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THE 8EMI.WEEKLY TRIBUNE, NORTH PLATTE. NEBRASKA. &9&99M99&999999&999&&&6 "'I never heard of "Ui-li n in.u, says Mnrlun. 'Who wants to turn white peoplo black?' "That's Just the point; nobody docs usually,' says Jim. 'However, this is n ense in point. This slnglo drop of Perfessor MncStnrt's famous mixture won't mix. It's Just a drop, floating In tho center of the bottle. It can't be seen, henrd, smcllcd, touched, or tasted. Now, if we dlvldo tho contents of this here vial, one of us must get tho drop and ono won't It can't bo divided. It's an original molccod dloolc.' "I'm beginning to get you now,' says I. 'The winner Is the one what turns black, nnd ho gets Miss Marian.' "'Never I' screamed Marian. Tnf going to marry tho loser. No blnck i SUGGESTIONS ON THE CARE OF CHICKENS ProfessQr's Scheme By H. M. EGBERT Lono Coata for Nothing that we buy ready made of fers us quite so wide a range of choice In styles as the practical long coats for dally wear. But this variety is more a matter of details in finishing than variation in outline. Long, straight coats of ample width, high col lars, big cuffs and rather narrow belts may be looked for and found in the output of nearly every manufacturer, so that the. style is established. Also coats are long enough to cover tho dress or to come within a few inches of it. The .two eoat&,shawn in. tho plcturo illustrate tiie similarity in outline and the variation in materials and in tho details of finishing that make so much latitude in choice. The coat at the left is made of plush, and there are others much like It made of Bolivia cloth, heavy wool velours, and other cloak- I One of the One more of the new blouses adds to their persistent assurance that styles are little changed from those of the past summer. High collars were promised with the Incoming of autumn, but they have been neglected. There are only a few of them as compnred to the unending procession of models with the open throat. But women whose necks are thin manage to wear the open-throated styles by using high chemisettes under them. These, are made of fine net or luce and aro boned. They Improve the average neck won derfully. The blouse shown here Is a flesh colored georgette crape, tnado with a cape collar which widens at the back. It is daintily decorated with small sprays of flowers embroidered at each side. Little spots of high color or black are Introduced In these embroid ered motifs, on many waists. The sleeves aro long but do not extend over the hand. They are finished with a narrow band at the wrist Georgette crepe and chiffon cloth are Dally Wear. ings. It has the regulation turnover collar, high about the neck, but this collar is extended into a smart cape. The cuffs are of the usual pattern. A few big buttons add much to the smartness of the model and arc placed on the collar and cuffs purely for or nament. They fasten the front of the coat from throat to waist. A belt of the same material as the coat fastens at the side under a handsome silk buckle. The coat at the right is a little less full but otherwise much the same as the other one. It Is gray, flecked with white and black, and is finished with collar nnd cuffs of black seal plush. Largo buttons in gray barred with black fasten it nt the front and are set in groups of three at each side. Either of these attractive coats will bear the burden of dnily wear and not grow tiresome. New Blouses. more used for blouses than any other materials. But the selection Is varied by blouses of novelty silk laces and net. Crepe do chine' is used for many tailored models. They nre plain only by comparison, and far from severe. Folds, fancy stitching and buttons or nament them, and their collars are not so large as those of dressier designs. The new pcplum blouse is featured In recent displays. It is effective In white or flesh-colored goorgetto crepe, and the peplum nnd cuffs are often em broidered or covered with fancy needle work in black and white silk. It Is belted, with u narrow belt nt the waist line. Trimming Bands for Dresses. Trimming bands nre used, on the skirt part of one-piece dresses to ac centuate tho fullness and the flare. Ribbon Is used bo much, Indeed, that one may really make a new frock out of nn old ono by using a nirrow ribbon for the waist part nnd wide ribbon for trimming bands on tho skirt. ' (Copyr)fht. MIC. by W. O. Chapman.) Why don't I go to work, boss? Be cause there nln't no human being what will give mo work. You wouldn't be lieve me If I was to tell you thnt I'm n Yale graduate, nnd that my folks wns as white ns tho driven snow, would you? Say, niako It a dollar nnd I'll tell you my story. "Thanks, boss. Well, then, my name's Thcodoro Van Trump, and I belong to the best families of Boston. And when I fell Into love with Marian Richards there wasn't n happier man this side of tho Common. The only fly In the ointment was Jim Burley, my rival. Ho wasn't n college man like, me, but he had the rocks, and I hadn't "She couldn't decide which one of us she'd take. 