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Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-10
DAYS OF DEAFNESS.
Come to Hundred. Of Abilene People.

There are days Of dizziness;
Spells Of headache, sideache, back
ache;
Sometimes rheumatic pains;
often urinary disorders.
All tell you plainly the kidneys are
sick.
Doan's Kidney Pills cure all kidney
ills.
Can Abilene residents doubt this
statement?
Mrs. J. Disberger. 624 N. Web
ster street, Junction City. Kansas,
saws: II found Doan's Kidney Pills
10 be an effective kidney medicine
and | know that they live up to all
the claims made for them. Ny back
aehed constantly and ! could not
stoop or lift without having sharp
pains in my loius. ! was subject
to attacks Of dizziness and nervous
ness and / also had q great deal Of
trouble from the kidney secretions.
Doanp Kidney Pills brought me
propmt relief from these difficulties
ana after taking this remedy, ny
Kidneys no longer troubled me, in
fact, my entire system was built up"
For sale By al dealers. Price 80
cents. Foster-Mlburn Co., Buffalo,
New York. sole agents FOR the United
States.
Rsmsmber the name Doan's-
ana take 20 othsr.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-10
Public Sale

y Having decided to move away !
will sell at public auction on the
place known as the W. M. Plum
farm, IN miles east and 4 miles
north Of court house Abilene, and 9
miles west Of Chapman and 5 miles
south and one mile west of Buckeye
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-10

HOOPS sarssparillA + DE medi-
III cine for impure blood, eFuPtonsi
wsskuess and general debility "a
positively and Absolutely eVAAs.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-10
Household Goods

TERMs-All sums Of $40 and un-
der cash: sums over $40 a credit Of
IL months win be given with interest
at 10 per cent; If paid when due only
per cent viii be charged. Two per
cent off for cash on al sums over
so. lLlM
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-10
'UP-Fo-BATE

prepared good old cold days surely
You all know Harry Lifts don't know him by name you know
He the Cloth
Abilene We big months before and will
before the styles We ask
showing fall goods We made
had We know will
\ everything regarding this store
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-10

Deans ReEnleis cure constipztion
without EfipinE. nau1ea. nor Euy
Ve1ktnIuE effect AK your drug
~ la1 LAan. l5 eaal. peI bon.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-10

FREE LUNcH "a NooN.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1910-11-10
Our Ladies' Sweaters

Nothidg so comfortable for woman
for long drive Of street wear as one Of
'our Jackets.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
Farmers Drive Birds Away and
Grubs Destroy Corn.
Black Fellows Finally Induced to Re.
turn and Trouble Disappears
Agrfculturists Now See Old
Time Green Fields.

South Haven, Mich.-There Is one
region where the crow, generally con.
sidered pest, is not only welcome
visitor but was actually coaxed and
begged to return there, after having
been driven away i years Of merci-
less persecution. That spot is the
southeast portion of Van Buren, coun.
ty, Michigan. Years ago there had
never been many crows in this vicin.
ity, but one season about that time
they began to arrive In countless num-
bers. They occupied every piece OF
woods for miles around, and it was
estimated that the colony contained
not fewer than 100000 Of what the
farmers supposed were winged maral-
ders.
It is rich land out there, and sixty
bushels of corn to the acre was not
too much to expect as an average
yield. Naturally, everybody believed
that this great army Of crows had
heard of that garden spot, and had
marched upon it, to devastate the new
,lys planted fields; and leave ruin and
famine in their wake, 30 men. women
and children organized in a systematic
campaign against the black destroyers.
They were hunted in their roosts, they
were trapped, they were poisoned, and
they were even pursued by fire.
The farmers soon noticed, another
new visitor that seasonal grub that
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
Telephone is Boon to King
the course of a days business.

