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Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Csy ISAAC MorEs)

(3y ISAAC MOTES)
While the farmerp oultryman at a
distance from the city has some ad-
vantages over the near-city poultry
man, the latter is not as badly handi-
capped on his home acre as you might
think.
The farmer can, of course, raise
most of his feed, and his chickens have
plenty of room to rustic their food in
the fields, orchards, pasture and barn.
yard, but on the other hand, the su
burban poultryman is much closer to
market and can take advantage Of
rush orders from merchants either for
eggs or dressed poultry, and he is thus
in a position to get top market prices
for the product of his flocks.
And the near-city poultryman can
get cheap feed II he knows how, for
there is so much waste In cities in the
form of garbage, stale bread, butter
milk and skim milk In city contain
ing a number of bakeries a poultryman
can get large quantities OF stale bread
merely for hauling 1t away; or, IL he
pays for it, it will be only q nominal
sum.
All first-class bakeries sell only
| fresh bread. 80 IL they bake more
than they can sell each day they get
rid of 1t the following day in what
ever way they can.
Each bakery has a box located in
front of grocery stores which sell its
bread, and before closing their doors
each evening these grocers put all the
bread on hand which they failed to
sell into these boxes, and next morn
ing, before the stores are opened, the
bakers carts come around and the
drivers open the boxes and take out
the yesterdays bread. If any, and leave
| fresh bread.
Then, after making the rounds of all
the groceries, they take the old bread
back to the bakers, and II is gotten
rid of in different ways. Some bakers
give away quantities of bread to the
Salvation Army and other poor, chart
table or religious organizations and in
situations.
In baking some kinds of bread, rolls
Or pastry, a portion of this old bread
may be used again by drying 1t in ar
oven. grinding it in a mill, mixing II
up and baking 1t again in some Other
form.
But they can use only a small por
ton of it in this way, so the most of II
is either given away to poor people, OF
else for chicken feed, hog feed or cat
tie feed.
A chicken raiser near a city car
easily make arrangements to get sc
many hundred pounds of 1t each weel
for his fowls, perhaps free, or, any
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10

Montrose, Scotland, is to be an avia.
ton station, and the appearance OF
flying machines there is enough, &C.
cording to the London Chronicle, to
bring some of the good old ladies OF
that town out of their graves. It was
one of them. as Dean Ramsay records,
who protested against steam vessels,
as counteracting the DEGREES Of provi
dence in going against wind and tide
II would hae naething to say ia thae
impious vessels" she insisted. An
other was equally shocked by the in
PRODUCTION of gas in place OF oil. de
handing; What's to become o. the
puir whales?"
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
WAY OF SHIPPING
BREEDING FOWLS
Seller Should Find Cheapest
Route, Making Least Ex-
penSe for Buyer.

The breeder who buys breeding
stock should state what express COM
pany he wishes the birds shipped by;
il he doesn't so state. the seller should
find out the cheapest route for the
shipment. II the consignment Is
shipped over two lines, the charges
are higher than by direct route; 1t
is to the advantage of the seller to
make as little expense for the buyer
rs possible. This means not only ship
ping by the cheapest route. but also
Grating in the lghtest crate consis'
tent with safety. Light wooden coops
with solid sides, and opening at the
top, can be bought for thirty cents
each up. Cracker boxes can be made
into light. convenient coops for ship
ment. But whatever box Is used 1t
should be clean and light.
Valuable birds should be shipped
singly II the distance is long. fasten
a drinking cup in the corner Of the
coop. and tie a sack of feed to the
coop. We usually put in large po;a-
to or apple which serves the purpose
Of both food and drink for short ship
ments. Mark the address of the con
slgnee plainly and plan the shipment
so birds will not lay over Sunday in
the express office, or have long waits
on station platforms to make connec'
lions. The condition the birds are re-
ceiyed in largely determines whether
or not the customer is satisfied.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
THE NUTRITIOUS CHOCOLATE.

