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Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
A Pcrcupine Family.

Some workmen who were employed
cutting down trees in a wood found
a nest or five little porcupines in a
little hollow. Seeing neither Of the
animals parents and that the little
porcupines were hungry they took
them a distance of four miles and pre-
sent them to their employers children
who kindly cared for the animals.
Late in the evening the house dog
set up a great howl outside. The girl
opened the door, when the excited
dog rushed in with a bleeding nose.
Closely behind a-big porcupine walk
ed quickly through the hall. Tie dog
was furious, but the p%orcupine sniff
ed her way to the door without heed
ing the dog at all. The door was OPP
en- and she trotted through another
room to the next door and from there
to the box where her babies were
She crawled into the box and laid
herself by her little ones, talking
soothingly and nursing them to sleep.
The next evening the dog began
the same racket, and when the girl
went out he was rolling a big ball of
quils around in great dismay. She
took the ball in her apron and carried
it to the box. It turned out to be MI.
Porcupine, who also wanted to be
with his family.
The children took the reunited fam
fly to the barn. Here the porcupines
seemed happy all winter and yer so
tame that they often crawled into
the children's laps to be petted. To
ward spring the door of the barn was
left open one night and In the morn
ing the %porcupine family was missing.
How it happened that the door was
opened the children never under
stood, but I think their mother
thought the porcupines wanted to be
free again.-Our Dumb Animals.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
TRAINED CITY OFFICIALS.
Some Roadway Making in Regard to
Minor Places.

Some HeaoWay Making IN Regard to
Minor Places. q,
A few years ago. when the mayor
of a German city was about to be
retired under the pension law, the
council advertised for a successor.
candidates who have passed the
higher state examinations for the
higher judicial or administrative ca
reer. and who have had experience
I'm the administration of a large city,
r requested to send in their appli-
cations"
The time is far off when American
cities will insist on having trained
mayors. but as regards some minor
Offices there is a gradual, reluctant
acceptance of the theory that the
men who fill them should know their
business. and that 1t matters nothing
where they hail from, 80 they do
know it. For instance, Charles B.
Ball, after having had training in
sanitary work In Washington, D. c.,
and New York. was made chief SAM.
tary inspector here. Now the mayor
OF Milwaukee, after casting about for
q good man. has asked him to be
health commissioner of that city.
The mayer 10 a Socialist, but he
aid not feel bound to offer the place
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
Notes..

Sprouted oats make a fine green
food.
Nothing as good for fowls as plenty
of sweet milk.
no not keep fowls in focks of over
fifty for best results. Smaller is better.
Always remember to give the fowls
a variety OF food-not always corn and
wheat.
1t should be remembered that clean
Illness is the most important work with
poultry.
Cement floors are no the best for
poultry houses. A good tight plank
floor has always proved the best.
Roape cure-mix 2 or. sweet oil.
2 OF. coal on and 8 drops ~turpentine
together and apply to head and face
OF fowl.
In preparing fowls for the show
room-mix 4 OF. alcohol, 1 OF. glycer-
inc and apply freely to comb and
feathers.
It sfaould always be remembered
that kindness to fowls will brtag far
better results than ~ru1eness. Excite
ment hindeTs proper egg production.
Give the fowls warm food in the
morning to aus egg production be-
fore noon. Feed three meals a day in
mfd>winter. Two meals In summer. Do
not waste food.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
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a Runaway Smile.

a Runaway Smile.
0ne day a little smile
!, Flayed truant for awhile,
from g. room where little smiles should
always be;
And q little boy said, Can't
AND q little girl said, t4Shan't,"
n a nurses face was very sad to me.
Then that little smile felt sorry
70 nave caused this readful worry,
80 It crept beneath the nursery window
pane;
And some little sulks flew out,
And four lips forgot to pout,
Kissed instead-and nurses face grew
glad again.
Said that little smile: II never
Though my running off could ever
black;
So ! think I'd better stay,
Or next time I run away
They really might forget to want me
back"
From Children's Corner in Publicity.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
Sow Heans-A Valuable Crop,

