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Novel Things in Neckwear THE new collars give one the choice of baring the throat, leaving it more or less veiled, or covering it com pletely. But almost without exception they are high at the back, many of them very high, and the neck is lost to view. In the greater number the throat is open, there are flaring revers at the side and a turnover portion at the back. Within these lines the va riety of ways in which the collars are cut is really bewildering. To judge by this, everyone is to wear novel things in neckwear, and every style is to be suited. Besides the turnover collars, with revers at the sides and vestees at the front, there are smart styles with standing plaits across the back. These are cut squarely off at the sides, leav ing the throat uncovered, but are fin ished with a long vestee at the front. These, like other standing effects, are supported by fine wires. They are very high, reaching not much below the top of the ears. Then there are the graduated ruffles tf fine lace which are favorites on gowns of lace and net and on after nooh gowns of taffeta or faille or crepe de chine. They are not so high I at the back and gradually grow nar rower at the sides and front, finally disappearing at the top fastening of the bodice. But they also require wir ing with the finest of silk-covered wire, to give them the sprightly pose required. One of the new collars of sheer ba tiste finished with fine embroidery is shown in the picture given here. It is a good example of a type of collar which is featured among the new dress accessories for spring. Equally strong as a novelty, the new very high, standing collars (hign at the front as well as the back), attached or unattached to the blouse, are com manding much attention and may prove the favorites. Just at the mo ment the sheer collar, high at the back and turned over, open at the throat, is liked finished by a band of narrow black velvet ribbon which ties over it around the threat and ap pears to support it. although fine wires really do the work. ■ There is a lot of wear in the col lars of embroidered batiste; they pro vide an inexpensive and dainty means of freshening up the dress. On the Subject of Boudoir Caps THE plainest of boudoir caps, such as that one pictured . ere, will serve to introduce a coterie of others far more elaborately made. The sub ject of boudoir caps is inexhaustible; they are as varied, almost, as the faces they so prettily set off. Dain tiness is the most lasting of fem inine charms, and the boudoir cap is an expression of this. 1 Displayed in a New York shop are a half dozen or so styles, that run the scale from the simplest to the most elaborate. The first one con sists of a puff of plain crepe de chine for the crown, which is gathered over a circle of wire that fits the head. Lace, about three inches wide, plaited in narrow side plaitings, is sewed in side the edge of the cap about the front, extending from one temple to the other. A second length of the plaited lace is sewed in, extending from ear to ear. The lace is then turned back off the face and tacked to the crown, forming a coronet of lace about the face. tVhere this plaiting leaves off, a third length is sewed in the cap and is left hanging over its neck. A ro sette of narrow ribbon is sewed to each side. The next cap is made of all-over j shadow lace with the puffed crown shirred over a circle of wire. A ! frill of very narrow lace extends about ] the front of the cap. Across the back j there is a scant frill of wider lace j that is wired with fine wire, to curve outward from the ears and neck This smart little affair is trimmed | with a twist of narrow satin ribbon aud occasional clusters of the smallest chiffon roses set about the face. It is finished with a rosette of the ribbon at each side. The third cap was made of fine dot ted swiss and shaped like a baby’s cap. A frill of eluny lace, very scant, fell about the face, and an insertion of the same was set in about the crown. Between the insertion and the frill a narrow band of ribbon ex tended about the cap, ending in long loops and ends at the left side. The fanciest and most no- el of caps in this gay array had a puffed crown of colored silk set in a hrim of Irish lace. The lace was wired Jo stand out in four points, one at the front, one at the back, and one at each side. It had no trimmings, the richness of the lace making this unnecessary. Many simple caps were shown made of flowered voile and marquisette. They have puffed crowns and short capes of the material and were trimmed with lace and little ribbon roses in several colors. One of the prettiest of all was made of sheer openwork swiss embroidery for the puffed crown, and a double ruffle of lace about the face. Satin ribbon two inches w-ide was twisted about the crown and tied in a bow at the front. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Picot Edges. The picot edge is lavishly used as a finish on modern costumes, and not only is this form of edge-trimming ex quisitely soft and dainty, but it does away with the necessity of hemming —always a tiresome propesj where chiffons or tulle are concerned. A sulphur-colore' tulle dancin^ frock has three skirt flounces, eacl- scal loped and picot edged, and the tulle straps which form the upper bodice are also picot edged. Even tulle bridal veils are finished with the dainty picot edge. This edge is really hemstitching cut in half, and will be done at any place where hemstitching is done. It is the ideal finish for tulle, silk net, daphne silk, pussy willow silk and crepe de chine, but it is not as satisfactory on satin or chiffon Modern Improvements. "They certainly are improving on the old style of sending things. They can even telegraph photographs now.' "Yes, and 1 notice thai presents ot flowers can be wired.” NOTES FOR HORSE AND MULE BREEDERS First Prize Clydesdale Stallion. Heavy farm horses help to solve the labor problem. Promiscuous experimental breeding has been the bane of the horse-breed tng business. A well-conditioned draft colt, with its early education largely completed, Is one of the most valuable finished products of the farm. The farm mare fills a most impor tant place in production. Oats, and bran in equal bulk, with one-fcurth corn added, make a good ration for a mare giving milk. Foal shows should be made a great 'actor in encouraging the improvement of farm work horses. As long as inferior horses are so high in price there is no inducement for the penurious breeder to patronize the grade stallion. If a breeder desires to maintain size in his horses he must feed them liber ty. Growing good horses to sell among ihe better class of farmers is the saf ?st branch of the business for most "armers to practice. Grooming instills vigor into the horse, and the removal of dirt and the stimulation of the skin go' far toward preventing harness sores. Soundness should be the basis in the selection of a draft stallion. It takes two or more crops of colts to establish a stallion in any locality. The man who uses draft mares to perform his farm work cannot afford to put them in the hands of an incom petent hired man. Many men have obtained profits from a moderate beginning in breed ing draft horses. The deceit and trickery practiced by dick salesmen 'jji ■ selling draft stal ions on the company plan has done great injury to the cause of horse Breeding in many sections. A horse with a good disposition, ouilt on good, clean legs, with ample 3epth of chest and middle, will keep in pood condition on less feed thaD one of the opposite type. The average brood mare on the farm will do better and raise a better, healthier colt if worked moderately nearly up to the time of foaling than if pampered and kept in idleness. Start to educate the colt while he is quite young. Give him a little of his way, but a little more of yours, gradually bringing him to your way of thinking. Sundays and holidays or days when horses are standing in the stable, the grain ration should be reduced one half. Gentle colts mean easily handled, valuable horses. Using the whip only puts more fear into a skittish horse. A kicky horse is a bother and a nui sance. besides being a constant danger to every member of the farm family. You may just depend upon it that the colt will not possess any more virility than his sire—and he may not possess even that amount. The quickest and most effective way for you to learn the difference between a scrub and a well-bred horse is to offer one of each kind for sale on the market. If you do not speak to the horse every time you pass behind his heels you may wake up some morning with a skinned head or a broken bone. When a horse hears a racket behind him, sometimes he does not wait to see what it is, but whacks away at it with both feet. The farmer cannot well keep the work horses in poor condition through the whole winter, then shape them up and go right into the heavy field work next spring, with them looking well and ready to do maximum work. Keep the horses in prime condition during the entire winter. It will not only mean a saving of feed, but it will insure the animals being ready to go right to work when needed. PRESERVATION OF POULTRY DROPPINGS Farmer Can Materially Add to His Earnings by Caring for Hen Manure. A recent bulletin of the Maine ag ricultural experiment station shows hat the poultry man or farmer can materially add to the profits of his business by properly caring for the Iroppings of his fowls. For example, t is shown that the droppings from 1.000 fowls, if preserved without need ,ess loss, are worth at least $300 per tnnum. and this estimate is based on ;he assumption that less than half of the droppings, or only 30 pounds per aen per year, can be collected. According to the Maine station, the Iroppiirgs should be collected daily ind mixed with substances which will (1) prevent loss of nitrogen, (2) add | •uflicient potash and phosphoric acid lo make a better balanced fertilizer, and (3) to improve the mechanical condition of the manure so that it can be applied to the land with a manure spreader. This can be done as follows: To >ach 30 pounds of the manure add 10 pounds of sawdust, good dried loam, jr peat, 10 pounds of acid phosphate ind 8 pounds of kainit. Such a mixture will contain about 1.25 per cent of nitrogen. 