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vill cause irritation

lowed to dry in, will cause irritation
and produce gals.
The collar should fit closely, with
sufficient space at the bottom to admit
your hand collar too small obstructs
the breathing, while one too large
will cramp and draw the shoulders into
an unnatural position, thus obstruct-
ing the circulation.
Never allow your horse to stand on
hot, fermenting manure, as this will
soften the hoofs and bring on diseases
of the feet, nor permit the old litter
to lie under the manger, as the gases
will taint his food and irritate his
lungs as we'll as his eyes.
Do not keep the hay over the stable,
as the gases from the manure and the
breath of the animal will make it un-
wholesome.
Kindness will do more than bru-
tality; therefore do not use harsh
lar ruage to your horse, or lash or kick
him. Bear in mind that he is very
intelligent and sensitive, willing SER
want, and deserving Of your kindest
treatment and thought.
Remember that horses are made
vicious by cruel treatment; that it is
speed which kills; that moro horses
are lame from bad shoelng than from
all other causes; that careless appli-
cation of the whip has blinded many
horses; that more fall from weariness
than from any other cause and that no
animal should ever be struck upon
the head.--New York World.
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Discovery Of a Noted Watering Place.

The Worcester (Mass.) Gazette re-
calls the fact that Professor Agassiz.
DR.. Howe, James Russell Lowell and
other companion spirits used to spend
their vacations together in some out
of-the-way unknown spot. DR.. Howe
had at one time a camp, log house
of some size, on Little Ampersand
Pond, in the Adirondacks, not many
miles from Martins, on the Lower
Saranac, but there was q four hours
carry through the woods. 1t was
small pond off the regular line OF boat
travel. 1t was the Agassiz- party
who discovered the little fishing viii
lage of Bar Har Dor, on Mount Desert
Island, with the ragged shore below
and Green Mountain looming up in
the near distance. rising as it does
almost out of the sea. This must have
been about the year 1858 or 1859.
Roberts little old red tavern was the
only imitation of on inn, and the ma
tives who owned the land were fisher
men and farmers, or little OF both.
An investment of few dollars in land
in those days would have been better
than Calumet and Hecla stock. The
Cam bridge men told their friends
about Mount Desert, and Bar Harbof
became in time the most popular
watering place on the coast.
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"Dinsbats.0

The Boston Journal gives various
theories as to the meaning of the
word "dingbats." One writer, who
spent his boyhood in Maine, thinks 1t
means to spank, because his mother
when getting ready to use the slipper
threatened to put the "dingbats" on
him. From Wilbraham Academy
comes the explanation that it means
the breakfast biscuit, which the
students dispose of by sticking it to
the under side OF tho table, throwing
it at tho heads of other students or
eating it. A Connecticut pupil states
that to receive punishment ut the
hands II the teacher is known as
''getting the dingbats." Two Phila-
delphians agree that 1t means money,
as In tho sentence eve got the ding
bats for it," But New Hampshire
agrees with Maine that it means
spanking, and so the majority appears
to side with the maternal slipper. 1t
ia from such ''little acorns" that the
tall tree OF our almost cosmopolitan
language has grown. wogot "blizzard"
from the West. "ku-klux" from the
South, 'boom" from tho ambitious
cities, "crank" from the eccentric
minds in every part Of the country.
"pantata" from Italy, aud ''chalitxa"
from Russia. "Dingbats" Is going to
he great convenience,
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-15
RICE CROQUETTEs.

Take half cup of rice, one pint of
milk, two tablespoonfuls of sugar,
three eggs, little grated lemon peel,
one tablespoonful of melted butter
and saltspoonful of salt. Soak the
rice three hours in water enough to
cover it. Drain almost dry and pour
in the milk. Stew in one saucepan set
in another of hot water, until the rice
is very tender. Add the sugar, butter
and salt and simmer ten minutes.
Whisk the eggs to froth and add
cautiously, taking the saucepan from
the fire while you whip them into
the mixture. Return to the stove and
stir while they thicken, not allowing
them to boil. Remove the saucepan
and add the grated lemon peel, then
turn upon well-greased dish to cool.
When cold and stiff, -four your hands
and roll into pear. shaped balls, dip in
beaten egg, then in fine cracker
crumbs and fry in lard. Croquettes
shoull be made some hours before
they are fried. New York World.
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FEEDING POTATOES TO SHEEP.

