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The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07
Finding the Value of Cows.

The New Hampshire station indi-
Gates from the following how the value
of cows may be arrived at:
One test of a COW only shows what
she did at one milking, which is no in
dication of the ability or value of a
cow
Different conditions will cause a va
ration in the per cent of fat in a cows
milk. In the early part of the lacta-
ton period, when the COW is giving a
large quantity of milk, the test is low
er than in the latter part of the lacta-
ton period, when the milk flow is
decreasing. The variation may range
from one-half up to three per cent, de-
pending upon the breed and individ-
uality of the COW.
The per cent of fat may also be in
fuenced by the time between milk
Ing. In an experiment where COWS
were MIXED at six O'Clock in the
morning and three in the afternoon,
the average test in the afternoon was
as per cent, while in the morning 1t
was 2.8 per cent. When the same
cows were MIXED at $50 a. m. and
500 p. m. the fat content of the even
ing milk was 3.S per cent and of the
morning milk 3.1S per cent.
The first milk drawn from a COW is
much thinner than the last. Investiga-
lions by de Vriezes show the following
cent fat; after drawing about one
fourth the quantity of milk 81 per
cent fat; after drawing about three
fourths of the milk, SO per cent fat;
very last drop of milk drawn 10 per
cent fat.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

Skunks bothering the poultry and
eggs may be obliterated by breaking
a small hole in a fresh egg and in
sorting a very small bit of strychnine;
paste a little tough paper wei the
hole and put it under the roost. AS
Mr.. Skunk prefers eggs to chickens
or anything else, you are pretty sure
to get him.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07
Turned Down..

Dick-I didn't get much encourage
ment when l proposed to that naughty
beauty.
Jack-Well, faint heart never won
you had cold feet.
Dick-H'm! She must have thought
l had cold hands. She gave me the
mitten.-Chicago Daily News.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

A French gentleman is credited with
having invented a mitrailleuse worked
by electricity that can fire, without
powder, 1900 bullets a minute. This
would mean a more rapid service than
anything yet known, and the assertion
is made that the gun is likely to revo-
lutionize modern artillery. But rad
ical changes have been reported SO
often of late that it looks as though
revolutionizing systems has become a
continuous performance.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

Rough or scaly legs can be cured by
amounting them freely with a mixture
of half and half lard and kerosene.
1t should be applied freely at least
twice a week until removed. Better
still, keep your stock free from the
trouble by thorough cleanliness about
the house, yards, etc.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

One of the best ermon of a promi,
mont preacher is the story he some,
times tells about a scrub woman who,
i'll preparation for some event at his
church, had been busy for hours with
a scrub-brush, pail and mop. aren't
you tired?" asked the clergyman,
sympathetically, as he passed the busy
worker. 'Tired?" was her reply. u
da'sn't be tired till my job is done!"
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

A Cleveland scientist pretends to
have discovered that the babies born
during hard times are very likely to
be boys, while girls come in greatest
numbers during eras of prosperity.
Has anybody noticed a surprising in
crease in the number of boy babies
born in the Lake Shore drive district
recently? asks the Chicago Record.
Herald.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

They are now planning to build ele.
waited streets in New York in order to
provide the double thoroughfare to re.
lieve the terrible congestion, and still
country people continue to flock to the
big city.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

The British government has con
fcrred a pension of $3.50 annually upon
Paul Fountain in consideration of his
contributions to literature and his
straitened circumstances. If the
United States government should feel
disposed to similar action, a good
many American authors could comply
with the second condition.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

Many farmers in the dark tobacco
district of Kentucky are leaving that
state because night riders r forcing
them to give up tobacco raising. In
many counties huge signs have been
erected declaring the intention of the
farmers not to raise a crop this season.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

Queen Alexandra was so touched by
the constant coughing of a young
woman patient in a hospital for con-
sumptives that she visited at Bays.
water that she has since sen to the
hospital a special box of lozenges for
the patients use. No doubt the young
woman will treasure them until she
dies.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07
Horrible.

