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The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24

decreases the profit per pig during the fattening period.
 The substitution of 25 parts emmer, barley, wheat, or milo, for corn, in a ration containing 90 parts corn and 10 parts chopped alfalfa, increases the cost of gains and decreases the profit per hog during the fattening period, excepting emmer, which in this test only increased the profit per hog. The wheat increased the gains but de- creased the profit. The emmer also increased the gain. Barley and milo decreased the gain as well as the profit. Milo was worth the same price per bushel as barley in this test.
 The results of one test indicated that a bushel of corn was worth as much as a bushel and half of cane seed when fed with alfalfa for fatten- ing hogs.
 Where fall pigs were wintered and turned on alfalfa pasture in the spring there was more profit per pig from those grown out largely on pasture and then fattened than from those fed out more quickly.
 Four seasons records show that old soVs being fattened on corn and al- falfa pasture gained pounds per head daily, ate 355 pounds of corn for 100 pounds of gain, and gave a net profit of oyer cents daily.
 A summary of the results recorded
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
IronInu Linen.

Of great importance is the ironing of linen. While hard pressure is es- sential to obtain luster or give per feet smoothness, an overdegree is harmful, as garments are thus likely to cut at the folds-which is likewise the objections to wringers and man. gles.
 Creasing should always be done very lightly. And in the ironing of hemstitched towels the same precau- tions apply, as the tendency is to bring the iron down forcibly against the stitching, which is invariably the point at which 1t first breaks.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
HER INTUITION OF PROPOSAL
Gushing Little Thing Was Not Wor. rIed About Shortness of Leap Year
 Parents Must Have Time.

Dear mel" she sighed, "only ten months more of leap year."
 "Yes," he replied, "but why are you worried about it?"
 "I'm not worried-not in the least. Why did you think I was worried ?"
 T thought you said it as if you were worried"
 q can't understand why you didn't run away if you thought that"
 "Why should I run away?"
 Because of your fear that I might, being frightened at the shortness of the time remaining, propose to you at once if you did not hasten to escape" !"
 q had no idea that you ever thought of proposing to me-"
 "No more than you supposed had ever thought of your proposing to me lis that it?"
 Well, perhaps that wouldn't be just the way to put it. Haven't you ever thought might propose to you some time?"
 Are you serious?"
 Serious? I don't believe quite"
 "Oh, Billy! I'm so happy. Do you know, something seemed to tell me you were going to propose to me this evening if I gave you half chance. But don't ask me to set the wedding day too soon. Mamma and papa could never bear to lose me without plenty of time to get used to the idea. And I just couldn't get ready before a week from next Thursday at the ear Hest"
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
DYED RUG TO MATCH PAPER
Operation Cost Little and Resulted h What Wac Practically New
 Floor Covering.

A lady recently had her living room repapered and found to her dismay that the rug did not harmonize with the paper.
 The rug was a dull, nfeless blue, while the walls were done in tones of brown and tan.
 The rug was in a perfectly good condition, not bit worn or soiled.
 The happy thought came that it could be dyed plain brown to match a shade used in the paper.
 She had no difficulty in securing the desired rich, furnished brown. After reading the directions giving the amount of water 70 be added to each package, she decided that 50 cents worth of dye would be ample.
 After thoroughly cleaning the rug with a vacuum cleaner, she added boiling water to the dye.
 While it was hot she applied it to the rug with a stiff brush.
 This should have long handle or the hands must be protected by rub Der gloves. The dye stains unless this precaution is taken.
 When the rug was saturated with the dye she closed the door, leaving the carpet to dry.
 When two days had elapsed she viewed her rug and was delighted with her experiment.
 It was as fresh as new carpet and a lovely shade of brown. The room was beyond criticism now. She felt amply repaid for the little time, trouble and expense 1t cost her.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
JABs BAYoNET AT czAR's KIN
Treasure Guard, DoPed With Vodka, 10 Charged by Grand Duke's
 Automobile.