There is no doubt of the value of
the potato for feeding to sheep, but
as this animal has but :, weak diges-
tion, it will be advisable to cook
the potatoes for them, and add bran
to the food. The starch of the potato
is very indigestible when raw, and, as,
by cooking, the cells in which the
starch is contained are broken, and
the starch granules are swollen and
burst by the expansion caused by the
heat, the food thus prepared is fully
and easily digested. There is more
to lbe learned by experience in the
management of sheep than from
science, for this animal is peculiar and
always will be. and thus the results Of
feeding other animals upon certain
foods do not apply to sheep. So that
it is wise, when one has got q good
feeding ration for a flock, to avoid
changing it, unless by the most care
full preliminary experiments. But ex-
perience has shown that potatoes,
boiled until they are mealy, in conse-
quence of the rupture Of the starch,
cells, and fed with the usual ration of
bran--a pound for each full grown
sheep-with quart of potatoes not
broken up, have been both digestible
and nutritious-New York Times.
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Those who make Q business OF OBJ
literating evidence Of fistic encoun-
ters in the shape of black eyes by
painting the damaged optics no longer
enjoy monopoly OF such business.
This was told by a pugilistic ac-
quaintance whose experience entities
him to be regarded as an authority on
the subject.
Massage treatment Of the region
affected, he said "will beat paint and
raw beefsteak all hollow. But it should
be applied immediately after the in
jury is received in order to prove
thoroughly eficacious. 1t does not
require an expert to do it. All that
is necessary is to move the fingers
rapidly and firmly over the bruised
sur face, and to keep it up until the
last vestige of discoloration has dis.
appeared. The explanation ia easy.
Where the blow has been received the
blood becomes congested. 1t is the
clots of blood showing through the
transparent skin that produces the
black effect. The pressure OF the
fingers gradually loosens the clotted
blood, which passes off into the gen.
eral current of circulation, and fresh
and properly colored blood takes it's
place." !,
However. as rule, the professional
"pug" does not bother himself about
accelerating the disappearance OF q
black eye. It is sign which pro-
claims the fact that its proprietor has
recently filed an engagement, and as
such he is an object of envy to his
less fortunate brethren. 1t is the
man about town, whose overindulgence
occasionally causes him to forget that
discretion is the better part of valor,
who is apt to profit most by the
knowledge that massage, promptly ap-
piled, will remove the signs of mourn
ing from an eye that has been in vio-
lent contact with some other fellows
fist, and thus obviate the necessity OF
inventing story to account for it,
which, however ingenious, will be
sneered at by sceptical and incredulous
acquaintance, some of. whom may
have "been there themselves. New
York Herald.
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THE OxALIS.

Plants continually in blossom and
requiring the least care give the most
satisfaction, especially when they
bloom during the dreary months OF
winter. says Mrs. @. f. Underwood
The oxalis is the most useful, all rounl
window plant in cultivation, being SO
hardy it requires but n short rest anil
its bright green clover-like foliage is
seldom injured by sudden changes of
temperature. If partially frozen, II
dash of cold water will restore its
beauty. The mammoth oxalis hos
snowy foliage but not the hardy quail
tiles of the smaller variety and has
less profusion of bloom. The beauti-
full, delicate, star-shaped flowers
surprise one daily. They delight in
sunshine and turn toward il and for
this reason are frequently used as Il
window hanging plant. Its dropping
stems are graceful on small stand as
sitting room ornament. The pink
blossom is more common, the pure
white and yellow being rare. For
soil, chip dirt fertilized with common
liquid manure, or rich garden soil, is
adaptable, the tubers being planted
an inch below the surface. Give fire.
quent showerings. The common wood
sorrel is similar plant, easily pottel
and made to thrive, and hard to dis
tinguish from the cultivated variety.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-15
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

