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Show Mureraa with fowl From the Farmers' Review: Twenty six years ago I sold my scrub chick ens' and bought', pure-bre- d light Brah mas, ..which gave me satisfaction for six , years. Then I removed to Christian Co., Hi., and found that after a Win I sometimes had to take the baby chicks from the yard, wash the black, e mud from their feet and corral them until the mud in tbe yard dried up which it seethed In no hurry to do. Then I ireclded that for my location a variety of chickens that did not need to be well feathered to the end of tbe second toe" would be better;.' so I procured the Barred Plymouth Rock, because their legs and feet were free from feathers. I have bred them ever since, and am better pleased with them all the time for these reasons: They are large enough for every purpose, hardy from shell to table or market, good foragers, and seem to thrive in all sorts of weather, gentle in habit, good layer and good mothers, always in fine con dltion, ready to sell as broilers at twq months or can he kept with profit until large enough to go as roasters, flesh fine grained, excellent flavor, plump carcass and yellow skin. Once during my poultry experience I tried the egg machine, the Leghorn, hut my experience was so unsatisfactory that I discarded them. I also breed pure-bre- d Pekin ducks, and make more money out of them than from my chickens. In 1900 I began with fifteen ducks and two drakes; I sold 815 worth 'of eggs for hatching, sent sixty-nin- e to the market, picked feathers for two feather beds, and Bold during the year 842 worth of ducks, some of them as breeders. This year I kept twenty ducks, and although tha year is not out, I hare sold 820 worth of eggs, 823 worth of ducks, 88 worth of feathers, and now have 200 ducks and twenty-on- e pounds of feathers. S. Rose Carr. tar-lik- It la doubtful if there la in the entire world another such artificial earthwork aa the ureal Cahokhi mound In Illinois. Situated In what is known aa the American boLloui, it towers above the plain to the height of ninety-nin- e feet It la 098 feet long. It la 721 feet wide. It has a volume of aonie 72,009.000 cubic' feet, and all Is mystery aa to the people who built it or the purpose it served. It would have taken a single workman 4.000 years to have built the Cahokia mound, or it would have required fOr one day the labor of 1 .2(10.000 men. for students of these things are all ugreed that the people who built It had no other means of carrying the dirt than by filling skin bags and boaring these upon their backs. There were po beasts of burden and the continent was still without a cart. The earth with which Cahokia was made was taken from the bottom at the southeast corner of the. mound. Here may stlllbe seen the holes made by the diggers;' in Jlie spring .they are lakes, in which the watfr ranges from three to fifteen feet In depth, feotne of these lake beds have been partially filled by cultivation, but the deeper onea may still be easily traced. They are wholly unlike the bottomland awale, for they, ha va deep tanks. Te nearest ones are less than 200 yarfls from the mound; the farthest removed are not 400' yards away. So that the laborers who built the mound had but a short distance over which to carry their loada. Estimating that each carrier took, two cubic feet of earth at a trip and. that he could dig with his splint spade and carry to the mound six cubio feet an hour (three trips), he would con tribute iu a day of ten hours sixty fer was lefiiscd. Mr. Ramey had valued At Cahokia at 8100.000, and the family this rste, working 200 days a year, holds It at that price still. Cahokia may be seen to represent the Almost all the world's leading archelabor of one man for 4,000 years, ologists have climbed the steep ter--. though through 300 days of each, year races of Cahokia. They have all agreed he madesixiy trip? from the digging that It is an artificial bill. They have place to the dumping place with his also, been unanimous in declaring It Iwo cubic feet of earth ruther a hard the largest and most magnificent earthwork In the world. But they have day's work. Considering the primitive moans at expressed many different theories as hand, what a colossal undertaking was to the people who built it and the this, the building of Cahokia mound! purpose it served. The majority of If bullded In a few yours, as the great those who studied it have believed It wall of China,- what myriads of workto be a religious structure ' and-- that ers, like a wide belt upon pulleys, must, upon its halgbt were kept continuoushave st reaniod to the plain with their ly burning the bright fires symbolizing empty skins! If, like Cheops and the the sun worshiper's undying faith. Mr. .Coliseum,. It was raised with many deRamey, who caird for it forty years, lays, what multitudes' of carriers must beljeved it to be' the tomb of the high have been pressed into this service! ruler of the ancients, even as .Solomon If the arclieologh ?s succeed in their had his temple and the greatest of the desire to have the big, mound opened it Pharoahs his Cheops. The careful exwill be the first time it has ever been ploration of the big', structure may explored. Conjectures Innumerable throw no light upon the mystery of have ljeen made as to Its content, but wfrio built it, but it would" doubtless deno man has ever, delved Jn db see. This termine why it was built, something is because the Ramey (airily, which the scientific world Is eager to know- -. has owned the mound for forty years, Dr. C. A. Peterson, a student of had guarded it closely, permitting no archeology, has recently .made a close explorations within ,the mound and study of th$ Cahokia mound for the making nono themselves expept In a .purpose of reading a paper upon It before the Missouri Historical society. single Instance, when Thomas T. whTise wldow and children