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GREW SEPJIHATOR TALK I
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That dairying is one of the most profitable branches of farming,
is, and has for a long time, been a well known fact. Not only
in that it keeps the fertility of the soil at home, where it may
bs used to produce other crops, but also for the fact that it pro
vides the farmer with a weekly cash income from the sale of
butterfat. That the farmers of this vicinity are aware of the
benefit to be derived from this source, is apparent by the high
prices which are being paid for milch cows. After investing
$75.00 or more in a milch cow, why not derive the full benefit
from such a purchase by the use of a good cream separator? In
this article we wish to present to you the RUMLEY-OLDS
cream separator, which has no superior on the market. This
separator is of the disc type of machine, which is recognized as
being the best type and has many superior points over other
machines. The makers have not figured how cheap, but how
good they could make a cream separator, and every feature to
be found on this machine are considered the acme of cream
separator construction. Some of the points to be found on this
separator are the helical gears, reversible phosphor bronze
worm wheel, ball bearing contact points on bottom and top of
bowl spindle, noiseless roller ratchet which engages instantly
at any point, large milk supply can with no sharp corners (easi
ly washed and kept clean) split wing for milk distribution in
bowl with patent wings which distributes milk evenly to all
discs alike (therefore allowing of closer skimming and less discs
than other machines of like type, also allowing of slower speed
and prevents milk from foaming and thereby being dangerous
to feed to calves). Call and see this machine and be convinced.
We are willing to allow you to try this machine in competition
with any other make of separator in the market. ONE TRY
WILL MAKE YOU BUY.
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(STATUE PUZZLES WISE MEN
(English Scientist! Unable to Plao
Stone Figure Which Graces Hall
; of Westminster.
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I The lions of Westminster are legion,
somo In the flesh and others In stone
ior tnnrblu; recently there has been
(an addition to the menagerie, around
'which there Is an sgreeablo halo of
mystery.
; In a gloomy nlcho half way down
(Westminster hall there Is dimly to b
jdeacrled a gray stone statue of a king
which has Just been taken out of the
.Architectural museum and perched
aloft. There Is a heavy crown on his
head over long flowing hair, thu beard
Is rippled and majestic. In IiIh loft,
hand ho holds tho orb, but tho scepter
hand Is gone. The old king broodtj
over the hnll of kings.
Tho experts am puizlcd over hlsj
history. He stood In Wostmlnstor,
hall for many centuries side by side)
with other stnno kings and all were,
tidied away by tho government In
185G. Recently It occurred to Lord
Beauchamp to try tho effect of bring
ing them back. Several of tho beauti
ful Gothic windows am blind, forming
nlchcB sultublo for statues, and all
tho old forgotten kings may tako their
places In them.
This first one Is a beautiful person
age. No one knows what king he la
or whether It Is merely an Ideal figure
of majesty, but It Is certain that ho
is tho work of somo flno fourteenth
century craftsman.
Tho battered king Is tho grandest
statue In the hull. Below him llo In
ghostly row tho kings dono with tho
petty realism of tho modern age; im
mediately under hla blind majesty's
gazo Is tho broad face, cynically fur
rowed, of the morry monarch. The un
known king towers over theso peoplo
like a visitant from ampler times.
London Times.
HIS HEART SET ON LUXURIES
Indian Brave Wanted White Man's
Appurtenances to 8et Up
In Hie Tepee.
There Is a small Slwash village
near Seattle whore the squawa do
bead work to sell to tourists, and the
braves mako baskets, which they re
tail from house to house. There Is
one old Indian whose baskets are big
ger, brighter and better than all the
other baskets inado In tho village and
wear longer, and Crooked Dear never
comes back from his frequent trips
to Scattlo with any of his stock left
over. Neither docs ho return loaded
up with fire-water llko hlB brother In
dians, nor does any of his basket
money go for gaudy trinkets and red
calico, and gambling haH no charms
for him. Ho carefully saves ull his
money because ho wanted to own
three white man's luxuries, a tele
phone, a bicycle and a talking machine
Already ho has had a telophono put
In his tepee, and though ho never has
'more than one or two ends In a year
on it, and then from somo person or
dering baskets, it Is a constant uourco
If pride and gratification to him. He
will sit for hours In silent admiration
before It, and puts the silent receiv
er to his ear a dozen times a day. He
also has a bicycle, on which ho rides
'about the country with a load of
baskets, and he Is now saving up for
ithe talking machine.
