Show rUE MANAGEMENT 01 OF GEESE Wherever Uler there Is 1 a running stream on n a Can farm a fok flock ot of f geese may 0 be kept keN wih with profit The feathers are saleable i for tor and l beds and Ing purposes and It ot of the best quality wi will bring W 50 cents per pound A Tou goos goose wi vili ellen yield I ld a at I a picking while the Christmas goo often oCten cots costs 19 its consumer a higher r pr price than any 1 other kind ot of I U I r The Toulouse goose O Is the largest known oren often weighing from 35 5 to 40 pounds I Ier r pair while exceptIonal weights ot of CO 60 pounds have hae been obtained weigh from I 4 to 8 6 pounds when 1 a month ol old plumose plumage la is dalk dark gray on Gr the hack back shading to Ish light C gray and nl almost 1 white below They ar are not t so noisy lS as sm some br breeds ds are hon hardy and eato to raise l geese o at are not nM f as Inh large IS as Toulouse Toulou but their flesh Is oJ of superior tenderness and delicacy Their plumage II is pur pure and ther their Cother feathers ar sro In steady demand To The COQ goose to la hay In late lat Feb February or early March and wi lay 20 to 25 5 e eggs oton before coming br I I time the eggs are oro token taken awa away she wi will Il Ito again A go goose seldom las over Oer 40 eggs ggs a ar year r beginning to la Ia when n a year e old nd and being Ing for several yen years require plenty or of wAter to drink but mut mul be kept out of It untIl three w weeks ks old Jt At they may a be allowed th the run ot of a a pasture being te fed once n a dR day At eight weeks the wi vilI tor forage e for or their own living Provide ample amplo pasturage e and keep growing fast until lul full sl size G Gees tat fat el tene tenet to 81 sell It at six or eight weeks ks old fl sell wet well In car lare large market market Three ls geese to each gander 1 the usual rule for tor bl breeding stok stock GC Geese kept over oyer winter should 0 be re ted OI boiled and baric barley mI meal bl bOiled cm and potatoes and rowen cut fine and soaked In warm water Dr Dry IrL train is b bad for lor them The They mi may b be but In fn early AU spring and wi will too forage wel uW U II j U U U U i U U U U Ln A I FLYING TRIP THROUGH SPAIN AND PORTUGAL S I U Uc a Characteristics of the l c and I Women of 01 High and to Tho Peasant Fir tho More Interesting Amiable Weak S of the Miscalled Stronger Sex I L i t Special deeper Portugal Dec Lisbon Interest than anything ellel else in th this fair fairland thereof a and ud ot of people land are th the p these Ire tire the lowliest a arC e most Interest t most unique tug Ing because classes e ore are dis distinguished COS cosmopolitan ul upper for or Uto lt universal a and invariable ss ot of p flounced charaCteristiC tc ot of all Latin t pee pIe on both bolh sides or othO the In C Cen While I Americans en energetic those ot of wealth and sometime even enl high mn may bl be met In clothes s I muster In re respectable that would hard hardly pais pass European society you ou can never surprise 1 a Portuguese gentleman otherwise than loon faultlessly attre attired At whatever the state of at hIs finances abroad or In the tho any hour Ct of the tho day seclusion of at home his dress from top and neat scrupulous care to toe shows cre fleas Better than ni all the eternal ft fit fitness Deter nes ness Is observed tn in details suggestion of foppishness Ot or with no wih of at having ben been especiallY from Always goten gotten up his hlA cradle after the habit ot of his an ancestor seems conscioUS ot of othis ho he never conious his clothes clothes From king and courtiers down to the social gamut ot of an Im nobility gente gentleman m n of t tUt Ida ure professional men P planters I an er me chants Ut ts and ad fine Un tin tinen much a part vart or of the man as en are n 0 Q hil his eyes and hair It II I certainly easier for an effete aristocracy which never dreams or of lifting a finger at anything which bear bears the remotest resemblance to manual labor to kep keep EVERLASTINGLY DRESSED UP than for tor th the sturdier whose dignity has no onn Uon wih with his clothes and who disdains no that comes within the lne line ot of legitimate Even Een the humblest fishermen porters anti muleteers In Portugal are always immaculate as to white shirt shirts and toni cot cotton cotton ton trouser trousers the only exceptions to universal cleanliness beIng the beggars licensed and professional stock Is rags and filth No o gente gentie men In the world are beter better awl and more cheaply serve served In the way ot of valets than those ot of Lisbon The evants ot of Portugal are al toll the ancIent sovereignty ot of which comprises the present tour four northwest provinces ot of Spain There are fully eleven eleen thousand ot of them In this city to be one hundred th thu u sand In nl all most docie docile faithful and humble or of skie skilled In their specIal lines accepting what whatever whatever ever dole their employers may choose to bestow and enduring every Indignity without n a murmur Few of these Gale Galls gans gaas are attached t to a sIngle Individual or household but like the donkeys that stand for tor hire In the they are ready rendy It at al all hurs hours to perform miracles ot of service at can call Do you rou wont your our