4.5 per ceift of pho» phoric acid and 2 per cent of potash, which, used at the rate of two tons per acre would furnish 50 pounds of , nitrogen. 185 pounds of phosphoric I scid and 80 pounds of potash, and at j the present price of fertilizing ingredi- I ?nts is worth about $10 per ton. The 1 mixture would furnish a well-balanced ! stable fertilizer, which, although not ' fine enough to work well in drills, can ! be successfully applied with a manure 1 spreader. The treated manure should be well sheltered until time to apply to the land—that is, shortly before plowing. Keep Salt Around Stable. t'se rock salt around the stable, i keeping a piece the size of an apple In each grain box for the horses. Prevent Bowel Trouble. A tablespoonful of baking soda placed in the water two or three times a week will prevent bowel trouble. Steer Pay* Grocery Bill. A steer or two turned off the farm each year will pay the grocery bill. Avoid Icy Roads. Do not drive a smooth-shod horse on an icy road. Attend to Bedding. Keep the stock well bedded HAUL MANURE FOR VEGETABLE GARDEN Fertilizer Should Be Piled During Winter So It Will Be Ready for Spring. Manure should be hauled and piled during winter so it can rot and be in good condition to spread broadcast or in the drills for the early vegetables. Two loads of coarse, strawy manure, when rotted, will make one load of rotted manure. If manure is t» be broadcasted it will take fully twenty loads of coarse manure when rotted to cover one acre. Truckers and farm gardeners spread the manure in the drill or put it in the hill. When used this way six two horse cartloads of rotted manure will be enough for one acre. Owing to the scarcity of manure in the city, rye and sand vetch, cow peas aud buckwheat are largely sown for green manure. These crops are plowed down when in bloom, ground rolled after plowing and the top sur face kept mellow with the slanting tooth harrow. Animal bone fertilizers drilled in at the rate of 800 to 1,000 pounds to the acre in connection with a green ma nure crop plowed down will bring as good a crop of roots, tomatoes, cab bage. or sweet corn as a heavy dress ing of stable manure. This method of fertilizing land is found to give very satisfactory returns; there are few weeds and if the green mass is plowed under several weeks before the vegetable crop ts planted so as to be well rotted, there will be a mellow seed bed, well filled with humus, capable of holding the rainfall needed for plant growth. The manure for vegetables should be made up in compact heaps, the horse manure should be eoxered with a load of cattle manure and each load given a half bushel of plaster. Make large, compact heaps close to where it is to be used. This saves extra work in the busy season. If the heap is covered with a six-inch layer there will be no loss of ammonia, as the earth will absorb it. Profitable Turkeys. Turkey hens are profitable until five years of age, but it is a good plan to change the gobblers every year. It re quires 28 days to hatch a turkey egg, and seven eggs is considered a setting. The nests should be on the ground. Keep Stock Comfortable. Meat is high, so is grafu and rough age. It Is, therefore, necessary that the farmer who is feeding stock should get the most jut of his feeds. Stock must be comfortable to give a good account of their food. Slip OF FI6S FOB IICHILMWELS It is cruel to force nauseating, harsh physic into a sick child. _ Look tack at your childhood days. Remember the "dose" mother insisted on — castor oil, calomel, cathartics. How you hated them, how you fought against taking them. With our children it's different. Mothers who cling to the old form of ! physic simply don t realize what they i do. The children s revolt is ■well-found- j ed. Their tender little • insides" are | injured by them. If your child's stomach, liver and ' bowels need cleansing, give only deli- 1 clous “California Syrup of Figs.” Its | action is positive, but gentle. Millions j of mothers keep this harmless “fruit ; laxative" handy; they know children < love to take it: that it never fails to ! clean the liver and bowels and sweet- , en the stomach, and that a teaspoonful given teday saves a sick child tomor- i row. Ask at th? store for a f.O-cent bottle ’ of “California Syrup of Figs," which i has full directions for babies, children ! of all ages and for grown-ups plainly on each bottle. Adv. The Proof. “Is that a joke?" “Yes, certainly. “How do you know?" "Why. a professional humorist said it was.” “Hov.