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I iK .f mfL-Jlxl ' TbBBSBBBata -- i jSs" a Feed out the cane and Kafir. A well drained garden is an early one. Carelessness in handling, pigs Is a had habit to acquire. Even on cold days hogs should have plenty of good fresh air. Keep the sheep pens clean. Dirt jtsul foul odors effect sheep quickly. Health is natural, disease Is unnat ural; health is contagious as well as tllpeose. A t;ood three-year well-bred colt is -vorth from $150 to $200. Does he pay his kep? I Is a mistake to suppose that a soyi cow of inferior breeding is quail tied to drop a good calf. 'In make hogs profitable we must Tire !?:.- plenty of range that we may Iceon their yards clean and sanitary. Where fowls have been kept in good -outfit ion during summer and fall, the roiIem of winter eggs is generally -ohed. The trap nest and the numbered I-K hand enable a breeder to keep an y-cura:o account of the performances l lu's fowls. Hoss lose the use of their hind garters Jrom need of laxative food. little cotton seed meal fed occasion illy will remedy this. Muii'i l.?a;e the ice and mini frozen fin the horses ankles when you come jome from town, unless you want 'hi-m to have rheumatism. There are over 7.000 beekeepers in his country, and product of their nlves last year was enough to fill a rain of cars over 400 miles long. Cow-peas make excellent hay which. IT properly handled, is equal to alfalfa ::i nutritive value, although as a rule .;tuck do not cat cow-pea hay as read ily as alfalfa. Throw an extra lot of hay Into the 'loultry yards. The chickens will -.cratch out every clover seed. There .s no better way to make them work tor their food. practical frxmer tells the condi tion of any soil by treading upon it. as tinorringly as a cattle breeder tells ii feeding quality of an animal by 'eltng its skin. l'iano boxes make good colony 'muses. A yard of netting should be attached where fowls can have a urassy run They should be given a ',iil' of sand to scratch in. It is foolish economy to keep using harness which is worn out. Many fa tal accidents, both to the horses and di i vers, have occurred because some thing pave way at the wrong time. It is just as well to have a well ired chicken as a well-bred horse or nv. Any amount of food will not make a mongrel as profitable as a ;iure-lrcd -under the same conditions. (ood stock demands good care and f they do not receive it. they are -:re to degenerate. The man who Is urlincd to abuse his stock should -tick to the scrub or raise grain ex clusively. On an Illinois farm where corn and o.us have been grown alternately for "1 years the physical condition f l he ground is very bad. It washes eily and runs together as the other -oil near it does not. It is hard to tell how much freezing Jj.'es can stand, but the better protect ed they are the less honey they con Mime. For it is a well-known fact unong beekeepers that the bees use .i great deal of honey as fuel in order o keep comfortable in winter. It is an interesting and very encour aging thing to note that while the aewer western states are steadily re lucing the aerage yields by poor tannine, the older states, seeing the 'rror of their ways, are steadily la creasing their average yields by bet ter method of farming. good grain ration for the laying -i'o.-k is composed of wheat, buck wheat, oats and corn, the wheat pre Jominating. Too much corn is not eootl for laying hens, but a little fed A.ith other grains is beneficial. Add o this grain ration a daily allowance .f vegetable food, cut clover and a llt 'ie green cut bone two or three times -t week and you will have an almost perfectly balanced ration for the lay ing hens I. line sulphur wash is the prepara tion most generally used for San Jose csle and other 6cale insects, and is, besides, an excellent fungicide. It Is made as follows: Sulphur. 15 lbs.; caustic lime, IS lbs., and water, 50 sals. Slake lime with hot water, and -v hlle'slaking rapidly pour In the sul phur: after mixing, increase the wa ter to about 15 gallons and boil brisk jy for 45 minutes. Dilute to 50 gallons v 1th cold water and the mixture Is :- d io apply. Buy a dairy thermometer. Gather the eggs several times a day. Milk cows sell higher than beef steers. If you want to borrow trouble, go to a money lender. The scrub hen Is going out of style. just as is the scrub cow. Bran is an excellent substitute for succulence in the sow's ration. To be successful a man must be particular with his breeding stock Cold and discomfort are unprofit able things to keep in the dairy barn. We can't preserve the flesh on our cattle if we want the largest quantity of miik. Every change in feeding should be gradual and with an eye open to note the results. Mismanagement or lack of thought makes a good deal of trouble in the handling of stock. Breed only pure bred sires in every class of stock and you will soon be blessed with pure bred dams. Lettuce is relished by tho laying hens and can be grown very easily if intended for that purpose only. Feeding the brood sows plenty of slop made of wheat middlings and skim milk will help milk production. The young duck is a nervous indi