'I love you both,' she said. 'I lovo you both equal. If I've got to decide I'll die an old maid. Can't ono of you boys make me tako you? "'That suits me,' says Jim, 'Same here,' I allowed. 'But how are we go ing to do It?' nsks Jim. 'Let's flght for It,' says I. 'Right,' answers Jim, nnd wo set to that night "It was a closed and locked empty room, and the key was put on tho'floor before the door, and the ono that first grabbed it meant Tve had enough.' A sanguinary battle it was, gentlemen. We fought thirty-seven rounds by day light and eighteen more by candlelight And when It was over neither of us would have recognized the other. But neither of us grabbed the key. " 'I guess this won't do,' panted Jim, ns he looked at me out of the corner of his mouth from the floor. 'Same It Seemed to Have Settled Too Deep for Anything to Be of Much Use. here,' I answered, out of my forehead. You see our features had become' dis placed, gentlemen. 'Let's grab tho key together,' Jim suggests. 'That suits me,' I answered. And so we did. "Then Jim challenged me to a duel. We went Into the woods and shot at each other at ten paces, then five, then three. Wo drilled each other like sieves, but we couldn't kill each other. 'This won't do either,' says Jim to mo as we lay side by side In the hospital ward. 'I agree,' says I. Make it an other dollar, gentlemen? No? All right suit yourselves, then. "Well, sir, wo tried all ways, includ ing going up in bursting balloons and eloping with Marian. Neither of us could bring it off. When Jim had Marian half way to tho altar I butted In and forbade the banns. When I'd got Marian down a rope ladder, Jim was waiting below with an ax to chop the rope before I reached the ground. And all the time Marian would havo taken either of us; didn't care which, In fact, so long as it wasn't anybody else. "Jim comes to me one day. 'I got It,' he says. 'Got what?' asks I. 'It.' says Jim, displaying a vial. This was given to me by Professor Mac- Start,' he says, 'and it's going to solve our problem. Let's go to Marian's house and we'll all talk It over to gether.' "When we got there Marian wel comed us like kings. 'Have you de cided which of you It's to be?' she asks. 'I'm sort of getting tired of waiting, and. it's only-fair to tell you that there's a third party just butted In. Not that X care for, him as I do you boys, but I can. wait for you for ever.' "That's all right says Jim. 'My friend Perfesser MacStart has agreed to help ub out of our difficulties. It's a duel,' he says. " 'Not for me,' says I. Tvo fought you enough duels, Jim, and you know we're so evenly r itched that neither of us. could best the other, not even (a a spelling bee.' "This is different,' says Jim. ! nave here a vial. It contains two doses of stuff. Inside one of these loses Is a sing'" drop of Perfessor MncStnrt's famous mixture for turn ing th sklu of white people blnck." fellows for nilc.' " 'Tho winner is the loser,' explains Jim Burley. 'In six to eight hours the winning loser, what was white, turns, completely black, for keeps. Tho loser Is the winner. Ho marries Miss Marian.' "'Not beforo I've had time to see he doesn't turn blnck too,' says Marlnn. "'He won't,' says Jim, pntlcnt-llkc. 'You see, ho won't swallow the drop. And he began to uncork the vial. 'Are you ready, Theodore?' he nsks. "Entirely bo,' says I. You see, 1 loved the girl well enough to be will ing to turn black if I couldn't have her. "Then come on,' says Jim pouring out tho stuff into two glasses. How they happened to be there ought to have puzzled mo at the time, but It didn't 'I think I'vo divided fair,' says Jim, 'and you cun take which ever glass you want' "Til take the one nenrest you,' says I. 'Hero's health, anyhow.' And so we drank. You won't make It an other dollar, gentlemen? All right; Just ns you please, of course. "We went home. All that night I kept feeling myself to see If I was black, but, I felt Just the same. 1 guessed I'd won then and went to sleep peaceful. When I woke in the morning I went over to my shaving mirror. I was as black as the ace of spades, gentlemen. And It wouldn't wash off. "Well, sir, you can guess how I felt Jim Burley had got her for sura What riled me moro than anything else was my having took the glass nearest him. If I'd tnken the other one I'd havo been white luBtcnd of black. Now I was black Instead of white. I tell you, gentlemen, it made me sick. "I thought of all the trouble I'd had getting my face bunged up by Jim, and then drilled full of holes, and falling nine hundred feet out of a blazing balloon, Just ns If I'd been a movie actor Instead of an ordlnnry de cent, self-respecting citizen, and It got me sore. "I hod a try at alcohol, and brandy, ncd turpentine, but It seemed to have settled too deep for anything to be of much use. I thought of telephoning Marian to tako mo anyhow, hut I knew thnt wouldn't go. Jim hod won her in fair fight, nnd well, I bad to knuckle under. "Just then I heard a ring at the door of my apartment. I went nnd opened It An ugly-looking buck nig ger was standing there. " 'Wlint do you want, you black loaf er?' I roared, for I wasn't feeling very kindly toward the colored race Just then. He looks at me. 