are Dr. Pederson; speaking of the proposinew, the owners, tunneled In some sev- tion to open the mound, expressing hia enty feet at the northwest corner and belief as to what. In the event of ita abandoned the work because of the ex- being opened, the explorers would i : pense. Mr. Ramey died more than a find: "The builders of the big mound year ago. He had prized the1 mound highly and hia protection of It had were Indians, J am satisfied of this, even extended to planting grass seed because I have made an exhaustive upon the bare' spts that the rams study of the subject and have ..found might not wash out ravines. After his enough evidence to convince me that g death the Smithsonian Institution ofwas 'at one time a fered 810,000 for the mound. The of cubic feet of eiirlh to the mound. , - : Ra-ip- ey - mound-buildin- I : . Airship Invented by Illinoisan height In the big mound opposite 8t Louis. I believe the Cahokia mound was built by sun worshipers. This is the popular theory and 1 believe it 1b correct. Dut I do not believe that the mound was built as a temple alone. It was more likely the grave of the great- chiefs, who were burled one upon the other in succeeding generations and the summit of whose tomb su ported the fires or the temple or whatever waB necessary to express the national religious belief. It was too much to suppose that the mound was built within the reign ' uf one chief. Think how immenbe.lt is, larger in volume than even the largest of the pyramids of Egypt! There were only primitive niruus of building it and 1 have always thought It represented the work of many generations, the people adding to the height of the mound whenever they laid away in It another of the great chiefs. 1 would not be surprised to find an entire Indian dynasty entombed there. I think we are too much inclined to forget the size of Cahokia when we theorize as to the purpose for which It was made. It expressed the greatest event In the animal life of the. ancients, for they built nothing else so pretentious as this. This Is the reason I believe the old chiefs of the nations are buried there. .I cannot believe the ancient peoples would have built such a structure as a religious temple alone, for it war a stupendous undertaking which doubtless- necessitated the labor, ol man and woman ol every the nation. - -- a new dirigible air ship la on exhibition at Chicago. It represents the results of five years' work on the part of William Reiferscheid of Streator, 111. The model shows a consisting of two major d balloon, to which Is attached a fra me, on which are six propellers. Four propellers are used for ascending and descending and two for steering. The power Is supplied by a gasoline engine. The owner of the machine claims It will do many evolutions unknown to the flying maehlne of mate to bo made of the number of meteors In the whole sky. In this DM of Wanblngloa Finds Diameter manner, says the Washington Star, Dr. See estimates there are about to lie seas Miles. 1,200,000,000 telescopic meteors appearDr. See of the United States naval In the daily. Retween 10,000,-00- 0 sky ing In Washington has Just observatory and 15,000,000 meteors, bright of the concluded a measurement planet Mercury with the large tele- enough to be visible to the naked eye, scope of that Institution. Its diameter encounter the earth daily, according to Dr. See tbe estimate of Prof. Newton. la found to be 2,658 miles. ealls attention to the fact that he has never observed any marked spots on Wkn the Day Wm Five Hoar Long. the planet's disk, not even when the We all know that the earth revolves hours. sky was absolutely pure and the Image on Its axis once in twenty-fou- r of the planet perfectly defined on the Millions of years ago the day was lens of the telescope. His observa- twenty-tw- o hours; millions of years tion also Is that there is no diminution before that it was twenty-on- e hours. of brightness at the edges of the Aa we look back into time we find the disk, such as would be produced by earth revolving faster and faster. an absorbing atmosphere. Although There was a time, ages ago, when the these results agree in general with earth was rotating in a day of five or those obtained at the Lick observa- six hours in length. In tbe remotest tory, they disagree with those of past the earth revolved in a day of fithiajarelll and Mr. Percival Lowell. about five hours. It could revolve no faster than this und remain a single, Dr. See has made another Interesting estimate regarding nivtrors. Every unbroken mass. When our day was about five hours observer notes a considerable number of small meteors while he la engaged long the moon was In contact with the la telescopic observations. The field earth's surface. It had just broken f view of a telescope Is a very small away from Its parent mass. Aa the fraction of the surface of the heavens, length of the terrestrial day lnercased, and a simple proportion based on the so did the distance of the moon. Whenever the rotation time of a n amber of meteors enables an esti planet is shorter than the period of revolution of its satellite, the effect of their mutual action la to accelerate the motion of the satellite and to force it to move In a larger orbit to In- MEASURED PLANET MERCURY. In contrivance parts, a cigar-shape- Santos-Dumon- t. crease Its distance, therefore. The day of the earth Is now shorter than the month, the period of revolution of the moon. The moon Is therefore slowly receding from us, and It has been receding for thousands of centuries. But the day of the earth Is, as we have seen, growing longer. The finger of the tides is always pressing upon the rim of our huge flywheel, and slowly but surely lessening the speed of Its rotation. So long as tbe terrestrial day Is shorter than the lunar month the moon will continue to recede from us. New York Herald. A Mayor Who Ta Weighed. e The quaint ceremony of weighing