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HE IS "EYE WITNESS" Although much mystery seems to surround the personality of "Eye Wit ness," the official English chronicler of the deeds of the British army in France and Belgium. there is really no doubt as to his identity. Various accounts have been printed in the press here claiming the honors for any number of amateur and profes sional writers from Lord Percy to a world-famous newspaper man and author. As a matter of fact, "Eye Wit ness" is Col. Ernest Dunlop Swinton, D. 8. O., of the Royal Engineers, as sistant secretary and librarian of the imperial committee of defense. His immediate family has contributed several members to the army, two * [brothers serving in India. Swinton made a name for himself in South Africa. and gathered the material for several Intensely inter esting novels. Under the pseudonym of "Ole-Luk-ole." he now has an in ternational repitation as a writer of military stories. lie is still busy turn ing out novels despite his activities at the front. When the history of this great war comes to be written Colonel Swinton will undoubtedly have a large hand in its shaping. b COL. DAVID J. PALMER When the Grand Army of the Re public holds its annual encampment in Washington next September it will celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the close of the war between the states, and on Wednesday, September 18, the same man who led the re view of Sherman's army down Penn sylvania avenue 50 years before, will lesd the Grand Army on its last march down the historic avenue. This is Col. David J. Palmer, na toal commander of the Grand Army. Colonel Palmer is seventy-five years old, looks fifty, was left for dead on the battlefield of Shiloh, and is now a member of the Iowa board of rail way commissioners. He is positively the livest dead man still surviving . thfe Civil war. When the grand review of the Army of the West-the Sherman Sarmy-was held in Washington in the doling days of May, 1865, Mr. Palmer was lieutenant colonel of the Twenty fth Iowa, In command. On that day the line of troops was headed by the c brigade to which the Twenty-fourth Iowa belonged; that brigade, by the Twenty-fifth Iowa regiment; and at the head of that regiment rode Colonel Palmer. At the national encampment, last year, It was determined to hold the Sftleth anniversary encampment In Washington; to duplicate the grand S vieow, and to march down the avenue; and almost without opposition Coin me Palmer was chosen chief. It was determined that the same man should ISad the army who had led it 60 years before. ~ -SIR ROBERT BORDEN The announcement that an im perial conference is likely to be held SIn oudon next summer, and that the project has been the subject of cor respondence between the British and Canadian governments is regarded by : Canadians generally as giving coasd. erable signficance to the persistenat references, in Sir Robert Borden's re cent speeches, to Canada's unsatis factory status in the British empire in respect of foreign affairs. In the very Bfirst speech which the prime minister delivered after the outbreak of the war he made it clear that In his opinion the war and the o various lssues which It raised em- * phasied the undesirability of the U overseas dominions beaing without the p slightest voice or influence in the t management of the foreign affair of J the empire. This point he has re Iterated, emphasized and elaborated a on in a series of addresses. iver sie* be became promnenat IBCh.dia apoitles, early tweq)y years ao, 8r Robat eIa s km t e m the ideal of theo Domalai with a voice in the determinin of the -` Cesw of pses and war ot the whole empire. It was not, however, uantil 8 that his uand attmretod more than Canadian attention. D WIZRD OF THE TELEPHONE i whom the B nostn-D 1n me r n eisco ·, Im Jet~a s telephea litme was fo molly opened recently, President it aM at of the New EsIand Tele- a phase nd Telegraph company paid - sal tribute to the services of John £. Cty, chief eSngier of the Bell h .sLghsqp company, saying he had dme more thai any other one mana s to: adae the toeleone,' outside of _ huamor Bell and Preiddent Vail. be Mr. , COtf's latest telephone achieve- S mmat was the planains and carryling , . at the treanmooatental line which mables onme to talk hfrom Boston or in e.,w Yrk to San Pranieco direct. ha A little more than 36 years ago th I . Cirty, then a poor boy livins -. J Cambrdgeport, where he was baum la 161, eatered the employ of tl thNew England Telephone and Tel- 1 - mph sompany as a swltch-board the .J eatao at the Boston omee. He by made numeroas improvements in the W hesalsma of the telephone and in- P dlk d the flrst multiple switchboard tn Boston Being transferred to New h oerk. he became an expert in the making and laying of cables. He ad. pe S 88d steadily and Am every department in which he worked he improved al S