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Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Advantage Of Cooperation.

one advantage OF the cooperative
nelshborhood cannery is found in the
'set that in the former q more com
piste sterilization Of the product is
secured through the use of steam
.uperneated under pressure. Some
germs survive the ordinary boiling
ptaetieed in home. canning, and a
higher degree of heat Is necessary to
destroy them.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
~. Az%0
cottonseed Meal.

The results of tho Experiment sta
lions show that 1000 pounds of cotton
seed meal is equal in fertilizing value
to about 1000 pounds of cotton seed.
However. We should not exchange a
ton of cotton seed for one thousand
pounds Of meal We have to haul the
seed to market and the meal to our
farms. We should obtain from 1000
to 1000 pounds of meal for one ton Of
cotton seed.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25

every ounce Of cream as a miser would
his gold, in order to increase the num-
Der OF pounds Of butter for sale. With
the money received for the butter.
canned salmons, sardines and other
eatables are purchased for the table.
How much better for the health OF
the family to have served the cream
at every meal. and In as many ways
as possible; this would have made
less work for the housekeeper, BY re-
ducing the churning. and less cooking.
too. Good bread. butter. fruit and
cream In abundance will furnish as
dainty, wholesome and palatable a
meal as the finest pastry. and this
leaves the cook enough leisure to
rest, read and keep cool Hence the
value of cream is not to be computed
In dollars and cents.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
The Best Day.

This is the best year that we have
ever had to make good on the farm
and this is the best day that we will
ever have to make good. Today is al.
ways the best day to do the right
thing
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
To Eft the Gift.

I've got these carpet slippers I'm
ished for the minister's Christmas
present" says Mrs. Gooph. And now.
don't you think 1t would be nice and
appropriate to attach to them a card
inscribed with some sentiment or 9TH
err
Yes" replies Mr.. Gooph?.
What would be a good sentencer
Why not a text of some kind?"
Sure. lnscribe your card with
The wicked stand in slippery
places
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Lime Keeps Water Sweet.

Make practice Of sparkling lime
In the watering trough and no scums
will form on the tsurface. Just when
the lines loses its strength the scum
will begin to form. Wash out the
trough and repeat the dose. This
keeps the water sweet.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Transplanting Trees.

This is the best season for trans
planting trees. The earth will thor
oughly settle around the roots before
spring and the trees will grow fast at
the approach of spring. Let us put
out shade trees, nut trees, fruit trees,
and on many farms trees for post.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Blowing Stumps.

Blowing Stumps With Dynamite" is
the title of bulletin No. 164 published
BY the Kentucky experiment station at
Lexington. KY. This bulletin is Of spe-
cial interest 70 all farmers Write for
. free copy
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Market Cotton Slowly.

~, mere is only one reasonable course
49,. 49, lot me Texas cotton farmer. and
.a' e to market his cotton crop as
49, y a. possible and to decide right
49, % reduce his acreage TO cotton
-. -. rear BY at least twenty-five Der
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
San Jose Scale.

Bulletin No io7 of the Arkansas
station at Fayetteville on the San Jose
scale and how to control II IL now
ready for free distribution. It is a
thorough discussion of the greatest
scale pest OF orchard trees.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Bordeaux Mixture.

-. so'deaux mixture il used IN com
'es plant disease. It has no effect
insects. except that It acts as a
s-ns II has been used success
F Is the way Of Kidding potatoes
o'nef vsgstabls Of nsa-bsstlsa
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Pruns Fruit Trees.

Pruns the fruit trees. cut out and
burn the dead branches. destroy the
dead specimens Of fruits and apply
fertilizer and manure where needed.
Let u revive our orchards for hsxt
year.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
When II BEGAN.

adam. dear" said Eve one morn
ing In Eden. Il wish you would take
this leaf down to that maple tree on
the Euphrates and match it."
Naturally. this was along about the
fall
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Troublesome Lice.

Don't make the mistake OF think
ing that lice do not trouble poultry
IN cold weather.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Spring Colt.

