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Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
ENONOMY OF THE BEE.
4 Little Story Of How the Queen and
Drones Came to Be Feature
Of Every Colony.

At one time the bees were male and
female in equal numbers. The ire
sponsible male buzzed about simply
getting his own living, marrying and
dying. The responsible female not only
got her own living, but that of her
children.
Somehow, by and by, they came to
see the advantage of communal effort,
and, just as women say to one another
now, IF you'll wash the dishes, I'll
wipe EN-" one feminine bee said to
the other, "I'll be mother If you'll get
the living" It was a bargain and the
accommodating females took drones in
to board.
The queen Of beehive does not
rule; she lays eggs. She does not mind
the babies. She does not even do her
own digesting, let alone getting the
food. The attendants that surround
her feed her with bee milk, secreted
by glands in their heads. She had to
be fed continually, for at certain peri
DDS she has the power Of producing
from 1000 to 5000 eggs day, twice
her own weight, four times, indeed, for
more than half her weight is eggs. In
her lifetime prolific queen will lay
1,500,0OO eggs.
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POULTRY PICKINGS.

Save the cabbage for the hens.
Leaves make good scratching ma
terial.
Cracked corn will put fat on = fowl
about the quickest of any feed.
A lot of extra cockerels are nui-
sance Kill them of If you want eggs
Green cut bone or good beef scraps
will force the pullets to early maturity.
Dampness is one of the worst
troubles of poultry keepers. Sunshine
is sure cure.
If eggs were sold by weight the talk
about big eggs would give place to that
of more of 'em.
A Maine hen, college bred, lays 251
eggs year. She is a business hen
and yields profit of 176 per cent. a
year.
To start keeping geese the best plan
is to buy breeding stock in the fall
They mate in February, and unless
accustomed to their new quarters and
each other, will often fail to breed the
first year. Old, well-mated geese of
the highest quality are the cheapest
and most profitable to buy.-Farm and
Home.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
THE FIRST COST OF DUCKS
Some Hints Which Will Aid in the
Successful Managing Of
I Duck Farm, ss.

A trio of good, ordinary market stock
should be purchasable for about seven
dollars. Ducks are not like hens; they
do not lay all the year round, but when
they start they are attentive to the-busi-
ness Of egg production daily, so that a
couple Of mature Pekins will provide you
with setting in six days. AS you will
want to keep some of the young ones for
next years stock, ask the breeder you
buy from to ship you birds two years old,
as their progeny is stronger. r.
Pekins never want to sit, so hens must
be used for Matching until your stock il
large enough to fill an incubator in few
days artificial duck raising is without
doubt the best. Think of one farm in
Massachusetts, that markets $4,000
young ducks annually, sells two tons of
feathers, and keeps 1900 breeders!
Would such an immense business be pos
sible in the old way? " .f9t .:t .n,
Though Pekins don't need water to
swim in, they must have quantities to
drink, always fresh and clean, which
means that drinking pans must be re-
filled three times a day, and be so con-
structed as to enable the bird to SUBJ
merge the whole bill in the water. Why?
Because there are two small holes at the
base Of the bill which become clogged
with feed or mud, and unless they can
rinse these out when drinking the poor
things smother.
A man who had broiler farm near
our place, three years ago, bought hun
dred ducks eggs, Matched out fine lot
OF youngsters, and lost every one within
two weeks through using a water foun-
tain in the brooder that was too shall
low. AS I had lots of ducks at the time,
he brought some over for me to see.
There was nothing whatever the matter
with them except that their little nos
trils were all stopped up with the soft
food. So pray remember this very I'm
portant direction when you are arrang-
ing drinking water for ducks, young or
old-they must not be able to get into
the pan with their feet or bodies, but
their entire heads must have free en-
trance.-Pearson's.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
HABITS CHAIN.
Certain Habits Unconsciously Formed
49,. and Hard to Break. D..

