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AMONG THE POULTRY.

If the insect pests become too thick
around fruit vines or in the orchard,
turn in the poultry A coopedAup hen
and brood of chickens are Likewise ex-
cellent insect exterminators in the
vegetable garden. #i
The young turkeys must he kept
dry, This lesson comes dear 60 many
young poultry breeders. Up to the
time the red appears in gills, turkeys
are the most tender of all kinds Of
poultry; after that, they are the most
hardy.
Many of the most prominent men
of to-day had a flock of fowls when
boys, and saved their spending money
from the profits. Do not attempt to
start the boys at the top of the ladder.
Be content to see them climb step by
step, and rest assured the foothold
then will be more secure.
When a flock is fed with the refuse
from the table, the hens are capable
of sappropriating and saving that
which would otherwie be wasted, and
though in fact an expense has been
incurred, as the refuse possesses a GER
tain value, yet the hens provide q
market for it and permit of it being
exchanged for eggs Midland Farmer.
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TIE FIRST PRINCIPLES.
Unless They Are CaFefully Observed
.BeekeeHing Cannot he made
,aSReal slcce.s. ~.

There are a few first principles that
should be remembered by every bee
keeper. Here are some of them:
bees when frightened by smoke
will Immediately gorge themselves
with honey and lose all inclination to
sting.
2. The most vicious co.ony of hybrids
may be controlled by using little to-
bacco in the smoke.
3. The prosperity of a colony depends
upon the fertility of the queen. If weak
colonies have not become populous in
one season, kill the queen and give them
another.
4. Toads, skunks and mice are great
enemies to bees; see that they do not
have access to the apiary. a$
s. Increasing or dividing should be
done as early as possible, but not until
stores are coming in abundantly.
6. Drones are just as essential as any
other bee, but too many are nuisance.
This may be controlled byscutting out
drone combs and substituting worker
comb or foundation.
z. Drones may be prohibited in objec-
tionable colonies by dividing early in
the spring.
8. Keep all colonies strong. Robert
Davis, in Farmers Advocate.
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KILLING POULTRY.
Bleeding to Death Does Not DisflEure
the Fowls and Makes the
Flesh Nice and White,

It is admitted that poultry when
bled to death isgwhiter in flesh than
when prepared in any other manner.
Then the question is how to cause
them to bleed to death and not dis
figure them in any way. This can be
easily done by opening the beak Of the
fowl, then with a sharp-pointed knife
make an incision at the back Of the
roof, which will divide the vertebra
and cause Immediate death, after which
hang up the fowl by the legs until the
bleeding ceases. Next rinse the beak
out with vinegar and water. Fowls
killed in this way keep longer and do
not present the unsightly external
marks as those killed by the ordinary
system of breaking, the neck. When
the entrails are drawn Immediately
after death, and the fowl dressed, stuff
it to keep its shape; it will keep fresh
much longer. It is a mistaken idea to
cram poultry just before killing to
make them appear heavy, as the undi-
gested food soon begins TO ferment,
and putrefaction sets in, as is noticed
by the quantity of ish-looking
fowls that are displayed in our mar
kets.-Farm and Fireside;
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the interior, and yetit communicates
with all three pens. The inside divi-
sions are of wire netting, allowing the
sunshine that enters at one side of the
house to fall into all the pens; but the
house should be so located that three
sides may receive morning, noon and
afternoon sun. The same plan is fol-
lowed for dividing the yard outside as
for dividing the space inside the house.
This gives large amount. Of yard
space, with the yards conveniently To-
Gated. This building is shingled all
over the outside, with the, heaviest,
building paper under the shingles, and
may eithers.be sheathed or lathed and
Plastered inside. = Orange Judd
Farmer. Is
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FIGHTING BEE MOTHS.
i warfare ThAt Calls for Constans.
Application and Exercise o1
ConsiderabIe Ratience.

