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-&-m ViVSs rTZ5&&r, $Zi-$m.?s-. - ' J-v.- 3 v r . v't i V.' tt ??? K-Pp j! ss v " " JT.Cj -IF-v &p-m vj?3 X x V- rr?v. &,,iV,"-?--. -gT.-, ,..-. awajPi- l. JytAlaJOaiaBBBaaaaSsa- t yflH r The scj)arator cannot lie kept too !ean. If you are in the chicken business "... Sk! alive and progressive. When cream is not ripe for churn ins you will lose much of the butter realize the best profit from d.iiry " CHW.S all the feed should be giown upon the farm. Dairy show at ChicagOj December 1 to 10. Remember the date and plan to attend. He sure the rungs on the ladder are bafe before trusting yourself on them at any great height. Cold fall rains will piove a sure " ubler of the sheep profits, if the ani- inals are given no shelter. " If the wearing parts of the harness ..are kept clean it will last longer, as lhe dirt is gritty and hastens the wear upon the harness, besides mak ing it dry and liable to crack. A look over the pigstye fence of a neighboring farmer showed me that bis bunch of half-grown pigs were al most too busy scratching for lice to feed properly. That kind of hog rais ing don't pay. Do you know the size of your vari ous fields, or do you merely guess at it? You ought to know exactly, not only that you may accurately estimate fertilizer needed for the land, but that you may know the crop yields. Not a single apple should go to waste. What cannot be marketed, or used by the family should be gath ered and fed to the stock. Rotting fruit left on the ground not only is a dead loss, but it insures a good in ject pest crop for next season. - Keep the musty hay out of the dairy barn both as feet and as bedding, as 1 he mustiness represents the exist ence or millions or minute spores or fungous growths. The spores get into i he milk by way of the air and often cause bitter and other flavors. Some times also they produce growths in ihe milk that cause stringiness or thickening of the milk. Hbubarb can be transplanted in the Tall, although the best time to do this work is In the spring. Plow the ground thoroughly, then plow deep furrows four feet apart, and put ma nure in the furrows, placing the cut tings from the old roots upon the ma nure about 30 Inches apart. A one horse plow can be used in filling the irench and ridging over. Rhubarb thus planted will be ready for cutting a year from the following spring. The matter of short or long period of milking of cows is a matter of habit. For this reason if during her ilrst period of lactation she is milked legularly to within a few weeks of dropping her second calf, she accepts this as her destiny. On the contrary, if the milking period with first calf is limited to four months, it will be a difficult matter to overcome the incli nation here as elsewhere, to follow in the old path. The only remecly is persistent milking even when but very little milk can be obtained. Open sores or cuts upon horses should be washed regularly with some uood antiseptic wash which can be .made up with water and creolin or some of the coal tar products. Car bolic acid is also good, but many make the mistake of using it too strong and :t up an irritation in stead of keeping things normal. A ood antiseptic wash kills the germs hich form pus. keeps the flies off wad allows Nature to heal the wound. A healthy horse will get over a bad viil in a surprisingly short time if the wound is merely kept clean and sani tary. The automobile is finding its way upon the farm more and more, and one of the important features of every state fair is the automobile section. Here is what a western farmer says concerning the horseless carriage. He has one: We have owned and used :tn automobile since last November, and find it very useful and sat isfactory in our business. It is a great saver in time, as well as the cheapest way to get about. The principal use to which we put the machine is as a runabout Hut it could be used advantageously for several other purposes in farm Rork, and we conscientiously recom mend one to any farmer who farms on a large scale. Dr. B. T. Galloway of the depart ment of agriculture pronounces the variety of wheat known as "Alaska" not a new variety, but one which has been known for many years in this country and Europe, and one which has been tried at several state experi ment stations in the western United States during the past 15 years. But nowhere, he declares, have the yields been high enough to merit attention. The wheat has been grown to a very limited extent on certain heavy un d rained soils in Prance for many years. In such locations it is said to yield rather better than ordinary wLeaVbut as it is one of the poorest wheats known for making flour, it is never grown where the ordinary vari eties of wheat will thrive. Don't try to put in alfalfa seed when the ground is wet: Careful cultivation brings the fann er crops, coin and resultant content ment Don't hang up the brush scythe ue til you have made a circuit of thf fence