&.¢ oe... = Whea Criminals Have Let Lots De- " ti he. ae Useful Hints for the Tiller of the Soil" i A CARE OF THE CALF. If the cow fails to lick the calf soon-after birth, it should be rub- best possible calf. This milk contains a large per cent. of protein and is a won- derful laxative and tonic, work- ing on the digestive system of the calf. After the calf has had access to its dam for the period of 48 to 72 hours, they may be separated and the calf taught to drink. It should ve its mother's milk for the first week or ten days; then it may have @ mixture of milk. Its first of existence will depend largely upon the breed and the size of the calf, ranging from six to ten pounds a day, and this may be worked up te 26 and 20 as the calf advances in| only those fowls that ha lus|they contain, e ly in age. It is customary to have the comeey in the. form of rat can de. which carry out posthumous} I've wo whole milk from three to four velop the ovule. Moreover, we grudges. life. I've weeks, then gradually change over|have good reason to believe' that dulgent f on separator milk by adding asmall|i, fowle which have developed GUILTY OF ARSON "You lot of separator milk to the whole! ovules to the mature state, ready es a will of this sort|er man, each day until the change has been entirely made. The calf may 'have the separator or skimmed milk un- til it reaches six months of age or even longer. Greac care should exercised at feeding times that the calves are kept separate, so that they will not acquire the hgebit of sucking cach others ears, e The calf should have access to early cut hay or second crop, also in of a mixture composed of the ollowing: Corn and cob mea!, 100 pounds; ground oats, 100 pounds; bran, 100 pounds; linseed oil meal, 50 pounds. Every precaution should be taken in keeping the calf's feed- ing pails clean, also in the temper- ature of the sepzrator and skimmed milk and regularity in feeding. Negligence in this will mean im- pairing of the health of the calf. The general complaint against growing calves is scours.,the cause of this being due to what has al- ready been explained in this para- - grapb. . CONDITION FOR LAYING. | A hen must have some fat in her body to be in the best laying con- is..withou 'phave 'all-ahé. wante: to sat of the grain at least once, and preferably twice a day, with meat scraps and ground grain in a hopper where she can help herself at all times. The grain should be fed in a litter morn- ing and night, where the hens will m be required zo work for what they get. Exercise appears to be neces- sary for the best results. Activity results in beeping the animal in better health... bere is a very good explana tion of thé reason why the hen f egg is the first part to be formed and that 64 per cent. of the dry mgiter is t ly from surplus fat in the body. Only the surplus energy of the fow] will be stored in the body in the form of fat; hence it is that to form eggs, the ovules may be reabsorbed through injury, starva- tion or sickness. We therefore see the importance of giving the right may continue to develop the ovules normally from the surplus fat, and improper feeding, which may pre- vent the fowls from developing the ovules, and thus be unproductive. VALUE OF CLOVER HAY. In the past horse feeders have not understood the value of clover ay. Olover should constitute one of the main course. roughages for horses. It has been found to be produce heaves and other respira- tory troubles when fed in a dusty or otherwise unclean condition. se objections-do not apply to clover which is cut at the right time, properly cured, afd free from dust and mold. Moldy clover wii! often cause acute indigestion and even Those who do not care to dition. To accompli 7 ~mmaking the fowl 'overfat we mu feed a rat ; as properly com- > meat a table food, and allow the t}feed_ strsight clover will find that ade of light clover mixed ve better results than tim- othy, and there is.no..good it, should..nat.bhe..used sively. ~ MADE ASSASSINS BY CHANGE " COMMON PRACHCE .IN AN- ARCHIST CIRCLES. eide Who Shall Carry Out the Deed. In the first week of the present year the Paris police found lying in the Rue Brancion the dead L dy of a youth named Guillion. He had six knife wounds, while three re- volver bullets bad penetrated the body. Next day they arrested a young Apache named Diard, who boldly confessed himself the