft snow-rope that lay white and pure
Der glade and splendid hill and dazzling moor.
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Household Hints.

OYSTER PIE.-Line a buttered pud-
ding-dish with rich crust or puff paste
then fill it with crusts of bread or light
crackers; butter well the edges of your
dish cover this mock pie, with a thick
crust, making the edges very heavy, and
bake; stew the oysters; beat into them
at the last two eggs, and thicken with
cracker-crumbs; stew only five minutes,
and have them and the pie done at the
same time; lift up the top crust, pour in
the hot oysters; serve very hot.
/ BROILED SWEETBREADs. = Parboil
then cut them into pieces about half an
inch thick; dry them well; rub on
plenty of butter and broil on gridiron
turn them often until they are well
cooked; spread on little butter every
time they are turned to prevent them
from getting too dry.
ROAST TURKEY.-Pluck. SINCE, draw,
wipe thoroughly and truss fine turkey,
stuff it with plain forcemeat, pack it up
I in some thin slices of fat bacon, and over
that sheet of buttered paper; put in a
hot oven, basting frequently with butter.
/ A quarter of an hour before it is done,
remove the paper and slices of bacon.
/ Sprinkle with salt just before serving.
Garnish with pork sausages, and serve
with "A tureen of gravy. Time of roast
ing two to three hours, according to size
PLUM PUDDING.-Weigh out two
pounds of the best beef suet chopped as
finely as possible, and one and half
pounds of bread crumbs-made by rub
bling pieces of stale household bread
/ through wire sieve; put these with
half a pound of -four, into large bowl,
and work them well with the hand until
perfectly mixed. Pick some currants
and stone some raisins with the greatest
care. Take two pounds of each and mix
them IL to the bowl, then take One-half
! pound of mixed peel, chop it up small
and mix it with the rest; lastly mix in
one and half pounds of brown sugar.
Continue working the mixture with the
hand for some minutes and put it by.
Put fourteen fresh eggs in bowl (break-
ing each into cup first to ascertain that
it is fresh, and remove the speck), add to
them grated nutmeg, powdered ginger,
and powdered allspice, according to
taste, and large pinch of salt; then
stir in quart of milk; beat all up to-
! gether, and pour 1t gradually into the
other bowl, working the whole mixture
with the hand for some time. Continue
! to work it with wooden spoon for at
/ least half an hour. Scald two pudding
cloths, spread each in a bowl and dredge
them well with -four. Divide the compo-
sition into two equal parts, put each in
its cloth and tie up tightly. To boil the
pudding place two inverted plates in
saucepans filled with water, and when
the water boils fast put each pudding
into its saucepan. Let them boil four
hours, keeping the saucepans full by add
ing more water as tisrequired, and tax
ing care that it never ceases boiling.
Then take the buildings out, and hang
them up till the next day, when the cloth
of each pudding should be frightened and
tied afresh, and an hours boiling, as in
the first instance, will make them ready
for table. Serve with sprig of holly
stuck on the top, and plenty of rich
liquid sauce.
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Feeding Corn Stalks.

Perhaps the most satisfactory way in
which to prepare the corn stalks, is to
cut with a feed cutter as short as can be,
wet the mass down in bin of suitable
size one day, to be fed out the next
Enough water should be sprinkled over
the mass to thoroughly dampen 4, 50
that fermentation will sufficiently pro-
coed as to slightly soften and sweeten the
provender. Two bins will be necessary
to keep, the constant supply on hand.
This fed to stock kept in comfortable
quarters must be extremely profitable
compared with the old plan of feeding
the coarse stuff in the open field, subject
to the fearful storms of winter. Of
course this method is practicable in ex-
tremely cold weather only in a barn,
cellar or other frost-proof place. 1t will
add greatly to the value of the feed if a
little meal, bran or oil-cake is sprinkled
on the cut stalks and mixed in with them
before feeding.
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AnecdOte of Lincoln,


One day." said Mr.. Lincoln, 'whe1
| first came here, got into fit of mus
ing in my room, and stood resting my
elbows on the bureau Looking into the
glass, it struck me what an awfully ugly
man | was. The fact grew on me, and
made up my mind that | must be the
ugliest man in the world 1t so mad
dened me that | resolved, should | ever
see an uglier, | would shoot him at sight
Not long after this Andy -" (naming
lawyer presently came came to town
and the first time | saw him | said &c
myself, There's the man. Invent home
took down my gun, and prowled round
the streets waiting for him. He soon
came along. Halt, Andy said /, point.
ing my gun at him. Say your prayers,
for L m going TO shoot YOU
Why, Mr.. Lincoln, what's the mat.
ter? what have | done?''
g Well, | made an oath that if ever
saw man uglier than | am, I'd shoot
him on the spot. You are uglier, sure;
80 make ready TO die.
"' Mr.. Lincoln, do you really think
I'm uglier than you?'
Yes
:. Well, Mr.. Lincoln" replied Andy,
deliberately, and looking me squarely in
the face, 4" if / an any uglier. fre a,ody r'
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Fall PIOlVYhine

