Ligonier Banner., Volume 44, Number 10, Ligonier, Noble County, 27 May 1909 — Page 2

The Right Way to Write Letters [ 1 By Shet@ia Cody ————— 1 Au"thor of the Cody System of How to Write Letters That Pull.

HOW TO ADVERTISE A SMALL < GHOCEHRY BUBINESS. : The average swall grocery store . merely-wite atil nug walis for :uz»imwi to cone if there Hiw snough peopie ig the neightrbond whag tan: oon : venivntiy irde gnywhiere elee the busi Cpears Wil ha m S mte success Moat snsil grocery ‘?;ﬁ:,sf*‘&idl‘:‘?!;fjﬁ o the mere sitghs ndensiage of lmation A Hifle efort woold extend the basiness sud ke U grow wtlil 4f yleids fur mare than 4 niere Hving ; ; . The feet thitge 18 o Bave somelhing | to adsistinn. L ow avore hrpnd ot eny Cmed timators Laneed eorn ste . Uy you know vou Eave The hest Then tell your neacie abanl o te & handbill dis LAY ted fromn Aohs 1o door. Q 0 Every tine ot g6t & barzaln, eepry time you Bave & fresh shioment. a pood Joad of petnlial an t*"!%_:.’e‘s tifee run of j swoel oorn fresh loM@loss 8l & yory low price send ot the Eovel news nad write {1 up Jus! a 8 enißasiastically B Yo val ’ i ‘ , ‘ It is &y exeeiient thing to have a i fle bt prigting firies ot Yo Own that will print g sheet Bx) O §xi2 Pt the bipgist plecs of niwe vou have in & bk letter headiing 81 Ihe top. Then tedl your tmost OBt news klory in & fow L&_;a:f'z":;:vi{f, !’«’:%%‘}'mﬁ« % osimnie homely Scrde such ag soir would use in taikide fo thase who eall . Helow that ¢ive aly l'r«:j t"i;.:?ii voal Lar Ealus ocdmmon ariieler Bt ajecial low prices fof 1"');4‘1 IWE o (hree days Only bon't count yoss I=:i‘:4_"wt, shmnt e num a!.?-'r Gl new ;,333{;;\:;:;;;:':‘5 %“t‘z,fz fame 1o Fpur o face-to deldi B Lhe incrensed) Basinesy Thgt 6l euilofrers 0o Then ke & fallhtal sean at a dollar : 8 v‘i.sz~_7~= tunde sour Bapdbills arcund’ Rui b sve nne Al wßery (i in vour peighiorboal - 5 : : Dunt do it onee and sion 1w i 1 st dsl onde 4 Woeß !;i"? gt an «itra big DUE Just Selaae sy Beeiday Hard ) wiitk siGne thiw lie witl durvls bhulid up A husigeoss Minx ﬂu'»;z}ra?‘fm fHreTs wiil giadie Toralh soug with ;‘ss.ﬁ*;:i' malice ahout their x&;w:eriefe‘f"ém whieh j you can siistribute to advaniage ajong with sonr onn Bills ‘ = f H there fe :sé{w;’;i pewsnaper - thnt govs 1o abant the Ratue Nat of peopiie lh:;) \x" -> smix '1 uu, v. ::‘ that space o i newenainr will b cheaper }:'}sa!! handbiils. Peopin may Cpot respond Nery well ad fent Bt try to gt sommelhing fregh that will Interear them, and Redp on Lor at Jeast Cthree snonths - Hedore the end of that s timie voull surels be glad you started to advertise a =~ ] ° P o D THE BIGNATURE. =~ | The oid sivie reqaired sama memher of the firm to sign all leilers with the Yrmonaine, without any indication as to Who was the actusl writer The bhandwriting was supposed 1o indicate the oficial charneter of the signuture Now firm pames are almost univer. sally typewritten, and | the: actusi writer of ‘the letter slgng on the line ~betow after the word 1y The nid word was “per.”’ but as it l obiection. able 1o mix Lalin and Eoelish and by s just as good i not better, carn ful writers now tiboo “per” éxcept in connection with Latin words as in "per annum, o ! In mail order houses, where thou- . mands of fetters are handled every day, on a regular system. and the per sonality of the writer cuts no figure, the writer of the letter {s usually indicated only by the initials at the left hand side efther above or below the Jetter. * The rubber stamp for signa tures of letters I 8 going out of favor Bomebody takes the trouble to sign a letter with ink, as a sign of courtesy and, consideration. Even circular Jet ters are best signed with ink, as a man can be hired to write the nane at very slightly higher cost than that of any of the imitation processes, which * immediately betray the circular and ‘make it look cheap. E 1t is the duty of every woman to indicate iix writing to a stranger whether _ she is married or single. This is done by writing her husband’s name after “Mrs.” in parepthesis, or prefixing “Miss” or "Mrs.” to her signature, al‘ways putting it in sparenthesis. To omit the parenthesis is considered vulgar, to sign the name without fndicat-. fng the conditfon Is really discourteous, and to sign initials as a man does 's ridiculous, Of course when a woman ‘arites to a person or firm where her. condition s well known there is na. need to keep on inserting the “Mrs.” or “Miss.” This is only for strangers, ~and in letters to large business firms, to all of whose employes one person ~ cannot possibly be known, o In a contract letter, or letter conveying a credit order, a typewritten signature is not loked on as legally binding (though as a matter of fact it is), and the omission of all ink signa ture is disliked. Sometimes the typewritten signature is vised by an initial in ink, but this looks cheap. 1f the name f{s not printed on the letterhead it should be so written that it will be

