THE FOLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, N. C.
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ONE HUNDRED HENS
EARN $157 PROFIT
8TATE EXPERIMENT STATION
CONDUCTS TEST TO DETER
MINE RELATIVE PROFIT-
DISPATCHES FROf.1 RALEIGH
Doings and Happenings That Mark
the Progress of North Carolina Peo
ple Gathered Around tha 8Uts
CaoltoU
' Raleigh.
How one hundred hens will -pay
for their upkeep and in a year bring
a total profit of J157 is explained by
the North Carolina Experiment sta
tion after a test just completed on the
Iredell Farm. The work was ' begun
on April 2, 1914, with jthe object pri
marily to determine what it would
cost to keep a farm flock of hens a
yearand just what -profit, if any,
could be secured..
During the year, the hens, laid 8,
676 eggs or an aevrage of 86.7 eggs
per hen. -They were kept, under actual
farm conditions. All the surplus eggs
were sold on the Statesville market
at the price of twenty cents per dozen
and when the increase in the flock is
considered along with the value of the
eggs, the profit of each hen amounted
to $1.57. The hens consumed about
four tons of food and increased in
numbers to 189. Market prices of
grain was charged against the hens
and all expenses for upkeep were paid
by the money Tleceived from the sale
of the eggs. -
The tabulation shows the hundred
hens bought for one dollar each.
Corn cost $52.65; oats, $57-34; wheat,
$25.86; incidental expenses, $5.30;
extra feed for small chicks, $7.90;
704 eggs at twenty cents, $1.75; in
terest on investment, at six per cent
$12.00.
On the credit side of the account
comes the item of 189 hens valued at
$1.00 each, $189.00; 120 chicks at ten
cents each, $12.00; 77 fowls sold,
$36.86; 49 fowls eaten, $144.60; . four
tons of manure, $24.00.
All of this runs up a total expense
of $272.80, and a total increase in
value of $419.98 making a net gain of
$157.18.
Malaria In North Carolina.
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In its report on the prevalence of
malaria in theUnited States the Unit
ed States Health Service gives the
figures for North Carolina:
"The decease prevails mainly in the
eastern half of , the state, although
cases were reported from 87 of the 100
counties in the state. The reports
from the following counties were in
the negative : Alexander, Alleghany,
Ashe, Caswell, Clay, Jackson, Jones,
Macon, Madison, Mitchell, Polk
Swain and Watauga.
The total number of 88.357 cases of
malarial fevers reported gives a ratio
with the estimated population of 2,
339,452, of one case to 280 Inhabitants
n the 15.71 per cent of returns of all
postal cards mailed.
The mortality reports were obtained
through the state health officer, W.
S. Rankin, and prepared by T. "B.
Brown, chief clerk, State Board of
Health of North Carolina, Raleigh.
Mecklenburg 'had 78 white and 38
colored cases, 3 white "and 5 colored
persons died from it.
Charters Granted During Past Week
I A charter was issued for the Meche
Brodie Drug Company, Brevard, the
capital being $10,000 authorized, and
5,000 subscribed by S. M. Macfie, M.
P. Brodle and 'others for a general
drug business-
The Pinless Clothesline Company,
Wilmington, capital $15,000 authorize
ed, and $1,000 subscribed by T. W.
Callehan, Blanche Callehan and D. D.
Walker for the manufacture and sale
of a patent clothesline.
The Chemical Lime Company, New
bern, files an amendment to its char
ter whereby the capital stock is re
duced from $100,000 to $12,000, the
stockholders being specified as C. D.
bradham, F. M. Simmons, J. D. Har
rior and L. I. Moore, each having
125,000.
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Inspecting Test Farms.
Commissioner of Agriculture W. A.
Graham and C. , C. Wright, C. W.
Mitchell, A. Cannon, R. L. - Woodard
of the State Board of Agriculture left
recently for an official inspection of
the new test farm, especially for the
growing of bright tobacco in Granville
county near Oxford. The Department
is making experiments In the growing
of grains and other., crops on this farm
as well as tobacco. This is the sec
ond season of the experimental effort
there and . developments are said to
be very satisfactory.
