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Keeping Goats on the Farm

A small flock of goats, on many
farms, would pay as well as other
farm stock. They are kept in large
flocks in some Of the western states.
Goats are healthy animals and free
from disease, and are cheaply kept on
what most of the other farm stock
would refuse to eat. Their f1eeces sell
for a good price and their flesh is as
good or better than mutton. Their
skins are in demand, at good prices,
for making overcoats, robes and furs
for women and children. A pasture in
tested with bushes and other undesir-
able plants can soon be cleaned up by
a flock of goats. Goats are great pets
for children. Few are aware of the
gentleness and playfulness of the fe-
male goat, or how clearly are it's hab-
It's and how readily it accommodates
itself to any situation in which 1t is
placed. The milk Of the goat is dis
tinguishable from that of the cow only
by it's superior richness, approaching,
in fact, in quality to the thin cream
of the COW. The milk of the goat Is
better adapted to feeding young chill
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the loWlands and in northern Germany For prac-
tically all Of his drawings were engraved and pub
lshed in the former country as were most 9TH
ers of a similar nature, with the exception per.
haps Of those of his pupil Tempesta who living
in Rome, and evincing a like fertility and indus
try, had some of his drawings engraved by Ital-
ians. AS edition after edition of Stradanus series
were issued by the Gale brothers of Antwerp, and
eagerly bought up, the circle of his admirers in
northern Europe grew ever WIDER but there is
evidence that his work in the picture-book line
ever became very popular in Italy the country of
his adoption There his celebrated Naples fres-
Goes, for Don Juan of Austria, and his equally
good designs for tapestry for the Medici Grand
Duke enjoyed far more popularity
Considering the immense difficulties Of trans
portation which then still handicapped all inter
national and especially all transapne intercom-
muncation, it is rather curious that the formid-
able distance intervening between the city On the
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Jeffreys (first making his work
easier by falsely limiting that those
who pleaded guilty" would be spar
ed condemned to death 800 men and
boys. (Some historians say 1000
These were hanged after a mere mock
cry Of a trial, during which Jeffreys
alternately raved, cursed, drank, wept,
howled with laughter and behaved in
general like mailman. Even the
hardest-hearted servants of the king
were Mortified by such slaughter-the
more so since many Of the condemned
were innocent people who had taken
no part in the rebellion. Jeffreys was
ordered to be more leaient
Throughout the trial he spared any
one who could pay him large enough
bribe. But few of these country folk
and tradesmen could raise such sums
as he demanded. For his work at the
Bloody Assizes" Jeffreys was made
Lord Chancellor Of England. He
boasted that as chief justice he had
hanged more men and women than
all his predecessors put together.
Three years later the English peo-
pie grew tired Of James H. and over
threw him. He fed into exile. JEFF
freys, knowing how he himself was
hated by the people, tried to get Sc
cretly out of England He shaved
off his shaggy eyebrows, dressed as a
sailor and boarded an outgoing ship.
But on the eve Of sailing he went
ashore and got drunk in a waterside
tavern. A poor writer whom he had
once unjustly punished recognized
him.
TT is the bloody judge!" shouted
the writer.
The mob hurled themselves upon
the disguised Jeffreys and were tear
ing him to pieces when the authorities
rescued him. He was taken to the
Tower Of London and imprisoned
there, until at the age of forty he
drank himself to death. Though he
had ten children his family soon died
out. His own name, however, is still
remembered and cursed throughout
England
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Ing club at the Loo, near Apeldoorn which Mr.
newcone, assisted by the Duke of Leeds and Mr.
stuart Hortley, had formed in tbe voar 1920
was dissolved the very year it had reached it's
majority. ~
One detail in Stradanus' drawing deserves spe-
clal notice, l. e., the turnedup heads of the two
herons at which hawks are about RI sion II
SHOWS that the artist fully believed the legend,
sanctioned even by such late writer's as Walter
Scott that the heron when hard pressed and
stopped at by the hawk will point his beak I'D
wards and thus receive the descending enemy
upon its point, thereby infictng serious injury
II not Killing him outright. According to modern
experts this pretty story has no foundation in
TACT, 1t seems extraordinary that for centuries
artists went on painting incidents which they
never could have seen, scores, if not hundreds OF
pictures of what once favorite and aristo-
cratic sport depicting this very occurrence
Stradanus prediction for porty men and
Women, as well as for steeds of the cart-horse
type, and for unwiedy fat spaniels and bounds
oetray his Dutch origin. and perhaps also bust
nesslike desire to please his principal public in
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Historic Blackguards
By ALBERT PAYSON TERHUNE
pyrigh by the Press Publishing Co Crhe New York worl
The Traitor Who Threatened America

