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The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Some Guinea Hens.

Guinea fowls have been raised on
American farms for a long time, but
they probably have never received
more attention than they are to-day
receiving. Guinea fowls are easily
anu cheaply raised when they are
given their liberty, as they are great
foraeers and prefer to hunt their own
support if possible The females are
quite prolific layers, and it is reason
able to suppose that at some time
thelr eggs will sell we'll in the market
Their smallness and brown color mill
tate somewhat against them at the
present time, as the buyers do not
know the eggs we'll enough to demand
them. It may we'll be believed how
ever that if they were so common
that they were constantly obtainable
in the market they would soon be in
demand. Where there is a flock of
these fowls the housewives soon learn
to use their eggs for high quality
cooking
The hens try to hide their nests,
which are simply little holes in the
ground. In these they lay numerous
eggs. The birds however have the
habit of the common hen in publish
ing abroad the fact that they have
laid an egg as soon as that act is per-
formed. The result is that it is not
at all difficult for the owner of the
bird 10 find out her laying place.
Every poultry fancier should have
copy of the American Standard of
Perfection and learn to Judge his own
birds. Then he is little likely to send
to the show any birds that will score
very low
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
BRINGING UP A PRESIDENT.
Pointer for Ambitious Mothers Of the
Coming Generation.

Pointer for Ambitious Mothers of the
Coming Generation.
It is a fortunate thing to be tall
and straight and of a vikings shoul-
ders where one strives for political
popularity, since the hopeless per cent
of people come by their opinions
through the eye. It is what they see
rather than what they hear that turns
to be impressive.
Washington was equal to running
broad jump of % feet; Jefferson lifted
1000 pounds with his bare hands, and
was known as the Strong Man of AL
bemarle
The world has had its Caesars and
l<apoleons, but it adopted these little
people slowly and after trial.
The first thing to remember in
bringing up president is his health
his stomach should be thought of as
often as his head. A dyspeptic would
find the road to the white house full
of double difficulties. and he would
make a dangerous president-nay, he
might even invite impeachment.
A good stomach and a good heart
go far as raw material in the construc-
Ion of best man. They are the bed
plates for that engine called the mind
Alfred Henry Lewis in Good House.
keeping.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
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Egg Production Variation.

when hens are Investigated as thor
oisnly as dairy COWS they will be
1ound to vary as greatly in their abil"
lly TO produce eggs. We have as a
people gone on the assumption that a
heh was a hen. That was true, but
sometimes she has proved to be moth
irs more, so far as eggs are concerned
T~hot even layer. But we are only
no" beginning to find that out. The
oalry COWS have been investigated
as to their ability to produce butter
cheaply Some were found that made
putter at a cost of eight cents a pound
ana others that made butter at cost
OIL ~ cents pound. The hens have
oeen investigated as to their ability
70 produce eggs cheaply and some have
oeen found that produced eggs at ten
cents dozen in winter and others at
a dollar a dozen. A good many hens,
like a good many cows, are more
prohtable dead than alive.
We will never get very satisfactory
work done in the line of experimental
tloh I'LL we are able to keep hens by
themselves and know for certainty
the record of each hen and be able
10 watch each one in all respects.
Ihere are hens that are almost non
producers Of eggs. In the ordinary
nock they mingle with the others and
are always healthy. They would make
admirable potpie, but the owner feels
that he cannot dispense with any of
MS layers. There are other hens that
are not attractive looking, yet if they
are kept by themselves they will be
found to be great egg producers. -.7ery
of'en egg producing gets a fowl out
OF shape; and this very thing leads
to her being killed off for the table
when she Should be retained.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
The Ananias Triplets.

In the lobby of the Knickerbockc:-
Mr.. Dillingham; was ordering out the
House Full'' sign the other night
when Amelia Binghams husband
passed by.
"Haye you heard the latest?" asked
Harry Sommers.
"Dillingham was standing on this
very spot the other night when a con.
sumptive looking man strolled along
DO you recognize the profession?' he
asked, in a one-lung voice. When an
artist is known to me, l sometimes
give him a seat replied the Chester
t;eldian manager.
I'm a freak said the cadaverous
one.
"A freak gasped Dillingham;
Yep with a tinge of pride), I'm?
the only artist of my kind in the
corld.' Mr.. Dillingham; looked as near
ly interested as he ever permits him
SELF whats your line?' he inquired
courteously The attenuated one sidled
toward the door. 4 never licked Lloyd
Bingham, he cried, proudly.
"Of course, laughed at the story
and asked Mr.. Dillingham; if 1 might
repeat it, God made three liars,' was
the Machiavellian reply, *Anson Pond
is one and Sommers is the other
VOL" New York Telegraph.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Women OF French Canada