The spring colt should be as gentle
as a kitten by this time and know
what a halter is for.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Coil linh8anoro
OVH EIyUtCHC1 os

Do you know that sifted coal ashes
are good soil lighteners? Save them
for this purpose and apply to heavy
soil.
Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1912-10-25
Just So.

Though Arnold Bennett win not tell
The deep impressions he has Of us.
So long as all his books win sell
The chances are that he win love IN.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20
A STOCKING CONTEST.

For this contest make as many small
stockings of net as there are children
to play. Then cut from magazines and
advertisements pictures of articles suit
able for a Christmas stocking, such as
books, games. toys. etc. Mount these
on thin cardboard and then cut into
irregular pieces for picture puzzles.
Place each puzzle separately in a small
red envelope or tissue paper and fill the
stockings, avoiding duplication. When
ready give each a stocking, the object
being to find its contents by putting the
puzzles together one after the other. A
prize should be awarded to the one
who first solves all the picture puzzles,
and this prize may be one Of the filled
stockings. They can easily be filled at
home for % cents each. The same
contest may be given for older chill
dren by using anagrams instead of the
picture puzzles, and these will be found
less troublesome to prepare. If desired
Christmas boxes may be used instead
of the stockings. Place the puzzles or
anagrams in small boxes, packing In
with cotton as If fragile, and tie up
and mark the boxes as if they had
come by express or mail
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20
AN ANIMAL PARTY.

An animal party is an amusing game
for the holiday evening. You must
prepare a list Of different animals,
writing each clearly on line by itself
and numbering them according to the
number Of guests. You must also have
small slips Of paper numbered to cor
respond with the list of animals. These
slips must be folded SO that the num-
bers do not show and put in bowl.
To each person is given large sheet
Of brown wrapping paper and colored
crayOn pencil, and then the slips are
drawn. Each unfolds the slip drawn
and refers to the list of animals, which
should be pinned up in a conspicuous
place, for the corresponding number.
About ten minutes are allowed for the
drawings. when they are passed in. on
each dra wing being the number. but no
name. The drawings are then pinned
up, and judgment is passed. Every
one casts a vote The number OF the
one who gains most is then called OUT
and the person whose slip corresponds
to that number receives a prize. Such
an entertainment will furnish mucn
fun if ingenuity is displayed In prepar-
ing the list of animals. which snould
include some that are out of the ordi-
nary line and unfamiliar.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20
GRAB BAG IS LOTS OF FUN

There are many jolly games that can
be played on Christmas night, and one
Of the jolliest is the grab bag. which
has afforded much fun in times past
There should be big muslin bag
q pillowcase will answer-tied from
the chandelier. In this bag put doz-
ems and dozens of little gifts, not one
of them expensive; just all sorts of
trinkets that you can pick up for a
few pennies each, every one neatly
tied in paper. so no one knows what's
inside.
Then boy or a girl is blindfolded,
given a cane in one hand, turned round
three times and told to strike at the
bag
1t is great sport for the watchers to
see the frantic efforts made to hit that
bag, and equally exciting when. having
succeeded. the blindfolded player dips
into the grab bag and pulls out gift.
Such fun it is to open the packages.
For there are enough gifts in the bag
to give every brother or sister or cousin
lots of hits.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20
HERE'S FUN.

Definitions Is a Game For Old or
Young.
Definitions. is an interesting game.
suitable for young folks. and their ell
ders need not disdain to Join in. The
leader gives to each slip Of paper, on
which he or she writes the word CIV
en- to define and the definition Of it, ac-
cording to the idea Of the writer.
Each player in turn has the right to
give a word that has some connection
with the Yuletide festival. and all these
words are written down before the
definitions are written. The object is
to allow each one liberty in defining
a word to be epigrammatic. poetical.
ideal or imaginative.
In one game the word wind" was
defined as rude boreas-blustering
roarer." ''the fan of nature" "a bel
lows that stirs up great fires" and
"the sailors friend and enemy" "the
champion kisser," etc. A pen was de-
fined as "a loss to one goose. and no
gain to another" ''the servant OF
thought" and "the cause Of many a
lawsuit"
There is no limit to the wise and
witty and foolish things one may find
in these definitions.
When they are all written and each
slip signed they are folded and put In
q vase and the best reader Is chosen
to read them. The best ones entttle
the writer to prize.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20
CHRISTMAS CHARADES.

