The Celina Democrat., April 17, 1914, Image 6

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THE OELINA DEMOCRAT
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Germany Imports DaniGH Cooperative Cream.
Co -Operative Farm
Products Marketing
How It Is Done in Europe and May Be Done
in America to the Profit of Doth
Fanner and Consumer
By MATTHEW
HOW THE GERMAN FARMER SELLS HIS BUTTER IN THE CITIES
iii riin, ;Tinnny Hero in C.ormuny !
thu fanner nuiv,.psf'!lly sells Ills pro'l- ;
uot ilirci-t to li. city retailor will!.- iii ,
An erica it Is almost iniinssllil( for tli--'
funi.i-r to Kt Into th city. In fact ;
Att.fricati riiit'K tiro pr.ictirally ipiaruti
tiiict ncaltint th farmer an far us
cii:!K direct is concprnfd.
The fanner who tries to 8fll Uis ,
pro.i ict in th city is tip nuainst It," (
Mid the presl.lont of a New York cor- j
iora;ion. At thf stiepestion of one of 1
our officers we Inst ypar ruis.'t n 1
Hinail lot of very fine potatoes on Homu
of our vacant lands. We thought we j
were business men hut fpIHiik those t
potatoes was too much for us. We.
found that the retailers had contracts
with jobbers for their year's supply.
The iobbers and wholesalers were
slr.w.iiiK in their potatoes in carload 1
lots and they d: 1 not care for tho few
bushels we had. Even the hotels had ,
either barpainod for their year's sup- j
ply or would not make a contract with j
anyone, who could not furnish all that )
they might need during the year.
' in fact no one in the whole city 1
wanted our potatoes We wero com- j
peiied to practically Rive them away.
It opened our eyes. We know now
w lir.t the farmer is up ngainst in the
city murkets when lie has anything to
sell. Th fanner can no longer sell
a product without going from house
to house as .1 peddler. As business is ;
now conducted his situation is hope-.
less. It seems to me that it is ca-oper- j
atlve marketing or nothing for the far- ',
mer."
Co!orado Peach Grower Has Trouble. !
Now here on earth do they raise, brit- '
ter peaches than in Colorado. Recent-1
ly In an exceptionally good year one
grower marketed 10,000 boxes of fine !
peaches In the usual way expecting 1
big returns. When the final settle- !
ment arrived he took it home so that I
his w ife and children who had helped j
with the work might enjoy it with
him. When he opened the envelope he j
found first a long and detailed state-
ment which he did not fully com pre-,
bend. Hut turning to the accompany- j
ing letter ho read this paragraph: I
think wo are fortunate indeed, in view
of all the circumstances, to find that
...1 Iwil.iliti qUii j noinot lia If l'-M
11' i.clt'lillj Dltlll'in uajuni uo. 14 j j
will send us your draft for $30 this j
wlU close the account and no further
liability will attach to you." Finally I
It Boaked in. thar the result, of the tm-!
tire year was a loss of $50. He was '
out all his work, all the expense of j
handling the fruit, all the interest
charges upon his very considerable in-
ve'.mcnt; he was out $.1u in cash and j
there was not a cent to show for it.
From beginning to end there had bee;i j
no complaint abo-.lt his fruit. It was j
good fruit, had been well raised, well ,
pick.."!, well boxed, v. ell cared for, well
shipped, but there was no escape from i
the fact that, ail had gone for noth- j
intr. He paid $r, for the privilege of!
working hard for one long year. j
he possessed himxc If In j
tlence and thought it all over. From
Inquiry he learned that, while retail
prices went good, tho peaches had
pas-ed through the hands of six to
eight persons enuh of whom had taki'ti
out a profit. No one person had robbed
him. No one had been dishonest. No :
ire had made excessive profits. Each ;
me had simply looked out for himself. I
The farmer had been fool enough not j
to do the same thing. j
Farmer Tries to Sell Direct. (
The next year at. the opening of the
season the grower went to the Denver
retailer who had handled his product,
ile was glad to find that his peaches
of the previous season had arrived In !
