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he trucking industry than in any other branch
Of soil tilling The fruit grower who has had
any experience comes to expect the inevitable
bad years. and to view them with some COM
placency and even the grain grower does not
look for the same ratio of profit from every
harvest. However, the truckers, particularly
those operating small farms or 'patches,' are
wont to count upon each years productive
ness at maximum and are correspondingly
disappointed when dame nature does not ar
range things to their liking.
One explanation, too, of the emphatic COM
plants that are heard with reference to truck
ing conditions in an unfavorable year is found
in the number of newcomers in the field-men
and women who prior to their present venture
had never had experience in farming of any
kind. The tales told in recent years of the
profits and delights of trucking, the ease with
which the products can be disposed of, and the
comparatively small outlay required for five
or ten-acre Intensive farm" have combined
to lure into the field many people who, woe
to them, had no fund of experience to draw
upon. Particularly has this been the case
near our large cities where many small truck
farms have been started by city folks, either
as the "side line" of some city occupation or
with a view to obtaining anchorage that
would later permit migration to the country.
AS in poultry raising and other supposedly
SSI Tlcn QUICK VOcallOHS Iuefo nave DeeH
number of more or less bitter Establishments
of late years in tn field of trucking but by
and large, the industry has developed tre-
mendously. 1t has come to be appreciated by
many of the uninitated that in truck garden
ing no more than in any other field can re-
wards be obtained without hard work and that
here, as elsewhere, some experience is neces-
sary and that a man must expect to pay for
such experience if he has not acquired it at
the expense of somebody else before he struck
out for himself. Moreover, the up-to-date
trucker has come to realize that he must de-
wise means to circumvent nature when she
frowns just as the fruit growers have dis
covered expedients for lodging frosts and
other menaces. JY
One truth that is happily being brought
home to many people engaged in contem-
plating trucking is that little capital is of
immense advantage just as it is In every other
walk of life. To be sure the trucker who
leases his holdings or buys ION time" at favor
able terms can set up in business for sur
prisingy small cash capital and it is this pos
sibility which has attracted to the field so
many men with very small bank accounts and
women suddenly thrown on their own re-
sources. At the same time the new entrant
who starts with NEST egg has tremend-
GUS advantage and, for one thing, he will not
be nearly much at the mercy of the whims
of nature as his fellow trucker who has none
Of the modern aids now considered essential
to successful trucking.
The trucker with capital has, 1t goes with
out saying full complement of the tools and
equipment which, in trucking as in more ex-
lensive forms of farming. save time and labor
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an especial consideration if a man is at
tempting to operate truck patch single
handed. More important yet the trucker who
is able to lay out some money on his prop
erty will have some sort of a drainage and ir-
rigating system which will carry off surplus
water in the case of torrential showers and
will, on the other hand enable him to water
his gardens" when rain famine comes. He
will have more or less pretentious green
houses that will enable him to raise early
vegetables and to give his garden stuff an
early start under glass. And he may even
have facilities for raising some products in
shade or partial shade. And so there might
be continued almost indefinitely the enumera-
ton of the innovations that have bettered
modern trucking conditions, al, the way up to
the facilities on those large truck farms
where we find miniature or narrow gauge
railways traversing the trucking area and af-
fording the means of transferring the vege-
tables, berries, etc. in one handling from the
pickers to the boats or railroad cars that are
to convey them to market
A notable characteristic of modern methods
OF trucking is the extent to which specializa-
tion is being practced. We still have, of
course, farms by the thousand where every
thing from onions to pumpkins are raised, but
we also find, to an increasing extent, progress
sive men who are devoting their whole invest
AuSuI anu eueISy lO one prOuucC anu enQeaVOr-
ing to secure that extra quality which special
ization produces and which always means
higher prices when the ultimate consumers
learn of its presence. This explains the 'Tet-
tuce farms" where nothing but lettuce is cul-
tivated and the celery farms" in Michigan
and elsewhere that concentrate on this capri
cious product and the watermelon patches"
of the southland so on through long list
AS sequel to this era of specialization has
come the practice of many truckers to dispose
of their products direct to the consumers OF
course this means added profits for not only
does it cut out the middleman's margin but in
many instances the trucker finds discriminate
ing city folks willing to pay him more than
the prevailing retail price in order to obtain
products of exceptional quality and which they
can depend upon being fresh. Some truckers
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His Future Expenditures.