Revenue Collection For May. '
The-office of Collector A; D. Wattr.
for the Western North Carolina dis
trict, reports collections from "all
sources to the amount of $743,419.04,
for the month of May Just closed. Col
lections for the past month are slight
ly under the month of April, about
$3,500 less. However, they exceed
tnose of, May, 1914, by over $150,000.
The 'different sources from which
the above revenues was derived is as
follows: Lists, $13,459.42; special
taxes, $392.36; tobacco, cigars, cigar
ettes and snuff, $721,649.83; opium
tax, $33.39; documentary and proprie
tary stamps, $7,861.44; wine stamps
$22.60.
The , internal revenue collections
for the eastern Carolina district dur
ing May were $489,917, compared
with $425,578 during May, 1914. The
special war taxes for the district col
lected during May aggregated $8,373,
lists represented a revenue of $20,989
and the tobacco, cigar and cigarette
taxes $459,988. Other receipts were
from special taxes. The revenue from
opium license and blanks amounted
to $15,000. i
Treasury Funds of State Run Low.
B. R. Lacy, State Treasurer, who
has just returned from New York
after sooring the financial feat of ne
gotiating a loan of $75,000 to the state
at three and a half per cent, says
this money will be applied, $60,000 to
the installation of waterworks for the
State Hospital at Morganton and $15,
000 to permanent improvements at the
University of North Carolina.
Treasurer Lacy says funds are just
now the lowest in the State Treasury
they have ever been before since he
has been State Treasurer at this sea
son of the year and attributes this
condition to the failure of sheriffs of
many of the counties to make' pay
ments and settlements of taxes as
promptly as they should and usually
do. He says that one of the most
serious consequences Is that hundreds
of the most faithful and deserving
school teachers, all to poorly paid at
best, are thereby deprived of the pos
sibility of receiving their salaries
promptly and in fujl.
Mr. Lacy also calls attention to the
fact t,hat he has found it necessary
to so control the State Treasury's
public school funds as they, come In
as that those counties in which the
sheriffs make settlements of their
taxes due the state shall have the
preference as to. the payment of the
county proportion of the public school
fund. In this way the prompt settle
ment of state taxes by the sheriffs car
ries with it an assurance of that coun
ty receiving in the most prompt man
ner possible Its proportion of the
school fund.
Treasurer Lacy Is just now sending
out to the sheriffs the most urgent
sort of letters appealing for settle
ment of state taxes to relieve' conditions.
Portrait of Yates Presented to State.
There was a unique ceremony in
the North Carolina Hall of History
when there was presented to the state
with due ceremony an oil painting of
Maj. William J. Yates, for many years
editor of The Democratic, a weekl
newspaper of Charlotte, and a journal
of great power and influence in its
ciay. ine presentation address was
by Editor Edward E. BTitton, of the
Raleigh News and Observer, with sup
plefnentary remarks by Mr. William
J. Andrews, in which he declared, that
in so doing he was honoring his
grandfather's friend and welding
anew the links in the chain of friend
ship between the families wherein he
is the third generation.
In accepting the portrait for the
state Col. Fred A. Olds, director of
the Hall of History, stated that the
painting will be placed "near thai
of another of Governor Vance's most
confidential and trusted advisors dur
ing the war period, Rev. William E.
Pell, the founder of The Raleigh
Christian Advocate and also of The
Raleigh Sentinel. "You may be as
sured gentlemen," declared Colonel
Olds, "that this portrait will always be
treasured and will occupy a place cn
honor in the Hall of History"
Sign Certificates For Attendance.
The Whiteville, Columbus county,
public school management tried out
a novel scheme for Inducing perfect
attendance on the schools the past
cession by offering to furnish to all
Who mad a
jKWifc aiicuuautB rec-
ord for the term a certificate to that
eneci Dearing the signature of the
State Superintendent of Public In
etruction and the Governor. As a
result Governor Craig and State Su
perintendent Joyner have just been
vea upon to affix their signatures
to 30 such certificates.
