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BESF=SSYI eSS =T @ , ) (\? ° v e () ( The Hypnotic Signs \ 7 . —_— ¥ 5 C‘\ f By Edgar Dayton Price (‘)4 ORI SN (Copyright, by Shortstory Pub. Co.) .

The train was crawling along drearily through a mist that dimmed the landscape. 1 had wearied of the comic papers and the novel I had bought of the train boy, and had gone to the smoker to meditate and consume more cigars than was good for me. At a local station a short, stocky man and a gold-spectacled, whiskered individual got on, and the man with the spectacles sat down in my seat, breaking in on my meditations, while the stocky man -sat down across the aisle and puffed absently at a clay pipe. : “My name is Boggs—Amos Boggs, M. D, Ph. D.” said the intruder. “Glad to} know you, Dr. Boggs,” I said, glad of:the interruption. “Tra'velii’ man?”’ he inquired, -inquisitively. - . “No, thank you,” said I ~ S glah to know that,” said the doctor, heartily. “Bad lot, traveling men, bad lot, clear through. Well, their day is passing, thanks to a little discovery of mine,” "he said, ‘“l've originated a substitute for traveling men in the form of hypnotic signs which may be sent by mail and which will bring the orders every time. Bits of tin, they are, loaded with a hypnotic message.” . 4 - “Ridiculous!” said L *“Perfectly feasible,” said the doc‘tor, composedly, and proceeded to enlighten me about the hypnotic signs, after taking a pinch of snuff. “I have always been interested in hypnotism,” he said, settling his spectacles more firmly on his nose. “I can hypnotize a little myself, and have used the art beneficially in my practice. The subject of influencing the human mind through inert agencies has been a matter of study and experiment with me for years, but I lacked the medium to convey the command to the plastic brain—the sensitive surface that should take the message and give it forth to the anwitting recipient. “I had a theory that for years I had no chance to work out. It was that the medium lay in 'the human brain itself, in that part called the cerebel‘llum or little brain, the organ of the senseory impressions. What I wanted was such a brain from a live, healthy man, which was naturally difficult to procure. Chance helped me one day, when there was°a wreck on the railroad near me, and I was called professionally. Lying on the ties in the midst of the debris was the thing I had waited so long for—a splendid -cerebellum freshly separated from its owner. o “Tremblingly I made an etherious -emulsion 6f that precious brain,” said -the doctor. *“Casting about for a vehicle to use it on, I found a piece of bright tin—the “very thing. Then I was ready for a test, and placing the ‘hypnotic sign before me, I concentrated my will and mentally printed a simple command on the little plate, which I then enclosed in an envelope, and, taking the precaution to have ‘my housekeeper address it, sent it to the druggist who habitually put up my prescriptions. . - “The command was for my friend to come up to my house and have a drink —not a complex message. Judge of my delight when the druggist appeared ‘the next day, hypnotic sign in hand, “‘Here's a funny thin? Doc,” he said, ‘this bit of tin without a mark or scratch on it came in the mail this morning. ' The thought occurred to me ‘that yeu—say, Doc, what’s the matter with having a little something hot? - © “There it was, come down to the office and have a little something hot —my very command,” said the doctor, ‘beaming through his spectacles. “What a confirmation of my hopes! I mixed my friend a good warm toddy and took one myself, and then told him of my wonderful discovery. © “‘Bosh!’ he said, promptly, ‘lt's a mere coincidence. If I wasn’t in the

habit of dropping in here and pushing your stock of Bourbon, I might think there was something in it.’ ) “Sure enough, he was a frequent caller and” we usually imbibed. ‘Perhaps it was a coincidence,’ I admitted, ‘suppose you take one of the plates and send a message to some one.’ “*Anything to oblige,” he said, and took the slip of tin and promised to follow directions. ‘T'm going to collect a bad debt with it,’ he said chuckling. I heard nothing from him for a day or two and then he came to see me. “ ‘I almost believe there’s something in that discovery of yours, Doec,” he said, ‘l— : ““It worked,” I said, ‘it worked!’ “/Yes, and no,” said the druggist. “‘As you instructed me, I took the piece of tin home with me and concentrated a message on it to a colored man who had owed me $2.85 for five years. It seemed like rank foolishness, but I sent it off by mail with the