Among the most frequent requests
that go to the United States senate
are those asking some prominent
member to give money to charity or
ganizations, hospitals and other phil
anthropic undertakings. One day &
charity worker asked Senator Fin
of California, who is not wealthy
man, to give large sum of mobel
for a free ward in one Of the has
pitfalls
Il am sorry that I cannot comply
With your request" said the senator
gravely; ''but, judging from the NUM-
Der of similar demands that have been
made upon me in the past, l have de-
charity. The vast amount of money
spent on hospitals in this town con.
vinces me that thousands of people
are going to die and be buried with
out flowers. Hereafter, shall devote
my spare money exclusively to send
ing flowers to the dead."-The Sun
day Magazine.
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Mrs. Browning.

Apropos Of the jubilee of the death
of Mrs. Browning, IL is not generally
known that the event occasioned one
of the tenderest things her husband
ever wrote. He tended her alone the
night before she died, and wrote OF
her passing in a letter of infinite pa
thos addressed to their mutual friend,
Mrs. Blagdon: "Then came what my
heart will keep till 1 see her again.
and longer-the most perfect express
sion of her love to me within my
knowledge of her. Always smiling and
with face like girls; and in a
few minutes she died in my arms, her
head on my cheek. There was
no lingering or acute pain, nor con-
sciousness of separation. God took
her to himself as you would lift a
sleeping child from dark, uneasy bed
into your arms and the light"
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ted that the methods now in vogue for keeping
celery are defective for commercial purposes.
Truckers are working to solve the problem, how
ever, and ultimately will succeed. So, likewise,
they are striving for economies in other dlree-
tions For example, means have lately been
discovered for utilizing the greenhouses or fore
ing houses for vegetable raising all through TIE
summer instead of allowing them to stand idle
throughout the interval. Some crops are found
to do better under glass even in midsummer.
Finally it may be noted that even the potato
has taken standing as truck crop in late years
and thousands Ct asges are annually planted in
early varieties OF potatoes which are harvested
as soon as they attain suitable size and rushed
to market.
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GARDEN TROUBLES