se- rvice and cat the cost.so Hl s wrw-k in this country has been studled by those abroad and many ofat : b idea have ben copied by foreigners. In view of the service he rendered i .. jaans uatie the mlkado decorated him a few years ago with the lit r Wda of the RIsing Sun. Beease of his inventions the farmers telephone has been made pos , il. Ha mechanism known in telephone clrcles as the "bridging bell," we :weRby say anumber of stations may be placed on one line without in a _ ay _petwrlg the transmission of speech, makes practical and possible the i'e r-' liame mw so popular in the sparsely settled sections of the country. Practleal Child. SUl.it~ Arhle was told to put down Sabsrp hal.e he was playing with. but at do so. When be cut his na hbe ran to him mother, who said: ! Now don't come to me for waut impakthy." maid I t a r | m Tra. The Moder Type. The type of youth who indulges in loud clothes and a hat forced back over his ears dropped into the dental chlr. "tm afraid to give him gas." said the dentist to his assistant. "How ean I tell when he's uwno. aim?' SWINE PROFITABLE ON SOUTHERN FARMS A Champion Poland China Sow From Missourl. be ,Prepared by the'United States Depart s ,ment of Agriculture.) d The farmer who is chiefly concerned ,o with making a living for his family will find it cheaper to grow a large If portion of his own meat than to buy it 1e all from the store with the cash pro r. ceeds of some money crop. Hogs may m be raised profitably on practically n. every southern farm, and if properly managed, should supply money as well food. Early settlers in the corn belt n gave the name of "mortgage lifters" to their hogs; they can raise a mortgage in. the South as well as in the corn belt. Four things are necessary if the southern farmer wishes to get a start. 1. A place to raise and fatten pigs. 2. A pig worth raising and fattening. 3. Feed on which to raise and fatten them. 4. The necessary funds. Let us consider these points in re verse order. 1. This article is written for the man whose principal concern is to sup ply food for his family. For, such a man one or two sows will be enough. Good grade sows can be bought for $10 or $15 each; razorbacks can be bought for less and will produce good pigs if bred to a good pure-bred boar. It there is no pure-bred boar iq the neighborhood whose services can be obtained, enough men should club to gether to represent the ownership qf 20 to 25 sows and buy a good boar, paying pro rata for the boar, depend ing on the number of sows owned by each. Boars can be bought for from $10 to $25 for weaned pigs, and from $50 to $100 for yearling and two-year old hogs. If SO men owning 20 sows bought a yearling boar for $50, each I man would Pay $2.50 toward the price I Ii A Well-Finished tt of Pig ' of the boar. Put the boar in the hands of one of the members of the club and let each other member agree to pay him one pig at weaning time for the care of the boar for one year, for J attendnag to the breeding, etc. When sows come t hat, they can be loaded e on a wagon and carried to the farm | where the boar is kept for service. S. Sows farrow almost exactly 1 weeks after they are bred. When the ' sow farrows try to be near at hand. c Do not worry her with attention, but d be theo ff she eeds it Watch that a the buzzssards do not carry off the little t pigs or injure the sow. Give her a warm, thin slop as soon as she begins, to move around. Then leave her alone 1 for a while. That evening give her a slop with a little bra or cormmeal in a it. Feed lightly for a few days and tinrease her feed gradually until the n sow is getting about four pounds of M grain each day for each ¶00 pounds of her weight. This will be within a week a or teo days after she has farrowed.. s She should be fed morning and eve. -lag. Kitchen scraps and slops will a be good for her and will reduce the T grain needed somewht. These slops t4 must not otatai1 any soap or glass. d As esn is the iost available grain c in most sections of the South, tt will $ have to be relked o for feedingS both P the sows and pigs. With the grasing P crops which are suggested for hogs a p tairly well-balaned ration will be ob-. tained. I When you are abt uady to wea tc tbhe pis reduce the sow's feed so that na by the time the pigs are weaned she is wif have oaly about two pounds of is gran each day for each 100 pounds of PI her weight. Keep her on a Bermuda ti pasture uand let her bave this ration B until she is in good condition. Keep arws in Pood flesh, but not eexssively K Bows can be made to produce two litters each year. When this is de- I sred they should be bred at the rst period of heat after the pigs are weaned. Sows bred twice each year all Fresh Cow. The most profitable dairy cow fot the Southwest comes fresh In the an tams. The opposite is true tn east eran dairy districts, and the reason lie~ tn the cost of winter feed. In the