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Bad Story of Unfortunate Young Man and Busy Ladies. The anaemic young man with the intellectual face hadn't wanted to go to the reception any of the time, but the fell clutch of circumstances had so tightened that the fatal afternoon found him wan but determined at the Thead of the reception line. “Mrs. Smith,” chirped the hostess, “allow me to present Mr. Montmoren<y.” “How do you do? Lovely day, isn’t it? Mrs. Jones, this is Mr. Ranchy.” “Excuse me,” began the young man, who was rather attached to his own name; but Mrs. Jones was already beyond human interference. “I'm so glad to meet you. Are you related to the explorer? Mrs. Brown, let me present ’llr, Nansen.” The young man’s face was consider- ~ “So glad. Nice weather, isn't it?

command, “Come, Peter, pay up,” mentally printed all over it, never expecting to see it again. But—’ "« Peter came,” I interrupted. “‘Yes, he did,’ said my friend. ‘Peter was scared and indignant. “Yo’ druggist man,” he said, “wha’ fo’ yo’ send me dis yere piece obitin fo’ a hoodoo, wid yo> skull-an’-crossbones Edn de back ob de envelope? If Ah takes sick an’ dies, Ah'll see dat yo’ hangs for hit, suah! Ah 'lows it's dat $2.85 Ah owes yo'. Heah's yo’ money an’ take dat hoodoo off right quick!” “‘Sure enough, there was a poison label stuck to the flap of the envelope; my clerk put it on, probably. .I'm afraid it was the fear of a hoodoo, and not your hypnotic scheme, that fetched Peter to the center, Doc.’ “I'm -a tenacious man,” said Dr. Boggs, glancing across the aisle at the stocky party, who dppeared to be in a doze. “In spite of the doubt thrown on my discovery by my friend . the druggist and his hoodoo theory, I knew it was the hypnotic suggestion, and that alone, that had brought the darky to terms. Here were two cases which had worked per program, the third should be highly conclusive. 1 made up my mind that an utter stranger was best to work with, and went down to the hotel and found my man in the person of a varnish drummer, a smart, alert fellow, to whom I outlined my discovery carefully. He was interested in a flash. ’ “‘What a cinch to the varnish business,” he murmured. ‘Nice little tin signs loaded with a corking strong hint to order goods, and no arguments; order comes back by return of mail! Got any of those tins about you? I'll try them on my customers in this town. How do you load 'em? : “This was the kind of co-operation I was looking for, and I gave the.varnish man three sensitized plates and instructed him in their use. He scarcely ate his supper, he was so eager, and at once went to his room and, locking the door, sat down to the task of hypnotizing the signs. Unluckily, the house was' full of traveling men, and a lot of them wanted my man for a’ game of poker, and went up to his room and pounded on the door. Pounding on a door is not conducive to concentration, and the varnish man, irritated, besought them to go.away. . “‘Clear out! Go climb a tree!” 1 heard him ‘sing out above the din as the tattoo continued. ‘l'm busy and can't come. Go stand on your heads or jump into the river! Stop that infernal pounding!” They kept the hubbub going until he gave up in despair and let the hypnotic experiment go for the time being, and I went home. “Now, my friend, you characterized my discovery as ridiculous,” said the doctor, gleaming at me through his spectacles, and again taking snuff. “You shall see how ridiculous it was, in—the outcome -of this final experiment, for my emulsion was about gone. The varnish salesman was out bright and early the next morning among his customers, and the result of his first visit was a hurry. call for me from a furniture factory, where the secretary, who did the buying, had been taken mysteriously ill. : . “What's the trouble?” I asked, in amazement, for the secretary was on the floor with the whole office force sitting on him, while he wriggled and besought them to let him up. ® ‘He’s crazy and wants to jump into the river,” they chorused. ‘A varnish salesman was in to see him a few minutes ago, and handed him a tin business card; he looked at it and started for the river on a rum, peeling his . clothes off as he went.’ ““That’s right,” said the secretary, ‘I want to jump into the river.’ “I turned sick.as I recalled the remarks the varnish man had made the

