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Ask for Foley's Honey and Tar and
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1t contains no opiates and is safest
for children and delicate persons.
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Will Interest fdanY.

Every person should know that
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disease in every form, and will
build up and strengthen these or
cans SO they will perform theii
functions properly. No danger OF
Bright's disease or diabetes if Fo-
ley's Kidney Cure is taken in time
Sold by W. S. Lloyd SS'4t
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AS long as the chicks scratch,
they are safe, and not overfed. G.
E. White, of Hammanton, gave the
following recipe for feeding broil-
ers: Zone pint corn meal, one tea
cupful of brand, once tablespoon
ground meat. Mix. thoroughly.
Then take one raw egg, half tea
spoonful of baking soda, and one
teacup of cold water. Mix these
together II separate dish, and
add to the meal, brand and meat.
Also put in three tablespoonfuls of
ground bone. Bake in deep pan
for two hours. When cool, crumble
up for them" Mr.. White fed this
until the chicks were ten days old,
when he gradually introduced a
feed of ground wheat, oats and
corn, moistened. He always kept
ground oyster shell, bone, meal and
charcoal before them in separate
dishes. Chopped onions, lettuce
and cabbage, or grass run, are all
mother biddy could find additional.
/ like the above cake, giving it's
crusts to old hens, and get good
homemade "Animal~ Meal" by run
through colander, boiled lean
meat, first chopped. If scab or
vent appears, with scissors / cut
away the daubed feathers, then
change food.
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make it pay to ship his eggs to the
larger cities, hence he was COM
PEELED to accept the price offered
him by the village grocer. If a
half dozen of them had combined
and shipped their eggs to a reliable
house in the city they could have
got from 3 to cents more per dozen
than they did.-Americsn Farmer.
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Through to City Of Mexico

Without change of cars, via Iron
Mountain Route, in elegant Pull.
man sleeping cars, leavin st. Louis
8 40 p. IN. daily via Laredo Gate
way. Shortest and quickest line.
Excursion tickets now on sale.
For further information call on
or address
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419 Walnut St., Cincinnati, o.
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Poultry Notes.

Don't let the lice bother your
hen that is setting in the old shed
Wonder. "A stitch in time saves
nine I" Very true, and the same
thing is true in the poultry bust
ness. skill the lice in time and 1T
will save an increase of million"
For the first two weeks, chicks
do best fed often and little at a
time, five meals a day, then four
then three. A general rule for 100
chicks is one quart of food a day
the first week two quarts of food a
day the second week and three
quarts a day the third week, etc.
Better give all they will eat up
clean leaving none mussed or sour.
Clean boards, shingles, or even
pieces of paper make good tables,
for it is mistaken idea that chicks
will thrive on filth.
Lice may come from introduce
ton of chicks Matched under hens,
or by putting into incubators, eggs
with nits attached. Mr.. Jacobs
says: every part of the brooder
must be we'll and thoroughly clean
ed. Each chick must be held by
one leg. head downward, and dust
ed with pyrethrum, persian in
sect powder), and the brooder
washed with a solution of one part
carbolic acid and ten parts water.
Allow the brooder to dry before re-
turning the chicks, and repeat the
busting of the chicks several times,
burn also little o.. the powder on
the floor and in the crevices. Avoid
g. Teasing chicks, as it often proves
fatal"
While carrying on a series OF ex-
periments In his laboratory with
chicken life during the embryonic
stages, DR.. Counter, young den
fist Of Toledo, o., succeeded in
Matching a chicken by means of an
ordinary steam radiator. The egg
was placed in a small paper box
and hung from the radiator during
the period of incubation. AT the
the end of twenty-one days the
chick was Matched and has since
been kept in paper suit box,
about three by one and half feet,
with a little shelter in one corner
of it. The box is hung near the
radiator, and its inmate, now three
weeks old, is as strong and vigors
GUS as one could expect a chicken
TO De raised under natural condi-
tions.
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REDUCED EXCURSION RATES
TO Los Angeles and San Francisco
and Return.

