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About The frontier. (O'Neill City, Holt County, Neb.) 1880-1965 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 20, 1928)
| OF INTEREST TO FARMERS ■PRAISE FOR THE PIG It Is believed by many people that (tie pig is a dirty, lazy sort of beast, wanting alike in gratitude and de cency, Imbued with a spirit of con ifrariness and self will, and gener ally unmanageable in conduct. He | U also regarded as the lowest in I the scale of domesticated animals j ef the scavenger and costermonger •refer, inclining naturally to dirt *nd to the meanest occupation, un •toancly in looks, ungainly in carri age, unclean in taste, unfit for de al*!*, surroundings, disposed to un limited mischief, depraved in mor rn.tr,, and disreputable to a degree. Tfewse are the sort of epithets b«w)ed at our porcine quadruped; bait, as the man said who "swopped' hAs cow for one, "there’s many a •aweet bit in a pig I" ■For the most part, we are Inclined c* demur to what is commonly said 'of the pig; and were he a biped, the Voenple who say it would be had up fat libel, or defamation of charac ter, or malicious spite, or something the kind. We admit that he 13 not fastidious as to food, or the way it is served, and generally loves to "put fsat foot in it" as he eats it; but (there is less trouble with bim on Vfrut, account, for he certainly is not to speak figuratively, in the habit mincing matters very much. He 1* * rough and ready sort of being, .and can put up with all sorts of ln gconveniences. He is not in any Kunue dainty, and is content when hfe; belly is full—no matter what it fa full of. The question of ’’grub” «does not bother him much, except as oj*g»rc!s enough of it. When his wants •re supplied he rests longer and ideeps sounder than any domesti cated animal we are acquainted With, except man. HLs powers oi digestion are unsurpassed; he is sel dorn troubled with dyspepsia; and the food he eats he is satisfied with, whatever it is, so long as there is enough of It Peace and plenty ate what he Inclines to, but if he has not the latter he disturbs the peace «f the neighborhood. Adm.lUng, then, that he Is rather wanting in delicacy as to food, we deny that he is necessarily dirty in tv* general habits. It is true he hes cot risen very high as yet in the •cade of civilization, but this is not (altogether his own fault, though it certainly is his misfortune; and who fn tell the degree of refinement ot which he is susceptible; It is also true that he still has a fondness for wallowing lr» the mire on a ijot day, but we have reason to believe it Is for the cool and not for the dirt that he seeks it. A few more cen turies will get him out of it. anu ■After all, a centlry does but little to -refine even man. Sheep and cats iare perhaps the cleanest of our do mesticated animals, for Nature gave them a start that way, but we de mur to pigs being called the dirtiest. We simply don’t believe It. horse is clean because he is kept wo, and a cow for a similar reason, but we see no special merit in clean liness of that sort. A pig will never from choice, or even from careless ness, repose In the muck In his pen; hut a horse and a cow have no par ticular compunction on that score. A pig, if left to its own resources, will always have a clean corner in the sty to lie down in. but a cow •nd a jjorse take no precautions of that sort. A pig is punctilious on the score of a dry, clean bed, and we have seen him carry straw In his mouth to make it. Did anyone ever sec a cow or a horse do such a tidy thing? Eut a bed Is not a thing a pig pines for; he will do very well with a bedstead, so to speak; give him a few bare boards in a corner, and he is as happy—well, as happy (u he wants to be. He pays well for good food and fcind treatment, but so far as the tutter goes he meets with much ne glect; to this, no doubt. Is owing the vomewhat cold character of his af fection for his mater or mistress, as the case may be. But he is not by any means Incapable of gratitude, wash him to try it, and scrub his (hide with a brush! He soon comes to like it, and his grunt of approv al is not without music—bass it may be, but still music, the music u>f meaning! Feed him well, and keep him warm, and he will grow, wash him twice a week, ar.d he will jprow the faster still; keep him from wrrmuch exercise, either of body or mind, and his increase in obesity is surprising! —--#»-. ■ . ■ «G()OD SILO ESSENTIAL ilubt as factory workman must be provided with tools and a fac iory, so also must the fanner have the necessary equipment for doing his work, says a silo enthusiast who is convinced they are profitable -Equipment for every farm. 1 am inclined to believe, he says, - Jiat stock farmers, especially those i practicing dairying, frequently try o do their work without necessary equipment. Losses from poor pro duction of the herd and unneces sary labor due to lack of equipment a/ten render the business unprof itable. Italicns and labor are the biggest