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may be a trife shopworn, a very
little inexpensive freshening will
make them look as we'll as any frock
would after a single wearing. And
one does get the modishness, and,
above all, the line, the cut, which the
frock or coat cheap from the start
does not have.
The velvet costumes and frocks are
among the best of the seasons bar
gains. This winters lines are SO in
d%lv1dual, and, in many cases. SO ex-
IRENE, that holding winter models
over to another season would be haz-
ardous business for the merchant.
Yet women hesitate to buy exclusive
winter models for the same reason
and the prices must be made low
enough to tempt customers into buy
ing for the three-month service still
ahead. Both in the small shops and
In the large department stores excel
are offered, and in fur-trimmed gar
ments as well excellent opportunities
are presented at this time.
Buying cloth costumes at a sale
is an art. One needs to go about it
according to a system, and not be led
away by fancy. If one is buying
merely for this winters use, one has
liberty; N buys what is modish and
becoming and of suitable price. The
very extreme models ars usually the
most reduced for obvious reasons, and
a certain type of woman revels in
spectacular effects.
But, as has been Indicated, there
are frocks that are not spectacular
nor extreme, but merely of distinc-
lively cold weather materials, which
are marked low.
In the one-piece frocks for after
noon wear there are many pretty de-
signs, both in silk and cloth, though
velvet plays a conspicuous role. A
velvet frock, which is to be worn I'M
der a fur coat, should be selected with
a bodice almost entirely of sheer ma
terial. Under the long fur coats
which are so much in vogue this win
ter, the frock Of charmeuse. meteor,
taffeta or other lightweight silk is the
most comfortable and practical for
dressy wear, with the useful line serge
one-piece frock for rougher morning
wear. Such frocks are being offered
at reduced prices in all the shops.
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SOME NOVELTIES IN JEWELRY
Silver Favors May Be Chosen With.
out Working Permanent Injury to
Bank Account.

Silver novelties in jewelry are so
inexpensive that they may be chosen
for sets of favors without working
permanent injury to even a modest
bank account. In girls jewelry there
are necklaces of silver beads, brace
lets thickly studded with rhinestones
and fresh water pearls, bowknot pins
with large and small amethysts, hat
pins Of silver deposit over colored
crystal and dinner rings set with
paste.
Less expensive favors for girls are
chain change purses of small size,
short l%orgnettes with window glass
eyes, and thimbles bordered with
Greek key design.
Among silver favors for mel there
are pencils in neat fiat cases attrac-
lively engraved, combination bottle
openers and corkscrews, shoehorns,
buttonhooks and nail files. Also there
are tiny photograph frames sufficient
ly pretty to surround the face of the
n girl.
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Resented His Detection.

Mary and James had been good
friends for some years, but with the
advent of some new children" in the
block James rather failed in his ale
dren" proving, after all, unsatisfac-
tory, he returned to Mary-who
scorned his advances.
you needn't come over here no
more, James, she told him. I've
done with you. You an me was
friends while you didn't have no 9TH
ers, but 1 amt goin' to be no last
chance or common folks friends,
James. You can go back to your show
off friends, for all of me-"
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VOGUE for Net

One Of the latest novelties among
he lovely laces and the dainty robes
of broderie Anglaise for the slender
pocketbook is the coarse net. The
wardrobe can have nothing prettier
thai n of the pretty slips of string
colored isherman's net and lace. The
course net may be mounted over a
color, but it is really smartest when
its foundation is of the same tone.
and this serves as a relief for last
summers washed out gown. The trim
ming must be heavy Venetian or
guimpe of filet lace, and there may
be a girdle Of black or colored rib
bon.
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THE BANKS
OF CANADA