mur- derer. He declared that Guillion deserved his fate, for that twelve mouths previously he illed a member of their gang named Met- rich. He went on to tell how he and others of the gang had met in a cafe and played billiards to decide whe should have the honor of car- rying out the sentence. e won, and. going outside, had seen his victim coming up the street, and k:.led him at once. In police records of different countries you will find many sim- ilar cases. In Anarchist circles it is a cummen practice, when the death of some public personage has been decided upon, to leave the choice of executioner to let. Twelvo years ago a young Rus- sian nained Ivan Denisewitch join- ed the Nihilist club known as the Circle of the Iron Oath. The oath binds ali members to absolute ob- edience under penalty of death at the hands of their comrades. During the following year a plot was formed to kill the Czar, and lots were drawn to determine which member should undertake the assessinacion. THE F..c Atl. ELACK PELLET was drawn by young Denisewitch. Time ari reflection had destroy- ed his first ardor, and he revolted at the idea of murder in cold blood. He had money, and, disguising himself, quick!y escaped from Rus- sia and went to the United States. But the poor fellow had not cal- culated cu the terrible powers of bis associates and the skill with which they had woven a network around the world. He was follow- ed to New York, and, realizing his danger, went West, and-opened a barber's shop in San Francisco. A _ two years ago. A man na - erofi was Toand stabbed to death his luxurious wormed himself into the Circle for the purpose -of betraying its mem- bers to the authorities. One day in October last two rag- pickers, Juan Mas and his son, met in a cafe at Barcelona. Both were the worse for liquor, and soon THEY BEGAN TO QUARREL. But after a time they calmed down and began to play dominoes. Pre- sently the son was heard to say: "I've won. Will you do it your- self, or do you want me to do it,?"' The father evidently did not take : s seriously. e Instantly the young man pulled a knife. "All right, if you're a coward, I'm not!" te cried, an stabbed the other to the heart. It appears that the game of dominoes was a duel to decide which should kill himself. A very curious case of a criminal being picked by chance came to light in New York about five years ago. It seems that three young clerks in the Southern Securities Bank made a plan to steal a large sum by means of forging a draft. They met at dinner at a-small re- staurant, ar could not agree which was actually to forge the signature, So they called for a set of poker dice, which are dice with the six higher figures printed on their re- svective sides, and agreed to throw these, the one who threw the low- est to do the forgery. . The lot fell upon the youngest. whose name was Critchett. He car- ried out the forgery successfully and secured tht sum of thirty thou- sand dollars, but was afterwards arrested and confessed. ed SUPERST!ITIOUS JAPANESE. It is doubtful if any syllable in the Japanese language occurs more frequently than "shi." Yet no Jap would willingly use it in the first day of the year, or he will certain- ly have bad luck for the remaining three hundred and sixty-fou.. And in the land of Nippen most peo- ple believe in the evil power of the fox. To his evil eye is attributed all manner of ill-luck. Yet Brer Fex is supposed vo be the servaz! and protector of {mari, one of the gods of old Japan; and more fron a sense of fear than anyt!ing alse, e Japs worship Imari through his guardian spirit the wily fox. Nor would a Japanese child kill a frog, for should they do so, then surely is told by the position of the leaf. Ohappie--"I'd just like to kno what yon mean by being lly and me at once?" righ kind of feed and care so that fowls | 98 also of avoiding irregularity and that the When her ' 2 & young man named Orlando Dex- ter, son of the millionaire founder of the American News Company, was found foully murdered, says Pearson's Weekly. 