ished patriot treasury as recompense
for this possible loss
Now began Lees American military
career. From the first he seems to
have had two aims. One, to seize
Washingtons position as commander
1n-chief; the other, to sell the Amer
lean cause, at the best possible terms,
to the British. After more than once
rlsking the army's welfare by disobey-
Ing Washington's orders, Lee was cap
tured at Basking Ridge, N. J., by the
British. Whether or not he consented
to the capture in order to carry out
mis- treason plot cannot be known.
But during his captivity (most Of
which he spent in a suite of rooms in
New York City HalD he came to
terms Of understanding with the Brit
ish general, Howe, and explained to
him his ideas on how best to crush
the Revolution. Thinking he would
be of more use to them in the Revolu-
tionary army than in prison, the Brit
ish set him free in ITS and he went
back to his duties. (The complete
draft of Lees plan, by which the col
onies might be overthrown, was found
in 1857 among General Howe's pri-
vate papers)
Then came the battle of Monmouth.
The English, under Clinton, in June,
ITS, evacuated Philadelphia and re-
treated across New Jersey to the
British headquarters at New York.
Washington resolved to smash part
of the British army at Monmouth, N.
J., on it's march. Lee begged him not
to make the attempt, but Washington
sent him with an advance guard Of
5000 men to overtake the enemy,
Lee caught up with the British at
Monmouth on June %, 1878, and be-
gan the battle in SO strange and in
competent a way that Lafayette, in
alarm, sent a secret message begging
Washington to hurry to the front.
Washington arrived in time to meet
Lee in full retreat. He rebuked the
traitor, rallied the army and saved the
day
No one could understand Lees odd
behavior, for no one then knew he
was false. In rage at the rebuke, he
wrote two insulting letters to Wash
ington, who promptly ordered him ar.
rested. A court-martial suspended
him from active service for a year,
In rage, he retired to a mountain hut,
where, for months, he lived like her
nit.
AS his year of suspension drew to
an end, Lee wrote an abusive letter to
congress, and was at once dismissed
from the army. He went to live on an
estate he had bought in the Shenan.
doah Valley. In 1882 he visited Phila-
delphia, where he fell i'll and died.
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leader, Goa. Chas. Lee, had disobeyed
orders and that as result, the Amer
lean army was retreating.
Washington took in the situation at
a glance The patriots were falling
back. The British were everywhere
successful. His blue eyes ablaze with
anger, the chief galloped across to
Lee.
In heavens name, General" he
shouted, what means this ill-timed
prudence?"
Il know of no one" sneered Lee,
''who has more of that abominable
virtue than your excellency."
At this retort the last barriers of
Wasnington's patience gave way. He
hurled at Lee a public reprimand that
the latter never forgot nor forgave.
1t was a case of just mans wrath
at blackguard's misdeeds.
Charles Lee was born in England in
1871. He joined the British army as
mere child. At the age of eleven
he was a commissioned officer. He
fought in America during the French
Slhu IL1Ol1A w al 1Ilu iOSS 4StoL Ill oil n
to lieutenant-colonelcy But he had
sarcastic tongue and an ungovern-
able temper. He criticised his supe-
rior officers and made fun Of their
weaknesses. This sort of thing does
not help man on in any walk Of life.
1t led at last to Lees practical dis
missal from the army. He drifted to
Poland and Russia, where, serving as
a soldier of fortune, he received the
rank of major-general. He also won
doubtful fame as a ferocious duelist.
Leaving Russia, Lee made his way
to America a short time before the
Revolution He hated England and he
loved intrigue. So he plunged into
the stirring politics of the day, siding
with the patriots. The Revolutionary
army was short of experienced Off
GERS and was delighted to accept the
services of so noted a soldier as Lee
He was offered the rank of second
major-general Under General Wash
ington. He bargained shrewdly with
congress before accepting this honor,
declaring that King Georges gov
eminent would surely cOnfiscate his
British estates, and demanding to be
paid for them. Congress agreed to
give him $4,000 out of the impOver-
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Bear-Huntina.-By Stradanus.