IS LARGEST FLOATING DOCK

One Recently Built at Hamburg, Germany, the Most Capacious of ~ Its Kind, o The largest floating dock lin the world is at Hamburg. Dock V, as it is called, has a bearing capacity exceeding 35,000 tons—nearly twice as great as the American dock Dewey, hitherto the most capacfous of its kind in the world. This is the fifth floating dock. built by the Hamburg yard, the present giant's immediate successor ecarrying but half the above mentiones. tonnage. The dock ~onsists of separate pontoons combined by the lateral cases to a solid unit. These several pontoons can wso-be docked in the dock. ' : " At eack of the side caseg the dock possesses complete steam engine and boiler plant with dynamo and air compressors, so that it is wholly independent from the land and can be anchored anywhere. Electric cranes, with their arms reaching to the middle

t closriy iegible. This s & point on | which half the business world sins horribly, and it causes Bo end of con Musion apd inconvenience. oo e R —— ; HOW TO APPLY FOR A POSITION. . The general manager of ohe of the dargest pubileation oiliees o Chicago hns said Ihst be advises wll spplicasts o auswer biind sdvertisements in | pewspapers when Appiving for a poal Hon by writing simply, 1 foel 1 am fusl the person You want Please grant interview” He save the inter view seidum fails to materialize , - Bome persons can present their case Better by lefier thal I 8 an Interview, while oihers know they eanl write & Eend lelles mud afe HEely e speil thair chances i they atempt 1L Wheh you RDow YOu Ctan!i write.a gl dedter, Ly Bl BSORLA wiile & el apiiioation ke that sgEented CBbOoYe ot s hr%;f‘i‘ﬂﬁﬁn Wwtter olten dges more o gl 8 Bood Ritualion thun sny interview _ - ; A former advertislng manager of Marshall Fielt & €0 ®aw oovuiying a bumble position in the siste of No Lraska, when be conesived the jdea of Cwritiog to the big €ie firm sisting just how he beltevegl be rouid e ure. ful lie was epcatitaged o po o Chiragsr to sen the matiuger, R lane ‘ta_w.s;:ar?xr for Bim. though o vacancy then ovisted. aod Be graduslly rosoe 1o “he hemd of the advertsing depirt ANt : i Ap application for & position shoull tever be owriltén on BeratE of paper, with a ooy ey, or 8 8 shoveniy leok. fng band. Any hint of sl ouncrll or gversaination n{ seif f= parii nlarly chivoxions ta the e ger, yel an hones! analisis of st 85 a frack SEntenent of worthy mz{iw;%zt_n;% Aare es sietinl ta makine a2y Bnpresnion W hat the bustiess RN wanis more than :‘.';l"'?_l';:..', cine in faete Tell himg L what vou Yasve done tell him {1 yo i can what others 2ay 0f you and don’t talk about sulary wntil You sre askel i Franknpess shout the guaiifications feaily imipartant to the Dsinens . pan in bie business and B fße reserye on il oiher points pléase the buey husi Cpesp mian best of Al Bime say too much, tany 4o net say encuph bt thaere wntild be [fde travhis aboid | Chnowiag what to say i ¥ou couid Cyoursell 1o the glace of the business man and conebler Sust what he wants to ktiow, In this way you realliy show Chim how well you anderstand the re guitementa of the position for which . ¥ou npply. : ; DO YOU ANSWER EVERY LETTER e 'YOU RECEIVE? ! & Rl . 1t wonld ﬁt;v!!‘; ag i out of courtesy any businesa moan wold reply In some forta 10 every letler ba recoives A:‘_Suras?}' o business man would allow L customers 1o m;‘mz‘l around his rlord indefinitely without sitention, and go [ away without being atlended 10 § Plut It {5 & fict that many business | letters are wholly negleeted, i In-a certain wellknown New York | publication the advertisements - are i followed by inguiry coupons which are { perforaterd so they can easily be torn .§m“ and sent to the advertisers. The ¥Wf“*,‘? filled out some thirty of these and mailed them %o the advertisers, | all wellknown business concerns that {.were paying high prices for this ad t vertising. Oniy 40 per cent of them made any reply. One followed up the first lefter with a second, and one fol lowed up the first letter with a second and a third. o Other experiments show that hun dreds and thousands of letters to busi ness houses are actually dropped in the wastebasket and never answered. ] The houses that have built up busi- - negs by mail, hawever, make it a rule that every letter, of whatever kind, shall he answered, and {f possible answered the same day it is recetved. Ona firm receives about 10000 letters a day, and about 20000 orders. The orders are acknowiedged by postal ‘card and filled in due course, and i every letter i 3 answered within a fow | hours after it is received. Another | house receives about 30,000 letters a %dny_‘ and 90,000 pieces of mail in all, and gives thefsame prompt and scrupluious attention to every piece, It is the man who receives few letters who 18 most negligent. : - You never know whether an Inguirer is Important or not, or when 3 the unimportant inqiirer will become | important. Any business man who 19&51&{5 his correspondence is taking grave chances. When he thinks silence conveys the idea, "I am not interested in what you write,” he for gets that he is a gentleman, and that somebody is waiting patiently day after day for an answer to his civil Inquiry. A printed cirtular letter may safely be thrown aside, for its very j form indicates that it is genegal ad- { vertising and not a personal letter. Yet when the advertiser asks for a specific reply, or specific information, it should be given a 8 a business courtesy. = -

