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“Rough on Rogues." 
LOOKOUT 
ALMANAC 
LOOKING OUT FOR NUMBER ONE. 
AUGUST. 
II. 
tected, 
What’s 
comfort 
Look out that you try hard to 
give the smoker every possible 
privilege. The pipe must be pro¬ 
even if your barn burns down, 
a barn anyway compared to the 
of the smoker ? A very little 
thing indeed. On page 511 we show a 
picture of a man who nobly sacrificed his 
barn for the sake of permitting his friends 
to enjoy their tobacco. The memory of his 
kindness must be very sweet to him now 
as he sees the flames making short work 
of his barn. The hired man, the tramp 
and the young scamp with his first cigar 
will doubtless thank him for giving them a 
chance to make a nice bon fire. When a 
farmer hires a man he should insist that 
his “help” learn to handle a pipe in the 
most approved style. In front of the house 
he should put up this sign, “ Smoking- 
Room In The Barn ! ” so that tramps may 
know how to be of service. He should en¬ 
courage all the boys to learn to smoke: in 
fact, why not try to induce the wife and 
daughters to join in ? “ Farmin’ don’t 
pay 1” Why of course not while you neg¬ 
lect one of the fundamental principles of 
success. 
Tuesday Look out that you realize the 
J importance of keeping a 
1 
among your effects. You can make this 
article very useful. The end of the grow¬ 
ing season is now near at hand. Nature 
has written the result of your mistakes all 
over your farm. You neglected to fit the 
ground properly for the corn. You did not 
cultivate the potatoes as you should have 
done. You did not use enough fertilizer 
on the grain. You slept while the bugs 
and the weeds were working. Now Nature 
has gone to work and pictured the results 
of these mistakes. What you want to do 
is to take notes of her report on a piece of 
paper and paste it in your hat. Then if 
you repeat these mistakes another year you 
can blame only yourself. 
* * * 
Look out for “ raffles.” The 
“ raffle ” is nothing but a 
13. gambling enterprise. A man 
expects to get a §10 article for a 25-cent 
ticket. Let all such schemes alone. The 
latest game in this line was used by a 
tailor in Baldwinsville, N. Y. He proposed 
that a clothing club be formed, and drew 
up a document for signatures, by which a 
suit of clothes valued at §35 should be 
raffled off at each drawing, which was to 
occur twice each week. Each member 
was to pay §1 each drawing until he was 
favored with a lucky number, when his 
name would be dropped from the roll. The 
drawings were to continue until the entire 
club was fitted out with clothing. The 
club started with 70 members and the pay¬ 
ments and drawings continued until the 
tailor had received over §500. Hemadeonly 
three or four suits, so slowly that members 
began to growl, and finally declined to pay 
any more of their dues. Then the tailor 
declared the club “ busted ” and refused to 
make any more suits because he said the 
club members had broken their part of the 
agreeement. The club members went to 
law to recover their money ; but could not 
make out any case, and the tailor will now 
doubtless go on a summer vacation with 
the money. Now, these foolish people 
went'into this “club ” because they saw a 
“chance” to get a §35 suit for §1. The 
result proves that instead of being “ all 
right” they are all “left.” Served them 
right 1 
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Thursday 
Look out for free pills. Some 
makers of “ vegetable pills ” 
14. have adopted an advertising 
scheme of sending out free samples for the 
people to test. It seems that many foolish 
folks feel it their duty to give these pills a 
very complete test. The result proves the 
strength of the pills and the weakness of 
the stomachs of those who take them. Sev¬ 
eral Philadelphia people have been made 
very sick by these free pills, and the police 
have promised to put a stop to their street 
distribution. Strange that the police must 
be called upon to prevent a person from 
making a fool of himself! Look out that 
you do not feed your cows more than they 
can properly digest. See what Mr. Stewart 
says about this on page 513. See that you 
do not feed yourself too much. With some 
men there is no fear that they will give the 
cows too much food. 
F r j/ja V Look out for swindlers who play 
J the following game described in 
* 5* this dispatch from Lebanon, Penn.: 
“ Rev. Dr. D. E. Klopp, of the First Re¬ 
formed Church, had a visitor to-day who 
represented himself to be one of the Aud¬ 
itors of Lancaster County. The stranger 
stated that he had the pleasure of present¬ 
ing to the Doctor a check for §150, the 
money having been bequeathed to the 
First Reformed Sunday-school by a lady 
who, at one time, was a member of the 
church. The “ auditor ” blandly added 
that the charges amounted to §1.50, which 
were paid. The Doctor subsequently dis¬ 
covered that the check was bogus. The 
rascal also called upon Rev. George B. 
Resser, of St. John’s Reformed Church, 
and gave the minister a check for §250, 
on which the charges were §2.50. He then 
called on the Sisters of Charity of St. 
