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I Runaways j ByCharlei Powers Mitchell lleve myself of this unheard-of perse cution. I love .Vul, he wUiie me to marry him, and I Intend to do o." "Never, while I am la cbaie of you r Insisted Miss Wall. "We shall ee!" "We nhall r And Miss Wall did. It was three days after the climax explosion, and Florence had not spoken to Mlaa Wall In the meantime. She aat In her room at dusk, mourning over her unhappy fute, when aornethlng whizzed through the air and fell upon the carpet. Flor- enct went to the spot to pick up a Japanned tin box, ai ihe thought. Thou IttiA fi-ttiAf I. . . aha 4 half m no rr h WvZXZ" -ntm. through which a atrlng ran, Knotted on the insiue. ine inug "This In Intolerable!" cried pretty, trailed out of the window. vivacious r mrence lung, ana si ..It. , teepnonei , toy one, and loofted prettier and more vivacious ob cleTer Nea,r Dreatbea Florence man ever as sne racea ner prim, anien.i. anA h ,hrllled and strulght-laced aunt with flushed cheek her fye, gparklc(J. In , mBtant she ana Dashing eyes. messed the aouree of thin aueer vlsl i Know my place and duties," re- tstlon. She held the little talking cup plied the thin, sallow-faced Miss Wall, n her hand and stood near the win with viucgiirlNh asperity and decision, dow. It grew taut. Kb applied It I hope you will not compel roe to pro- to ber ear. There waa a confused ceod to eitreme measures." buzzln sound, then, distinctly : Kxtreme measures ! gasped Flor- t am ud In a tree, lust beyond the ence. 'Kxtreme measures I" she re peated, this time In almost a shriek. "Could you go any further than you have, shutting me Into my own home a garden wall. Can you bear me? I am Neal." "I can hear you distinctly," replied the delighted Florence. "Oh, this Is prisoner, forbidding me the privilege j0Mt delicious and romantic I I know of seeing my friends) What new In- yoll are jvea Ther Isn't a aweeter dignity and persecution have you de- yolct In the world." "Do you notice a sort of quiver to the telephone?" "Why, yes what about Itr 'That's where I'm sending you kiss." "And here are two of them for you. Oh, dear Neal I what are wt going to vised for me? Extreme measures I II suppose you are thluklng of locking ma up in the basement and feeding tne on bread and water." "What I have been forced to do la all for your own good," asserted Miss Wall. "Oh, yes I feel awful good, I do," dor mimicked Florence. "I feel so meek I Mora tender nonsense, and then Neal and lowly and charitable, I could I Ward developed his plan elopement, scratch your eyes out I" and with this I He dearnnted on the terrible persecu ting crisis of Indignation Florence I tlons of Miss Wall, his own deep anxle- ruhed from the room, quivering and In I ties and worries for her sake. He told tears. I her that he would be beneath ber win "Of all the vlperlsh, uncontrollable I dow with a ladder at exactly eight tempers I" gasped Miss Wall. "Defy-1 o'clock the next evening. An automo bile with a trusted chauffeur would he on band Just beyond the rear garden wall. Klght miles away was a clergy man. Oh, he would make arrange ment, for anything! Would she con sent? And Florence, resenting the treatment of Miss Wall and prettily spiteful enough to outwit this hard hearted guardian, said yes, and fol lowed the word with a dozen kisses over the Impromptu telephone line. "Not a miss," spoke Neal buoyantly as, the next evening, up the ladder, down the ladder, across the lawn, with Miss Wall unconsciously dozing on the front porch, they passed on rapidly and reached a closed automobile. "And how deliriously romantic I" whispered Florence, snuggling up close to him, "I hope papa won't scold when be geta back. Oh, dearl maybe we hud better wait." You understand the route, chauf four?" spoke Nenl. All right, air," answered a gruff voice In front from the mnflled-up fig ure at the wheel. Florence wua trembling with excite ment and Neal radiant, aa they stood before the clergyman half an hour later. We ought to have a witness to the ceremony," suggested the minister. "Will the chauffeur do?" suggested NeaL Surely," and Neal went out, hailed the driver of the automobile. Imparted to him Iila wlshea and waa followed by him Into the little parlor. He was apparently a gruff, unsociable being, 2 piilfirl SILAGE IS GOOD WINTER ROUGHAGE Particularly Valuable During Sea son When Animals Are f die. MOLDY SILAGE IS DANGEROUS Pr " - i4m Feed for Horses and Mules Should Be Made From Thoroughly Mature Corn Frozen 8llage Also Should Be Avoided. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Good silage properly fed is a splen- "I Know My Place and Duties." Ing my authority I Willfully wicked! Amazingly antagonistic! Well, I shall for jie never raeJ th0 p,k of n, hold to my duty, unyielding aa ateel." caD nor trm( down the envetoulng wins nmn itica or uuiy naa neen collar of his greatcoat, unil..ll...l el... 11 1 I r,-,urU u nun i. nun w. nan- Th, ceremony w eollll,eted. and sister of Florence's fallier, and when ,h.nfr.n .t . n,i i.... Mrs. King died had come to the King huhie to act as housekeeper and coin' paninn, and mentor of Florence. From the first she hud antagonized the girl gyman came forward and attached his name as a witness to the marriage cer tificate. You have my best wishes," spoke I lei 'waspish ways, her assumption of , mlai,w blandly, a he handed uinoruy. ner spyuae acuoiia una Flounce the document. rimieu me warm-neartea young girl And my blessing!" added the chauf feur, with startling suddenness. "Flos- When Mr. King was called away on Lie. mv daughter. Neal. inv son I" and business to Kouth America, he had told the cap and coat were flung aside, and, Florence Unit he left her In charge of beaming and chuckling, Mr. King ex Mlss Wall, und, know lng her high tern- tended bis arms towards the two run- per, asked her to l indulgent and re- aw a vs. specirui to miss nail. V,hi aee. 1 hamiened to come home "Fact Is, Flossie," he acknowledged, lust aa that clever telephone mischief I rnncy i mime a mistuke In bringing of your was In play" explained Flos- her here, but I onn t get rid of her all ale's father. "It was easy to bribe the at once. When I return we will niake chauffeur to let me take his place a rhnnge. He tolerant and dutiful tin- What you will do, Is to go to the city. til then, won t you, for my sake, pet?" and reappear the contrite ami tearful I ll no an) thing for you, papa," de- eloocre well, say In three days. Mean clared Florence, mid although aha had time, the shocked and Inmwent father a hard time of It she had got along I will aee what can be done with Miss quite well with her tyrannical relative Wall " mi n I a climax materialized. Miss Timt imllmnint ladv noiinc,1 nut , Wall by insistent gradations had pro- the house for good, when she was told moled herself from companion to chap- hy Mr. King that a telegram from the rone, from that to censor and ahso- runaway announced their nroanectlv lute tyrant, and theu the frail chain return, and that he was lucltucd to be of shallow harmony was snapped to tolerant and forgive theiu. iwsm ey me nign-apintea Florence. -Now we'll try to be harmonious an.1 It was all about Neal Ward, whom hanuv." he advised the wauderera. aa ane naa known tor over a year. It was he welcomed theiu home In his Jolly ,if,ll,,,B( il...ft lt.u h-.t I . I. . ... ... . "'"v"""'" "vi imviui en- hearted wav SKI tney u o and went. gagea wnue air. Mug was away, for Good for Fair Sex The Saturday half holiday and the observance of Sunday as a day of open air recreation, a writer states, are working powerfully aud beneficially tow ard health and longevity. Girls and women stand peculiarly in ueed of exercise, and activities which give tlu in an entirely new set of mental iiikI physical Impulses, Gardening and botmilxliiK, motoring parties, excur sions, lil id study, and all the things Unit iimuse sin! luterest, Including all IlKlit utliletlc sports, especially If tlii-ne ciin be practiced In the open air, me Nplctxtkl. HAULING CROPS TO MARKET Average Farmer Must Haul Hla Prod uct Six and One-Half Miles- Other Points. How far must the average farmer In the United States haul his ctod did feed for horses, particularly dur to market? Exactly six and a half Ing winter when the horses are idle, miiesj. It can be answered, for the bu- Hiiage for horses and mulea should De rMU 0f croD estimates of the depart made from thoroughly mature corn, merj cf .riCulture has completed an properly stored so that It will not mold, inquiry Into the whole mutter of farm in many eases horses have been Kiuea haullnc throughout the country. In. by eating moldy slliige, and the care- cldentally, the results of the Inquiry less person -who fed It at once blamed thow that if only one wagon were trie slliige itself, rulher than his own available to haul crop It would re- carelessness and the mold which real- quire about 15,747,000 days for it to ly wus the cause of the trouble. Horsea complete the Job for only the mar- are peculiarly susceptible to the effecta