CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS.
Assistant Secretary Hays Points Out
Necessity for More Thorough Farm
Education. Is in Effect a Country
High School.
Free $1.2?
Package
The consolidated school question is
a feature of the country school educa
tion problem which is rapidly coming No Longer Any Excuse For Dandruff,
to the fore, especially in the northwest,
Falling Hair or Baldness.
and it promises much for better farm
education. The proposition is that six
or seven or ten of the cross roads
schools in any rural district shall be
GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL.
Remarkable Uiaco'
combined into one larger school and
the Cost of ITnai !
-live Per Cent.
were
it
not
for
the
question
of
trans
It
will
be
better
and
a
saving
of
time
Free
Trial Packard ‘far B®ok Tellin«
depletion of the timber lot and!IS possible to obtain from them fences
portation
of
the
scholars
to
and
from
All About Paint» fl
up for | the centra! school it would undoubted.
-radual decrease in the supply of ’ constructed entirely of metal at small if the timber after being
Mailed Free Co Kl
pfe cut
of
the gates is given a cottp.e
« .... coats
vuau. of
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--- universal
.-
.
mopt
with
favor,
rrom
*r- with-the consequent Increase cost.
llnnrnproBaivn
farmcr
j
9
before being put together. After ly meet with universal faior. .
A. L. Rice, a profl manufacturer, of
While the unprogressive farmer is paint
e cost of wood, make the erection
Adams, N. Y., has I red a process of
the gate is completed and hung, it can an educational point of »lew the ad
making a new kind of I without the use of
ocep on the farm a matter of con- content to have a few bars to let down be given a final coat. The first or vanuges of the consolidated school
oil. He calls it Powdifl I It comes to you a
for the landholder heretofore has in order to admit of the passage of priming coat should be very thin; in | plan are very great. Assistant tsec-
dry powder, and all 1 I required is cold
upon wood as a proper material teams or wagons, no fence is complete idtl,
water to make a paint! br-proof, fire-proof
fact,
may
be
nearly
all
raw
linseed
oil.
.
retary
of
Agriculture
Hays
is
an
wa»
man; c* i * »
and as durable as oil]
construction of an effective without an entrance, and therefore Th.
For many pur-
thusiastlc
advocate
of
the
plan
and
an.i
last
mats
will
of
thusiastlc
advocate
of
the
plan
ana
and last coats will, of
poses it is much betta I oil paint, and is
, . Metal—that Is, fence wire—has- without a gate, for at best bars are The second
indispensable to even berty owner. It
be a little thicker, and in order states that where the plan has been
Iwa'st entirely replaced tho rails which only makeshifts and a loss of both course,
adheres to any surfacd I, stone or brick,
to dry hard, and with a little gloss, put into operation the beneficial re
tse. e time were considered necessary time and temper. It is surprising how should
spreads and looks like I lit, yet costs only
a small quantity of tur sults have been manifold. The ques
one-fourth as much. I
the ike a fence stock-proof. We still common they are when excellent and pentine contain
tion
has
been
agitated
to
a
consider
Write to Mr. A. L. Manufacturer, 866
and
boiled
oil.
While
tastes
w however, that timber is, in most serviceable light gates can now be pur may differ as to color, results have able extent in his own State of Minn
North St., Adams, N Ind he will send
llties, the cheapest material for chased very cheaply and even where shown that white seems to give the esota, due largely to his own efforts.
you a free trial packa tether with color
Before and After Using This
card and his valuable! Ion painting, all
ce posts, though the supply avail- the lack of money is an obstacle to this most satisfaction, while the Iron work Professor Hays is thoroughly alive to
Magic Compound.
free. This book is nd I to all who use
v/ls becoming scarcer each year, a handy man can, with the aid of an
paint. It lets you id I secret of paint
the
fact
that
a
better
scheme
of
edu
painted
black
will
make
a
slight
con
axe,
a
hammer
and
some
nails
build
; is possible that In the future
Foso actually grows hair, stops hair falling out, making, exposes fake j ■tells you how to
trast,
adding
to
the
improved
appear
cation
is
needed
for
the
farm
boy
if
removes
dandruff
and
quickly
restores
luxuriant
and
hang
a
strong
useful
gate
with
no
get
the best results fl lint for different
v be necessary In every section
ance of the gateway.
he is to keep his foremost position growth to shining scalps, eyebrows and eyelashes, purposes, and shows ] |w you can save
and quickly restores gray or faded hair to its natural and make a good man] Is. Write to-day,
among the world’s agriculturists.
color. I don’t ask you to take my word for it; let me and the book, free tria lint, etc., will be
STILL USE DASHER CHURNS» FOR BETTER FARM EDUCATION. send you a full $i.oo package free. Write to-day. sent you without any « I return mail.