Chocolate is so we'll liked by almost
everybody and is such valuable food
in itself. that 1t should be often on our
tables in various forms and in com
bination with other foods.
When using chocolate or cocoa for
a beverage. 1t must be remembered
that It needs boiling for a few min,
utes to bring out the favor and make
1t more digestible.
Chocolate Ice Cream.-Take two
well beaten eggs, cup of sugar. a cup
OF milk and two ounces of chocolate
cooked together until smooth: COOL
Add a teaspoonful of vanilla and a
pint of whipped cream; mix well and
pour into the freezer and freeze.
Cup Custard With Chocolate Sauce.
Prepare cup custards as usual, using
less sugar, and serve with the fol.
lowing sauce:
Chocolate Sauce.-Cut fine two
squares OF chocolate. add cup Of
sugar, and cook together until smooth.
Cool and flavor with vanilla and serve
poured over the custard.
Chocolate Junket.-Heat a quart of
milk until luke warm, add teaspoon
full of vanilla and dissolved junket
tablet, Stir until well mixed, and add
a square OF melted chocolate which
has been cooked together with a half
cup OF warm milk and half cup of
sugar. Stir well and turn into cups
to thlcken Serve with whipped cream,
sweetened and favored.
Fruit Jeily.-Soak half a box of gel.
atine in three-fourths of a cup OF cold
water Heat one pint OF milk. add a
cup OF sugar and one and q half
squares of grated chocolate. a pinch
OF salt Scald and take from the
fire. Add the gelatine. and when IL
begins to thicken add half teaspoon
full OF vanilla. fourth cup each OF
raisins. chopped candied ginger, citron
and a few currants. When firm serve
with cream.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
oAlNTlEs WORTH REMEMBERING.

Don't forget when there Is sick
one in the ueighborhood to take in a
little dish of some delicacy, which will
mean a moments thought to you but
will bring hours Of pleasant thoughts
to YOU for your kindness. lt is hard
TO realize how tired one becomes OF
everything and all kinds of food un'
less he has been on bed Of sickness.
a dish of soup or broth. in a dainty
bowl with a pretty dolly on a plate
win brighten up the invalid for an
hour. a rose or violet, postal card
even, which means scarcely nothing TO
you, Will be a source of delight to the
shut-in one.
Here is a swcetmeat that most in
valids will enjoy and be able to eat:
Mix together a cup each of putfed rice,
raisins, figs and dates, with bit OF
orange and lemon peel dried: put all
through the meat grinder, and make
into small balls or squares. Wrap In
waxed paper and allow the patient to
nibble one occasionally. by the add
tion of nut meats and dipping the
squares in chocolate one has a very
elegant sweetmeat.
Drop whole figs in grape juice and
let stand over night. stun with nuts
or a marshmallow, roll in sugar and
serve as dessert with coffee and crack
ers
Date Tapioca.-Stir frequently In 6
double boiler for half an hour three
pints of milk, three tablespoonfuls o.
tapioca and half a cup of sugar. Wher
cool stir in cup of stoned raisin'
and dates chopped and half a tea
spoonful each of lemon and vanilla
Bake in buttered baking dish. Do
with stoned dates.
Eastern Ssndwiches.-Put through
meat chopper the following: A sou
apple pared and quartered, one rel
Spanish pepper, one sweet green per
per. one Neufchate cheese. Add
half teaspoonful OF salt pinch o
powdered sugar, and spread on slice
of buttered bread.
Just at this season grated mapl
sugar. cream and chopped almond
are used as dainty sandwich filling
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
PULLED THE POETRY STUFF
Actor Doing Double In an Emer-
geney Follows instructions of
Stage Manager.

William Gillette. in the course of an
address made to the graduates OF tho
American Academy OF Dramatic Arts
at the Empire theater, told story.
when / was in Booths company
years ago." the actor said, I'VE had to
be up in many parts. Frequently the
actors would have to double in per-
Torrance when the roles outnumbered
the people. remember one time we
were playing Hamlet When the time
came, in the players scene, for the
man to poison the king, 4 was found
that the particular actor selected for
the part was on the stage in another
role.
Immediately the stage manager
grabbed an actor who was getting
ready to continue in another role.
The actor was wrapped in big man
tie, handed bottle and told to hurry
on the Stage and do the poisoning. No,
body would recognize him, said the
stage manager.
But protested the actor, what
are my lines?'
"'Oh, you know replied the stage
manager
THAT poetry stuffH'
"'Sure!'
"'All right said the actor. Then he
strobe on the stage with his bottle
and. bending over the king, said:
Nobody here, nobody near!
"Ill pour the poison in his ear!''
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Much for HIs Money.

