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Agriculture in the Schools.

The idea of teaching agriculture in
primary schools is growing steadily,
despite well-intentioned but really
groundless opposition. The greatest
stumbling block has been ignorance
of teachers concerning scientific agri-
culture. There is now little excuse for
any teacher remaining ignorant of a
few of the general principles of crop
production. Anyone if he makes up
his mind can fit himself for teaching
bow to prepare soil for planting and
cultivate few of our leading farm
crops. Agricultural papers, agricul-
tural books, nature study, literature,
are within the reach of every teacher.
OF course consolidation of country
schools will render the teaching of
agriculture comparatively easy, but
until this is accomplished much can
be dofle.-.Amel!can Agricultural.
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IN THUNDERSTORM SEASON
What Spots to Avoid in Order to Be
Reasonably Safe from the Eff
fects of Lightning.

The Philadelphia Ledger gives this
excellent advice: Now that the sea-
son of thunderstorms is approaching
people should understand what spots
to avoid in order to reduce to the
minimum the chances of being struck
by lightning. Out-of-doors, trees
should be avoided, and if from the ra-
pidity with which the explosion fol-
lows the flash it is evident that cleo
trio clouds are near at hand, recum-
bent posture is the safest. 1t is sell
dom dangerous to take shelter under
sheds, carts or low buildings, or I'M
der the arch of a bridge, and dis
lance of 81 or so feet from tall trees
or houses is an eligible situation, for
should discharge take place these
elevated bodies are most likely to re-
ceive it.
1T is we'll also to avoid water, for it
is a good conductor, and the height of
a human being near the stream may
determine the direction of discharge.
Within doors we are tclerably safe in
the middle of a carpeted room, or
when standing on thick hearth rug.
The chimney should be avoided on
account of the conducting power of
the carbon deposited in it, and gilt
holdings or bell wires are sources of
risk. In bed we are tolerably safe,
since blankets and feathers are bad
conductors. 1t is injudicious to take
refuge in cellar, because the dis
charge is often from the earth To n
cloud, and the buildings frequently
sustain the greatest injury in their
easements
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INCREASING THE PROFITS
It Can Be Done by Giving the Hogs
More Range and Free Access /
to Pastures.

A very common practice, and yet q
very injurious practice, among farmers
is to confine their swine in close pens
not allowing them free range and a
change of atmosphere. The original
hog had the freedom Of the woods.
where he could dig for roots and OF
tain other things possessing medicinaEi
qualities; consequently he was much.
healthier, and less liable to cholera
and other contagious diseases. Ale
animals like a change of diet. This
they can get when allowed large
pasture to roam over, as there will be-
that they will relish. which will great
ly improve the appetite. Notice the
difference between two punches OF
hogs; one which has been closely con-
fined, the other which has had plenty
of range and change Of sleeping ap-
partments. You will readily notices
the difference in appearance, health,
growth, etc. Another very poor prac-
tice is to allow hogs to sleep on plea
and when allowed to do this, ere long
the hogs will show the effects of such
a poor practice-as some will show
signs of poor health and also stunteG!
condition from over heating and over
laying. Grain being more costly than
the grasses it is therefore point in.
economy to gain as many pounds as
possible by the use of grass. it has
been we'll said that variety is the
spice of life" This Is as true of the
life of animals IS ef man. Don't feed
those pigs so much grain, give them
such food as will be conducive of moro
growth and less flesh. Prepare a pas
ture especially adapted to the needs.
and wants of the pigs, such as
clover, peas, rape, etc, and you WIZ
have stronger and better hogs. Hogs.
weighing about 200 pounds, we'll fat.
tened, are bringing the top of the mar
ket now. The large coarse hog is no
longer in such demand; this works Il.
great saving to the producers. as 1t is
possible to make market toppers in six
to nine months, so that it Is not neces-
sary to winter anything but the BROOD
sows; spring pigs being marketed iEa
the fall In this way, too, they can be-.
matured at much less cost than those
that have to be wintered before fat
tening. Think it better plan to give
even those hogs that are on full feed.
chance to roam some. as they will
not to do this if water is handy to the
feed pen.-Agricultural Epitomist.
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solely by attention to the mouth, but
those of local nature rarely attack
mucous membrane that has received
proper care.
The Work of Ocean Currents.

