THE AGE OF A HORSE.
Much Experience Required to Tell [1
and. Mainly Things Have to Be
‘ Carefully Considered,
To distinguishmerely between the
young horse and the old, it is only
necessary to remember a few salient
facts. The first is that the milk teeth
are present in the horse's mouth until
he is between four and five years old.
The second fact is that the “mark,” or
dark central depression on the surface
of the incisors, becomes gradually
worn out, and in a. horse over eight
years old has nearly alWays disappeared
from the teeth of the lower jaw. The
third fact is that the shape of the tooth
is much wider from side to side
than it is from front to back. As the
horse becomes older the surface be-
comes progressively narrower, from
side to side, and thus, instead of re-
maining always oblong, it becomes tri-
angular, and then in very old animals
flattened from side to side.
In young horses, then, we judge the
age by observing which of the milk
teeth are present and which have been
.replaced by permanent ones. To dis-
tinguish between the milk teeth and
thepermanent, remember that the milk
teeth are smaller, whiter and have a
distinct neck. Until a colt is over two
years old his’teeth are all milk teeth,
and the age is estimated from the
amount of wear shown on the crowns
'of the teeth. Between two and three
.the first of the permanent teeth make
their appearance, and push out the
middle two teeth in both upper and
lower jaws. - A horse is said to be three
years old when these central perma-
nent incisors are fully in wear. Dur-
ing the next summer the second pair
of permanent teeth appear, and when
they are fully grown and in wear, the
horse is four years old. Between four
and five the last pair made their ap-
pearance, and now the horse has what
is called a full mouth. So for both
mares and horses are alike, but at or
near five years old the canines, or “tush-
es,” appear in the male sex only. Up
to the end of this period the determina-
tion of the age is a comparatively easy
matter, and anyone who is‘ at all 0b—
servant can readily give the age
horses by looking at their teeth. After
a full mo uth is attained it is a more diffi-
cult matter, and the difficulty is greater
in proportion to their age. So much is
this the case that it is popularly sup—
posed that it is impossible to tell the
age of horses after they are eight years
old. This may be true to a great ex—
tent among the untrained and inex-
perienced, but to an expert it is not dif-
ficult to tell the age up to 15 years with-
a fair degree of accuracy, and after
that age to approximate it within a
couple of years.
careful inspection of all the visible in—
dications of age. To rely upon one only.
such as tlle.“1nark,” is to court defeat.
All should be observed the mark, the
shape of the teeth, their length and the
angle at which they meet those of the
other iaw.—Pall Mall Gazette. .
of.
rl‘o do this success-.
fully requires much experience and a
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MOVABLE ’HOd‘CfiUTE.
.A. Homciuade Co-n-tlrivunce That Saves
Ti ring and Probable Overheat-
ing by Driving.
Any farmer can, in a few- hours, make
a. chute that can be moved to the pen
where hogs are. to be loaded. and thus
save tiring and probably overheating
by driving. To make 'a chute as illus-
trated, take two fence posts split as
' in Fig. 1 (a), and trim ends similar to
a. sled runner, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2
and the diagram in upper left-hand
[7/6. 2.
LOADING HOGS MADE EASY.
corner. Place them as far apart as you
wishwidth of Chute and. fasten as. shown
by b and c, and cross braces. A cross
section of piece b is shown; this is to
lay front end- ‘of. floor on. Piece e
should be heavy enough to drag chute‘
by; both pieces (b and c) should be
securely fastened to posts or runners.
Nail boards for uprights, as shown by
ccc on each side to a, and saw notches
on two sets to receive cross pieces for
floor. The highest point on the chute
floor should. be as high as the wagou-
floor. Lay floor on the cross pieces and
nail boards'to c; then nail boards to a
011 outside of chute to brace it, and with
some pieces of wire across the top at
each end to prevent spreading, you are
ready to load hogs without-tiring them,
for they have no chance to get away.—
G. A. Howey, in Farm and Home.
Relative Importance of Letters.
To those who have never considered
the subject it might appear that each
THE uovs OF A POET.
Who wouldn't be a poet! Ilikeit, don’t you
know. _ , 9 5
To have the people point me out wherever
I may go.
I've got at Henry Irving stride, a. nickel-
plated stare .
Which makes me look distinguished with
my wipsy-wonsy hair.
The ladies call me “clever," say my lines
are “cute" and “nice,"
But somehow with the business men I cut
but little ice. .