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eeb e A s Do you know, one really needs a parasol. Miss Smith, this is Mr. Hansen.” “You'll pardon me, but my name is —a—" : : “Oh, I don’t think it’s peculiar at all. ‘Mrs. Johnson, Mr. Pants.” = . "~ “I was just going to say,” began the desperate young man, when the lady shook a warning finger at him. “That you were the original bad boy. You young men are so dreadfully wicked these days. Gertrude—Gertrude, come here, dear—this is Mr. Peck.’ He gritted his teeth, but the matter was past help. : “I'm glad to meet you,” said the Sweet Young Thing. “Won’t you come into the dining room and have some coffee? I don't believe I quite caught your name—Mr. Pickles, isn’t it?” Persons of a sensitive nature will appreciate how it pleased the young man some 15 minutes later when he expired, after partaking of a dish of very green ice cream.—Puck. e & ’

night before to the. fellows hammer ing on his door. Here was hypnotic suggestion with a vengeance. I barred the way to the door, and snapped my fingers again and again under the secretary’s nose. ‘You're all right, wake up!’ I said, sharply. He pulled himself together, gazed at me stupidly, and then suddenly ejaculated, ‘Well, I'll be—' ‘ , : “What he would beé I had no opportunity to learn, for a frantic messenger came bursting in to summon me to the big organ factory, where the president and treasurer were acting strangely. I went on a run, meeting on my way the varnish man, who was heading for the depot at a,lively gait. There was a crowd gathering at the organ factory, watching with curiosity the actions of the two men, as the president, an elderly man, gravely stood on his head as fast as kindly hands could reverse him to his natural attitude, and the secretary made the most grotesque efforts to climb a small sapling in front of the office. Each man held fast to a piece of tin, which told me the story. “l had had the conclusive evidence that emulsion of cerebellum would carry auto-suggestions,” said’ Dr. Boggs, wiping his brow, while a wild light gleamed in his eyes. “Wonderful!”- 1 commented, for. the doctor's story was done, and he was apparently waiting for something from me. “Have you taken any steps to put your discovery on a 'commercial basis?” 2 : “Have you a strong will?” asked the doctor irrelevantly. - “Moderately strong,” I said. ' “Then I want your cerebellum!” roared the doctor, rising and making a clutch at my neck. In an instant the stocky man across the aisle was on him, and a pair of handcuffs were snapped on his wrists, and, foaming at the mouth, he was.borne to the bag-. gage car ahead, where his maniacal howls could be heard for some time. . “Mad! I ejaculated, “Mad? Who would have thought it? And I was just going to give him an order for hypnotic signs.” RESTS ON PRODUCTS OF . FARM. Fruit of the Earth the Real Foundation of All Prosperity. : The nation’s prosperity really rests on farm products. So long as these reach up to the value of former years —approximately $7,500,000,000 in 1907 —this must continue to be so. There has probably never been a time in this generation when such splendid general crop prospects existed as at the beginning of May, and which have continued up to the middle of the month. The empty cars of to-day will all be enlisted to move the wheat, corn,. oats and cotton now seeded. One strong impression on the traveler in the Trans-Mississippi country is the utilization of the waste piaces of past years. The unsightly desert of to-day is the blossoming orchard of to-morrow, and the irrigation ditch the advance agent of prosperity in manifold forms. Some of the results of irrigation in Texas, which promises to rival Louisiana as a} rice-producing state, and in Colorado, where land newly watered commands from $5OO to $l,OOO an acre, and that in bearing orchards from $3,000 to $4,000 an acre, are marvelous to behold. Western Texas, cleared of mesquite and cultivated for cotton, has witnessed an increase in her annual rainfall of nearly ten inches. The change of climate in the new portion of the country is a study by itself. Nature adapts herself to new conditions and helps those who help themselves.—Charles F. Speare in Review of Reviews.: ‘ The Diet. Do not destroy the digestion by being careless about food. Eat good, easily digested food at regular hours. Let milk, eggs, fruit and vegetablesf enter largely into the diet. The heavy meal of the day ought to come in the evening when there is timé to rest after it. o A : uwe.n 5 : The use of “we” among Kkings véa.e‘ begun by King John of England -in 1119. When editors began to say “we'?' is not known. - |

A Novelty. . Very many women like a touch of individuality about their children’s clothes, and some have taken to embroidering German script letters in red mercerized cotton in the cross stitchings on the middle of the front of the white linen Russian blouses. Th: initial of the child may be used or th initial of the last name, it matters not at all, and sometimes these letters are three inches in height. A little boy, for instance, would have his!initials done in dark blue cotton, while his sister would have hers embroidered in red. The effect, if somewhat bizarre, is, at least, individuai. | Art of the Superior Smile, The superior smile is a useful accomplishment for any young man. It is much in vogue at the universities, where it may be studied at its best on young Don. Many men who learn nothing else at the universities hfif this art, and find it uncommonly ; ful in after-life. It is an excellent cover for a naked mind, and should be sought after by parliamentary ca#didates.—Oxford 'Varsity, ; 3 :

