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A Nice Distinction.
Senator Gronna, discussing a 'knot-
ty problem, said in a speech:
“There is a nice distinction involved
here. You don't notice it at first.
Once it is pointed out to you, however,
you perceive its immense importance.
“It’s the sort of distinction that
Gobsa Golde’s beautiful young wife
revealed to him during a conjugal
quarrel over a diamond tiara.
" People say,’ quavered the old
man, trembling with rage. ‘People
Bay you only married me because I had
money.’
The young woman smiled superbly.
‘“Rubbish!* she exclaimed. ‘My pri-
mary reason for marrying you was
that I had no money myself.' ”
FINE IRISH HIGHWAY
Is That Constructed Through the
Wicklow Mountains.
Built by Lord Cornwallis After the
Suppression of the Rebellion of
1798, It Passes Through Re-
markably Pretty Country.
PROUD OF NATIVE COUNTRY WAY OF FILLING SILO PROLONGING life of posts
Visitor From Costa Rica Extols Condi-
tions He Says Are Prevailing
In That Country.
Dublin.—There is a wonderful Irish
road which if it existed almost any-
where else would be far more familiar
to tourists than it now it. Motorists
are beginning to find it, however, and
before long “the Irish Simplon” will
be as famous as it deserves to be, for
the grandeur of the scenery through
which it passes is hardly surpassed in
/the British isles.
[ Every schoolboy has read of the
roads constructed by Marshal Wade
to facilitate the pacification of the
highlands of Scotland after the Ja-
cobite rising of 1715, says the English
Queen. Wade employed 500 soldiers
in the work, who received sixpence a
day extra pay and whom he facetious-
ly termed his highwaymen. Few if
any histories, however, record the
fact that similar works were under-
taken in Ireland in connection with
the suppression of the rebellion of
1798. The. most remarkable of these
Irish military roads traverses the cen-
tral line of the Wicklow mountains.
Until the close of the eighteenth
century there were only three passes,
Wicklow gap, Sally gap and Glen-
malur, by which the retreats of the
great Wicklow chain could be ap-
. «... -.nr i proached, and each was almost im-
RINGWORM SPREAD ON FACE] passable. After defeat in the open
field the rebels of ’98 retreated to
Alphabetically Speaking.
Among a recent batch of candidates
for appointment to the police force of
Washington was a big darkey, evident-
ly of rural origin, who announced his
readiness to stand examination.
“Are you a native of this city?” he
was asked.
"No, suh. I am from the first state
in the Union.”
“A New Yorker?”
“No, suh. I am from Alabama!”
“Alabama Is not the first state in
the Union, as the saying goes,” re-
sponded the examiner.
"Alphabetically speaking It is, suh,”
said the candidate with conviction.
“Alphabetically speaking.”
Baltimore.—“Though small and- as
yet in the infancy of its development,
Costa Rica is thoroughly progressive,”
said Dr. Vincent Castro of San Jose,
Costa Rica, who is perhaps the lead-
ing surgeon of that Central American
republic. “Our present chief execu-
tive, Lie don Ricordo Jiminez, is one
of the ablest statesmen of this genera-
tion, a lawyer of profound attain-
ments, and were he a resident of this
powerful northern nation he would be
esteemed worthy to hold the highest
ofllce In the gift of the people.
“At this time we choose our presi-
dents for a four-year term in an indi-
rect way, through electors chosen for
that purpose, but two years from now
we shall discard this Bystem and all
future presidents will be chosen by di-
rect popular ballot.
"All male Costa Ricans of voting
age are given the suffrage, the sole
qualification being the ability to read
and write. There is no rancor or bit-
terness in our election contests and
the faction that is beaten acquiesces
First See That Huge Tank Is
Good Condition.
Cheapest and toost Effective .Sub-
stance for Preserving Wood Has
Been Found in Creosote.
Expensive to Stop All Hands to Do
Little Tinkering That Should
Have Been Done at More
Favorable Opportunity.
A* Mistaken Idea.
