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Show a v X IGETTDKKS OT 1 lfm MSEC For jeveral days after my arrival at the shack on the hillside, a here I was supposed to repose, sit in the gloaming and listen to farm talk because it a as not wearing on the brain also listen to Clara pestering High-wate- r on the organ for her steady I liad noticed an elephantine figure that came lumbering down the left side of the road every morning when the men started work in the field opposite I had also noticed with a hat deliberation that same figure came to the rail lence, crossed its arms upon the top rail, lifted its left foot to the lower rail, and posed there in all the glorification of flesh laden soul, enjoying things without further effort Finally I began to ask questions Who is that Individual over there who seems to be happy though doing y Lemuel open "1 d know "1 bear you s are a veteran of the late war nothing? "You mean Lehm Pembrook Yes. that's him; alius does it this time of Yes, an b gosh' I lost my health doin' it, dern it! I also lost my Agger, too, b duin! Fightin an' puttin' down thet scrimmage cost me my health an Agger. An all fur f 13 a month, b gosh too! I got malary In all o my cherry pecteral muscles, an thurs a dull pain in my s&rry bell yum all the while, an a dod gasted wobly feelln through my lumber system also, as well as chaos in my head when I have to do any hefty work, not to mention shoot in sounds In my left ariferous when I get left over on meals cause Fm flshin. Bee my head? Bald as a billiard ball. "Thats war, rel war. I wus hit by the dumm thing frum all sides, as well as top an bottom, b gosh. Fora I got bitched up In that deal I bad a Agger like Pollar, I did. I went way a Pollar, an cum back a livin year, when the men work He's Just watching them work, thats all, while he's getting his health back. Lem was spry once, before he went to Sandago to put the war down Since then he balnt been well Ah! A veteran of the affair between Spain and the United States? So he says, says he had a hefty hand in putting the thing down. But he says he lost his health and it hain't never come back since He cant work no more, poor Lem' I did The next morning Lemuel got on "You seem to be gettin your form the job earlier than usual, and 1 start- back ed over to investigate the affair. Takles, Im roundin' up to my ole ing a position on the fence close by, I shape, an hope In time Ill be the same ole Pollar, I will git th&r if I approached the subject by saying: can only keep 'way frum work, an' Nice crop of oats. Lemuel peeled his China blue eyes an If I git my penshin fur this dern at me; 1 had disturbed him, and bis malary an the other sickness." I hope you will get it, you certainface showed it. He fastened his gaze upon the workers, changed footrests ly deserve a pension You have been and said nothing. pretty badly used. When do you exOats will not be very dear this sea- pect to get your claim allowed ?" son If all the crops turn out as good I d Know. as this, friend, I Continued. Then Lemuel relapsed into silence I d know. and I could not drag another word "The boys over there are buckling from him I left him leaning upon down to work getting in oats while the fence while I went hack to the the sun shines Did you ever notice shade on the hillside to think in solid bow kind nature was to weak, frail chunks. Horace Seymour Keller In humanity? I asked, trying to pry New York Times skil-lento- Make the Desert Bloom. The first National Irrigation Congress was held at Salt Lake City In 1891, the home of the first example of American irrigation by the race Mormon Irrigation forty-foyears before. In 1891 about three million acres were under and one-haIrrigation In the arid regions, all through private enterprise and there are nearly effort ejght million acres irrigated, and the West stands at the threshold of a mighty development through government irrigation. There are now fifteen million dollars in the United States treasury awaiting expenditure for the construction of great dams and canals In the Western states and territories. Anglo-Saxo- n ur the first to declare for the policy ol national irrigation," and that that city Is likely to be the scene of the first great government dam the outcome of the policy and resolutions, rigidly adhered to by every succeeding Irrigation congress. In spite of bitter fight for cession of the arid lands to the several states. The sixth congress was held at Lincoln, Neb.; the seventh at Cheyenne, Wyo.; the eighth at Missoula, Mont; the ninth, the first big congress, at Chicago, 111., and the tenth at Colorado Springs, Colo. The Chicago congress had the effect of bringing the Irrigation discussion into the East and showing Its national aspect that any great improvement in any western section would have a The coming irrigation congress will reflex benefit