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Show PROFITABLE DAIRY HERD DIFFICULT TO ACQUIRE IS UN XING au office with 25 or 30 girls from 16 years to an age is no easy task. To get good results the force must be controlled with the utmost care and impartiality. At the best the office manager is not popular, for almost every girl must be corrected during tier term in office and after she has reached the office age she is sensitive when called down and the office manager is at once branded as a grouch." A few of the many things tlie office manager has to contend with are : coining late to work ; staying away entitrely for the day on account of some slight excuse, such as a headache or was up late the night before and do not feel well talking about the groat time they had the evening before; gossiping in the washroom; quitting about 30 minutes before dosing time to make their toilet for the ite trip home. Many girls wear clot lies in the office that would be more appropriate in a theater or at a house party. A o waist in the office ia as nich eut of place aa a dressing sack would be at a ball or club. The fancy costume in the office distracts tlie girls mind from her work and attracts the attention of others and thus creates a cause for mistakes. If all girls peck-a-bo- would wear plain, simple clothing, something comfortable and becoming, they would make better clerks, have better health and cause the office manager to go home in a better frame of mind. Too many girls do not realize that they are employed to work between certain hours for which the company pays them a certain salary and that the time spent in idle talk and primping ia like taking something that does not belong to them. In an office of 25 girls each one on the average will exhaust 45 minutes each day on something that does not interest the company, which means one girls time for 18 3 hours. In other words, the company ia paying out every day for 2i girls time for which they get no benefit. Ti'his ia baaed on eight hours for a days work and where 25 are employed. Girls easily take offense at some little thing that would not even be noticed by a boy. If tlie boys have anything to settle with a fellow worker it is fought out on scientific lines, is soon over, and the next day the disputants are the best of friends. The girls will pout and sulk around about it for two or three weeks and then never entirely forget it. Girls as a rule do not consider tlie interest of the company like a hoy, for they do not expect to remain and advance with the business. The object in working ia to earn some pin money and then retire as some mans wife. 2-- Girls will allow little things to keep them from the office that a boy would laugh at. About the time a girl becomes valuable to a concern she becomes more valuable as a mans wife, unless she has passed the marriageable age and a new girl muBt be taught the work all over again. I recall a case of a young woman who was granted the usual two weeks vacation last summer, and on the Monday morning she was expected to report for work tlie office manager received a letter stating she intended to be married in a few weeks and would not lie back to work. This was known by the young woman before going on tlie vacation and the company should have I icon so notified. If she had reported for work as usual after her vacation and the company had notified her that her services were no longer required it would have been a terrible thing. For over 50 years I clung to a meat diet as my only hope of salvation and thought a meal or lunch without it a poor affair. At last, so broken in health that 1 was obliged to stop work, the doctors gave up my ease and ordered me south. The it bo happened that I could not find palatable incats and I discovered I could live without them. that Now, nften ten years and more of vegetarian living, at the age of 72, I have much better health and never before in my life have foods tasted so good. It is my firm belief that all these rs find will themselves bo much benefited by their up boy-cotte- if they keep it fasting that they will never want to return to tlicir habit of meat eating again. It ia a habit and not a matter of necessity, just as much as taking timnlanfa ia a habit. The uric acid and other toxic parts of meat, like other poisons, stimulate. It is admitted, of course, that there is some nourishment in meat, but that nourishment can easily lie obtained from other protein foods that do not contain aucli poisons. Vegetarians are called faddists because they arc a little in advance of the times. Now that the while alave traffic is in the public mind would it not be of the greatest benefit to have the clergy and otliers engaged in the warfare hold regular meetings for women only? A strenuous and unwavering campaign of extermination is called for. Men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. The most effective corrective of vice is the fullest possible publicity which