vidual nnd should not be unduly ex cited. Dogs, cats or strangers irritate them. The more active the breed the slower to fatten. Remember this if you are breeding for the market in flesh as well as eggs. Xo animal on the farm is as dainty as the sheep when it comes to drink ing water. It must be clean before the sheep will touch it Some poultrymen advise camphor gum put in chicken's drinking water once or twlca every ten o: twelve days as a good preventive against cholera. Some poultrymen advise the use of chopped corn, mixed with turpentine, or wheat soaked with turpentine as a preventive feed against gapes in chicks. If the young pigs should show signs of looseness of the bowels, shut off all feed to the sow but dry oats for a day or two. and the trouble will usually disappear. Manure is never so valuable as when fresh. Exposure to air and wa ter !n the barnyard does not improve it; nothing is added, except water and much is lost. To give good results either in the breeding pen or feed lot a sheep must have strong constitution and narrow chested, straight ribbed sheep rarely if ever prove profitable. Whenever you see a flock of un docked sheep, be sure the farmer does not know his business. Docking means cleanliness and it gives a sheep a more blocky appearance. A knowledge of corn Judging is worth a lot to the farmer. The crops can .be improved only as the seed is carefully selected. Judging makes It possible to select the best seed. One way to plump a dressed fowl Is to dip it for ten seeonds in water nearly or boiling hot and then immedi ately in cold water. Hang in a cool place until the anima! heat is all out. When the hogs are confined kJp the floors of tne pen as fr;e from dust as possible. Hogs lie with their noses close to the floor and in this way in nate more dust than any other farm animal. In choosing a breed of cattle or any other class of live stock due consider ation should be given to tho question of environment Where one breed would be a failure another wcjld per haps be c success. Some of us are dairymen of natural born instinct, some have acquired a knowledge of the business by hard study and practical experience and some are dairymen because they keep a few cows. All of us have much to learn. Sheep should by graced according to size, putting the prime onoe In a lot to be fed by themselves; and if you are determined to keep the poor ones, put them in a different let and do the best you can with them. Bet ter sell them, though. There is no more certain way of burning up money than by permitting manure to stand in the barnyard in heaps and burn away its fertilizing properties. When it does not burn and sometimes when it does It be comes waterlogged and is twice aa heavy to handle as when fresh. Good, big drafts seem to attract the most attention and yet the perfect draft horse is' 'bird to find in the av erage rural community. Extra fine young horses are picked up at good prices by buyers who want such stuff and the farmer gets along with less valuable animals. That Is all right for geldings, but the best young mares ought to remain oa the farm. Green feeds from the slid are use ful when the sow has to be 'kept con fined. A week or so before farrowing the sow should be shut in from all other stock. The pen should be floored and around the sides boards 12 Inches wide should be nailed to the f tuddlag about ten inches from the floor. This Is to prevent her from crushing her young against the side walls. Little bedding should be used asjplgs are li able to be entangled in it and overlaid. Three Costumes Dress for Girl of 14 to 16 Years. Dressing DRESS for Girl of 14 to 16 Years. Fice serge in a deep shade of old rose is used for this simple dress. The bodice and gored skirt are mount ed in one; the panel of front being carried up to the bust over the waist band; the collar and cuffs arc edged with silk straps; the vest and collar baud also being of tucked silk. Materials required: Five yards 46 inches wide, five-eighths yards silk. 4 yards lining sateen. Dressing Gown. A specially pretty gown is shown here; it may bo made up in cashmere, nun's veiling, fine French flannel or flannelette. The empire bodice is tucked in front and trimmed with insertion: the deep turn over collar also being trimmed with insertion and lace; this is pleated at center back, and each side the front, and joins the bodice under a sash that is fixed at top under a diamond-shaped buckle made of silk over cardboard; the long ends are knotted twice and finish in loops OF RUSSIAN GREEN. Russian green diagonal cheviot was used in the making of a fashionable three-quarter length coat of the paletot variety. There !s no trimming save black crochet buttons and collar and cuffs of sable. Rice Water for Babies. Boil one cup of well washed ric? In three-fourths of a gallon of water un til quantity is reduced to about three cups. Strain. S"r-e the rice water In nursing lot tie In the proportion of two-thirds r.'ce water to one-third cow's milk. If , the child is feverish and cannot digest milk serve rice water alone, sweet ened or salted to taste. Above direc tions may be reduced or Increased ac cording to need. IMPROVEMENT