l CAPTAIN-MANAGER OF WORLD’S CHAMPIONS | : 8 s A R k. a 0 R </ Pt SR s . il \ ol ~ 1 > Q) I‘v’ § Do T \‘.‘ . AY % s (] y b e o amelE s ) ...., S o : ‘-J‘ \ / L e S e i ' | W . | : \ ) s ’j l " & Ase [ | N % £ | h e e . . l S 7 . A | \ % | IS ravK 2 = L. & = (HANCE § L = g 3 : & Do oz oD Off the field, Frank Chance, captain and manager of the Chicago Na- | tional league team, the World's Champions, is a veritable Beau Brummell, | He dresses in the height of fashion and if it were not for the tanned come ! plexion, acquired on the diamond, he would never be suspected of being a » | professional ball player. The above picture is from his latest photograph. |

VETERAN PLAYER SCOFFS ‘ AT “GOOD OLD DAYS” TALK Man Well Known in National Game | Admits That Modern Baseball ‘ Is-Speedy. | | At last an old-time baseball player has come forward and acknowl-. edged that the game as it is now played in the big leagues is speedier and better than it was in the so-called “‘good old days.” Charley Morton, now president of the Ohio and Pennsylvania league, a well-known ball player in the old times, is the man who thus braves the ire of the other veterans of the diamond. | “We hear a lot about the old star players during the years when I was a player. Of course we had good men then and we played good games, but it always has seemed rather foolish to me to compare those men with the ones who are in baseball at present. “Our facilities were crude then, and jeven if no improvement had been made in the players’ physical makeup, the improvements in apparatus, gloves and such would put the present day player in a class far removed from that .of the men who were engaged in the game in my time. ‘ “The decline of batting hasn’t been so great after all, when you review the figures carefully. When I played ball the pitchers knew much less about curves, the ‘spit’ ball was unheard of, and many little things which contribute to pitching success had not been devised. \ " “The squeeze play, the hit and run and a lot of other combinations of batting and base running which are supposed to be of modern invention were practiced then, but not to the extent they are now. I recall thé squeeze play as early as 1883, but it was not worked extensively. Such plays then were considered ‘freaks’ to be used only infrequently. ; “But, to say that the men engaged in baseball then covered more ground, hit harder and were more graceful flelders is ridiculous. It would be a sad- thing to think that our great national game had not kept pace with other American institutions and had not progressed in 20 years. Nobody ever hit the ball any harder than Wagner and Lajoie, nobody ever fielded any faster than a half dozen big league men do now. In the old days each team had a few stars—now every one has to be a star or the manager is looking for somebody else to take his place. “The ‘good old days’ are nice to look back upon, but I am still in baseball, not as a player, of course, and I can find more to admire, more to enthuse over and more to enjoy in modern baseball than I could back in the 80's.” : : : . Lumley Not for Sale. : President Ebbetts of the Superbas denies the rumor that Harry Lumley is likely to be traded to the New York club in exchange for Sammy Strang Nicklin and a cash bonus. : “As a matter of fact,” says Ebbetts, “the matter 1s now out of the hands of the New York club. They have asked for waivers on Nicklin, and all that any club has to do is to put up $1,500 and he is theirs. But so far. as we are concerned, we would not give Lumley for two Nicklins and $20,000 to boot. Lumley will not be with the Giants within a short time. He will not be with them this season nor next. We would be weakening our team if we let him go. We would be crazy to dispose of ’him. He is not for sale.” New Park for St. Louis Team. Sportsman’s park, at St. Louis, was made the permanent grounds of the Browns, when a deed of transfer-was filed, although the ten-year lease to the American League Baseball Company had three years to run. The park was purchased by the latter in the name of Arthur H. Kusky. President Hedges announced in addition the purchase of the Solari strip adjoining, which will be annexed to the park, making it 456 by 500 feet. Hedgdm L e

