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The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-25

agreed upon that will afford relief
rom the present situation. The num-
erous agricultural organizations OF
he South have, in the past, from time
lime met and passed resolutions
calling upon the farmers to hold
heir cotton, but in every instance
he farmers have ignored these reso-
utions and proceeded to sell their
cotton, so that their last state was
worse than the first.
"Their inability to hold their cot
on was made clear by their disre-
gard of the resolutions and those in
crested emphasize the weakness of
the situation as thus expressed. AS
a matter of fact, it is impossible for
he farmers of tn South to hold
heir cotton during the first two or
,hree months of the season and so
per cent of the crop always comes in
sight by December l.
practically all the cash and cred
Il resources of the Southern States
are tied up in the painting, culti-
yation and picking of cotton, and to
withhold the crop from the market
when it is ready to be sold would
be to disarrange the entire credit
machinery of this section. If, there
lore, your convention shall only have
what l may describe as a conversa-
1ional result, it had, in my opinion,
better not be held.
"It seems to ME. however, that
4 practical, definite and workable
plan can be formulated at your pro-
posed meeting, which, if carefully
worked out, will afford great relief.
If the cotton world realizes that the
Southern States are seriously bent
upon helping themselves, the decline
in cotton will be stopped %
In our next issue we will give a
plan suggested by Mr.. Price for f.
aancing the cotton crop.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-25
WIFE's CURSE ON HIM.

Total
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
Lloyd Georges Plan Puts Bur-
den on British Nation.
RESULT IS PROBLEMATlCAL
Working Out of Insurance Against
Sickness and Unemployment Shows
That Estimates Were Altogether
Too Optimistic-Vast Sum Is
Called For.

The cost of insurance against sick
ness and unemployment under Lloyd
Georges plan is receiving more atten-
ton than at first. The glowing pnilan-
thropy of the scheme, when stated in
his fervent style, obscured the cold
facts.
His own estimate was that the sick
ness insurance would extend to 14,700,
600 persons and the limited unempoy-
ment insurance to 100000 total OF
a little over 100000. AS these latter
are mainly included in the former, the
total may be set down as about 10000
600. 1t includes unmarried women
workers and a large number Of wage
earners between fifteen and twenty
years of age, but with these deduc-
tons the total is very nearly equal to
that of the male population OF the
kingdom. 1t will be seen that the
burden of the measure, so far as 1t is
met from taxation, must fall upon
relatively small class
Mr.. Lloyd-George puts the contribu-
ton from taxation at about G 5,500,000,
or s27, SOC, 600. When the old age pen
sions law was passed he placed the
cost at s30,000,000 a year; it has al
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
SCOOPS UP THE ORE.
LATE INVENTIONS.

A new cover Tor street manholes
screws into its socket so that wagons
cannot knock 1t out of place.
spoon with strainer in the CEN
ter OF the bowl that New Yorker has
invented has many household uses.
In sandpapering machine patented
by a Virginian an endless belt of sand
paper is rotated by two drums driven
by treadle
For watering lawns 8 Minnesota
man has patented a nose holder that
resembles an enlarged hairpin. with
sliding cross piece to elevate tho
nozzle.
For the housewives convenience
there has been patented a draining
rack for wet dishes that may be hung
on the rim of dishpan
For transplanting trees a Colorauo
man has invented a derrick mounted
on a wagon frame which will lift a
tree from the ground roots and all.
A searchlight that can be carried
and operated by motors from a bal
loon attached to warship has been
patented by German for use in
night battles, SO that the warship
carrying it viii not itself be a target
Tor an enemy's gun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
Organized Prosperity.

The old prejudice against labor-sav.
ing devices has been completely dis
sipated by the example of Hamburg.
1t has been demonstrated that the in.
stallation Of every form of mechanical
labor device has served to cerate en-.
ployment for many thousands of pro
duction. By keeping down the cost
of production. the volume of traffic
and the general activity has been cor.
respondingly increased. So complete
is the organization that prosperity has
become continuously assured. AS all
roads once led to Rome, so the great
lines of commerce may be said 10 con.
verge today at Hamburg. Radiating
from this harbor. sixty-seven regular
steamship services travel to and fro
to all parts Of the world. The Ham
burg American line calls at $50 world
ports. Here is said to be the mod.
ern Tower Of Babel, since the cap
tains Of the ships speak all tie tongues
Of the civilized world. Beginning
with two small ships. this service
now includes 400 vessels. with a to-
tai tonnage of more than million
Casters Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
TO BUILD fATTENlNG CRATE
Usually Divided Into Three compart-
ments, Each Holding From
Four to Six Birds.