Charades, though an old time amuse-
ment, are q never failing source OF
merriment, perhaps because dressing
up appeals to old and young alike. A
variation Of eminently mirth provoking
potenhalities may be introduced by en-
acting q Christmas dinner in charade
form as follows:
Soup: Tomato (Tow-ma-tow).
Meat: Turkey CTurk key.
Gibet gravy: (Jib-let Gray VI.
Vegetables: Potato CPot-eight-O.
Caulif1ower: CALL Flower.
Jelly: Currant (Cur-ranD.
Dessert: Plum Pudding (Plumb).
Beverage: Coffee (Cough-fee).
OF course merely the syllables will
be acted. not the entire word. Or In
stead of acting the syllables separate
ly the entire word may be acted in one
scene For example, Tomato" may be
easily rendered by pulling toy along
the floor by rope. or a physicians
visit to a patient will give clew to
Coffee"
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20
PARLOR MAGIC.
A Clever Candle Trick That Will
Amuse the Youngsters.

~ S1oN0F SanOI0 WIZ
Amuse the Youngsters.
Here is a parlor magic trick which
never fails to capture an audience and
which, at the same time, is so simple
that any one can do it. You need six
or more candles and as many candle
sticks, or you can get along without
the candlesticks by holding lighted
match to the bottom Of each Of the
candles. and then, when it has softened
ever so slightly. setting the candle
firmly in a saucer. The wax or tallow
will harden in a moment. holding the
candle erect in its place.
Make hole in one side Of each can
die, cutting clear through until the
wick is severed. These holes must be
at various distances from the top-dif-
ferent in each candle.
Now, If you should light one Of these
candles it would burn steadily until
the fame got down to the hole, when
the cut in the wick would cause the
candle to go out. If you should light
them all together they would 60 out at
different times. as the holes are at diff
trick comes in.
Place your candles in row on a
table with the holes away from your
audience and then light all six. Now.
you begin to relate a story about a
little girl who was alone in the house
and was afraid Of the dark. and who
lighted six candles to keep up her cour-
age She heard queer noises about the
house, and drew close to the light and
then pointing to the candle with the
hole nearest the top the first candle
went out OF course you time your
first words, SO that you say tout" just
before the fame reaches the hole.
AS you reach the second point in your
tale the second candle goes out, and
so on throughout the rest of the six.
You may have the holes vary but a
fraction Of an inch in their distances
from the top Of the candle and tell a
very short story. or you may have your
tale long one, with the distances Of
the holes from the top to vary an inch
or so. By first lighting one candle and
watching it burn for few minutes you
can tell almost exactly how long the
fame will take to reach given point.
If you do not have the candles go out
in rotation. but skip around from the
first to the fifth. then to the second,
to the sixth, the fourth and third, you
can still further mystify your audience.
and II your story be well told the ef-
feet will be very pretty indeed.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20
Nut Race Is Fun.

A nut race provides plenty OF excite
ment for young and old. Place oo"'
of nuts at one end of the room ana an
empty bowl at the other. Eacn con
testant, holding the hand fat. WIN
fingers close together and EXTENDED
dins if into the bowl. getting as many
nuts as possible on the back OF the
hand These must be carried across
the room and dropped into the other
howl The victory is not always TO the
large handed. and the game Is great
reSealer of steady nerves.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20

