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MAKING
ANY One Can Do tt Not Even a
Skilled Trade.

Men who make newspapers some
times believe that their profession Il
an exacting one. They are wrong
1t is the simplest calling. Making a
newspaper is an easy trick. Any
body can do it, says the Washington
Star.
A lawyer with only a diploma AM
a brass sign, who would lose a suit
even if the other side was ready to
confess Judgment, will tell you how
to run a newspaper. A physician who
would send his patient to the morgue
before the prescription has been
filled will know all the fine points of
making a newspaper. An actor who
never earned any other plaudit than
a soft tomato will give instructions
in handling the worlds news. Any
old lady who knows enough to get off
a street car backward has positive
opinions on the press. Even a society
person who never paid anything but
a call or made anything but a visit
or did anything but a tailor knows
how stupid those men are who write
"stories," edit copy" wrestle with
heads" that won't fit and get the
paper out on time.
One reason for the universally OF
perfection in this trade, among those
who do not work at it, is that every
body has been employed in it. 1t Is
a most unusual thing to meet a MAI
who when the occasion seems ripe,
will not say, II used to be a newspa-
per man myself" Every time a mar
works his county editor for a puff on
the strength of a big pumpkin he
graduates in journalism. When he
writes a piece" for "The Squash
County Clarion" about "a most en-
joyable entertainment" he completes
his postgraduate course in newspa-
per work, and when he writes a COM
m%unication on both sides Of the pa
per to the editor he becomes a thirty
third degree member Of the Tribe Of
Scribe.
That so many men have abandoned
literature for the law, medicine and
other easy walks Of life, simply shows
that many men would rather fall In
one thing than another.
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Bright Eyes and Ayes.

When an old story is found circu-
lating in a new coat in the cloakroom,
with a suggestion of having been
made over" it is called by the wags
"a vanished yarn"
Such a story, glistening with mod
ern shellac, is told Of a Secretary OF
the Treasury who some years ago was
importuned by a young lady on be-
half of a representative to whom she
acted as secretary. The gentleman
was absent, and some important bust
ness had come up concerning one OF
his constituents. The Secretary had
very CALAMITY explained to his visitor
that he could not possibly comply
with her request, and had arisen to
his feet as a gentle hint that time was
flying.
The young lady persistently urged
her point and threw her whole soul
into an eloquent appeal, but the Sec
rotary remained undaunted. Then
she made a final effort, and turned
upon him the irresistible battery of
her handsome black eyes; the Secre-
tary was impelled to look at her, and
unfortunately hesitated in his SEN
tence.
IT don't see how I could possibly
do what you ask" he was saying
firmly, when the eye artillery turned
upon him, but those eyes Of yours
He never finished his sentence; she
arose from her seat, and as she swept
from the room said:
1.-THE eyes (ayes) have it. I thank
you, sir. The victory IS with the
affirmative. Good day." National
Magazine,
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How to Manage the Horse.

I see by the different methods that
people use in. familiarizing their
horses with interurban cars, automo-
biles and other road "%boogers," that
many Of them very much underestl-
mate the intelligence Of the horse.
1 saw a man about seventy years old
drive his horse up to a telephone pole
and jump out and get a hitch rein
and tie his horse as quick as If he in
tended 20 head off a jack rabbit. l
wondered what he was going to do so
suddenly. Just then a a came by,
the horse scared at it a little. He
unhitched it and went on. That was
a new way to me, but it was better
than getting on the side away from
the car and trying to hold him by the
rein between you and the car.
I saw a young man and his girl
driving a nice rig >long by the track,
and as they met the a the horse
SHE'D and nearly threw the buggy
over and the young man drew the
whip and gave him a cut or two with
it, before the horse knew whether it
was the a hit him or the boy. Then
l. thought the next one he meets the
horse ought to throw him out. I was
standing on the road talking to a
man nearly eighty years old. He was
in a two-horse wagon with his team.
He looked up and saw a a coming
and said to me: STAND between my
team and the car. You needn't take
hold Of them, but just stand between
them and the car" I did so, and
they scarcely noticed the car. He
had no doubt noticed that horses
were not nearly so afraid of things
that you yourself didn't seem to be
afraid Of. Horses seem often to
scare and be afraid Of things to scare
their drivers. By all means never
scare your horse by soaring at your
horse. If you have confidence in
your horse and can make him see you
are not afraid Of the thing he is scar
ing at, few Of them will scare. A
horse is a good buffer" He will
often scare at things he is not afraid
of. They can tell by the tone of your
voice whether you are scared or not,
and if you humor their whims they
will never learn. Teach them to not
be afraid by not hurting them when
they are, but by showing them there
is no danger.-John G. Holt, in the
Indiana Farmer.
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TX.
The Finger Of Fate.