Via The Missouri Pacific Rail-
way and Iron Mountain Route.
Tickets on sale April 23Id to May
1st; final return limit june both,
1904. Choice of routes. Liberal
stop-over privileges. Through
Standard and Tourist sleeping cars.
Full particulars cheerfully furnish
ed. A. A. Gallagher, D. P. A. 4l9
Walnut St., Cininati, Ohio.
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Some men preserve their princi
pies by never using them,
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1904-04-06

either way. fossiuiy WY e"PoAAO
vigor of one parent may control
but in spite of all efforts some sea
sons result in a large surplus o.
cockerels and the following a large
per cent. of pullets. All this II
equally true of cattle and Other
animals.
Where the location of the poult-
ry yard is level, We never would
have it so if it were possible tc
have same on a slope, coal ashes
freely applied act as an absorbent
and make tolerable quarters, when
if they are not used the hens will
have to walk in the mud on wet
days.
Chicks when taken from the in
cubator should be placed in brood
err at temperature of 80 degrees
it is best to give them no food Tor
the first SO hours as nature provid
es sustenance during that period in
the yolk of the egg which the chick
en- absorbes just before Matching.
In the poultry business an in
vestment of few hundred dollars
properly handled will pay hun
bred per cent. per annum. Capital
is required for coops, yards, incu'
bators and fowls, but intelligent
care and attention represent the
great essentials. There is nothing
small about poultry raising unless
it is the amount of money required
to go into the business.
A pound of chicken may not be
as cheaply produced as a pound OF
beef, but the price of pound oil
chicken will average twice as high
as a pound of beef. The chicken
business is just as large as the beef
business. In France, where poul-
try is raised to perfection, chicken
raising is equal to all other branch
es of stock raising combined.
There can be no doubt that tur-
keys will bring a high price the
coming year. The scarcity OF
breeding stock makes this outcome
practically certain. With favor
able season, Of course, large hocks
may be raised, but not enough to
meet the general demand. Let us
lay our plans accordingly and reap
the reward which is apt to follow
the recognition of opportunity.
The Poultry News says that the
United States Agricultural De-
partment has closely and scientifi-
cally examined the question wheth-
err the male bird is needed for the
production of eggs, and the con-
clusion arrived at was that the av-
erage laying of the hens is greater
if kept alone. 1t has also been
proven again and again in this
country that males are not neces-
sary if eggs are the only object of
the business.
1t looks as if the consumption of
eggs was growing more rapidly than
the supply. We know there has
been a great increase in the pro-
duction of eggs in the past three
years, but never have eggs been
scarcer and sold higher than this
1t is also certain that the
farmers did not get fair share of
the increased values. One reason
for this is that the single individ-
mol did MT kaan enough hens Tn
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POULTRY PICKINGs.
Worth While Your Reading.

The first duck eggs of the season
are rarely fertile.
Now's the time to think of get
ting out some early birds.
There is no food which will pro-
duce a more liberal supply of eggs
than table scraps.
Do not hatch your young tur-
keys out too early, as you will find
you will have better luck later.
1t is a very good plan to get
some good brand of poultry food
and feed your young ones on dur
ing the summer months.
Soft. shell eggs are usually the
result of the hens being too fat.
In such cases give change of diet
and feed more green stuff.
Turkeys are lot of trouble to
raise; but remember, there is a
dollar or two in it for you next
Thanksgiving day.
A good way to settle the disput
es with your neighbors over your
turkeys is to mark each one some
night with any good make of leg
bands.
Get your pen ready to raise a
few ducks this summer. They will
make a nice feather bed for you
and are not much work if cared for
in the right way,
An Indiana breeder of Buff Leg
horns recently received an order
from Texas for 900 eggs at SO cents
a dozen. They were for Matching,
and to be delivered by April l.
See that all nests are in good
order, SO when your good old hen is
ready to set you will be ready to
set her; that is, if you are not far
enough advanced to have an incu-
bator.
Young ducklings do not require,
= Their should they have unlimited
:, re. A hen rarely raises young
= lings when she compels them
e.n ow her about the farm. They
stand very much exercise.
All 81 iould have the brooding
good trim when the hen
~ with their little ones
uh;4ssI them inside and out.
=. .;,,.usL, them smell clean and
.noot and hey don't look bad set
tioo in anouA try yard.
Evnerimeuts as to whether sex
oonld no contro lied in production
have led to no satisfactory re-
sults. Over feed. ing and partial
starvation gave no decided bias
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or illumination Of the time; nor WAS there
any need Of them, the long hose being tied
by points, or laces, to the doublet. On
the other hand, it is very likely that ladies
wore that little gold and jewelled circlet
then, just as they did later.
In the seventeenth century Evelyn de-
scribes this fascinating portion Of a lady's
wardrobe thus:
Four pair Of pas dc soy shot through.
With silver. diamond buckles, too,
For sarters, and - Iich for shoe.
In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
garters were very important part of mans
dress. for 1t is then that we hear OF spangled
garters worth copyhold, and Stowe
says: AT this day raen Of meane rank
weare garters and shoe roses Of more than
Ave pounds price" They wore later
small sashes Of silk tied in large bow
and with ends of point lace.
Stockings Of silk were generally supposed
to have been unknown In England before
the middle Of the sixteenth century, and
. pair Of long Spanish silk hose was oon-
sidered . gift worthy Of king. At this
time too, the word stocking first presents
itself In the guise Of stockings OF hose.
that 10, oontinuations Of the trunk hose or
breeches, which were called upper stocks,
while the lower covering Of the leg was
called neither stocks
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GOOD statesmen SCARCE.
All tie Competent Drummers Have Jebs
Some Merchants Think.