Soy beans will yield a profitable
crop as far north as the earliest
corn will mature. They will stand
more frost than any other bean; can
be planted earlier in spring, and the
late paintings r less affected by
early frosts, thus securing a greater
range for soiling than any other plant.
The seeds terminate quickly, making
the crop easy to tend. Owing to their
extensive o system. drouth does not
check their growth, like most farm
crops.
The feeding value IF soy beans is
nearly twice that of cowpeas, and the
| crop much easier to secure. AS soil
empowers, an acre of soy beans con
tains 174 pounds nitrogen, lis pounds
potash, and AZ pounds phosphoric acid.
| Cowpeas contain 80 pounds nitrogen,
IS pounds potash, and % pounds phos-
phoric acid. Red clover 1872 pounds nj
trogen, 1874 pounds potash, and As
pounds phosphoric acid. These analy-
ees are by the Connection: Agriculture
! al Experiment Station. We therefore
find soy beans to be nearly equal to
| clover as g. fertilizer. and all accom-
pfshed in from G5 to 80 DAYS from
paintings. A United States Farmers
bulletin says soy bean meal has a
high percentage of digestihflity. It
contains almost two anc a half times
as r'lch d,gestible protein and over
FIVE times as much digestible fat as
roller process wheat bra-i, and its di-
gestibflity Is decidedly .iigher In ev-
erything but the fat than that of cot
tonseed meal.
The avecage composition OF bran as
compared with the digest.ble nutri-
nents OF soy bean IS 1872 protein in
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30

trees and the chatter of the merry
little squirrel as he goes about gath
er1ng his winter harvest,
We all agreed that this was a lovely
Jay Tor a picnic and that we would
start just as soon as grandmamma
prepared the luncheon, which was
sure to be a delicious one, the kind
tina g~randmamma knows how to
make.
II was soon ready, and our happy
party was comfortably seated in the
Old farm wagon ready for a real jol-
~ time. We started off at a COM
Portable trot, but as we neared the
weeds we slowed up that we might
better enjoy the beauty of nature.
Several little squirrels and rabbits
ran across the road, and once we ac-
tually saw a beautiful fawn, a sight
one does not often have the pleasure
OF seeing in that part Of the country.
There he stood, like a beautiful stat
ue, his large, soft brown eyes full Of
wonder, and then, without the slight
est warning, he vanished. 4
We reached our destination in
about an hour and sat down by a rum
ming brook to enjoy our luncheon.
While we were eating a risky little
chipmunk came quite near and finally
n of our party succeeded in getting
him to partake of some of grandmam-
mas cookies, which we were loath
to spare, as there were only six for
each person. But by his merry ways
he finally won one from each of us.
After entering the yard everything
was a hustle explored several places
then unknown to us. When the time
came to go we noticed that one of the
party was missing. We called, but no
one answered. We soon became quite
alarmed, as it was the baby, a pretty
big n to spare, as she was almost
six years old. A general search was
begun and the little runaway. was
found sleeping peacefully between the
folds of a carriage blanket. 1t was
dark when we reached home, and ev-
cry n was very hungry, ready to do
justice to the dinner we found await
ing u.s. Virginia A. Tallmadge, in
the New York Tribune.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
Pinch Without Lauqhinu.

In this game each player pinches
the nose Of his or her neighbor, who
must submit to the operation with
out laughing. If he as much as smiles
he pays a forfeit, and of course, all
the others try to make him or her
do so. Some mischievous boys, let
me whisper, have been known to
black the tips of their fingers and
thumbs with burnt cork, which leaves
a very agreeable impression on the
pinched nose. If two or three un-
~suspecting individuals happen to be
victimized in this way, of course they
laugh heartily at each other.-Wom-
ans Life.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
Doing As You Please.

