Show !ta Sole for th She AND An Inventor has kit upon a method of putting atone sole on boots and ahoea He mixes a waterproof INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR glue with a aultable quantity of clean OUR RURAL READERS sand and spreads It over the quart leather sole used as a foundation These quartz soles are said to be very flexi- low Successful Farmer Operate This ble and practically Indestructible Department of the Farm — A Few and to give the foot a firm hold even on Hlnte to the Car of Lire Stock the most alippery surface And Poultry DAIRY PHVS M’it INLKY VS FRER SILVER A i POULTRY battle of giants Is going to take place this summer on 30000 farms In America not in talk or votes but 1ft yields Salzer’s two now potato marvels are named as above and he offers a price for the biggest potato yield also $400 in gold for suitable names for his corn (17 inches long) and oat prodigies Only seedsmen lft'Amerlca growing grasses clovers and farm seeds' and selling potatoes at $150 a 'barrel The editor urges you to try Salzer’s Northern Grown Seeds and to '0(1 ThU Notice ylth 10 Cti la Stamp to John A Salzer Seed Co La Crosse Wis for 11 new farm seed samples worth $1000 to get a start and their wnm big catalogue Caro of Dnlry U to null poultry because hs has fa mill aid ths poultry house cold damp and remembers ths fence of She dirty pickets or lath with unseemly rents here and there She remembers how often the fowls have destroyed her hopes of a flower garden and sometimes made even the kitchen garden an uncertain factor Therefore when chickens are mentioned she scowls and says that she would rather be without fowls than have them But no farm home ihould be without such an adjunct An expenditure of a few hundred dollars will give houses and yard built after the uost modern methods and that will pay a big profit on the Then the wife and money invested children will take a lively interest in the business of poultry raising and egg production The advent of a new house for the fowls will usually mean the advent of new methods In the keeping of the fowls and ultimately the introduction of pure breeds Poultry keeping will become a science worthy of study A farm 1b alwhys benefited by such an establishment If It Is to be sold It will add to the value more than the cost of the Improvement ing The direct use of steam for sterilizing Is very common In many factories and dairy houses there is adjoining the wash sink a table in the center of which is a steam Jet' and when tans are washed they are inverted over this Jet and steamed for a few minifies This method of steaming answers the purpose fairly well In certain cases a3 when' a large number of cans are ‘ washed and a special room l£ provided for the purpose or the iteam jet is under 'a hood which conducts the escaped steam to a pipe leading out of the building ' Special care ihould be taken to make the exposure long enough but one using this system Is liable to make the time too short Poultry Show at Chicago Another objection to It Is that the Red and Dark Hair The great poultry show held at ChiDark hair and complexion in races iteam does not come in direct contact cago Jan 25 to 28 was a success at as well as in Individuals signify with the outside as well as the inside least in its exhibits and we hope finMore perfect work Is ancially d We think it wu the finest raceB arc al- f the cans strength In the behind hue iccompllshed by a steam chest in ever held In this part of the country lighter ways peoples fine civilization because the physical which the smaller utensils such as The exhibits were on three floors the fowls having the first and predominates among them to the ex- tans palls dippers glasB jars etc may barn-yar- d clusion of the mental Coarse red hair be placed and entirely surrounded with third floors and the pigeons the second It Is seldom that one ean see floor Indicates marvelous physical endur- Iteam as long sb desired A galvanized iron chest from 3 to 5 feet each such a collection of pigeons and It le ance ' ' In dimension Is large enough to hold safe to say that this feature was appreNo bird of prey has the gift of song the utensils except vats and machln-ir- y ciated by the city people more than any used In a creamery or other It is a ordinarily pity that country people Did you ever know a man to kill a little iheese factory When many cans are could not have visited the show In bear or catch a little fish) lo be cleaned the chest should be large The exhibits of all larger numbers enough to hold a dozen or more at a varieties of farm poultry was very time All joints must be made as close good and many of the birds were exis possible The doors should be large ceptionally fine There was also a good io that utensils may be easily put Into exhibit of incubators and these seemed ind removed from the chest At the to attract a good share of attention lop of the steamer there should be an both from city and country people iscape pipe 2 or 3 inches in diameter Among the exhibitors of