St. Petersburg.-The strict precau- tions which are always taken to safe guard government treasure almost re- suited the other day in putting the czar and the court in mourning. A cart containing about 250,00O rubles. or about $125.0OO. which was to be used in paying the monthly wages at an ammunition factory, was going through the streets in the usual way, at slow walk It was preceded and followed by soldiers with drawn bay onets.
 All traffic as usual gave way except an automobile, which was coming rap idly from the opposite direction. This did not swerve, neither did the escort ing troops of the cart, despite the con- stant trumpeting of the chauffeur's horn. The wheel of the automobile grazed a soldier. who dashed his bay onet through a window at the occu- pant of the car.
 The automobile and the treasure cart proceeded on their ways for a short distance. when the escort to their utter bewilderment, were arrest ed by a company of the Pavlovsky Guards. It was then discovered that the occupant of the automobile was the Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaie- witch, the czar's cousin and the com mandant of the Guards Brigade, who had communicated with the Winter Palace ordering the guards to arrest the treasury escort.
 The latter maintained that they sim ply did their duty; but their failure to recognize the grand dukes car is gen. orally attributed to the escorts in- diligence in several rounds of vodka prior to starting on their journey.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24

results were the average prices for sorn and for hogs at the North Platte Substation during the six years pre- seding 1911. The price of corn was I7 cts. per bushel. The price of hogs when put into the experiment and when taken out was $5.90 per 100 lbs. The price of alfalfa hay was $500 per ;on, of chopped alfalfa $1O00 per ton, md of alfalfa-meal $15.0O per ton. The only item of cost taken into account E the feed. The labor and investment, being about equal for all lots, is not considered.
 The corn was ground for all the logs. The chopped alfalfa and the llfalfa-meal were mixed with the ground corn. All feed was moistened n the trough. The hogs were fed from the first of November until the first of February, or three months.
 The rations are arranged above ac- sording to the profit on the pigs fat ened on each ration. The most profit Ible ration, corn with alfalfa hay fed In a rack, Is at the top of the list. The irst three rations stand closely to- gether. Corn seems to have station lry place between a ration of 10 parts alfalfa and 90 parts corn and ration of 25 parts alfalfa and 75 parts corn.
 With corn worth 50 cents per bushel | ration of one-fourth alfalfa and lhree-fourths corn gives nearly the same profit per pig fattened as a ration of corn alone.
 Where alfalfa was fed in the rack pr where chopped alfalfa or alfalfa meal were fed in the proportion of one pound of alfalfa to nine pounds of corn, a pound of alfalfa was worth more than a pound of corn.
 Part II gives the results of substi- tuting other grains and mill products for a part of the corn in a ration of corn and alfalfa for growing and fat tening hogs. The experiments were conducted during the summer and winter. The number of pigs in each lot varied from 10 to 30. The prices used in computing the results are the average prices paid for the various kinds of feeds during the progress of the experiments. The results of these tests given very briefly are as fol- lows:
 Of the many rations tried for fat tening hogs, none has been found the equal of corn and small percentage of alfalfa.
 A ration of barley and corn with al- falfa does not give as fast gain or as much profit per hog during the grow ing and the fattening periods as a ration of corn and alfalfa.
 The substitution of 5 parts tankage, 5 parts bone-meal. or 25 parts shorts. for corn, in a ration containing 90 parts corn and 10 parts chopped al- falfa, increases the cost of gains and
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
GIRLS $1l PAY SAFE.
IDLER LOSES FIGHT TO GET
 SHARE OF CLERKS WAGES.
PenuehIe Eats Up Man's Legacy and He Goes Into Court Seeking an Or der to Compel Ills Daughter to
 Support Him.