To-day a father Warned his son as in their
store I went: -
"Dere comes a. boat. Shakey; don’t, you
trust him for a cent!"
Betimes I am invited to recite a few re-
ceipts ' .
At banquets where I have my fill of all the
choicest meats. , '
These dinners cost me nothing,
dress—suit I must get ,
To wear on each occasion keeps me very
much in debt.
I’ve written for the Hentury. for Carper’s.
and the rest, '
I've burned 'a. lot of midnight oil and given
them my best, ,
I’ve forwarded (with stamp inclosed) my
precious rhymes and then
For every half-a—dozen sent full six came
back again. .
but the
Of all my crosses women who keep board-
ers are the worst;
In reading human-nature they seem very
strangely versed. ,
They state the price of board per week and
ere I have a chance-
To say a. word they always add: “And six
months in advance."
,But genius always suffers. ' So I try to be
content:
I’m quite a. second Homer, for he never had
a. cent. ,
And come to think of it I‘ve got the best of
him, you see,
For I’ve heard lots of Homer, but he never
heard of me.
~Nixon W'aterman, in L. A. W. Bulletin.
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the burning oi Elliot’s.
WWW
ENNE
EWH
IXON must have informed on them,
The government detective could nev:
erhavefound theirwell-hiddencenter of
operations without the aid of one in the
secret of the mountain paths and the
cave so cunningly hidden away. They
had always distrusted Dixon. He was
not a. mountaineer born, but had come
among them several years before, had
married a mountain girl and entered
letter is of equal importance in the ginto the moonshining industry with a
formation of words, but the relative zeal that should have left nothing to be
proportions requiredin theEnglish lan- E desired. But in spite of all this the
iguage are these: A, 85; b, 16; c, 30; d,
44; e, 120; f, 25; g, 17; h, 64; i, 80; j,4;
k, 8; l, 40; m, 30; n, 80; o, 80; p, 17; q,
5; r, 62; s, 80; t, 90; u, 34; v, 12; w, 20-;
x, 4; y, 20; z, 2. It is this knowledge
of how frequently one letter is used
compared with others that enables
crpytogram readers to unravel so many
mysteries. .,
Philippine \Vedding Cnst'on'i‘.‘
When a Philippine woman of better
class gets married she- sometimes wears
as her wedding dress a costume of na-
tive manufacture that reaches in value
up into four figures. It takes months
to make a handkerchief or a sleeve, so
microscopic and delicateis the fabric.
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SALT RHEUM A DISEASE THAT
BESPEAKS BAD BLOOD.
A Painful and Modifying Disorder
That Can Be cured.
Salt rheum makes its appearance on
,‘various parts of the bgdy. White,
' scabby eruptions appear. These crack
7 and turn to painful and unsightly sores.
Salt rheum signifies but one thing—
that the blood is terribly depraved.
Where salt rheum is manifest externally,
one may be sure that more grave symp-
toms of the disease are making their appearance
v‘ . unseen. Any of the great organs of the body
are liable, and often are, seriously affected. Most any form of illness is apt to set
in, and unless some radical measures are adopted to purify the blood, a. life of long,
continual invalidism, or untimely death, is sure to result.
There is but one way to make the blood pure and that way is to take Smi ’s
Green Mountain Renovator It cleanses the blood in a. most thorough manner. It
makes this important fluid pure and rich. At the same time it gives tone to the
stomach and enables it to get sufficient nourishment from the food to build up the body. '
All of the internal organs are strengthened and enabled to perform their work as they
should. Impurities of the blood and disease cease. Health then surely follows.
Smith’s Green Mountain Renovator does cure quickly and in a marvelous manner.
It is purely vegetable in its composition and is not like many secret uostrums that are
on the market,for thisanedicine is the result of a discovery made by Dr. Mack, the
famous Scotch physician. The Renovator is manufactured to-day by the St. Albans
Remedy Co. in exactly the same manner as Dr. Mack made it. over forty years ago.
So sure are its manufacturers that it will accomplish all they claim for it that they sell
every bottle under a guarantee and always refund the money if the patient is not thor-
oughly satisfied. .
One case of hundreds that are continuallv coming to put noticg'where salt rheum
was cured, is the following, from Cynthia Y‘lclnlzlillg, Georgia, Vt., who writes: “ I
was afflicted with salt rhcunl from childhood. I could not use my hands or my feet.
