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SONGS OF THE OJIBwAS.
The One Bea tiful Type of FOlk-SOngs
Wholly indigenous to This
Continent.

In an interesting article on Indian
music in the Southern Workman, Fred
erick r. Burton writes as follows of
the songs of the Ojibwas:
Composition of melody does not re-
Quire education. Writing it is quite
another matter, but for ages the learn
ed composers have recognized that the
most potent melody is that which orig
mates with simple people. When the
songs of nation are expressed in peri
odic form, it follows that the people,
musically considered, have taken a
long stride out Of savagerv Applying
these observations to the music of our
North American Indian, find that in
all tribes, except the Ojibwa, there is
only crude manifestation Of form. A
reaching out for it is clear enough in
some instances, and more rarely there
is semblance of period, but in the lat
ter instances 1t is attained through a
monotOnous repetition Of a single
phrase. In the songs of the Ojibwas
there seldom occurs one that is not
couched in a well defined period. and
this is the chief technical or structural
difference that distinguishes the music
of this tribe from that of others. The
form of the Ojibwa song is usually per-
feet, and that is why the layman would
naturally refer to it as q tune.
"Unhappily the Ojibwas are inclined
as they come In contact with civiliza-
ton, to neglect their own songs, using
in preference the songs of the paleface.
This is regrettable i'll every way; they
are losing one of the finest distinctive
features Of their ancient life, and we
are in danger of losing the one beau
tiful type OF folk-songs which is wholly
indigenous to this continent"
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wonder why Il u ~. not knowing thaa
he expense of raising that crop y
greater than the income. Il such az
one had kept an account, he would
have known the first year that he could
not make that crop pay, and then
would have been ready to raise some
other crop that would bring him :
profit.
One can get books already prepared
divided into sections, one for each de-
partment of the farm, but such books
that have come under my observation
are little expensive. One that have
used, and found very convenient. y
only q common note book. with sep
arate division for each department.
Don't put OF noting down your ac-
counts until Saturday evening, or
some more convenient time, but be
puntual. note them down at the close
Of every day; 1t will take only q few
minutes, and nothing will be forgot
ten. Always be sure and date every
thing. I have found times when the
date was as important as the account
Keeping the account may, II conven-
lent be assigned to some particular
member of the family. If there Is .
girl or boy old enough to attend to It,
you would be surprised at the interest
they will take in it. 1t will also be
good lesson in bookkeeping, and help
them to know the business forms OF
life; also to be progressive and prac-
tical farmers.-E. p, in Midland
Farmer.
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ORIENTAL SCHOOL LIFE.
The Children Find 1t Something Diff
ferent from u Holiday
Season.

The beginning Of school days is a crit
ical period in the life Of boy or girl in
oriental countries. In the first place, the
priest or astrologer must beconsulted to
choose a lucky day. Every precaution
must bo taken to avert the jealousy of the
gods, whose malice is especially directed
against a fine boy.
The Chinese father, who adores his
son, will take the utmost pains to con-
vince the powers of the air that the boy
is Of no account. The child may be CIV
en- a despicable name, like flea, or Chu-
tie, q pig, or, more insulting still, he
may be given a girls name. The boy
may be started of to school wearing a
girls dress and one earring and II the
deception is complete this will be the
most effectual Of all, for even the gods
do not care for girls In China.
The Japanese schoolboy wears hang
ing from his belt little red bag. con-
tanning brass tag, with his name and
his parents name and address upon it.
He must have his paper umbrella and
his fan, and in a gay bag upon his arm
is a jar of rice for his luncheon. This
quaint little fellow has probably made
his offering at his own private shrine to
Tenjinsen, the god of penmanship.
When the Hindoo boy has found an
auspicious day to begin school he Is
taken to the god of learning. Sarasvati.
Here the little supplicant presents his
offerings of rice and betelnuts and re-
peats the letters Of the alphabet after the
priest. Thus is he entered into the ways
of knowledge in the very presence of
the god.
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Nitrosenou. Foods for Fouls.