The time, Professor Hays says, has
FREE $1.00 PACKAGE COUPON
Even in this Day of Creameries, But gone by when an “ordinary” school
out the blank lines below, cut out tho coupon
education will serve for the farm boy. and Fill
mail to J. F. 8tokes. Mgr , 5607 Foso Bldg., Cin
ter Is Made in the (rood Old-
The three R's are not suflicient to cinnati, Ohio. Enclose ten cents in stamps or silver
an evidence of good faith and to help cover pack
Fashioned Way.
enable hint to succeed in life. He must as
ing, postage, etc., and the È 1.00 package will be sent
you at once by mail free of charge.
have
special
education
for
farming
just
Tho chances are ten to one or better
the young man or woman who is to
that the butter you buy at the grocery as
BASEBALL
professional life has special in
store now was made in a creamery, for enter
struction
along
the
lines
he
expects
to
the great bulk of the butter consumed
OUTFIT!!
in this country is made in milk estab follow. And so the consolidated
YOUR EXACT SIZE
lishments. But there is still some but school comes in, with its better educa
ter made by hand, and "we still sell tional facilities.
SHIRT, handiom« trrai
flannel,with broad ghoul
Canada has taken an advanced stand
churns right along.”
Give full address—write plainly.
tiers, full at arms* very
three button front, d
The greater number of the individ on this question and is consolidating
sewed, shapely and dura
ual churns now sold, said a churn her country schools. In a word the
S’ANTS. Padded or u
ed (as you wlsh),doubl
manufacturer in Chicago recently, in farmer's children are being given the
triple sewed.very strong,
JOE,
THE
INDIAN
DOG.
speaking of the growth of the cream advantages of a high school education.
ded pants thoroughly q
on hipsand thighs. Wit
As President Creelman. of the On From Sunset.
ery business, are of the cylinder type,
6traps, knee elastics.
CA P—Col lege Style.
operated by a crank, turning within tario Agricultural College has pointed
"Did he ever make friends with the ilece
top, long visor.
out,
the
system
undoubtedly
is,
from
the churn a wheel with paddles, some
IE LT. New style, brf|
battery boys?”
colored, strong, has pa
times like the paddlewheel of a steam a standpoint of dollars and cents, more
nickel
buckle.
boat; but we still sell as well, churns expensive, for the first few years at "No,” said Sergeant Wright, "he nev
BOYS. name
Sftnd :
of the. old-fashioned type, such as our least; but the rural ratepayer has it to er did. I understand dogs, and I know address
for only 24 package
grandmothers used, and such as their decide for himself whether he would that our dog Joe died of a broken heart BLUINE.
to sell for us
a package. Return
grandmothers used before them. I rather pay five dollars more per year at Fort Stevens, at the moutn of the cents
>2.40 received from the i
might add that the old-fashioned and secure for his boy or girl such Columbia, and we gave him a sort of and
we will Immediately i
A SUBSTANTIAL ROAD GATE.
Sou
this
splendid baseball
dasher chum is still, as it has always increased benefits as the consolidated informal military funeral and buried
t.guaranteedtofit and to
satisfaction. En.
school can give or leave them in the him where the moaning of the bar is ceenplete
of tho country to nso posts made of other outlay than tho expenditure of a been, painted blue.
housewi fe will buy BLTT1X
Who still buys these old styles hand hands of an inexperienced girl teacher always heard.
We Send Outfit All (hard
Iron or concrete, even as Is now done few hours’ labor and certainly in less
EXTRA
PREMIUM. J
time than is required in the continual churns In the day of machine-made who perhaps does her best in a little
in many places.
There had been a battle near the made large, of felt, fory( A front. Bent free.
butter? Why, so to speak, the oldest onc-roomed school, without facilities Yellowstone,
with the suitii you return A«y within 10 days.
An esaential feature of a rail fence putting down and up of tho bars.
and the Nez Perces had
vine MFG. CO I Old Rai tab It Firm
Experiment has shown that it is ad people, and the most modern, too.
Is a comparatively short panel, but
of demonstration of any kind.
gradually had to give way and retreat bt 143
MUI St., Concoi lpt1 on, Mag».
They are bought by small farmers
now that wlro is, ln tho majority of visable to have the openings of the
as
the
dusk
drew down to hide the
keeping
only
one
or
a
few
cows,
who
PRACTICAL FARM SCIENCE.
cases, taking the place of the rail. It farm gates 16 feet wide or thereabouts
damage
of
the
day.
