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Bad Manners.

Is the speedy motor car an OBJ
stacle to punctuality? 1t would seem
30. Certainly the habit of arriving
late at the theatre and other places
of entertainment Is growing with the
multiplication of the means of rapid
transportation. 1t Is seldom that a
play or program is not married or in
terrupted by these late arrivals. And
the disturbance is greater where
motor cars carry the larger number
of the attendants. Does this mean
that those who have to depend on
the street cars are more apt to give
themselves reasonable time than are
those who have gotten into the habit
Of thinking that neither time nor dis
lance counts when the automobile Is
available? At any rate the habit is
a bad one.-Kansas City Star.
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Cultivation of Sweet Peas.

If sweet peas are to be cultivated
In rows, it is a good plan to draw a
broad, 1at-bottomed drill, about a
foot or eighteen inches wide. On no
account should it be concave. The in
evitable result Of this would be to
crush the seed into the centre of the
shallow drill and to aus overcroWd-
ing. Thin sowing, however, can be
carried out with perfect ease II the
drill is fit. If clumps are to be grown
the same rule should be Observed
the bottom of the circular trench
should be perfectly fiat. How far
apart should each seed be sown?'
Is the next question that arises. II
the seed is sound, and if there is,
therefore, a reasonable certainty OF
termination, each seed should be set
at least nine inches from its neigh
Dor. One famous grower invariably
sows one foot apart, and he declares
that he has rarely had a failure. II
the average amateur gardener strikes
this happy medium, however, and
does not allow his seeds to be less
than six inches apart, he will prob
ably have no aus to complain of the
result.-Pittsburg Dispatch.
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500eo
, INDOOR EXERCISE FOR
. HEALTH and DEVELOPMENT.

DR.. W. R. c. Latson has something
very interesting to say in The Outing
Magazine regarding exercise. He d.
vides the people ip general into three
classes: trained athlete, those who
exercise at random, and those who
neglect exercise altogether. In one
place DR.. Latson says:
The ordinary professor knows
no more about the principles Of bod
lily development than he does about
ancient Coptic. And the poor lay
man, cropping to find some guide to a
correct method Of physical training,
must necessarily fail to obtain from
his desultory experiments any real
or lasting benefit.
I'm the first place, current methods
of physical culture aim at Fictitious
results. The man is trained, not to
develop a fine physique, powers of
endurance, grace, and general bodily
efficiency, but to win at some particu-
lar event.
"Of course the poor little people
VINO exercise at andom or VINO 1all
into the net Of the willy professor
get little or nothing for their time
and money. The men and women
who write the articles or who prepar
the material for the courses as a
rule know but little, if anything,
more about the maStef than those
who are held up for the price of the
instruction. The result is failure to
realize any great or lasting benefit
from the time and effort put forth"
In conclusion, Dr.. Latson describes
a system Of ten simple exercises which
will result in an increase of health,
strength, endurance, and bodily eff
cheney which will be a surprise and
delight to the student.
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Barbers Always Talkative.
Incorporated)

"The talkatiyeness Of BARRIERS long
has been the subject for puns and
jokes" a barber said this morning.
81 had always fancied the matter one
Of recent origin until the other day.
You know in my profession we have
a great deal Of spare time. Well. the
other day I was sitting on the bench.
waiting for shaves and hair cuts to
come in, and to while away the time
was glancing through a copy,of Plu-
tarch's 'Archelaus.' Imagine my COZ
sternation when I happened on a line
reading:
ga prating barber asked Arches
laus how he would be trimmed. Ht
answered: I'm silence
"Ve!l, that got me. I never knew
they even had BARRIERS that long ago.
I always supposed the ancients LET
their whiskers grow and that they
wore curly locks as long as their
togas, but it seems that the barber is
an ancient relic, and that his talking
p%roclivities are a matter of history.
I'll have to give it to the humorists
there.
But say" he whispered, that
manicure. girl over there has got as
beat to a FRAGILE. I wonder II there's
anything in Plutarch about her?"~>
Kansas City Star. :
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Hard to Explain Away,

