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between thirty and forty miles ii i
day and are to be built So as Is be
trim manageable and not at ali cum cum
sb 'lE1''1 " In appearance. The looks Of d
vehicle ~ 'ndt9 has much to do with its sue
cess, and the problem Of the automo-
bile 5i'll' Will never be satisfactorily solved
until " the carriage is light looking and
a s1, 9 ctive, as well as useful and relia-
PIC. The railroad cabs are to be put
on s.,. trial Tor six months; the dynamos
belonging e' TO the: station will be used for
icnar ,s the accumulators which run
the 1,i' carriages. AS the electric plant is
used principally for illuminating and
y, therefore. not at all taxed during
Inc hours of daylight, it can very well
spare the power to propel these new
vehicles.
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An Irr1Eating Canal.

The problem ofS2irrigation has, to
some extent, been solved in some of
the Oriental countries, but is far from
proving satisfactory in our own land.
One of the greatest feats in civil en-
cheering is said to be the irrigating
canal in Northwest India. The main
canal is nearly 500 miles long, the prin-
cipal branches are about 1000 miles
long and those that embrace the vii
lagos along the line will amount to
something over 1000 miles in addition.
The Bengal canal is over 900 miles
long. India is remarkable for it's tre-
mendous irrigation system, there being
in all something like $4,000 miles of
canals used for this purpose. They
supply water, too, and render more or
less fertile something like 100000
acres Of land.
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Another weather cycle.

Statistics are presented in a recent
number Of Nature which tend to sup
port the conclusions Of Doctor Bruck-
ner that there is a regular cycle, OF
about thtrty-fve years, in the course
of which the earth experiences a
change Of weather from cold and wet
period, through a hot and dry period
back to cold and wet period again
According to these statistics We are
now in one OF the comparatively dry
periods, but early in the twentieth
century the condition OF things vii
be reversed, and the wet years vii
soutnumber the dry ones.
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will not be lines of telegraph wires
stretching across country and making
the distant sky look like music chart.
Wireless telegraphy IS coming in.
Already on the Isle Of Wight they
have wireless telegraphy plant. Mes
sages leap from a pole like this one at
Alum bay, fourteen miles through
space, to Bournemouth. n
0 "A man named Marconi is responsible
for the wireless system OF telegraphy.
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How to Distinguish Old Hens.

From an article by Mr.. Edward
Brown, F. L. S., a renowned author and
authority on poultry matters in Great
Britain, condense the following:
Fowls should be killed off after they
nave completed their second year.
Birds may be marked so as to be easily
distinguished by putting ring on one
leg when they are pullets. The best
time Is when pullets are from five to
SIX months old. A round india rubber
such as those used for umbrellas, or
a ring OF copper or any soft flexible
metal, is suitable. The ring should
be put on to fit fairly close, but not
tig-: enough to injure the leg. An ex-
animation should be made of every
fowl q, fortnight after the ring has been
put on. In order to distinguish be-
Tween the fowls one and two years old,
is a good plan to put the rings on
the left legs only In one year, and the
rings on the right legs only next year,
and so on in the alternate years. If
the rings are put on the right legs in
1893, then all hens in the flock with
rings on the right legs will be ready
for killing in 1900. If the rings are put
on the left legs in the autumn of 1899,
then those hens will be ready for kill
ing il the autumn of 1901. It is desir-
able that written record should be
made Of the facts, as the memory is apt
to be faulty. The advantage to the
poultry keeper from marking the fowls
far more than compensates for the
trouble which is involved.-Report of
Com. of Agriculture and Dairying,
Dominion Of Canada
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DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR
ESss. OUR URALREADERS. r5.a
How Successful Farmers Operate This
, Department Of the Farm A Few
Hints as to the Care of Live Stock
and Poultry. - *<s y. "a
A Tln-Can Drinking Fountain.

