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Man ,.\* >L -£ J i' rT; "••£* J&*- • •:- ":- 4 Story of the Builders ofDemocracy^^i fj§i»(^ By IRVING BACHELLER Cotglgb^ was waat "I knOW tf|» got to have get used to l£ a) lot of fun. NxW you see." Then A LONG JOURNEY Synopsis. -- SamsOn and Sarah Traylor, with their two children, Josiah and Botsey, travel by wagon In the summer of 18S1 from their home in Vergennes, VL, to the West, the land of plenty. Their destination is the Country of the Sangamon In Illinois. They had read a little book on it. Sapamon was a word of the Pottawatpmfes meaning land of plenty. It was the name of a river In Illinois \drtUning "boundless, flowery meadows of unexampled beauty anil fertility, belted with timber, blessed with shady groves, covered with game and n»ostly level, without a stick or a stone to vex the plowman." Thither they were bound, to take up a section of government land. Through New York state they camp by the way; often they are Invited in by farmers for the night. CHAPTER I.--Continued. --2-- v The man looked around and leaned ever the .wheel as if about to Impart 4 secret. K i' * "Say, fH tell ye," he said In a '.c; -,V tfcm tone. "A real, first-class idiot f p ;/lever* does. Too ought to see my $•,' Ji',:' actions." fe vV "This land is an indication that I* 1 jfou're right," Samson laughed. ; V •*;"» * "It proves it," the stranger whis^ ni' •)'> "*l>ered. *„* jj$ .•', "Have yon any water here?"' Sam- , Son asked. i . The stranger leaned nearer and Said In his most confidential tone. "Say, ** | • ?, Inlster, It's about the best in the <tJnIted States. .Right over yonder in Sf*' si- i? o' the woods--a spring--cold 't\ »*ks Ice--Simon-pure water. 'Bout the i-'t only thing this land'U raise is water." *•"£'"This land looks to me about as Valuable as so much sheet lightnln' i j guess it can move Just about ias quick." said Samson. The stranger answered in a low ^'jtone: "Say. I'll tell ye. It's a wild .> «ow--don't stand still long 'nougb to :• sglve y€ time to git anything out of fjjlt. I've tolled and prayed, but it's ^ihard to get much out of it." ffi "Praying won't do this land any . vjgood," Samson answered. "What it ^needs Is manure and plenty of it, JYou can't raise anything here but f^^^fleas. It isn't decent to expect God ito help run a flea farm. He knows jtoo much for that, and if you keep * =• ^ ' « I*1 up He'll lose all respect for ye. If 5 ' "2|you were to buy another farm and s ^brlng it here and put It down on |jtop o' this one, yon could probably ;<jmake a living. I wouldn't like to live 'where the wind could dig my pota- Jtoes." : Again the stranger leaned toward c ,/•. ; Samson and said in a half-whisper: ft.^"Say, mister, I wouldn't want you |y|;: / ito mention it. bat talkin' o' fleas, I'm i . llke a dog with so many of 'em that H? :. -he don't have time to oat. Some- ; /body has got to soap him or he'll die. ^;|*,Toir see, I traded my farm over in "Vermont for five hundred acres o' ?%•- SVfv' r< "tlljah Br&tstead Was a Friend o» My Father." this sheet lightnln', unsighted an' unseen. We was all crazy to go west an* here we are. If it wasn't for the deer an' the fish I guess we'd 'a' starved to death long ago." "Where did- ye come from!" "Orwell, Vermont." "What's yer name?" "Henry Brimstead," the stranger Whispered. "8on of Elijah Brimstead?" "Yes, sir." 8amson took his hand and shook It warmly. "Well, I declarer be exclaimed. "Elijah Brimstead wis friend o' my father." "Who are you?" Brimstead asked. "I'm one o' the Traylors o' Vergennes." "My father used to buy cattle of Henry Traylor." . 1 "Henry was my father. Haven't you let 'em know about your bed ilnck?" The man resumed his tone of con fldence. "Say, I'll tell ye," he an swered. "A man that's as big a fool >aa I am ought not to advertise it |A brain that has treated its owner as shameful as mine has treated me should be compelled to do its own thinkin' er die. I've invented some things that may sell. I've been hopto* my luck would turn." , "It'll turn when yon turn It," Samassured him. Brimstead leaned close to Samson's earind said in a lone scarcely and- "My brother Itobert has his own Idiot asylum. It's a real handsome one an' he has made It pay, bat I wouldn't swap with him." Samson smiled, remembering: that Robert had a liquor store. "Look here, Henry Brimstead, we're hungry," he said. "If ye furnish the water, we'll skirmish around for bread and give ye as good a dlpner as ye ever had in yer life." Henry took the horses to his barn and Watered and fed them. Then he brought two palls of water from the spring. Meanwhile