WADDELL TO USE HEAD IN PITCHING IN THE FUTURE Rube Would Enter Class of Brainy Twirlers and Save Strain on His Arm. “What's the use of a fellow throwing his arm away to win a game of baseball? I'm through with that kind of pitching. From now on I'm going to use my head and save my arm.” Such were the musings of Rube Waddell the other day, after he had shut his former teammates, the Philadelphia Athletics, out in the final game of the series with the St. Louis Browns at St. Louis by a score of 10 to 0. Think it over, fans, Rube Waddell is to use his head. ; The big eccentric pitcher now with the Browns’ forces gave a demonstration of his head work in the game that wag fruly splendid. He turned’a trick that he probably has never accomplished before in his career on the ball field. He shut out the heavyhitting Athletics and struck out only two batters. Waddell has pitched many and many a shut-out game before, but it is doubtful if he ever did it and still struck out but two men. In looking over his own record of shut-out games we find that as a general rule he fanned all the way from eight to four-. teen men. That has been his forte in the past. He went after every batter with all the muscle of his great left arm.. He tried to fan every man that faced him. His head was only a thing of beauty, while his power lay in his arm. Now Waddell is to become a brain worker. The knotted muscles of his arm are to relax while the folds of gray maltter will become active. From now on he wishes to be classed with such pitchers as Plank, Howell, Mathewson, Brown, Cy Young and Doc White. He made that good resolution just before the game. Every morning now he can be found eating brain food. When he gets in a game his mind will be greater than that of the. batter. He will plan to outguess him. When the batter expects a speedy ball, Rube will waft over a slow curve. The batter will be ready to hook a curve ball, and instead he will have a fast one shot close to his neck. Rube will expect help from his teammates. No longer will he try to win the game by himself. When no men are on the bases he will pitch easy ones and save his arm. He will let the batters hit the ball and expect the stone-wall infield or the strong and fast outfield of the browns to do the work of get. ting the man out, : Has a “Green Stick” Fracture. _Frank Bowerman,. the Boston Natiomal league catcher, hurt his hand in a game the other day. The injury is a remarkable one and has awakened much interest among surgeons and physicians. It is what is surgically termed a ‘“green stick” fracture. That is to say, the crack in the knuckle is just like a break in a green stick full of sap. A fracture of this kind is common in a bone of a child, but rare indeed in a person more than 20 years old. It never occurs when a bone is brittle, and the older a person gets the more his or her arteries harden and the more brittle become the bones. The fact that Bowerman had such an injury shows that he actually is as young as he is lively on the ball field. ‘ Umpires Hit by Unfairness, About the only thing that hurts an umpire is to hear himself made the subject of ugly remarks by spectators after a game in which not a kick has been made in his decisions. The umpires are not b’o&h\e:ed by the growling of players who ‘are dissatisfied with rulings and naturally ex. pect’ the spectators to fall in line when they get their cues from the players. & el But the most discouraging thing the arbitrator bumps against is to hear dmwmmwwmmml and the players know that not a poor Vs de S R

Tot bt s e oot THE PLUG HAT OF JAPAN. Tiles of the Vintage of Fifty Years Ago Make the Mikado’s Subjects Proud. “There is one sight which you must not miss when you go to Tokyo,” said the seasoned traveler. “That is the rare display of anthropological plug huts. . ; : “Some people arrange to get to Japan in cherry blossom season, and others want to get there in time to receive an invitation to the emperor’s garden party in chrysanthemum time; but take the tip of one who has batted about the world considerably and land in Tokyo either on New Year’s day or on the emperor’s birthday. On both you can see something unique in the line of headgear. : “When Japan began to get civilized she bought all the accessories of civilization that England did not want aagy more. England sold her old-fash-foned, out-of-date, narrow gauge railroad stock, antiquated tram cars and other second-hand junk, including the then current styles of plug hat. ““The tile of those days has remained the ruling fashion in Japan up to the present. Japan may build Dreadnoughts, but -the plug hat of 50 vears ago still reigns supreme. “Only on such ceremonious occasions as the New Year's festivities, the emperor’s birthday or possibly the racing meets at Negishi, near Yokohama, does the Japanese gentleman bring forth from his camphor wood chest his plug hat, a heritage from his forefathers. It may be warped with 20 summers; damp or green with the shine of antiquity, but that matters nothing. - “Once this superstructure to his wrinkled frock coat and bagged trousers is added, the Japanese gentleman feels“that no ‘dignity short of a decoration of the order of the RisIng. Sun can be added to his person. That crowning glory of a plug hat. nmay settle around his ears or it may perch upon his head like half a peanut shell, but no matter; it is the hat of civilization and the badge of respectability. i : “He trots out of his house looking like one of the ancient daimios stiff with the dignity of two swords. All that fearful day he wears this hat of ancient vintage like a crown, and in the end he stows it away in his dampproof chest awaiting another festal occasion or held as an asset in his estate after death.”

