KANSAS WHEAT CROP
GREATEST IN HISTORY
This year the Kansas wheat
crop is the greatest ever plant
ed by any State in the United
States, according to an an
nouncement by the State board
of Agriculture of Kansas,
which estimates it at 10,825,
631 acres. The average con
dition of the crop is 00 per |
cent—26 points above condi
tions a year ago, and only one
point below 1913, which gave1
the State her record crop of
181,000,000 bushels in 1914
from a planting of 9,062,000
acres.
NO PLAC E FOR A LADY
It was ’he first vaudeville!
performance the old negro
woman had ever seen, and she
was particularly excited over
the marve'ous feats of the .Ma
gician. But when he covered
a newspaper with a heavy
flannel cloth and read the
print through it, she grew a
little nervous. He then doub
led the cloth and again read
the letters accurately. This |
was more than the colored sis- |
tre could stand, and rising in
her seat she shouted:
“I’se gwine home. Dis aint I
no place loh a lady in a thin
calico dress,”
JOHNNY’S METHOD
It is the duty of every one of J
you to make at least one per
son happy during the week,”
said the Sunday school teach
er. “Have you?”
“I did,” paid Johnny prom
ptly.
“That’s nice. What did you :
do?”
“1 went to see my aunt, and
she’s always happy when I go
home again.”
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If Grandpapa were Santa Claus, how happy we would be !
When toyshop toil was finished he would take us on each knee.
He’d tell us all his secrets and he’d name the pretty toys
He'd made and kept in hiding for the other girls and boys.
We have a real, live Grandpapa! He visits us each year,
And he‘is quite a bosom friend of Santa Claus, I hear.
Although he owns no reindeer, and of playthings no great store —
If Grandpapa were Santa Claus, we could not love him more 1
GENE MORGAN.
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CHRISTMAS BEILS
I heard the bells on Christmas
day
Their old familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
The words repeat
Of peace on earth, good will
to men!
\nd thought how, as the day
had come,
The belfries of all Christen
dom __
Had rolled along
The unbroken song
Of peace on earth, good will
to men!
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Till ringing, singing on its way
The world revolved from
night to day,
A voice a chime.
A chant sublime
Of peace on earth, good will
to men!
Then from each black, accurs
ed mouth
The cannon thundered in the
south,
The cards drowned
By the cannon’s sound
Of peace on earth, good will i
to men ! ;,
It was as if an earthquake rent
The hearthstones of a conti
nent,
And made forlorn
The households born
Of peace on earth, good will
to men!
And in despair I bowed my
head,
“There is no peace on ear*h,”
I said;
“For ha‘e is strong,
And mocks the song
Of peace on earth, good will
to men!”
Then pealed the bells mi re
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FEDERAL RESERVE
SYSTEM
MEMBER
loud and deep;
God is not dead ; nor doth He
sleep!
I'he wrong shall fail
The rignt prevail,
,Vith peace on earth, good will
to men!”
—Henry W. Longfellow.
RAISING SHEEP
Mutton is most excellent
neat and when a lamb or
miall sheen is slaughtered, ev
_*n in warm weather, none of
he meat need be lost. Sheep
ire close grazers and little
/rain and hay are required to
fatten sheep where there is
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good pasture.
There are not many farms
where a few lambs could not
bt raised econt mically. On
many farms it would be found
that the animals are of consid
erable benefit in keeping down
noxious weeds and consuming
hay that would otherwise he
wasted.
Wool is bringing fancy pric
es now and likely to bring
higher prices. In addition to
the mutton, the wool from a
sheep would be worth consid
ering as an. income.
Why not get a few lambs
or a few ewes and a purebred
ram and begin to raise sheep.
—Farm and Ranch.
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1 HIS IS A WAR-TIME CHRISTMAS. ;
But Uncle Sam doesn’t ask you not to buy Christmas |
presents. He does ask you to make your presents ||
useful though, and in useful presents you can make
no better selection than something for the home. |
You need not be afraid to buy furniture for fear that |
it will go down in price. And you will find our fur
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the quality and the lastingness of it. This is a year
of all years that you should buy things made of good $
material and our furniture is made of the best.
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