'The case created an enormous sensation, and the lice of the whole country uni in the at- tempt to discover the assassin. But not eventhe slightest clue was found, and to this day the circum- stances of the crime remain a mys- tery. Mr. Henry Dexter very near- ly went insane from grief, and sor- row, no doubt, shortened his life. He died, and set aside a sum of viction of the murderer of his son. as most other legal documents, but now and then a spice of interest is In order to: prevent his héirs; three whom ishi $25,000--shou! bank notes and publicly burned. to the S8 hant ame, left "to her dear doctor' a When the HOW A CHAPEL LOST $4,500 Another wealthy old maid. w lived in Vienna, was pestered years by requests from her th nephews and three nieces that she would give them portions to enable them to marry. At last she died. will was read it was dition that the nephews should not marry before forty, and the nieces not before thirty. t was more, they were all five to live in the same house, under the care of the eXec- utor, who was to receive a hand- some salary for seeing that the leg- atees obeyed the conditions. in Cheltenham got a nasty shock when they heard the contents of the will of one of the chapel trus- tees, who died in December, 1908. By a codicil he left $500 to the chapel funds for each déacon who attended his funeral. There were nine deacons, but not one of them attended; so instead of the $4,500 by which the chapel been the richer, the legacy was void. WEALTHY BREWER'S WILL. oddly blended in the will of Herr Gottfried Feller, a wealthy brewer of Thun, Germany. He bequeath- to his native town ea sum of no less than $150,000, but accomipan- ied the bequest by the condition | that a certain person whom he dis- wero forced to notify the executors that they could not accept the be: uest and, at the same time. the mest horrible bequest ever made, is to be found in the will of Lieut. de Pap, formerly an officer in a smart regiment of Austrian hussars, who was executea by strangling some few years ago for the murder of his brother. Previous to his execution, the murderer requested that he might be photographed whilst hanging on the gallows, and a copy of the ghastly nicture sent to his father, @ Protestant clergyman, whose sev- erit., he declared, was responsible for the bad courses into whic his son, had fallen. So many wills contain unjust and cruel clauses that an agitation is at present on foot to secure a new Act of Parliament which shall lay down that no child shall be wholly disiyfherited except for an _ ade- quatereason. A law of this kind is already in foree in France. + --___ ~A BULL'S-EYE. Private Potts was not shooting very well. Out-of ten shots he had only hit a target once, and then it e, was the wrong one. The instruc- tor with wrath in his eye. "Come, Potts,' he said; '"'you don't know how to hold a gun. ut it to your shoulder, That's right. Now point it straight at my eye. That's right. Keep it steady. Now press the r very ee, Go on! Hang Sta Wills are usually as deadly dull{t lent by the curious clauses which | I' - : sate by | ued. The deacons of a Baptist chapel he 'don't 'you pull the It's purely a by I gaye-you an relatives }.-""} eo. "dareesions|fathe my dear he laugh afterwards, the worst go r see you "I inte +? jes of the situation. You see I've nly had a bit of ? might have mg | Malevolence and benevolence are 7 liked should not be elected to thej;,, . ear boy}. ' 00 | A iT cle Wher tits:depart- squeamish," proteases r. "If| ure, well pleased with the bargain. your father had been as particular| Conld he have seen the fair Daisy he'd never have a a fortune. | five "mii s later--minus her wig ~ Jabez Sdnerville sat over two puzzled ran as follews: cricket, is it * lo iw, ed, "and > gh. nd to marry oo What is probably the strangest cea "i m falf, re love * » * pmmunications wi on his face.; 3 > a | Daisy "gil means, with my blessing,"' live happily ever It's love that makes ries om you-know. I'll ffer. ofa partner- ; jbut without we "pondering | * with a , is 'The first was signed (Cynthia, Dalmaine, and I understand. from He fo lips. "Dou the you, chap. down adve ae shock. + "Dear Sit, -- your son th§t you wish him to mar- ry a title, abd that-if he refuses to do so you Gil disinherit him. 'Please b@ieve that I am _ en- tirely in syripathy with your de- sires in this 4rection, and you need i apprehend nj opposition on my|day to art."" 'Well, sheftakes it pretty cool- ly,"' hd. ionaire as he finis. ading it for the sec- ond time. 