One Of the worst pests in the bee.
yardis the bee moth says i. w. Lightly,
in Country Gentleman. Neglected,
weak or queenless colonies fall az, easy:
prey to them and are speedily ruined.
The worst damage they do is generally
in hives where the bees died during
the winter and the combs are, kept
where the mothecan getsat them. In
an incredibly short time all combs are
a mass of black ruins. The common
black or brown German bee is gener-
ally troubled more by the moth than
the Italian. This might be accounted
for by the fact that the moth issyery
active and can raise many broods per
season in warm climate like Italy;
hence the Italian race has acquired,
through the long experience Of many
generations, the ability to resist the
moth successfully. 4 So if we wish to
get rid sofsthe moths depredations in
our colonies, sSve simply Italiahize them
all and then allow nothing in the yard
but good, strong, healthy, normal col
onies, allowing none to remain:queen-
less any length of time, and we may
not see worm in comb all summer.
If we wish to keep combs in empty
hives where. bees have persisted, we
must fumigate with Sulphur about
every two weeks This is easily done
by closing the hives and. blowing some
fumes of sulphur into them from tho
bee-smoker. I like to have good mass
Of glowing hardwood Goals in my
smoker and dropsa handful of sulphur
on them and dlleyery empty hive with
the fumes, though prefer, when the
honey few begins simply to tier up
storyto story on strong colonies; and
one colony will take care of many
combs and often store an astonishing
quantity Of hone Some believesthat
anti-moth balls placed in the hiyswith
the empty comb will keep away the
moth; but it was not success, with
me, and the bees did not take kindly
to the bad-smelling comb when given
to them later. It repealed the bees bet-
tersthan the moth.x
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she could get the back fire going. The
horses had smelled the smoke and
were quivering with excitement. She
loosed them from the pillow and they
broke away from her. and gallopeG
off across the. prairie at the highest
speed. She glanced after them with
dismay. One more chance Of life gone,
she thought. It had occurred to her
as she was trying to plow that she
might possibly take her sister and the
babe, one at time on one Of the
horses, to some place of safety, but
now she could not do that. She stood
for a moment dazed and undecided,
then another plan suggested itself.
One thinks very quickly in a time like
this; hours seem ages; moments
seem days. Up the canyon few rods
there was an old dugout built well up
on the side of the canyon, where
there was no tall grass and so no
chance for the fire to come. If she
could just reach this in time! She
ran into the house and found her sis.
ter awake. Pheme had not much
breath to spend in words, so she said
briefly and hastily, ''There'ssa big fire
coming, and I'm going to take you
and the baby to the old dug, down
the canyon, AS shesspoke she took
Maggie up in her arms and started.
ooh! take the baby first take the
baby first," walled the sick sister, but
Pheme paid no attention. When they
got outside of the door and Maggie
caught sight of the red flames so
near, she tainted away at once.
Phemeidid not have time to get water
to restore her. Trembling with IA
tigue she fastened on through the
tall grass to the old dug-out. She
reached it, laid her sister down and
hurried back for the baby. The
flames were now quite close to the
house. sThe baby was wide awake and
smiled up at her as she took him in
her arms. When he caught sight of
the flames he crowed with delight,
thinking no doubt that this was some
new and pretty plaything that had
been arranged specially for him.
Pheme was by this time so weak
with the excitement and overexertion
that she could hardly drag herself
along. She could hear the flames close
behind her, but dared not look
around. A little faster now and all
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will be well! Through the high grass
safe? Good! You can easily reach
the dug-out now before the fire
comes. What! tripping and falling?
Oh! Poor Pheme. Hear the flames
right behind you! Up and on! Quick!
Quick! But Pheme could not move.
just on the edge of the tallest grass
her arms but could not. She could
not even speak.
Maggie had by this time revived and
looking out through the open door
from where she lay, saw Pheme fall
ing. ooh! Pheme! Pheme!" she
called in agony, but Pheme could not
reply. She tried again to move her
arms. She could not. She tried again
to speak, but not a sound came. Mag
gle screamed and moaned. She could
see the flames now almost upon
Pheme and the baby, but she was
powerless to help them. Her torture
was horrible. Suddenly sPheme felt
her strength come back a little. She
could not get up, but she could move
her arms She took the baby up, and
reaching as far as she could pushed
him from her with all her strength
out of the way Of the fire. Maggie,
looking out from the door, saw all
this. ooh! Pheme. Pheme!" she
cried. "Can't you move just little %
she cried. ''Then you will be out of
the tall grass" But Pheme had used
all her strength to save the baby.
TITS too late, Maggie" she said, 'too
late" The flames were upon her now,
but the baby was saved! In one mo-
ment of time her whole life flashed
before her. Scenes from her child
hood came back to her; she saw her
self a child again, wandering about
her old eastern home, now chasing
butterflies under the pink bloom of
the apple blossoms@now gathering
autumn berries on the crimson and
gold-crowned hills. Then later life
scenes came up. She thought of. a
lover waiting alone for the bride that
would come to him only in death; of
the modest little prairie home that
she would never share. All these
thoughts passed through her mind
with lightning rapidity while the
flames were doing their horrible
work. The agony now was too in
tense for thought. There was ter
rible struggle for breath in the fierce
heat and black smoke, and then all
was over!
On lonely spot on the prairies OF
southwest Kansas there is a grave
marked with plain white slab.
There in the evenings you will often
find boy of about ten years Of age
tenderly watering the white rose he
is trying to get to grow on the lonely
grave, and if you should ask him
whose grave this is for which he il
taking such care he will reply: 'ssThat
is the grave Of my Aunt Pheme, who
was burned to death while she was
trying to save my life and my
mammals"
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HOUSE FOR TURKEYS.