incubators ind passing out of doors The flow of were the Reliable Incubator and Brooditeam through this may be controlled er Company of Quincy Illinois and the by a valve and each time the Bteam iq Successful Incubator manufactured by turned off a few moments should be the Des Moines Incubator of Company liven to allow most of it ta escape from Des Moines Iowa the chest through this leng pipe before the door is opened If this is not done ’’ Dark-skinne- scalded steam is itill under pressure Steam should bo Admitted at the bottom and the bottom ihould have enough incline to cause all water formed by condensation to run iff through a trapped pipe leading to a train About six inches above the bottom a movable false bottom of strong wire netting or Iron framework may be placed on which the articles are put in in Inverted position If more room be required and the articles are small shelves similar to the movable bottom may be used Several llfferent materials are employed for ionstructing steam chests Wood gives good satisfaction when the chest is often used It should be firmly bound to prevent bad results from warping Galvanized iron Is a common material and opper is sometimes used If a metal be used the door should be double to make it rigid A convenient method of (teaming utensils on a large scale is to have instead of a tank a steam is on a level of floor which the jloset with the main floor of the building A light truck with skeleton bottom and tide may be loaded with articles from the wash tanks and quickly rolled into the closet steamed and the utenslla taken to their proper places with very little handling Such a saving of work Amounts to a great deal In a large factory Steaming is often omitted fCHf the want of a suitable chest or closet It no better method is available an g wooden box with a :over may be easily and cheaply arranged Every dairy utensil Bhould be sterilized and nothing Is better tor this purpose than superheated iteam direct from the boiler Not an Inconsiderable amount of steam is needed for this purpose and for heating water and when necessary the building and these facts should be borne in mind when a boiler Is purchased care being taken to have Its capacity greater than required by the engine so that steam can be had at iny time for these other purposes But If desired small boilers may be obtained for furnishing steam for heating water and sterilizing only their cost being $25 or upward according to size Such a boiler Is especially recommended for any factory or large dairy not llready equipped with them the operator may be severely by opening the door while the 0X0 0XJOYQ Both the method and results when Syrup of Figs is taken it is pleasant and refreshing to the taste and acts gently yet promptly on the Kidneys Liver and Bowels cleanses the system effectually dispels colds headaches and fevers and cares habitual constipation Syrup of Figs is the only remedy of its kind ever produced pleasing to the taste 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Dee Big O for unDturtl Inflammation! diarharge Irritations or ulceration! of rnuoou membranes fPrsnau Mntafisa painless and not astrlu ItheEvans Chemical Co °r poisonou Sold by Dragrtsls or lent In plain wrapper by i press prepaid for 375 II Itn or 3 bottle Circular sent on rnquei Ii fcj iiUfttS WHtHt ALL ELSE FAILS Best Cough Syrup Taetee Good In time Sold by dnicRlst U Salt Lake — No 1 Wbeo Answering Advertisements Mention This rapes W N Ul 1 1 89 ( Kindly Fancy Fon'try Ewtnbllihmeiits What Is suitable for one place and condition will not be suitable to other places and other conditions as a matter of course We can hardly expect to see a fancy poultry establishment on a farm plastered with mortgages or even on a farm where the owner is making the struggle of his life trying to keep up with his exBut there are many farmers penses who have progressed far enough on the road to success to be able to take into consideration the question of adornment of the farm home To such a one we would say do not forget the poultry establishment which may be made l thing of beauty ever-recurri- Many a house wlf opposes the keep BROTHER AND SISTER they were married and SEEMED HAPPY Most Remarkable Cm of the Century Cornea to Light Through Divorce Proceeding Recently Filed t Fitchburg Maas The RS of ELSIE JEENS Fitchburg Mass appeared before Judge Ward-we- ll at Worcester the other day and asked that her marriage to Harry Moreland Jeens be annulled on t h e ground that they were they children of one mother The story of Mrs Jeens forms one of the strangest chapters that was ever written In the Massachusetts divorce courts It Is a story of wrecked lives and of utter InhumanMrs ity on the part of a mother Mary Jeens and her three children lived In Cheltenham England before Elsie was born They were all too young to understand much about life Mrs Jeens had been a widow for several years One day after a prolonged visit to another town she brought little Elsie home “She lp your little cousin Elsie Graham” slid