IN THE BANG Loose Fringe ef Curls Has Taken Place of the Severe Cut Once So Much Worn. While the oang is back. it. like most revivals, would scarcely be recognized by its forerunners of the late eighties. No longer does one make herself a fright with the severely plain fringe of hair completely concealing the fore head and looking as If it bad been cut around a crock. The modern bang is a loose, frizzy fringe of curls worn along the top of the forehead to soften the effect of masses of bought braids. Sometimes it is worn under the ribbon fillet, in deed, should be. If the wearer con sults becomingness. As must women object to cutting their own hair to suit a passing fash ion, no one Should venture playfully to pull his lady lo-e's curMhat hangs in the middle of her forehead To iis mortiScction and her rage the rirge and the girl may pert romrsny For wniren with big fnreipnds and :en:r"T - ',5ng is m a" fc Mi7Mbbbi 1 m Jmbbbh t i l mmV i SB m mT YpBMV7aaMs 1 tvfcfRsr Ma I a u BBBB mV. BM I Gowa. Coat for Day or Evening Wear. Materials required: Six and one-hall yards 46 inches wide. '2& yards ln sertion, 2& yards lace, three yards ribbon. Coat for Day or Evening Wean Face cloth of firm texture is the most suitable material for this coat. The drawing gives the effect of the sleeves being cut In with the coat; but in reality they are separate: both cen ter back and front are slightly drawn in by a band of embroidery, which in front end under the revers. These are faced with black silk, which is smart with almost any color. The sleeves are trimmed with tas sels. The edges of the opening at the sides are connected by cords and but tons. The coat is lined throughout with silk. Materials required: Four and one half yards 52 inches -wide. 20 buttons, about five yards cord, nine yards li ning silk, three-quarters yard silk for facing revers. four tassels. MOURNING JEWELRY IN VOGUE Must by No Means Be Too Ornate An Instance of Procer Thing To Be Worn. It is hard for a girl who likes quiet mourning to get jewelry that suits her taste. Most of it is too ornate, or is bestudded with pearls, or shows too much of the gold linings. A dog collar that is being worn by a girl in the deepest crape is in par ticularly good style. It is made of onyx set in gold, but in such a way that none of the shining metal shows. The form of the collar is groups of five oval sections set horizontally one above the other between square, up right sections deep enough to hold the cross pins in place. The horizontal parts are pointed at each end and about the size of au ordiuary cuff pin. This collar fits closely about the throat and can be worn on the outside of the gown or on the bare neck. In having such an ornament made to or der the number of the cress pins can be varied to suit the length of the neck. A Brocade Blouse. Now is the time to use it. If you have any rich piece of old brocade re posing in an old trunk. Can't you manage to havo It match your velvet or broadcloth skirt, so that you may wear it as the French do? They cover It with chiffon of the exact shade, or they bring it into har mony with the skirt by the use cf a varying shade of chiffon. No trimming is used, no pleats are present. The neck line is slightly low, the sleeves reach to the three quarter mark. Around the neck and sleeve edge there appears the merest line of plain velvet as a finish. This is elegant si.nplicity; and. although chiffon is not easy to handle, it will be found less difficult because of this lining of more heavy brocade. Dyeing Lsccs. To color very delicate French lace, which Is usually silk, it may be stretched with thumbtacks upon a board, with clean white blotters be neath it. and painted with gasoline and oil paint made very thin. This Is "done when laces are so ten der that they would not stand dipping and wringing. A 'broad, new varnish brush Is used for the painting or lace, and the proc ess is a most delica;e one. involving great care. a boon, as it Is uudeuiably becoming and softens the face. Some Exquisite Nets. Some of the nets seen for the first time this season are exquisite. The coarser weaves of the fish net and the octagon weaves prevail but-In entirely new and pretty effectu and combina tions. For instance, one of the newest designs is an cxacs reproduction of garden netting. ttour;h extremely fragile and cobwebby looking. The weave Is in a fine octagon mesh, picked out In iar-e gardea set ting effects, octagon shape with tlay black silk dots. The design Is decid edly odd. and much prattler than can be Imagined from this inadequate de scription. See tf It Crtattt. Before- deciding oy a new evening gown it is a good plan to squeeze a tmy piece of the material In your hand to sec If It creases casilv. Some soft materials crease more easily than ethers, and If one 13 pressed for time it is a great nuisance tn have to iron one's :rock out every t'las It is to be v.o:n. !Vn:e Chnt. Eloquence Burned WASHINGTON. Oratory, when en throned In the United States sen ate, hold doubtful sway. Let this be a warning to the young person who is training himself in the forensic art expecting some day to make the halls of the nation resound