Chicago.-Alma Seblitz, is 20 years old. She works at a glove counter in a department store for $11 week. On this she provides food and shelter for her mother and herself
 Alma's father, Gus Seblitz. healthy and muscular, but unalterably op- posed to work, recently concluded losing fight in the courts to compel his daughter to support him.
 Gus, the possessor of an expensive love of penuchle, had played the game in Germany until the last vestige of a recently received estate disappeared Then he thought of Alma and her $11 a week.
 Girls don't have such expensive tastes, he argued, and don't need money the way a man does. so he went into the county court to compel Alma to give him $4 a week of the salary with which she was supporting her mother and herself
 Often Alma goes without her noon day lunch. She spends the 45 min utes allowed her walking about the streets, breathing deeply the outdoor air. Doctors have said she needed fresh air, and then-wen, $11 doesn't go very far for two, especially since Alma's lungs have become affected and she has to spend $3 each week for medical treatment
 But Gus never scrimped when it came to spending money on himself When, one day, he learned of leg acy awaiting him in Germany, though, the prospects looked bright for the Seblitz family It looked as if Alma could give up her glove counter job in the immediate future.
 So Mrs. Seblitz sold their only prop erty-a little North side store-for $2,0OO, and sent her husband to Ger many to collect the money due from the estate.
 Just what he received, nobody ever learned. Whatever it was went into his beloved game of penuchle. One nights play took $1,400 of the money for which his wife and daughter were waiting. He was Respondent for awhile after that
 Then one day he heard that his daughter was still working at the de- partment store. "She is now earning $11 a week." he heard. His palm itched for This share" of Alma's hard earned money and he came back The $11 was already being stretched SO the fathe- was refuesd.
 .. Seblitz went into court seeking an order to compel his daughter to sup port him. The hearing of the case was before Judge John B. Owens of the county court. The girl took the stand and told her story.
 Did you gamble away all your money and leave your family to shift for themselves?" the father was ask ed by Louis P. Anderson. assistant county attorney.
 "Yes, was unlucky one night and lost $1,400 at penuchle," Seblitz an- swered.
 That's sufficient" thundered the court. "The case is dismissed"
 Seblitz has since complained that the county attorney twas agin him.. He called at the county attorneys of- flee daily until he was violently eject ed. Now 1t Is unlikely he will call again
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
HOUSEHOLD
 SQyESTIONs

Salt on the fingers when cleaning fowls, meat or fish will prevent slip ping.
 When buying bacon choose that with thin rind and with firm fat of pinkish white.
 A long handled buttonhook should be kept in the laundry to clean the lint from the tub outlets.
 If milk Is used instead of water when mixing mustard for the table, it will look fresh for several days.
 A pinch of salt on the tongue fol- lowed ten minutes afterward by @ drink of cold water. often cures a sick headache.
 An apple eaten before breakfast serves as a natural stimulus to the digestive organs. In fact, any fruit eaten raw is nutritious at breakfast.
 If strong brine of salt and water is thrown over the coals, less soot will collect in the fiues and chimneys. The fire, too. will burn clear and bright.
 Always empty out any water left before filling the kettle. Very ire Quently the flat taste of tea is caused by using water that has already been boiled.
 It frequently happens that painters splash the glass windows when they are painting the sills. When this is the case, melt some soda in very hot water and wash the glass with 1t, using soft flannel It will entirely remove the paint.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
Drying a Sweater.

A new idea for the drying of a sweater or any knitted garment is as follows: First wash the garment in warm studs and rinse thoroughly; then take large dripping tin and line It with a towel to prevent possible rust. Place the woolen article in the tin and put in a warm oven. Turn and shake the garment frequently un- til dry and fluffy and the result will be most satisfactory. On no account shut the oven door and go away, as he result will be disastrous.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
PARTLY SOLVED
 DAIRY PROBLEM
Relation Of Fat to MIR Is Cues. t1on Causing Much Worry to Expe<ts-One So1r.
 ton Is Given.

The relation of fat to milk is one of the partly unsolved problems of dairying, says The Chemist. We do not know why, absolutely, but we know that COW will vary from Gey to day. It is sometimes due to fright and unkind handling. If you take a COW that is ordinarily quiet and run a needle into her, or hit her with a club gor disturb her tranquility in some other way, the yield of milk will be very much less for that milking. If she has what Is called a nervous tenn perament, and is a very sensitive COW, there will be a very marked differ ence in the yield of milk, and not nearly so much fat will be produced. The variation in the yield of milk Is greater than the variation in the field of fat. I remember, writes Professor Van Norman, the figures in one herd in which one COW varied only four tenths of one per cent. in a whole year, while another varied as much as three per cent. in her yield with no apparent cause. Sometimes we, our. selves, do not feel so well as we do on other days. So of the COW. She may be very sensitive COW, and the milker may be a little rougher on some days than on others, and that may have some effect. A multitude of influences are at work. The best dairyman Is the one who understands the largest number of them. The tester under ordinary conditions is to be relied on for accuracy. The varia- ton is not variation of the tester, but variation in the COW.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
woman MIna PrIzed Honor.