In the eastern part of be the eleventh convention of that the country and that the agricultural body and will meet in Ogden, Utah, development in the West would mean an increased market for the products September 15 next. The intermediate congresses have of eastern manufacturers. Then came a surprisingly strong been held at various points throughout the arid region. The second con- fight by the irrigation forces In the gress was held at Los Angeles and short session of the 56th Congress, was attended by representatives from followed by President Roosevelts acOreat Britain, Canada, Australia, In- tive championship of the cause and dia, Russia, France, Mexico and Peru. the passage of the Irrigation law In The third irrigation congress met at the following long session, June 17, Denver, the fourth at Albuquerque, N. 1902. The early part of August, 1903, for the first govM, and the fifth at Phoenix, Arizona. saw the contract letworks under this It Is something of a coincidence that ernment Irrigation the Phoenix congress should have been law. lf To-da- y Ideals in Womans Life. During her engagement the woman of a certain type spends her waking and sleeping moments building a pedestal upon which she places her belov- ed. Before the honeymoon is over she decides that she built the pedestal too high and proceeds to remove a few of the foundation blocks labeled maidenhoods Ideals." About the third year of their married life she becomes possessed of the Idea that she belongs on that pedestal, 'and calmly climbs up. A year or so later she reads that Helen of Troy played ping pong with her natlona history at forty, and that Cleopatra " TLad " reached the same mature age when ahe captivated Caesar, Anthony land a few other notables of her day. i Whereupon Milady Matrimony drops a spouse that hint to her matter-of-fac- t ha ought to be proud of the right to delve after money for the purpose of adorning and embellishing the figure of one who la so marked a credit to w -- Dirty Milk Cans. Wstr Drank by Hogs. The city milk trade is one that pep We find Prof, W. A Henry says: mits the greatest amount of untidirecorded on this subject, poaal-bllittle ness simply for the reason that tha because the matter !a not conconsumers know nothing of the con- wlthwbicL to travsidered of Importance by many. In a countermine! his The first eight that greets the jink e writer at the eler to Havana as he Comes Into port force wa much depreciated by hard It Is often asserted that, could the A r feeatfifirtriarty-thwhich Wisconsin it service, and had a station trainconsisted of group of ten pigs is Morro Castle; the last thing consumers know In what kind of cans he sees on leaving Is Morro Castle, ed solders whose places had now their milk la handled, many of them divided Into two lota of five each, and it and its neighbor Cabana Fort-res- been filled by others less experienced. would quit tha use of that article of one lot getting barley meal and the are the places that he has In But he refused to surrender his food altogether. The cana that go other corn meal, waa fed for a period results given mind to visit, whatever other points charge, and t! o council put it In his back to the farmers are some of them of eight weeks, with the J of interest may have escaped bis power to do as he thought best so very dirty that it ia Impossible below. "The five fed on barley averaged Forty four days after the English to get the stench out of them even notice. landed 308 their Morro and mines under of pounds at beginning of teat, ata ia a work, massive It piece by scrubbing and steaming, and many 601 3,832 pounds of grain, gained no of milk aphave shippers steaming consumed in ,056 pounds weight, pliances. The cans. Instead of being washed out with cold water after use, pounds of water, and required 471 are left with some milk la them and pounds of grain for 100 pound of galh. For every 100 pounds of food this sours and putrefies for a day be- eaten they drank 320 pounds of water. fore being removed. It most be reThe five fed on corn meal averIn membered that milk la blood held 209 pounds la weight at beginaged suspension and that It putrefies as does blood and flesh. Experts have ning of teat, ate 3,100 pounds of grata, testified that after anch cana have gained 711 pounds In weight, drank been subjected to all kinds of cleans- 6,620 pounds of water and need 431 pounds of food In making 100 pounds V i v ing processes, Including steaming In of K ? gain. For every 100 pounds of a steam chest, the smell atlll clung to them, and must have remained feed eaten they drank 313 poanda of with them after they were again filled water, or 107 pounda leu than those fed on barley. i. with milk. After this process has The weight of water reported Insumfew on in months several gone clude that required for soaking the mer, what must be the condition of meal