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The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
TO INSURE GOOD EGG YIELD
Nothing of Greater importance Than Green Feed of Some kind-Hens
 Relish Alfalfa.

Necessary as meat feeding is to in- sure a good egg yield. it is no more important than feeding some kind of green feed For this nothing is better than cabbage. small enough to be eaten by the hen in one day. This should be hung up where the birds can peck at it without jumping up.
 Mangels or beets cut open and placed on nails will usually be eaten greedily. Onions may be cut up and fed about twice week. though they should not be given for a day or two before the birds are to be killed for eating. on account of the disagree able flavor produced in the meat.
 Hens. though having a variety of grains and a proper amount of meat, will, if deprived of green food. fall off in their egg yield. Cabbage or lettuce leaves thrown loose on the feeding floor will largely be wasted, as the birds have difficulty in tearing the pieces apart. Potatoes are good poul- try food. but should be cooked. as if given raw they often cause digestive disturbances. If fed in excess they are found to be too fattening.
 Cut clover and alfalfa, if steamed. are not only green feeds, but are highly nitrogenous. but they will not altogether take the place of vegeta- bles.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

Sometring new in neckwear has lately Lven added to the array of crisp and dainty pieces that came in with the fall season. The new arrivals are made of the same materials but have taken their cue from the high collars of wraps and street gowns, and their foundation is band. fitting close about the neck, and as wide as 1t can be worn.
 To this band of thin material wings. tabs, and fiaring pieces are added in a variety of shapes and finish that seems unlimited Fine embroidery on sheer fabrics makes them elegant. but their crisp daintiness is a fragile quality, and hence it is necessary to replace them often, for it is just these qualities that they are expected to lend to the costume. Two good ex- amples of these novelties are pictured sential features of all of them.
 The design at the left might be made. apparently, from embroidered handkerchiefs. It is merely a fitted band of organdie finished at the edges with small buttonhole-stitched seal lops and having flaring piece of the same kind set on at each side The surface is decorated with scattered embroidered dots and little flower sprays.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Dresses for Girls,

High waist lines are the rule for the little girls thin dresses. Like grown up dresses, the skirts of these dresses are very fiaring and frilly.
 The skirts of tulle and chiffon dresses or those of lingerie. batiste or very thin silk are often finished at the hem with three little rutfies. These are only about three or four inches in width and are not gathered very full. A picot edging is used often instead of lace to finish them, or very narrow satin ribbon. perhaps in double lengthwise stripe.
 Little puffed sleeves that come only halfway to the elbow are considered very correct, and they go well with the general empire contour of the gown.
 In linen dresses the empire waist line has a belt of the same that has a slot inset in the middle of it of an other color.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
POINT FOR ROAD BUILDERS
Not Always We'll to Deviate From Straight Line, Even in an Effort
 to Get Variety.

The guiding principle in designing the position of roads and walks is utility. Nature forms no roads. They are the work of men and animals, and would undoubtedly always proceed in nearly straight lines from point to point if Instructions of various kinds did not interfere and cause deviations. Necessity will therefore suggest where and how they should be introduced. So far as regards approaches and walks to and from buildings, the object of their introduction is sufficiently appar- ent; but, in laying out pleasure grounds, it is a too common practice to introduce walks for the mere purpose of variety. This is very question able reason at best. and not always successfully accomplished, but even in cases of this kind, they should ap- pear to aim for some definite object, or lead to points of sufficient impor- tance to suggest their utility.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Know Your Garden Flowers.

