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Curious Alien Problem.

There are in New York about half
a dozen "nobemen' hanging around
the hotels waiting for an invitation to
go to Newport or any place where
there may be possible chance Of
picking up a ready-money girl. Any
afternoon one of them may be seen
playing billiards or pool at one of the
big hotels and sbutting in Wher-
ever he can get chance. He is not
a guest of the aristocratic hosiery for
reasons best known to himself. Should
he fail to get the necessary invita-
ton this summer he may get a job
as an actor this winter, and, failing
in that, there may be a chance as the
iriver OF a hanson cab. This is gem
orally preferred by an Englishman TO
waiting on table In the matter of
success the German and French are
not usually so fortunate as their Eng
fish brothers. After a short cam
paign they are to be seen carrying
i tray in one OF the city restaurants.
What shall we do with our surplus
noblemen?" is a problem that con-
fronts Europe. New York has helped,
in a measure, to solve this problem
It is simply another phase of the i'm
migration question that is now both
ering the officials of the United
STATES. Chicago Journal.
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PRACTICAL CO OPERATION
Western Grain Rsisees Band Together
to Get Fair Prices for Their
Farm Products.

Inc tendency OF the times is toward
cooperation, and the most interesting
movement just now is seen in the CO.
operative associations being formed in
the middle west. The growth of this
movement for the oscillation of grain
raisers has been upon far different
basis from the visionary plan of early
days. In the first place these associa-
tons are in the hands Of shrewd bust
ness men, who can handle financial af-
Ialrs IN a way to produce results 1t
- said that one OF the wealthiest and
most successful millers in the west,
whose mills are reputed to bring a profit
OF $4,000 a year, is now manager OF a
long line OF farmers elevators, and at
a meeting at Kansas City few days
ago t was reported that IS elevators
scattered through Oklahoma, Kansas
and Nebraska are listed in the associa
ton. It was reported that the stock
holders had received dividend Of eight
per cent. after paying expenses, and
were selling grain at a larger profit
than could be secured from the ordi-
nary elevators.
The plan of the cooperation is purely
business-like. with politics and senti-
ment in the background The stock
holders are farmers, and the elevators
are run on basis of actual cost, the
profit being returned to the farmer in
dividends. The key item in the man
agement is the requirement that every
producer is to sell to the association
elevator, or if he sells elsewhere shall
pay one cent a bashel of the amount
received to the association company
This makes it impossible for their
rivals to run them out of business by
bidding higher for grain. The towns
where these association elevators have
been established for four years are ia
vorabIy impressed with the plan, and
the management has continued to re
turn profits, the numbers are being
extended, and there are enough now to
compel the railroads to give them equal
privileges with the old line institutions
Prairie Farmer.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

Many a man fats to get there be-
cause he has dizzy feet.
Some men lead double lives because
they are driven to it.
Most people eat their sorrows and
drink their appointments.
Duty is q thin disguise often as
sumed to hide a mans neanness.
In ye ancient times Lots wife was
considered the salt of the earth.
More people would dance if they
could escape the demands OF the
fiddler.
Girls waste kisses on each other be,
cause they know where to get plenty
more.
An Ohio genius has worked himself
to death trying to invent a labor-sav-
ing machine.
In accordance with the eternal fit
ness of things a book Of love poems
should be bound in calf.
Man is the only animal that uses a
handkerchief. Women's handkerchiefs
are merely for show.
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GENERAL FARM NOTES.

Oyerchurning is one cause of butter
not keeping.
Ii feeding dusty hay, shake well and
dampen before feeding.
See that there is sufficient shade in
every pasture for the stock.
Milk from cows long in milk should
not stand as long before skimming as
that from fresh cows.
The value of any kind of farm stock
is very largely determined by its feed
ing the first year Of its life
A poverty-stricken COW must first of
all supply the wants of her system be-
fore she can possibly give rich milk
and plenty Of it
The cheapest way to produce pork is
to push the pigs from the start, and
get them ready for market at not to
exceed nine months.
Every careful experiment has shown
that the gain is greater in proportion
to food consumed in the young ami
NAL than in t1e older ones.
Steady work of any Kind is fa..
tiguing. and although the change may
not be Tor lighter work, It may be rests
full and refreshing for the teams
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THE KEGS WERE LIGHTER.
DR.. Lorimer's Easy Explanation oe
an Apparently Difficult Per-
Torrance.