Bear-Huntnq.-By Stradanus
Arno and the harbor town on the North Sea did
not interfere in more discouraging be-
tween artist and engraver
For more than half century that studio in
Florence, of which Stradanus gives us in one Of
his ARTS and crafts" series, called the Nova Re-
perta, characteristic picture SENS to have gone
on supplying busy hands in distant Antwerp with
material Of the most heterogeneous kind. Saints
and devils, popes and emperors, holy legends and
scenes from purgatory, and sieges, land bat
ties and naval engagements, royal progresses and
peasant fetes, hunting, fishing and fowng scenes
galore, the horses of all nations, the crafts and
trades Of the civilized world, the discoveries Of
Columbus and Vespucci, scientific inventions of
the day the working of the silkworn and scores
of other subjects Of the most diverse nature,
one and all depicted with realism and with
power Of imagination that really amaze It
shows what extraordinary demand for illus
tratons had suddenly sprung up in the second
half of the sixteenth century among the nations
Of northern Europe as they awoke from the intel
lectuaI stupor that had enchained them during
medieval times.
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ness in each side, could not stand tight
clothing, and was irregular. ] was COM
pletely run down. On advice | took
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound and am enjoying good health. It
Is now more than two years and have
not had an ache or pain since. I do all
my own work, washing and everything,
and never have backache any more. /
think your medicine is grand and praise
It to all my,-neighbors. If you think my
testimony win help others you may pub
lish it. Mrs. OLLIE WooDALL, Nor
toms Gap, Kentucky.
IF you have the slightest doubt
that Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegeta-
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to Lydia E.Pinkham NJ edicine Co.
(confidentiaD Lynn, Mass, for adj
vice. Your letter will be opened,
read and answered by a woman,
and held in strict confidence
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STANLEY'S EXPLOITS

No explorer before or since has approached the
harvest that Henry NJ. Stanley reaped (says
writer in the New York Sum, and no man of let
tiers, soldiers, scholar has had such a single
lecture tour Stanley's greatest In something
like ten big cities he received $4,000 for his first
appearance For the first night In another group
of cities he received $1,000 and in still another
group $500 Travelling in a special car upon
which he lived in most places. and accompanied
by four or five guests he ended the tour with s64-
600 clear of all expenses. For that first night in
New York a charity paid Stanleys agent $4,000
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such as the b1ackbirds and several va
rieties Of hawks, depend on insects
for large part of their food The
insects and In the course of a season
rids the meadows and pastures of
countless pests that ara Injurious to
crops. Even the much-abused crow
had fondness for cutworms that al
most equals hts liking for corn.
AS seen eaters some birds are most
tireless. To this group belong the
large number Of sparrows. Many
other birds eat seeds: In fact, most
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mice, gophers and other rodents. En-
tomologists estimate that the destruc-
ton OF agricultural products from in
sects amounts to over $500, 100000 a
year. What it might be were not such
a vast army OF birds engaged daily
from dawn till dark in making war
upon these various insect pests can
only be vaguely realized, says Farm
and Home.
Among the birds that eat insects
are the fly catchers, warblers, swal-
lows and chimney swifts, which live
exclusively on insects. Many others,
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Since Teacher Did Not Know.

