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OUR Spring importation
OF Ostrich Feather Boas

Is now on sale. New, fresh, bcauti-
tn. 1 goods, made of choice, long
fiber feathers, extra full and f1uffy.
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Rubber Hot
Water Bottles

Should be in every family. Simple
and easy of application. Often pre-
vent severe sickness. The following
are special values:
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Reception Infants Po begun Monday continued today We'd
nesay Thursday and Friday Yesterday many came looked onpn
mened bought The exhibition interesting
Warmth comfort beauty every hand Decorations of lavender
and southern smiax, with palms plants
effective display of the choicest and pest gathering of Little Folks
Requisites shown Washington You'll enjoy sighsecond
floor, Tenth
Special display all the week. Cotton Linen Wash Dress sfs
comprising all best Paris London and American
fashions Hundreds Of dainty printed fabrics
Foreign homemade as one so far
artful elegance goes New thoughts, beauties mostly
prices. First hoor-Tentl
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MIR Hubert Delormes wonderful picture "The Blacksmith is
exhibition in our Art Gallery from daily Free to all
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In loving remembrance Of our
Geae Inathe-, ROSA BACkENH Elmer. who
died one year ago today, February IS. 1sa5
By HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
ODOR OF FEATHERS.
1t Is Due to Their Being Improperly OF
Hastily Cured.


Hastily Cured.
Properly cured feathers have no odor.
When there is a close, disagreeable odor
present, it is due to their being i'm
properly cured. There is no remedy
which we are aware of for this. Airing
the feathers will do no special good
The smaller the stem of the feather
the less danger of trouble. The odor
comes from the decay of the animal
matter in the pith OF the feather, and
the larger the stem the greater the pro-
portion of this matter and the more
likely to be trouble. Where feathers
have been subjected to the proper de-
gree of heat at the beginning before
decay takes place all the pith is thor
oughly dried out and cannot become
odorous Where the pith has once
been left to decay and infect the feath-
ers with its foul odor, a harm has been
done that cannot be completely undone.
1t is waste of time to attempt to disin-
feet such feathers. All feathers should
be "done over" at least once in six or
seven years. They are improved by
hanging them out occasionally in tho
rain and sun, to enable the ticks to be-
come thoroughly aired and cleaned.
Modern invention has introduced a
little modern ventilator in the side OF
the new pillows which pumps air
| among the feathers, and, it is said
makes the pillow lighter. 1t always
pays to buy the best feathers, because
they are so much lighter, that bulk for
| bulk the best are no dearer than the
poorest. 1t is generally cheap feathers
with coarse quilts that become odorous
N V Tribune.
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to the bottom, and b. gathered up as
often as necessary. The feeding square
is filled with sharp saEd, and grain is
given to the flock in this Enclosure, ex-
cept cooked food, which should be
placed in troughs to prevent them slop-
ping it about the floor Of the coop.
The house is ventilated by the small
holes bored in the side which consists
of a frame or trap do1r. This is placed
on hinges, being raised and lowered by
means of a strong cord when it is nee
essary. An upper story is reached by
ladder from the coop below, and is
found very useful for storage room
for grain, shop to work in or be used
for keeping pigeons or abbits in. This
is also ventilated well through the
upper cupola, which has similar win
dows on hinges, as described for the
main building.
The dimensions of This building can
be made to meet the net DIS of the build
er; this one is 35 feet I5ng, "a feet wide
and 21 feet high. The small cook house
lie 10 feet long, s feet high, and Z feet
wide. The yard is 80 by 35 feet wide.
and constructed of wire netting or lath-
ing fastened to locust posts.-John w.
Caughey, in Country Gentleman
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II your bottle be four inches high, then
your circle should measure IL inches
across. Stand the bottle exactly in the
middle of these two circles, take the paper
at the edge, still holding the bottle down
firmly in place with one hand, and draw
1T up round the bottle Arrange the full
ness to set as evenly as possible. then
secure it with wire around the neck.
Bend down the edges, which ut present
are standing upright, and pull out and
coax the paper SO that it sets like frill
and large gofferings around the mouth
of the bottle, as clearly shown by illus
tration- Arrange the paper tolerably
evenly, but not formally, and finally tie
n piece of colored ribbon over the wire
below the frill. Make smart bow, and,
if necessary, fit it with pin or a few
stitches. If the bottle is large enough
to allow of this, add spray of artificial
flowers starting from the middle of the
bow and trailing down the side of the
bottle. A pair of these bottles are a
great addition to the dressing table
Minneapolis Housekeeper.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
INTELLIGENT EFFORT.
Upon 1t Depends the Success of Every
Farmer in America.

