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The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
HOW SOME PEOPLE SUCCEED
Some Guldeposts to Success, Set Up by Librarian lesler of the Chi-
 caeo Public Library.

A few guideposts to success were set up before employees of the Chi cago public library recently in the form Of quotations contained in a rule book issued by Librarian H. E. Legler. Here are some of them:
 Do what you are paid to do-and then some; it's the then some" that gets your salary raised.
 Folks that never do any more than they get paid for never get paid for any more than they do.
 Some men are ground down on the grindstone of life, while others get polished up. It depends on their kind of stuff.
 Let's be of good cheer, remember ing that the misfortunes hardest to bear were those that never came.
 You will never push yourself for ward in this world by batting yourself on the back.
 The man who thinks he can learn thinks a great truth.
 It may be more interesting to mind other peoples business, but it's more profitable to mind your own.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
COTTON ACREAGE NEXT YEAR
Considerable Increase Is Seen by St. Louis Man Who Has Just Re
 turned From Texas.

Having visited Texas recently | would say 1t was a safe prediction that the cotton acreage in that state next year would be considerably in creased over the somewhat reduced acreage planted last spring" said M. V. Martin of St Louis to a Birming ham Age-Herald representative the other day, and it need not be sur prising to see a normal acreage in several, if not in most. of the cotton states.
 But even with a normal acreage the South's 1916 crop could hardly ex ceed 13.000.000 or 13.500.000 bales. for the simple reason that comparatively little fertilizer will be used. And while the yield per acre will be much below the average the cost of production will be low enough to make up for low level of prices. But 1t seems to be the prevailing opinion among Texas farm CTS and Texas merchants that a 13.- 000,0 ,000 bale crop in 1916 will bring good prices Some statisticians esti- mate that consumers needs next year will be sufficient to more than take up the surplus carried over from the bumper crop made in 1914 and all of this years short crop.
 The 1915 crop now being marketed will hardly exceed 10.500,000 bales. All men in the cotton trade as far as I am informed expect to see 14-eent or 15-cent cotton before next spring"
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is any life in the body Give it suck of the sow's milk and place it in the receptacle described. The pigs will aot suffer if they do not suck for a few minutes after farrowing.
 Before placing the pigs with the SOW, cut out the eight small tusklike teeth. There are four of these on each jaw in the rear of the mouth. These teeth are very sharp, and if left in the pigs mouth they will likely cause tearing of the sow's udder. and the little pigs cut one another's mouths while fighting for a teat. These teeth can be removed with bone forceps, wire nippers, or a knife. Never pull out the teeth. Always cut or break them off. After this operation place the pigs with the SOW, care being ta ken that each one gets to a teat.
 When the afterbirth is passed 1t should be removed from the pen at once and buried or burned. There is good reason to believe that eating the afterbirth is often the beginning of the habit of eating pigs.
 Great care must be taken to feed the SOW properly. If she is not being properly fed the little pigs will show it. If the pigs follow the SOW around very much and pull at her teats. it is a good sign that she is not giving enough milk, and more feed should be given to stimulate milk flow When SOW is oyerfed, causing a heavy milk flow. securing is generally produced in the pigs. If this happens. cut down the sow's feed immediately. Give the SOW 15 to 20 grains of sulphate of iron (copperasl in her slop morning and evening. and if necessary increase the dose until results have been ob- tained
 1t is very necessary that the little pigs have plenty of exercise and all the sunlight that can be given them. If they do not get exercise. they will get fat and lazy and the usual result is the "thumps" This Is caused by the fat getting so thick around the heart and lungs that the pigs find it difficult to breathe. They will be no- ticed heaving at the flank and gasping for breath. The best way to prevent this is to avoid overfeeding and make the young pigs take plenty of exercise.
 When the pigs are about five weeks old, they will begin to taste some of their mothers feed. Do not be in a hurry to wean them. Eight weeks is young enough to wean them, if there is skim milk for them. Of course the size and development has a great deal to do with their weaning age. If skim milk is not obtainable it is better to let the pigs nurse the SOW until ten weeks old
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23

