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before, take the bottom out, and
make a hollow in the ground, then
fill the nest part with good fresh
straw and give biddie a good busting
with lice powder, and when it gets
dark put her in her new nest. Slip
a board in between the two pieces in
the end and she will be all by her
self and so that no other hens can
lay with her. 1 always set my hens in
a room by themselves, so that the lay
ing hens can't get in with them. After
old biddie has stayed on this new nest
all day and you think she will be a
good, steady setter, then select fifteen
nice, uniform eggs and set ner. l
never take my hens off the first day.
but wait till the second, then wait till
late in the evening, so that they
won't want to get out SO bad, but are
easier to get back on the nest. Fix a
box of dust near SO :Iat she can dust
herself when she comes off, and give
her plenty of good, fresh water and
whole corn to eat, and she will do
the rest. I have used these nests for
two seasons now, ard l think them
the best 1 have ever t-ied.-Judgc E.
G. Teaney.
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For Her Fathers Sake.

81 want to have an understanding
with you" said the outspoken old
man, when the expert in voice culture
had asked him to sit down, according
to the Chicago Record-Herald. Il
want you to tell me the truth about
my daughters voice"
MY dear sir, don't ask me to do
that. 1t is. too painful"
What! Do you dare to look me
in the face and insinuate that she Is
never likely to be able to sing?"
II am very sorry, sir, but if you
will compel me to speak the truth, 1t
Is as you say"
"Thea why the devil have you been
letting her come here for two years
and hand you my good money in re-
turn for your ~lessons?"
Because I have wished to serve
you, sir. Whenever I tell young
ladies they can't sing they go to a
teacher on the floor below, and he
charges fifty cents a lesson more than
I get. You can figure for yourself
what 1 have saved you on three les
sons a week for two years."
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House Numbers on Curb.

A method of placing house num-
bers on curbs has been adopted by the
city of Pasadena, Cal.
Formerly there was a great deal
of complaint from delivery men and
visitors, and also from the police, that
it was almost impossible to. locate
a given house number, as these were
generally placed in an inconspicuous
place. Recently the Mayor has been
authorized to have the names of the
streets and the numbers of the houses
painted on the curbs throughout the
city, and he has employed two paint
ers to do this work. The names OF
the streets are placed on the face OF
the curb close to the street lntersec-
ton and consist of black letters n
and one-half inches high on a white
background. painted by means OF a
stencil. The house numbers are
painted on the top of the curb directly
in front of each house, beinS black
on a white ground, similar to the
street LANES. The white paint, OF
oil and white lead. is first applied,
and after this is thoroughly dry the
black letters are stenciled on, the
paint used consisting of one-half bone
black and one-half lamp black mixed
with oil. The approximate cost OF
this work is five cents per each house
number and seven cents for each
street name.-Municipal Journal.
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the bearing down. I recommended it
to some friends and two Of them have
been greatly benefited by it."-Mrs.
MAE MCKNIGHT, Oronogo, Nc.
Another Grateful Woman.
st. Louis, MOI was bothered
terribly with a female weakness and
had backa che, bearing down pains and
pains in lower parts. Ibegan taking
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound regularly and used the Sanatiye
Wash and now I have no more troubles
that way."-Mrs. AL. HERZoG, 5722
Prescott Ave-, St. Louis, Mo.
Because your case is a difficult one,
doctors having done you no good,
do not continue to suffer without
giving Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound a trial. 1t surely has cured
MANY cases of female ills, such as in
f1ammation, liberation, displacemsntss
fbroid tumors, Irregularities, periodic
pains, backache, that bearing-down
feeling, indigestion, dizziness, and ner-
vous prostration. It costs but q ttride
to try it, and the result is worth nil.
lions to many suffering women
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"St. Edward of RoXbury."

Edward Everett Hale was a doc
tor Of divinity, but he was not a
bishop or an archbishop. He held a
higher title, conferred by the suf.
frages of his fellows, who regarded
him as the first citizen of Boston. He
had nearly every title to renown that
may be conferred upon a minister OF
a layman by the common consent OF
the people. On the shortest notice
he would preach a better sermon.
make a better speech, write a better
story, and improvise a better poem
than any other man in the United
States. 1t would be a strange omis-
sion if the citizens Of Boston and the
friends of DR.. Hale elsewhere should
neglect to provide a memorial of him
in the city in which he made his fame.
christian Register.
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A Young Woman Farmer.

