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Cash for Chicken Plant.

AS there is more, money coming in
now than Is going out, as will continue
to be for couple of months or so, we
figure on having in the poultry fund
between $3.50 and $500 actual cash July
l with which to conduct operations for
the next twelve months. AS all earn
ings are to remain in the fund until
the plant is fully developed, each years
program will be mapped out by the
amount Of money available with which
to finance il. The program for a year,
of course, has to be mapped out before
the 1st of July. but we ought to be able
each February to estimate pretty close
ly how much we will have at the be-
ginning of July following All the
pullets raised the year before should
be in laying form by February, with the
average egg output esta ablished. When
that point is reached there Isn't much
guesswork about income for the next
six months. Eggs may vary consid-
erably In price one March or April
from another March or April. but the
ups and downs of eggs are accompanied
pretty closely by ups and downs in
the price of feed, so there isn't much
difference in the profit to be made on
each dozen of eggs.
We realize that we still have a lot
to learn about chickens. but we do
think We have mastered the fundamen-
tails of practice and the underlying
principles of the business. We know
where we made a mistake last spring
that shut US off from any possibility of
having a profit from the years opera
tions: and you may be pretty sure we
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# KIDNEYS and
BLADDER BOTHER
Take a glass of Salts to flush
out your Kidneys and neu-
tralize irritating acids.

Kidney and Bladder weakness
result from uric acid, says a noted
authority. The kidneys filter this
acid from the blood and pass it on
to the bladder, where it often re-
mains to irritate and infiame, caus-
ing burning, scalding sensation.
or setting up an irritation at the
neck of the bladder, obliging YOU
70 seek relief two or three times
during the night. The sufferer is
in constant dread; the water passes
sometimes with scalding sensa-
ton and is very profuse; again,
there is difficulty in voiding it.
Bladder weakness, most folks
call it, because they can't control
urination. While it is extremely
annoying and sometimes very pain
full, this is really one OF the most
simple ailments to overcome. Get
about four, ounces of Jad Salts
from your pharmacist and take
tablespoonful in a glass OF water
before breakfast, continue this for
two or three days. This will neu-
tralize the acids in the urine SO it
no longer is a source of irritation
, to the bladder and urinary organs.
which then act normally again.
Jad Salts is inexpensive, HARM
less, and is made from the acid
J of grapes and lemon Juice, COM
bined with lithia, and is used by
thousands of folks who are subject
to urinary disorders caused by
uric acid irritation. Jad Salts is
splendid for kidneys and causes
no bad effects whatever.
Here you have pleasant, effer-
yescent Whitewater drink, which
quickly relieves bladder trouble.
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lie undertaking may become eventu-


Just now the chickens are paying
handsomely. We are getting eggs at
the rate of about seventy-fi five a day to
siderable green stuff and a few bugs
and worms for the chickens to get. We
have been able to cut down some on
the feed bill. Taking 1t as things
stand today. the poultry plant is on a
paving basis. but pretty soon the cost
with and pass the profit from eggs. Its
oelng on paying basis. therefore, is
only seeming. We lost money every
month from June to February. and we
expect to begin losing again about June
or July and keep it up probably until
December
We will be very we'll satified, indeed,
laying to SO per cent of capacity by
the middle of next December. If they
do we shall feel that we are on the way
TO assured success. In order that we
may get better line on the progress
We are making We are going to start a
new poultry year" July l. new set
of books will be opened and an invoice
or plant and stock taken.
The invoice. after writing off 10 per
cent for plant depreciation, will be
offset against the amount of our in
vestment. and the amount Of our loss
tor the period of fifteen months will
in the future be reckoned as capital in
vestment. Upon this sum. whatever 1t
is. and upon the 5000 of new capital
we are putting in now. interest must
be earned. before we figure we are
making any money on chickens. When
we take an invoice again in July Of
next year and balance up the books we
will be able to tell to a cent what we
have made or what we have lost on
the poultry end of the undertaking.
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shouted back at his fare.