At the suffrage portrait show at
the Glaenzer galleries In New York,
John Sloan told story about the
nude In art.
AN old farmer and his wife," said
Mr. Sloan, once visited an exhibition
where the nude predominated. They
seemed a good deal impressed, they
seemed almost stupefied, by all the
white and cleaning pictures. AS they
left, heard the old man say with q
sigh:
Well, Hannah. never expected
to see as much as this for a. quar-
teri"
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Cement Floor.

In making cement hog floors ar
range a slat frame or woven wire de
vice in one corner when placing a SOW
IN the house at narrowing time. The
frame should rest fiat on the floor, be
ing higher on the outer edge than in
the middle, to prevent the nesting
from being scattered about and to
guard the pigs crawling of onto the
cold floor and chilllng-a very com
mon occurrence unless something is
done to prevent 1t.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Guy de Maupassant as a CLERK.

Guy de Maupassant's manner of life
as a junior clerk in the French edu-
cation Office Is the subject OF an in
teresting article by one of his old
colleagues. We gather that he alb
sented himself from his duties on the
ground of illness on an average
about three days a week, and that
was how he obtained leisure for liter
airy composition. None tie less h.
was very anxious to retain his clerk
slap until his literary prospects were
secure. Westminster Gazette.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Costly CITY improvements

II all the buildings torn down an
nually in the borough of Manhattan,
In New York city could be assem-
bled they would make a good-sized
town. Last year the number OF build
lngs demolished was 49, and gas
tank brought the total demolition to
$50. The front feet measurement of
the houses pulled down was 24,S75.
or approximately four and three-quar-
ter miles. Nine houses out of ten de-
stroyed were four stories high.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10

corrects constipation. Munyon's Paw Paw
Pills are tonic to the stomach, liver and
nerves They invigorate instead Of weaken:
they enrich the blood instead Of impover-
ishing it: they enable the stomach 10 get all
the nourishment from food that is put into
l. Price as cents. All Druggists
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Bio Record for Guernsex

Straight Fern, a Guernsey cow has
broken all records for Guernseys in
Minnesota. In one year the COW pro-
duced 1876 pounds of butter fat, which
is equivalent to G95 pounds of butter
The record is the official Minnesota
Granger record
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Roses From Italy.

The rose, SO long considered the
Moral emblem OF England, was not
known In that country until the early
lart OF the fifteenth century, Rose
trees were then brought from Italy
nd planted in the royal gardens,
They were sent as presents from the
oily father and highly esteemed by
royalty. II became the custom TO
arve them over the doors OF the con
@ssional as holy flowers. hence the
term sub rosa (under the rose) used
mean with secrecy."-Ave Maria.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Cost of Butter Fat.

Cow Tester II. ID. Wetherell, Som.
erset county, Missouri. reporting six
teen herds OF ninety-five milking cows
In all, finds the average feed cost for
one pound of butter fat % cents
Highest cost was 80 cents in one herd
and the lowest cost III cents in an
other herd
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Te<A<-- EAa,<%.eN-.
John D, Of Germany.

Germany is to have petroleum
monopoly. with So per cent of the
shares of the new company In control
OF the imperial government In other
words, the kaiser is to be as big an
oil magnate in his own country as
John ID. Rockefeller has even been al
legged to be in the United States.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
co NSTIPATION

Munyon's Paw-Paw
Pills are unlikealloth-
er laxatives or ca,har-
tics They coax tho
liver into activity by
gentle methods, they
do not scour they do
not grippe; they do not
weaken; but they do
start all the secrctions
OF the liver and stom-
ach in a way that soon
puts these organs in a
healthy condition and
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10
Good WITH Ores.

Church. see the School of Mines
is going to have boat'racing crew.
Gotham-They should turn out some
good Oresmen.
Mexico Missouri message., 1913-04-10

YER their phantoms rise be.
~ fore us.
our loftier brothers. but one In blood;
At bed and table they lord II DER us.
With looks OF beauty and words OF
good
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
TRACTION ENGINE
Wheat Acreage Would Be Much
Less Without Pillow Fuller.
Kansas Farmers Use Motors to
PIow 100000 Acres.