Cham Clark, discussing the latest
political scandal, said:
Some of the testimony was bad,
very bad-in fact, unanswerable.
You couldn't get around it. 1t was
like the remark of the new parlor
maid.
This girl was a greenhorn. She
didn't know the pretty daughter was
engaged to be married, and when the
pretty daughters intended called
after a weeks absence from town this
is what the parlor maid said to him:
Miss Minnie you're wantin'?
Well, I don't know whether she's in
or not. But if you're the young gen.
tleman that was here last night till
half-past twelve and got caught hug
GIN and kissin' her in the parlor,
why, she amt in to you no more and
never will be. '"-Washington Star.
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UnhalloWed d

There are unhallowed kidders in
this town, says the New York CORE
spondent of the Cincinnati Times
Star. The other day a voice on the
telephone asked for Examiner Hughes
at the local Office Of the State De-
partment of Insurance. Mr.. Hughes,
who is an Englishman and most cor
rect in habit, said ah-yes over the
wire.
II don't al to give my name, Mr..
Hughes" said the stranger at the
other end. But you may tell Super
intendent Hotchkiss for me that if he
calls on Coffin & Graves at 1919 Broad
way he can get some important infor-
nation bearing on this investigation
Of insurance matters he has started"
MI. Hughes said: Hum, ah, yes;
quite So" And then he asked if
there were any reason why he
(Hughes) should not call at once
upon Coffin & Graves.
None whatever" said the voice.
Though there isn't any hurry. They
will be there whenever you are"
The Insurance Departments Offices
are on the twenty-eighth floor of the
Singer Building. Mr.. Hughes stumped
busily through the hall, rode down
twenty-eight floors, walked out
through the long foyer to the street,
and turned south. He counted the
numbers as he went along. One
fifty-fve," said he. "One-forty-seven,
one-thirty-fve," and so o. to No. l29.
That number is about the middle of
Trinity c~hurchyard.
Hum" said Mr.. Hughes, "how
very odd"
A moment later he struck the iron
fence violently with his cane
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What They Needed.

H. B. Warner in Alias Jimmy VAL
entine' likes to tell a tall ora
Once" he said, when I was Still
humping the bumps Of the For One
Night Only I attended a meeting of a
country school board.
al move said n delegate i'm
pressively, that we build a new
schoolhouse on the site of the old
one; that we use the materials in the
old one for the new one, AMI that we
don't tear down the old one until the
new one is built
"'Well, what did they do about
it?' smilingly inquired a mar later on.
"They was a little bit slow coming
around was the reply; "but as soon
as they got their heads to working
gain they sent for an architect to
figure out how the thing could be
done"
Did he find the answer"
"No," was the chuckling rejoinder~
"He worked on it until the demijohn
was empty, and then told the school
board that what they wanted was a
sleight-of-hand professor, not an
architect."-Young's Magazine.
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Improving the Roads.

Of New York States $4,000 miles
of public highways, running through
her 30,476,S00 acres, 5000 are State
roads, maintained by the State. The
remainder are under the care Of coun-
ty or town. On January /, 1903,
when the new State Highway Com
mission was created, there were prac-
tically 1000 miles of highway macad-
amized; now 24O0 miles are improved.
This year the commission hopes to in
crease the miles improved by perhaps
500, and to increase each year until
the total per year will amount to 500
or 1000 miles.
Thus far this year 120 contracts
for improved roads have been let by
the commission, and more contracts
will be awarded. This will be the last
until fall or winter, enabling the sue
cessful bidders to get ready for work
early next spring.
Under the law some work must be
done In all counties whose roads are
to be improved at the same time. The
100 contracts awarded this year call
for the building of 430 miles Of high
way, at a total cost of $5,600,000. Of
this total the State will pay about
S4,500,000 and the counties and
towns the remainder.
OF the work contracted for 1853
miles are State trunk lines and about
272 miles county roads. The State
pays the entire cost Of the trunk
lines, while the State, county and
towns share the cost Of the county
roads. The contracts to be awarded
will amount to about 100000,
bringing the total outlay for the sea-
son to more than 100000.
The trunk lines will traverse the
State from east to west and from
south to north. One trunk line will
run from New York City to Platts-
burg, on Lake Champlain. From
Plattsburg the trunk line will pro-
coed westerly through Ogdensburg,
Watertown and Oswego to Syracuse,
where it will join the main artery. ex-
tending through the centre Of the
State from Albany to Buffalo. This
central artery will pass through Am
sterdam, Utica, Syracuse and Roches-
ter.
A third east and west trunk line
will run through the southern tier Of
counties, and will pass through the
cities Of Binghamton, Elmira, Corn
ing, Olean and Jamestown. There
will be several trunks extending north
and south, which will connect the
trunks along the southern tier with
that from Albany to Buffalo.-New
York Times.
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Hygiene in Japan.