of the dock, run from end to end of the two lateral cases. Its keel and fundamental arrange ments are such as to accommodate the greatest merchantmen or: heaviest warships afloat. Blohm & Voss, who made the dock, will shortly launch Germany's first cruiser ship-of-the-line, a ‘ype or armored vessel called forth by England's building of the Dreadnought class and inaugurating a new building period for the category of German armored cruisers. She will bé driven by turbines, not by the reciprocating steam engine. She is costing German taxpayers $9,165,000. el i " Philanthropic. Elderly Bachelor—Mrs. Burnside, will you marry me? Attractive Widow—Mr. Wackford, are you forgetting that I have six children? : : Elderly Bachelor—Not at all. I want to help you train up the youngsters—darn 'em! Sy

[HOW TO ADVERTISE A DRUG [ - evoRE . [ Itis & good deal barder to advieritsn L& drug etore than & Wr&w [tor the reason that there sesmalic e | less news 1o lell, the stoek remiine fabon! ihe same all the Ume S&zdﬁ!@ L ple can’t be furced 1o take medicine, | Hu! nelther s drog business nor any | othier will prow fast and big br aelf 1t Las to be pushed, atd there are ways }”’ pashk o el N S Propristary medicines ihat somms Loy elpe has advertined well awd loe whieh & ratural demand sxists ghow Pemadl profit - 101 there Sre other flnes Faf medicines Sl a 8 guod which sre ot adveriised and on which Ihe mang faciyrer miil give a yery largs peoft Lf the drugeisl will paal Bem Gond Ceirealar ‘matter will be supniled which cati Yo Alsttiboted frtas house lo I houss, bul Ihe druggists own lrlia | Band il will nske far more Impression fthan way foreign printing S L Andd there are many ihings pecple *mi::! buy aud uke i ‘hey Enew about Cthets aud had them callnd o thelr ate ventjon st the proper time—something Cto RifE the tie green hugs on the faw. ers. & cure for enlds Ihat iy really safe “th pive to children. soneiling cotveni. ‘ent 1o lake oul greabe spols or clean kid gloves etc .We may know about these thingy, but we forget about them and pecd 1o be remindet three or four litmes g vosr, > o - Mako a;f;« an atiracthve bßox of stations fery with eversthing comipivie &t s low priee send out the pews of the reeeipt of & peew ol of tocihbrughos: & frosh and i :{v*:'ze.«.‘;asﬁ-v‘- anly M@;i}:!z:}w:: _tif candion: a G f‘ak of Breworks or sab entings i season, povelties fue Christ mas and inyenious Hitie devioes of ¢ua kinsd or ancther Hike peaell sharpenioes, CoOWhHe the peoedr ran dsend oot his newe cvery wesk the dritegint will por. haow find o dsq&r;%mtim‘; ﬁ;fga'hr & muosth eafficient; but The seasons offer him an endivas varioiv of Jitthe Ihinegs of whilch peapie Wil be giad to be reqninded, O e s ol of treabile and 's‘»x;waw tha | firat tivie, you are 100 busy the nest frime apd then you dieid (o pay the fitt . But form. the habit. Get started. Work hard on ft. Anybody who keeps Lat it three monthis and watches the husiness grow world never give it up. [ He will soon eome to dread the falilog off of sales when the sdvertising fails to i out, and the narmowing profits will he a sharp reminder 1o get ‘bmvy. Lugnin The advertiping habit is hard 1o start, and squally hard 1o break up.. ' HOW TO WRITE TO A SUPERIOR. | There iz scarcely one of us who does pot have occasion more or less often to write imporiant jefters (o oup ';x;;;w”%nr?ﬁ'; and we find it difficult to gel last the right tone. - ¢ Excessive brevity in Jetters from i his subordinales 18 anooving to 4 | bustness man. He waiits (o kiow the facts about his business, and all the {facts, Of course he doesn't want wurdy letters, but he wants full de{talls and plénty of information; . He wants suggestions, but he doesn’t | want dictation. Subordinates should | act Hke subordinates and not like the | boss. Modesty and reserve are ap | preciated, hut hesitation and ummtty | only annoy and irritate. Some sub- { ordinates in their fear of giving of- | fense, beat around the bush, ‘vaguely | hint, and secth afraid to say anything | clearly, definitely, and frankly. They tantalize and annoy until they lose thelr positions. - o Try to sirike the happy medium between an offensive freedom (and a cringing . reserve. Success usually ! comes from a real interest and absorption in the business. That natural { enthusiasm for the work is what a { businéss man usually lkes to sve | best of all. e - | To learn to write letters to superiors | with the proper tone, It i 22 excel\lent Idea to try several different ver i slons ~of an {mportant - letter, and { choose the best one. To form the | habit now and of writing an im- | portant letter over several times, lets ting it lie over night, and coming to it 7 fresh after a rest, helps to develop ' the moderate and medium style. Yot | such letters will lack the spontancous, i enthusiasm which is the best element jof all, and so usually should be laid { aside as mere exercises. They give ! the ability of free and satisfactory ex- | pression, they develop the proper [ habit and command of language: but {in the end the spontaneous ecathusi. | asm of a quickly-written letter, dics { tated by genulne interest, will beat | any studied form all out of the field. | Yet we must study so that when our } enthusiasm Is. on us we do not let it frun away with us. The studied letter is the finest possible preparation for the correct and effective spontaneous letter when occasion calls tt out. (Copyright. 1%% by Joseph B, Bowles.) llf you like your work you will ime prove it, even though you may never become a genius or a top-notcher.