A young: woman in Massachusetts,,
who was not worried by any surplus
of this worlds goods, resolved to be-
come q farmer. To begin with, she
took a three years course in th&
State agricultural college at Amherst
She had been advised to engage In
some sort of work that would keep
her out of doors, and she rented an
abandoned farm, borrowing the
money to pay the first instalment OF
the rent.
Last year she worked only five
acres of the tract. She put those five
acres in garden truck, and she cleared
$3.50 on the enterprise. She figures
that she will clear as much as 5000
to the acre on this years farming OPP
erations, and she has purchased three
horses and two hundred hens. She
is doing a fairly good business In
selling eggs. So far, tomatoes have
been her most profitable crop, but she
has also made a good deal of money
by growing peas and corn. During
the vegetable eason she makes daily
trips to Worcester, fifteen miles away
where she sells her producta. She
hires boys for ten cent? an hour to
help her in the truck patch. Sh9
keeps an account of all receipts and
expenses, and at the end of the yeaf
she will know exactly where she
stands in a financial way.-louisvhl6
CONFECTIONERY .
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THE ~ ~
EPICURE'S
CORNER ~

Cocoanut Pie.-One-half cup OF
desiccated cocoanut soaked in one
cup of milk, two eggs, n small cup
of sugar, butter size of an egg. Thls
is for one small sized pie. Nice with
a meringue on top.
ScalIoped Rhubarb. - Butter six
slices stale bread with butter, ar
range in layers in a baking dish, COW
er each layer with rhubarb sauce.
using for the recipe one-half pound
rhubarb; bake about n hour in a
moderate oven.
Horseradish Sauce.-Mix three ia
blespoonfuls of grated horseradish
root, one-quarter teaspoonful salt, a
few grains of cayenne, one table,
spoonful vinegar and four tablespoon
fuls of heavy cream, the latter beat
en- stiff and added last.
Bermuda Potatoes. - Select small
new potatoes and rub the skin from
them in a coarse towel; boil in sailed
water until done, then saute for five
minutes in five tablespoonfuls melted
butter in which two tablespoonfuls of
minced parsley has bsen put.
Eggs and Onions.-Cut up a large
Spanish onion in slices and fry it in
some butter till it is a light brown
and tender, but do not let it burn;
drain off the butter and put the fried
onion on a dish, sprinkle some cay
enne pepper and a little salt over
them; poach some eggs and
serve them on the top of the onion.
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Tacoma's Great Stadium.

Tacoma's high school, which plays
an important part in Pacific Coast
athletics, is the only high school in
America having an Olympic stadium.
if not the only one in the world.
1t is a .londerous mass OF steel and
concrete. just completed at a cost OF
more than $500 600. in a gulch at
one side of the high school building.
The gulch happened to be just the
right shape for the stadium, so bat
little excavation was required. The
structure is shaped like a horseshoe,
with the open end overlooking Com
mencement Bay. 1t will seat twenty
five thousand persons, has a centre
sufficiently large for baseball, foot
ball, track and field events, and will
also be used for outdoor musical on
certs and Observation-Disclosures
Mechanics.
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The Agreeable Waiter.

Her companion remained silent
upon the subject, but she spoke. 1t
was at a club dinner.
This is the very poorest dinner
ever ate," she said to the waiter, land
the president has the cheek to charge
US So for it. It's abominable."
You are quite right, madam" the
waiter said courteously. Il don't
blame you. Not in the least. I said
to the chef just now that l had served
a good many dinners in my time, but
never so poor a dinner, madam, as
this one"
well, what do you think Of that?"
she gasped, when he had disappeared.
Wasn't that a surprise? Such ready
acquiescence! Such suaye courtesy!
Remarkable!" -
1T was to me-" her companion as
sented, rather clever, too. I think
III tip him about a dollar Cor that.
Shall I?"-New York Press.
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<EDE:z! q any

