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The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-29
why She Permitted Il.

"Why did you ever permit your hus--
band to buy fiimsy, rickety automo-
bile like that?"
"He recently got himself heavily
insured against accidents"
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-29

There is no special need for more
laws to project the oyster. but the
crying demand is for more months in
which the latter occurs.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-29
Impressed.

= think shall let that woman rent
my house."
"Why?"
"She's the first one who's called to
see me about 1t who didn't brag about
what good tenant she is."
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-29

A Pennsylvania man is going to
take road job that pays $1,000 a
year, but he is not going to take the
pay. What queer men they have in
Pennsylvania. anyhow!
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-29
A Bio One.

There is one advantage a telephone
enterprise has over other kinds Of
business"
What is that?"
IF a receiyership is ordered. they
can always hang up the receiver"
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-29
Real Liberal.

Mamma" said little Ostend. as he
ran through the kitchen. when you
make my doughnut win you make the
hole just twice as wide as usual?"
why. Ostend?" asked his mother
in surprise.
well, you see, I've promised little
brother the biggest part OF It"
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-29

Lots of people are waiting to say
that they told SO in regard to change
In the weather.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-29
What Did He Mean?

Bill--What will he do when all the
fools are dead?
Jill--He'll never live TO sec that
day.-Yonkers Statesman.
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-29
Narrowing the Field.

Il cannot make cnoice. There are
so many candidates for my hand"
Let 'em hold primary ther."
The Montgomery tribune., 1910-04-29
HE WAS WISE.
Hayseed, you're

Cityman - Say, Hayseed, you're
losing something!
Hayseed-Go on, man; yer can't
fool yer Uncle Dudley.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
superIor to the MuIe.

The greatest hybrid that the world has ever known is the mule. This is a cross between the horse and the ass The resultant mule was. however. oar ren. and the possibility of developing a more perfect type through selection did not exist. The mule had to be taken as he was and made the most 1f At that he has borne the brunt of corn field labor at home and tugged the ha- tion's cannon into the ever-advancing frontier. He has surpassed both the horse and the ass that bred him in many ways. The zebra is evidently a creature superior in every way to the mule, and it is believed. with selectou and scientific breeding. it will take place in the world that will tend to re- tire the latter. and. possibly. the horse. from the field of action.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
Fowls Require Salt.

Fowls require salt in their ration in order to thrive best, the same as do all other animals. The mineral ele- ments in the salt are desired by the fowls, and their systems crave them. But only a little salt is needed-not more than handful a week to the av- erage-sized farm flock. Too much may be more harmful than too little. And since fowls often do not know wh han they have had enough of it, we dare not place the salt before them. and let them eat all they want. as can Le done with most other farm animals. So the best way Is to mix a handful occasionally with the soft food or mash. This seasons the food and gives it a palatable taste, as we'll as proving a benefit to the fowls.-Agricultur Il Epitomist.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
Pointn in PrunInr.