Some Merchants Think.
Have all the good salesmen jobs? This
question il worrying many business men
in New York. Some merchants were
discussing the subject the other day.
Said one, Il have a good line, the facill-
ties to execute orders and I spend some
money for advertising, yet good sales
man is indispensable to my success. Try
as will cannot get men who put their
heart in their work. myself have not
the eloquence nor the persuasive powers
necessary to drummer, but never 60 on
the road without coming back with more
orders than any traveller ever brought
me-"
A paper dealer who does a very large
business, serving some customers with as
much as carload Of paper day, had been
Il am afflicted with the same trouble. =
he said. my best salesman is myself.
l have tried all sorts Of men and have lost
more money In salaries to inoompetent
drummerss than in bad debts. have about
given up hope.
have the same experience which worriee
me-" A third man began thus and heaved
a great sigh. Il have Interviewed appii-
carts Of all ages and nationalities who an
swered my many advertisements,
Scarcely one but asks about the salary
before he knows what goods he is required
to sell. 1 have put on men who looked
like church deacons and some who re.
sembled racetrack touts. in the hope that
one might prove desirable,
II have paid liberal salaries and commits
sions and have given the men every
opportunity and encouragement, but I'm
RAPIDLY coming to your way Of thinking,
that all the good men have jobs.
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tr,,ss herself and the $50 he carried q
her-weil, IN the usual plaOe, not V sPeeH
Of the jewels in her PSEsy bsG. 70 2 OnHSsse
She felt that the thing was grotssquesy
at pitch dark crossins, and the oonauotor
called sGrsnd avenue she know u was
She gave Wild glance around and En- "a,
countered the sympathetic gaze OF uttIe
man wearing on the h LAPEL q ~: oGes Pf.s 9"f
black letters aoross II. .u.
Now the woman had Newspaper amha-
tions herself and she hesitated not 70 throw
herself, metaphorioally, on the shirtfrons
Of the little man from Kansas. Sne graspeo
Are you newspaper Insni- she ogied
desperately, II you are IN believe wass a.
brand Ora Blank Hotel'' =.
n sorry Se yrsssy tS ssy sds ss tSas saa a1a sr%.
me, In try to help you find q hotel.
Then he introduced his companion, :
big man with brown mustache and
pair Of humorous brown eyes. -,
.I'm an Insignificant person, said tne
man from Kansas, 1but this y the secretary
q the Wisconsin oommissioPS: S:.. and ID III. Sn
sAnd he tells you.. said the man with
the humorous eyes, TO take this seat ano
stay there till we get to the exposition
grounds, where you will be- escorted 70 your
State building. They will be glad 70. put
you up there Tor the night, and tn the morn
ing we'll find your hotel. Do you know the
hoste,s IS Of your building?' ,..,
Did she indeedi Wasn't she q ciup
woman, and what club woman doeSn :
know Mrs. Dor6 Lyon? But after the arst
gulp OF Joy and relief 1t occurred to her
that Mrs. Lyon would probably be down
town meeting the New York delegates VINO
had arrived that evening.
"Never mind" said the secretary. Ihe
hostess Of the Wisconsin building is not
downtown, and she's just dying to meet
you. ! know she is. for we agree on every
thing" An,
The woman put up her. hands hastily
and Strengthened her hat, which had yeered
in the direction OF her left ear. She gave
hasty dab at her nose with an imaginary
powder puff and said family:
what will she think?"
1You wait and see.
That New York club woman knows now
what hea ven looks like. At least she KNOWS
that it must be something like the Wis
consin Building at the st. Louis exposiuon.
with big room, an open fire. easy oneng
and a sweet voiced lady sayuIg now giao
everybody is to see one.
As for the secretary and the nan from
Kansas, they deserve honorary 0ssinbership
in the w. G. T. U.-and with no restrictions
on personal privileges.
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the legs; and right here at this ancient date.
that pitfall for the careless, the garter
problem, seems to have been encountered.
Indeed, Hamlet " ith his famous stockings,
fould, ungartered and down-gyved to his
ancle," or even the helpless faccidity Of a
modern sock wrinkled over the shoe top.
could not equal the maudlin aspect Of the
aung ngartered hosen" Of some OF those Anglo
Saxon and Anglo-Norman mobiles.
As to the stockings OF the ladies, they were
decorously unmentioned and unseen at
this early time. but were undoubtedly worn.
In an Illuminated manuscript Of the early
fourteenth century We have picture Of q
lady putting on a stocking which Is pre-
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Problem Centuries Solved by Mans Adopting His Wfes Hosiery

