NEITHER HAYSEED NOR ANGEL But There Need Be Little Question That Young Lady Had Much Ingenuity. Across the line on the Kansas side where the study of agriculture is compulsory, one of the high girls took home her card and proudly announced: “l took the highest grade class in history, English and German.” That's all very well” father, critically examining the card, “but how about this grade in agricul ture?” “Oh, well,” explained the daughter, “I'm no hayseed!” A little farther down a deportment grade, not altogether satisfactory, ap peared “And how do grade in deportment?” “I'm no bloomin' angel, she replied.—Kansas City Star you account for this he inquired. either.” co ain Puts Job in Second Place. A Humboldt rancher returned from A year's trip through the east to find ¢hat a one-time neighbor of his, a man noted for his perfect patience, ‘had been having a siege of bad luck Upon hearing the news he Immediate- 1y sought out the neighbor to condole with him. “Weill, John,” he said, after greet ings had been exchanged ] you lost all of vour timber through the forest fires.’ The other man “And they say (hat the off vour best bottom land; that your jhogs all died of cholera; that your wife and children had been sick, and that! they have now foreclosed the smortgage on your cther place John nodded again “Yeu, it's all true,” he said, looking about him at what had once been his prosperous farm, “all true. Why, sometimes | get almost discourged.”"—Ladies’ Home irnal nodded river cut JO Fable for Borrowers. An Arab went to his neighbor and said “Lend ur rope.” i can't,” said the neighbor “Why can't : Because | mys For sisted, want to tie up er with ft.” How on earth’ be borrower, with a rope? “My friend.” said {ah is great and he {range things with a don’t want lend it ning Transcript me yo you? want to use the rope elf.” what purpose?’ the other per five cubi« Wal woul wile sneered the can you tie up the neighbor, permits us to rope when we to Boston Eve Chivalrous in Face of Misfortune. At a mass meeting recently in a nearby town an old and foremost cith ren who clings to the sartorial style of years ago, was called upon for his views on the subject in discussion. He made a brief speech, and as he was compelled to hurry back to his office, fie turned to the seat next to his, on which he had deposited his silk hat, just in time to see a woman flatten it completely by sitting on it Ever polite, his feelings were never theless stirred, and the best he could think of to say the circum: stances was “f~l-—1 hope you yourself, madam.” under injured City Star have Kansas not No Broken Parts. During the progress of the morning bath of a few months old Infant a lit tle neighbor girl came into the room carrying a doll and stood watching the operation for some time. The lit tie girl's doll was much the worse for hard usage, being minus an arm and af leg. Finally she sald to the mother of the child “How long baby?" The child ing from her sald My, but you have National Monthly have you had your and baby, look- she was informed doll to the kept it nice.” Simple Taste, Something mentally wrong Kenworthy, don't you think? “Why so?” [ asked him to come over and play ‘auction bridge’ with last night, and he said he would'rather waste his time playing ‘bean-porridge-hot’ or ‘tit. tattoe. with us ro DRIVE o oh on. Oh Ap UE ARTE SikiLd. TUNIU. You wh what you are taking. he Tormuis is fy printed on every bollle. thowing itis simply Uuinine and ron 1o 8 lastoless form, and the test o®eciual fourm. Por grown panpls and enligren, 0 cents. Adv Objections. “You give up too easily you get a grip? “It's the other w me FRA Why don't way. The grip's got DOES YOUR MEAD ACHuKr Try Hicks’ CAPUDINE. It's liquid — pleas Siek Headaches and Nervous Headaches also, Your money back if not satisfied. 10c., 35c. and Bc. at medicine stoves. Adv. One Better, a fireless cooker “I've got house.” ‘That's nothing. I've got a fess husband in mine” in Mrs. Winslow's Sogthing Syrup for Childrens seething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma tion, allays pale cures wind colle, Te & bottled, The only way to cure a man of bach. elorhood is to feed him to a designing widow, Dr. Plearce's Pellets, small, sugareosted, easy to take as candy, reguiste aad Auvigorats stomach, lverand bowels. Donat gripe. Ad Some men go lame when it comes to minding their own business. Er Slope of Dropping Board Sufficient to Prevent Hens From Walking on Its Surface. (By GRORGE B. FRAXNER