thrives best where. lit is given plenty
of air. In many sections where winters
are not too severe, an open house, as
illustrated, will be found an excellent
one for turkeys in winter, while in
northern regions, even, such build
ing will be found most useful as a
roosting place, for both chickens and
poults during the late summer and
fall, since they need protection from
rain and, prowling animals, but plenty
of pure air to secure the finest growth.
This need of pure air at nights not
properly appreciated by most persons
who attempt to raise chickens.-Farm
and Home =
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Maine Poultry Experiments.

Bulletin 81 ofsthe Maine agricultural
experiment station contains an ac-
count of experiments in 'fattening
chickens for market and the egg
record Of the breeding pens for 1899.
The results Of the fattening expert
ments show larger total and individ-
'ual gains and cheaper flesh produc-
ton: in the case Of chickens with par
5tial liberty. The custom commonly
practiced by English and French
chicken fatteners of combining the
birds in small acoops was found more
troublesome and less profitable than
maintaining them in small flocks
with restricted runs. The age at which
sfattening. begins is very important.
Chickens 20 weeks old gained III
pounds in three weeks, while chickens
IS weeks old gained less than one
pound in the same length st time.
It required eight pounds Of grain
mixture to produce pound st gain
in live weight with the older birds
and less than six pounds in the case
Of the younger birds. ss
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WHAT SHE WANTED.
Axa Her Werds Of EndenrmentNeve1
Moved the Man Behind the
Counter.

A fair young girl, perplexity written on
her countenance, confronted the pale young
man. He returned her gaze with the i'm
passive stare ofsone who had never seen her
before. Had he? Listen, says the Baltimore
American.
In low, well-modulated voice, without
the slightest trace of emotion or excitement,
she says: 600
q want you, dear heart. I love you, my
honey. Come back = my baby. Why did you
hanging out for you, I've shook that other
man. You're the only fellow Hove. don't
like no cheap man. I amt seen no messen-
ger boy: Oh, promise me, and I'll be true to
you. ..
Was. he moved? No. His face took on a
bored expression, and in a careless tone he
asked:
els that all ?"
eyes," she half whispered.
Two dollars and ten cents, please. We
are having.a special sale on sheet music to-
day.. and they are reduced in price. Thank
you.
Then they drifted apart she to practice
rag time and he to fit from Beethoven to
Williams Walker all for the same sal.
arv Dnr week -. - -
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A THREE-pEN HOUSE. .
81 and Each Flock Has . Yard
OF Its Own. Sg.4s

The cut shows very useful poultry
house for three pens. Of fowls, with.
yards arranged for the same num-
Der. The house is 80 BY 80 feet and
will accommodate 100 fowls. The
hallway takes but little room out of
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HOUSE. FOR TURKEYS Il j.
In Many Sections of the ODuntryib
Will Afford sufncientashelter,
All the Year Around.

