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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Cheap Horse Feeds.

The Michigan Agricultural Expert
ment Station has published bulletin
on comparative horse feeding. 1t
states that six horses at work re-
ceived a regular ration Of timothy
hay and oats at an average expense
of 29.6 cents per day, estimating the
feed at current prices. The horses
lost an average of eleven pounds
each. Six horses were fed cheaper
ration consisting of shredded corn
stalks, oat straw, hay, ear corn, oats,
beet pulp, bran, oilcake and a few
carrots, the average cost of which
was III cents per day, and the
horses gained on an average four
teen pounds each. Four horses were
also fed the cheaper ration, but as
they were at rest part of the time
they were not fed as heavily as the
other lots. The average cost of main
tenance in this trial was 1919 cents,
and the average loss in live weight
for each horse four pounds.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Why She Couldn't.

An asylum for the deaf and dumb
being sadly in need Of funds gave a
dance. Among the many outsiders
present were two good looking men.
AS they were talking together, one
of them exclaimed: "By Jove! there
is pretty girl; would like to dance
with her."
why don't you ask her?" re-
sponded his companion, according to
the Cosmopolitan Magazine.
How"
"Why, by signs, of course"
So he crossed the hall and placing
himself in front of the girl pointed
with his index finger to her, then to
himself and then whirled his finger
round and round to indicate dancing.
The girl smilingly nodded an assent.
Finding that her dancing was as
perfect as her figure he went through
the same operation little later in
the evening. Again she nodded as
sent. AS they were waiting for the
music to start another gentleman ap-
preached the girl and asked for the
next dance.
II am sorry" she replied in the
sweetest of tones, nodding toward her
silent partner, "but have this dance
with the dummy"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Determine Vitality of Seed Corn.

There is serious danger that this
years corn crop will be limited by
poor stand of plants.
Many growers will be compelled to
buy seed. In such case do not risk
purchases from a different latitude.
If good seed of productive variety
cannot be bought near home, then
make sure that the seed has been
grown in a section having a similar
growing season, advises writer in
National Stockman and Farmer.
Even if the corn is sold as tested seed
buy early enough to enable you to
make test for yourself before plant
ing.
The first thing to do Is to test the
corn that one is planning to use. 1t
will pay to do this right. Make some
boxes three inches deep and, say,
eighteen inches square. Partly fill
with sawdust or any Other material
that will hold moisture. Place on
this square of muslin that is
marked in one inch squares and
numbered. On each square place four
kernels of corn taken from different
parts of the ear, one square for each
ear that is to be tested. Give the ear
the same number as the square by
writing the number on slip Of paper
and tying 1t around the ear. Cover
the corn in box with pad that
will hold the moisture, and keep the
box in warm room. Select for
planting only the ears whose kernels
have shown strong terminating
power. II one kernel in four fails to
germinate, or If the termination is
slow and weak, reject the ear. The
task of testing is not nearly so great
as these directions may indicate, and
in this way one may know that all the
seed is capable of making a strong
growth of plants.
1t pays every year, but this year 1t
will be unusually profitable. Much
corn will not grow at all, and very
much will germinate only under most
favorable conditions, and some cold,
wet weather after planting will rot it.
Make sure Of the rejection of all seed
that is not full of vitality, ald this
method of testing will enable anyone
to do SO.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Horse Holidays.

The Federal Government is acting
on the old saw that "all work and no
play makes Jack dull boy" and
has adopted rule for holiday for
horses employed in the public service.
The first example of the new law was
tested in the case of all horses used
in the service at Washington. The
horses employed in the Postal De-
partment are to have thirty days
vacation every year, the same as Gov
ernment employees. The chief of the
department believes holidays will add
to the efficiency and durability of the
horses in the Government service.
Every summer all the horses en-
ployed in the Postal Department at
the capital will be sent to the Gov
ernment pastures of Maryland. A
change to the rich, tonic grasses of
the country and the opportunity to
repose in the shade of the stately
trees will not only be appreciated by
the horses, but will greatly add to
their efficiency.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Unsightly Compilations.

