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The ttcbrss!ca Independent
42--P1ECE MONOGRAM DINNER SET
JUST NOTICE the beauti
ful decorations and the
exquisitely traced design. The
ware seini-vitreous , emi-por-celain
decalcomania, and the
glaze is put on ho perfect and
the decorations are hurned on
underneath so carefully, that I
we guarantee this ware never
to craze, should last a lifetime
It makes no difference what
initial your'e may be; and we
use only the most beautiful
style of lettering. An oppor
tunity to Fecure a beautiful
Monogram Dinner Set made to
order with your initial on each
dish, at half the usual price
does not come very often, and
may never come ajrain. Our I
A. .1 'll .1 ' .. II 1
coutraci mm me ractory calls
for a limited number of sets at
a special introductory price,
which enable us to make the
unparalled offer wh do. The
price to the press, for the pur
pose of advertising the wares,
is lower than factory price to
jobbers.
Monogram Dinner Sets are all the rage. Never so Popular as now. Order a set at once.
The Independent One Year and the Dinner Set $4
Each Dish Decorated
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THE INDEPENDENT
Wild Rose Designs in
Colors and Edges
Traced in Gold.
THE BUFFALO
' The total area inhabited by the buf
falo was about 3,000,000 square miles.
Of this the open plains were one
half. According to figures supplied
me by A. F. Potter of the Forest Ser
vice, the ranges of the' Dakotas, Mon
tana, Wyoming, Nebraska, Kansas,
Colorado, Texas and Oklahoma (a
total of about 750,000 square miles,
or half of the plains) were, according
to the census of 1900, carrying 24,
000,000 head of cattle and horses and
about 6,000,000 head of sheep. This
means that when' fully stocked they
might sustain a number of buffalo at
least equal to the number of cattle
and horses. The buffalo had to divide
their heritage with numerous herds of
mustangs, antelope and wapiti; on the
other hand, a buffalo 'could finl a
living where a range animal would
starve, many of the richest bottom
lands are now fenced in, and we have
taken no account of the G.OOOOO
sheep. Therefore, we are safe-'in
placing at 40,00't),000 the buffalo for
merly ltving on the entire plains
area. Scribner's: Magazine.
essary plant food is supplied by put
ting commercial fertilizers into the
water. The fattening bed must be
in shallow water, so as to have a rela
tively high temperature.
A wall is maintained around the fat
tening ground, so as to retain the fer
tilizer and diatoms. Even after the
diatoms have multiplied enormously
the oysters receive no benefit from
them unless a current is maintained
in the water to carry the food to the
oysters. Salt water is pumped in to
prevent the fattening beds from be
coming too fresh, and a little lime !s
added to the - water to prevent , the
growth of algae and other plants
which give' a disagreeable flavor to
the oysters.' Too much lime, on the
other . hand, will - destroy the foo 1
plants of the oyster. The process
srems somewhat complicated, but it
has been demonstrated to be feasible
and to yield fine results in the numbe
and quality of oysters. Country Life
in America
lady. "What I object to is that it
should be. called ice cream pudding.
It's wrongly named. There should be
ice cream served with it."
"Yes, ma'am," replied the waiter,
"but that's jest our name for. it Lots
o' dishes that way. Dey don't bring
you a cottage with a cottage pudding,
you know." Success.
HOW OYSTERS ARE FATTENED
At . Lynnhaven, Va., the United
States bureau pt fisheries has ; been
working for, several years on a plan
to establish an artificial fattening b'-d
for oysters. The. oyster lives chiefly
on diatoms and. other microscopic ma
rine plants. These plants require for
their growth a large supply of in
organic salts in the water. The nec-
COTTAGE PUPPING
' Simeon Ford tells of a woman in a
Chicago hotel who was known as the
most inveterate "kicker" the hostelry
had ever known.
One evening at dessert the lady who
was always complaining asked the
waiter why i the dish served her was
called "ice 'cream pudding."
"If . you don't like it, ma'am,;!'!!
bring you something else," suggested
the polite negro.
"Oh, it's very nice," responded the
FORCING THE MILLENNIUM
Thomas A. Edison, celebrating, his
fifty-ninth birthday, prophesied that
the world would soon have flying ma
chines, cheap automobiles and a dozen
other marvelous things. V
"Do you think, sir," said a young
lady reporter, "that the world will
ever be Christianized?"
Mr. Edison smiled.
"Not only do I think so,". he said,
"but I think we shall both livedo see
it. Just look at the way these big
improved machine guns are wiping
out the ' heathen." Baltimore American.
pound weight and well on the hook,
then a pike of four pounds, which
had half swallowed the perch, then a
pike of thirteen pounds weight, who
had seized on the smaller pike. In
his endeavor to wrest the perch from
him. London Daily Mail.
Its Coming Vacation
"Yes, I'm going to spend a few
weeks at Kloseman's" summer resort,
need a rest."
"Well, your stomach will get a good
rest there, too. I know the place."
Chicago Tribune.
Will Leave Her Alone
"Miss Cutting says she is going to
sleep out of doors all summer."
"Why, the mosquitoes will eat her
up!" . -
"No, they won't she's too sour."--Detroit
Free Press.
THE BUSY ANGLER
An angler in the River Meuse, in
Belgium, while fishing recently, felt
a light bite as he. was pulling in h?3
line. Then there was a second pull,
and just as the fish was appearing on
the water an enormous pike made a
spring at it, and went off with his
prey and 100 feet of line. After much
trouble it ws wound in, and the as-.'
tonished angler found that he" had
caught first a perch of about one-j
. ... Practical ;" .
"You are, the only girl I ever loved"
he declared passionately.
"That's nice," she answered. "But,,
really, you know, it's a lot more impor- .
tant for me to be assured thU I'm the',
only girl you're ever, going to love.",
Cleveland eLader. .
"He , is an accomplished linguist,',
said tble, admiring friend.
"Yes,"' nnswered Miss Cayenne. "Ho
is one of those people who speak many
languages but never think anything
worth saving in any of them." Wash
ington Star.