the mayor, which is observed nowhere else In the country but at High Wycombe, took place In that borough on Saturday, when Walter Kirch was for the second time in succession elected chief magistrate. Shortly before noon the corporation met bis worship at his residence on the outskirts of old-tim- d) - able-bodi- Two Kin ed of Mark. Although muck Is a subject that has been written about much, it iu as yet one that Is only half understood by Crooked living .makes the cross many farmers that have, often unChristian. known to themselres, a bed of muck available. One man says: Haul out T&e Streator inventor declares his your muck and mix it with the manure at once. Another says, "By no means, Eagle, for that is what 'he calls It, could be driven from Chicago to New Dig up your muck in the fall and let York at a rate of 100 miles an hour, It lie in ridges, so that the frost can and that It could be sailed around a work on it and through it." Both are tower with Its sides touching the right, for each man is speaking of a structure at all times. ,He also con- particular kind of muck. In a muck bed will often be found tends that the Eagle could be turned two kinds of muck. That on top seems around all day in the same spot in the ' to j)e moiBt black soil. It is so friable air. It Is planned to construct a machine that it falls easily Into, a disintegrated at an expense of 810.000 on the follow- mass. Such muck, if tested with litmus paper, will often show almost no ing dimensions. The balloon will be Such Is ready for composting add. 23x100 feet. The propellers or screws once or to be applied to land deat are to have blades. The whole weight of the attachment to the ficient In humus. Ita readiness for use balloon will he 1,300 pounds, while the la perhaps due as much as anything to balloon will have a lifting power of the effect of the frosts of many win2.600 pounds. The Dumont airship ters. Below the first layer of muck will had a single propel ior with two blades. be found a cheesy mass. It is often I 'T think have a practical machine. said the inventor. I know sticky and is in that state of no value that many people regard airship In- for composting. It not infrequently contains as high as 80 per cent of waventors as being Insane, but air naviter. If dug iu the summer it dries out soon will he practicable." gation hard and lumpy and Is in that condition fit only for fuel, for which it Is Growth uf used In some European countries. To the capital of Ger- reduce it to an available fertilizer It man East Africa, which, seven years should be heaped in long ridges In the ago, was a village inhabited by 100 fall and left to the action of the frost natives, is now a town wiili 300 Eurotill It has taken on the character of pean and 21.000 na'ive inhabitants. It that to which reference was made has three hotels, several hundred above. It may then be composted or stores and a newspaper. used In Its character as a humus maker. , ten-fo- A model of '(so-calle- ot Catiliate Tliroughuut tha Yaar. Cabbage grows all the year in Hawaii, and it apparently makps no difference whether it is planted in the spring, summer, autumn or winter. A little lime water, about two table-spoonfu- ls to the pint, will help to keep milk sweet. the town, and thence proceeded m emn state to the Guildhall, being sol- glorl-114- by the borough 1 beadle and the marenearer m costumes of the seventeenth century. Arrived at the Guildhall tha took place before as many burgesses as the building would hold and afterward another procession was formed to an where tha head constable was in attendance with a huge set of scales. Beginning with the mayor, the head constable, who, appropriately enough, la the borough's Inspector of weights' and measures, ascertained the correct weight of every member of the civic body, and solemnly reyrded It In s big book kept for the purpose. Th mayor was congratulated on having put on three pounds during a year ol much activity, and the town clerk, who has always been the "light weight" ol the civic body, had this year to yield place to one of tbe junior councilors, he haring gained several pounds' weight since tbe last weighing. The portly police sergeant, who generally turns the scale at 19 stone, was absent on this occasion, he happening to be on night duty. The quaint eereniony, which is traced hack to the thirteenth century, caused not a little merriment London Express. ante-roo- IlUnol Swine Dreader te Meet. The annual meeting of the Illinois State Swine Breeders and Association of Expert Judges will be held at Illinois, Jan. 7 and 8, 1902. The meeting will convene at 7 p. m. of the 7th. Competent persons will read papers on the various phases of swlna breeding. The forenoon of the 8th will bs taken up with scoring practice. In the afternoon tbe regular Institute ' work will be again taken up. The evening of the 8th will be devoted to the regular business of the association and a literary entertainment At the close of this session the regular banquet will be held. The association la by far the largest of Its kind in the state. At each convention the number in attendance reaches Into the hundreds. The Wabash Railroad has granted a rate of 1 3 fare for the round trip from all points on ita line, regardless of the number attending. Swine breeders should take notice, and It is hoped that Baany of them will be at tLe meeting. The program will appear later. Be-me- nt, 1-- Cuba Wind and dry weather have seriously Interfered with the transptobacco plants' In many lanting-of parts of Cuba. The cool dry weather has hastened the maturing of the main crop of cane and grinding will noon begin. The drouth is not lieneflcial to young cane, however. Corn in being planted In southeastern Havana. The Countess of Warwick has e a branch agricultural college at Reading. England, for women. tabllBhed In 1899 the number of horses alaugh tered for food in Vienna was 25.640. |