can be given to it. Many a vicious man or woman ia deterred from the practice of vioe by fear of discovery. The fullest light which can be thrown upon the villainous trade in bodies and souls is desirable. Women have tlie care of children, their bringing up and training. The mothers of the community should lie infonned of the snares which menace the young lives. Ignorance of the truth is not innocence and ignorance of the strength f the enemy and of the position the enemy holds never jet won a battle, moral or physical. Requires Time. Patience and Perseverance Must be Constantly Striven For. High Ideal T Holding the Line By LAWRENCE ALFRED CLAY unprofitable ones would be saved, the (Copyright, IMS, by Associated literary iresa.j work would be halved and the profits When two peppery old chaps like other through their fathers, but bad from those kept would be more than double those of the herds as now con- Commodore llenshaw and Gen. Kata never met stituted. A week vent by without a move on y one from the navy and the other The volume of liuuer and milk pro- Tom the army both widowers, and the part of the enemy, and then two son and the other a servants precipitated a crisis. The duction would be derreased.no doubt, xne having If this course were pursued, and the laughter both parents aching to ar- general's hens were atoned out of the consumer would be called on to gue and discuss, and neither willing commodore's garden and the commopay higher prices; but the dairyman :o give an Inch are set to live side dore's dog waa sent home with a toi would double his profits, and that Sy side, a hat's the natural inato ran tied to his tall. What made should he the object sought in any the matter worse waa that both prinbusiness. Why, Wrangle? they wrangled cipals were shut up In the house one, Many dairymen are trying to find Tom the very first day. That was from gout and the other from an old' the method which will allow them ihout the Spanish war as to whether wound that had reopened. to keep the largest number of cows the army or navy brought about Eunlre, you must stand by me, on a given acreage. A much better peace. The next waa on politico, the announced 1 commodore. I can't object would be sought If they were next on religion, and they got so they get out, and that person knows it, and wrangled about the weather. They he will take advantage of my helplesswrangled, and yet they visited each ness to run up a fence. ither. But what can I do? tho girl asked; Egad, commodore, you are an old "Take a revolver and patrol the foasll, and your worda don't count, line. If there Is any fence building, and I'll never darken your door again, hoot." ilr!'' Gen. Fairly would exclaim as Grant, my non, you must see this be left the house of tbs former In a for me," groaned the genthrough huff; but he would be over again next eral. That person will hear of my day with aomethlng new to argue helpless condition and run up a fence. about. He must not be allowed to. Egad, sir, but for the navy and But I dont feel like getting laid Santiago where would you dough- a muse," waa the reply. boys have been where, sir?" the com "There will be no muse If you are modore would exclaim with very red firm. Take a reelf and let fare. We saved you, sir, and here be eeen on the gun line." you firing you are, pretending to tell me of war! The ground between the houses, Yea, sir, and I'll go home, sir, and I which stood a waa want you to keep your hena at homo covered with hundred feet apart, Miea ornamental bushes. or I'll shoot them, sir!" Eunice waa the first to arrive. She But the hens continued to roam In took shelter behind a bush a foot thld hla garden, and he didn't shoot. They Ide of the line. She didnt disputed thought they were in deadly earnest like It a bit. She felt ahe couldnt be those two old heroes but they brave in surh a cause. If any one were weren't They blufflng. came from the other house what waa The spring that both reached the he to say? limit and were retired they went age That question was soon answered. Three Daughters of Notsd Jsrsey Bull, "Eminent. up the Connecticut shore and bought She looked up to see a young man, Villas side by side. At that tlma Eunice revolver In hand, standing within sevbreeding. When he buys a cow he ta- to try to securo the largest possible instead en feet of her. He of cowe will number which was also on tbo blets on tho privilege of milking her produce were abusing the government several times and testing her milk a pound of butter every day for ten of each other. At that lime Eunice firing line. The two looked at each rethe months of every year of ibelr activ- llenshaw and Grant Fairly, other and then away. Then they with the Babcock tester. spective daughter and son, were sway looked back again. Then the young When he began the dairy business, ities. at college, and both came home the man said an he rained his hat: a poor man, he set his stakes at 200 1 am the Butter. each Making