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Tombstone epitaph., 1915-02-28

be kept in such a state of activity that the feed will be utilized in the making of flesh and wool and there will be no waste.
 With the wide range of roughage that can be grown upon the farm no keeper can have a reasonable excuse sor not supplying his flock with a ire cuent change of feed It is not neces- sary that several different rations be compounded and fed alternately, but rather the feeding of variety each day. Any program of rotation is un- necessary. but vary the bill of fare. If clover hay is given in the morning, feed oat straw at noon and corn stover at night. This may be reversed from time 10 time and other things substi- tuted. Do not feed an abundance of any one thing. even though it is rel ished and greedily consumed by the flock.
 It Is not so important that the grain ration be varied. but the wider the range of grains that go to make it up the better. Especially is this true when pregnant ewes are being fed. Grain rations that are highly nutritious should be fed with caution. for after sheep have reached maturity they take on flesh very easily. and it is not ad- yisable that they carry large amount of surplus fat.
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TAKE A GLASS OF SALTS
 WHEN BLADDER B0THERS
Harmless to Flush Kidneys and Neu- traiize Irritating Aeids-Splendid
 for the System.

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 remains to irritate and inflame, causing a burning, scalding sensation, or setting up an irritation at the neck of the bladder, obliging you to seek relief two or three times during the night. The sufferer is in constant dread, the water passes sometimes with a scalding sensation and is very profuse; again, there is difficulty in avoiding it.
 Bladder weakness, most folks call it, because they can't control urina- tion. While it is extremely annoying and sometimes very painful. this is really one of the most simple ailments to overcome. Get about four ounces Of lad 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.
 lad Salts is inexpensive. harmless, and is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with nthia, and is used by thousands of folks who are subject to urinary disorders caused by uric acid irritation. lad Salts fs splendid for kidneys and causes no bad effects whatever
 Here you have pleasant, efrerves- cent Whitewater drink. which quickly relieves bladder trouble.-Ady.
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GROWING FRUIT ON DRY LAND
Important Point to Remember is to Plant All Trees and Small Piants
 Farther Apart Than Custom.

By JOHN ROBERTSON. Hot Springs.
 s. D)
 In growing fruit without irrigation. all trees and small fruit plants must be planted farther apart than is the custom. This is . very important point to remember. Where there is little rainfall and dry subsoil. each tree or plant must have enough indi- vidual surface surrounding 1t to draw moisture from, according to its size and nature of growth. We cannot get something for nothing. nor can we grow plants without moisture: and they must have enough to do their best
 Those who are planting apple trees 16 feet apart each way on dry subsoil land cannot succeed. This is just as certain as that two given numbers make certain sum in a mathematical problem. Apple trees should not be planted closer than 90 feet apart each way. They will not need all the moisture between them at this dis tance apart until ten or twelve years old. and small fruits or other crops may be grown between them till about this age. but one must use care and judgment as to how much or how long to crop between the trees. It is bet ter to make the mistake of cropping too little than too much. Trees plant cd 1s feet apart will grow as well as those 30 feet apart for the first ten years, if there is nothing planted be tween them. but after. about that time there will not be moisture enough to supply the increasing drain made as they grow larger. Even if three fourths of the trees were dug out. noth- ing would have been gained. for the orchard would only be starting to bear paying crops of fruit; while if the rows are % feet apart, and one row Of small fruit plants are set between 1 each two rows of trees, by the time the trees need all the moisture. the small fruits will have done their best. and one can dig them up, feeling he has been well repaid It is important, too. that the outside row of any kind ! of trees or plants be planted not closer than IS feet from a prairie grass ! growing border. There is little mois' ture under a prairie sod after a long | dry spell.
 l The land should be in thorough cul- tivation before trees are planted. and the last blowing should be extra deep. because 1t is not going to be plowed again and should be in condition to take in a heavy rainfall. No expensive | tools are required; simply a strong 12-inch plow set to run deep and a | good team to pull il.
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Advantage of SiIencer.