The French Canadian women III the
province OF Quebec are the busiest Of
their sex in the world They are mir
acle, of industry, and yet from morn
in5 to night their work never seems
TO be finished.
They have the breakfast ready for
the mcn-folk at six in the morning; at
tend to the numerous children. for
the French Canadian habitant' al
ways has a large family; give the
floor Of the living-rOOm it's daily scrub
bins until it shines like ney pin:
put on the soup for dinner: make the
bread: spin, weave and sew; feed the
chickens: lend strong hand in the
field work. keep their husbands cash
and accounts, and lead the family
prayers after the days work is done.
If we visit Madame Jeanne Baptiste
in the atternCOl We shall find her sit
ting or standing at her lOon1-thc
:~>o'i I'D hand loom that has woven
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17

duction and were warmly welcomed
in official circles. One night at ball
given at one of the legations one of
the charming French women was pres
ent. She was very friendly with the
colonel of Russian regiment and sew.
eral times she Intellectually attempted
to draw him into a conversation, the
burden of which was the length of
time he expected to be detained in
St. Petersburg, for it was a frequent
occurrence for regiment to be sent
to the FAR East. At each attempt she
was interrupted by dashing Russian
woman. On discovering the identity
of the latter she knew her mission
was at an end, for she had been de.
tected by clever Russian spy.
In Paris the nihilists meet unob.
structed by police; but their every
movement is reported to the third
section" in st. Petersburg. A few
years ago certain. mile Sense" was
in Washington. She spoke the purest
Partisan and readily passed for a
French woman. In Russia she is Nine.
Sitzki, one of the cleverest OF the
czar's women spies. In Washington
she gave lessons in French to children
in several Of the embassies and
learned much to interest her govern
ment.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Milk Sickness Is Deadly

FROM time to time in the last I'VE
decades Tennesseeans have been
stirred to profound sense OF inter-
est in the states mysterious malady,
milk Sickness, as it's deadly reap
pearance in certain sections of the
state has been followed by fatal re-
suits to human beings and to stock.
No one has ever discovered the cause
OF the malady from which death re-
lleyes the victim. after such physical
agony as almost Seprives the human
species of the power of speech and
dumb brutes express heir suffering gs
by frenzied search for water to cool
the thirst which consumes them.
Once by a stream. they plunge or fail
into it, and quickly drink themselves
TO DEATH
The fatal sickness l.; known to a
limited extent in several sections of
the state. but exists principally rear
Sparta. in White county. 1t is con-
tracted through drinking the milk of
COWS that have eaten a certain weed,
known as the ''milk-sick weed" which
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
The Dying Skeeter.

She was just widowed skeeter,
But she'd done the best she could,
And her 80, 900, 900 children
Sadly round her deathbed stood;
And they sobbed to see her passing,
Deeply, dutifully; too.
AS in unison they murmured,
Bz-Z-z-z, buz-Z-Z-it! buZ-Z-Z-it! buZ- O. o!
Children said the feeble mother.
You are all 1 have to-day;
You are only $4,000, 900.
And the world is cold and gray.
Can you find the luscious fever
Or malaria to chew
When my skeetlings have no mother:-
Oh, buz-z-it! buZ-Z--it! buZ-O-O-o-o!
See, my 100000 offspring.
How increasingly I've tried
To concur with Mr.. Roosevelt's
Views on racial suicide;
Yet with kerosene they hunt me,
AS they'll hunt my children, too
FAREWELL thank ss-world-forever-
am dying-buz- TIT, buzz oo!''
And the so, 000, 900 skeeters
Hand in hand together flew
Through the lonely Jersey marshes,
Swearing battle to renew.
by the precept of our mother.
Brothers, let us die and do,
Leaving twelve QuintilliOn grandsOns-
Bz-z-Z-Z buZ-Z-it! buZ-Z-it! buZ-o-O-o:''
New York Commercial Advertiser.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17