'St it as I said, now that she knowd Harley will not get to be off} his efforts? my money shes eager with him. Y@, somehow, #n-of her I should 1 t she f a girl. ~In fact, if it hadn't be that I want Har- ley to enter ip no girl I wonldj have sooner wel- what I have not have altog@her was that sort ¢ comed tz; "it's loaded!" Bg, thou there from | no is "8 Success at two met in smiling not even io) fabéz donned his smartest hat | haps the gentleman would seek «there, No. 12a. millionaire, determined to exentually ushered oe the pres- = Dai tmorency. ten ee pay "ol other ants, it carries nothing away t attitude upon a sofa, spot fighted cigarette between her red parental perio 2 ' u short as you can, there's a good These touching scenes all right in melodrama, but in real life they are rather bor- ing."' . . Somerville smild grim!y. "Don't _ worry i > r,"' ~4 i to talk I cut him "Noble nturess takes poison--son mar- aristocratic complete the t Montmorency smiled langu "You can cut the poison busi- , sordid know the value of on rth--it is safe to say he would have: experienced an unpleasant It was about two days after his meeting wi Somerville received another anony- mous letter, which unceremonious- ly tumbled his house of cards about his ears, and sent him hurrying in hisspowerful motor car to a church in an out-of-the-way suburb. The communication was to the The fact that the blow unexpected and incomprehensible made it all the harder for the mil- lionairé to bear. Was al scheming to go for nothing, just as . He weuld stop this wedding by hook or by crook. It was to be ter, and he calcula' could get there in time. But when he arrived, hot "Pity earlier, sir,' 8a ably. "The "Very well, sir,'"' spluttered Jab- ez furiously. ouldn't do anything if I could and would be open to a bargain. under -humbler au- 'i She would drive a hard one, no assumed name. §o »| doubt, but Jabez Somerville was a | 5€ y} rich. man, and not particular to a thot or two if hx could get}: ey of her clutches. Ap ition a und her disposed in an e with a btless you have heard of my she good I am sure, cut it as go he rep business. day 'my out of my father foils adventuress ingenue--happy | It only requires leau. au won't be far out,"' the milli man; little you a love like mine! ease an the sofa in a paroxysm IlIl.--THE RESULT. th the actress that Jabez effect Cynthia Dalmaine. was all his had apparently crowned No--a thousand times to the let- that he o'clock accordin fuming, he was the porch by a cool and best man. you couldn't have got here »? said Hector Farquhar ceremony is just "Someone shall suf- "P)}}--P ll--"' : ress-- you've no idea what a splendid wo- soft heart | fle Tl on the sands; but the moment' the vanish underground. 'Their mode of living is very extraordinary. When hatched, they yoracious ly on tiny 'sea 'y In a week or soithele: baaiifes: fecome filled with "these g plamts, and then _|the worms yy refuse ab- solutely to eat , and the 80 | special perfume is jealously guard was a rise i Such a romantic affair, you know; nothing else would t my daughter. She absolutely refused to marry your son unless she money to marry his Cynthia, and tuat clever man. Mr. Farquhar. got him out of the difiealty. And ow do you think he did it? He himself as an. act man he makes--and somehow go ten thousand pounds out of some old fool of a man--éo clever of him, wasn't it?' "Very clever, indeed !" said Jab- ez, grimly, removing his hat to mop his brow.--Pearson's Weekly. ----------~t__ ANTS SCARE ELEPHANTS. of Africa. Africa the most dreaded of anim- als is the great bull-ant. Unlike everything is eaten on the Every kind of beast and reptile-- elephants, lions, gorillas, 8, and man himselfi--flees before this terrible insect. These ants march through the forests in a long thin column, two inches wide and miles in len If they come to an open space where there are no trees to shelter them from the sun, they burrow under- ground and form tunnels, through which they- march on. often takes as long as twelve hours for one of armics to pass. Any creature overtaken it at once attacked with irrestible fury t | institution, and A Terrible Insect in the Forests | tac b In the vast equatorial forests of a f hair on his head, the rd the fact: that his crop of hair is no means ex- cessive, P. 