The closing Of the year 1912 has
brought out the usual bank statements
accompanied by the addresses of the
Presidents and General Managers of
these institutions. Their reading is
interesting as they show in a striking
manner the prosperity Of the country,
and deal with economic matters in a
first hand way. Those who know any
thing of Canadian banking methods
know the stability of these institu-
tons, and the high character of the
men who are placed in charge. In
discussing the land situation the Pres,
ident Of the Union Bank of Canada,
whose branches are to be found in all
parts of the Canadian West, said:-
"a good deal has been said about
speculation in land. The increase in
land values has added enormously to
the assets of Western business, and
has to some extent formed a basis for
extended credit, but this is not felt to
be a drawback when the value is real
and convertible. We consider that a
business standing which is strength
ened and enhanced by property hold
ings is entitled to a reasonable en
largement of credit for legitimate bust
ness operations"
1t will thus be seen that the banks
recognize the certain rise in the value
Of farm lands in Western Canada.
When the facts are known Of the won
derful producing qualities of farm
lands in the Provinces Of Manitoba,
Saskatchewan and Alberta, it is sim
pie to understand the liberal stand
taken by the banks.
Living not far from Lashburn, Sask.,
is a farmer named Clarke who in 1912
secured a crop of Marquis Wheat,
yielding 76 bushels per acre. This
is spoken of as a record yield, and this
is doubtless true, but several cases
have been brought to notice where
yields almost as large have been pro-
duced, and in different parts of the
country. During the past year there
have been reported many yields of
from 35 to 45 bushels of wheat to the
acre. Oats, too, were a success
full crop, and SO was the barley
crop. Wheat that would yield 40
bushels per acre, would bring on the
market zoe Ca fair fgure) per bushel,
a gross return of $500 per acre. Al
low $1,000 per acre ian outside fgure)
there would be a balance Of $1,000 per
acre net profit. This figure should
satisfy anyone having land that cost
less than $4,000 per acre. Very much
less return than this proves satisfac-
tory to those holding lands in Iowa
and Illinois worth from $3.50 to $500
per acre.
The latest Government returns give
an approximate estimate of four hun
dred thousand of an immigration to
Canada during 1912. OF this number
zoe, 900 will be from the United States.
Most of these are of the farming class
and 1t is not difficult to understand
why farming lands in Canada will ad-
vance from ten to twenty per cent.
within the next twelve months. There
fore investment in Western Canadian
lands is not looked upon as being in
the speculative class. Those fortunate
enough to secure free homesteads in
Canada will acquire in the intrinsic
value of the land alone the best pos
sible start for a splendid future. Ad-
vertisement.
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PQDIWYMW1S

Poultry and eggs bring good prices
nowadays.
If the flock is not culled every year
it will deterioriate rapidly.
Attention to detail often means sue
cess in the poultry business.
The merits of the scratching shed
are shown during bad weather.
The incubator should be in readi-
ness before it is time to start it.
O~vercrowding is one of the worst
and most frequent mistakes made by
poultrymen.
Allow chickens of all sizes a good
dust bath. They enjoy it, from the
smallest to the largest.
Dry mash, charcoal and grit can be
fed in a box covered with half-inch
poultry netting. without waste.
Don't keep u~nsightiy or crippled
chickens, even though they have been
valuable birds in their day.
Some tell the sex of the guinea fowl
by it's wattles. Those Of the male are
double the size of the female.
Some of the causes OF roup are sud
den and extreme changes in tempera-
ture, damp houses and draughts.
A good poultryman is Industrious,
not easily discouraged, filed with
pluck and grit and full of ambition.
Have your fowls SO tame that you
can go among them without causing
fright. You will get better egg pro-
duction.
Excited lei and women make ex-
cited birds, and that has a bad effect
on the reproducing mechanism of
the birds.
Do o put males in adjoining pens
with only netting between them. Have
a ~twelve-inch board at the bottom of
each partition.
Hens will eat a great quantity Of
coal cinders and they are very good
for them. Try putting a load in the
chicken yard and watch the result
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DAINTY BAG FOR THE FAN
Is Suspended From the Waist and
Completely Hides the Fan When
Not In Use.

No longer does the small fancy fan
haunt it's presence In ballroom and
opera house. When not actually in
use 1t is hidden in a narrow, oblong
n perfectly fiat bag suspended from
n wrist by long hangers which pre-
vent it from getting in the way of
the ham BY its texture, it is easy
to determine the character of the
bags contents, for if of white, mauve,
green, maize or pompadour-tinted bro
caded silk or satin with a shirred top
drawn taut with white satin narrow
ribbon, the fan has a spread of match
ing hue, and ivory, mother-of-pearl or
celuloid sticks.
A bag of pearl, crystal, rhinestone
or coral-beaded net yelling white or
colored satin, is likely to conceal a
fan having a beaded gauze spread.
For the very costly small fans with
gold or silver mounts and spreads of
rose point or duchess lace, there are
no ready-made bags. But 1t u is easy
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Shopping Instinct.

