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^ i V Distinction. "Who 1b that mllltaryloofclng chapf "That, sir, la the hero of a rumored war."?Puck. ECZEMA ITCHED AND BURNED Falmouth, Ky.?"Two years ago I was troubled with akin and scalp troubles. 1 would hare pimples that would break out and form sores on my face and head, with terrible Itching. The ecxema on my face and head Itched and burned and when I scratched It. It made sores and 1 was very disfigured for the time being. My head became so sore I could nnt If wHIi a m>?K. WUVM ? r*i?u ? WUIW, It IfCWUO mass of sores. My hair fell oaf gradually. "1 was afflicted about a year before I used Cutlcura Soap and Ointment and after using them three weeks I was getting better and In less than three months, after using eight cakes of Cutlcura Soap and Ave boxes of Cuticura Ointment, I was completely cured of eczema." (Signed) Prank Vastine, Dec. 12, 1912. Cutlcura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free.with 32-p. Skin Hook. Address postcurd "Cutlcura, Dept. D, Boston.**?Adv. "Eternal punishment" may bo the price of being too poor to buy a divorce. ARE YOU CONSTIPATED? Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills have proved their worth for 7?V yean. Test theni roufeif now. Send for sample to 572 Pearl St., New York. Adv. Hp who has no mind to trade with the devil should be so wise as to keep away from his shop. doks vorn hi-: an AriiKt Try Illcka* OAPUDINK. Ifa t?nuid? pleasant to lake?effects Immediate?ro-nt to prevent Si<-k Headaches and Nereutia Neadictra also. Yotar money liarlt If nnt nallaA?<l ?A*? ? *"1 60c. m medicine ?lores- 4Ur. To removo grease spots from wallpnper, dip a piece of flannel in spirits of wine and rub the spot very gently. Important to Mothara Examine carefully every bottlo of CASTOKIA, a safe and aure remedy for Infants and children, and see that It In Use For Over SO Yeara. Children Cry for Fletcher's Caatoria Pithy Postscript. A striking illustration of the saying that the pith of a lady's letter la In the postscript occurred In the case of a young lady who. having gone out to India, and writing home to her friends, concluded with the following words: "P.S.?You will ace by my signature that I am married." Marked Similarity. "If 12 personB were to agree to dine together every day. hut never stt In exactly the same order around the table," didactically stated the professor, "it would take them thirteen million /vuip, ?i. iiiu i atr ui uur utiuicr A uaj, nnd they would hr.vn eaten more than four hundred and seventy-four million dinners, beforo they could get through all the possible arrangements In which they could place themselves. "Yep," snnrled Uncle Pepyn. "That would bo nearly as many ways as a small boy rearranges himself during n long Bernion.?Judge. Aftar a Pleasant Evening. Mr. Sydney Fluxion told an "amusing story for the purpose of illustrating a point at a recent dinner. A certain convivial soul, who had been Invited to dine with a friend, whose house was at the end nf a dark nnd muddy lano, was advised to bring a big lantern. After a very Jovial eve nlng the convivial one left and struggled home through the inud, firmly gripping his heavy burden by the handle. Next morning he received this messnge from his host: "Herewith your lantern; please return parrot and cage." ( ^ From Our Ovens To Your Table Untouched by human hands? Post Toasties ?the aristocrat of Readyto-Serve foods. A tal>le dainty, made of white Indian com ? presenting delicious flavour and I wholesome nourishment in new and appetizing form. The steadily increasing sale of this food speaks volumes in behalf of its excellence. An order far s package of Post Toasties from your grocer will provide a treat far the whole family. % * "The Memory Linger**' Pontiim Ore*) (Vnuaar, LMwl B*tU? Creak. Mlcktirea , / ! oocx>ooooooooooooo MISHAPS OF MR. HAP By AUGUSTUS G. SHERMAN. By the banks of a Sylvan Htream, gazing vacantly Into the far distance, , stood liapgood Dorsey. His friends called him Hap for Bhort, and he needed those friends sorely juBt now, for all that liapgood Dorsey wore on the present occasion waB an umbrella. "I'm ilnno fftr " I./. ? r. * -a i..? t--* 4wt| iiu oiavru lU^UUnuusly, using the umbrella as a shield. "What in tho world am I to do?" It was a serious question. Ilapgood Dorsey, a young bachelor on his an, nual vacation outing, two miles from his country hotel, night coming on, uo habitation in sight, had come out of the water after a vigorous swim to iind his clothes missing. "It was that tramp 1 saw lurking around in the distance." Hap now told 1 himself. "I don't care for the clothes I ?it was an old suit, and nothing o 1 value in the pockets, but?how am 1 going to get to shelter?" Hapgood Dorsey did