Fattening crates are usually made
Six feet long. IS to 90 inches high and
IS inches wide. The crate is divided
into three compartments, each holding
from four to six birds, according to
the size of the chicken. The crate
is made of Stats usually one and a
half inches wide by five-eighths inch
thick. Those in front are placed two
inches apart to allow the birds to put
their heads througt fo- feeding. The
Stats on the bottom are placed three
fourths OF an inch apart allowing
the dropping to go through. Care
should be taken not to have the first
bottom Stat at the back fit too closely
against the back, OF the droppings
will collect and decompose The
Stats on the bottom should be one inch
by one-half inch, and run lengthwise
of the crate. The Stats on the back
and top are usually two inches apart.
A frame is made of one and one-half
inch by one inch.
Very fair coops may be made from
old packing boxes by taking off the
front and bottom and substituting Stats
IN their places. During warm weather
these crates may be pls ced out of
doors
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27

Number of Business Women Increases
The conviction that it is becoming
more and more the custom for girls
and women to seek their life work
outside of the home is forced upon us
whether we will or not
1t may be partly the fault of the girl
herself, who fancies the hurry and
movement of the business world IS
less HOMOGENEOUS than is her own
home atmosphere and who believes
she is achieving independence" with
the small salary she earns But
there is no getting around the fact
that a large share of the blame must
be shouldered by the fathers and
brothers who seem more than willing
to give the women of the family
chance to hustle for themselves"
These men are always among the first
TO howl about the passing of home
life, forgetting that woman is just
an ordinary. earthly physical atom
who cannot possibly be in two places
at once.-Indianapo Sun.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
Good Hatches.

A very important item in getting
good matches is to thoroughly test out
the infertile eggs. Excellent egg test
ers, with instructions as to use, are
furnished with most incubators These
testers can be placed on an ordinary
lamp, and the eggs are best tested at
night when the room is dark. ! con-
slider the sixth day Of incubation the
best time for the first testing, says a
writer in an exchange. A good, strong
germ has the appearance of a spider
in the egg. A blood circle adhering to
the shell denotes dead germ; per-
,fectly clear, as well as a cloudy, egg.
is infertile, and should be removed
from the incubator These discarded
eggs can be saved and boiled to feed
the young chicks or they may be used
for cooking purposes. | have always
found it a good plan to retest the eggs
again about the fourteenth day, and
while some do not think this really
necessary, | think it a good plan.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
German Workmen,s Insurance,

The following figures showing the
working of the German workmen's in
surance law in 1909 are of interest.
Of total population of $3.50 900 peo-
pie, 9,92S,47S males and 3,456,S12 fe-
males were insured against the conse-
quences of illness. They were insured
in 23,449 insurance offices in all parts
OF the empire. Against accident were
insured 1854 600 males and 1913. 600
females. Against complete invalidity
or inability to work, were insured TO-
d)7,100 males and 4,737,2 200 females.
There were 5,540,825 cases of illness
death with, 1,021,1 cases of acct
dent and 115,264 fresh pensions for in
validity in addition to the existing
9SH,354 pensions. Old age pensions
nun bered in all 130,643. The income
from insurance was S91, 59S, 800 marks
(four marks equal roughly 81, of
which 413, 497, 200 marks were contrib
uted b. the employers and 342 ,076, 300
by the Gorkmen. The imperial con-
tribution was 51,500,700 marks. The
total expenditure was 59S,924,20O
marks.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
Unique Positions Filled by Member:
Of the Gentle Sex in New York
Commercial Houses.

