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AWAKE TO THE OPPORTUNITY People of Chicago Are Utilizing Their Back Yards and Changing the Aspect of the City. The increased cost of living ls be ginning to change the landscape ot Chicago as viewed from the elevated lines, according to a city salesman, who puts in a great deal of his time '.raveling around town these days, says the Chicago News. "I have noticed this spring," he ex plains, "that nearly every back yard is being put out in vegetables. People bave to do it, I guess. Until this year the city man home from his desk or his machine or whatever he worked at had little time for gardening. Tho janitor of the flat building usually kept a grass plot mowed, if there was a janitor and a gras plot, and in the case of homes the woman of the house sometimes planted morning glories or petunias along the fence and let it go at that, while in the poorer districts the tin can and the worn-out mattress held sway. "All is changed these days, which shows how nature sometimes does things backward, according to our way of reasoning. It would seem that the more money we had to spend the more neatly we would keep our surround ings. But with money going out at the rate of $6 a barrel for potatoes and 28 cents a pound for butter, the house keeper has begun to dig up his back yard and set out neat rows of onions, lettuce, beets and turnips and put in his evenings weeding and hoeing, where formerly he read and smoked and allowed grass and weeds to flour ish and cats to prowl. It is surprising, too, to see what an improvement it makes and how pleasing to the eye these back yards are." ECONOMIC VALUE OF TREES Roads Always in Better Condition Where They Have Been Planted and Properly Cared For. We have spoken often for good pub lic roads as he best investment ev erything considered, that the country can make, but we are indebted to the Maryland Stats Grange for the sound suggestion that there are no really good country roads without shade trees along then. The practical, eco nomic value of trzes along the roadside is beyond dispute. They actually pro -tcct the road- and lessan the cost of upkeep. How much they add to the money value of abutting farms, it would be difficult to estimate; but if, of two farms otherwise exactly equal In value and offered at the same price, one is fringed by shade trees and the other is bare, there is little doubt which nine buyers out of ten would prefer. In no other way can the at tractions of a bit of country road be so much enhanced. Who that drives in the country doesn't feel grateful to the farmer whose trees beautify the scene? Planting shade trees where none ex ist is not really expensive, and in the long run it pays quite as well, at least, as planting wheat. There are. of eourse, certain practical problems, such as avoiding too dense a shade upon grain land and seleciing the right stock; but a treeless real anywhere outside the desert is a reproach to those who live upon it.-Saturday Eve ning Post Value of City Planning. A lecture on "The Engineer In His Relations to the City Plan" was given hy Nelson P. Lewis, chief engineer of the board of estimate and apportion ment, New York, before the Engineers' club at Philadelphia. Mr. Lewis illus trated his lecture with lantern slides, showing the effect upon city growth of proper planning, and emphasized the necessity of making plans while the city is in its infancy, so as to avoid tearing down big buildings and making other serious changes. "City planning pays," he said, "be cause of the increase of population and valuation of properties which re sults. The old cities of the east are all hampered by the bad planning of those who laid them out a century or more ago. but despite this handicap, many Improvements can be made which,will make them high examples of modern civic planning. Praise for Cedar Rapids. An illustration of what may be done for a comparatively small city is fur nished by Cedar Rapids, Ia. A river runs through the town, not a large stream, and In the center Is an island of good size. It was decided to make that island a civic center, placing the municipal buildings thereon and erect ing numerous street bridges to it. The .hanks of the river are bordered with ?undesirable buildings. These build ings are to be torn down, streets fwidened and the banks of the river jbeautlfled with really attractive build ings, such as would form a natural Bereen or border to a fine civic center. .