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ON CiASOLENE AMO BY GEO. V. HOBART, (“HUGH M’HUGH.”) D ir Bunch: In Paris, eh? Give my regards to the Moulin Rouge, won't you? I notice what you say in your letter ah >ut buying a couple of French auto mobiles in Paris, one of the same be ing far me. I’m glad to sea you have such a sweet disposition, Punch, but nix on (tie Hubble. Not for yours hastily. I've caught all the diseases to date except the autcmobiHous fever. While walking around the city streets I have been making a deep study of whiz wagons, Bunch, but so clr«*» was the machinery to my out posts at the time and so eager was I to get out of the way that perhaps I am prejudiced. The automobile is the rich man's wine and the poor man’s chaser. It keeps our streets full of red. while and blue streaks all the livelong So Close Was the Machinery. day. and if the weary pedestrian is licit supplied with a ball-bearing neck les chance of getting home is null and void. As far as I can figure it out, the safest part of the machine is the chauf feur. because he knows which wTay to Jump. Oh! how I admire those chauffeurs who point the machine at you and dare you to get out of the way. V-/e have no word in the English lan guage which is brash enough to sit on a busy barouche and cut loose. That’s why we had to reach over to Paris and pull a word out of the French. Chauffeur is the word we grabbed, and I think we ought to give it back at 'be first opportunity. I»id you ever notice one of those particular guys when they try to say chauffeur? His mouth looks like a hot waffle. The first careless cart we ever had in 1 ids country was called the ‘ Cor oner's Delight,” because the only man that met it on the road went back home in sections, and, incidentally', on a shutter. The motto of the automobile is: ‘ flump others, or they will bump you!" And the automobile face! Can you tie it? The automobile face is caused by ♦ tie fact that faces can’t ride as fast a.-, machinery: consequently, the mus cles between the lips and the mouth become overtrained and lose their cun ning. if you wish to buy an automobile for yourself and become a chauffeur, do so. Bunch, and Peaches and I will miss your boyish laughter about the house, and we will sit by the fireside in the twilight and talk about what you The Automobile Face. might have been if you hadn’t gone out of our lives so abruptly. i don't wish to discourage you, Bunch, but if you have a bundle of spare coin, why don't you invest it in a building lot in the suburbs?—a lot which runs not backwards or for wards. and which bites not like an ad der nor stingeth like a serpent, and upon which no coroner can sit for any length of time without getting the lumbago. Speaking of gasoline naturally brings us to kerosene. We have been getting along nicely out here in the country, with the pos sible exception that Peaches has tried to assassinate all the mosquitoes in the neighborhood with almost fatal results to herself. Peaches seems to have labored under the impression that the proper way to assassinate a mosquito is to throw a bomb at it and then cross the fingers and hope for the best. At any rate, she read somewhere in a book that the kindest way to as sassinate the mosquito is to coax a bunch of them up in the corner and throw vittiol in their faces, which gen erally cat^es them to be ashamed of HIS SACRED HONOR. “Darling!” he cried, catching her in his arms. “Slop!” she said, struggling to free herself. “You have no right to treat me In this way. You are a married man." “But. listen, sweetheart. I love you. I have loved you ever since the moment in which I first “Don't! Don’t!” she begged, still struggling to free herself. “You are wronging your wife—you are wrong ing me when you compel me to heat themselves and makes them lead less bloodthirsty lives. Well, Peaches tried this idea, but it so happened that my best pair of trou sers were hanging in the same cor ner which she picked out to work her third degree on the skeets, with the re sult that my trousers departed this world in great haste, while the mosqui toes put their stingers up their sleeves and ran away, laughing wildly. Then I took Peaches out in a vacant lot, far from the bosom of her fam ily. and explained to her the scientific difference between mosquitoes and a paid of nine-dollar trousers, to all of which she listened with much pa tience. except when I swore too loud. But shg, was not discouraged—nay! The next day she read in a paper that kerosene oil was the only genu ine and reliable way to overcome the mosquito, so she went after them by the oil route. The article in the raper didn’t give full instructions how to use the kero sene, so Peaches thought it all out for awhile, and then she poured about half a gallon of oil in the bathtub and waited. I think she expected the mosquitoes to walk into the bath-room, undress, grab the soap and plunge into the kerosene oil, where they w'ouhi perish miserably without even getting a chance to throw up the sponge. But. none of the mosquitoes in our house felt that it was necessary to take a bath, so that scheme failed, while worse and more ravenous and more pitiless grew the hunger of the pests which were using us for a meal ticket. Then somebody told Peaches that the right way to