good shape, had been readily sold, and j
had brought a good price. The dealer j
said he would be glad Indeed to han- i
die his peaches again if possible. Thn I
the grower demonstrated with pencil j
and paper that the grower by selling i
directly to the retailer would double
his own return, double the retailer's
profit and still leave ample margin for
all expenses intervening. The retailer
gave a respectful hearing but slowly I
shook his head. "Nothing doing, he
said. "If I buy my peaches directly
from you the wholesalers will suggest
that I buy my pineapples and bananas
of you too. I tried it once. It did not
takejthem long to get wise. I was in
formed that If I ever did that again I
would not be able to buy any fruit in
the city. You can't blame them for
they think they are protecting their
business in the only possible way."
Inquiries of retailers in other parts
of the city brought the same answer.
It was absolutely Impossible for the
grower to market his fruit in the city
of Denver.
Bayfield, Wla., ! In the midst of a
MW fruit country. There they have
ft bi-h Td ol flberrles, strawberries
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sad other small frulis. A sn.'ull local
c opera; lve society is marketing all
t'jelr stuff in .Minnea-.ol;s. We asked
t!." manager why he did no sell in oth
er ci'iea - .Milwaukee, I'oV example,
a here ib..! retailors should be willing
t J pay good prices for good fruit. His
reply whs Unit he hid been utterly
unable to And any Milwaukee retailer
who won! 1 take his fruit because they
said that they must deal only with
those who handled a full line of
frulu; that if they bought cherries
and straw berries of him they would
llnj themselves unablu to buy the
other fruits which he did not handle,
such as bananas, peaches, pineapples
and the like. The saint! condition ex
ists everywhere. The retailer will
not buy in small quantities nor will
they buy of those who cannot sell
them a full lino of supplies. A repre
sentative of the Society of Kijuity of
Wisconsin went to Chicago to work
up a trade directly with the retailers
of that city but gave up the plan in de
spair. He concluded that either the
co-o'ierative marketing concerns must
combine upon broad lines In order to
be able to protect the retailers who
bought of them, or else the consumers
must combine and buy co-operatively
of the producer. In short, the Ameri
can tanner cannot, unaided, invade the
la"s'r cities. Even the smaller co-operative
organizations find themselves
t.o weak to go into the city markets.
Federates to Invade Cities.
But here in Germany, and iu fact
in many other countries, the fanner
does successfully invade the cities,
large and small, ile does It through
the federated association of co-operative
societies which thrive everywhere.
These organisations do a tremendous
business. They are euormous con
cercs, capable of taking big contracts
and making good on them, fully able
to hold their own in competition with
privately owned concerns. The Ger
man retailer knows that w hen he deals
with such a concern or organization
he can get all that he wants whenever
h' '.vants it.
We have just been investigating the
methods of one of these federated sale
societies, the I'nited Pomeranian
Dairies, a concern which represents
thousands f farmers. We found the
manager a most businesslike individu
al with an amazingly wide knowledge
of all matters connected with the mar
keting of the products handled by him.
i 1.9 has at his tongue's end the an
swer to all (juestions. whether they
have to do wlthjthe technicalities of
the product itself or with the business
me-hods of the concern. The retailers
do not hesitate to ileal with this con
cv;t. for they can rely upon It to sup
ply nil of their needs, nil of the time.
It markets the bui.ti r and cheese com
ing from over half a mil 1' n cows and
supplements this when necessary with
!m potted products. It is through iasti
tu'ions such as this that the German
fa:ner Invades the German city.
Union of Co-operative Concerns.
'This Is an association of associa
tions," tho manager slated. "It. is not
c ir.nect- ti with any I.nndschaften or
.loitt'eson bank. Orr associations are
foi iiied solely to aid the fanner in mar
l.tdlng his produce, in fact, nearly all
ho shares are held by tanners. We
have over twenty thousand separate
members. There are 11 n associations.
We are marketing our product through
liffy-six stores."
Tli ia is a co-operative concern in the
true sense of tint word. All our con
cerns are operated upon the "one man
one vote" plan, as are all of t!ie co-op-eraiive
societies In Germany. The
small farmer has as much influence as
the big man. Everybody connected
with us participates in our profits and
is responsible if we havo losses. Ev
erybody votes, nobody vote3 more than
once. We charge about three per
cent, on the turnover to pay the ex
penses involved in marketing. What
is left goes to the members who sell
through us."