But
all
the
war
Is qufslionable whether aa many posts in order to admit of the transfer of the naturally continue to make their owu
Ono of tho most Important features riors did not go. Among the rocks up
• necessary ns was the case when
of these schools is tho school garden, the cafion, nine of them lay in one
<1 were psed. Recent tests were Inacio
where practical farm science is taught heap, seven in another, at rest at last.
an English experiment station to de-
in a practical way. Such gardens are Four dogs were there doing the Casa
tnlne upon the best method of con-
not, however, confined to the con blanca act, and a soldier lassoed one
ctingafence. Ono point considered
solidated schools, but are now being of them in form and color like a fox,
whether a fence constructed with
kept in connection with a number of and brought him into camp.
dropper Is as efficient and durable
tho more progressive district schools Joe was the name given him, and
.s one eonstructed entirely with posts.
In various parts of the country. They day after day he was led by some mem
A second point under consideration was
“Modern Furnace Heat 11 Is bnw tp
are usually from two to three acres in ber of the company until the long fif-
the minimum number of posts required
select and run a good furj low dB «et
area, divided Into experimental and teen-hundred-mile marcu was ended.
it up yourself and how yofl
in the construction of tin efficient nnd
Individual plots for each of the pupils, He tolerated the portion of the rations
durable fence when droppers are used
ranging in sizo from six feet square handed him, but never smiled in re
and the character of the dropper re
No. 45 Steel Furnace for
turn, and merely ate to live. He con
to six by ten or even twenty.
quired for best results. Tho dropper Is
8 rooms, a store, school!
The general plan of laying out each formed to constituted authority as a
church-burns any fuel; hi
a thin verticnl brnee used to strengthen
fire box and is strong and]
garden involves (1) a belt of native matter of common sense, and on the
the stretch of wire between posts. As Fence Distorted
(Other sises for other wor|
to-day for our book—it will
trees and shrubs surrounding the long steamboat trip down the Missouri
metal Is admittedly more durable than by Iinpr<>|>erly
Hess Warming & Ventilating)
to
Omaha,
across
by
rail
to
the
Pacific
Placed
Corner
grounds;
(2)
a
half-acre
playfield
for
wood, an endeavor was made to obtain
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a suitable rigid metal dropper, but with
Supports
tho boys; (3) a lawn bordered with and up the coast to Oregon, he was the
out success.
shade trees for the girls; (4) a shaded same dignified dog, always with an ear
walk each for boys and girls, about a askance, anticipating the footstep of
NOTCH THE CORNER POSTS LOW.
. ■ ■ Cai gave;
hundred yards long; (5) an attractive his Indian comrade.
■ | Can Savtjj
An error that farmers sometimes
approach to the school, consisting But It never came.
■ Comtorttl
1 H ■ Can Increaq
make in erecting a fence Is that they
No soldier had learned to love him,
chiefly
of
a
piece
of
open
lawn,
with
ur Profitai
I
Can Increr
place the corner supports or struts too
but all respected him for fidelity to his
shrubs
and
flowers
on
either
side;
(6)
near tho top of tho post, and conse
dead master.
thins.
If you are Interested!
a
suitable
reservation
for
Individuals
we’d like to send you i book .bout
quently at too great nn.angle with the
and
class
plots;
(7)
an
orchard
plot
lino of tho fence, so that when the wire,
¡Wheels
or border; (8) a forest plot in which
•re streti bed tightly the poet is pulled
the chief native trees are grown from IMMIGRATION LEGISLA
out of tho ground, notwithstanding
TION.
the seed.
that huge bowlders nre piled against
The Committee on Immigration of
tho post or hung on it. In an endeavor
More than a million and a qn
PLANTS GROWN BY PUPILS. L.
to keep It in the ground. One fence
the House of Representatives has re in use and several hundred thai
The ordinary rango of vegetables ported a bill raising the head tax on that they are the best investmec
which has been found to prove very
and a selection of flowering plants are aliens from $2 to $5, requiring each They’ll save you more money, m<
satisfactory consists of square p< -ts
service and greater satlsfacti
grown in these gardens, the pupils male adult to possess not loss than $25 ter
metal wheel made—because Th«
and top rail, with three or four rows
themselves furnishing the necessary and each female $15. providing that By every test they are the best,
cf plain wlro fastened on the outside
If they work loose,
work. In the large schools two hours every immigrant over 16 years shall the ’t hub.
edges of tho post. Instead of through
buy wheel« nor wagon t
each week are found sufficient for be able to read and write in some lan Don
holes bored ln the uprights. To these
book. It may save yon many d<
Where the Cor the garden work, and one hour in
wires 1« fastened ordinary poultry net
ELEOTRIO WHE
guage. and placing in the excluded
ner Supports
the smaller, in both cases under the class imbeciles, the weak-minded and Box 263
ting with, eny, an Inch nnd a-half or
¡Prevent the Post supervision of the teacher or a special manual laborers of poor physique. The
two-inch nieeli. This netting may be
from Pulling
Instructor. The school garden serves Department of Commerce and Labor
strained very tight nnd will lie ns flat
a double purpose, since It not only is given discretion to admit or exclude
Out.