healthy and thrifty and are less sub
iect to disease. IN case Of all out
break Of cholera in one pen, the 9TH
ers can be kept away from the sick
ones or sold. thus preventing the
spread of the disease through the en-
tire herd.
These hog houses are made just
large enough for n SOW to farroW
in, seven by six feet and five and one
half feet high is a good size; such a
house will cost between four and five
dollars. They should be built on rum
ners, so that they can be moved about
when desired.
Last spring we had sows to farrow
about the middle of March in some
of these colony houses. The weather
was cold, but by using plenty of good
bedding and hanging a lantern from
the peak we were able to say a high
er percentage of our pigs than we
usually do.
In the early spring as soon as the
rye or other forage crops have start
ed, fasten a rope or chain to the front
sill Throwing the door open), hitch
a horse to this chain Or rope and move
the hog house to green pasture. Later,
when clover is ready to be turned
into, it can be moved again. In this
way the pigs can have the best of
pasture all through the summer, with
a good shelter at hand in Lad wealth
err. As fall approaches, after the corn
has been husked, they can be moved
to the corn field, and if cowpeas or
soy beans have been planted in the
corn. they will fatten rapidly and
pick up all the down corn and clean
up the feld.--A Reader, in the In
diana Farmer.
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Pasture Weeds.

The cheapest way to rid the pas
ture of weeds, as we'll as other parts
of the farm where sheep can be al
lowed to run, is to keep some sheep
grazing upon it. We believe it is also
the best way to keep down weeds, as
the sheep wander over the same land
day after day and keep the weeds
closely picked down ali the time, while
if you depend on moving the weeds
it can only be done occasionally and
not very often at best. A good sized
bunch of sheep will do more weed
killing than a man, and do it at a
profit to the owner, while the man
would be quite an item of expense,
besides fertilizer is thus evenly dis
tributed and the soil benefited
Farmers Home Journal.
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Parsons Saving Clause.

A party of genial spirits were gath
cred in a hotel in this city the other
afternoon, talking about preachers
and the funny little breaks they oc-
casionally make in the pulpit, when
Francis B. Lee, lawyer and historian,
of Trenton, told how a good dominic
friend of his once threw al uninten-
tional jolt into a we'll known and pop
ular secret organization.
"Tne secret organization" said Mr..
Lee, was about to have a public SER
vice, and the committee in charge
asked his preacher friend to deliver
one of the prayers. The dominic
readily consented, and. knowing that,
among other worthy things, the lodge
prided itself on it's charity, he decided
to make that a feature OF the prayer.
Needless tc say, he did the thing
beautifully. He painted a realistic
word picture Of the widow and or
rhan, and showed the helping hand
extended in generous relief. In al
most every phrase and sentence he
referred to tie charity of the Organl-
cation. In fact, the whole prayer
breathed an atmosphere of charity,
He"
well, if he did all that inter
rupted one of Mr.. Lees hearers,
where in the deuce did the jolt como
in?"
I'm the wind-up," smilingly an
swered Mr.. Lee. There is where
he jumped the track. and before he
could get back on it again he had
said: and you all know, my brothers,
that charity overs a multitude OF
sins.'"-Fhiladelphia Telegraph.
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AMERICAN VICTORY IN GERMANY
Prosecutor Finds Oil Company Has
Committed No Wrong.

Berlin.-The long and venomous
campaign waged by German newspa-
pers and rival Industrial interests
against one of the German branches
Of the Standard Oil Company - the
Deutsche Vacuum OIL Company-has
just been brought to a victorious end
for the Americans involved.
A we'll known Hamburg newspaper
for months printed such a series Of
attacks on the American graft meth
DDS" alleged to have been practiced
by the vacuum company in the con-
duct of it's German business that the
public prosecutor Of Hamburg felt
constrained to make an oficias inves-
tigation with a view to, eventual in
dictments. The prosecutor has now
concluded his Investigation, especially
of the work Of E. L. Quarles, Ameri-
can manager of the German COM
pany's sales department, and an
nounce that no necessity exists for
pursuing the inquiry further.
No evidence Of anything warrant
ing prosecution was found against Mr.
Quarles, and the costs Of the entire
inquiry will be borne by the State.
1.-THE result Of the Investigation con-
stitutes a notable triumph for Ameri-
can interests in Germany.
It Is not the, first time that Ger
nan finding themselves unable to
compete with Americans on ordinary
terms have resorted to SANDER.
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BEFORE N AFTER,

Whene'er the home club loses out.
Remarks are charged with gloom and
doubt.
THE pitcher has a putty arm.
The feeders should be on a farm.
But what could you expect from skates.
From those predestined second-rates::"
And then the wise ones in a row
Stand up and shout: Il told you So"
But when the home club wins a game,
The place resounds with glad acclaim.
Somebody says: II had a bunch
These people were a winning bunch.
/ sized EN- up the very day
When first they brought EN- out to play"
And then the wise ones in a row
Stand up and shout: i told you sol"
Washington Star.
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The Shame OF Being From Out
of Town.
Ry JULIAN STREET.