| shouted back At hts fare.
they saw the old bay slapping down
| the road with uncle and his top hat
| looking ready to burst with surprise.
and the incident was closed by the
army man wheeling sharply at the sta
| tion and giving the final order:
"Compane-e-e-e-e-e-
Then the old bay stopped. the oficer
got into his train and disappeared
Later in the week travelling sales
man wanted to get from town to the
| station.
kin Kit dat train In twenty minutes"
assured uncle. and when his passenger
had settled himself in tho hack. uncle
started out to repeat the magic COM
bination:
"Compane-e, 'ten-shun. Fo'd-march!"
The old war horse started out. broke
into a trot at the command for double
time" and sailed on down the line
They passed the station. crossed the
railroad and were heading for the open
prairie with uncle saving madly at
the reins. all to no purpose.
Where you going? shouted the
travelling man.
Then uncle grabbed his hat brim. so
aa TO- to save that precious bit of gear.
and. leaning away out Of his seat.
shouted back at his fare.
"Mistah, If you all wants ter git dat
train, you all bettah jump. kase dis
yer hOSS ain never S"1hS sup A'AASsNAA'
ah done fo-got de las word.
= 4 X i
According to Senator William Alden
Smith OF Michigan. half Of the popula-
ton of Canada believes that Sir VIII
frid Laurier, former premier OF tho
Dominion, is the entire British govern
ment, or even greater: that he Is the
Charlie Murphy Of the British Empire.
and that the royal house Of Guelph
eats out Of his hand.
every one in Canada loves Laurier."
said Senator Smith. 'and l can Illus
trate the stand he has with the Cana
dians by telling a story I heard up
there shortly after tho death Of Queen
Victoria. They had draped in black
all the buildings In Canada, and back In
one Of the most out-of-the-way cross
roads collections of houses they had
draped a little meat market and had
closed it for the day in honor Of the
late queen.
"A Canadian trapper came to town
and. seeing the crepe, asked what was
the matter:
Why. the queens dead some one
"'oh, my exclaimed the woodsman.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS,

Society is human nature in full dress.
What most men call love isn't even
good imitation
Honesty should go hand in hand with
an insurance policy.
The less man talks the more others
may appreciate him.
How we like to meet a man who has
no tale of woe to infiict on us!
little learning is almost as danger
Gus as some little widows.
Any act by which you make one
enemy is. in the end. a losing game.
Some people are SO ill tempered they
are annoyed when forced to smile.
1t is SO much easier and less ex-
pensive to get married than II is to
get unmarried.
Law cannot make a man moral. but
it can make him decidedly uncomfort.
able if he is immoral.
The man who wrecks a train 10 .
criminal, but the man who wrecks an
entire railroad may be financier.
If you have the time you might speak
a good word for the living OCCASION
ally.
It's always an era of hard times with
a shiftless man.
II love makes a fool of wise man
what will 1t do to fool?
Cobwebs are u.s. idi in advertising .
store that doesn't advertise.
Don't force your advice nnor people
whose friendship you care to retain.
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Impartial in Its Spelling.