-New York Sun. Trees Bring Income to City. / Roadside fruit trees line one of the (turnpikes in Fairfield county, Ohio, for a distance of 15 miles. It is planned (to use the income from the sale of fthe fruit for repair and maintenance nf the road. GOOD SEED CORN TEST "Rag Doll Baby" Pronounced as Greatest of Infants. Cheapest Tester Which Can Be Made -All That Is Needed ls Few Yards of Sheeting of Good Qaulity, Tom Into Strips. The Rag Doll Baby, scientifically known as the rag doll seed corn tes ter, has been pronounced the greatest infant of recent years. Also the most popular because it has been nursed by a majority of the school children of the X: ii i ted States. Not only did this pet in its first year make two blades of grass grow for one. but it claims credit for last year's banner corn crop. It is said to have added millions to the crop's value. This is merely an inexpensive ar rangement whereby progressive farm ers and their children test seed corn before planting. Half a dozen ker nels of corn are taken from each ear of seed corn, the kernels are laid on numbered squares of cloth, the cloth dampened and rolled together and loosely tied. A score or more of "babies" are placed in a pail or tub of lukewarm water and left there for about 12 to 18 hours. Five to eight days later the cloths are carefully unrolled and the kernels examined "Rag Doll" Tester and Rolls. ! carefully. In all cases in which all the kernels are not strong in germina tion the ear should be thrown away, for no farmer can afford to plant seed that will not germinate. For the rag doll test buy a few yards of sheeting of good quality and tear it into strips 8 inches wide and from three to five feet long. If it is planned to use the strips a number of times, hem the edges, as otherwise the ravelings sometimes disarrange the kernels in unrolling. There is no cheaper, more convenient and accu rate method of testing seed corn than by the rag doll tester. A few of its j advantages are : The cheapest tester which can be 1 made. Anyone can make the tester in a moment's time. Corn may be placed in the tester and the test read approximately as quickly as any other tester. If one wishes to use the "water" method, the construction of this tester is well adapted for this. If saturated atmosphere with moist cloth contact is desired, this may be secured by leaving the rolls In the water only long enough to become thoroughly moistened. Less mold develops in this tester than any other. May be disinfected for mold most easily. Very compact, and can be moved from one place to another without difficulty. All parts of the kernel, roots, shoots, etc., can be readily seen. Gives an accurate test, as indicated by field results. Business Methods Needed. Few owners of the smaller poultry plant know what percentage of profits their flocks do yield. Many of these may know how much they spend for feed during the year, and hov/ many eggs the hens laid within the twelve months, but further than that they cannot give any figures of the cost of production or the actual profits from the sales. Adopt business methods in your poultry plant. When the small weeds are killed there will be no big ones. Give the team many breathing spells during the first weeks of spring work. Whenever a farmer gets the auto fever he at once becomes a good-road preacher. That producer is most successful who keeps himself best In the line of the works. { The ground for sweet clover seed shc:i!d be prepared the same as for alf;>.:;"a or clover. Go slow with the first few days plowi-.ig; the horses are soft, and must be worked in carefully. In . corn-growing territory cowpeas are mostly grown with corn, sowing broad, st or otherwise. The i-lover seed crop depends very largely upon the condition of the ground :.ud the weather. To kii! Canadian thistle in a field put the .'.Sid in some cultivated crop and keep the weeds down. Many growers say that weeds are as valen' ie aj fertilizers as clover and co wp r.s if they are turned under every year. Soil tai. >n from a well-established alfalfa fiel.: and spread on land to be sown to alfalfa is a very good way to Inocul?t:- it. Rotation of crops is one of the sim ple, practical methods of Increasing t e productivity of the farm and dis tributing labor. The farmer often makes a mistake by trying to do too much. Till less ground and cultivate lt better and there will be more profit In it TEDDY, WITHOUT COVER OPPORTUNITY FOR DEMOCRAT8 TO SEE HIM AS HE IS. Thunder Against Unrighteous Judges Purely Personal-Pertinent Ques tion Asked-Hawaii as an Ob ject Lesson in "Protection.* With appropriate dental lightnings and throaty thunders. Mr. Roosevelt declares that the anarchist who mur ders half a score of innocent persons with dynamite is a "respectable per son" compared to the Idaho judge who sent men to jail for quoting Mr. Roosevelt Of course. Human life is a thing with which Mr. Roosevelt has little concern; while the words of Theodore are sacred in his sight. The man who commits a mere murder should oe labored with, and perhaps restrained In his depopulating enthusiasm. But the nan who despises the speechify ings of Roosevelt, and ignores the threats of Theodore, should be hanged, drawn, quar:ered aud boiled in oil. The judge whom Mr. Roosevelt de nounces is a very cheap and very petty tyrant He used arbitrary power in an arbitrary way: and both he and the law under which he acted should be retired from public life at the first opportunity. B t the Journal wonders whether Mr. Roosevelt would cling to his faith In the comparative innocence of dyna miters if some one of the exploding fraternity took a notion to set ,off a bomb in the near neighborhood of Mr. Roosevelt.