Two boys were busy in one corner
of a yard making something. II shall
buy some powder and We" said one
of them.
"Your father will have something,
to say about that, Dick" said Benny,
interrupting him.
81 can do what I please with my
money" cried Dick, proudly. TT is
my money"
81 don't know about that" said
Benny.
Il can, and I SHALL" cried Dick, who
was a positive little fellow. Benny,
his little playfellow, still looked
doubtful.
Father asked Dick, marching up
to the wood-pile, where his father was
at work, isn't my money my own"
why, yes; I suppose So" said Mr..
James.
"And can't I buy what I please with
"That depends upon what you please
to buy" said his father.
II should think" said Dick, that
l. IAC A1OACy 10 A1y OWA, / GOu1O SpCuO
it as had a mind to-"
mo" said his father, that does not
follow"
II thought everybody could do as
they pleased with their own things"
said Dick.
did you?" said his mother. Whose
jacket have you got on? Is it Ben.
ny's?"
mo, father, it is my own"
"Are you sure. Dick?"
Dick thought it was an odd ques-
ton for his father to ask. OF course
it was his own jacket. eyes, it u.s."
cried Dick, laughing.
"Have you any right to go and
sell it? asked Mr.. James.
mo, father, I should think not
said Dick.
"Or give it away or burn it up?"
asked his father.
mo, I should think not" answered
| Dick.
"You see, then" said his father
that people cannot always do as they
please with their own things"
well, that is different" said Dick
mo-" said his father, st is the
same thing. Nobody can do what they
please with their property. There are
bounds and limits to be respected
Children, in using their clothes, toys
money, or any Of their property, must
always use them Us their parents ap
| prove. Your money, like your coat
cap, shoes, books, toys, is yours
yours to use and to enjoy, but using
and enjoying them under the direc
ton of your parents. Do you see
Dick?"
EYES," said Dick, not very cordial
~, however. But men can do wha
they please with their money"
EMO" said MI. James, "men ar,
under restraints made by the laws o
the land. They cannot do just as the.
like with their own property. 70,
recollect that some time ago a maj
was arrested on suspicion that he Sc
fire to his own house"
IT remember" said Dick.
Then a neighbor came to see MI
James, putting a stop to the CONVEX
sation, and the boys went back t,
their play.
1T is a new idea TO me that pee
pie cannot do is they please w-.l
what belongs to Them" cried Dick.
yet you see they can't" said Ben
ny.-Child's Companion.
-.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
Rhinoceros Blood as Medicine.

The blood Of the rhinoceros is very
highly esteemed by Burmese and Chi
nese as a medicine for all kinds Of
ailments. Whenever a party of hum
tiers are successful in shooting a rhi-
noceros-they are less numerous
than they used to be-the native
beaters carefully draw off the blood
and bring it to Rangoon stored in
hollow bamboos. The precious liquid
Is worth it's weight in silver.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
Range Not the Whole Thinq.

A little close study Of your surround
ings will reveal the fact that but few
localities furnish the proper food ele-
ments in sufficient quantities for the
uniform growth of your fowls. The
fact that our birds are range kept does
not insure their superiority over those
supplied with ~sustenance by the man
who mikes brains with his feed" as
one writer puts it. Even on a large
range many birds are obliged to do
without grit, a great essential, a e.
essity, in the mastication of food, a
substitute fer the teeth CT the mammal
An examination of acres and acres of
some clay loan range will sometimes
fail to reveal sufficient sharp grit for
ten fowls, where perhaps hundreds are
kept. On other ranges the fowls are
obliged to rely upon tough, woody
grasses for their green food supply.
Watch the bird try to tear portions
of the leaf blade, many times the leaf
will break from the stems it's full
length and the fowl swallows six or
eight inches of the fibrous grass at a
time. Many "crop-bound'' cases can be
justly attributed to the impaction of
this material. Late summers will
sometimes bring with it great swarms
of grasshoppers and other insects and
in the event of the scarcity of other
proper food, fowls will overeat of them
and cases of diarrhoea can be traced
to it. One of the drawbacks some
times in the raising OF late Matched
chicks.
In some localities calcium, sodium
and potassium Cline elements) r
abundant in soil and vegetation and in
others sadly lacking. In such places
the bulk Of vegetation will be small
of fibre and not tail and rank unless
artificial fertilizers have been resort
ed to CT legnminous plants grown. The
animals Indigenous will. nave a ten
dency to be small of frame, due prin-
cipally to this mineral element.
No amount Of pasturage al COM
pensate for the lack Of an abundant
supply of fresh, cold water, not oc.
c%asionally but all the time.
No amount of range can counterfeit
the Ill effects upon your fowls condi-
tion of health and growth, Of a hot,
s'tufy, filthy and ill-smelling roosting
coop. Supply all the elements which
your range lacks supplemented by a
sufficient variety and amount of grains
and the term Range kept" will not
be a delusion and g. snare to the
man who purchases your stock.-Dr-
L. 3. Pitcher in the National Poultry
Journal.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30

Insurance authorities tell US that It
requires about 100000 newhouses
every year to supply our increase of
and $4,000 more to take
the places of those that are destroyed
by fire.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
The Best Grating Wax.

