SB New York City. The skirt that ib Blade In tew pieces and that suggests the hip line without being tightly fitted, while it extends slightly above the waist line, Is the one that is In great demand just now. This model Is graceful In the extreme and Is adapted to an Infinite variety of ma terials, while It allows singularly suc cessful use of buttons as trimming. If made from wide material it can be cut In three pieces, while it made from narrow it can be cut in four, with a seam at the centre front, which fact greatly extends its useful ness, as it becomes Just as well adapt ed to the narrow fabrics as it does to the wide ones. There are pleated pan els at the side; which mean grace and novelty in one, and the closing is made at the left side. In the Illus tration ponge colored Shantung is finished simply with trimming of jet buttons, that combination being one of the latest and smartest of the sea--son. The skirt can be made in either three or four pieces with the panels, which are additional, 'and which are Joined to It at the sides. The upper edge Is arranged over a fitted girdle, and the closing Is made above the panel at the left side. Two lengths are Included, the one which escapes the ground and the one which means the slight train that is so well liked for occasions of formal dress. The quantity of material required for the medium size is six yards twenty-seven or thirty-two, four and three-eighth yards forty-four or four and a quarter yards fifty-two inches wide. Width of skirt at lower edge foni and an eighth yards, Including the pleated panels. Mirage Silks. Mirage silk is extremely glossy, which makes It equally desirable for day or evening wear, for dust Is easily removed and the pretty sheen Is at tractive at nlght-under artificial light Earrings and Collars. Cut Jet earrings, are the accepted ornaments by the smart set and lti followers. Family - heirlooms are taken out of old boxes, polished and adjusted to the ears with a modern clamp. They are worn on the street as well as in the house. , They do not look amiss with a coat suit, a large fur turban and a close veil of black Russian net. Latest Fads in Belts. Tooled and gilded belts are the lat est fad of fair Parisians. With an Ingenious eye for effect, many women are wearing them back to front, the deep buckle coming in front, while the narrower one, with its holes for adjusting, goes to the back. This plan gives a pretty sloping line to the waist. The striped leather belt is very fashionable for the moment The belts are of white suede, and the stripes, about half an Inch wide, run across. A fairly heavy Irish linen or ma dras would be satisfactory material In which to work out the tailored waist. Striped collar and cuffs give an air of newness. The soft blouse of batiste shows the round collar that has gained so much In favor lately. r I POULTRY CULTURE HOW TO MAKE POULTRY TAY. By. W. M. Kelly. To start right we must have some good hens and let us make a close study of the various breeds and see which one would be the best adapted to the purposes that we desire to use them for. In the first place there are some breeds that are adapted to but one purpose, and that Is laying eggs; among these breeds we And that the poultry-men call the Mediterranean breeds, such as the Leghorns, Mlnor cas, Hamburgs and others. Now, these are very good breeds, but what we are after is a hen that will sit find hatch us some nice young chickens and take care of them In the best shape. We also want to select a breed that will be ideal for market, one that will mature early, have a nice clean color; they must be good loyers; lay good sized eggs; active enough to be good rustlers after grasshoppers and worms; be good sitters and mothers; easily tamed and handled, and a breed that will bear confinement well. There are many excellent breeds for this class found among what the poultrymen call the American breeds. These breeds are what we call a general-purpose fowl, that Is, they are adapted to the farm or to the poultryman who does not make a specialty of any one branch of the business. The Plymouth Hocks. Rhode Isl and Reds, the Wyandottcs, and other breeds belong to this class. 'The Brahmas, Cochins, Langshans and others of the large breeds of the Asiatic class are not as good layers as the smaller breeds; they are more Inclined to be broody, and, as a rule, are not as good rustlers as the Amer ican breeds, and for that reason I would not advise you to select your foundation stock from that kind of breeding. When we look the field all over, there Is no breed that stands pre eminently at the head of the utility Class like the Plymouth Rocks, vend I do not believe that we would go wrong If we selected our stock from some good flock of that breed. Some will say, why not try Wyan dottes? They are good fowls, but they are somewhat lighter than the Plymouth Rocks, and that Is against them competing with the Rocks; they lay smaller eggs, which Is also against them. Some will say eggs sell by the dozen, so what's the difference? But let me tell you when you sell your eggs to your customers they like good, big, fresh eggs, and you will get more money for that kind than you can for little, under-sized