Rose is a woman Of within it may
be fairly said that to love her is a
liberal education in folly.
Roger Temple finds his acquire
ments in this valuable branch Of
knowledge ever steadily increasing.
Women you may find in plenty who
believe one man, two men, twenty
men, to be their victims. Rose is
ready, on the weakest evidence, or on
no evidence at all, to believe it of the
universe. Borne on the strong pinion
of vanity, she can ven rise to being
imaginative, as the sequel of this
history will show.
You will never guess what has
happened, Roger, never! And I am
not at all sure that l am wise to tell
you, you naughty, naughty, jealous
man-only when he comes it may be
worse!"
1t is noon next day; and in Rosie's
cool, Notwithstanding drawing room
at the Isabella the lovers are love-
making, the widow in an embroidered
India muslin wrapper Cone of the
eight becoming morning dresses she
has brought with her from London)
and as coy and coquettish and playful
of demeanor as any youthful bride Of
eighteen.
If it will ease your conscience to
make confession, I pre- mise solemnly
to restrain my Jealousy, " says Roger;
not, it may be presumed, without
some uneasy conscience twinges of his
own. You have made another con-
quest, Rose?"
The droop of Mrs. O'Shea's eyelids
says yes.
Il was sure of it. That little Por-
tuguese Jew at breakfast-no, the
Spanish officer last night at the
Casino, Rose, if it is that cookbook
ing Spanish scoundrel-"
"Oh, Roger, don't be violent! How
can l help men being ridiculous?
And I, who never give n any en-
couragement! No, it is neither the
Spaniard nor the Portuguese mean
it is some one else as well. Oh, l do
feel SO guilty, I'm sure these things
never happen to anybody but me-"
Il dare say they happen to most
pretty womeE," says Roger. He sell
dom lets go an opportunity of admin
istering the expected lump of sugar
to the widows lips. Put me u Of
my torture, quick. Who is my latest
rival. Rosie?"
We'll, YOU must know, dear, Spen-
Ger went to the p~ostoffice this m 2rn-
ing. and there was a letter for ne"
1t was a Geclaration?"
1T was from cook. l left orders
with Ler 10 write regularly every
week-and indeed a friend Of Spen-
GERS is staying at the house Is z pre-
caution. l never like to doubt the
honesty Of the lower classes. Roger,
and Of course you cannot make away
with tables and chairs; still there are
the clocks and the ornaments. and as
to house linen"
But my rival, Rosie, my rival?
While you talk about the cook and
the house linen, | am burning with
Impotence, remember
For once at least during his court
ship, Roger Temple contrives to unite
veracity with sweetness.
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Farm Notes.