and also that drank from a such cans so used and so abused? second trough. , It will be seen that tha pigs ted Chicago Butter Supply. corn meal consumed about two The recepita of butter at Chicago or water, and the barley-fe- d this summer have been greater than pounds -over three pounds, for each pound of A during any previous summer for sev- meal eaten. The pigs getting corn eral years at least From the first of meal consumed over 900 pounds of May to the middle of August there and the barley-feplga 1,600 were received over 652,000 tubs, which water, Morro from the Sea. pounds, for each 100 pounda of gain excess In Is tubs of walls what about one had 50,000 which' any links wire of Only sprung. as one the many stands In live weight Pigs fed corn meal Connect Cubas present with her past. effect The report of the explosion was received during the same period appear to require less water than 1898 Anything which has stood In our own was heard within, and the officer of last year. During the summer of when on other feeds" country for an entire century la old; the day investigated at once, and re- 592,000 tubs were received, which was damconsidered that at phenomenal had we anything with the authentic ported to Capt Velasco that the Points on Guinea Fowls. date of 1689 the date which Morro age was so trifling as to be almost time. In spite of this large supply Guinea fowls have dark colored bears It would seem worthy of the none at all And yet this officer. this year the prices have held np, due flesh, but It Is very palatable. It was In the Mills by name, was In no wise In largely to the rapid growth In popuhighest veneration. results In rendering the the that mentioned plana of this league with the English. The Eng lation of the city and the continued birds tender and reduces their size. year fortification were traced by the cele- Uh leaders Inspected the breach from activity In business. It la reported The young of birds given their freetheir vantage point by means of that the home trade ia larger than dom are brated engineer Juan AntonellL hardy and will follow their The high rocky point at the narrow glasses, and. Influenced by the chief ever before and aeema Inclined to take mother at soon almost as they ore first-clas- s coma in. to came conclusion a goods that exactly all the entrance of the bay was an admirable engineer, out of the shell; at least they ora site for a strong fortification, and the opposed to the one reached by tha Studying the market one notices that good trampers after they are a day the only kinds of butter that do not old. The young live on bugs and one planned by Antonelll was brouglu Spanish officer of the day. Tbs mine was sprung shortly after tell well are the poorer grades, though seeds discovered to a successful completion. It Is an for them by the excellent example of mediaeval fort- 1 o'clock at 4 the English standard they are disposed of at a low price. mothers. mass as floated "ladles slow" are in over of Thus for out the ruins, quoted ress, with Its deep moats blasted In the early laying season tha birds ale. Ladles" are produced by work- will of the solid rock, its drawbridge and within it was nothing else. Capt Vellay their eggs anywhere, and portcullis; the upper works, though asco was mortally wounded early in ing over country butter till it is uni- several will deposit their eggs In the of la On 14th and the form in salt more recent the assault poor same locality. When about to alt day coloring. It old, are of semewhat they date. Finished before 1600, the heav- August the conquerors took possession la quality because It Is some days old eek separation and lay a dozen or of Havana. to the before for It come subjected upon iest strain did not more eggs In a hidden nest, where As the traveler wanders about with- process. Ladle goods are neither a almost two centuries. In the wall of they Incubate them. the upper part, near the angle where in the walls he sees dungeons with-ou- profit nor a credit to the farmers. The gulneu differ from common where he Is a tablet any light, may Imagine the sea meets the land. fowls In that the males are as anxlotv Cheese and Butter Making. whose Inscription tells that It was 'that prisoners , languished, although about the brood os Is the hen, and A good many cheese factories are helps take care of them erected to the memory of the gallant the military prison was In Cabana during the Some of the rooms were now being equipped with butter makCapt- - Velasco and Marques Gonzals, fortress time, forsaking them at night day who fell in the defense of the castli; used as prison cells during the last ing machinery, ao that they can moke Guinea hens and their broods forit was very near here that the Erg-lls- few months of the American regime. cheese In the summer and butter In age in a body, the old males helping solin has Cuban and took