A rural postmaster tells this story
of one of the patrons of his office, a
boy of thrifty, not to say penurious,
stock. When the lad comes into the
p~ostofice he will thrust his wizened
face up close to the window and, in
his slow, Yankee drawl, inquire most
earnestly:
"Hev ye got any postal cards?"
yes" the postmaster replies.
"Haow much be they today?"
"a cent apiece"
Then the boy, screwing up his eyes
n the intensity of his thought over
the question he has to decide, always
stops for a while to weigh the con-
sequences. Finally, he will reply sol
EMMY:
wal, I'll take one."-Youth's Com
panion.
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OUR REALISTIC FICTION.

Some publishers have recently beer
saying that the novel reading public
today wants books dealing in a seri.
GUS way with serious aspects of life.
The professional book reviewer is of
the same opinion. The difficulty in
making any general statement regard
ing what people want to read at any
given time is that there are so many
people who read books, in this coun
try at least. To say that the trend
at present is to the realistic novel
does not mean that the trend Is away
from any other kind of fiction. Act
ually, we find that the different types
can flourish side by side. Best SELL
ers OF h romantic, swashbuckling,
quite inconsequent kind continue to
be written. ~Perceptibly nearer to the
truth of life are the short novels OF
homely sentiment whose remarkable
popularity during the last few years
has been n of the notable features
Of the publishing trade. beading with
the elemental subjects of home, moth:
erhood, child life and the quiet ways
OF ordinary married folks, they are
still too heavily stepped in the sugar.
coat of sentiment for the discriminate
ing taste or the robuster appetite.
The needs of this last public are now
being answered by a growing army
of realistic writer's who work in the
line of n of two traditions, which
may roughly be characterized as the
native and the foreign tradition, with
the latter more c~onspicuously in the
foreground.
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FLOODGATE IS VERY SIMPLE
Missouri Man Has One Arranged on
Plan Of Railway Stock Guard
1t Costs Little.

In describing a simple and success
full ~foodgate H. S.. Terrell OF Saline
county, Missouri, writes the Breeders
Gazette as follows:
My f1oodgate is made on the plan of
a railway stock guard. We start by
using two small logs or poles extend
ing down the creek as shown, the low
er ends sunk in the creek bed and the
upper ends resting against trees or
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BOB SLED FOR HEAVY WORK
One Shown In Illustration Has Ad-
vantage of Turning Short Cor
ners With Big Load. o

IN reply to a query for a plan and
description of a bob sled, suitable for
hauling wood, fodder and other heavy
work, the Country Gentleman makes
the following reply:
The following account Of a bob sled
was sent us years ago by D. B. Ray
mond; he used it for years for logging,
and it has the advantage that it will
turn short corners and enable a team
to draw one-fourth more than any
other sled.
The tongue is not set stiff, but is
fastened to the n~ose-piece with two
clevices-one on the tongue, and one
on the ~cross-piece, making a sort of
universal joint, permitting it to turn
at right angles, and allowing the team
to turn half around without moving
the load, and to clear trees and logs.
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LIES STRUGGLE
WITH ILLNESS
Mrs. Stewart Tells How She
Suffered from 16to45 years
old-How Finally Cured.

Euphemia, Ohio.-"Because of total
ignorance of how to care for myself
when verging into womanhood, and from
taking cold when going to school, l suf-
fered from a displacement, and each
month 1 had severe pains and nausea
which always meant a lay-off from work
for two to four days from the time I
was 16 years old.
"Iwent to Kansas to live with my sis
ter and while there a doctor told me Of
the Pinkham remedies but I did not use
them then as my faith in patent medi-
cines was limited. After my sister died
l came home to Ohio to live and that
has been my home for the last 18 years.
"The Change of Life came when l was
At years old and about this time I saw
my physical condition plainly described
in one of your advertisements. Then I
began using Lydia E. Pinkham's Veg
etable Compound and I cannot tell you
or any one the relief it gave me in the
first three months. 1t put me right
where I need not lay off every month
and during the last 18 years I have not
paid out two dollars to doctor, and have
been best with excellenthealth for awo-
woman of my age and I can thank Lydia
E. inkham'sVegetable Compound orit
"Since the Change Of Life is over I
have been a maternity nurse and being
wholly self-supporting / cannot owe
estimate the value of good health. I
have now earned a comfortable little
home just by sewing and nursing since
l was 81 years old. Ihave recommended
the Compound to many with good re-
suits, as it is excellent to take before
and after childbirth. Miss EVELYN
ADELA STEWART, Euphemia, Ohio.
If you want special advice write to
Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi-
dentiaD Lynn, Mass. Your letter will
be opened, read and answered by a
woman and held in strict confidence.
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Fair to All.