Wheat is a fine morning food.
Warm it in cold weather.
Boil some of the small potatoes,
mash them and feed them to the
hens. They make eggs fast.
Eggs of uniform size will sell moro
readily than those that include both
large and small ones.
Never feed modify food Of any kind
to a hen. That's the way a good deal
of sickness comes to the poultry yard.
When you are laying in your grain
for winter feed, don't forget to put in
a nice lot Of oats. You cannot find
any better feed, no matter where you
go.
Hens are Ike folks, about all want
ing the highest places. They will
quarrel over them sure; but put them
all on a level and you will fx them
all right.
Be neat in your hen housekeeping.
Have q big boX handy to the houses
and keep the manur good and dry.
Wet hen manure is spoiled for fertil'
izing purposes. Dry, there is none
better on the farm.
Doctor aililg hens with the sharp
edge of an Ak. You a affect a cure
that way a great deal quicker than
n other and it will pay better than
TO dope them, especially when you
don't know what ais them.
It is all right to fight rats and all
the rest Of the enemies that come tc
the lover of poultry, but don't forget
that the greatest enemy Of all. and
the one that is the hardest to lick oul
is neglect and carelessness. We are
|! apt to fight that last of all, when the
truth is we ought to begin there first.
From Points For the Poultry
Lover" in the Farm and Fireside.
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He must have some other moor tnan
An earth one, as his location is a very
damp one.
E. B. Thompson, of Armenia, n. T..
uses nothing but earth floors, as ne
is on an upland where board or &C.
ment floors are unnecessary. SO,
therefore, one mar says to use &C.
ment floors, another says to use
boards as cement is too cold, while
still another says that neither boards
nor cement are Of any use, but to use
nothing but earth for floors.
Personally, l have used all three
and find that a cement floor, covered
over with six or seven inches of fine
loan, is an ideal floor. The rats
bored through the wooden floor, the
water settled in miniature lakes on
the earth floor, but a cement floor is
a barrier to rats, and while it will
collect moisture, yet the earth and
litter offset all of it's faults.
Improper floors are the causes OF
many diseases with fowls. In your
brooder house, II IL mas a cement
floor, be sure and have it covered
with sand and chaff, as the hard &C.
ment is very injurious to the small
chicks bills. A clear cement or
wooden floor is a nuisance, and, of
course, all practical poultrymen keep
their floors covered with chaff from
six to ten inches deep.
The subject of proper floors is one
demanding considerable attention, if
one wants his fowls. to do well. So,
therefore, a large amount of practi-
cal common sense is what is needed
and if your! first floor isn't, in your
mind, the proper one, change and
soon, you will find what is best in
your locality.
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They Were "Over."

He was a regular patron OF the
restaurant. Perhaps that is why he
felt justified in making clever re-
marks to the walters, remarks which
they we're puzzled to know how to an
swer. One day, however, the smallest
and timidest girl happened to be serv-
ing this irritating customer, and 1t
fell to her to answer him in kind.
I'll have some steak" ne said.
coming in late for dinner, land some
squash, and somc-got some baked
potatoes, fine, brown, baked pota-
toes?"
Baked potatoes are all over" said
the girl.
He leaned back in his chair and
gazed at her quizzically.
Baked potatoes all over, are
they?" he replied. "All over what?'
with" she replied, simply
Youths Companion.
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A Triumph of Engineering.

One of the greatest triumphs in the
history of engineering is the compile
ton of the tunnel, or series of tun-
nels, through the Andes, which allows
direct railway travel across South
American from Buenos Ayres to VAL
paraiso. Hitherto, winter travellers
went by way of the Strait of Magel-
Ian, a rough sea voyage. The tunnel
has been in process Of construction
for many years, and twice the work
has been abandoned in despair. A
New York syndicate solved the prob
lem at last, and it is announced that
trains will be running early in the
coming summer. There are three
tunnels, with an aggregate length OF
eleven miles. The highest station on
the line is about 10000 feet above
sea level. The third of the tunnels
is described as screw shaped, and
drops 1900 feet in a distance of IT,
600 feet. The total cost of the work
is about $4,000, Com
panion.
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Grading Cream.

Some Of the centralizing creamery
plants are now grading cream that
hey receive from the farmers, and
oaying for it according to quality,
and the results have been very Salts
factory. Many who were shippers OF
Door cream are now furnishing cream
If good quality; others have dropped
,ut. This enables the manufacturers
% turn out a better class of butter
and make it possible for them to pay
he. farmers a better price. This is
4 move in the right direction. Those
who do not grade their cream, but
oay the same price for all grades, will
lutte naturally catch the shippers OF
ooor cream. The result is that those
who do not grade are getting all the
trouble, while those who grade 1t
ire reaping the profits.
The best price is paid for the
cream that arrives sweet and with no
Dad flavor. The second grade is sour
cream that aside from this fault has
The characteristics Of first class
cream. The third grade is sour
cream with off flavors, ropey, in IN
clean cans, or bearing evidence of
Neglect.
A manufacturing concern cannot
long stand that ignores quality; and
The manufacture Of butter is no ex-
alphabetically Witness.
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Floors of Poultry Houses.