eggs. I have learned that large eggs are the best to suit the private customer every time, and they are the ones for you to Bell your eggs to. The Plymouth Rocks lay good-sized eggs that are of a nice shape and color. Of the various breeds -of Rocks, I would choose the White Rocks, as It Is easier to breed them true to color; they dress very clean and white when killed for market. A flock of this breed when care fully bred and handled are a credit to any poultry-man, no matter how young or how old he may be. The Buff, Rocks and the Barred Rocks are excellent fowls and are fully as good In many respects as the White Rocks, but you will find It much easier to breed birds of a solid color and keep them true to type and markings than to breed the colored breeds. We must have a chicken that will grow fast and mature early and for this purpose I know of no breed su perlor to the White Rocks. They have a plump body and are attrac tive In the market and when full grown it has the welght,that makes It bring home the money that it cost to .grow It. The cockerels that are to be sold In the fall make quite an Important Item for us to consider, and the White Rocks cannot be excelled in this point. When the hens are too old to keep for egg-producing purposes, it is quite an important item to have them weigh bIx to eight pounds and sell for ten cents a pound. There is an increasing demand for dressed fowls, and If you have egg customers, you should be able to make arrangements to supply them with dressed poultry whenever or dered, and get the top price for your surplus stock. The Rocks are good sitters, kind mothers and will raise more chickens than any other breed that iwe have ever experimented with. We should select - our hens from some good flock that is well bred, and where the hens have a uniform Poultry Notes. . Do not feed the pullets until tbey will have no ambition to forage. Turning the soil of the poultry yard once a year destroys the gape worm, and guards against the germs of other diseases which often find lodgment on the surface. y - One objection to feeding mash to the hens at night is that it is so read ily assimilated that the digestive or gans are emptied before morning, and bodily heat is not maintained. appearance, and then buy a first class rooster from some breeder who I baa a different strain of the same ! breed, so as to avoid inbreeding. The best rooster that can be found for what you can afford to pay should be selected. It is easy to grade up a flock to good hens, by using the best roosters every year and selling all of the pullets that are not up to the breed standard. After you get started, subscribe for some good farm or poultry paper and keep up with the times. There Is much pleasure and profit In studying the business and in excelling In some special line, when others have failed. Farm World. Convenient Hencoops. As poultry houses on farms have to be repaired often as a general rule, would It not be better to build more subsantlal ones at first and save the trouble and expense of continually Improving them? Let us consider this matter. The carpenter usually thinks that any kind of wood will do for a henhouse, and In that he Is much mistaken. Only the well sea soned wood should be used, for when the damp days arrive, the house having no heat In It, the boards will shrink and expand until they are out of shape more or loss, and then there are cracks to contend with. Use the best wood In the first place. Another point worth considering Is that of planing the boards that are Coop With Sliding Doors. to be used on the inside of the house. It will take very little more time, and they are then easily cleaned and do not harbor dust as much as if they were rough. If they are smooth they can be easily whitewashed or painted. The main point to consider In build ing a henhouse Is that of removable roosts, nests and even the floor boards If there Is to be a board floor. Make all these appliances of smooth board or wood, and when they are dirty or the farmer wishes to clean his poultry house they can be taken out Into the yard and sprayed, washed or even burned over with a torch. Consider all these things now, and in the end they will be much more economical. The first sketch shows a conven ient way to make a coop for the poul try yard, of which a special feature Is its door. Procure a box of the right dimensions and saw a hole, d, In one end. Then strengthen the box a . . A Box Coop. with narrow strips of wood, b c on each side of the hole b c. This acts as a groove for the door a to slide In. Thus you have a sliding door, which opens and shuts with the great est ease. The front of the coop is inclosed with lath or narrow strips, placed two and a half to three inches apart. The top should be covered with a good grade of roofing paper to make it waterproof. A coop of this sort should be two to two and a half feet long, skteen Inches deep and not less than twenty inches high, while two feet would be better. The simplest coop is the common A -shaped coop. It is quickly and easily made. This coop may be con structed either with or without a floor A floor is desirable, except dur ing warm weather and where the soil drains