Do not choose the dormant season to cut back trees that are growing too fast to be fruitful; 1t will only make them grow the faster in the spring Wait till they are in full flush of growth in May or June if you want to drive their surplus energies into fruit buds Be sure to carry a paint pot along with the pruners, and whenever limb as much as an inch in diane ter is cut off. cover the wound with oil and white lead to keep out dampness and the entrance of fungi spores that will produce rot. In the spring this cover is not so necessary, for as soon as growth begins the tree will begin to cover its wounds with new wood that will creep over it from all sides. Rural WcrlS
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
THE WORK CURE.
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The famous Harvard geologist, Ma thaniel Southgate Shaler, who disd about four years ago, was a man of singularly wide range and vivacity of conversation. In a single hour, says a correspondent of the New York Nation. he would discuss topics as diverse as national politics, the seeds of the fos- sil Coniferae, and the question wheth- CT there might not be some ethnologi- cal considerations bearing on mathe- nautical studies.
 Perhaps the most striking thing about him, after his unexcelled warmth of heart and capacity for making peo- pie free of his time and thought and interest, was his surprising industry. On one of the earliest occasions when I was thrown into contact with him, and obliged to ask for considerable portions of his time, I remember hay ing asked if he were>not overbusy.
 '-No," he replied. T have a good many things to do,. and. a. score of, years ago l had nervous prostration. 1 wen- to Germany and tried all kinds of cures for it, but they did no good; 50 came home, and ever since I've been trying to work 1t off"
 Asking advice from Shaler was O very different thing from seeking it from ordinary sources. On one occa- sion-apropos of something now quite forgotten-he told the story of his be- ing asked by a graduate of the Har- yard Divinity School how he might best fit himself for the work of hi; chosen calling. The freshly graduat- ed theological student did not feel sure that he knew as much about men as he did about divinity
 After a moments thought. the pro lessor said, in substances:
 Go to Colorado, get down into a drift, and dig for two years with the miners. Possibly you'll know more about men than you do now"
 The young man did so, with the re- suit that he came back at the end f the period to thank his adviser for the good he had derived from his most unconventional Wanderjahre.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13

A most extraordinary two-wheeled automobile, designed on the principle of ''dicycle" bicycle which drew at tention in England twenty or more years ago, has been built in London and sent to this country for exhibi- tion
 It consists of a couple of large solid tired wheels, connected by an axle from which hangs a platform sufficing for the engine. which is at the rear, is of the single-cylinder type and develops four and half horse power. The cOuntershaft lies parallel with the axle of the vehicle, and on the ends are a pair of roller chains driving sprockets that engage with the wheel hubs. The steering is accomplished by an ordi- nary auto steering wheel, which act uates wires that move friction discs between the sprockets and the wheel hubs. the drive being released from one wheel or the other to effect a. turn.
 The chief feature of this remarkable type of machine is the cheapness with which it can be built and the lack of vibration that results from the use of large wheels. The seat for the driver and passengers rests just over tho axle.-Popular Mechanics.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
THE COMET HUNTER.
-Tis Emotions When He Finds n New
 Wanderer fin Space.

Tis Emotions When He Finds n New
 Wanderer fin Spnce.
 The process of comet hunting is per haps the most fascin5 ting branch of practical astronomy. If there still lives among us moderns one only survivor of the traditional astronomer, one pa tient, expectant lover of the skies. seek him among the comet hunters, for today, as of old, you will find him perched on some tower scanning the heavens from dusk to dawn, sleepless, almost hopeless of success, yet ever supported by the thought that perhaps he, too, may add his chapter to the story celestial Let us follow him at his work. Suddenly he sights faint patch of hazy light, is for an instant uncertain, yet trusts that his eye de- ceives him not Another minute and a larger telescope has made him sure It is there. He hurries to his library and eonsults Herschers catalogue of known nebula He finds the place in the book; down the page runs his eager finger. There is nothing recorded at that exact spot on the sky. It must be a comet. Yet even Herschels careful scrutiny was not so very infrequentIy at fault As yet there is no certainty. He must apply the final test.
 The larger telescope is now brought into play. If this is truly a comet it must be following some appointed or bit in space. It must be changing it's position with reference to the stars Probably half an hour will serve to settle the question to an experienced eye. The minutes pass. Is there mo- tion or is there not? He thinks there Is Now he is almost sure there is Yes No man could remain impassive His pipe goes out; he forgets to smoke Another quarter hour makes assurance dOubly sure. Success is his.
 But now he is seized with a new fear Is he the first or has some other anticipated the discovery? There is another tireless comet hunter who lives in Vienna. Perhaps even now word is on the telegraphic cables.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
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The Farmers Automobile.