In the business world in Gotham
there are two wonderland maybe
more-who occupy unique positions
One Of them IS employed by a num-
Der " wholesale millinery and dress
goods houses to entertain women buy
ers from 2tGerent parts of the country.
She entertaics shem at dinner and
then takes them to the theater, charg-
ing every item up on her expense ae-
count. OF course, to the house
employing her in each instance. Her
individual charge is approximately
one-fourth OF the total expense
The other woman makes a business
Of being discharged from the big
store in which she Is employed once
or q dozen times day IL occasion de-
mands. When naughty. pompous
customer complains OF negligence. or
lmpertinence. or vhat-not On the part
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
Railroad and Other Economies.

Two great railroads, the Pennsyl-
vania and Rock Island, have issued ap-
pesls for economy in small things
economy of time, COAL stationery, post
age, etc. The necessity for reduction
of expenses is declared to be urgent,
and even the lowest employee can, by
taking thought, avoid waste here and
there.
What is true of railroads is true of
factories, mines, stores. Offices and
homes. Americans are proverbially
wasteful. Economy in small things
has seemed mean and sordid to them.
But such economy is wise even where
not strictly necessary, where the pinch
Of want is not likely to be felt. Econ
omy is another name for scientific
management, for method and eff
cheney. What is wasted gives no re-
turn in health, comfort, joy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
SUMMER FEED FOR POULTRY
Chickens May BE Turned into Garden
With Profit Except at Certain
Periods-Eat Many Bugs.

Lettuce is a good feed for poultry.
and bed of it should be started early
for the purpose of giving the fowls a
supply of green stuff The fowls like
1t best If they can pub it from the
stem as 1t stands in the bed. Cutting
up the lettuce and feeding it in the
yard is wasteful, as the fowls eat lit
tie Of it when fed in that way.
Rape is a good plant to grow for
the fowls. The seeds are quite large
and so terminate easily. If the fowls
have stripped one part of the poultry
yard OF grass, that part can be fenced
on and rape seed sown on it. The
rape viii grow rapidly, even If the
soil is not dug up. The fowls should
be turned into 1t when it has reached
a height of about one foot. They
will strip the sides off the leaf and
leave the stems and mid-veins. AS
soon as the poultry are taken out of
the yard for time, the plants will
begin to push out new growth from
the stems and mid-veins, and this
process can be continued all summer.
There is a saying that hens and
gardens do not go well together This
is mistake; the hens can be turned
into tn garden with profit to them
selves and the garden except during
certain periods One of these is Just
after the seeds have been planted and
are coming up. At such a time the
hens will do much damage by scratch
Ing. Another time when they must
be excluded from the garden is when
the tomatoes are ripe, as they will
pick them. After the plants in the
spring have become thoroughly start
ed. the hens can safely be turned in.
The more they scratch the better it
is for the plants. They also help to
keep the plants free from bugs.
The farmer cannot afford to keep
his poultry shut up in summer, ex-
cept during short periods, as men.
toned above. The great advantage
the farmer has over the city and vii.
lage poultry raiser is that he can
make his poultry work for him. The
bug population of every farm is very
great, and this population is drawn
upon by the fowls.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
EVEN UP' THE WORK
PRACTICAL SOLUTION OF OVER
TIME PROBLEM.
Employer Should Be Willing to See
That Good Rule Will Work
Both Ways.

1t was six o'clock and the man who
lived within ten minutes ride of home
turned to his weary stenograpber.
Please get that out tonight, Miss
Walker" he said peremptorily The
please" was convention merely, the
request was really a command. Miss
Walker looked rather white around the
lips. but she stayed and wrote the
letter, putting into it three times the
effort that would have been required
earlier in the day, missed her train,
reached her home faint and almost i'll,
and got down to the Office the next
morning at half past eight as usual
after a troublous night filled with
Elusive shorthand outlines and incor-
rigible typewriters. OF course, she
began the day with that hopeless feel
ing of exhaustion that made her work
drag upon her like a milestone about
her neck during the long hours that
stretched between her and blessed
bedtime. She made no complaint,
partly because she was so tired men
tally and physically that nothing
seemed to matter much, and partly
because she didn't dare to complain.
Miss Walker was one of the great
army of women workers who are in
business to stay there because they
must earn living, but who are des-
tined to work at trivial work on small
salaries indefinitely, because baying
no real aptitude for the work they are
forced to augment their mediocrity
with conscientiousness, and conscien-
tious mediocrity is a drug on the mar
ket.
Just what to do when overtime work
is constantly demanded as a right is
problem. AS a general thing If the
matter is put before an employer in
the right way he will be willing to ad-
nit that it is a poor rule that doesn't
work both ways. If stenographer
has to put in much overtime she is en-
titled to something in return After
hard days work it is a perfect boon
to the tired amanuensis to be able to
spend few extra minutes in led, or
when work is slack to have half
day off now and then.
A man may be a little surprised
when this is suggested to him in fair
way of "evening-up,' but he will prob
ably see the reasonableness of 1t in
time.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
M!L,r[R2 ; |!
l9lHSIGidl;Nt In ESO