"A A1n-Can Drinking Fountain. y
A drinking can, or fountain, should
oe SO constructed as to prevent the
chicks from getting their bodies wet,
says Mirror and Farmer. Many de-
signs nave been given, but one plan is
TO take tomato can and set the
end that has been opened on hot
stove, until the solder around the top
<or rather the end on the stove), be-
comes melted, then, with a poker, or
something else, knock off the remain
Ing top before it cools. There will
tnen be good, smooth edge. Now
make two holes, about one-half inch in
diameter, close to this top edge. Then
take pressed tin pan with bottom
little larger over than the tomato
can. Fill the can full Of water, and
put the pan over this, bottom up. Next,
with one hand on top and one hand on
the bottom, quickly turn the fountain
the other end up. This can be done
without spilling more than teaspoon
tul. The sides of the pan should be
one and one-half inches high and not
more than one-half an inch more
across the bottom than the tomato can.
: The faring sides Of the pan allow the
chickens and small ducks to get all
the water they should have. This would
also be good arrangement for pig
cons. Pressed tins are better than SOL
dered ones, as they are not so liable
to rust, and cost only four or five
cents. To make the holes put a stick
OF wood in the can, then punch hole,
and ream it out with file until large
enough. 1t is amusing to observe
small ducks try to get into this dish,
as they can get but one foot in at a
time.
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Isl IE N Z / ri G Z OPTICS
CURRENT NOTES OF DIscov.
ERYs AND INVENTION H


AN Economical Use Of Water Power.
One4of the neatest and most econom-
ical power plants in the country is
constructed on a plan furnished by a
practical farmer. There is a good
spring on his premises, but 1t lays too
low to be available for his dwelling
and farm buildings. The city water
pipe passes his door ard this has been
tapped to furnish water power. A
stream not larger than an ordinary
knitting needle turns little motor
that operates small pump, the con-
tlnual working of which fills tank
that furnishes water for the entire
establishment. When a small amount
OF water is used and the tank fills to a
certain line there Is an automatic shut
on tb:t stops the water. Renewed use
allows the valve to open, when the
pump again begins working. One
farmer has a most admirable arrange
ment for water supply based on this
principle. An enormous pipe of iron
Is placed upon end in deep hole pre-
pared to receive it. The bottom of
this is Portland cement and through
this floor pipes pass out through
which the water is furnished to the
buildings. One length Of this pipe is
entirely below the ground and is
walled up with stone and cement,
While above the ground Is another
length OF pipe similarly protected by
a stone casing. Small steps in the
wall give access to. the top Of the pipe,
which Is closely covered. These
lengths of pipe are each twelve feet
long and about six feet in diameter
and are placed on an elevation some
distance above the farm buildings.
The city water furnishes the power for
pumping, and the tank is ample to sup
ply not only the necessary water for
farm and domestic use, but also the
power required in the barns and dairy,
cutting feed, working the churn and
the like. The cost of such an arrange
ment is inconsiderable when its value
as saving in labor is taken into &C.
count.
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How Food Inf1uencaa Milk.

Prof. H. H. Wing, Of Cornell Uni
versity, writing to the Rural New
Yorker on this subject, says: There is
no doubt that the flavor of milk is
largely Influenced by the food that the
COW eats. Ensilage, corn meal, beets
clover, turnips, onions, grass, all exert
an influence upon the flavor of the
milk, varying in intensity under vari-
GUS conditions. The flavor of some
OF these foods is always liked, while
a few, and among them ensilage, i'm
part f1avors that are sometimes OBJ
jected to and sometimes not. This OBJ
lection may or may not be due to an
unreasoning prejudice; 1t is an impor-
tant commercial factor. If man dis
likes a thing, he will not buy it even
though it's intrinsic value be unim-
paired. I do not know that milk
strongly tainted with garlic is not just
as good for food as that most deli
cately favored with the finest grasses,
but it is unstable, and the same
holds with ensilage to those to whom
it is Objectionable. It is not probable
that the ensilage flavor is absorbed by
the milk after it is drawn, if the latter
is removed from the stable while still
warm; but it is possible that the odor
inhaled through the lungs of the ami
NAL may be diffused through the body,
and so reach the milk. II the ensilage
is of good quality, it the barn is kept
reasonably free of the odor, and If the
cows are fed Immediately after milk
ing, the amount of ensilage flavor I'M
parted to the milk ought not to be OBJ
jectionable to the reasonable consumer.
That there are unreasonable consumers
is undoubted, but let us hope that they
will either discover reason or have
to pay good round premium for their
milk. @Ta i a s15E j.. sS:5..sz r & S$
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DigestibflitY Of Cold Food.