keted portion, of three most prominent of molds, and under certain conditions I form products wheat, corn and cob cert u in molds grow on slliige which are ton. deadly poisons to both horses and The InvestlgaUon shows that It re- mules. Molds must have air to grow qulrea about half a day for the aver and therefore slliige which is packed age fanner to make a round trip to airtight and fed out rapidly will not be- market, and about two-thirds of a day ome moldy. If the feeder watches th on the average for the farmer farth slliige carefully us the weather warms est from market to make a similar up he can soon detect the tiresence of trip. That market distances are grow- mold. When mold appears, fading to lng shorter is shown by the fact that horses or mules should stop Immedl- In 1906 It required almost 50 per cent ately. more time for the average round trip. One reason for the Improved condl- It Is also frozen silage on account of the danger of colic. This Is practically Impos sible to avoid in very cold weather, especially In solid-wall silos. By tak I ii K the diiy's feed from the unfrozen enter of the silo and chopping away (lie frozen Hllngo from the edges and piling the frozen pieces In the center he mnss will usually thaw out In time r the next feed The value of slluge for horses Is greatest as a means to carry them lirough (lie winter season cheaply or to supplement pasture during drought. As the danger of mold Is greater In summer than In winter, silage should not be fed to horses In that season un- mh a large number of animals are getting It, and the dally consumption Is so Inrge as to preclude the forma Hon of mold tin the surface. To cheupen the ration of brood mures In winter no feed has more value tlinn good corn silage. If th grain goes Into the silo with the stover no additional gruin Is needed for brood mures, hay being the only supplemen tary feed necessary. If there Is little gruin on the corn the silage should be supplemented with one pound of old- process llnseed-oll meal or cottonseed meal dully per 1.000 pounds live weight. sprinkled over the allege. Starting en Silage. Horses to be wintered on a silage and bay ration should be started on about live pounds of silage daily per 1,000 pounds live weight, the grain and hay ration being gradually decreased as the slluge Is Increased until the ra Hun Is no pounds sll.ige and 10 pound of buy dally per 1,000 pounds live weight. It will require about a month to ron i-li the full feed of slluge, but the Dinner of Colic. , , , , . uona, ii is pointed out, is mat since unsure to feed horses ' . aow i ue gleam rmirouu mileage ju the United States has Increased 15 per cent and that many new freight-car rylng electric lines have been built. Another point brought out by the Inquiry Is that there has been marked Improvement In public roads since the The Pumps of Lassigny Red Cross Nobly Comes to the Assistance of Re maining Residents of Wrecked French Village Lassigny was pounded to pieces In the two years that the Boehe trenches lay Just before it It was a deserted village when the Germans retired last spring. But there were cellars among the Jagged bits of wall left standing, and here and there a corner of roof that the big gnna had missed. A few families, which had crowded into the towns behind the line waiting their chunce, moved forward into what they called their "homes," sleeplDg anywhere often on damp straw. The government sent In a tralnload of wooden barracks, and the army com mander sent in a group of boches to set them up. More refugees moved la. The Boche laboriously dug out the wells that other Boches hud laboriously shoveled full of dirt and manure. Lassigny Is a long village, struggling along the road from to ; und it had many wells in the days before the war. When the Germans left, they filled the wells so carefully that six months later the grass and weeds concealed every trace of what lmd one been village wells. Only the end of a ladder sticking out of the tall grass betrayed one well. The stone walls of the wells were solid, and far down below the water was good French chemists analyzed It after the Boche prisoners had, shovel- full by shovel-full, cleaned out the well-holes. But the wells ure deep, and to haul up buckets of water by hand is a long hard task. There ore no strong men in Lusslgny these days; only the little children, und the old men and women and the two brave nurses of the Union des Femmes de trance. So the word went back along the line. "Bumps for Lassigny!" There are no