apartment cleaned your dIner dinner cooked your our clothes mended your our hair dressed your our luggage trans runs have only to go to the win window window dow shut your our teeth widen your mouth and emit the Portuguese and before the magIcal hiss has dIed away several STALWART stand at your our side Thus the poorest clerk may have hae hIs valet who finds and lodges himself s who can repair gr car ment meats wih with the dexterity of 1 a tailor and for tor n a few tew cent a da day wi wiil keep hla hIs employers wardrobe In perfect order The most enthusiastic admirer ot of the Portuguese naton nation cal call Is its women omen ot of the higher classes beau tul Ild d one Is almost olmos paine pained at atthe atthe the lack ot of female beauty as as compared wih with tha that ot of other Latin countries when viewing In the undress ot of bl ball or opera OMra or on the fashionable Promenade or In the tho cost costI i I 1 ot of the Grande The blood of youth does doea not linger long Ions wih wIth the Portuguese lad lady and nt at she L Is p passe S Moustaches show themselves carl early lien her complexion grows muddy and assumes n a greasy look ook and at mIddle age her flure Is either or of the order or It its op die shap shape nut flut Ille she lies hns redeeming features Her eves are In large e arid cx pre her teeth are arc good and ond there thare e Is n a certain honest radiance In her smile which Is very er She Sho dresses rich richly but wih with the oddest min mm gling ot of dates and styles It If not ot of cot col ors urs Ind and hoer her clothes lt fit ns as If lung at her In n a whirlwind There Is not the re moLest hInt ot of French chic about her nor the trl trig of I English wo men nor the voluptuous attraction of her cousIns the tho Spanish and besIde her husband she sho looks like a DROWN lIEN HEN with n a Th Is It because the of Portugal 11 are areso so Inferior to the tailors I If 10 so the hoe surplus s dr dress makers of at the mier world would better turn beter their steps that way Whatever the tho ladles ladies I lock k In taste tute and beauty Is snore more than made up by their virtues The are model wives and mothers devoted to moAl their deeply religious kindhearted arid hospitable rellous There Is plenty ot of beauty In Portugal ho however er but it Is mostly found anon the peasant classes I mos Tile cles male and female are gener ni ally the young oung Perfect omen physical have specimens lovely Ir faces to match theIr figures You see them by scores nt at the man many public fountains or Into whIch aU all time the water used b by t tie e city Is Poured rein the great aqueduct ot of This aqueduct by bV the wn vay Is worthy to rank among the wonders ot of the world It begins In I the mountains twelve nay spans apan the valley aUe ot of tele tara tar UPon unon thIrty arches Cacti ench feet teet from pier to tn pl pier r the point ot of the 10 high eat esl arch towering GI feet above the earth carth Thus Thul 1 a torrent Is conducted to an immense In CoVerI r anti thence J to o of fountains scattered all Oer Lisbon ni the tho da days s ot of Jort JOM IV the hotels hop and the m most Pt ot of dwelling houses hou have hap be been n entire ly P with entre led water Met from toz fariz wih the cha cha DROUGHT IN CASKS ami j jars ra on the heads ot of mate male and to te male carriers Most or of tine the water carier carriers are and it Is Iter saId bat mom 1114 I sid three tat moe to of tt t do nothing else for tor a living Ont One ot of U the most Interesting sights ot of LI Lis In n the groups mf f handsome b s footed girls and swarthy muscular en n that always the th fountains loitering n a bit to chatter md gossip gosI the women In musical t time he then men In to match their broad brond chests chest then shouldering h n tid d hea earthen arthen jars or wooden ca ks ts and trotting gaily R away Every 0 me Ie of them hops to return aetna hf r y EI In In the In future to his or r beloved Galcia when h n he or she Bhe s saved enough mil rela rd by scanty Ii in mi sant 11 to to tny tiny patch ot of native sil 11 I a ati t 1 Prettiest ot of al all the women In this old city are the Gallegan vents ants of mistresses whom hard work and to food have have not deprived ot of their dant dainty curves cures and contours contour You may ofen often se r an n I 1 P excessively homely grand damns of un unmistakable mistakable high degree striding along t C with tIme the air of a Juno to or orthe orthe the shops hOI or the promenade t oni fully uly by two or three bewitch bewitching In ing The latr latter ar are no doubt Innocent ot of flirtation intentions ro 0 concerning the passing Ira Gr but th their lr loo ate quil eui Ie r 11 an answering Ie which makes their bright yes eyes dance ance ad and els dis r C closes a gleam ot of pearly pearl teeth and families of dimples The flower dimples fowe ler I market too Is ful full ot of lovely girl the daughters ot of native peasants bore bare feet have probably tramped mies miles before sunrise Their short skirts Il and bodices And br bare bron brown arms afford wonderful studies for tor nn an act 10 artst artist and their great dark eyes ees hai have h haunted many Q a TRA TRAVELERS DREA DREAMS IS rob when hen tar far from Portugal Even tM the hit bat pe Who ho s gO bring buter butter mik