We have been told of fossil rain and
fossil wind, and Prof Stanislas Meunier
has now pointed out the existence of
certain rocks of fossil ocean currents.
In many localities the stratified sand
and sandstone show peculiarly curved
and interlaced layers This interlaced
structure is now to be seen in formation
by the river Seine, and the rivers of the
ocean have transplanted sand and mud
to deposit in their windings in similar
way. II the seas were dried up the
course and history of the Gulf stream
and other currents might be traced in
these deposits. The sand and sandstone
OF interlaced structure are found from
widely separated geological epochs, and
an interesting lesson taught by them is
That the ocean currents and their work
have been substantially the same at all
periods of the earth's evolution.
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HYGIENE OF HUMAN MOUTH.
Many Annoying and Some Serious
Diseases Can Be Avoided
by Cleanliness.

A great many of the bacteria that
cause disease enter the body through
the mouth. Germs are always to be
found upon the gums. Those peculiar
to the contagious diseases have been
repeatedly discovered within the
mouths and Threats of healthy per-
sons. Some of them persist for months
in individuals who are not susceptible
to infection; but if, from exposure
physical exhaustion or ether cause,
susceptibility is developed, the germs
promptly produce illness.
There is also a group of diseases
which affect only the mouth The most
dangerous OF these are known as
"ulcerative stomatitis" and mona. y
The former generally begins at the
junction of the lower gum and the
teeth, and may destroy the tissues
down to the bone. 1t is mighty con-
tagious. Mona begins on the inner
surface of the cheek. and causes ex-
tensive destruction. Its progress is so
rapid that it sometimes terminates
fatally within a few days unless
checked by vigorous treatment 1t at
tacks delicate children or those who
are recovering from an acute disease
particularly measles or diphtheria.
Fortunately it is comparatively rare
but the possibility of its occurrence
indicates the Importance of frequent
cleansing Of the mouth during illness
According to the Youths Com
panion the less serious class of mouth
diseases includes several which, al
though not dangerous to life, are pain
full, and may prove injurious, especial
ly to children, by interfering with
mastication and impairing nutrition
The simplest of them is characterized
only by redness, with perhaps a few
mall ulcers on the tongue or lips. II
often results from neglect of the teeth
or the habit of introducing into the
mouth such improper substances as
pieces of wood or rubber. and in older
persons from the use OF tobacco. AL
though it liz generally of short dura-
ton, it is sometimes followed by other
more serious affections. The con-
tagiors mouth diseases are often COM
municated from child to child by the
fingers or through the exchange OF
toys and pencils, or by the eating OF
fruit and CONNECTIONS in common.
Decay of the teeth is due to the ac-
ton Of bacteria which thrive upon tie
remnants of food that adhere to the
gums and teeth after every meal un-
less removed with the brush.
The infectious diseases cannot be
prevented with any degree Of certainty
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size of common house fly. The states
and the planters were at a loss to devise
effective means to drive away the in
vader.
The department of agriculture came
to the assistance of the planters, and
sent special field agents from the d.
vision of entomology to make careful
Investigations Of this enemy and in
vader and to devise plans for it's ex-
termination. Since then these scientists
have waged relentless warfare upon the
weevil, and made most exhaustive prac-
teal experiments to wipe out the insect.
and have been partly successful. Recog-
nizing the seriousness of this pest, con-
gress has just appropriated s250,OO0 to
further aid in discriminating the weevil.
The adult weevil averages about one
fourth of an inch in length, and has a
beak about half the length of the body.
1t is of a grayish or reddish brown color.
The insect exists in four stages-eggs,
larvae, pupa and adult. All the stages
except the last occur inside Of the cot
ton square or boil. The egg is deposited
by the female weevil in cavity formed
by eating into the fruit of the plant. 1t
matches, under normal conditions, in
two or three days, and the grub imme-
diately begins to feed.
In from seven to twelve days the larva
or grub passes into the pupa, or quiet
stage, corresponding to the cocoon of
the silkworm This stage lasts from
three to five days. Then the adult
weevil issues, and in about seven days
begins the production of another gen.
Grafton. Climatic conditions cause con-
siderable variation, but on an average it
requires from two to three weeks for a
weevil to develop from the egg to the
adult.
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ENslLAoE FOR DAIRY cows
One Cubic Foot of silo Space Should
Be Provided for Each An
imal Per Day.