- did he know?” “Why, he wrote it himself." FALLING HA!R MEANS , DANDRUFF IS ACTIVE Save Vour Ha rl Get a £5 Cent Bottle i of Danderine Right Now—Also Steps Itching Scalp. Thin, brittle, colorless and scraggy hair is mute evidence of a neglected scalp; cf dandruff—that awful scurf. • There is nothing so destructive to | the hair as dandruff. It robs the hair ! of its luster, its strength and its very ! life; eventually producing a feverish ness and itching of the scalp, which if not remedied causes the hair roots to shrink, loosen and die—then the , hair falls out fast. A little I>anderine tonight—now—any time—will surely save your hair. Get a 23'cent bottle of Knowlton's Danderine from any store, and after ( the first application your hair will take on that 3ife, luster and luxuriance which is so beautiful. It will become wavy and fluffy and have the appear ance of abundance; an incomparable gloss and softness, but what will please you mcEt will be after just a few weeks’ use. when you will actual- ] ty see a lot of fine, downy tair—new 1 hair—growing all ever the scalp. Adv. ' Covered. “Isn't that a new door-mat you have? Strange. I didn't notice it be fore." “You were standing on it before.’’ 4 if if pure: Aiialia eari More than 30 years ago Saber s Catalog ; i boomed Alfalfa, years before other seeds men though: if its value. Today Salzer excels' His Alfalfa strains include Grimm, iMontana Liscom. Agr. College inspected i. Salz=r's Dakota Registered Xo. 30—all hardy as oak. For 70c in Postage We gladly triad our Catalog ! and sample patkage of Ten Fa nious Farm Seed?. including Spe tz. "The Cereal Wonder;” Rejuvenated White Bonanza Oats. "The Prize Winner;" Bil lion Dollar Grass. Teosinte, the ir-ilo Filler. Alfalfa, etc., etc. Or Send 12c And we will mail you our big Catalog and six generous i packages of Early Cabbage. 1 Carrot. Cucumber. Lettuce, Radish. Onion—furnishing lots and lots of juicy delicious Vegetables during the eariy Spring and Summer. Or send to John A. Salzer Seed Co., Box 704, La Crosse, Wls., twenty cents and receive both above collec tions and their big catalog. According to statistics, there are more men with blockheads than wood en legs. II EMBARGO ON WHEAT The United States Wheat Pro duction Admits of 100 Mil lion Bushels for Export. The talk in the press some little time back of placing an embargo on wheat, brought forcibly to the minds of the people of the United States a condition that may at some time in the near future face them. 100 mil lion bushels of an export of wheat means a splendid revenue to the country as well as to the farmer, and if this were assured year after year, there would be reason for con siderable congratulation. But last year's magnificent and abundant crop, which was estimated at 891 million bushels, cannot be expected every year. With a home consump tion of 775 million bushels, and a production in many years of little more than this, the fact is apparent that at an early date the United States will have to import wheat. It will be then that the people of the United States will be looking to other markets for a supply. And it Is then that the value of Western Canada lands will be viewed with consider able favor. The great area of wheat lands in Canada will then be called upon to provide the greatest jmrtion of the old world's supply, and also, in the opinion of the writer, that of the United States as well At present there are only about 12 million acres of these lands producing wheat. There are five times that many acres that ’can be brought under successful culti vation. Apart altogether from the value of these ’ands as wheat pro ducers there is an increased value to them from the fact that the soil is especially adapted to the growing of many other kinds of grain as well as all manner of cultivated grasses, while the native grasses are a won derful asset in themselves. Th« cli mate is especially favorable to the raising of live stock, such as horses, cattle, sheep and hogs. All these bring into the limelight the adapta bility of the soil, the climate and all other necessary conditions, to the carrying on of dairy farming, in a most profitable way. I here is no question that high prices for all that the farmer can grow or raise will continue for some years, and this is the great opportune time to take advantage of what Western Canada offers. Lands may be had as a free grant. These are mostly lo cated some little distance from rail ways at the present time, but sooner or later will be well served by rail ways that are projected into these