looks somewhat like clover. and
grows thickly on the infected lanu.
But what constitutes the poison in
the weed is no more determined TO.
day than it was when first located by
the kee1-Witted. nature-Wise mountain
GERS, who have been it's chief victims.
1t has been ascribed at various times
to minerals. whose poison is absorbed
in the roots of the "milksick plant; to
a VapOr from some fungous growth
and to the action of the dew. produc-
inS. in connection with the life OF the
plant, certain poisonous acid But
all Of these theories have failed under
tests applied by practical science. On
the largest infected section known to
exist in the limits of The state, Milk
sick mountain" in White county, no
mineral whatsoever exists; cattle
which ate the "milksick weed" after
the dew had dried died in agony, just
as those which ate it when the dew
was fresh and sparkling, and the
strictest search failed TO find any
fnngous growth whatever.-Louisyill
COuriar-jOnrnal
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Dancer in Too Much Speed.

Chauncey Depew credits one of his
latest stories to an employe Of the
Vanderbilt lines who once attended an
old-fashioned camp meeting. The
brethren and sisters were giving their
experiences, each in the language of
his own craft First a sailor got up
and told how he was going to heaven
at the rate Of twenty knots an hour,
before a fair wind. He was followed
by railroad man, who told how he
was on the way to heaven on a per-
fect]y ballasted track, behind the new
est type of engine, and was making
sixty miles an hour, including stops
Finally, decrepit old woman got up.
brothers and sisters" she said, Il
have been walking there for the hast
twenty years, and my rheumatism is
so bad that I can't walk very fast
But, brothers and sisters, let some of
these fast goers look out or I'll get
there first. They may bust their
b'ilers if they crowd on too much
steam. New York Times.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
UnWritten Laws of Eskimo

Writing of the customs of the Es-
Nimos, in his book. Across the Sub
arctics Of Canada" Mr.. Tyrrell' gives
some OF their u1lwritten laws They
are curious, and will help toward the
understanding of life in the rorth.
These are some OF the laws that per-
tain to Eublic health and good order:
No man shall, after sunset, do any
work requiring the use of tools The
women may sew. make garments or
che" DOOts--thus the hours of each
day after sunset form the Eskimo's
Sabbath.
No person shall eat walrus- and deer
meat ON the same day
TEe carcases OF all large animals
slain during the winter season shall
be equally divided among all mem
hers Ct the community.
All kinds Of rare game are common
property during all seasons.
Any person finding driftwOod Sc
cures ownership by placing stones
upon it.
Any other kind of goods found re-
mains the property of the original
owner
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17

When seal is harpooned and gets
off with the harpoon, the first har-
pOoner loses all claim to it when the
float becomes detached.
II two hunters strike a bird at the
same time it shall be equally divided
between them.
Whoever is first to see a bear has
first ownership, no matter who Stays
it.
After Staying a bear. the man who
kills it shall hang up his hunting i'm
plements, together with the bladder
OF the beast. in some high conspicu-
GUS place, for at least three days.
The borrower of tools shall not be
bound to give compensation for dam
ages.
No person shall sew while any
member of the family is i'll.
If any man, from any cause what
soever slay his neighbor. the wife
and family Of the deceased shall be-
come the family of the slayer, and
shall be taken care of by him as if
they were his own.--Youth's Compan-
ion.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
His Speciality.

One of the stories attributed to An
drew Carnegie, dealing with the fol
bles and weaknesses of his country
men, concerns an old Scotch lady who
provided a Glasgow workman with a
plentiful dinner-plentiful, that is, as
far as the solids were concerned, but
woefully scanty in the supply of the
national stimulant. The mans appe-
tite did not seem to be up to the mark,
and the old lady reproached him with
his lack of ability as trencherman.
AYE, men," he said; cts over true
that I Gamma eat muckle, but it wad
do yer heart guild tae sac me drink
New York Times.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Japanese in Battle.

saw two soldiers who were pretty
badly shot; one of them had at least
three bullet wounds. The only thought
Of these men seemed to be to conceal
their wounds. They hurried into the
thick of the fray, and upon them was
that thievish air which you sometimes
catch in bad boy or man who is
hounded-the air which seemed so ill
at ease on the face of Nippon SOL
der, and SO striking, too, because so
rare. There were frightened, these
fellows who laughed in the face OF
death, lest they might be caught by
the hospital corps.-Leslie's Monthly.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17