Visit Artist in New York.
Governor Craig and the members of
the commission for the ereetion of the
statute of Zebulon B. Vance in the
Statuary Hall, Washington, for the
state, are to go to New York this week
for a special meeting in the studio of
Artist Borglum to inspect the work of
the artist as far? as It has progressed
In the preparation of the plaster cast
Renewing Automobile Licenses.
There are upwards of 16,320 state
automobile licenses to be renewed by
the secretary of state within the next
few days, the new automobile license
year beginning July 1. The mails are
flooding the office now with these ap
plications for new licenses and with
the license fee checks that must ac
company them. The gain In the num
ber of automobiles in the state the
past year has been about 5,000. The
license tax on machines ranges from
$5 to $15 according to horse-power.
Motorcycles are decreasing.
Connor Reports to Gen. Young.
Lieut Edward Connor of the United
States Navy, has formally reported to
Adjutant General Laurence W.. Young
of the North Carolina Guard as ready
to take uphls work as Inspector-instructor
for the 5naval, militia in this
state, the divisions of which are lo
cated at Elizabeth City, Washington,
Belhaven, Hertford and Newbern.
Lieutenant Connor will press the work
of reorganizing the North' Carolina
militia in conformity with the new
Federal naval regulations that reduces
the numBer of officers:
ARRANGE SEA TRIP
FOR STATE BANKERS
ANNUAL CONVENTION OF BANK
ERS LOOK FORWARD WITH
1 PLEASURE.
MEETING AT WRIGHTSVILLE
Meeting Will Be Followed By Sea
Trip to New York For Banker
and Families. 1 f
Wilmington. -President Thomas E.
Cooper of the North Carolina Bankers'
Association which holds its annual
convention at Wrights villet Beach,
Junes 17, 18 and 19, is sending out cir
cular letters to all bankers in North
Carolina ,and upper South r Carolina
giving them information relative to
the steamer trip to New York to be
taken immediately upon the' adjourn
ment of the convention. ;
.rresiaent uooper nas oeen nouneu
by. C. J. Becker, agent of tie Clyde
Line, that the company would send
to Wilmington a special steamer, the
Comanche, to accommodate I the 200
or more bankers and their friends
who are expected to take the trip.
The steamer has accommodations for
400 or 500 passengers., J '
It Is planned for the C6mLnche to
rtach Wilmington about noou on Sat
urday, June 19, and leave a fw hours
later for New York, arriving there
Monday afternoon, June 21. ;
Bankers ; and their friends are
looking forward to the pleasures of
the sea trip. President Cooper is cer
tain that there will be at least 150
visiting bankers and their friends to
take the trip, while 50 or more WiU
mingtonians will join the paty. The
steamer has all the conveniences and
comforts of a large hotel. j
. Mill Burns; Loss $275,000.
Gastonia. Fire which caught from
the dynamo driving-wheel in the en
gine room of the Hardin Manufactur
ing Company at Worth, 10 mils north
of Gastonia on the Carolina North
western Railroad, destroyed the en
tire plant The fire was gottei under
control shortly after being discovered,
but just at that time the maifi-water
pipe burst and all of the resenje water
was lost. Owing to the intense heat
at the pumps, near .where tie' fire
started, it was impossible to Use them
advantageously and the ' fire 'gained
headway until the large brick build
ing was butted.
The fire department here was ap
pealed to for help and quickly answer
ed the call in the fire truck,fbut in
crossing a wooden bridge ab'out two
miles from the fire the truck jras too
heavy and broke through. I is re
ported that the loss Is about $75,000,
with two-thirds of this amount cover
ed by insurance.
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Railway Surgeons, Adjourn.
Asheville. Members of the Asso
ciation of Surgeons of the Southern
Railway Company selected Chatta
nooga as the place of holding their
next annual meeting and chose the
following officers for the coming year:
President, Dr. Lane Mullaly, Charles
ton, S. C, first vice presidents Dr. B.