Rev. George C. Lorimer. whose death at
AK was recently reported was the main
impetus that carried on the building Of
Boston's magnificent fremont Temple, and
DR.. Lorimers wit, sincerity and magma
tive sympathy made him great favorite
with the students OF Harvard during his
At Cambridge, one day, according to 3
current story, an undergraduate asked the
opinion Of DR.. Lorlmer on drlnking-mod
i am opposed to il, . the clergyman said.
1T is psrilous. It frequently, leads to
drunkenness. In fact, most drunkards were
moderate drinkers first"
Naturally malt liquors and wines,
though, are Strengthening, aren't they
the student asked.
DR. Lorimer smiled.
Beer he said, is very Strengthening
have known young men to have sent Ia
their rooms large kegs Of beer that they
later they would be able to lift these kegs
with ease
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feet long by 20 inches wide, The run
ners are Of tWo-by-three-inch chestnut,
and the cross boards of one-ineh hard
wood The blade Of an ordinary scythe
is fastened to the Tight-hand corner.
The point Of the seythe is braced out
at an angle Of 10 degrees, with brace
OF three by one-ineh hardwood, bolted
to the scythe six inches from the point.
The brace is then firmly bolted to the
sledge. a large box is nailed to the
sledge for seat. A steady horse ac-
customed to cultivate between the rows
should be used.
The corn is cut close to the roots and
about six or seven acres can be cut in
a day. A stiff rod of wrought iron bent
as shown and bo1ted to the front Of the
sledge helps to collect the cut stalks.
the driver also guiding with his right
hand the stalks as they fall-I. A.
Fiske, in n E. Homestead
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The Moisture of Good Hav.

The moisture content of hay when
II is put into the NOW varies greatly.
this depending largely on the way in
which it is cured. Some hay that is
mads from grass cut late and cured
ia dry weather has in it SO little
moisture that during the winter Il
may frequently increase in weight.
AS d usual thing, hay does not in
crease in weight during the winter
If L. is cut quite green and stored IN
an imperfectly cured condition 1t will
often be found with such a large per.
eentage of moisture in it that spon.
taneous combustion is possible Hay
cured properly will have in 1t con-
siderable quantity Of moisture and
will tend to lose this moisture during
the winter, and this loss will equal
ten per cent OF the bulk in many in.
stances.
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SUGAR AND moLAssEs DIET
Reports from Abroad Are to the Eff
feet That as a Bone Strength
ener Tt Is a Success.

The use of sugar and E1o1asses for
cattle and horse feeding is gaining in
popularity. Laws in many European
countries have been changed exempt
ing these products from taxation when
they are 10 be used for feeding pur-
poses. When recently in Paris, our
attention was called to certain facts
that may be interesting to our readers.
The Omnibus company of the French
CAPITAL owns over 10000 horses, and
as out of that number there are about
700 broken legs per annum. it was ar
gue,d that possibly these accidents
were in a measure due to some faulty
coordination Of the daily rations.
IN 1901 the first experiments were
made, the one kilogram of sour mash
that had hitherto been used being sub
stituted by an alkaline molasses COM
biDation The results obtained were
emf ouraging beyond the most sanguine
expectations, and in 1902 the number
of broken legs was only 10.
It was concluded that the extreme
fragility. of the animals bony structure
was due to the absence Of the requisite
mineral elements in their rations.
There appears to be ample medical au-
therity for asserting that heavy con-
suraers of sugar, in cases Of bone frac-
ture, will recover more rapidly than
when that article Of luxury is eaten in
moderation In some hospitals. pa
tients that are laid up with compound
fractures Of legs or arms receive in ad-
ditfon to their regular food allowance
$50 grams of sugar, the cost of which
is soon covered by the lesser period
needed for the complete healing of the
bony tissue-Sugar Beet.
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no pay. No Cure.