pa Now, It only a guard of the winter and thus take the farm- to keep np the laggards of the line. forceAtbeir way ' ' diers, and seems to he only a show-plac- ers' milk the year round. One of the At night each mother collects her own seBsion. and its walls a visitors' hook. objectlont to cheese factories in some brood. In fancy the traveler may go hick 140 years to that summer which sw Its guns would doubtless give a good localities Is the fact that they run The yonng at a very early age learn however, for only six months In the year and to roost in the trees, even before they the beginning of the most important account of themselves, imshould the occasion, arise. But this the farmer Is left without a market can reach the branches epoch of Cubas history-m- ost by flying. does not occur to the visitor as he for his milk during the rest of the one. save this last Looking portant They half fly and bait ran up tb over the parapet In the wall of whick goes about looking Into gloomy rooms year. By this process also the farmer trunk of the tree. the tablet is placed, one may set where rusty cannon balls are plied has to have all of his cows calve in Guinea eggs ore very fertile and stretched out before him the scene ol up or peering Into darker ones from the spring so that he may getaa big a large percentage of the birds batchthe hardest military struggles of tbs which the hoot of a white owl comes a flow of milk as possible during the ed live if they are permitted to run English Invasion All of that sectloa to him. When on his way out he months when he can sell It It is wild with their mother. speaks of that summer of 1762 to goes through the long covered way much more to the interest of the Lika the turkey, the guinea pro those that have read the history, f&r and crosses the moat by means of farmer to have some of his cows fert the open tree top to tha secure it was there that siege was laid to the drawbridge, from which several calve In the fall. In the first place his poultry house. , , the Morro. The roads from the land- boards are missing coming oat upon calves can then have the aklmmilk ing place, more than .three miles away, the alH which overlooks the bay and at as age when milk in some form Treatment for Heavee. was cut slowly and with great labor tha city beyond, he thinks that he has must he supplied to them. Later they In accordance with the request of through a stubborn underbrush asl come back from the past to tha pres- can live on pasture grasses. The man e reader of the Farmers Review we over a rocky aolL Men fell at their ent that produces milk for the summer quote the advice for treatment of Tres Reyes" (Three Kings) la the cheese factory only has none for his heaves from two writers: work, exhausted by the unusual beat, and yellow fever broke out ia their specific name of the castle, although calves, and the whey is a poor substiProf. D. McIntosh: Feed so as not tute. All the year dairying mast take to overload the stomach; allow a litthe place of the summer method If tle hay to be eaten first, then give we are to have our dairy localities water and then oats. Never feed more centers of Industry and prosperity. than twelve to fourteen pounda of hay per day and fifteen pounds of cats. Boiled flaxseed mixed with e Dairy Schools. The agricultural colleges of the little bran at night will keep the bowcountry ore every year giving more els regular, besides being very nutriand more attention to their dairy tious. Sulphate of iron, four ounces; schools7We believe" that' as many nitrate of potassium, four ounces; nux young men and women as possible, vomica, twq ounces; divided Into doses, and one given evIn dairying, should twenty-fou- r that attend these schools. The entrance ery night in bran mash, la very useIs not, however, as easy as It was. ful. After this quantity has been I. Some of the dairy achools moke the given, skip two or three weeks and rule that the students must have ba repeat One ounce of Fowlers soluevery night la at least six months experience la a tion of arsenic given mall bran mash, when the animal Is creamery or cheese factory. This rule Is very good I has been made because In the past it at work in the spring.animal to do a an enables often and students that has been found that the make the most progress and are the good day's work, which It conld not do arsenic. This can best satisfied with the schools are except for the to elx weeks month a for continued be i . , those that have had auch experience. animal. We think, however, that this may be without any, danger to the weeks or as long a few for Then stop farm want We too far. good carried without It, and buttermakers as well as good cream- as the animal can dobecomes 1a, difficult-resumwhen cheese-makerand buttermakers good ery again and so on. I have trash ed horses in this way and they would esse for y