Rosin, four parts (ounces or
pounds; beeswax, two parts; tallow,
one part; melted, slowly, in an iron
vessel, putting in the rosin five or
ten minutes before the beeswax; and
all completely mixed together by much
stirring.
In twenty minutes or so 1t will be
thoroughly mixed, and a convenient
portion is to be poured into a bucket
Of cold water, In a minute or less 1t
will be cool enough to take up with
the hands (Which must have been
creased with tallow) and pulled like
taffy. When it becomes light yellow in
color it is done and can be made in
to sticks or balls and put into anoth-
er vessel Of cold water to harden.
Other portions can be treated in
the same way until all is used up.
These balls, or sticks, of convenient
size can be laid away until required
for use.-Weekly Witness.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
An Autumn c n

I am going to tell you about a pic
mic we had several months ago. It
was a delightful autumn day, Just
when the ground was covered with a
beautiful carpet Of golden and red
leaves, the time when one enjoys
walking through the woods listening
to the signing Of the wind among the
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30

At the close of the last fiscal year
the life saving establishments Of the
United States embraced 2S1 stations.
most Of them on the Atlantic coast
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30

Among all their palaces and cas-
ties it is Balmoral that the members
OF the British royal family have al
ways looked upon as their home.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
Bitter Cream ,and Butter.

Mrs. P. H. c., Lowell. Mass: Kindly
tell me what cause cream to become
bitter. I keep my milk in a very clean
place, but it seems that in three lays
the cream as well Is the milk is bit
ter. Sometimes, too, when / make but
ter it takes two or three hours to make
it. Why is it that it takes SO long?a
Your inquiry is a short one, but
to answer you in a manner which
would cover every case of milk, cream
and butter being bitter would take a
whole page of the Tribune Farmer.
Cleanliness in the room where that
milk or cream is kept does not insure
its not becoming bitter. The air may
be laden with germs, which fall into
the milk and cause it to become bit
ter. The COW it is drawn from may
be long in lactstion, and again, her
udder may be foul or full Of germ
life, or the milker may not be as clean
as he should be and the germs from
his hands or clothing may contami-
nate the milk. Now, if you will kindly
inform me how your cow is kept, what
she is fed, what kind of a fellow does
the milking and just what kind of a
you keep your milk or cream
in, I will try to help you divine a
cause. I note that you say in three
days the cream will get bitter, also
the milk. / will say now that it takes
a pretty cool room, no matter how
clean, to keep milk or cream sweet in
it for three days time, unless it is
set in ice water.-C. D. smead, v. S.
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81 ~ ~
Personal Magnetism
A Great Asset.
BY O. S. Marden.

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HERE have been great advocates at the bar whose charming man
beauties. would so sway the jury N the judge Is to endanger
and sometimes actually divert justice. A gracious, genial pres
<NENNNI ence, a charming personality, a refined, fascinating manner are
t@lA&J welcome where mere beauty is denied and where mere wealth Is
turned away They will make a better impression than the best
education or the highest attachments. An attractive personality, even with
ut great ability, ofen advances one when great talent and special training
will not <"e
There is always a premium upon a charming presence. Every business
mn likes 10 be surrounded by people Of pleasing personality md winning
manners. They are regarded as splendid assets.
Whaa is it that often enables person to walk right int a position
nd4gRe without difficulty that which another. with perhaps greater abl'
iy, struggles in vain to accomplish? Everywhere a magnetic personality wins
its way
Young mn and young women are constantly being surprised by offers OF
excellent positions which con to them because o. qualities characters
tics which, perhaps, they have never thought much about-a fine manner,
courtesy, cheerulness, and kindly, obHgng, helpful observation-disclosures.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
Preparing the Soil FOR Milo.