pounds of butter a year from general's son, and 1 preTo produce beet butter the row sume you are tho daughter of the cow. Thla was not to be the average honld he a good, healthy animal, kept of the herd, but the lowest limit for commodore. Miss Eunlre inclined her head. each Individual cow. As rapidly as on good paeture and aupplled with "We are here to shoot each other the cows failed to reach this mark pure water. The stable should ho under certain rlrcumstances." they were sold and replaced with clean at all times, especially during The cream should bo Miss Eunice lifted her revolver Inmilking. better once. to view and tried to look very brave. Calves from the best cows were enurned at a proper time and temWe are both determined persons, kdpt for members of the herd, and perature, and worked until the milk nd probably both will fall. It Is alac thoroughly tested after they came In Is all out. I salt my butler with 12 milk, to be retained or rejected ac- ounces of salt to every ten pounds, likely that our respective fathers will tail." says a writer in Baltimore American. cording to the test they showed. In the course of time the My customers pay 30 cents a pound, Mine cant get out to fall, said Miss Eunice before she had time tc mark was reached and the limit and come to the houae to get their was raised 50 pounds, and by follow- supply, which Is packed In think. Nor mine, ing the same method he built up his jars. This brings me more rlear laughed young Mr. If there In any nhootlng Is Grant. herd to the new mark. money than any other way I can disThen he set the limit at 300 jiounds pose of the produce. I make only 20 be done It must be between ourselves In a year, and toward this he is pro- to SO pounds a week and use. about Shall It be a regular duel or promlscu nus firing?" gressing as rapidly as possible, al- 250 dropa of vegetable coloring matMiss Eunice wanted to look very though as the limit Is raised progress ter to 100 pounds. Is slower. savage, but In place of that her fact Comfortable and Cheap. took on a smile, and finding herself He has now been In the business L. T. Foss, of North Adams, Mass., defeated she threw her weapon oi long enough to select heifers from bis own herd which come up to his re- has built an ideal poultry house from the ground. A truce, eh? Although he ceased a canvas and old newspapers. The canquirements. laughed the youni 4Jeis sa Air few years ago to sell his milk to a vas Is nailed to studding 18 Inches man, as he also tossed away hit vx butter factory, he still Insists on the apart, and the newspapers, after beNow, please let me go U weapon. Frtcw OTW. the house with you. hutterfat test as to the merits of his ing folded so they were 12x18 Inches, Hut my father, lies he's rows, and his reputation containing 32 thicknesses, were nailed makes bis milk In such demand that on the same aa shingles. These wers "Yes, I know, and so's mins. They are two foolish men, and we are go he cannot supply all that ia called for. covered with canvas whlrh was ther The dairyman who does not set a painted. last of June, to find that the roinmo-- i tag to talk to them. The Idea of high mark and test bis cows regularly dure and general had at last found quarrel over a cherry tree! Be Kind to Bows. ' And yuung Mr. Fairly walked li and systematically, will always carry If a sow heavy with pigs should something worth wrangling about. and fared the commodore, and hi in the herd some cows who are kept at eer-; It hail been discovered that a a loss, to reduce the average of the stray into your yard, don't shoo her tain talked so well and laughed so oftes with the hoe handle. Better shut her cherry tree that gave promise of herd. that the old veteran, who had been and notify your neighbor, lie'll a great yield stood about on the line to eat him up, finally said: It seems like a strong statement to up lhank you, and then besides one of between their two residences. That ready If ynur father will aay that It wai make, but It is no doubt true, aa was on and the Is, sows may break out some day. about, they ngreed said by the dairy commissioner of a your that did tha trick at Santhen eiu-- claimed It was on his line. the fleet I think if think that will settle that the poorer great dairy state, Sheep for the Farm. They In gaii In argument and ended tiago, II. half of the cows of the state were sold on he need wasted In an tha Nothing uproar. 