The poultry editor has high opin-
ion Of cow-peas and soybeans as food
for laying hens. Even the-feaves and
small stocks Of these legumes are first
rate for fowls In an exchange we
find the following report:
Cow peas for food for poultry were
harvested after maturity. stored In dry
lofts and thrown to the fowls IN
scratching pens, where they scratched
over and searched during the day.
After a few days :he egg supply visi-
bly, increased, and within few weeks
almost doubled that from an equal
number of hens kept in separate quar-
ters and fed on no other grains. The
hens seemed to like the small branch
es and leaves, and would eat every
particle except the hard. stiff stems.
The general health Of the flock was
excellent, and not single hen showed
the least symptom Of ailment during
winter season"
Our own experience in feeding cow
peas and soy-beans, and their vines, Is
entirely in line with this. Linseed meal
also gives good results. All these are
to be fed in Observation-Disclosures
Farmer
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HOME FROM SCHOOL

When sweet Libbie's home from school
There nre voices In the hall
Mixed with bubbling happy laughter.
Ana the air seems all a-call
with the voices of wild songsters,
And the perfumed days and cool
Are like beads of pearl and amber.
When our Libbie's home from school.
There's frow-frow too Of garments
Over tessellated floors;
There are romping bits of music.
There's an opening of doors,
TIL the breath Of many blossoms
Comes on breezes sweet and cool.
Ana their. sweetness stirs your heart
strings
When our IAbbie's home from school
Ev'ry day Is like a jewel.
Each far fairer than the last
Slipping past your eager fingersl
Slipping faster and more fast!
How we'd love to clasp and hold them,
Days enchanted sweet and cool,
When our hearts are full of music.
When our Libbie's home from school.
Days a-glint with gray-eyed laughter.
Sc Days OF red lips. half a-pout,
Rose-rcd cheeks wherein wee dimples
Half are hid, half peeping out;
Life which erstwhile lay as quiet
AS shaded wayside pool.
Wakes into a laughing torrent,
When our sweet Libbies home from
/ school.
Child, whose ev'ry day is May time!
Would for you Time might stand still
Would these days might last forever!
Orchard, meadow, valley, hill
Might retain the splendid beauty,
Fountains sing the self-same way.
Would for our sake you might ever
Be. dear, rs you are to-day!
u. M. Lewis, in Houston Post.
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Paid in Advance.

Payment in advance sometimes in
wolves obligations that the payer would
gladly cancel. Madame lie Blond gives
an amusing instance of this in her
stories Of Alpine climbing.
A mountaineer of my acquaintance
once met a climber and his guide as
cending the Breithorn, she says. The
traveller was tired, and--the snow
slopes were long and wearisome. The
guide had put the rope over his shoul-
der and was pulling the gentleman
along. 1t was a hot day and the anna
teur was very weary. Furthermore,
he could speak no German. So he en-
treated his compatriot to intercede for
him with the guide, who would insist
on taking him up in spite of his groans
of fatigue.
"Why do you not return when the
gentleman wishes it," queried the
stranger.
"Sir," replied the guide, "he can go,
he must go; he has paid me in ad-
ce."-Youth's Companion.
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Miss Nellie Holmes, treasurer
Of the Young Woman's Temper.
ance Association of Buffalo, N.Y.,
strongly advises all suffering
women to rely, as she did, up.
on Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege.
table Compound.
DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:-Yo Your med.
tcine is indeed an ideal woman's medi-
cine, and by far the best know to
restore lost health and strength. 1
suffered misery for several years, being
troubled with menorrhagia- My back
ached, 1 had bearing-down pains and
frequent headaches. / would often
wake from restful sleep. and in such
pain that suffered for hours before I
could go to sleep again. i dreaded the
long nights as much as the weary days.
l consulted two different physicians.
hoping to get relief but finding that
their medicine did not sem to cure me.
l tried your Vegetable Compound
on the recommendation of q friend
from the East who was visiting me.
II am glad that followed her ad-
vice, for every ache and pain 10 gone,
and not only this, but my general
health is much improved. 1 have .
fine appetite and have gained in flesh.
MY earnest advice to suffering women
Is to put aside all other medicines and
to tslse Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table COmp0und."-M Miss NELLIE
HoLNEs, $40 No Division St., Buffalo,
scs.:n:-fsooo ~. fs1st ifevIgissf IF sssss istfwps.
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WILD ANIMALS FARSIGHTED.
The Defect of Nearsightedness Seems
to BE a Product of Civ
ilixatiOn.