Alberta.) illustrations represent a chick- roost of my own design, which 1 to be both cleanly and econom- The dropping board requires a 45 degrees or more, if the of the henhouse will permit, and it is raised high enough to per mit the use of all the floor space for scratching purposes. The trough at the bottom catches the droppings, and Edmonton, The en find ical slope of height Front View. enables a hoe floor I end with the door at one be scraped out into a box on the slide these to or shovel and afterwards throw a shoveiful or two of dry earth over its su The roosts should have 80 great a slope as the board beneath, so as to enable one use a hoe for cleaning off the board. The slope of the drop- ping board not only causes the drop pings to collect in the trough beneath but prevents the hens from walki on its surface. The space utilize for nests. kinds, I find best. These thirds full of straw, inserted at the top be hung in a row, other driven way rface not to nail kegs the filled t and a wire loop They may then and touching each steady, to wall behind In easily lifted off nails to be cleaned. 1 chose keg nests as the hens are unable to eat their eggs in them and they are about the right size to accommodate one hen at a time. My henhouse has a vers large window right opposite the hen roost, so in order to darken the nests I fasten a strip of old linoleum on a wire 80 as to hang just in the nests end which is fastened to a bent or hook driven into the dropping board. When gathering eggs this may ordinary should be WO nails this the 8s for to keep them the can be into they nail ———————— mid Side View. allowed Anyone who be unhooked and the curtain to drop out of the way has never tried using a dropping board, or has used the ordinary flat kind, will find this a decided im provement as far as cleanliness and economy of space is concerned A Good Egg Food. Cowpeas are not only relished by hens, but it them. One successful poultryman The peas, aft er maturing, were harvested and stored in dry lofts, and thrown to the fowls In scratching pens, where they ware scratched over and searched for during the day. After a few days the egg supply was visibly Increased and doubled other grains. The hens seemed to like the small branches and leaves, every particle except Tha general the least the ease with be raised, It Considering test as food for the poultry. Abbess Breeding for Market. Of course, if you are going in for poultry to sell on the market, you must select the fowl that will produce the most meat, and if for eggs, the breed that willproduce more eggs than meat, Then it is “up to you" to get the most out of them, as the slang goes, Chickens to Kill, Whe. disposing of some of the old swon, and you cannot afford to part + tue money makers, 1DONT'S IN POULTRY SHIPPING Most Profitable to Use Ciean, Frash Boxes With Care and Neatness in Packing Fowils. There are a number n'ta” that should be observed of market poultry: Don’t skinny stock. flesh-torn poultry. Don't ery strange house that consignment. First look vestigate the references dressed stock in old may be handy It pays to use clean using care and neatness packing Frequently the buyer is present when the box is opened, and a sale spoiled because of the packing Don't poultry after dressing until all animal heat is out Don’t little market fluster cause change houses Get a good, solid house and to it. That keeps the commission interested in retaining and oftentimes he will pull you out of a hole caused by a glut " fail to carefully Inspect your shipment before closing the box Put in the memorandum own billhead, showing the amount and other data Keep a duplicate your- self, thereby saving much annoyance frequent loss of “Ix ship bony, ship to solicits your them up: in- Don't ship box that AY any fresh boxes, in pack the atick man Your trade Don - on yo! TWO- STORY POULTRY HOUSE Qid Piano Box “May Be Transformed into Comfortable Building for Winter Use. I recently visited a successful try raiser who was using a plano-box house. It was not with roofing paper and there was only a dollar expense involved in transforming it into the present house. The told me that he kept seven cockerel in one of winter and it proved the laying well, writes Dwight Bronson of Chicago in the Farm and Home At about one-third of the height the upper floor lai ; poul two-story covered or two breeder hens and a houses last very satisfactory these hens was Two-Story Poultry House above from the 1 extends the other At one back there