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Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
HOME HINTS AND HELPS,

delicate Cream Biscuit. Add to two
quarts of flour one teaspoonful of but
ter or lard, one large teaspoonful OK
sugar, one small teaspoonful of salt
and two tablespoonfuls of yeast. Let
1t rise over night and in the morning
kncad lightly and bake in quick oven.
Ladies Home Journal.
Fruit Salad: Any leftover fruit,
either canned or fresh, may be used.
If two or three kinds all the better
Place layer, say of peaches cut fine,
then one of bananas, pears or other
fruit, with sprinkling of sugar for
each layer. Sprinkle the top with
grated cocoanut; pour over the juices
of the fruit if any. Prepare the night
before. Farm, Field and Fireside.
-Stewed Figs: Wash one pound of
figs, place in china-lined saucepan,
and add enough boiling water to cover
them, teaspoonful of treacle and
teaspoonful of fnely-chopped lemon
peel Cover over the sauce pan and let
the contents simmer till tender; serve
cold. The common figs do very nicely
for this dish, for they improve in size
and quality by stewing. Leeds Mer-
curry.
Pork Cake: One pound of fat pork,
freed from any lean and chopped fine.
Pour over the pork one-half pint of
boiling water, two cups of sugar one
cup OF molasses, one pound of raisins,
one half pound of currants, one-half
pound of citron, one teaspoon of soda,
one-half teaspoon each of nutmeg,
cloves, cinnamon, allspice, two or two
and one-half cups of -four; bake one
hour. -Housekeper.
flashed Cold Meat: Take your
bones and stew theni~in a little water
with an onion, some salt and pepper.
and, if you like, little savorv herbs;
when the goodness is all out of the
bones, and it tastes nice, thicllen the
gravy with teaspoonful of corn
starch, and if it is not very strong,
put in bit of butter, then place your
stew-pan on the hot hearth and put in
your slices of meat. Warm, but not
boil. Serve with toasted bread. Farm
and Fireside.
Potato Croquettes: Wash eight
large potatoes and roast them in the
oven. When done take out the insides
and mash them light and fine. Add
an ounce and half of butter, and
stir in seasoning of salt and white
pepper, little nutmeg and sprig of
parsley minced. Mix it we'll together
and bind with the yolks of two or
three eggs and the beaten white of
one. Make them into balls or cro-
quotes, roll in fine bread crum BIS
twice and fry in boiling fat. Drain
AID serve. Boston Budget.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
The Right Kind of Steers.

A writer in Farmers Advocate (Man.)
has this to say as to the best quality for
feeding steers: 1T appears to us it
would be profitable to farmers having
damaged wheat to put up as many
steers as could be properly handled and
feed them for next springs market
And we might just add word here:
Great care should be taken in selecting
steers to feed; don't select old oxen
or big, raw-boned, slab-sided three-year-
olds, with the hope of having something
big. OF course such stock would be
a big granary for damaged wheat, but
it is not the animal that can put most
wheat out of sight that will return
most profit. Select nice, smooth, uni
form two-year-olds, with good backs
and quarters, whose appearance shows
they have some breeding in them. Such
steers will make far better use of the
food given them and will return more
profit, even if they cost more money at
first"
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28

Fig. 5-Ground Plan, Second Design. W.,
windows; o, openings for fowls; r H,
roosting houses: S, sheds.
ing boxes to show against the partition,
the eggs can be gathered without en-
tering the pens.
The alley may be separated from
the pens by light board partition,
making the house warmer, or by slat
or wire partition. The pens should be
separated by "a broad partition for at
least three feet in height; the remain
ing distance can be of wire netting or
Stats.
Any carpenter can build this house,
or indeed anyone handy with tools.
The frame should be of spruce, the sid
ing of pine or hemlock. If the house
is not double boarded or papered,
matched boards should be used for COW
ering. The better way is to board up
with hemlock, cover this with tarred
paper of Neponset red roofing paper,
and then clapboard. But the clap
boards can be omitted if one doesn't
care for appearances.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
SELLING SURPLUS STOCK.