Angels men marry soon shed their wings.
 Let a woman talk herself to death and she will die happy.
 Our intellect never gets us any where, but our will does
 Good, honest work to do Is a pana- cea for many of our troubles.
 Some folks are born lucky and oth- CTS can't keep from making speeches.
 When women kiss each other it means about as much as a tombstone epitaph
 A woman always has something in mind that she's going to get when she can afford it.
 To make perseverance a paying thing one must first be sure he Is in the right way.
 Some folks pride themselves in their piety when all they possess is puck ering of the heart
 Many a dull" child brightens up wonderfully when his eyes or adenoids are properly taken care of.
 The foot-and-mouth disease Is again breaking out among the office seek CTS, and no quarantine in sight.
 And 1t sometimes happens that newly made widower feels like a man who has just escaped from prison.
 There's no monopoly on wisdom, al though now and then the scarcity of 1t would lead us to think there is.
 The world is full of humorous situ- ations. 90 per cent of which are con- tributed by people who are serious.
 The trouble with life as it is now Is that there are too many ways to spend money and too few to save it.
 In time the consolidated school Is coming but that is no reason why one should neglect the present means of education
 This country has turned out some great politicians-and there are lot of others in office that ought to be turned out.
 The farmer should receive the same returns for his capital invested and labor performed as other men do in other business
 The man who beats his horses Is not merely cruel; he is as stupid as the engineer who would hammer the valves of his engine.
 Nearly every man feels he could be rich if he just had the capital to start on. just as every woman feels she would have a good figure if she could afford $15 corsets.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23

milk with a slice of Onion blade of mace and bit of bay leaf; strain and add three tablespc 1nfuls each of but ter and flour creamed together, cook five minutes. Combine mixtures, sea son to taste with salt, pepper and cay enne.
 Spinach Omelet.-Make an omelet, using four eggs, four tablespoonfuls of milk, salt and pepper to taste. Have the omelet pan hot, put in a table spoonful of butter, then turn in the egg mixture. As the egg sets lift with a knife around the edges Fold the omelet and turn out on bed of cooked, hot, seasoned spinach.
 Mock Beef.-Cut hubbard squash in thick slices, removing the shell and the inner seeds and pith. Butter a deep stone baking dish Arrange a layer of squash; dust with salt and pepper, add thinly sliced onion and a layer of thinly sliced carrots, cover ing a thin layer of chopped parsley Repeat with the alternate layers un- til the dish is full and then fill up with beef stock. Cover and cook for two hours. Make thick brown sauce with some of the stock, add a table spoonful of Worcestershire sauce and arrange the outlets on a platter with the brown gravy poured over it. Serve with potatoes and turnips.
 Funny Fish Balis.-Piek the fish fine and add to the mashed potatoes while they are hot. taking two-thirds as much potato as fish Add plenty of butter, salt and pepper and fry in deep fat.
 Cranberry Ice.-Gook a quart of cranberries in pint of water six min utes. Strain through cheeseeloth, and pint of sugar and stir until dis solved. When cool add the juice of two lemons and freeze to a mush. This will serve a dozen sherbet cups.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
DESIRABLE PLACE TO DWELL
SquareIy Up to Those Interested in
 Home Community to Extend Pat ronage to Local Merchants.

