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The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
A Difficult Reputation.

One afternoon Harry came home
from school in frightful condition
His clothes were torn and covered
with mud: his face was bruised and
bloody. and tears flowed down his
cheeks.
Harry, you have been fighting" ex.
claimed the small boys mother" as
he stumbled into the house.
Eddie did it," sobbed Harry.
Eddie! You don't mean to say
that your little brother did all that"
No. ma'am-he-he-it was his
fault. He told all the boys that could
lick them and they-they all waited
waited for me after school. l could.
ut lick them ALL didn't say | could
Eddie said it,"
Just then Eddie came into the
room and his mother asked: What
did you mean by getting Harry into
all this trouble?"
We'll, he wouldn't give me any OF
his candy this morning"
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
Conundrums,

Why is a whale like "a water lily?
Because it always comes to the sur
face to blow.
Where does a person always go on
his goth birthday? Into his 21st year.
Why is sheet of stamps like dis
tant relatives? Because they are
only slightly connected.
The more you take away the larger
it grows-what is it? A hole.
Why is the letter C like the sun?
1t is the center OF light.
Why is an alligator the most deceit
full of animals? Because he takes you
with an open countenance.
What is that which walks with lis
head Downward? A nail in the shoe.
Why should a thirsty man always
carry watch? Because 1t has a
spring inside.
Under what conditions might hand
kerchiefs be used in building a wall?
If they be cambric Cbecame brick).
What is the cheapest feature of the
face? Ans.-Nostrils, two for a cent
(scenD.
What is that that has neither flesh
nor blood. yet has four fingers and a
thumb. Ans.-A glove
What is it that no one wishes to
have and yet when he has it he does
not wish to lose 1t? Ans.-A bald
head.
Why should housekeeper never
put the letter NJ into her refrigerator?
Ans.-Because it would change ice
into mice.
How many soft-boiled eggs could a
giant eat on an empty stomach? Ans.
One, for after that his stomach
wouldn't be empty.
Which would you rather. that lion
ate you or a tiger? Ans-why, you
would rather that the lion ate the
tiger. of course.
Mr.. Bigger. Mrs. Bigger and Baby
Bigger, which of this interesting fam
lily is the biggest. and why the big
est? Ans.-Baby Bigger, because he is
little Bigger-Indianapolis News.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
MAGNET AS PLAYTHING.

With common bar or horseshoe
magnet. such as may be had at toy
store, very interesting experiments
may be made. First. test the poles
of the magnet with a common pocket
compass. and mark them north and
south. If they are already marked.
test them anyhow, as French magnets
marked n. and S. mean just the re-
verse of what they mean to us.
To test the poles. see which end of
the magnet attracts the north end of
the compass magnet; that end is the
south pole of your magnet, and it
should repel the south end of the
compass magnet. Mark it s., and
mark the other end N. testing it also
for your own satisfaction. 1t will. of
course. attract the south end of the
pocket compass and repel the one
like itself, the north end.
Magnetic a number of long-eyed
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
Bargains in Real Estate.

In some parts of this continent. land
can be had for nothing by people who
are willing to settle there and build
houses and till the soil. In other sec
TORS land can be bought for a few
cents an acre. In many parts of Can
ada, for instance. good forest land may
be purchased for so cents an acre.
But even this small price seems ex-
trayagant beside that paid in 1888
when the whole state of Rhode Island
was bought from the Indians for q
few strings of beads.
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needles of the same size. so that their
points will all be north poles, by
placing them. one at time. on a ta-
BILE and drawing the north pole of the
magnet over each needle several
times in the same direction. begin
ming each time at the point. Now float
the needles in water vertically by
sticking the eye of each into the
smallest piece of cork that will sup
port it, letting the upper part of the
eye just project above the cork.
Hold the north pole of your magnet
above the floating needles, and they
will arrange themselves into regular
figures, according to the number of
needles used. Sometimes the same
number will form more than one fig-
ure. and by jarring the vessel con-
tanning the water you may make one
figure change to another. In the
illustration a number of these group
ings are shown. with the number of
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26