' "The storm caused me a great deal
of suffering by breaking all the win-
dows in my house.”
“Why, I always understood that
breaking windows was a perfectly
pane-less operation.”
Campbell, Va.—"I have been trou-
bled with ringworm on the right side
of my face for six or eight years. It
began with just very small pimples in
spots and continued to spread more
these wild fastnesses, where for sev-
eral months they defied the efforts of
the government to dislodge them.
Sovexatious and formidable did this
mountain warfare become that the
every year until it covered the right j idea of taking a leaf out of Marshal
Wade’s book suggested itself to the
lord lieutenant, Lord Cornwallis. He
ordered the construction of what is
known as "the Great Military road”
in order to lay open the most inacces-
sible tracts. As it was deemed ex-
pedient to station troops at certain
strategic points four extensive bar-
racks were erected upon the road.
The main road begins four miles
south of Dublin and terminates in the
southwest of the County Wicklow.
The distance between the two extrem-
ities as the crow flies is about 30
miles, but owing to the spiral wind-
ings round the contours of the moun-
tains the total distance traversed is
much greater. In addition there are
side of my face. It was red, rough and
In circles, and Itched and burned very
much. It was sore when I scratched
my face and it worried me so much I
couldn’t keep from scratching. It
looked very bad; I would hate to go
out while it was on my face. Every
one noticed it and some would ask
what It was.
"I tried some home remedies before
using Cuticura Soap and Ointment,
such as -, -, - and -. I
could only find temporary relief until
I began to use Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment. I put the Cuticura Ointment on
my face and let it stay on for about
an hour and then I washed my face
with Cuticura Soap. I used the Cuti-
cura Soap and Ointment for one month
and I was cured.” (Signed) Miss
Virginia Woodward, Feb. 21, 1912.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world. Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address
post-card “Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston.”
Adv. _ _
Final and Fatal Question.
Bobby was in an especially trying
mood, and had asked so many ques-
.. tions as to bring upon himself stern
parental command to be silent. By
and by, however, he so humbly solicit-
ed permission to speak that this was
reluctantly granted. And this was the
time when poor Bobby put his foot
into it with a vengeance.
"I only wanted to ask,” he said,
meekly, "what made your hair all
come out, papa? Will I lose miue,
too, when it’s ripe?”
As a summer tonic there is no mediciae
that quite compares with "OXIDINE. It not
only builds up the system, but taken reg-
ularly, prevents Malaria. Regular or Taste-
less formula at Druggists. Adv.
Ungrateful Guest.
Brown—So you spent Sunday with
the Suburbs, eh? How far is their
house from the station?”
Towne—About two miles as the dust
flies!—Judge.
Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children
Seething, softens the gums, reduces inflamma-
tion, allays pain, cure* wind colic, 25c a bottle.
Adv.
And every man who owns a dog
thinks the animal has more sense
than his neighbor.
LEWIS’ Single Binder gives the smoker
* rich, mellow tasting 5c cigar. Adv.
Many a bewhiskered man has been
known to tell barefaced lies.
sm-
Smile!
That* s proof that
your liver and digest-
ive organs are work-
ing- properly—but if
you have “the blues’*
—feel run-down and
“half-sick’*—try
HOSTETTER’S
Stomach Bitters
It will help your
stomach to “come
back” and make life
a pleasure.
TBY A BOTTLE TODAY
ALL DRUGGISTS
Ireland’s Military Road.
branch roads running up minor val-
leys and circling hills which sheltered
outlaws and desperadoes.
This fine work was executed be-
tween the years 1799 and 1801 by reg-
iments of Highland militia. With the
exception of the level in one valley
called Glenmacnaes the engineer was
not enabled to take advantage of a
single vale. As a rule the glens in
these mountains run from east to
west, while the direction of the road
is from north to south, hence the
latter keeps for nearly the whole dis-
tance a solitary mountain course at
the height of 1,600 or 1,700 feet above
the sea and but seldom descends to
any of the valleys.