apply kerosene oil was to put it in a sprinkling can, then dash up behind the enemy and sprinkle them on the lumbar region. To see Peaches chasing a bevy of mosquitoes around the parlor with fire in her eyes, a carpet-sweeper in her left hand and a sprinkling can full of kerosene oil in her right hand was a Dash Up Behind the Enemy. sight such as these eyes of mine never before beheld. If the fire from her eyes had ever reached the kerosene—holy smoke! On the level. Bunch, if there was any place in our house whieli Peaches didn't sprinkle with kerosene it must have been a few of my collars and cuffs which hadn't come from the laundry yet. For two days. Bunch, it rained kero sene in our household. For breakfast the toast was scented with kerosene, and it floated like a rainbow on top of the cuffee. For luncheon the codfish cakes be haved like a leaky lamp, and the shredded onions lost all their cour age and wanted to leave the room. For dinner the corn beef looked like a roast on .John D. Rockefeller, and the delicate blossoms of the sauer kraut were all shriveled up, and tasted like the Ohio river near Park ersburg. In the meantime. Bunch, the mosqui toes are having the time of their lives. They thought we were giving a Mardi Gras for their benefit, so they sent out invitations to all their friends, with the result that our little family lost more blood than is spilled in a South American revolution. Peaches has abandoned the kero sene idea, and Is now fumigating the house with something which falls on the insulted nose like a hard slap on the face, so I am writing this letter out in the barn. My theory about the mosquito is that he has humanity stung, going and coming. Yours done in oil, JOHN. (Copyright, 1908, by G. W. Dillingham Cc.) Had Poor Opinion of Dr. Hall. Rev. Dr. Charles F. Aked's experi ence with a would-be convert which he related to his congregation in New York bears close resemblance to an oc currence which the late Rev. Dr. John Hall spoke of several years before his death. A man came to him and said that he had resolved to renounce his faith and to devote the rest of his life to the conversion of the Jews, although all his friends were of that persuasion. He told of the eagerness of hundreds to follow him and wanted to have the management of a mission, if the church would pay the expense of main taining it. Dr. Hall said he would consider the matter, made inquiry as to the man's character and when he called for an answer declined the offer with thanks. The man seemed to be disappointed, used disrespectful lan guage and said to the Scotch maid who showed him to the door: “He's a hard man to do business with.” you say such things. Let me go— please! You are dishonorable You—” “Say that I may hope to win your love and I will promise to get a di vorce as soon as I can.” “Truly?” “I promise it, upon my sacred honor.” "Well—then I suppose it would be foolish to deprive ourselves of the happiness we might have in the meantime, wouldn't it, dearest?"— Chicago Record-Herald. Beauty of the Ostrich Plume By Julia Bottomley. No. 1. A panama, trimmed with ostrich and velvet. No. 2. Midsummer model trimmed with net edged with silk braid. No. 3 Smart street hat trimmed with striped ribbon and straw ornaments. HOME interesting facts eonie to light when one is looking up the subject of ostrich _ feathers. It is profitable to become acquainted with these. The ungainly bird of fine plumage, whose splendor we bor row and improve upon, is grown in South Africa and in our own country. South African species fur nish the best quality of feathers. The birds are plucked for their plumes once in every eight months or three times in two years. London is the great central market for raw feathers. Buyers generally go there to obtain their stocks and buy the feathers which have been sorted into different grades and sell at sc much per pound. It is curious to observe the features that make a plume more or less val unable. It is the practiced eye alone that can observe all the points of dif ference. Width of the flues, qualit> of the fiber, length, texture, color and absence or presence of scars are all ti be reckoned with. The business is fascinating in all departments: The buying, manufactur ing and selling. Each season is a new chapter in the long story of the os trich plume. For this airy splendid feather has nodded upon the head of beauty and waved from the helmets of the brave for many years. Long before The helmet and the helmet feather. Burned like one burning plume together. on Launcelot's dauntless head, or Guinevere looked distractingly beauti ful in the “light green tuft of plumes she bore,” the ostrich plume had lent its state to high occasions. ARTISTIC NEEDLEWORK — Two Pretty Centerpieces That May Ee Easily Made. The wild carrot design, so well adapted to hand needlework, is shown here in an unusually odd centerpiece Odd Centerpiece. conception. It may be worked entire ly solid or with the little eyelets to contrast, and should prove decidedly attractive when finished. This graceful 24-inch centerpiece to be done in solid embroidery, with the blossoms in French knots, will prove Graceful Design. attractive to the practical needlewom an. It Is a new design and is exceed ingly popular on account of its at tractiveness when