The disease spread to my head so that my sight was nearly
destroyed. Had tried many different remedies, without
getting relief. At last Dr. R. K. Clark of Grand Isle,
Vt., advised that I should at least try Smith‘s Green
Mountain Renovator. I took it faithfully and I
am able to say that it effected a complete cure in
sixteen weeks’ time.”
With diseases of not so long.r standing, a. care '
is brought about in a. much shorter period. For
all ills that are the result of impure blood or
broken down nerves, do not hesitate to take .
this grandest of all remedies. The
R money will be refunded if
the Renovator'
fails to
.V do all that
is claimed
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traces of suspicion still lurked about
him, and more than one of the distillers
denounced in strong terms the im-
pulse that had prompted them to let
him into their confidence.
Now their worst fears had been real-
ized. The still had been raided, the
‘ men caught at work were taken away
prisoners, and the fortunate few who
; were elsewhere at the time of the raid
‘ were left to stare blankly at the ruins,
’ and then to look into each other’s eyes
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and swear vengeance on the informer.
The punishment was decided upon in-
stantly, Without a minute’s hesitation
or a dissenting voice; the only thing
that remained for them to do was the
drawing of the lots to decide who
should apply the torch to the little cab-
in where Dixon and his family were
sleeping soundly, all unconscious of
the awful fate that every moment
brought nearer.
As they stepped forward one by one
to draw lots, the character and thoughts
of each might almost be read in his
face 21nd action. One might well shrink
from the pitiless sternness that showed
in the faces of the majority. Here and
there was one who ~looked relieved
when he found that he had drawn a
’ blank, and that the job had not fallen to
his share.
At length someone said: “Now, Haw-
kins, it’s your turn. Take your pull.”
And in odbcdienoe to the summons a
tall, shambling figure rose from the
darkness of the outer circle.
As he stretched out his long, bony
hand to take his turn a fit of coughing
seized him and when it passed it left
him trembling with weakness. He
drew the l'ot quickly, as if fearful that
he would lose his turn and sank weakly
down on an upturned keg, without look-
ing at his draw.
"Let’s see it, Hawkins,” said several
of the men, and he opened his hand me-
chanically. On the upturn-ed palm lay
a black bean. He had drawn the lot.
“I say, Hawkins, you trade with me.
You ain’t fit to do the job,” said one of
the men, looking down with rough pity
at the shrunken figure. But Hawkins
. closed his fingers over the bean with a
gfierce gesture and a smoldering
fire
crept into his eyes. He rose slowly to
his feet and said with a firmness and
steadiness of tone thatsurprised the
others: -
“I will do it myself. I hope I am man
enough to not play the sneak," and
then he walked out of the cave.
Out on the mountain side Hawkins
wandered aimlessly until he stumbled
and fell from weakness and exhaustion.
He lay passive where he had fallen and
then there began a struggle that. he
had been vainly trying to ward off. by
action—a struggle of which none ever
knew save‘the silent stars and the all-'
seeing One above and beyond them.
As he lay there scenes from the past
came drifting across his memory—of
the time when he was young and strong
and happy, while pretty Jennie Watson
was true to him._ ,Then Dixon came,
with his handsome face and fine man-
ners, and won her away from him. In
less than a year they were married and
Hawkins—well, he had grown careless
and justice had found him out. New
had come the chance for. revenge on
them both—a revenge that would in-
volve their helpless children as well as
themselves.
He rose stifi'iy, like one in a dream.‘
and went by thele‘hortest and most di-
rect cut down the mountain side to the
little. settlement in the sheltered valley.
Swiftly and skillfully he did- his work,
i As he watched the tiny tongue of flame
_ that had crept up thehgéépbf kindlings
i he had prepared, he thougbtof'tlie fié‘ry
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’- bu-rier theiswouldtoiipfi out hi's' enemy,
M We detour-«u. “causality
" TH E- Eév E N in G Gui-z EJT r E "
home, and threw himself on his hard
and pain. '
_ Meanwhile the tiny tongue of flame
crept slowly upward with soft crack-
a minute, then sunk to a feeble point of
blue flame, struggled Weakly as if for
where the flame had been. Then it dis-
solved slowly in the clear air, and noth-
the frustrated design of the avenger.
As the first early rays of the sun
peered over the mountain and sent a ray
of light into the window of the cabin,
Dixon swung open the heavy door and
stopped on the sill in dumb astonish-
ment at the sight that met his eyes.