The road was most skilfully en-
gineered as regards gradients in order
to render it passable for artillery.
There are but few parts of it which
are not rideable by the cyclist mount-
ed on a machine equipped with three
speeds. That the work was effected
in the most durable manner is clear
from the fact that although very little
has been spent on maintenance during
the last half century, the road still
presents through bogs and morasses
a smooth and level surface and a sub-
stratum perfectly strong and well
rounded.
In Beautiful Costa Rica.
cheerfully in the verdict of the polls.
Our presidents have an extraordinary
appointive power, and they show their
magnanimity by naming their political
enemies for some of the highest offi-
ces under the government.
‘The government, as I said before,
is as stable as any of the big powers
and its sectyity has a firm basis in the
enlightenment of the people. It owns
and operates a railway from San Jose,
the capital, to Bunta Arenas, on the
Pacific ocean, which, contrary to most
state-owned lines, is a financial suc-
cess. Our monetary system is excel-
lent, being on a gold basis. The unit
of value is the colon, which rarely
goes below 45 cents in United States
money. A coin worth 90 cents, or
two colons, is gold, the smaller coin-
age being silver; and besides that the
banks issue paper currency that, be-
ing redeemable in gold, is always
good. No notes are issued by our gov-
ernment.
“The coffee tl-ade remains a heavy
source of revenue. Besides these
items, we have all kinds of precious
minerals, including a number of good
paying gold mines and virgin forests
of mahogany and other ornamental
woods, only a fraction of which has
been cut for exportation.
“Outside of a few thousand blacks
from Jamaica, who work for the
banana company, and approximately
5,000 Guatusos—native Indians living
in a remote district—the population
of Costa Rica is of the original Span-
ish stock, the racial strain having
kept its ancient purity. Ours is es-
sentially a white man’s country, as
our people, with rare exceptions, de-
cline intermarriage with those of in-
ferior grade, and hence we have been
able to evolve and maintain a credit-
able civilization. In proportion Costa
Rica spends more for education than
any of the Latin-American govern-
ments, our schools costing more than
any other single item-in the national
budget. Education is compulsory and
95 per cent of the children receive
free instruction in the primary and
secondary schools.’
(By W. M. KELLEY.)
Before it is time to fill the silo it
should be examined and if a stave silo
the hoops should be tightened and
the doors numbered so that each door
will fit properly In its place as soon
as the silo is filled up that far. All
of these things should be attended
to before the crew and machines be-
gin to work, for it makes an expensive
delay to stop all hands and do a lit-
tle tinkering that could as well have
been avoided by a little work at some
more favorable time. We figure that
it costs us about $60 or $70 a day
when we are filling our silos and plan
to make every man’s time count as
much as possible.
f We make a practice of starting one
corn binder cutting the day before
filling time and then keep two binders
cutting while the corn is being run
into the silo. We do not like to get
too much corn on the ground before
we begin filling, owing to the danger
of rains and unfavorable weather.
When the corn is convenient to the
silo we employ four teams to haul
the corn to the cutter and four extra
men in the field to hand the bundles
up to the drivers. One man is kept
at the cutting machine to assist the
feeder and to save the strings that
are used to bind the bundles. This
we do as a matter of precaution more
than to save the strings for there
have been numerous instances where
cows have been injured by eating the
strings after they have been run into
the silo.
Two or three men are kept inside
the silo to keep the outside edges
packed and to distribute the ensilage
over the surface properly. With a
good working crew of fourteen men
besides the crew with the engine and
cutter one hundred to one hundred
and twenty tons a day is a good day’s
work. Of course, the exact cost of
filling will depend upon how every-
thing works and how the men are
Arranged bo that they can do the most
work in the easiest manner. None
but good men shouM be sent Into the
field to hand bundles onto the load.
(By J. A. FERGUSON.)
The most effective method of pre-
serving fence posts is to thoroughly
Impregnate the outer layers of the
wood with some substance that will
poison the wood and deprive the
fungus plant, which destroys the
posts, of Its food.