corners. Whitewash the stable, and if the horse gnaws the stalls paint the wooc with tar. Sore shoulders on horses are as often. caused by rough and dirty col lars as by those which are ill-fitting. Bad neighbors are often the prod uct of bad fences. Mend up and qui) your fussing. Cement floors in the ho? pea are good if coveiej with plenty of goor bedding. The horse is made or marred by hit first year. Stjrt him right, and keep him going right if you would make horse raising ray. One acre of tin nips will provide feed for 23 to 30 sheep for three months. Did you grow any? A mis take -if you did not. The hired man has rights. Try to give him a square deal and he will appreciate it and generally do the square thing by you. Don't worry over the thing you can't help and don't kill yourself try ing to do what you have not time end strength to accomplish. The reason a woman makes a suc cess of poultry raising as a rule is because she is careful, watchful and mindful of all the small details. Clean up the garden plot and burn up all the rubbish. This will make the place look more tidy and vill destroy a host of insect pests and weed seeds. Pluck off the smut balls from the corn and burn them. Corn smut spreads rapidly if the smut-balls are thrown on the manure pile and the manure spread on corn-fields. Never throw a smut-ball on the manure pile! Dairy note from Life: "In the hot days of fly-time there are the usual kicks over the milk," and by way of illustration the cow is depicted kick ing over the pail and incidentally the milker himself. Experiment seems to prove that chicks grow faster upon soft mashes than upon dry grains. There seems to be least danger from bowel loose ness when the dry grains only are fed, and it is very essential that the mash be dry enough to crumble in order to avoid that difficulty. Young chicks like the moist mash better than though it was not moistened and will eat more of it. There is no danger from the free use of the properly made mash twice a day, and being al ready ground the young birds can eat and digest more of it than when the food is all coarse. Do you know how much it costs you to raise your calves? It would prove interesting and profitable for you to keep a record. Prof. Shaw of Michi gan did so, and found that the Hoi stein calf used in the experiment the first year of its life 381 pounds of whole milk, 2.5C8 pounds of skim milk. 1,262 pounds of silage. 219 pounds of beet pulp, 1,254 pounds of hay. 1,247 pounds of grain, 147 pounds of roots, 14 pounds ot alfalfa meal and 50 pounds of green corn. The grain ration consisted of three parts each of corn and oats and one part of bran and oil meal. At the end of the year the calf weighed 800 pounds at a cost of $28.55 for feed. By the eld pan process of raising cream in the summer time much of the butter fat is lost, as it fails to rise. The milk is soured by the time little more than half the cream contained in the milk has risen to the surface, and that which has already risen is soured beyond the point where it makes good butter. In the summer a hand sep arator is needed to get all the cream. In the winter one is needed to get the cream separated from the milk as quick'y as possible that the milk mav go to the calves or pigs with the ani mal heat still there. There is no sea son of the year when the hand sep arator is not just the machine to have on the dairy farm. Bloody milk may be caused by a variety of conditions. Dr. Schroeder declares that some claim that the cow fighting flies, kicking and throwing the body to and fro, will tend -to rup ture the small blood vessels and thus cause the trouble. Others hold that the steady diet of green, succulent food and perhaps the derangement of the blood caused by certain weeds, bring on this trouble. The latter opin ion the doctor is inclined to believe for it has been his observation that many cases can be cured by changing the pasture or changing the feed. "We have cured cases of bloody milk," he goes on to say, "by giving sulphur and saltpeter mixed half and half in thf feed. Whether or not this is a sur cure I can not say, but it might be worth trying." The proper temperature for churn ing is the lowest temperature which can be used and produce proper gran ules within a reasonable time. A rea sonable time is from thirty to forty five minutes, and fifty minutes or an hour is not too long. The colder the temperature, the better the granules and the less fat lost. The real churn ing temperature is the temperature at which the butter breaks. This is from two to -four degrees higher than the starting temperature, from the friction of the machine. If the gran ules form in less than 25 minutes, you may be certain that the tempera ture was higher than it should have been. If the butter comes in 15 -minutes or leos, a large amount of fat is lost in the buttermilk and the butter will be soft and greasy in texture. Ordinarily from 56 degrees, to 60 de grees is about the right temperature. 