The true way to enjoy flowers is to get on intimate terms with them. Know them by name, know their char acteristics. Learn to love them and make them part of your life. Then the flowers breathe their secrets, and you learn little by little that they are living things-boon companions and friends. Those who work with flowers know of other things than seeds and bulbs-hope and faith and love; strength, inspiration and happiness. They gather in more than the blush ing flowers themselves. They gather health and wealth and natures re- vealed secrets. How natural it is, then, that those who work with flow CTS should be big and strong and good and kind. They are very close to the heart of life-and nature.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

The collar at the right is one of several designs in which a double row of tabs is set on about the top. In each of these designs the upper and under row of tabs are unlike in shape and length. Both are finished with fine embroidery. and the effect of the two thieknesses of sheer material Is very dainty.
 All of these new collars set up very close about the neck and only few Of them are suited to the short-necked figure. These are those having a wide standing band shaped to appar- ently lengthen the neck, and a fiaring portion that extends only about the sides and back. But the girl who can not wear the wide standing collar may console herself by refeeting on how well she can wear the fashionable evening bodice. which leaves neck and shoulders and arms uncovered.
 One should not fail to notice, when considering neckwear. the "choker" of narrow black velvet ribbon. about an inch wide. which Is worn so effective ly with evening gowns 1t is fastened with a little flat bow and a small sparkling jewel in a pin is sometimes set against it.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Sulphur in New Zealand.

Sulphur deposits are found on White island, in the Bay of Plenty, on the coast of the North island of New Zea- land, about 30 miles from the main land. This island, which covers about 600 acres. attains height of 900 feet on one side and opens to the sea on the other. It's topography indicates the island, which is one of the awe inspiring sights of New Zealand is a further evidence of volcanism After the New Zealand Sulphur company had spent s100,000 in preparation for mining sulphur in this locality a vol canic disturbance wrecked the camp and killed ten men.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Where the White Man Found the Moose Jaw" This. it is said, accounts for the towns queer name.
M Power.

There is a distinct difference be- tween power and endurance The av- craze woman seems to have quite as much endurance as the average man: but in actual physical power she is entirely outclassed In series of experiments to determine this point, it was found that the average energy a man can develop is one-tifth horse power, that of woman only half as much. The machine for making the tests is bicycle mounted on fixed frame, and geared to brake wheel. The person under test works the ped. als, and the point at which the friction of the brake causes the machine to stop indicates the horsepower he has reached.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
ACCOUNTS FOR QUEER NAME
Little Incident That Led to Most Pc. cuIiar Coenomen Being Given to
 Canadian Town.

An interesting story is told as to the origin of the name Moose Jaw, as applied to a town in Canada. Many years ago. so the story runs. pioneer with his team of oxen and prairie schooner" while passing along the banks of the river, was obliged to camp at this point in Saskatchewan on ac- count of an accident to his cart.
 A spoke had fallen out during the day, and the wheel was falling apart. He looked about for something to in sert for temporary brace for the wheel while his wife busied herself with the evening meal.
 The pioneers child, while romping around, found the jawbone of moose. which she held up to her father. who by this time almost despaired of find ing anything with which to repair his cart. He was delighted to find that the jawbone exactly fitted the place Of the missing spoke. The Indians there after named this district "The Place
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Lazy and Immoral.