Making Good With Retailers.
"We necessarily handle some things
which are not produced by our mem
bers. German butter and cheese do
not meet the demand. We are forced
to supplement what Is produced by our
members by what we Import. We could
not do business unless we stood ready
to meet all the demands of those with
whom we deal. If we have a retailer
who is purchasing butter from us we
must have butter for him whenever he
desires it and must have .it all the
year around. The fact that he has
come to us means that he has aban
doned other avenues through which be
originally purchased butter. , If we
could not supply him with butter all
the time he could not afford to trade
J with us. Ho for fourteen years we hv
! Imported butter from South America.
I For twenty yuan we have hud butter
from North America. We Import but
! ter also from Flnliind, from Heiimark,
1 and from Slheriu. Some of our cheese
comes from Canada. All this Is done,
I lie added, "In the- interest of the co
I operative Noddle. We get t ho im
i polled butler h i that our slock may
' be complete nt nil limes and so we
j can meet the I'.eiimud.i of those whom
we have i.iade our customers. Wt
must stand ready to do us well by the
i retailers as do the big private dealer.
, 'The chief rodm t Is butter, but we
I handle a givnl deal of cheese tllld
! i.oi.io oilier farm products. We Imp jrl
! coiihiileiable ot our cheese from ('una
da Simply to ineel the demand and to
I tt;al:j it ut'ti.-cesir- fjr t.'u"e wiv
, buy of lib to go elsewliciv.
Keeping Up the Quality,
j "We regard the stand. irdi7.:iiten cf
i products as the mn:.i. Important fen
I turo of co-opera t Ion in Germany so
j iar as the mr.rk' ting of It Is concern
: ed. All the butter which we handle
is graded and branded, i'ach producer
Is given u most complete score sheet.
Every time one of our subsidiary con
cerns get u consignment of butter from
a producer It Is graded as Is indicated
on a score card."
Tho score curd Is in duplicate, the
original to be kept at the central olUce,
and a carbon copy to be filled out and
forwarded to the producer. The card
states that the quality of tho shipment
received has been marked upon the fol
lowing points: Ml tierucli I smell);
(2) Gesi hmack (Flavor): (3) Sala
(Salt); ill lieartu itung (Well
Worked: (j) Konsistenz (Texturei;
(iji Verpacking (Packingl. (Ti Klassi
tl.lcrt (Classified); (S) Remarks.
The manager continued: "If we find
a creamery is not sending us a high
i grade product we send someone to
j make Investigation ami to help im
j prove the quality. As thing.) now are
i no creamery supplies any butter of
j a grade less than the highest which H
i is canable of producing. The score
! card is of course a great help in keep
; ing i.p the quality. Wo keep the orig
! inal wore card ourselves and send a
! carbon copy of it to the producer who
! Is '.lies able to know in what purtici
; Iar his butter Is less than It should be
! In this way each creamery gets a re
j port every week upon Its butter hq
! that it knows at once if there is any
j falling off in quality. We are now mar
i keting the butter produced by from
1 si:; hundred thousand to seven hum
! dred thousand cows."
! An Efficient Plant.
No Auiericau, accustomed to farmers
, who are always individualists and sel
doni combine, would think from an In
! spection of this plant that It was
! ow ned and managed by 0,000 farmers.
It would seem to be rather the prop
erty of some captain of finance who
had spared neither expense nor scien
j tide effort iu order to arrlvo at the
j highest stage of efficiency,
i Everywhere we found labor saving
devices. Everywhere the machinery
was carefully protected so that daugei
j to employes did not lurk In the power
: machinery that w as in operation. (Ger
many it must be remembered has a na
; tional policy that requires that all
! workmen be fully protected), In one
room was an ice plant; in another was
I the electric plant producing the pow-
er used in operating the machln-vy and
: in lighting the establishment.
