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q THE LINsEED POULT1CE.
How 1t Was Applied by q Good Wife
e. of the Emerald Isle-Fatled
to Cure,

A dispensary doctor in the Emer.
aid Isle is expected to dispense many
things besides drugs. His life is Ger.
tainly not a bed of roses. These peo.
pie are woefully ignorant, yet no
1rishman likes to confess to want OF
adequate knowledge, says Good
Words. One day ordered linseed
poultice to be put. on an old mans
chest. The next morning he was no
better, and was accused of incom.
potency.
81 put the plaster to him, your
honor" said his wife, "tho' he spit
an spit like big snail. But it amt
done no good! An docthor, honey!
it was big dose.'
Then I realized Mrs. Moulton's
method of poulticing her good mans
chest. She had applied the soft mass
internally!
Another time l compounded 1--WE
arc our own dispensers in the Isle OF
Destiny box of pills for ''brown
kitties.'' The result of grinding
these with big stone, and wearing
the powder as a charm, was not sat
isfactory. My verdict as 'c'rowner"
certified natural causes" 1t should
have been given rs ''crass ignorance
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Of inmates Of all ages and grades
and their enforced idleness. In 9th.
er words, the county jails supply the
very besl conditions for the culti.
vation of criminal instincts and the
graduation of resourceful crooks,
This is an oft told tale which could
easily be elaborated, yet the county
Jail, in charge of an appointee whose
chief qualification is OF a political ma
ture, remains as n monument to pub
lie Indifference about vital subject.
There is small comfort in the refec-
ton that the county jails of this COM
monwealth are on higher level
than some others, or that the worst
hotbeds of immortality and crime are
to be found in some benighted south
ern state. An abundance of recent
evidence has been published showing
local shortcomings.
It is not to be wondered at that the
Howard association views with sus-
picion our general methods of treat
ing wrongdoers as tending to in
crease rather than to diminish crime,
although it seems questionable how
attributable to the so-called "severe
although it seems questionable how
justice of British punitive measures"
At all events our critics are more
than justified in pointing to the
need of prison reform in the United
States if it be our aim to diminish
crime. This is said with full
knowledge of the progress already
made. In reformatory work we have
set some notable examples, and in
the wider field of penal reform we
have hit upon some discoveries of in
estimable value, such as the indeter.
inmate sentence and the probation
system. Yet, as whole, our prison
system is bad.
Even Japan shames us. According
to Kiego Kiyoura, ex-minister of JUS
tice, Japan has realized some ideals
in prison administration which we
still hold merely as theories. 1t has
centralized it's prison administration,
securing the advantages of uniform
ity and economy which Capitalization
affords. 1t has established school
for the training of higher prison off,
cials, with programme in pencil
ogy, prison hygiene, criminal psy-
chology, statistics, anthropometry,
the maintenance of ex-convicts, meth
DDS of reformation and practical
drill in prison management. 1t has
an associa ton with more than 10000
members for the purpose Of improv-
ing persons, not to mention local
committees and societies for the aid
of discharged convicts. Some of the
things we most need little Japan has
already realized--foremost among
them what corresponds to state con-
troll as opposed to county control
and higher training of prison Off
cials whose tenure of office is d.
| vorced from local politics.
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OUR COUNTY JAIL SYSTEM.
Counted by English Experts "a
schools for Crime and the
Worst in the World.

It is to be hoped that the period
of self-examination upon which we
have entered will lead to true ap-
probation of other social menaces
than that threatening from the an
archists' camp. If the suppression
of those who incite to violence
against government be n necessity
what shall be said of measures to
prevent the multiplication of the
brood of ordinary criminals who
threaten the life and property of the
common man throughout the land?
asks the Boston Transcript. Our toll
Grafton of anarchistic propaganda is
hardly more culpable than the gen.
eral Indifference to conditions which
directly foster criminality in the or
dinary sense of the word. We are
reminded of this by the severe con-
demnation of our prison system by
the Howard association of England
in it's latest utterances. After a
thorough examination of reports
from a majority of our states the ex-
perts of this association pronounce
our county jails "the worst institu-
tions of the kind in the world" and
the conclusion is based upon studies
at first hand by men qualified for the
work.
The chief indictment which the
English experts find against our
county jails (and it should be re-
membered that the overwhelming
number of prisoners are housed in
thcm) is the indiscriminate herdine
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paw Atten1,on to Perches.