Everybody Swears by Him. ; “Who's the best-known man in this | township?” queried the advance agent | for the medical show, “Well, young feller,” answered | Uncle Silas Seaver, slowly, as he care- | fully packed the tobacco in his black | pipe. “Jake Seymour holds that record | about now, by eatin’ the fust new pos | tatoes from his own garden, tho’ Hank | Calkins fs a close second with his | new peas. Aunt Sirah Stanton.is at- | tractin’ considerable attention with | her flock of 1§ light Brahmas, with an egg record of 12 dozén in# eight days, the same bein’ writ up in the Smithville Banner: An’ Wallis Weav- | er's buildin’ a new hip-roof barn. But | I guess, everrthing considerin’, Squire | Hamilton’s about the mest popular | man about these parts. Everybody | seems to swear by the squire, seein’s | he’s jest been elected assessor.” i Playgrounds. ‘ I - Playgrounds should be an impor | tant part of the public school economy and children should be taught how to play in the playgrounds.— Los Angeles Herald, : l

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. The prodlem of good roads, B cuuse championed for many yedrs by the pednie of the rusal and ouliyving dis tricis of the linited States, ofien with niledirertisd zesl, and the problem of prisan fabor. in which organized tree lnbor has heen arraved In a bitter fight against state and prison ofMcials, would not have seemed 1o have a cirga . and vital connection a few years ago. - Hut a general movement, now well Cdaunched fn many states and steadily gFrowing in stength means thai the soiving of the one protilem will be the - partial solution of the other, says . Franecis M. Buzzell in Popular Mechanies. This movement is the bullding of good roads by convict labor. : The movement has not been devord Cof girife, nor has the opposition come anly from- “conviet” brokers and contractorsy, Criticism has come from publie officials, and even from volers, who although demanding better roads, - fought the econvict inbor preposition Cstrenuousiy. o the state of Alabarna, for instance, the use of conviet labor . upon roads was, and still 18, being : fought with bitter opposition and the - seversst eriticism, but opposition can- ' not lohg stand before the reasons in favor of the movement | According to experts who have sind- ' {ed the problem of good roads and the . problem of prison labor Jjointly, the - building of public works which could - pot . otherwise be undértaken iz the . sole occupation In which conviets can be employed which will not eheroach { upon free labor, .and which will actu- . aily fmmeasurably increase the de | mand for the services of free labor, ‘ benefiting at the same time the crimi inal and the free man. No influcnce ' more destructive upon human charac_ter can be Imagined than enforced idle- ' ness, while 1o allow the activity of the convict to be employed In making | products for sale at prices below the i normal market is degrading to Amer- . fcan labor. Not only are these uasser , Hons made by those who bave stualed . the subject, but also that there {s no | branch of public improvement of such | general importance to all the people ' a 8 the making of improved highways. . The activities of the convicts in the - United States constitute in the aggre- ' gate an enormous force, and how to | use these activities most effectively in constructing highways is a vial | question. : : | The list of states how using convict | labor on the highways is too long to ' mention in detall, but Colorado, New : Mexico and Wyoming are using such labor to construct a great highway { which will run through the three { states. and Washington, Oregon, Nerth | Carolina and Georgia, as well as sev. | eral other states, have gangs at work. | Ilinois is using a number of her con- | victs in crushing stone for the roads, . believing this one of the most practi- | cal ways of employing such labor in ' road construction, although not as { beneficial for the prisoners, perhaps, | &s actual road work. . | The fact that it iakes prison-con-fined men, be they petty or hardened criminals, into the open country where they gain a closer companionship with nature, is not lhe least limportant phase of the problem. e