the course of days business.
One does not like to say anything
disrespectful about King George. but
at the same time the king may at
times be the cause of profanity on the
part OF disappointed subject. When
the king requires to speak over a
trunk line he has the right to claim
priority of service over all who NAV
be waiting to use the same line.
To let you understand what this
means, usually person requiring to
use trunk line, unless he ia verv
fortunate, has to wait at least half an
hour before other callers who have
requisitioned the line have finished
their business, for each caller is given
the line In turn.
While three minutes is the time al
lowed for call. except when the king
Is using 1T, his majesty has the priv.
iiege OF talking without any time lin.
II. AS matter Of fact, however. the
King, who had occasion recently IN
use the trunk lines rather frennentlu
rarely or never exceeds the time limit
HIS majesty knows how a telephone
should be used and is careful to OBJ.
serve rules laid down to expedite the
traffic.
His majesty speaks rather slow,v
ana distinctly. but not loudly, so that
MS listener never has to ask him IN
repeat word. 1t is the experience
at the trunk exchange that the rovaI
calls are very quickly cleared.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
ILL LUCK FOLLOWS STEALING
United States Army Officer Who
Robbed Temple Of Idol Only Too
Ready to Return 1t.

Victoria, B. C. - The steamer
Oceano, from Japan, brings advices
that a small idol of Buddha which was
looted from Japanese temple by a
United States army officer in 1901 and
has since brought him misfortune has
been forwarded to E. G. Rabbit, act
ing consul general for America at
Yokohama, in the hope that the resti-
tuition of the bronze image to Japan
will break the hoodoo The fol-
lowing letter accompanied the idol:
Dear Sir: Inclosed find Jap
anese image which is supposed to
have been taken from a temple in
Japan by United States army off,
Ger In 1901. This image is said to
have brought misfortune to the pos
SCISSOR, and / was given it the other
day to dispose of. II 1t is possible
to restore 1t to Its original owner.
kindly do so. II not, dispose Of it as
you ses st."
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
caress PromiscuousIy, Recklessiy, But
Seldom Lovingly, Says East
ern School Board.

Washington.-Big girls kiss more
than little ones. They kiss babies,
teachers, each other-and sometimes
poodles and good-looking boys. There
is no method or motive in the big
girls kiss-except sometimes, when a
certain one Is concerned.
They kiss promiscuously, indiscrim-
inately, recklessly, but seldom loving.
ly. The big girls kiss is like the
boarding house prunes, always pres.
emit, but seldom taken seriously. These
facts are proven by statistics prepared
here in connection with the organiza.
ton OF an anti-osculatory campaign.
At Its next meeting the board OF
education will take up the matter ol
kissing and because Of the possibil;
ties Of breeding disease an effort il
likely to be made by the school on.
Gals, not only to place ban upon j,
10 the schools. but also to discourage
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30

for in advance Of $40 which we have
given him credit for being worth at
the time of birth.
Now, the question Is, can the farm
er or dairyman afford to keen a COW
all year that will not produce him
more than from 100 to 200 pounds of
butter fat for the purpose of produ-
cling $40 calf? This is question of
real importance and one that should
be solved by every farmer in deter.
mining which breed Of dairy cows ts
best for his purposes. But this is not
the only allurement presented by the
dual purpose COW; there is another
that is of real value in dollars and
cents, and every dairyman has been
advised that the dual purpose COW,
after she has served her period of
usefulness in the dairy, can be fatten-
ed up and sold for beef and will bring
probably SO more as a Gamer than
will her sister, the dairy cow. Now.
the period Of usefulness of COW ia.
or should be. about ten years, so that
this means the beef COW is more val
liable by 81 per year than is the dairy
cow. Adding this to the valuation we
have ascribed to the beef calf. we
find that the dual purpose cow, pro-
ducing an average of from 100 to 200
pounds of butter fat per year, has to
her credit also $11 over and above
that which the dairy COW has, provi-
ding we lead ourselves to belie7e as
many have done, that the real dairy
COW will have bull calves every year
that are fit for nothing except to be
killed at once. The time is rapidly
coming, however. If not here already,
when the farmer is to know that every
heifer calf from real dairy COW that
has produced from 400 to 700 pounds
OF butter during the year, is worth
more money the day It is born than
are the two calves from one of the
common beefier types of cows pro-
duced in two consecutive years. pro-
viding they be alternately male and
female. But for the purpose of de-
Gliding in an unprecedented manner
which is the best breed for the dairy,
we will leave out of consideration for
the present time the value Of the
dairy cows calves and take it for
granted that they are destroyed i'm
mediately upon birth and we will al
low the calf, whether male or female,
from the dual purpose cow, to be.
worth $40 at birth, and further allow
81 per year in the valuation OF the
beefy type of cow, believing that when
she is ready to die her carcass will
be worth that much more to put in
tin cans.
The 14o Pound Cow.
This Is the type Of cows that are
being MIXED. the average production
of which is lao pounds. There are
many herds Of real dairy cows that
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
Dairy Bred Cow, Showing Dairy Char
acteristics.