It is the custom of the Tenderloin
to lock with pity and amusement at
those who are not Of it. People from
out of town are jokes. Why, one
wonders? Why is it comic never to
have been in any given place before!
Why is it any droller not to know
New York than not to know Omaha,
or Lhasa? Yet these typical New
Yorkers"-most Of whom were born
in Philadelphia, or places even more
remote-find it droll. They love to
look about a restaurant and declare
that certain people, whom they indi-
cate, must have come from Kankakee
or Keokuk. They accuse strangers in
town of "rubbering." OF curse the
strangers rubber" They stare at
New York as a New Yorker stsres at
Coney Island. For New York is,
after all, the Coney Island of the ma
ton.
I know a man who was born in
West Eleventh street. He has a gold
cigarette case, and a story, which he
tells in restaurants, about a man from
out of town, who asked a Broadway
waiter what pie a la mode was.
at is pie with ice cream on it,"
said the waiter. :
Presently the stranger was seen to
be in great excitement. He had read
I'D the menu until he came to beef a
la mode, and was Mortified to think
New York could stomach such a COM
bination.
There are Tenderloin wags who
have made local reputation and
earned numerous good dinners by
spinning funny yarns about the peo-
ple at other tables. ! am acquainted
with such a mana waddling edition
of who's Who in the Lobster Pal
aces" And, like the other who's
Who" he is a fat volume, appropri-
ately bound in red. He considers
any one who doesn't know the way to
Sherry's, or Martins, or the Knick"
erbocker, very, very funny. I some
times wonder if it ever struck him
that he-like all the rest Of us
must some day transverse spaces in
an undiscovered country, which has
no Sherry's, Martins, Knickerbocker.
He will be a stranger. Will he,
therefore, find himself amusing2
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IS EEE@EEREz{l8

Are you going to take in summer
boarders this year, JOSIAH" All
we kin, sir."-Baltimore American.
Howell-"Does your wife care any,
thing about b~aseball?" Powell
She never did until one day wheu
she heard me say that they were 60
ing to play two games for n admis-
sion."-Judge.
$50 Jack and Tom proposed last
night. Which did you accept?"
Why, my dear, l was so excited l
can't remember. But whichever calls
tonight must be the one."-NeW
York Evening Telegram.
When his sister discovered young Thos.
Arrayed in his parents paJos.,
And cried in dismay:
ooh! what will father say??'
He replied: Not a word. These are
mos"
IBIS paper" said Meandering
Mike, wants to know why de cities
is overcrowded when dere is so much
work offered in de country" WELL"
ISopOAoCu tOoollS ISSS
de reason!"-Washington Star.
Lady (who has been shown over
one of the ships to sailor who has
been her guide)-"What a pity gra-
utilities are forbidden on your ship"
Sailor-"So was apples, mum, in the
Garden of Eden."-London Opinion.
"Hilda is at the dishes now. Will
you waltz" her mother said. Glad
ly," said the young man, thinking he
had found a prize. Just then a crash
came from the kitchen, and again he
became undecided.-Bufalo Express.
Now" said the lawyer, cycling the
witness severely, II must have some
thing concrete in this case. And your
statement so far is not concrete"
mo-" said the witness, doubtfully,
but Frightening as he added, but our
new suburban cottage is."-Balti-
more American.
"I pride myself on the fact" said
the haggard-looking poet, that 1
have never written a line which any
father might not read to his daugh-
ter" THAT is" added the philoso-
pher, eff by any chance he should
think it worth while to do so."-Chi-
cago Record-Herald. 80
Father" queried Bob, just home
from college, you've worked for me
pretty hard nearly all my life, haven't
your Quite right, quite right, son.
unused father, retrospectively. Just
So" resumed Bob briskly. Now you
had better get busy and work for
yourself a bit, Ell, dad?"-Life.
Her every move is one Of grace,
And yet it rifles me some,
When we are in a public place,
To see her stretch her gum.
Detroit Free Press.
Mrs. Subbubs Ito neighbor)-
willie and Bobbie aren't home from
school yet, and here it is five O'Clock.
Did you see anything of my precious
jewels as you anne along, Mr.. Mex
dore?" Nexdore-"Your precious
Jewels are in the soak, madam. l
Just saw then swimming in the
river."-Boston Transcript.
Algernon-"What's this / heah
about Miss Giltcoin agweeing to nav
wy you, and then going back on her
word?" Percy-"That is the swat
of it, I'm sowwy to say" Algernon
-"Beastly twick, deah boy. Why
don't you sue her fob non-support?
You've got a clean case, doncher
know."-Chicago Daily News.
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Eay For Sheep.