There is no longer any question:
about the value of the silo and silage
for dairy COWS. The testimony in be-
half Of this is unanimous, and very
conclusive where silage is fed to the
COWS. Here are some practical refer
ences to the construction of the siio
and quantity of the silage. by Pros
Thomas F. Hunt, Of the Ohio State
University and Agricultural College:
lone cubic foot of silo space shoults
be provided for each COW per day. To
obtain the size of silo required multi
ply the number of COWS to be fed BY
the number of days it is desired to feed
ensilage and the result will be the Gu
bic contents of the silo required. Silos
should never be less than 20 feet Deep,
and 80 feet is very much better. This
ensilage should always be fed Off tho.
top, keeping not more than eight.
square feet of surface for each COW fed.
and five square feet is better. 1t is
sometimes more economical to get this.
relationship by increasing the size OF
the herd than by reducing the size CT
the silo. The amount of weight by en-
silage that silo will hold depends
upon several factors, as the size ana!
shape Of silo and the ripeness of the
corn used, but in general the number
of pounds of ensilage silo will hoi&
can be determined by multiplying the
cubic contents of the silo by 80 "A
ton Of ensilage will thus fill &c cubie
feet. The number of tons of ensilage
which can be grown per acre is mat
ter upon which there is much differ
ence Of opinion. My experience leads
me to believe that - tons of ensilage
per acre is fair average yield OF
properly ripened ensilage."
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" : IL u Z u III
washington as resembling Lincoln
somewhat not only in personal appear
ance, but also in the homely quality of
their minds. One is known as Uncle
Shelby" the other as Uncle Joe, just
as Lincoln was known familiarly as
"Uncle Abe And as Justice Harlan
recently remarked when a public man
is known universally as Uncle" that
is a pretty sure sign he is close to the
hearts of the people and has the quail
ties that the people like.
AS for Hit, he is one Of the most in
teresting of all the men in congress,
ard he has long been recognized as one
of the very ablest. He has been chair
man of the foreign affairs committee
in the house for great many years, and
it has fallen to him to prepare the re-
publican side Of almost every diplomatic
question which has been the subject of
partisan controversy during that time,
as for instance, in the Hawaiian and
Cuban matters just before the war with
Spain. He has had longer and more
varied diplomatic experience than al
most any other man in public life, hav-
ing served as secretary of legation and
assistant secretary of state up to the
time he was elected to congress, while
before that he was associated with Lin
coin, first as the stenographer who re-
ported the Lincoln-Douglass debates,
ard second as one of the official staff
at the white house during and after the
civil war.
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1912, and she at once took her mothers
place as the head of the presidents
household, thus becoming the youngest
woman who ever presided over the
white house, except Mrs. Cleveland.
She was noted then for her beauty and
wit, and her career as mistress of the
white house was brilliant. She was
greatly admired by the great men who
in the middle of the last century gave
distinction to the political and socia!
life of Washington.
Just before her father was elected vice
president she had married James A.
Semple, wealthy planter with large
estates in Virginia. When Tyler sue
ceeded to the presidency on the death
of Harrison she came to Washington
with him for the first time.
Tyler appointed Semple paymaster
in the navy, and after Tyler left the
white house Mrs. Semple lived quietly
on her husbands plantation until the
outbreak of the civil war, when he re-
signed from the United States navy and
became a paymaster in the confederate
navy.
The close of the war left the Semples
impoverished. and Mrs. Semple. leaving
her husband at home went to Baltimore,
where she conducted a school for girls.
After her husbands death in the late
'70's Mrs. Semple, then about 60 years
of age, came to Washington to pass her
last days in the Louise Home
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THE COTTON BOIL WEEvIL.
Scientists Have Made Some Progress
in Their Efforts to Extermin-
ate the Pest.

