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Show PROMINENT HOOSIER DEMOCRAT DRAFT HORSE BREEDING. ther. When a joung man meets one of the young womn of the club and stops to talk with her, he must re move his hat entirely from his head and hold it in his hand while the con- It 1 A doffed it. There are other rules, such as requiring joung men friends to give up seats in street cars to any woman who may be standing, and removing their hats in public elevators, but the young women say these customs are commonly observed now. The indications are that the aver age young man is losing the old time respect for a woman merely because she is a woman, said one of the members of the Leap Year club. The custom in the small towns of doing away with chaperons, the Institutions and the camaraderie that exists between American boys and gills and young men and women have had a tendency to break down the natural barriers that should be kept up. When the average young ' man meets In the street a girl that he knows pretty well, Jor instance, he raises his hand to his hat, but that is about all. If he stops to talk to her, the chances are that he does not even do that, but merely says, Hello, Mar-gand lets It go at that. What the girls of this club desire to do Is to get back In some small measure to the customs of chlvlary. Of course, we dont expect a modern young man in pressed trousers, patent leather shoes and high collar to buckle on a suit of armor and fight somebody for us, but we do believe, and we think that every woman thinks the same way, that he should treat us with a little more deference than he does his young men friends. But even so, the boys are not altogether to blame. In being anxious to be regarded as good fellows, some of the young women have rather encouraged these and so the young men have fallen into ungallant ways." Do you think your plan will work? was asked. It will have to work with the boys we know or well have to hunt other young men friends," was the firm reply of the pretty miss of 20 years who w'as the speaker. But you must excuse me, for Im going to have company Probably a modern knight errant, was remarked. Well, if he isnt, hell learn to be. I f OofTright by Waldon Fawoett. The name of John W. Kern of Indiana has been mentioned frequently in connection with the nomination on the Democratic ticket. Mr. Kern is a well known lawyer In his native state and was the unsuccessful candidate for governor in 1900 and 1904. He received the complimentary vote of his party for United States Senator in 1905. WOULD REFORM THE MEN MUNCIE, MAND IND.( GIRLS WILL DEGREATER DEFERENCE. Young Men Must Stand with Bared Heads When Talking to Them in the Street Under Penalty of Social Ostracism. girls of the younger society here, have declared for a reform In mens manners and have established a set of rules which they require them to live up to, the penalty being social ostra- s, cism. The first rule is that every young man on meeting a girl acquaintance In the street or a public place shall lrt his hat, removing It entirely from Muncie, Ind Having reached the his head. The peifunctory salute, as conclusion that the young men of to- if the young men were privates In the day have become too lax In showing army recognizing an officer, will not deference to the weaker sex, the Leap go with members of the Leap Year Year club, composed of a number of club hereafter. But they still go fur $40,000 CAT CHLOROFORMED. t. YOUNG GOVERNMENT EXPERT One of the Heirs of Man Who Left Fortune to Care for Two Pets. Wllkesbarre, Pa. After enjoying for several years a fortune of $10,000, Biackie, one rf the two pat cats of the late Benjamin Dilly, was chloroformed and is now dead, aged 16 The act of mercy was performed after physicians had pronounced Blackies illness hopeless and with the consent of the executors of the will. i i i l J $ NEXT GENERATION ! Dogs Bark Altoona, Pa. A vicious dog . A ran out and snapped at the heels of a hoise ridden by Adam Davis and the hoi so kicked at the barker with such force that it threw a bhoe, which struck a passing horse on the r.ile, causing it to run away. As it sped at bieak-necspeed down a wet asphalt stieet it slipped and fell, stopping so suddenly that It threw Its driver, Peter Jamison, over the dashboard of the buggy, Jamison landed on the pros- tlate horse and escaped injuty. Here is a sorting pen to convenientand rapidly sort hogs. Of course, one can only sort in two bunches to start with, but the operation can be repeated I use it for soiting hogs and sheep and for separating boar from sows, after breeding, explains a writer in Wallace's Farmer Same can be msed if made larger for ly J3 I A 83 A Plan of Sorting Pen. not cutting out cattle, but it i successful if made for cattle to use for hogs. The sides of the tapering alley must be boarded up tight or hogs will get their legs in cracks and should be high enough to prevent hogs from jumping over. Drive hogs Into pen A, which connects with pehs B and C, through chute D. Sorting gate E swings from posts F to G, but will not clear either. Space between posts F and G should be no wider than necessary. The man working sorting gate will stand behind post E if right handed, or G if to A stout latch should be fastened sorting gate that will fasten to either post. Mortise