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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-09-08
why WOMEN
WRITE LETTERS
To Lydia E. Pinkham Medi-
cine Co. :

Women who are well often ask "Ars
The letters which the Lydia Z. Pinkham
Medicine Co. are continually publishing,
genuins7" "Ars they truthful I"
"Why do women write such lettersf"
In answer We say that never have We
published q fictitious letter or name.
Never. knowingly. have We published
an untruthful letter, or one without the
full and written consent Of the woman
who wrote Il. ~.
The reason that thousands OF women
from all parts of the country write such
grateful letters to the Lydia Z. Pink
ham Medicine Co. Is that Lydia E. Pink
hams Vegetable Compound has brought
health and happiness into their lives.
once burdened with pain and suffering.
Il he's relieved women from some Of
the worst forms of female ills. from dis
placements. Inflammation, liberation,
Irregularities. nervousness, weakness,
stomach troubles and from tho blues.
IL "A frnnosaihls FOR any woman who
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-09-08
A Sure Cure.

A Sure Cure.
JIM hear Mac Is being treated for
the liquor habit.
James-Yes; he's treated whenever
he meets anyone with the price.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-09-08

An optimist is n man who invests
In gold brick every time the oppor-
tunity presents itself.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-09-08

A woman's inconsistency may be the
greatest of her many charms.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-09-08


is ell and who
has never suffered
20 realize how these
poor. suffering wo-
men feel when re-
stored TO h ealth;
their keen desire 70
help other women
who are suffering ~
they did
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-09-08

Oh, when he comes again.
In the old glad way,
will smile and take his HAND
What were there to say
will droop my eyes and smile,
For my soul would be
Like the peace of summer moons
Beside the sea.
II would make the world laugh
were II TO hear or read all that l do
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-09-08

Tau men may live together In peace
and harmony. but no two women can
do IL
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-09-08

THIS Is THE AGE OF YOUTH.
You will look ten years younger If you
darken your ugly. grizzly, gray hairs b
using ia Creole" Hair Dressing ADV.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1916-09-08

The Bad Time.
isn't Billy delighted over his new
motor carr?
"Yes, except when he's under It."
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
WINTER EGG LAYING FOWLS
Beef Scrap, Cracked Corn, Cracked
Corn and Vegetables, Will Encour
age Runner Ducks.

The young Runner ducks should
be laying to some extent by now
If they have not made an earlier
beginning. Many people scoff at
the idea Of ducks laying in the fall
and declare the Runner no exception
to the rule. This is only true of the
ducks in this breed that are given
neither laying care nor feed. If you
feed your Runner ducks beef scrap,
not great loads Of it, but a table
spoonful or two each day in a
mash Of cracked corn, vegetables
cooked, and bran, the young Runners
will lay eggs early in the winter, per-
haps not regularly, but enough to
pay before the regular spring laying
begins.
You cannot get winter eggs from
the hens unless you feed for them any
mo,e than you can from the ducks. I
have known young turkeys to be
warmed and fed into laying clutch of
eggs in January, says a writer in an
exchange. Never let any writer get
it into your head that just corn, or
one or two kinds of grain alone, will
produce all the winter eggs you should
get, or that they will drink as much
as they need If there is a mere hole
cut in the ice of the water pan, or you
merely let them depend on snow. A
writer now and then argues this last,
but my experience is old, and it is
against such treatment for the lay
ing hens.
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Deadly Raindrops.
ing.

The fiercest bombardment conceiv-
able would not be nearly so destructive
to human life as an ordinary shower if
it were not for the protective covering
of our atmosphere. We live, move, and
have our being at the bottom of an air
room 40 miles or more deep. There
fore, we are safe, not only from fall
ing raindrops, but from meteOrites and
other wandering bodies from outer
space. But, suppOsing that it were
possible for human beings to exist in
an atmosphere that rose only to a
few feet above their heads, and that
stOrmclouds could form in the region
outside such q low-grade atmosphere,
then every raindrOp would prove as
fatal to earthly creatures as If it were
a steel bullet fired from a dynamite
gun. AS it is, however, the resistance
Of our atmosphere so materially re-
duces the rate at which the raindrOps
fall that they are harmless; though
were it not for the hindrance they en-
counter from the air each drop would
fall with a velocity great enough to
penetrate the full length Of a grown
mans body.
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Down With the Street Sion.