"The defect of nearsightedness ap-
pears to be largely a product Of civil
ization, of our method Of living" says
DR.. Grier, in the st. Louis Globe-Demo-
crat. "The natural condition of the
eyesight for all kinds of animals is what
is commonly termed farsighted. Wild
animals are invariably farsighted, and
remain that way even after capture by
man and confinement in menageries or
geological gardens. Animals, even as
young as four and five months old. when
captured continue farsighted in the
ZOOS until their death, but the animals
born in captivity are always (there may
be some exceptions, though have new
er heard of any nearsighted. This is
probably due to the CONSTRUCTED range Of
their vision, for which nature endeavors
to adapt their eyesight to the best ad-
vantage.
Among human beings, it is very near
ly the same. Hunter, trapper or sailor,
open and has an unlimited range for his
vision, has the natural eyesight, and can
discern objects a great distance be-
yond that possible to the eyes Of the
dwellers in cities. We have little need
to see far away in city; and the tele-
scopic power of our eyes, therefore,
diminishes perceptibly from generation
to generation, until in the course of time
1t is probable we may all be nearsighted,
without the power to see distinctly over
hundred yards.
"The many hours each day a child
spends in the schoolroom with its re-
stricted area helps spread the nearsight-
edness great deal. The little one be-
fore it enters school can see much far
ther than it can few years after having
begun it's scholastic career. Then for
half dozen hours daily it is called upon
to look no greater distance than to the
teachers desk, less than 30 feet away,
so its eyesight becomes adapted to see
ing clearly at 80 feet, but not so we'll at
hundred feet, decided contrast 10 the
quality of the primitive eyesight."
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Feeding Young Pigs.

Sow's milk is the natural food for
young pigs and when they are weaned
they should be given food as nearly
as possible like that which they have
been having from their mother. A
very good ration at this time is mid
dlings one part, corn meal one part
and skim-milk eight parts. If skim
milk is not to be had, the ration
might be filled out by adding a little
more middlings and little tankage.
Tankage is a packing house product
which is very rich in protein, and
only little is required to balance a
ration. AS the pigs grow in age and
size, the proportion of food rich in
protein should be reduced and the
proportion Of food rich in carbohy-
drates should be increased.-Midland
Farmer.
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rhr7S Doctor., Opinions.

Buffalo, N. ", Feb. l5.-Physicians
have accepted Dodd's Kidney Pills a. the
standard remedy for diseases Of the Kid.
nsys and kindred complaints. r. H. Dun,
away, NJ. D., Of Benton, ILL.,, says.
"Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me Of Dia.
betes after everything else had failed and
/ was given up to die. l have since pre-.
scribed them in my regular. practice for
every form of Kidney Trouble and have
never as yet known them to fail"
Jesse L. Lines, N. D., st. John, Kan.
II prescribed Dodd's Kidney Pills for
the little daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Nc.
Bride Of this place who suffered from
Epileptic fits following Scarletina; results
were miraculous; have never seen any.
Leland Williamson. NJ. D., yorktown.
'Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best medi.
cine / know of for all forms of Kidney
Disease. believe in using the remedy
that relieves and cures my patients,
whether ethical or not, and always pre-
scribe Dodd's Kidney Pills and can testify
that they invariably accomplish a perma.
nent and perfect cure Of all Kidney Com
plaints,"
The progress., 1904-03-26
THE CITY OF MEXICO.
Rapid Growth and General Progress
Of the Metropolis of the South
western Republic.

This is city with an immense future
You can safely enter this remark In your
notebook. You can refer to it ten years
hence and underscore 1t approvingly
BY that time all the troglodytes and
pessimists will have been buried In the
expanding cemeteries or be dwelling
quite at their ease, in the handsome resi-
dental sections Of the city, already fill
ing up with progressive people, says
Modern Mexico.
Twenty year ago-cobblestones peo-
pie living over shops and Offices, not one
fine display of merchandise of the luxu-
rious sort anywhere to be seen, plate
glass windows unknown, and ladies
shopping from their carriages, the as
sistants bringing out the goods for in
spection; people all huddled inside the
"hull of the city" for fear Of robbers and
what might happen in 'the next revolu-
tion." Sad-visaged men Of prominence
standing in their zaguan doors, predict
ing terrible times" and asserting that
they were "going back to Europe"
They did not go back; they all stayed
here and accumulated wealth; the next
revolution" was always nipped in the
bud by great statesman who was never
slow to stop the plotters, and who by
diversifying employments made 1t easy
for every industrious man to win his
bread.
The old city grows and grows; new
streets, a keen demand for electric light
ing, sewers and water; the municipal
administrators hardly>> able to keep
abreast of the calls upon them. Smooth
asphalted streets with swift automo-
biles gliding over them; charming and
elegant homes furnished with every
thing that modern luxury can furnish;
great shops existing to supply the de-
mands of taste and wealth. the middle
class rising into power and influence;
nowhere any sign of halt or retrogres-
sion.
As the capital of country which is
all alive with new activities. with wealth
fast accumulating in the interior, this
city is bound to keep pace with it all;
hither come, already, rich men from all
over the republic to establish their new
homes; here they find their Paris.
Here are clubs, the theater, splendid
shops, the luxuries they crave. Hence
this capital grows like young giant.
The City of Mexico is on its way to a
vastly greater population, to splendor
and an elegance Of which we now catch
prophetic glimpses. Lucky is the young
man who is growing up with it, who
has stake in its real estate, who is to be
one of the substantial citizens here in
the year, say, 1880.
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HERE AND THERE.