The constant use of Cuticura Soap,
assisted by Cuticura Ointment, for
toilet, bath and nursery purposes not
only preserves, purifies and beauties
the skin, scalp, hair and hands, but
prevents Inflammation, irritation and
clogging of the pores, the common
cause of pimples, blackheads, redness
and roughness, yellow, oily, mothy
and other unwholesome conditions of
the complexion and skin. All who de-
light In clean skin, soft, white
hands, clear, wholesome scalp and
live, glossy hair, will find Cuticura
Soap most successful in realizing
every expectation.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment are
admirably adapted to preserve the
health of the skin and scalp of in
fants and children, and to prevent
minor blemishes or inherited skin hu-
mors becoming chronic, and may be
used from the hourof birth. Cuticura
Remedies are sold throughout the CIV
ilized world. Send to Potter Drug &
Chem. Corp, sole proprietors, Boston,
Mass, for their free Cuticura Book, 80
pages of invaluable advice on care and
tseet@sat Of the skin. seal. end ha4ss
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Cows Spread Consumption.

To show that there is danger of
contracting tuberculosis from using
milk from tubercular cows, we cite
the statement of Health officer Wood
ward, of Washington, who says that
about fifteen per cent. of the people
who die in the District Of Columbia
from tuberculosis contract the dis
ease as a result of drinking milk from
dairies in and around Washington.
1t has been found that an unusually
large number of cows around Wash
ington have the disease. This is a
serious situation, and If this is true
around Washington it is true in other
large cities. The only safe way is to
give the cows the tuberculin test
Farmers Guide.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Feeding and Training Colts.

Feed is high, but so are horses, and
even the chronic grumblers have
stopped saying that 1t does not pay to
raise colts. There is no denying that
it pays better to raise the heavy
breeds than the trotting-bred colt.
Nine out of ten of the former are
prizes, where only now and then a
trotter is developed. The trotter re-
quires special training; the drafter
needs only use to make him saleable
at a good price. Somebody asks If 1t
is true that at present prices for feed
colt will "eat his head off" in few
months? 1t all depends upon how he
Is fed.
A yearling may be kept we'll, which
means kept growing, at not to ex-
ceed from 50 to $3.50 per month
while in stable, and for much less
when at pasture. A favorite ration
is a pint of ground oats, the same of
bran and half a gill of oil meal,
twice day, made into thin cruel
with water and spread on the hay
feed. If hay is high, feed oat straw
in its place IL bright and clean. Do
not give the colts any dusty food, and
see to it that they do not become con-
stipated. Linseed meal, roots, corn
stalks and apples are useful to pre-
vent this danger
The main thing is to keep the
youngster growing, and to see that he
has no backset. Stunted colts, like
stunted children, will carry the i'll
effects of early malnutrition as a
handicap all through life.
Next to sensible, feeding is intelli-
gent handling of the colts. This
should begin early and be carried on
with patience and good sense. Kind
ness allied to firmness is the great
essential in the training of colt in
the way you want him to go. A
brawling, impatient, headstrong man
can very soon turn a likely colt into
vicious and worthless imitation of
himself.-Weekly Witness.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Finance.

All successful financial operations
begin with the issuance of as large an
amount Of stock as possible. Then
prices must be raised as high as pos
sible, in order to pay as much divi-
dends as possible. Then as much
more stock as possible should be issu-
ed in order as we'll as possible to
conceal the dividends and warrant an
additional increase in prices in order
to pay the dividends on the additional
stock so that it will be necessary to is
sue more stock in order to conceal the
excessive dividends, and so on. No
man is entitled to be called q philan-
thropist until he has repeated this pro-
cess at least a score of times.-Life.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
More Bio Guns.