~ 00-NsS 7H&@-NZ 100 49,
The preparation of the seed bed for
milo should be as well and as care
fully done as for the corn crop. On
old land, the land should be ploughed
from five to eight inches deep, pre-
ferably several weeks before planting.
The ploughing of each half day should
be disked and narrowed in order to.
compact the soil and prevent evapora-
ton by the production Of a soil mulch
at the surface. It Is a good practice
to disk the land early I the spring
to preserve the filth and soil mois-
ture. # such treatment is given the
soil can be ploughed much more lei
surely and still retain good filth. Just
before planting, the land should be
narrowed in order to leave it smooth
and well fined for seed bed.-AlYin
Keyser, Colorado Agricultural College.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
EGAGE.ICUETU2,EES

bran. to 29.6 insssoE bean. The aver
age composition Of the hay Us as fol
lows: Soy beans, 154 (protein); cow
pea, 16.6; red clover, 1913; Greer
plants; Soy bean, A; cowpea, "a; reg
clover, 4.4.-Philaielphia Register
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
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Your Most Important
Reserve.
Bv O. S. Marden.

Americans seem to think thit it is comparatively easy to brfbe
~ 4 nature, that we a break all health laws, doing two o. three
i ~ days work in one; eating as much at a single dinner OF banquet
as nature would require fr W or three days; that we car abuse
HEE9ES1l our systems in all sorts of ways. and then make amends by drug
1EAzEA&) ging ourselves and pauoniIng the springs and other health
resorts. Many Americans spend their lives oscilating between
two extremes, abusing their bodies and doctoring them. The result is dys-
pepsa, exhausted vitality, nervous diseases of all kinds, insomnia, mental
depression, insanity.
The efforts of great surgeons to ave lives are often Ineffective because
the resisting power of the body has been ruined by some form of vicious Hv-
ing, or by overeating, undertaking lack Of sleep, OF other transgressions OF
the laws of health. Many people die from minor surgical operations OF ampu
fations after accidents because Of lack Of physical reserve o assist nature in
carrying them over the crisis
power, which would carry him through any ordinary kind Of disease. or tide
him W any ordinary accident a necessary amputaion, or other needed
operation. But when one uesu up all his force, all his vitality, a h e goes along
of course h mas title or nothing to fall back in cas- of a severea ci
dent or other emergency which calls FOL a great expenditure of physical force
or vitality. -
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
Nc Floor In His Pocket.

No Floor in His Pocket.
Little four-year-old Ray, being ask
ed why he did not put his knife in his
pocket. replied, MY pocket hasn't
got any floor in it."-Christian Reg
lister.
Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1910-06-30
NE PfEag;RhEagglETl@|aRuM
Let In the OUTDOOR
BY E. p. Powell.

@1OUR best property in this world is not your meadows and your
pastures. our cornfeds and your orchards, but that property OF
yours which ia much farther away. in the valleys, II ever In
k--l the skies. Nothing is nor absurd than a few windows slashed
JSMLlu into a house anywhere and looking nowhere lin particular. and
ls22J even these shrouded with dustconecung curtains. Glass is not
half enough used in our houses. The whole east front Of many a
country house might be mostly OF glass, or that front which al let In most
of thu gory of the world and the sky.
Then ou narrow sxfoot ors evenfoot veranda is a meaningless Al well
al a useless adjunct. 1t is just big enough to pinch you, and lot large enough
andas, o at least two of its sides, or Ill around It, and here should be every
thing tt suggest comfort and companionship-not only hammocks and easy
chairs, but hammock beds. that by day can be drawn up under the roof
Outing.
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Faults Of the Golfer.
BY H. J..

too near the body; and standing toe near the ball. The easiest.
iNgNNNMV indeed, the only satisfactory way of curing all these faults, is to
SSESA2y go u and watch some n like Findlay Douglas O Walter
Travis or Fred HeTeshof play. If you cannot find any expert OF
the first class, go for the best available; and If you have to fall back on pro-
advice make your teacher play the ball himself and initiate his
stroke. E@#&. E&# @#A
This, of course is rudimentary advice and certainly not original. The
youngest caddie at st. Andrews has learned o request his master to keep
his eye OF the ball and not tt press. The trouble is that no amount of book
teaching will make you follow this advise. You have to assinnate it by prac-
tie. There are a few other points about the game which l should like to
dwell upon, and which are applicable o older players IS well as beginners
Outing. #N#N 49,