Signs that encroach upon the streets
are a nuisance that ought not to be
tolerated, and Philadelphia streets will
be safer and less cluttered up if the
police will really enforce the recent
municipal ordinance limiting the size
and position Of such structures. Signs
of this character belong in the same
class as overhead wires. They are dis
figuring to the streets over which they
hang and they introduce a distinct ele-
ment Of danger at times of storm or
fire. We have been to Indifferent or
4ndulgent in the past, and the growth
of the signs under the stimulus of COM
petition has passed the point of tolera-
tion.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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LITTER is IMPORTANT
Quite Essential in Well Regulated
Poultry House.
No Excuse for Not Providing Fowls
With This Needed ArticIe-Chopped
Straw Acts as Absorbent Un-
der the Roosts.

It will not do to underestimate the
Importance attached to litter in the
poultry business. 1t is even more eS
sential in a wel-regulated poultry
house than a carpet Is in the modern
farm home.
1t does not take the place of a car.
pet, but it answers as such for the
poultry and is more. It is a good thing
in a poultry house, summer or win
ter.
We have been in poultry houses
where litter was as scarce as icicIes
on an autumn MONDAY, says a writer
In an exchange. Such houses are usu-
ally as bare of convenience as the
floor is bare of litter.
1t pays to have large quantity and
the supply should be liberal enough
SO it can be changed at least once a
week. By this means the house may
be kept sweet and clean, and scratch
ing the litter will afford exercise so
much needed by fowls when kept in
closed.
Ou every luIA LlCAC Ii bu
of chaff and straw and there is no
excuse for not providing the poultry
house with this needed article.
The best litter Is chopped straw. It
acts as an absorbent under the roosts
and as a receptacle in other parts for
the grain that Is thrown to the poultry.
In winter chickens should be made to
scratch for every grain they obtain.
For every grain they should give
peck.
Chaff, buckwheat hulls, OF almost
anything of that nature will answer
well for litter. We have seen poultry
houses Uttered with shredded fodder.
One more good thing about litter is
that it helps keep the feet of fowls
warm in winter.
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ENGLISH PuREsREp WHITE LEG HORN FOWLS.

noon; and third week, 10 minutes in
the afternoon. Cooling one tray fOI
several hours proved detrimental.
In an experiment to determine the
profit on ducks hatched in incubatOrS,
reared in brooders, and sold on the
local market at from ten to twelve
weeks old, 3.18 pounds Of feed per
pound Of gain were required, the aver
age weight at the end of ten days be-
ing 4 pounds, 11.2 ounces per duck.
Value Of Feeds.
The value for poultry feeding of
screenings, scalpings (chiefly broken
and shrunken wheat and the larger
weed seeds), wild buckwheat, ''black
seeds" Qamb's quarter, wild mustard,
and tumbling mustard), and each Of
these three separately, was tested. The
presence of the black weed seeds in
the ration made it not only unpalata-
BILE, but improbable as well. Wild
buckwheat, however, made a very de-
sirable feed. The mustards and lambs
quarter proved unpalatable and un-
profitable. Some birds died, but in no
case did death result from poison"
but rather from malnutrition. In the
birds that suffered most severely, as
in the case of the mustards, upon re-
turn to a normal ration the rebound
was very rapid. The mustards rather
than being poisonous seemed to have
effect on the digestive Or
gans.
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EMPTY LOTS MADE TO BLOOM
DenVer's School Garden Crusade Is In
tended 70 Turn Them All Into
Patches of Beauty.

Denver is carrying on school gar
den crusade that is expected to make
a beauty spot of every empty lot in
that city. Already the results are said
to be remarkable. Houston has thou
sands Of vacant lots-mOre Of them
probably than any other city of our
size in the cOuntry-and they are not
things of beauty. Few of them are at
all presentable, but they are ever pres
ent. Some there are that are examples
of the lOveliness that any vacant space
may be made to show, but these are
few. Yet it is easier to make a lot
beautiful here than anywhere else in
the country. There is no excuse for
a single ugly spot in any city.
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wick Beach amt nothing against it.
Simon Kuhney has been living now in
Brunswick Beach for six years. yum
derstand, and he says if he leaves his
house at seven o'clock he is in his Of
flee at eight fifteen"
"Sure know" zapp said, "but if a
feller which leaves his home in
Brunswick Beach at seven o'clock
would arrive in his Office at eight fif-
teen only often enough, Birsky, Soon
er or later on his account the cOnduc-
tor would got to go from car to car
asking is there a doctor on the train" ."
"Well, if everybody felt the way you
do about living in the country, Zapp." "
Birsky said, "who would buy suburban
real estate?"
"NObOdy," Zapp replied.
"But you admit that there's whole
lot Of people living in the suburbs,
Zapp," Birsky said, and Zapp nodded.
"Then there must be some advan-
tage in it," Birsky insisted.
"Well," Zapp admitted, there's one
thing that fellers which lives In the
suburbs has got more than fellers
which lives in the city" ,s-
whats that?" Birsky asked.
Mileage" Zapp concluded.
Copyright, New York Tribune.)
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No Bank Failures In China.