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 Lazy and Immoral.
 Knowing nothing of the dire events that befell wealthy Rome or Greece the Bachokes, nevertheless. followed in the same path. They became exces. sively immoral Pipes, women and song took the place of the more manly and healthful exercises of slaying or enslaving their neighbors. Instead of hurling snake-poisoned spears and ten. pound. serrated edge hatchets and knives at their fellow men the Bach. okes have degenerated so far as to lie indolently sprawled out in the sun be- fore their huts. playing the while steel keyed musical instruments which sound like musical boxes badly out of tune and smoking tobacco strong enough to send any white man to his grave at the first puff
 Whatever may be said as to the morals of the Bachokes in their rela- tions to pipes, women and song it can not be said that their immortality ex. tends to the culinary line They have never been known, despite plenty of examples to the contrary. to cook and eat a white man.
 The most they have done in this dt. rection is to make medicine out of several venturesome whites who have strayed into their country unarmed or unattended Just what the pharmacol- ogic process is has never been divulged. it is a carefully guarded se- cret of the suspicious and erudite medicine men of the tribe.
 Medicine Men Are Clever
 As thoroughgoing as David Belasco are these savage black physicians in creating the proper sort of atmos- phere for the effect they wish to pro duce Clad in beads and feathers, sur. rounded by horrific ghost chasers and spirit placators carved out of wood, and wearing a frightful mask that completely covers head face and neck, the Bachoke medicine man awaits his patients in his dark hut
 The medicine he distributes after properly blessing 1t depends upon the fee he receives The sufferer with rheumatism, may for a few beads or a chicken buy pair of carved field mice to wear at his belt as protec- tion against the pains. but a man of wealth who can afford to pay at least a goat or a sheep can be completely insured. according to the medicine mans schedule, against further recur- renee of the malady. His medicine takes the form of an elaborately which hole has been cut and filled with substance too sacred even for the medicine man to pronounce it's name-perhaps brass tack or piece of blue clay.
 But, if after all. the pains actually sort has been carefully provided against by the medicine man. Such things have been known to happen. But the reason for it is this: Some other man in the tribe, an enemy to the sufferer with rheumatism. has been going to rival medicine man and paying higher prices for more po- tent medicine, which permits him to harass the rheumatic patient with evil spirits. hence the pains. But if the rheumatic patient wishes to pay lit tie higher price for stronger medicine then he in turn may set evil spirits to afficting his enemy. all of which the medicine man will be glad to arrange for the proper consideration.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Braid Embroidery.

A fancy braid is being used a great deal to embellish designs on table runners and cushions. The braid comes in variety of colors and is used in connection with herringbone. buttonhole. skeleton and many other embroidery stitches. A very good H. lustration of the effect the braid and various stitches give is noticed on a table runner of natural linen exhibit ed by an excellent shop. On either end conventional floral design is stapped. The leaves and stems O.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Washing Stick

This Is something new to housewives-- something they have wanted all their lives, but never could get before. It makes It pos. Aible to do the heaviest, hardest washing in less tha9 one-haif the time 1t took by old methods, and 1t eliminates sf rubbing aud mus eular effort. No washing machine is needed. Nothing but this simple little preparation, which IS absolutely hsFmsss to inc ;iesst tseFies whitet colored or woolen. It makes the hardest task Of the week pleasant pastime- delightful occupation. You win be de- lighted at the clean, spotIess, snow-white clothes thas come out Of the rinsinR water; and all without any effort on your part. The Magic Washing Stick does sif-and remem Der, without injury to the most delicate goods, colored or white woolens, blankets, lace cur tains, etc. Conts ns no acids, no aIkaIIes, no poisonous ingredients to make .ts use dam gerous IS sashlngs 75 cents
 Sold by all Druggists and Grocers every. where. If yours doesn't handle 1t, show him this ad-ke'il get it for you. Or send 25e Ia stamps to 4 5. RGHgRDs CO., shsrnsn TeEas
 lTsaasss 1stasalefs
 PlukEETl IAaRstt GRO CO. thle Rock, Lsaasss--Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Start In Poultry Business.

The man who goes into the poultry business should profit by all that has been learned by those who were in the business ahead of him. and should not try to fight it out along the same lines that were adopted by his predecessors years ago
 Eggs, like plants and animals, are not made out of nothing. The hen is a machine for making eggs If the ma chine Is a good one. cared for and properly fed, eggs may be produced in abundance at all seasons of the year
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
ECZEMAS AND RASHES
Itching and Burning soothed by cutl.
 cura. Trial Free.