Sunshine and cleanliness are the
best medicine.
These are gala days for lice, Fight
them strong and hard.
But DO not forget that shade Is
sometimes necessary in the hot days.
Kerosene will do deadly work Pour
II in every crack and crevice. Don't
spare ii.
Watch the grit box. The hens are
doing so. Don't let them catch you
mapping and the box empty.
The keeping of the flock free from
disease is the first great factor In the
list of requisites for success.
Allow the cool air to enter the
houses at night by taking out the
windows, but do not forget TO have
inch-mesh wire netting fastened TO the
opening to keep out the enemies.
Watch the condition Of the young
chickens. II they are moping. look
for lice. especially the large gray
louise found on the head of tie chick
A drop of sweet-oil win soon ecd his
career.
The waste of grain on every farm
is great: but a good flock of hers viii
CLEAN much Of It and turn it into meat
and eggs.
Be sure that the drinking fountain
IS kept in a cool place and renewed
as frequently as you would Ike for
your own drinking.
Il is almost waste OF time on your
part as well as that OF the hen 10
set her in a nest and in q house in
tested with vermin.
The poultry raiser who is too lazy
30 keep his poultry house absolutely
free from vermin does not deserve
success nor viii he have It
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
Substitute for Green Food.

Glover hay is not a green food but
it is a pretty good substitute for poul-
try. Steam or scald the shattered
leaves or run some of the hay through
a feed cutter and scald it after it has
been cut up. Sometimes we add enough
middlings, ground oats or bran to
make a crumbly mash and feed in
troughs. When we haven't time to
scald the clover we gather up big
basket of the leaves from the barn
floor and scatter it in the houses. The
hens scratch among it for seeds and
bulls and II Is surprising how much
of it they win eat.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
DEAF BEGGAR COULD HEAR
Incident That Struck Householder az
Being Along Slightly Humor-
Gus Lines.

Many funny things happen in a
nat during the course of few
months" said Milwaukee fiat dwell
er, but one CT the best things ever
saw happened yesterday.
i was suddenly reused from my
slumber by three loud knocks on the
door. Jumping to my feet and into a
bathrobe. fastened to see what was
wanted. / opened the door in time
to see young fellow half way up the
flight to the next floor.
Hello, there!' l yelled at him.
He turned around, fastened back
and handed out a small envelope,
pointing to the inscription. l glanced
at 1t. 1t was an appeal for aid be-
cause the applicant was deaf and
dumb.
Say, was mad enough to kick him
down stairs. Then the joke struck
me and slammed the door in his face
and went back to bed laughing"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
The Old GAG.

Miss Lillian IS Rove, at an adVer-
tisement writer's dinner in Denver,
said of the harem skirt:
1T will soon be so widely worn
that the old gag. perpetrated in the
'40s on men, Dlay profitably be re-
vived for women victims.
Some sharper, you know, will re-
vive the gag by advertising in the
Ladies' Own
Send 81 and J. IN how to keep
your harem skirt from becoming
fringed at the bottom
Thousands of dollars will pour in,
and to each victim the sharper Sill
veply:
Wear knickers.'"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
WOMEN In BUSINESS WORLD

of a clerk. the woman in question is
summoned to the front Office as the
one in charge of that particular de-
partment, given a good dressing down
before the angry customer and per-
emptorily discharged. For the men.
there is a youth who acts in the same
capacity. Not infrequently both OF
them are discharged over a dozen
times in a single day.
Another unique profession is that
of flower doctor. In these days mi
lady" must have her floral dec1ra-
uons just SO and her corsase highly
scented: therefore. 1t is up TO human
ingenuity TO make perfect where ma
ture has failed. So there are men
who remove imperfect portions OF deli
cate flowers, paste together fragile
blooDz and scent violets and roses
that are not as fragrant as they
should be.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
ciothesIlne Rescues SIX.