An Outside Opinion,
Naturally anxious to hear what a
dealer who was not a co-operator and
had no Interest in the co-operative
movement had to say about co-opera
tion, we went to the manager of a
jobbing concern dealing in dairy prod
nets. We found him intelligent and
ready to talk. "This Is a wholesale
company privately owned," he said
"I deal with many co-operative dairy
associations. My experience witb
them has been excellent. They have
better machinery, better organization,
better business methods, produce bet
ter butter than do private creameries
and are altogether satisfactory. There
is another thing which should not be
overlooked. We like to deal with a
concern which can furnish us in large
quantities in absolutely uniform qual
ity. This is what the co-operators do.
No single creamery could give us but
ter in such quantities as do the co-operative
associations which market the
product of several federated creamer
ies. Neither can we get such an abso
lutely uniform quality elsewhere. We
do not say but that at times a private
ly owned creamery will produce just
as good a grade of butter. It is al
ways a problem With us, however, us
to each creamery. 'Wo have to know
the creamery itself ami have to know
whether or not they continue to have
the same butter maker. With the co
operative cone-rn, however, it is dif
ferent. Nothing gets by them unless
it is up to standnrd. They give, us
better stuff and they fft better prices.
Danish Butter.
"We do not buy Danish co-operative
butter to any extent. It is too high.
Besides that there is a duty of tea
marks for a package of fifty kilograms.
For example where we can buy Ger
man butter for 125 marks ($25) per
fifty kilograms we would have to pay
138 marks; ((?27.C0) for Danish but
ter. The difference is greater than
the amount of the duty because Da
nish butter has a reputation; also be
cause there la a demand for Danish
butter everywhere. Most of tiio Da
nish butter goes directly to England.
Cream Is admitted to Germany free
of duty. We have tried to ship cream
from Denmark and make butter here,
but it has not succeeded. It is too
troublesome a process. Everybody in
Germany will admit that the Danish
butter is as good as our best German
butter; most think It is better. It is
necessary for us to handle the poorer
grade of butter for some of our trade.
We get some Siberian butter which la
considered ot the second and third
quality."
A Successful System.
This is the way the German farmer
sells direct In the city. He unites
witb his neighbor in a local co opera
tive society. This society federates
with others until there is a combina
tion that ia big enough to compete
with and out do any private concern.
He produces a high quality of prod
uct He handles It In, a business-like
way. Naturally he gt fair prlo
and makes a fair profit. Co-operatic
seem . tuccess.
N a country of such vast dl-
fV I I over bv the czar, the
methods of agriculture
naturally vary enormous
ly ill the different dis
tricts; but during a visit
of three weeks' duration
a visit now just draw
ing to a dose I have
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" been able to fceu a good
deal of the methods ot tho KuhhIiiu
peasant and landowner.
Iu the IVlerbburg district Bcinitilic
agriculture Is practically unknown.
Here the summer is too short to allow
the successful raising of crops, and
tillage is confined to the lauds be
longing to the village communities. In
Russia practically every village is
state-owned that Is, under the control
of no landlord, and every village has
within its bounds a certain acreage of
common laud. The Inhabitant: of the
village have each one a fixed amount
of this laud assigned to them; but, to
avoid favoritism, a peasant does not
farm the same strip
two seasons run
ning, but a rotation
is practised where
by each member of
tho village in time
Rons over the w hole
land of tho com
munity. The birth
of a son Is a source
of great joy on the
part of a Russian
peasant, for on such
an occasion an extra
grant ot land Is
given to him. In
tho north of Russia
wheat Is never
t-v, -
grown. Oats are
produced, but rye is
the staple crop, and It Is from this
cereal that the peasant makes his
bread. Tho rye Is put Into the ground
In September, and thus is able to
make a start before the advent of
the winter snow, early In November.
Iletweon Petersburg and Moscow ag
riculture Is in a primitive condition.
