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WANTED A HANDOU -.
“I suppose," began the kind lady,
before Mr. Husky Ilnsbeen got a
chance to exercise his voice, "that you
want to chop some wood in exchange
for n square meal, don’t you?"
“I'd like ter oblige yer, lady," replied
the unlaundered hobo, "but it's bin
ruore’n twenty years sense I done any
thing like dot sort uv a stunt."
“Well," said the k. I„ “here's where
you con practice till you get your hand
In.”
“Nothin’ doin’, lady,” rejoined the
hobo. “Wot I want's Is u handout.
See?"
And the kind lady fainted.
Positively Tame.
“Now, this dance number strikes me
ns being—er—a trifle too daring for
the averuge theater audience.”
“Where have you been for the past
few years?”
“Oh, around and about.”
“I suspect you’ve been asleep. Thero
are any number of debutantes present
who consider this dance loo slow for
words."
JUST THE PLACE.
Guide—Now, having tuori through
the stereotyping room, we w i11 pi into
the muke-up department.
The Bride (to the groom) I’m awful
glad. I’ve been perspiring so in that
other department that I'm sure the
powder must be all iu streaks mi my
fuce.
Ail for Love.
The old front gate no longer moons.
The lovers now sit by the fire;
The old parlor sofa now londly moans.
And the coal bill climb4 uj> l,n: or.
She Was Suspicious.
The feruale of the species had Just
told the milk peddler that his u nir.s
were no longer required.
“Did you find anything wrong with
the milk?” demanded the milk dis
penser.
"Well, not exactly,” confessed the
suspicions female, “but I noticed a wa
ter mark in the paper on which y ur
1)111 was made out, and I’m not taking
any chances."
Hard-Hearted.
“Why did you abandon your plan to
become a doctor?” asked the motorist.
“I can’t bear to see other people suf
fer,” answered the garage man.
“Urnphl I guess it's all In the point
of view."
"How Is that?”
“I notice you didn’t shed any tears
when you presented me with tills Dill
for repairs.”
Knew Her Book.
Mrs, Newed—John, tills cookbook
says that celery should be well
bleached.
Newed—Yes, my dear.
Mrs, Newed- Well, you luul better
stop at the corner drug store and get
a bottle of peroxide.
A DIFFERENCE.
Mr. Wilson—Which do you think Is
the better talker, ho or his w ife?
Mr. Bilson—Do you mean for quality
or quantity?
Egg and Potato Scallop. v
Peel and slice six medium-sized
baked potatoes and six hard-boiled
eggs. Cook one-third cupful of butter
and one tablespoonful of chopped
ipnlons for two minutes, add three ta
blespoonfuls of flour, stir well, add
gradually one pint of hot milk, season
with pepper and suit and cook uutil
smooth und thick. Butter a baking
dish, fill with alternate layers of po
tato and egg, sprinkle with pepper and
salt, strain the sauce over the whole,
sprinkle with crumbs moistened with
melted butter and bake until brown.
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BUILDING
EXPERIMENT IN GOOD ROADS
j Road to Chevy Chase "Text Book In
Concrete, Brick and Stone”—Ex
perts Are Interested.
There Is here a text book In con
crete, brick and stone—the road to
Chevy Chase, built by the plans and
under the direction of the office of
public roads of the United States and
for the solo purpose of informing the
public and the members of congress
interested in the improvement of the
public highways upon the methods and
cost of construction, types of roads,
adaptability of material and economy
of maintenance.
Thousands of people travel over
this road, which is built in many sec
tions of different types, every day, and
hundreds of practical road builders
from all parts of the country have in
spected it from time to time and have
Sand and Gravel Piled on Subgrado
R^ady for Use, Experimental Con
•ete Road, Chevy Chase, Md.
marveled at the excellence of the
work.
Manufacturers who have supplied
bituminous materials for the treat
ment of the road have detached their
special experts for this service and
theMraffic over tho road has demon
strated under carefully observed con
ditions the relative value of the sev
eral types of road making up this great
highway.
The Chevy Chase road Is experi
mental. It consists of different types
of pavement—bituminous macadam
laid by the penetration method, sur
face treatments of waterbound ma
cadam, asphaltic surfaces on concrete
foundations, bituminous surfaced con
crete. plain and oil cement concreto
and vitrified brick, all of which are
under daily observation by expert
road builders to ascertain which of the
types is best suited to tho traffic and
which is condemned by practical test
under the same conditions of climate,
soil, rainfall, heat and cold and like
traffic requirements. It would be just
the same to tho office of public roads
which has written this open book in
concrete, brick and stone whether any
pai;t of it or all parts of it should fail,
failure in materials used, in construc
tion, in durability, in cost, in mainte
nance—the test is the thing.
Road building is a science now, ani
efficiency is the only test of quality.
In the stones used in the construc
tion of the Chevy Chase road, their
specific gravity, their weight per cubic
foot, their water absorption, their per
centage of wear, their hardness and
toughness are all determined by the
most careful scientific tests. Patrol
men are constantly employed on this
road to keep account of whatever de
fects in materials and construction
may develop and exact data as to the
cost of maintenance.
