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NOTES cSsvnz Alfalfa la a perennial , A pure bred bull la beat Mongrel fowls are expensive. Light in tbe barn la essential. Horses with tender feet need much attention. Tbe wheel hoe saves a lot of back breaking boelng. Good roads Increase values because they make values. Good pasture Is Invaluable In grow ing pigs successfully. Cut straw is the best for bedding, MKD0WBR00K FARM V u v . f M irST U 0 MLS ff -M - i OSSIBLY after Wash lngton, and to many re spect! before him, there la no American whose personal character baa produced as profound an impression upon tbe peo ple of the age In which be lived as was achieved by Robert E. Lee. Washington was the embodiment of tbe act ive energy and zeal that carried to a successful conclusion the war that established tbe Inde pendence of the Ameri can republic fatniK Henry, by his fiery oratory, aroused the American people to tbe pitch of excitement and Interest that made them ready lor revo lution. Jefferson, Adams and franklin formulated the doctrines and principles up on which tbe movement was to be based, but when it came to taking up arms Wash ington was the moving and governing torce. He was a man of strong and positive cour age, who made enemies as well as friends, but, despite open opposition and secret treason, he carried with hlra the great body of the people and brought a seven-years' war to a successful Issue and close. Hut the tribute that is paid to Washington is more of admiration than of love, and per haps the greatest act In his entire career was bis Btern and determined rejection and casting aside of the crown which his vic torious army had offered him. Colonel Henderson, the great Kngllsn critic of strategy, author of a famous life of Stonewall Jackson, in a commentary on the wonderful achievements and character of Lee, quotes a line In Latin from Lucan's poem of Pharsalla "Victrix causa dels placult, sed vlcta Catoni" ("The cause of the conqueror was favored by the gods, but our hearts were with Cato, who upheld the cause of the conquered.") Such, at least, is the meaning freely translated, and aa time goes, on more and always more hearts are with Lee. A notable evidence of this Is seen in a succession of articles on "The Hattle of the Wilderness," In the Atlantic Monthly Mag azine, from the pen of General Morris Schaff, of the I'nited States army, who wag an ordnance officer at the time, and was actively engaged in the Held during Grant's campaign against Lee In tbe Spottsylvanla WilderneBS. Says General Schaff In the Atlantic: "What was it that so animated Lee's army that, although only about one half as strong in numbers as we were, they fought us to a standstill in tbe Wilderness, and held their lines at Spottsylvanla, although we broke them several times? What sus tained their fortitude as they battled on, month after month, through that summer, showing the same courage day after day, till tbe times and seasons of tbe Confed eracy were fulfilled?" He answera his own 'question by declar ing that It was Lee's wonderful personality tnat wrought an almost magic in fluence on his army. "Men," said Bonaparte, "are nothing; a man is everything." Says the writer in the Atlantic: "In looking for the source of Lee's personal Influence, we have to go back, I think, to the inher ited habit of respect which the people of the Bouth paid to social position. It was not born of a feeling of subservience, however, for the poorest 'cracker' bad an unmistakable and unself-consclous dignity about blra. He always walked up to and faced tbe highest with an air of equality. No, this latent respect was a natural response on the part of men of low estate to good manners, and oft-displayed sympathy. Lee, by his connection through birth and marriage with tbe most distinguished and best families of Virginia, represented the superior class. Moreover, that be was a Lee of Virginia, and by marriage the head of the Washington fam- Destroy tbe little weeds. Good dairymen keep no dogs. . Horses can be pastured on alfalfa. The right kind of seed is naif the crop. Kill the small weeds and there will be no big ones. 7 l ington. and In many re- t-. I , aS . 