pumps to be had In the ruined region about Lassigny, fertile and busy as It once was; so Uie Bed Cross delegate sent to I'urls; and the Red Cross purchasing department there sent out n buyer to find pumps for Lussigny. The town has Its pumps now ; and even the tiny bure-kneed tots can start the water flowing. And when the Bed Cross man comes to town, the town folk greet him with a smile. When he was Inst there, there was a knock at the door of the bnrracks where he was chatting with a French nurse and In came an old peasant woman, bearing her token of gratitude and friendship a plateful of ateumlng hot baked apples, and a brown Jugful of fresh water pumped from one of Lasslgny's wells. Winter Colds By Dr. Samuel C Diion Commiuiooer ol Health oi Penajylvtoia h ? .V - . ....... " Jt ?' '- 41 : vV'v - - -IK.:.-. .iC.-z rnlutHll RaiH In MtaaiaalnnI - - rr-- bureau' Investigations In 1000, for the size of the average load hnuled has nearly doubled since then. A day's baul of wheat In 100(1 was 56 bushels now It Is 112 bushels. In 1000 1.700 pound of cotton was hnuled in a period may be decreased eo'uiewhat. JWi now veage dully haul Is depending on the Judgment aud skill of the feeder. Mures fed In this manner will be In splendid condition for foaling, and, so fur us the writer's experience goes, the foals will be fully as vigorous, with Just as much size and bone, a If the mares were fed the conventional grain aud bay ration. Work horses when Idle can be win tered satisfactorily lu this manner, but much slluge Is not recommended for horses at heavy work for the same rea son that a driving horse cannot do his hest while on wutery grass pasture. 8,000 pounds. The Inquiry developed the fact that the load hnuled In the cotton country are the smallest but the most valu- ible. Thus the average vulue of a load of cotton was found to be $183, wheat $43 and corn $128. The longest hauls were found to be in the Kocky mountain states, where Nevada holds the record with an average haul for all farmers of 18 miles. The shortest hauls were shown to be In the middle West, Ohio at the bottom of the list with four miles. BIG GOOD ROADS DIVIDENDS MAKE SUCCESS WITH LAMBS Animals Must Be of Good Form, Uni form In 8lxe and Rightly Bred for Making Profit Motorists of Massachusetts Spent $25,- 000,000 Last Season, aa Result of Good Roads. Motorists spent $2.000,000 In Massa chusetts last season, largely as a re- To feed well with profit, lambs must suit of the fKid roads of that state. he of good form, uniform slse, rightly bred, not tin) fat when bought, worked onto full feed very grudually and liipix'il and sold lit Just the right time. luich of these things requires a little eipert knowledge und this can only be gulued by experience or very close ob servation. the hitter liked young Ward and he had never discussed uor ceusured his atteutlons to Florence. M1m Wall had taken It U'H herself to refuse to sanc tion or recognize the engagement. Very peremptorily t,he hud ordered Neal from the house. Just as Insistently me naa rorblUden Florence to meet him or speak to him. Then Mlsa Wall had cut off those charming little par ties of Florence's with her friends And the last fell blow was a refusal to allow Florence to go down town alone, she always m-compiinylng her. Florence hud rebelled. Hhe had hor rified the old liuild by kissing her hand to Nenl when he pasxed the house. Khu smuggled all kinds of notes to her lover mi. I received many In return. This last feature of the situation, how ever, had bcn now eliminated, for. Miss Wall detecting the go-between, a housemaid. Involved In the clandestine correwmletne., promptly discharged ber fr.nu service. She bnd prohibited even the reception of Florence' girl friend, except when tie was near by, exerclslug the vigilance of a cat and the sum-Uliinee of an eagle. "I shall write to my father aud very oon change the condition uf things," declared Florence. "lie is n bis way borne and by a loug route, and I do not even know where to write him myself," responded Miss Wall. "Very well, lil find uui way to re- Make Your Mind Master. To uiiike your life count you must hejcin now. The youth who applies him self tins th best advantage. But It often huppens that bright young folks have to play the fool for a few yers to Kuril (he value of opportunities Some of them nevrr get over It. They are the ones who know It all and re sent advice from their better. But anyone euii rise If he want to. Set the proper task and see that It's real ized. Make your mind master