wishes to know which of the four
breeds of dairy cows is the best. An
unprecedented reply to this question
will always bring the answer that
there are good cows and poor
cows In every dairy breed, and the
good cows of one breed are much bet
ter than the poor cows Of another
breed in every instance. And, after
selecting the breed suitable to the
conditions of the farm. the likes and
dislikes of the owner, then it is a
matter of selecting the good individual
cows Of that breed. There Is far
greater difference between the tndi-
vtduai cows to be found in any one of
the four particular dairy breeds than
there is to be found between the
breeds themselves as whole. There
probably has been In the past a place
for what might be termed the dual
purpose cow, and likely in the future
there will be some such place. 1t is
not likely. however, that the man who
has given the matter thorough con-
sideration and study and wishes to
conduct his dairy farm on business
principles and from the standpoint Of
the greatest possible net profit, can
be lured into the belief that he should
install upon his farm dual purpose
cattle or animals having the power
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
Problems Up to Dairymen

With all the great advantages that
dairy farming presents, it has without
doubt its disadvantages, and many of
them. SO that the farmer who antici-
pates entering dairying as a business
must not do Sd with the idea that
there is nothing to be found in the
business except profits. AS a matter
OF fact, there are, comparatively
speaking, very few farmers who will
maxi out of dairying the greatest
profits that are to be found therein.
Kind Treatment Necessary.
-- The dairy cow is more nearly an
artificial being than any other ami
NAL to be found upon the farm for, as
matter of fact, there was time
Whe- her whole and sole duty was to
beget likeness of herself and pro
duce milk in quantities only sufficient
~ large for the sustenance of her off,
spring and often for a period of only
hveEor six months, when the youngster
was Weaned and compelled to work
out his own salvation on the grasses
OF the. prairies. But realizing the op-
portunities for developing the ma
ternal instincts in this individual ami
NAL, man has taken and developed her
to the point where at the present time
we find that she not only reproduces
herself but she also supplies milk in
quantities sufficiently large to raise
her offspring and supply to her owner
large and profitable amount of milk
and butter-fat daily. In bringing about
this change in her makeup, she has
become more delicate and more sensi-
tive to the treatment which she re-
ceives, and it rests within the power
Of the owner rather than in the cow
herself to increase or decrease
in large measure her profit
through care, feed and attention, kind
or cruel treatment and proper or i'm
proper methods Of handling. If the
farmer realizes that 1t is not possible
for him to be content with confne-
ment and detail work 1t is better not
to largely increase the dairy business
which he now has upon his farm be-
cause the success of the business
rests with continually working with
the COW Sundays as well as other days
and taking care Of the small things.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
Frogs Stop Classical Music

his educated hair bow and bend grace.
fully as the cedars of Lebanon. The
reeds and the brasses were blending
in grand symphony that tugged at
every soul string of his listeners, when
from the flower and palm gardens
came the discordant note of an elder.
ly gentleman frog with basso that
denoted years of training.
Then the lady froggies joined, too,
and all the little frogs, until the strains
of Lucia" were lost in the discord
and La Monaco was enacting a mad
scene in real life. He spoke Italian
volubly and fuently and with apparent
relief.
But he refuses to waste his baton
on the beach air again until the frogs
are removed.
Meanwhile La Monaco will confine
his music to the uptown parks until
the last froggie has croaked his las,
croak.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30