Do you fully realize what the com you individually?
 You hear of wonderful commercial. social, educational and religious ad- vantages. of fine stores, beautiful parks and good roads in other locali- ties. all of which means but little or nothing to you compared to advan- tages and convenienees offered you at home, writes R. " Holland in Califor mia Cultivator. You are affected only by prevailing conditions in your com munity where you are benefited by advantages and must suffer for lack of them.
 Everyone is more or less proud of the community in which he or she lives, and justly so. However to me the height of inconsistency is personi fled in people who pretend to be deep ly interested in local conditions and at the same time deliberately do those things that tend to retard the develop ment of their home communities
 Those people who proudly boast of the advantages offered by their home towns as desirable places In which to live and then refuse to extend local merchants their patronage are as ridi- culous as the restaurant proprietor who eats out
 1t may be a fact that your local stores are not as large or as hand somely equipped as some of the big city stores. but you will agree with me that your merchants cannot pos sibly enlarge or improve their busi- ness beyond the extent justified by the amount of patronage accorded them
 If you are interested in bringing about better local shopping facilities 1t Is squarely up to you and other resi-. dents of your community to patronize home merchants, thus keeping your money at home in so far as possible where 1t will circulate in various chan. nels for the improvement of the com munity
 There are only two possible reasons why persons should remain in any cer- tain town or community; their duties demand it or they simply like to live there. Isn't this true in your case?
 In either event 1t is to your dis tinct advantage to do everything in your power to assist in improving To. cal conditions. The community be- longs to you and your neighbors and you are necessarily governed by con ditions as they exist.
 A prosperous community Is in ev- cry instance a desirable place in which to live as it affords it's resi- dents advantages and conveniences to the extent of its prosperity, which in- yariably is limited to and controlled by the amount of local commercial activity.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
FARMER CONSIDERED A JOKE
Man, Formerly Called "Hayseed" Now Better Informed on Public Mat
 ters Than City Man.

CBy HERBERT C. LONG Colorado Az
 ricultural College. Fort Collins. Colo)
 There was a time when the farmer was considered joke. and was called a rustic in literary language, and in popular language, "hayseed- There was of course some cause for this. The farmer was really ignorant of many things which were matters of ordinary information to many city people. But the obnoxious terms are rapidly going out of use because the group to whom they may be applied Is continually growing smaller
 Nowadays it is not difficult to find farnAs who is better informed on mat ters of public interest than is the av- craze city man. The boundaries of his farm no longer constitute his horizon. He takes a very lively interest in the world about him. And really there is no excuse for the average farmer remaining longer a rustic or hay seed Modern postal service makes connection with the world at large easy Modern printing business makes information on all subjects and the products of the best minds easily available.
 The modern farmer can purchase such periodicals and books as will en- able him to make his business a bet ter success. and he can subscribe to papers and magazines which will keep him just as well informed on all mat. ters of public interest as any city man.
 There is no reason why man who follows agriculture as a business should not have just as much in fiuenee in state and national affairs as the city man. and there are some reasons why he should have more in- fuence
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
RAISE LARGE, HEALTHY LETTERS OF PIGS


Skim milk and corn, or skim milk and shorts, fed in the proportion of 3 to l. make an excellent ration for weanlings. If skim milk is not avail able, mixture of parts cornmeal, 1 parts middlings, and l part tank age, fed as thin slop, is very good. Good sHeeulent pasture is always bene- ficial. It will aid wonderfully in put ting growth on the young pigs, and the grain expense will be lessened. After litter of pigs has been weaned and are eating well, the most difficult part of their care is over. The feed ing and management from then on will depend much upon whether they are to be kept for breeding or fattened for the market.
 Young pigs, just after they are ta- ken away from their dam, should be given their feed in such a manner that each individual pig gets it's share. The simplest way to accomplish this is to allow the pigs to eat from properly constructed feed trough; one that will keep the pigs out of the feed and will lessen the possibility of crowding.
 A weaning trough is used with good results on the government experiment farm at Beltsville, Md. This trough is large enough to hold a quantity of slop sufficient to feed 20 weaning pigs weighing approximately 35 pounds. It is only inches deep. thus enabling the pigs to get at their feed very con veniently. The construction of the ridge pole together with the partition pieces makes it impossible for the pigs to get into the trough with their feet. It Is very simple matter to keep the trough clean, as there is plenty of room for one to work conveniently with scrubbing brush on the inside of the trough. Water applied freely together with a vigorous scrubbing. will keep the trough clean and sani- tary The trough weighs only 43 pounds, making it very convenient for one man to handle. This trough. con structed as cheaply and as durably as possible. is sufficiently strong so
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23

