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GOOD HORSES ARE IN FAVOR There le Growing Demand for the Bet ter Claes of Driving and Car riage Animals. "The horse was never in higher fa vor than at present, and it was uev er harder to find a good one," said Ar nold I,awson, an ardent admirer of the horse, recently, "Ten years ago line horacH were common and prices were moderate. Today a matched pair Is almost Impossible to find, nnd the price named by the dealer Is ap pnling. Horseback riding is going to be one of the fads of the summer, and the woman who has grown stout nnd listless will take to the bridle pntliH ngnln to reduce her weight and bring her back Into form. In consequence of this society will veer hark to the horse." Among the wealthy people of Bos ton horseback riding in the parks and bridle paths along the boulevards Is now becoming more and more notice able, says the New York Herald. Hun dreds of fashionable women are tak ing a morning canter on horseback and an afternoon drive behind a pair of line horses There 1h a growing demand for the better class of driv ing nnd carriage horses, and prices are Increasing with the demand. Many wealthy men and women, who sold most of their horses when the day of of the automobile came, are now in the market for good horses with which to refill their stables. Prize Winner and Foal. Mr. Lawson, who la an ardent ad mirer of the horse, says that horses are more desirable today than they ever were, and that because of the fact that so many dealers In fancy stock have been driven out of busi ness have practically cornered the market for good hnrsos and uro sell ing them at prices which are almost fabulous. It Is said that at Dream wold Thomas VV. Igtwson's stock of fine horses Is as large as ever. He uses his automobiles for long trips, but his horses for pleasure. It la Inti mated that he will have a stable of show horses at the National next fall. "There Is nothing, to my mind, that can take the place of a' well-bred horse," said Arnold Lawson. "1 do not know of any thing that affords more pleasure than handling the reins over a high-stepping spirited, blooded horse Whether it Is true or not that there Is a corner in the supply they are certainly very hard to obtain, and fancy prices are being paid for such • us come up to requirements. "Horse dealers all over the world have been gathering up the finest horses to meet the reaction that they have seen was bound to come. The supply has been greatly diminished, of course, because el the small demand of recent years for riding and driving horses. This has made fancy prices possible." BUILDING CHEAP HOG HOUSE Convenient Structure for Animals May Be Placed in Side of Hill With out Much Expense. (Bv W. 1*. NKA1.K. Missouri.) A very convenient hog house may be constructed in the side of a hill without much expense. If the hill slopes to the south so much the better. An excavation can be made in the side of the hill the desired size of the house. The dirt may be thrown out so as to form an embankment to the north, east and west. Posts can be set in the ground nud two by tour pieces nailed uu them upon which boards Kir the covering may rest. The roof should slant to the north, so that the sun may shine under as far as possible. Good ventilation must be provided at the top and draughts shut out. This will be an excellent place for brood sows to farrow in, for they will be protected from the weather. Raising Bull Calf. Good bull calves can be bought cheaply. Get one and raise it. It will be ready for service at about one year old. In this way you can afford to have the best stock. Work Horses Carefully. Work the horses carefully these hot days. Gse judgment and practically as much work will be done and not Injure the horses. Much depends upon •the driver. When to Sell Lamb. When a lamb gels so it weighs 80 or 100 pounds, sell it. You will get a good price for it and the rest will <io the better for the ad ed pasture. ROAD t”trl E4KM IMPROVEMEN T HOW TO OPERATE ROAD DRAG There Are Few Period* During Yeai When U*e of Implement Will Not Prove Beneficial The surface of the average country road should be covered In one round with the drag. One horse should bt driven on the Inside of the whee track and the other on the outside the drag being set, by means of tht chain, so that It Is running at nr angle of about 45 degrees with the wheel track, and working toward tin center of the road. In the spring when (he roads are more likely lo bt rutty and soft It Is generally better tt go over the road twice or more. The drag should be floored wifi boards which nre separated by oper spaces of sufficient width so that the dirt, which falls over will rattle through. On roads with heavy traffic the drag should be used much of tenor and wilt more care than on roads with light traffic The distance from the drag at which the team is hltnhod affects the cutting. A long hitch permits the blade to cut deeper than a short hitch likewise a heavy doubletree will cause the cutting edge to settle deeper than a light one. There are very few periods of the year when the'use of the drag does not benefit the road, but It does the Excellent Road Drag. best work when the soil is moist and yet not too sticky. This Is frequently within a half-day's time after u rain When the earth Is in this state It workH the best, snd the effects ol working It are fully as beneficial as at any other time. So much has been written and said pertaining to the great benefits from the use of the road drag that many people