Samson started a fire In a grove of small poplars by the roadside and began broiling venison, and Sarah got out the bread board and the flour and the rolling-pin and the teapot. As she waited for the water she called the three strange children to her side. The oldest was a girl of ten, with a 'face uncommonly refined and attractive. In spite of her threadbare clothes, she had a neat and cleanly look and gentle manners. The youngest was a boy of four. They were a pathetic trio. "Where's your mother?" Sarah asked of the ten-year-old girl. "Dead. Died when my little brother was born." "Who takes care of you?" "Father and--God. Father says God does most of It" "Oh dear!" Sarah exclaimed, with a look of pity. They had a good dinner' of fresh biscuits and honey* and venison and eggs and tea. While they were eating Samson told Briipstead of the land of plenty. After dinner, while Brimstead was bringing the team, one of his children, the blonde, pale, tattered little girl of six, climbed into the wagon seat and sat holding a small rag doll, which Sarah had given her. When they were ready to go she stubbornly refused to get down. 'Tm goln' away," she said. "I'm goln' aw-a-ay off to find my mother] I don't like this place. There ain't no Santa Claus here. I'm goin' away." She clung to the wagon seat and cried loudly when her father took her down. "Ain't that enough to break a man's heart?" he said with a sorrowful look. 1 Then Samson turned to Brimstead and asked: "Look here, Henry Brimstead, are yon a drinking man? Honor bright now." ' "Never driak a thing bat water and tea." "Do you know anybody who'll give ye anything for what,you own here?' "There's a man in the next town who offered me three hundred and fifty dollars for my interest" "Come along with us and get the money If you can. Fll help ye fit up and go where ye can earn a living." "I'd like to, but my horse Is .lame and I can't leave the children." "Put 'em right In this wagon and ~ome on. If there's a livery in the ilace. Fll send ye home." So the children rode in the wagon and Samson and Brimstead walked, while Sarah drove the team to the next village. There tlio good woman bought new clothes for Ihe whole liri instead family and Urlwstend sold his interest In the sand plains and bought a good pair of horses, with harness and some cloth for a wagon cover, and hud fifty dollars In his • pocket and a new look in his face. He put his children on the backs of the horses and led them to his old home, with a sack of provisions on his shoulder. He was to take the track of. the Traylors next day and begin his journey to the shores of the Sangamon. ? They got Into a ban swats--that afternoon and Samson had to cut some corduroy to make a footing for team and wagon and do much prying with the end of a heavy pole under the front axle. By and by the horses pulled them out. "When ol' COlonel bends his neck things have to move, even if he is up to his belly In the mud," said Samson. As the day waned they cams to a rfver in the deep woods. It was an exquisite bit of forest with the bells of a hermit thrush ringing in one of its towers. Their call and the low song of the river were the only sounds in the silence. The glow of the setting sun which lighted the western windows of the forest had a color like that of the music--golden. Long shafts of It fell through the tree columns upon the 'rond here and there. Our weary travelers stopped 1 on the rude plank bridge that crossed the river. Odors of balsam and pine and tamarack came in a light, cool breeze up the river valley. "I guess we'll stop at this tavern till tomorrow," said Samson. Joe was asleep and they laid him oh the blankets until supper was ready. Soon after supper Samson shot a deer which had waded Into the rapids. Fortunately, it made the opposite shore before it fell. All hands spent that evening dressing the deer and jerking the best of the meat. This they did by cutting the meat into strips about the size of a man's hand and salting and laying it on a rack, some two feet above a slow fire, and covering It with green boughs. The heat and smoke dried the meat In the course of two or three hours and gave it a fine fltrtror. Delicious beyond any kind of meat is venison treated in this manner. If kept dry, It will retain Its flavor and its sweetness for a month or more. They set out rather lite next morning. As usu&l, Joe stood! by the head of Colonel while the litter lapped brown sugar from the tlrmd palm of the boy. Then the {horse was wont to touch the face of Joe with his big, hairy lips as a tribute to his generosity. Colonel had seemed to acquire a