but it will not regain its magnetism
on cooling; SO you had better refrain
from the experiment unless you de-
sire to lose the magnet.
Now pass an inch or two of thread
through the eye of one of your nee.
dies and magnetic the needle by
rubbing it in the same direction sew
eral times over the same pole of
your magnet. Place the horseshoe
on the table. and. holding the thread
between your thumb and your first
finger. let the point of the needle be
directly above the pole that attracts
1t and about quarter of an inch dis
tant from it. Then make a circular
sweep with your hand. SO that the
point remains in its position and the
eye is brought down toward the 9th.
er pole. If you become skilful in do.
ing this. the needle will remain sus-
pended Just above the magnet Ia a
horizontal position.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
.IIVEi
STOCK
Use Of the Brush and curryeomb.

Use Of the Brush and currycomb.
Some farmers have no use for these
two articles, but | would find it hard
to get along without them. l have
heard 1t said that good currying and
brushing is worth two quarts of oats.
This may be little exaggerated. but
| had rather see a man have this idea
than the idea that there is no profit or
use In it. A good currying will keep
the horse on less feed. / do not say
that 1t will save two quarts of oats
day, but l do say that it will pay
well for the time spent in doing the
work. l have heard men say that they
mad no time to waste in curryinS their
horses and that it might pay the men
who raised fine horses. Does it not
pay the farmer to raise good horses!
1t surely does.
The liberal use OF these tools pays
the practical farmer better than 1t
does the fancy horse trainer, for the
reason that if farmer is not rich
and loses horse he feels the effect OF
1t more than the rich man who may
nave money in the bank with which to
buy another. So it pays the poor
care and keep them in a healthy con-
dition. He has just as much time to
do 1t as the man who makes busi-
ness OF training horses and it will pay
him Just as well.
horse should be curried daily, es-
pecially when working hard. Use just
enough time to put him in the right
shape, whether it takes five minutes
or half an hour. Don't stop until you
have all the dried sweat off. If this is
allowed to form a coat on the hair 1t
VIII stop the pores and keep the i'm
purities inside. Such conditions are
not healthy for the horse and will
cause some ailment sooner or later.
1t will pay to use the brush and comb
for looks alone. but looks is only a
small part. How does it look to have
manure sticking all over a horse and
why wouldn't it pay to use the brush
for few minutes? Don't think it a
waste of time. for it will keep them in
better flesh and make them able to do
more work.
This is my practice, and | could not
be persuaded to discontinue their use.
| do not say that I keen my horses
better than other people. but l know
that they would be worse If omitted
the daily use of the brush and comb.
l know that It pays me and do not see
why it should not pay all others who
keep horses. A good currying is the
same to horse that bath is to a
man, and how would a man feel il he
worked day after day and never
washed? How long would he feel like
working? Try it once for a while.
A well-kept horse will do lots Of
work for a man in year and should
have the best Of keeping in return.
The horse is a most faithful animal.
but the general way of keeping horses
would not indicate that their owners
appreciated it. 1t is nothing less than
sin the way many horses are kept and
some owners should be allowed to
possess horses. But We have no pow
er to prevent their owning horses. All
we can do is to advocate better care
for the horse.-E. ]. Waterstripe. Shell
by Co., Mo-. in Farmers Eeview.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
Dried or Wet Muck

Compost the muck with manure be.
fore it has had time to dry in the sun.
as in the process Of drying it loses
ammonia. The time to dig the ditcn
through the muck swamp is in the
fall before the ground freezes and not
in the spring. II the piles of muck
are thrown up to aerate in the spring
the hot weather will cause a dryins
out and loss of about 20 per cent in
ammonia. In the fall the piles are ex.
posed to the air. but the frosts of win.
ter prevent evaporation of much mois.
ture and consequent loss of nitrogen.
me frosts act on the muck to ad'
vantage
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
Walls Of Stables.