beginning the use of It become discouraged before they are well start ed. They should not feel thus as It often takes a whole season for the road to become properly puddled and baked to withstand the rains and traffic. After a road has been worked with a drag only u short time it is not well to expect It to stand lip to heavy traffic during a continued damp spell without being affected. However, it will take far heavier traffic limn most earth roads receive to moro than scuff up the surface. It is not well to consider the bene (Its from a good road as solely eon fined t-> heavy truffle, for there is no doubt but that the time saved to light vehicles and the greater pleasure de rive! front their use over good roads far surpasses the economy in heavy hauling. USES FOR GASOLINE ENGINE Device of Six-Horse Power Will Do More Work Than Dozen Men With Pitchforks. The Denver Republican prints the Illustration shown. This devloe is at work on the Washburn Jersey farm,1 and the Republican says: "The gasoline tank Is half hurled In the ground til some dlstnnee from tin | engine on account of the danger of an explosion. Tho little engine, a six horse power one, works faster and better than a dozen men with pitch forks, and those who study agrlcul tural conditions declare that the new machine will prove of great value in Slacking Hay. putting up hay quickly in the face oi an Impending rntn. The engine was made especially for the hay stacker with a view to much moving from field to field and considerable hard usage. As seen in operation at the dairy farm yesterday the machine was tossing the hay into great stacks as fast as the hay could be hauled from other parts of the field by four teams i with sleds." It is said that this engine will dc J twice the work that is possible when horses are used. Feed for Cows. All cows do not like the same kind of food, neither will they do so well as they would on some other kind INEBRIATE IS DEAD WEIGHT Progress Is Pushing Drunkard to One Side With Relentless Force—Old Order Was Kind. If conditions GO, 70 or 80 years ago were considered, the decrease shown in inebriety would be most striking, one drunkard being found in a thou sand where former!} there were prob ably 30 or 30. In the early days of the republic, whisky was an article of wide consumption, made so because it was the only alcoholic stimulant eas ily obtainable at a distance from the sea coast, and because large quanti ties of grain could be profitably con verted into liquor in the interior com m ttui ties. Economic causes have operated pow erfully lo diminish hard drinking. Fit' ty or CO years ago there were thou sands of communities in which profes sional men could drink to excess with out suffering in public opinion. Now such offenders would quickly lose their standing, and not only professional men, but workers in all the trades, •“specially those in which machinery is employed, are obliged to keep sober in order to hold their places. The in ebriate is a dead weight in modern society, says New York Tribune. The older order was more than kind to him, but the newer is relentless. The younger generation has accurate views on that point, and the proportion ol joimg men handicapping themselves with drinking habits is becoming small or every year. Young men nowadays tire too intent on other things to be greatly attracted by the cheap lure ol dissipation. All progress in the past half cen tury lias helped the cause of modern lion. Legislation has been appealed to both to end the stile of liquors and to regulate It. Hut economic and ed ucational pressure has done more than legislation to put a rigorous ban on inebriety. THEY ARE SOBER ENGINEERS Stringent Rules Against Drunkenness Enforced by Brotherhood—One Notable Example. It Is safe to say that no other union, club or organization of any sort ap plies qitte such heroic treatment to undesirable citizens as the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers. One thing that the brotherhood most strenuously insists upon Is that its members shall not drink. Thirty-five members were expelled for getting drunk in 1909. and their shame was publicly proclaimed in the Journal. The treatment does not stop here by any means. The brotherhood will not ! risk the lives of Us members and the general public by permitting a drink ing man to run an engine, writes ! Charles Frederick Carter In Century. 1 When a man has been duly convicted of drinking and punished according to the laws of the order, the facts are laid before the proper authorities on ' the road that employs hint, and his 1 discharge is demanded. In one no table instance the engineer of a fast train got drunk during his layover and disgraced himself. He was tried, con vleted and expelled, the tnnni’cement was Informed, and the offender's dis charge requested In regular form. Hut as the engineer had been a good man, the railroad company demurred, say ing that he had not been drunk while j on duty. “But," said the brotherhood, "there is no telling when a man who gets drunk ofT duty may take a notion to get drunk on duty, and we do not in tend to take any chances on having a drunken man tearing through the country at sixty miles an hour, endan gering the lives of others. It is un fair both to the efplovees In your serv ice and to your patrons.” The culprit was discharged He can never be employed on a railroad again. Temperance in Ireland. Increased (axes on whisky have had a tendency to decrease its consump tion in Ireland. It is shown that with tile decrease of consumption there has been a corresponding decrease in the number of nrr sts for drunkenness ;’o great has it > >n !'