as n board, the appearance of the fence
provides tho most practical form of immigrants under 16 years of age
being thereby greatly Improved.
nature study but acts as a valuable In coming to this country alone. The
While the use of barb-wire ln the
construction of fences Is regretted, ow
centive in the general school work. It proposed law. it Is stated, would sift
ing to the Injury which it sometimes farm implements from one field to an | butter, and who make i it, of course, is no uncommon sight during the sum out a good many undesirable persons.
inflicts upon tho live stock, there is no other. Where some fields are planted I with a hand churn. Some
!
of these mer season to see a public school In
doubt that Its employment under cer with small green crops from which the farmers might make more butter than session out of doors, not with slate
tain conditions prolongs the life of a ' farmer desires to keep his poultry it Is they would require for their own use; and pencil but with hoe and shovel.
fence, deterring stock from rubbing Il thought best that the bottom rail of I ami the surplus they would sell, as The pupils thoroughly enjoy It. They
against tt and unduly straining the this gate should be within an inch of they would their surplus eggs, to’ the are allowed the proceeds of their plots
plain wires. It has been argued that the ground so that the poultry cannot country store.
as their own property and In addi
■lock aoon get to understand how dan- crawl under. Tho gate post« should be And you find larger farmers, too, tion may take home the plants left
farmers perhaps keeping many cows over from thinning out. The class
and selling the bulk of their milk to plots are reserved as a source of rev- Millions Die Every Year from Mere Ignori
a creamery, still continuing to make enue for the school and as a supply,
Nature’s Laws of Health
the butter that they need for them In some cases, for the school lunches.
selves and making it, as they have al
Ask yourself the question: "Is Life Worth Living?
ways done, in a hand churn.
Former Iron Master Andrew Car
And the answer will be : ‘‘It depends on your health.”
Such churns are sold to people liv negie has indorsed the idea of phonetic
Then why not have good health ? If you are sick It is
ing in suburban or country homes and spelling—making the words sound as
because some simple, natural law of health has been violate
keeping cows, who make their own they read, or read as they sound—
Nature
is a Stern and Inexorable Judge.
butter because they prefer to, anyway, either way.
Grants No Pardons When Her Laws are Bi
and they are bought by various people
everywhere who want sweet or un-
Better Learn Those Laws.
salted butter and who make it for
themselves in hand churns.
You can’t learn them too soon.
America exports churns to tho West
You can’t learn them ali at once.
Indies and South America and to New
Begin right now, and
Zealand ami Australia and to dairying
Learn a little every month.
countries in various other parts of the
world; but we still supply our
people with the old-fashioned d:
m th, taw Health brom Nature, by Right Thought and (tight Living.”
as we did twenty years ago.
PAINT Wl UT OIL
mv
FR
I
THE LE
I ELECTRIC
L ELECTRIC
Don’t Die That
A PLEASING FENCE OF TIMBER AND POULTRY WIRE
gerous barb-wire is, and when in a
quiet condition are rarely Injured by
It; but once excited by panic or play
they forget its danger and often suffer
in consequence. While there may tie
some styles of woven fence whteh will
enable the farmer to discontinue barb
wire, the new material must have suf
ficient elasticity to recover front <>-ca-
■ional very severe and unusual strains
and also sufficient to respond to our
varied conditions of heat and cold, and
eo require no straining after Ita erec
tion. The American fence maniifactur-
•ra seem to be ahead of the Europeans
tn the vroductian of wire fences, for tt
quite separate ami distinct from c any
—
posts used in the construction of the
fence, as a better effect is obtained
without additional trouble if they are
slightly higher than the uprights in
tho gate and higher than the fence
posts adjoining the gateway. The
main entrance to the farm and also the
gateways around the dwelling mar be
•till further Improved if a little addi
tional trouble Is taken to square the
gate posts and round off the tops
No Ka"' tan **
10 <«' finished
until It is painted for not only does
painting aid in giving a tl(ty ap
•ace, but prolongs the life <4 tho wood
TO TACKLE IIAZERS.
The hazing «rials at Annapolis, fol
lowed by the long discussion of the
subject In and out of Congress, have
served to widely advertise the Acad
emy. and. as a result, there has been
an unusual rush of applications from
ambitious young men who aspire to be
come admirals. Many of the applicants
breathe defiance to all hazers and re
cite instances of their physical pow
ers to demonstrate their fitness for ap
pointment One of the letters recently
received at the Navy Department ran
as follows;
1 P>ay football. have been captain of
the basketball team these last two
years. I am also an expert with box
Ing gloves, and would like to hare
some of the Annapolis fellows try their
hazing tricks on me I imagine they
would have to get real busy If they
tried to stand me on my head and
make me eat soap.”
from Maxwell-. Homemaker Magazine
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