Clover hay is a most excellent feed
for sheep, but alfalfa is just as good
as clover. Alfalfa is not only higher
in protein: but is more relished. IL
the way of a forage plant there is
nothing better than good alfalfa hay
for sheep, as pasture clover is safer
than alfalfa. In the fall Of the year,
however, sheep may be p~astured on
alfalfa with little or no loss from
bloat. Any one who can grow alfalfa
successfully can make sheep raising
very profitable. - Farmers Home
Journal.
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To Clean White Kid Gloves.

Fold a white cloth three or four
times, lay it on the table and spread
a glove on it; pour a little milk into
a saucer, dip in a piece of flannel,
rub it on a piece of white soap until
a lather is obtained, and then rub it
on the glove. Commence at the wrist
and work lengthways toward the tips
of the fingers, holding the glove firm
ly with the left hand. When clean
lang up the gloves to dry, pulling
them out crossways from time to
time. When quite dry put on the
hand and work the kid gloves until
they feel soft and pliable.-Mrs. B..
Brown, in the Boston Post.
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Brood Sow Food.

Upon the handling and feeding OF
a brood SOW depends a great deal as
to the success with which she Will
raise her pigs. At all times be quiet
and kind to the SOW. She should be
thin in flesh when bred, as flesh will
render her more difficult to get with
pig, and will also have a tendency to
make the number of pigs in the litter
fewer. From the time she is safe IN
pig she should be kept gaining in
flesh until narrowing time. l have
them fat, but not corn fat, at farroW-
ing time.-Farmers' Home journal.
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Preserving Eggs For Winter Use.

When eggs are cheap the thrifty
housekeeper ought to put some down
for use in winter when they are al
most above the ordinary persons
means. There are three ways of pre-
serving them, in salt, lime and water
glass solution. I put down several
dozen last summer in the latter way
and not one egg had spoiled. Get a
fifteen cent can Of waterglass and dis
solve it in ten quarts of water that
has been previously boiled and
cooled. Place it in a stone crock or
jar and place in it clean, fresh eggs
and they will keep perfectly. Kept
in this way they can be used in any
way that a fresh egg can and there is
no foreign taste or odor.-Mrs. R. F.
Cowan, in the Boston Post.
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Staple Food.

Make a staple food of the grain
that is cheapest in your LOCALITY,
whether corn, oats. wheat, barley,
millet or anything else. Then study
its composition, and make up its de-
f~iciencies with something else. All
grains have a certain food value, Il
to sneak broadly. all are good for the
fowls. but none are perfect, n
while any would make a good basis
for q paying. ration. none make a ra-
ton Notwithstanding Journal.
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The College of Cardinals.

The Popes were first chosen by the
whole body Of the faithful; then by
the whole body of the clergy; then by
the cardinals with the consent of the
clergy, and then absolutely and exclu-
sively by the cardinals. 1t was about
the year 1880 that the College of Car
dinals fully secured this power. The
chief insignia Of the cardinals dig
nifty, his red hat, had as its original
significance the idea that the wearer
was to be at all times ready to shed
his blood in m%artyrdom for the
church.
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x ,
E&NZEE
:7Zhe: HOUSE ana HONE r
A Useful Bit Of Furniture.

The shirt waist box may be reck-
oned almost a necessary bit of furnl-
ture nowadays. In its homemade and
inexpensive state it is evolved by the
amateur cabinet maker from a soap
box, with the aid, of a pair Of hinges
for the cover and the proper lining
and covering. The latter may be art
ticking, or a cretonne in a happy mix
ture of stripes and f%estoons. De-
signer.