1t is impossible to digest articles of
food until they are raised to a mod
srate1y high temperature. Much of the
Illness prevalent in summer would be
avoided If people ate warm food, as
they do in winter. Delicate persons,
especially, should avoid cold dishes and
drinks. They are extremely taxing to
The digestive powers, and a great draft
on the vitality. The human system
has just SO much power in reserve and
II this is exhausted in warming up the
large amount of cold food that is taken
left to carry on the other processes of
existence. A physician Of wide expe-
rience says that for forty five years he
has scarcely had a days illness or an
hours pain, and this exemption from
suffering he attributes to an unvarying
practice of taking plate of hot soup
three or four times a day, winter and
summer. His practice is largely metro
politan, and if he is tired or overtaxed
he makes it his imperative duty to visit
the nearest first-class hotel and get a
dish of the best soup he can find. He
frequently takes it without accompa-
niment of any sort; occasionally a
cracker or roll is eaten at the same
time. This man declares that, all
things being equal, he will stake his
reputation on the theory that nine
tenths Of the intestinal troubles of the
summer season could be avoided by
the systematic and frequent use of hot
beverages, or what is better, dishes of
soup eaten as hot as they can be rel
ished.
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Lighted by Vacuum Tubes.

At the recent electrical exhibition in
New York small Gothic chapel was
Illuminated solely by means of a sys.
tenn of vacuum tubes, the invention Of
Mr.. D. Farland Moore. The tubes,
as the accompanying, picture copied
from the Scientific American shows,
were arranged overhead, being bent to
follow the curves of the ceiling arches.
The tubes were about two inches :. in
diameter. The light was soft, and in
color resembled daylight. It was
without perceptible heat. The system
is adapted to the electric circuits now
in use.% 'f$%St-
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Utilizing a Broken Bottle,

we give somewhat unique way OF
utA11zins a broken bottle. But even
you do not care to make a practical
use OF the suggestion, you will find
II an interesting experiment in the
study of heat.
- w men the neck Of bottle is broken
on, a ragged edge is left, which wholly
UNITS the bottle for any use whatever,
except to be thrown on the ash-heap.
Let US see how we may save it from
that melancholy fate.
Place the bottom part Of the broken
bottle on a table and pour oil into it
until 1t reaches the point where you
would like to have the bottle cut. Then
heat the end of an iron poker red-hot
and plunge it suddenly into the oil.
mere will be little swapping sound,
and you will see that the glass has
.peen evenly cut, all around, on
Level with the oil. The accompanying
illustration shows the whole process.
II you wish to carry your experiment
little further, and make a. number
OF glass rings, you have only to re-
move part of the oil every time, and
repeat the process above described.
Pour out, say, half an inch Of the oil
each time and you may easily make
several rings half an inch in breath.
You will recognize in this expert
ment the. same principle as in the frac-
ture OF cold glass when hot water or
hot coffee is poured into it. Glass is
a poor conductor of heat and the frac-
ture is caused by the expansion of the
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ened by q warm sprinG shower. Then
the grass and dirt will come out more
easily. Washing n cool weather and
in cold. hard water should be avoided.
az It does not clean the wool and col
ors and Injuries the appearance of the
fleece. Higher prices are likely to pre-
vail than flock owners have enjoyed
for some years. and with them will
come more careful scrutiny Of the con-
dition by the buyer and the casting
into the lot Of discount wool more Of
those feeces that are of condition. :
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Put Your Wool in Condition,

The time will soon be here for the
flock master to prepare his clip for
market, says National Stockman. Dur
Ing recent years of low prices an in
crease In careless handling is; seen in
the condition in which many farmers
send their wool to market. See that the
sheep are tagged early before getting
on the fields of fresh grass. We would
like to see the practice Of washing
generally abandoned. yet II washing
IS attempted, either wash well or don't
wash ct AL. Choose q day when the
water = lush and the wool Is slit
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FOR OLD SAK Els SAKE.