A little salt in the starch will usual
ly prevent its sticking when you go
to iron.
Always remember that silverware
when used to lift or as receptacle
for eggs will turn black, and a most
obstinate black to get of, too. Only
silver polish will remove it.
To glaze pastry, beat the yolk OF an
egg to froth, and when the pastry is
nearly done, brush with the yolk and
return to the oven to set the glaze,
but be careful not to let it stay too
long, as it will brown it unduly.
There is really use for old lemon
skins. After squeezing free of juice,
they are used to clean old brass and
copper. Rub them with soap and
then dip in fine ashes or polish. Rub
dry with q dry woolen cloth or a piece
of chamois.
Plaster casts in their natural state
are best freed from dust by covering
them with thick layer of starch.
When the starch is dry, brush
thoroughly with stiff brush, and it
will be found that the dust has been
removed with the starch.
A burning thirst may be cured by
taking good bath; likewise it often
cures headache, rests tired feet and
sweetens sour temper. Add to this
a change Of linen and of dress, and
you often find new creature. There
r., ,:-;Isuor 1;1,o xha 1~,kl
Zinc bath tubs and all copper and
tin kitchen utensils can be kept
in pristine brightness by occasionally
washing them with hot solution of
salt and vinegar. They must be thor
oughly rinsed In clear hot water i'm
mediately after the vinegar applica.
tion.
Tea tablets are one of my lady's re.
cent luxuries. Each tablet makes q
cup of tea strong enough to please
any one. Nearly fill cup with boil
ing water, drop in tablet, sugar and
cream if you wish. The result is de-
lightful, and is no trouble whatever.
Few things arc more directly con-
ducive to cold than the chilling Of the
feet, and to guard against it provide
the crocheted bedroom slippers for
each child. 1t takes vigilance and
constant reiteration to teach them to
wear them every time their shoes and
stockings are doffed. Warm and dry
feet in winter are the best preventive
OF colds that has yet been found.
Very few children are born blind,
out that it was usually brought about by
carelessness and ignorance. Children's
eyes are exposed to the bright light
all too soon. Everybody has got to
see the baby, and it is usually held up
in the glare of sunny window or q
light and admired at length. Measles
have time and again been the death of
eyesight and also neglected inAamma-
| tions.
An approved way to make black cof.
fee is TO put four tablespoonfuls OF
pure pulverized Mocha coffee in a
wa-m, dry coffee pot, and pour over
it graduallya pint OF boiling water.
Stand the pot in a balm Marie, or in a
saucepan OF boiling water, so that.
though the coffee gets thoroughly hot,
it still does not boil. When this cof-
fee has been poured through a strain
er ii is ready for use.-New York
Telegram.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-15
CONSUMPTION OF WHEAT.

The use of wheat for stock food
complicates the difficulty of determin-
ing the consumption of this grain. 1t
is calculated that in the West forty
per cent. of the hogs are being sup
piled this grain and that it is being also
fed in large quantities to all other
classes of stock. The practice is
spreading in the East in many Sec
tions, so that 1t would appear that the
farmers have themselves solved the
question what to with their surplus
wheat.
Wheat certainly is superior to corn
for growing animals, as it contains
about thirty per cent. more protein,
or tissue-building matter, than corn.
On the other hand, corn produces fat
and is the better food for finishing off
animals. The two grains are not
yeally rivals. The one serves as n
complement of the other. Farmers
will do we'll to study the feeding ques-
tion and learn how wheat can be most
profitably converted into animal pro
ducts. s.-New York World.
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M arch April May
Are the Best Months in Which to
Purify Your Blood
And the Best Blood Purifier is
Hoods SarsapariIIa
wl;o, Pur;fo. Vitalizes and Fnriches the BLOOD
Which Purfes. Vitalizes and Enriches the Blood

At this season everyone should take good
spring medicine. Your blood must be puri-
fed or you will be neglecting your health.
There Is cry from Nature for help, and un-
less there is prompt and satisfactory response
you will be liable to serious illness.
This demand can only be met by the puri-
flying, enriching and
Blood-vItaIizing
elements to be found in Hoods Sarsaparilla.
"My mother-in-law, Mrs. Elizabeth Wolfe,
at the age OF 70 years, was attacked with a
violent form of salt rheum it spread oil over
her body, and her hands and limbs We're
dreadful to look at. At the same time, my
little daughter Clara, who was just one year
old, was attacked by a similar disease, like
scrofula. It appeared in
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-15
KEROSENE EMULSION.