Bacon see the Englishmen Of
Mid-Devon have organized to wage
war on wood pigeons.
Egbert-I should think they would
kick. Just imagine trying to eat a
pigeon pie made out of wooden pi-
geons!-Yonkers Statesman.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

Why should we take a correspond
ence course in learning how to pro-
nounce the name Of Los Angeles?
What reason would the residents OF
that city have for feeling superior if
they couldn't explain it to us when we
called on them?
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

Chickens need dust baths as much
a. people need clean water bathing.
A heavy laying fowl is rarely over
fed, but when hens begin to put ON
fat, the egg supply decreases.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07
At the SPRINGS,

Josh Wethersby-Say, boy! dye
mean ter tell me tibet yer kin make me
young an spry agin if l stop here fer
more'n a week?
Hotel Clerk-Sure thing, uncle!
Front, show the gentleman to suite
sixteen.-Judge.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

A New York man who lost part OF
his brain became an expert chess
player. though he didn't understand
the game before. Possibly had he lost
it all he would then have been fitted
out for the game of politics.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

Any idea that women who possess
or think they possess deformed faces
have a right to make way with them
selves should be killed in the bud at
once. No such depletion of the ranks
can be tolerated.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

A sk%yscraper GO stories high is to be
built in New York. If this thing keeps
on we shall be able presently to hand
peaches and other things of that sort
TO the man in the oon
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

BY cutting the hair of the redskin
Uncle Sam has an idea he can hasten
the civilization of the Indian. By lift
ing the hair entirely the old-time war
rior showed just how he stood on the
question of the white mans culture.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

A Harvard professor is going to
study the monkey language. Harry
Lehr neglected to write a book about
his observations when he took. the
simian to dine with him at Newport.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

jaunt into the woods. Battle your
tired feet with hot water and with a
coarse towel rub away any ~callouses
which might be there. Then rub them
we'll with alcohol. 1t not only toughens
tender feet, but it is amazingly refresh
ing and in many cases it will prevent
disagreeable perspiration.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07
Alcohol for Tender Feet.

II you are starting out on your vaca-
ton and if you intend to do a great
deal of tramping around, stow away
this little hint in a corner of your
brain and see how much good it will
do after a lively game Of tennis or q
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

A Chicago attorney has just
received a fee of $50, 600, bat that is
no reason why should become
disguised with Homework.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

A Niagara Falls man proposes to
shoot the whirlpool rapids in a canoe,
but it isn't likely that anyone will care
10 risk her sofa pillows with him.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

There is nothing so decidedly es.
sential to the health Of both old and
young chickens as a good supply OF
green bulky food.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

New York is to have the highest
building in the world. High finance in
that town has got so that it isn't sat
isfied with present accommodations.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07
The Usual WAY.

"Jones looks and acts like a king,
doesn't he"
Yes, that's probably because he's
always in debt."-Detroit Free Press.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

Doubtless the young man at the soda
fountain thinks it is on account of his
personal charms that the girls come
tiocking.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

Elephants are being employed in
Paris as "sandwichmen" to advertise
a music-hall in the Champs Elysees.
The Tupelo journal., 1908-08-07

Almost every one can afford now to
be a vegetarian.
Free press., 1908-05-16
A Game of Cheokers

Under the heading Move On, the
editor of The Minneapolis (Kan.)
Better Way says his family is going
to move again. He adds:
1T sometimes seems to this writer that
1t would be better to pay rent than to
move. Our Wife has to do so much hard
work lifting the range and our heavy
mahogany furniture, then the loss by
oreakaSe of cut glass and china and
bruisage of silverware is always consid-
erable. We knew it was coming three
weeks ago when our old rooster walked
out to the barn and shut himself up in
a crate. For p long, happy months we
have dwelt in peace and amity (and
Judge Apples house, on the south hill.
giving the neighbors, without money and
without price the benefit of our happy.
sunny disposition and imposing presence
and now, just we have succeeded in
getting on good terms with our neigh
bors' dogs so that we can pursue our
nocturnal Investigations without disturb
ing their rest, the terrible edict goes
forth: "Git!"-and we'H have to do it!
Free press., 1908-05-16
PerSiHaue.