-Chicago Journal. Take Hawaii as Object Lesson. The little clique of corporations which owns and runs Hawaii does not want Americans on the islands. It wants orientals, because these, in the picturesque phrase of the Pacific coast, will "work for nothing and board themselves." The Hawaiian sugar planters have forced th^ir way into the sugar trust and enjoy part of the profits of that monopoly. They tax American homes, instead of building them. The territorial government of Ha waii keeps an immigration board at public expense to supply the planters with cheap labor. The territorial legislature passed a law to punish with fine and imprison ment any person who shall "induce, entice or persuade" any "servant" un der contract to quit his work. If the sugar trust comes crying for the "right" to continue taxing 90, 000,000 people the Wilson administra tion may conclude to tell the truth about Hawaii in official form, that Americans may see the sort of "home Industry" they are asked to mainQuT The Philippines. One of the pleasant duties of Mr. Wilson's administration will be to in vestigate conditions in the Philippines. The Philippines have cost this coun try $950,000,000 in money alone. That is a rock-bottom estimate. Their pres ent cost per year cannot be told; but lt ls high. Twenty-five regiments are kept in the islands almost all the time; so that the cost for military control alone is enormous. In addition to money, our adventure in foreign empire has cost 20,000 lives. It has put about 1,000 American soldiers in asylums, incurably insane from disease, caught during servico in the islands. It has gaiued us the hatred of several millions of Filipinos who are simple minded enough to take the declaration of independence seri Dusly, and believe the consent of the governed a vital factor in good gov ernment. Incidentally, our government of the Philippines is coBting the Filipinos something, as well as ourselves. It took the entire circulating medium in the Islands to pay the taxes in 1911. Worth Investigation. Our Philippine venture has been profitable to army contractors, states men out of a job at home, to the ship ping trust and the Bugar trust. A good, searching government Investiga tion would show which of these bene ficiaries has profited most from Amer ican imperialism; and thereby prevent jealousy. Also, it would help in de vising some plan for relieving the Islands of a hated overlordship, and tim United States of a heavy burden. Income Tax Workings. The income tax will very likely equalize the burdens of government It will tend to tax men according to what they have rather than upon what they want. That will be an improve ment, but if to this benefit we are to have economy, then the country will be doubly blessed. Not Wanted In the Party. Representative Ferguson says that T. R. is a Democrat but won't admit lt Neither will the Democrats. Representative Mann thinks the money spent In the money trust in quiry was wasted. Other Republicans think likewise. That's why they are Republicans, and that is largely why the Republican party has reached the irreducible minimum. Mr. Taft lauds Attorney General Wickersham in ornate language. While our admiration is more tempered, we nevertheless concede that Mr. Wick ersham is the greatest attorney gen eral this nation has had in four long years. For m Coupons f|? Out of the Duke's Mixture Sack Wk .vj s? 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Something for every member of tho household. ?facial offer for May and June only Our new illustrated catalogue of pres ents will be sent Free to anyone who scuds us their name and address. Coupons from Duke': Mixture may oe assorted zu::h tues (rom HORSE SHOE, J. T., TINSLEY'S NATURAL LEAF, GRANGER TWIST, coupons from FOUR ROSES (10c lin doublt coupon). PICK PLUG CUT, PIEDMONT CIGARETTES. CUX CIGAR. E l i ES, and other tags or coupons issued by us ?^J$0?? PIM*?? Dept Flt I 'g?** St. Louis, Mo. . ? I 1 1 "We desire to notify our farmer friends that we are ready to supply them with fertilizers in all of the popular brands and formulas. We sell the cel ebrated brands Bradley, Baldwin IIBIIIW nw iii II --- and Etiwan These goods have been used by farmers of this county for many years and have given satistaction. We also have contracted for a large supply ot ingredients for mixing fe: tilizers at home. Bear in mind that we can fill your orders for any kind of plant food, the dependable kind. Come in to s*ee us. . W. Adams & Co Albemarle-Hoffman NEW YORK A new modern hotel representing a Five Million Dollar investment on the sight of the former Hoffman House. Broadway, 24th Street, Fifth Avenue. THE ACME OF ARCHITECTURAL PERFECTION. LOCATED AT THE HUB OF NEW YORK'S GREATEST BUSINESS, OVERLOOKING MADISON SQUARE. Accomodations for 1,000, offering maximum luxury and comfort at muew lower rates than offered in any other hotel in America, con sistent wfth highest class service. A Good Room at $1.50 Per Day. A Good Room with bath $2.00 Per Day. Handsome apartments of any number of rooms at proportionate rates. The management is a guarantee of the highest refinement and protection to ladies and families. Telephones, Madison-3440-3569 DANIEL P RITCHEY. J PROEESSIONAL DR. J. S. BYRD, Dental Surgeon OFFICE OVER POSTOFFICE. Residence 'Phone 17-R. Office 3. James A. 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