M. Tittwood, Jefferson City, f Tenn.,
second vice president. Dr. Stephen
Hornsberger, Catlett, Va., thid vice
president Dr. H. H. Briggs, AstyeviUe;
four vice president. Dr. W. H. jjHutCh
inson, Childesburg, Ala., secretary and
treasurer, Dr. J. A. Ray Woodstock,
Ala., member of the executive com
mittee for five years. Dr. Jay H. Dur
kee, Jacksonville, Fla.
Heavy Rains in Sampson.
Clinton. Reports coming ii from
the northern and western sections of
Sampson county indicate the heaviest
rainfall since the flood in theie reg
ions. Something Jike a cloudburst
fell recently and submerged lands on
which no water had ever before1 stood.
Nearly all the bridges, some 20-odd.
spanning Big and Little Coharie Riv
ers, are gone. Some 16 water mills
are washed away. In many places the
plowed soil is entirely frashed off the
land and crops completely ruined.
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Concord Elks Mean to Win;
Concord. The Concord Lodge of
Elks is looking forward with interest
to the state convention, which will
be held in Charlotte, June 24-251 The
local lodge Is planning to send' the
largest delegation that ever attended
a convention from one lodge fn the
state. Last year High Point won the
prize for the largest number of jj mem
bers in the parade. This year Concord
is going after the distinction aWl in
order to win Is going to try tcJ have
every member of the lodge in! line
wnen tne narana starts .
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Injuries Prove Fatal." I
Hickory. E. C. Bridges and J. W.
Biggs, the young men who were injur
ed in the accident at Conover recent
ly when the automobile In which they
mere traveling was struck by the ten
der cf an engine on the Southern; Rail
way, both died at a hospital f here,
where they were brought immediate
ly after the accident Both' I were
young men about 25 years of ag and
unmarried. They were schoolmates
at Boiling Springs Acadamev in tiieve-
land county. Bridges having finished
Acnooi this sprinr.
FIKAL EXERCISES AT A. 6 IX
ClassDay Was Celebrated by Elghty
five Graduates of State University.
- Memorable Affair.
Chapel Hill. Both in retrospect aid
in prophecy the 85 members of the
rradnatine class of the University gar
nered up In a treasured lump the odds
and scraps of, a four-year stay in au
Aduiemic atmosohere. It was clask
day on the university camptis and the
abilities, eccentricities, quips ana
quirks of the class of 1915 were oti
disnlav. By way of recapitulation thV
class took inventory, dominated the
campus for a day and then delivered
the keys to the rising senior class.
The recapitulation, recorded the
oddities of the class, their outstand
ing virtues, their propensities and
their misgivings. The serious mind
ed side of the tabulaton dsclosed th
fact that the graduating class orig
inally started on its journey with 211;
members. The sophomore year saw
the number drop itf 143 and in the
junior year only 88 answered the class
roll call. The average weight of the
class is 157, the heaviest member
weighing 215 and the light weight
member tipping the scales at 100. Thv
average height is 5 feet 11 Inches, and
the average age: of the class is 22
years. Among the , prospective call
ings will follow, 20 will instruct the
youth of the land; 17 will practice
medicine ; there are 10 prospective
lawyers and nine will enter business.
Twenty-two were undecided as to
their life work.
Gowned in academic costume and
clothed in the dignity and culture ac
quired from four years of rigid train
ing in a college atmosphere, the grad
uating class of 78 members assembled,
in Gerrard Hall at 9:30 in the morning
for the opening exercises of Senior
Class Day. The processional march
was made from Memorial Hall to Ger
rard Hall under the fatherly direction
of "Pres" Kemp Battle. . His benign
countenance, unmarred by 81 years
of storm and stress in service of state
and university, was in Itself a fitting
exemplary inspiration to the outgoing
class.
Mount Airy Votes School Bonds. .
Mount Airy. The lection in this
city recently for bonds for the graded
school was carried by a safe majority.
