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"'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
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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.