An Illinois editor had a bad night
recently because the foreman mixed
the makeup of the newspaper and
followed an obituary with a near
poem from a patent medicine adver
tisement reading, "The pain in mas
head is gone" eta While the editor
realizes that the pain has gone, all
right, he fears that the daughter who
wrote the obituary notice may give
him one next time she callsl
"A very religious young couple OF
a town which shall be nameless, were
married under water. They wanted tc
try the shoals of matrimony."-
cousin newspaper. Wonder if they
thought to try it in hot water?
You can't blame a horse for being
frightened by motor car when about
half the men driving automobiles have
an expression of fear and detern. ma
ton on their faces that would scare
six months growth out of a burglar.
A Quincy, Ill, woman got a divorce
from her husband because he did not
keep his toe-nails manicured This
might be called winning separate
maintenance by a scratch.
A Pennsylvania man who is the ia
ther of twenty-four children. is now a
grass-widower because he had an af-
fnity. The judge, in passing sen
tence, rules that the man does not
need an affinity. l should say not;
what he needs is a pension!
IN Missouri they are having a long
whiskers contest. Valentine Tapley
of Frankfort is said to lead with a
hirsute appendage eleven feet in
length. 1t must make an electric fan
hungry just to look at Valentine.
You can't lose an editor When pro-
hibition carried, an Oklahoma scribe
sold his newspaper and bought a drug
store.
These advertised personally-conduct-
ed tours never appeal to a man who
has wife and mother-in-Iaw.
Free press., 1908-05-16
Not a Dead One.

An Oklahoma newspaper narrowly
escaped having to publish a birth no
dce last week. This is how it hap
pened:
A. T. Wilson, better known as Little
Tom" who has been given to too much
marrying and who has been wanted at
Hickson, was shipped to Andrews from
Silver City, New Mexico last week, re-
ported to be dead. His friends went after
him and the neighbors dug a grave at
Walker cemetery, but when they arrived
10, and beholdi he was not so dead as
was reported and he promptly filed his
protest against being made the princi-
pal at a burial service. Out of respect
to his feelings, he was not planted
Free press., 1908-05-16
The News,
3yrisht: 1907: by Byron Williams.

The News.
I hear at Baltuf's~corner store tn winter
VIII be cold
Tn shells that wrap tn hick' 'ryOuts is
very thick, I'm told.
TIL hair upon tn colt is long, the rab-
bits fur is dense
"a pigs is hustlin' straw. by heck, along
tn leeward fence.
Cy Bingham sez. down at tn store, thet
times is gittin' worse
1t costs heap more money now to hire
Bud HincI.ley's hearsei
He sez that he remembers well when
prunes want half so high.
And fer dollar yew could sit TWELVE
CANS of Rigley's lye!
Dave Hendricks guesses that tn trusts is
cursin' of tn land
An we are doomed t starve t. death un-
less we take 4 hand.
SIM Saunders slivers off a piece of cod
fish and allows
Thet Jackson Lawrence headed west, is
buyin up milch cows
MAY Wilkins. who was Mary Prout, hez
got a boy" sez Sim,
"And Bill is sick a bed, b. bosh-'t was
oful hard on HIMi'
They're sawin' wood up Ackley way and
elders gittin' right
Yew hear tn hull blame range O. news
at Baltun's every night
They hain't a doggone book yet writ.
where ye kin learn so much
An git yerself all posted up law and
rates and such,
AS yew kin soak in at this place behind
tn red-hot stove
1 mean at BaltUf's grocery store, down
home at Hick'ry Grove!
Free press., 1908-05-16
Editorial Gossip
POLITICS.
H. E. Pearce in Normal Leader.

POLITICS..
H. E. Pearce in Normal Leader.
Politics is a funny business, at
least it has funny effect on peo-
pie who get mixed up in it. A
man who has been all his life as
stingy as a Berkshire shote and
as frosty as an iceberg in Green
land will, when the office fever
strikes him, suddenly have a
change of heart that makes him
as liberal as a ten cent dude with
a new girl and as polite as a bank
rupted French Count on the look
out for an American heiress
with matrimonial aspirations. A
candidate will treat all the street
corner loafers and cracker-boX
philosophers in town, tip his hat
to every lady he meets, run clear
across the street through mud
shoe top deep to shake hands
with a man he wouldn't know
from Adam were the two togeth-
er, kiss all the babies in the dis
trict and mortgage his home to
the banker and his soul to the
devil in order to get a political
office. And people who wouldn't
speak to him if they meet him in
the road will, when he becomes
the nominee of their party, drive
ten miles and stand bareheaded
in the rain to hear him speak,
yell themselves hoarse when he
is through, then go home and
name their babies after him. If
he is defeated he goes about with
his head down looking as sor-
rowful as a society lady whose
pug dog has gone on a visit and
failed to return. If he is elected
he goes about with his head in
the air and his neck at an angle
of forty-five degrees looking as
if he owned the world and held a
mortgage on the universe. Of
course an honest, straight-for-
ward man runs for office once in
while but he usually cuts about
as much ice in a campaign as a
bridegroom at a June wedding.
In certain county there was,
few years ago, a hard working
farmer, an honest man who want
ed to run for a county office. Be
fore announcing himself as a
candidate, he and his wife sat
up one night until after midnight
reviewing his past history to see
if there was anything he had
ever done that could be used
against him in the campaign, and
as neither of them could think of
anything very mean that he ever
did he concluded that there was
nothing connected with his past
life that the opposite party could
bring up that would hurt his
chances any so he made his an
nouncement the following day.
But before the campaign was
over his opponents had not only
accused him of beating his wife
and stealing hogs, but as he said
They derned near proved it."
He was defeated and a smooth
tongued rascal rode into office on
a reform wave, as gracefully as
a mallard duck down a slough on
a spring overflow. The Ameri-
can people, for some reason, ap-
parently do not have much sym
pathy for an honest man who
gets into politics, probably they
think he ought to be in better
business. 1t seems that the peo-
pie not only like to be humbug-
ged, as Barnum said, but the
oftener it is done the better they
Ill, -
Free press., 1908-05-16