This Is the season when gardens grow. Gentle
reader, have you garden? No? Oh, you live
in a city fiat where there wouldn't be room to
stand garden up edgeways? Well, move out
of it right and go where you can have
garden. If you can't have one any other way,
make one. Everybody makes garden in the
spring. That is why there is such demand in
the spring for medicine that will correct bad
blood. Nobody ever planted bad blood in his
garden, but before the novice is done with 1t
he will discover that bad blood is about the most
successful crop he can raise. If nature attended
to her business instead of hanging around wait
ing for the man to do most everything S!mseS
gardening would be more attractive and popular.
But nature simply will not do lick until per
gets the ground ready and lays it off in plats
and drills and rows and beds and things and
buys the seeds and plants them.
After all that has beeI accomplished at great
labor and expense nature cASes hold and shoves
the sprouts up out of the soiss but no more, for
when the plants have got stare snce they will
grow themselves But they won't Sake care OF
themselves, and nature doesn't, so lae man Is
compelled to look after them. He has to look
after them all the time, too, because if ae isn't
there 70 work just as hard from then eU the
finish, Us he did from the beginning to then,
the kim of garden he will have will cause MS
wife and children to giggle at him and prompt
his neighbors to give him the horse ha-ha. Be
sides, there are the weeds and the bugs and tZa
rain and the drought and the chickens and tas
dogs and the cats and the pigs and the boil
weevil and the pip and the scale and the codling
moth, and like as not somebody leaves the gate
open and the cows get in ai1a- Well, by thun-
der! it's no wonder all our troubles get their
start in garden.-William ]. hampton. in Judge
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mid roof and belfry at the peak In
closed by railing. There is a vesti-
bule projecting from the front door.
There are two rows of six windows
in each wall, the upper ones furnish
ing light and air to the gallery, which
extends all around. In early days the
unconverted were assigned to the gal
lery seats, the men on one side and
the women on the other, while the
professors sat below and sexes were
divided by the middle aisle. Attend
ance was compulsory. 1t cost a peck
of corn to stay away from meeting or
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to leave the building before service
was finished. This historic little
church was built in 1886 at time
when a strong stockade was neces-
sary to defend the worshipers from
the treachery of the Indians.
Another historical fact which dis
tinguishes bingham above other
places in this uncertain and change
able world is that the old meeting
house has had but ten pastors during
the 276 years of its existence. which,
you will notice, gives each of them a
pastorate of 271s yessrs. Six of them
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these fashionable hotels do not demand cut
rates" because they buy in quantity. Ihey
are SO glad to be assured of dependable Vege'
tables of the highest grade that they pay as
much as the same stuff would bring at retall
in the same city.
An interesting "side line" that has developed
in connection with twentieth century trucking
is the canning and preserving industry we
see this tendency exemplified in two ways
First there is a disposition on the part OF
the big canning firms that "put up tomatoes,
corn, ETC., to raise their own vegetables and
in not few instances in late years the can
ming factories have been moved ''to the felds''
to be near the source of supply. Secondly,
and more significant, is the disposition or
truckers to put up In glass or tins their sur
plus products and to market them direct. The
farmers wife and daughters, from time out OF
mind, have been stocking the home 1arder
for winter use in this manner, but latterly
they have taken to picking and preserving
for the great outside public as WE'LL In many
instances where the responsibilities have be-
come too much for the women folk on the
truck farm outside help is called in-school
girls eager to earn vacation money; summer
boarders who are willing thus to pay their
way; and factory folk from the neighboring
towns who are out Of work temporarily, ow-
ing to the summer "shut downs"
Time was when the average farmers wife
was wont to declare that it did not pay to
can or preserve for the market however much
pride she might take in such work for the
household and however much qualification she
might feel when her jams and stewed fruits
took the prizes at the county fair. All this
stigma of unproftableness has passed, how
ever. When the public will pay twenty to
thirty-f1ve cents for a small glass of jelly and
as high as one dollar for quart jar of pre-
served fruit it is no use to talk about it being
a thankless Job even though it be hot task
on summer day. The truckers have discov-
cred that the public will always pay good and
even fancy prices for these 'by-products" If
they can have the assurance that they are
getting pure products of superior quality put
up without the use of injurious preservatives
in the. sanitary surroundings of respectable
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DUST BY THE WAYSipE.

The man that holds the dollar unit, the eagle
squeals is never arrested for disturbing the
peace.
Many man gets safe in office, then slams
the door and builds fire under the voters
when they try to slide down the chimney.
After the office seeks the man it sometimes
wonders why it went so far for so little.
Wisdom doesn't remain long enough in one
place for people to SGT we'll acquainted with it.
Atlanta Constituticd.
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Old New England Church

long pre-Christian period, is not very
long. We have. however, considering
the age of the country, some old in
stitutions which have history that
makes them appear ancient enough in
our eyes.
In the village of bingham, Mass,
stands. with few exceptions, the old
est church in the nation. 1t is called
The Did Ship Meeting House"-a
square frame structure. with a pyra-
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have acquired a
circle of house
holders in the
nearest city to
each of which
theyesend a box
of the green
things by ex-
press each day
or week, ac-
cording to or
der. An even
simpler solution
for the trucker
is found in an
a r r a ngement
whereby he dis
poses of his en-
tire output di-
rect to some
large city hotel
And it may sur
prise S o m g
readers to learn
that many or
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New Idea in Judicial Lore.

The suggestion of French judge.
who presided at breach of promise
suit, has aroused the interest of Amer
lean men and women. The suggestion
is that when young people become en-
gagged an agreement to marry should
be drawn up with clause providing
damages if it is broken.
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Meeting House at bingham, Mass.
Undoubtedly Most Ancient In
the Nation.