Many substances have been used
for this purpose, but the cheapest and
most effective is creosote, or dead
oil of coal tar, formed as a by-product
in the manufacture of coal gas. It is
not only poisonous to the fungus
plant, bul being an oil, it also tends
to excludq moisture from the wood.
The treatment is best carried out
by the so-called “open tank method.”
Thoroughly seasoned posts are heated
for several hours in hot creosote and
then allowed to cool down in cold
creosote.
When the posts are heated in hot
creosote the high temperature causes
the air and water in the wood to ex-
pand so that a portion of this air and
water is forced out. When the posts
are then placed in cold creosote, the
air and water left in the wood con-
tract, forming a partial vacuum; and
Tank for Treating Posts.
the creosote Is forced Into the wood
by atmospheric pressure, to take the
place of the air and water that have
been forced out.
This forms a shell of creosoted
wood from one-eighth of an inch to
two inches in thickness around the
post that effectively excludes moisture
and prevents the entrance of fungi.
The simplest foTm of treating te.nk
would consist of an iron tank four
feet high and about three feet in
diameter, set up over a brick fireplace
w-ith a stove pipe smoke stack. Such
an outfit would cost about $12 or $15.
Often an old iron boiler can be
found that will answer the purpose.
I find that on figuring everything ! A galvanized tank has usually too thin
.CELEBRATES 100TH BIRTHDAY
Mrs. Samuel SNpe, of Carlisle, Pa., At-
tributes Her Long Life to Tem-
perance in All Things.
MULES ON A FRISCO RAMPAGE
on a strictly cash basis it costs about
seventy cents a ton to harvest the
ensilage crop, that is, allowing each
Animals Break from Corral, Devas-
tate Flower Gardens and Cause
Panic.
San Francisco.—One hundred and
■thirty-eight head of “Missouri’s finest”
mules, just detrained upon their ar-
rival from St. Louis for use at the
Presidio, the local United States army
post, broke from their corral, devas-
tated flower gardens, struck panic to
the hearts of civilians and police who
attempted to round them up and oth-
Carlisle, Pa.—Entertaining friends
and acquaintances here recently, Mrs.
Samuel Sipe of Carlisle, a girl friend
of “Molly Pitcher,” the heroine of
Monmouth, celebrated her one hun-
dredth birthday. Mrs. Sipe was born
in Switzerland October 5, 1812, and
came to this country when she was
six years old. She crossed the ocean
in a sailing vessel, which took about
six weeks to make the trip, landing
in Philadelphia, where she lived one
year before coming to Carlisle. Mrs.
Sipe lived here ninety-three years ago.
Retaining all her faculties with the
exception of her sight, which is slowly
failing, Mrs. Sipe today is in good
health. She said she expected to live
several years longer. When told that
a few friends were coming to see her
she exclaimed:
“What for? I’m no curiosity. I’m
only an ordinary human being.”
Mrs. Sipe attributes her long life
and good health to temperance in all
things, especially in eating.
Mrs. Sipe well remembers “Moilie
Pitcher,” has talked with her often,
hearing her tell of the battle of Mon-
mouth and the good treatment she re-
ceived at the hands of the soldiers.
“It took us about a week to go from
Philadelphia to Carlisle,” said the cen-
tenarian, “as we travelled by stage
coach, and the roads were not very
good in those times.”
the trial trip was made on July 4, 1857,
An Excellent Silo.
man $2 per day, the teams $4 per day
and the crew and machine $2 per
hour, running time. Of course, this
is not the exact cost for there are
numerous conditions that we cannot
allow for, but taken one year with
another I believe that seventy cents a
ton is a fair average for the cost of
cutting the corn and filling the silo.
When it is possible we fill one silo
Saturday and allow it to settle over
Sunday and fill the other Monday
and then place a woven wire fence
around the one that is filled first and
refill to the top of the fence so that
when the ensilage settles It will be
as near full as possible, and after
this we refill the other one in the
same way.