Mister" said a little child to the
herb doctor, or root doctor" as they
are sometimes called in some parts
Mister, mamma says them las pills
you sold her didn't do no good and
she told me to ask You to send her
some other kind this time" and say
Ing which, she placed the empty box
on the Doctors riekety desk.
sLemme see" said the doctor as he
adjusted his glasses and looked over
lis book. After inspecting the bool.
for a few moments he looked up and
said:
aHumpb, numph! see .whar de
trouble IS. You tell 20 nanny,
honey, dat she nevah paid fur dem
las pills she got, an tell her she can't
spec fur dem to do her no good cept'n
dey,s paid fur!.-silas <. Floyd, in
September Lippineott's.
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FISH WITH MOTOR BOATS
Expensive Craft Used to Some Exten-
by the Fishermen of
Sweden.

In Swe4n there has been consider
ing the last year. The greater number
of the fishermen retain their old-tine
boats, but English fishing cutters have
been bought By some. Some of the cut
tiers are used for carrying freight along
the coast The only steam traWIer hail
ing from Gothenburg is selling its
catches mostly in England and Holland.
where the people are more used to fish
caught and handled this way and pay
more for it, The company owning it
will, however. buy another steamer,
which shows that this method of fish
ing has been found profitable. It is
said that the company has received a
dividend of ten per cent. besides which
another ten per cent. has been added
to the reserve fund.
"A good many of the fishermen buy
petroleum motors for their boats or
cutters, some from Denmark and some
from the mechanical works at LysekiI
The motors are expensive, but save SO
much work and delay at sea that they
are still considered advantageous.
think that the first motors used by the
fishermen here were made in the United
States. Boat motors are now made at
several places in Sweden. however. and
Denmark seems also to have gained a
market here The Northern Fisheries
exposition was held in July, in the city
Of Marstrand and made the fishermen
more familiar with the advantages of
boat motors and increased the demand
for them
R0RERT s 6 REPG
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ADOPT AMERICAN METHODS
English Railway Managers Profit by
Study Of Systems of the
United States.

In an editorial on the half years work.
ing of those English railways which
have already announced their dividends,
the Birmingham Post says that: After
vigorously protesting against the. in
PRODUCTION OF American methods as be-
ing unsuitable, If not impracticahle, OF
English railways" British railway
managers are evidently profiting by
American experience to the extent. at
all events. OF cheapening the transport
Of merchandise and minerals by means
of more careful loading, the employ
ment Of trucks Of larger carrying eapac-
ity and engines of greater hauling pow
er. and the discontinuance of snperfill-
Gus trains, more particularly On branch
lines In many eases, also, they are in
creasing the carrying capacity of their
passenger coaches without adding mate
rally to the cost and weight of the
trains, and utilizing motor cars in coun-
try districts as feeders for their rail-
ways. a good deal still remains to be
done in the way Of staff reorganization
and the compilation Of really instructive
StdLISliSS I'LL IiIG I'll HldudSGES
and directors, and but little improve
ment is apparent yet il the handling of
passenger traffic, so far as regards the
working expenses. But the work of re-
form has evidently begun, and the
period Of depression through which We
are passing will not have been without
its compensations If it serves, as we hope
it will, to stimulate and strengthen the
reform movement.
Owing to the many evidences of trade
depression and the downward tendency
in weekly railway tariff returns, public
expectations, the Post says, were not
pitched very high. and it is an agreeable
surprise 10 find that out of 90 railway
companies whose statements have been
printed. I have increased their diyi-
bends, s pay the same dividends, and
only 5 have reduced them. and lat
though only { have raised their diyi-
bends, 10 companies carried forward a
bigger balance than last year. The re-
suits testify to the economical effect
Of the greater care, skill and science
which have been brought to bear on
railway workings in this country. .
The Post holds that the results should
go far to reassure investors, for il the
companies are able to do SO well in
times Of depression, what may not be
expected in normal trade conditions,
more particularly when the reforms
now in progress are carried out? Il
estimates that one-ifteenth of the
total wealth of the nation is Inves ed
in British railways.
| MARSHAL HALsTEAD.
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Preventing scours in Pigs.