hole into post for lever latch on gate. Adjoining pens and small gates may be made as desired. By taking sorting gate off hinges and placing a ringing crate against posts F and G it becomes a handy place to put a ring in a hogs nose. If post E is set to one side an incline chute can be made to fit up to posts F and G, making a convenient place to load hogs In that case pens B and C should be very short and wide so a wagon can be backed into pen and not have to go far to reach chute. manes. Re- This thrown Dr. Bristol is the brilliant young chemist of the United States forest service who has charge of the government experiments for wood utilization. SILENCE A CURE FOR DISEASE. it Excessive Talking Held to Be Drain on Vital Energy. robust health, only to be sent back again at the end of a foitnight's time in a complete wreck. Excessive talking Is held The case was quite simple. Her woresponsible by the Rev. R. S Lombard, men fi lends had known her as an invicar of All Hallows, Gospel Oak, N. valid, and finding her playing on the vV., for the many nervous diseases and golf links in peifect health they came the increasing amount of insanity to ask her all about her treatment, which affects modern society. until the poor woman was so worn out This novel theory of disease was with talking that the rest and silence advanced in a lecture on Silence as a treatment was for the time being wasted. Factor in Healing, given by the Therapeutic society. It was posChurch Buy Saloon Organ. sible, he said, to waste an enormous Islipeming, Mich. A Iaige and costamount, of vital energy by excessive talking, and the excessive talker was ly pipe organ, which was the great a human vampire sapping the vital en- attraction at the Board of Trade saloon and palm garden at Houghton, ergy of those around him. who are silent by nature which has closed, has been bought by People church of are seldom ill, explained the speaker. the Grace Meihodist and in installed its organ Ishpeming often those whom the specialVery ists receive in iheir consulting rooms loft. Sacred music will henceforth peal are great talkers. People induce illness by talking about their health from its pipes instead of ragtime selections. To talk about symptoms symptoms. is a fatal habit. Find Skeletons In Street. As an instance of talking as a fac111. While Beardstown, digging tor in disease, Mr. Lombard quoted sand in the streets the other afternoon the case of a lady who came to ills to be used in strengthening the levees, house In a terrible condition of break- woikmen uncovered 23 skeletons. The down. She bad been to specialist piesence of the skeletons cannot at a'ier specialist, with little result, and this time be explained, but it is sup'ame to him for the spltltual or the posed the place was once an Indian silence cure. After staying for burial ground. The gruesome discovsome time she left perfectly cured and ery created excitement for awhile. London . Psj-ch- o from and the Side View, contrivance was convenient as we economical. The principle is to I the feed so that the stock can nef pull it down, as in the tack, or throw it out, as with A modificatior open top manger. this plan can easily be arranged ti any stable; and wuth It loss through the waste of the stock wil reduced to the minimum. above; old-fash- of: PIG AND SHEEP NOTES. Lousy hog3 and thrifty hogs are strangers. Give the ewes and lambs a dry shed at night and a sunny spot in tho day. Do not run the sheep on last years pastures this year. This is the safest method of keeping them free from stomach pests. Damp, dirty bedding and healthy pigs will not be found in the same house. Cleanliness be grown close together, larger mares can be used more conveniently. For some work a more active team is desired. By some it is thought that larger horses do not stand the warmer climate as well as smaller ones. This, I believe, is due more to the previous or early treatment of the horses than to that of size. A great many large horses are not reared up in such a way as to produce hardiness. During the past decade or more the larger the horses the more valuable they have been on the market. I believe there is no horse that can be produced so cheaply and with as much profit to the farmer as the draft horse, says Prof. R. C. Obrecht of the University of Illinois. The size of the mares chosen must then be determined by each individual for his own use on his own farm, but it mast be remembered that the larger the mares the more valuable they will be to raise diaft colts, which return the greatest profits. There are some general points of type and conformation that should be observed in selecting any brood mare, no matter if large or small. Always select mares with good, large feet, good, heavy bone with quality, but dont sacrifice quality for quantity of bone. A deep, roomy barrel and fairly closely coupled is preferable. The shoulder should be long and rather obliquely set, the chest deep and capacious, the back short, broad, and the croup long and muscular and neatly joined to a loin. Last but not least, select mares with a feminine head. This one character to the trained eye perhaps portrays more of the mare's real value as a breeder than any other. The care of brood mares used for farm labor is an important matter, and one which may greatly