expense items in the stock business, and therefore they are the two prm rsfpal departments which must have ertareful attention. The rations tsiuiuld be first considered as the e*wt of feeding is the largest item TP supply foods properly balanced and low in cost the silo has proved a necessary equipment. This is true because it stands ever ready to J»ouBe and pteserve cheap, succu lent forage which can be abund antly grown on practically any tarm To save labor, especially with the dairv farmer, he must so house •als stock that they will be cotn fortable and that the work of caring ffwr them will be materially reduced. From experiments and tests it ftras been conclusively proved in ev *ry state that the silo furnishes the cheapest supply of succulent feed. The silo economically preserves ‘he borage of the summer and creates CELLING WOODLANDS Perhaps we are a little too apt to consider that any tree Is a good tree. Any wood-lot is better than no wwod-lot, to be sure. But there are valuable trees and weed trees. Just -mm there are vegetables In the gar r dwn, and weeds. It is a mistake to tolerate dog wood, ironwood. wild cherry, crooked Peech, grape-vines, sumac and their **They are the weeds among timber trees, and should be cut to ciaxe twin for the pines, the oaks, the natiles, the ash. the tulto, poplars -—J tba hlack walnut# pasture conditions during tile win ter. Silage will save, in round num bers, about 30 per cent, on the ra tion. Where all costs are considered it can be figured that the silo will save 12 cents on the cost of produc ing a pound of butter and about $1 on the cost of producing 100 pounds of beef and mutton. These figures are deducted from experiments where all items of expense were considered. The stock farmer of tomorrow will find proper equipment eeesntial in economical production. We are moving at a rapid pace and we must all keep up with the procession. If any department of our industry lags, those engaged In It will soon be in distress. Poor equipment on our farms is one of the principal causes for our agricultural Ills. For over a quarter of a century practically every experiment sta tion and college of agriculture, as well a? thousands of stock fanners, have demonstrated that the use of the silo is not only economical but necessary for best results, and still we find even among our dairy farm ers that less than one-tourth of them are equipped with silou. Good stables with comfortable stals, gut ters that are handy to clean out; carriers, etc., have proved to be necesary for greatest economy, do not have them. We are told that they cannnot afford this equipment, but we find they are supplied with autos and other socalled necessi ties. If we analyze this matter down we will find in a large majority of cases there has been a real lack of figuring and planning on neces sary equipment for saving labor and Increasing production - ■ ---♦ ♦ 1 1 - LEGUME INOCULATION It is quite necessary to inoculate legume seed with the proper bacter ial cultures In order that the plants may begin to assimilate atmospheric nitrogen as soon as they have start ed to grow, or at least early the first year after seeding. Most farmer* nowadays recognize this fact when they are sowing alfalfa or sweet clover for the first time on a given piece of land. With red clover It is somewhat different because it has grown at some time on most western farm*. However, even though clover has grown on a given farm some 5 to 10 years ago it will still pay to Inoculate the seed. There is one thing In connection with seed inoculatton that should not be overlooked and that is. the age of the inoculating material When you buy inoculation, specify that it must have printed on the la bel of the container a date showing its age. Well established manufac turers of these cultures make it a rule to specify on the label the lat est date that the product may be used. The bacteria In these culture* do not remain virulent forever. They are usually guaranteed by the man ufacturers for a year. Products that do not have a date on the label may be more than a year old and there fore they may be of no value. Bac teriological products should always give a date for the protection of the consumer. Bacteria are plants and when they are kept under unfavorable condi tions, In a place where the temper ature is too high or when they lose moisture or under some other un favorable conditions they die, of course, they have no further value from an inoculating point of view. .. . CORN VS. OATS A western experiment station re ports a feeding trial with pigs in which four lots of pigs (averaging 50 pounds weight) were fed as fol lows: lot 1. corn; lot 2. oats; lot 3, corn and oats in the proportion of 243 pounds of corn and 100 pounds oats; lot 4. hulled oats. In addition to these basal feeds each lot of pigs received the same kind of supple ment consisting of tankage, linseed meal, ground alfalfa, and minerals. The greatest average dally gain was made by lot 4 which had hulled oats, but the price of this feed, $69. 