not rage or swear. Ho was a sensible, reputable young man, rather shy and reserved, especially with the ladies, but manager of a large manufacturing establishment and on the way to further business promotion. "1 t's a mean trick, was the hardest thing he could find to say. "1 can't go hack into tho water and stay all night, I can't walk into town in this plight. I'm up a tree, or; rather, 1 wish I was!" It. was scmo time before Hapgood Dorsey could make up his mind what to do. He had a dim Idea that in his stroll from town to tho present spot he had passed a farmhouse. Ho finally started in the direction of the hotel. dodging part tho open spots between trees and bushes and the umbrella in constant play. Never was a man more thankful than he that It was growing dusk Somewhere, he vaguely remembered, ho had read a poem on "Tho Dying Day." He wished this one would stay dead, with no afterglow. Ala3, there was a line or two about "the Bable garments of tho night." Hap wished thoy might become tangible, j "What luck!" "What luck!" he chirped, as he struck a barb wirt i fence and made out a barn and a house i ^^^^^^_____ |?Ti?i?PFSHD I j L "I'm a Thankful Man." oeyond It. Ti.e plnco lias a t? nr.nt? Hap was assured of thlB as ho noticet a great washing out on the lino ii the yard. j It required skill, bravery, end the stoicism and endurance of a Nortl American Indian to irot over turn barbed wlro fence, but at length Ifaj negotiated the adventure successfully Ho started a leap with an "Ouch!" anc ; ho ended it with a "Geewhillikons!' but he was now 0:1 its field side ant ! made tracks for the shelter of tht j barn. Slipping through the open doorway barricading hitnself behind a heap o: j hay, Hap proceeded to carry out hlf i plan to secure attention and succor "Oo-hoo! O-loe-o!"?all the haili Hap had ever heard he now proceedet to deliver, first in a feeble venture some voice, and then more audibly ! and with some irritation. "There's nobody at homo in tlia j house, that's sure," he decided a j last. "I'll Investigate. Maybe 1 cai 1 find some door or window open. Jus 1 let me get some clothes?I don't inlrx j whose they are; 1 don't cnro wha they are?jumpers, overalls, tennis 01 bathing suit, I'll grab them quick. Tliii Is a horrible predicament, nr.d I an a desperate man!" Hap and his umbrella made the torn i of the vicinity. No one was in tin house, as he had surmised, nor wai i there any avenue of inlet easy of ac j cess. "I'll do it, 1'vo got to do it!" de j cided Hap grimly, as he stood looklnj over the line of family washing hang , ing up to dry. "There's a white oneno, that would be too prominent. Tin blue one is bigger and becomes nn better. Yes, tho problem Is solved and I am saved. Ha! ha!" Hap became tragically jolly and tin oddity of the occasion helped to mak< him so. Ho almost chuckled with re lief as he took a blue dress and a sun bonnet from tho line, and he smiled a ho thought of how he would recite hi unique adventuro at his club in th< city. Then Hap repaired to the bam When ho came out he carried tin umbrella closed. Tho dress was room; ind long, the sun bonnet was comfort able and sheltering. % "I'm a thankful man." ho said devoutly. and started down a traversed country road carrying the spot of hla i ruthless pillage well In his mind. "ThiB outfit looks as if it belonged to some old farm dame." he ruminated. "All right. She shall have the , flneBt silk gown and Sunday bonnet in town tomorrow for this timely accommodation. Hello!" Hap dodged behind a tree. The moon had come up and Just then with > a vivid scream a young girl turned a curvo in the highway, in hot pursuit waB a browsy, bold looking individual, whom Hap at once recognized aB his deBpoiler at the brookside. I "Give up that watch!" ho was shouting. "I'm going to have it." The terrified girl must havo made out Hap. Sho ran frantically up to him. AK ? - v/ii, inujr, save me:'' snc pleaded, clinging frantically to Hap. "Huh! an old woman!" roared the tramp. "I'll demolish both of you if i you don't give up that watch!" "Let go, please," pleaded Hap in an embarrassed way. and at Ills masculine tones his charge uttered a new shriek. "A man!" she quavered. ."Luckily for you, and something of an athlete," vaunted Hap, rather proudly?biff! Down went Mr. Tramp, scientifically bowled out and gasping for breath, prostrate on the ground. "Hun for some help," Hap directl ed the bewildered miss, and we'll put i this bold highwayman where he belongs." 