As a specimen of how practical the
Japanese are with their knowledge
Of Western science and determination
to deal with disease, they have levied
a tax on every household to produce
two rats every month. A fine is i'm
posed If the rats are not caught and
produced at the time of inspection.
Every rat is examined, aand If found
to be plague infected the house from
which they come is to be thoroughly
cleaned and disinfected. Twice a
year every house and shop has to
disgorge all it's effects and be com
pletely cleaned out. The things only
70 back after sanitary Inspection
Java Times. n. Y.-2O
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k Tomatoes.

The incest way I have found to
raise tomatoes is to tie them up to
strong stakes. Drive in the stakes
solidly and set the plants beside
them. Keep them tied up as they
grow, and keep & good part of the
side shoots trimmed off. I leave four
or five of the lower branches and al
low them to lie on the ground. This
is some work, but it pays; it gives a
chance to go among the vines to hoe
and water, and you can have your
garden as neat in the time of ripe
tomatoes as any other time in the
summer. And when you want the
ripe tomatoes you can see at a glance
where they are, and every tired wo-
man knows what a convenience that
is. / seldom see a rotten tomato on
the vines that are tied up. The
stakes, however, must be strong and
firmly set, for you will often see a
peck of tomatoes on the vines. One
day a lady friend said: "Ill never tie
up tomatoes again; it don't pay, for
whenever the tops get heavy over
they co." When I walked into her
garden, beholdS she had procured a
lot of elder branches to tie her car
nations up to, and the largest of these
she used for hel tomatoes. Another
friend decided to use the banana
crates which were discarded, at the
nearest grocery. The result was very
unsatisfactory, as the tomatoes were
enclosed and the pieces were so close
ly fitted that you could hardly get
the hand between the latter to pick
the tomatoes.
A good kind of early tomato is the
"M~atchless." Early plants are best
raised in tin cans that have been
mel ed apart; bend them in shape,
set them closely together in the hot
bed, fill with good soil and plant three
or four seeds in each one. Thin the
plants out as they grow until you
have only n plant in each can.
When rou want to transplant to
the garden lift can and all; set in the
hill prepared for the plant and care
fully take off the can, fill in the soil
anG water and your plant will never
know it was disturbed.-G. E. E., in
the Indiana Farmer.
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&bE=z TT dTfK9

7 airy or February, and sell them fol-
about the same number Of dollars
per head that can be secured in mid
summer.
Which of these methods should be
adopted will depend on the possibility
of selling them in carload lots, or to
| sell them to men VIII; make up car
load lots.
In a community where there are a
great many sheep breeders, and
where it is possible for shippers to
| buy carloads of lambs as they do OF
hogs, l have no hesitation in saying
that the best way is to have the
lambs eat oats and corn as early as
possible, give them free access to it
| at all times in clean troughs, allow
| them the milk of their dams, and
sell them at seventy to ninety pounds
before weaving.
Where one is so largely engaged in
1.-THE sheep business that he can handle
a carload of wethers at any time, this
is certainly the way to make quick
and easy money.
My experience has been that by
having the lambs come in March and
April and pushing them forward in
this way, l could get as many dollars
for them in July and August as
could in January and February. In
the meantime they have consumed
far less grain, the risk of disease has
been reduced to a minimum and
money is quickly turned.
Where, however, one must depend
on the local butcher for his market
for lambs, it is quite as we'll to finish
them off at about 100 pounds at nine,
ten or eleven months. If anyone will
compare the weights and prices of
lambs on the city market, say Chica-
go, in July and August with the
weights and prices in January and
February, he will find that the lamb
sells for about as many dollars in
the first mentioned months as in the
last.
One of the main advantages in sell
ing early is that the risks from dis
ease, especially the stomach worm,
are reduced to the minimum.
Lambs fed generously from the
first are seldom injured by these
worms, even when kept on infected
pastures; but when kept on infected
pastures and given only the milk of
their dams they are very likely to
succumb to the disease along in Au-
gust and September.--W. H. Under
wood, in the Indiana Farmer.
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Deacons Stick Together,