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The fol lowing is Miss Alice Stronach's inter esting story of her visit to the coun try of the Magyars: "Late spring and early autumn are the best times for a visit to Hungary. True, there are winter spots in the Tatra to attract the enthusiast for these, and in summer's heat delicious cool may be found at the many lovely mountain spas, whose marvels of scenery and of healing springs are far too little known to English victims of gout and rheumatism and other ail ments. But the extremes of cold and heat make traveling on the great plain of Hungary well-nigh intolerable in the depth of winter or the height of summer. Autumn, when a glory of crimson and gold begins to sweep over forest and mountain, 'and the Al fold, or lowland, teems with mellow fruitfulness, is a delightful time for a tour in Hungary: and, moreover, the traveler who times his visit then can count on seeing something of the Hun garian vintage, a festival iecullarly fascinating in the land of the csardas, the home of picturesque costume and gypsy music. . "The Hungarians are not ye infected with the strenuousness of their Brit ish and American visitors, and we found life in our little mountain spa of Trenscen-Teplitz. on our arrival there, a restful and pleasant change 'from the bustle of a London season. We sampled the baths, whose strong sulphur waters attracted visitors from Vienna, Germany and all parts of Hungary; listened to the music of the gypsy band, that played in the morn ing in a lime-tree allee, in the even ing in the casino; had picnic teas in the woods on the spurs of the Little Carpathians, and dined in the garden of a little inn, where we first experi enced the joy of eating kukuruks (heads of maize), and drinking a de licious wine that our host called tokay, possibly a distant cousin of that im perial wine. And always there was the sensation of living in a fairy tale, where ever' peasant girl might be a princess and every swineherd a prince in disguise. The shops with their quaint, naive signs a crusty loaf to denote the baker's, a realistic ham at the butcher's, a beaker foaming at the brim, or a cup frothing over with cream, to tell where beer or coffee might be had deepened the sense of fairy tale or pantomime. "Our later wanderings took us to others of the wonderful medicinal spas which, well known to the Austrians. Hungarians, and Poles are too little known in England. "On leaving Trenscen we traveled down the Danube, when an hour's journey brought us to Orsova, a quaint oriental town on the Roumanian bor der just above the Iron Gates. A gen tle specimen of the unspeakable Turk rowed us across to the island of Ada Kaleh. midway in the Danube, where PRIDE GOES story with EWfif 1CN jr : the people of a Turkish colony live under Hungarian protection, exempt from taxes and military service, mak ing life picturesque for themselves and for the strangers who visit them to sip Turkish coffee and buy Turkish wares at their funny little shops. "The finest stretch of the Danube lies just above Orsova, and the day's voyage from there to Belgrade was well worth the early start on a chill October morning. The glorious scen ery of the defile of Kazan, the coming and going of peasant folk of many na tionalities Servians, Hungarians, Rou manians, and people from farther east, with an occasjonal grand Turk .spread ing his praying-carpet on the deck at sunset, make a steamer-voyage on that part of the Danube memorable. "There is. indeed, no pleasanter mode of travel in Hungary than by the steamers that ply on the Danube and the Tisza, and it has the advan tage of economy, since fares are low and you can sleep as well as have meals on board. "Our steamer anchored just above the flashing crown of electric lights that marked Belgrade, and, after a day spent in the capital of King Peter's kingdom, where there is a fascinating market, we took train for Szeged. Not that we had any special wish to see that prosperous but some what prosaic town, which has been rebuilt on the site of one washed away by the floods of the river Tisza, some 30 years ago. It was but a con venient stopping-place on the way to the most fascinating part of Hungary, Transylvania; and its shops and thea ter and picture-gallery, even its market-place, ablaze with costume and aflame with red pepper, did not tempt us to linger. "For time was flying, and to leave Hungary without making a tour in Transylvania would be to miss the finest forest and mountain scenery, the most bewitching variety of cos tume, the most characteristic portion of the land of the Magyars. It is m Transylvania that many Magyar no bles have their country seats, and there the best shooting is to be had. the most delightful hospitality is dis pensed. It' is a vast country, and up in the mountains and off the beaten track the traveler may have occasion ally to rough it. Another pleasant town is Nagy-Szeben (German, Her mannstadt), where you seem to stum ble into