Since Teacher Did Not Know.
1t was in the primary class of a graded school
in western city, and the day the 22d Of
February.
Now who tell whose birthday this is?"
asked the teacher.
A little girl arose tmidly
We'll. Margaret you may tell u.s." said the
teacher.
Mine was the unexpected reply.-Everybody's
Magazine.
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dren than the milk of the cow. The
amount of milk yielded by the goat is
from one to two quarts when 1t first
comes in. The taste of the milk of the
goat is indistinguishable from that Of
the COW, only 1t Is little sweeter.
Goats afford great sport for children,
Lewiston Journal.
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BACKACHE
NOT A DISEASE
Bot a Symptom, a Danger Sig
nal Which Every Woman
Should Heed.

Backache Is a symptom Of organic
weakness or arrangement If you have
backache don't neglect it To get per-
manent relief you must reach the root
of the trouble. Read about Mrs. Wood
all's experience.
Morton's Gap, Kentucky.-'T suffered
two years with female disorders, my
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ture of elephant-hunting its
amusing details, such as
the long file of natives
carrying off loads Of
dismembered elephant ON
their heads and shoulders,
are curious enough. The
picture of the bear-hunt is
more true to life, though we
may express some doubt
whether horses could be
got to charge bears in the
way Stradanus pictures.
Our last drawing repre-
sents the Florentine artists
ideas of heron-hawking 1t
tells its tale fairly plainly,
though, of course, the incl
dents it represents are far
too crowded together. It
was considered the noblest
of all hawking, and though
1t is not so long ago that
more than two hundred
heronries existed in the
British Isles-sOme of them
comprising as many as a
hundred nests with four or
hVe eggs in each-the sport
is now extinct. Mr.. Harting
tells us that in the last CEN
fury Mr.. Edward G. New
come of Norfolk, who was
the last English falconer
who kept heron hawks Che
died in 1870, killed In two
seasons with his two ia
nous hawks, Sultan and De
Ruyter, which he had i'm
ported from Holland. no
fewer than one hundred and
eleven herons. This shows
that the royal sport became
extinct in England not In
consequence of any dearth
OF herons. In the Neither
lands it Is still kept I'D.
though the celebrated Hawk
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caused untold annoyance. Doans Kid
ney Pills cured me after doctors failed
and have had no trouble since"
when your Back Is Lame, Remern-
Der the Name-DOAN'S ."50c all stores.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, n. Y.
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use Deans Kidney
Pills, which have
cured thousands.
j. w. Priest,
Third ST, Marys-
vile, Ohio, says:
Il was in awful
condition from kid
ney trouble, hav-
ing run down in
weight from 200
to $50 pounds. The
pains across my
back and loins
W ere constantly
growing worse and
Kidney SecretiOnS
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WILLING WORKERS ON FARM
Birds Assist Tllier of Soil In Many
Ways, Board Themselves and
Ask No Pay.

Among the willing workers which
work for nothing and board them
selves are the birds, which have Of
ten been called "the farmers best
friends" They assist the farmer in
three distinct ways-as insect eaters,
as consumers Of weed seed and as
destyoyers OF large number of field
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Omissions of History.

Gutenberg had invented printing.
How else" he said, could the
average congressman ever get his
speeches out of his systemi"
For in the olden days the minutes
of the meeting contained nothing but
the actual proceedings.
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1E IL EEDEXS

he 1nJonQ0Q TO De SGCSE TTRC -
a judge. Young as he was, the
lad-George Jeffreys-was already
accustomed to have his way. He
bullied or cajoled his parents in
to giving him costly school ed
ucation and law course that they
could i'll afford. Thus started a ca
reer that was to cost England many
hundred innocent lives.
By the time he was thirty he was
a baronet and Chief Justice of Eng
land. Then he threw off all pretense
of decency His drunkenness, his in
generally loathed. He could cry at
will. Often in court he would brow
beat witnesses with a volley Of filthy,
bitter, blasphemous sarcasm, make
the jury tremble by a maniac glare
of his black eyes, foam at the mouth
with rage, then break into spasm of
loud laughter or into flood of tears
When Charles II. died without d.
rect heir the dead monarch's younger
brother took the throne as James
II. Jeffreys had already curried favor
with James and now rose to higher
power than ever. James made him a
baron and showered favors on him.
1t was during this kings reign, In
1855, that Jeffreys enacted his vilest
crimes. The Duke Of Monmouth had
laid claim to the English throne and
had fooled thousands Of simple-mind-
ed farmers and shop folk into joining
his rebellion. The uprising was crush
ed. The duke was beheaded His
captured followers were brought be-
fore Jeffreys for trial. Then came a
horror still known as the Bloody
Assizes"
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health was very bad
and / had a continual
backache which was
simply awful. I could
not stand on my feet
long enough to cook
a meals vic tn ais
with out my back
nearly killing me,
and I would have
such dragging sensa-
tons / could hardly
bear If I had sore
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Their ONLY Use.