'Whnt, you too?' he roars. And then I saw thai it was Jim. " 'Come in 1' I says, frostily, but still glad at heart But he didn't netd the Invitation, but Just pushed me into my room nnd pulled the door to after him And he bursts into a roar of laughter. "I don't see nothing funny in yout remarks,' says L But Jim only ?augh8 the louder. 'Havo you tried turpen tine?' he nsks. " 'I have, and likewise suds and nl- cohol, benzine nnd gasoline,' I nn- swers. huffily. Then tho laughing fij took hold of me as well. 'Say, Jim, you do look like a peach,' I says, 'Do you think Miss Marian will marry you now?' "That drop must have divided,' says Jim. 'Well, there's no hope for either of us now, Theodore.' "'I dunno,' says I. 'I guess It's up to us to commit suicide, if we ain't death-proof, but there's one thing to do first, and that's to bash up Pen fesser MacStart' " Tm with you there,' I snys. 'When do we begin?' t " 'Bight now,' he says ; and then the telephone rang. 'Excuse me,' says I. "Til go with you,' says Jim, kind of suspicious. "It wns from Marian. 'Congratuate mo boys, sho says. ! guess you're together. I'm telephoning you from Atlantic City. The Perfesser and I were mnrrled at six this morning.' "I don't know that I need to say any more, gentlemen. I've been searching for the perfesser ever since, but I've never found him. In tho in tervnls I've been searching for some thing to take tho, color off. I never found that either. Jim and I at last started to work our way through the states to find MacStart. He started from Snn Francisco and I from New York. I don't know how far he's got, but I've reached Jersey City, as you see, and I hope to make Philadelphia by the end of tho year. You don't think It's worth another dollar to help ' me on my way after my telling you this? Ob, all right suit yourselves. gentlemen." Letting Him Down. He Your parents seem to have got over their dislike for. me. She Oh, yea. At first, you know. they wero afraid our acquaintance might lead to something. Boston Eve ning Transcript SUPERIOR FLOOK OF (By It L. KRMPSTER, Missouri College oi Agriculture) If, for no apparent reason, thcro lsj a lack of thrift among your young chicks, perhaps the cuuso Is llco, or worms In the intestines. Examine tho chicks nbout tho hend for head lice. Lice nre more likely to bo present on hon-mlscd chicks. If llco nro found, grease tho heads of the chicks with Inrd which Is frco from salt. Do not nso lard and sulphur. Apply tho lnrd with tho finger, rubbing tho head, neck, under tho wings nnd around tho vent Tho brooding hen should also bo treated. One of tho bast mothods of exterminating llco on tho mntura fowls is to rub a piece of blue oint ment, tho slzo of n pea, Into the skin Just beneath tho vent, nnd nlso under each wing. Do not daub It on, but rub It well into the skin, ns blue oint ment is very poisonous and will kill the hen If she gets some of it into her mouth. If no llco nre found, carefully exam ine the Intestines of a dead chick for Intestinal parasites, Buch as tnpe- worms or round worms. If wormn of any kind nro found, tho chicks should bo treated and removed to fresh ground where there arc no worms In the soil. As long ns tho chicks remain on tho old runs tho dnngcr of contam ination is always present. Treatment for Parasites. To treat for Intestinal parasites feed should be withheld for 12 hours, nnd ono or the following remedies given: Powdered nreca nut, 30 to 45 grains for nn adult bird. Powdered nreca nut, 15 grains for immature chicks. This can bo mixed in a wot mash nnd 'fqd- so that each gets an cqunl nmount It can be fed to older birds In cnpsules which can be forced down the gullet Turpentine, one to three teaspoon' fuls, depending upon tho ngo of tho bird, is nlso effective It can be mado less sovcro by mixing with an cqunl amount of cottonseed oil, but If lnof fective, should bo used full strength. FOWLS FOR EGG PRODUCTION Fowls That Do Not Lay by Time of Freezing Weather Usually Walt Until 8prlng. (By C. S. ANDEItSON, Colorado Agri cultural College, Fort Collins.) Aro your pullets laying? Pullets that do not begin to lay by tho tlmo freezing weather sets In will usually wait until spring. This means a dead loss for scvernl months. Tho average poultrymau cannot afford this Iobs If ho Is raising poultry for egg produc tion. Pullets of tho Mediterranean breeds imtChed not later than May 1, nnd tlmt have becn ren80pably well cared for durlng tno growfng'period will be ,,.. ,,. enrlv iSter. it sometimes nnppps xuni forco of circumstances necessitates lato hatching, nnd it is tnpjBO (pueis tout must be pushed to get them ready to lay In the fall. ( () Feed n ration of high protein con tent, Including such feed as beef scrap, bran, middlings and oil meal. If skim milk or buttermilk is available, It will be of