4 Jiff. V WAkltTZ TJWHt'LV.M II w m m conclusion the war that f M IMWMm- kJ ily, had, from one end of the south to the other, a weight which the present commercial, mammon-worshipping age knows or cares but little about. "Again, nature In one of her moods had made him the balanced sum, In manners and looks, of that tradition of the well bred and aristocratic gentleman, transmitted and ingrafted at an early age through tbe cavaliers into Virginia life. But for his military prowess he had something vastly more efficacious than ancestry or tilling the mold of well-bred traditions. He had the generative quality of simple, effective greatness; In other words, be bad an unspotted, serenely lofty char acter, whose qualities were reactive, reaching lee ' every private soldier, and making him uncon sciously braver and better as a man. Bo It la easy to see "how the south's ideal of tbe soldier, the Christian and the gentleman unfolded, and was realin-d in him as the war went on. His army was made up chiefly of men of low estate, but the truth is that it takes the poor to see ideals. "Taking Into account, then, these, two mysteri ous yet real forces, religion and exalted character, we have all the elements, 1 think, for a complete answer to the question we have raised." General Schaff's explanation Is probably too metaphysical and complicated when given In de tail. The simple fact Is that the great general had gained the absolute confidence of his. men. He had always led them to victory; he had never been defeated, never driven from the field, no matter how great the odds against him. Then there was his noble, generous and self-sacrificing disposition, always caring for bis men and al ways sharing with them their privations and bard, ships. This made tbem love him. There was Stonewall Jackson, an Iron man, with no tenderness In his disposition, no gentleness towards friends or enemies, and one of the fiercest fighters In the world. In religion General Jack son was like the grim old Covenanters of Crom well's time. He was never beaten, and be had gained the absolute confidence of bis men, who fully believed that when he led them to battle It was to victory, and so they Idolized him, but In a way totally different from their love for Lee, but no less devotedly. In each case It was character that won and controlled their men. Lee and Jack son stood for honor, truth, fidelity to principle and for unflinching courage In behalf Vf what they believed was right. It was so with Washing ton and. Lincoln; it is so with every man who gains and holds the respect of the people who know him, and without character no man or woman can secure any honorable love and regard. Chicks raised In brooders are not .bothered with lice. Grass was never more welcome to cows than this spring. Broiler prices are somewhat better than they were last month. It Is well to assume when chickens are dying that tbe disease Is conta glous. Put a slatted frame over the drink' ing trough and the water will be kept cleaner. The early spring chicken catches the good price. Raise early spring chickens. Plant good seeds. Poor seeds are dear, no difference what price you pay for them. Get the Incubator at work on broiler crop as early as possible, lay means loss. tbe De- No Incubator can make good hatches from poor eggs, that is, those lacking in fertility. Thus A Flag Was Born eZIIZ:1 :.Conf;d? The recent death of Gen. W. T. Cabell ("Old Tige"), former com mander of the Trans-Mississippi De partment of Confederate Veterans, re calls the fact that be had supervision of the making of the first Confederate flag. His interview, given several years ago, made public for the first first time the true history of the "stars and bars." He was one of the first United States army officers to send in his resignation when the Civil War be gan, and he left the service under flat tering prospects for promotion. "When the Confederate army, com manded by General Beauregard, and the Federal army confronted each oth er at Manassas," said General Cabell In regard to the adoption of a Con federate flag, "It was seen that the flag being used by tbe Confederates and the stars and stripes looked at a distance so much alike that it was hard to distinguish one from the other. General Beauregard, believing that se rious mistakes might be made in rec ognizing our troops, after the battle of July 18, at Blackburn Ford, ordered that a small red badge should be worn on the shoulder by our troops, and, as I was chief quartermaster, or dered me to distribute flannel to the .regiments, the men placing the red badges on their shohuldera. "In the battle xf Bull Run It was seen that federal soldiers wore sim ilar badges. Generals Johnston and Beauregard met at Fairfax Courthouse in. the latter part of August or early In September and determined to have a battle flag for every regiment or de-! tached command that could be easily recognized and easily carried. I was telegraphed to come at once to Fair- blue St Andrew's cross and stars on the cross to represent the different Southern states. General Beaure gard's was a rectangle; red with blue WW' ':' fax Courthouse. I found Generals Johnston and Beauregard in the tat ter's office discussing the kind of flag that should be adopted. . . "General Johnston's flag was In the shape of an ellipse; a red flag with St- Andrew's cross and white, stars, similar to General Johnston's. "After we had fully discussed the two styles, It was decided tho