An ingenious philosopher estimator
that the amount Of will power neces-
sary to break lifelong habit would.
II 1t could be transformed, lift Z
weight Of many tons.
It sometimes requires q higher de-
gree of heroism to break the chains Of
q pernicious habit than to lead a for
lorn hope in bloody battle. A lady
writes from an Indiana town:
From my earliest childhood was
q lover of coffee. Before I was out
of my teens l was a miserable dys-
peptic, suffering terribly at times with
my stomach.
II was convinced that it was coffee
that was causing the trouble and yet
could not deny myself a c;~p for
breakfast. At the age of SO was in
very poor health indeed. My Sister
told me I was in danger of becoming
q coffee drunkard.
But never could give up drinking
coffee for breakfast although it ker:
me constantly i'll, until tried Postum.
learned to make it properly accord
ing to directions, aud now Wa can
hardly do without Postum for break
fast, and care nothing at all for coffee.
81 am no longer troubled wltt dys-
pepsia, do not have spells Of suffering
With my stomach that used to trouble
me SO when l drank coffee" Name
given by Postum Co.,, Battle Greek
Mich.
Look in each pkg. for tho famous LIT,
tie book. THE Road to WellviNA"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
HINT FOR BEEKEEPERS.
How to Secure Full Service Of the
Honey Makers Without Weak
ening the Colonies.

Apiarist Edwin Bevins claims to
have discovered two ways in which
laying worker colonies can be disposed
of so as to get all the service out OF
the bees that they can render and yet
keep the numbers of the colonies up
to what it was before.
One way is to place the hive contain
ing the laying workers over a strong
colony with a fertile queen, placing q
newspaper with a small hole in it be-
tween the two hives, says the New
York Farmer. The bees will unite
peaceably, and when considerable
worker-brood appears In the upper
hive the hive can be placed on an
other stand and the bees will rear q
queen from the brood, if the old queen
can be introduced about three days
after the removal Of the hive.
The other plan involves the taking
of couple of frames of Matching
brood from a hive and placing them
in another hive over a strong colony.
with q frame having q wire cloth
nailed to both sides of it between the
two hives.
Thus q fertile queen and her escort
are released on two combs, and in q
few days there will be nucleus strong
enough to take care of the queen. This
hive is then set down by the side OF
the hive holding the laying workers.
Every two or three days a frame
with the bees must be transferred
from the laying worker hive to the nu-
cleus. BY the time all but two of
the frames are placed in the new hive
the queen is at work there and every.
thing is harmonious.
AS regards the two frames taken to
form the nucleus, they can be returned
to the places from which they were
taken, or these places can be filed by
the frames remaining unused in the
laying-worker hive
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
LOVES LIFE .

y
low. a. the planets through all space are
hurled. 5.-g
AID W. unseeing, choose this little world.
So Ichoose thee, y +E4 wv
f8t SO l choose thee. &r.f31
50 wakes my heart ia song In eladness
4 sweet. ye,g% i+~ $50. g,.. !
And every living thing with JOY I greet.
For thy dear sake.
81 For thy dear sake. J. EF's
To he with thee my head upon thy breast.
Care flung aside-to feel the spirits rest
~ ~ Through all LIES day.
Through all LIES day.
Forgparadise; let others search the spheres.
{ ,hnd it, in thine eyes-'midst smiles ana
= 4@ So 7 claim thee
.5stsS So I claim-thee
Lilo Elizabeth Kelley. In Boston Tran
script. - s..st -,
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
All Satisfied,

In one of the many nonsupport
cases that come before the city magis-
trates. the accused husband pleaded
temporary ill health. If he'll take
care of the children till he gets well
I'll 60 out and earn the living" VOL
unteered the woman. The husband
agreed to this offer. and the arrange
ment was made. The magistrate was
satisfied, the husband was satisfied,
the wife was satisfied, and the chill
dren weren't consulted.-Philadslphia
Press.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
BLACK HAWK WAR SURVIVOR
Ninety Year-0ld Illinoisan Who 70
E.. Only Living Indian Fighter
H. s}& Of That Day.