Purchase beef cattle when they
are cheap as at present and lay the
foundation for raising blooded stock
The nations of the world must be fed
and in time they will pay well foz
beef.
Dairy cows should not be obliged
to travel long distance for water.
If they do, they will go without until
they get very thirsty and feverish,
and will then drink until they are un.
comfortable.
Broad tires on wagon wheels do
not destroy roadbeds as do narrow
tires. On the other hand, broad tires
pack the earth in dry weather so that
the highway will turn water when the
rainy season sets in.
-Horsehides have a value and when
for any reason a horse Is killed or
dies, the skin should be taken of and
preserved for the market. Fair-sized
horse-hides are worth SO to 1925:
surely an amount worth saving.
Clean up the "eye-sores" and
Wnllt yOu al dDOut IL ClCdu dll lQ6
old pieces of machinery, broken down
implements and farm machinery and
sell the old iron II you can; if not, take
it outside the camp" and dump it into
some hole or hollow, out of sight.
We have feed when we give the
farm animals proper shelter. 1t is
sign of bad farming, Of farming sure
to result Improbable, to see, as one
sometimes does. beasts shivering in a
fence e-corner during the bitter blasts
of winter without a bite to eat.
Did you ever notice that the read
ing farmer is the prosperous farmer.
The man who already knows IL all.
and has no time for new tangled no
tions is generally TIE one whose farm
is ornamented with a mortgage.5and
as rule the more set he is in this
way, the larger the mortgage.
There is a growing sentiment
among the best element of the farm
ing class, that with the advent of i'm
proved methods of transportation.
and communication, those who
are engaged in agricultural pursuits
are gradually attaining higher pow
er to enjoy the beautiful things OF
life.
There are but two profitable kinds
Of hens as winter layers. One is the
well-grown. strong, vigorous, early
hatched pullet Of the year: the other
hens of strong. vigorous
that have been splendid
ss-producers the winter before as pU.
IstA
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COURT DIFFICULTIES.
for the First Time Paid HOm-
age to Royalty.

Charlotte Disbrowe, the daughter Of
Sir Edward Cromwell Disbrowe, in
her "Recollections of Closed Cen
tury" tells of her appearance at the
court in Amsterdam. She was a young
girl at the time, and youth and mex
perience entangled her in an amusing
difficulty.
"All stood in their appointed places,
the diplomacy on the right Of their
majesties, the Dutch ministers on the
left hand. l. was to stand with
Mademoiselle de Selby, daughter Of
the Danish minister, whom I always
looked upon as a protectress during
those early days, when used to be SO
alarmed by the foreign custom of girls
not remaining under their mothers
wing.
ELLA de Selby was a great stickler
for etiquette, and had that day warned
me that we daughters of ministers
were to pass before the wives of the
secretaries of legation. These ladies,
l believe, had no intention of taking
the lower place. do not know exactly
what happened, but in the doorway
I was seized by my friend Ella, that
might pass on with her in front Of q
Madame Pelaprat, who meant to 60
before lis.
Both were much bigger than was,
and each pulled as hard as she could;
and what with my train to look after
and my fright, went the wrong way,
and when able to look up found my
self at the head of the columns of Ia
dies of the country, which was quite
incorrect.
ri was consequently the first person
the king addressed when he started
on the round of the room, and he said:
Young lady, l should like to know
how you got here?'
II answered: Sire, Madame Pelaprat
pulled so hard
"He was so much amused that for
long time afterward he used to say:
Charlotte, tell me, what has Madame
Pelaprat done to you lately?'
"But my troubles were not over when
the king and queen, after going their
had returned to their places;
for, thanks to where l was placed,
was the last person to get out of the
room, which l had to accomplish by
walking backward along two sides of
the room, with my train on the floor
behind me- The queen, when she saw
how frightened l was, sent me word
that had managed my train most
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A Rare Disease.