Nine hundred years ago China had a
bank failure, remarks the Sioux City
Tribune. Hi Hung, ruler Of the Celes-
tial empire at the time, investigated
and discovered shady conduct on the
part Of the bank officials. He immedi-
ately issued an edict that the next time
a bank went to the wall the heads Of
its president and directors should be
forfeited. Since then there have been
no bank failures in China. Ghis meth
cd of dealing with frenzied finance
may not be appeaIlngly poetic, but 1t
appears to have been indisputably eff.
fective.
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The Penalty.

Senator Fall was talking in New
York about the Mexican situation.
"This imbroglio," he said, disgust
edly, aIluding to an earlier phase,
'was due to Observation-Disclosures Well,
Observation-Disclosures in affairs of state
gets punished as sharply as in affairs
Of love.
81 once knew an absent-minded dry
goods clerk who was In love with a
spirited girl. He took her hand one
night and droned:
"Dear, dear little hand! 1 wonder
Il wonderland then his absent
mindedness got it's work in, and he
said:
81 wonder if it will washY
"The girl gave a sudden start.
"'No, George she hissed, 1t won't
wash, and may as well tell you, too,
that it won't cook, or sweep, or darn
socks, either. Good evening P"-
Washington Star.
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1TOWNT5
W HELPS
BUILDING ON Definite PLAN
Country Has Been Quick to Recognize
Advantages of Having Expert
Lay Out City.

Town planning has received so much
attention within the last ten years that
it is developing into new profession
and one that promises to be most re-
munerative. The obvious advantage
Of brand new city, built up from the
ground on q plan in harmony with
modern developments, over the city
which was evolved from a small vii
lage in which sanitation, convenience
and civic beauty were unthOught of,
has been recognized by a number of
corporations in the selection Of sites
for manufacturing plants. The need
Of persons competent to plan new
cities as well as td remodel old ones
led the University 0f Pennsylvania to
establish course OK city planning. 1t
has been under the direction of B. An
trim Haldeman, city engineer of Phil
adelphia Carol Aron0Vici and Bernard
Newman of the Philadelphia housing
commission and Prof. James p. Lich-
tenberger Of the university.
A number of cities are now estab-
fishing commissions for the purpose Of
procuring a definite plan suited to in
dividual municipal need. New York
recently established such a commits
sion and the group of public buildings
which are adding so materially to the
efficiency and beauty of Cleveland
were built from plans which recOg-
nized the peculiar and distinctive con-
ditiOns of that city. Dallas and Gal
weston, Tex, Birmingham, Ala, and
Reading, Pa, are among other cities
which have recently adopted definite
plan upon which future improvements
will be based.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09

y'understand, the last owner gets IL
for nothing with a bonus of $4,000
thrown in. And even then he is vel
come to the house for all of me-"
''That's because you don't know
what it is like to live in the country,
Zapp." Birsky said.
81 think I've got a pretty good idee, y
Zapp retOrted. "It's something like
being southern salesman for line of
goods where you've got to make a
different town each day. The dis
tance you travel is the same, the rail-
road accommodations amt no better,
but instead Of getting every night a
rotten dinner and a good game of
pinOchle afterwards at dOllar-and-a-
half day hotels, American plan, you
go home and get a good dinner and
no game of pinochle at all from one
years end to the other. Yes. Birsky,
it's very unjust the way the world
looks at things. For instance, once
in five years Mr.. Roosevelt makes a
trip of about 10000 miles. y'under-
stand, and when he comes back, yum
derstand, a dozen magazines is fall
ing over themselves that Mr.. ROOse-
welt should accept five thousand dol
lars apiece for an article telling about
these here ten thousand miles he trav-
eled; he writes a book about it, Bir-
sky. and gets paid at the rate of
dollar a mile, or $4,000, for it; he
gives a lecture about 1t in Carnegie
hall and six people sends letters to the
papers and complains of the man in
the box Office because he says all right
he's 4 liar then. when he told them
two hours after the advance sale
opened that the entire house was
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09