ellipti cal flag would be tbe harder to make; that It would take more cloth, and that it could not be seen so plainly at a distance; tbat the rectangular flag suggested by General Beauregard should be adopted. General Johnston yielded. "No one else was present but we three. No one knew about tbe flag but we three until an order was Is sued adopting the Beauregard flag, as it was called, and directing me, as chief quartermaster, to have tbe flags made as soon as it could be done. I Immediately asked the women of the South to give me their red and blue silk dresses and send them to Capt. Collin McRae Selph, quartermas ter at Richmond, Va., where be was as sisted by. the Misses Carey of Balti more, Mrs. ' Hennlngsen of Savannah and Mrs. Hopkins of Alabama. The Misses Carey made flags for General Beauregard and General . Van Dora, and I believe for Gen. J. E. Johnston. They made General Beauregard's flag out of their own silk dresses. The flag now is In Memorial Hall, New Or leans. General Van Dorn's flag was made cf a heavier material, but very pretty." ' ' 8oUnd Like It. ' "I am sure that cave exhibition Is a fake." "How do you knowf "Because It la bound to be a hol low show." . ..- Classy. Tour young man is an instructor lq athletics, Isn't he?" . "Yes; he's my gym dandy." ' Crocodiles and Sleeping Sickness So that be could make a thorough study of sleeping sickness, its causes and effects. Doctor Koch braved the dangers of an African swamp and spent eighteen months investigating the disease. He lived during tbat time near Lake Victoria Nyanxa. h was convinced that the insects that canse the disease live off the ffve' t. They suck the blood from 1 l t'i aruor f'ales en the horny monsters. Then when ft man draws near they shift for easier prey. A 'man bitten by one of them is poisoned and In few months will sleep to b't death. . Doctor Koch believes that the way to rid the world of this deadly insect Is to kill all the crocodiles; then the chief source of sustenance for them v ould be gone and the insects would die as a result Went to Prison for Friend. One of the greatest Instances of self-sacrifice the -world has known was made about SO years ago in Eng land. It was known that one of two poachers had killed a gamekeeper. Finally one admitted his guilt Twice be was sentenced to death, but the petitions from friends were so strong that he finally was given a respite and sentenced to prison for life. After 30 years be was released. Tbe other poacher was dead, and then it was that tbe real secret came out The innocent poacher said he con fessed to the murder because tbe oth er msn was married and bad a fam ily, while be had none. , , to a Nerve Exhaustion. . "So Cholly Sorted has gone sanitarium?" ' : "Tea, broke down from overwork." "How did that bappenr "Selected two new suits and bis bulldog's sweater the same forenoon, and the strain was too much for bis re serve force." More incubator batches are spoiled by the anxiety of the operator than from any other one cause. Lard, vaseline and enough sulphur to make a paste makes a good rem edy for sorehead In chicks. Vegetables delight In having a warm deep, rich and mellow soil, and will pay generously for the privilege. Lice feed on the young chickens that Is one great reason that they fall to make the growth they should. Carefulness in dressing poultry pays for tbe extra pains taken. Tbe pin feathers must all be removed. There is genuine satisfaction in own ing thoroughbred stock and they cost no more to feed. Go In for the best Worry along without a trap nest, but keep your eyes open for the best layers, and set their eggs next spring. A little ground charcoal mixed with tbe chicks' feed now and then will help keep away digestive troubles. Three rules for success in garden ing are: Freedom from weeds, thin ning out, and keeping the ground mel low. .''.' With reasonably good seed and a fairly well prepared seed bed, about 20 pounds of alfalfa seed is required per acre. . t If tbe breeders are in poor condi tion you will get many eggs tbat do not hatch well or tbat produce puny chickens. A box of lime, earth and ashes is welcomed by tbe fowls. They need dust bath even when the snow Is still In the, yards. It is claimed by some onion grow ers tbat carbolic acid emulsion gives satisfactory results in fighting tbe onion maggot Nitrate of soda Is tbe, most quickly available source of nitrogen for plants, but buyers should steer clear, of low grade nitrate. Crimson clover makes fairly good ensilage, but, like all plants rich in pro tein, it develops a. strong and rather objectionable odor. . A tight wire fence around your gar den will do more to promote harmony between neighbors wbo keep chickens than anything else. . Strongly fertile eggs from good healthy stock will often batch well and produce good chickens under un favorable conditions. . ' . Government reports state that more up-to-date agricultural machinery has been sold the last ten year than dur ing any previous ten years. - , It is not safe to pasture eitber cat tle or eneep on alfalfa, as they are li able to bloat when it is fed green. Feed tbem tbe hay or practice soiling. As the price of land Increases the condition of the manner of farming must change, provided, of course, one has to make interest on the money Talue of the land. - Cotton seed meal used in small amounts with a bunch of feeding cattle almost invariable serves to make bet ter gain at a smaller cost than the straight corn feeding. . 