The floor of a poultry house is q
subject that is very interesting TO all
poultry raiserS and is also one that
is attracting more attention now thar
formerly, says American Poultry Ad-
yocator.
Your variety Of floor depends Who'll
l. upon the location Of your building
U. r. Fishel SAYS: Every house o,
'Fishelton' is provided with pine
flooring. Cement floors arc 4 failure.
while earth floors are Il nuisance,
Nothing car equal the pine floor GOV
cred with straw ?oT the birds to WORK
in" Mr.. Fishels idea Of poultry
house floors is based entirely on the
conditions surrounding his houses,
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Number of Cows For a Silo.

A question that is quite commonly
asked is: Would it pay to build a
silo for eight or ten cows?" One man
writes that he has only twenty-three
acres Of land and is thinking of put
ting up a silo for five COWS. Another
that he has forty acres of land, and
that he must do very good farming to
grow the necessary feed thereon for
ten COWS, besides the feed that must
be grown for the span of horses which
ne keeps to do the work.
Ten COWS is a rather small number
to go to the expense of putting Up a
silo for-fve is even worse. 1t would
perhaps be advisable only where the
cows are extra good and very high
prices are received for the product,
unless the principal coarse feed is
corn fodder. Then n would find it
profitable to put up a silo for this
number. However, on this same
amount OF land it would be possible
to keep many more COWS with the: use
of the silo. Ten acres Of good corn
fodder will furnish fifteen COW the
principal part of their roughago for
six months. Or during the heavy iced
ing season, and there would be
enough left over to give them all the
silage they would need during the
balance OF the year, which would
make it possible to keep them on a
very small pasture. If ten COWS are
carried on a foTty-acre farm without
a silo it is safe to presume that fifteen
can easily lie carried on the same
amount of land by its use.-Practical
Farmer.
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Stole Same Cow Twice.
TIC tie Continued.

They have another queer case at
the Frankfort penitentiary. Sam
Kirk, soon to be released, is serving
his second term. Kirk stole the same
COW twice, and there is a tradition
here that he will make another try
for the cow if that animal is still liv-
ing when he gets his freedom. Kirk
took the COW and was caught and
convicted. He was sent to the peni-
Tertiary for one year. He announced
that as SOC as he got out he would
go back home and get that COW. 1t
is thought that he felt that he had
earned the COW by reason Of having
served one year in the p~enitentiary
for the stealing Of the animal. True
to his promise, as soon as he was re-
leased he went back LONE and again
stole the COW. He was convicted and
sent up for double the first term. 1t
is recorded that he never did anything
wrong except steal that cow.-LSuis-
Vile Courier-Journal.
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II ~
Il 7ACABOuD HEROINE
;M by ANNIE DwARo -:

gustus Jones. Was it wicked, l won
der?" sudden conjunction for the
sacrilege she had committed coming
back upon her. Captain Temple, do
YOU think now the blessed old saints,
when they are once safe in Heaven,
ever trouble themselves about the
Jewels they have left behind them on
earth?"
Roger is silent. Belinda's worldli-
ness has repulsed him to such q de-
| gree that he ian no longer smile at
! her rafting talk; and still she fascl-
| mates him more and more.
Men of his semi-poetic stamp fall
in love often with conventional dolls,
as he has done; marry conventional
| dolls, as he will do; and, pathetically
| conscious that the nearest relations of
| their lives have been incomplete, go
to their grave without tasting the
nectar OF true passion once, for sheer
lack of opportunity. But let oppor-
tunity come! Let a woman, fresh and
! faulty from natures hand; cross
their path
Well, our little story of elective
afinities has not progressed as far
as that yet. Roger is engaged to
Rose, Belinda to Mr.. Jones; and
Belinda and Roger are nothing to
each other, for one more quarter Of
an hour at all events.
The talked on and on, and pres
emily Augustus is forgotten, and pres
emily Rose. Belinda is Lagrimas
again, and Roger the wandering Eng
lishman who has fallen but too quick
ly a victim to Lagrimas' charms. BY
and by the air, all at once, grows
fresh; a flicker of pink light begins
to show above tho glorious chain Of
mountain peak toward the east, and
with a start Belinda realizes that it
Is morning-that Miss Burke will be
back before noon, that Roger is the
lover of Rose, and that she has de-
cided to spend her life at Chaplain
with Mr.. Augustus Jones!
Captain Temple, do you know that
the sun is going to rise, that we have
been out here since midnight, you
and I? I hope you never mean to
talk of reforming me again. Oh, if
Rose knew. Shall you tell herr"
Shall you tell Mr.. Jones, Be-
linda?"
And then their eyes meet, with a
sudden look of intimacy; they have
been acquainted now near a dozen
hours, and the girl questions him no
more.
They bid good-by and part; the
tacit promise exchanged, though no
word of promise be spoken, of see
ing each other at the same place and
time tomorrow night. And then,
left alone to conscience, and tobacco,
Roger Temple, it may be hoped, feels
some misgivings a. to the wisdom Of
his first attempt at reformation, some
doubts as to the safety Of this close
neighborhood Of balconies.
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Mutton Breeds Pay.