singular attachment for the boy and tbe dog, while Pete distrusted both of them. He had never a moment's leisure, anyhow, being always busy with his work or the files. A few breaks. In the pack basket had been repaired with green withes. It creaked'with Its load of jerked venison when put aboard. Farther on the boy got a sore throat. Sarah bound a slice of pork around It and Samson built a camp by the roadside, in which, after a good fire was started, they gave him a hemlock sweat. This they did by steeping hemlock In pails of hot water and, while tlus patient sat In a chair by the fireside, a blanket was spread about him a1nd pinned close to his neck. Under the blanket they put the pails of steaming hemlock tea. After his sweat and a „dV. and night in bed, with a warm fire burning In front of the shanty, Joe was able to resume his seat in the wagon. They spoke of the Brimsteads and thought it strange that they had not come along. On the twenty-ninth day after their Journey began they came in sight of the beautiful green valley of the Mohawk. As they looked from the hills they saw*- the roof of the forest dipping down to the river shores and stretching far to the east and west and broken, here and there, by small clearings. Soon they could see the smoke and spires of the thriving village of Utica. ~ 7!': CHAPTER IL ' Wherein Is a Brief Account of Sundry Curious Characters Met on the Road. have tlme'U pass quickhe would sing and get them all laughing with seme curious bit of drollery. They spent the night of'July third* at a tavern In Buffalo, then a busy, crude and rafrid growing center for the shipping eastand west , There were emigrants on their way to the Far West in the i rowd--men, women and children and babies in arms--Irish, English, Germans and Yankees. There were also well-dressed, handsome young men from the colleges of New England going out to be missionaries "between the desert and the sown." Buffalo, on the edge of the midland seas, had the flavor of the rank, new soil in it those days--and especially that day, when It was thronged with rough coated andfougher tongued, swearing men on a ho'iday, Steve* dores and boatmen Off the lakes and They Look the 8ame 8ize, but They Are Not. ,I:. At Utica they bought provisions and a tin trumpet for Joe, and a doll with a real porcelain face for Betsey, and turned Into the great main thoroughfare of the North leading eastward to Boston and westward to a shore pf the midland seas. This road was once the great trail of the Iroquois, by them called the Long House, because It had reached ffom the Hudson to Lake Erie, and In their day had been well roofed with foliage. Soon they came in view of the famous Erie canal, hard by the road. Through It the grain of the Far West had just begun moving eastward in a tide that was flowing from Agril to December. Big barges, drawn by mules and horses on Its shore, were cutting the still waters of the canal. They stopped and looked at the barges and the long tow ropes and the tugging animals. "There is , a real artificial river, hundreds o' miles long, hand made Of the best material, water tight, ho snags or rocks or other imperfections, durability guaranteed," salti Samson. "It has made the name of DeWltt Clinton known everywhere." "I wonder what next!" Sarah exclaimed. They met many teams and passed other movers going west, and some prosperous farms on a road widejr and smoother tl;an any they had traveled. They catuited that night, close by the river, with a Connecticut family on its way to Ohio with a great load of household furniture on one wagon and seven children in another. So they fared along through Canandalgua and across the Genesee to the village of Rochester and on through Lewiston and up the Niagara river to the falls, and camped where they could see the great water flood and hear Its muffled thunder. When nearing the latter they overtook a family of poor Irish emigrants, of the name of Flanagan, who shared their camp site at the falls. The Flanagans were on their way to Michigan and had come from the old country three years before and settled In Broome county, New York. They, too, were on their way to a land of better promise. Among them was a rugged, freckled, red-headed lad, well along In his teens, of the name of Dennis, who wore a tall beaver hat, tilted saucily on one side of his head, and a ragged blue coat with brass buttons, as he walked beside the oxen, whip In hand, with trousers tucked in the tops of his big cowhide boots. There was also a handsome young man In this party of the name of John McNeil, who 'wore a ruffled shirt and swallow-tall