that the pigs can not break 1t to pieces.
 Lumber 7s inch thick is used in constructing the trough. with the ex- ception of the floor and ridge pole. The floor is made from 1-inch stuff. while the ridge pole can be made from a piece of lumber ? inches square dressed
 The following bill of material Is necessary to construct the weaning trough:
 One piece 1 inch by l foot by 12 feet for the floor and ends The end pieces can be dressed down to 7s by 4 inches by Is feet for the two sides
 One piece inches square by feet, dressed, for the ridge pole.
 One piece B by IA inches by 15 feet for the partition pieces
 Total number of board feet 20.
 Thirtysix screws GA inches. No. 9 to fasten the partition pieces.
 Fiftytwo nails (S penny; 14 used to fasten each end piece to the ridge
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
The Better Way.

Charles NJ Schwab, congratulated in Pittsburgh on large war contract which he had just received from one of the warning nations. said:
 some people call 1t luck, but they are mistaken. Whatever success have is due to hard work and not to luck.
 "l remember New York business man who crossed the ocean with me o,a winter when the whole country was suffering from hard times.
 And you, MT. Schwab, the New Yorker said, are like the rest Of us, I suppose, hoping for better things%
 "No, my friend, replied. No, I am not hoping for better things. I've got my sleeves rolled up and I'm work ing for them. /"
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23

The SOW. in order to produce a best possible condition. After she has been bred. careful feeding and man. agement are necessary to develop sue cessfully the litter she is to produce. It is well to keep record of the date on which the SOW was bred, in order to know approximately when the youngsters are about to arrive. The gestation period of pigs is 112 to 115 days. It is good policy to be on hand in case the SOW needs help. but she need not be helped if she is getting along we'll
 When the pigs are born during warm weather they are less liable to
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
RASrAs

become chilled and will generally find their way to the teats unaided. In extremely cold weather the pigs will be in danger of being chilled unless the hog house is heated. To remedy this, place a few heated bricks in the bottom of basket or small box GOV CT them with ehaff or straw, and put a cloth over the top to keep in the heat; unless the SOW objects too se- riously the pigs may be rubbed dry with soft cloth and placed in the receptacle as fast as they arrive. If any of the little pigs appear to be lifeless when they are born, first see that all mucus is removed from the nose. then give the pig few gentle slaps on the side with the hand This will start the pig breathing if there
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23

IA-D1s minced parsley. Soak one tablespoonful of granulated gela tin in a teaspoonful of water. then add six tablespoonfuls of cream and heat over hot water until the gelatin is softened, and dissolved. Add the chick en meat, lemon juice, salt and pa prika to taste beat all together thor oughly and pour into a shallow pan wet in cold water. Set on ice to chill, then cut in slices to fit the bread cut for sandwiches.
 Roast Beef Salad.-Cut rare roast beef in thin slices and marinate with French dressing, to which a finely chopped onion has been added. Serve with piekled beets and lettuce.
 Coffee Ice cream.-Scald a pint of milk with a half cupful of dry coffee. Strain into three slightly beaten eggs, one cupful of sugar and a fourth of teaspoonful of salt. Return to the fire and cook until the mixture coats the spoon. Add a quart of cream and freeze. Serve with marshmaIlow sauce.
 MarShmailOW Sauce.-ln the upper part of double boiler put one-fourth of pound of marshmallows. When melted, pour over it a sirup made by boiling one cupful of sugar and a fourth of a cupful of water ten min utes. Add one-half of a teaspoonful of vanilla and cool.
 Roast Goose With Stuffne-Pre- pare the goose as usual. washing in soda water to remove all objectionable oil and dust. wipe after rinsing and stuff with two finely chopped onions, one-fourth of cupful of finely chopped pork, and combine with two cupfuls of hot mashed potatoes and one and half cupfuls of bread crumbs Add some of the fat of the goose chopped, using a third of a cupful: salt we'll add one beaten egg, teaspoonful of sage and little black pepper
 A new stutfing for turkey which is recommended is the giblets chopped and mixed with cooked seasoned macaroni and used as any stutfing
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
NuA< Wlet yleaQ