It is q commonplace Of speech that
there is no changing the leopard s
spots. The keen observer Of his kind,
who has not twelve axioms whereWith
to work the theorems of life, but
twelve hundred, accepts It as gospel.
Raymond, who was not a keen observ-
er, but man with faith in his heart,
did not accept it. In the face Of ad-
vice and caution and good counsel he
decided to reduce it to the absurd and
marry Cicely Granville. Success
crowned him, as even those who warn
ed him know now, but it was des-
perate risk. 81 ! /. O: .~-, e.. =.
Far back in the days which it were
heresy to doubt were as good as they
were old, when Alan was just the stolid
small son OF Captain Raymond and
Cicely was but the angel-faced little
daughter of Captain Raymond's first
lieutenant, Marlitt, the boy and girl
had been fond of one another. They
had made mud pies and hunted the
first wild flowers of the plains, and had
ridden EUrros and bronchos together.
They had wintered and summered in
each others company, the mountains
and prairies of the southwest, while
the land was yet given over to the
never-ending disturbances of the hos
tiles. They had learned what it was
to have only one another for playmates
for months at time. And because OF
the hardships of long marches and the
joys Of half-savage freedom shared
together, they came to think them
selves inseparable. And then they
were separated. Cicely was to be civ
flized. She was sent east and abroad
to school. Alan Raymond went through
West Point and got his commission.
Thereupon fate-which at times does
what might be expected of her-sent
him to the same post where the Mar
lifts were stationed, and he saw Cicely
again. He looked into the placid
depths OF her long, gray eyes and re-
membered the past. He looked at the
curving red lips and the thick brown
hair and guessed the future. She had
changed for the worse and for the bet
ter. She had been civilized and was
less frank; she had learned to attain
her ends by indirect means, yet, as wo-
men go, she was honest. But the
sanity face was more beautiful and
the child was grown to one of those
women whom to love is to worship.
And in due time Raymond loved her.
There are men who take their love
as simply as they do the breath of their
life. It is necessary to them. but they
do not go mad with the ecstasy Of it's
possession. When Raymond had told
Cicely that he loved her, and when she
had laid her head upon his shoulder
and had put her slender, clinging
hands in his, and, turning up the BEAU
tiful, deep eyes to his face, had said,
Il love you," he was satisfied. His
fault,sif such it we're, was that he was
undemonstrative, and Cicely's-though
some count it a virtue in woman-that
she was jealous. OF all viles, jealousy
carried with it its own swiftest pun
ishment. 1t realizes it's unreason,, but
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Not to Be believed.

E Il suppose you think I can't tell
timer" exclaimed the man whose
chronology had been questioned. mo. y
was the reply: II don't say you
couldn't tell time, but time would be
q fool to believe you, whatever you
told him. g. Boston Transcript.
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20 YOU LOVE ME STILL?


is powerless- a dreamer who suf-
fers and cannot awake, though he
knows, the while, that he is dreaming.
She knew in her heart that her lovers
word was worth more than most mems
vows; she knew that his purpose was
direct and honest, and yet she doubted.
The tiny stone of suspician began to
roll. A question which Cicely was too
proud to ask would have checked it,
but it rushed on and became an ava
lanche that buried and crushed their
happiness under it's mass. Raymond
looked on dazed. He could not under
stand.
When it was too late it was made
plain: Cicely sat before her own fire,
In the dusk, and looked quietly at the
blazing logs. The light shone on her
fair face, and on her cleaning hair.
Raymond stood and looked down at
her, resting his arm on the mantel-
piece. He was an honest man. He
had no intention Of speaking of even
the love Of the past to another mans
wife, but beside the blank reality rose
up in front of him the might-have-been
of his life. and he cried out from the
depths: - ~@-...
"Cicely, Why did you do it,"
She started back and looked up at
him. For one long minute the deep
eyes gazed into his eyes and saw there
the futility Of an irretrievable mistake.
4 The curved lips grew white, and parted
and closed again. She turned and hid
her face in her tight-clasped hands,
and bowed her head against the back
Of the chair. There is tragedy of the
fercest sort that enters, once, at least,
into most lives-tragedy which seems
to rend the veil Of ones universe in
twain and to open up the graves where
ones hopes and sorrows have lain
D sleeping. Yet we jeer at me1odrama
when we are shown bits from the play
of existence that are as nothing to the
I truth. We say it is overacted. It IL
because It has been mercifully given ia
us osforget In the past, Raymond,
first Of al. would have scoffed: In the
The Cook County herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Minn.) 1893-1909, 1899-03-11