AVE you ever played "tele-
grams?" 1t is a game for a
crowd Of young or old. or
both. Not very deep or in
tricate game, nor yet particularly ele-
waiting one, but, nevertheless, full of
jolly, mirth provoking qualities and
Just the thing for your holiday party.
To carry out the idea properly slips
Of yellow paper should be handed to
each participant and pencils provided
for them. Each one is to write thirteen
different letters at the top of their slip
THAT is, any thirteen from the alpha
betical twenty six, but without repeti-
ton. '~r 49,.
For instance, one might write B, G,
x, L, M. T, E, W, C, S, II, o, R.
Another A, B. G. D. E, F, G, b. I, J
K, L, NJ, and so on.
The slips are then to be passed
along to right hand neighbors. who
must make an understandable telegram
Of thirteen words. using the characters
at the top of the slips handed them
for the first letter Of each word. To
thoroughly illustrate. take the first ex-
ample given above. Here is speci-
men telegram from it:
Better 60 Kingston late Monday.
Try express Willie candy soldier. Hope
orders rushing"
Note the fragmentary sentences, such
as are generally employed in CORE
spondence Of this sort The possibili-
ties for good humored fun in the COM
piling Of kilograms" among a crowd
Of friends are endless. But, Of course,
they cannot be satisfactorily illustrated
In public print. As in any similar
game, care should be exercised in not
becoming dangerously personal.
At first glance the second example
Of letters as given above (the first thir-
teen in our alphabet) might seem to be
difficult Of extension. But such is not
the case in the wide latitude of sense
land nonsense) allowable in the game.
For instance. here is only one way out
of the thousands in which it can be
quickly written:
"Any bright colored dress excellent
for Granvilfe's hop. key joins kisses.
Loving mother"
Upon completion the ''telegrams' are
gathered up in basket and read aloud.
either by a disinterested party or some
body selected from among the players
themselves.
The only way to appreciate the game
Of telegram" is to try it.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20
A CHRISTMAS EVE GAME.
The WoodseIler Affords Pleasant En-
tertainment For Holiday Party.

The WoodseIler Affords Pleasant En-
tertainment For Holiday Party.
A very amusing Christmas game is
the woodseller, and it is capable Of sew
eral variations, including the ever pop
ular forfeits Any number of persons
may join in the game.
The person who starts the game
writes the name Of some kind Of wood
on a paper and folds the paper so that
no one can see the word written upon
1t. He then goes around, all the rest
Of the players being seated, and says:
II have a load of wood to SELL
Each person in turn asks:
What kind?'
The answer is:
Find out"
Then the person mentions one kind,
and If it happens to be the wrong one,
the woodseller goes to the next, and
SO on. until it is finally guessed right
When the right one is named, the one
naming it becomes woodseller.
All who make mistakes must pay q
forfeit, to be redeemed at the end Of
the game. Those who name a wood
twice pay. The list Of woods is a long
one, but the best known ones are
the very ones that the players are most
apt to overlook in naming them. A
clever person can make much fun by
the manner of calling out his wares
and another by witty rejoinders.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20

~ given with great success III
the following manner:
Small ropes of green's are arranged
to reach from the chandelier to the
four corners of the room, and directly
over a number of small tables are
bells of silvered wire and crystalized
grasses. The clappers of the bells,
representing snowballs, are fashioned
from cotton batting and sprinkled
with diamond dust About the rooms
are crystal bowls holding white chrys-
anthemums, both real and artificial,
and on a side table Is a snow man on
a huge SNOWFALL, made from frayed
out cotton with a coating of salt and
crystalized alum. On the head Of the
snow man is jauntily perched point
ed white paper cap.
The fun of the evening begins when
white paper bags are passed and the
guests are given each in turn snow
balls, or. rather. rubber balls, covered
with wool, and requested to knock the
hat off the snow man. When one sue
ceeds in doing so down tumble white
candy balls as big as large marbles.
The SNOWFALL is a kind of Jack Horn
er pie piled high with cardboard boxes
initiating stockings. Each box is tied
with white baby ribbon and artistical-
ly embellished with a sleigh, win
ter landscape. a Santa Claus, Christ
mas tree and an appropriate couplet.
The top Of each box is marked so as
to guide the players to their places at
the little tables, at which progressive
old fashioned games. such as authors.
skip. crokinole, jackstraws. dominos.
go-bang. checkers. parchesi and an
Cling are to be played. Each guest
selects his or her box, and then the
hostess writes the name of the owner
upon it. after which the boxes are
placed in a row on the mantel When
all are seated at the small tables 1t is
discovered that the tally surprise is to
be the most delightfully."- amusing fea-
ture of the afternoon. At the end of
every game those who win draw from
an immense stocking hanging from
the mantel packages done up in firing
ed white tissue paper and drop them
in their stocking boxes, and at the end
of the afternoon the one having the
fullest stocking box receives a big
bunch of white carnations tied with
white ribbon.
Much merriment follows the undo
ing OF the packages. as each one con-
tains a comical toy.
The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-12-20