Southwest it is as cheap to winter a cow as it is to pay her board bill due tag the summer. Buy a Good Dairy Cow. In buying a dairy cow. it Is most ·eeoomdeal to ba a good eme. A cow as e s ar to she twioe as will not produce so many pigs in eac litter as when bred only once a yea but more pigs should be raised in year from each sow. It does not pay to try to raise ho on grain alone. In fact, the profit 1 pig raising, especially in the Sout] depends directly on the amount of pa ture of some kind used to enable th pig to make its gain in weight. Of th southern forage crops peanuts, so beans, rape and cowpeas are especiall valuable. Now, these are not avai able all through the year, therefore w use a series of crops. For example have some winter oats on which th sows can turned as soon as the pig are a week or two old. When thes are gone put the pigs on good Bei muds and lespedesa pastur6. Have crop of soy beans or cowpeas;comin, and turn the pigs on this after weat ing, keeping the sows on the Bei muds. When these are gone put th pigs in a peanut patch, and finish fal toning them on rape. The pigs should be weaned at ten o twelve weeks of age and should thel weigh about 30 pounds. They shouli have learned to eat a little grain b: golng to the sow's trough. Then be gin to feed them. Give them ever: day grain equal to 2 per cent of thet weight. - A pig weighing 30 poundi should have 56 pounds of grain; tel pigs of this weight, six pounds, etc Divide this into two feeds, mornin and evening. This amount of gral, will make them grow nicely on good pasture. As they grow, increase the amount of grain. When they weigist abqut 125 pounds give them 3 per cen of their weight in grain, and whet they weigh about 150 pounds each give them 4 per cent and finish them off slaughterins in the winter on a coo day. Pigs properly fed should weigi 200 pounds at nine months old. Do nol feed cottonaseed meal to hogs. It is not necessary to spend a lot ol money to carry out such a plan. 01 course, the Bermuda pasture when the sows are turned should have a goed feoe. The crops on which the pigs are grazed can be fenced with homemade hurdles of lumber or wove wire, which may be moved as desire and the pip will stay in it while the pasture is good. Ten pigs can be kept on half an acre of one of the crops mentioned above from four to eight weeks, depending on their sise. 3. A poor pig is not worth raising or feeding. Your pip should be sired by a good pure-bred Duroc Jersey, Berkshire, or Poland China boar. After you have decided which o& the three you want, stick to the same breed and in a little while you will have pigs which are very much alike, a model for others, and an advertisement for your community. If you can afford it, start with good grade sows If not, natives (raszorbacks) will do. White pis should not be used in the South, as they sunburn badly. 4. Expensive houses are not neces sary for hogs in the South. Give the sow a dry place to farrow, a pen well bedded and sheltered from cold winds and storms, and both she and the pigs will do welL IUttle pip that get chilled or wet soon after birth often die or grow into "unts." If there is no suitable place around the farm for the sow, make a lean-to with poles, about 10 by 12 feet, tix feet high in front and four feet high behind, facing It to the south, and thatch it with straw, cheap hay, or even cornstalks, and the litter will be well housed. Make the thatch roof higher in the middle than at the sides and smooth it down so that rain wil run of. Two sows should raise five pigs each, giving the farmer ten pigs to slaughter. These pigs should weigh, when slaughtered, 200 pounds each, making 2,000 pounds of live weight. This costs about $% cents per pound to make in the South under the system deseribed abover which is an origtnal cost of $70. Kmltng will east not over $. The loes in drestans is about 80 per cent of the live weight, or 600 pounds on ten pigs, o that 1,400 pounds of dressaed pork is on hald aft r slaughtoering. If you can etal local ice plant to chill and cure the meat for you, the manager should charge sot over four cents per pound, which I $56. Then the meat loses weightt In eurln, amounting to about one cant per pound, or $14. The total cost of he meat is about as follows: \ -aising t,000 pounds, at 2% cents per pound ...................$ 70 lllng ........................*. 6 C~urng 1,400 pounds. at 4 cents per pound ................... lhrinkage on Z,400 pounds, at 1 esut per pound .......*...... 14 Total .......................