11c stood valiant guard over the disI comtited thief with a club until the young lady, running back to a neighi bor's, returned with two men armed with pitchforks. In the meantime Hap learned from the thief where his clothes had oecn hidden. "Why, say, Miss Rose," exclaimed one of the men, pointing to her rescuer, "this one can't be right, either? I a man?dressed up in a woman's dress!" "Yes," fluttered Miss Rose Barton, ; "and it looks like mamma's dress, too!" > "I will explain," observed Hap, and > he did. I And then, clothed in his right mind ?uu hi ui? own mure, liapgqod Dor> Bey felt it a duty to pay a visit to the ? Itarton homestead the next day. > "I've come to return what I borrowed," he reported, handing a neat package to Robo's mother after an introduction from his blushing hostess. "You will llnd a Bilk pattern, also, Mrs. liarton a slight acknowledgment of your kindness in unconsciously ussisting my?escape. "Young man, you did bravely last evening," observed the practical housewife, "and 1 want to thank you." Only ono thing could come of a bright, sensible young man like Hap meeting a lovely, affectionate country | maid like Rose. It was an engagement, and the silk pattern came in finely for a gown for Mrs. Ilarton at the wedding. (Copyright, 1913. by \V. <!. Chapman.) Hens That Exercise. According to Samuel E. Malinn of St. Paul, Minn., the egg yield of a hen can positively be increased if means are taken to give her plenty of exercise. A dispatch the other day related Unit Mahan had established a sort of treadmill In connection wiii. i>io chicken coop, Eays the New York Sun, and compelled his hens to walk the rungs constantly for ten or fifteen minutes at a time, so that exercise approximating two hours daily was taken. A 30 per cent, increase in egg laying was reported within a period of nine days. ' When news of tlio achievement 1 reached some of the college analyists. they began to liguro on the likelihood of change in tho component, parts of 1 tho egg. What the result will he, as^ sinning tho hen exercise story to be ' truo, leaves all kinds of room for spec ulution. It is a well-known fact that | cattlo worked hard make tough el1 eating when killed. Huilding up of ' muscle gives greater strength, but the 5 tenderness vanishes. Old Passion Play. ^ Slnco 1801 the peasants of Vorder* thlersee, a remote village in Tyrol, huvo had a passion play of their own. } Its text dates, however, from the mid1 die of the sixteenth century. Tho last * porfornianco was glvon In 1905; the > next ono will tako place in 1915. In preparation for this coming produet tion, these peasant players reached i the conclusion early this year that t they needed new scenery, a new stage t and also a new roud that would bring 1 visitors in greater numbers to their t mountain festival. To raise the r amount required they gave during the s months of July and August a scries of l performances of the drama, "Juda lien llur," drawn front General Low r Wallace's famous novel by one of their 0 members, a peasant who appears to s have produced an altogether satisfac - tory dramatization. Sulgrave Once Robbers' Nest. ? Sulgrave, whose manor house, the :* ancestral home of the Washington - family, tho Peace Centenary commit 0 tee desire to purchase as a place oi e pilgrimage, has associations not en I. tirely of a peaceful character. For tho smiling Northamptonshire village to 0 ward the end of tho eighteenth con u tury was the headquarters of a guns of highwaymen, known as the Cut i- worth gang. Chief of tho band was b the parish clerk of Sulgrave. who al s ways went to church fully armed, lest b justice should catch htm unaware. Tho booty was stored In the church, so i. that the bold, bad clerk might be at 0 hand to protect it. Hut treachery )' stepped In, and four of the gang wore > hanged In 1787 at Northampton.?Ix>n don Chronicle. 4 I J'-r ' ;'V "7"-*' "* " # \ I SEED SELECTED EARLY I Farmer May Be Reasonably Sure of Corn Stand Next Year. i Consideration of Strength and Character of Corn Stalk, Height of Ear From Ground and Size of Shank Should Be Noted. <Uy C. P. BULL.) One of the main reasons why seed I corn should be selected early is to be I reasonably sure It will grow the fol' lowing year when planted. Early sei lected seed corn is the corn that usu ally gives the best stand. Without a | good stand it is impossible to get a maximum yield, and it costs no more 1 to raise a Held of corn with a perfect stand than it docs to raise a field with a 60 to 70 per cent, stand. Every good kernel of seed ccn has in it a live, though very small, corn plant. This plant is tender and easily injured, unless kept under favorable h ^ Ready to Select From the Standing Corn When f.nrn le Cnl?/.?n^ I" This Way One Can Consider the Stalks From hich the Ears Are Taken as Well as Ears Themselves. 