with eloquence until the listening throng with one ac cord Is roused to action. It don't happen. There is something wrong about the tradition that oratory sways. The senators can listen to ora tory all day and remain pulseless aa so many fish. Either oratory la aot comprehended as It should be or the senate lacks red corpuscles. For example. Senator W. B. Hey burn of Idaho recently was seen to rise and utterly waste a perfectly goon broadside of eloquence. It waa that noted speech in which he un furled the star spangled banner over the matter of lending federal tents to tin United Confederate veterans for their next reunion. It was a gem of a speech one that would have woa a gold medal In 1861. But the re mainder of the senate, callous and un patriotic did not enthuse. Indeed, as the proud ensign was stowed back into Its black oilcloth case after Mr. Heyburn had flaunted it. there was not a moist eye in the house. Even the New England senators refused to become "het" up over the "rebel issue. It came as a surprise, this battle-cry of freedom by Senator Heyburn. He Is a handsome, impressive statesman, with a seat away up in front; also he is one of the most impressive toilers Now You Know What Whisky Really Is Bkj?y?5 Q3$s5JMm THE question "what is whisky" finally has been answered offi cially and President Toft's decision has been formulated in a set of regula tions prepared by the pure food board of the department of agriculture. "Weary Willie." when he meets "Lazy Tom" along the roadside and stops to take a swig out of his bottle, will not care whether it is whisky ac cording to the presidential ruling or not. just as long as it tastes like the real stuff and has the same effect, but the man who buys It In bottles or over the bar can see the government label which will hereafter be found on all packages. In brief, the regulations declare that all unmixed spirits distilled from grain, prepared in the customary ways, are entitled to the name "whisky" without qualification. Blend ed whisky must be labeled as such. Beau Brummel Collects Old THE maids and butlers of Washing ton's finest residential districts are well trained, but sometimes even they fail to discriminate. A story is told of a milkman who had a great deal of trouble in collecting his bills at a certain aristocratic house. The lady of fashion put him off over and over again and absolutely refused to see bim in person as a milkman. Money is as essential in dispensing the lacteal fluid as in other lines of business, so the milkman resorted to strategy. A few days after his latest unanswered appeal, a man arrayed In the latest style of fall suit, with dash ing diamond studs in a snow-white shirt bosom, hands neatly gloved and carrying a cane, walked up the step3 Capitol Messenger EUNNT things happen, even in the corridors of the capitol in Washing ton, among those men who have been longest there. One of the messen gers at the capitol is John P. Hamlin, who for more thaa 30 years has bees messenger about the senate corridors. The other day Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island was positively held up in the corridors and refused admis sion to the elevator by a messenger who had served the United States senate longer than Senator Aldrich has. Mr. Hamlin, who is very old Long Distance Connection. Beuadermaa Cadsby Yaas. Lady Clara. I assure you I can claim to be connected with the best families la England, bah Jove! Lady Clara Ah! By telephoae? London Opinion. Nebbing the Innocents. "The meanest man has bees discov ered." "What has he been doing?" "Swindling amateur poets. Getting them to-send two dollars for a poetic 'iceace." aBaHy 3h s2 at Stake in Senate in the upper legislative chamber. He is always doing something In a .plod ding, showy manner. He can be seen at any time with documents on his desk. Nor Is he like so many of your statesmen who place their whole hap piness In smoking bulky cigars 1b the cloak room. However, soon after he had risen to his feet and began his clarion enun ciation, the galleries began filling with listeners, brought by the general alarm sent oat that -Mm day some thing at last was happening la the senate. He has a rich, mMtodloos voice that la a treat to hear. His lan guage la able. very. He splays cor rect gestares. aad thamaa oa his desk with jadgmeat aad effect. Ha Im plored the senate aot, oa. aot to give recognition to the confederacy. Ho appealed especially to the patriots oa his aide of the hove, whoso party had saved tho aaJoa froai that period of error. He was vehesaeat. hat aot aa duly bitter. Talaga straggled with in him for utteraace. hat he had eabav ly set his limitations. He weald aot wave the bloody shirt. Bat. by every thing that was sacred, he arged that the old feeling, the old raacor.be aot aroused la this manner. The terrible past, as pictured by aim. shoald aot at this late day be revived. Amid a tease sUeace he sat dowa. The galleries craned forward. heart beating. Would the senate be torn by sectional strife? It didn't even rip. Everybody but Mr. Heyburn voted to let the United Confederates have what they wanted. The northern folks voted right along with the southern contingent Even eagerly did they so vote. Mr. Heyburn's vote waa the sol itary recognition given the throbbing appeal from far off Idaho. Thus was oratory martyred in the United States senate. The term "whisky," however, is re stricted to distillates from grain, and under the regulations distillates from other substances, if labeled "whisky," are mlsbranded and the person guilty of misbranding may be prosecuted. The regulation follows: "Under the food and drugs act of June 30. 