the most favorable for corn in the his
tory of the county. Some of the farm
ers went to thinking. The grub fn-
creased in numbers. The corn crop
kept on growing less and less, until
ten bushels to the acre was as big a
yield as that rich bottom would re-
turn, and the crows had not been per-
mitted to get another foothold in the
region, either.
Then the thinking farmers made up
their minds that the reason the crows
had put in such large and sudden
appearance a few years before was
that they had simply followed the
wake of the grubs and had come to
feed on that irrepressible pest, and
then the community felt like kicking
itself clear out of the state. They
went to work to try to get the crows
back again. They sent clear to thS
Wabash country, where the biggest
crow roost on top of the earth is To-
Gated, and had thousands Of crows
captured and forwarded to them.
The next season something like the
old-time colony took up its quarters In
the woods and that fall the biggest
crop of corn that had been known In
the region for five years was gathered.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
COAX CROWS BACK

not only attacked the roots Of the
young corn. but also played havoc
with the grass. They bemoaned these
disastrous visitations greatly, for 1t
never occurred to them that the crow
was among them for any other pur-
pose than evil. So the warfare on
the crow was carried on with merci-
less vigor and the next season there
was decided decrease in the size of
the crow colony. 1t grew smaller and
smaller year by year, until only few
wild and struggling focks put in an
appearance.
During all this time the yield of
corn an acre had gradually decreased
and the crow was credited with being
the principal cause of the loss. The
grub was still at work, but the farm
ers had no idea that they were not
able to handle 1t. But the first sea-
son the crowds failed to appear the
yield of corn was smaller than it had
ever been, and the season was one of
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
Bandmaster Refuses to Wave Bator
Again at Beach Until Crackers
Are Removed,

Santa Barbara, Cal.-Music may
have charms to sooth the savage
beast, but it only stirs the peaceful
frog to outrageous rivalry. La Mon
AGA, the famous, the great bandmaster
with the standing hair, has tried it and
has failed.
"Ah!" he cried. Those frog: they
must die or my musicsperdsh!"
This was after the first Saturday
night concert of the season in the
Plaza del Banos, on the beach, with
it's sweep of city gardens stretching
out beyond, and the frogs that Turk
in the lagoons and marshes.
Signor Muscente was playing the
mad scene from Lucia" La Monaca's
1.-the and willowy form was bending
in unison with the music and making
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30

perhaps to produce fairly good re-
suits from the standpoint of milk and
butter production and fairly good re-
suits from the standpoint of the pro-
duction of beef calves. Now, it is
possible undoubtedly, to select cows
Of the beef breeds that will produce
during the year an average of from
100 to 200 pounds of butter. More
often. however, it is found that such
herd produces more nearly an aver
age of 100 pounds Of butter than 200
pounds; and, then, Of course, the
calves from these cows, being bred
along beef lines, If raised and cared
for properly, will prove fairly profit
able from the standpoint of beef pro-
duction. 1t is the buyer of beef that
always advises the farmer to use dual
purpose cattle for his farm and dairy
rather than beef cattle, because he
realizes that the time has come when
1t is Improbable for the farmer to
keep a cow for the entire year solely
for the production of a calf; but it is
possible, II she produces in addition
to calf which may be valued at from
IS to $40. 100 pounds of butter-fat
which at this time Is worth nearly
$50, that she may be and probably is
a source of real profit because, kept
under the very cheapest conditions,
her feed may not cost more than $50
end it may be estimated that the calf
is worth $40. Now, if a grade calf,
from the standpoint of beef production
can be valued at more than $40 at the
time it is born. would like to have
some one advise me. There are thou
sands of them being sold that do not
bring this much money and there lie
possibility of their being bought for
less than $40 and placed upon the
farm and raised and fed into remark
able beef steers. This being the case,
1t is the height of folly to give the
COW any more credit for the calf she
has produced than $40. 1t is not a
question of what the calf Is worth
when it is sold upon the block, as to
the value the COW has been to her
owner, because in all likelihood the
cost Of the animal at the time it has
reached marketable age, has been
very nearly all that he can be sold
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30