Milking Qualities of Galloways.-
The breed have not been fitted for
dairy purposes. The mode CT handling
them, and allowing them to run on the
moors and hills, the calves with their
dams is not calculated to develop large
flows Of milk. They are always able
to raise good calf. Some of them are
extra good butter cows, and all have
milk more celebrated for It's quality
than its quantity. If they were care
fully handled for the development Of
cream and butter, they give every
promise that they would excel in that
line. They are not a dairy breed, but
have been bred and fed for giving ex-
ira good beet, rather than for making
gilt edge butter, but this latter they
are undoubtedly capable Of doing
History of Galloways.
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Keep Milk1ngs Separate.-Two milk
ings should not be put together under
any circumstances till both are cooled.
If the warm mornings milk is added
to the cold nights milk, and both
taken together to the creamery in the
same can, the milk will most assuredly
be in bad condition when it reaches
the separator. The cause Of the bad
condition is of course the same as
given above, lack of cooling and aera-
ton before starting; but the action
seems to be intensified by placing
warm milk in with the cold. This
seems to be due to the fact that IN
every case bacterial formation will
have established itself in the nights
milk, and the addition of the warm
milk increases the growth of these un-
desirable elements very rap1dly.-Ex.
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Marketing Crops in Eggs.-He who
puts the finest product in the market,
says the Massachusetts, Ploughman,
reaps the richest harvest. Eggs are
refined wheat, corn, grass, and they
contain much that on the farm would
20 to waste. In winter basket of if
ty dozen will bring more money than
a load Of hay it took large patch of
land to grow, team to cut, a horse
and man to rake, two men to stack,
and team, wagon and man to market.
Sell fresh eggs or none at all. Get just
as far as possible from the general lot
dumped on the corner grocery. Seek
for regular customers, and get retail
prices. Stop crying about low rates
and cheap goods by rising above them.
Herein is the gospel of successful poul-
try keeping. &C.,.
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Expanding Too Fast.

30 : -r.rF l.
Farmers that are able to make a
good thing out Of a few chickens should
be careful not to be carried away by
their success. It sometimes happens
that man that has been able to &C.
complish great things with a dozen
fowls thinks he can do the same with
5oo, and SO expands his yards accord
1ngly. The result too frequently proves
him to have been mistaken. Such
man would do better to go slow. From
twelve fowls increase the number to
twenty-five and from twenty-five TO
fifty. This will enable him to watch
the progress Of events and be sure that
he does not get beyond his depth. The
problems that surround the keeping OF
a small flock are entirely different from
those surrounding large flock.
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Cleansing the Wooden Churn.-For
a wooden churn, the following method
Will be found all that is necessary to
keep it sweet for years: AS soon as
the butter is removed, rinse out with
cold or with warm water; then pour in
hot water, the hotter the better, and
wash thoroughly. If barrel or swing
churn, put the cover in place and agi
tate the contents the same as in churn-
ing. Draw off, wipe carefully and turn
bottom up Gin case of the barrel, at
least), leaving the cover of to ensure
a perfect circulation Of air, which will
prevent mustiness. It is not expected
that any particles of cream will be left
inside after churning. but should there
be any such, a brush will be neces
sarlly employed for their removal. In
fact, should any but a careful hand at
tend to the cleansing, it would be we'll
to insist upon the use Of stiff brush
any way, but where the butter is
washed and sailed in the churn, there
Will be little but brine and some undis-
solved salt remaining after the butter
has been removed.-Jersey Bulletin.
Evening journal., 1899-08-12

COAL. WOOD AND GRAIN.
IT. II. Sergeant Coal and Wood. office
Seventh and Kline. Delmarvla phone 545
Recieaned oats, Hay and Straw.