Now is the time of year to have your
Spring and Summer Clothes Cleaned
and Pressed. The Hays Laundry has
done this work for years at reasonable
price Phone So and we will call and
deliver promptly.
Free press., 1908-05-16
Announcements.
FOR CONGRESSMAN.

l am candidate for the Republican
nomination for congressman of the
Sixth District. In this notice it is not
practicable to state the measures l
believe IN, but hope to be able to state
them publicly in all parts of the dis
trict between this and August 4th, next
Stockton, Kansas. w. B. HAM.
Free press., 1908-05-16
REGISTER OF DEEDS.

l hereby announce myself as candi-
date for the republican nomination of
Register of Deeds at the Primary cleo
ton to be held August 4th, and vii
appreciate and endeavor to merit all
support given me by the voters of the
County. JOHN TROTH.
Free press., 1908-05-16
Cattle Pasture.

have good pasture, plenty of water
and will take cattle to herd at my farm
reasonable. Address, PETER HoFF,
24-3t Victoria, Kansas.
Free press., 1908-05-16

THE HOME PAPER gives you the
reading matter in which you have the
greatest interest-the home news. It's
every issue will prove welcome visit
or to every member of the family. 1t
should head your list of newspaper and
periodical subscriptions.
Free press., 1908-05-16
Cream Separator for Sale.

A customer has left new National
Cream separator at the Continental
Station in Hays for sale cheap on easy
terms. Guaranteed one of the best
machines made. See HARRY FREEsE,
23-tf Operator
Free press., 1908-05-16

1t pays to advertise whether it be
small want ad of house to rent or
large display calling attention to a
new shipment of goods or a special
sale Ask for a FREE PRESS rate
card
Free press., 1908-05-16
Wise Breeze.

(which would you rather be?"
The sunbeam asked the breeze.
"a dimple or a freckle
On the face of sweet Louise"
I'D rather be freckIe
On her cunning, puggy nose,"
The breeze replied quite aptly,
Since that is what she blows"
Robert ". Carr.
o hckle little breezei
A freckle lasts day,
But dimples. sir, cannot
Be even kissed awayi
Free press., 1908-05-16
I'm Ohio EARN.

Harry Freese has a good farm in
northeast Ohio, near Lake Erie, to
trade for farm in Ellis county. Who
wants to go back to Ohio? 22-tf
Free press., 1908-05-16
custom Made Shoes.

We are prepared to fit you perfectly
with a good-wearing pair of shoes.
Come and see our samples. Prices right.
16-tf Gassman's Shoe Shop.
Free press., 1908-05-16
For Sale.

Three room cottages; Two room
cottages; One 5-acre lot close to town.
For terms see JOHN c. ADKINS. 23-tf
Free press., 1908-05-16
WANT ADS. PER 81 LINE

Insure your wheat with a good old
line company that makes the lowest
rates, the fairest adjustments. For a
policy in this kind of a company see
w. ]. MADDEN.
Free press., 1908-05-16

Harry Freese has several small
houses for sale cheap.
Free press., 1908-05-16

Have your printing done at the FREE
PRESS Office.
Free press., 1908-05-16

Old papers tor sale at this Office sc
per package.
Free press., 1908-05-16

Wanted" at Hays Laundry next
week: Suits to Clean and Press. First
Class Work and Prices right. Phone 62
Free press., 1908-05-16

Dolly Warden" Chocolates at Hark-
ness. 22-t1
Free press., 1908-05-16
lmportant If True.