care and labor. We have only to look
to the herds that are producing an
average of from 800 to 400 pounds Of
butter per year to be in position to
answer in the negative. Were we to
sacrifice the calf and the extra value
of the carcass Of the COW at the time
of death, an annual valuation to the
Of amount Of s11, and select instead
Of that COW that will produce twice
as much butter fat, or $50 pounds,
and sell it for % cents. which has
been less than the average price re-
ceived by most dairymen during the
past year, we would have instead Of
S11. $78.40
Great Mistakes.
Now, without doubt, this places the
consideration on basis where any
one can figure for himself which class
or breed of cattle he is to choose for
the dairy. During past years. and
even at the present time, we find
thousands of farmers that are an
nually sending $7s.40 after this myth
zeal Sill that they have been led to
believe is to be found in the dual pur-
pose COW as an advantage over the
dairy COW: but it is apparent in the
face of facts that it is the utmost
of folly year after year to sacrifice
s7S.40 in the production of butter for
the sake of securing $40 calf and
having a carcass that Is worth 81 per
year that is used for the purpose of
beef after it's useful life, has ended.
This is matter that can very easily
be figured out and is not subject to
dispute. OF course, there are other
ways of figuring, but in the end the
same result has been reached. In
arguing against the idea of the dairy
cow invariably the point comes up
that the United States is beef-eating
nation and must have beef. and this is
a fact. There never will come time,
l hope, when we will not have suff-
cient amount of beef to be consumed
on every table in the United States.
but it is taxing the dairy COW little
harder than is necessary to ask her
to produce the millions of pounds Of
butter that are absolutely necessary,
and at the same time produce the beef
that is to be consumed upon the
tables, unless she is to be paid accord
,ingly. 1t would not be right to ask
the farmer to do all that he is doing
at the present time. working hard as
he is, and at the same time produce
in addition to the food and clothing
for the world, the manufactured ar
ticles. reading material, ETC.. for the
same world simply because we must
have manufactured articles and read
ing material. There are many men
and farmers who are not capable Of
conducting dairy herds in the most
profitable degree because of their dis
like for the business. Likely these
same men are well adapted for the
production of beef, and the dairymen
will, no doubt, leave the production
of that article to him, realizing that
If he is to dairy. his profits, success
and pleasure are to be found In the
milking of real good dairy cows.
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30

are averaging from 300 to 400 pounds
of butter year. and taking this out
of consideration we would probably
find that the dual purpose COW or the
cow of a beefy nature, with the power
of producing a beef steer or dairy
heifer, is producing in butter fat quite
likely about 100 pounds per year. Ia
king for granted that che herself is
producing 140 pounds of butter per
year on the average-and she is no
more than paying for her keep from
the standpoint of the butter she pro-
duces-and giving to her owner each
year calf, some skinned milk for
the pigs, and adding to the fertility
of the farm, there is very little reason
to complain about her existence, be-
cause in all liability she is prof
table animal to the farmer and, with
out doubt, more largely SO than most
any other animal on the farm. But
the question that arises is whether
or not she is making the profit that
should be made from an animal upon
which there is bestowed so much feed,
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
Big Girls Scatter Kisses

the habit in homes Of the children ana
elsewhere. The statistics show tn
small girls do not kiss so frequently az
their elders -
The club organized recently. known
as the Worlds Health Organization
the motto OF which is kiss not" il
gaining hundreds of recruits. school
children becoming members os the
club pledge themselves not to k,sa
any one or permit themselves to be
kissed. They wear buttons bearina
the motto, Kiss not" .
St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-07-30
Trunk Line Given to George v. With.
out Delay, No Matter Who Must
Wait-Obeys Rules.

London.-What would not one give
to have just little of the privileges
enjoyed by King George in the use
of the telephone? King George no
doubt thinks the telephone is the
greatest boon under the sun. To him
it must be source of the greatest
comfort and enjoyment, as much as to
the ordinary Londoner it is the most
agonizing nerve wrecker he finds in