Farmers who keep mutton breeds
Of sheep do not complain that sheep
10 not pay. 1t is the farmer who
makes a speciality of wool, and VINO
sends to market sheep no larger than
lambs, who does not find profit In
sheep. Young lambs alone give good
profits, and often bring more in the
market than matured sheep and its
wool, but such lambs are of the
,uick-maturing and excellent muttosl
9reeGs.-Epitomist.
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Intensive Live Stock Farming.


Writing of his observations OF
Japan farming, Professor King, OF
Wisconsin, says:
According to official statistics
published in 1908, Japan has in its
main islands, exclusive of Formosa
and Karafuto, a population Of 49,
542,736, and the area Of its Guilt
waited fields is 1881 square miles.
This is 2277 people to the square
mile, and besides these there are also
maintained 100000 cattle and
norses, nearly all Of which are labor
ing animals, giving a population OF
142 people and seven horses and cat
lie to each forty acres of cultivated
field, a condition sufficiently different
from our most fully occupied forty
acre farm to make the business men
among US stop and do some thinking.
The old farmer who permitted me to
hold bis pillow told my Interpreter
that there we're twelve in his family,
and that he owned and was cultivat-
ing fifteen NOW of land, which is two
and one-half acres, and that besides
his team-a cow and a small donkey
he usually fed two pigs. This is
at the rate Of 1872 people, sixteen
cows, sixteen donkeys and thirty-two
pigs On a forty-acre farm, and a pop
ulation density of 3072 people, 250
COWS, 256 donkeys, 512 swine per
square mile"
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Srake Opposed to pIowman.

While Elmer Cchoenly, of Upper
Hanover, was plowi:2g on the James
Erdman farm, near East Greenville.
his horses suddenly stopped, snortec
and rearel and after an investigation
Schoerly found that a blacksnake
measuring over seven feet was stand
ing almost upright in tie furrow just
ahead of the animals.
After a fierce fight the reptile was
killed. 1t is supposed that the mon
ster had hibernated in the field
Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Recipe For Flying.

Mix a thousand feet Of lumber
With a million yards of luck;
Take a hundred yards of canvas
And a billion miles of pluck;
Get a barrel of Indifference,
With a tank of gasoline,
And a field by some big city
Where you surely will be seen;
Rig a queer new-fangled rudder,
Turn it shipshape with a wheel,
Get a thousand-dollar motor
And some nerves of finest steel;
Get your picture in the paper, vii,
Say you're mot quite ready yet"
And if you should take a tumble
Why, just light a cigarette.
When the whole things put together
Call it your new aeroplane,"
And if you don't succeed at first,
Why, fly, fly again. .
Get q President if handy,
And of Senators a score,
A regiment of cavalry,
And, of course, a signal corps.
Pick a day that's calm and MINDLESS,
With a clear and cloudless sky;
. Get aboard and start the motor
And then-well, perhaps you'll fly.
Frank Dunphy, in the New York World.
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Detention in Draft Horses.

Draft horses are getting so high III
price that lots Of the big three-year-
dds are finding their way to the
cities as four-year-olds, after having
/ few of their colt teeth knocked out.
: know one instance where a horse
TWO years and six months old is on
/ city dray. He is a big fellow, 1t is
rue, but not old enough to stand the
;eryice.-EpitomiSt.