In comparison with Europe the In
stitutions and monuments Of this
country are young. There is nothing
really old or ancient on this side of
the ocean and an outside limit of our
history is four centuries which, In
contrast with the old world with IT'D
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Too many people waste their time
In condemning the work of others in
stead of spending it in trying to i'm
prove their own.
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Curious Resemblance.

Mr.. Groucher is always complain
ing that nobody understands him."
such people" replied Miss Cayenne
"are frequently like one of these old
fashioned riddles. When you get The
answer, 1t really doesn't seem q
much Importance.
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home. Furthermore,
the country folk who
go in for home preserv-
ing on a large or small
scale will find that a
considerable portion cf
the buying public will
give up more than a
proportionately In
creased price If the
products are put up in
glass jars, or bottles,
instead of in tin cans.
OF the modern meth
ods of trucking which
are yet open to i'm
provement m e n t l o n
may be made of the
methods of storing for
the late winter trade.
For instance it seems
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served 246 years. The first pastor
got his salary in corn, most of which
was the proceeds of fines imposed
upon the congregation for not attend
ing meeting.
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Whv She Smiled,

"She must love her husband dear
ly; she smiles whenever she looks
toward him"
"That isn't because she loves him;
it is because she has sense of hui
mor."-Houston Post
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Ston the Pain.

The hurt of burn or cut stops when
Coles Carbolisalve is applied. 1t heals
quickly and prevents scars. Csc and Soc by
druggists. For free sample write to
j. w. Cole & Co.. Black River Falls, Wis.
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He who knows most grieves for
wasted time.-Dante
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FOLLOWING the SjmiIe

TVIEOWItT9 IsFC OTIIIIISs
Life" said John w. Gates, valiant
lover of conflict, is a gamble"
And death? Why, death is the haz-
ard of the die.
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late unfortunately, to mend matters completely
for the truck gardeners. Some Of the truckers es-
capped a curtailment of income but 1t was only
bcause their holdings were favorably situated or
because they had their private systems for irrf
gating To the man who, thanks to such facili-
ties was able to raise half a crop or better the
high prices that ruled for such products offered
ample compensation for the smaller yield.
Unfayorable conditions such as have recently
prevailed doubtless cause more CONSERVATION in
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-05-26
FADS AND FASHIONS

New York, May GA new era of
popularity seems to be in store for the
separate blouse One of the leading
French dress makers is authority for
the prediction that the next year viii
see a great revival of the separate
blouse and skirt and combination not
only so far as the tailored suit and
waist are concerned, but for other
wear. Regardless of what the future
may bring. the luxurious little blouse
OF sheer stuff and dainty design is a
very essential part OF the wardrob this
spring. and each blouse model that one
sees seems more charming and more
fascinating than the last.
AS the weather grows warmer. more
and more tub blouses OF actually wash
able materials appear under tailored
coats 1t is quite necessary to specify
actually washable" materials, as many
OF the so-calIed tub" b1ouses would
never stand a single washing. The
colored enbroideries of the cheaper
biouses are by no means always fast.
The lovely wolfe and marquisette
blouses also often prove delnsions, for
this fabric, as many people know, never
stops shrinking. A voile waist should
always be purchased several sizes too
ldE &c anu the excess OIL material may
sometimes be taken up, for the first two
or three weeks of wear, in little pin
tucks which may be Incorporated in
the design of decoration.
Even the most expensive qualities OF
this fashionable yelling fabric shrink
more or less time goes on; but sc
beautiful is the soft, transparent ma
terial. and gracefully does it mold
the lines of shoulder and arm that it is
certain to remain in favor for the more
dressy type of waists; though for prac
tical everyday wear lawn or batistt
models that may be sent to the wash
tub without any qualms are much more
satisfactory.
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The Magyar type, with its seamless
shoulder and sleeve and its loose fall of
material from shoulder to waist, con-
tinues to be the favorite blouse syle.
Nearly all waists shown in the shops
are embroidered more or less elaborate
ly. Many show the embroideries in the
new shade of Erin green. a rather vivid
shade. which goes we'll with white.
Coral is another favorite color. This
warm pink shade, containing a sug
gestion of yellow, Is also called Helen
pink but this name is wrong. as
Helen pink is of an outspoken, pale
rose tint. Nine-tenths of the wolfe
blouses show a touch of coral in the
embroidered pattern
There are scores of blouses made of
aII-over embroidery and most of the
odels are exceedingly simple. the en-
broidery being handsome enough to
serve as trimming and just a trifie of
some fine lact being added at neck and
sleeve edge finish Fichus are worn
with many of those simple tub hlouses
and sometimes fchu and blouses are
trimmed alike--a very pretty notion
So popular is the fichu with it's graceful
drapery over the bust and its lovely
lines over shoulder and arm that the
style is being copied in blouses of d
more dressy nature
Sashes and girdles are important de-
tails in a large percentage of the new
. seasons toilets. while belts, for the
time being, are comparatively speaking
in eclipse. The shortened waist lint
| is of course responsible for this state
of things. The one-piece frock almos
invariably has it's waist line raised a.
| least few inches and defined by som,
girdle arrangement, lines of corde,
shirrings or an ornamental finish OF
the skirt top; while with the separat.
waist and skirt, a combination Away
associated with trim belts, the dress
makers achieve a short WASTED effec
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-05-26
Screen Doors Lawn Mowers and Window Awnings