For a few days we make a prac-
tice of keeping the edges packed down
and lose but a small amount of en-
silage. When it is possible for a
man to exchange help the cash cost
of filling may be greatly reduced, but
my figures are based strictly on a
cash basis, bringing everything done
by outside labor.
a bottom to set up over an open fire.
Such a tank, however, can be utilized
and heated by means of a three-inch
U tube. In this case, since the creo-
sote is very inflammable, it should be
shielded from the open fire. In either
case a false bottom should be placed
in the tank for the posts to rest upon.
Creosote costs from fifteen to twen-
ty cents a gallon in fifty gallon bar-
rels, the cost varying with the loca-
tion, transportation facilities, etc. A
gallon of creosote should treat three
or four posts or more, ^epending upon
the kind of wood, Borne woods absorb-
ing the creosote more readily than
others. To a farmer who furnishes
his own labor, the cost should not be
above six or eight cents a post.
The advantage of a preservative
treatment lies in the fact that it per-
mits the utilization of material for
fence posts from the woodlot, or of
material that can be purchased at a
low price, which ordinarily could not
be used for this purpose. Such posts,
even with the cost of treatment added,
will amount to less than the original
cost of a durable post. As to lefngth
of life, a well creosoted post of per-
ishable wood will outlast by many
years the most durable fence post.
Posts that ordinarily last but three or
four years in the ground can be made
to last over twenty years by preserv-
inf the wood from decay.
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Weaning Pigs.
The most critical period in a pig’s
life Is at weaning. Therefore I begin
this as soon as the little fellows will
eat, says a w-rlter in an exchange. I
build a pen in the field so that only
the suckling pigs can get In, and by
feeding them this way for -several
You cannot get a $200 colt from a
$5 stallion service.
Fall is the critical period with the
careless sheep raiser.
Oats are fine rations for the ewes
until after lambing time next spring.
The fall rains and suns will very
soon put a plow left in the field to
the bad.
Bullets are the best known cure for
persistent sheep-killing dogs. The
sooner the remedy applied the better.
Have you found a 200-egg hen yet?
Well, yon never will if the lice and
mites are thick in your poultry house.
Live stock is hard on the fences
during the summer months. Go over
all the lines and mend the breaks
now.
It takes a pretty good blacksmith
to point a plow properly and unless
one has the knack and skill better
not try it.
The wise and prudent shepherd
knows that his sheep require and
greatly relish salt every season of the
year, winter included.
Do not Imagine that cold weathex
will discourage the lice on the pigs.
Better kill the pests now, and then go
at them again a month later.
Apple orchards ought to be sprayed
three times a year and when it
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—because it is moder-
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quality.
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Bright Boy May Have Lacked 'Orig-
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“This brave man, beloved by all
France, was then buried with full
military honors,” a Baltimore boy
read from the lesson, when his name
had been called.
“What are ‘military honors’ in this
connection?” the teacher asked, and
several boys seemed to be possessed
of the right idea.
“And what must one be to receive
such honors?” was the next question.
“A general?” “A hero?” “A cap-
tain?” were a few. of the tentative re-
plies. Only the “bright boy” of the
class remained silent.
“Have you no answer, James?” the
teacher suggested, “what must one
be?” 7
“Why, I should say dead, Miss
Mary,” was the reply.
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Superior Attraction.
One of the two women who sat near
the front of the car had been to the
theater the night before to see a cer-
tain beautiful actress.
“How does she hold her age?” eager-
ly asked one who had not been.
“Well, to tell you the truth, Mamie,
she wore such a lovely pink dress that
I couldn’t take my eyes off it the
whole time she was on the stage; so
I never thought of looking at her face
to see whether she held her age or
not—I should say she did, though.”
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weeks prior to separating the pigs J comes to taking care
from their mothers they can be very
easily weaned and not check their
growth at all. 1 prefer leaving the
pigs in the field where they have been
and removing the sows, for the pigs
are accustomed to the surroundings
and w ill fret less.
His Job.
‘What Is Jaggs doing now?”
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