The Chevy Chase road was fortu
nately placed for the reason that all
of its sectionc of types have been sub
jected to precisely the same sort of
traffic year in and year out and the
section or type that has not stood the
strain has been as Important an object
lesson to ro£d builders as the section
or type that has maintained itself un
der like strain. The road, as a whole,
is a great experiment conducted by the
most competent engineers to demon
strate the most practical things.
Good Stretches Useless.
Local control In road building means
s good patch where the officials are
up to date, and a poor stretch where
the localjauthorities are slack in their
road work—and the poor stretches of
road make the good stretches useless.
Up-to-Date Roads.
We have the spectacle in most
states of pioneer roads for twentieth
century farmers whose equipment in
farming consists of modern machinery
and modes of travel. When, oh when,
will he put the up-to-date mode of
travel on an up-to-date road!
Drag Improve® Surface.
Is your road to town rough and
hard to travel over? A split leg or
Iron drag drawn over the road after
each rain helps to give r good sur
face and does not cost much.
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Muoh Money Is Lost Because Farmers
Do Not Use Business Methods in
Selling Their Produce.
Hy J. F\ Nicholson, Marketing Spe
oia'ist, Em t nsion Division,
UnivtTsity of Arkansas.
-—
Farming is a business and demands
the ufle of business method*. A few
years ago farm products were not so
widely distributed as they are today.
Then the farmer could load his prod
ucts on his wagon, drive to town anti
dlsp -.so of them with little difficulty.
Now' lie generally finds that some
one else has been to hi mark* t. Can
taloupes are there from far distant
states when his cantaloup s should
have filled the demand. Butter has
been shipped in from a large cream
ery hundreds of miles distant when
Ills butter should have supplied the
wants of that locality; and Aon the
bacon, that he us d to furnish, now
comes from packing plants that he
never heard of before. This change
is due to Increasing competition on
the part of producers everywhere.
Groups of farmers unite their efforts
in producing a given food crop. They
find they must seek larger and mor<>
extensive markets They push their
products out farther and farther un
til they reach every corner of the
earth. Unit ss the local grower can
compete in quality and kind, ho finds
that the other fellow has taken hi3
place on his 1thme market. The local
grower is soon convinced that he is
in a competitive game. Instead of
bemoaning h’s fate lie determines
that to succeed lie must follow the
methods of those who have crowded
him out.
Must Produce Quality and Quan
tity To Compete.
Ho learns that he must produce
quality in order to interest the buyer
who used to take his home product.
When he has done that like his com
petitors he must begin to develop new
markets for his products. He looks
about for a wider outlet and finds it,
in many cases, miles distant which
requires shipping in large amounts,
generally in car lots, in order to leave
a profit. It is true that it costs more
to reach this distant market, but it
must be reached in order to sell. The
grower also finds that lie must em
ploy the services of distributors to
enable him to locate his products on
the distant market. This, again, goes
into his profits, but things adjust
themselves in time and eventually he
finds himself in tile groat game of
food distribution, operating his busi
ness on small margins and striving to
increase bis earnings by a greater
and better production.
Co-operation Increases Profits.
The day will come when the grower
must conclude that some of tiie cost
of conducting his business may be
lessened by uniting his efforts with
'hose of his neighbors. He then helps
■o form co-operative selling organiza
tions with the growers of his locality
who are striving to produce the same
commodity. Jointly they employ an
efficient sales manager in whom they
have implicit confidence. Their com
bined output is of such quantity and
quality that they easily take their
place in the big competitive game on
distant markets and they find that oy
working together they can greatly
lessen the cost of production and
handling of their products. All of
this means bigger returns to the
grower individually and demonstrates
that while a man mav profitably ope
rate individually on a large scale he
can do so more successfully and in
a more business-like way by co-opo
rating with his neighbors.
Which Farmer Are You?
This is tiie story in a •nutshell of
successful marketing and unless we
recognize the forces now operating
and prepare to meet increasing com
petition, we shall be destined to con
tinue to labor quietly on our farms,
growing only a small surplus over
what we can consume ourselves and
trading it for those other necossith s
of life which we cannot raise. Will
you be a good farmer, able to meet
competition Intelligently and through
co-operative efforts profitably dispose
of your cash crops, or will you be
just a grower allowing some one else
to profit on your surplus? Remember,
producing is only one half the game
of farming—-selling is the other half.
PUI IN WINIfcK UUVtH CHOPS—
VERY VALUABLE.
Do not forget the value of wheat,
oats and rye for cover crops. There
arc four distinct values of these three
cover crops.
First. They produce fine winter
pasture.
Second. They lessen the washing
of the soil and loss of fertility.
Third. The green plants use plant
food that is being liberated through
out the winter and when they are
plowed under a great deal of plant
food is saved which would be lost
othrwise.