quickly. The box coop shown In the second sketch in some respects Is preferable to the A-shaped coop, for in the lat ter the hen can stand upright only near the middle of the coop, while with the box coop the entire floor space is available for her and tho chickens. The box coop Is also more easily cleaned. If desired a small covered run can be made for each coop, This is es pecially desirable If there is danger of losses from cats, hawks, etc. Fresh air is essential for the health of the fowls. A successful poultry raiser says: "One of my poultry houses Is lathed and plastered, while another Is single boarded with paper lining on two sides. It has tour half win dows on south side and a frame fitted over each window with cloth stretched and tacked on. In this house I have been getting the most eggs and no frozen combs, although the drinking water freezes. The plastered house drew dampness until I had an old screen door hung and tacked cotton cloth over it. Soon after the hens began to lay," Weekly Witness. The tiny mite becomes a mighty factor in reducing the egg supply un less it Is constantly kept down. Half way measures will not do. A sprayer that will force kerosene Into all the cracks of the poultry house Is better than a brush, v Cottonseed meal should not be fed to the chickens in larger quantities, as It has a tendency to constipate the fowls. ' Texas is credited with having more turkeys than any other State in the Union. It yon allow eggs for setting to stand around for two weeks before putting them under the hen, do not blame the. dealer It they do not hatch. GAIN IN IRON AND STEEL Recovery Slow, but Favorable Devel opments In All Divisions Reported. R. O. Dun & Company's "Weekly Review of Trade" says: "With bank clearings outside New York 15.9 per cent better than last year and 24.5 per cent better than in 190G, and in New York 24.1 per cent larger than in 1908, and 1.3 per cent larger than in 190G; with railroad earnings for the month of April show ing a gain of 18.9 per cent over 1908 and only 10.3 per cent decrease as compared with the banner year of 1907; with immigration 212,000 larger than last year;, with Import much greater than In 1908 and nearly equal to 1907; with a distinct gain In the Iron and steel trade In both orders and prices; with a hardening tendency in copper; with works of new construc tion gotng rapidly forward, the trade situation seems to afford ample grounds for the prevailing belief that as soon as tariff revision Is out of the way, the last obstacle to a full restor ation of normal Industrial and mercan tile activity will be removed.' "Notable, Indeed, Is the better feel ing In Iron and steel. Favorable de velopments in nearly all divisions are reported. "Tho primary dry goods market con tinues quiet, prices remaining at their present level In view of the firmness of raw material. "In the export division some Inquiry Is reported,- but little business has been placed, sales to Oil Inn amounting to only 1,000 bales of 3.24 yards sheet ings, while some small orders have been secured from Africa and Austra lia, and Molina has bought a slightly larger quantity of prints than Its rec ent average. In woolen goods the volume of duplicate business from buyers of men's wear lines Increases gradually. "The leather market Is stronger all around In sympathy with the hide sit uation, prices advancing steadily. MARKETS. PITTSBURG. V? neat No. I red t Kyo No. 2 Corn No J yellow, oer 88' 81 No. 8 yellow, shelled 7' 73 Mixed ear 88 i9 Oats No. S white SI M No. 8 white M Floor Wlntor patent 5 75 5 83 Fancy straight winters Hay No. 1 Timothy 14 01 II SO Clover No. 1 WiM 12 M Feed No. 1 white mid. ton 29 V) 80 00 Drown middlings 27 0) 2S 01 Bran, bulk 27110 88 00 Straw Wheat 8 00 8 M Oat 800 8 51 Dairy Products. Batter Elfin creamery I 59 81 Ohio creamery 1 80 Fanoy country roll 19 il Cheeee Ohio, new It 15 New York, new 14 15 Poultry, Etc Hens per Ib I 17 19 Chloknns dressed 20 22 Eggs Fa. and Ohio, fresh 21 ii Fruits and Vegetable!. Potatoes Faney whits per bu.... 1 00 1 OS Cabbage per ton .. 65 01 80 00 Onions per barrel i 40 no BALTIMORE. Flour Winter Patent t 5 79 3 90 Wheat No. red 1 84 Corn Mixed 70 71 Eggs 27 21 Butter Ohio creamery si 83 PHILADELPHIA. Flnur Winter Patent I 5 90 8 00 Wheat No. red 1 89 Corn No. 2 mixed 75 7rt Oats No. white M 62 Butter Creamery 28 28 Eggs Pennsylvania firsts ft 28 NEW YORK. Flour Patents I 3 90 J 00 Wheat No. 9 red HI Corn No. 2 80 8J Oats No. a white M 68 Butter -Creamery 28 Eggs State and Pennsylvania.... i J LIVE STOCK. Union Stock Yards, Pittsburg. CATTLE Extra, UW to IfiflO pounds... t 4 I 8) Prime, 110 to ituo pourfiU i.O i 8 5 Good, 1200 to 1800 pounds 8 3' 4 45 Tidy, low to 1150 pounds 6 00 4 2 Fair, WW to 110.) pounds 8 iO 4 o ) Common, TOO toSJO pounds 4 75 4 6 ii Bulls 4004 5 40 Cowo JU)) &liH noes Prime, heavy 7 4) J 7 15 Prime, medium weight 71 Beet heavy Yorkers 7 21 '9 7 SO Light Yorkers 7 0) 7 11 ' 8 70 4 6 90 Houvhs 600 4 4 60 fags So0 48 80 BUSINESS CARDS. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE, Pension Attorney and Reai;Eetate Agent, RAYMOND E. BROWN, attorney at law, Brookvtllb, Pa. fi, m. Mcdonald, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Real estate agent, patents secured, eol ectlons muds promptly. OUcs In Syndicate villtflug, Reynoldsvllle, Pa. gMITH M. MCCREIGHT, ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, Notary public and real estate agent. Col lections will receive prompt attention. Offloe In the Reynoldsvllle Hardware Co. building, Ualn street Ueynoldsvllla, Pa. tja B. E. HOOVER, DENTIST, - Resident dentist. In the Hoot or bulldlms Ualn street. Oentleness In operating. QO.L.L MEANS, DENTIST; , ' Offlca on second floor of the First Halloas) hank buildlug, Main street. DR. R. DEVERE king, DENTIST, Office on second Hoar of the Syndicate ball! ng, Main street, Keynoldsvllle, Pa. HENRY PRIE3TER UNDERTAKER. Black and white funeral ears. Mala street ReyholdeTtUe, Pa. RECIPES. Higgles Apple Sauce CaTte One cup sugar creamed with 1-2 cup short ening: add spices end a little salt: next sUr 1 teaspoon soda Into 1 cup of unsweetened apple sauce, 2-3 cup chopped raisins, 2 cups sifted flour. Add raisins last. Bake 40 minutes In slow oven. Prune Tarts Make a rich puff paste for shells. Take 2 cups stiwed prunes sweetened to taste and chop with about 1-2 cup 'walnuts, or chop sepa rately, as the nuts want to be qulto line; Till shells with mixture and cn the top of each put 1 large spoon whipped and sweetened cream flavor ed with vanilla. Molasses Cookies One cup mo lasses, 1-2 cup sugar, 1-2 cup shorten ing, 1-2 cup hot water, 2 teaspoons saleratus, a little salt, about- a tea spoon ground ginger, flour to roll. Don't roll very thin. German Coffee Cakes 2 1-4 cups sifted hour, 1 level teaapoonful salt, 2 hes.ping teaspoons of baking pow dec, 2 teaspoons butter, 1 rounding taiblespoon butter, 1 egg, milk, sift dry Ingredients together and rub In the butter, heat the egg, add milk to the egg to make 1 1-4 cups, stir all together with Inverted spoon to a stiff batter. Turn Into biscuit pan and spread even. Brush top lightly with melted butter. Sprinkle sugar and cinnamon over top. Bake in moderate oven. Apple Butter Pare and core apples and cook until soft. Rub through a sieve. 'Measure, and for every cup of pulp add 3-4 cup of sugar-. Boil until it jellies. Stir often to prevent burn ing. You will have to use your own judgment about the water, as some apples are more Juicy than others. Of course, the more water used the long er it will have to boll before It Is done. Hermits One cup sugar, 1-2 cup butter, 1 egg, 1-4 cup milk, 1-2 tea ppfoon saleratus, 1 teaspoon cream tartar, 1-2 teaspoon all kinds spice. 1 oup cliopped raisins, flour to roll stiff. Roll thin, baKe In a quick oven. BRAIDED RUGS. Braided rugs are now the fashion. Formerly one saw tlTem only In the country but now they are seen In city bed rooms and living rooms. Any country bousewlfe might snake money by braiding strips of rags during the long winter evenings and making them Into rugs to sell. If city boarders come to the country In the summer, they will buy, but a surer way of sell ing them Is to make arrangements with some of the numerous women's exchanges or women's industrial unions that are found In large cities and where handiwork of women Is sold at a good figure. Hooked rugs are equally In demand, and some every beautiful ones may be made by the country housewife. Ir.dl.ma Fajmer. Probably not one out of every 10,000 buildings standing In all parts of the world and built by modern masons will be standing 500 years hence. We do not know how to put stones and bricks together as the ancleflts did, and consequently the buildings w raise nowadays are really mere tem porary structures, and will be In ruins when the ancient buildings of Greece and Egypt, built thousands of years ago, are in as good condition as they are now. Talks on Alveolar TEETH By L Day ion Craig. D. D. S. INVESTIGATE MY METHOD I have heard a definition for a skeptic, which reads something like this, "A Skeptic is one who first doubts, then Investigates." If you are skeptic In regards my Alveolar Method "Investigate" and you will be satisfied that It will do all that is claimed for it. Investigations are being made daily and I wonder If you, who may be reading this article, are ready to start yours. There must be merit in my method, else It would not stand the test of time. I can send you to patients who are wearing my Alveolar teeth you can talk with, them and be satisfied for yourself. But first of all I would nave to ex amine your mouth. No charge is made for examination and there ta no obligation to have work done. There Is no two cases exactly alike, hence each case has to be ex amined carefully before I could eay whether you could be supplied with these Alveolar Teeth. When by examination It Is found that yon can have teeth put In that will give you absolute satisfaction, I will be ready to proceed with your work. If yon cannot call at this time, send for my booklet on "Alveolar Teeth" which explains my method fully: It Is free on request E. DAYTON CRAIG, D.D.S. MONONGAHELA BANK BUILDING, The Most Complete Dental Offloe In Pittsburgh, 8IXTH AVE, COR. WOOD 8T. Bell Phone Grant 32, Pittsburgh, Pa, Office Hours: I A. M. to 8:30 P. II. (Not Open Sundays.)
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