Mrs. Juniper entered the doctors Of
fee, dragging by the hand an over
grown boy of a. She was excited and
impatient; he was dogged and glum.
20 doctor, he has lost his voice! He
hasn't spoken word for two days"
she said.
The boy looked at her sullenly and
suffered the doctor to hold his face up
to the light.
"Open your mouth. HIM! Tongue
all right?"
"Ya-ah."
Hold your head up and let me look
at your throat. Seems to be nothing
the trouble there. Push your tongue
out. Now pull 1t back. Feel all
right?'
"Ya-ah."
"Why, Mrs. Juniper. there is nothing
the matter with him." said the doctor,
impatieatly. boy, why don't you
talk?s
"How can I when I amt got any.
thing to say?''-Youth's Companion.
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Probably even IN prehistoric times
men have noticed the face of the man
In the moon" Plutarch noticed 1t and
even wrote a whole book about the face
in the moon. But besides this, many
other objects are supposed to be visi-
BILE. The dark markings on the surface
are likened by the Chinese to a monkey
pounding rice. In India they are said
to resemble a rabbit. To the Persians
they seem like the earth's oceans and
continents reflected as in q mirror.
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FARMERANDP PLANTER
SOUTHWEST AND IT'S CROPS.


Cottcr, corn, wheat, oats, barley,
hay. tobacco. ETC., are the leading
crops Of the United States and the
state which produces the maximum
value in any one of these classes is
entitled to distinction. Cotton heads
the list, with Texas a. the chief pro-
ducer, according tn government crop
reports of 1901, when the average price
was 9.4s cents per pound. For 1908 the
valuation exceeds that Of 1901, but for
the sake of q conservative comparison.
the figures for the latter year are Civ
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Eyes. mamma" sighed the fair young
thing, raising her limpid eyes to the
tender ones of her mother: 'yes. man.
ma. haye set my heart on marrying
a nobleman."
Dumfounded, the good woman. her
mother. raises her hands and gasps:
Lord love you. child, What"
That's just what hope, mamma
she interrupts. insenuously.-Judge.
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Returning the Enemy's Shot.

Two colored boys of Washington
one large, the other small, had become
involved in a misunderstanding, and
the big bully was pouring out the vials
of his wrath upon the little chap in
all the abusive epithets he had ever
heard, and some that were manufac-
tured especially for the occasion.
His small antagonist, meanwhile
was standing calmly in front of him.
with his grimy hands hanging idly by
his side, and his eyes fixed upon his
opponent with a curious expression of
reserved power, and he seemed to be
gioating over every word, as il it were
a personal compliment
Finally. when the large boy had ex-
bausted his vocabulary and his breath
at the same time, the little black mite
delivered himself ir the gravest and
most perfectly unexcited tones after
this fashion:
'All dem things wha' you say ] Is.
you is 'em."-Youth's Companion.
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studying American working methods.
With ar-eeng Europe has become matter Of firm belief
that strictly essential study American and methods
before the education of higher craftsmen OF industrial
public works, ETC., be called complete.
The statements which Mr. Godbeger Dr. Saaanson and other
great German financial institutions Wilhelm Ponz the
author Minister of State and his accompanying cou-
experts have made and which published BY the press
and discussed meetings of economic bodies in Germany caused deep
and in all industrial circles of Europe AS
visits from other experts bankers and scen-
are follow "To study the United States
see how the Americans do it,.
Three of tie prominent OF German finance and mecani-
proceeding the United States for this
Denbug of the Bank of Commerce and Industres
Director Winterfed Of the Berlin Commercial company; and Pvy
Raena The first named banking
promoting institutions and Mr. Ratenau OF the
greatest electrical works in Germany. xx@
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There is a good deal of talk to the
effect that the duke will marry in Amer
lea"
Yes, the money of at least a dozen
heiresses is talking all at once. Puck.
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A Father. Protection.

Father, it is as essential for you to
provide safeguard against that night
ficnd to your children, Group, as to their
hunger. Taylor's Cherokee Remedy OF
Sweet Gum and Mullen will cure cough,
Group and colds.
. At druggists, 25c., &c., and sl0O .
bottle.