The amount voted 525,000, which it
is claimed, is sufficient to supplement
the present taxes for the needed im
provements and repairs to . the build
ings. ,
Extending Cliffside Railroad.
Cllffside. The Cliffside Railroad
Company Is extending its road, to Har
ris, where it will connect with the C.
C. & O. The grading has been com
pleted and the rails laid from Cliffside
to the river, a short distance from the
mill at Henrietta.
Stock Increased to $1,600,000.
Concord. J. W. Cannon announces
that the capital stock of the Cannon
Manufacturing Company has been in
creased from $1,000,000 to $1,600,000.
Of the increase $245,000 will be issued
the stockholders of the Patterson Man
ufacturing Company in payment for
their plant located at Kannapolis and
which was recently purchased by the
Cannon Manufacturing Company.
NORTH CAROLINA MARKET.
Prices of Cotton, Corn, Oats, Peas,
Butter, Eggs, Etc., on North Caro
lina Markets During Past
Week.
Airlie Cotton, 9c; corn, 95c-$1 bu;
oats. 75c bu; soy beans. $2 bu; peas, $2
bu; Western creamery butter, SOc lb; eggs
15-16c doz.
Asheville Corn, 95-97c bu; oats. 63Hc
bu; soy beans, $1.60 bu; peas. $1.50 bu;
sweet potatoes. $1.10 bu; Western butter.
Sic lb; N. C. butter, 30-31c lb; eggs, 16
18c doz.
Charlotte Cotton, 9c; corn, 92c bu,
oats, 68c bu; soy beans, $1.60 bu; peas,
$1.85 bu; sweet potatoes, $1.50 bu; N. C.
butter. 32c lb; eggs, 18c doz.
Durham Gotton, 9c; corn, 92-95c bu;
oats. 67c bu; soy. beans, $1.60 bu; peas,
$1.85 bu; Western butter, S5c lb; N. C.
butter, 35c lb; eggs, 17c doz.
Elmore Ootton, 8 He; corn, $1 bu;
oats, 73c bu; peas, $2.15 bu; sweet pota
toes. $1.25 bu; N. C. butter, 32c lb; eggs,
18c doz.
Fayetteville Cotton. 8c; com. 90-95
bu; oats, 63c bu; peas. $2 bu; Western
butter, 30c lb; N. C. butter, 30c lb; eggs.
17c doz. ' 86 '
Greensboro Cotton, 9c; corn, $1 bu
oats, 65c bu; peas. $2 bu; sweet potatoes!
$1.25 bu; Western butter, 32c lb; N. G.
butter, 32c lb; eggs, 17c doz.
Hamlet Cotton &hic; corn, $1 bu; peas
$2 bu; sweet potatoes, $1.25 bu; Wee ten
butter, 34c lb; N. C. butter, 82c lb; eggs,
Henderson Corn. 90c-$l bu; oats, 70c
bu; soy beans, $1.90 bu; peas, $2 bu:
Western butter, 32c lb; N. C. butter, 32c
lb. V ,
Hendersonville Corn. 90c bu; oats. 65c
bu; peas, $2 bu; N. C. butter, 32c lb; eggs.
13-15c do.
Lumberton Corn, $1 bu; sweet pota
toes, $1 bu; eggs 15c doz.
Hickory N. C. butter, 30c lb; eggs,-15
loc doz.
Maxton Cotton, 8c; .corn. $1.02-$1 05
bu; oats, 75c bu; soy beans, $1.90 bu; Dea
$2.15 bu; Western butter, 35c lb; K C.
butter, 35c lb. , '
Mdhroe Cotton, 9c; corn, $1 bu; oats.
67c bu; peas, $2 bu; N. C. butter, JOc lb:
eggs, 15c doz. , '
..12ewtonCotton' ?c; corn bu; peas.
$1.75 bu; eggs, 16c doz.
Raleigh Cotton, 8 He; corn, 94c bu
oats, 63c bu; soy beans, $1.50 bu; peas, $2
buJ ??vc bu"er- 315 lb; eggs, 17-18c doz.