1t Should Be Done Before the Very Cold
Weather Sets In.
Unless the poultry-keeper has pure
bred stock and, desires to save his sur
plus to sell for breeding purposes, it is
just as well to get all that he intends To
dispose of in good condition as soon
as possible after the cold weather comes
on, and sell it at the market price.
When severe cold weather comes it is
pretty hard to make young chicks add
in weight very rapidly, unless they are
kept in an exceptionally warm place,
and it is not good economy to try to feed
them and keep them for later market,
for it usually shows no profit.
If young chickens are shut up in q
light and airy place, and given all the
corn-meal mush they will eat, with
plenty of pure water or milk to
drink, they will take on flesh very
rapidly for few days, and this
added weight is very profitably made.
1t will not take more than two weeks
to make them fat and plump by this
method, and they will be in the very
best condition for market and COM
mand the very highest prices. Old
fowls fed in this way will become load
ed with fat, and present such pleasing
appearance that they will be in demand
as soon as offered.
1t is not good policy to sell thin,
scraggy fowls at any time, and poul-
try should be fitted for market as care
fully as any other product of the farm.
Farm and Fireside. ,
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
SCIENCE IN FEEDING.
The Hen Deserves Much Thought ~
Other Farm Animals.

Tho Hen Deserves as Much Thought N
Other Farm Animals.
The science of feeding, says the New
York Times, is supposed to be based
on two elements, one the special neces-
sites of the animal, the other the
special elements in the food that may
be digested by the animal. In regard
to the feeding of cows, considerable
study has been given to this subject,
but not so with regard to the feeding
of other farm animals The hen, for
instance, is never thought of in this
light, but as far as her proportionate
value as productive animal goes, she
well deserves study of this kind. So il
is with the pig, for in it's value and
usefulness proportionately it comes
next to the hen and before the cow
that is, there is the most money, made
for the amount invested in hen than
from any other farm animal, and the
pig will easily stand next. Surely
there is reason, then, for studying the
manner of feeding these animals for
the preservation of health and for prod
uct as much as we study the feeding
OF cows for the same purpose.
The hen is the most productive ami
NAL in existence. When we'll fed she
will reproduce herself in embryo, at
least, more than 100 times, and in pro-
portion to the size of the animals, the
live produce of hen is much greater,
for counting the weight of her eggs
laid in year, it will be found that the
product is equivalent to four or five
times her own weight. This is as Il
the sow, in her two possible filters in
n year, gave birth to 400 pounds of
little pigs, while but a very small pro-
portion of sows have two filters. Thus
the feeding of a hen is to be studied,
and noted as profitable expenditure
of time and energy.
1t will be a timely thought just now
is not the common undue feeding OF
the poultry the cause of those preva-
lent diseases which they share with
the equally ill-fed swine, that are year
ly decimated by that disease known as
cholera-and which is directly attrib-
utable to excess of carbonaceous or
heat producing elements in the food.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
Excellent Tonic for Swine.

All swine kept in confinement seem
to require certain mineral elements to
counteract acidity of the stomach, and
unless supplied with something of the
kind lose appetite and cease to feed as
they should. While running on pasture
and having free access to the fresh soil
they do not need it to tho same extent,
but still should have it within reach.
The veteran breeder, A. C. Moore, of
Canton, H., makes it as follows: Three
bushels of wood ashes, one bushel of
charcoal pounded into small pieces, one
bushel of Stacked lime, one bushel of
salt, two pounds of Spanish brown, five
pounds of sulphur, half-pound of cop
peras and quarter-pound of saltpeter.
Pulverize the last two thoroughly, mix
in bin or box and keep in an open
trough, where the hogs can have free
access to it. tY
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
RENOvATING CLOTHES.
Exercise of Care Necessary In Making
New from Old.

Exercise of Care Necessary In Making
New from Old.
FIXING over is what many women
call knack, but it is really only the
exercise of care in sponging and turn.
ing goods and making new clothes out
of old.
Black silk dresses will stand more
making over and rejuvenatipg than
any other, and sponging and careful
pressing gives new life to this fabric,
If it is really of good quality.
There are many recipes for doing the
work, but spirits of ammonia swell
diluted is as good as can be wished.
Ale is also used, but you can seldom
gauge what quantity to take: the
least bit too much makes the silk
sticky and lends a very disagreeable
odor.
Black silks and all nice fabrics
should be sponged lengthwise on the
right side and ironed on the wrong
side, using a table or a board well
covered with flannel for the purpose.
Silks of ordinary coloring may 3e
washed with good soap and water,
rinsed without wringiug half dried,
and put between sheets or thin paper
to dry.
Alpacas and mohairs should be
sponged in warm water, adding tea
spoonful of borax to each pint. Cash
meres and wool goods of the same sort
should be washed in cold water, half a
teaspoonful of borax being added to
each pint and also little good soap -
b. Y. Mercury.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
SURPRISED HIS FRIENDS.
A Prominent Illinois Man Has q
Remarkable Experience.
The Story of the Wonderful Change In
MIR. Shepherds Condition.