1 am ready to admit that wi off the dairy profits of the state would farm where The commodore secured the servsheep are kept tuft a of be doubled. grass, weeds and aftermaths and odd ices of a surveyor, and the man of the couldn't have dime Without the fleet," If hut the better half of the cows bits of feed can all be utilized and chain and theodolite found that the replied the general when he bad got were kept the feed consumed by the converted Into wool and mutton. tree stood a full Inch on the naval over his astonishment, but I think mans land. Than the general (he commodore ought to be willing to admit that If tha navy bad been at brought out another surveyor, and after two surveys It was found that ths Gettysburg, it could not bsva won greater victory than the atmy did. tree was his by two Inches. Before high noon all was settled I'll exclaimed to but law," go "Egad, and the wire fencing put away for officer. one And Ill defend my rights with a good, and on the third day the two veterans were well enough to sit on shotgun, exclaimed the other. Each one announced and declared the veranda an of yore. They bad and contended that It was the prin- been smoking In silence for five minutes when the general aald: ciple of the thing and not the cherry "Commodore, you are a aly old tree he had at stake, and each ona had purchased the wire to ran a fence dog. General, you are the same. along and take In the tree. Thus matBut we aly old dogs are going to ters stood when tha young folks came left. The young folks made get summer vacation. home for ths In love and Why, poppy, all the cherry trees peace that they might tall around here are not worth your quar- be married next year about thla time." rel, replied Miss Eunice after hear Odorless Garbage Wagons. jng the fathers story. But principle, daughter principle. Boston, In the Interests of healtb I have lived up to It all my days, and and economy, la being provided with I must uphold It now. Think of an odorless garbage wagons. One ol anny officer trying to claim my tree, these wsgona la already In use. It and he belonging to the very troops consists of a steel frame on four we saved from capture by sinking wheels, containing three cylindrical Riv Jlwwy Any if Cervera's fleet! I shall stick to my tanka whlrh reat upon trunnions. In The Illustration shows a very con- and grain. By fastening them In ths guns to my guns! form the tanks are somewhat like You officers are acting like a cou- milk cans, greatly enlarged, each tank venient method for stabling calves. stanchions In thla way each calf may The calves are kept In good sized be fed separately and get only Its ple of boys, dad, was the comment having a rapacity of one ton of garYou've got a bage. To the lid of each la attached pens, several calvea together, allowing own shait of grain. The ealf pen made by young Fairly. much more chance for exercise than should be well lighted and clean and dozen cherry trees on the grounds; a lever, which. In turn, is connected when each calf la confined separately should open Into an exercising yard why fight about that one? by a chain with a hinged portion of In a small stall. The calves are al- where the calves may be turned out Grant, you must look at the prin- the footboard, resembling a treadle, lowed to run loose in the pens, except whenever the weather permits. ciple of the thing. Am I to be bull- upon whlrh the men stand to empty dozed and walked over like a child? It their palls. Aa the attendant steps at feeding time, and are then easily would be bad enough If any other upon the treadle, hla weight raises the fastened in the stanchions while Chlcksna, Killing Chickens killed for market or for man tried It, but he supposed to he cover, and when he steps off after drinking. They should be kept In the If emptying hla load the released lever stanchion for a half hour or so, and the home table should have the head an officer and a gentleman! fed grain, aa they are sura to auck severed by cutting off; then the body the army hadn't been at Santiago the pulls the lid down again. Tha load each other If released Immediately should be bung up to let the blood fleet wouldn't have been there. I being divided Into three parts, only hall defend that tree with my life. la exposed at a time, and after drinking. Tbo young calves thoroughly drain out. This Insures Aa ths days went by the young peo- then only momentarily. should be kept In separata pens up to the wholesomeneaa of the meat If Ido or three weeks of age, as It Is a the ragged neck la unsightly, the skin ple heard so much about that cherry One form of pious gymnastics la to difficult matter to keep them from may be pulled over It and tied with tree that they Instinctively began to take sides. They bad heard of each walk one way and point the other. sucking before they learn to eat hay a bit of twlao. (By MILLER Pl'HVIS.) To build up a dairy herd is not a short task. It requires Id the first place a fixed Ideal In the mind of the owner. lie must set bis stakes at a mark toward which he must endeavor to move constantly, advancing from year to year. There is a dairy herd In Illinois, the owner of which has set his mark higher and higher tor years, every time reaching the highest lmlt by following a set method. This man cares nothing for recorded cows pedigrees. He prefers pure-breif they reach up to his mark, otherwise he lakes those of any blood or well-know- consn-luence- ? d I-- 200-poun-d five-poun- d joor well-earne- d j I METHOD OF STABLING CALVES one-tblr- d |