finished. Novel Parasol Handles. Among the novel handles seen on the parasols this season is a stick sup porting a frame covered w"h vivid green taffeta. The parasol is perfect ly plain, save for a hemstitching a couple of inches above the edge, and the handle of a dull black wood, rath er thick as sticks go, with carving of a black cat, fully as large as a natural kitten, at the end. The cat had im mense green eyes. The fact of the animal being flat made it possible to carry the sunshade comfortably. The price is $4.50. Inexpensive Frock. When one wishes to make up a frock from the inexpensive striped or colored lawns in a simple model there is nothing prettier than a skirt pulled into the belt and tucked about the bottom; the waist made in baby effect and topped by a perfectly plain yoke made from white dotted swiss. The outer edge can be cut into battlements and trimmed with a little lice frill; the sleeves, elbow length, confined with cuffs matching the yoke. This combination will be much prettier than a cheap lace. Ostrich, especially in high grades, is a good investment for women who can afford it. It will not grow less val uable, but will be more expensive as time goes on. Although ostrich plumes hold first place in the matter of decorations for the hat and coiffure, ostrich fibers are I worked up into other decorative I pieces. Pompons and many airy j fancy branchings are seductively ' placed on the latest millinery. In Fig. | 1 a hat from a great French designer is covered with spiral tufts of ostrich and a plume that suggests in coloring and form tossing seaweed. In Fig. 2 the group of three up standing plumes illustrates the fa vorite way of all the myriad ways in : which plumes have been placed on j hats, a rich and stately decoration, while in Fig. 3 a novel mounting is shown—eccentric, but full of style. AUTUMN FASHION GOSSIP Some Valuable and Timely Points for the Woman Who Cares. The directoire waistcoat promises to last over another season, and pro vision has been made for very orig inal and elegant effects in this regard. Ribbons have been taken up en thusiastically by milliners during the summer, and in satin and velvet are to have a great vogue in the winter millinery also. Bordure satins follow in the wake of the beautiful bordered summer stuffs and some exquisite effects are secured in this line of materials. Buttons of all kinds, but particular ly those covered with satin or with the costume material, are being used more lavishly than ever upon the early au i tumn models. Cedar red or cedar brown—which j are one and the same thing and sug gest the old time mahogany, though with an added softness of tone—bids fair to be a popular autumn color and the chaudron or copper tones keep th^-ir hold upon public favor. Chiffon broadcloth appears in all the new colorings and of a lightness and softness even surpassing that achieved by the manufacturers last year. Fancy broadcloths in one tone colorings and woven satin or chevron stripes are numerous. The deep reddish brown and brown ish purple shades which have claimed attention as relieving colors this sum mer are exploited earnestly among the fall silks and velvets. Wild plum, concord grape, prune and various oth er kindred shades seem likely to figure prominently among the winter color ings. Sweeping the Floors. If salt is thrown over the carpet be fore sweeping it will clean the carpet art! make it easier to sweep. Many housewives sprinkle water on the broom hefore sweeping, to collect the .liiEt and keep it from blowing around the room. To Be Agreeable. The girl who gets a grievance, who feels herself ill used, who is quite sure that nobody understands her. has a mental ailment and needs treatment. Now, I ain going to prescribe. The best cure is action. Fill every hour of the day with interests. Acquire a hobby (many people speak slight ingly of a hobby, but a hobby is a great thing). Throw yourself with en thusiasm into all you do. Try to make everybody you meet happy. Forget that you yourself exist, and the first thing you know you will acquire that wholesome, happy state of mind which is the most beneficial of traits. Winter Millinery. The advance models in winter milli nery strike, out no absolutely new notes and, indeed, novelty would be difficult after a season of such variety as has been shown this summer. The first fall hats sit low upon the coiffure, after the fashion with which we have become familiar, and many of them are very large and low, though odd little high crowned shapes and curi ous directolre bonnets such as the late summer has brought forth are in eluded among the new felt*. Use a Good Sire and Improve the Standard of Your Herd —By Wilber J. Fraser, Chief in Dairy Hus bandry, Illinois University. Many dairymen are not raisins their heifer calves; iustead the herd is re plenished by buying cows. Four pro fessional cow buyers sold about 7.000 cows in the vicinity of Elgin. 111., alone, last year; besides this many cows were shipped in by the dairy men themselves. On many dairy farms the heifer calves, good, bad and indifferent, go for veal. Where thi3 is done it means there is no provi sion for perpetuating the dairy herd or the best cows in it. The dairyman from whom the Illi nois station bought cow No. X with a r The sale value of the milk fed these calves was us follows: ir.O tb. whole milk iff $1 per 100.