Nothing is better for preventing
sconrs in pigs than some crushed oat
and barley slop run through q screen
to remove most of the hulls which
should be placed in low trough in q
corner OF the pen. The young pigs go
for this greedily. At two months old
they are ready to wean, when they
should be put in two large pens, Gull
ins out the weaker ones and putting
them in pens made vacant by grouping
three agreeable sows. Much more skill
il required to raise young pigs in Win
ter than in summer. After taking them
away from their dams feed warm new
milk for the first meal and after that
warm skim milk with good sprink-
ling of shorts in it, Increasing the
quantity each day until about the
consistency of thin porridge. A good
way is to mix a quart Of oil meal with
each barrel OF feed and have a box in
the corner or each pen containing
wood ashes, charcoal and little salt
ana sulphur.-Rural World.
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BUILDING FOR SELF FEEDER.
placed in trough fresh for each meal,
the cattle seem to eat it more readily.
The cut, No. 1, shows end plan, which
is the same ON both sides. with feeding
troughs on side and rolling door proyid-
Ing driveway for feeding wagon.
The ground plan shown in cut No.
indicates the feed troughs on each side.
The one at the left Of driveway is used
to feed direct from wagon. That on the
right receives supply of feed from the
three bins of shelled corn each ten by
ten feet. By adjusting the feeding gates
on the self-feeding troughs, only par
tiai ration may be delivered, and the
trough to the left used to supply any
deficiency as required.-T. D. Gayle. in
Farm and Home
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HE PASS WAS GRANTED.
Young Man Of Facile Reasoning
Ability Has Only Once 20
Ask for It.

A young man who was working for the
railroad company went to one Of the direc.
tors and asked for pass to some distant
point, relates the Philadelphia Public Led
ger.
-. ..Y =, have been ep waEkin7g for Is some
Eyes, sir, the young fellow answered.
Have you ever had any complaint to
maker"
NO, SIR answered the employe.
.1VeIl, if you were working for a farmer,
would you have the nerve to ask him to
harness his horses and take you to a Ger.
tain part Of the country. the director
asked.
NO, sir. But if he had his horses all
ready, ard YES going to that point, l would
call him very mean farmer if he refused
to take ms" was the young fellow reply
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Ringing Bells to Swarm Bees.

1t is a foolish notion to suppose that
the ringing OF bells or Hanging" of tin
pans will cause a swarm of bees to set
tie. The real origin Of this custom
dates back to the reign of Alfred the
Great. who in order to prevent disputes
regarding the ownership Of a swarm
ordered that the owner should always
ring a bell when his bees swarmed, and,
ever since then, the. good farmers wife
has been rushing out with ringing bells
whenever the bees sWarmed, and the
fact that they settled verified. in her
own mind, the belief that the bell did II.
Country Life in America.
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USEFUL LITTLE STRUCTURE
= Combination Self Feeder which
Has Approval of Many Thrifty
Western Farmers.

Many claim that feeders adapted to
the regular issue of grain are better
ior stock than the adjustable se1f-feed-
efs which place feed before the cattle
az all times. Where given ration may
% led. the cattle are allowed to eat it
all out clean. Feeding steers slobber
more or less in the feed, and where
there is surplus always on hand, there
is more or less wasted. Where feed is
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proft comes from Observation.

Aim to keep hogs for profit; that is
what everybody keeps them for. Some
are doing it. and some are not. The
only way to successfully raise hogs, Or
10 succeed In any other occupation. is
10 study and observe The work. In
these days of strenuous competition, it
requires close management to make
anything cut Of ii, yet there is always
.eorn for more Of the best No matter
Nv many hogs YOU have, strive con-
..,uaIlY to learn more about the indus
Midland Farmer
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Still on Deck.