Sweet corn canned by the one-cooking
and the three-cookings processes spoiled
with equal impartiality. 1t was put up
only as an experiment and there were but
half dozen cans of each kind, but it
was rather discouraging to future ef-
forts. The manufa cturers OF the new
home Gamer" Jane has ordered claim
corn can be canned perfectly by their
system. SO she is going to try few
experimental cans again this year.
Beets she canned kept all right. but
no better nor longer than those we
put down in sand, and the canned ones
will be no more canning of beets. To-
matoes, cooked once, kept fine and
were good, far superior, we think, to
those to be bought in stores, and we
shall can lot of them this year. Sue
cotash. we read somewhere. can be
canned more successfully than either
corn or beans alone, so we shall give
it trial.
In any event, the canning of vege-
tables will have to be secondary to
the preserving of fruit and the max
ing Of jelly and apple butter. When it
comes to fruit and fruit products, Jane
feels she Is on sure ground. She didn't
have single failure last year. and If
she is equally successful this year her
preserves will bring more cash into the
family treasury than anything else
that is sold off the place. We hope,
of course, that chickens will be bring
ing in considerable revenue before a
full year has rolled around. but be-
tween now and next November they'll
do mighty we'll to break even. Even
then. the income from chickens will
not help swell the family strong box,
as all their earnings are to go into
the separate poultry fund until the
plant has reached it's full develop
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An army officer, says Jim Maynard,
had gone to a far-away three-for-a-
nickel town on business, and found,
much to his disgust. that the railroad
station was two miles from the village.
They put the station SO far from the
town, 1t was explained, SO It could be
near the railroad. Anyhow. when the
army man had concluded his business
he hunted up tho solitary hack driver.
This person was Of the ancient colored
type. white-whiskered. who was smok-
ing a short clay pipe, and wearing
tottering plug hat, whose beli-shaped
crown stamped 1t as something from
the early forties.
How long will 1t take to get mo to
the station, uncle?" asked the army
man.
Reckon it'll TEX you all bout a half
hour. boss" was the ancient's reply.
Cant make two miles under half an
hour:'
mo. sab. 'Peahs lax dis yer ole hoss
KANT go much better'n that"
But I've got only twenty minutes"
Reckon you all is gwine miss dat
train"
Where did you get that horse,
uncle?"
"Ah git dat hoss fun de army. He
was a cavalry hoss. sah."
Well" replied the officer. you just
let me drive him and I'll guarantee to
get him going right
This was agreed to. Uncle sat In the
hack while the army man mounted the
box and commanded:
"Compane-e-e, at-ten-shun! For-r-r-
r-r-d march"
The old horse pricked UP ears. snort
ed and went down the line at a smart
walk. In few seconds the army man
gave another order:
-e-double-time"
And with that Bucephalus did some
thing that old Uncle What's His Name
never suspected was possible. He start
ed out on a fast trot, which the town
had never before seen. as the horae
had done all his travelling on that road
at a slow drag Villagers cheered as
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are not going to make that mistake
again. l don't mean that we are as
sured of a profit for the year to end
June 80. 1916. but we expect. to come
nearer it than we did the past year;
and we expect to discover and elimi-
nate some moro Of the mistakes which
are eating into our earnings
Ready to Remodel House.
Remodeling OF the house Is to begin
the first week in April, and We then
will be in for a season Of discomfort
But we are willing to endure this. in
view Of the comfort and pleasure We
expect to get out Of our home when 1t
is completed.
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don the "three-cookings" process advo-

Gated by the Department of Agricul-
ture. One of her objections is that it
adds greatly to the work. and another
Is that it leaves the vegetables more
or less tasteless. She tried both sys-
TENS last year. and the vegetables
cooked only once kept as well in near
ly every instance those which had
three cookings, and We're very su-
perior in flavor. Green beans salted
at the ratio of one cup of salt to
peck of beans and cooked only once
were as tender and tasty, almost. as
beans fresh from the garden. When
the cans were opened the beans We're
first soaked to free them of salt, and
very little further cooking was re-
quired to make them ready for the
table.
About thirty quarts of lima beans which
were put up by the three cookings process
furnished splendid succulent food for our
chickens the past winter, but in view OF
the fact that we might have sold them
last summer at from Is to 25 cents
quart they made pretty expensive chicken
feed. The beans hadn't spoiled, they sim
ply had been cooked until there wasn't
any taste to them: at least, any taste we
rod
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Interested. They offered all eorts Of
but no one produced the
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interested. They offered all eorts OF
suggestions, but no one produced the
pet.
One day, at his club. Mr.. Truesdsll
received message that II he would
call UP Lincoln naught naught double
naught they would tell him about his
dos. So he went to the telephone and
called:
Hello. This Is Mr.. Truesdell. Have
you my dog?"
No. came back a German cultural:
we haf not got your dog
Il was told could find out about the
dog at that number"
We'll. we haf not got your dog"
MIR. Truesdell paused a moment, and
then asked:
rs not that Lincoln naugh, naught
double naughtc"
1T iss.''
Well. l have a message to call that
number and ask about my dog"
Well. we haf not got your dog"
Mr.. Truesdell was perturbed
please tell me what place am talk
ing to-
The German voice answered loudly:
This is Gus Hopschmidt's sausage
| works. We haf not got your dog"
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had intended advertising for bids
fof the work, but changed my mind.
Instead, i turned the whole job over to
our friend. the builder. who came out
and looked the thing over and made
an estimate that 1t would cost $1,000.
He is going to do the work on a COM
mission basis. and ] feel certain 1 not
only will get fair treatment. but will
get a good job. Being wholly inexpe-
rienced. didn't feel like placing my
self in the hands of contractor with
whom I was not acquainted and in
whom I did not have the confidence
that can come only with acquaintance.
Even II have to pay out little more
money than 1 would have by letting 1t
to the lowest bidder. l feel l will get
it back In added value. Z. S. NJ.
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soir' procession. and when he realized she
really was in earnest it didn't take Zoe
long to fail into line
They began last January tp look for a
place. but Joe, remembering all the con-
traIy talking he had done, was just a
little ashamed to own UP to it. One
morning tn week he walked over to nv
cesf and in a matter-of-fact tone, lust
as II had known all about their plans
remarked:
Well old man: we've found a place
and are gong to move next week"
Move? exclaimed. "Why,I thought
you were SO well satisfied with your
nat Where are you going ito move ~
Why. to, the country. Of course" he
answered. processing a measure of in
dignatipn that 1 should have ever sus-
pected him of any other ambition
After I had recovered somewhat from
NY astonishrnent I managed to in
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Bee Profits Uncertain.

