Any of our readers who are interest­
CURIOUS MANX LAWS.
ed in the making of maple sirup or. sug­
NOT A HOG FEED.
ar should send to the agricultural de­
After conducting rather extensive ex­ partment at Washington for farmers’ Food and Drink Alone Ara Taxed and
Debtors Are Imprisoned.
periments in the feeding of cottonseed bulletin'No. 516. This gives directions
I afn prepared to promptly
In some respects the Isle of Man is
meal to hogs the Texas experiment sta­ and illustrations as. to .flow the work
execute orders in the above
tion directors came to the conclusion should be done and will be found prac­ one of the most backward portions of
lines. Prices reasonable.
that there is no advantage whatever In tical and helpful.
the British empire. All the revenue is
I feeding either cotton' seed or cottonseed
raised by taxes on food and drink.
We solicit your orders.
I meal to hogs of any age. They found
Are you going to set out that Wind­ There are no death duties, no proper­
that the death rate was high and that
ty tax, no land tax. The working
!.. B. THOMPSON, SWEET HOME, ORE. the hogs that survived the feeding break of Austrian pine and Norway classes are unprotected as well as over­
spruce this Spring? Plow* the tract
I >.>sts were permanently stunted. While deep and make it mellow and remem­ taxed. No factory laws exist, and no
it is to be regretted that cotton seed is ber to set the shelter belt far enough attempt has ever been made to limit
not available as a cheap source of from the outbuildings so that traffic the hours of shop assistants, although
Annual Industrial Fair
protein for the southern hog raiser, within the protected area will not be Manxland is essentially a nation of
there ‘is some satisfaction that the re­ blockaded with snowdrifts.
shopkeepers. Then, although usury is
The Holley Grange will hold the sults of these feeding experiments
forbidden by law. imprisonment for
were so definite. As it is the question
In the natural order* of things it is debt is still legal and is commonly re­
annual industrial Fair on Saturday seems
to be settled.
the first fellow who takes his disks sorted to.
Oct. 11, 1913. A corner of the
Yet Manx laws, although backward
and plow lays to the blacksmith shop
About
the
worst
frosted
thing
that
hall will be reserved for the use of the writer knows of as a result of the who can first begin his spring’s work, in some respects, are in other ways
Sweet Home grange where they past three months,of winter weather Is And right now is a pretty good time well advanced. Every woman, widow
may store their exhibits using their the reputation of a number of long to begin to be forehanded, for at best or spinster, in the Isle of Man, be she
distance weather prophets who doped there is a great deal to do, and thp owner, occupier*or lodger, enjoys the'
own marks of distinction.
out severe January and February time is all too short in which to do it. parliamentary franchise. Every wid­
A special invitation is extended weather in their gaudily printed alma­
ow enjoys half her husband’s person­
to all of the Sweet Home people to nacs that were distributed among a For the first seven months of the cur al estate and has a life interest in his,
You men who live on the farm
rent fiscal year, June 30. 1912, to June real estate, and she cannot be deprived
have got to be heavy workers,
attend and take part in the pro- gullible'constituency just about a year 30. 1913. the people of the United of this by will.
i And if you are heavy workers
ago.
gram.
| you require heavy sleep and lots
States have drunk 38.864.000 barrels Of
The sale of cigarettes'' and intoxi­
’of it.
R. W. V an F leet
If the wompn folk are left to fetch beer, an Increase of 1,850.000 barrels cants to children was forbidden in
For heavy sleep is heavy work’s
Master Holley Grange water and bring in wood and coal in over the consumption of the preceding Man for years before such a prohi­
I reaction and it’s not always easy
good conscience the well and the wood­ year. It’s no wonder that a good many bition was enforced in England. Eng­
for the heavy sleeper to get up
shed ought to be just as near the back people become poor, go crazy or go to lishmen have legislated mildly against
without help.
money lenders. The highest interest
Sweet Home Church News
door as it is possible to have . them. the devil.
I That’s where Big Ben comes
that can be charged in the Island is 6
If the man of the hotfse takes, it upon
/ in. He makes it easy every
That was a rather hard slam on the per cent, and that has been the law
himself to attend to these chores it is
morning.
Sunday school at 10 a. m.
pretty safe to assume that he won’t domestic science department of the for over 200 years.—Chicago News.
wear-out any more shoe leather than University of Chicago when 200 college
Big Ben is a truth-telling and
Preaching at 11 a. m.
reliable alarm clock.
girls attended a special “pure food’’
is
necessary doing them.