influence piof-it- s They should be gradually hardened to work in the spring by starting at light work with short hours and gradually increasing the amount until they are well able to stand a good, hard days work. The time necessary for this change should not be less than three to four weeks They should be handled carefully by a kind driver, who should see to it that the collars are properly fitted to the shouldeis so as not to gall or biuise them before they have sufficient time to become hardened. As they shrink in flesh, which they probably will do after being at woik for some little time, the slack in the collars should be taken up. The feeding is important, and should be governed according to the individu-ality of the mare. When feeding marc in foal, in order to provide for tne proper development of the foetus, they should receive a liberal supply 0f protein In their ration, together with feeds rich in substances. W heat bran, being rich in phosphorus and ash mateii.il, is an excellent food for this purpose. A ration composed of three parts corn, two parts oats and one part bran, fed with clover hay will prove quite satisfactory. If clover is not available use mixed hay of clover and timothy iather than us pure timothy. With such a ration" there should be no difficulty from constipation, as the bran and clover hay is quite loosening. well-muscle- d the hay was Copyright by Waldon Fawcett. Our most progressive farmers are reading the signs of the times and keeping mares to do their work and also raise coita. The mares are bred each jear. Such farmers realize that the gieatest profits are not made from some one crop, but in conserving small profits from every crop, and not the least profitable is the colt crop. A pair of mares handled properly will do a good season's work and raise colts in addition. By their labor they can be made to pay for their feed, and also that of their colts until a year old. At the end of the year one has as his profits the colts reared, which have cost him only the actual service fee of the stallion. I fancy I bear some one say that mares suckling colts will not do as much work as geldings. I will grant that is true, but a good pair of mares suckling colts will do all the work in a day any farmer ought to do. Where brood mares are kept to do the work u is a good plan to keep a larger number of them than would be' necessary used. For instance, were geldings keep five mares to do the same woik which would be expected of four geldings. This will permit exchange of mSres in the teams at foaling time. This plan of keeping an extra mare will be found to be a profit by the increased value of all the colts reared. A pertinent question is, What is the best type of mares to select for bleeding and farm use? This question must be answered somewhat according to climate, topography of the land, the size of fields and the nature of the crops grown. Where the fields are large and comparatively level and the cultivated crops grown are not of a small, delicate nature, such as must ST. MARYS, A GALLANT CRAFT, RETIRES AT LAST. Fought In Mexican and Civil and Was Renowned as Schoolship Has Sailed Around World Fifteen Times. Vessel Wars New York. No more will hurrjing feet rush along the decks or climb the rigging of that old daughter of the sea, the St Marys, which for 34 years has been used by the New York city , department of education as a wffiere the youth of the city have been trained to the merchant nianne school-ship- service. Could the old ship talk, there is many an interesting tale she could tel since she first slipped into the sea from her ways at the Washington navy in 1844. She took active part in the Mexican and civil wars and did blockade service in the Pacific during the trouble some days of 1849, and it was dunng this period in her career that two men of her crew were at diffeient times hung Irom her foie starboard yardarm. An act of congress passed in 1S74 established training schools for the merchant marine, whereby the St. Marys was turned over to the state of New York and in turn to the city of New York for use as a schoolship. She has been employed in this capacity from 1874 to 1908, a period of 34 years. During this time she has made a cruise almost every year to foreign ports, giving her crew of cadets practical experience in seamanship. In her career of 64 years she has been around the world 15 times. More than a thousand boys have been graduated after a two years' course on her, and it was an interesting point that left-hande- would not matter, of course, with cattle, but the uprights must be fastened very securely for them. Into this feed way Prof. Steinmetz Says Fuel Supply Will Be Problem for Coming People. y Sorted. were taken was simply a passage about four The si wide. next to the stal which were abc two feet low than the floor the feed way, w boarded up sol Front View. ly for a foot, a above this were upright pieces abo 14 inches apart. The roughage w merely dumped down on the floor, a the horses put their heads betwe the uprights and helped themselvi Boxes for grain were provided at t coiner of each stall. The upright pieces may be 1x2 xk inches square, and should have t corners rounded off so as not to rub the horses TO FREEZE? New York. Dr. Charles Proteus Steinmetz, professor of electrical en