$1.50 400 lb. skim milk @ $0.30 per 100. 1.20 Total .$2 70 And these prices of milk are liberal, especially as they are paid at the farm, and no money or labor is expended in hauling the milk to market. It is not so expensive to raise a calf as tt» dairymen have thought. The grain and hay consumed by the heifers of high quality will give much better re turns than the same feed fed to cows. A Shrewd Young Financier’s Clever Deal in Picking Up These Sacrificed Heifers at from Two to Three Dollars Apiece. three years' record of 405 pounds of butter fat per year, was making no ef fort to perpetuate her superior quali ties but was selling her calves at $2.50 each. This is certainly a ruinous prac tice to the dairy business. The cow buyer cannot get enough really good cows to supply his pur chasers, as but few of the best cows are for sale. The dairyman himself must raise the heifer calves of his best cows and not depend on any body's offerings to replenish his herd. He has the breeding stock, the feed— cheap feed—and the equipment. Calf raising is a natural part of his busi ness. It is absurd to suppose that as a rule he can buy as good cows as he can raise. The reasons are plain. He needs to retain hut few calves each year and can sell the less-promising ones. He knows the parentage of the calves and need save none but those from high-producing mothers. It is far easier to sell inferior stock (to the butcher) than to buy cows that are excellent producers. A prominent dairyman cf the state says of his grade herd: “The heifers we raise from our best cows are bet The Eull !s One-Half of the Herd. ter milk producers with their first calves than are ihe average mature cows we can buy." Several of our most progressive dairymen have said practically the same thing. Yet in the face of ail this, hundreds of dairymen make no effort to save their best heifer calves, and they think they have a reason. They say it takes too much milk. This question was carefully investigated with 48 calves by the Illinois experiment sta tion. Twelve calves at a time were tested at four different times. It was found they could be successfully raised on 150 pounds of whole milk and 400 pounds of skiiumilk. This milk was fed at the rate of ten pounds per day until the calves were 50 days old. when it was gradually lessened one pound per day for ten days and then no more was fed. No substitutes for milk were used. Only ordinary grains which the farmer produces, and a good quality of legume hay were fed. showing that the dairyman can raise a calf In this way with almost no ex tra trouble. Several of these calves are now cowrs in milk and good pro ducers, indicating that they were not injured by this method of raising. QUALIFICATIONS OF A GOOD IRRIGATOR By John G. Hall. When farming is carried on by ir rigation, the question of getting a good and efficient man to spread the water is a serious one. A man possessing the knowledge, in the first place, of how to run out the ditches in a field of small grain for instance. Before he can do this he must be a practical irrigator. He must be able to know from looking at the land to be irri gated from what quarter or direction the water will come onto this eleva tion or that elevation, and be able to run the ditches in the field according ly. His ditches must be run onto the high places, also have a fall of at least 1% Inch in 100 feet. The old saying that water will run uphill in an irrigated country is un true. Water can be delivered from one hill to another by means of a dyke, siphon, pipe or trough, provid ing the place of delivery is lower; if higher it requires pressure to deliver it to a higher point. Great care must be taken to get the ditches where all the ground can be Qovered with water, also not to plow Raising The heifer calves of good high-producing cows, is a great funda mental requisite for the best and easiest improvement of the dairy h d. But those calves will take their qualities from both parents, and it is equally important that the calf shall have good parentage on the male side. An inspection of dairy herds will show that many times comparatively lit tie attention is paid to the quality of the sire. In a recent visit to the dairy region of northern Illinois, the writer noted six herds in which the heifer calves were raised for future cows, but in which the sires used were miserable little scrubs, veritable runts and weaklings, obtained by sim ply saving a grade calf from a poor herd. Of many other sires fairly good as individuals, nothing is known of the actual milk production of their female ancestors. With a herd of 40 cows, as here il lustrated, each cow represents one eightieth of the future herd each year, and the whole number of 40 cows rep resent forty-eightieths of the herd, and the good well-bred sire represents one halt or forty eightieths of all the qual ity and qualities, character and char acteristics, the capacity for milk pro duction, and everything else, transmit ted to the calves which ate to consti tute the succeeding herd. A fine dairy sire can be bought for $150, and with 40 grade cows at $G0 per head, the herd comes to $2,400. The bull costs only one-seventeenth of the investment, yet he will improve the