1 conditions. Seed corn that is not thoroughly dry before cold weather, will in the northern climates, freeze, which will cause the kernel to expand, thus injuring the germ or little plant, lowering its vitality and often destroying it, so the kernel will not germinate. Few farmers save enough seed corn. One bushel of shelled corn will plant from seven to dght acres. One hundred to one hundred and twenty selected ears will make a bushel of shelled corn. At this rate it will take I from twelve to fifteen ears to plant j one acre. It should be remembered, i however, that the. first selection is not always perfect: and oftentimes j upon second selection and germination test, half of the first selection will be thrown out. Thus it is seen i .. .. . ... i mat mere snoutd always lie selected in the fall at least twice as much seed as the farmer expects to plant. There is little danger of petting tco much seed corn. Any surplus, if the seed is good, can usually be sold at a | fair price. i In case one has 110 "special seed | plot" in which his best and earliest maturing ears were planted, it is then , necessary that his seed be selected from the field. The most practical method to do this is to go through I the field with a sack tied across one's shoulder and select the choicest and best matured ears. Two rows of corn may easily bo examined at once. During the process of selection, consideration of the strength and character of tho stalk, the height of the ear from the ground, and the size of the shank, j should be noted. A stalk does not necessarily have I to be large to be a big producer. A ! tall spindling plant lodges very eas, ily. The stalk should bo of good size and strong at the base, gradually tap: ering, and not necessarily tall. Strong. vigorous stalks of medium height, ! usually produce the best and earliest matured ears. The ear should be attached to the stalk by a medium-sized I shank, which is long enough to allow the tip of tho car to hang down. I All ears in a cornfield will not maj ture at the same time. A variation of fifteen days in maturing of oars in a field is not uncommon. One of the i reasons why a good selection of corn cannot be made from the shock or from the field late In the fall, is that one is unable to tell tho time tho ear matured. Drainage of Wet Lands. For tho management of wet lands the usual advice is to tile drain them. , but an intelligent German farmer "ow 1 living in this country suggests that it sometimes pays better to make arti| flcial ponds. In Germany, he says, an acre of fish ponds is often reckoned worth more than an acre of wheat. The dams may be built with farm labor at small expense, and the ponds I add considerably to tho beauty of tho ' : scenery. Very often, also, the ponds ' j can bo used to some extent for irrl1 ! gation, and Irrigation will work wonJ ders. Put Bees In the Cellar. ' Have everything ready to put the ; bees into the cellar. Never place the hives flat on tho floor, but raise them 1 about two inches to provido ventilation. J! HIT HIGHEST MARKET PRICE Easier Done With Grain Crop* Than ^ With Livestock?Animals Must Go When They Are Ready. It is much easier, generally speak* Ing. to hit the highest market price with grain crops than it is with livestock. There are various powerful interests that rflm at certain seasons of the year to depreciate the prices of meat products and grain. The grain farmer is leas at their mercy than the stock farmer, because ho can. as a rule, hold his grain for u few months until tho market suits him. The stockman cannot do this with his cattle, sheep and swine to anything like the same extent. Cattle, sheep and swine must go when they are ready for market. It is the best thing a farmer can do to sell when they are ready, that is, when they have reached a weight at which ho cannot add more weight at a profit. Tho only advice th^it it is safe to give on this point is to avoid being a market chaser, and to sell fattened stock when it is fit to ship. Thero is a large expense connected with holding fat stock and in many instances the market goes the wrong way. Every farmer knows that with corn at, say 50 cents, he is assuming the role of a speculator by holding a bunch for a higher market, aftermost of the food of support and the food of gain becomes a diminishing quantity. diminished to such an extent that he cannot make a profitable increase on his stock. REJUVENATE AN OLD ORCHARD Increase in Size and Color of Fruit Is Very Largely Due to Judicious Use of Prune Saw. (Dy S. VAN SMITH. Colorado Agricultural College.) Our attention is being called every day to the example of some farmer with an idea, who takes a pruning saw and goes into an old and unprofitable orchard and makes it pay attrac live dividends. Proper cultivation and spraying; are important factors in such a rejuvenation, but the increase in size and coior of fruit is very largely due to judicious pruning. In old orchards which have been neglected the thing most noticeable is the fact