In the inventory which makes this dis
tinction, one taken in the reign Of Henry
WILL. are entries of "a yard and quarter
CREME velvete for stocks to payr of hose
for the Kyng's grace" and of the same
quantity of "purpul saten to cover the
stocks OF pair of hose OF purpul cloth OF
gold tissewe for the Kynge.'
As early as the third year OF Eizabeths
reign. we read that Mistress Montague,
the Queens silk woman, presented to her
Majesty pair OF black knit silk stockings
made in England which pleased that dreesy
but astute lady so much that she would
only on account OF the delicacy OF the article
itself, but also In order to encourage this
new English manufacture by her own
example.
Not long after this a clever apprentice.
one William Rider, was much struck by
pair of knit worsted stockings brought
from Mantua, which he had seen at an
Italian merchants. He borrowed them
and having made a pair like them gave
them to the Earl OF Pembroke. This was
the first pair OF worsted stockings knit in
England.
OF the women's stockings Stubbs says
in his Anatomy OF Abuses in 1858: Yea,
they are not ashamed to wear hose Of all
kinds Of changeable colors, a. green, red,
white. russet, tawny and else what not.
These thin, delicate hosen must be cum
ningly knit and curiously indented In every
point with quirks. clocks, open seams. and
everything else accordingly.
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Tho parti-colored hose by no means came
in pairs. Each leg was Of different color.
Sometimes one was striped up and down
and the other plain, or the legs were divided
into sections, on each Of which a diherent
device was employed.
This was truly the glorification OF the
stocking. Never since that day has 1t re-
ceived anything like the attention which
must then have been lavished upon It.
It has been the disagreeable custom OF
serious writer's who think mora OF hard facts
than of chivalry to respect the story Of the
Countess Of Salisbury's embarrassing garter
which King Edward picked up with his
gallant, @Honi soft qui mol penss. But
Il the Order of the Garter was not sug-
geeted by this incident 1t Ia yet . mystery
where Edward III. got his garter to use a.
q symbol.
1t is very doubtful II men wore garten
in England at that day, as no sign OF such
an article is to be seen upon any monument
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Curious Contest for . Bride in Tibet.

From the Boohiorer5 MdQdzne.
Among some Of the wilder Tibetan tribes
in the Koko-nor there Is a curious marriage
ceremonial function. This consists in plac-
ing the girl, on her wedding morn. In the
upper part Of tree. while her male relatives
remain on the lower limbs else in the back
part of her fathers tent or hut. while these
same relatives guard the entrance-in each
case the latter being armed With lolo thorn
sticks.
The groom, when these preparations have
been completed, rides up and announces
his intention OF selling the bride. This re-
qulres fortitude. for the relatives beat him
Numerically when he attempts to reach the
woman. II he manages to elude his assail-
ants and touch the toe Of the woman. she Is
his. he is welcomed into the family and COM
plimented on his ardor. Should he, fail.
he sun ers not only the inconvenience Of being
wifeless. hut the loss Of cattle and other
presents given during the negotiations BY
the sale Of girl to one man. however. the
father does not relinquish his claims upon
her but may sell her to other suitors who
come afterward, until she may nave nalI
dozen husbands,
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to the corners Of the mouth. This is to
shorten the mouth. II Is too wide and you
want to make It look abort and thick, like