Upon 1t Depends the Success of Every
Farmer in America.
A farmers success surely depends
upon effort, but in reckoning the value
of his effort, the quality is of greater
Importance than the other amount.
A little intelligent effort goes much
farther than great deal of misdirected
effort. There are here and there rugged
sons of toll who, having wrested wealth
from the forest and field by the might
of their brawny arms, are inclined to
beIittle other methods than those which
they employed, and to pooh-pooh at
what they call "new-fangled notions,
but times and conditions change, and
we must change with them The law
yer, the doctor, the preacher, the me-
chanic in every line, if he would
achieve the greatest success, studies
constantly and never fails to adopt
every good new thing he finds; would
the farmer belittle his vocation by say
ing it is so purely the work of drudgery
that there can be no improvement?
Certainly not; in hardly any other oc-
cupation of man is there such broad
field for the application of scientific
knowledge, such great opportunities
for constant and important improve
ments, and it is upon his ability to
make these Improvements his own,
that the farmers success depends
Farm News.
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FARM AND GARDEN.
EuPnoNuous NAMES

Every Wen-keps Farm should Have m
Appropriate Title.
One of the evidences of enterprise and
improved methods among farmers IS
the fact that many of them are giving
beautiful and significant names to their
farms, and then seeking by increased
Efforts to make the farm worthy of its
name, and one of which the proprietor
may be justly proud.
In front of every farmhouse there
should be an artistically painted board
bearing the name of the farm, also the
name of its proprietor, or manager. II
might also point the direction, and give
the distance, of the proprietor's post
Office town, and other nearby towns, II
desired, and thus become, also.
friendly guide-post" to strangers in
the vicinity.
Thousands Of pretty names, from
which any farmer may select an appro-
pirate one for his own home, may be
formed by combination of words. If
located in a timbered country, the name
may be based on a favorite kind of tree,
or the kind prevailing in the locality,
as Oakdale farm, Elmgrove, Cedardale,
etc. Or the name may be selected with
regard to the location of the farm rela-
tive to some nearby object If near a
| side farm, River View, Mountain View.
Lake View, Hillside, Hilltop, etc Or
| the name may be based on the proprie-
| tors favorite plant, or the one princi-
pally grown on his farm; as Cloverdale
| farm, Clover Leaf, Blue Grass, etc.
beautiful and suggestive farm names
| may be selected from thousand words
| CT from a combination of words, and
| each one can select one to his own HlI-
| ing
| The farmer who puts up his name
AND that of his farm in front of his
home proclaims thereby that he is not
| ashamed of the farm of which he Is
proprietor. 1t is a guarantee that his
| efforts shall be so directed that the ap
pearance of his home shall, as rapid
ly as he can do it, be made to consist
with it's beautiful name.
In addition to naming the farm, ths
residence, out buildings, lawns, etc.
should be put into repair. if needed
and a good photograph of the hom'
taken. Letter heads bearing the nam;
Of the farm, and also cut of the house
should be printed, and used by member.
| of the household in writing to friends
or on business. All these things woulc
stimulate a pride of home and farm
n:ent of farm methods, and in an in
crease of farm pleasures.-Journal o
i Agriculture.
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WOMAN AND HOME.
DAINTY BEDROOMS.