This crash of the bullet makes the value Of the Maxim silencer very little. so far as military efficiency is con cerned, in the way that the fiction writer imagines the silencer to be use. ful. but not to prevent the enemy from discovering the position of the men firing as many fancy.
 Its value lies in the fact that it eliminates fully half of the recoil Of the rifle from the action of the gases in its chambers. and it gives the off. ceTs much better control over the fire. because Of the lessened noise of the rifles It cuts down the roar of the Springfield to about the noise of the 25-20 and thus the roar of the rifles at the firing line Is much reduced. and the commands of the officers can be heard.-Outing.
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WNTERING BEES
 IN THE OPEN AIR
Construction of Summer and Winter Chaff Hives Over
 comes Objections.
rRv F c UERNINNN


 If the beekeeper tries to winter bees on the summer stands. in any form of a hive other than a chaff or double walled hive. it is my opinion that he will lose more iu the value of bees than the extra expense he would be at in making chan hives of some kind.
 think that some sort of hive tha: could be used for summer advantage should be used This thing of having outside winter cases to set over the hives is decidedly a disadvantage in many ways.
 When winter is over they cannot be used about the apiary during the sum mer to any advantage whatever, but the beekeeper must have house or some other place provided for them to keep them from the weather or they will be warped and weather-beaten and will last but a few years. Hence, the construction of a summer and win ter chaff hive certainly oyercomes | many of these objections
 After years of experience with chaff l hives used in connection with saw i dust cushions over the top of the broodchamber. have become con | vinced that there is nothing better | along the line of hives for wintering | bees on the summer stands than this. I winter my bees on the summer ! stands with very little loss. They have plenty of good store-plenty of young bees and properly packed-I believe | in late brood rearing. so that the hives will be full of young bees at the be- | ginning of the winter-at least, this is my plan, and my bees winter nicely. With too small an entrance in a damp climate you will be sure to have moidy combs and more than the proper amount of dead bees. The trouble be ! comes aggravated in the course of the winter by the clogging of the entrance with dead bees.
 During heavy storms in winter il frequently happens that hives are en tirely buried in snow. While the snow is light and porous, air will penetrate it and reach the entrances of the hives but should the snow become crusty oI ice form at the entrance the bees would be in danger of suffocation. ! It is well to have all hives facing southward, so the sun can shine on the entrance of the hives and keeI them free from ice.
 After heavy fall of snow we al ways sweep in front of the hives. leav ing the snow banked around the othel three sides, as it win do no harm there. but will help keep of prevailing winds.
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MUCH IMPROVED DIRT ROADS
Intelligent Use of Drag Will Benefit Roadway, No Matter What the
 Nature of the Soil Is

The dirt road can be very much i'm proved by the intelligent use of the road drag. This has been proved be- yond a doubt in the states that have legislated in favor of road dragging. No matter what the soil. the intelli- gent use of the drag will improve the roadway. Mind you, l used the word intelligent. says a writer in Success ful Farming.
 A sandy soil Is hard to handle. Where gravel is available-a gravel containing considerable clay-a sur facing of six or eight inches with this material will greatly benefit a sandy road.
 The first thing essential in road i'm provement is good drainage. You first get the water away from the sides of the road so the deep-seated road, bed can dry out and harden. When the side drainage is perfect, then the next essential is to crown the road so that surface drainage off the road is perfect. Even a dirt road cannot get very muddy if the water has no chance to stand in the wheel tracks. With surface water eliminated. and ditch water taken care of, the roadbed cannot soften very much
 Every highway, whatever its con. struction, should be parolled by a man who is on the lookout for clogged ditches and the breaking of the road surface. A shovel in the hands of a road walker will do more to make good roads than the most elaborate outfit used only when roads become impassable
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WESTERN REALISM.