The Soap to cleanse and purify, ths Ointment to soothe and heal Relief. rest and sleep follow the use of these supercreamy emollients and indicate speedy and complete healment in most cases of young and old, even when the usual remedies have utterly failed.
 Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura. Dept. KY, Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
VALUE OF GOOD FEATHERlNG
improves Appearance of Turkeys, At tracts Patrons and Is Good
 Advertising Feature,

Good feathering, though not for a moment to be regarded with turkeys as equal in importance to vigor and hardness. is valuable for three reasons first, because 1t improves the ap- pearance Of the flock. attracting pa irons and not infrequently proving a good advertising feature; second, be- cause conformity to the best show.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Valuable Unused Land.

Experts estimate that unused land lying at either side of the country roads is capable in many cases of bear ing 500 bushels of corn to the mile strip. Thousands of miles of the best European roads are only a rod wide. but Uncle Sans edge trim.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

railway. Accidents might be very pu- merous at this point were it not for the five-light electrolier with both red and white frosted globes, the white lights overlooking the boulevard side, and the red Illuminating the electric road This pleasing device is conspic- uous day and night. and a driver is indeed reckless who would overlook this warning-Popular Science Month ly and Worlds Advance
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Keeping Profitable Fowls

After bird has it's growth it is not profitable to keep it longer, but the turkey and the goose grow for some time. and the flesh of turkey is really better year old than 1t is six months old Still the market de- mand is for young stock. And the market demand is the demand to be met
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Busy.

Please. Mrs. Brown" said the lit. tic girl from the house next door, mother says would you be kind enough to come over and take care of baby for little while?'
 Why certainly replied Mrs. Brown. "Is your mother ill?"
 Nom. but she's writing a paper on The Proper Care of Infants and she's afraid she won't be able to get it done in time to read before the Mothers club tomorrow afternoon
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Need of Co-Operation.

No town can prosper as it should un- less it's business men will cooperate with each other in bringing business to the town. Get them here and if you cannot sell them, let the other fel- low do so The man with the ham, mer has proper place, but it is in building more houses, not in tear ing down.-Kilgore Chronicle.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
She's Aein.it

"Oh. Mrs. Lawn, we want to get your vote for the Village Improvement soeietys plans. We net MT. Lawn on the way to the station. and he-@
 Yes? How did he vote?"
 Why. he's for it with enthusiasm, so we'll book you-'
 You'll book me as against 1t with enthusiasm. In all the thirty years of our married life my husband and have never agreed on anything, and it's too late to begin now"
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

 nIOWNR15 M HELPS
CITY HAS ARTISTIC LIGHTS
Aihambra, Gal. Sets Example Which Other Places Will Be Likely
 to Follow.

Instead of the unsightly and often lnheeded traffic sign, the city of AL hambra, Cal, has adopted a more striking and ornamental device for warning pedestrians and vehicle driy- CTS. In the accompanying illustration, one of these guideposts is shown on duty at a point where a wide boule- ward turns and becomes parallel to the private right of way of the electric
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