gineering at Union college in Schenee tady, took a look into the future in a lecture the other afternoon at the American Institute of Electrical Engineers. He said a handicap against electricity now is its high cost of pro ductlon. said Prof. The time will come, when we will have no Steinmetz, more coal, and it is not far in the future. Anthracite will not last long, and many of us who are here will bo alive when the last is gone. Many of us will see the time when there is only soft coal. Some of you may see the time when soft coal is exhaused, but probably not, for there is a supply of this even in Greenlands icy mountains But nevertheless we can see the end, and when w'e approach it, what are we going to do to keep from freezing? That seems to be the problem the next generation will have to meet, aud maybe we ourselves How Hogs Can Be Easily and Rapidly Arrangement by Which Waste Is duced to a Minimum. I ? SORTING PEN, ECONOMICAL FEED WAY. Dilley, who died in 1905, had made Biackie and his sister Flnkie pets since their birth in 1892. In his will he left the income of a $40,000 property to provide for them and ar pointed Miss Addle Ruch at $75 a month to care for them, giving her this through life. The cats had the daintiest of food and the house where they lived was arranged for their convenience. They grew' big and fat and lazy, never being allowed to run at large or associate with other cats. Pinkie died tw'o years ago. Miss Ruch was tanen seriously ill three week3 ago and is in the hospital. Her depaituie affected Biackie and some days ago he, too, became seriously sick. When the estate is divided most of It will go to charitable institutions and a fountain $5,000 toward providing for human beings, birds and animals," as the will expressed it. Good Draft Colts. versation continues The only exception to be made to this ru'e is In case the young man Is ill, when he may be allowed to replace the hat on is head after he has once I Pays the Farmer to Raise is one of the prime requisites for success. A fiesh coat of whitewash on the inside of the sleeping quarters always looks good to the visitor and also tends to check the spread of vermin. bone-buildin- g A weak solution of some common coal tar dip sprinkled about the hog house will prevent foul odors and help to preserve the general health of the herd. Health and vigor are great preventives of disease. Feed the ewes liberally and let the lambs loatn to eat while joung Stomach worms do not The orchard may make a good pasget possession readily where the ture, but it is not a good plan to make lambs are well fed. a pasture of the orchard. The St, Marys, from a Drawing One of the Crew, by at the alumni meeting held on her for the last time the other night there were present a graduate from the first years class and his son,, who was graduate of the last years class. a Seventy five per cent, of the bojs who have been graduated from the St Marys have followed the sea, either In the navy or in the merchant manne. Soon after she was built the St. Marys was sent to the Pacific. It was in 1849 at Honolulu that the incident involving the St. Marys and a French warship took The Frenchman place. and the Yankee were on the point of having trouble, but the Yankee was in a bad way; a great many of her men weie ill of China fever and on shoie There were not enough in the crew to man the guns. At an opportune moment two American whale ships entered the haibor, n and the St. Marys complement was made up from their men. So formidable a crew did they make that the Frenchman cooled off, and there was no fight. In the civil war the St. Marys was on the Pacific station and did not see active fighting. She is a vessel of 985 tons displacement, and originally her armament consisted of 23 guns, long nines and smaller pieces. She was called the St. Marys from the county of that name in M.uy-land- . Although taken out of the roster of navy ships temporarily, practically the same discipline and routine of work has been maintained on board the St. Marys as exists in all American war vessels. The cadets were drilled continually by graduates of the naval academy, cruising in the summer and in the winter quartering during the cold months. The daily at sea began at 3:45 a. m., when the watch was called. Inspection and prayers were at 9:30 and instruction in seamanship and navigation after that. At 11:30 oclock all in the fiist class took an observation for latitude. Leaving the cadet ranks did not mean that the graduate lost touch with friends and associations of the The nautical bchool was an ship. alumni association of several hundred members which has its social reunions each year. Through thef-fortof this organization recently the uniform of the cadet was changed from the regulation blues' of the naval academy pattern. At the reunions anecdotes and remembrances hip mu-tin- e s brought up. And now the St. Marys as a school ship has, like all things of this earth, outlived her usefulness and has been returned to the navy department And w'hat will be her end? Nothing better, probably, than to be bioken up and sold as junk Unite for Church Work. and Je"-isdenominations of Oakland, Cal., have organized under one constitution a society of the pastors to help along the church woik of t.ie eity. The Protestant, Catholic h |