Recently says a Richmond man,
81 received an invitation to the mar
rage Of a young colored couple for
merly in my employ. l am quite sure
that all persons similarly favored were
left in little doubt as to the attitude
of the couple. The invitation ran as
follows:
You are invited to the marriage
of Mr.. Henry Clay Barker and Miss
Josephine Mortimer Dixon at the
house of the brides mother. All who
cannot come may send."-Lippincott's
Magazine.
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afford to buy early in the season the
imported frocks which they covet,
make a point Of waiting until the bar
gain sales for these purchases.
They usually make a point, too, of
buying such things as may be made to
do duty all the year around, and that
is an easy matter In this day when
sheer fabrics are used for winter as
for summer.
Naturally frocks of the kind are not
so reduced in price as are the regula-
ton winter garments whose tenure is
limited, and whose lines may be out
Of fashion before another winter; but
one can pick up pretty afternoon
frocks and evening gowns and coats
at great reductions, and though these
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Wedding Rinos That Wear.

The next time you are married-or,
If you will, when you are married.
don't buy a gold wedding ring, 1t isn't
being done. Platinum wedding rings
are the newest thing. Mile. Jeanne
Provost, a French actress, is to blame,
She thought of the idea, and when she
was married to M. Firpo, she had one.
Platinum rings are nor expensive
than gold and wear better. Just why
an actress, especially a French
actress, should want a wedding ring
that will last a long while the jewelers.
haven't learned.
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Foot tufts.

For those who sit outdoors in cold
weather-and, of course, for the mo-
torist-a foot muff is indeed a com
fort. These are usually of leather,
fur lined. Some are fitted with an
electric or hot water foot warmer
There is an opening just large enough
SO the feet will slip in easily, ana
around this opening is a border OF
long haired fur, which is a decided
help in keeping the ankles warm
These foot warmers first came into
popularity at Saranac and other re-
sorts where life in the open is advo-
Gated even though the thermometer
is far below the zero mark.
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Fig. 2-sIed Shoe and Bolster.

are put on. The bolster of the real bob
is 4 by 5 inches. The bolt heads which
fasten it should be 'let ill.," so as to be
out of the way. The bolster of the for
ward bob is shown in the upper figure
of Fig. 2, and has rings to bind the
load. The saddle-plank, on the front
bob, should be 21a inches thick and a
foot wide, to support the king-bolt and
whole load.
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A, Missouri Flood Gate.

posts. We put a three-quarter inch
bolt through where they cross. For
Stats use old rails, poles or 2 by, 4 of
good material spiked to the logs. Then
the job is done.
The best of it is it stays put. There
is no cost to speak of at the start and
no trouble afterwards wading around
in the mud cleaning it and getting it
stock-proof again. The middle being
lowest, the main current naturally
stays there and so all logs, stumps
and trash of any kind go right on
down the stream.
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SAVING the Harness.

Aside from the bad appearance
which uncared for harness presents,
1t has a habit of suddenly giving out
at important moments, and this
makes trouble and much loss. If not
kept in good condition harness be-
comes hard and very uncomfortable to
the horses, and when in that condi-
ton cracks and warps, rendering it
in a short time unfit for use. All
this trouble can be easily avoided if
you will give your harness a little at
tention.
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MODES OF MIDWNTER
BARGAINS FOR WOMAN WHO
KNOWS GOOD CLOTHES.
inexpensive Freshening Will Make
Shop-Worn Garments Look Like
NeW-Pretty Design for d
Velvet Frock.