; Unwise Combination. To the mind of Mrs. Abigail Jenntngs there was a sort of disloyalty in admitting to any outsider that a native of Willowby could be really eccentric. As for anything beyond eccentricity, Mrs. Jennings would never-have admitted it, even in the case of Miss Rachel Gregg, who was frankly called crazy by the summer visitors. “Now, Mrs. Jennings,” said one of the boarders, “do you really mean that you've never known Miss Gregg to do anything that you’d call crazy?” “No, I haven't,” said Mrs. Jennings, with a firm and unyielding expression about her prominent chin. “Why, what do you think of her sending that bag of eggs over to the Corners to Mrs. Cole, right in the box with her:-laundry work, and never tellIng the . stage-driver, and letting him throw the box right off?” inquired the summer boarder. “Mrs. Cole says there's one shirtwaist she’ll never be sble to wear again.” *“Well,” said Mrs. Jennings, calmly, ‘I should say about that as I have tbout a number of little things Rachel does and has done. She may lack in wisdom and forethought now and again—but then, who doesn't, I'd like to know?”—Youth’s Companion. Making It Measure Down. In these days when only the rich 2riminal or suspect is accorded much space in the newspapers it may be a relief to the predatory rich to have the fact recalled that the blessed middle class may also produce dishonesty. A policeman tells this story: “Before I reformed and went on the force I was clerking in a small store. One day an Ifalian woman came in. Bhe held a string in her hand, a long string, and said that she wanted a blanket of the same length. I went through our stock and found that the longest blanket we had was six inches too short. In the midst of my search the boss came up. Said _ “‘What’s the matter? he said. " “I told him. ‘“‘“That's easy, said he. T'll talk to her and keep her busy while you cit off the string.’” - The honest copper swears that he would not be an active party to such a trick, but whatever was done the woman soon left the store with a blanket and string of equal length.— Ban Francisco Call.

e —— “—— o b ' Martian Life Dying. A sadder interest attaches to such existence; that it is, cosmically speakIng, soon to pass away. To our eventful descendants life on Mars will no .longer be something to scan and in- ‘ terpret. For the process that brought It to its present pass must go on to the bitter end, until the last spark of Martian life goes out. The drying up of the planet is certain to proceed until its surface can support no life at all. Slowly but surely time will snuff it out. When the last ember is thus extinguished, the planet will roll a dead world through space, Its evolutionary career forever onded. —Century. - Still Had Hopes. “Say,” queried the Wise Guy, “don’t you ever get discouraged in trying to get something for nothing?”’ “Naw,” replied the granger, who had just invested in his twenty-third gold brick, “I've noticed th’ other feller allers gits his that way, an’ mebby in th’ course uv time I'll be th’ other feller.” ; : : e No, Indeed. “The &.n is mighty scorching these days, but—" ' “But what?”’ J “l notice women still hate to be thrown into the shade.”—Kansas City Times. . ' S ‘ ‘Higher Up. - Howell—What do you do with your money? e : & Powell—Give it up. s Howell—l've heard that your ‘wife is w‘gp;tl}an you are. i :

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. The ditcher or ditch cleaher is a convenient device for clearing ditches. It consists of a guide plank 2 inches by 12 inches by 12 feet, and a mold board, 2 inches by 12 inches by '8 feet. These are braced with a crosspiece 3 feet long as shown in figure 5. The mold board should be shod with an iron plate one-quarter-inch by. 4 inches by 3 feet, held in position with three-eighth-inch bolts countersunk. The cross brace should be hollowed 3 inches on each side at the middle, the hollowing to begin not less than 4 inches from each end, in order that its bearing against the guide and mold board planks shall not be shortened, nor the nailing space decreased. This. is done to prevent earth from heaping up in front of the brace. A light platform is needed to make the use of the ditcher safe. - S The hitch is made as shown in the illustration, the short side of the chain being about 2 feet 3 inches in length and the long side 8 feet 3 inches. The chain is made to ‘pass over the mold board, so that it may ; i e