By George, This is rare sight" exclaimed the eastern tourist in an Arizona village. "A real stage coach clattering along full of passengers. wouldn't be at all surprised to see a pair of robbers dash out from behind powder and hold it up at any mo ment."
 'If you'll keep your eye on it min ute or two that's just what you'll see. , drawled a native. That there outfit belongs to a moyin' picture concern. All them people aboard is actors an they're fixin' to pull off holdup for a new film"
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''CASCARETS' FOR
 LIVER, BOWELS
For sick headache, bad breath, Sour Stomach and
 constipation.
Get a 10-cent box now.


 No odds how bad your liver. stomach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable and uncomfort- able you are from constipation. indiges- tion. biliousness and sluggish bowels you always get the desired results with Cascarets.
 Don't let your stomach, liver and bowels make you miserable. Take Cascarets tonight; put an end to the headache, biliousness. dizziness, nerv- ousness, sick, sour. gassy stomach. backache and all other distress: cleanse your inside organs of all the bile. gases and constipated matter which is producing the misery.
 A 10-cent box means health, happi- ness and a clear head for months. No more days of gloom and distress if you will take a Cascaret now and then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't forget the children-their little in sides need a cleansing. too. Adv.
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Even the Toy Banks Do it.

James, said Mrs. Firstfiat that night at the dinner table, q want to talk to you about Bobby. He's at his lessons now. so he can't interrupt us. "
 Well, what about Bobby" asked MT. Firstfiat as he carved the sirloin.
 Why. he does such odd things with the little toy savings bank l bought him. Why. do you know. he is keep. ing money in it that belongs to a club"
 He is, is he?"-Puck.
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HINTS ON SHIPPING
 EGGS FOR MATCHING
Neat, Attractive Package Will Please Customers-Basket
 Is Recommended.

Time now to prepare for the ship ping season and it is folly to wait until orders come in before having every thing ready.
 The most important thing is to sat isfy your customers by giving them exactly what you advertise to sell. or even doing a little better.
 If eggs are broken in transit do not hesitate 10 replace them the day you receive the complaint from your GUS toner.
 Give everybody a square deal, and remember that satisfied customer is always a customer.
 A neat, attractive package may cost a trife more than a slovenly one, but it will please your customers and ad- yertise your egg business, because customers very often judge a mans business by first impressions of pack age and contents when they are re- ceived.
 The best package for shipping eggs is a basket, although many breeders do not use them.
 The basket should hold one or two settings, and these can be got for two cents from any manufacturer. A thick layer of excelsior should cover the bottom and all eggs should be wrapper in soft paper and so packed with fine excelsior that they will not touch one another.
 When the eggs are packed. put an- other layer Of excelsior over the top and cover with a thin board.
 Next to the basket. is the egg box, made for holding l3 or 15 eggs. This is arranged with cardboard compart- ments, with room for excelsior or other hacking at top or bottom.
 This box is provided with wire handle. and the cover slides into grooves which may then be screened or tackled down with small nails.
 Never ship a package that is not screwed or nailed down. because this will save eggs from being hlched by curious persons who can open the package in transit
 Never ship soiled egg Nothing so disgusts a customer as to receive setting of eggs which are dirty and of poor shape. Eegs should be selected so that each setting will be uniform in size. shape and color when possible
 When the package is ready to ship nlace on it . label containing your ad dress and the address of the customer plainly written Never fail to put youl
 
 name on anything that will help to ad yertise your business {,
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An illustration.

How many men there have been whose merits were not appreciated till after their death said the expert in gloom.
 "Oh, we'll" replied the patient per son. that's the way it is all through nature. A turkey struts around a whole lifetime without any idea of what it is really good for"
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Art and Morals.