1 y A bone cutter will surely pay for Itself. Green cut bone supplies the ben with ability to produce eggs, nourishes ber feathers and keeps ber in general good health. If you save the manure. If zinc Is burned with the coal it will clear the chimney of soot Are the plow-lays sharp, and all the tools in first-class shape T Two Utters of pigs year is about what the best sows will do. He that abusetb his colts may ex pect to be kicked by bis hones. Sifted coal ashes are better than plaster for the striped squash bug. Jerking the bit and yelling confuse a borse and advertise blockhead. Out buildings, unpalnted fences and rubbish heaps may be hidden behind vines. Equal parts of earn and oats are hard to excel aa a grain feed for sheep. Provide plenty of pure water, sun shine, range and green forage cross for sheep. A flock that gets bone meal and oy ster shell will have few cases of leg weakness. Look out for the yearling colts. Don't let them get a setback as spring approaches. Sore mouth will sometimes attack sheep In pens and run through the entire flock. During an extra cold spell of weather add a little corn to the sow's grain ration. Small seeds and finely cracked grain are a better feed for the small chick than wet mashes. Never breed a nervous, high-strung sow that Is ready to Jump and run at the drop of a bat The fewer sows kept together dur ing the breeding season and until far rowing time, tbe better. Of all fowls ducks are the easiest to raise. The eggs are more fertile than those of any other fowl. Cold weather is not much of a detri ment to chickens, providing It Is dry cold and the atmosphere pure. The geese should be laying at their best now, and this Is, also, the month In which turkeys begin to lay. , For tbe majority of vegetables, soil of a sandy nature is best, provided, there is a good sub-soil for drainage. Oatmeal, rolled oats, hard-boiled eggs or stale bread soaked In milk and squeezed dry are excellent chick rations. . If all the Implements were cleaned and painted last fall, a great deal of time will be saved when you must "get busy." . A good way to disinfect a brooder Is to open it wide, take out the hover and let the sun get at the Inside through the day. Making the drinking water slightly red with permanganate of potash has often been found to prevent tbe spreading of roup. . A good way to test a chick food Is to place a small quantity on a dish before some husky chicks and note what they leave of it - A 100-egg brooder may be large enough for 100 chicks when first hatched, but It will not be many days before that number will crowd It Encourage tbe plga to exercise by putting the feed some little distance from the sleeping quarters, If it can not be done in any other manner. Poultry manure should be partially dried before storing in order to pre vent fermentation setting In. thus avoiding the escape of the ammonia. Look out for a collar that rubs a lap of flesh at every stride of the horse. It Is liable to wear a gall on bis neck. and much sooner sometimes than suspected. One of the greatest mistakes made by mare owners is the frantic at tempt to produce draft stock from light marea at first cross with big stallions.' There Is no better or cheaper way of growing hogs than to paature tbem on alfalfa, One acre will furnish pas turage for from ten to twenty hogs per season. An old horseman says that the chief cause of colic, in horses, or the cause of the largest per cent of these cases, Is brought through . long abstinence from water. ,- . . Men of moderate means should start the improvement of their cattle through the purchase, of a pure bred bull and gradually grow Into the breeding of pure bred animals. No one can afford to raise plga that refuse to fatten or that are frequently off teed. In this case the correction may often be made before tbe pigs are farrowed. It is very apt to 41s with the handling of the brood sow. " WOMEN MUST STOP DRINKING If Weaker Sisters Wish to Retain Standing In Business World Must Quit All Dissipation. Dr. Clarence K. Vliei, wbo for years has been making a study of the neu rotic conditions of women suffering nervous troubles, caused by artificial stimulation, has increased 75 per