she to her children And so the child grew up calling Mrs Jeens "Aunty” and looking upon the Jeens children as her cousins AmSng the Jeens children was a boy Harry Moreland Jeens who was nine years older than his little “cousin” He was Elsie’s favorite She used to play with him in preference to the other children and in all things he was her childish hero Elsie grew up to be a remarkably pretty child She was sent to a private school and finely educated At the age of seventeen she was graduated and returned to her home in Cheltenham with a fine education She was also a good singer and a spelndid musician She thanked “Aunty” over and over again for giving her the same advantages that her own children enjoyed Shortly afterward her cavalier “cousin” Harry Moreland Jeens now grown into young manhood came to America to seek his fortune The young girl missed him sadly but was consoled In some degree by the letters which he wrote When the Jeens children arrived at years of maturity the family gradually scattered broadcast over the world Mrs Jeens and Elsie wee practically left alone in the old home One day Mrs Jeens said: "Elsie I have made up' my mind to go to America to visit Harry Would you r like to go?” “Indeed I would” Aunty’ Oh how ' Big Figure People are pretending to figure out how much the poultry business of the United States Is worth It Is estimated that the commerce of the country handles $300000000 worth of poultry and poultry products annually This Is probably true but It is all guesswork Who has ever taken account of the immense quantities of such products bought and sold by the hundreds of thousands of little stores scattered all over the land? The big figures do not take account of the poultry consumed on the farms or by the families in the w small towns and cities that raise poul- good you are” i? Then preparations were made for the try and produce eggs for their own Use There has been always one character- trip ar1 a month later Mrs Jeens and istic about fresh eggs— the prices are what the commercial world denominate as “firm" That is there is always a demand for them and prices remain good compared with other farm products Especially is this true In the vicinity of towns and cities The farmer He has much to hope from poultry needs only to make more of a study of It Poultry meat should be frequently found on the table of the farmer for It Is one of the most wholesome of foods f t- I Cotton Seed ti Stock Food Repeated inquiries come to the Oklahoma Experiment Station as to the value of cotton seed as food for animals There is a widespread fear that it is an unsafe food There is some foundation for this feeling but used judiciously cotton seed may be wisely fed to either cattle horses or sheep— sometimes to hogs Young stock are more liable to injury than older ones Rarely Is It wise to make this the only grain food Long continued high feeding with cotton seed sometimes gives bad results But where it is not practicable to have the seed sent to an oil mill it certainly should not be allowed to go to' waste ' Its high percentage of oil and good g amount of material" makes It a good food to use In connection with straw corn stover etc It is not advisable to let young calves lambs or pigs have free access to the seed but older animals except hogs may have a supply before them If other grain or sufficient “roughness" Is also given “flesh-formin- Poor Winter Butter— One reason why much poor butter 1b made in ths winter season Is because the milk is set in some room adjoining the kitchen where It is subjected to all the odors of the kitchen stove used in cooking meats and vegetables These odors with the heat from the store are absorbed by the milk and as the cream has to be warmed so as to ripen the germs thus admitted have the best possible chance to Increase The Dairy Farmer— The business of the dairyman does not begin and end with the care of the cows but reaches into every detail of farm management A dairy farm should become one which is unusually productive— Mirror and Farmer Peanut venders might working a shell game be her “niece” arrived In Fitchburg where Here it was her son was In business that Mrs Jeens looked on and saw her son Harry growing to love Elsie She saw all and made no sign and uttered One word would have no protest changed the course of two lives from After a misery to possible' happiness brief visit to Harry which was thoroughly enjoyed by both Elsie and Mrs Jeens returned to England They went with the understanding that in a few months the girl was toreturn to Fitchburg and become (he wife of her “cousin” And Mrs Jeens sat by and saw the preparations made still without a sign Can anybody solve this inconceivable riddle of motherhood? There were a few months of Joyful preparation In the English home and at last In December 1893 Elsie said farewell to “Aunty” and sailed away to wed Harry Moreland Jeens She arrived In BoBton December 19 1893 and on the following day the couple were married at Fitchburg by the Rev George S Butlers There