••* Improvement Cmt '■ Mr. I.lojt! <" ■ ■ . • 1 • net hesitate,! to I say "that it . u d h criminal on the part of nnv . urn: lit to reduce th impost ’ '> had produced such i n mediate and : atisf u t. rv result in ihn \ Improve!"1 at of the lialiits of tu ! people." In ■ ;hv'r words, the lo ,s to the nail, i ; I xchequer is more t'•■•v recouped in toe increased prosper!:, to the nation and the consequent i a provement in its ability to meet the calls of the tax payer. Temperance in Germany. The cause of temperance is making steady progress in Germany, and ac cording to the latest statistics Just published there are over 140,000 mem bers of the different temperance asso ciations throughout the country, the most important being the Internation al Order of Good Templars, with 40, 000 members, th* Blue Cross associa tions with 33,000 members, and the Salvation army with S.000 total ab stainers. The greatest number of eon verls have been made durilng the last year, in which time ihe International Order of Good Templars increased its membership by nearly 400 per cent STRONG DRiNK IS RUINOUS Men Preeminent for Intellectual At tainments All On Side of Temperance. Such brilliant lights as Burns and Pot* have been cited to prove that strong drink is an incentive to Are the imagination to lofty heights of fancy impossible to be reached in sober moments. Both Burns and Poe were victims of the drink habit and both geniuses, but their cases so far from supporting the claim of alcohol to usefulness ar gues against it. If Burns and Poe, God-gifted as they were, had kept their faculties clear and their reasons undimmed, what might they not have done? The for mer might have become the Homer of the Eastern and the latter the Dante or the Western World. As it was, these twin stars of the Armament of literalure scintillated fitfully for only a few years. They simply reeled through life until they came to the verge of premature graves and tot tered into them ere half their time on earth was spent, writes Madison C. Peters in an exchange. 1 lie age or Johnson may he termed the golden age of English literature. Its sky was studded with brilliancy, but bow long did the light last? Men of such transcendent gifts as Gold smith, Savage and Shenstone did not know the meaning of life. Their brief careers wore spent i nriotous living Charles Lever, prince of Irish novel ists, represented the Irish squires and gentlemen ns hard-headed, hard-drink ing, rollicking fellows, whose chief amusements were fox hunting, love making, and breaking one another's heads. For the most part this por trayal was true, but there were some notable exceptions to Lever's crea tions among the gentry of Ireland. The men who did the most for Ire land, who reflected an undying glory on her cause, were, if not teetotalers, at least temperate. Grattan, Flood, Wolfe, Tone, Fitzgerald and Jim met were temperate. O'Connell seldom drank a glass of wine. The Duke of Wellington was an abstemious man. Parnell in the heyday of his fame could not be induced to touch liquor. His head was always clear in the house, and this was the secret of his political foresight, which enabled him to accomplish so much. The great lenders of English poli tics, both In the past and present cen tunes, have been strictly temperate men. Gladstone only touched light wines on rare occasions.. Morley, a01 four, Spencer, Harcourt, Salisbury, Chamberlain, all early took their places beneath the temperance ban ner. At royal receptions and ambas sadors' balls none of these men could be induced to take liquor in any form. The well known literary men of1 England in our time have almost to a man been temperate. Dickens, though he drunk a glass of ale be times, never exceeded discretion. Ueade, Hcsant, Paine, Muchanan, Ten nyson and Crowning were all on the side of temperance. Tile same can bo said of the leading statesmen and writers of Germany. France, Italy and other European countries at i lie present day. The same is notably true of emi nent Americans. Have any of our great inventors been drunkards? They have spent their days and nights in ceaseless activity, perfecting their de- ! signs with clear brains and steady hands, only desisting to obey the call of exhausted nature. Edison, the wizard of electricity, never touches intoxicating liquors. Could the Wrights and Curtiss, Zep pelin and Hleriot have conquere 1 the j air with rum-drenched brains and 1 jangling nerves? Our great scientists and medical men, knowing well the dangers that lurk in the sparkling glass, shun it as they would deadly poison. Kelvin, Crookes, Roentgen and Koch have all been total abstainers. Drink saps the vital organs and dulls the brain. It has stripped the crown from the brow of manhood and engirdled it with a crimson band of shame; it has plucked the flowers from the garden of success and in their place has strewn the weeds of failure. It h:.s wn tubed the sword of victory from Hu hands of conquer ors, turned it into a ourge and driv en them from tie ictta of time into the darkness of < b ii 'y; from royal brows it has t ik -n it. -eriai crowns I and dashed t: in > -a;-., nts on the stone of <h and :;u " y The men who t ade \, r . were, with some nr nh'e ext e ;i. of ab stemious habits "till austere lives. Liquor never a ids, but always sub tracts. So far from being a stimu lant, it Is an anaesthetic; it deadens instead of quickens. Science has classed it as a