William H. Lee, Of SCHOONER, ILL.,.
claims the distinction of being the sole
survivor of the Black Hawk Indian wal
Of 1892, says the Des Moines Register
and Leader. With the difficulty which
Iowa is experiencing in its efforts to
find traces of it's Mexican war survivors
it is hardly probable that any survivor
Of the Indian war IA years earlier will
be found in this state. Mr.. Lee is now
in his ninetieth year. 7,H a>r@,
The story of his life shows many
hardships, but the pioneers on the from
tier half or three-quarters of a Gen.
fury ago were Injured to hardships. Lee
was brought west from New York, when
he was three years old. The party made
its way on two RATS and ffatboat con-
structed of logs. The emigrants took
all of their live stock with them in their
passage down the Allegheny and Ohio
rivers, landing at Shawneetown, from
there going to Salem, and finally to Van
dalia, at that time only q small village.
At this place Lee grew to young man
hood under the hard lessons Of frontier
life, assisting his father in his grain
treadmill and in saving lumber.
The story Of his participation in the
Black Hawk war and subsequent life 10
told by a correspondent thus: when
the Sac and Fox, or, as it was known.
the Black Hawk, war broke out in 1882,
William H. Lee was only Is years Of age,
but he possessed courage equal to the
hardy training he had received In his
Illinois pioneer life. After the close OF
the war he made three successful trips
to New Orleans by boat, which in those
days was considered feat Of unusual
Importance, each time taking large loads
of grain. In 1850 he succuInbed to the
California gold fever, making an over
land trip to that part of the country.
This trip was followed by two others
On each Of the trips large numbers Of
cattle we're taken along az an invest
ment. The party was attacked by In
dams on the first trip, but was success
full in defeating the red men. On the
second journey the party lost all their
live stock. The third trip was thor
oughly successful. Returning to his
farm in Illinois, Mr.. Lee has remained
there in active charge until within the
last few years, when he turned the &C.
tive management over to other hands.
None Of his children is living"
The Black Hawk war was closely as
ISOLATED with the early history Of Iowa.
It was near Fort Madison that Black
Hawks followers rendezvoused to take
up the war trail and to cross the Mis-
sissippi; it was across the river from the
very northeastern point Of Iowa that
the massacre, hardly to be dignified by
the name of battle, of Bad AK occurred
and ended the short-lived war; it was to
Iowa that Black Hawk and the few sur
vivors returned when the war was
ended. The Black Hawk war figures
more prominently in Illinois history
than In that of Iowa, but it is an impor-
ant chapter in the annals of this state.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
AMERICA AS A GREAT FARM
The United States a. It Would Be
If Parceled Out According to
Respective Products.

The area of the United States, ex-
elusive Of Alaska and our insular pos
sessions, is approximately 3,00O,00
square miles. Census returns give about
$50, 900 square miles Of this as improved
farm" land. An interesting illustration,
says the New York Sun, lies in assuming
q segregation of our principal farm prod
ucts within specified areas of familiar
boundary, for the purpose of seeing our
national farm under such conditions. In
the following arrangement, the areas, If
not absolutely acurate in all cases, are
sufficiently close to give a very good idea
Of what our farm would look like If it
we're parceled out in such manner.
Thus planted, Maine and New Hamp-
shire would be our oat field. Rhode
Island, with about 300 square miles from
eastern Connecticut, would be our to-
bacco plantation. The rest Of Connecti-
cut, with Long Island, would be the po-
tato patch. Vermont, Massachusetts,.
New York, New Jersey and Delaware
would form vast wheat field. Pennsyl-
vania would be our cotton field. Virginia
and West Virginia would be hay field.
Maryland would be planted in rye,
barley and buckwheat. North Carolina,
South Carolina and Georgia would be
covered with corn. We might then take
our choice between Texas or combina-
ton Of Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, In
diana, Illinois and Wisconsin as the
pasture and grazing land and for the
cultivation of minor crops and garden
truck.
With this vast area thus occupied, we
should still be left with nearly three
quarters of our national domain in the
form of unimproved land and forest.
We run the biggest farm in the world,
and we still have an empire left for set
Element and cultivation.
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Ewes aud Hands.

-, Most people are right or left-eyed,
Just as they are right or left-handed,
and Just as the right hand Is usually
the moro powerful, so is the right eye.
Only ono person in ten is left-sighted.
It is very probable that the use Of
weapons during countless ages has had
something to do with the extra power
OF the right eye.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
Hens Will Lay in Winter.