MIR. Shepherds Condition.
From the Paragraph. Bloomington, III
Mr.. A. A. Shepherd, prominent and re-
sponsible citizen of Lytleville, Mclean
county, Illinois, was taken down with rheu-
matism about five years ago. He suffered
with terrible pains in his hips and Mt times,
when he was able to walk, would fall down
when taken with the severe pains. He also
had very severe pains in the region of his
heart and at times thought he surely would
die. He tried number of good physicians
but could get no permanent relief. At times
he was down in bed and could not turn him
self without help. Was not able 30 work any
to amount to anything for five years or
more. But now his neighbors and friends
are surprised to see him stout and hearty
and able to work. In fact he has worked
all the present season and worked hard and
feels we'll He has a number of men at work
in the woods this summer getting out cooper
material and he has not only overseen their
work but has worked with them all the time
Some time last fall while he was suffering
so his wife's attention was called to q Won
derful cure of case of rheumatism by DIR.
Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, and
while in Heyworth one day she stepped into
the drug store Of Mr.. +. II. Hill and pur-
chased two boxes of the pills. After he
commenced taking them the pains left his
limbs, all the pains disappeared from his
heart and he began to improve at once. He
can cheerfully recommend them to any one
afficted as he was. Mr., Hill, the druggist,
said:
81 have several customers using the VIII
liams' Pink Pills for Pale People for the re-
lief and cure of rheumatism, among whom
is A. A. Shepherd, whose case has been one
of unusual interest and Pink Pills have
surely performed wonderful change in his
condition +. Ii. HILL, Druggist
Dr. Williams Pink Pills contain all the
elements necessary to give new life and
richness to the blood and restore shattered
nerves. They are sold in boxes (never in
loose form, by the dozen or hundred) at 80
cents a box, or six boxes for $50, and may
be had of all druggists or directly by mail
from DR.. Williams Medicine Company,
Schenectady, N. Y.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
DRESSY WAISTS.
Plaid and Striped Silk May BE Used to
Good Advantage.

Plaid and Striped Silk May Be Used to
Good Advantage.
Plaid or striped silk may be used to
advantage on round waist laid in a
wide center box-plait and narrower
plat on each aide. The narrow plat
is studded with three small steel but
tons just below the shoulder and three
more half way to the belt. Then
second cluster is placed in front of the
one on the plait. Square epaulettes
pointed at the outward corner are set
under the side plat, and passing over
the shoulder, are shaped in the back
as in the front. The crush ucollar
fastens on the side, having two frilled
ends meeting on each side. The crush
belt ties on the left side in handker.
chief knot, which consists of two
pointed ends tied in knot, with one
on top and the other down diagonally
against the wearer. A perfectly
plain waist may be remodeled
by adding crush collar and
belt of fancy silk, also a wide,
double box-plait down the GEN.
ter, allowing it to drop little over
the belt. On each side of the plat
place fan of lace eight inches deep,
one long edge running under the bot
tom of the waist line all around, leav-
ing the center front open so as to form
a and narrow space below. The
fronts cut to fasten with poiLted end
and buckled at the waist line and
three inches above the straps or ends
and buckles, and above them are large
revers and rolling collar of brown
and blue striped silk cut on the bias
80 as to bring the stripes diagonal. A
crush collar and plastron shirred at
the neck are of plain blue silk match
ing the stripe, and shows to the waist
line. The sleeves are in full puff to
the elbow and close in fit below. The
skirt, of mixed blue, brown and black,
has the usual close-fitting front and
side that are fitted with few gathers
in place of darts; it is five yards wide,
interlined ten inches deep, with stiffen.
ing, and laid in two box-plaits at the
top that flare toward the lower edge
Chicago Press.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28