Salisbury Cotton. 9c; corn, 95-98c bu
oats, 75c bu; Western butter, 33c lb; eggs,
18c doz. '
Scotland Neck Cotton, 8H-8c corn
95c-$l bu; oats, 70-75c bu; soy bean's, $1.90
bu; peas, $2 bu; N. C. butter, 30c; eggs.
15c doz. '. BS7
Vanceboro Cotton, 9c; corn, 80-85c bu
oats, 75c bu; soy beans, $1.80 bu; peas'
$2.15Jbu; sweet potatoes, $1.25 bu; West
ern butter, 31c lb; eggs, 15c doz.
- Wadesboro Cotton, 8Hc; corn, 87H-$1
bu; oats, 64c bu; peas, $2 bu; N. C but
ter, 32c lb; eggs, 17H-20c doz.
Wilson Cotton, 8 He; com, 90c bu; oatt
64c bu; peas. $2 bu; Western butter. 34He
lbN. C, butter. 33c lb; eggs. 18c do.
Winston-Salem Corn, 95c-$l bu- oats.
73c bu; soy beans, $2 bu; peas. $2 bu- N
C. butter,. 31c lb- eggs, 18c doi. '
-t Norfolk, Va. Cotton, ; 9-9tl3c
.J,Clca8:?:No- 2 white - corn! ' 75W -77Ue
(deUvered in Raleigh 89-91C) No
?fHS7 cxrn Z4"77c (delivered insRaleigh
89-914e); butter, 22-28c X(creaiaerA
eggs, 16-18c (firsts). . wr"'
New York Butter, 28-28 He fvrtml
res. 21H-24c (extra). trTtra-
New Orleans Butter, 28c (fancy cream,
ery); eggs, 15-16c (Western). crea-
FREE FROM; THOSE WORRIES
Troubles of Commuter Got Little Sym
pathy From Fellow Passenger '
' - on Train.
"Some of my bulbs have rotted in
the giound.; ' Ever have that happen
to you ?" t asked the commuter of the
man who 'sat beside Jiim in the train,
"No, f 1 1 can't ; say I. have,", replied
the other. ' . 1 "
"And the bugs ; In my rosebushes
are a pest Do you have any- trouble
of that kind?" V
'Not a bug on a single bush."
"That's strange. Now, with my lawn,
I find that only about half the grass
looks healthy. The rest won't grow
no matter how much I water It But
I' suppose' you' know from' experience
what that is?"
"Never had any grass trouble,
either." v '
"Great Scott, man!" exclaimed the
commuter. "How do you manage to es
cape all these annoyances?"
"Very easily, -sir. I live In a hotel."
A CincS.
"My bie: bm;w .
the boy who workPi
office.- " lLi a fifis.
: luais nutnin' to Vr
torted his bosom friend ,'
Maybe it ain-t v
handy just the same J
r ". me, i pot . r 1
a aeain notice in the m
boss has got to believed c
a funeral." Ifligtf.
To Drive Out Malar
what tou are aw, . AV Yoi
printed on every 11 T
u a taste t 6
Quinine drives out mai'TH
the svstem cn
IV
builds np
Ashamed of Them '
"I see the Sayre baby
loud protest when it ' Cne4
Christian." ttS H
"Well, when vnn c
tians are acting just now in tn
can vnn hhma tv, vv ... otw
nit- LittDV ;
What is Castoria
II J O lL! T in n1aaaan4- T i. . Sl
and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither fk?l
Morphine nor other Narcotic substance, its age is its guarante J
rra UTnvma finrl oil OTTO TTuXTCrl IB VlTIPCd VfT mn-ra fk.. xi
has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatul
Colic all Teethinz Troubles and Diarrhoea. It retralatea ih d.
ana cuweia, ssuiuuia ; uio twu, gvxu uwumj aau nararal b
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
The JS-ina x ou nave Always jjougnx, ana wmcn nas been in use. hrL
SO years, has borne the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, and ha3 been made S,
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but Experimented
trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and si
Uhilaren iixpenence against; jucpenmeni. s i -jfYjT
Genuine Castoria always bears the signature of fVVj; t2S&
Russia Becomes Temperate.