Miss Marie Gertrude Rand of Brook Iyn, N. r., has just been awarded the Sarah Berliner research fellowship for women, the most valuable prize open to women students of science. This fellowship has a value of $1,000, and was awarded Miss Rand on account of her investigations of the psychology of vision, which reversed accepted the ories on the subject. Miss Rand has been a special graduate student in 1-vn Mawr fort ~~-@ four years.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24

in Bulletin 121 together with data from this Bulletin 123 indicates that the cost of feed to produce a 225-pound market hog was $S.35 per 100 pounds and that keeping the hog until it weighed 325 pounds increased the cost to $S.57 per 100 pounds. This includes only the cost of feed and does not in- clude the cost of labor, equipment, un- usual risk, or interest on investment.
 This bulletin may be had free of cost by residents of Nebraska upon application to the Nebraska Agricul- tural Experiment Station, Lincoln.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
Medium YorksKIrs Type.

By E. A. BURNETT. Director Nebraska
 Agricultural Experiment Station.)
 The Nebraska Experiment Station has just issued Bulletin No. 123 with the title, "Fattening Hogs in Ne braska."
 Part gives the results of fattening hogs on corn and alfalfa hay. In the experiments reported, the hogs were fed the following rations. The propor- lions of alfalfa and corn are given by weight
 Corn and alfalfa hay in a rack.
 Corn parts, chopped alfalfa 1 part.
 Corn g parts, alfalfa-meal 1 part.
 Corn only.
 Corn parts, alfalfa-meal 1 part.
 Corn parts. chopped alfalfa 1 part.
 Corn 1 part, chopped alfalfa 1 part.
 Corn 1 part, alfalfa-meal 1 part.
 The hogs were given all the feed they would eat twice daily. Part of the experiment was repeated three times and part of it four times. There were ten spring shoats used in each lot. The feeding period began about November l, when the shoats weighed 1855 pounds each, and continued for three months, at which time the aver age weight ranged from 190 pounds Tor those fed one-half alfalfa and one half corn to 2S3 for those fed one part Ilfalfa and nine parts corn.
 The prices used in computing the
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
PosslhlX.

''What I like about motoring is the fresh air one gets out of it," said Hicks.
 Hal HumI" said Wiggles. '1 wonder if that's where these chauf- feurs get that very fresh air that is so characteristic of the species.-Har per's Weekly.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
Cheerful.

q just dropped in to cheer you ul little," she said to the sick friend.
 'Thank you so much. When one is confined to the house with an attack of appendicitis she is always glad of 8 cheerful visitor"
 "Yes, indeed. And so many people are dying of that nowadays"
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
Sharp Connection.

You have eliminated competition from your line of business?"
 "Oh, no," replied MT. Dustin Stax. We leaders of finance have been sc busy in competitive display of wits that am thinking of offering a medal for the best epigram."
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
No Lonoer Bold.

''When are you going to declare an other dividend?"
 You have not been following the influence of public opinion" rejoined MT. Dustin Stax. We don't declare dividends any more. We reluctantly confess to them
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
Not surnrIaad.

There is a shrewd old farmer in Chenango county whose fame for driving close horse trade rivals that of David Harum.
 ''What'd ye git fer that old bay?" @ friend asked him the other day.
 Well" said the old trader, after ruminating for moment, 'T didn't git what cal1ated I would, but then I hardly cal1ated 1 would."-Every. body's.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
Making a Bid for Fame.

Father, it's about time you began to wear silk hat and grow side whiskers."
 For goodness sake, what for?'
 "Well, you're getting in the sixties, you know, and unless you do some thing like that very soon the papers will never speak of you as one of the city's picturesque old citizens"
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
Choice of Evils.

Doesn't it annoy you to be charged with plagiarism?"
 "No," replied MT. Penwiggle. There's no use of trying to please people who find fault. If I tried to give credit for the things borrow I'd be roasted for not quoting them ac. curately."
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
cbIef Justice In FIst FInoht.