BEWARE OF TEACHING DECEIT

Future Character of Child Is Molded - by the Actions of Its Elders. . One of the commonest ways of ruining a boy’s character, is to connive at some little deceit or lie. A boy was sent to the grocer to make & purchase, and when he returned the change to the mother, it was disgcoyercd that there was a nickel too much. The grocer had made a mistake. The mother put the nickel in her pocketbook; the boy sdw it and thought it was all right, and thus the mother taught the boy that taking things that did not belong to him was the fair thing. : ¢ Let no ons think that a transaction of that sort ends there. It keeps up its influence in all the future, and makes that boy the kind of man he is. He is taught that it is not wrong to take another's property, if the actual owner deoes not know it. This expoerience comes, also, when a person pusrposely neglecis to ply his trolley

The conivict road-gang st work o the mouthern part of Colorado tof peacefully through a magnificeat vai ley near the New Mexican line and the glorious beauly of their surround. ings makes L almost | (nconcelvable that amon® them are eriminals whose names have bheen bywords in the crim. inal history of Deuver, Pueblo and oth er towns io Colorado Stil mor: In. c(angr\zz&\xﬁ s this fact when 11 iB5 reai fzed that these men wear no distin giishing badge in the way of clothing and that no armed guards are to be geen anywhere, If a man wishes 16 s cape from such a ‘amp It I 8 conceded that he can easily do so, but that he may he overiaßen elsewhere follows as & matter of conrse, and the penalty ~~one which is dreaded by any consict ‘who has a taste of open WOrK—menns “that activities will from then on (o the end of his term be confined within the prison walls. Only five oficers ars In tharge of the camp, which s camposed of tents. The convicts sleep in one big tent, and during the dar are divided intd five gangs, each officer havipg charge of a gang. Eight hours of road work constifute a day's {nbor, and the men must go to bed promptly &t nine o'clock every night except Sat urday, on which they are allowed an additional bour. Amusement s al lowed to all in the camp. Some of the convicts own and are able to play musical Instruments Cards are also al lowed. Some gpend their time pitching quoits, and a baseball game is uwuL ally played every eveuing before darkness sets in ; - ~ The method of guarding the convicts working on the roade in the state -of Washington is & little more strict, but amusements are just as BUmMercus. " The work selected to be done there was the bullding of a wagon road ‘along the face of a nearly perpendicu. lar bluff. the work involving the handling of a large amount of dynamite by the convicts, The character of the ' rock encountered was extremely hard, Emnkm;_drﬂ%mg very stow. Neverthe Jess, the average dally work accomp %thmﬂ by each man amounts to 2.42 cubic yards of solfd rock moved and 1 cubic yard of earth and loose rock moved. As the lowest bid received for moving the rock was $1.50 per cuble yard and for loose rock and earth 40 _cents, the average dally work of a f convict was valued -at $402 The camp established for the care of the prisoners consisted of a stockade, 80 by 125 feet, inside of which was erect. ed a barracks, 18 by 48 feet. On the ZA‘)U{HM(‘ of the stockade and adjoining it was buflt the guard-house : The building of good roads in Geor gia by conviet labor was brought about not because of an trrdsistible popular sentiment for good roads, but bécause of the' recent overthrowing of the “convict lease” system. There had Edeveloped in Georgla a system where Eby the convicts were leased to "con- | vict brokers” at a nominal sum. These brokers, in turn, leased out the con victs to ihe owners of mines, but the abuse of this system became so pro nounced that an influential Atlanta newspaper started a crusade which re sulted in an extra session of the legislature and the annihilation of the statute. : : . &

| fare. If it Is not a straight steal, it 223 a eneaking business, which is just i as bad. : { It is & mighty poor education many parents are siving their children, in practicing or conniving at these lit. ' l-ue deceits.. There is no way they can i do their chiliren more harm. How Lall these little incidents should be ‘ made use of to teach honesty instead ‘of fraud! Had that mother sent that tbuy who received a nickel of false | change, back to the grocery with it, | !that little act wonld have been worth | more than a thousand nickels to that boy.. It would have helped to build | up his integrity and make him a re | liable man.—Exchange. , % T | It is a sad moment for a bachelor | when he finds that his hair is so thin { that he is unable to hold a pen over his ear. : 4 Be not arrogant when fortune smiled nor dejected when she frowns.—Aas