The best that the season has to
offer is being shown and being worn
now, and n really does get admirable
bargains now in the shops If one
knows how to buy and can freshen up
models a trife s%hop-worn
from handling. Many women who
know good clothes. but a never
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RHEUMATIC ADVICE
Prominent DoctQr's Best Prescrlp-
ton Easily Mixed at Home.

from your druggist get one ounce
PACKAGE and one ounce of syrup of
~Sarsaparilla compound. AXE these
two ingredients home and put them
into a half pint of good whiskey.
Shake the bottle and take a table
spoonful before each meal and at bed
time" This is said to be the quickest
and best remedy known to the medical
profession for rheumatism and back
ache. Good results come after the first
dose. If your druggist does not have
Toris compound in stock he will get
1t for you in a few hours from his
wholesale house. Don't be Influenced
to take a patent medicine instead of
this. Insist on having the genuine Toris
compound in the original ~one-ounce, seal
ed, yellow package. Hundreds of the
worst cases were cured here by this pre-
scription last winter. Published by the
Globe Pharmaceutical laboratories Of
Chicago.
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Commercial fertilizers are valuable
In truck growing where one knows
the needs of his soils and supplies
them intel1igently. But before fer
t~ilizers are used the soil must be put
in good mechanical and physical con-
dition., Fertilizers can never be made
to take the place of good preparation
and ample cultivation.
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determination of crasshoppers.

The determination of the grass
hopper, which destroys the thousands
of acres of grain in the northwest,
now seems to rest with the provision
Of more crickets. The discovery Is
looked upon as an important n by
entomologists and crop experts.
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Breeding for Market.

OF course, if you are going in for
poultry to sell on the market, you
must select the fowl that will pro-
duce the most meat, and if for eggs
the breed that will produce more
eggs than meat. Then it is "up to
YOU to get the most out of them, as
the slang goes.
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His Childish Wish.

Here is an excerpt from Paul Vests
Just Boy" letters, which read like a
clipping from the Little Johnny" pa
pers by Ambrose Bierce in the early
volumes of the Argonaut: 81 asst nv
father why ministers move SO much
and he said he guessed they was
forced to on account of thare sons.
wisht my father was a minister
San Francisco Argonaut.
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Don't Hide Knots.

In basting work for stitching do not
hide away the knots, but put them on
the right side of the sewing, so that
bastlng threads may be easily re-
moved. For the same reason never
place machine stitching directly on
top of basting. but just outside of it.
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Trouble for the Future

First M. D. (from bedside OF
wealthy bachelor)-He is sleeping nat
urally-he will ecover Second NJ.
Dyes, the worst is over. First
NJ. D.-No, the worst is yet to come.
Second NJ. D.-How is that? First
M. Dive have yet to break the
news to his relatives.-Life.
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AnpIes to Australia

A well known commercial fruit
grower Of Washington state made a
2O-carload shipment of apples to Aus
tralia for which orders were received
early in the season. The varieties
were principally Winesaps and Jona-
thans, for which cash prices were paid
from $1.50 to $1.75 per box.
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That the Eiffel tower moves daily in
a vertical and horizontal sense has
long been beyond doubt. Apart from
the scientific laws of expansion and
contraction. which inevitably affected
1t, one could see 1t during a gale sway
ing from side to side, says the Lon
don Telegraph. But it's vertical move
ments were a mere matter of con-
lecture until M. Guillaume undertook
tc investigate them. He elbows that
the great iron structure may vary an
inch In height every day. The eleva.
ton or depression is not equally dis
tributed, as only one of it's sides may
be affected by the rise or fall of the
temperature, and thus the tower may
be compared to a person shifting his
weight alternately from one foot to
the other
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Paris fashions fastest edict is an
evening cap Of green taffeta covered
owe with heavy lace, which in turn
is studded with scintillating beads. At
the sides, above the ears, lace and
beads are gathered into a rosette from
which are suspended three clusters
of beads to represent the long droop-
ing earrings now so much in vogue.
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Preserving Timbers.

To preserve timbers from dry rot
and decay paint the timbers with
crude carbolic acid, giving them sew
eral coats-for timbers that are placed
in damp places soak in all the wood
will take. This will prolong the life
of the wood for many years.
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Fruit Grower outcIassed.

The fruit grower who fails to be-
come acquainted with the latest meth
DDS of increasing the quantity and
quality of his crop is as hopelessly
outclassed as the grain grower who
would attempt to take care of his
harvest will cradles and fails.