coat, now much soiled by the Journey. He listened to Samson's account of the Sangamon country and said that he thought he would go there. Sarah gave the Irish family a good supply of cookies and jerked venison before she bade them good-by. When our travelers left, next morning, they stopped for a last look at the great falls. "Children," said Samson, "I want you to take a good look at that. It's the most wonderful thing in the world and maybe you'll never see It again. "The Indians used to think .that tbe Great Spirit was la this river," salt) Sarah. "Kind o' seems to me they were right," Samson remarked thoughtfully, "Kind o' seems as if the great spirit of America was In that water. It moves on in the way it wills and nothing can stop it Everything in Its current goes along with it." "And only the strong can aland the journey," said Sarah. These words were no doubt inspired by an ache in her bones. 'A hard seat and the ceaseless jolting of the wagon through long, hot, dusty days had wearied them. Even their hearts were getting sore as they thought of the endless reaches of the roads ahead. Samson stuffed a sack with straw and Kind o* 8eems As If the Great 8pirlt of America Was in That Water.* rivers of the middle border--some of whom had had their training on the Ohio and Mississippi. There was much drunkenness and fighting in the crowded streets. Some of the carriers and handlers of American commerce vented their enthusiasm in song. Th^y had the lake view and Its cool breeze on their way to Silver Creek, Dunkirk and Erie, and a rough way it was In those days. Enough has been written of this long and wearisome journey, but the worst of it was ahead of them--much the worst of It--in the swamp flats of Ohio and Indiana. In one of the former a wagon wheel broke down, and that day Sarah began to shake with ague and bum with fever. Samson built a rude camp by the roadside, put Sarah into bed under Its cover and started for the nearest village on Colonel's back. "Now we'll go Abe Liaeola." (TO BB CONTINUED.) BRITAIN FREE FROM WOLVES Country More Fortunate In That Respect Than Are Other Lands . , In Europe. . lie in the British Isles appear to have got ftd of the wolf plague. In England, In the early Fifteenth century, the beast ceased to be a danger ^hat had to be reckoned with. ItTemained longer In Scotland, where the very last wolf ever heard of In the roaming state Is said to have been slain by Sir Ewen Cameron of Lochlel during the reign of Charles II--an incident that appears to have been looked upon as distinctly worthy (ft notice. The complete and final elimination of the bane is no doubt owing to the fact that, as lupus was steadily belnt hunted down In the land, our Insular position precluded all possibility of fresh immigration. In France the case was different. There was nothing to prevent the migrating wolf from reaching the country from the wildernesses of Central Europe--even from Russia and still more distant Siberia, the classic home of the race. Many are the legends, to some extent baseS on fact, of vast armies of wolves traveling--even as the Invading Goths and Vandals--from their hungry deserts to the richer landa of the West, to be stopped only by the Atlantic. At any rate, to this day the black wolf crosses the Pyrenees, and the brown wolf the Alps, to reinforce fraternally the ranks of the much harried gray wolf of France. And the day seems still far distant when the curse will be finally extinguished. Egerton Castle In the Youth's Companion. Thoroughbreds and Jackasses.' The Baldwin locomotive work* got an order for a monster locomotive. It was shipped In fifteen days. 'How did you do it?" one of Hie officials was asked. 'Organization," he responded. "Organization is the art of getting men to respond like thoroughbreds. When you cluck to a thoroughbred he^clves you all the speed and strengfn of heart and sinew he has In him. When you cluck to a jackass he kicks." Here Is ap Illustration worth wblle which surely applies to men as well as lower animals^ A wonderful thing is the ability tc respond with complete efficiency whenever called upon. And a more wonderful thing is to be able to get other men to respond that way when you call upon them. That Is what the great men of In dustry--as well as of war--have been able to accomplish.--Gulf Lumberman. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) Standard containers for marketing fruits and vegetables are of more Interest to the average citizen than he generally realizes. Not only is he defrauded frequently by the substitution pf short-measure packages at the fullmeasure price, which Is Inevitable if the difference la the size of the packages is not easily detected, but also the cost of marketing Is increased by the greater expense of manufacturing a large number of unnecessary styles and sizes and by breakage in transit, sometimes directly attributable to the difficulty of loading odd-sized containers. These losses constitute an unnecessary tax on the fruit and vegetable Industry that the bureau of markets. United States Department of Agriculture, Is endeavoring to cut down by fostering the "use of standard containers. Old-Time Units Cause Confusion. Local package units that came into use long ago are most largely responsible for present difficulties.' Such packages may have been satisfactory when their use was confined to a limited territory, but of late yean rapid transportation and the use of special refrigerator and ventilator cars have brought the products of every section of this country Into our great marketing centers, where the diversity of styles and sizes of containers have resulted in unnecessary confusion. There are in common use today about 40 sizes of cabbage crates, 20 styles of celery crates, 80 lettuce crates or boxes, SO styles and sizes' of hampers, 15 styles and sizes of round stave baskets, and market baskets, varying in size from 1 to 24 quarts, .whereas relatively few standard slaes would satisfy ail the demands of tbe trade. The unfair competition of shortmeasure containers has been another unsatisfactory factor. Certain shrewd packers have found that by slight modifications in the shape of packages the cubical contents can be reduced substantially without noticeably affecting the appearance. % 8hort-Measure Package. Commodities sold In these containers can be offered at a lower price per package than those sold In standard packages, but the price by unit of weight Is, of course, higher. Often this has caused the general adoption of the short-measure package, and there Is no end to this procedure, for once the short measure Is recosr ized as the standard a still shorter one Is put out by an unscruplous minority. The six-quart market basket, the 14-quart peach basket the seveneighths- bushel bean hamper, and the five-peck lettuce hamper^ are easily confused with peck, half-bushel, bushel and 1%-bushel baskets. Another factor whleh has caused the addition of many unnecessary packages is the lack of a unit which Is accepted as the basis for all package standards. If a manufacturer wishes to Introduce a crate into a producing section normally using the barrel Instead-of using the bushel unit, the tendency Is to. off^r a barrel crate or half-barrel crate. At the present time the crates and boxes are being manufactured In sizes based on the United States standard barrel (105 quarts) with Its subdivisions, the United States cranberry barrel (88 45-64 quarts) with Its subdivisions, the weight bushel, the heaped bushel, and the volume bushel. These different standards are used because of competing packages. Series of Crates. The/result may he seen by a fiance at the following table: Three Series of Crates Which Cannot Be Readily Distinguished From Each Other. Crates based on U. S. appla barrel: 1-barrel crate.................-Quarts 101, \fc-barrel crate.. J® 1*3 barrel crate ™ Crates based on U. 8»cranberry 1-barrel crate « «-« Vfr-barrel crat« 1-3 barrel crate 410 Crates based on standard bushel: t-bushel crate. ...< qwrts w lVfc-bushel crate ®o « 1-bushel crate ®° A standard unit of measure should be permanent, definite, and of fixed and uniform value. The heaped bushel, which is In common use. Is far from being fixed, and in man> Instances the heap has practically disappeared say specialists of the bureau of markets. A .proper heap has never been defined by congress, and In those states where an attempt has been made to describe the manner in which the necessarily .encountered In attempting to secure a uniform method of filling or packing standard containers, it is generally recognized that weight is the only really definite basis of sale, and for that reason the pound or hundredweight should be used where this Is practicable. An exception may be noted Ih regard to products which are carefully graded as to size, In which case the sales may be ma^ SQttaCjtp tortty by numerical count. > <»•' BaRMdbr AflW. saehi Sted I heard at •*' E. Pirtkham's table good aad thought I wooldchw I haw been very glad that I ... ^ BUSINESS BASIS IN JjELECTION OF FARM Many Serious Errors Made by Young Men in Moving. Only One Set of CendWoe*' and Are Not Able to Weigh A4!» OUrately All New Factors' f , That Must Be