The problem of what material to
use ia the construction of stables is
one that confronts the farmer that
is about to build a stable that he
wants to be permanent edifice
There is some advantage in building
stable walls of stone or brick. or even
gravel, but usually that advantage is
more than compensated for by the
increase in the cost.
Wood is without doubt the warmest
material to use, especially il there
can be an air space between two
thicknesses of the wood. The thermal
permeability of wood is about 100 to
about 400 of stone, cement and the
like. Brick also permits the trans
mission of heat quite readily and is
most serviceable when there is an air
space between two layers of brick
Dead air has a thermal permeability
of about so, which gives it double the
value of wood as a protection against
cold.
All materials like stone have the
advantage of being non-combustible.
but this is not very great factor, as
most of the fires in barns are serious
because of the burning of the contents
of the barns rather than of the struc.
lures themselves, end stone walls will
not prevent the combustion of dry hay
inside.
The question of the material out OF
which the walls are to be constructed
must be settled by the cheapness and
abundance of certain materials in any
one neighborhood. The writer knows
of one locality where the farmers have
built their barns largely out of boul.
ders left by the glaciers. They consti.
tute the cheapest and best material in
that locality
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26

turn it in a circle several times. un-
iii the thread is very tight and the
ends of the wishbone are drawn
closely together. Then suddenly let
the match go. and it will describe a
complete circle. producing the most
curious optical Illusion.
The rotary motion of the match is
so quick that no eye can follow it.
and it seems as If the free end ac-
tua,iy cleft the wishbone in passing
from one side to the other.
No matter how often the trick is
done nor how closely the audience
are watching. the illusion will remain.
Try it and see for yourselves.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
No Thank You Iom

They met when they were girl and boy,
Going to school one day,
And. Won't you take my peg-top. dear?
Was all that he could say.
She bit her little pinafore.
Close to his side she came:
She whispered, NO; no. thank you.
Tom"
But took 1t all the same.
They met one day, the self-same way.
When ten swift years had flown;
lie said: I've nothing but my heart,
But that is yours alone.
And won't you take my heart?" he said
And called her by her name:
She blushed. and said, No, thank you,
Tom"
But took 1t all the same.
And twenty. thirty. forty years
Have brought them care and joy;
She has the little peg-top still
He gave her when a boy;
I've had no wealth. sweet wife" says he,
I've never brought you fame:
She whispers. No, no. thank you. Tom,
You've loved me all the same.
F. E Weatherly.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
ki.chener's Proper Position.

advocated the appointment of Lord
Kitchener to the British war Office.
We have tried philosophers enough"
he said in a recent speech. land we
have tried the amateur civilian until
We weary at the very look of his
name Is it not time when you have
the inestimable boon, given to few ma
tions at the present moment. of a
great practical administrative general,
not to disregard or neglect his serv-
ices?" In reply to this a London
writer suggests that in time of peril
Lord Kitchener might be more valu-
able in the field than in the war office.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
The Hen Fever.


Since the middle Of the last century
the term hen fever" has been in use.
1t originated at the time a great in.
terest in poultry raising was created
by the introduction of fancy fowls
from Europe and Asia. Ever since
that time when a man In the city
takes notion into his head that he
can make a fortune out OF hens he
is said to have the hen fever. There
is no ailment that is more catching,
and few that prove more costly to
man with lot of money. We heard
recently of a manufacturer that had
made fortune at his business going
into the raising of poultry on an i'm
mense scale. He bad the hen fever
so badly that he invested about $780,
600 in extensive works and then fail
ed with his project
On the other hand, the hen fever
has started many man on the road
to prosperity. Not all men are plum
gers, even in the poultry business.
With carefulness, any man can put
money into the raising of poultry and
get not only his money back, but a
good interest on his investment.
This is true most of all on the farm
where all conditions are favorable for
making money out of the raising of
poultry. The farmer that gets the
hen fever and is careful in the ex-
penditure of money can build up lit
tie plant that will pay him a larger
interest than almost any other thing
on the farm. The farm boy and the
farm girl can with their small stock
of money make more money by ju-
diciously using it in the raising Of
poultry.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
Earlv Risen.