Afternoon service at the Santiam
LUXURIOUS KITCHENS.
dinner given under the auspices of thé
He gets you up, he never fails.
school house.
department the other day and all but
At
Charles
City.
Minn.,
business
men,
Silver Lined Saucepans In
J You’re always up on the dot if
Preaching at 7:30 p. m. in the farmers and stockholders of the local four were taken sick a few hours later They Used
(he’s in the sleeping room.
the Old Days In Rome.
with
ptomaine
poisoning.
The
trouble
creamery have decided to establish a
upper church.
While tbe housewife today prides
r See him in my window next time
community laundry in connection with' was traced to some canned beans. •
nerself, and with reason, on the equip­
you come to town. Hear him
Prayer meeting and Bible study the plant. The idea is to put to. a more
greet you Good Morning. He is
A very careful farmer of the writer’s ment and conveniences of her es ta b-
Wednesday evening.
economical use the waste steam’ from
' well worth meeting, indeed. —
acquaintance
told us the other day that lishment. she need not think that cen­
To all these services you are wel­ the creamery boiler. Such a co-oper-
turies ago other women in other lands
j A
ative creamery laundry1 is already In he had quit the sheep business because were not equally well provided. In­
come. Come and bring your friends. operation at Chatfield. Minn., ,a'nd its he became tired of the almost, inces­
I
the kitchens of Roman women
L. H. Wood, Pastor.
progress is being watched with inter­ sant noise, this being true especially deed.
were
much
more luxuriously fitted out
after
lambing
time
in
the
spring.
He
est.
SIGARD LANDSTROM
said the sheep started bleating before than are most kitchens of today.
You cannot wrong a neighbor
Now. in the days when the Roman
daylight and kept at it until past bed­
JEWELER
without injury to yourself, socially Dwellers on the Atlantic and Pa­ time
empire was at its height if you went
and
that
it
kind
o
’
got
on
his
and
cific seaboards are to be envied by
into the culinary department of an ele­
Lebanon,
Oregon nor in a business way.
those living inland because ■ they are his family’s nerves.
gant establishment you would find
able to get a fine variety of fresh salt
saucepans lined with silver and palls
water .fish, lobsters and oysters and at
In a Bad Way.
of various description richly inlaid
reasonable prices. Those living inland
“My friends.” declaimed an orator with arabesques in silver and shovels
get dreadfully tired of pork and beef during a convention- “my friends. 1 that were handsomely and intricately
and beef and pork and to vary the say to you that- this great republic of carved. Egg frames, too. that would
monotony of their bill of fare have to ours is standing on the brink of an ab- cook twenty eggs at once and pastry -
fall back on salt codfish, salmon and scess!" I’hiladelpbia Saturday Even- molds shaped like shells and an in- f
sardines.
ing Post.
finite assortment of gridirons, frying •
pans,
cheese graters and tart dishes.
The great popularity of the new par­
DEALER IN
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than
The toilet tables of the Roman wo­
cel post system is shown in, the figures labor wears, while the used key is al­ men
were well supplied in the same
submitted by the postmaster general ways bright Benjamin Franklin.
lavish fashion. Ivory combs, perfumes,
to the effect that 40,000.000 packages
Tnirty years ago a fellow would cosmetics, hairpins, even an elaborate
were shipped by the new method in
the month of January. There seems have been considered sort of cracked bair net of gold, have been recently
good reason for believing that the vol­ in the upper story who would have unearthed. Safety pins. too. which
ume of parcel post business will con­ predicted that a man would some day have for a long time been considered
tinue to increase, but that before long travel 100 miles in a flying machine, a strictly modern invention, could be jj
there will be an Increase in the weight Yet one day recently a Frenchman, found on their tables. But they had/
Moulinais, made an uninterrupted no brushes, nor any glass mirror, the
limit and a cheapening of the rates.
flight from Paris to London of 287 kind they used being of silver;,or other
white metals —Chicago Tribune.
The federal department of agricul­ miles in 185 minutes, an average of
ninety-four
miles
an*
hour.
i
ture has lately made announcement
“Pall Mall.”
that it is ready to send out cuttings of
7
Even
the
British,
tbe London British
A
pedigree
is
a
desirable
thing
in
the basket willow, which it has?been
afe
not
agreed
upon
the proper pronun-
connection
with
a
dairy
cow
and
par
­
cultivating for several years past on
its experimental farm at Arlington. ticularly if it is desired to sell her off­ elation of “Pall Mall.” The Pall Mall
Va. Application for the cuttings must spring at fancy prices, but of even Gazette has published scores of letters
be made to the department in writing. more value from the practical stand­ on the subject, one from J. Henderson •"
The willow does especially well on point is her performance. There are a Couter. being in part as follows: “It
low. wet land that cannot be cultivat­ good many cows that have pedigrees really dbes not seem to matter much-
ed. a till it was with the idea of put- that, so far as being able to deliver the whether Pall Mall used to be ’PaHle.
ig such lands to work that the gov- goods is concerned, are essentially Ma'ille’ or ‘Pawl Mawl-’ Both‘are prob-“ ‘
nmeut took up the experiments with scrubs and whose pedigrees are not ably incorrect etymologically. I had an ‘
old grandmother, one of The old school, i
worth the paper they are written on.
variety of willow.