milk cht eggs egg frit fruit I 1 and vegetables from rm their distant farms it If a ato ato to selin sell in the city markets market and the fish 11 J cr women who ho eer every day trop troop dOln down lu luthe the Delem road and wake the echoes thoe dire wih with their peculiar crt crIes Ille eerie ot of extraordinary types tes perfect Ire are and oten often beautiful faces he heThe heThe The women ot of the Portuguese n er ertry try seem to hold a very independent Is ri n position Though hufh working hoard hard train tl t dawn till dark the they are a ways Ys ch cheer r iii genial tl helpful to Ole one another In tIe e eThey time ot of trouble and ful full ot of red reedy I t They know wel well their value alue and equa equal de deI deIy I Iy fly take their tl ill shor share of al all the hop hap nm attainable They work habit habitually h u fields beginning to do so 50 In the felds l ll as small children Gins of ten or twelve l alY the oxcart oxcarts walking om era omIn erain eal In front of at the lod load and unload th the carts rig ng Little girls drive the cattle afield ad and t mind theta them while they Young e Women cut and entry home the grIns grass wi wit weed the corn and wheat and perform It at their tul full share ot of al all plowing While r ti to this general employment ot of women r nearly doublEs doubles time the agricultural work t of the miton nation the women kin themselves do not seem to b be either qua la physically or 01 morally the worse orse for tor UI rd their labors Early marriages are th rule among the belu because m most t of at et y t i ined the hoe Portuguese conscriptions spare mar tee teeth ned men anti and therefore bachelors liars ave th el I temptations toward matrImony which might not occur to them A 10 lam alI I family Is 1 a good Investment yi 1 for n a young oun fellow who dos does riot not do de el sire the dOSs dogs nat at LIFE OF A SOLDER SOLDIER Col Coland and cannot pay several hundred dollars gus gun for n a substitute In the army so ho he e cy I tokes takes a wife to ensure himself against A what Ire he considers a worse fate and e I Inbe maybe his everlasting quietus from cold IS 13 st steel 1 or gunpowder Before Defore marriage ca Portuguese suitor In toe love I is au ab d t to humble bumble and slavish and his ISh t th lends leads hIm dance danco sweetheart a mert merry Indeed but as ever the village loge r rare priest had ted tied th the knot the positions are reversed without violating any law lawAs ent nt As In every country the son songs of the r Ie people set et forth their sentiments In os are popular serenade the Portuguese swain arl hr tell tells hIs that tha t he writes to her to m mon toon on the palm ot of his band hiI his tears are n his only onh Ink and th the pen I Is 0 a fibre r c clola I Ihil hil lola Inmost heart henrt Perhaps lien her reply ot r J sung behind a closed shutter Is Uk like this Me o 0 sONIo dC des bags t tE E o 0 df dr te meu bar barn Sc nao one me den der a 54 which leans means when hen the cork tree Nf i yields bayberries and th the bat bay tree cork then perhaps I mo may tul full In love I f fr wih with you ou If I condE condescend end to notice you ou dou Or elf else Ih she sings s I have already I five 0 loer three for the morning two rg t for r the afternoon what time Is ther there Lt 1 I leC left for you ou In Portugal men play pIny upon th the guitar Ji Os 09 naturally as Yankees whistle The peasants are ure glen given to the os as nn an meat ment to the vOIce In towns and the artisans ar are oten often expert guitar players and walk In groups to and from their work enlivening the journey journe with music and ton song The carpenter who comes to your our hou e to execute n a smal small job brings his guItar with his tools and Fr the blacksmith Is a far ar better performer on the giar guitar than the anvil When Ugh the Portuguese or work workman workman man Ions hns finished his long days tol toil he ha n does not tue hIe him to 0 a wIne shop to squander the few teW cents he his has earned he does not even en lean against t a pst post and smoke nor white whittle n a stick while swapping yarns wih with l lila fellows I If lie he did ld not moot brinG bring his guiar guitar wih with him yea e a ahe he Joes goes straight home borne and fets gets It rests cut ut comforts himself wih with the musts t while supper Is being prepared rt After I wards he spends the evening singing I b bI I song songs to a strumming pe tied tilted back In n a chair against 1 lois his own bout house wal wall or on n tire the door doorstep h r l i step oln of a neIghbor I It In the rural die and ond I It be Sunday or a holiday UPI toe he puts on onA onA A A CLEAN CLEA SnIT t wih with n a big gold old or silver stud as I Ineck 1 neck fastening his other pIr pelt ot of wel vell i a brushe brushed trousers and hIs newest black ur err felt tint hat ot at the PUr you ou ofen often see In pictures ot of Spanish le life ThEn Then he 1 throws over his shoulder 1 a black cloth t C I cape wih with n a real roal Jot gold or silver clasp TS ta talie lie He takes take his favorite OX God In hi his tuond which II is to him what a naty natty cane Is to the Broadway dude I It is 19 pr tal tall al as himself straight a as nn an arrow h well rounded and polished and bound 3 d I wih With broIs |