ear,. dQ.thelrwark.wlth Coed Buttermaker. Thieves Have Their Omens. The pickpocket ia superstitions. He win rarely rob a person who squints, this being accounted a certain sign of disaster and if it happens that the purse be steals contains foreign as weU as British money, it Is believed to augur that he will travel a good deal la the Immediate future; . hut whether in the cotapany of a couple of police officers or not there is nothing to show. Weddings and funerals are significant events for the professional thief. To pick a pocket at a funeral would he to court immediate disaster; hut his good taste, says the Pittsburg Dis- patch. Five years later she thinks her husband is something of a brute because he cannot figure out how to send two athletic-lovinboys through college and give daughter a few finishing touches in French and mnsic all on 13,000 a year. Then, when the etorm has blown over and the boyahave settled into business without tne college education, and daughter Is head stenographer for Blm, Burrell A Co., at twenty per, she one day discovers that the gray hairs are coming In thick above lathers temples, and that there are lines In his face which she had never noticed before. Then cornea to her a moment of re flection. Backward, rolls, the pano rama of their married life, and she sees It through a gentle mist Then, oddly enough, the man finds himself Just where they started out togethe- ron the pedestal. g many of them think if a purse stolen at a wedding contains gold It por- tend the best of luck for the thief during the ensuing months. -- Some pickpockets have a favorite pair of boots that they wear as long as they can keep them on their feet, and If they are not arrested while they are wearing them they cut the loots up into little square pieces and give them away as lucky tokens" to their friends. London Answers. Americans In Mexico. now has 60,000 American residents and 3323,000.000 American money. Mexico A r'J 1 ? V '' d t h e. d JJiS , Na e the.-breathl- HaVS It does not par to employ a poor La fueira. buttermaker when a good buttermaker Oldest Bulldtox in Harass. can be secured at a little advance In midst, ao that at one time 5,000 sol- It Is never called that, and many do the salary. Get a competent man at diers and seamen were on their backs, not know that-- it baa any claim to all hazards. Many a buttermaking Is the generic establishment loses more by employalmost half the entire number. Still that name "Mcrro the English refused to become dis- name of fortresses situated as it Is on ing a poor buttermaker than It saves a jutting rock. Santiago has one, 8an In his salary. In the first place, poor couraged, even when one of their which had taken 600 men seven Joan nas ona, and other c'tles also butter will not long continue to bring days to build, was destroyed by fire. With tin punts Castle guarding the a good price. In the second place, the They continued to push their trenches eity side of the entrance, and planned Incompetent man will lose batter-fa- t toward morro and planted mines un- In the same year 1589, and the Fuerxa, and never know it, and this butter-fa- t half a mile further In and antedating lost In the course of a year will agder its very walls. , The governor of the' Morro was the It by fifty years, it forms the motive gregate a very large sum. Then, too, naval captain Don Lula de Velasco, of be Havana escutcheon, three the buttermaker that Is not experabout whom the tlory of that cam- castles; the key signifies the position ienced with machinery will destroy of the city, paign gathers that la. on the Spanexpensive machines and never mls-- i ish side. He was the Idol of the soltrust that his Ignorance ia the cause f Chinese Students In Japan. of It He will blame the company diery, the inspiration of the officers, There are 800 Chinese students In that makes the machines. The more and. the admiration of the enemy. Ha knew of (be preparations trade by the the colleges of Jaran and 500 more buttermaking becomes a science the more educated must the buttermaker enemy, and toat he had no materials are to he sent. bat-terle- - , be. Jonathan Periam: Treatment with a view to permanent cure la generally not successful. However tha ailment may he greatly ameliorated by a strict attention to the diet, which should be the reverse of that which haa hitherto been given. Give nutri.' tlve food of small bulk end best qualwild hay mixed ity, such as finely-cu- t with ground oats and corn, bran and a small quantity of ground or flaxseed meal, and slightly moistened. In summer give green or succulent food Instead of hay, and In winter dallv allowances of sliced carrots and other roots. Such horses should never be fed or watered immediately before use, and they should be used only for slow and easy work. Farmers' Review. oU-etk- e A ton of sugar beets pounds of refined sugar. yields 21 |