and th result w ill b to your credit. SHARP GRIT OF IMPORTANCE Necessary for Proper Dlgeetion Fowls' Food Place In Boa Handy of Access. of Fowls ciiuuot digest their food well utiles they have clean, sharp grit and It Is usually best to keep a box of the regular coinmerclul grit, sold by poul try supply dealers. In each pen of th hen bouse during cold weather when the hens cannot get outside and aearvh for pleves of course gravel, etc. SEPARATE HOUSE FOR GEESE United State Lake. Kxcluslve of th Ureat Lake, th 1'nlted states ha 21 lake each oi which hue an area excvAding 104 square tulle. Firmer Should Be Careful to See That Floor Is Dry and Wtll Bedded With Straw. He sure Unit the shed for the geese (which should be separate from the poultry house, duck house and turkey shed) has a dry. well -bedded floor, for geese vv lil not do well unless they have s dry resting pinco. HIGH PRICES TEMPT FARMER Not Only Induced Many to Sell Pigs at Light Weight, but Breeding Animals Marketed. The extremely high price of grata feeds and market hog-t have not only Induced fninii-m to market their pig at light weights, but have tempted many of them to cash lu on a large number uf their breeding animal. Bather a tine dividend! Great progress has been made In Im proving the road in Minnesota, but there are communities which as yet, apparently, see but one side to the good roads qutvtlon, and that Is, cap ital going out and no dividends com ing back. While the returns from motor travel are Indirect, neverthe less they are certain. It Is obvious that any town 1 at least Indirectly benefited by having such good roads that motorists delight In milking It an objective on their week-end tours. Any district that has bad road be comes Just as well known, hut of course adversely. Unfortunately, too many specific case might be given. Minneapolis Journal. During the frigid weather, you wnnt to keep well nourished. To do this, your meals should be taken with reg ularity, and you should take a moderate amount of exercise, not too near meal time. No better form of exercise can be found thnn that of walking with a good brisk step and swing ing of the arms. You should keep up a good circu lation of blood thnt the digestive glands may secrete a healthful quantity of digestive fluids, and the food be prepared for aud as similated by the body. No excesses should be Indulged In, particularly the taking of alcoholic beverages. You should live in pure air night aud day, but the very young and the very old should not be exposed to extremely low temperutures. Careful observance of these sugges tions will do much to prevent, and at least to some extent, help pull you through congestive or even Infective colds, which are prevalent when the wenther Is so very changeuble as it is In winter in our North Atlantic climate. urul Ice. American Ice factories and refrigerating plants, according to fig ures of the United States fuel admin istration, use uuntially 15,000,000 tons of coul. Try a New Way to Cook Potatoes Just a Few of the Styles in This List It is claimed that there are more than ICS) ways to cook potatoes, from the primitive (and still prohahly the best) methods of boiling or buklng with the skins on, to the most com plex und seasoned dishes. Here are some of the ways known to the United States department of agriculture. Ilnve you tried them nil, or do you know nbout as many more? Boiled, chips, lyonniilse, mushed, pun browned, sulad, In chowders, baked, shoestrings, hashed brown, mnshed fried, stuffed, In fish cakes, lu light bread, pluln fried, french fried, gnuffre, souf fle, rlced. In hash, biscuits, snute, creamed, croquettes, nu grutin, soups, in stews, in meat pie crust. Greatly Improve Road. Py keeping a road drag and drag ging th road along one' land after heavy ralus the road may be greatly Improved. It is an easy matter to have an agreement so each fanner will drag the road in front of his farm. This would maintain the road till the regular hands could be called out at stated Intervals or till the com missioner could make the repair. Sixteen-Foot Roadway. Maintain at least a 10-foot road way. War Help Good Roads. Highway building In Indiana will be accentuated by th war. rather than topped, tate official announce. Flans have been completed for the building of 800 mile of paved road next year, at aa estimated expenditure of nearly 13,000,000. One road will extend from th Great Lakes to the Ohio river nd three will traverse the state from the Ohio to the Illlnoia line. Operstlng a Drag. If th drag