Those who have had experience. with
turkeys know that these birds prefer
to roost on the ridge-pole of building
rather than under it and that, too, in
exceptionally cold weather. The tur-
key does not like close quarters, and
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NEW POLICE cATECHIsM.
Requisites Of = Competent Copper az
= Understood by One Of
the Fineat.

Imagine class Of about 40 stalwart men,
each dressed in blue uniform and attentive.
" listening to the words of wisdom that
emanate from the. teachers lips, and you will
have some idea of one of Clerk of the Police
Board Harrison's school classes. Many ridi-
culous answers are given to questions
and some of them cause roars Of laugh
ter to ascend to the ceiling. At recent
class meeting Officer Dan Tehan was asked
to describe the requisite of good police
man. The answer was honesty, sobriety,
truthfulness, intelligence and several other
virtues, all of which are noticeable in mem
bers Of the police force, says the Cincinnati
After Tehan had been asked the cues.
ton he chested out and answered IN q
sonorous voice.
'Hon-istee! sobrietee!. -Troot' fitness!
Guide mor-ruls! Impar-rtialitee! intelIi.
gince! A plain addrhriss n er.um2.
oh! a,divil's own slew av things besoides!'"
A roar followed the answer, and Clerk
Harrison, %endeavoring to keep. his face
straight, asked IS Officer Blanchard, what
is extortion?"
Z; And the class broke up when Blanchard's
| answer .smote the air. =
It was:
"Extortion is an overloaded stomach
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Plum trees like rich. soil, and they
grow well in poultry yard where
the fowls pick Of the insects. 8s,5
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! At the Restaurant,

First Man (excitedly)-Our restaurant is
on fire.
Second Man Calmly Come, then, hurry
get something hot.-Pearson's Weekly.
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Complete Treatment SIPS,


soohe
and blood e with
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1900-08-09

Have your summer vacation plans ma.
tured yet, Billy" ooh, yes; but they
had to be side-tracked on account of some
summer notes that also matured. In.
dianapolis Journal.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-03
Five Queer Places.


Doubtless the most unique spot in Europe
Is the little village of Altenberg, where on
its border four countries meet 1t is ruled
by no monarch. has no soldiers. no police
and no taxes. Its inhabitants speak a curl
Gus jargon of French and German COM
bined and spend their days In farming the
land or working in the valuable calamne
mine of which it boasts.
The little town of Stanley, in the FaIk-
land Islands, possesses the most unique
school service ever known. Two travelling
schoolmasters are provided by the govern
ment, who visit the different families where
there are children and give instruction. The
length of their visit depends on the astute-
ness of the children, and they may spend
days or weeks. as the case may be, at one
house alone.
A town boasting of a railway station
which cost $4,000 to erect and duly ap-
pointed station master, and yet having no
train service, is unique beyond dispute
dundee, IN New Jersey. is in this predica-
ment the inhabitants having actually no
trains, although their fine station is avail
able for any amount of traffic, and the rea-
son given for this strange fact is that so
long as the trains run through the inhabf-
tants ought to be satisfied.
There Is a place in the middle OF the Pa
cific ocean well known to mariners where
there Is never any Christmas day. This is
V"iiiS " ilH oeliB IN tne ISUth degree OF
longitude and directly opposite to Green
wich. and. therefore, twelve hours ahead of
Greenwich time In journey around the
globe the other twelve hours would have to
be marked out Of the naVigator's calendar,
and II this point crossing the ant,po ies is
touched Christmas eve then there can be
no Christmas day.
In one of the West Indies group there is
a colony of some 500 whites and blacks
where there are neither towns nor village
nor fresh water supplies. In fact, there is
such a scarcity of everything that the gov
eminent has to send food and employment
to the inhabitants to keep them from
starving. Salt fish and sweet potatoes are
the staple foods of the Anguilas, and the
only water obtainabie is brackish and faint
ed by the sea.
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The Speed of Cable Messages.