While automobiles are expensive vehicles. in sense, they are daily becoming less so. Improvements in methods, materials and knowledge have made cheaper car possible and the fact that the purchasers of fancy cars are already supplied has caused man. ufacturers to devote their energies to turning out a car that Is medium priced and of high quality. new field for the marketing of the product Of their factories was necessary and this field was found among the farm CTS. High-priced. fancy cars would not go with them, but quality would. and those manufacturers who were shrewd enough to make a car of high Qual ity at reasonable price have found ready customers among the farmers.
 It is estimated that there are now in use about 100000 automobiles among the farmers of this country and some thing like 5000 of these are in Kan sas. They are great favorites among the dairy farmers as time savers in the delivery of milk. but they are no less so among other farmers, who find in them means of rapid transit without disturbing the farm teams. The new farm automobile Is here to stay.- Kansas Farmer.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13

There is need of haste. The astrono- mer runs to the telephone, calls iong distance and asks for the Harvard college observatory, which is the cen tral distributing station for announc ing new discoveries. They tell him calmly that they have heard nothing; that the discovery will be at once veri fled and made known by cable and telegram in every observatory through out the world before morning. Our astronomer goes to shut up his tele- scopes. He will work no more to- night, but he sways little as he crosses the room.-Prof. Harold Jacoby In Harper's Weekly.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
BURNED PAPER MONEY.
Source of Great Profit to the Govern
 ment and Banks.

Source of Great Profit to the Govern.
 ment and Banks.
 At the redemption windows of the treasury and of the subtreasuries of the country any silver coin that has not been mutilated willfully and which, still is recognizable as from the hints of the United States will be redeemed at face value, this in spite of the fact that the silver in the worn coin may not be worth half it's face value. As to gold coin, the government stands only a small portion of the loss from abrasion; but, according to weight, these worn gold coins always are re- deemable.
 In the case of the paper currency two-fifths of note must be presented if it shall be redeemed or new note issued, and no matter what the evi- dence may be as to total destruction of this paper currency, the govern ment regards it as the holders indi- yidual loss with which it is no further concerned. Fire may melt S1,000 worth of silver coins and it is worth it's metal value. It may melt $1,O00 i1 gold coins and the mint will pay 1000 in new twenty-dollar gold pieces for the mass. But the ashes of $1 900 in paper currency is without value.
 In the thousands of fires over the country every year involving office buildings. factories, business houses and family residences an untold total of legal tender notes of all kinds are destroyed. Every piece of such paper lost is loss to the holder and gain to the government or to 9 acational bank It is a promissory note hopelessly lost to the holder. It is even more, for in many cases an individual man might redeem his debt obligation if he were assured by the holder of it that the piece of paper to which he had signed his name had been destroyed by acci- dent and by no chance could turn up again against him.-Chicago Tribune.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
AS TO MAKING OUR OWN SHOES
If Price Go Much Higher We May
 Be Driven to This Extremity.