This formula for kerosene emul.
sion was given by a professor in one
of our agricultural colleges some years
ago, and I was requested to experiment
with it on greenhouse plants. I did
SO, with highly satisfactory results,
writes Eben 2. Rexford, in the Ladies'
Home Journal. It is made as follows: !:
Two quarts kerosene, one part slight
ly sour milk. Churn together until a
union OF milk and oil results. When
they unite a white, jelly.like substance
will be secured, which will mix readily
with water. Dilute this jelly with
eighteen or twenty times it's quantity
of water, and shower your plants thor
oughly. Soft leaved plants, like be-
gonias, primroses and gloxinias are
frequently injured by 1t, if applied in
the strength advised above; therefore,
it is we'll to dilute the application by
using at least thirty parts of water to
one of the Jelly.
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PROTECTION FOR SMALL ANIMALS.

If large and small cattle or hogs are
fed and housed together the smaller
animals will hardly thrive. They will
be whipped away from the trough and
get less than their share of the food;
and they will be driven around or
from the shelter, and the large ami
mails will scarcely profit from the mis-
fortunes of their smaller fellows, as
driving the others from feed and
shelter will "work off good part of
the flesh from the extra feeo. Some
times the smaller animals are seriously
injured and in the larger animals is
developed quarrelsome disposition
that is not desirable, to say the least.
Yet other Considerations make it a
bad plan to confne small and large
animals in the same enclosure. Much
better results will be secured by put
ting only few animals in the same
enclosure, and those of the same size.
New England Homestead.
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Cotton Wool in the NOstrils.

Says DR.. Z. 2. Mann in the Pacific
Medical Journal: "Abundant expert
ment long ago demonstrated that cot
ton wool was capable of arresting
germinal matter with which the air is
filed. BY placing within the nostriIs,
out of sight, a thin pledget of cotton,
not sufficiently dense to interfere with
free inspiration, the air may be greatly
purified. The cotton Immediately be-
comes moistened during expiration,
which adds materially to its efficiency
as a filter. That, thus placed, it will
arrest dust, particles of SCOT, ETC., may
be easily shown by introducing the
pledgets, and then, after an hours
walk through the streets, removing
them, when they will be found black
ened and soiled. NIicroscopical ex-
animation discloses quite museum
of germinal matter. Prominent among
the displays are found various forms
of catarrhal and bronchial secretion
that have been desiccated and pulver-
lied by passing feet, thus liberating
the germs which, planted upon con-
genial soil, will produce catarrh to
order"
The hoopskirt was in full feather in
1906. 1t was then made OF iron and
- l., l.. -.
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Food AdulteratiOn.

A recent Washington dispatch says
the Consul at Annaberg has reported
to the Department of State the result
of the investigations conducted by the
Society for the Prevention of the
Adulteration of Food in Saxony, show
ing that of 715 analyses made by the
chemist of the asso citation, 12S, or
179 per cent, showed Objectionable
adulterations. OF nine samples of
American dried fruits examined, eight
were found Objectionable. The fruit
had nice white color, but, as they
were dried on zine plates, they con-
tained the injurious substances of that
metal. While in former years they
were freely admitted to the market,
their sale has been prohibited during
the past year.
Oil of citron contained only an in
significant per cent. of the real oil,
the balance being other ingredients
and alcohol. Butter, particularly that
from Austrian dealers, contained CO.
coanut oil, sesame oil, tallow, etc.
Textile fabrics were dyed with pois
onous colors and wool stuffs showed
cotton admixtures up to eighty-fve
per cent. Spices with which meats
had been prepared contained tannin,
and sausages contained living para
sites. Fruit juices were colored with
chemicals. A sample of coffee was
found to be impregnated with animal
refuse. Rye flour was adulterated
with rice -four, and buckwheat with
starch. Bran WAS n composition of
wheat and rye, bran, sand dust and
mite eggs. Olive oil was found to be
nothing but grape seed oil perfumed
with rosemary oil, the adulteratiou
being so carefully done that expert
enced merchants could not detect it.
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aRooa1rNa FOR THE COWS.

Horses have much more often been
made pets than COWS have been. So
far as grooming goes the average COW
gets very little of it except what she
can do herself by rubbing her shoul-
ders and neck against the sides of the
stable in which she is confined. Try
a curry comb and brush on the cow
as we'll as on the horse. Unless the
COW is very thin the curry comb will
be liked even better than the brush.
The dirt in cows hair is always liable
to get into the milk p all, us it is
brushed out when the mixer rubs
against the animal in getting out of
the narrow stall.-Boston Cultivator.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-15
Hot Stuff.