many homes, is most annoying when
guests are present. In one home it
was made the rule that the children
might take part in the conversation
when guests were present, provided
the children could contribute some
thing Of interest concerning the sub
iect under discussion. This taught the
children to listen carefully to what was
being said. This, in itself, is Of un-
told advantage to the child, for, in
a home where people with bright ideas
concerning all the questions of the
day gather around the table, the gen.
eral conversation is Of great educa-
tional value to the child. The child
cannot fail to become a good con-
versationaliSt with this early train
ing.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
fT RUN across Max Paikes yester-

x1Y RUN across Max PaikeS yester-
day afternoon" Louis Birsky
e the real estater said one morn
hg "He was telling me that you
spent Sunday with him at his place
h Sand Plains"
''He amt lying to you," Barnett
zapp the waist manufacturer admit
fed.
"What kind of a property has he got
mp there2" Birsky asked.
"He's got all the conveniences of a
Reller living in a 500 month cold
water fiat, without janitOr service, be-
fore steam heat was invented, except
that he amt so handy to a delicates-
sen store. The bread run out at lunch
time, Birsky, and for supper we had
60 eat Fig NeWtOns with dried her.
ring and luncheon bOlony, as Mrs
RalkeS didn't know the neighbOrs
good enough to borrow a loaf from
them on account of only living up
there three years."
"But amt the air elegant up in
WeStchester County," Birsky insisted.
"Sayl" Zapp exclaimed, "after a
GelIer escapes with his life from the
subway at 42nd Street, y'understand,
and travels up to Sand Plains every
night in combination baggage and
smoker along with five or six dozen
decent, respectable, Woodworking Ital
eener ash cart drivers, understand me,
when he arrives in the country,
BfrSky, the air must got to be elegant,
otherwise it wouldn't be too much to
expect there is waiting for him a
couple of soda water tanks full of
oxygen like they give it to pneumonia
patients with rating Of A to c, credit
high"
"What are you talking nonsense,
zapp?" Birsky said. 81 bet you wasn't
On the train half an hour. Sand
Plains is one Of the most convenient
suburbs to get to-"
"Sure know" Zapp said, "but
PaikeS don't live in the suburbs, Bir-
sky, He lives in the suburbs of the
suburbs, and he says to me on the
train that from the station to his
house is only twenty minutes by troll
ley, but he practically never takes it
rs his Oitermobile is waiting for him
ut the station practically every night,
and gets him to his home in ten min
uteS. Well, after we got out of the
trolley. Birsky, we walked another ten
blocks, and at last we reached the
house. If ever you go up to Sand
Plains to see Paikes and the OitermO-
bile should practically not be at the
station, Birsky, you couldn't miss
Paikes's house. Keep to the right
after y0u cross the tracks and it's
the 956th wlfSte colonial house with
green blinds and q For Sale sign on
It."
SIS Paikes's house for sale?" Birsky
asked.
"Sure it is" Zapp replied. "What
do you think-Paikes is such a close
friend of mine that he asks me up for
PleasureY
"For why does he want to SELF"
BirSky inquired.
AAC Otlvo uS1OIG lulCH lIIdl HIS Nll6
takes a dislike to the place on account
In summer the smell of the flowers
reminds her Of the cemetery where
her Uncle Jake's first wife is buried,
and for that reason he would take
R12.250 for the house. After lunch
he also said that his hay fever was
something terrible up there and he
might be willing on that account to
call it an even twelve thousand. After
supper he says if it wouldn't be that
his father-in-Iaw is getting pretty
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
BEST KIND OF COMBINATION
White Lilies With Background of
Blue DeIphiniums Will Make
Any Garden Beautiful.

Put it down in your garden note book
that in another year you will have
rows of white lilies with a background
of blue delphiniums. If you have once
seen that combination you will not
rest content until you have it in your
own garden. In a place near Tuxedo,
N. Y, there have been this year four
rows of lilies with the delphinium
background across the entire end of a
large garden. Its beauty was eQualed
only by the fragrance.
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DUST BOX QUITE IMPORTANT
Keep It in Scratching Shed Rather
Than in BOOSTING House-Smoth.
ers Vermin on Fowls.