If Price Go Much Higher We May
 Be Driven to This Extremity.
 Shoes are apparently to be beyond the reach of most of us; luxuries that we can only hope to receive at Christ mas time. The prospect causes quite a fiutter of anticipation. We might adopt the silk bags worn by Trilby, or the admirably simple sandals worn by Mir Duncan. Either of these we could make ourselves. It would be rather agreeable work of rainy aft ernoon. Real sandals, too. are surely simple to cOntrive; the children might be started to work on these. The New York Evening Sun says there Is ble scarcity of shoes. Our feet may become practicable appendages. We may in time be able to walk. really walk, sixty miles a day as the Japa- nese do. That will simplify ones summer plans With the ability to walk. travelling becomes as easy and usual as staying at home.
 At this point it is learned that the Chinese are to step in and make shoes at prices so low as to cause general consternation. Surely it does not mean that they will follow our ideas of what a shoe should be, rather smart cas- ing which bears no relation whatever to the shape of the human foot. They must mean that for these paltry sums they can make their own satin slip pers of boatlike cut. which have the air of being most comfortable and sane. The beauty of them is undeniable. A pair of green silk ones embroidered with small black chrysanthemums and worn by a chamberman in Vancouver have been remembered admiringly by the writer for years. What if shoes should become an interesting part of the wardrobe? We might embroider our own. Chinese shoes would be fol- lowed by those curious raised rain shoes they wear, lifting one just the necessary three inches out of the mud With our streets in their present un- speakable condition such prospects make one impatient for these desira. ble changes to take place at once.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
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A baby born amid the floods al Alfortville, Paris. has been named Moses.
 Attached to a tombstone in a Har- lesden (England) undertaker's shop is a card which reads: You may tele phone from here"
 cents worth of electricity, at the average price in this country, will raise ten tons twelve feet high with a crane in less tha. T minute.
 No coal is mined in this country lower than depth of 2,20O feet, while several English mines penetrate $500 feet down. and there are mines in Belgium four thousand feet deep Eight-inch seams of coal are mined commercially abroad, while few veins less than fourteen inches thick are worked in this country.
 A woman who likes to have flowers in her window but finds it imprac- ticable to do so in the city has arti- ficial ones painted on the glass. The windows are high up above the street and the flowers are in bright colors to enable them to be seen more easily. The apartment house in which the wo- man lives is on Broadway. and the effect of the art is very striking=New York Sun.
 Montreal is said to be in bad san itary condition. The water supply has been condemned in parliament, and the method of sewage disposal is far from satisfactory. A medical member of parliament declares that the Montreal water furnished on the cars of the In tercolonial railway, where alcoholic drinks are not allowed, is a distinctly dangerous beverage, containing dis ease and death" Typhoid fever is prevalent in the city.
 The number of automobiles owned by farmers is growing rapidly. Out of ten thousand autos in Iowa, five thousand are owned by farmers Kan sas farmers spent $3,200,000 for auto mobiles during 1909, and S2.75O00O in 1908. In one Nebraska town of eight hundred population, forty autos were sold last year to farmers near the town and retired farmers in the town Care full estimate of the number of auto mobiles owned by farmers in the entire United States is 76,000.
 Corn grows in 12O days from it's planting time. Out in the great corn belt, during 1909. the corn farmers made the ground give up to them S15 900 900 every day of those 120. In other words. every day from the time the corn farmers put the seed in the ground, s15.OO0OO0 were poured into their laps until a grand total of $1,72O,- poo, 900 was rolled up. All the gold and silver in the whole United States to-day isn't equal to this corn crop of last year-Travel Magazine. l
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
A NIerciIess Parasite.

The ficus macrophylia. commonly called the Moreton Bay fig. is a merci- less Australian parasitical growth. says writer in the Wide World magazine It takes root in the forks of it's host tree (which in this case is a Queens land bloodwood) and ultimately smoth- CTS the latter and usurps it's place as an independent tree. Many valuable trees in the scrubs of Queensland are destroyed in this manner.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
SHOE SIZES.
How the Standard of Mensuremen,
 Was Established.

Was Established.
 It is most difficult for many persona to remember the sizes of their differ ent articles of wearing apparel. Col lars. shirts and gloves are easy enough, because in the case of these it is matter of actual inches. But the hat and shoe numbers are what puzzle most people, to say nothing of the mystery why a No. Il stocking goes with No. shoe.
 This last puzzle is, however, easily explained Stockings have always been measured by the inch from heel to toe, but the numbering of shoes was fixed a long time ago by a French man.
 The F'renchman permanently fixed the numbers of shoes for all Europe and America. He arbitrarily decided that no human foot could possibly be smaller than three and seven-eighths inches. So. calling this point zero, he allowed one-third of an inch to size and accordingly built up his scale. It follows the-efrom that a man cannot find out the number of his own shoe unless he be an expert arithmetician. Even then he is likely to go wrong. because all the shoe experts allow for the weight of the individual and the build of his foot before they try to de- termine what size shoe he ought to wear.
 AS far as women's shoes are con cerned the problem is still more diff cult, because many of the manufac- turers instead of keeping to the regu- lar scale have marked down their num- bers one or two sizes in order to cap ture easily fattered customers. For this reason most dealers ask out of town customers to send an old shoe with their orders.
 The system of measuring hats is much simpler Any man can tell what size he wears simply by adding the width and length of the inner brim and then dividing by two. Orders can also be sent to the shopkeeper by stat ing the circumference of the head Boston Globe
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
Wheat for Laying men..