$146 much milk as a cow costing $45 or $50, while costing little more to support. The best way to obtain a good dairy herd is to buy a pure-bred bull with a pedigree that shows his dam and grand dams to have been large producers of milk and to bteed up a herd with him as a foundation, saving the best heifer calves and caring for them well. Dairy Breeds. Dairy breeds of cattle are Jersey, Guemrsey, Ayrshire. Holstein, Duehb Belted sad Brown rwle SBEFORE SPRING COMES GOOD IDEA FOR SELECTING BE. TWEEN-SEASON COSTUMES. With Allowance Made for Possibility of Changing Styles, the Main Pur pose Must Be to Select Up-to Date Designs. As it is Always a bit difficult to ar range for between-season frocks and suits, the best plan to follow is to se lect designs as up-to-date as possible. so that there will be no danger of them going out of style too soon, writes Lillian E. Young in the Wash ington Star. Then, if there should happen to be fur trimmings, be sure that they are so arranged that they may be removed when spring comes. The shops are showing many modish fur-trimmed garments, which later in is he ie 1l e I. n B, tg om dablef This Suit Shows Remarkable Fr - Icthe season may graduatolive from wTitpper a cloth with skunk band trimlminss. a The eoatlike blouse-tastens in back. o COVER FOR SHIRT WAISTS 1 Dainty Fabrie Protected by the Use o of This Contrivance Quite o I Simple to Make. Every woman needs several cases for Dpoteting dainty chiRon blouses or sparate ilae waists. Where such 5 waists are made of soft and very plia ble materials they may be laid away In cases or boxe, bat with many ab ria their trsh, ancrampled look is best preserved by banging the waist a es a wire hanger sad protestng it It trom the dust by a thin slip corer of 9 1-di I t. .r, rr 8gred materal is enough to make a IP . Fbld together, make a slit ris it the center of the told about an inch wl tops through which the wire hook may to be slipped. eam up the sides sadr sem the two ends. Attach rtbbous at sti both ends of the two hems so that the to averted bas can be tied together. ap SOME ORNAMENTS OF RIBBON 7* Many Beside Those Described Here WiIl Sugget Themselves to the Woman of Tfat m. tIwt A modised Greek band is eaaght and F seld by white ribbon. Three narrow e erires e co svered with ribbon by wind o m- it around from end to end. These ba hands are held at the ends by a ftullaly rosette of the white ribbon That is ll. bmt a clausic line is added to the oy )outhful side pieces, and this orna.at cent is fit to grace any girlish head m What can be more attractive than lac tiny paink roseb :s peeping from the te0 dark coils Tof hair at the bacu of the e-adr A narrow cover wire crosses or art the top. On each side Is a large rose of pink rit bon, and twined around in a graceful line at the nape of the neck a- rosebds, made of narrow ribbon. m They are hidden in some places by an green artlicial leaves hol fwret peas in a softt cluster at the e side give a youthful ornament for the al hair. Narrow ribbon is caught in Ave e --all loops, thra at the top and two be below, with a rcarlstle tounh to the ti ES It must be cut in the form of a loose htp-length skirt, slashed to the bust line at either side of the front to form a sort of panel that is pouched over BE. the waist line. The material at the sides is then draped up under the slashes until the lower fur-bound edge is even with the pouching of the panel. This only applies to the front, h,)w t ever, for the fur-bordered edge da scribes a slanting line towar I the back, where the length of the blouse is unbroken. Long sleeves are fin ished with turn-back cuffs of cream ar- colored grosgrain silk There is an and upstanding military collar of the se. same. ble. The skirt is in two parts The, un of der one consists merely of a gathered )on, portion extending from hip to hip,. its tsh- length broken by a false yok,, s--am iuld running several inches below the belt. ure The back of this underskirt can be of hey satin or taffeta, for it is completely ies. covered by the tunic. The tunic is iish full length across the entire back, but in from the sides slants upward toward the center. It is slashed through the center and turned back over either hip, with just that turned-back portion bordered with fur at the bottom Later on in the season, wi-en the warmer weather makes one tire of fur trimmings, the fur may be removed and an attractive change made by add Ing sand-colored faille collar and cuffs, which color combines beautifully with the olive green. TO ACQUIRE SHAPELY ANKLES In These Days of the Sort Skirt Its Possession Is Something Greatly to Be Desired. There used to be a time when our dresses, or at least the dresses of our mothers, reached to the floor, or so nearly so that brush braid or coarse binding on the bottom hem was nec esary to preserve the fabric. In those days, if the tiniest bit of a feminine ankle showed above the shoctop it was a cue for a woman tc blush Praise be, these conditions 'In not hold today. What with our hobble skirts, slit skirts, tight skirts, short skirts and now short circular skirts, we have become accustomed to dis playing our ankles. Woman's right to the possession of ankles has finally been recognized, consequently pretty ankles are greatly to be