sporiflc or narcotic. Instead of helipng man up It drags him down; instead of placing hint on the sun-crowned heights of success j and honor it places him in the gutter | of failure and shame. A Swedish Temperance Congress. The summer congress of the Swed ish Good Templars was opened at Los- ! ,-leholm. just recently, by Crown J i’rince Gustaf Adolf, whi made an ad-1 dress In v.hicta he said that "the na ;ion which frees itself from intemper ance and iis damaging effects win make the greatest progress." Werner=Mosiman Co. - HEADQUARTERS FOR - All First Class Farm Implements THE NEWTON and the WEBER WAGONS are our Special lines. Our new ware house is finished and we have been able to make space for a better display of :: :: :: :: :: :: :: Moon Bros, and Henney Buggies and Carriages We have the newest improved ^rain dumps and corn shellers. See our DAIRY MAID SEPARATORS. The best on the market. The BEST PRICES on the BEST GOODS. -PHONE 24 B — Werner«Mosimaii Co. FALLS CITY. NEBRASKA CARE GIVEN LINEN DARNING OF FINE CLOTH IS FASCINATING WORK. Wear of Tablecloth Is Pro'onged If Several Stitches Are Taken in Fold—Proper Pecairing of Worn Napkins. Every housed ee er is proud of her linen closet, undoubtedly, and to keep the contents in pood condition is more often considered a pleasure than a task, especially when the stitch-in tlme-saves-nine rule is applied. Darn ing fine linen is really fascinating work if one will only take pains to do it well. Table cloths are apt to show the first signs of wear in the fold down the middle, but an actual break may he prolonged if a few threads—half a dozes or so are neatly darned in down this fo’d. Pome housekeepers reinforce in this way after a few washings only, hut as the damask then is apt to be thick, the darning Is a little harder to do than when the cloth has reached the half-worn stage. [he thread known as flourishing cotton is Used for repairing all kinds of house linen, and will be found to look almost exactly like a thread drawn from damask. Every one is acquainted with the device of cutting •i couple of inches from one end and one side of a tablecloth when it begins to wear, hut this shortening may be nut off for .1 long time if the middle fold is strengthened while the cloth is still in good condition. Then there are others who never iron the cloth directly through the ‘middle, but fold it so that it measures from one to two inches wider on one part, because, of course, it is the con stant pressing of the iron on the one line that causes the wear. The next sign of wear is indicated by broken threads. If these are al ’owe ' to remain unnoticed the result will be a hole in no time, while if a few stitches are set in the ravage will be concealed and the damask look like new again. A simple in and out, upper and tinder stitch is used, the work being done on the wrong side of tile cloth. This is “the stitch in time." When both woof and warp break, a hole having ragged edges is the result. When this happens there is nothing to do but cut away the frayed part and fill in the space with the darning stitch. Unless the thread used for working has been shrunken loops should be left all around the edges of the hole. The wise plan is to leave the loops .any way. because the ironing is apt to stretch the thread and the ioons wiP ’ow "ienty of “give" while a tig’ f thread will cause a drawing that v'll in time tear the material mended part iway. \s the cloth is always thin "round a hole, the darning should extend be-ond it for hnlf an in<h or more on all sides. Worn napkins are repaired in the same way as tablecloths. — The Soldiers’ Pie Eating contests. In order to train plebes in the en durance, mentality and valor requisite for a soldier in the United States army, pie eating contests have been introduced at some of the military schools. Nothing could have been chosen which would be more liki ly to arouse patriotic sentiments and in difference to danger. Pie is essen tially an American institution, and even the average citizen has shown a fine contempt for peril whenever a slab of blueberry or apple has been flaunted before bis eyes. How much more, then, will the embryo soldie” be careless of death, nay, even eag' r for a tempting of it, if his inborn American pie-nourished fortitude is ’.'ie-imDian'ted and pie-perpetuated. Don't trifle with a cold is good advice for prudent men and wo men. It may be vital in ease of a child. There is nothing better | than Chamberlain's Cough Rem i edy for coughs and colds in chil dren. It is safe and sure. For ! sale by all druggists. Wanted— Butter Fat 30 cents, Eggs 20 This price is good for the ballance of this month. P. II. Hermes Phone 35 Poland China Hog Sale. A Poland China sale at Ver don, Nebraska, Thursday, Oct. 27, 1910. Twenty-one males and twenty-three gilts of the large smooth type. 41-3 John Rieschick. I will hold a public sale of 50 Poland China hogs at Chap man’s feed yard Saturday, Oct ober 29tb. Unexcelled for size, quality and breeding.—W. F. Rieschick. 41-4t Old t • Clear I Washing Dishes ' I Without Drudgery ^ ■ Place dishes in pan of warm m I water, sprinkle a little Old ft I Dutch Cleanser on dish-cloth ft I (don’t put the cleanser in water) 1 I and wash, each piece, put in sec- 1 I ond pan to drain, rinse in clean I I water and wipe dry. Easier, I quicker and hygienic; no caus I tic or acids (not a soap powder). Old Dutch Cleanser will re move the hardest “burnt in” crust from pots and pans, without the old time scalding and scraping. Cleans— Scrubs— Scours— Polishes