Quaint, Cool Apartments Furnished In
Blue and White.
White enamel bedroom sets nre as
fashionable as ever for the bedrooms
of country houses. The surface Is
either Of plain enamel with brass trim
mings, or with decorations OF Delft
blue in the form of little landscapes,
showing where pretty blue bridges
stretch over equally pretty blue streams
where there are boats on the water and
windmills by the shore, or bachelor
buttons are painted in clusters or scat
tered singly over each piece The blue
decorations may be conventional in de-
sign and take the form of empire
wreaths of leaves or flowers, or of
scrolls.
Often a few decorated pieces, a toilet
table and a chair or two, or perhaps
.cheval glass, may be the only decorated
pieces used with plain white set.
Again, the blue may only appear in the
wall paper or hangings, or in the mantel
ornaments and clock and lamp shades,
which may be of Delft blue and white.
The light through the globe-shades OF
Delft blue and white is particularly
pleasing when it lights up really good
little view of land and water. These
shades are, however, high priced. On
the lOw-pr1ced SndueS bnt uidWihS Is
very poor, and the boats ride in the
sky, and the windmills occur in most
impossible places and positions. These
blue and white shades look their best on
lamps of wrought iron. When blue and
white is not chosen for a bedroom,
green and white, old pinl. and white,
or violet and white are cool-looking
colors to put together. Often young
woman who can paint flowers well
decorates a window seat, a rocking
chair and a writing desk for herself.
Such a room is charming when the
decorations are violet and the white
wall paper is also scattered with the
same flowers, with many of them in a
festooned freize where there are many
green leaves. This extreme daintiness
of coloring should, however, only be
chosen for a room where the maids who
care for the house or the maiden who
occupies it has leisure to keep it i'm
anaculate. When light coloring is de-
sired, and white is not liked, curly birch
and bird's-eye maple are both used for
bedroom furniture. White Furnishings
have most opposite effects on different
persons. One woman who has a white
room finds it's glare tiresome, another
thinks it restful.-St. Louis Republic
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

Sheep kept in a thrifty condition
grow the most WOOL
To very considerable extent people
make for themselves the conditions of
life.
Even with the most carefully pre-
pared food the greater portion digested
goes to supply heat and energy.
Because poor sheep have light feeces
is not proof that fat sheep have heavy
ones.
Good stock, crops, fertility and in
dustry are essential items in good
farming.
When animals are allowed to run
down there is weakening of vitality,
and especially of the digestive organs.
As an animal grows fat it consumes
less in proportion to size, digests less
that is consumed and gives a less re-
turn.
Confning any farm animal in dark
quarters is injurious to it and, there
fore, more or less damaging to the
owner.
One of the reasons why many fail to
make farming as profitable as they
might is because of lack of attention
to details.
discard all of the old sows at one time
and supply their places with young
untried ones
The COW which will profitably con-
vert the largest amount of food into
rich milk or cream is the most profit
able to keep.-Farmers' Union.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
FEEDING THE PIGS.
Errors Made the First Three Days After |
Birth Are Fatal.

Birth Are Fatal
The first two or three days of the
pigs life is critical period. If a mis-
take is made by the feeder, the error
is fatal to success. On the first day
pure water only, with the chill taken
off, should be provided.
On the second day only a thin sloD
of wheat middlings must be given spar
izgIy, with care to give too little rather
than too much. A good SOW is a great
mixer, and if fed literally when the
pigs are small, they will not be able
to take all the milk, and the result is
a caked udder or fever and the conse-
auent drying up of the milk. After
the second day the feed can be grad
ually increased as the pigs are able to
take all the milk, and both sows and
pigs will thrive, and the pigs will grow
as no other live stock on farm grows.
In few days they will show by their
funny antics at play that they are feel
ing good, and are ready to make good
returns for all the feed the owner fur
nishes, provided he has the good sense
to feed just little less than the dam
will eat and thus keep her appetite
sharp and digestion good, with no risk
OF surfeit and consequent indigestion.
After every meal the trough should
be licked clean. If anything is left the
feed has been too heavy. No farmer
ought to own a brood sow who is not
observing enough to notice whether or
not any thing is left in the trough after
feeding.-Rural World.
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HONEY EXTRACTOR.
How to Make a Good One at Home at .
Trifing Expense.