Representative Dudley M. Hughes.
Of the Third Georgia District, is a
farmer in addition to being a states
man. Recently, when he was at
home, Mr.. Hughes received an urgent
call to go to the police station in
Macon. When he arrived Mr. Hughes
fou!d That n of his negro laborers
had temporary quarters there.
The negro was very penitent and
very anxious to get out.
"Marse Dud," he said, "youse er
deekin in de white church, amt yer?"
Yes, Sam"
AN yer knows rs er deekin in de
cullud church, don't yer, Marse
Dud?"
Yes, Sam; but what has this to
do with your present trouble?"
We'll, l jis' wanter say dis, Marse
bud, dat hits time fer us deekins t.
stick Observation-Disclosures Even
ing Post.
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Cleanup Week.

1t is Interesting to note that, fol-
lowing the worthy example of some
smaller cities, it is proposed to have
what may be termed a Cleanup
week" Anent this, the excellent adj
vice given from time to time by Dr..
Men, director Of the department Of
public health, is full Of good, practt-
cal suggestions regarding the best
methods of sanitation, the removal
Of rubbish from cell---s, the cleaning
Of dirt and dried leaves from drain
pipes and roof cutters, the cleaning
Of dark and unsightly corners by
some disinfectaut wash and the ad-
mission of sunshine to rooms ordinar-
lily darkened and neglected, the
proper care and cleansing Of rugs,
carpets, bedding and clothing and
the draining Of all stagnant pools OF
water in cellars and back yards
Philadelphia; Press.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

Some men wear themselves out,
and others simply rust.
Many a man makes a noise like a
virtue to drown the clamor Of his
vices.
Lots of us who are sure We are
right never go ahead.
The man who is blind to his own
interests seldom interests any one
else.
The man who is too busy to make
friends seldom succeeds.
Even when charity begins at home,
1t usually ends with some foreign
missionary.
A plain duty is like a plain person.
1t is always the least attractive.
When they get on the scales is
about the only time some men ever
have their own weigh.
The surest way to shatter an idol
is to marry it.
Blessed are the meek, for they gen.
orally are married.
It is hard for a woman to conceal
he" faults in a decollete gown.
The trouble with a bore Is that
when he gets wound up he doesn't
go.
The ball player should always re-
member that a hit in time saves nine.
Some people are so lucky that if
they should jump from the frying
pan into the fire they would put the
fire out.--From "Dyspeptic Philoso-
ply" in the New York Times
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A Rhode Island Red Talk.

A friend said to the writer the
other day:
"Geer, what do you know about
the Rhode. Island Reds, where did
they come from anyhow, and where
did they get the drag they have on
the poultry fraternity?" Our reply
to one section of his compound ques-
ton was prompt:
Rhode Island, of course, up there
in Yankeeland where they made the
Barred Plymouth Rocks, dressed
down the Leghorns, Brown, White
and Black, and struck out of a piece
of marble the beautiful White Wyan-
dotte."
In general, however, his question
perplexed us, for We do not know as
much about the Rhode Island Reds
as we should like to know. But we
do know that in the matter Of color
it is necessary to breed very closely
to the standard in order to make ad.
vancement in a fixed red color for
the breed. 1t will not do, If one
wants to raise clear red birds, to
breed from fowls with white or smut
in their plumage, nor from hens
which in their second and third year
show too much Of the light creamy
color. And, our observation is, that
a pullet that is really a good, dark
even shade of red, with no white, and
no smut, will not fade to the lighter
color as she advances in age, like one
that is less clearly red, or one that
has defects in the way of smut, etc.
In fact, in breeding Reds, we
should select the pullet that shows no
smut adown the back in the under
feathers, and which has no tendency
to light blotches in the heavier feath.
ers. One that is a good, clear red to
the skin, with a glowing, clear red
cast in the sunshine. This kind of a
pullet will, when she gets older, still
have a we'll defined reddish cast tc
her plumage, and will not run to a
lighter creamy color, with darker
neckhackle. And such a female:
mated with a cock bird that is like.
wise free of smut and white, with
good red undercolor and a good
| strong red in his surface color, will
throw chickens that will take the
breeding line away up, in the way OF
fixing a truly red breed.
In points of utility the Rhode ISL
and Reds are all right. The hens do
| get broody to an aggravation some
times if we are not looking for that
| characteristic; but they may be easily
broken up by simply dropping them
in a small bare pen with an active
cockerel for a few days. They lay
we'll, and keep it up in the cold sea.
son, too. A friend of ours who has
Reds, Rocks and White Plymouth
Rocks, let the two latter breeds go
because he always got more eggs
from his Reds than from either of the
other breeds.
The Reds are hearty, and the
chicks grow fast and mature early
It's a good breed and n that will
stay with us, settling down eventually
along the line of utility with the
Barred Plymouth Rocks, the S. c
Brown and White Leghorns, and the
Wyandottes.-H. B. Geer, in the In
diana Farmer.
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Gnnn auans