The ordinary ladder-perch causes the
birds to struggle to secure the top
position, and much harm frequently
results. The birds upon the topmost
perch will also be very near the roof.
If a sudden frost should come on dur
ing the night the cold will strike down
on the backs OF the birds, resulting in
disease. The fowls upon the highest
rung will also be in draft, as the ven-
tilation in good house is at the top.
There is another objection to this form
of perch, which is that the fowls are
exceedingly liable to injure themselves
in flying down from the highest rungs.
1t is advisable to have all perches the
same height and at distance Of not
more than two feet from the ground,
and there will be fewer lame fowls
Farm and Fireside.
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HOUSE FOR POULTRY.

and expensive buildings. This house
has the advantage also of being very
convenient to care for, as will be seen
by the illustration. The nest boxes
are in the upper part under the win
dows. (F) is the floor of the passage
way and (d) is the droppings board
with hinged door to open at the back
of the house, thus making it possible
to clean the droppings conveniently
without entering the roosting place
The dimensions of building are as
follows: Front, nine feet high; back,
six feet. Upper story, front, six feet:
lower scratching room, three feet
The length and width dimensions to be
governed by size of tlocks kept.-Agri'
cultural Epitomist.
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SourA
Month
HIVES IN BEE HOUSE.

Left the same as in winter. If it is
objected that this makes the bees too
warm in summer, reply that being
in the house, use no tops and in eX-
treme warm weather Ipull off the cloth
covers and thus keep them cooler
than if they were outdoors.
The openings in the wall are made
by mailing a scantling 2x4, inches
above the fioor along the wall, narrow
side to the wall. The sawdust on
which the hive sits comes to the top
of this scantling. On top of this nail
2x4 blocks inches long and as far
apart as the hives are wide; then on
top of these nail another 2x4 scantling
as shown by lower figure in cut. Fly
holes are thus made for each hive, z
inches wide, deep and as long as
the hives are broad. The weather
boarding is sawed out to fit the hole
The hives are pushed up tightly against
these scantlings and packed around
with dust. The sun was too hot in
summer on the south side, so I built
a little roof about feet wide above
these openings for shade.
The rest of the floor room above is
used to store supers, frames. extract
ors and the many things necessary to
beekeeping. My object in keeping bees
in second story was to conform to
nature. In this latitude bee, if left
TO itself, never seeks home near the
ground, but high up where the air is
pure. Keeping bees near the ground
subjects them to foul air, the source
of much disease. In the lower story
placed an incubator and steam brood
er, thinking it would help keep the
bees warm during the most trying part
of the year, but when spring came, as
soon as I let the little chicks out of
the house through the run holes, the
bees went for them and stung them to
death. took revenge on the bees by
turning the lower story into an ice
house, which in no way seems to af-
feet them.
The bee house has many advantages
over the outdoor plan. know of but
one disadvantage. By placing hives
SO close together the young queens in
returning from their formulating
flights sometimes mistake their hives
and a swarm is lost. But I have used
the house Is years. and have had but
little trouble in this way.-W. L. An
derson. in Farm and Home.
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CURING HAMS AT HOME.
The Method Here Described, II Care.
fully Carried Out, IL Sure to Re-
ssult in Success.

1t is unnecessary to have barrel
in which to make q pickle. We nave
had excellent success by the follow
ing methods: Cut off the skin except
around the end, so that the salt and
smoke will act more easily and
quickly. The skin is left around the
small end to hold the cord to hang
them up by. A small teacup of fine
salt is. rubbed together with two
heaping tablespoonfuls of powdered
saltpeter. This mixture is heated
and rubbed over the hams.
For convenience each ham is placed
on a folded newspaper, with sheet
of plain white or manila paper next
the ham, and whenever the ham is
moved it is done by placing the
hands under the paper on which it
rests. While curing, the hams are
kept in a cool place, but are not al
lowed to freeze. The mixture is
used every few days for about three
weeks, and it is impossible to get
the hams too salt in this way. Two
or three times during the curing
process we rub the hams with mo-
lasses into which little soda has
been stirred.
For smoke house tight barrel
is all that is necessary. Some live
Goals are put in an old pan that has
been partly filled with ashes. Corn
cobs are broken up and laid on the
Goals. They do not blaze, but give a
dense smoke. When the smoke is
going nicely the pan is quickly
placed on the bottom of the barrel
and stick on which the hams are
strung is placed across the top. If
the cord is short the hams do not
hang near enough to the fire to do
any harm.
The barrel is covered, first with a
newspaper, then with an old piece
of sacking or carpeting. and the
whole pressed down with boards.
The hams are left here for three or
four hours, the longer the better.
The smoking process can be repeat
ed as many times as desired, but
probably two or three times would
be enough for most families. They
are not ready to eat for at least two
weeks after smoking. In fact, the
longer they are kept, provided they
do not spoil, the better they are
Orange Judd Farmer.
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Angeles Rude
Awakening II
BY KATHRYN JARBoE.