50 a ton, was responsible for the greatest cost per 100 pounds gain. The pigs fed corn and oats gained 1.15 pounds per head daily on 404 pounds of feed for 100 pounds gain. This lot had the lowest feed cost, it being $7.67 per 100 pounds gain. Pigs fed corn plus the supplement gained 1.10 pounds per head dally on 391 pounds feed per 100 pounds gain. The feed cost was $7.70 for 100 pounds pork produced. Comparing lots 1 and 3 we have practically the same results all the way through, indicating that oats may be fed with corn in a limited way to good advantage when the price of oats per pound is less than corn. Oats fed as the only basal grain did not prove satisfactory, the dally gain being only .91 pound per pig —-- — ♦♦- —- — A HANDY SCRAPER A handy scraper for cleaning the droppings boards is the one tool that practically every poultry keeper needs but does not have. This tool, if not carried in stock by the local hardware stor. canaslly b mad by following th suggstlons given by a poultry expert who believes in cleanliness. The scraper blade may be made of one-sixteenth inch steel. A strong an old saw or a 4 by 10 piece of an Iron ferrule makes a good handle The blade is attached to the handle by a forked steel rod like that of a garden rake. The end which go into the handle are tap ered and welded so as to fit firmly when riveted in the ferrule of tha handle. The parts may be readily fitted togtthei a in a local black smith or machine shoo. The lower edge of the scrapper Is turned In about one-half to make It cling to the boards. The scrap per mav be turned over so as to use the top edge In cleaning closa ud to the wail. ->♦ ... ■ WHERE THE MILK GOES This is what haonens to the av erage bucket of milk which the •'"oraore farmer brings in from the the average cow in this country: 46 7 per cent, of it is used as whole milk and cream: 35 9 per cent, of it is made into butter; 3.7 per cent, into ice cream, while 3.6 per cent, goes into condensed and evapor ated milk and the same amount in to cheese. All the calves in the country get 5 3 per cnt. of it. Three per cent, unfortunately, 1s not fully utilized, or is wasted and 2 per cent. Is used for other by-products. Near ly all of this bucket of milk is con sumed in the United States in some <*f these forms. Latest in Fur Coat Styles -■j- - -« ■ — ■ f y —• ---— Here are five coats on displat at the Neva York Retail Furriers' Pageant of Fashion: L. to r., while caracul trimmed with sable, white ermine, mink trimmed with ermine tails, ermine evening wrap and an all-occasions ermine coat. The five models shown in the picture were specially guarded by detectives during the show. (International Newamell Where Kissing Is Unknown { From the Golden Book Magazine. It seems that even so simple a justness as kissing lias gone through centuries of evolution to reach the point where a John Gilbert can sweep Greta Garbo into a burning embrace and give 10,000,000 movie fans a satisfying—if second hand— thrill. In fact there may have been a time when people didn’t kiss at all. rhe collected data from records and literature show that kissing has be come a practice in some countries only In recent centuries, while in others it Is still unknown. In England, for example, St. Pier lua Wensemius wrote in his “Chron icle” in 1622 that the practice was utterly unknown until introduced by the Princess Rowena, daughter of an ancient king of Friesland, several centuries before. But there a as plenty of kissing be ing done in England in Wensemius' day Even four centuries ago Eras mus, who was visiting the island kingdom, wrote to a friend that “Wheresoever you go avisiting the girls all kiss you.” However, Darwin pointed out that the kiss probably grew from other forms of bodily contact used by | primitive people to indicate friendli- | ness. "It is replaced in various parts [ of the world by the rubbing of no-es, as with the New Zealanders and Laplanders, by the rubbing or pat ting or arms, breast or stomach, or by one man striking his own face with the hand of another.” Herbert Spencer, too. showed that the kiss is not universal, and is hard ly understood by the negro races which have not had close contacts with the whites. Among many primi tive races, he said, sniffing replaces , it. Even the kiss as such has taken various forms and been used for many purposes. The Scotch hill folk of two centuries back regarded it as a part of the kiss that the man should hold the girl by the ears. The women of ancient Rome were for bidden to drink wine and so worthy an authority as Cato reported that men kissed their wives for the pur pose of discovering whether they had been obedient to the law. But kissing in some form seems to have existed in Egypt of 3.500 years ago. A papyrus of that date describes a scene in which "she kissed him; i ihe embraced him.” ' ———— Sunday Radio Three of America's foremost prea chers, we are told have begun re ligious services by radio. One of them, it is said, is to