By producing from 50,O00 to 60.0O0 oscillations a second a new German generator for sending wireless signals causes fine musical note to be heard at receiving instruments.
 A wild goose has been the pet of a Kansas man for IS years. acting as weather prophet. watchman and a de. coy when he goes hunting.
 A clock with revolving dial that Chicago man has invented enables a person to tell the time in all parts of the world although it uses but tha customary pair of hands.
 Government experts estimate that of the 26,0o0,V00 horsepower which 1T is possible to develop hydroelectricaI. ly in the United States. I9.OOO. GOO horsepower lies test of the Rockies
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until the onions are soft and the bacon light brown. Add two cupfuls of cold water and let come to boil. Mash the onions with spoon, add to the soup one and half cupfuls of rich milk; season well with salt, pepper and dash of cayenne. Thicken with a tablespoonful of flour mixed with little milk, cook until the flour has time to be well cooked.
 Fruit RoIy-PoIy.-To two cupfuls of flour add quarter of a teaspoonful of salt, four teaspoonfuls of baking pow der and a tablespoonful of shortening. Mix with cold water to a consistency to roll out thin. Take a cupful Of canned peaches or pineapple, chopped, or any fresh fruit, spread the fruit on the rolled out crust and sprinkle with sugar, roll up as a jelly-rol and put into deep round pan, well greased with butter. Add a half cupful of sugar with tablespoonful of butter, cover with boiling water and put into the oven to bake until brown. The boiling water, sugar and butter make a sauce Serve hot
 Roast Goose With Russian Stuffine. -Singe. draw and wash the goose in strong soda water, rinsing and wiping well. Dredge with four and stuff with two cupfuls of tart apples, greenings or baldwins, and one cupful of raisins This is stuffing which will be deli. cious and quite different.
 Jellied Prunes.-Cook a third of pound of prunes until soft remove the stones and cut the prunes in pieces Soak half a box of gelatin in half cupful of cold water and add to pint of the sirup in which the prunes were cooked. Add a cupful of sugar fourth of cupful of lemon juice and the prunes. Mold and chill. Serve plain or with whipped cream.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
Potato Shipping Company.

The success or failure of farmers potato-shipping company depends very largely upon the ability of its manager. He must be responsible for the selling as well as the buying. The greater his experience the fewer should be his mistakes. It is for this reason that companies should carefully consider the importance of long-term employ ment in order that they may profit by the increased wisdom gained through experience in their service.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
Oheued Instructions.

The grocer had just put new boy 10 work and among the other instruc- tions was this:
 If you do pot happen to have what a customer asks for suggest something else as nearly like it as possible"
 Soon woman came into the store and asked the boy
 Have yen any fresh green stuff today"
 '.No, ma'qm," answered the boy but we have some nice hluing."
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
REGULAR FEEDING IS URGED
When Ration Has Needed Variety Less Frequently Changes Are Made
 the Better for Animal.

A variety of feed does not neces. sarily mean change of feed If the ration Is properly made; that is, if it has proper variety and is balanced the less frequently changes are made the better.
 Regular feeding means the same quantity of the same feeds at the same time each day. To feed at six o'clock this morning and seven o'clock tomor- row morning Is not regular feeding.
 When an animal gets off it's feed, it is evidence of feeding too much and the remedy is to feed less than is want ed, however small that quantity may be.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-23
A Motorists Waii.

Tn some communities the automo. bile regulations get you. no matter what you do."
 What got you?"
 A Plunkville cop arrested me on a recent run. Charged me with having dazzling lights in front and dim lights in the rear. How are you going to please emf"