N HERE were two of them in her life
one, her lover, was man of her
!. own class, the son of a neighboring
farmer; the other was an Eng
lish gentleman One toled from
the pale gray and pink dawn
to the dull leaden darkness try
ing to extract living for himself and
his bride from the barren hillside
farm; the other employed some 20
laborers to beautify the grounds
about his summer home on the crest
Of the ridge. One had given his heart
and soul into Apgele Delamater's
hands, and accounted himself blessed
when she had placidly accepted his
gifts; the other had noted her care
lessly, thought her pretty girl, told
her SO more or less directly, and, quite
unwittingly be it said, awakened the
love that had never been aroused by
Jim Thorne's appeals.
And the wedding day was creeping
nearer and nearer, while the glamour
Of the rich Englishman was enshroud-
ing her in its filmy mist. Only eight
or ten times had she seen him. The
first time perhaps the second-even
the third had made little impress on
her mind. He was as far removed
from her as the hilltop pines were dis
tant from the scrub oaks and chapar-
raj Of her future home. Then came
the day when he drew rein at her ia
theirs gate, to speak to the old man
about a boundary fence. Angelo, POM
melting her bread by the open window,
listened to the well modulated voice
so different from Jim's-that was the
first thought that occurred to her. In
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MAcH1NE-MADE HENS.
In New England Factory Chickens
Are Mechanically Hatchcd, Fed
and Picked

The old-fashioned Plymouth Rock
hen considered she was faithfully do
ing her duty il she laid about three
dozen eggs a year, but the modern
machine-made hen is afraid that her
head will go of if she does not keep
the record up to 200. In those old
fashioned times she enjoyed the
honor of motherhood and was con-
sidered of much greater Importance
than being an egg-producing ma
chine. That was all changed with the
introduction Of the incubator system,
which not only cuts off several days
in the period of Matching, but does
the business in q generally more sat
isfactory manner than did the mother
hen.
Besides this there is the necessity
of system all around which leads to
the ultimate production of the manu-
factured chicken.
In one of the largest poultry pro-
ducirg places of the east large
plant has recently been installed
which is probably the most perfect in
the world. The entire plant, in fact,
is but one vast machine, each floor OF
which is devoted to the chicken-pro-
ducing business. On the top floor are
located the incubators in which the
unmatched eggs are placed on tray
and subjected to heat of about 90
degrees. Beneath the tray, in which
are hatched about 1000 chickens q
day, are the broodcrs. and here in q
temperature of about 80 degrees the
chicks remain for 81 days. After be-
ing born one day feeding commences.
the fare being millet, ground oats and
canary seed. For the first week they
are fed five times day, the amount
of foot being gradually increased, all
though given less often, their diet be.
ing gradually changed to include the
coarser grains. BY the rapid forcing
method of feeding adopted it takes
only week or two to bring the
chicken to weight of two pounds.
The chicken is then taken to the
floor below, where very limited
space is allowed for the running
around and where number of cram.
ming machines are located. The
crowded pens on this floor are the
first and last glimpse the modern
chicken catches of the world into
which it is born, for here it begins to
fatten rapidly, as the cramming ma
chimes force an abnormal quantity of
food down it's throat. It takes from
two to four weeks to bring the
weight of these chickens up to about
six pounds, at which time they are
exactly in shape for market.
They are then removed to the floor
below where are the guillotines and
plucking machines. Here they are
disposed of more rapidly than in any
of the foregoing processes, the kill
ing and dressing being carried out
with the greatest speed possible, SO
that the fowl may be placed in the
packing barrel as nearly warm as
possible and reach the market while
perfectly fresh.
1t is surprising fact that the
products of this establishment re-
ceive better favor at the hands of
poultry buyers in the large cities
than does the old-fashioned farm-fed
product. The owners of the plant
expect to make fortune out of
their enterprise and are really maxi
ing money fast already.-Boston Let
ter.
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Take. Pony Into Apartments.