is op i0iach the floor one end to floor at Opening (Ong way box; and a rd extending to the lower chickens use this alatiad ascending or their end of the the ine length of boa posite floor The slanting board in scending from ing room The next end of the upper floor, dust box on An opening 1 inches sat ered with muslin for cut in end doors in front, both are tion irat upst ul box and the lower floor nirs is at the Ars entilation Ia wo hinged mm we The the propped anow One There and ather kept wide posi. of the doors shown in iHins ion igs the way they are open during it is rem thrive yer ight ROI ry housed in these an houses when The « well-ventilated it er says his birds come winter S80 mu spike frozen in {| ing room huddled font of space warm by truthfully bugs without th x 2% #4 1 natura said in A small pen for will hasten fattening care and what the profits shall be It is not too soon to put house coops in shape for winter The dull, listless bird cannot moved from the flock ton soon A little drinking water i8 good during in the fall and should be marketed week. “Clean the nest and not the egg” is the advice of a successful eastery egg farmer, After dumping and burning the nast- ing material whitewash the inside of the nest box The early moulters are the early la ers. It is a good plan to mark them for breeders, Any good stock dip also makes a i good disinfectant to kill disease gorms in poultry quarters. More disease outbreaks in the flock can be traced to unclean conditions than poultrymen generally think When the clean, fresh eggs are gath. ered, they should be put in a clean, dry, cool place until marketed, Getting rid of all birds as soon as they are two years old will lessen the chances of digease in the flock To hasten feathering after the molt, give a tablespoouful of sulphur in a mash to every ten hens twice a | week. Corn meal mixed in with a small uantity of shorts and moistened with | kim milk makes a good wot mash | to fat'sn the market birds, Feed, hon ha re in the mouiting spring at least iron toni CEES unce a A ————— C—O *\PRESSURE GREAT | dents About Needs of Hour Mot to Give It is to Be Unjust to Broth- Sisters—Freshman Class Than Year ers and Has Twenty-Five More it Did Last Llorresp ight rrigshurg Side new uarm & something t wmount of 3 ding 1 once, were presented at Central High Steele, "Every addit students entering virtual teacher,” this students Ie TURRET! School y Pr dents fonal th yessor ive require 1y one *n Clans year containeq than th 8 clase five more Next fifty according heing compiled h these additio sree will we place them? ted EL year Year a! least more than to officia 18# ve do wit nal people be ous from your nade to stana 1 FOWE room? Prine voters of the City around ipal queried turn down the IR a4 Sens children if the they will be, unjius you peopii I school do not sign the cards De i HHEKOW [fe unjust it and or Si sisters id ol ele tol i-dollar schools being Barre and Scrants he students to grown-up brot new move Regiment Honors. Joss Hutch Nationa ph B Har Nelson Bass rea ppoil tain and chaplain Mon Ir quartermaste reappointed ng Young Trees pared ndent Forret f 500 young wiint MceCorn Highway Contract Let. Niate Highway Commias;: ih ef the contract of re af 2 1668 fost Prot est ark Fair. wditor General cived a rots he York Fair approm A Ren A ug intions of pr has not n Desk for the Speaker hie handsome bronze desk whic! wil supplant the old white wainted mahogang desk House 01 and will from an polished bronze arms in a medalll amatie devices the speaker of the arrived place It is anc is Ol State Orig the other emo Clearing Wildwood Lake. Wilkiwood lake is being drift debris that mulated during the simmer for skating this winter men were put on that The clean ing of Paxton creek from the breast of the dam to Maclay street was fin. hed hy Park Superintendent Forrer cleared o and othe hag accu 10 prepare A gang of job Purchase System Revised. The Board of Public Grounds and Buildings at a special meeting 1¢ coived the report of Harry 8. McDev. itt, | of supplies in the national government | al departments at Washington, D. C,, and in various State capitals. The re | port showed that the mended standardization of various much used supplies such as pencils, napers pens, ink and the like COMMERCIAL Weekly Review of Trade and Market Reports. “The mercantile interests of speaking of them collect experienced another ceptionally trade all lines have and Come WAY account ively, week of ex- Jobbers of brisk calle for winter goods the front in a note Incidentally, buying for next ; conspicuous relatively most West, Northwest sections have bea: bounteous crops. The or a ong comparative ward, is showing greater life free marketing active staple ved a Ness, #0 busi have worthy to for future Bpring coming The are more active zones and South- west eh ad by South, f time back thanks toy of {is chief crop “Business States for the 187 last week, 1911; 220 in in 1908." nited net the 229, like 196% faflures In week were 281 in the $10, 217 in agai WEEK and of 241 Wholesale Markets NEW YORK. Wheat frregu No. 2 red, 107¢ elevator, and 10634 b afloat; No. 1 No Duluth, afloat 8 pot rtherp ob Spot Oats Spo 4 3T4@38 utter 6, 245 Suva 2415 @25¢ Steads receipts ¥ ine make, firsts, 10,002 cases wxiras Eggs Firm; receipts Fresh gathered extras, 33 36¢c dirties, No. 1 nferior, 15@1R; 1836 @ 194% NO hooks firsts, 20432; = 1s@20 good to fin 14G 18 POG near new Pennsyl 166018 PH MORE No. 2 red Dees and November, nom Wheat Spot 101% ¢ . mber, 104%; nal nal inal mary, 106% nomi nom vear, 66% $00 3 white bu: standard aT 17%; » 41 36 estern domestic 6@77. No. 2 hag lots 0D nearby, car nearby, as to qu Hay timoth $18@ 20 Ne ver mixed mixed, $1650@17 heavy clover m 1 clove $13 13: n ple grad dition standard a 14 shed grade, nd 8@12 and SAID con 0 eutabl quality Butter red ry, fan 31a31%; Crean good, 27@2R 33: ( 2192 roils, 21@ 22 Chose Ih, 208 21« Eres Marviand, nearby 28¢ 28. Jer i Creamers Creamery, prints, 31@ W0P32; Ladies Pennsylvania eamery, blocks Marviand and oni Wo estern firsls, 26027. Recrated ge to 1e higher Chickens Old to medium nrsts West Virginia Southern firsts and rehandled eggs Poul it ry 16¢ old roosters, hens, fi Live small voung, large, 16 White Pekins By puddle 12 G14 do 10; small, 16. Ducks muscovy, 12014; Nearby, 12418; Western and @12 Turkeys Young, old, 15@ 18. Guinea Fowl each, 25¢;: young. 1% Ih and 40: do id heavy, Goose Souther: 11 choice, 18¢ Old QVar, smaller, Live Stock CHICAGO. Cattle 85.306 11.05; Texas steers, $4 40@ 5.70; West steers, 35.60@K.90: stockers and $4.25@ 7.60; cows and heifers, D784 7.25; calves, $8.756 10 Hoke Market unsettled, most of early advance lost: light, $R@ 8.60; mixed, $8.15@K8.75; heavy, $83.106 8.75; rough, $3104 8.30. pigs, $5256 7.65; bulk of sales, $R.40G 8.70 Sheep--Market steady to 10c¢ Native, 33.400 4.656; Western, 83.750 4.680; yearlings, $4 60@ 5.756. lambs, na Western, $5.25 757.20 Beoves. ern ¢ lower Cattle $RI6GN.25; | PA Choice, PITTSBURG, light $84r8. 66 Sheep sisady. supply wethers, $4.506 4.66 $262.50; lambs, prime, light. Prime ! i : 1 4 § i Hogs active: receipts, 20 doubles decks, Prime heavies, $8.00506 Alums, 66 8.80; heavy light Yorkers, Cough, Cold SoreThroat Sioa Liniment gives quic k relief for cough, cold, hoarseness, sore throat, croup, asthma, hay fever and bronchitis, HERE'S PROOF. Mu Arner W. Price of Fradonia, Kau., writes : © We Bi an’s lini ment in the family and find ii so ex cellent relief for eoids aud hay fever sitacks, It stops coughing sud suoss- ing almost instantiy¥”’ SLOANS LINIMENT RELIEVED SORE THROAT, Mus, 1. Brewer, of Modslls, Pla. writes: “1 bought one bottis of your Iiniment and itd id meall the god in the world. My throat was very sors, snd it cured m ble." Lie eof my trouble COOD FOR COLD AND CROUP. Me W. HH. Sraasar, 3721 Elmwood Avenues, Uhic 111, writes: “A Hi tle boy next do r is ad eroup. 1 gave the mother Bloaan's Linimeut Lo Wry. She gave him three arops on Sugar before golug to bed, asd he got ap without the croup in the moraing.” Price, 250., 50c., $1.00 Sloan's Treatise on the Horse sent free, Address from the args mane. year wrilien guar i ty ot Sib jo PROG sas hat in the United States can sell you, and we cad prove it Handsome S300 Upright Fiano of finest tonal quailty shipped Anywhere in the L. 8, Freight prepaid =" $195.00 "= BENCH AND COVER YRER The plano dealer in your town ox i pot bay for less than we sell ¥ 1ire we have out the Ges ier out and made the LOVES 80 "Rs y that you oan have The Famous Schilling Plano for $10.00 down and balance in easy payments. LAYER PIANO $295— Cover and 8 Bolle of Basie FREE | An elegant instrument of highest gua i ty at a price within sour resch made | possible LY keeping down Lhe aust | 3 facty antewn § Beurk production and keeping up the guall of the Behilliing Pianos B per cept. dlse mt You will never again bave a of real plane al esnch prioes an terme. 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