receive $25,000 a year for the service. Cheap enough. What a boon the general broadcasting of Henry Ward Beech er'* sermons would have been to his generation! And there were other great preachers. Bishop Simp son. for instance who were pulpit orators of great power. We do not include T. DeWitt Talmage In the list, although he had a great fol lowing 40 years ago. We soured on him when he preached on the spot where Christ's immortal Ser mon on the Mount was delivered. The whole sermon of Talmage was printed In boilerplate In the country newspapers the day after it was de livered In the Holy land. That is to say. it was written and kept in cold storage for weeks. maybe months, before it was delivered, al though it purported to be bom of the inspiration of "standing where Jesus stood.” That sort of faking utterly destroyed our respect lor Tlddledewit Talmage. To return to the radio: We list ened to a fine sermon from New' York Sunday before last, sitting at home in our rocking chair. If this thing becomes general church at tendance In small towns is likely to decline. The music was beautiful, the ritual inspiring, the preacher’s voice sonorous and musical, and his words impressive. He was what a neighbor of ours, who listened in on the .:ame sermon, called "a darned good preacher.” This kind of com petition from the gifted clergymen in the great cities, broadcast over a dozen or more states is hard on the country preachers. It makes father think he can get sounder doctrine and abler expositions of religious truth at home than he can in his church. How many men will be weaned away from morning ser vices in their home towns by “throe of America’s foremost preachers” broadcasting every Sunday morn ing? It seems to be against union I rules, at least to the extent that no collection can be taken up from the radio audience. -• ♦-- * Gigolos Licensed. Prom Time. Gloom, distress and shame des cended, last week, upon the sleek, waxen faced, bandolined and faintly perfumed gigolos of Paris. These young men have been ac customed to consider themselves superior to their female counter parts. But Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe lias now sternly ruled that each gigolo must obtain a license and carry an Identty card exactly timilar to thoee Issued to common prostitutes. Though the precise origin of the poun gigolo (ahi-go-lo) is obscure, ft probably derives from the verb gigotter “to kick about,” the ad Laws of Succession. Prom the New York Times. Reminders of the peculiarities of the English laws of succession come when one’s daily paper on the same page has an account of the death of the Earl of Clonmeil and the pur chase of a portrait of Edward VI. For the earl, according to the laws of the realm, was Succeeded by an uncle, 75 years old. and the king was succeeded by his sister Mary. The statutes made and provided would not permit the earl to pass his title and estates to a female descendant, though he had several, but Mary’s succession to Edward was the rule of the kingdom which has no Salic law. There was an Ed Smart Street Frock 1 hese huge scarf boivs, tied at the front, are a Louise Bou langer innoi'ation for Autumn and already have become a vogue on the continent. The frock pic tured above is in olive green wool until matching satin scarf. jective gigotte “strong sinewed" and the noun gigots “legs,” or “shanks." Particularly gigotte and appeti zing was a gigolo who recently in vited a bejewcled Manhattan ma tro, one Mrs. Josephine Neumann 55 years old. to ride with him in the forest of St. Germain-en L a y e. The gigolo said he had sold an automobile to Mr. Neumann. Perhaps Mrs. Neu mann also would like to purchase an automobile. Together they drove to St. Germain. Then in a solitary, romantic spot the gigolo suddenly stopped the car. But he i made no romantic overtures. In I stead, he brusquely demanded all I ward once, the fifth of the name, whose crown passed on to his uncle Richard, but history, supported by Shakespeare, is of the belief that Richard aided nature and trifled a bit with law in order to gain the kingdom which later he offered to swap for a horse. There are several women in Eng land who are peers in their own right, the Baroness Clifton among them. Only membership in the house of lords Is denied them and perhaps the right to devise their title to descendants. But generally, i save by special decree issued in 1 times past, male peers must be suc ceeded by male peers and the daugh J ters of earls must marry oth«r earls her jewels and money. Mrs. Neu mann refused. The gigolo grasped her throat, snatched her rings and pocketbook, tore her clothes, beat her, threw her out of the automo bile. As Mrs. Neumann started to walk back to Paris she distinctly heard a laugh as the gigolo’s auto mobile disappeared in the shade of the St. Germaine woods. Not only a gigolo but a thief, is a handsome one-eyed serb, Djoritch Milan, who admitted to Paris po lice that he had stolen jewels from the Paris residence of Mrs. William