districts. Land may also be secured by purchase at reasonable price, and an easy terms from holders of same. In many cases farms partly improved may be rented. A Winnipeg paper said recently: “Canada wants Ameri can immigrants. They make good Canadian citizens." And then speak ing of the erroneous impression that has gained some publicity in a portion of the United States press, says: "It cannot be too forcibly impressed upon the American mind that in coming to Canada they place themselves un der the freest democracy the world knows No citizen of this country, whether native or naturalized, can be compelled to military service. The only compulsion is the compulsion of conscience and patriotic duty. That is the motive that has prompted thou sands of Canadians to offer their lives. They are fighting as free men."—Ad vertisement. Reason. "There's no use talking,” began Mrs. Nagg. "I know it," interrupted Mr. Nagg. "and the fact that you persist in talk ing after making that declaration simply proves what I have often as serted, regarding the lack of logic exhibited by some women. Now pro ceed with your lecture.” When Your Eyes Need Care r«e Murine Eye 3fedicine. NoSmaning—Fee’.s Fine—Acts Oulckly. Try it for II»h1, Weak, Sore Eyes and liranulated Eyelids', Murine is compounded by our Orulists—not a “Patent Medicine”—but used in successful Physicians’ Practice for many years. Now dedicated to the Public and sold by ~ruggrists at BOe per Bottle. Murine Eye Salve iu Aseptic Tubes, 25c and 50e. Write for Book of the Ey Free. Murine Eye Remedy Company, Chicago. Adv Probably nothing makes a woman so angry as to esk a man for liis candid opinion of her—and get it. Many a man imagines he’s the w hole circus who hasn't the ?host of a show. A real | guarantee I on roofing!! useless risk is to buy roofing not guaranteed by a responsible con cern. When you buy our roofing you get the written guarantee of the world '• largest manufacturers of roofing and building papers. Buy materials that last ferfaw-feerf Roofing —our leading product—is guaranteed 5 years for 1-ply, 10 years for 2-p!y and 15 years for 3-ply. We also mate lower priced roofing, slate surfaced shingles, building papers, wall boards, out-door paints, plastic cement, etc. Ask your dealer far products made by ns. They are reasonable in price anti we stand behind them. General Roofing Manufacturing Co. WorltTa laront manufaeturrra of Roofing and Building Pa pm Rtw York City Boston Chicago Pi!tsk«rfk Philadelphia Aciaata Cleveland Detroit St. Louis CmcmiiH Ka«tu City Mian-a bo’* Sou Fr&acisco Seattle London Ham Wry Sydney DEFIANCE STARCH is constantly growing in favor because it Does Not Stick to the iron and it will not injure the finest fabric For i laundry purposes it has no equal. 16 ox. package 10c. 1-3 more starch for same money. DEFIANCE STARCH CO., Omaha. Nebta.sk* Changed Views. ' Time makes a big difference." i "What are you thinking of?" "My wife's father. I used to think, j him a stubborn old fool. Now 1 re spect his judgment.” “What’s happened?” ‘ Nothing, only he did his duradest to prevent my eloping w ith his daugh ter.”— Detroit Free Press. The Climbers? j He—Men are descended from mon : keys. She—Some haven’t descended y, t.— I Judge. Quite Happy. "Did the play have a happy ending'" "Comparatively so. All money was ! refunded al't^r the second act."—Hun. — Millions of pa-titular women now use j and recommend lied Cross Ball Blue. All < grocers. Adv. Many a callow youth has been hard hit by a soft glance. Many a marble heart doe6 business beneath a sealskin jacket. Most people are too polite to speak the truth on all occasions. • KOW-KUKE, the jrreat cow medicine, has men a i wonderful tonic effect on thegenitaimnd digestive ' organs tha: many cow ailments common i y r«-*card- J ed as sen* os can be prevented o- prrompt.'y re lieved. 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Whole System Affected Disordered Kidneys Brought Weeks of Intense Suffering O. K. Booth, painter. Randolph® Intel Randolph. Neb., pays: **I was afflicted wltl a serious caa c.f kidney trouble and dropsy. At first my back began to ache a&d the* •harp, darting palna shot through my atirw body. My feet and hands got . ^d and numb. This was followed by swelling’ my limbs ami puffy spots appeared tinder my eyes. »n fact, I was all bloa: d up. <— I came to the conclusion that I had drspsy. I had to neglect my business f.»r nearly a month. I was all doub-ed up and at r.lgat could g« t no rest. I had chills and often had a high fever. .At night in order t3 get. relief from the pain in my back I had t# lie In bed, propped up with pillows. 1 had a constant desire to pass the kidney reere tlons and they were scanty, painful and tained sediment. Nothing helped me ur.u took Doan's Kidney Pills. They cur el m« and since then I have been free from t* trouble.”