Then in a moment he had grasped the
truth.‘ This was what the sly looks
and unusual manner of his neighbors
meant, was it? And they had failed in
their cowardly work. What if they had
succeeded, Jennie and the young ones
would——
With an imprecation strong and deep,
the man turned and called his wife to
his side. She came, looked where he
pointed silently at their feet and then
raised her eyes to his dark face in a
frightened, questioning glance. Before
he could answer the unspoken inquiry
he caught sight of a shambling figure
coming. Something in the man’s pallid
face made Dixon turn to his wife and
say quickly: “You’d better go inside.
He wants to see me’, I guess,” and she
obeyed silently.
Dixon kicked the debris from the step
and advanced toward the advancing
figure until he and Hawkins stood face
to face in the narrow worn path. The
visitor looked into his face with a wav-
ering, uncertain glance, his thin lips
parted in a meaningless smile that was
horrible to see and then he began to
speak in a tone in which treachery and
cunning were strangely mingled.
“So Dixon was burned out last night,
eh? Too bad! Wife and young ones
burned! Poorl J enniel Might ’a told
her, but then she would ’a. warned
Dixon.”
The listener knew at the first word
that the poor wretch before him was
insane. As the hollow voice went on,
betraying the. whole fiendish plot to
his quickened intelligence, he caught
the man suddenly by the shOulders and
held him with a grip that made him stop
short in his rambling talk and give a
little cry of pain.
“See here,” cried Dixon, turning the
man around in the path so that he faced
toward the mountains, “you get out of
here quick while I’ve got enough hold
on myself to keep from shooting you.
Go!” and he gave him a push as he re-
leased the motionless figure.
Hawkins staggered, recovered his
balance and looked ‘up into the stern
THE FLAMES
CREPT SLOWLY UP-
WARD. -
face above him. Some last glimmer of
reason showed him there his danger,
and without a word he turned and ran
with uneven steps up the little path
that led to the mountains. Dixon quiet-
ly cleared away the evidences of the
attempt to burn him out, forbade his
wife to mention it, and bided his time.
Before noon every one in the valley
knew that Dixon’s cabin was still stand-
ing and that Hawkins had disappeared.
’ A searching party got together quiet-
ly and started out to find him. All the
long sunny afternoon they tramped
and searched over the mountain side,
and just as the sun sank behind the
highest peak, lighting it up with an un-
earthly, awesome splendor, they found
him. He was lying, face downward, on
the cool, moist ground, one arm thrown
up and pillowing his forehead; in the
other hand was clutched tightly a little
bunch of faded flowers. A. dark crim-
son stain on the ground beneath the~
white face told its silent story of death.
—~Chicago Daily News.
Before He Joined.
While passing Whitehall the oil er day
a. str'anger to London asked a police-
man if he could point out the window
through which King Charles passedout
to execution: ,
The policeman asked:
“Who was he ?" ‘
“King of England, of course." was
the answer.
“But when was that?"
“Over 200 years ago.”
“All! ah! that was long before my
time, sir. I only entered the force in
1862,” was the policem‘an’s reply. “Sor-
ry I can’t tell you.”—-—Spare- Moments.
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She Had a Lover.
' ‘Practical Maiden—0f course your.
{mass is supplied'with what We call a,
hitting-room. . , ‘
. SW61 Sheena-Certainly. .
Practical) Maidenéflow'lai‘go is it? ,
Sweet" Sim (ingeniougi‘y)—'About
rho lap—nomi- Courier.
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Then he turned and ran down the path
~with stumbling footsteps, toward theJ
lonely, half-ruined cabin that he called
bed with a. groan of physical weakness
ling sounds; once it blazed brightly for '
life and went out. A little curl of smoke
wound upward and marked the place
ing was left but the heap of kindling
on the rude doorstep, with the few
charred sticks, to mark the spot where
it had burned, as a, silent witness of
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try. The doctors confess they Lave no sure Cure
crease In the death rate.
The sadden Epidemic of Grip has startled the coun
for it, and this is seen to heal we in the sudden death
of Garcia and Ex-Senator Brice and the alarming ill-
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INTING.
Brazilian Balm.
No fatal disease of Grip was ever known" Where
BRAZILIAN BALI was promptly used.
It kills the germs, arrests the progress of the disease at
once, and takes all the evil effects out of the system. ‘
Colds, Grip, Influenza,
f, G‘atarrh, Pleurisv, Bronchitis .
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