cut too much, ahortn th bitch. Save Natural Ice For Use In Summer Saves Ammonia 'as Well as Conserving Coal (Prepared by the United States Depart ment oi Agriculture.) All who can possibly do so are urged by the United States department of ag riculture to harvest a supply of natural Ice this winter and store it for sum mer use. This Is of vital Importance at this time, for every ton gathered will help In the war-time conservation of ammonia which Is necessary in the manufacture of Ice. Ammoula salts are regurded as nn essential In the manufacture of certain fertilisers and the cost of fertilizers is dependent to some extent on the mar ket value of ammonia. Of extreme sig nificance at this time, however, Is the fact that the most Important ehemiculs used In making ammonium nitrate and other explosives are readily made from ammonia and every quart of America's already small supply of this substance that can be saved means more power to America's armies. Thus the farmer Is Interested In the conservation of ammonia not only from a national standpoint, but because of his personal Interests. Ammonia saved through harvesting of natural Ice means more ammonia for fertilizers and more ammonia for ammunition. The man who harvests ice now and stores it in pits or ice houses, next summer may have the satisfaction of helping out his uelghbor who depend ed on an Ice plant. In addition to the saving of am monia, conservation of coal Is to be effected through the harvesting of nat- Cash and Carry. tjulte providentially It happens that the doctrine of carrying home one s groceries promises to attain full growth at a time when capacious and decorative bags are not only fashion able, but almost necessary for house wives. It Is evident, says the Spokane Spokesman Kevlew. that there Is In tention of seeing that the buyer is paid In cash for carrying his own fol home. Already dealers are lopping cent sand even nickels off the cost of things not delivered. A cent, for In stance, goes thus with every loaf of bread. Cents and nickels grow rapid ly to quarter-, and quarter will buy war stamps that pay 4 per cent. It he hooves us to lH'k closely to such details. Enemy of the Dog Figures High Cost of Keeping Pet A dog hater in New Hampshire, stim ulated by the campaign for food con servation, sharpened his pencil and this is what he figured : One person In 20 keeps n dog; that's 5,0(10,000 dogs. It costs ten cents a day to feed a dog, or $.30.50 a year for one, and $182,000,000 per annum for all of them. With flour at $15 a bar rel, this sum would buy 12,100,000 bar rels of flour. If loaded 12 barrels to each motortruck, l,000.t00 trucks would be required to loud the flour, at one time; and they would make a pro cession 2,272 miles In length. The figures seem to be all right and unquestionably impressive, but who enn estimate the heart pangs and per sonal loss of 5,000,000 small boys If deprived of their dearest treusure7 Popular Mechanics Mugaziue. CANDLE EVERY EGG SHIPPED Simple Outfit May B Made of Ordi nary Pasteboard Box Defects Should Be Cast Aside. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Only first-class eggs can be mar keted by parcel post The shipping of bad eggs not only will cause dissatis faction or even loss of the customer, but, In Interstate shipments, will vio late the federal food law if there are more than 5 per cent of bad eggs in a shipment. The limit allowed, however, Is no excuse for any bad eggs among those marketed. In spite of the greatest care it will sometimes happen under ordinary farm conditions thut an occasional bad egg will appear among those sent to mar ket. It would he wise to candle every egg shipped. Candling Is "the process of testing eggs by passing light through theiu so as to reveal the condition of the contents." A simple candling outfit may be made of an ordinary paste- hoard box sufficiently large to be placed over a small hand lamp after the ends have been removed. The bos should have a hole cut In It on a level with the flame of the lump. Several notches hould be cut in the edges on which the box rests, to supply air to the lamp. The box should be sufficiently large to prevent danger from catching fire. An ordinary pasteboard box will serve the purpose. Candling Is done in the dark, or at least nvvay from strong light, and each egg Is held against the hole In the side of the box, when Its condition may be seen. An egg that shows any defect should not be marketed. SELECT EGGS FOR HATCHING Sufficient Number of Choicest Fowls Should Be