The clothes Of the family for genera
ticns.
On this loom she Weaves not only
clothes, but carpets, coverlids and
blankets. To help out her small sup
ply OF fresh wool, she tears up the
Old material of WORKOUT coats and
trousers and weaves it over again. It
IS SLOW work, but when it is finished
the garments are slow to wear out.
They last more than twice as long as
those which Madame could buy in the
shops of Quebec.
At another homestead the American
tourist who goes to French Canada in
the summer may find the women of
the house weaving, not cloth, but
sheeting OF an imperishable quality.
She has made the linen herself from
the very beginning. All she asked OF
her husband was that he shoulG bring
the sheaves of fax from the field The
breaking of it on the wooden 'breze.'
the spinning and the weaving, have all
been done by her own ;a,1
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Pointer for Parents.

Teach the boys as we'll as the girls
the proper way to put the bedclothes
to air over two chairs in the morning
and also occasionally give the boys a
lesson in simple cooking by having
them help prepare breakfast. The lad
who can make & gsod cup of coffee,
broil steak and serve them will lose.
nothing of manliness, but may find
the knowledge useful in after l:2e.-
Exchange.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Women's War ORGANIZATIONS.

Eight organizations of, women have
grown out of the American civil war
on the northern side, to say nothing
of those that exist in the south. Be-
sides the Woman's Relief Corps, which
is the best known of them all and is
auxiliary to the Grand Army of the
Republic, there is the Association of
Army Nurses, the Ladies' Aid Society,
auxiliary to the Sons of Veterans; the
Daughters of Veterans, composed of
daughters and granddaughters of
unions soldiers; the Woman's Veteran
Relief Union, auxiliary to the Union
Veterans Union; the Woman's Ma
tional Association, auxiliary to the
Union ex-Prisoners of War, and the
Ladies' National Association of Ma
val Veterans.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Employ Women as Spies

In no part of the world has the art
of the woman spy been brought SO
near perfection as in Europe. In Rus
sla dashing, beautiful women, of high
breeding and title, perhaps, have be-
come the most necessary arm of that
Underground system which appears to
read thoughts as we'll as detect de-
signs. AT the present time the secret
service of both Russia and japan is
naturally most active. and if mnst
not be forgotten that Japan, too, has
maze use OF women to ferret out the
1ntentlons OF the Russian government
regarding the present war. They are
not' as a rule, however, japanese
women, VINO are singularly untitled
1or the delicate task. To meet the
Russian spy on his or her own ground
the Japanese have. it is said, secured
the services of some of the cleyerest
women in Europe, many of them
french women, and often their visible
means OF support is ucting. The Japa-
nese police and military system has. of
course. it's secret service; but it is
not nearly so ubiquitous as is the So
called third section OF the Russian
police. Yet during the last few years
there has little Of Importance trans
pred in Europe affecting the situa.
ton IN the far East of which the Jap-
anese foreign office has long been ip
nOrant
During the early part of last winter.
when the relations between Russia
and Japan were becoming more
strained with each successive day, St.
petersburg society discovered there
were several very beautiful Parish.
ennes in the city. They were not only
beautiful, but charming, and most of
them fell in love with young officers
OF rank. They had letters of intro.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Will PRESERVE FOOD LONG.
New Method That Promises to Give
-. ~ the Best Results. n = --.1t. &

s. ~ the Best Results. #.1. .#,.s@ ~
An ingenious method of preserving
food has, recently been devised which
is based on the fact that powdered
gelatin, or thin sheets OF the, same
material, not only do not spoil, but
are capable of protecting incorporated
substances from bacteria, moisture,
and other agencies which bring about
decomposition. Thus to make a con-
centrated beef extract, tea or coffee,
extract. soup, etc. the liquid is mixed
hot with I per cent of primary gela-
tin, which differs from the commercial
article in not having tie glneiike taste
of the latter.
After cooling jelly is formed, and
this is cut into thin films and dried by
a current Of cold air until it becomes
brittle. When this condition is reach
ed the sheets are then reduced to "a
fine powder, which will keep indefln-
itely. While it will absorb moisture
it does not do so to a degree to oc-
casion decomposition, and the moist
ure is subsequently given off in dry
air. The powder, while likely to cake,
forms a brittle cake, not interfering
with it's use, while it is too hard for
insects. When placed in warm water
it dissolves Immediately, and is thus
ready for use. If heated above the
temperature of boiling water before
packing all disease or other germs
will be killed, and to secure the best
results the powder should be packed
airtight. Such concentrated food
possesses many advantages, and is
susceptible of wide application, as
Upon orations.-Harper's Weekly.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
The Debt.Makinu Cow.