Land ploughed up in the fall and left
in the furrow will receive more or less
benefit from the rains and SHOWS of win
ter, and the chemical actions and frosts
will help to break down the hard Jumps
and render them fine and permeable to
air and moisture the following season.
There are, also, many kinds of noxious
insects which bury themselves in the
ground dnring the latter part of summer
or fall, where they may be found in their
natural or chrysalis stages All of these
are disturbed by the ploughing, and
those thrown upon the surface are likely
to be picked up by birds or destroyed by
exposure or cold.
Tough sward, which may be wanted
for corn or similar hard crops, may not
be desirable to plough up in the fall,
unless it is done early enough in the sea
son to insure the thorough and complete
decay of the sod before it is wanted for Il
crop the ensuing spring. But all other
land not occupied with crop may be
benefited by breaking up and exposing to
the frOsts and rains of winter. There is
no danger of working land over toe
much, or too often, in order to get it in
the very best possible condition for the
reception of seeds, and the general ne
glect to stir it enough costs the farmers OF
this country many millions of dollar
annually. Thorough preparation of the
soil is the exception to every genera
rule, and the low average of many of the
farm crops which are universally admit
ted to be well adapted to the soil and eli
( matp of tho I'nitnd States i q, If cipp
evidence of the fact-NetC York SIN.
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Curious Facts.
They eat monkey outlets in Rrs

They eat monkey outlets in Brazil.
At Logansport, Ind, the gas meters
register the consumption in dollars and
cents.
In California, trees occasionally make
$4,000 feet OF lumber, and no great
shakes" either.
A Jersey City man still insists that he
has got the principle of a successful fly
ing machine.
Among the Cheviot hills of Scotland
they boast of sheep whose wool will
measure IL inches long.
1t is said that quart of excellent oil
for burning purposes can be obtained
from four-quart measure for pumpkin
seeds.
One of the seyerest punishments in
tiicted upon criminals in Holland, up to
few years ago, was to deprive them of
salt.
The l4th of January has been found,
on striking an average for several wears,
to be the coolest day in twelve months
of the year.
1t Is said that fully one-half the popu-
latlon of the whole esrth are drinkers of
tea-the cup which cheers but not inc
briates.
In the town of Bergen, in Prussia. is
large, fine church, capable of holding
LOCO persons, constructed entirely of
papier mache.
1t is believed that between the wears
l6l4 and 1858, no japanese voluntarily
left his ocean-bound home. Two CEN
turtles is a long period
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Habits Of Disrespect in the Family.

One of the dangers of home life is
this habit of disrespect-that which is
beed by familiarity. People who are all
beauty and sunshine for a crowd of
strangers, for whom they have not the
slightest affection, and all ugliness and
gloom for their own, by whose love they
live. The pleasant little prettiness of
dress and personal adornment which
mark the desire to please, are put
on purely for the admiration of those
whose admiration goes for nothing, while
the house companions are treated only to
the ragged gowns and threadbare coat,
the tousled hair and stubby beard, which,
if marking the ease and comfort, or the
sans tacon of home, mark also the indif-
ference and diSrespect that do so much
damage TO the sweetness and dellcacy OF
daily life. And what is true of the dress
is still truer of the manners and tempers
of home, in both of which we often find
too that want of respect which seems to
run side by side with affection in the
custom of familiarity. 1t is a regretable
habit under any of its conditions, but
never mere so than when it invades the
home and endangers still more that
which is already too much endangered
by other things. Parents and bringers-
up do not pay enough attention to this in
the young. They allow habits OF diSre-
spect to be formed-rude, rough, inso-
lent and impatient, and salve over the
sore with the stereotyped excuse, "They
mean nothing by it, which, if they look
ut it Alright, is worse than no excuse at
all, for if they really donean nothing by
it, and their disrespect is not what it
seems TO be, the result of strong anger or
uncomfortable temper, but is merely Il
habit, then it ought to be conquered
without the loss of time, being merely a
manner that hurts all parties alike.
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Water and Cleanliness

These timely and sensible suggestions
are from the Poultry Reriec: perhaps
fowls in the farm yard suffer more for
want of pure water in winter than from
any other cause. In the summer thew
usually get plenty and do we'll enough.
but in our cold climate, when springs
and brooks are frozen solid, when tank,
and swili pals are no longer available,
then their daily allowance is entirely
cut off, and often for weeks and even
months, they do not get a drop of water.
They eat snow when it is to be had. and
they could do nothing worse, for this has
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sONNrE.
BY SUSAN NJ. sPALDISG.