Housed in Temporary Pen and Yarded. It is seldom necessary und never de sirable to use eggs for hatching from all of the fowls on the farm. A suffi cient number of the choicest fowls should be selected for use as breed ers. The breeding fowls may be sepa rated from the main flock two or three weeks before It is necessary to begin - Jib "Qui1 The Champion Wood Chopper. A record In wood chopping Is claim ed by L. J. Ilnugen. tiftv. who lives near Clinton, In. I'p to the opening of the present lumbering sea son he chopped 0.207 cords. He la a Norwegian. During the summer he works for fanners about the county. but as soon as the first touches of winter are nppurent, he shoulders his ax and starts for the timber lands. He figures his chopping career from the time he was twenty, since which he has averaged two cords a duy dur ing the chopping season. Mollie Wellington, Light Brahma, With Record of 325 Eggs in One Year. ' to save eggs for hatching. They should be housed in a temporary pen nnd yarded nt one end of the regular poultry house or In portable colony houses and returned to the main flock ns soon as the breeding season is over. POULTRY AIDS MEAT SUPPLY No Source as Rapid or Cheap Every Farm Should Have Carefully Cull ed Flock of Fowls. I'oultry Is profitable. No source of uieut supply Is as rapid or as cheap. Kvery pound of poultry produced will help lu sending a pound of meat across to the boys that are fighting your battles. Every farm should hnve a carefully culled flock of not less than two hundred fowls. Wise and Otherwise. Never Judge a man's good or bad qualities by whut his neigh bors say about him. Once in a while there Is a man so good nnt tired that he is nice to his wife's relatives. What goes up must come down as many an airplune chauffeur Is discovering. A shrewd man may be both wise and honest, but the chances are that he is neither. If common sene w ill not teach a young man etiquette a book on the subject Is of little use. i ! i i ! EARLY HATCHED CHICKS Something to Think About The fl.Kd waters which go to p stuius'ly In the jrrent centra! valley of the C tilted Stat.-s and often cuti ert destruction ef provrty. If im- tummlet! and eimdoved In the elevelorv ewr!niI .hi k -.... t " -j v. uiip-j States ment of electric power. woulJ render cloth manufacturers. (Prepared by the United States De partment of Agriculture.) The early hatched chicken Is not only the chicken that lays the winter egg, but It Is the chicken best able to withstand disease and parasites. It is in the midsummer months that chickens are hurt most by lice. The late hatched chicken has not hud time to be come large or strong enough fo resist lice attacks, but the early hatched chicken by midsummer has become strong and hardy f onnnch tn ,1 - crt A.t i, -I the early development of the early hutched bird has preceded the extremely hot months, It is more npt to live through the summer. J WINTER RATIONS FOR FOWLS the use of mineral coal unnecessary within the borders of the countrv This u.u.ein cas oeen made repeatedly " Change Is Necessary Make It Grad- iv "'uii'irn-ui engineers. ually Feed Plenty of Cracked ! Corn on Cold Nights. Do n..t keep clumping rations. ."lux,se a ration and stick to it If a change must be made, make it grad ually. Corn and outs will have to be th" standi' s this winter; use them alternately and use cracked corn ex- eepmig on very cold days when the Use of Wine Encouraged. The Prltlsh war cabinet, with an eye on the shortage of beer as a cause of Industrial unrest and the consequent Increased demand for spirits, has de cided to allow the release from bond of wine up to the full amount rai,.. In 1916. In releasing this quantity the 1 U- "mt 'at l'u'"f' us Int'' ns f " ' expresses the hopes that all those who could afford to drink wine will refrain from drinking beer. Mexico Stops Dyes. i'.ve.n; material has been coming In considerable volume from Mexico dnr- H'le to keep them wurtu through the night. f :le two However, the MoWsui tresurv department has an nounced . prohibition of the exnort ana'ine and val tar dyes and natural artificial vegetable dye. The difficulty caused by the new re-n!nri.n jti . FRESH AIR VERY IMPORTANT Poultry House Should Be Well Venti lated and Fowl Permitted to Exer cise in Open. There Is nothing wore important to the health of th tWk than plenty of fresh air. The poultry house must iv well ventilated and the birds should be allowed to exorcise la the "pen air. Wturi the sun shln.es or the weuiher is U)iUl, open the windows sad door.