mond field which the smart
 est and widest awake of men
 in the diamond mining bust ness didn't know anything about; dis covering new tribe of African say ages In the very heart of the dark continent which the smartest and wid est awake of professors didn't know much about; getting shot at by hordes of resentful natives; barely escaping Delng powdered into medicine" for native use; suffering the chils and levers and tortures of malaria and other jungle diseases and coming safe ly through it not only alive and com paratiyely well but also with an inval- uabie collection from the art and eth nologleal standpoint of savage musi- cal instruments. idols, fetiches. grass weaving and instruments of warfare.
 this in a paragraph is the star ting accomplishment of Frank NJ Rapp, young American mining engi- neer, who recently landed in New York from his expedition, still shak- ing with fever.
 The Bachokes of the great tribe of the Bantus is the name of the new tribe that MT Rapp and his party dis covered. It Is all in one the richest, the laziest, the most immoral and the most interesting of all the tribes of in terier Africa. To get to it you have to sail up the great Congo river as far as it is possible to float anything on it and dodge native bullets which come as thick sometimes as a dozen to the mile. And after you can go no farther on the river it is necessary to hire a hundred or so natives and go walking the rest of the way just as the famous Stanley did so many years ago =
 Live on a Lofty Plateau.
 The country of these Bachokes is a plateau about 2,700 feet in the air. Only the rive: valleys are inhabited as the sections between the rivers are but little else than a desert waste The grass on the plateau is from eight to fifteen feet high, while that in the val leys only comes to the disgustingly low height of four or five feet. Here the BachOkes reside and here too reside some amazingly valuable dia. mond fields-just how valuable and just how situated Mr Rapp refuses to say for purely business reasons
 According to MT Rapp the Bachokes are a fairly wealthy tribe as far as wealth among the African savages ba men are, to sit around all day and smoke and gossip, while the women work the fields
 As was the case with many an. other modern fortune the wealth of the Bachokes was founded upon the misfortune and exploitation of their fellow men The Bachokes were the original slave traders. They were at the source of the evil Upon them it fell to attack the weaker tribes in the interior of Africa and to take cap tive all that they did not slay or leave dying of wounds. These prisoners were passed on to the tribes inhabit- ing the coast, who, In turn at the great slave port of St. Paul Loanda on the west coast sold them to English, American and other traders for Euro pean and American consumption.
 Through their slaving operations the Bachokes came to roll in wealth. It is a poor Bachoke indeed who can not wear at least three strings of blue ano red beads. buy very costly and powerful spirit medicines from the medicine man, keep a wife or two to
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Hens in Laying Condition.

Hens in laying condition will have bright red combs and will show their pin bones spread well apart. The pin bones are located just above the vent. If three CT four inches apart. the hen is probably laying. These points will assist materially in culling out the producers.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
RenedX for Mites

Vinegar has proven splendid rem edy for mites. half gallon of win. egar mixed with two and a half gal. Ions of water may be used as a spray for roosts Use a good sprayer and give the roosts thorough application of this mixture and mites will disap pear.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Discouraqinq.

The woman who marries man to reform him must be discouraged to see how much work one small speci- men requires when an evangelist can arise and have them hitting the trau by the hundreds.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

the flowers are covered with the green braid. The petals of the flowers are worked in yellow skeleton stitches. while the centers of the flowers are filled in with brown French knots Boston Herald
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

more durable than a coat Of this kind in good quality of the handsome pile fabric used for making it.
 With the addition of the white fur collar and cuffs, white gloves and white-and black shoes are donned, and a smart, dressy hat finishes a toilette quite up to the demands of full dress.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
No Savinu.

"The women ought to be able to save money on dress this year. wear. ing their skirts too short"
 "Yes, but they have to spend SO much more on shoes and stockings"
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Very Careful.

q say, Jane. let's walk out and have little tete-a-tete."
 Good gracious, William. you know l never touch anything the least bit strong"
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

BREAD WITHOUT SALT IS TAsTELEss
 A medicine chest without Magic Ar mica Eminent is useless. Best of all liniments for sprains, swellings. bruises. rheumatism and neuralgia. Three sizes. 25c, 50e and s10o.-Ady.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
A HINT TO WISE WOMEN.

Don't suffer torture when all female troubles will vanish in thin air after using "Femenina Price soc and 3r.oo-Adv
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Justice.

Justice is habit of the mind which attributes it's proper dignity to every thing, preserving due regard to the general welfare.-Cicero.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16
Flying Starts.

Officer ffuriously What the dooce Is the matter? Where are your shots going?
 Irish Recruit (nervouslyl- dunno sor; they left ere all right Passing Show.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

Most of the sin on exhibition is any. thing but original.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

Always sure to please, Red Cross Bah Blue. All grocers sell 1t. Adv.
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

You don't need bank references in order to borrow trouble
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

raise his grain and tobacco for him and secure other necessities of a male existence
The Monticellonian., 1915-12-16

ISCOVER1NG a vast new dia
 mond field which the smart est and widest awake of men in. the diamond mining hnSt.