Joseph Convent, to whom he gave a check 
for §350, stating that it had been willed to 
the church by a friend of the late Father 
Kuhlman. The man asked for §3, but the 
Sisters told him they had not that amount 
in their possession, and he departed with 
out getting any money. The fellow is a 
small-built, clean-shaven man, and gave 
his name as Alexander M. Brennen.” 
SltUrdlV ^ook ou t for Hharpers who in- 
s J vite you to “a little game of 
I®* cards.” In spite of all that is 
said these card sharpers meet with more 
success in their designs upon old farmers 
than any other class of rogues. Alanson 
Lee of Asbury Park, was, last week, 
buncoed out of §5,000 by two well-dressed 
men, while Joseph Shannon of Homewood, 
Pa., lost §9,000 by about the same game. 
Mr. Shannon is said to be 63 years old, of 
good reputation and “ one of the shrewdest 
business men in the township.” He played 
cards with two “ perfect gentlemen” and 
won §9,000. Then the two men wanted him 
to show that he could have paid if he had 
lost. So he goes to town and draws out 
§9,000 in good money and meets the “gentle¬ 
men” again. They are satisfied and put 
his §9,000 and thejr §9,000 in a box and gave 
it to him to carry home. Of course, the 
“gentlemen ” substituted another box and 
when Mr. Shannon got home and opened 
the one he carried, he found nothing but 
two pieces of wood carefully wrapped in 
two pieces of brown paper. There was 
also a note which read as follows: “ You 
gambled and lost; you can afford it. If you 
tell it, everybody iu the county will think 
you the biggest fool in it.” Mr.Shannon will 
probably admit that there is much truth in 
this note. 
Poultry Yard. 
WET OR DRY FOOD FOR CHICKS ? 
A number of poultry 'writers are claims 
lug that young chickens should not be 
permitted to drink water, but should be 
fed wet or sloppy food until weaned. 
Others advocate an exactly opposite 
treatment, saying that chicks should be 
fed dry grain with plenty of water. 
Which side is right according to your ex¬ 
perience ? 
No Faith In “No Water.” 
I think the advocates of the “ no water 
theory ” have overlooked the fact that 
more chicks are killed by getting wet than 
from any other cause, and they have at¬ 
tributed to the quenching of the birds’ 
thirst something which is properly due to 
dampness. The feeding of moist food iu 
place of water for drinking will supply a 
large portion of the water required for very 
young chicks; but the exclusive use of 
such food sometimes leads to bowel diffi¬ 
culty. More chicks are raised here in 
winter than in any other locality, and we 
have always kept plenty of water where 
they can get it, though we feed both moist 
and dry food, and we find that chicks drink 
a large quantity of water without any in¬ 
jurious effects. Water is a solvent of the 
food, largely predominates in the blood, 
and is necessary, and too much or too little 
of it may be given when it is given only in 
the food. I frankly say, however, that as 
I have had no faith in the “no water” 
theory, I have not submitted any chicks to 
the “ dry ” process, having allowed them 
all the water they wish. P. H. JACOBS. 
All the Water They Want. 
I always give my chicks and ducks all 
the water they want to drink. I never 
could raise them to suit me if I failed to do 
so. When I do use soft food for my chicks 
Ido not feed it sloppy but in a granulated 
form—simply moist enough to crumble. I 
consider oat meal, in about the same con¬ 
dition we use it on the table, the best food 
for chicks when young, fed dry. 
JAMES RANKIN. 
Water Is Needed. 
Why should young chickens be deprived 
of water when they like it so well ? I 
think it cruel not to give it to them and I 
do not believe they will thrive as well with¬ 
out it. I always give them all they want, 
and have never tried the effects of with¬ 
holding good, clean, fresh water. 
P. WILLIAMS. 
Sloppy Food Means Waste. 
In my experience dry food such as rolled 
oats, cracked rice, wheat or corn, or a bread 
made of bran, Indian meal and ground oats 
(sifted) together with pure water, or milk 
(where it can be had) form the most 
favorable diet for young chicks, and last, 
but not least, they should have a grass 
run. If they have plenty of shade and 
green food and are not kept in too warm 
quarters, if raised artificially, they will not 
drink more water or milk than is good for 
them. This is essentially the system I 
have followed, and I find it the most eco¬ 
nomical and satisfactory, no condition pow¬ 
ders or bone meal being necessary to assist 
(?) the chickens in their growth. Sloppy 
food is as wasteful for chickens as it is for 
cows. I have a Plymouth Rock cockerel 
that weighed 2 y 2 pounds at 10 weeks and 
5at a little over 15 weeks of age, and he 
was fed as above stated. Free range and 
grass form a good text for a sermon to 
chicken raisers. j. H. DREVKNSTEDT. 
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