My first ten hives of bees are to be
delivered about April 10. and others are
to follow at intervals until 1 have fifty
But there will be no honey to sell for
some time, no matter how successful
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TAKING A FAMILY
BACK TO THE SOIL
Being ths Experiences Of Gov.
ernmeut Clerk Who Sets Out
to Lower the High Cost Of
Living.

wonder II Joe Robinson has entirely
passed out of the recollection of the
readers of these articles Those who
remember him will recall that he was
a skeptic. pessimist and an iconoclast
Back, a year ago, when l first talked
of moving to the country, he wanted
10 bet that I'D carry the most of my
vegetables out from town; that I'd be
tired and sick of my bargain by July
and that we'd move back to the city
before snow fly last fall.
Joe was born and reared in the coun-
try. 1t may be remembered, but he in
sisted that he'd rather be a hod-car-
rier in town. He admitted that his
brother. who stayed on the old home
farm down in Virginia. owned an au-
tomobile and some of the finest blooded
cattle in the state. while he was lucky
to have an extra pair Of pants; but he
called his brother a ''rube," and vowed
and declared bucolic joys were not for
him.
Making Convert.
Last winter. when 1 killed the pig,
we had Joe and his wife out
to dinner on Sunday. I could see then
that he was considerably impressed
with what l had accomplished. despite
the many blunders that had resulted
from my ignorance but ] think he
would have suffered the loss of his
right leg rather than admit that he
was in way to be converted. He still
scoffed. though less extensively, and
going life of city fiat dweller, who
could lie abed waiting for the janitor
10 get up steam while l was out build
ing fires. feeding the stock and milk
ing COW.
I'll admit that 1t did rub me on the raw
a little. and l remember thinking that
as guest Joe was going bit far. but
readily overlooked his lapse of obliga-
ton, for in a way sensed that his criti-
cisms lacked sincerity.
You've heard Of folks whistling through
u graveyard to keep up courage. That's
what Joe was doing, all the time. He
for years to get back to the country, but
he had never been able to screw his
courage up to the plunging point He
was held back In part because he was
afraid. after ten years in town, that he
would find the lack of conveniences in
toierahle, and partly because he doubted
II his wife would like country life. She
lad always lived in the city and had
never seriously considered the possibility
of any other existence. All she knew Of
the country she had absorbed by listen
ing to Joe's rant'ngs against 1t. and nat
uraily she thought of moving to the
as uue lliSQl lNlHh OIL exile TO
siberia or the stalking out of a home
stead in the heart of the Sahara.
Joe Falls Into Line.
But Mrs. Robinson came out to Sunny
Knoll two or three times last summer.
and each time she found Jane happy and
contented and consistent and persistent
booster Of country life. Gradually. 1t
seems. Mrs. Robinson became possessed OF
the idea that she. too. would like to give
It trial. and when they came out last
winter and found us SO thoroughly COM
Portable with our big base-burner and
WOOD stoves she was won completely
over. She began to urge Joe to lay aside
his prejudices and join the back to the
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off my hands before 1t is time to get
busy on the garden proper-a very con-
siderable advantage. 1 assure you.
when a man has as much work before
him as have this season, and as little
time in which to do it, Between two
or three of the berry rows l plan to
plant early Alaska peas, which can
go into the ground about as soon as
the potatoes. The trouble with the
early Alaska is that they come on all
at once. and that large a planting
would give US more than we could
use fresh. Jane plans. however, to
can any surplus there is for use next
winter, even if the Alaskas are not
so good for canning as are the larger
wrinkled varieties which come later.
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quire whereabouts in the country he
was going.
oh" he answered. with show OF
indifference, "out your way. I've rent
ed the Jessup place"
To Be Near Neighbor.
1 think 1 gazed at him a full minute.
my mouth agape. unable to make up
my mind whether I was dreaming or
whether Joe had gone crazy. The Jes-
sup place is between our house and the
station, less than mile from Sunny
Knoll 1t is a pretty little house with
couple of acres of ground around it.,
and / remembered having mentioned
at the Office that it was vacant rather
in the hope that VIII Turner might be
interested The Turner's had talked
some of moving to the country, and
suggested to Will that they ride out
and see the place. But he didn't seem
to enthuse. and I never gave the mat
ter another thought. Certainly 1t never
entered my head that ] had let loose
bug to bite Joe Robinson.
1t transpires. however, that Joe not
only heard, but gave heed. He and
Mrs. Robinson made two trips out to
see the place, but were careful not
to come near our house or to let drop
hint as to what they were doing.
Less than two weeks ago Jane was In
town and called on Mrs. Robinson.
Though the deal was practically COM
pleted then. secrecy was still main
tanned They wanted to surprise us.
they said, and there isn't any doubt
they succeeded.
Nor was the surprise complete with
announcement of the Robinson pro-
gram. A little later in the day Will
Turner. who has the desk next mine,
leaned back in his chair, and. after
stretching his arms and yawning. ret
marked in the same casual. matter Of
fact tone Joe had employed:
Nell and 1 are going to spend the
summer out your way"
Great Scott" 1 CALCULATED. What
place have you rented? I don't know
of any others vacant"
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May Stay All Winter.