future herd as much as the other sixteen-seventeenths. The extra $100 put into a good sire is the best invest ment in the herd. Forty-one animals are purchased; one animal will influence the future herd as much as the other 40. It is worth while, then, to give much extra time and study to the selection of that one, the sire. From generation to generation the succession of well-selected sires goes on increasing and intensifying the im provement of the herd. In this way the sire becomes three-fourths, seven eighths, fifteen sixteenths, etc., of the herd. In fact in a few years the sire is practically "the whole thing.” So the sire may be much more than half the herd whether judged by the quantity, strength, quality or accumu lated effect of the characteristics he transmits. It is literally true that the sire may thus, within a few years, at slight expense, completely transform a dairy herd and double its profit. Every man who has had any ex tended experience or observation in the use of a good pure-bred sire from high-producing dams at the head of a dairy herd, will agree that this sire was of peculiar value and great econ omy in building up the herd. The rec ords of dairy breeding have proved it conclusively a thousand times over. No man who studies the facts can doubt it. The evidence is to be seen in the heifers of every such sire, and in their contrast with heifers lacking such parentage. up any more crons than is absolutely necessary, keeping, if possible, the ditches along roadsides, fences, etc. Now, with the ditches properly run on a £iece of ground, the next ques tion is to get a sufficient quantity ot water to travel over the land faster than the spot which is being irrigated will consume it. With the water turned cn it is customary to run it night and day until the field is irri gated. In my experience I find the greatest difficulty is in finding a man that has a disposition to do the required work. What is the required work? Get up at four o'clock in the morning, go out and change the water from the place it has been running all night. Irrigate the short runs in day time, leaving the long runs for the night; shoveling out the ditch; shoveling up the ditch banks: putting in wing ditches to reach a high spot, or doing whatever Is necessary to improve the condi tion. The writer of this article has car ried his blankets into the field and partially slept for a short time within 10 rods of his own house so that the water could be changed every hour luring the night in time of scarcity. In conclusion I wish to say an irri gator possessing the knowledge of ir -Igation and the qualities mentioned ibove is a jewel and a blessing to his ;mployer at almost any price. Ki|M Sweats & tail. E. T>\ Walton, Condr. S. V i;v -n Van ^ess St., Saa Antonio, Tex vritos : ‘-During the summer and f,a of l!,2, my annoyance from oata-rh reached that stage whcro it was actual misery and developed alarming symp toms, such as a very deep-seated cough night sweats, and pains in the head ami enest. I experimented with several so called remedies before I finally decided to take a thorough course of I’cruna. ‘•T woof my friends had gone so far as toinform mo that the thingformet . do was to resign my position and seek a higher,morecongenialclimate. E.orv onc thought I had consumption and 1 was not expected to live very lon~. “Having procured some leruna”*I d - cidcd to give it a thorough test and ap plied myself assiduously to the task of taking it, as per instructions, in the meantime. “The effects wore soon apparent, a'.l alarming symptoms disappeared a .1 my general health became fully as good as it had ever been in my life. “I have resorted to the use of Pert-.na on two or three occasions since that time to cure myself of bad colds.” EATHING AN INDIAN IDOL. Curious Ceremony Attended by Thou sands of Devout Pilgrims. Thousands of pilgrims from the va rious outlying villages and other parts of the Hooghly district poured in from an early hour in the morning to the temples of Jagernath, says the Cal cutta Statesman. The image of the god is placed on a conspicuous part of the temple, so that it can be viewed at an advantage by the immense crowd of pilgrims, and there at a certain fixed hour the bathing ceremony commences. The most curious part of the festi val is that water is not poured on the image of the god until a certain small bird is found sitting on the topmost banner of the temple. There is a pop ular belief that the bird comes from Puri,the famous place of Hindu pilgrim age, to Maheoh on the day of this festival, and his very presence is an indication that the ceremony should commence. Immediately after the bath the bird disappears. EYESIGHT WAS IN DANGER From Terrible Eczema—Baby’s Head a Mass of itching Rash and Sores —Disease Cured by Cuticura. “Our little girl was two months old ■when she got a rash on her face and within five days her face and head were all one sore. We used different remedies but it got worse instead of better and we thought she would turn blind ar.d that her ears would fall oiT. She suffered terribly, and would scratch until the blood came. This went on until she was five months old, then I had her under our family doc tor's care, but she continued to grow worse. 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