cent. "If women wish to keep their stand Ing In the buslnesa world they mustl top aping men's dissipations," said) Dr. Vllet "They must stop working; on tbe artificial stimulation of alcohol! and tobacco. ' Women have always been fascinated! by the freedom men enjoy, and toft certain extent copied their pleasures and pastimes, but never have they participated In their dissipations as they are doing. - "The danger In this does not lie so much with tbe woman at borne as with tbe woman who goes into a busi ness and Is continually out In the world. The borne woman Influences certain restricted set: tbe one In the' business world Influences by ber example, hundreds of others. "By the business womsn I d not mean tbe stenographer (and tbe small salaried person. These cannot afford the dissipations that undermine not only the physique but fhe mind. - I refer to the highly paid secretary, to the woman wbo holds an executive position, to the women In many pro fessions who gained their positions by ability and a good fight "These' women are of Independent means. Tbey no longer defer to the wishes of men ss to their conduct and, having taken a drink now and then for stimulation when tired, have fallen Into the habit of drinking with luncheon. 'This means the women who do this also drink with their dinners, for It Is not an Infrequent thing for women to resort to the morning bracer before breakfast "Smoking Is another habit women are getting Into .that la bad for tbem. If not from the moral, at least from the physical standpoint The combina tion of smok'.ng and drinking among women Is bound to result seriously. I believe absolutely tbat If such habits continued women wl'.l lose the high place tbey have attained. Many business women do not mar ry because they cannot on account of their habits. Men have established their Ideals of womanhood, and when In their everyday association , with women they see such a disregard for tbe things tbey consider a womanly woman's, if tbat woman marries she must take a man who la, not mentally her equal. There bas been much cry among women about a single standard of morals. Tbe attainment of tbia lies much In the woman's work. It .she demanJc a higher standard from the stead of doing that she down to bis level." Is comlnt PATHETIC CASE IN NEW YORK Graduate of University of Dublin, Ar rested for Drunkenness, Is Dis charged by Magistrate, When Owen B. McGulnness, fifty- eight, of 249 West Forty-seventh street, was arraigned ' before Magis trate House in the night court charg ed with disorderly conduct while in toxicated, the magistrate recognized an old friend wbo, 20 years ago, waa one of the best-known orators in New York, says the New Tork Sun. Rubin S. Lane, a lawyer, appeared to press tbe charge, and when McGulnness apologized the lawyer refused to ac cept It Then Magistrate House said: "Counsellor, this man is one of the best-educated men in this city. I've no hesitation In declaring , In open court .that I would be glad to know as much aa be knows Twenty years ago the-name of Owen McGulnness was one to conjure with. He had a bright future before blm, and he might have held a high position if he bad left rum alone. ' "I feel sorry for him. He met men of power and influence and was led Into temptation through bis efforts to be a good fellow. He cannot resist drink, and now be is a wreck. Think of a brain like be possesses being numbed with alcohol! "Counsellor, this genius, for be waa a genius, is down, and why do you want to kick him? He la our peer In the matter of learning. I respect him In hiJ misfortune. With all bla ability be baa not the will power to fight the demon, rum. Oh, the pity of it! I have broad powers In a case like this, and I'm going to exercise them. Sentence suspended." ' The prisoner, threadbare, ; gray haired and unshaven, bowed his bead and wept The lawyer hurriedly left, and there were many dimmed eyes . in the courtroom as the one-time po litical orator shuffled out - Magistrate House said later that McGulnness was graduated from the University of Dublin, - Scotland's Drink Bill. When we compare Scotland's drink bill for 1903 with 1910 we are sur prised at the enormous reduction with- -in the period. In 1901 Scotland was spending on liquor fit 12s 2d per head, but' in 110 it bad fallen to 1 1 13a 2d 19s less per bead than in 1903. That Is to say, Glasgow saved over v 800,000, and Edinburgh over 800. 000. - None of .that money went into the drink trader Everybody's .Month-. 1 Lowers Resisting Power. :. ' Prof. Taav Laitmen, at the Interna- -tlonal Congress held in London, gave an account of bla original expert- . ments, which proved that alcohol un mistakably lowered the resisting pow er of the blood against disease, thus' attributing givater Immunity to abstainers.
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