that the tree tops contain too much wood; too many limbs. Many of these are large limbs which should have been cut out years ago whev. they wore small and the shock to the tree would not have been so great, to say nothing of the saving of plant food used in the production of 1 mMu r4 I Irrigated Orchard Near Montrose, Col. this superfluous wood. One of tho most valuable qualities of market fruit is good, attractive color. It takes light and plenty of it to make good color and tho tree top with too many branches will keep out the sunlight and, consequently, will not pioduce well-colored fruit. In market fruit, size as well as color is important. The tree that tries to produce too many apples will be unable to bring them to a good size. Thinning the fruit will aid very materially in increasing tho size, but a good deal- of work In thinning can be saved by taking out some of the extra wood this winter. HELPFUL TO BEE BEGINNERS One Method Which Cannot Fail to Assist Is to Give Delinquent Insects Good Shaking Up. fRv MRS R 1-" lOSPPIT \ ! A method I have just learned that ' cannot fail to help beginners in boo culture is to give the bees a good shaking when they become delinquent in their work. When you move them a short distance to prevent their going back shake them in front of tho entrance of their respective hives. Tho most vicious bees can be made very I tame by shaking. I shako them off ! the comb into a large dishpan. When j the pnn is shaken about the same as" you would shake a corn popper tho I bers roll over in a confused mass and after a nilnute of shaking, rolling and tumbling they can bo picked up with the hands, providing, of course, that you do not hurt them. Profitable Industry. A profitable industry is being developed on many of tho government ' irrigation projects in the production i of honey, and reports Indicate that I this honey is superior in quality. Alfalfa is the chief source from which tho bees secure their supply, and as It blooms constantly from early spring till late in the fall, the bees have something to work on all the time, which allows a greater amount of honey to be stored. \ ' I Fcra S|T 1 Galled \ Horse ASa \ Try It W | 1 W After there /jKs. HANFORD'8 Balsam of Myrrlt For Galls, Cuts, Lameness, Strains, Bunches, Thrush, Old Sores, Nail Wounds, Foot Rot Fistula, Bleeding, Etc. Etc. ^ Made Since 1846. "IX* Price 25c, 50c and $1.00 All Dealers W. N. U.. CHARLOTTE, NO. 39-1913. * ? Tin* less a man amounts to the larger he shows up In a group photograph. SULPHUR?THE GREAT HOME REMEDY Mr. Warren C. Cares, 10S So. Ohio Ave., Columbus. Ohio, writes as follows: "I suffered intensely from Eczema which covered, my body and arms. After trying three physicians and one skin specialist and 29 different ointments and lotions, 1 accidentally learned of Hancock's Sulphur Compound and Ointment. I tried them and the first application gave mo instant relief from that awful itching. 1 persisted in their use and in one week I had hardly a trace of the eruption." If any reader questions this testimonial as not being bona fide and unsolicited, an inquiry sent to the address above, enclosing postage will convince anyone beyond question. Hancock's Sulphur Compound and Ointment are sold by all dealers. Han! cock Liquid Sulphur Co., Baltimore, Md.?Adv. Some young men would rather love and lose than never love at all. -1 Uric Acid Is Slow Poison lixcess uric acid left in the blood by weak kidneys, causes more diseases than any other poison. Among its effects are backache, headache, dizziness. irritability, nervousness, drowsiness, "blues," rheumatic attacks ! and urinary disorders. Later effects are dropsy, gravel or heart disease. If you would avoid uric acid troubles, keep your kidneys healthy. To stimulate and strengthen weak kidneys, use 1 loan's Kidney Pills?the best recommended special kidney remedy. A Ml sslsslppl Case j Mrs. A. S. Payne, fKOl K. Third Ave, t'oluinhus. Miss, "1 had terrible puln:< in tny hack and hips. My hlndder was bndly liiflained. I often _ cried out In puin. ? I'ocloi i didn't help me and 1 was nil run down, lionn's Kidney nils brouirht relief from the first nnd three boxes cured tne. I have felt like a different person since." Get Donn'i at Any Store. 50c a Box r- CAN'S "V.TLV FOSTER-MILBURN CO.. BUFFALO. N. Y. SORE EYES Dr. Salter's Eye Lotion relieves and cures sore and inflamed eyes in 24 to 48 hours. Helps the weak eyed, cures without pain. Ask your druggist or dealer for SALTER S. Only from Reform Dispensary, W S. Broad. Atlanta. Georgia rncc Nickel plated paten toil wire crabbing r lltr trap to the boys who will sell to their friends only five copieB of my Bong at 10c a copy. Send postal card now for the songs. 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