The fields are extremely small and
have a neglected appearance, while
the houses of the villagers are in
a dirty condition, the cattle and pigu
in some Instances sharing the dwell
ings with tbelr owners. The ro
tation here practised is rye. oats
and then fallow, to allow the
land to recover somewhat. Proceed
ing south, however, one finds better
conditions prevailing. The fields be
come larger, wheat takes the placo of
rye, and one gradually enters the enor
mous wheat producing district of
Russia. Passing through this district,
which extends from Kharkoff to the
beginning cf the Crimean peninsula,
for hundreds of miles tho country, as
far as the eye can reach, Is given
over almost entirely to the raising of
cereal crops. The fields are enormous,
more than one field stretching for sev
eral miles by the railway line, and
as the whole district is sparsely pop
ulated, the problem at once presents
itself: From where are the landown
ers to obtain an adequate supply of
labor? They must depend entirely on
the services of the villagers, and as
the latter are quite independent ot
them, they have no power to force
them to work should they be disin
clined to do so. An instance of this
occurred a short time back. A land
lord who owned a farm of 40,000 acres
had fine crop of 900 acres of beets.
When the time arrived for the har
vesting of these roots the peasants ot
the village on the excuse that, as
their own harvest was an abundant
one, there was no necessity for them
to work point blank refused to do
the harvesting of the beets, and the
w hole of the country had to be scoured
naturally, at considerable expense
to procure laborers. Throughout the
extensive corn-growing district re
ferred to above there is an almost
entire absence of root crops, with the
exception of beets, and only a very
small proportion of the land is under
grass or hay. How the stock can
be maintained under these conditions
through the winter months is difficult
to understand, but the animals seen
were In poor condition as compared
with the English cattle. The most im
portant breed of Russian cow is the
Yaroslav, but on the estate where the
writer has been staying the stock con
sisted of Jersey cattle, and crosses be
tween these latter and the Yaroslav are
looked on favorably. English pigs,
Yorkshire and Tamworth, are alBO
kept Very little stock is kept on the
majority of Russian farms. As well
us the cereal crops, one frequently
voted fields given over to the raising
of sunflowers. These are reared for
the production of salad oil, which is
used extensively during Lent, and
the seeds are also eaten largely by
the poorer classes. The farm land of
a village community is easy to dis
tinguish from that owned by the
landlord, from the fact that the former
is invariably In narrow strips. On
PLAY FOR INSURANCE MONEY
Companies Have to Be Constantly on
the Watch to Prevent Heavy
Losses Through Swindlers.
One of the dodges that insurance
companies have to guard against is
that of the man who insures his life
for a large sura and then disappears,
his relatives subsequently claiming the
money.
Some time ago a man insured him
self for 5,000, and a month later
Moving Signs Don't Move,
Moving electric signs do not really
move at all. Tho moving effect Is pro
duced by switching on and off small
electric lamps. The lamps are turned
on and off by a small device called a
"flasher," wiiich is driven by a small
electric motor. It Is made up of
many metal fingers revolving on a
shaft, which strike suitable contact
plates. When a finger strikes a plate
It sends a current of electricity
through a set of lamps on a part ot the
sign. The lamps are lighted by the
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this common land the whole ot the
cattle and sheep of the village are
pastured together, looked ofter by one
of tho villagers, and tho mixed stock
presented a remarkably pretty sight.
On tho large farms horses are largely
employed for flowing, and one often
saw a young foal following Its mother
patiently up and down the furrows.
A noteworthy point Is the entire ab
sence of hedges as far as tho eye
cau reach, field after field stretches
away with monotonous regularity,
often not so much as a single tree
breaking the uninteresting landscape.
Comparatively little of tho cereal
straw Is stored up, but most of It
ia burnt In the engines driving the
threshing machines. Where farming
is practised on so extensive a scale as
in the wheat-growing districts of Rus
sia, the farmer naturally Is unable to
have his servants under his eye, and
cases are on record of farm laborers
carting the corn to their own stand
ings Instead of those of their employ
er. The absence of any organized sys
tem of manuring the fields is all the
more evident after one has passed
through tho rich agricultural district
of Eastern Austria. In Russia, I have
It on the authority of an eye-witness
that a certain heap of manure exists
of the age of no less than sixty years,
and no steps are ever taken to dis
tribute it over tho fields. Again, the
peasants actually use their manure in
TREES WARD OFF
Ho who plants a tre, he plants love;
Tents ot coolness spreading out ahove.