The new principle which hes beGl
adopted in the latest English anG
American battleships is that with the
elimination of the secondary arma-
ment the increased number of big
guns shall be so disposed as to enable
all of them to be fired on either broad
side. The result is that at a given mo-
ment Of battle British and American
ships will be able to concentrate on
either broadside the whole of their
main armament, and at the supreme
moment there will be no weight car
ried or guns crews of the main guns
unemployed in the main business Of
war. In the German navy the design
ers have still clung to the old princi-
pie of multiplicity Of guns, and cdhse-
quently a proportion Of the weight al
lotted to the main armament of the
ships Is ineffective at every moment
during the period of action. For In
sance, whereas the British and Amer
lean ships which are now being COM
pleted for sea can bring 10 Pinch
guns to bear on either broadside, the
German vessels, although they carry
two more guns, can only bring the
same number to bear on either broad
side, and they suffer from the disad-
vantage that, owing to the introduction
Of the extra two guns, the weights as
signed to armament are not only great
ly increased, but, owing to the closer
disposition Of guns, there is liability
to greater interference, and the strain
upon the structure of the ships at fir
ing is also probably increased.-Cas-
sier's Magazine.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Weight, or Wings 7
BY GEORGE @. ALBoRN.

Here is man who wants to fly.
He goes to some Of the noted aviators
and makes known his desire. They
begin to show him the latest models
OF aeroplanes. But the lightest of
them weighs twice as much as the
man himself. He tries to lift 1t, but
fails.
What" he exclaims. Must I
add all that weight? l am too heavy
already. / cannot lift one of these
contrivances; to push one on its
wheels for a mile would all but ex-
haust me. 1t is preposterous to tell
me that such a machine will enable
me to fly"
"But my dear sir" eypostulates an
aviator, you are not expected to
carry or push this aeroplane. It is
to carry you"
"But how can It? It Is not like a
balloon that must be held down, that
tugs and frets to soar into the air.
Here lies your aeroplane, helpless,
inert; 1t must be lifted, pushed, or
dragged about by horse"
"Ah, you do not comprehend. Let
me show you. Come, sit by me here.
See, I start the motor. The propeller
revolves. The whole fabric quivers
with power. Now, behold, we are
off, without the slightest jar. We
skim the air like birds. We possess
wings"
And 1t is even so. To fly, man
must triple his weight by adding
machinery. Yet this added mass is
not really weight. 1t Is wings.
want to rise in realms spiritual.
My soul would fly. I seek help from
the Word of,God. 1t says, Take up
the cross" "Take my yoke upon you"
1t speaks of my burden" And, fail
ing to comprehend the inner workings
of the Makers plan, cry out:
"Alas, my Master, I cannot raise
my own weight, and shall I add
yoke, a burden? Woe is me; I can
not carry such religion"
Are there not many fearful and
doubling souls who hesitate to take
up the religion of Christ because
they thus doubt and fear? Are. there
not those that call themselves Chris
tiahs who are trying to carry or push
their religion, and are making of life
a desperate and exhausting struggle?
Let us listen to the exultant words
of one skilled in long practice of soul
flying. II can do all things through
Christ which strengthened me-" "It
is no longer I. but Christ" How
Paul did skim through the spiritual
sky!
"My friend, is your religion weight
or wings?
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
STEEL TOYS.
Made Now in Large Variety in Place
of Cast Iron or Tin.
or wings?

or cast Iron or Tin.
Steel is used nowadays not only
in the frames of tall buildings, in rail-
road tracks, in bridges and such large
ways, but also in the manufacture of
toys. Many toys that once were
made of wood, of cast iron, or of tin
are now made of steel.
Steel toys include, for example, toy
carts and wagons stamped out of thin
sheet steel. A toy steel dump cart,
painted in bright colors and provided
with twisted wire handle, is made
to retail for five cents. There are
other toy dump carts and four
wheeled toy wagons of various sizes
and sorts, including ice wagons, mail
wagons, express wagons, milk wag-
ons, all decorated in colors, and some
without and some with horses and
wagons and horses all Of steel, these
larger toys ranging up to retail
price of twenty-five cents.
Among the steel toys are toy safes
In various styles and sizes and made
in very safelike appearance, and there
are steel toy money banks of various
designs and toy steel furniture and
horns and flutes. In fact steel toys
are now made in large variety, not
the least interesting thing among
them being the steel toy drum, which
is made not only with its she'll and
hoops of steel, but with heads also
of steel, painted to initiate sheepskin.
There is an all steel toy drum that is
retailed for as little as ten cents.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
THE PATTERAN.