A CHARMING SNOWFALL" party
"a for Christmas week can be
~ given with great success in
the following manner:
The Washington herald., 1912-02-26
COLONEL REFUSES
FURTHER COMMENT
Spends Quiet Day with Personal
Friends and Visits 'Frat'
Houses with Two Sons

Boston, Feb. 25.-Col Roosevelt spent
the sabbath quietly, attending church In
the morntag and passing the rest Of the
time with personal friends.
He admitted that his statement had
been given out as he had instructed In
New York at o'clock tonight, but de-
clined to make any comment. After sew
erai attempts at an expression. a repre-
sentative Of The Herald put this perti-
pent question to the colonel:
''Will you tell what the reply to the
letter Of the eight governors means as
applied to your candidacyT
This question also failed. He waved
his hand and smiled as he said:
Tho statement Is out by this time. ]
would not talk on II. anyway"
After a rather early breakfast, con-
sidering that he did not reach the Bran
dege mansion until o'clock this morn
ing from the Porceillian Club at Cam
bridge. Mr.. Roosevelt, Theodore. jr.. Ed
ward d. Brandege. and the Brandege
children went in two limousines 10 Trim
ity Church, leaving the Brandege house
at $50 o'clock. The services at Trinity
Church were rather long. the sermon
being preached by Bishop Brant, an old
friend Of the colonel After the services
dore, tr., drove In an automobile to the
Club at Cambridge, where the
colonel lunehed with his two sons.
At Judge Grants house he met three
Of four literary friends and acquaint-
ances and took dinner with Judge and
MRS. Grant, remaining at Judge Grants
house overnight.
CoL Roosevelt said tonight that he
expected TO meet some politicians at
Judge Grants house In the morning, and
that among them he hoped to meet Gov.
Bass. Of New Hampshire.
Col. Roosevelt was asked about tho
trip from New York on the same train
with August Belmont. and whether poll
tics was mentioned. He said that August
Belmonts two boys and his two boys
belong to the same college clubs. You
know he is on the other side" said the
colonel. You know he managed Par
xer's campaign against me-" And the
colonel smiled broadly.
The Washington herald., 1912-02-26
SAYS ROOSEVELT
is WEAK CANDIDATE
Representative Bartholdt, of Mis-
souri, Picks Flaws in ex-
Presidents Record.

Representative BarthoIdt, of Missouri,
declared in an interview last night in
favor of the denomination of President
Taft and says that Roosevelt could not
be elected II nominated. Mr.. Bartholdt
said:
Whatever may be the opinion Of q
majority of the delegates when they
gather in-Chicago next June. there is no
denying the fact that a majority OF the
party leaders reject the view that Col.
Roosevelt, were. he nominated, would
sweep the country. Nor are they un-
prepared to give reasons for their be-
lief that Republican success does not
lie in that direction. They argue-and
this argument is advanced by men who
put Republican success above personal
preference or prejudlce-that the nomi-
nation OF Mr. Roosevelt would inevitably
ALLEVIATE that large element which so ef-
fectively defeated the desire of President
Grant for a third term. And now, as
then, those so alienated would be GER
tain to include many whose admiration
for Mr.. Roosevelt personally equals that
which many who opposed the nomina-
tion OF Gen. Grant entertained for him.
but who would be actuated solely by
and the conviction that the pre-
cedent established by Washington had
become a part of our republican sys-I
tenn of government and that any de-
parture from this time-honored custom
would be mwise, unpatriotic and
fraught with peril to our free institu-
tions.'"
Mr.. Bartholdt also says that large
number Of Republicans would resent his
attitude toward President
Taft, while the fact that Mr.. Roosevelt
newer made determined effort to ef-
feet a revision of the tariff would add
to his weakness before the country.