According to the Hinckley (Tex.)
Times. Roy Jones linked the press
Saturday for the Benton News!"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-05
ECONOMY CARRIED TOO FAR.
Old Mans Thrift That Led Him Into
Ridiculous Action.

President ]. C. Schurman Of Cornell
was discussing elective college
courses, of which in the freshman and
sophomore years, he disapproves.
"A freshman of 16 or H." said Pres
ident Schurman, SIS too young to
choose for himself the courses best
for him. His mind is not mature
enough. 1t will make mistakes.
In its immaturity, its p~roneness to
error, it is like the mind Of an old
man in my native Freetown. He,
though old, was mentally undeveloped,
and saw nothing wrong or ridiculous
in a piece Of economy that he put in
practice in the cemetery.
The old man had lost four wives,
and desired to erect for each a head
stone, with an inscription commemora-
tive Of her wifely virtues.
But inscriptions, he found, were
very expensive. He economical in
this way:
He had the Christian name Of each
wife cut on a small stone above her
grave-"Emma," MARY" Hester"
Edith" Under each name a hand
pointed to a large stone in the cen
ter of the lot, and under each hand
were the words:
For epitaph e large stone.'"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-05
THREE CURES OF ECZEMA.
Woman Tells Of Her Brothers Terrible
sufering-Two Babies Also Cured
-Cuticura Invaluable.

MY brother had eczema three diff
terent summers. Each summer it came
out between his shoulders and down
his back, and he said his suffering
was terrible. When it came on the
third summer, he bought a box of
Cuticura Ointment and gave it a faith
full trial. Soon he began to feel better
and he cured himself entirely of &C.
zema with Cuticura. A lady in In
diana heard of how my daughter,
Mrs. Miller, had cured her little son
of terrible eczema by the Cuticura
Remedies. This lady's little one had
the eczema SO badly that they thought
they would lose ii. She used Cuti-
cura Remedies and they cured her
child entirely, and the disease never
came back. Mrs Sarah E. Lusk, Cold.
water, Mich, Aug. 15 and Sept. 2, 1907"
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-05
To Restore Barren Fruit Trees.

Old trees that have failed to give
profitable crops of fruit may be re-
stored to faithfulness by digging up
the soil around them and pulverizing
it well and then applying a good
dressing of well-rotted manure, mixing
1t thoroughly with the soil. A couple
of weeks thereafter a dressing of
wood ashes left on top of the ground
will be very beneficial. For peach,
apricot and plum trees COW manure
gives far the best results. If fertil-
izing fails to revive the trees after
giving them a good pruning, they are
past redemption and should give way
to something better. Good, rich
soil for three or four years can be
p~rofitably planted to some crop while
the trees in the orchard are growing,
but after that the best plan is to seed
down to clover and use as a hog pas
turs, or cultivate without allowing any
crop to grow.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-05
JUDGING BY THE RESULTS
Villagers Conversion Had Not Been of
Great Avail

In our business we get many doubt
Iul compliments" said Col. John F..
Blshop, deputy surveyor of the port.
the other day. but / do not think /
ever received a compliment such as
my grandfather got down in my native
slate OF Tennessee. My grandfather
was a minister and / was a very small
boy when we both stroIled down the
road n day. One of our fellow vii
layers came along toward us.
Good morning. said the villager.
Who apparently had looked upon the
cup. T-sh conver-hic-ted. parson.'
he stammered with difficulty. AN
twashyou-hic-that con-hic-con-
verted-hic-me.'
That must be So replied nv
grandfather, for it's certain the AL
mighty had nothing to do with your
conversion New York Evening
Telegram.
The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1908-05-05
Cleansing Bark Of Fruit Trees.

Every tree in the orchard should
be washed at least twice a year
with strong soapsuds, but there will
be nc necessity for scraping them,
says the Agricultural Epitomist. The
caterpillars should be destroyed as
soon as the nests are seen, which will
end large numbers with amazing
rapidity; the escape of a single pair
means thousands next season. One
of the best assistants to an orchard
is the little wren. If farmers will
give him proper protection by con-
structing boxes with entrances so
small that no bird but a wren can
enter, the sparrow will be unable to
drive it away. As the wren is an
active and busy creature it destroys
a large number of insects every day,
and as it increases rapidly under
favorable circumstances, quite a
large number of them may be secured
and induced to remain in the orchard,
If proper facilities are afforded for
their protection.