Many farmers grow and sell wheat. but they do not feed any of it to their chickens. Wheat is one of the best producing feeds. and 1t will pay to feed it to the hens at all seasons. even when it is above a dollar bush el. Wheat Is similar in composition to milk and eggs; 1t contains nearly Ill the elements in right proportion for perfect animal growth and mainte- nance. A little of 1t will go a long way in feeding.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
Value of Humu. fin Soil.

The value of humus in the soil is not only that it supplies an element of plant food. but that it absorbs mois- ture and is an obstacle to evaporation. says the Rural Californian IL also prevents soil erosion and waste The most successful farmer is the one who takes the most pains to utilize every element of his farm products that con- tributes humus to the soil This is important in localities where the surface is uneven or broken. and the earth is not firm. or. in other words. is easily eroded by rainfall.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
Nd Force Reuuired.

Capt. Pritchard has inherited all the auiet humor of the Celt. He was ask ed one day how he would make pas sengers obey the regulation order that, after midnight. none but members of the crew should be on deck.
 q should politely remind them that It was time to turn in," he said.
 And suppose they refused" persist ed the questioner. would you use force to compel them to retire?"
 Use force to gentlemen who merely wish to enjoy a fine night" exclaimed the commander. Never, I would merely give an order, 'Bo's'n,' clean decks '"-M. A. P.
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
New Why to Swear Or Taxes.

The best way of not paying taxes on your personal property is to swear them off By swearing off is meant going to the tax assessor and making a deposition that you really don't live where you seem to live, that you real ly don't own what you seem to own, and that, while you appaer to be very rich man, you are really overburdened by debts which you have hitherto sue cessfully concealed. Since personal taxes began, so many ways of swear ing off have been invented that the tax authorities had come to believe that there was no new tax dodge un- der the sun.
 But the tax authorities were mis- taken A few days ago man came to the New York tax commissioners and asked to be relieved of his per sonal taxes. q have only s5,000," he said, and that money is in city bonds and is being held in trust"
 For whom?" asked the tax com missioner.
 The question was unexpected and at first there was no answer, but the tax insisted. Finally, in a stage whisper, the swearer-off explain ed:.
 "The money is held in trust during his lifetime-for my dog g.'-Success
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
Trolley Mail Box.

Many patrons of rural delivery routes live a considerable distance from the highway. and device which would carry the mail between the house and the road would be a great convenience A Kansas subscriber whose house ish 90 rods frou> the rural route and who has straight line of telephone poles to the road, asks If an endless wire cable could be arranged in some way to carry a small box.
 A No. 10 wire can be attached to
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13

brackets fastened to the poles at such height as not to interfere with teams, etc. A small box and carrier can be run ever this between the house and the road. The box can be sent brought back from the house by the use of cord or light twisted wire cable. Attach it to the box and pass 1t through a pulley on a post at the road and around drum or through another pulley at the house. The trolley wire should be soldered to the brackets so the carrier may run
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
Certified MiIIs Pays Best.

Certified milk sells in all large cities for about twice the price of other milk. It is absolutely clean, no impuri- ties being allowed. to get into the milk. A layer of fine cheesecloth is stretched over the milk pail, a layer of absorbent cotton is placed upon that, then another piece of cheesecloth. There is no sediment in the bottom of the milk vessels of milk treated iR this way. It's not expensive, either
The Holbrook news., 1910-05-13
En.i1ase and Alfalfa Feed.

The scientific ration for a COW giv- ing twenty pounds of milk with per cent of butter fat-a good average dairy cow-is forty-five pounds of en- silage and ten pounds of alfalfa hay day. Ensilage costs about S2 ton and alfalfa about $1O ton. Thus the COW feed cost of 91a cents day, which is more than third cheaper than could be sustained on an ordinary corn ration