Fig. +Front Of House, Second Design
The dark divisions are open scratching
pens, the yard fence extending through
them as far back as the alley.
The second is much more expensive
than the first, but better results can
be obtained from the fowls. The house
for the accommodation of 200 fowls in
this second design will be about twice
the length of the house in the other
plan, and will cost fully twice as much.
In either plan, by emitting the bot
tom board between the alley and the
pens for part of the distance and leav-
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
A GOOD GRAIN SIEVE.

toms may be used and thus choice
made in the size of the mesh to use with
any particular grain or beans, peas,
etc. 1t will pay to use mesh coarse
enough to permit ali small and inferior
kernels of grain to fall through with
the weed seed. Then only the best and
most vigorous kernels will be sowed.
Such selection of the best seed year
after year will bring up the quality Of
the grain wonderfully. = American
Agriculturist.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
SORTING SEED GRAIN.

A Method of Sitting Whick Is Sure to
Give Good Results.
AS long as it remains true that as a
man sows so shall he reap, it behooves
him to get all foul weed seed out of
his seed grain. Some practice "swim-
ming" it out, but the heaviest seeds
will not float-only the seed pods of
weeds and the lighter stuff. Better
sift the wild seed out, and the illustra-
ton shows how to do it easily and
quickly. Removable wire mesh bot
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
Great Reduction in Time to california.

Great Reduction in limo to California,
Once more the North Western. Line has
reduced the time of its trans-continental
trains, and the journey from Chicago to
California via this popular route is now
made in tho marvelously short time of
three days. Palace Drawing-Room Sleep
ing cars leave Chicago daily, and run
through to San Francisco and Los Angeles
without change, and all meals en- route are
served In Dining cars. Daily Tourist Sleep
ing car service ia also maintained by this
line between Chicago and San Francisco
and Los Angeles, completely equipped
berths in upholstered Tourist Sleepers be-
ing furnished at cost OF only $500 each
from Chicago to the Pacific Coast Through
trains leave Chicago for California at 200
p. m aud l045 p. IN. daily, after arrival of
trains OF connecting lines from the East and
South.
For detailed information oncernlngrates,
routes, etc, apply to ticket agents of con-
Meeting lines or address:
w. d. KNIsKERN, G. p. & T. A., Chicago.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
POULTRY HOUSE PLAN.
Designed to House Two Hundred Birds
the Yppr Around.

Designed to House Two Hundred Birds
the Year Around.
Can you give me a plan for a poultry
house for a single breed, to house In both
winter and summer about 200 fowl-some-
thing that is easily kept clean, with as lit
tie space as possible for vermin to collect,
and for practical use only. not for orna-
nient?
Two plans are suggested by the Coun-
try Gentleman in response to the above
inquiry. In design one we have a
house 100 feet in length, divided into
ten pens, each ten by ten feet, and in
tended to accommodate 20 fowls. At
the rear of the pens is an alley extend
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
A Peculiar Accident.

Dr.. w. A. Wall, well-known phys;-
clan, late of Morristown, Tenn, while
walking down one of the streets of Crab
Orchard Springs, KY, was run into by
james Jones, ii citizen of that place. a
pistol fell from Jones pocket and was
discharged by contact with the side
walk. The ball entered the lower part
of DIR. Wallis body, penetrating the
heart and causing instant death.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
PLIGHT OF A KENTUCKY VOTER.
Casts Popuiist Ballot by Mistake, and Is
Dying OF Grief.

Dying OF Grief.
On election day Wesley Mines, re-
publican Mt Kinney precinct, lost
his vote by placing the mark under the
,populist device of phoenix, mistaking
it for an eagle, not knowing that the
republican device had been changed to
a log cabin. When he discovered his
mistake, after depositing his ballot, he
pleaded to have the ballot back. When
informed that this was impossible he
began weeping Historically. He went
home and took to his bed, where he has
laid moaning ever since. he refuses
nourishment, and it is thought that his
mind is permanently impaired. His
health has been very poor for Il long
time.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
LAND SEEKERS EXCURSION.
November 10th and December 3rd and
18th.