From experience have learned that
we can have winter eggs if we work a
little Cor them. The hens must have
exercise and that is best obtained by
making them hunt their food or a part
of it that has been scattered in litter
in the henhouse or some sheltered
place. Feed regular and not too much
Better keep them little hungry than
to over feed.-Orangs Jula Farmer.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
WHEN WoMAN ENVIEs NAN.

When he gives his hair neat brush
and his couture Is complete. a., -..A
When he doesn't have to kiss his
sworn enemy, and tell him how sweet he
looks.
When the children cry and hs can
whistle = tune, get his hat. bang the
door, and 20 out.
When hs trips up the street ahead
Of her on = rainy day with his trousers
jauntily turned up and NO skirts to
carry.
When he doesn't have to twist his
arms to hook his bodice up the back or
drag six superhuous yards Of dress goods
behind ktm-and do 1t gracefully. too
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
The Hen House.

Be sure the henhouse has good,
tight ends and sides, and always front
the house to the south. The warmer
plying artificial heat, the more eggs
they will lay, and the earlier will they
become brOOdy.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
sELF-FEEDER FOR POULTRY
u 4 Great Convenience for the Poul.
try Raiser and Is Easy
to Supply.

A perfection feed hopper is shown in
the cut, says the Orange Judd Farmer.
1t is eight inches wide, two and one
half feet high, and three feet long. The
roof projects over the perch on which
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
FEED HOPPER FOR POULTRY

FEED HOPPER Fur fOUIIH1.
the fowls sind while feeding. The
method of constructing the perches
and the weight and attachment to the
lid over the grain is clearly shown in
the picture The weight on the arm
should be adjusted to the size of the
fowl. This box may be made of any
length desired, but the height and
width are about right.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
Good Place to Die.

A sect in New Jersey IL making prep
arations for the end of the world, which
It thinks is close at hand. For the pur-
poses Of this sect New Jersey probably
is as good q jumping of place as any.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26

Minnesota creamery men are seri-
ously considering the purchase of milk
on grade, similar to the manner in
which wheat is purchased.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26

According to the latest official stats
tics the numbers Of the sexes in Hoi
land are almost equal, women havin.,
q preponderance Of only one per cent
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
PRIZE WINNERS.
Cockerel and Pullet Which Made Rec
ords for Themselves at tho
St. Louis Fair.

The poultry raiser is always interested
in the pure blood stock, even though he
makes no effort himself to breed such
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26

It 10 told that while John Sharp VIII
liams was speaking in Mississippi man
in the audience cried: 1--WE been robbed
by pickpockets!" Il did not suspect
there were any republicans present.
said Mr.. Williams. amid great laughter.
There ain't." cried the victim. I'm the
only ons!"
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26

Senator stockbridge, Of Michigan.
often told story of Z very rich lumber
man who came to congress from the lake
region and rented tho furnished house
which belonged to senator whose term
had recently expired. The house was
palace and was completely furnished, all
except the library, for the senator had
taken his books with him. True to the
instincts Of q lifetime Of carefulness, tho
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. surveyed tho
library, then accurately measured tho
empty shelves and telegraphed promi-
nent house In Chicago: Send me at
once PIG running feet of books" That
was his idea Of furnishing a library. 40
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26

liberty to repeat what !
drst stated through our
Denver papers about
Doan's Kidney Pills IN
tho summer of 1899. for
I have had no reason In,
the interim to change my
opinion of the remedy. I
was subject to severe at
tacks of baclkache, a.
ways aggravated II l sat
long at q desk. Doan's
Kidney Pills absolutely
stopped my backache. I
have never had Q pain
or q twinge since, =
Foster-Milburn Co, Blu
For sale by all druggist
cents per box. =
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
THREE YEARS AFTER.

Eugene q. Lario. Of 7s1 Twentieth
avenue, ticket seller in the Union Sta-
tion. Denver. COL, saws: "You are q
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26

Lord Erskine, when chief Justice q
England. presided once at tho Chelms-
ford assizes. when a case Of breach Of
promise Of marriage was tried before
him in which 4 Miss Tickell was plaintiff.
The counsel was pompous young man
named Stanton, who opened the case
with solemn emphasis thus: Ticket,
the plaintiff, my lord" Erskine dryly
interrupted him with: "Oh, tickle her
yourself, Mr. Stanton. It would be un-
becoming to my position" . -
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26
RECENTLY RELATED.