Carson. Nev.-Chief Justice Sweeney of the state supreme court and State Printer Farnsworth came to blows the other day over relief bill that was pending in the lower house of the leg islature. Friends separated them be- fore any damage was dons.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
Not What She Expected.

'Tell me, doctor, what do people say about our unhappy marriage?"
 Its strange, but your husband doesn't get much sympathy"
 That's nice. But what do they say about him"
 Well, they say 1t served him right that he hadn't married some other woman"
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
Lemon Honax EIIIInn

For pies or tarts, one cup of granu> lated sugar, juice of two lemons with the grated rind. two eggs and butter size of grated walnut; simmer on slow ire until thick. DeHciouA
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24
Eresh Water Needed,

Keep plenty of fresh water wherI the little chicks can drink as often as they wish to.
The Holbrook news., 1912-05-24

The Good Old Man-What's your excuse for being in this miserable state7
 The Tramp-Aint got enough mon ey ter buy a railroad ticket ter get outer 1t.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-09-27
ELECTORS FOR Mr.. TAFT
CHOSEN BY COMMITTEE

st. Paul., September 21.--It took
the republican state central COM
mittee less than an hour this morn
ing to fill the ten places on the
presidential electoral ticket and
select successor to l. A. Caswell,
who resigned as national republican
committeeman because he cannot
support President Taft. E. B. Haw-
kins of Duluth, former state sena.
tor, was chosen as national com.
mitteeman. The electors are:
At Large-Emil II. Hauge, New
Ulm; S. s. Lewis, Cannon Falls;
DR.. G. B. Weiser, New Ulm.
The Districts:
First-Lyman D. Baird, Austin.
Second-B. P. st. John, Heron
Lake.
Third. J. Ponsford, Watertown.
Fourth-Anderson A. Ewart, Still
water
Fifth-Cyrus .Northrop. Minneapo.
lis.
SIXTH Fl. Rice, Park Rapids.
Seventh-Dr. S. Hall, Olivia.
Eighth-John Rundquist, Duluth.
Ninth-N. NJ. Watson, Red Lake.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-09-27
APOSTLE OF LOVE AND
PEACE LOOKED ON CITY
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
BAHIA Abbas, head of the Bahaists
of the world, who believes and
teaches the eventful harmony and
unity Of religious mankind, in other
words, is the apostle of the love-one-
another idea, passed through Man.
kato today. en- route from the twin
cities south via the Omaha road. He
will remain a day or two in Omaha,
then go to Kansas City, and will
make a tour of the west. Baba
Abbas is patriarchial looking old
gentleman with whiskers that would
do credit to a Kansas populist. He
rides in style, too. He enjoys the
luxurious appointments of the buffet
cars provided by American railroads
and his several dusky attendants
stood ready to serve him whenever
he pressed the button"
When the train arrived at Man
kato this noon Baba stepped out of
the parlor car and strolled down the
platform as far as the locomotive.
He did not have long to stroll
about because his train did not wait
for the Northwestern train from the
Wants Spiritual Food.
While the apostle of the love-one-
another idea travels in parlor cars,
ETC., still he is not a gormandizer.
Speaking through an interpreter,
Bahia said: 'It is spiritual food, not
physical food, that / most crave.
All the religions of the world are
the same fundamentally. The essen.
tails are the same, but the inciden-
tails or accidentals differ. We be,
lieve the day has arrived when we
can agree on the surface differences.
Religious prejudice, racial nreiudiee,
and limited, or nationalistic patriot
ism, must be eliminated. The world
can be unified.
81 do not offer this as a full ex.
position of the principles of BAHIA.
ism, but merely by way of guild
ance" -
First Visit to America.
This is Abdul Baha's first visit to
America. and except for brief visit
to Paris and London last year is
the first time in nearly half a CEN
fury that he has gone beyond the
ramparts of the prison city, of
Acre, Syria, to which place he and
his father, Baha'o'llah, the founder
of the Bahai movement, were ban.
ished by the Turkish government a
half century ago.
According to the word sent out
by the noted Persian, to be Bahai
simply means to love all the world,
to love humanity, and to try to serve
it; to work, for universal peace and
the universal brotherhood.
He is short of stature and there is
kindness in every twinkle of his eye.
His voice is pleasant to the ear. He
evidently practices what he breaches.