A student OF bird life. who has been
Investigating the question as to the
hour in summer when the commonest
small bird. wakes up and begins to
sing. says that the green finch is the
earliest riser. as 1t sings about 1880
o'clock in the morning. The black
cap begins at 2:30. and the quail half
an hour later.
II is nearly o'clock. and the sun is
we'll up. before the first real songster
appears-the merry blackbird. Then
comes the thrush. followed by the
robin and the wren, and last the house
sparrow and the tomtit.
Thus it will be seen that the lark S
reputation as an early riser is not de-
served. In fact. he is very sluggard.
for he does not rise until long after
many of the hedgerow birds have been
about for some time.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
lnfertiIe Eggs.

lnfertile eggs may be used for the
feeding of young chicks, if they are
removed from the nests after the
hens have been incubating but one
or two days. The poultry owner can
easily detect the infertile eggs by
Gambling them, and this is thing that
should be always done. By 1t the
eggs that would be rendered worthless
In few weeks can yet be used as
mentioned above, while it is then pos
sible to put other eggs under the hen
This increases tho possibilities of a
good hatch. What is true of the sit
ting hen is also as true If an incubator
is used.
1nfertiie eggs are a great source OF
loss in the Matching operations of the
farm. Sometimes a whole sitting of
eggs is found to be infertile The
sooner this is found out the better
An egg that is fertile will appear
cloudy after being exposed to incuba.
ton heat for two days, while the in.
fertile eggs will still be clear.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26

magnets used marked in each case,
and with letter also showing those
in wOch the same number makes
more than one figure.
Try to magnetic pieces of soft
Iron, like nails. for instance. and
they will magnetic instantly as soon
as the magnet touches them. You
may thus have long string of nails,
hanging one to another, II the mag
net be strong enough. Now pull the
first nail from the magnet, and all
the others will fall. as they all lose
their magnetism the moment they
leave the magnet.
Heat one of the nails red hot, and
try TO attract it by the magnet; it
will not be possible to do it. but as
it cools it will be gradually attracted.
until, when it is cool, it will be at
tracted as strongly as ever before.
II YOU heat your magnet in the
same way it will also lose its power,
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
BY the Heat of Your Hands,

Take an ordinary cork and plac. a
needle in it. point up. Take piece
of common paper about 2A inches
long and slightly over a third of an
inch wide. Fold the paper length.
wise and crosswise, so as to find the
exact center of it. Now unfold the
paper, smooth 1t out well. slightly
bend two diagonal corners upward.
then rest the center of the paper on
the needle point. If you place 1t
properly it will balance perfectly
Next stretch your open hands about
the paper. quite close. but not touch
ing it. Immediately the paper will be-
gin to revolve. the heat from your
hands causing it to turn.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26

it is decided to act thus. several of
the party step before the lamp, which
casts their shadows on the sheet, and.
without speaking. go through the mo-
tions making and baking bread. If
the guess is right-that is, Ito bake"
was the verb chosen-the spectators
clap their hands. If wrong, they cry,
NO, no."
When they hear the NO. no." the
actors retire and arrange what to do
next. Make. quake, take, wake. are
all acted in turn until the clap of ap-
proval announces that they have been
successful in guessing the verb. Then
the actors take the steps vacated by
the spectators. who in their turn be-
come shadows and act the verbs chos-
en- by the other party.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
Huntinq BIinofold.

This is simple little game. but it
makes lots of fun. One of the players
is to be blindfolded and the others
stand about the room as they please.
The blindfolded one then walks or
gropes around until he touches play
er. and the player touched must stand
still and make a noise in imitation Of
some animal. say. a cat, dog, COW,
pig or horse.
II the blindfolded player chooses.
he can have the sound made three
times. and. If he then guesses the
name of the person. the person takes
his place. II he does not guess cor
recDy, he releases the player and tries
again.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
The Stable Floor.

The floor of the stable or barn
is one of the very important
things that must be considered
when a new barn is being erect.
ed. The floor must be smooth enough
to be easily cleaned and must not be
so smooth as to be slippery. II IL is
behind the cows or other farm ami.
mails it must be water tight to pre-
vent the teaching away of the liquid
portions of the manure. 1t is impos.
sible to keep a floor clean il 1t is
saturated with urine. This is the great
objection to wooden floors and the
great argument in favor of cement
floors.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
A Dogs FaithfuIness.