| A conference of representatives of the United States departmient of agriculture and of the agricultural experiment stations of several states to con.sider plans for supplying serum for the prevention and treatment of hog cholera was recently held at Ames, la. In i connection with the call for the conference, a communication from -the United States department of agriculture said: 12 As the culmination of many years of scientific experimental work the bureau has developed a method of treat- | ment which is effective in saving a { high percentage of hogs in affected herds. This method ha§ been tested in: field experiments on a large scale and under practical conditions, and the bureau’s results have been confirmed by experiments by the Missouri and Minnesota experiment stations with serum furnished by the bureau. As examples of the effectiveness of the treatment, it is stated that in a number of herds which were treated and afterwards exposed to the contagion -of hog cholera, a portion of each herd being left untreated as a check on the results, only seven per cent. of the treated animals died, while the loss among the untreated hogs was 64 per cent. In herds which had been exposed to the disease but were not sick at time of treatment, 43, per cent. of the treated and 89 per cent. of the untreated animals died. In herds in which the disease had already broken out before.treatment began, the loss among treated hogs was 13 per cent. and among untreated hogs 74 per cent. In order to make the treatment available for general use it is necessary that some’steps should be talsen for supplyigg the serum to hog ra.isers. The department of agriculture does not wish to attempt the tremendous lundertaking of preparing serum for the whole country, Secretary Wilson’s view being that the problem can best | be _handled by the several states taking it up through their agricultural experiment stations and arranging te furnish the serum to their own citizens. It is to consider this subject that the gathering at Ames was called. The representatives of the experiment stations were there given an opportunity |to observe ‘in’ actual operation the method of : producing the serum and ’ applying the treatment. - ” The cultivated varieties of this fruit can be made to produce berries as large as blackberries, there being. great variety in the. size, color and flavor of the different varieties. Some

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. " ; clear.itself more readily. Two or three horses, according to the difficulty of the particular condition, are necessary to clear a ditch. : To secure the best service from the ditcher, a weight of about 200 pounds should be placed over the front end. The essential thing to be gained is to ‘have the ditcher maintain a smooth, even surface on the .bottom of the- - There is then no obstruction to the flow of water. This requires that soft, muddy holes be passed over lightly and hard, high places be reduced. This result is obtained if the driver shifts his weight forward or backward as a high point or a mudhole is approached. If the driver shifts his .weight forward, the point of the ditcher is driven into the ground. ‘lf he . moves:back, the pressure on the forward end is relieved and the pull on the chain tends to raise it. Besides clearing ‘the ditch, the ditcher assists in preserving the slope from the side of the road to the bottom of the ditch. . This keeps the road safe from possible accident to traffic from ditches with too abrupt slopes.:

are large and sweet and of a light pink color, and others are black or reddish brown. o = The mulberry. is a tree attaining a height of 30 feet or more. Its growth is moderately rapid, it has yellowish wood and its branches grow ; thick, forming a good wind break. In a cherry orchard the mulberry tree is valuable for keeping birds away from - the cherries. The fruit of the two trees ripens about the same time and - the birds prefer the mulberry. - The fruit is borne in large quantities, ripening from June 10-to July 15. Jdm | many cases a single tree will furnish - excellent fruit for over a month. The berries hang on the tree until they are dead ripe, then may be shaken off. The best way is to shake them into . sheets spread on the ground. The ease with which the mulberry is grown, the hardness of the tree and the excellence of its fruit make it an extremely valuable addition to the home ground. It has an ornamental value which should not be overlooked.

The dahlia is now obtainable in more than a hundred varieties, and for cutting purposes is the latest of field flowers, and second to none in beauty. It blossoms far into the fall. - In planting dahlia tubers remember that the buds are in the neck of the tuber, and if this is cut off the bulb will not grow. Do not plant until alf danger of frost is over. Bury the tubers about four inches and water well after planting. Rich heavy soil is - needed; the plants should be two or three feet apart. They should have plenty of light and air but should net - be exposed to direct sun. All but the strongest shoots should be removed as they appear and the plants tied to stakes four feet high. This ‘method produces large blossoms. When frost has killed the tops in the fall, store the tubers in a dry cool room or cellar. The Old Sow.—The old sow is often worth a great deal more than the young sow. Hog raisers know that the old sow often makes a better mother than a young sow. She has more affection for her pigs and more experience in taking care of them. Usually, too, the pigs she produces are larger and stronger, and not imfrequently she bears larger litters when she is old than she did when young. Teething in -Colts.—Colts suffem from teething at times and to subsist wholly upon hard, dry food may work: injury.- Steamed, crushed - oats or’ barley, thickened with bran, will proves appetizing and very npourishing im such cases.. Roots may be cooked and the mass extended with ground graim and bran. :

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