desired, as they add to one's general appearance -and beauty is indeed a duty. To improve the shapeliness of ankles. exercisp and massage will do won ders. It will be found that most ankles which are unattractive, or not quite so shapely as the possessor might wish. either lack sumcient flesh or else are too fleshy. If your ankles are a little stout you can reduce them in a month, or two months at the most, by means of a little exercise ten minutes morning and night. Remove the shoes and stockings and cross the knees so that the support is removed from one ankle. Thrust out the Toot and move it around from the ankle in a twisting motion, then bend it up and down, N making sure that all this is done with of the ankle bone. When one foot be. - comes tired shift position and exer d- celse the other ankle.-C. Eleanor Mather in New York Press. - Perspiring hands indicate sluggish 7 circulation and nervousness. Fresh air is the best care. Bathe the palms L of the hands with alcohoL A not No STwenty-seven inch material is wide enough to make the slip from. The * one pictured was made of dotted swiss. thi FASHION'S FANCY FOR SILK ` SMaterial I. Employed to a Greater Ex tent Than It Has Beedn for Many Season.s SWhile one's attention is centered Supon cotton, one must not lose sight of t silrks. They occupy a very prominent .. , place in the wardrobe of the up-to date woman. All dresses intended for afternoon functions are made of silk. Delicate roles or ott6mas, soft taf. - fetas, silk velvets and wool rvelour e[ all used in developing these dressy frocLks. Distinctive effects may be ob tained by combining these materials with gold-embroldered chifflon, Jet, pearls, or adding to them bands of fur, such as skunk, sable, ermine and the popular ape skil. The evening dresses of this season are not so rich and daring as those of last winater, but in many ways they are more pleasing. The textares are ex quisite, reminiscent of the lovely fab. ries of the days of the Italian renais Mance. There are soft gold and silver brocades, delicate taffetas, thin lace drawn through with metal threads, and tt crystal and Jet embroidered chitons and tulles. To go back to the less costly mate. the rlals, such as silk and fine cottons, ina which the majority of yomea are in trersted in these hard times, a dance fol Ifrock of bordered organdle, taffeta silk, d striped volle or cotton crepe is now considered the correct thing.--lndin - apolls News of diai yellow stamens. A large bow ties this ber charming bunch of blossoms. aiw Wide satin ribbon of pale yellow. with ,he two edges placed together, 8yr may we fashioned into large roses by teS winding the folded satin around a tfin- to ger and sewing the corded ends to. cen gether-. Green leaves give a natural Fig touch to this bunch of flowes. It is chil laust the ornament needed for the gir- Dprl die of a simple party frock. Ribbons. a few green leaves and some wire, under the magic touch of H the needle woman, will grow into orna- got ments fit for a queen They are also ly inexpensive when: one realizes that ner. they may be worn again and again H without lostna their delicate colorings bu or graceful form kno Scissors In a Case. cissors, for some reason, are al most always easier to mislay than to hav find. A case of soft suede, In brown, ion holds three palrs of sacissors of diffler eat shapes, and sells for a dollar and a half, and if one could be sure of F keeping track of the case, one would a be sure of keeping track of the a:is All are withbi 8 /1 -" so Sp t ra he l s, II d ou at e r u'A cLt fot stenomersrowr. mon a!t or s Beterned" she reped, ca"tt and biscuits, too. Al as light, fl to s tendr and dellou s M mother s4 "Good bake. ANow let me her "There are three bat," she "Which do yoa prefer T" And she got the job. nolrri . FOR SICKed.$4 4 a Syrupee of F-i "Wham tender tomn at the molvery mothe redlise, ft em.. lse o t sat tsk the r odes u beaseo they love its pe. amtb. sad It thoroughly clesase te little tommhP liver a of - "What drdou lo atte When ose so t the ib u. ne tesose, mothers! If ao esspoontual of this a tn"raog I-ative," and l " few or Tel, foatlpaed welated, sor the o t. When its little system J of cold, throat sore. has sto her e good "Insidre cle a," s alwndys be the first oeb.t gle Cyrup of Fnls" handy; ohf te a spoonful today staves o tomorrow. Ask at the stos ar c ent bottle of "Californtia Fits" which has directions for children of all ages and printed on the bottl. Adv. Nt ot Tactfuilly Put Houseman -I Id known yaour - going tco drop in on us soin ly we would have had aw l plae ner. Haorton-on't mentorlt it, old bu next time I'll be sure ad know. Keeping the Preace. "I presume that you and yo have occasional dilserences as lon ?" "Oh, yes. but--or--i don't t For muinte comfort and lastls are use Red Cross Ball Blue on All pood Ianer. Adv. Some fellows are ua quick s - altu, and Jest ou anhdy.