j. Clinton Brewer, vice president of
the Pleasure Drivers association,
startled his neighbors in the "Arsd-
ley" an apartment house in Brooklyn,
by bringing a pony recently bought
into his apartments on the second
floor. He drove to the house in a dog
cart drawn by the pony, accompanied
by his coachman and three dogs. The
pony was then unhitched, led up the
stOop to the wide hallway, and forced
up the stairway to the Brewer apart
ment, much to the CONSERVATION of
Mr.. Brower's wife, his mother and the
servants. Much more trouble attend
ed the exit of the pony, for he had to
be half carried down to the hallway,
The clamor was increased by the pro-
test Of TIE negro janitor and his as
sistaatA
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+ w + ]" "o4SA0 OK oxAGAN.
answer to her fathers call, she took
them the outline map of the farm, and
Seymour sprang from his horse, COM
ing halfway up the walk to take the
papers from her-for the sun was hot,
so he said. She wore no hat, and the
blistering rays would burn her face
her hair. What was it that he did
say or suggest? His own head was
uncovered while he spoke to her, and
he looked like some glorious blonde
giant---like the golden-haired knight
of her childhood dreams. Who had
ever thought of saving her step-of
sheltering har from the ordinary sun
light of hershills? Not her father, not
her brothers, not Jim.
The next time she met him she was
carrying some brilliant scarlet ounce
blossoms, and what wonder was it
that he compared the livid blossoms
with the living scarlet lips above then? !?
Then it was, too, that he told her that
the night before, as he lay in his ham
mock watching the moon slip out rom
the entangling arms of the pines, he
had remembered that her hair matched
the marvellous blue black of the night
sky. He had thought of her up there
in his wonderful home! He had re-
membered her! Remembered how she
looked! Could her imagination do
otherwise than run mad riot?
The next meetings, quite accidental
on his part. carefully planned on hers,
were in the redwood circle through
which the trail ran, from which it
dropped down the sandy slope to Ben
Lomond There were few words
spoken but these the girls heart trans
lated into its own language, and in so
doing enyeloped them in wondrous
beauty. Her mind, hearing only
through her heart, was quite uncon-
scious of the matter-of-fact, common
place phrases. 1t heard only love.
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house FOR THE BEES.
ieeable i'm the Hot Months a.
In Cold Weather.

1t is 14x20, 12 feet to the roof, and two
stories. The bees are kept in the up
per story along the south and east
walls, as the north and west are un-
favorable 70 face hive. The dotted
lines in the cut represent plank set up
inches in back of the hives and ex-
tending or 4 inches higher than the
hive when the super is off. Hives are 6
inches apart, inches above the floor
and inches from the wall. All space
around and below the hivei is filed with
sawdust. In winter the dust is also
put on top the hives, but when the
supers are put on in spring it is re-
moved, but that around the hives is
Williston graphic., 1902-02-13
CONVERSATIONAL POWER.
Largely to the Worldly
Advancement Of = Young Man
or Woman.