Were she alive today she would be
about 110. , She always spoke of it as
of
the
most
Roquefort
cheese,
one
The Drummer’s Tender Heart.
•Pell Mell.’ But. then, she preserved i,;
The commercial traveler bad just fin­ popular products of its kind to be most of the old fashioned pronuncia-
ished a story of a disastrous fire, in found on the world’s markets, is made .tions. sucb as ‘laylock’s for. lilac.
from the milk of hundreds of thou­
which his firm suffered severely.
sands of sheep in the province of ‘obleege’ for oblige, ’sassingers’ for sau­
"And what did you do when you Roquefort. France. The lambs are al­ sages and ’gould’ for gold. This may
heard of it on your journey?” inquired lowed to suck..their mothers for some have been, and probably was, a sheer
his friend.
two months, at the end of which time affectation on her part. Anyhow, she
“Oh, I sent the boss a long telegram they are weaned, and thereafter the tested a new manservant by hearing
of sympathy! He likes that kind of sheep are milked and the milk made bow he could knock on a front door.”,
thing. Cost me half a crown.”
this appetizing cheese, for which
“Half a crown!” exclaimed the other into
there is a great demand and which
If one has a piece of land to be used
incredulously.
sells at a fancy price.
in growing the ordinary farm crops
“Oh. I charged it to my expenses, of
Fault of the Aut<
which he would like to tone up yvith
course!” explained the traveler.
Hiram—The doctor says Ezra is suf- fertilizers, in addition to barnyard
Kindly feeling and thoughtful econ­ fering
from autointoxication. Silas- manure, he will find 300 pounds of
omy could go no further.—Manchester
Guess that’s It. b’gosh! The feller act­ steamed bone and 100 pounds of muri­
Guardian.
ed Jest like jiny one else until be got ate of pota.sh an excellent combina­
that automobile,-.lodge.
tion. Where it is available, ground
Plausible Excuse.
rock phosphate may be. substituted for
oooO-oo
Guest—Walter, are you sure this is
the steamed bone in an equal quantity.
Theatrical Note.
oxtail soup? Walter— Yessuh. Guest-
whispered the villain, creep­
But I’ve found a tooth in it How do ing "Hist.'''
A number of years ago a woman
stealthily away.
you account for that? Waiter— Well.
UNRIVALED FACILITIES ENABLES
who was editing a household column
“
I
-expected
XQfl?
would
be."
rejoined
US TO GUARANTEE OUR QUALITY
I don’t know, suh; but I reckon dat ox the stage manager with curling lip.
gave it as her opinion that when a
AND IT AMOUNTS TO NO SMALL
must hate been biting his tail.—
man gets a notion that he can cook
DEGREE, FOR THIS REMARKABLE
Snhinx.
and can’t he’s a bigger nuisance about
SUCCESS IN PLEASING EVERYONE
the house than a dog with fleas. This
Is respectfully referred to the consid­
eration of .our lady readers.
should be in every
farmer’s home
A. SCHOLL
Dry Goods, Groceries, Boots
Shoes, Agricultrral Imple
ments, Sash Doors,
Paints, Oils
Ranges, Cookers, Heaters
and Tinware
A large line of Bedding,
Rugs and Furniture
If what you want is not on
hand, we will order it for you
Sweet Home
The kind you ought to use and when you
ought to have it, this is when you really
need it.
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Hen manure makes an excellent fer­
tilizer for roses, currants and’ goose­
berries. But it is well to remember
that it is very concentrated and should
be used sparingly. It should be scat­
tered in the early spring and spaded
into the surface soil.
The farmer who is lucky enough to
have a nice bunch of shotes that es­
caped an attack of cholera and can
stuff them with thirty-five cent corn
and tankage to balance the ration has
about as sure a revenue proposition as
we know of. This' will hold good just
so long as be can get $7 per hundred­
weight or better for his swine at mar­
ket time.