NUFVHIUVr IUIH mo DeCethDVF 5rU ma
18th.
On the above dates the Big Four Route
in connection with the Chesapeake and Ohio
Ry. will sell round trip tickets from all
west to all points in Virginia Except east Of
Gordonsville on Washington Division) and
North Carolina ut one fare with two dollars
added. Tickets good thirty days returning
and good for stopover. In Virginia they
have no droughts, no billiards, cheap i'm
proved farms and tho best markets In the
country Send for free descriptive pamph-
let, rates, etc. U. l.. Truitt, N. w. Z. A..
234 Clark ST., Chicago.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
oregon,s Growing Fruit-1ndu,try.

The fruit-growing industry in Ore
gon is growing very rapidly. The state
secretary of horticulture estimates that
this fall there are So, 900 acres of pears,
peaches, apples and such kinds of fruit
in the state; $4,000 acres of prunes and
1900 acres of berries.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28

Fig. 3-Y, yard; W, window; o, opening for
exit and entrance of fowls; A, alley
three feet wide extending whole length
of building with door at each end; x,
partition of Stats or wire having doors
at d; r, roosts; n, nests.
base, IA feet rafters, at the right door
six feet six inches high and two feet
six inches wide; figure three the
ground plan.
In the second design we have modi-
fication of the first (shown in Figs.
4 and 81, an open scratching shed be-
ing provided for the fowls. In all
other respects the two houses are alike.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28

Somebody has advanced the theory
that dogs are injurious to some crops,
because where there are dogs cats will
not rove over the premises and catch
mice. It's pretty far-fetched theory.
Farmers Voice.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
Albumin and enc south.

The Chicago and Eastern Illinois r. r. win
during the timeof the Exposition at Atlanta
Sept Is, TO Dec. 81, 1873, offer exceptionally
fine service between Chicago and the South.
A low rate ticket will be sold, and, through
cars run to all southern points This Is b5
miles the shortest route TO Atlanta, Chatta-
nooga and the South
For guide to Atlanta and the Exposition
address G. W. Humphrey Northwestern
Passenger Agent, st. Paul, Mimi, or City
Ticket ONCE $50 Clark ST., Chicago. Charles
Il. Stone, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
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1T BEATS THEM ALL.

"a Hours Chicago to Atlanta Via Cincin-
cipnati. Kentucky Blue Grass Region
and Chattanooga.
The popular Big Four Route has, in con-
nection with the Queen y Crescent, and
Southern Railway, established fast
schedule between Chicago and Atlanta
leaving Chicago at 10 o'clock noon, arriving
at Atlanta at ~ o'clock noon the next day.
This is by far tlre best and quickest line
from Chicago and the Northwest TO Atlanta
and the South. Send for time cards, rates.
ETC., to j. q. Tucker, q, N. A., 234 Clark
street, Chicago.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28

GILLIAN" he said, severely, to the new
woman, "did you mail that letter / gave
you this morning9" And then she put her
hand in the inside pocket of her overcoat
started, got red in the face and almost
wished that she had never been emanci-
pated -Washinpton Star.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
Lake In the Clouds.

Green lake, Colorado, is said to be the
most elevated body of water in he
world, having an altitude OF 1882 ieet
anove sea level.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28

IT BEGAN life without a cent in my
pocket" said the purse-proud man to an
acquaintance 81 didn'teven have pockets
replied the latter, meekly.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28

The Fiercest Beast OF Prcy.
The white dawn DER the sleeping forest
rose,
And woke each beast ana bird to feed or
play;
To pass. in Natures temple of repose,
Their happy. harmless day.
When. crashing onward through the thick
cts dun,
And strong with dreadful arts to MAIN
and slay,
Took man. the hunter. with his dogs and
gun,
His devastating way.
Fear went before him with her visage wan,
And each beast owned his dread and ruth
less sway
All Natures children fed the face of man,
The fiercest beast of prey.
Reginald GoLrlay, In Century.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
Long Words.

The longest word in the dictionary is
pnlatopharingeolaryngeal. The next
longest is transubstant;ational
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
Schiller Theater.

For threeweel1s, beginning Nov. IS, Gustave
Frohman will present Marie Hubert, sup
ported by a specially engaged company In
'The Witch" New scenery and costumes.
Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1895-11-28
le Q Q = .

ing the whole length of the building,
three feet in width, and having door
at each end. Such an alley is very
great convenience in cleaning and feed
ing. The house is IL feet high in front,
seven feet in the rear, and is designed