1906. all unmixed distilled spirits from grain, colored and fla vored with harmless color and flavor, in the customary ways, either by :ae charred barrel process or by the ad dition of caramel and harmless flavor, if not potable strength and not less than 80 proof, are entitled to the name whisky without qualification. "If the proof be less than 80. that Is. If more water be added, the actual proof must be stated upon the label and this requirement applied as well to blends and compounds of whisky. "Whisky of the same or different kinds, that Is. straight whisky, recti fied whisky, re-distilled whisky, and neutral spirits whisky or like sub stances and mixtures of such whis kies, with or without harmless color flavors used for purposes of coloring and flavoring only, are blends under the law and must be so labeled." Bui of the residence of the delinquent milk purchaser. It was ten o'clock In the morning, and the mistress of the house was at breakfast. Looking out be fore opening the door some Washing ton hall doors are provided with a ventilator-like "lookout" like those of Philadelphia the maid failed to rec ognize the milkman, divested of his overalls. Opening the door, on hear ing his modest request for Mrs. So-and-So, she at once ushered him in and took his card to her mistress. He waited a trifle awkwardly, per haps in the hall, but was upheld by the stern justice of his errand. The lady of the house arrived. "Yes?" she said, questioningly. "What can I do for your 'The amount of this, if you please, madam." said he. presenting the ob noxious bill. Whatever the lady may have thought of the improvised Beau Brummel. the bill was promptly paid. There were no lingering farewells, but the milk account in that house was always taken care of to date after that. Didn't Know Aldrich I and does not see any too well, said: "Are you a senator?" squaring him self across the entrance to the eleva tor which is used only by United States senators. "Yes." said Mr. Aldrich. entering Into the spirit of the situation and hes itating a moment. "Must be a new one." said Mr. Ham lin, talking more to himself than Mr. Aldrich. "Well, hardly that." said Mr. Al drich. chuckling. "My name is Al drich." The poor old messenger almost fell in his tracks, and Senator Aldrich for almost the first time in his lldfe laughed out loud. Poor Messenger Hamlin will hardly recover from his panic. He is past 8e years of age. and was foreman of the jury that convicted Guiteau of the as- I sasslnation of Garfield. Real Absorbing. "Have you any absorbing papers around here?" asked the stranger at the newsstand. "Absorbing papers?" echoed the clerk. "Yes. sir. Jimmy, give this gentleman a couple of blotters." A Telephone Monopoly. "Who is the party who gets so angry when you tell her the line's busy?" said one operator. "I think it's the same one who never talks for less than an hour and a half when she gets on the wire." PUBLISHED EVERf WIN I hR Famous Cough and CoM Prescription Has Cured Hundreds Here. "Get two ounces of Glycerine aad half, an ounce of Concentrated Pino compound. Then get half a pint of good whiskey and put the other two in gredients ino it. Take a teaspoonful to a tablespconful of this mixture after each meal and at bed time. Shake tho bottle well each time." This is said to be the quickest cold aad cough remedy known. It frequently cures the worst colds in twenty-four hours. . But . be :;ure .to .get only the genuine Concen trated Pine. Each half ounce bottle comes put up in a tin screw-top case. Don't use the weaker pine prepara tions. Any druggist has it on hand or will quickly get it from his 'wholesalo house. He Was Immune. An elderly gentleman, traveling in a stagecoach, was amused by the con stant fire of words kept up between two ladies. One of them at last kind ly inquired if their conversation did not make bis head ache, when he an swered, with a great deal of naivete. "No, ma'am; I have been married 28 years." BARKI7XG. BTACKIXfl. BSFIKOCDCGBI ea ton fernkra quickly by Attn' Vnmi Boittm. Tkls old. reliable reaiedy h beea wHi tor oTcr S) jtmn. AakyoardraafUtttxratlt. Every man has theories about rais ing a family before he marries. FAMOUS DOCTirt Nebraska Directory TjxjTjaiTjTj-u-unnj'trunriirrii-iri'--rr -- - JOHN DEERE PLOWS ABE THE BEST ASK TOUR LOCAL OKAI.KR OR JOHN DEEBE PLOW CO., OMAHA. MSB. lAffLTI niAIAfAUT0 CEMUS) By If Km ! U 1 11 VI this process all broken parts o( machinery made eood as new. Welds cast iron, cast steel, aluminum, copper, brass or any other metal. Expert automobile repairing. BEBTSCHV MOTOR CO., Council Bluffs. TAfTS DEHTAL ROOMS 1517 taUtt St- BUM, IO. 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