NOTFS ook % B . & - 3 g iR &S > B ™ \"bt “’ff" - ’ ¥ % <_¢34.‘ _"ﬁ",‘ s ” - L . 4 ' 5 Tl o .’ ) ;.‘.;P'.,;‘wr‘_ for the Ca vos i gt bont The supabhins and e Wartnih: Wi oo . Have a wind break on the nortd BES Wogl eyl ¢ your R i y}:.:»: i " £ phienn fight after HPDIng them snd Ihen aga abhogt e after 3 b gure ard ¥ those 1541 hatch afier the firs: dipping Have a drivewary right through your b 4 = tvive YRR hie R WaALE y 8 {se Hialte "3' Eewering 1 ¢ Mothing better for prowing swins § ¥ % ¥ The oot 85 P Farrowing whara . ; Lk g ¥t &y .5 o 4 ¥ * £ L ¥ g % Foial 1 1. siw ¥4 ¥ 5% 4 ot vone's grawit of the b e att o oea Dais i gine L ow» 3 ¢ it % grogrd i ¢ fivng 1t Wiil | al the i ¥ . Eraid The gardey 2 14 he nianted 1 et hases onbivator Yan wi Be snrnet f how 12tie = K ihs gar den wiil prove, handied this way. Cultivats the apirit and feellng of pPariners 5 $+ W ey 2%y s 3 § “!“;ve. 'in",‘ 'r‘ ‘.L‘}"' ‘l,\; y ¥ Py danger ! their becoming ‘dissstislied And - leaving the farm Roaoting by e kops in the nature ol the begsd [xin't try 1o curh the tende: Pat thewm in the riehe § Wihere {5 i FOOl and root o thelr hearts' content. The eall cannot liek the pall clean enough o keop It (ree (romm germs Scald it out occasionally That is ¢ oniy safly way Many a case of iTH {8 starteéd through o foul feed pall or trough, : The oldfanhioned, foul, fllemsiling gwill barrel is a thing of the past on most farms, 1t i you are still eling ilng to that old, easbkgoing method stop it. It is a menace 1o the pigs and a sure cause of loss W you The cement flooring with n;j m.‘»’.-. slat platforuis makes the ldeal form for the hog house, The cement floor alone is too eold and damp for the hogs, but with the siatted fiooring on top which can be taken up 1o clean out the place there {s hothing which is better Horng are going ont of givia, decid edly. Horned cattle and horned gheen are rapldly disappearing. Many of the cattie bred and fed (o the carn belt are hornless. Breeds of this kind are ,"A:‘un.zc.; in popularity in the mountainous countries and on the plains wild cattie needed long horns for the protection of themselves and thelr young. Now, however, with the plaius country thickly settled and with few wild animals the cattle do pot peed horng. Among the hornless breeds are the Galloway, Angus Red Poil and Polled Shorthorn. Polled Jer gey and Poiled Hereford are alse comfng into. favor., Hy the appiication of cagstic polash the growth of the horn is prevented io the yousg call Keep the horns from growing on the calves It taken before they are two weeks oid 1t I 8 an easy task. Cip the hair close to the nubs and apply caustle soda or caunstic potash {reely several times letiing it dey slizgbtly betwy}»:‘: applications., Care ﬁ,lmét:j be taken that the caustic is not moistened sufficiently to run down on the head of the calf as this causes needliess pain. - The stick should also be wrapped In paper where the user's ! fingers come {n contact with it. One thorough application will do the work | and do it so well that when grown the | animal will have the appearance of a natural poll. The sticks of potash or sods can be procured cheaply at near- | 1y every drug store,’ L g If you have s=oil adapted to melon growing and have an ambition in that | direction remember that one of the es- | gential conditions of establishing ai reputation for melons and the obtain- | ing high prices is first that the melons | grown be of fine quality in flavor. The ! first essential in the production of | such a melon is the use of pure seed ! of a carefully selected strain. Stock | seed at two doliars per pound is| cheaper than seed cut from culls at| ten cents per pound, and no seed cost- | ing less than one dollar per pound is | worthy of consideration. The second | essential in the production of melons ! of high quality is the securing of a! vigorous and healthy growth of vine. | This is dependent upon- securing the | proper conditions of growth for the melon plant, which are: First, a! pormal amount of moisture, yet! thorough drainage; second. a relative- | ly high temperature; third, an nbun-§ dance of readily available plant food: | fourth, thorough and persistent | tillage. If these considerations are' provided, and in addition the plant is ; protected from its enemies, the 'cropi will usually be a satisfactory one in| peint of both quantity and quality. i