Six persons were saved from death
by fire in four-story New York tene-
ment by long slide down a clothes
line. The flames cut off the escape of
me SIX and they were marooned on a
balcony overlooking the street. Flames
were shooting out about them when
one of the party, six-year-old boy,
with jackknife cut down a long piece
of clothesline which was hanging
fror a pulley over his head. He tied
tbe slender rope to the edge OF the bal
couy, and one by one, the six slid to
safety. The boy went last.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27

SASKATOON'S district has never
known crop failure, even in most adverse
seasons. Hence the prosperity of our
English-speaking agricultural community.
Hence the fact that Saskatoon's popula-
ton has jumped from l13 to over 10000
in less than seven years. We have lots of
land. Why not keep the family together
by getting some for yourself and the boys?
Fer all information write Commissioner,
Board of Trade Saskatoon, Saskatchewan,
Western Canada.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
GUILLOTINE FOR THE HENS
Work of Killing Chickens by Women
folk Made Easy-Oid Corn Knife
Will DO the Trick.

Most womenfolk find it no easy job
to XIII chicken. OF course they
should never be asked to do it If
there is man in sight. or within call.
but II she has to, the guillotine VIII
help her to do it easily and neatly.
An old corn knife ground to a sharp
edge and Kept sharp, fastened to
block, VIII do the work Place the
chickens head between the spikes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
BROWN LEGH0RN is SUPERIOR
Has Ability to Convert Larger Guam
tlty of Waste Food Into Eggs
Than ANY Other Bird.

Whoever wants dainty fowl beau
dfully colored, good forager and
great layer can very easily love the
Brown i.eghorn, says the Poultry
Journal. Like its cousins the White.
the Black and various other varieties
Of the Leghorn family, this fowl has
the ability to convert a larger guam
tity of waste food into a larger num-
Der of eggs of large size than perhaps
any other breed of fowls. 1t is emf
nently the fowl for the nan who
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
MEANS A HEAVY TAX


ready reached 100000, 600, and is going
higher, perhaps much higher If the
cost of insurance doubles in three
years, like that of old age pensions,
the taxpayers will have to contribute
to the two some $125,000,0O0, equiv
alent to about one-sixth OF the total
revenue, and about equal to the cost
of the army. The English people as
a whole are a rich people, prosperous,
energetic, enterprising. but such bur
den as this cannot be ignored. 1t must
be met in the long run out of yearly
earnings and profits To that extent
it cuts into the fund available for
wages. The result, therefore, is by
no means a clear gain for the class
apparently benefited.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27

II any Of the fowls show scaly legs
the best remedy is kerosene mixed
with lard and sulphur Apply it warm
with brush at intervals of a week
apart Then, since this trouble is
supposed to be caused by parasites
upon the perches. see to 1t that the
roosts are thoroughly swabbed OF in
kerosene.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
Broody Hens.

Confning broody hens in a tight
coop without food or water for several
days, as practiced by some. will, no
doubt, break them. but when they are
released from their prison the hens
are nearer dead than alive and in no
condition TO resume laying immedi-
ately.
When a hen first becomes broody it
is better to let her sit for few days.
giving the hen rest and allowing her
system to recuperate and then break
her up.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
Free 70 Our Readers.

Write Murine Eve Remedy Co, Chicago.
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Write all about Your Eye Trouble and
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ems Weak Eyes. Doesn't Smart, Soothes
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Your Eyes and IN Baby's Eyes for Scaly
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Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-06-27
SeIectinq Incubators.

When you purchase an incubator Sc
iect one of p good make that has a
reputation as good hatcher, I'LL II
with good. fresh, strongly fortified
eggs, take pains in running it. and at
the end of 81 days you viii be amply
repaid with a basketful of strong
chicks.