Do you think that the question of morals should enter into art?" asked the serious girl
 "I don't see why not" replied Miss Cayenne. There's no apparent req son why the nine muses should mo- nopolize artistic attention to the ex- clusion of the ten commandments"
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Stimulatino the Memory

wife-why are you strapping up my trunk? I'm not going away till tomorrow
 Hub-So you'll have time to gather up all the things you've forgotten. You never find those things. you know, until after your trunk is locked and strapped.
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Mistaken Diagnosis Doctors
 Guess Wrong Again

About five years ago l wrote to you that l had been a terrible sufferer from kidney and bladder troubles, and that my phy- sician informed me that my left kidney was in such condition that there was no hope for my recovery. 1 was advised to try your Swamp-Root as last resort. and after taking four hfty-cent size bottles, passed gravel stone which weighed ten grains. l afterwards forwarded you this gravel stone. Have had no return of any trouble since that time and cannot say too much in favor of your wonderful pre- paration, Swamp Root, which cures, st. ter physicians fail.
 Very truly yours,
 F. II. HORNE. Route 3, Box %. Roseboro, x. c. Personally appeared before me, this 3lst day of July. 1909, F. II. Horne. who subscribed the above statement and made oath that the same is true in substance and in fact. JAMES NJ. HALL,
 Notary Public.
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DISTRESSING PiMPLES
Removed by cutieura Soap and oint
 rent. Trial Free.

Smear them with the Ointment Wash of in five minutes with Cuti- cura Soap and hot water and continue bathing for some minutes. Repeat on rising and retiring. These fragrant supercreamy emollients do much for the skin. and do 1t quickly.
 Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard. Cuticura. Dept KY, Boston. Sold everywhere.-Ady.
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Limits in Literature.

"You'ye read The Heavenly Twins asked an Englishman of an Irishman.
 Yes, l have
 And the Sorrows Of Satan?" Yes"
 And you have read Looking Back ward?'"
 How the devil could ! do that" asked Pat.
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Feed Farm Scraps.

The waste from growing crops. the grain scattered at harvest time. tie inter from the barnyard at feeding lime the scraps from the family ta- hle and the bugs and worms in the grass-alI these will go far to main tsiu a sizable flock of poultry. so that sb. outxo will scarcely be noticed-
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Job for Winter Days.

One of these winter days is a fino time to rig up flaming mill and fan the small grain you expect to SOW the coming spring It is expensive to put of this job until you are ready to SOW. and it is a good deal mora expensive not to do it at all
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Perhaps He Would

'1 led my class in Greek three sue cessiye years"
 That's fine But wouldn't you much rather have carried the ball siSty-hve yards for a touchdown, just once?"
 Mean Luck. q got a rum deal at the restaurant lunch counter yesterday" What was the rum deal?" Wasn't any in the mince pie"
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Cause and Effect.

Daddy, here's the paper says wheat is nervous"
 Well. so it is my son."
 Maybe. daddy. it wouldn't be nerv- ous if they didn't thrash it.
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Poor Father.

Young Wife-Your mother a fine cook I don't believe it. I've heard your father was chronic dyspeptic.
 Husband-Well. that's all right: my mother learned by practicing on ia ther."
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Frce to Oup ReadePu

Write Murine Eye Remedy Co. Chicago. for ss-page illustrated Eye Book Free Write all about your Eye Trouble and they will advise as to the Proper Application of the Murine Eye Remedies in Sour special Case. Your Druggist will tell you that Murine Relieves Sore Eyes strengthens Weak Eyes Doesn't smart, Soothes Eye Pain, and sells for Soc Try It in Your Eyes and in Baby's Eyes fos scaly Eyelids and GranuIation- Adv.
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Dope Dreams.

Othelio-It was my hint to speak of the cannibals. that each other eat, the anthropophagi and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders
 The Duke-Say, do you take it in the arm or do you sniff it?-Puck.
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Same ThinQ.

Tn the prehistoric times a man knocked a woman in the head when he wanted her to marry him"
 Well. he has to make big hit with her now, doesn't he?"
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Fortunes Quirks.

Seems paraGoxicai, but they claim it's true"
 Whats that?"
 "A certain pugilist is so unpopular that the motion pictures of him get ting a good drubbing would net him a fortune"
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Naturally.

Things were getting too warm for me in that section Of the country" What was the reason?"
 q was burning up too many of the roads"
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The Pity of lt.