the middle ages or a Faust legend, so old-world are its cobbled streets, its churches and houses, and market-place peopled with Saxons, Roumanians, and Hungarians in pic turesque costumes. Both Negy-Sze-ben, and Brasso (German, Kronstadt), a few hours nearer the Roumanian border of Hungary, are good centers for excursions among the peaks of the Carpathians. The Carpathian club has mountain shelters where travelers can obtain simple fare and beds, and is ever ready to help the stranger with advice and information from its offi ces in these towns. "It was, however, too late in the sea son for more than a flying visit to some of the quaint little walled cita dels of the Saxon settlers, whose for tified churches tell of the surprise visits of the Turks to dwellers -in these regions. But before leaving Brasso, I traveled as far as the Rou manian border, and had glimpses "of mountain scenery whose rugged grandeur reminded me of the Scottish Highlands." BEFORE A FALL. a good point ROUND THE CAPITAL Information aad Gossip Picked Up Hera v aaa" Tkere la Wasklatea. Clerks Declare That WASHINGTON. Is Uncle Sam pe--nurlous in the allotment of- sal aries? , This question is constantly being asked by clerks and others in the em ploy of the government It is recalled that at the last congress. the salaries of 'the cabinet officers were Increased from $8,000 to $12,000 per annum. The government clerks contend that their salaries are too small, and that, as the cost of living has advanced, tbey should be accorded the same con sideration given cabinet officials and congressmen. The clerks are not the only ones who are grumbling at the apparent disinclination on the part of the gov ernment to increase salaries. Their superiors also are said to be in favor of increases. Many government offi cials who refrain from giving publicity to their utterances for obvious rea sons, contend that the salary paid the Salary of Consuls rIE consuls general at London and Paris each receive $12,000 per an num. In former years the consul general at London made as much as $20,000 and $30,000 a year from fees. This practice was abolished, however, and a stated salary designated by the government. The salaries of the con suls general at some of the leading posts are as follows: Canton, China, $5,500; Shanghai, $8,000; Berlin. $8,000; Havana, Cuba, $8,000; Athens. $3,000; Rome, $4,500; Yokohama, Japan. $6,000; Mexico City. Mexico, $6,000; St. Petersburg, $5,500; Cairo, Egypt, $6,000. The chief justice of the United States supreme court receives $13, 000 a year, while the associated jus; tices receive $12,500. The United States judges of the circuit and dis trict courts at the following cities re ceive salaries varying according to the importance and amount of work to be transacted. At New York the judges receive $7,000 per annum; Boston, $6,000; Portland.. Me., $6,000; Pitts burg, $6,000. im Reaper Decreasing zz CMk NOT since 1893 has the total United States pensioners been so low as it is at present This fact is made known in a report by the commission er of pensions, recently issued, and the report shows that a steady decline has set in, death cutting heavily into ;the ranks in the last year. The 1908 'total is 951.687. and it was said that in all probability this will shrink to 900,000 within another year. Four years ago the high water mark in pensions was reached. For a few days In August. 1904, there were more than 1,000,000 persons on the rolls. These figures, however, do not appear in the official reports, as the official record of 1904 gives an average of only 994,702. There were 998,441 pen sioners on the" average in 1905, and then started the downward movement, which it is expected will become more Members of Atlantic TVELVE thousand American citi zens on the Atlantic fleet, bound around the world, will have no part in the coming national election. The fleet will be anchored in Manila bay election day, and the Philippine statutes refuse citizenship to .soldiers, sailors and marines of the United States. Eighteen hundred votes will be missing from the ballot boxes of New York. The Empire state con tributed the largest number of .en listed men to the fleet. Massachusetts and Pennsylvania are tied for second place, with 1.200 each. New England alone is represented by 1,800 and other eastern states by 5,837. Eighteen hundred southerners .are with the fleet. Illinois is represented by 865, Ohio .by 750, Michigan 525 and Indiana 465. The newest state, Oklahoma, found 125 recruits. The territories are not unrepresented. There is one from Alaska, two from Arizona and six from New Mexico. The District of Colum bia sent 150 men. Three hundred on the fleet are classified as foreign or address not given. As a matter of fact, nearly 100,000 men in the employ of the military branch of the government will not vote 60,000 soldiers and 40,000 sail ors and marines. In the navy the only chance that an enlisted man has of voting Is to get leave and go -home at his own