How to Make Good One Home at .
TrifIng Expense.
For bee-keeper running from to 81
colonies, an extractor can be made for
about S1.25. Take four frames 10 by i:
inches, outside measure, 2 boards IL
inches wide, Is inches long; 1 board Fl
inches long, IL inches wide; sticks,
nails, barrel, 3 feet wire cloth and n
half days work. Nail two sticks about
5 inches long to the inside of the barrel
opposite each other and 4 inches from
the bottom of it, having notches in
them to receive cross bar, which make
about one-fourth by two inches. The
upright center piece for the basket
make by inches and feet long; borr.
2 1-inch holes through it 10 inches apart,
drive through two round sticks 81
inches long and that fit nicely. The
upright stick should be taPered off at
the bottom end and made round to 1
inch diameter near the top end for a
journal. A board inches wide and 5
inches long, with 2 or one-half-inch
holes bored in it and nailed to the
journal with wire nails, does very well
for a crank to turn by. Nail sticks
II inches long to the 17-inch boards and
~ inches thick, and bore 1-inch holes
three-fourths of an inch deep and 10
inches apart in each of them, and fl.
them on the ends of the round inch
sticks. Nail the IL by re- inch wire cloth
to the end of the board tightly and then
spring the boards apart and fasten
firmly to the spokes. Let the c1-inch
board cover one-half inch more than
half the top of the barrel and block
hook and staple to fasten it to the wall
firmly and box on the center upright
piece. The inside of the barrel should
be sandpapered and waxed.-R T..
Whiteside, in Farm and Home
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eight feet long, four feet in the ground
About six inches from the end that
goes into the ground, cat two notches,
two by four inches, on opposite sides of
the post; spike into these notches two
two by four pieces, about six or seven
feet long, and let about six inches pro-
ject past on one side, the remainder on
the other side. Dig the hole four feet
deep, and long enough (parallel with
the fence) to admit of the scantling,
with the long ends of the scantings from
the fence Get a large bowlder, the
larger the better, and place on these
scantlings, fill up with dirt, and lamp
well. also put in a brace parallel from
the first to the second post.
The cut will show what I mean: a
designates the scantling, the bowider,
c the brace, d the ratchets on the post
to hold the wires. End posts braced in
this manner cannot give the least bit
Rural New Yorker.
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AMONG THE POULTRY.

Healthy fowls pick up their food
quickly and relish it.
There is no gain in keeping ROSTERS
after the Matching season is over.
Generally the more active the breed
the less liability to fatten-
Ducks and geese require little grain
when they have plenty of grass.
Many poultry disorders are caused by
alternate gorging and starving.
Early layers depend upon the stock
and upon the way they are raised.
It is good plan when feeding whole
grain to fowls to scatter it out well.
Geese are at their best for breeding
after they have passed their third year.
Success in the poultry yard is not
so much in the Matching as in the feed
ing.
Ducks do not have the cholera, Group
or gapes, and hawks do not bother
them.
With all kinds of fowl, regularity of
feeding is of more importance than the
quality.
Fowls should not be confined more
than is necessary, unless they are being
fattened-
Kill off all poor layers, poor mothers
and imperfect specimens as soon as IN
a marketable condition
Young chicks have every little stor-
ing capacity. They need to eat fire.
quently or they viii suffer
Late Matched chickens should be wei.
fed and kept growing if possible I'm
less this can be done, they viii never
make large birds.
Little chicks require almost twice as
much food as little ducks, but they
grow very rapidly They should be fed
four or five times day. especially when
the growth is to be pushed.-St- Louis
Republic.
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1njudlciou. Feeding of Horses.