Garden City, Kan, Oct 4.-Wheat
acreage in this state this year would
have been less than 100000 had not
the practica bility of the straction en-
CINE as a pillow puller been established
Kansas could not possibly have plow-
ed and sowed her usual 100000 acres
if it had not been for the power plOw-
ing outfits. There were not sufficient
horses to do the blowing when the
rains came
The DEVELOPMENT of the motor truck
and it's utility on the farm is driving
the Kansas work horses to delivery
work in the cities, and even this may
not last long. The traction engine is
doing the blowing in the big Kansas
wheat fields and the motor truck is do
ing the hauling.
Horses must remain to do the Gull
tivating, but the work horses are dis
appearing at the rate of 100000 a year,
the same as the driving horse, carriage
and buggy are disappearing from the
Kansas tax rolls. The motor car for
pleasure and business, the traction en-
CINE to do the blowing and the motor
truck to do the hauling are suppressed
ing the horses and mule teams so rap
idly that within the next two years
there will be only an average OF three
horses for each farm in the state,
whereas five years ago the average
was five draft animals for each farm.
Motor Truck Replacing Horses.
Traction engines and motor trucks
are doing the work that formerly 10000
horses and mules on the Kansas wheat
farms did. In eastern Kansas, where
farms and fields are small, the trac-
ton engine is not a success, but the
motor truck as a farm utility wagon
is, and it is rapidly replacing horses
in hauling farm produce to market.
Early in September rains broke the
longest drouth Kansas had had and
following the rains traction engines
were at work in the wheat fields. The
ground had been so dry that plows
could not turn it. Farmers found
themselves with a serious problem.
There were not enough horses in
ground ready for the wheat seeding,
Der Is and October 80.
One manufacturer of traction engines
for blowing sold 81 engines and plows
in Kansas within ten days and had to
charter a special train to deliver some
of the outfits on time. Other makers
sold almost as many outfits and dozens
of threshing engines were taken from
the wheat stacks and put to work plow-
ing for next years crop.
Last year 1t was estimated that one
third of the wheat acreage of Kansas
was plowed by engine power and this
year it is estimated that more than
half the 100000 acres expected to be
sown in wheat has been plowed by the
big tractors and two-thirds of all this
vast acreage has been plowed within
so days.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
Weak Lungs Often
Lead to Serious Illness

If you have weak lungs, you are gener-
ally subject to colds or throat trouble and
easily susceptible to serious Lung Trouble
In many cases pneumonia or bronchial
troubles leave the Lungs in a much weak
ened condition. Eckman's Alternative is
medicine for the throat and lungs which
has been found to be very beneficial, even
when a change of climate and other treat
ments failed to bring relief. Read of this
caSe:-
81 S. Atlantic Ave, HaddonfieId, n. j.
Gentlemen: In the fall of 1905 1
tracted a very severe cold which settled
on my lungs. At last 1 began to raise
sputum, and my physician then told me ]
must go to California Immediately. At
this time l was advised to take Eckman's
Alternative. | stayed at home and com
menced taking it the last week in October
1 began to improve and the first week in
January, 1896. L resumed my regular oc-
cupation, having gained Is pounds, fully
restored to health 1t is now seven years
since my recovery has been effected, and
I cannot praise Eckman's Alternative too
highly"
(Signed) w. NJ TATEM
(Above abbrevia ted; more on request)
Eckman's Alternative has been proven by
many years test to be most efficacious
for severe Throat and Lung Affections
Bronchitis, Bronchial Asthma, Stubborn
Colds and in upbuilding the system. Con-
tains no narcotics, poisons habit-form-
ing drugs. Sold by leading druggists.
Write the Eckman Laboratory, Philadel-
pfia, Pa. for booklet telling of recoveries
and additional evidence-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
new NORMAL SCHOOL
Main Building VIII Be Rebuilt and
Enlarged Soon.

Emporia, Kan, Oct. 1.-THE main build
ing of the State Normal school at. EN-
poria is to be rebuilt within the next year.
The last legislature appropriated $685. 600
for the current biennium for this purpose,
and the state board of educational admin
istration is taking steps to carry out the
plan. Mr. George Kessler, of Kansas
City. who laid out the Kansas City park
system, has been retained as landscape
architect for the state schools, to make
plans for the identifying of the campus
Of each school and to assist in locating
ISOLATED with State Architect G. S.
Chandler, of Topeka in deciding the man
ner of treatment of the old main building
at the Emporia State Normal. and it is
believed that work will begin within a
few months.
The present main building of the En-
poria Normal school was constructed In
parts, at intervals from 1850 to 1895 The
scope of the school has expanded rapid
ly, and the student attendance has be-
come so constantly large, that more room
is urgently needed for both Institutional
and administrative departments. The re-
building of the main building will go far
toward making the State Normal school
at Emporia the best equipped teachers
college in the country, inasmuch as the
other present buildings, the gymnasium,
library. training school, and science nail,
are not excelled for their purposes.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
INTERURBAN COMING.
Grading Gangs Begin Work on Line
From Independence to Topeka.