expense. Few do this. Of Cvrs here say that it is the custom Uncle Sam Is Stingy president is a disgrace to a country of this size and importance. They aver that foreign nations, of less size, pay their monarchs and rulers a much larger sum than is given Mr. Roose velt. President Roosevelt's salary per an num is 50,000. It is conceded that this amount alone is expended each year in necessary entertainments. Vice-President Fairbanks receives only $12,000, the same amount paid Speak er Cannon of the house of representa tives and the members of the cabinet. This amount, it is said by those In a position to know is spent by the re cipients in about two or three months in entertainments, theater parties and sundry functions necessary to main tain their position in social circles. Senators and representatives re ceive $7,500 a year. Before congress voted them an increase they received only $5,000 per annum. The ambassa dors to Austria-Hungary, Brazil. France, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia and Turkey re ceive $17,500 per annum, while those occupying diplomatic positions in the smaller and less important countries receive a salary in proportion to the significance of the post to which they are assigned. General and Others The United States district attorney at New York receives $10,000 a year, while the district attorney at Boston receives $5,000. The salaries of other federal district attorneys are as fol lows: At Newark, N. J., $3,000; in Vermont, $3,000; in Pennsylvania. $4,500; in Maryland, $4,000; in North. Carolina, $4,000; in Florida, $3,500. The United States marshals receive from $2,000 to $5,000 per annum. The marshals in New York receive $5,000; Pennsylvania. $4,000; Maryland, $3,500. The salaries of other impor tant positions are: Public printer, $3,500; secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, $4,000; civil service com missioner, $4,000 each; interstate com merce commissioners, $10,000 each; isthmian canal commissioners, $14,000 each; district commissioners. $5,000 each; director of the international bu reau of American republics. $5,000; William Loeb, Jr.. receives $6,000 for his services as secretary to the presi dent, while the assistant cabinet offi cers receive only $4,000 and $4,500 per annum. The sergeant-at-arms of the senate gets $5,000. The first assistant postmaster gen eral receives $5,000 per annum, the second, third and fourtth assistants, $4,500 each. The chief Inspector of the post office department receives $4,000; the superintendent of division, $4,000; the general superintendent, $4,000. RoU rapid from year to year. In 1906 there were 985,971 pensioners, and last year 967,371 were on the lists. From 1866 to 1904 the army of pen sioners increased eightfold. In the for mer year there were only 126,722 pen sioners. In 1S70 there were 198,686, in 1880 there were 250,802. in 1890 there were 537,944, and in 1900 there were 993,529. The average was practically at a standstill from 1900 until two years ago, when there was a loss of 13,000. Since 1866 Uncle Sam has paid out in pensions $8,600,000,000. This is al most four times the amount of the in terest bearing debt. Within recent years the total pension payments have been about $140,000,000, more than the annual expense bill of the navy, and enough to build a battleship fleet of 15 Dreadnoughts. Only two persons are on the rolls as pensioners of the revolutionary war. They are Sarah C. Hurlbutt, 90 years old, daughter o' Elijah Weeks, who served with the Massachusetts troops under Washington, and Phoebe M. Pelmeter, 87 years old, daughter of Jonathan Wooley. who fought with the New Hampshire colonials. Fleet to Lose Vote on all ships to have a ballot box where the men vote, but this is only to sat isfy the curiosity ofthe men them selves. It has no effect en the re sult Whether a soldier may vote depends on the laws of the state in which he is stationed. Some of the states allow the men to acquire residence, while others do not. The war department says that it has been the experience of years that the soldiers seldom avail themselves of the privilege even when it is open. No Use. "Ginevra," pleaded the young man, in deep, impassioned tones, "I must speak! The voice of my heart can be stifled no longer! Every impulse of my nature, every fiber of my being, every surging emotion of my soul clamors for utterance! Sensible as I am of my own unworthiness, realizing to the full (he presumption of which I am guilty in daring to aspire to your hand, I have no excuse, no palliation, save that with the deathless, inex tinguishable devotion of a heart never before touched by the sacred fire, I love" "O, Arthur." yawned the beautiful maiden, "why will you persist in mak ing those utterly useless noises?" Chicago Tribune. No Social Standing. "What do you think, Maria," ex claimed the steel magnate. "Our son Reginald writes that he is on his wed ding trip and his wife is a paragon." "A Paragon?" echoed his wife. "Dear