The bulldogs tenacity of grip is
proverbial. hut he also possesses a
grip OF quite another sort. one which
enables him to stick to his orders in
spite of untoward circumstances. The
Atlanta Constitution gives an exam
pie of a dogs faithfulness. Stubs"
master had gone away for the night
and had left the dog to guard his
apartments.
In the evening the house caught
fire, and before the fire engine ar
rived the blaze had gained firm hold
and little could be saved. Some of
the men discovered the dog and tried
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
Wind and Raspberries.

A grower says raspberries do best
where they have the protection of
wind.break. The wind breaks the
canes when it has a full sweep. We
have noticed that in wild state rasp-
berries are found in the vicinity of
trees especially in clearings, where
there is a partial shade from trees
still standing. All that have picked
wild raspberries have noticed the in.
creased size of the berries where
there is partial shade.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
Barren Stalks Of Corn.

Reason for barrenness in corn stalks
is not really known. 1t has been as.
sumed that some corn seed had in it
the tendency to produce stalks with.
out ears. but that has been a guess.
We have yet to be convinced that it
is good guess. One farmer tells US
tina. certain corn field bore a very
large per cent of stalks one year,
when growth conditions were not
good. while the next year the same
field planted to seed from the crop
OF the preceding year bore almost all
fertile stalks. The second season was
good growing season.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
DID THIS BIRD THINK
At Least, She Went Through Process
Very Much Like Reasoning.


Frank NJ. Chapman, assistant cura-
TOR of the department of ornithology
at the American Museum of Natural
History. has had many curious
slimpses into the private life of bird
land.
Il was exploring one day in a re-
glon full of water birds" said he.
when | came upon bittern's nest
among the reeds. with five eggs in 1t.
The mother. hearing me approach, had
left in haste. Hoping to see her re.
turn. hid myself and remained silent
and motionless. In this position |
liberately puncture two of the bit
terms eggs with her bill. This SEEM
ed to be done purely in a spirit OF
malicious destruction. for the marsh
rail made no attempt to eat the eggs.
Then she made on, and presently
the mother bittern came back. One
would have expected her to desert
the nest after it had been so violated.
But she was evidently of a philo-
sophie turn Of mind.
She apparently reasoned thus:
These eggs are destroyed for the pur.
pose for which they were intended.
Thy will never now produce young Bit
terms. But they the good eggs
know. for l laid them myself. 1t is
a pity to have them wasted
And thereupon she set to and de-
ltberately ate up the two punctured
eggs. Her housewifely instincts then
aroused, she carefully threw all the
shells out of the nest and cleaned up
n portion of the contents which had
been untidily spilled. She then peace
fully resumed the process Of incuba.
ton"
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26
New Blood.

1t has for many years been my Gus.
tom to introduce new blood into my
flock annually. / find. however, that
this is not an easy thing to do. l
have been building up a strain of egg
layers and whenever bring in al
new male l am forced to introduce an
unknown quantity into my flock.
find that most of my competitors in
poultry raising pay little attention to
the development of strains of layers,
but one or two OF them do. From
these try TO purchase my males and
sometimes sell them a male in return.
l am not quite settled as to the ad.
vantage of new blood in the flock, but
| must admit that public opinion is
strongly in favor of that At least, it
will not do much harm if it does not
lessen the laying qualities that 1 am
trying to breed into the fowls
Julia Smith, Cook Co., Illinois. in Far.
mers' Review.
The Lamar register., 1905-04-26

Is adopted in wiring champagne
corks. Take a piece of string. about
half yard long. double it. and look
at the diagram. Make a knotted loop.
T.. at the doubled end of the string.
1 ass the two ends of the string round
the neck of the bottle and knot again
at f. Now take one of the ends. c..
pass it through loop B. as at =. II
now knotted with end d and C is
strained back over the cork on the
opposite side to loop b. the cork Gill
be kept securely in position.