Importance of Good Roads,


We have received a copy of the re-
port by the Senate Committee on
Agriculture recommending the enact
ment Of Senate Bill No. 6931, provid-
ing for an appropriation of 100000
for the extension of the work of the
U. S. Office of Public Roads in aid
ing in the improvement of the public
highways. Senator J. H. Bankhead,
of Alabama, in his speech on the bill
said:
The national Governments of all
the principal nations of the world e.
cept the United States actively aid
and encourage the building and main
tenance Of public roads. France has
the most superb system of roads in
the world, completed at a total cost
of s612,775,0O The effect of these
roads upon the material prosperity Of
the French people is indicated in the
following extract from a report by
Francis r. LOOMS, commercial agent
at St.. Etienne, France, dated April
23, 1891:
"The road system of France has
been of far greater value to the coun-
try as a mean of raising the value Of
lands and Of putting the small peas
ant proprietors in easy communica-
ton with their markets than have the
railways. 1t is the opinion of we'll
informed Frenchmen who have made
q practical study of economic prob
lens that the superb roads of France
have been n Of the most steady and
potent contributions to the material
development and marvellous financial
elasticity of the country. The far
reaching and splendidly maintained
road system has distinctly favored
the success of the small landed pro-
prietors, and in their prosperity and
in the ensuing distribution of wealth
lies the key to the secret Of the won
derful vitality and solid prosperity
of the French nation"
AS a result of the improved con-
dition Of the roads in these coun-
tries, their farmers haul produce to
market at an average cost Of only
ten cents per ton per mile, and in
some cases it is as low as seven
cents; while, as q result Of the bad
conditions of American roads, our
farmers are forced to pay an average
expense of twenty-three cents per
ton per mile on every ton Of produce
hauled to market or shipping point.
Indiana Farmer.
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Hard

We are requested by some OF our
readers to re-publish the following,
by DR.. David Roberts, the State Vet
%erinarian, of Madison, Wisconsin,
who is good authority on the subject.
He says:
This trouble is due to an abnormal
contraction of the sphincter muscles
at the teal and oftentimes reduces
the value of what might have other
wise been a valuable cow, as no one
wishes to purchase or own what is
termed as a hard mixer; but if stock
owners knew how easily this trouble
could be overcome they would never
think of d~isposing of a hard mixer
at a sacrifice, as is 10Y being done
by many.
The mere fact that a COW is a hard
mixer does not indicate that she is
not a good mixer, but owing to the
fact that she is a hard mixer she is
oftentimes neglected at milking time
by a disguised mixer, who leaves a
large quantity of the milk in her
udder that should have been drawn
out.
Stockmen who know how to handle
such cases oftentimes buy valuable
cows, owing to the fact that they are
hard mixers, and by the use of a
teat plug and a few treatments for
hard milking, cause them to become
splendid, easy mixers, thereby in
creasing their value many more times
than the cost of the treatment. A
milking tube should neve be used in
such cases as there is too much dan
ger of infection and the results are
not as good as from the use of the
teat plug.