Why Thundar Sours Milk.
It Is universally known that milk
turns sour after a thunder storm. This
has been attributed to the large quan
tity of ozone which Is liberated by the
electricity In the air. The experiments
at Professor Trillat In Paris do not
'confirm that theory. He has estab
lished that atmospheric depressions
'cause putrefying gases normal qui
escent to rise to tho surfaco of cer
tain substances, and in support of his
theory points out that odors of all
sorts are more permeating after
storms. Theso atmospheric depres
sions accelerate tho decomposition of
gases and tend to liberato them.
.Henco lactic ferment Is produced.
Professor Trillat haB made many ex
periments with diverse substances un
der varying pressures and haB ob
served that when the barometer Is
lowest (during storms, etc.) tho de
composition of gases la moat rapid.
Harper's Weekly.
t Trousseaux.
In ancient Greece the trousseau
were made by all the women of the
bride's house. Later the Merovingian
chiefs exacted that their brides should
.come to the marriage bringing all
their possessions. When the daugh
ter of the seigneur of Covey married,
er trousseaux, or "trousses," Includ-
d "nine servitors, thirty liegemen, a
(chaplain, and an astrologist." The
customs of the seigneurs evolved
popular "fashions," and, high and low,
the women multiplied their garments
and the fashions of them.
Under tho empire tho trousseau
was composed of Jewels, lace, flno un
derwear, bonnets, and veils. Harper's
Weekly.
Heroic Rescue.
Threo-yoar-old Montaguo and two-year-old
Harold wern having a bath
together In the big tub.
Mother left them a moment while
she went Into tho next room. Sudden
ly a succession of agonized shrieks
called her. Two dripping, terror-,
stricken little figures stood, clasped la
each othor'B arms, In the middle of tho
bathroom floor,
"Ob, mother," gasped Montaguo, "I
got blm out! I saved him I The stop-'
per came out and we were going
down I "Youth's Companion.
SPIES HELP TO WELLINGTON
Archivist ef French War Office Says
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Great Napoleon.
An interesting statemeat was made
'not long ago before the French Acad
omle des Sciences Morales et Poll
Itlques, by M. Bonnal, archivist to the
'.French war office. According to M.
'Bonnal, Dumourlet, "coached" Welling
ton from 1808 to 1814, and the latter
often reaped the benefit of betrayals
by aristocratic French officers who
had relatives In London.
M. Donnal goos to the archives of
the Spanish war office, there to hunt
'up confessions by Spanish officers In
tho service of King Joseph Bonupnrto
of their own treason somo of thes
confessions recorded ns early ns 181G,
under Ferdinand VII. Without any
sort of shamu they acknowledge then
that they betrayed Joseph to secret
agents of Wellington.
In a time of universal scare, Well
ington hsw more clearly than nnyono
this was his great merit that Na
poleon was fust using up the military
resources of France, and, indeed, all
but Its soil, cllmato and genius, and
tiring out the latter, llo managed to
keep Spain nn open sore In tho ene
my's flank, and thus left hopes to the
continental courts for tho downfall of
tho Corsica!) if they could coalesce
ugalnBt him.
M. Ilonnal says that plans dictated
by Napoloon for IiIb brother King Jo
seph's guldnnco were found by guerril
las and passed on to Wellington. The
idea of tho lines of Torres Vedras to
defend Lisbon has been placed to the
credit of that renowned captain. Their
real author Is now discovered in tho
French Colonel Vincent, who knew tho
country and had served as a military
engineer under Junot and Dupont. Ills
plans to fortify the Torres Vedras
hills wore stolen and sent to Wellington.
ALMA MATER ALWAYS LOVED
To the End ef Life College Man
Thlnke With Joy of Hie Golden
Student Dsys.