They were on . golf course not far
from Glasgow. "A splendid stroksl Cad
die, did you follow that ball!"' said the
player who had Just driven. Nav. sir. -
replied the caddie. but think that
gentleman vi the red coat can tell you
where it. struck. So him fselin' his
head" -. a..
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26

PRIZE WINNING WYANDOTTEs.
high-class fowls In an illustration we
show a pair of Partridge Wyandottes,
bred by Kansas fancier. They won
medals in one of the greatest poultry
prize winning contests ever held.
Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1905-01-26

most terrified her. As strobe back 70
the barn, and Dolly. gazing after him.
read recruitment In every line Of his
figure. -
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-23

summer was given at the First Meth
odist church last night
/ Mr.. McClurg's lectures are entirely
! free, paid for by the state of Colo
vertising, and are given under the
auspices of the local leaguerS and a
collection is taken during the enter
tainm ent for the benefit of the league
and in order to give the minister. Sun
day school superintendent or whoever
presides at the meeting an oppor-
tunity to say something witty. But Mr..
McClurg's lecture which is a very en-
tertaining one, something on the
booming, promoting, land agent, rail-
way brochure and circus advance
agent style, is not the whole program
nor is it by any means the better part.
Mrs. McClurg, who is an ethnologist of
note one of six women who have been
decorated by the French government
for chronological research, a member
of the first party after the government
expedition to visit the homes of the
Colorado cliff jewellers. and an au-
thority on the Pueblo and other pre-Co-
lumbar Indian tribes, gives an Illus
strated talk before her husbands
lecture, on Pre-Columbia America and
the Cliff Dwellers of Colorado, New
Mexico and Arizona, and although Mr..
McClurg said last night that he al
ways had a laugh on Mrs. McClurg
because his burro pictures and burrO
jokes took so much better than her
pre-COlum bian talk, the latter may
such is ever the fate of a serious and
scholarly effort in competition with an
entertainment that aims to be merely
entertaining and paying However,
the audience last night, although large
and somewhat mixed was what might
be called representative and Mrs. Nc
Clurg was given the most absorbed at
tention.
The idea of the entertainment is
unique and seems somewhat bizarre but
works very successfully. Mrs Nc
Clurg who is a woman of extraordi-
nary ability, has a lecture of merit but
which would appeal to the interests of
only limited audience. No doubt if
she gave it in Topeka and other towns
of this size and charged an admission
fee it would be financial failure.
Mr.. McClurg's lecture is more popular
with the class of people who under
ordinary circumstances attend free"
lecture. Together they give an enter
tainment which attracts a large au-
dience. the state of Colorado pays the
bill and will doubtless find the adver-
tisement profitable
It is not likely, however. that the
state of Colorado would pay merely to
boom the Pre-COlumbia Pueblos so
that part of the audience which is par
ticuIarly interested in Mrs. McClurg
is indebted to the Colorado climate, |
sugar beet, potato. scenery and seed |
less apple for her most entertaining
and instructive talk. Both lectures
are illustrated by exceptionally good
pictures.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-02-23
c. D. wEBsTER's TROUBLE.
Independent Refiner Shows
How Standard Treated Him.

Chanute. Kas., Feb. 2S.-In discuss
ing the anti-discrimination bill now
before the state legislature, c. D. Web
ster, owner of the independent re-
finery at Hum boldt, said last night:
1.-The anti-discrimination bill is the
thing for the legislature to pass now.
1t is the only thing needed to COM
plete the guarantee of protection to
the independent refiner and which will
prevent the Standard from making
Chanute and lola and the rest of the
state pay for the competition at Hum
boldt and Emporia. The Standard
never pays the cost of its f1ghts-it
makes the people who are not involved
pay them.
when the people of Emporia asked
me to come up there and supply them
with oil I opened my depot and made
the same price the Standard was max
ing, 141z cents per gallon, to the
dealer. The Standard within a week
cut the price to IS cents and then on
down till it got to selling oil at En-
poria for less than 9 cents per gallon.
1 met the rates because I had to. 1t
did the same thing at Humboldt When
the refinery was started there it cut