Screen D o o r S,
made of best sea-
soned lu m b e r,
N rti s e d and
glued, On
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-05-26
Plays and Players

The new play in which Robert Hill
lard is to appear is called The Sew
enth Moon
The White Sister Viola Aliens sue
cess. will be used by stock companies
this summer.
Wallace Munro has joined the David
Belasco forces, and Is working on the
Pacific coast.
Anna Held is to become a manager.
as she has the rights to a play by the
author of Madame * --
Gertrude Elliott is to produce a play
by Joseph Medill Patterson called Re
be1lion." in Jersey City.
Louis Mann is to appear in a play
called "On Easy Terms" under the
management of W. A. Brady.
Julian LEstrange, leading man with
Billie Burke, is next season to play
the role of Nicias in That's
Julia Hay will be member of Frank
McInyre's company In George Bronson
Towards play. The Snobs.''
Margaret Mayo is writing a new play
| for Charles Dillingham;, and is also
| turning Baby Mine" into a novel.
| Eleanor Kent is making her first APP
| pearance in vaudeville in a one act
| operetta called Love via Acceptance
| 1t Is said that Fay Templeton will
| return to the stage next season under
| the management of George A. Lederer
| Several companies will be organized
| in New York late in August to play
| over Night on the road next season
A stock company in Providence will
| have as stock stars Eugene Blair. Mil
dred Holland and Isabelle Evesson.
| Henry Miller is to play a short en-
gagement in vaudeville in Frederic
! lie Maitre." supported by Laura Hope
| Crewe-
| Marie Cahill has been suffering will
| such severe cold that she has beer
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1911-05-26

This simple house dress is made on the
aewest OF fashionable lines.
The plain waist Is cut in peasant style.
with sleeves and body In one. there being
40 shoulder seam. There is a seam In the
centre Of the back which helps when the
material is narrow, but the closing Is in
the front on the left side.
The skirt of this dress has FIVE cores.
The front forms q plain. fat panel with
the opening at one side. and the other
cores are slightly gathered and attached
TO the oeit when nnlsnea the waist
Gam may be used in making a dress q
this character.
The pattern, 51o2. is cut in sizes % 10
Il inches bust measure. MedumAsize re-
Quires 81 yards of IS inch material.
The above pattern can be obtained by
sending ten cents to the Office of this
paper.
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compelled TO cancel some of her book
ings.
J. E. Dodson has a play in which he
will star under the management of
Cohan & Harris. 1t is called "Gaunt-
let's Pride" and is by J. Hartley Man
ners.
Clifton Crawford. the star of Three
Twins" is to appear next season In a
new musical play called THE Mildly
under the management of Joseph NJ.
Gates.
Charles Dillingham; will produce, next
season. play by Eugene Walter called
The Assassin" said to be based upon
the murder of the New York Italian