The Turner's have arranged to stay
only from the beginning of May until
the end of September. but / wouldn't
be surprised if they remained all win
ter, and next spring tried to get
place OF their own. They wanted to
board with US last summer, with a
view to starting for themselves this
spring. but Jane vetoed the proposition.
She didn't give any very clear reason
for her refusal. and thought at the
time 1t was because she wanted to
have Margery All to herself. to coax
the child back to health. But last
| the subject at all. she suddenly re-
marked:
I'VE might about as well have taken
| the Turner's to board with u.s.
I hadn't the slightest idea what she
| meant by 1t, and I didn't get any en-
| lightenment when / asked.
The house Joe has taken is right on
the road to the station. and SO I'll stop
for him and VIII mornings and drop
them off there evenings. There's plenty
| might as we'll ride as walk. 1 call the
buggy new" in the sense that 1t takes
| the place of the old one that was
| smashed when Ned played Ben Hur
! and got a broken arm In the runaway
that resulted. AS matter Of fact. !
bought II secondhand for sos. It's a
pretty nifty looking vehicle. at that,
| and makes a much more imposing turn
out than did the old Dayton wagon.
Quite a contrast from the days when
We used to ride in the Dayton behind
| BILL" the poor old scarecrow Jane
bought at auction for almost nothing
and got badly cheated.
| No Chance to Air Wisdom.
Joe doesn't plan to do anything more
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To Board With Robinsons.

I'VE haven't rented. yet" Will an
swered. little wistfully. Were go
ing to board with the Robinsons. I
wanted to get a place. but Nell thinks
we ought to board for a while to see
how we like it,
So the Robinsons and Turner's, who
were among our best friends in the city,
would soon be about our nearest
neighbors in the country. Some news
1 had for Jane that night:
/ planned to keep it bottled up until
after dinner, but Jane knew something
was in the air and demanded to be en-
lightened.
you've been drinking" she charged,
when I blurted it out. 1t was some
time before I could satisfy her of my
sobriety and that there wasn't
screw loose" somewhere in my mental
clockworks.
Finally convinced that it wasn't a
"wheeze," as per our friend Ruggles,
and that I wasn't "spoofing," as the
Honorable George would say, Jane was
as excited as l could have wished. 1
was on the point of saying that she
was 'delighted,' but this Is a narrative
of exactness, and I'm not certain it
would be exact to say she was. or is
yet, delighted.
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HEARD AND SEEN HERE AND THERE.
BY Earl Goodwin.

the queens dead. eh? Who gets her
job"
"Why, he Prince of Wales gets it
"tAh,' replied the woodsman, reflect