What's the matter with your
Got dyspepsia"
Don't enjoy your mea1s?"
Enjoy my meals?" snorted the in
dignant dyspeptic. my meals are
merely guideposts to take nedicirr
before or after
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Had Noticed II

Mr.. Richfello-Isn't Miss De Mure
pretty when she bushes?
Miss Beauties. / noticed II the
other day. 1t was the first time I ever
saw her face color"
Indeed! What was she bIushfng
over?"
Over plate of hot soup."
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birds eat both insects and seeds in
varying amounts. A large number Of
birds feed on field mice, gophers,
ground squirrels, moles, ETC., chief OF
all being hawks and owls.
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WHAT proof have we that
these crude tracings were not
drawn with trembling hand
after a horror-struck retreat
to his cave, when his senses,
which then were still as keen
as those Of the hawk, the far.
scenting deer, or the acutely-
nearing wolverine, warned
MIN OF the approach of his
relentless foe? Indeed. have
we not evidence supporting
such doubts in the shape of a
stone hammer found embed
ded in the skull Of a Megace-
ros hibernicus? Had that
oiow been dealt by a hunter
to an animal already down In
order to dispatch it, the prec-
1ous flint tool, which to pro
duce had cost such infinite
labor, would not have been
ieft where Professor Wau-
choppe found it untold ages
later. What more likely
than that the blow was in
niCted as n dasDaroto oot of
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and the receipts from the lecture s14,763.
On the other hand Alexander Graham Bell used to
lecture for s25 night in schoolhouses and tba
struggling inventor was glad enough of the fee
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SEQI2T (RntQNDraujn8S

: ]
0 HE recent discoveries Of prehistoric designs In
VEL cave In the south of France confirm the assertion
~ made by medieval writer's that sport formed
M he subjects OF the earliest designs, the disciples
| @4@A OIL N1mrod rightly claim given the
\ hrst Impulse to art Unfortunately for u.s. the old
~ sklnclad sportsman artist who covered the walls
OF his Perfgord with outline drawings oil his
eloW-denlzensthe mammoth the giant bear and the
felhceeT-nereby securing for himself undying
ost achac OF all artists endowing
s"ey win the distinction Of being the ancient of all
arr repositories failed to depict
necuoh with the trotting shambling
"e Tue spirit or selfefacemen which sths omission be
eVnces refreshing absence of the personal element
- proves more conVlncngy than could library Of volumes
an INFINITE vista of interVenes between that flint
uhg cave man and the MODERN selfassertive presshe
oon sportsman But stay! Are judging this instance
" peontoogica selfobliteraton quite justly? Was that
uosodyles failure to leave single indication the
ave position OF man and beast really the result
He omdence? What evidence have that this
inc Pestocene Age had already emerged prmeval
c'huiuon when man was still the hunted instead
hunter? How do know that the huge Eephas primigen
nus or the formidable Ursus speloeus
CORD Louvre was not hunting him. the pigmy
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Stop the Pain.

The hurt of a burn or q cut stops when
Coles Carbolisalve is applied. It heals
quickly and prevents scars. 25c and soc by
druggists. For free sample write to
j. w. Cole & Co., Black River Falls, Wis.
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AS soon as woman discovers that
she Is unable to reform her husband
she begins on her neighbors.
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Sure ThinQ.

do you believe she will love me
long?"
We'll, l know she won't love you
short"