There are a good many cows in
the country that are making debts for
their owners rather than clearing
them of debts. The worst thing about
it is that these debt makers are not
known to be debt makers. They are
tolerated and accepted on their lace.
A man W 18th a good large herd of debt
makers always finds lot Of work to
do, but somehow or other his family
are always lacking the things they
think they should have. The only
good thing to be said about these
COWS is that their milk swells the
volume of the milk that goes to the
cities and so keeps down the price the
poor people have to pay. So far as
the farmer is concerned the quicker
these debt makers are sent to the beef
barrel or the butchers block the bet.
ter
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Cotton Seed Meal and Pics,

It is we'll for swine raisers to &c
slow in the feeding OF cotton seed
meal to swine. There is much in the
bulletins about it from time to time,
and new men are trying to find out
how to feed it to the pigs and not kill
them. The experiment stations can
better afford to lose pigs than can the
farmers. It is safe also not to take
stock in the assertion OF the wise fel,
low who can tell you just how to feed
it successfully. He thinks he knows;
but it is just as well to let him try II
on his own pigs. When the stations
have found sure way of feeding ii
successfully will be time enough fol
the common farmer to risk killing. his
swine. - .S...,
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17

Feeding Grain to Cows on Pasture.

Feeding Grain to Cows on Pasture.
Many years ago tried feeding a
small amount of grain food to cows
while they were on pasture, and was
so we'll satisfied with it that the COWS
on my farm which were giving a good
flow of milk have ever since been fed
grain ration equal to about one-half
OF the usual winter ration, consisting
usually of equal parts of ground oats
and corn and bran. 1 found that, al"
though it might not always immedi-
ately increase the milk flow sufficient
to pay for the extra feed, yet with
COWS of a strictly dairy type, which
were almost sure to milk down very
thin and poor on grass alone, it would
enable them to keep up their strength
and condition, SO that they did much
better in the fall and following win
ter, for having been fed grain while
on pasture. I think they also did bet
ter the next summer, because they
were in better condition.
Whether it will pay a man now with
the high price of grain, to feed it in
summer depends on the type Of COWS
and the ability and skill of the owner
as dairyman. If the COWS are not Of
strictly dairy type and the man who
handles them is not first class dairy
man it will not, in my opinion, pay to
feed grain on good pasture. I have
known of some men, who have been
very successful in dairying who did
not pasture at ALL but fed their COWS
all summer in the stables on green for
age crops, with some grain, letting
them have the run of small field
Tor exercise, Will a grove where they
could lie in the shade and take com.
fort. In this way many more COWS
could be kept on a given number o.
acres and the income of the farm
greatly increased. OF course. it took
more work, but these men say that
they can not afford to pasture good
tillable land worth $50 to 500 an
! acre.-C. P. Goodrich.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
What a BiIIionaire Miqht Own.

1t is easy enough to talk of billion
dollars, but what does it really mean
The City of Boston affords a good ex.
ample. On May of this year the to.
:al assessed. valuation of Boston real
estate was $1,0O6,122,9O0. OF this
amount $607, ,109,450 was on land, and
1888, ,103, ,450 on buildings.
Having these figures in mind, then.
we can have some idea of what it is
to be a Millionaire.
The Cook County herald., 1904-12-17
Butter MoIdS,

The spores that develop into butter
molds are said to be everywhere pres
ent and to require only the proper
conditions to send forth the plant life
that we know as mold. The re-
quired conditions are warmth and
dampness. These conditions hapren
in many creameries and butter rooms
in summer. when the ice has run low
or disappeared altogether. The Ship
pers of butter say that too frequently
the cars that carry the butter are al
lowed to run out Of ice and become
both damp and warm with the result
that the butter arrives at it's destina-
tion in moldy condition.