If you have a scratching shed keep
your busting box in it rather than in
the roOsting house. The dust will set
tie more quickly.
Fine road dust is about the best. Re-
member the dust must be fine in order
that the lice on the chickens may be
smothered. Keep the dust box clean.
too.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09

inch deep in its faces. The post
is about seven feet in height and
costs approximately So. In addition
to being of substantial construction
it has the added virtue of sightliness.
On the other hand, it is of a type
which is difficult to read at night un-
less exceptionally well Illuminated
Popular Mechanics Magazine.
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MISTAKE IN RAISING CHICKS
Where Forced to Pick Up Living They
Grow Slowly and Are Sometimes
Very Poor in Flesh.

1t Is a fact that nine-tenths of the
farmers raising chicks fail to give
them enough to eat. After they have
reached that stage when they are able
to pick mere living they are gener-
ally forced to do so and consequently
grow very slowly and are sometimes
poor In flesh.
Two feeds of grain given at regular
hours will make wonderful difference
in some flocks. Birds inclined to range
away at feeding time and thereby miss
this meal will soon be habitually there.
abouts at feeding time, If regular.
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OIL SIHdL DOyS III
thickly pOpulat-
ed neighbOrhoods,
have been de-
signed to carry
the street names
at intersections of
thorOughfares in
Ii n cOln, Neb.
Each is four
sided and near
the top pieces a
square concrete
cap which bears
the street in let
terS cut a half
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09

Feeble and might go off at any mo.
nent, corner of 89th Street and Mad
aS0n Avenue, y'understand, he wouldn't
take a penny less than $11,5O0 for the
house, and just before 1 got on the
6ERin to come home he says how much
WOlld / give for the house."
%But Paikes really and truly paid
HSelVe thousand for the house." Biz.
Ky declared.
~Then how could he expect to get
Et8 of 1t for $11,5OO?" Zapp demand
eA eff you would read the Sunday
papers, Birsky, you would know that
aAe standard amount below cost which
tAey advertise country houses to sell
GOr is $1,000. In fact, often figured
d ont, Birsky, that as everybody is
Wiling to sell his 12-room house with
3 baths, sun parlOr and every mod
GsR improvement for $1,000 below
eost, if such a house originally cost
$4,000 and changes hands six times,
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RETARDS WINTER EGG LAYING
Sudden Freezing Of Hens Comb Will
Shut off Egg SuppIy-Good Treat
ment Recommended.

Freezing Of the hens comb will re-
tard egg laying. Freezing of the feet
Of both male and female means loss
of fertility in the spring. Often the
sudden freezing of the combs of hens
that have made good start at laying
will shut of all laying by them for
the rest Of the winter. Frozen or
nipped combs should be looked for
early and the comb dipped in Ice-cold
water or packed with snow. Afterward
apply gIycerin and some healing salve.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
MoIdx and pecaxino Eood.

Mouldy, sour and decaying food kills
and Injuries more young and old stock
than almost any other cause. It is
poor economy to have a few cents
worth Of spoiled food and lose several
dollars worth of chickens from the
poisonous effects of the food.
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The Child at Table.

The table is the ideal place for fam
lily interchange of thought, and the
children who are old enough to come
to the table should be encouraged to
take part in the conversation. One
good result of this is that it helps to
keep the child from eating too fast.
However, the children's chatter, in
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True RESIGNATION

The Spinster Gan invalid)-Js it
true that marriages are made in
heaven?
The Parson-That is the universal
belief.
The Spinster-Well, if that's the
case, I'll tell the doctor not to call
again.
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shockino Affair.

Police Magistrate-What is the pris.
Oner charged with. officer?
Oficer-Electricity. your honor.
Police Magistrate-How's that7
Officer-He stole a battery.
Middletown transcript., 1916-12-09
erie and Pune Water.

The main thing In keeping a flock
healthy is plenty of grit and pure wa
ter. Never feed any decayed or sour
vegetables.
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Heln PrAnent nisease

Cleanliness end plenty of sunlight
not only help to prevent disease, but
help to increase the production Of eggs
and poultry meat.
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Some Effort.

'WAy do people so often lock the
stable door after the horse is stolen?"
"Just to show what they can do when
they try"
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Many Standard Breeds

There are so different breeds of
hens recognized as standard in the
United States.
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Early maturing in the pullet and the
cOckerel counts against size.