The effectiveness of working horses.
and especially on farms, is often inn
paired by injudicious feeding. The
subject is better understood than it
used to be, but there are yet far too
many instances of horses being put to
work with stomachs overloaded, and
vet not providing the nutriment needed
to give the muscular strength which
hard work always requires Hence the
horse is always slow in his gait and
soon tires out This overlooking the
stomach with unnutritious food Is
mainly due to the average farmers
dependence on hay as the staple and
cheapest food for horses Really, so
far as effectiveness goes, grain, and es-
pecially oats, are always cheaper than
hay Liverymen and those in cities who
keep horses soon discover this fact.
They have to buy all that their horses
eat, and learn to discriminate When
they feed hay exclusively they find that
the horse is incapacitated for fast OF
long driving on the road---Rural Worio
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TWO SWINE DISEASES.
How to Treat Animals Suffering frs
Thumpa OF Scoars-

How to Treat Animals Suffering fron
Thumps OF Scours-
In his address before a Wisconsin
institute, S. H. Todd gave the following
remedies and treatments for two COM
mon troubles in swine:
Thumps--Youa ask what to do for TT
say feed your brood SOW differently.
If you don't you are sure to have that
disease which has carried off so many
thousand pigs If you have the disease
sometimes it is good to apply coal oil on
the stomach of the pig, bathing him
thoroughly, and perhaps giving him a
little; another good thing is to give the
pigs exercise, and if they won't take It
themselves, go in with a little switch
and drive them out. But the best thing
is to prevent it, and very often it is
wisest to take a club and give them one
more thump and get out of it in that
way. If they wear the disease out the
pigs will never amount to much. We
are justified in keeping only the kind OF
pigs that will return to us the greatest
profit, according to the present market
price of pork.
Scours.-How many times we make a
mistake in not feeding the mother prop
erly, and the pigs get to securing, and
they are put back for a whole week Oh
more We must feed her very lightly,
and if the pigs do commence to scouI
give her a teaspoonful of copperas; dis
solve it in her slop; that will regulate
the whole business. After the pigs are
two or three weeks old provide placl
for them by themselves and begin tc
feed them. Here again don't make ths
mistake of having one of those v
shaped troughs unless you want YOU
pigs to have long noses and to wrangls
over their food and spill swill all Over
themselves. They want to be clean
that is their nature, but you have pre-
vented them from being SO. Let then
have little trough by themselves an'
have the feed as near like milk as yol
can make it. We use oilmeal and corn
! had rather use middlings than any
thing else, with a little oilmea1.
think that is the best pig food that w
can get. Make the food thin; use wa
ter, if you haven't milk.
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join; this forms a square; work d tire
drawn off together at the top on each
side of the square with ID CHI between !;
work CHI to form the first d tire.
Break off, make another center as be-
fore, but catch the first point to point
in first square, CHI, join to ch in first
square, CHI, make another point and
repeat with 10 oh between
The following squares have to be
Joined on two sides: When the required
length is made work on each side d c
into each space, L C into each point
and 1 d where the ch join. For knot
ted fringes pierce holes in the linen
close to the edge (Which should be
doubled as far as the insertion) by
means of a sewing machine, with the
needle not threaded; set the stitch
large Work into the holes dc with
loops of CHI between; into these loops
knot the fringe made of the same
thread used for working.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-07-25
Buckwheat as q Catch Crop.

Buckwheat is not raised extensively
in many sections Ia can, however, be
successfully grown as catch crop
Sow in June or July at the rate of two
to five pecks per acre broadcast 1t
viii grow on very poor soil If wheat
ripens early this year, which is prob
able, bucl1wheat can be sown on the
wheat field. 1t is cut with a self
binder and shocked and thrashed like
other small grains If bees are kept, the
buckwheat blossoms furnish excellent
honey, and by sowing at several differ
enr dates quite an extended honey
period is obtained During seasons
when clovers, etc, are not abundant
buckwheat as a bee pasture is impor-
tant.=New England Homestead
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smooth No. IL wire together to form
a cable, the size of the cable depending
upon the width of the stream ditch,
and fasten the ends securely at each
side, the last post of the fence answer
ing very well, if properly braced at
top and bottom. Then take branches
of Usage orange or other hard wood
and tie on the cable, using suficien:
number to make good fence. AS the
water rises the branches will float, and
when it goes down they will return
to their proper place. If hedge is not
available, bore holes in any kind of
poles and string them to the wire cable.
If heavy material is carried down by
the flood, light poles or boards are liable
to be broken, but hedge poles will stand
almost any treatment and are conse-
quently the best.-A- A. Berry, in Or
ange Judd Farmer.