The foolish bud would faiu become flower,
And faunt its heart out in the fair sunshine;
The ardent blossom, tTemulous on Its vine
Dreams only of fruitful hour.
Amber and amethyst. of royal dover,
The perfect, purple clusters hang, and pine
To pour their souls forth into perfumed wine
Impatient leaning from their sheltered bower.
o blind ones. All your blended stores Of scent
And subtle sweets to THO poor end are spent;
That man should idly quaf from sparkling glas.
Your dew and fire and spice; signing, while e'er
Your honey fingers on his lips " Alas
The bud, the bloom, the fruit! How sweet they
were"
!Sesi5Bey'S MyRthIy.
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True Economy,

1t has been found that the only true
economy is that which stops the little leaks
and saves in trifies. For instance, one
saves in milk, butter, eggs and flour by the
use of DooLEY's YEAST POWDER, which is
made from the purest cream-tartar, derived
from grape acid. Good housewives have
proved this by experience.
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brighten up at her approach.

STEDMAN, the poet, lived with his
family at Summit, n. j., through the
summer, and has not taken winter quar-
tiers vet. He comes to his Broadway
office daily, and attends as closely TO
business As though his nights were not
given to literary labor. But the double
work wears on him, and he shows its eff
fleets.
JUDGEGUILD, of Nashville, was one of
the militia officers, who received Lafay-
cite during his visit to that city in 1924
and this is the way the Judge describes
the Frenchman: Lafayette was a
stout, well-formed man, about five feet
ten inches high, and large head, a hazel
eye, sallew color, large fieshy nose, a
mouth well-formed, denoting firmness
and constancy, with long elephant-look-
ing ears
THEY tell good story of the poder-
Gus Senator David Davis. When Sena-
tor Maxey was speaking, the other day,
Davis left his own seat to get nearer the
Texas Senator. He took the chance of
one of the ordinary Senate chairs hold
ing him. The result was that he had nc
sooner got we'll seated in it than the cane
seat as we'll as the underpinning, gave
way, and dumped the distinguished Sena-
tor on the floor in Il very undignified
bundle
SIR GEORGE ROSE SARToRIUs, X. G..
B., aged IS years; Admiral Robert Pat
ton, 81; Admiral w. w. z. Johnson,
who entered the British navy in 1903
Vice Admiral Spencer Smith, who join
ed !. few weeks earlier; Commander
Francis Harris; Commander William
Weary, aged So, and Lieutenant Colonel
James Fynmore, of the Royal Marines,
are now the sole survivors of the battle
of Trafalgar.
COMMODORE CHARLES MORGAN, the
famous steamship man of the South
Atlantic and the Gulf of Mexico, now
owns tive-eights of the Texas Central
Railroad. He is over so years old. The
road and its rolling stock, its lands and
franchises, stretching from Houston to
Denison, a distance of 800 miles, with
branches of 100 more is valued at 500
100000. 1t will be worth $50, 0O0, 0OO
in a few years, but he will not own it
then.
THE Hayeses at church: " First comes
Mr.. Hayes, big, blonde, and ruddy, and
as he waves the ladies of the party into
the pew, we notice what beautifully fit
ting gray kid gloves he wears. Then
there is Mrs. Hayes, thoroughly we'll
dressed in the richest of black silk (and
we hear a lady, who had evidently ex-
pected something outre, whisper, why
her bonnet is as fashionable as anyonesp) !;
and lastly the presidents neice, who, be-
ing dark brunette, is becomingly at
tired in brocaded silk, of which the pre-
vailing hue is crimson.
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MILLIONS of bottles of BURNETT
COCAINE have been sold during the last
twenty years, in every civilized country,
and the people have rendered the verdict
that it is the cheapest and best Hair Dress
ing in the world
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A Singular Military Custom.

An old military custom has been re-
vived in the French army. Some time
ago an artilleryman of the Fourteenth
Regiment named Chassetiere lost his life
at a fire in Tarbes, while heroically en-
deavoring to save the life of his Captain.
The General commanding the division
has just ordered that the name of Chase
tere shall be called at the paradeS of his
corps every day for month, and that
the Brigadier in charge of his squad shall
answer, g Mort ca brdrer' This reminds
one of what was done in the case of La
tour dAuvergne, " first grenadier of
France" His name for years was sung
out at the morning roll call, and the
proud response was given 10y the senior
Sergeant, Dead on the field Of honorl"
HANDKERCHIEF Irritation Is very
simple thing. Il only requires two fools
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Mrs. General Sherman

Wife of the General of the United
States Army, says: az have frequently pur.
chased Durang's Rheumatic remedy for
friends suffering with Rheumatism, and in
every instance it worked like magic" Send
for circular to Helphenstine & Bentley,
Druggists. Washington, ID. c.
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Miss CLARA BARTON, whose services
in behalf of the Union soldiers was so
literally recompensed by congress, is Wis
iting Washington, and Mrs. Fasset is
painting her portrait.
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OF all the effects that exposure of the skin to
the air or sun produces the most disagreeabe is
called freckes, tan. If spread over the entire
surface of the parts exposed. 1T is called TAM II
scattered at intervals, freckles The finest skins
are most subject 10 them. The kALLlSTON,
prepared by Joseph Burnett & Co., Boston, con-
t;tins a peculiar erasive property which will re-
move these disagreeabe stains 1t is at the same
time perfectly harmless, allays all tendency to
Inflammation, and renders the complexion clear
and beautiful
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