THE "patteran" or "patrin" is brancl
|ejd by q gypsy along the road to indicat,
81 any of his tribe who may follow, tn,
way that he has taken).
You set the patteran for me
Along the world you wandered through,
Lest mazed and weary l might be
And miss the way that led to you.
How oft at open doors aglow
Have delayed my rowing feet
And wondered, "Shall further go!"
For just hungry hearts quick beat,
When on the threshold I have seen
Your woodland signal where it lay
With onward pointing finger green
To warn me that might not stay.
The gypsy knew the gypsy's call;
1t led my wayward feet Alright.
Together as the shadows fall
We kneel our roadside fire to light.
The fire we llindle, hand to hand,
Shall cheer the way for weary men
Till our Great Chieftain give command
Break camp and take the road again"
Then, Love, whoever goes before,
Ii it be you, if it be I,
Shall set the patteran once more
Across the spaces of the sky.
Amelia Josephine Burr, in Putnam's.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Keeping Up Soil Fertility.

With reference to keeping the land
up with clover alone, l formerly be-
lieved the fertility of the soil could
be maintained indefinitely by crop
rotation and the proper u.e of clover,
but in recent years / have changed
my mind. Certain elements, as nitro
gen, phosphoric acid and potash, in
herent in the soil and necessary to
the growth and thrift of all plants,
are removed from the land by contin-
uous cropping, two of which cannot
be replaced by clover alone.
AS all know, clover If properly
used, will renew the diminishing sup
ply Of nitrogen, but will not develop
the available phosphoric acid and
potash in sufficient quantities to grow
profitable crops. There comes a time
in the history of all old land, when
the exhausted elements which cannot
be restored by clover must be sup
piled from some other source. Stable
manure, which is complete within
itself, or some form of phosphate or
commercial fertilizer must be used.
If you have enough stable manure
you will never need any commercial
fertilizer. But who has enough?
We probably have more stable ma
nure than any one else in this vicin-
ity, as we feed and fatten, each year,
for the market, great deal of live
stock, consisting Of some 1900 head
of sheep and lambs, in a barn built
expressly for that purpose, and in
which they are we'll bedded, thereby
conserving, in the best possible man
ner, all liquid as we'll as all solid
manure. In addition to this we fed
last summer more than 500 head of
hogs. The manure from all these
animals goes through the spreader,
and back on the land, yet we have
not enough. Hence, we supply the
deficiency by using commercial fer
tilizers, and In addition to this, we
SOW clover in all small grain, having
now more than 100 acres in clover.
Our average yield of wheat has in
creased from twelve to fifteen bushels
per acre, giving the figures for each
year and field. One year we sowed
wheat in two twenty-five acre fields;
one Of these, comparatively new land,
and the other, very old, upon which
we used 125 pounds per acre of a
fertilizer carrying, probably, one to
two per cent. nitrogen, seven to
eleven per cent. available phosphoric
acid and two to four per cent. potash,
no fertilizer being used on the newer
field. From the old land we harvest
ed twelve bushels more per acre than
from the new. and of better weight
and quality.
The old field had been in cultiva-
tion, probably, more than fifty years.
The old field was much nearer the
barns. and had had more manure
hauled on it than on the other one.
At the Rothamstead experiment
station, England, three plats of
ground were used In growing wheat
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Mixed on His Ologicals.

A small boy in Yonkers recently
became the proud possessor of don
key-not SO handsome or so young
as 1t might have been. However, 1t
answered the purpose of its acquisi-
ton, which was to afford back rides,
says Lippincott's.
One day the urchin was enjoying a
ride when the minister of the parish
met him.
"Hullo, sonny" greeted the min
lister. quite rare beast you have
there"
YES" replied the boy, "but I sup
pose there are great many of 'em in
the theological gardens"
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01

There Is a reason
Why Grape-Nuts. does correct
A.weak, physical,-or a
Sluggish mental condition.
The food is highly nutritious
And Is partially pre-digested,
So that it helps. the organs Of
the stomach
To digest other food.
It is also rich in the
Vital phosphates that 60
Directly to make up
The delicate gray matter
Of brain and nerve centres.
Read ."The Road to Wellville"
In pkgs. There's a Reason"
POSTUM CEREAL COMPANY, Ltd,
Battle Creek. Mich.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Toilet of Early Belle.

