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."
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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.
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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