! Money investsd 12 road (mprove | ment s well spest. g - % ; er : % Fit yoursel® to the weatber Dontt et all out of kink because Ihe weather | The work of talsing chickens bas only beguh whes you get Ihe doway ikings out of the shoil S The roads of 8 counlry sectian are & pretty gpooxd index as 10 the wind of people living there el - Be osore that your [ile chicks mre progerly provided with sheltor - wheme 'hey cau take refuge from wind and The hen with s jaree » !n'-"f_i! CAnBot Gover them 1o give peifeci Pro teetion of vold mledis Por this rey 05 be wure (hat the abeller is alnpie The hkerd milker ia =ften neglocted by tha farm beip and thaos provés . s ek N the fareves ;,f,,:“: ans wenl il wiew the Bard milier is .an gode sirabie mesiber of (he herd . SR ) Do you fan and grade rour calts ba foerw planting” 1t wifl 4;'»:51 yevg £ 3o E B this way e light chafy gralns are gedten #id ol and | ouly vigarogs soed s awed e I a hen §5 to hateh the grose sges da not give her 100 pany T-hé;' e ik and beavy asd hsrd for- her (0 cover and handle It more than five are given Let e Do the sheen as soom as the shear ing v sver. A seswond dinping should b given tem days afler the firsy to ke sute TRt tleks hatehed wfler the . firsl - digming are Kifled e Lonk® out for the Eﬂis Hre dpon the hicks They will soon woeck Cthelr cen away if oot gotten rid of By roh Ving & UGI coal oil upon the feailh. Drcoder ehickn must be provided with Bedliues ifﬁ £ ' "‘l’»'f:—".”-‘-‘/ Have pletity of flesh sinri sirsa in Ihe run whete (hey are ket and got them te scralching for the grain y ('.’;v'v;",’f.'t.) Hering ta g opoed Hmhe ta :-f“ig..t?';f‘.‘ hovewes Heavs conts of hair cause nealuss Ewenatisg and M allowed 1" siand in thé wigd ther are ast 3o catek eold which may result fn poaen fnenia 3 2 S x . Sonshine asd - alr are . exsentisl fo Lealth in chickenz a 8 well 'as any tther Hyestook on the farm Bee that thee place where' they are Kepst has winddons 2o 10l the aunshipe - is snd ventilators to briog in the fresh alr The firs? shoes put o A ru?!-s,rn at the most Imporiant « ;:‘?:v‘"‘.:,--ra’.i:exza‘ '*r el of the aller a’e‘{%*'ﬁl’lh.’ n ﬁf:.:‘; e velopieent of the animial depends Gpon his praoper Handling at this time. A miztake in the baginsing fa apt to irave a lifelong defoct, S A farmer troubled with o thistles] trfed dlzging up and salting thafr roots fo no o avall. He then ;ﬂuv)’qd, the fleld sight luches desp in June. Again in August he plowed gix inches dewp again in Ovtober, then 5:4,&35&«#!3 the following year, and finally agala: in May, and then he planted 1o corn, and reports that he got rid .of. the : thigties, i The recent outhreak of the foot and - mouth disease in this country is the first aince 1902 1t is pow practicallywiped oul, but It has cost the gov ernment $500.000° for the cattle ' slaughtered and other precautions taken against it The federal govern- ' ment has borne half the expense of the outbreak, but the rallroads that | have been forced to fumigaté thelr ¢cArs ars now putting in claims for re Cmbiursement and if these are allowed® it wiil bring the total cost up to about | three millions. < . As to the yalue of sflage on the tfarm the following can- be sald: It is ecasily stored and keeps wail when wellstored, 1t harvests the corn” when it ig at jts fullest development. The stock, especially the cows, thrive on 1. It 1s muccalent feed and makes imilk, There s no waste 10 it wheén. properiy handled, This also s true of the corn erop when harvested. ‘lt s the very best solution of the prob tem which faces the farmer during the. short pasture period .of the summer mionths, el S i The higger the fsrm and the more Leomplicated the work,. the' greater ' need of svstem. Lay out a plan and {try to work to it. Make every step | count, and the choring will soon seem- | almost ke machine work. Make one - part of the work lead up to another part; and don't go. over the . same : ground two or three times when one time will aaswer just as well. These | needless steps, besides tiring you out, take up valuable time, The average farmer probably does not realize how ' much time and running about may be ésaved by just a lttle planning. g Be a sheep raiser. There is money in them, Sheep are always good prop- | erty, especially at this time when the sheep population of the world is decreasing rather tban increasing. In Capada the numbers of sheep reported ; have steadily fallen off with edch decennial census. In 1871 Canada had . 3,155,509 sheep; in 1901 it had only 2,510,039, thus showing a drop of a little. more than 20 per cent. This was fin spite of 30 years of remarkable expansion, the opening up of the vast gxrazlng' grounds of the west ‘and the %prpgresg that had bepn 'witnessediin' g every other department of agﬂcul_ture. This is remarkable, but these fig[ures do not stand alone; Looking across the water to the FEurcopean countries we find that between 1888 and 1904 the number of sheep in. (17.954,230; in Germany, from 24. from 15,076,997 to 8,122681: in Russia from 51,822,238 to 4§.497,621. -In. Areenion, vhich hae s Hheen yorile tion of about 75,000,000, the gains and. losses practically offset each other. It s safe to say that since 1573 the flocks of the world have declined 100,000,908