value. Give tho birds, free range whenever it Is possible. K they must be confined supplement their ra tlon with somo green feed, such as sprouted outs, green alfalfa, beets, cabbage, etc. Birds fed such fcoda uu above, kept free from disease, llco and mlteB, and given plenty of ex ercise will develop umazingly. There Is still some tlmo beforo se vere winter weather. Try forcing your late pullets and sco the effect It will have on the winter egg bosket. FOWLS RELISH GREEN STUFF Mangels, Cabbage and Turnips Are Excellent for Hens Potatoes Good Whet) Boiled. Nearly all tho common vegetables are relished by fowls nnd they should. be fed at regular Intervals. Mangels nro easy to raise and keep well. Cab bage Is a good food, the hens like It and It does not flavor the egg. Tur nips are an excellent vegetable for fowls when, grown right, stored nnd cooked. Rape Is an excellent green food to plant In the runs. Potatoes are good only when boiled. As a rule, they are too expensive to feed to poul try. Onions, when they can be had, are an excellent feed, and like lettuce, are excellent for chicks. Silage may be used, provided that only a small quantity Is fed at first until the hens become thoroughly accustomed to It WHITE LEGHORNS. Tho best method of giving turpentino is by forcing it through a small flex ible catheter that has been oiled nnd is passed through the throat Into tho crop. Good results hnvo been reported also with tho uso of tobacco dnst, using fivo to ten grains to a bird. This can nlsa be fed In n wet mash. Tho droppings containing tho woitoh should bo burned or burled deep to prevent the chickens from picking them up. Dollar-and-a-Half Hen. Thcro Is profit in keeping n good poultry flock. This wna shown by a flock of White Leghorn pullets nt the. University of Missouri. Prom 50 to 00 birds were housed in nn open front poultry houso with a yard 100 feet square which was sowed to wheat In tho fall. This furnished green food In tho lato fall nnd early spring nnd was not charged against their feed bill. In n year's tlmo tho fowls consumed 2,003 poundB of grain and 002 pounds' ' of mash. Tho total cost of the feed wns $00,27. In estimating this cost tho following prices per 100 pounds woroiUscd: Wheat, $1.00; corn, $L0; bran, $1.20; cornmcal, $1.75; shorts, $1.40; and beef scraps, $8.25. These prices nro higher than tho feed would bring If sold by tho farmer, but at that the flock returned a good profit They produced a total of 8,057 eggs nt a food cost of 10 cents a dozen. At tho prevailing prices tho eggs sold for $157.17, thus giving a total profit of $00.00. At an avcrngo price of 20.4 cents a dozen the hens returned a profit of a dollar nnd a hnlf apiece above the cost of feed. Even at an average price of 20 cents n dozen tho hens' ddnbled'thG vnluo of tho feed. They were fed as a scratch food a mlxturo of two parts cracked corn anil ono part wheat Tho mash consisted of equal parts of bran, shorts, corn meal nud beef scrap. Grit, oyster shell nnd watpr wore kept beforo the birds nil tho time. INFLUENCE COLOR OF YOLKS Sprouted Oats Are One of Best Things for That Purpose They Also Stimulate Egg Laying. Color In tho yolk of eggs Is In fluenced very largely by the green food eaten, Just as a yellow color In butter 1b Increased when the cows hnvo lots of grass. This Is an Item In market requirements, for, while somo customers pay no attention to tho color of the yolk, others want It quite golden or think that something is wrong. In the fall, when green feed Is scarce and the yolks ate nat urally pole, It may be profitable to give moro green feed to bring tho color back, as well as to help the fowls. Sprouted oats form one of the best feeds for this purpose, as well as to stimulate laying nnd tho general health cf tlio hen, but most kinds oC green feeds will have tho same effect Ono poultryman thought thnt rnpo might be a good green feed, but found that It made the yolks almost black, so tried It no more. Kale, though re- latcd to rape, does not act this way. GOOD TREATMENT FOR COLDS Put Small Qhantlty of Potassium Per manganate In Drinking Water Remove Sick Fowls. If any of the birds develop colds, put uh much potassium pcrmnnganato un will remain oh(tlie surface of a dime Into n gallon of wntcr and keep thin mixture fa their drinking water for several days, or until the symptoms of tho coldB havo disappeared. Remove any sick birds from the flock as soon as they aro noted, and treat them in coops by themselves, or kill and bury them If they aro not worth, treating. SPRINKLE LIME IN HENNERY No Fear of Cholera r Other Diaeasea Need Be ,itt Where Disinfect ants Are 'Made Use Of. Lime should bo frequently sprinkled abont a henhouse; it should also bo used In conjunction with carbolic add, both being deodorizers, purifying tho nlr and exterminating vermin quickly from tho premises. m The runs should be sprjbled Willi a strong solution of sulphuric add, and you need feel no fear of cholera or many other diseases which poultry are from time to time troubled with.