No less extravagant in the matter
OF toilet requisites than the beauty Of
today was the Egyptian belle of 500
b. c. She required, among other
things, long stone palette, with q
hollow in the center, in which to mix
her green eye paint. This palette also
held small, delicate sea shell, where
In she mixed the paint with the neces-
sary grease for stiffening her eye
lashes; ivory hairpins, which rivaled
In length the hatpin of the present
day, and quaint ivory ombs.-Chicago
Journal.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
sfEzsa.F 1Tf11He

for more than fifty years. On one
of these plats wheat was grown for
the entire period without fertilizer
of any kind, producing 1871 bushels
per acre. average. On one of the
other plats fourteen tons of farm
manure were applied each year and
produced 35.7 bushels per acre. And
upon the other one commercial fer
tilizer was applied, and the yield was
37.1 bushels per acre.. w. f.
Thomas, in the Indiana Farmer.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
Soft Answers.

Nothing provokes bitter enmity so
much as an angry retort, which often
does irreparable harm, and silence,
akin to contempt, is equally irritat-
ing. Soft answers are like oil on
troubled waters, and often transform
seeming enemy into q lifelong
friend.-Home Notes.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01

pOunuS. riudiiy =
consultation n OF
doctors was held.
They decided I had
a fbroid kidney
and said 1t. must
be removed. l had
the operation and
came out Of the
hospital as sick -
ever. At last Il
waa nv good for
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01

tune to begin using Doan's Kidney
Pills. They strengthened the remain
Ing kidney and increased my weight
to 121 pounds. have no more
trouble"
Remember the name-Doan's. For
sale by all dealers. so cents box.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01

The crude rate of mortality last
year in the seventy-slx largest Eng
lish towns, having an estimated pop
ulation of 1G,500,000, did not exceed
l4.7 thousand.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01

Rose leaves are imported free of
duty when brought in in crude
state, the value of the imports of
1908 being only sos, in 1907 $2137
and in 1906 $5S79. The value of
rose leaves imported in the decade
ending with 1908 amounted to over
100000.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01

The London police in 1908 arrested
249a children under sixteen.
The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01

Even If you stand on your dignity,
1t will not enable yon to see over the
heads Of the crowd.
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The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-06-01
A GRATEFUL WOMAN.

Has Only One Kidney, But IL Sound
and Well.
Mrs. L. Wick. 2S7 Dewey Ava,
Pittsfield, Mass, says: II ran down
in health until / only weighed 81
The Nome daily nugget., 1910-10-01
NOTICE OF APPLICATION FOR
 SALE

In the District Court of the United States for the District of Alaska, Scr- ond Division.
 In the matter of $. II. stevens bankrupt. In bankruptcy. No 22
 To the creditors af II. stevens. of Nome, in the District aforesaid, bankrupt.
 Notice is hereby given that on the srl day of october. 1910, at 2 o'clock F. ma there will be a meeting of the realtors of the above named bankrupt 1t the office of ]. F. IIobbe-. referee in the Nome Really Compauy's build ing on Steadman avenue, to consider an application for sale of the following described property. to-wit
 onc MergenthSlcr linotype machine. 1 tWo-revolution Campbell press. Challenge Gordon job press, 1 Ideal paper cutter. 1 complete engraving plant, 2 Remington typewrlters, to- gethcr with type stones. rules. lead cutters. cases, and evcry thing pertain ing to the office of the Nome Daily Gold Digger, at Nome, Alaska. free or an encumbrance of $2.ooo and inter est thereon, evidenced by chattcl mortgage given to F. W. Johnston. of Seattle, Wash. dated May 20. 1909. the proceeds of sale to stand in lieu of the mortgaged property.
 If said application is granted, the sale of said property will be made forthwith at auction to the highest and best bidder for cash. subject to confirmation by the undersigned at continuance of such meeting. which on the conclusion of ~uch sale, will be taken to the 4th day of October. 1910 at 2 o'clock p. m., in the office aforo- said. and to transact such other bust- ness as may properly come before such meeting.
 Dated Sept 21. 1910.
 J. F. HOBBIES,
 Referee in Bankruptcy