The United States census report re-
Gently issued gives some startling fig
ures as to the great damage done to the
cotton industry in the last year through
the ravages of the boil weevil The re-
port gives the total crop as 10,045,61
bales of 500-pound standard. This is
about 100000 bales less than produced
last year. The total loss to the state OF
Texas up to date is about SIPS, 100000.
During the summer of 1894 planters
along the Rio Grande and southwestern
Texas discovered in their cotton fields
the presence of small, grayish, long
nosed armor-clad beetle, about the
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tlOAo iuQ Aul1lutI
have fallen to him by the score, and it
has been simply out of the question for
him to decline them
Taft is nothing if not obliging, he en-
Joys companionship, and for one of his
temperament it was fatal So he has
succumbed to the inevitable and has
abandoned Washington altogether for
awhile to see if complete divorce from
the place will do him any good 1t is
high time.
! More public men have been killed by
the social game in Washington than by
hard work. Too many dinners proved
fatal to Blaine, Reed, Hobart and dozens
three of those men were favorite diners
out, and from their position as we'll as
their personal accomplishments were
constantly in demand. All three of
them would doubtless be alive to-day had
they been permitted to confine them
selves to their public duties in Wash
ington without the distractions of al
r. ost nightly dinners.
1t is getting to be the practice now
among those who are the targets Of con-
ti1uous invitations to devote as little
time as possible to each affair TO eat
sparingly and to drink, if possible, not
at all. But even with these precau-
lions the society game is great drain
on the vitality of public man who
comes to it with the WEAKNESS and wor-
ries of his day at the capitol or the de-
partment
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Inc Louise i'oiie' who founded the
principal bank of Washington, and who
among other benefactions presented
Daniel Webster with the handsome
house, since known as the Corcoran
house, and now occupied by Chauncey
M. Depew.
At the close of the war he was perhaps
the wealthiest man in the country of
southern proclivities, and those who had
been left destitute by the four years
lighting came TO him in droves for re-
lief. Most of the cases were pitiful.
There were scores Of women delicately
bred and used to life of comfort who
suddenly found themselves widowed
and helpless, with poverty staring them
in the face Corcoran took pity on them.
He planned such charity as had never
been conceived before. He established
a home which should be open only to
women of the south, of gentle birth, and
that home, named in memory of his
wife 1.-THE Louise Home" is still main
tanned through his endowment for the
purposes which he had in mind.
1t is a spacious building, surrounded
by ample grounds, in part of the city
where land has trebled and quadrupled
in value since Corcoran's day, in the
very midst of the fashionable residence
section of the city. Among the inmates
may be found relatives of almost every
eminent southern statesman or soldier,
who spend the days in eossiping among
themselves aboht the brave days of old.
LOUIS A. COOLIDGE.
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flooring and has tar paper between
finished siding and sheathing. Siding is
four inches, laid three inches to the
weather. Shingles on roof are cedar
Veranda roof deck is timed Glass
throughout is American double thick.
All floors are double having tar paper
between them
The hall and dining-room have
beamed ceilings. All inside finish is of
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WASHINGTON LETTER
INTERESTING AND TIMELY Cos
SIP OF NATIONAL CAPITOL.
LAST MARTYR TO SOCIETY
Secretary Taft Has Paid the Penalty
of Social neutrality-suspicious.
Vice Presidential Candidate
from Illinois.
notwithstanding Taft is reap
ing the fruit Of the social dissipation to