to the corners OF the mouth. This is to
shorten the mouth. II Is too wide and you
want to make II look short and thick, like
the bow Of Cupid.
You can really take an inch of your
mouth in this manner, and can transform
into something that greatly resembles the
Cupid bow OF verse.
The rosebud mouth. Is . gift OF nature.
You cannot cultivate It.. This is the little
round mouth, with the heavy red lips and
the wonderful glow.
upon the three-year-old, but very seldom
upon the grown-up. Still. II your mouth
is very short, and il your lips are thick and
red, you can 60 in for It,
Shorten the corners with a touch Of pow
der der and apply Just very little red to tn the
ceed; and II you do, you will have wonder
fully handsome mouth.
No smile is nice without nice eyes. But,
oh. how difficult it is to get hemi
The I eyes YES h must ts be kept & clear, ,.s and one
not hard water, and by sparing them as
much as possible. Do not tax the eyes,
for II strained You must wear glasses; and
however useful spectacles may be, they
are certainly not attractive They harden
the face and spoil the expression Of the
eyes.
The taking away Of crows feet around
the mouth is an important point for the
woman who wants to smile happily. She
must massage her face around her mouth
and around her eyes nightly with good
cold cream. Massage the lines ever 20
lightly with good soft cream and keep on
doing 1t all your life. A little treatment
every night will be better than great deal
OF treatment once in a while.
To get correct nose, one must diet
little. Eat plenty Of fresh fruit and all
the vegetables you can get. Do not take
much meat. for meat, unless well digeeted,
Is bad for the complexion.
Better to turn vegetarian II your skin
Is not all 1t should be. The vegetarian
complexion is one Of those peachy things
which are the despair Of the meat eater.
The fascinating blush is excellent to
possess. And it Is not hard to get II the
complexion is good.
To blush like girl is a coveted accom-
plishment. All women blush but un-
turity, the skin is so bad that the blush
is not visible to the naked eye. Keep your
skin pink and pretty, and you will blush
without half trying
And, for the seventh thing, there is
good carriage Of the head. Hold your
chin we'll and you will be sure to carry your
head right.
A lifted chin is much more becoming
to any face than a lowered one. Lift up
your chin and learn to keep it lifted. 1t
will be great accessory to pretty smile.
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when the larger part Of his person was
clothed in stockings down to the half hose
Of the nineteenth century, his hosiery has
caused him an infnity of trouble, thought
and expense.
A close fitting leg covering was generally
worn among the primitive nations of Europe
by men OF all classes from a very early
period, and was probably Oriental in origin,
as a similar garment is conspicuous in the
Phrygian costume The Normaps called
them chausses, but the conquerors early
learned to use the Saxon name hose for the
long stockings which were worn for five or
six centuries. Men Of both nations are
pictured as wearing short stockings In
addition to the long hose, sometimes with
and sometimes without shoes.
Over the long, rather loose hose were
worn by way Of garters bands Of cloth,
linen or leather bound crosswise in such a
a manner as to keep them up properly upon
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Mere man is busily fulfilling his destiny.
Lat year he was devoured with proper
masculine indignation at the presumption
Of woman in adopting his socks. This year
he not only meekly accepts the situation, but
has further thrust his feet into the stocks,
% to speak. by putting on lis wife's long
hose and protesting to feel happier, more
comfortable and better dressed than he
has ever felt before.
He seems to be not at all alarmed at this
~ var ,al OF the established order of things,
hut makes the curiously feminine plea
N defence Of the act that he has hitherto
had much trouble in presenting trim and
we'll gartered appearance to the world
he had only the choice between leg be-
m,mbed by the pressure Of the masculine
carter below the knee and an ankle clothed
IN the slovenly wrinkles Of an ungartered
sock. With a feminine stocking gartered
above the knee he is neat and comfortable
at the same time.
Man should be judged leniently in this
matter, perhaps, for he seems to have ai"ay
kad a great deal moro trouble with his
stockings than woman. From the time