The phrase "college llfo" Is an
Americanism and It has no equivalent
In any other language but English. It
describes, to thoso who use It with un
derstanding and sympathy, an experi
ence out of which grows a deep senti
ment made up of pleasure, friendship,
uffectlon, loyalty and prido. It seems
to them "a tender Influence, a peculiar
grace," that reaches out across miles
and years, drawing them back to their
Alma Muter, and tho comradeship of
their classmates. To most graduates
their college llfo seems their golden
age; through tho mist of years thu
campus becomes an Island of Utopia
whosu very tediums grow bright in tho
retrospect, tho sting of whoso sins and
fullurcB was always lessened by tho
power of tho Ideals and hopes thut
llllcd Its air. No campus over was a
Utopia, and the most golden age of
memory has doubtless been much al
loyed with baser metal, but if thcro Is
not something very bright and beauti
ful in American college llfo It Is hard
to account for the feeling In thousands
of gray-haired men that long ago in
their youth, besides tho education they
got or fallod to get, they gained around
the knees of Alma Mater lasting Joy,
strength and Inspiration that was not
entirely contained In the books they
read and cannot be exactly measured
by the knowledge they acquired. Paul
Van Dyke, In 8crlbner's Magazine.
They Old Better Then.
"We are losing all our secrets In;
this shabby age," an architect said
"If we keep on, the time will come1
whon we'll be able to do nothing well.
"Take, for Instance, steel. We claim)
to make good steel, yet the blades the
Saracens turned out hundreds of years;
ago would cut ono of our own blades;
In two llko butter.
"Tako Ink. Our modern Ink fades
In flvo or ten years to rust color, yot
tho ink of mediaeval manuscripts is
ns black and bright today ns It was
700 yearB ago.
"Tako dyes. Tho beautiful blues and
reds nnd greens of antique orlontal
rugs havo all been lost, while in
Egyptian tombs we find fabrics dyed
thousands of years ago that remain
today brighter and purer In hue than
any of our modern fabrics.
"Take my specialty, buildings. We
can't build aa the anclentB did. The,
secret of their mortar and cement Is
lost to us. Their mortar and cement
were actually harder and more duiv
able than tho stones they bound tc
gether, whoreas ours horrors!"
Never On.
Senator Penrose, on a visit to Atlan
tic City, rang for a bellboy to take a
telegram, but It was not until the
twelfth or thirteenth ring that tho boy
appeared.
"You've been a long tlmo coming,"
Bald tho senator.
"Yes, sir," said the boy. "You see,
sir, It's our dinner hour."
Senator Penroso smiled grimly.
"I know why you bellboys aro called
buttons," ho sold. "You're always off."
Acceptable Gift.
A woman who has traveled widely
says one of tho most accoptablo gifts
one can mako to n friend going on a
steamer Is a box or Jar of stuffed
prunes, These are rarely given, can
be eaten when other fruits are Indi
gestible and aro mildly laxative.
As ono authority advises free use
of prunes for nervous peoplo, declar
ing they have a quieting effect, the
eating of prunes on shipboard should
help to check seasickness always
augmented by "nerves."
JWHERE HORACE MADE SON!
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Ssbtne Home Rendered Immortal fey
I Poet still Retains All Its Famed
J Beauty.
A few verses written two thousaaS
lyears ago have rendered the little val
iley of the Llcenza one of the most
famous places within easy reach of
jltome. Had Maeceas been less gener
ous a patron, had ho never given the
rSablne farm to Horace, had Horace
(never told the world and bis friends
how his days there were spent, few
would now make the classical excur
sion into the Sabine hills, though
time has not marred their beauty.
The villa of Horace has disappeared.
but the hills aro as lovely as they
were In his day. Now, aa then, If one
Koea from Uomn to Tlvoll. and thence
'to Vllovnro, thcro turning up the val
Iley of tho Llcenza and wandering o
thy road, as ono muBt, since there Is no
'railway; ho comes, somo few miles far
ther, to a great rock that springs ab
ruptly from the lower slopes and tilt
(over them at nn interesting angle.