I-arcoin.
Y THEIR grateful
shade trees screen
us from the too
fervid heat of the
sun. They abate
the winds and
protect from the
chilling blasts of
winter. Their
leaves prevent the
spread of germ
laden dust and
help to purify the
air. They encour
age tho birds and
save our crops from many an insect
injury. They lend a grace and beauty
to every homestead and every road
way that they border.
For shade, troeB should be planted
wherever it Is desirable to be shielded
from the hot rays of the summer sun.
Not all shade is agreeable. The
shade of somo trees Is too dense and
others too light. A heavy woolen
blanket properly suspended will make
a shade; so will mosquito netting, but
it would not be best to use either.
Trees with a close, compact head and
large, heavy leaves may make too
dense a shade.
There is much bad tree planting,
and even worse lack of care after
planting. Much has been written about
how planting should be done. It may
be well to note a few things that
should not be done. The following
are somo of the things to be avoided:
1. Don't plant trees that are morn
than from four to six years' old.
went out in a Balling boat alone at an
English seaside resort. lie took good
care that his departure In the bout was
well noticed by people In tho vicinity.
Next morning the boat was found dis
mantled and tossing on tho waves
empty. He had disappeared.
His hat a'nd other personal effects
were found floating on the water, but
no trace of the man could be found,
and the relatives conveniently as
sumed that he had been drowned and
claimed the insurance money. The in
surance company, however, refused to
BaBher.ln rotation, thus spelling out
words, etc. By lighting alternate sets
of lamps the effect of motion is pro
duced. Keeping Young.
"I suppose you have a number of
men who have grown gray In your,
service?"
"If T hllVA thav o a mart nnnt. r.Vi f
use hair dye," answered the head of
the firm. "Pretty chipper force I era
ploy, as you can aea by looking
around."
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milking embank
ments over gullies,
these embank
ments being Ironi
cally known as
"golden bridges."
The Russians de
pend luuinly on
leaving their fields
periodically fullow
for tho recupera
tion of the soil,
and a certain
amount of good is
also effected by tho
grazing of the rye
by the stock In
early spring the
wheat and oats are
never piu into the
laud In the autumn,
and to are not
grazed. A point per
haps worth noting
13 the fact that lit
tle land is under
leguminous crops,
which enrich the
soil bv virtue of
their power of fix
ing atmospheric i.ltrogen.so a power
ful factor in the amelioration cf the
land is absent.
A large proportion of the wheat
grown in the South Central district of
Russia la exported to Engluud and
Germany from the port of Odessa by
steamers which reach that port with
cargoes of coal. On several occasions,
on tho journey from Moscow to the
Crimea, we saw a dead pig enveloped
In burning straw, and learned that the
pig, as soon as killed, Is placed on
straw, which is then set fire to in or
der to burn the animal's, hair. After
the desolate and monotonous coun
try of the wheat producing district,
one was most favorably Impressed by
the Crimea. The Crimea may be Bald
to be the wine and fruit producing dis
trict for the whole of Russia, and at
the moment I am writing these lines
(April 2"l the vines are just com
mencing to shoot. The Crimea Is es
sentially a land of hills, and it is on
these hillsides that tho vines are
grown. Cereals are produced only In
small quantities the climate is too
dry and the soil too rocky to permit of
extensive operations in this line. A
little wheat and oats arc grown, and
occasionally one sees a field of rye
already bursting into ear, while far
up the hillsides orchards with fruit
trees apple, pear, apricot, plum
laden with blossom, throw their per
fumes far over the land.
HEAT AND COLD
2. Don't overcrowd trees in plant
ing. '
3. Don't plant trees in straight lines.
4. Don't plant shade or ornamental
trees in anything except good soil.
5. Don't plant a tree in a bowl
shaped hole that Is deeper in the cen
ter than elsewhere.
6. Don't forget to cut off all mangled
or broken roots.
7. Don't fail to apply a mulch to a
K-qr ttg. JU Q""-
Ai Enjoyable Shade, tho Result of
Somebody's Planting.
transplanted tree if there is the slight
est danger of drought.