Independence, Kan, Oct. IA
Actual construction work was COM
menced yesterday on the Independ-
ence, Neodesha & Topeka Interurban
railway when grading gangs began
scraping the right of way between this
city and LeHunt. The entire right of
way between here and Neodesha will
be fenced Immediately in a most sub
stantial way, the material having been
ordered from a Kansas fence factory
and a carload being now in readiness
for the fencing crew. The work of
grading will be pushed as expeditions
ly as possible and the line will be in
readiness for track laying in a very
short time
A pleasing feature of the prelimi-
nary construction work is the decision
of c. E. Roth, upon whom devolves
the task of building the road. So far
as possible Mr.. Roth will make the
farmers the beneficiaries of the con-
struction expenditures, a policy that
will meet with popular approval
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
SAGE TEA TURNS
GRAY HAIR DARK
It's GrandmOther's Recipe to Bring
Back Color and Lustre to Hair.

That beautiful, even shade of dark,
glossy hair can only be had by brew
ing a mixture of Sage Tea and Sui
phur. Your hair is your charm. 1t
makes or mars the face. When it fades,
turns gray, streaked and looks dry,
wispy and scraggly, just an applica-
ton or two of Sage and Sulphur en-
hances its appearance a hundredfold.
Don't bother to prepare the tonic;
you can get from any drug store so
cent bottle of ''Wyeth's Sage and Sui
phur Hair Remedy" ready to use.
This can always be depended upon to
bring back the natural color, thickness
and 1ustre of your hair and remove
dandruff, stop scalp itching and fall
ing hair.
Everybody uses ''Wyeth's'' Sage and
Sulphur because it darkens so natural
ly and evenly that nobody can tell it
has been applied You simply damp
en- a sponge or soft brush with it and
draw this through the hair, taking one
small strand at a time; by morning
the gray hair has disappeared, and
after another application it becomes
beautifully dark and appears glossy,
lustrous and abundant.-Adv.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
ARE CHANGING PLACES
Professor of Theology Declares Posi-
ton of Sexes Is Being Reversed.

Chicago, Oct. 14.-That the rise of
the feminist movement is responsible
for an increase in immortality is the
belief of Walter Rauschenbusch, pro-
fessor of church history in the Roches-
ter Theological society, who is widely
known, particularly among German
church men. His opinions are set
forth in an article in the current issue
of the Biblical World off the press to-
day.
In discussing some moral aspects of
the woman movement" DR.. Rauschen-
busch declares that with the develop
ment of the movement nearly every
phase of human life and actions is
undergoing change. The Ioosening
of the bonds which held women to
propriety, he says, has resulted in a
social condition in which men are more
modest than the women, and the atti-
tude of men toward women and of wo-
men toward men has been completely
switched around.
The change, he writes. makes a test
of women in which they will have to
exercise their inherited instincts to
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-10-14
Bad Compilations Are
Now Easily Discarded
From the Beauty Seeker

Every woman has it in her own hands
to possess a beautiful and youthful COM
plexfon. No matter how soiled faded or
coarse the cuticle, ordinary mercolized
will substitute a skin as soft, clear and
lovely child's The action of the wax
is not drastic, but gentle and agreeable.
Minute particles of scarf skin come off
day by day, yet no evidence of the treat
ment is discernible, other than the grad
ual complexional improvement. One ounce
of mercoliZed wax, procurable at any
drugstore, suffices for most cases. 1t is
put on at bedtime like cold cream and
taken off in the morning with warm wa
ter. 1t Is a certain method of discarding
freckles, liver spots, moth patches, black
heads and pimple.
Wrinkles can be treated with benefit by
bathing the face in a lotion prepared by
dissolving l ounce powdered saxolite in u
pint witch hazel instantaneous results
are secured.-Adv.