From Scribner's
struments are required. and the currents
arriving at the receiving end are very fee
BILE in comparison with those employed in
land-line signaling. The longer the cable,
naturally. the feebler the impulses arriving
at the receiving end. A short cable a ca
BILE of under 1000 miles being generally
considered a short cable. gives a speed of
signaling amply sufficient for all purposes
with a conductor Weighing about 100
pounds to the mile. surrounded by an in
sulating envelope of gutta percha weighing
about an equal amount, When we come to
found necessary, In order to get q practi-
caHy unlimited speed-that is. q speed as
high as the most expert operator can read
ito employ core Of $50 pounds of cop
per to the mile. insulated with 400 pounds
of gutta percha to the mile. These are the
proportions Of copper and gutta percha in
the 1894 Anglo-American Atlantic cable,
which IL considered the record Atlantic
cable for speed Of working, and has been
worked. by automatic transmission, at the
rate Of some forty-fve words minute
The type Of cable proposed for the VAN
oouver-Fanning section of the British Pa
cif1o cable. as designed by Lord Kelvin is
to have q core Of $50 pounds of copper and
1853 pounds Of gntta percha to the mile, and
Is calculated to give a speed Of twelve
miles. 1t is not considered safe to adopt a
very much heavier one than this for the
reason that the weight of the complete ca
BILE with a core that should weigh more
than about half ton to the nautical mile
would be so great that picking it up for
repairs from depth of 5000 fathoms
would be an extremely difficult and hazard.
GUS operation.
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KeIlosha, Wis., Special to the Chicago Inter Ocean.
A white man turned as black as the Ace
Of spades this morning and all In less than
half an hour. From the tips of his toes to
the top Of his head Alexander Wertenen
Is as black as a negro and from no ap-
parent cause. His fellow-workmen, fright
ened. ran away from him, and he is now
at home wondering what he has done or
what nature means by changing him from
white to blaeo.
Wertenen is in the employ Of the Keno
sha tannery. He was at work as usual this
morning and was feeling perfectly well.
Soon he noticed that the workmen were
looking at him Queerly and then their as
constituent gave way to- fear. He asked
what was the matter and was told that
he was turning black. The manager Of tn.
tannery. q. G. THEIRS, was called and he
Immediately told the man to 60 home Nv
that time ne was ink black from head to
foot. ~
Among those who saw the man after he
had turned black and are willing to swear
to the phenomenon are E. C. Theirs, man
ager OF the tannery: William Schroeder,
banking clerk; Griffin McCollin, q clerk
In the office; Charles Beachel, another en-
ploye. who Is superintendent of the Meth
odist Sunday school here, and James wes-
tine the foreman. All Of these say that
the man turned black and that he was
white when he came to work this morning.
Wartensn has been under the caro- Of DR..
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UNDER A HOT FIRE.
British Officer Writes of His Expert
ences Mt COIensO.

nrItIBn oHcer writes OF HIS Expert
ences mt COlensO.
A letter received from a British officer
who took part in the battle of Colenso says:
AT the start a shell from our own artil-
lery, with fuse badly timed, burst in the
middle of my company. wounding about
five men. I was knocked down by the ex-
plosion and a portion of the shell struck
the ground at the side of my boot. We
went on and got behind mound, with bull
lets flying within few inches and shells
bursting over us. bullet from shrapnel
hit my side without hurting me- and kept
it as memento We lay as fiat as possi-
Bile, waiting to be killed, as no one thought
We would escape. We were under fire from
$50 am. until 2:30 pm.
Soon the Red Cross people appeared
and we were relieved from an awkward
position. While lying on the ground i felt
bullet skim along my back. and found
that it had made hole in my jacket. Our
men were wonderfully plucky. One man
near me got bullet through him, and
said: All, and if the bastes haven't hit
me: that's one fer Them Immediately the
words were out of his mouth he got an
other, and, cooler than ever, said, 'Beja-
bers, if they haven't struck me the second
tonne Another bullet struck him just
three! do think the blackguards moight
let Teller alone after they've hit him
vance Others were laughing and joking
continually.
Il actually slept as I lay on the ground
and was awakened by bullets going ping
upon the ground at the side of my head
One Boer was very kind. He galloped
more than once to the river with half a
dozen water bottles for our men, and
seemed very distressed. He said they were
all tired of the war. and asked what we
were fighting about. He thought the En-
glfsh were jolly good fellows Other Beers
fha
officer was found with finger cut off to
get gold ring"