Tho latest fad in tho North Is cups
made with small thermometers to tell
the temperature of the beverage, SO
that the man in hurry need not scald
his "innards." This is probably the
invention Of some victim OF hot coffee
at . railway station with ''ten min
utes" for lunch; or, may be. II is TO
satisfy the imbiber who shouts for rod
hot stuff. and Is liable to shoot the
mixer u he does not get IT. Now
Orleans Picayune.
Sullivan republican. [volume] (Laporte, Pa.) 1883-1896, 1895-03-15

Why shouldn't there be third party2 1t
is true they disturb the smooth running OF
the regular organizations and sometimes
overturn elections, but what is popular is
founded on merit AS for instance, among
ALI the remedies used for sprains and bruises,
st. Jacobs OH Is the most popular because it
is known to be the best f; hence 1t is the Pop
uist in medicine. The more because 1t
cures so promptly and surely. There Is no
cripplIng from sprain where this old remedy
is ,sed. 1t imparts new life and strength
and the pain vanishes. Truly it isa Popu-
l;ut
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greatly shortened. It also promotes the
secretion of an abundance of nourishment
for the child.
Mrs. DORA A. GUTHRIE, of Oakley, Oyvrton Co.,
Tenn, writes When began taking DR..
stand Oh my feet without suffering almost death
Now do all my housework. washing cooking,
sewing and everything for my family of eight.
Your Favorite Prescription Is the best to take
before confinement or ut least It proved SO with
me- / never suffered SO little with any Of my
children as did with my last"
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FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.


The Poultry Monthly tells of a man
who paid 1925 for one pair Of pigeons
recently.
Warm water two or three times a
day in the coldest weather helps solve
the egg problem.
There is hardly breed of fowls to.
day that does not have it's counterpart
in the bantam class.
An old horse dealer says: eff you
want to buy horse, don't believe
your own brother"
Don't wait until you build the big
barn before sheltering the COWS. Build
the shelter for them and they will
help you build the barn.
Breed we'll, and whent you have o
heifer calf as the result of such breed
ing feed well and train properly, and
you will have good COW.
Don't regard milch cattle solely as
machines, but remember that they
have some flesh and blood about them
that merits appropriate treatment.
There is no better crop for the win
ter feeding of sheep than oats and
peas mixed. It is very nutritious,
and is eaten with avidity by the
sheep.
Feed milk to the swine warm, and in
troughs that are free from ice or filth.
Add something to make up the loss of
butter fat, such as little corn or
barley meal.
Give carrots, turnips and other
juicy root feeds to horses plentifully
in winter. They will vary the monot-
ony of equine hard tack and they are
excellent for the digestion.
Give the fowls some litter to scratch
in. They will amuse themselves ifyou
only give them the necessary play
things, and busy hen generally
means healthy and laying one.
A pig is pig till it is year old.
Then it becomes hog. In classifca.
tion of fairs, however, when premium
is offered for SOW and pigs, it is un.
derstood that the pigs are to be under
six months old.
The exact temperature for looseuing
the hair from the skin of pig at
butchering is 1S0 degrees. The pig
should remain full minute in the
water at this temperature to give
time for the hair to be loosened.
The swine will respond in q profit
able way just as promptly to good
treatment us do the COWS to good care.
If, at the same time, the pigs have
dry, warm, healthful quarters, they
will grow as fast as in summer on
clover.
Pork represents money, just the
same as butter does, and if there is q
chance to make it out of the casein OF
milk, it should surely be done. With
this in view, doa't let your skinned
milk freeze, nor let it sour or ferment
in filthy tub or barrel.
In the East, at least, the pig pen is
natural concomitant of the dairy.
Through the utter neglect given to
these animals on many farms, pigs
cannot be successfully bed, and
every spring they must be purchased
of more painstaking breeders.
The bearing of few berries out OF
the season does not entitle fruit to
the name of ever-bearing, yet most
bearers seldom do more than
this. They are delusion and dis
appointment the ever-bearing rasp
berry and strawberry for instance.