The "boys OF '61' are still boys. Several
hundred OF them were taken to Concord and
Lexington IN automobiles during the Grand
Army encampment in Boston recently, and
some Of them were more interested in the
speed at which they travelled than in the
historic places. The case of one old sol.
der was typical When he reached one OF
+ he wished to get ont to read the In
scription. He replied: No, I've seen
enough inscriptions to-day. Go chase that
fellow that gave us such a hard pull back
down the road" And the automobiles,
loaded with gray-haired "boys, chased one
another all the way back to Boston
Youths Companion.
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side OF the shock, then cut your corn
and set it against this. When the shock
is filed, pull out your rope BY taking
hold of the snaps. This makes 1t nice
when YOU come to husk the corn, and
it stands we'll. Put the rope around
Just about half way up the stalk.-H.
C. Eberly, in Epitomist.
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THOUGHT SIZE WOULD DIE.
Mrs. S. W. Marine, OF Colorado Springs,
Began to Fear the Worst. Deans
Kidney Pills Saved Her.
Mrs. Sarah Marine, of 42s st. Urain

, U.s. 0olOIaAO
Springs, Colo,
writes:
suffered
for three years
w t h S ever e
baekache. The
doctors told me
my XII d n ey $
were affected
ant prescribed
medicines for
me, but I found
that was only
waste of time
and money to
take them and
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HOMEMADE CORN CUTTER
Simple Device for Whose Construc-
ton Nothing Is Needed But
sledge and scythe Blade.

Where large fields Of corn are grown
6 cheap, quick system of cutting the
crop is essential The simple device
shown in the Illustration, which can be
readily constructed by any handy man
on farm, is made from sIedge and a
scythe blade. The size need not be ex-
actly as described, but the body must
not be too wide to go easily between the
rows.
The sledge part is three and one-half
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and Iasten a rIag on
one end, and a snap
off some old line on
the other end. Take
two stalks in adj
joining rows and
put the rope around
them; snap the snap
into the ring at one
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Don Feed Too Much Corn.

Many farmer has weakened the con-
stitutions Of his animals by feed
ing too heavily Of corn. This feed
makes lat, but when ted IN too great
abundance depriyes the animal ct vigor
and lessons the breeding qualities.
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began to fear that I would never get
well. A friend advised me to try Doan's
Kidney Pills. Within week after l
began using them was SO much better
that I decided to keep up the treat
ment, and when had used little over
two boxes l was entirely well. have
now enjoyed the best of health for
more than four months, and words can
but poorly express my gratitude. .
For sale by all dealers. Price SO cents
Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. X.
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pnta Punk inHis Pine.

We all dream and dream and dream. But
the world breaks or withers our dreams
and grinds to dust our hopes. But, like the
magic bird of ancient days, these rise from
their ashes. Fancy once more plumes her
feathers Such is life, such IS life. Dreams
are as food to the prisoned spirit.-Verml-
ion Is. d. Republican.
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Insurraoun.,fabIe.

An indignant letter dictated BY clever
old gentleman runs thus: Sir, my steneg-
rapher, being lady, cannot take down what
I think Of you /, being gentleman, can
not express it; but you, being neither, can
readily divine it.'3-Argonaut.
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Do not believe Piso's Cure for Consump-
ion has an equal for coughs and colde-J
T. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind, Feb. Is. 1900.
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All, Povery, could forgive thee for max
ing me work late at night, if thou didst only
not get me up SO blooming early in the
morning.-N. @. Picayune.
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But There Are Oyster DAYS.

a touch of autumn reminds us that
the water melancholy days have fed, the
gladdest of the year.-Memphis CONNER
ciaI Appeal.
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DEVICE FOR CORN FIELDS.
How to Make a Corn Horse That Is
Sure to Save a Lot Of Very
Hard Work.

When the corn is standing nice and
straight take rope about five feet long
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It is the first week between the piow
handles that breeds the resolution to leave
the good old farm.-Riehmand Mlssourlan.
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Honey separated from the comb has
tendency. to sranulate very quickly
especially III autumn