Fourth. The plants plower under
in the spring will not only add fertil
ity but humus to the soil and thus in
crease its moisture holding capacity.
If you have any questions to ask
concernin gthese cover crops or care
for bulletins on this subject, write to
the Kxtension Division, University of
Arkansas at Fayetteville, Ark.
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iviuiMtT IN SUNFLOWER SEEDS
In Demand in England for Manufac
ture of OU—Brightens Plumage
of Various Fowls.
There is a possibility that the sun
flower will bo included among our
regular field crops and that Instead <>(
struggling for a place In the rear end
of the garden it will be carefully cul
tivated and harvested for sake of Its
seed.
From England there comes the re
port that a big demand exists for the
seed from which to manufacture oil.
It has long been recognized that the
plant is both hardy and productive and
if a means of utilizing the seed could
be discovered it would take rank with
the grains. Poultry keepers have set
a certain value upon the seed for keep
ing hens in condition and brightening
the plumage.
It has even been claimed that the
stalks could he preserved in a silo like
corn fodder and make a rich food for
cattle. In neither case, however, has
any wide field of usefulness been
found.
FOR EXTRA EARLY POTATOES
Plan Outlined for Working Small
Patch Before Danger of Spring
Frosts Has Passed.
For extra early potatoes, manure
heavily a few rows in the hill and
cover with an inch or two of manure,
then cover all with four or five inches
of soil.
In this manner a small patch may
he planted without danger before the
spring frosts are past, and new po
tatoes will be coming on before others
think of having any.
Should Use Judgment.
Teacher—“When little George Wash
ington told tin' truth about cutting
down the cherry tree his father for
gave him. Now, Henry, what lesson
does this teach us?” Henry—“It
teaches us that we should learn whsu
*• tell the truth,”
Preserve Your Complexion
the easy, pleasing way by using
Magnolia Balm before and after
outings. You can fearlessly face
the sun, wind and duSt because
you know Magnolia Balm keeps
you safe from Sunburn and Tan.
This fragrant lo
tion iswonderfully
soothing, cooling
and a great com
fort after a day
outdoors.
Magnolia Balm is
the skin-saving
beauty secret
which is regularly
used when once
tried.
Magnolia Balm
LIQUID FA CE POWDER.
Pink, White, *Ro»e-Red.
75c. at 'Druggists or hu mail direct
Sample (either color) for 2c. Stamp.
Lyon Mfg. Co., 40 South Fifth St., Brooklyn,N. Y
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EAVES SPRING
Two miles north or Newark
Friday and Saturday
AUG. 31 and SEPT 1
This is an ideal location for a picnic at the famous
Eaves Spring, in a beautiful grove on the bank of
Dota Creek
Everybody invited to come, bring well filled bask
ets and enjoy a real picnic
:
Plenty of good barbecued meat and fried fish
Stand privileges, $2 per day; doll racks $1 per day
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION SEE OR WRITE
J. R. LINEBOUGH, Manager
A Littis ?:■!■»» <ie.
Edgar, aped five. as driving from
the1 station on id? first visit to Maine, j
Ills mother, notNing a it ubled loo'.t
on his face ns in* h-oked ahout, said, |
“What's the mat!'-;, dsar? Don’t you
• like the beautiful country t” “Yes,
mother, but on my map .Maine is red!”
First Motion Picture. ;
The motion picture is mole than fifty i
Tears old, if we understand bv that <
.mil any device for producing the op
tica! illusion of moving objects These
toy:; were called by various names,
•c ell as thaumatrope, zoetrepe, strobo
•cope, phenakistoscope, sterescopie
cabinet, kinemutoseope, etc. The first
xhibitlon of photographic motion pic
ares was made by Henry lieyl, in
Philadelphia, in lST). ,
Chinese Theaters. i c
No charge for admission i made in J1
many of the Chile e tlieaters. whlcli t
itiii nd entirely on the protits from the ^
salt of drink and food products. The.,c n
dayiiouses are in the order -„i cafes, t
aides btdng provided and tea and uu- I
ive delicacies served. *
WHAT IS #
LAX-FOS
LAX-FOS IS AN IMPROVED CASCARA
A Digestive Laxative
CATHARTIC AND LIVER TONIC
.ax-Fos is not a Secret or Patent Medl
ine hut is composed of the following
ild-fashioned roots and herbs:
CASCARA BARK
BLUE FLAG ROOT
RHUBARB ROOT
BLACK ROOT
MAY APPLE ROOT
SENNA LEAVES
AND PEPSIN
n I.ax-Fos the Cascara is improved by
lie addition of these digestive ingredi
nts making it belter than ordinary Cas
ARA.and thus the combination acts not
nly as a stimulating laxative and catliar
c but also as a digestive and liver tonic,
yrup laxatives are weak, but Lax-FoS
ombines strength with palatable, aro
latic taste and does not gripe or disturb
ie stomach, g One bottle will prove
ax-Fos is invaluable for Constipation,
adigestion or Torpid Liver. Price 50c.
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