's Weekly. of none of it. Let me appear as I am,{ or don't-let me appear at all, said he in effect, and he had his way. mo embles King George in.many other bes get want ¢ something out of the oman, turn to the German Em- peror. In its-day it has drooped down and stoéd out as if cut in marble, worn it looks a very fierce monarch indeed with his present style of mous- i his ful when he did sha es | iked his beard no better than the Empress. If you want to know the name of the monarch who owned the most magnificent moustache, pameé nel ef Italy. His was somet like a moustache, as may be Ps 3 ed from the fact that one of his pet amusements was to tle the ends ef it behind his neck. ' But, alas! King Victor a light brown one, but it occurred to him that light brown was ha a warlike colar, 80 resorted the dye pot, black one, or, rown. ; to. and instantly devoured. The strong- est andthe weakest, the most remain. Certain barbarous tribes, when a man is condemned for witchcraft, fasten him to a tree and leave him to the ants. When they have pass- < a skeleton alone is left to e tale. --_____. WHEN THE WORM TURNS. The strangest animal in the world is a litthe green worm founel on the coasts of Brittany and Nor- mandy. On a fine, warm day, when the tide goes out, myriads of these "convoluta paradoxa'"' can be seen incoming tide touches them- they labor of-nourishing them is thrown on the plants. The little green plants live inside the worms, just in the same way as outside, getting their food from the air which is digested by the worms. But, age advances, the plants cannot keep up withthe demands of their} osts. Then the worms turn on their guests, and devour them all. But this seals their fate. They are teolazy to feed in'the regular way, and 'go thiy qnickly cie'of starva- tion. PERFUMES FOR ROYALTY. What are the perfumes favored by Royalty? Inthe British.Court "Ess Bouquet' '-is probably © the first favorite, and has been-so siitce about 1829. e recipe for - this ed by the manufacturer, all that he, admits is that it is compos- ed of amber, mixed with essences of rose, violet, jasamine, orayge- flowers, and lavender. 'sve Queen of' Roumania, Carmen Syl- va, has also a sécret perfume, dis- tilled, it is said, from flowers found in the heart of a forest, to which none but the Queen's flowér-gath- erers are admitt Rerhaps the greatest lover.of scents is the Tsar- ina of Russia, who uses a great quantity of violets, and her apart- ments are daily sprinkled with the essences of yarious flowers. While the Queen of Holland uses nothing but eau-de-Cologne. ; AS INSTRUCTED. "Y'd like you to help me a little," said a vagrant, ing his head in- to a coll the , ain: Sanustache' € is then quite the f man. But if he goes Sut of his own coun nd any great stache al finds the Kin of, Spain is hard work just now raising &@ mo WHAT THE SULTAN WEARS. The Sultan of Turkey has a beard although you will not see a por- trait of him with a beara on show. He had only a-moustache when he came to one at the ica- tion of Abdul Hamid, the former Sultan. " Had the present Sultan worl a beard in the palmy days of Abdul Hamid he would certainly not have been reigning to-day, as itis not etiquette for a Moslem prince to wear a beard. He may wear & moustache if he likes, but never a beard, and had old Abdul Hamid ince wearing a beard, seen any pri ; and so breaking the laws of strict 23 | etiqnette--well, the Bosphorus was aly handy, and anyone who of- fended Abdul was dipped into the avater, but unfortunately no one téok the trouble to fish tne offend- ing') out again. ; fe pein t lies in this--if a Mos- lem prince wears a beard he will at once be suspected of having de- signs on the throne, and to be suspected is not heaithy in Turk- ey. . ~ And once a Sultan has grown.-a "heard it never comes off. It would -be infra dig. for a Sultan to shave himself, of course, and most de- cidedly no Sultan would trust him- self to a Turkish barber, as that would perhaps amount to a case ot deliberate and intentional suicide. ------_--__ TO AN AUTHORITY. A eountty schoolmaster was ¢X- iyicg his class. If + carpenter wants to cover & ro? Set. by (Oft. with boards Sit. bio.d and 10it. long, how maay will he want?' asked the school- ok mas' A new boy took up his hat andl made for the door. . 'Where are you off to?" asked} ter. : "To find a pater y " replied the boy. "He, ought mow bet- ter than us féilers." IT USUALLY I8. 1 "Where are you going for your) e}summer vacation?' ' "Don't know yet. But I gu forty it will be same from a bath tub.'* Emanu ". ae dyed his moustache; it was ane re mani a at any rate, adark -_ * may be given--King biggeedle o r om '