Kissam Vanderbilt. Prom Mrs. Vanderbilt's home Milan took an emerald worth $40,000, several other Jewels of lesser value, one imitation pearl necklaoe, thirteen miniatures, three raw eggs. Milan insulted the Paris gendarmes who captured him, boasted that he was leader of a gang of Serbian thieves. --. Place for Al Smith. Prom New York World. It is not unlikely that soon after Gov. Smith retires from the ex ecutive office at Albany at the end of this year, he will again become a commissioner of the port of New York authority. Those of his friends who are most familiar with his future plans oe lieve he would be willing to accept the appointment. No doubt is en tertained that Governor-elect Roos evelt would be pleased to make it. The position carries no salary. One of the three New York com missionerships on the authority has been vacant since July, when Her bert K. Twitched of Brooklyn died. Gov. Smith was one of the origin al commissioners named by Gov. Miller in April 1921, and he con tinued to sprve until he returned to Albany, January 1, 1923. Toe present chairman, John P. Galvin, was appointed by him to fill the un expired term of five years, and was re-appointed in 1920. The other New York member, Howard S. Cull man is a close friend of Gov. Smith, and was active in Mr. Smith’s state campaigns. It has generally been assumed by Gov. Smith’s friends that his so called retirement from public life referred only to full time offices. His statements after the recent elec tion that he would continue to ex ercise his interest in governmental affairs was taken by them to in clude such activities as would not preclude his entry into private bus iness. , . .. He has constantly revealed the keenest interest in the port author ity The general mechanism of this quasipublic body, financing im provements largely through its^ own. bond issues he sought to apply to other fields, notably water power developments. Besides bridge building between New York and New Jersey, which the body has been pushing forward without great complications. the port authority now has before it one especially difficult problem, tr.a solution of the terminal problem. Trouble in obtaining concerted ac tion with the various railroads ser ving the port area was aired last spring. At the opening of the Out erbridge and Goethals bridges be tween Staten Island and New Jer sey last June. Gov. Smith rebuked the railroads for their short-sight edness in failing to co-operate. _* *——■ NOT SO LUCKY London.—The train he hau boarded was taking him far paot his station, and fearing that ha would lose his job if he were not on time, William Woodcraft, 36 years old, jumped from a train going 60 miles an hour and was killed. At t na inquest hir, landlady said Woodcraft believed he had a charmed life. -------- Q. Does the Aurora Boreali3 make a noise? R. F. A The Carnegie institution say3 that this has been a moot question but the evidence of most exper ienced observers is to the effect that there is no noise accompany ing the polar-light displays. Some observers claim to have heard a noise somewhat similar to a faint rustling during some displays. _ iT they want to be countesses. From this arrangement royal crown prin cesses are barred, and that is the wav Mary and Elizabeth, t.he sec ond Mary, Anno and Victoria have all ruled in England. With these intricacies of entail only the college of heralds can accurately and In telligently deal, but they help to link England with her historic past. - ♦ * -—— The Angler. From Answers. Gladys: Mv father made his fortune when he was a young man. Would you ii&e to know how he did it? George: Not particulary. But I should like to know if he still has it. Pants in Persia From the Miami Herald At no for distant day it won’t b© any more fun being a Persian or a Turk than a staid American Busi ness man. For now, in addition to taking away their turbans and fezzes, abolishing the multitudinous wives and making them go to school, the Shah of Persia has decreed that menfolk in those parts must wear trousers instead of robes. When Kemal decreed that the brown derby must replace the fez for the Turk the tourist agencies gave forth sobs of anguish, for there went some of the scenery that makes touring what it is today. Later the Shah followed suit, and, while the fact that his order made it possible for a German cap com pany to unload 2,000.000 cheap caps in that land, there has been no hint of connivance to date. Apparently Western types of living are follow ing on the heels of Western hy giene. Shieks will never have the 3ame allure in plaid caps and overalls, but then the word has come back that the shiek of true type is a greasy, fat disagreeable and far from romantic individual, anyhow, so this pant order may not change things very much for the story writers. We do hope, however, that the Shah meant real pants and not golf trousers, for in the latter rai ment it wouldn’t be possible to de termine whether the Persian under scrutiny had on pants as pre scribed by the Shah or only th© lower half cf a robe. t plodding English fashion right through the book. “The First Noel." “While Shepherds watch their flocks.’’ “Christmas Awake, salute th© happy morn." “Carol, carol gayly.” “Hark, the herald angels sing," and “Oh, come, all ye faithful.’’ Since then they have been every night, it seems, getting larger and larger as the day comes nearer— not the same children getting larger • but other children. And Christmas eve; it is always the turn of the grown-ups. Small steaming silver or pewter mugs and slabs from the garden doors of old fashioned man sions, and giggling parlor maids dis play their Christmas finery to the admiring minstrels. England has a great power of harking back to her past. This year Dickens once more Is up to date. By these signs we were told the old Christmas was coming back, that all the great hearty old ways of Christmas which seemed to havo been killed by the war, or been sup planted by hotel and restaurant fes tivities. were coming back. And it’s true. For weeks before Christmas the whole household has been at work; every evening when dinner Ls over all hands below stairs turn It to stoning raisins, cleaning cur rents, shredding suet, cutting cit ron and candied peel into tiny waf ers-, and whisking eggs with bundles of twigs. The electric raisin stoner, the chopper and shredder, so fa miliar to us, are looked upon witU mistrust Dy mistress and cook alik<». Even flour sifters are generally con sidered “rubbishly" over here. But then, British cakes and puddings— ‘sweets,” as they are called—require a heavy rather than a light hand. Cook beats and stirs and turns with a mighty swing; each one wishes his iearest wish as he dumps in Ins contribution. Last of all the little silver trinkets are slid into the great mixing bowl—a tiny horseshoe lor luck, a bachelor’s button, a spinster's bean, a ring for a wedding, and a silver half penny piece for wealth. Then the Christmas puddings, in their great melon shaped bags, are dropped into the steaming pot, set aver the open grate, and the serv ants break into a rollicking song whose echoes penetrate to the draw ing room. The yule cakes, very plain but deliciously spicy, anti solid loaves of many shapes and sizes, are baked by the score. In the north, every member and serv ant and friend of the family must have one. English mince pies aro little individual affairs about tho size of a cookie, made into a thick flaky upper and under crust and. to our notion, very little mince meat; but what there is is rich and iruuy. At last the children come pour ing home—the town rings with their laughter. London puts on a wholly different mocd. The shops glitter, the streets are choked with bustling little folk piloting grownups to bazars and exhibitions. The sta tions pour forth a constant stream of long legged youngsters in bright striped caps or tall hats, and moun tains of sturdy little trunks grad ually evaporated and trickle away m taxis and private cars. Christmas morning a present-giv ing time in London and the south. In Scotland and Yorkshire (where there still persists a difference be tween Yuletide and Christmas; it is Christinas eve. The household, family, servants and guests assemble round the roar ing fire where stockings were hung over night. The English do not wrap up their presents in fanciful paper and ribbons as we do. A simple parcel with a little slip bear ing some friendly motto or an ori ginal couplet Is the usual thing. Holly and mistletoe are lavishly used in all country houses, and even in London most people decorate at least one room in Christmas green. In Yorkshire and the north, the Yuletide supper is on Christman eve: servants and masters sit down together and none may leave his place for any purpose whatever, onco the meal is begun, not even for a knock at the door. Poods and drinks of ages ago are not served—• for there ks no service—but put on the table, all in gorgeous profusion. The decorating of the home usual ly takes place on Christmas eve in the south. Everybody has been on excursions to the nearest wood to pluck evergreen and holly, of which great ropes are made to festoon tho stairs and newel posts of the hall. Sprigs of mistletoe are hung be neath every arch and dangle from the hall chandelier. Bare stone cor ridors for once look hospitable and even the cream stucco balustrades of the hideous Georgian period ac ouire a certain grace garlanded with Christmas green. columns from a pre-existing desira either to buy or to sell. Once in a while the editor of the funny page at the back door of the Literary Digest picks a “howler” out from among these ads, but their output of humor Is not large, what ever other springs of interest they may touch. Remembering the poet's words about those “who coine to scoff" but “r emained to pray,” however, possibly our advertising experts might be justified in insert ing a "howler” here and there with “malice prepense.” on the ground that those *fho seek theru would remain to buy.