are discrepancies In the marriage register which the young woman even now cannot understand Her age was given by her husband as Her accused of twenty when it was eighteen husband’s age according to the regis ter was twenty-seve- n Ths record names the parents of Harry as Thomas E Jeens and Mary A Jeens maiden name Ayers Those of Elsie were: Thomas Graham and Mary N Graham maiden name Williams Elsie says she had never been told anything about her mother’s maiden name and so she told the minister After the ceremony however her husband told her that be had put It down as “Williams” so that some name might appear There were other errors also Elsie’s occupation was given as a “dressmaker” when In fact the girl was Just out of school and up to the time of her marriage had never done & day’s work in her life After the marriage the young Jeens couple settled down to a happy and contented life Letters came from and there “Aunty” with regularity was nothing to mar their happiness They kept house and Harry Jeens worked industriously at his trade Right in the midst of this happiness stalked as great a misery as ever fell to the lot of woman It came In September 1896 The Jeens couple had been keeping house In a flat at Fitchburg for several months They had found a place they liked better however and were preparing to move Everything was packed up and everything was in a rather desolate state It was a desolation that will last a lifetime for the furniture that wa3 packed then has never again been put In use One afternoon a day or two before the Jeens were to have moved Harry Jeens received a latter from his aunt who lives at Wilmington Mass She had never been apprised of his marriage Among other things the letter said that she was 111 and wanted to see him right away Young Jeens felt that he ought to go but did not care to leave his wife In the bouse with everything In such a mixed-u- p He condition finally decided to take his wife with him Together they went to Wilmington to see the aunt whose name is Mrs Frances B Hiller They arrived at the Hiller home in the evening and found her quite ill The husband went Into the bedroom first leaving his wife In the parlor Pretty soon Harry called his wife Elsie came Into the room After an affectionate greeting from the sick woman Harry said: “Elsie and I are married you know aunt” For the space of half a dozen heartbeats the sick woman said not a word She was speechless Then raising herself up in the bed she said In an awful voice: “Elsie! Elsie girl! How did you come to marry Harry JeenB Don’t you know? Can’t you understand?” “Why aunt” said Elsie "I don’t see what difference It makes I have a right to marry whomever I like” “But you two had no right to marry” “I do not see why” returned the young wife ":I have a right to be married to my cousin surely" “But you and Harry are not cousins Elsie you are brother and sister! Elsie you are Polly’s girl Both of you are Polly’s children" Polly was the name by which Mrs Jeens was known among her relatives For a while Elsie Bat as one turned to stone Then she began shivering and shuddering as though stricken with a mortal ague “Oh how could she how could she?" “She told me I was her she walled niece May Heaven forgive her I never can” Young Jeens sat with his face buried in his hands From that night the paths of the young couple were apart When thoroughly convinced of the truth of the sick woman’s statement they drew up a paper which was an agreement to separate and an explanation as to the cause of the parting On behalf of Elsie this paper was placed in the hands of Charles S Hayden a lawyer who has since acted In her interests After the horror of the blow was over Elsie Jeens returned to Fitchburg and took up the battle of life alone All she asked was to be allowed to forget and to be forgotten She fondly believed that the paper she had signed had set her free She set to work to earn her own living but she did not neglect to delve into the past and learn the truth about herself She learned that she was Indeed the daughter of Mary Jeens and was made to believe for a time that her father was a wealthy physician of Gloucester England Her father had never publicly acknowledged her as his child and it is In this fact that she finds her mother’s motive for letting her believe she was Mrs Jeen’s niece Harry Jeens made a trip to England after the disclosures He returned and told her that the paper she had signed did not set her free And so it was that Elsie applied to the courts to have the marriage annulled Elsie believes that her husband Is innocent of any intentional wrongdoing Elsie Is now living with the family of Mr Cushing In Fitchburg They know her story but it makes no difference In their treatment of the lovely girl Variable gears for chainless bicycles are being made by mousing a flat wheel on the rear hub having several circles of slots cut In its surface into which the teeth of a gear wheel mesh the wheel being loose on the driving shaft so it can be set for any speed desired |