Great and important as are the
uses of conversation described by me
in a former paper, there is another
more practical benefit from it, OF
which wish to speak in this article;
viz, as help to worldly advancement
or success in life. First there is the
advantage to be derived from the un.
derstandings of other men in the ex.
ercise of our own. Every man in q So
cial circle has his strong point-hia
special subject, on which he is at home
and better qualified to speak than any.
one else. No individual, however acute
or strong-minded, can sift and probe
to the bottom of a subject SO effectual-
ly as the minds of many me n converged
on it, and looking at it from different
points of view.
Daniel Webster, who, if any man
could do SO, might have trusted his un-
aided Judgment in forming an opinion
or deciding question, had, neverthe-
less, great faith in the aid ODE derived
from conversation. "In my education" "
he once said to Charles Sumner, II have
found that conversation with the in
telligent men I have had the good for
tune to meet has done more for me
than books ever did; for learn more
from them in talk of half an hour
than could possibly learn from their
books. Their minds, in conversation,
come into intimate contact with our
own mind; and ] absorb certain secrets
of their power. whatever may be its
quality. which could not have detect
ed in their books. Converse, converse,
converse with living men face to face,
mind to mind-for that is one of the
best sources of knowledge" The
great English philosopher, John Locke,
held u similar view. When asked how
he had contrived to amass such an
amount of knowledge as he possessed,
he replied that he attributed what lit
tie he knew to his not being ashamed
to ask for information, and to rule
he had adopted Of conversing.
AS a means of introduction to other
men or women. whom, on account of
their intelligence, stores of experience
and knowledge, position or influence,
it may be desirable to know, few we'll
chosen words-the manly yet deferen-
tial and conciliatory expression of an
opinion-an acute criticism of re-
cent book, public speech, or painting
or the witty defense of a sport OF
pastime-are worth more to young
man than any personal advantages or
the strongest letters of introduction.
Hundreds of young men and women
owe great success in life almost
wholly TO their conversational power,
says Prof. William Mathews, in Sue
cess. A young woman with fascinat-
ing conversational gifts will always
carry away the palm, in the long run,
from the possessor of beautiful face,
or the. most brilliant pianist or vocal
ist. that cannot chat charmingly.
Though men are supposed to succeed
in life by professional knowledge and
skill only, or by their acquaintance
with the secrets of finance and trade
yet it is as often, perhaps, by their so.
cial qualities, by their cunning or
agreeable ways of putting things, or
their arts of persuasion, and not by
their more solid merits, that they
make their way to the front.
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Best for the Bowels.

No matter what ails you, headache to .
cancer, you will never get well until your
bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature,
cure you without a grippe or pain, produce
easy, natural movements, cost you just 10
Cascarets Candy Cathartio, the genuine, nut
up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. G. C.
stamped on it. Beware of limitations.
Williston graphic., 1902-02-13

monthly periods for it meant . couple
Of days in bed in awful agony. I final
ly made up my mind that the good
doctors were guessing; and hearing
from different friends such good re-
ports of Lydia e. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound, I tried that. I
bless the day I did, for it was the
dawning Of a new life for me. I used
five bottles before I was cured, but
when they were taken I was well
woman once more. Your Compound is
certainly wonderful. Several of my
friends have used it since, and nothing
but the best do I ever hear from its
,use."- Yours, MABELLE l.. LAMoNTE,
222 E. 31st St., Chicago, 1n.-S50o0
forfeit if abous testimonial Is not genuine.
If Lydia e. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound could cure Miss
LaMonte-why not you? Try it
and see for yourself.
Mrs. Pinkham advises sick w0-
men free. Address, Lynn, Mass.
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Lapsus LlnEuac.

The Count-MeessO OMAR, will you be
please receive my devotions? l loofs
you vid grande passion.
Miss Milly O'Nair-But, count, will
you serve me devotedly? You are
sometimes so austere.
"Oystere! I serfe him stewed, fried
on re half-ha! what say 1? would
say 1 serfe you vid my heart all."-
JUDGE
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~ PARADISE.

=
lt Was not death.
Twas but to slip within veil.
/ That for moment lifts where human
hearts do fail.
Then waken to realm OF Love where
earthly love grows pale.
Think not we wait
As beggars at your door,
a fuller richer life is ours than that Of yore'
VIII you receive, It's ours to give from
plenteous store?
NO need IS here
or moon or star'or blazing sun;
Aore bright and soft the light that radiates
from One
che King OF this fair land, whose wounds
tell battles done.
For you we wait,
Ard here the waiting is not long.
Where time is not, tbs but the measure
OF a song;
Rejoice to meet the hour. that brings you
to our throng.
Mics A. r. Emery, in N. Y. Observer.
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Spank Cigarette Smokers.

It seems that girls, as well as
boys, of Ieykjavik, Iceland, have
contracted the habit of smoking Gig
arettes, and the law allows any adult
man or woman who finds boy or
girl smoking to give the young Of
tenders sound spanking and to
seize and destroy any cigarettes
found in his or her possession.