me! I can't recall the name of Paragon In the social" register. You must look her up at once, John, and see if Reginald has disgraced himself by marrying into an inferior family." Chicago Daily News. AWFUL GRAVEL ATTACK. Cured by Dean's KMnay Fills After Years off Sufrsrina, F. A. Rippy, Depot Am, Gallatla, Tenn., says: "Fifteea years ago kid ney .disease attacked me. - The paia iany back was so agoata ing I finally had to give yd work. Tkaa came terrible attacks of graver with -aamte paia and passages aff bkxxL'lnalllpassad 25 stones, some as large as a beaa. Nine years of this nut ase dowa te a state of continual weakness aad I thought I never would be better aatil I began asing Dean's Kidney Pins. The improvement was rapid, and staea usiag foar boxes I am cored-and aara never bad sny return of the titrable." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a bex. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. T. NO BATHTUB FOR HER. "Ntw-Fangted Contrivance" Emahatle ally Failed to Win App revaL The French abhorrence of the batb a la nature is shared by many people, particularly one old woman up la aa east Tennessee town. The town bad lust had a water system Installed aad the natives were "plnting with pride" at their bathrooms and equipment where one could perform bis ablations at will without waiting and loagtag for Saturday night This old woman was an exceptloa to the rule. She made her home with her son, and his wife, according to the mother-in-law, was "alius a-hankerhi after somepin newfangled." A neighbor, who had. been la to in spect the improvements in the koase, remarked to the old woman: "Well, Mrs. X . this will be a pleasure for you bath any time, night or day. You will certainly enjoy it" "That I won't," said the old woaua. tartly. "I been a member of the church 50 year an always lived baa est an' upright GH inter one er theas tubs? Me? Why, Sary Ellen, tkeai things ain't decent!" PRESCRIBED CUTICURA After Other Treatment Failed Raw? Eczema on Baby's Face Had Lasted Three Months At Last Doctor Found Cure. "Our baby boy broke out with e sema oa his face when one month old. One place on the side of his face tka size of a nickel was raw like beefsteak for three months, aad he would cry out when I bathed the parts that were sore and broken out I gave ah three months' treatment from a good doctor, but at the end of that time the child was mo better. Then my doctor recommended Cuticura. After, asfas a cake of Cuticura Soap, a third of a box of Cuticura Ointment, and bah! a bottle of Cuticura Resolvent be waa well aad Ms face was as smooth as any baby's. He is now two years and a half old and no eczema has reappeared. Mrs. M. L. Harris, Alton, Kaa, May 14 aad Jane 12, 1907." A REASONABLE REQUEST. Small Urchin (to major, who has been thrown from horse into pond) HI, mister, as you 'appens to be in the water, would you mind looking for Willie's whistle? Too Rough for the Cows. Mrs. Rorer, of cook-book fame, tens of seeing a maid drop and break a beautiful platter at a dinner recent ly, says Everybody's Magazine. The host did not permit a trifle like this to ruffle him in the least "These little accidents happen 'most every day," he said, apologetically. "You see, she isn't a trained waitress. She was a dairymaid originally, but she had to abandon that occupation on account of her inability to handle the cows without breaking their horns." Good English. A French lady living in America en gaged a carpenter to do some work for her at a stipulated price. She was surprised later to find that he charged more than the price agreed upon. When she attempted to remonstrate with him, however, her English failed her and she said: "You are dearer to me now than when we were first ea gaged." Success. The extraordinary popularity of Sua white goods this summer makes the choice of Starch a matter of great im portance. Defiance Starch, being free from all injurious chemicals, is the only one which is safe to use on fine fabrics. Its great strength as a stiffen er makes half the usual quantity of Starch necessary, with the result of perfect finish, equal to that when the goods were new. London's Bridges. Few perhaps are aware of the ex tent to which the city of London Is bridged over. In all, it seems, there are no fewer than 75 bridges. Ot these 19 are railway bridges, three are bridges over roads (such as Hol born viaduct) and 53 bridges which connect private premises. BUD DOBLE The greatest of all horsemen, says: "la siy 40 years' experience with horses I hava found SPOHN'S DISTEMPER CURE the most successful of all remedies for the horses. It is the greatest blood pifler.' Bottle 50c and $1.00. Druggists can supply you, or manufacturers, agents wanted. Send for free Book. Spohn Medical Ca Spec. Contagious Diseases, Goshen, Ind. Often a woman stands in front of a mirror and makes a bluff at adjusting her hat when In reality she is making tare that her front hair is planed am properly. -Z4rs.mTJ X 1 .- -Jt . i,