All Who Would Enjoy good bealth with ita blemings, must wn derstand quite q}%y, that it invedves the questim of rght living with all the torm knples - With proper knowledge of what i bt each hiour o morvation, of enjoys st of emntersidation and of oot may te made o wmsinbote to Living aright. Then the use of medicines may b dispensesd with 1o advantage, but under o dinary comibiites 0 Sy insixnees & wchipde whodossene remedy may be mvaleslide i taken al the o tune and the California Fig Symigp ( budids that R e alike snpavtant 4o present the subjeet ‘.’2'_"‘f v and tao» roy Yty ‘,’n"»;l’"{m hix‘ e Ras § o :‘vu’;z‘; it it wily, the Company's Syrup of Fige el Lly I Senna 2ives pf’frd satalarvpor in got it Dot il effecta t ‘3 the penuine, manufactured by the Califoamd Fig Syrap t sy, and for sale by sl wading druggists ANOCTHER TERRCR, s o —— ¢ g, { .. ~—— W 50 o JFs E« e ol R Krd " ww R, S \‘_ - Frighteoned -Pup-—iies i JEAYe hegrd thatl w e wWere £ intp evergtiing . bt I beser Etow LiiGre ’_'&f‘w 1 E cahers; ‘SKIN TROUBLES CURED, Two Littie Girlg Had Ecrema Very Bagiy—in One Case Child's Hair Came Cut and Left Bare Patches, Cuticura Met with Great Succesa “I kave twn [ittle girls who have boon troabded very badly with eczema 1o { them kad {1 on hér lowee Heonbis 184 evervibing that 1 conid Eear of for her, but 1t did not give in until warm wegther when ! seemingly subeided The pex! winter when i becaiies oinld the ectema started again and also In her head where it would - take the halr cut and leave bare palches At the samne time her arms were gore the whole length of thetm 1 lok her to & physician, but this c 2114 grew worse all thé time Her ‘gister's arma were algo - affected 1 began wsing Cotieara Remedies, and by the tinme the #econd lot was used thelr skin was goft and smooth. Mrs Charles Baker Altion, Me, Sept 21 ‘oB Potaer iwug & Chem. Corp, Scie Progw. Bostca : The Tyrrany of Yesterday. Thera are some people over whom yesterday tyrannizes That {s to say, they .ahrink from dolng today anything that differs In the least from what they-did 24 hours agn. . Emerson bas calied consistency. under some CilculNsiances the hobgoblin of 1t tle minds’™ and Walter Hagehot has said there are many persons to whom 1t ia°a positive pain to enteriain 3 new tdea. . This slavish defense to yester day robs us of many & fine inspira tion, and many a splendid opportunity. “"letting, "1 dare not” wail upon ‘I would,”"” ~we cower and falter and shrink: upon the verge of great ex. ploits and achievements merely be calse t!i‘-x}e- would involve strange and unfamiliar experiences. Of death it lqé.‘ we are afrald, not because death is painful. but because it is different or seems to us different from what we bave beeu dolng all along. Counse! Sought from Chrict!an Men. An evidende of the part which our missicnary colleges are to phay in the reconstruction of Turkey s found in the appointment of two professors in Euphrates college on a committee to contider educational measures for one of the large Interfor provinces. - One, Prof, N. Tenekijian, several years ago served a term of six months in prison, ‘l;rﬁ;:.k falzely accused of disloyalty, and Prof. Nihiglan studied for a time under President Angell at Ann Arbor. Both are scholarly and earnest Christian meén. The game governor has also asked Dr. H. N. Barpuni the veteran missionary of the American board in eastern Turkey, to suggest what in his jidgment will promote popular education and social reform.

"LIGHT BOOZE Do You Drink it?

A minister's wife had quite a tussie with cofféee and her experience is {nteresting. She says" “During the two years of my trainfng as a nurse, while on night duty, I became addicted to coffee drinking. Between midnight and four in the morning, when the patients were asleep, there was little to do except make the

rounds, and {t was quité natural that 1 should want a good, hot cup of coffee about that time. It stimulated me and I could keep awake better. “After three or four years of coffee” drinking .1 became a mnervous wreck ‘and thought that I simply could not live without my coffee. All this tinie I was subject to frequent bilious attacks, sometimes so severe as to keep - me in bed for several days. . “After being married, Husband beggéd me to leave off coffee for ke feared that- it bad already hurt me almost bevond repair, so I resolved to make an effoit to release myself from -the hurtful habit. : “] began taking Postum, and for a’ few days felt the languid, tired feeling from the lack of the stimulant, but I liked the taste of Postum and thag _answeréd for the breakfast beverage - all right.) : ~ "Finally I began to feel clearer head. -ed and had steadier nerves. After a year's use of Postum I now feel like a new woman—have not had any bilious _attacks, since 1 left off coffee.” 'g .“The;'e’s a Reason.” Rud“'_l‘he’m élto, Wellville,” in pkgs. - Jm mr: tbe nm l::h!' A -‘w are genuine, true, aad full of w