This is "tho citadel Horace had to
iscalo" to reach his houso, and marks,
lt 1b thought, tho boundaries of the
tfarm. The only difference Is that the
tlltllo vlllago of Koccnglovlno rises on
top, whoro of old stood the Templo of
Vacuna, already in ruins when Hor
ace sat under Its shadow to write toj
'his friend In Rome. Tho little tow
,had dono Its best to moot Its classical
responsibilities, and has given the
,namo of tho templo to Its piazza.
Hero still are tho olives thst pay
tho Sabine farmers best, and the Tine
Ithat yield tho rough little Sabine wlna
that Horace has made more renowned1
(than many a rarer vintage. Here are
tho hills whore he wandered, and the.
woods that gave acorns to his flocks
and shade to him. Here are the bab
bllng spring and the banks upon,
'which ho rested during the hours he
counted his happiest the Dandaluslaa
spring to which he promised Immor
tality In his song. And as he prom
ised so he gave. Not merely the
spring, but all that vast estate, which
the satirists of his time would have
imen believe was but "a lizard's hole,"
!ho has made Immortal.
INVENTOR Of CORN BROOM
Levi Dickinson, Nstlve of Connecticut,
Is the Man to Be Accorded
the Honor.
"Although It Is not generally
known," Bald a manufacturer of
'brooms, "tho houso broom, such aa
tho housewifo uses, Is comparatively
a recent Invention, dating back to
178G. Before that time husk brooms
iwcro used to Bweep out the ovens and
splinter brooms, inado of birch, were
used for everyday use. Tho present
'broom industry might bo said to have
'hnd Its beginning in Connecticut In
,1780, when Lovl Dickinson, a natlvo
of Weutherfleld, wont to Hadlcy car
rying with him a now kind of corn
seed which ho showed his friends, say
ing that when full grown It would
'mako better brooms than ever had
jboen made. The Hadley women
.laughed at him, but despite this, Dick--In
son was not discouraged, but har
vested his first crop of broom corn,
managed to scrape the seed from the
ibrush with a knife and a hoe, after
which he made his brooms. He made
the complete broom, Including the
bandies, and grew his own flax for the
'twine, the whole costing him little.
Believing that his neighbors would re
fuse to buy the new kind of broom.
.Dickinson In 1798 peddled bis brooms
In Williamsburg, Ashfleld and Cob
way. The next year be carried them
to Pittsburg. The new brooms took,
for as soon aa housewives found bow
much better they were over the old
husk or birch broom thoy would buy
no other. Other men went Into the
business and a now Industry was bora
In Hadley. Dickinson lived until 1843,
long enough to see the Hadley or corn
broom in ubo all over the country,
and tho flame broom, with Improve
ments, Is still in uso."
Toe That Rocks the Cradle.
Unique and probably tho most prim
itive cradlo rocking device ever seen
or employed In any part of tho world
Is tho one that has been adopted by
the matter-of-fact squaws of the Kwa
klutl tribe of Indians now living on
Vancouver Island, British Solumbia.
The mother performs the double duty
of spinning and rocking ber infant,
snugly packed in a hollowed out cradle
stuffed with cedar bark strips sus
pended from the limb of a sapling".
This Is about the most realistic rep
resentation of the old nursery song.
"Rocka-by, Baby, In the Treetop" so
far known.
The moBt striking part, however, la
that the Indian mother uses her big
too as the motive power. With a
cord attached to the bent limb and
the other end wound around her toe,
she swings her dangling offspring to
and fro, leaving her hands entirely
freo for weaving. Christian Herald.
He Saw It.
Housekeeper How is thlB? Yo
promised to saw somo wood If I gave
you u lunch, .
Tramp I recall no such promise,
madam.
Housekeeper Tho Ideal I told yum
I would give you a lunch If you'd saw
somo wood, and you agreed.
1 Tramp Pardon me, madam; yos
exact words were: "I'll give you a
lunch if you saw that wood over tkera
by the gate."
Housekooper Exactly; that's Just
what I said. '
Tramp Well, madam, I saw tke
wood over there by the gate wkw
came In.
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