The prohibition of selling brandy
in the government monopoly shops
was introduced throughout the Rus
sian empire from the beginning of
the war, on the day of mobilization,
and has now been in force for more
than eight months. One of the Rus
sian papers has made inquiries con
cerning the results of this measure,
and has published some of the statis
tical data that were collep ted. The fol
lowing list shows the consump
tion of vodka in the city of Moscow
In 1914 compared with the preceding
year: 'July. 612,686 gallons in 1913
and 359,124 gallons in 1914; August,
667,926 gallpns in 1913 and 23,373 gal
lons, in 1914; October, 707,688 gallons
in 1913 and 2,913 gallons in 1914. Dur
ing the first three months vodka could
be obtained . at the first-class restau
rants for, consumption in the same,
the selling of vodka in bottles being
prohibited under, a heavy fine.
; Earmarks. -
Alexander Powell, war correspon
dent and lecturer, said at a tea in
New York:
"The English volunteer troops are
splendid. Tou can tell by certain ear
marks where they come from. You
can tell the miners of the Midlands,
the mill hands of Manchester, the
bookkeepers of London, the "
"How do you tell them?"-a young
lady asked.
"Well," said Mr. Powell, "it's easy
enough to tell, for example, the book
keepers. Every time the bookkeepers
are commanded to stand at ease they
try to put their rifles behind their
ears."
Flow of Language.
. "What a wonderful flow of language
our friend has."
"Yes," replied Farmer Corntossel.
"But he doesn't use it for much except
drownin ideas."
Awkward. -
Noah beheld the flood;
"And not a blessed place to Intern
he cried.
Aviators' Safety -Parachut
The . energies of practically
inventors, of parachutes for al
have been directed towards thefc
opment of a device for the a!-
alone, the aeroplane itself bei
iowea to arop to earth unhind'
raitttuuicB lur me wnoie aeros
have just been designed by a Fs
inventor. Two folded parachutes,
tained in cone-shaped recepfaclet
attached to the wings as near the;
as possible. By means of a d
mechanism, operated by the move:
of a small hand lever, these;
chutes are pushed out of the cor:
ers, after which they are claii;
open freely, no matter in vhatsf
nerthe aeroplane may be falling
the airman has to do is to hanjx
the aeroplane.
Too Sour.
Professor Copeland of Hami
the story goes, reproved his tM
for coming late to class. I
"This is a class in English "em
tion," he remarked with sarcasm,!
an afternoon tea."
At the next meeting one &Li
twenty minutes late. Professor Cf
land waited until she had taken
seat. Then he remarked bitingly
"How will you have your ten
Brown?"
"Without the lemon, please,"
Brown answered quite gently. C
tian Register.
Steep the Sassafras.
A St. Louis clergyman gloat'
forms us:
"The images 'of the poet
painter have ceased to charm
want the realities. Hence the fl
of Doetrv "
Sassafras tea in liberal doses,
this time of year, was formffi
lieved to be a sound remedy fej
Thvsinal conditions whicn v
XT W
that state of mind.
There's a Reason.
"Why didn't you laugh at
InVo PUN?"
"Don't have to; I quit SaturM
Hits the Particular
Southern Taste
Long ago Yankee notions of cook
ing gave, place to the dainty, toothsome
cookery of the South,' and today in Boston,
New York, Philadelphia or Chicago the
honors for "extra good" items on a hotel bill
of fare are shared between the skill of the
Parisian chef and the dictation of the South
ern housewife to her skilful "mammy."
To match the culinary skill of the South
land, a new, unique and ready-to-eat corn
food was originated
The praise of Southern1 women tor
delicious dish seems to indicate its ct'
measure of success in a section where
ceptional cookery is so common.
If you are interested in something
to eat," that requires no cooking, has a J
. corn flavour, and carries a pleasing smaCoccr
satisfaction, why order from your &
, a package of PostToasties.
The Superior Corn Fl
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