which he has been
condemned ev e r
since he ca m e
h O m e from the
Philippines. He
reached Washing
ton in the last week
of January a n d
from that time to
the present there
has hardly been a
night that he has
not been claimed
for some function
at which he was
the principal social
attraction. Recep-
u
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uously mentioned
as possible candi-
dates for vice pres
ident on the repub-
lican ticket should
all have b en-
among the few sur
vivors of t h o S e
who knew Lincoln
we'll.
Cannon. Cullom
and Hit were all
associated in some
way with Lincoln
during his life, and
both Cannon and
Cullom have been
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e j 8 h t VT our t h
birthday in t h e
quiet of the Louise
Home, established
many years ago by
w. w. C;orcoran,
t h e Washington
millionaire philan-
thropist, as a re-
treat for southern
gentlewomen of
slender means.
Mrs. Letitia Ty-
Ter Semple is the
second daughter of
President T y | e r.
w. <l:1J
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The Saloon Habit in London.

A count of the church and saloon
attendance in Paddington, district of
London having a population of 142, OOG,
made by agents of w. IT, Stead on a
recent Sunday, showed that the saloon
attendance was the greater by ten to
one. Only 10000 women attended
church, while $4,000 were found in ga.
loory.
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Sular and one of
the most meritor-
ious. 1t was es-
tablished soon aft
err the close OF the
civil war by the
banker Corcoran,
who was a south
erner in sentiment
and who in that
day was by far the
wealthiest man in
the District OF Co
lumbia.
1t was Corcoran
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passed. At the same time the session
crease in appropriations which, since
the beginning of the government al
most, has characterized each succeed
ing session of congress; for there is a
stated law of increase following some
what the growth of the country in pop
ulation, no matter what party happens
to be in control.
This record is due partly to the or
ganization of the house, and partly to
the understanding which has prevailed
between the leaders of the house and
senate. There has never been congress
where less friction developed between,
the two branches or where the respec-
tive leaders knew better as time went on
what was likely to happen. There has
been little partisan bitterness, the only
spirited debate in the house being be-
tween Cochran and Dalzell which turned
chiefly on personal issues.
OF course, what gave the session it's
opportunity for work was the special
session which President Roosevelt called
for November. That enabled congress
to dispose of a great amount of routine
in organization. which usually delays
the beginning of the work of legislation
Tor over month. 1t is estimated that
the special session of three weeks, com
ing as it did, was worth at least six
weeks OF work accomplished.
Former Mistress of the White House.
A Woman Mhn Mac nnno r,,ic4.os- :. g
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been the busiest in
the history of that
body. In order to
find so short a ses-
sion of a so-called
long session" of
congress the his
torians have to go
back before t h e
war, and in work
actually a eco m
plished in so short
a time there is no
preceding congress
which eXcels it. No
other session of
congress, long or
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yellow pine. Finished floors are of yell
low pine.
Painting is three coat work, plastering
two coat work. The rear stairs lead
from kitchen and dining-room. Stairs
to attic lead up from second-story hall.
Stairs to basement from kitchen.
Bathroom fixtures are of an up-to-date
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short. has ever equaled it in the num-
Der of reports made by committees, and
it comes near the head OF the list in bills
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Charities of corcorar.

OF all the charities of Washington, the
Louise Home is at once the most sim
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Record-Breaking Congress.

The session of congress just closed
is shown by the official records to have
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For Vice Presidential Honors.

1t is rather odd that the three men
from Illinois who have beer conspic-
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A barbed wire fence that will turk,
hogs is shown in the accompanying il
lustration and is self-explanatory. The

rail or scantling near the top is usess
for two purposes. Horses and cattis.
can see it easily and are not apt to be.
damaged by running into the fence. Ii
serves as brace and the wires are mors.
easily kept taut than when it is omitted.
a most important item in hog fences
made of barbed wire.-orange JndG
Farmer.
Don't pass final judgment on a h,
spirited horse fresh from the 9
one thoroughly tired out.
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Former Mistress of the White House.
A woman who was once mistress of
the white house has Just passed her
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THIS eight-room house of colonial
design will cost $4,000 built upon a
stone foundation. The arrange
ment of the room, ETC., is very good, and
sizes are shown herewith: