PTI
At——
REALLY NAMED FOR STATE
Mississippi River Steamers Originated
Cognomen That Has Now Be-
come Universal.
On the Mississippl river in olden
days the passenger steamboats were
very ornate affairs, vying with each
other in garish glory. One owner hit
on the of naming hig
boat's cabins instead of numbering
them. So he named them in honor of
the states of the union,
above the door the gilt
state, the big central cabin
ed the “Texas,”
Other boat
and thus the
ually alternated by
iaea steam
ine
1
each having
title of
being
SO
call
the largest
the
was
tate
idea,
grad
room. For
best known
Then that sobriquet died
the old river
“stateroom
afier
owners took up
word cabin
“state”
years the cabin was still
as the Texas
with the ebbing glory of
steamers. Dut the word
became incorporated into our lan
tu
n broke into the
ther
guage, and in time ¢
dictionary, as dos
catch phrase. Not
sand wo occupies a
3
ano
one person in § thou-
Knows
ad
stateroom
the term once meant “a room nan
for a state.”
Friendly Blow.
Louis Brownlos Was
paper man, paused in a
Greensboro, N. not so long ago,
ask for a While
a young
in with a
of his
deal put ou
had befallen
“What's
Brownlow
hington news
drug store
match
colored chap came
big gash the 1
a Complaint.
’ id the art
Kills
Waterfowl
Scare Anybody
3
fot
COFFEE THRESHED |}
15 Long Years.
For ver een years write
hop
patient
“while a cofie
Spinal Irritat
I was treated by
did
lils wo
r, I suffered fron
us trouble
good physician
relief
Il never su ted tha
+
not get 1
condition
be
Just
caren
aggravating by
as injurious, because
drug fou
hearted and dis
daily that |
omeéething to help me
Years ago,
drank a
had
10OUs
same
i0Y I
it prayed
while at a
cup of Post
never tasted
1's house |
though
delic
time
um ard
anything me
“From that on I used Postum
instead of coffee and began To
improve in health, so that now I cah
walk half a dozen blocks or more with
ease, and do many other things that |
never thought I would be able to do
again in this world
“My appetite is good, | sleep well
and find is worth living. A lady
of my acqualptance gald she did not
like Postum, it was 80 weak and taste.
less
“1 explained her the difference
when It ta made right-—boiled accord-
Ing to directions. She was glad to
know thig because coffee did not agree
with her. Now her folks say they
expect to use Postum the rest of their
lives.” Name given upon request,
Read the little book, "The Road to
Wellville,” in pkgs. “There's a Rea- |
son.” i
“Postum now comes in concentrated, |
powder form, called Instant Postum. |
It is prepared by stirring a level tea. |
spoonful in a cup of hot water, adding |
sugar to taste, and enough cream to |
bring the color to golden brown,
Instant Postum Is convenient; |
there's no waste; and the flavour is al
ways uniform. Sold by grocers—45 to
B0-cup tin 30 ects, 90 to 100-cup tin
60 cts.
A Bcup trial tin mailed for grocer's
name and 2-cent stamp for postage, |
Postumn Cereal Co., Ltd, Battle Creek,
Mich Adv.
re
soon
life
to
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SLICK SWINDLER
OF MINISTERS
Fellow With Pathetic Yarn Is
Sent to Jail Pending Trial
HE WORE A DEJECTED LOOK
James Kerns, with Frequent Aliases,
Preyed on Clergymen — Engaged
Them to Officiate at Daughter's
Funeral and Borrowed $5.
Bergey,
Ogontz Kerns, alia
RL
alias hom alli Veldon, alia
jail at Nor
Magi
ior
on,
on
fixed
in Da-
Hu
Femple
rd Mont
' Rey
Beat
Tobacco.
Boys Fined for TrainStoning
Coatesville Oscar Zell
and 15. respectively
at
train the
the crashed
ar coach and a woman
and
Doan, aged 12
east-bound
ITO
i
an
passenger on Pennsylvania
Rallroad
Pullman ¢
fenger wa
a severe reprimand
the boys’ p
missles
pas
(iiven
M yer,
29
35
struck on the head
by
were
Squire
arents each fined
Dies After Lugging Baby.
York Coming downstairs with her
baby in Mrs. Calvin Plow
man, 25 of Pleasureville,
York county complained to her
mother that she not feeling well
and asked har to take the child Ag
it left her arms she fell lifeless to the
floor, a victim of heart disease
her arms,
vears old,
Was
Equity Starts Cars Again,
Bloomsburg The Equity
came to relief of the Berwick & Nes
copeck Street Rallway Company, and
their cars are running, having been
tied up since because of thelr alleged
failure to pay a bill for power to the
Columbia Gas and Electric Company
Courts
Suicide and Burglary.
Willamsport -—~George C. Biddy, a
marble cutter, was found dead in his
bed In the Broadway House, Jersey
Shore, by a porter who, when he failed
to arouse the boarder, climbed around
a coping on the outside of the building
and entered the bedroom through a
window. Biddy had taken his life with
earbolic acid. The hotel was also en
tered by burglars during the night and
$1 Otaken from the office cash register
and several bottles of whiskey from
the bar.
PROFIT DEPENDS UPON CARE
Incumbent on Caretaker to Manage
Fowls in His Charge to Reap
the Greatest Reward.
The profit that Is possible per fowl
is mainly dependent upon the care-
taker, writes A. G., Symonds in the
Fruit Grower. It is up to him to so
care for the fowls in his charge as to
reap the greatest reward. He must
apply his intelligence to study the de-
tails that are essential in egg pro
duction. The hen is a machine, nicely
built and properly adjusted, and the
caretaker must be familiar with this
egg-machine in order securc the
greatest profit per fowl
The variety kept has very little to
do with the possible profit per fowl A
flock of Plymouth Rocks may be made
yield greater returns than a flock
Leghorns per capita. True it is
that some varieties are better egg pro-
ducers than others, but it
that some varieties are
producers than others. No one va
riety has a monopoly on advantages
or profit-paying qualities. There is no
variety without some redeeming fea
850
to
fo
of
is also true
better meat
Prize Winner.
managed by the
¢ Fpl
OD ¥
of 50 or 60 Per Cent. in Laying
They Are Money Makers
be made to
1 1s 2 © +1
flock of hens should
a good dividend on the invest.
do this, there is
mew hers
FOTO
roug
you have kept a record of the
cost of production and
will be able to tell
vour hens are paving
laying an average or
cent, are doing well,
good showing in the right
cash book Any averages
will be so much m
4 1 w
sales
or
Hens that
or 60 per
will make
side
bovis
and
the
he
whether
you
not
are
50
and
of
the
that
will
birds
It they fall
wm had
ut the
ore gain,
keeping
tir
more than justify
mark
better investigate and find
u cause of thea trouble
It may be that you have a poor strain
of birds; that you are not feeding the
right kinds of food or in sufficient
quantities, or that you are not giving
them the proper attention that they
must have in order to be great pro
duchrs,
way below this
Sheep Value to Farm.
The care of a flock of sheep is a job
a good deal leas gweanty and laborious
than the swing of the scythe and the
hoe in an unending effort to kill off
the weeds. In thre presence of such a
flock, the weeds rapidly disappear,
and the grasses take the possession
of the ground. Some farmers are said
to hesitate about starting a flock of
sheep because of the possible reduc-
tion of the duty on wool and the de
celine in price that perhaps would fol
low. But this would cut no figure in
the case.
Mutton always commands a profit:
from mutton and wool, added to the
the sheep in keeping
the
land, will perhaps make the flock a
to the
prosperity of the farm.
Care With Turkeys.
Always be sure that every part of
any Inclosure where the turkey hen
and poults are kept is well drained
Sometimes the hen will sit down a!
night in a low place and a heavy rain
will fill the depression with water and
ahiil or drown the poults.
of the Most Valuable of indus
trial Agencies,
be
days
are
Gasoline seems
a necessity these especially
the farm, that apt
its dangerous qualities. It
to 80
we to Ov
is sald
ly the with
handled, it is
uable of industrial
carelessly it
the extreme
The
some gasoline on
to
casn gasoline
r
one of the
most Va
de
hecomesn
other day : woman
pour
shing make
putting
corner of
1
f
the can down | a remo
16 2love l.ike a flash t}
the
injured
gasoline
wis She
know train of ga
vapor might lead from the
struck the flames
the
In
quart of gasoline
in the bath
waist in it Hhe
in can explode
fatally
that
an unseen
or in the
distant can
another case a
Into & ma
and pl
closed
room
minute
between
went for ten
slik
generated sufficient
spark The gasol
the hot burned
lost her life
any people
1 1x
§
away
rubbed
This
the
0 make a
pioded
| woman
There are mi
186
Serious Menace is Eradicated
Ceaseless Cultivation—HMHow
Farmer Got Rid of Pest.
i
| DISCHARGER FOR HAY FORKS
| Looped-Rod Attachment Separates
Load Without Pitch and Jerk in
Ordinary Implement.
looped-rod chm for
i1 shown in the illustration
signed load discharger,
irates the fork from its
and jerk
x
ant
ot
as a
1
3
ORG
pitch required
Load Discharged.
ordinary fork The rods over
the points of the tines and are carried
back to a rocker bar operated by a
steel sleeve that slides on the handle
The apparatus is especially useful in
the handling of corn stalks
loop
Methods of Picking.
Either scalding or the dry-picking
nethod can be used for fowls intend
od for market, but for broilers only
the dry-picking method Is allowable
A chick only a few weeks old is a
very tender bird, but if scalded it will
be found impossible to plck it with:
out occasionally rubbing a little of
the skin off. These apots will dark.
en and give the broiler a stale look
The scalding will also increase the
tendency to decay. Wik dry picking
not only will the bird keep much
longer, but the natural firmness
ning.
To Clean Plumage.
The plumage of a white fow! can
be cleaned of stain by washing with
a clean white or transparent soap that
is free from much alkall Make a
strong lather and use your hand and
ia soft halr brush. Stroke the feath.
| ors downward, from the head to the
| tail
Figg ell «
ham, N.
rette
maxes
With
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WHY THE MEAL W
AS HA
When the Peanuts Ran Out,
two hours an old
back
w Jie } before Seen
Hg bei
of them ir n { 8
man
elephant re
lene
aeal
When
Tow 5
ing out pean
the last
coming,
reached
tainer’'s hat from
a lion's cage
For the first ti
old man expressed
words You
rubber nuisance you!" he exclaimed
indignantly If 1 knew which
your head was on, I'd slap your face
uts ot time
more
largest
resoved
his head to
ne arby
p in two hours
his
two-tailed
Was gone forth
Jumb the
ee
the «
3 on #
i ns
over and nter
tia Sons
the top
of
emotionsg 1
old Indian
end
Hit the Danger Spot.
A tippler with a very red got
a Jay's work as a laborer in a boiler
works The same day he appeared
before the surgeon at the hospital
with his nose smashed
Good gracious!
geon. “How did
your nbse smashed like that?
“Oh, cried the sufferer. “I put my
nose through a hole in the boiler for
a sniff of fregh air, and the man out
side with the hammer mistook it for
a red-hot rivet And he only hit once
~that's all.”
nose
"exclaimed the sur
you manage to get
Higher Up.
“1 suppose you have tried motoring
“No, | have not,” replied the juage.
“but ! have tried a lot of people who
have "Pathfinder
Appropriate Connections.
the Duke’s
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getting untold
of
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plea ure out
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of pure, mild
please,
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Myers Tobace
ire, the
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th men
pure
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“Yes, but she got the ‘hool.”
— 0
ol! her father gives her away?