Mir. Gabb-Freshmen at the Uni versity of Pennsylvania are forbidden to smoke cigarettes
 Fond Mother-Oh, dear me, Now Oswald won't get a bit of exercise.
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Sure EnouQh.

Bacon-It is stated that it takes an average Of 5.s67 bullets 10 kill sin gle man in the present war.
 Egbert-Why, where in the world are the innocent bystanders?
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4 Symphony of Color.

Naid-Which wig shall have ready for madam to wear tonight at the gar den party?
 Madam-The green one. certainly: -Fliegende Blaetter (Munich).
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Route 3, Box 3
Letter to Dr. kiimer C. Go. Binlhamton, k. ".
Prove What Swamp Root Will Do For To

AAoFS "Aah ." oiAAP- -ANNOf WI bO T OA ioo
 Send ten cents to Dr. kilmer & Co.,, Binghamton, N. Y. for a sample size bottle. It vii! convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valuable in formation. telling about the kidneys and bladder. When writing be sure and men ton this paper. Regular fifty-cen. and one-dollar size bottles for sale at al, drug stores. Adv.
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Evasiye.

When your turn came in that kiss. embrace?"
 Why. was up in arms at the men ton of it."
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Familiar Sounds.

Say. did you ever hear the famous rebel yell?" 1t every night when We want him to go to sleepy"
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Cautious.

Edwards-Wili you dine with us this evening? We are going to have a pheasant.
 Eaton Gond of his stomach)- how many guests?
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Very Much So.

Didn't you think the operatic priIna donna had an unusually high voice?
 "I should say she had, My seat cost me five dollars"
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No Bears.

Language is a queer thing. You speak of our forbears."
 Yes
 And yet you insist that We are de scended from monkeys"
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The Difference.

Oh. Pleasure is the gilded grind
 That holds us to a futile quest. And Happiness is what We find
 When We grow weary and would rest.
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An Impression.

To keep mp with the style you try. As you <erget the past. But somehow every hat you buy Looks funnier than the last.
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The Point of View.

That Tom Jones is selfish beast." What makes you say that7"
 He took the last hot roll on the plate just as l was reaching for it.
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To Be ESpected,

"The aviators have put another old saying out of commission" Whats that?"
 "The one about bomb from clear sky"
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It's Ambition.

Wheat is going up"
 Well. I suppose it's after the dough-"
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Public Office.

Oh. long and arduous is the chase How oft has history told it, You have to fight to get place
 Ard fight still more to hold it.
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Defined.

Pa, what is club?"
 "A club. my son, is a place where persons who have nothing to do con
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You Bet!

Barber-Do you believe silence is golden? Customer-I do-in tips to a silent l barber.
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Last year in the United States l33 men lost their lives in the manufac- ture of explosives.
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The Teacher-Willie. how did the czar of Russia get rid of the Poles? Willie-He put the wires under ground, l guess.
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Cut Down horse,s Feed.

As the hard work eases up on the horses cut down their feed accord. inelv.
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Doesn't Go Very Ear.

Redd-What do you think of his new car?
 Greene-Oh, it's all right as far as it goes.
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Jeweler-Your watch seems to be magnetized. Have you been near a dynamo lately?
 Young Man-No: but I-er-called on a very attractive young lady last night.
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Sugar beets can be grown success fully in Ireland recent government ex- periments show.
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The lack of money is also the root oi much evil.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-12-19

The opener looked at his hand and
reached for the pot. spreading out his
hand. The man with the Jacks could
not see the hand because the openers
arm was in the way and, looking at his
hand. he cried out:
Wait a minute"
He had four Jacks. The opener had
four queens.
Because Of the popular superstition
that IL Is not wise to bet into a one
card draw both had checked without
looking, neither expecting better thar
threes. Because this had happened
the man with four jacks escaped dis
aster. And three things might have
happened to him. The opener might
have looked at his hand and started
the betting. He might have looked
at his own hand and started his own
disastrous defeat or the man with the
four flush might have decided to make
onc bum.
one would have been enough!