S. Don't allow trees to be used as
hitching posts.
S. Don't forget that good shade trees
are the result of Intelligent choice and
care.
pay. They made diligent Inquiries, and
discovered that a man greatly resem
bling the "deceased" had landed on
a not far distant island, had caught
the next boat to the mainland, and
had then taken a passage for America.
The matter came to court, nnd, owing
to the suspicious circumstances, a ver
dipt was found in the company's favor.
Cambric.
On what supposition could a house
be built with a pocket handkerchief?
If It became brick (cambric).
Wlffie Knew.
Little Willie was playing one day
with the girl next door, when the lat
ter exclaimed:
"Don't you hear your mother call
ing you? That's three times she's
done it Aren't you going in? Won't
she whip you?"
'Naw!" exclaimed Willie In
gust. "She ain't going to whin
dla.
no-
body. She's got company. So when
I go In she'll Just say: 'The poor Ut
ile man has been so deaf since
had the measles.'
he's
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WOMEN TPflM
CfUlfll.ll I llUiili
.
To the Merit of Lydia I
harn's Vegetable C.
pound during Chant
of Life.
Westhrook, Me. "I was pa'
through the Change of Life and li&
pftiun in my back
and side and was so
veuk I could liurdly
do my housework.
I rmv? takf n Lydis.
E. I'inkham's Vege
table Compound find
it has done mo a lot
of good. I will re
commend your med
icine to my friend
and give you permis
sion to publish my
testimonial. " Mrs. Lawhence Mar
tin, 12 King St, Westbrook, Maine.
Manston, Wis. "At the Change of
Life I suffered with pains In my back
and loins until I could not stand. I also
had night-sweats so that the sheets
would be wet I tried other medicine
but got no relief. After taking one bot
tle of Lydia E. Tinkham's Vegetable
Compound I begnn to improve and I
continued Its use for six months. The
pains left me, tho night-sweats and hot
Rashes grew less, and in one year I was
a different woman. I know I have to
thank you for my continued good health
ever since. " Mrs, M. J. Brownell,
Manston, Wis.
Tho success of Lydia E, PJnkham'i
Vegetable Compound, made from roots
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If you want special advice write to
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Every man is above the average
according to his own belief.
Tutnam Fadeless Dyes are thl
brightest and fastest. Adv.
Natural.
Helle U that girl's hair naturally
curly
Nell Yes, natural result of the
curling iron.
Ton smiles for a nickel. Always buy Red
Cro-i U:ill !lue; have beautiful clear white
clothej. Adv.
Canal Comment.
"Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Tor
kins, "they are having a great deal of
agitation about tho big canal, aren't
they?"
"Yea."
"Don't you know, I sometimes think
It might havo been better if we had
been content with the old-fashioned
canals where all the talking was done
by the man who was driving the
mulel"
Million a Night for Fun.
A million dollars a night. That'3
'what a proprietor of a Broadway hotel
In New York figures that the natives
and visitors speud for revel and pleas
ure. It sounds fanciful, true. But
here's how he spends the million:
Dinners, $125,000; suppers and wine.
$125,000; theaters, $175,000; taxicabs,
$100,000; hotels, $175,000; cafes, flow
ers and other incidentals, $300,000.
"If there isn't a million spent in the
Broadway district in a night," he
adds, "what is left wouldn't enable a
man to have a steam yacht and a
country home."
Caravaggio Picture Found.
An important find has been made In
the art collection of Marcheso della
Stufa at France. It Is a painting by
Caravaggio, which had been lost sight
of for many years. The painting was
known to connoisseurs through a print
in the Galleria degli Ufizzl.
Sig di Pletro, the secretary of this
gallery, was determined to find the
picture. It was known that In the
year 1700 It was in possession of the
Cerretani family, which Is now ex
tinct. Slg dl Pietro, while examining Mar
chese della Stufa's collection saw the
painting and immediately Identified it
Tho TTfizzl print is an exact reproduc
tion of the picture, which Is a typical
Caravaggio. It depicts six youths, one
of whom is playing a violin, one a lut
and one a flute, while two are singing
and one is listening. New York Sun.
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