Considered. • (Prepared by tbe United States Department of Agriculture.) Many farmers, especially the youner men, in moving from one region to another, make serious errors in selecting farms, not because their judgment is naturally poor, but largely because they know only one set of conditions and are not able to weigh accurately all the new factors that must be taken Into apcount, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. Here the science of farm management is helpful, in that from the farm-management viewpoint the farm is put on a business basis. * In dolrfg this, however, the home side of the question must always be kept In mind. The farm home and the farm business are inseparable. A desirable farm, from a business standpoint, is nevertheless undesirable if it has no social or community advantages. On the other hand, desirable living conditions ar^ of little or no advantage unless accompanied by a successful farm business. A farm may have fine buildings, good water supply, excellent roads, and other such asset?, yet If the soil Is rocky, shallow, or naturally Infertile, so that its productive possibilities are .distinctly limited, there will be no adequate Income for enjoying tbe other advantages. Moreover, there physical limitations are enduring, While the needed Improvements, such as buildings and roads, can be added as means are provided. women as lira. WSnytmbmSi doubt that Lydla EL Pfnldham's Vest*, tj&le Compound will eorreet snch trot* Mes by removing the cause and raafeb* fogtl»mitemto abealthy normal coodition. Whan audi symptoms develop aa backaches, bearing-down pains, displacements, nervousness and "thr bluea"a woman cannot act too promptfr in tryingLydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound If she values her future con* fort and happiness. -m FROM THE UNO OF WONDER* Shasta County, . California, Comdt Proudly to the Front Wftk C - ' Ksfls That Danes. Sfaasta county, California, ti land of wonders. The latest is the dancinlg egg, relates London Tlt-Blts. It is laid by an as yet undetermined insect' on tbe leaves of oak treei. asses of these eggs cling to the under side of thS leaf, and as thay advance toward maturity they drop to the ground and dance about. By folding an oak twig containing any number, of eggs to one's ear a cracking sound may be heard, Uke the splitting of electric sparks. The shall contains a tiny grub, working for nK lease. In many towns collections of the eggs are on exhibition. When laid on a table these eggs bound abovit and spring Into the air, /sometimes to a height of 16 Inches. They are particularly active In the early morning. This latest insect novelty takes rank with the sulphur bug, which Is at home in the red-hot roaster piles. Somewhat Important PoMfc;. ' The cinema producer was giving Itiltt final Instructions for the production of Part 19. of "The Adventures of > Annie." i / ' | "Mr. Daring,* he addressed the , - curly-haired hero, "for realism pur» poses I have borrowed a live lion fOr this act The animal will pursue ym / for -BOO feet" . "i Mr. Daring Interrupted Jiim. Twr I 600 feet?" | "Yes," replied the producer. 'I more than that Understand ?" 'i* 1 The hero nodded dubiously. "tea,'* • :i understand; but--does the iionf* . e | •. , Dlaeiesurea. ' "I understand that one of 'tPe figures in that scandalous litigation haa been invited by publishers to write a book." "Can It be possible," rejoined Mlsa Cayenne, "that anything has been left untold r Only fool men aak women to :lifl| them keep their secrets. Awtut Sick 43 11-St 28 29-82 PICK AND PREPARE BERRIES Care Must Be Exercised by Gfower In 8hipping Blackberries by Parcel Post. grower wishes to Ship blackberries by parcel post, he should exercise care In picking and packing the berries. Carelessness In picking and handling blackberries sometimes causes more injury to the fruit than does the trqftment given while in transit, say specialists of the United States Department of Agriculture. Success in shipping blackberries is dependent largely on favorable weather conditions and the way in which the fruit is handled In transit. The shipping weight of a 16-quart crate of blackberries is from 27 to 90 pounds, and the charge for postage to points within the first and second postal zones is from 31 to 84 cents. The cost for crate and postage on a: 16-quart crate of blackberries will; vary, therefore, from 58 to 64 cents. It may be possible at times to ship more than one kind of berries In a orate, auch as a combination shjpment With a as Emtonlo Brings Relief "I have been awful sick with gas," writes Mrs. W. H. Person, "and Eatonlc is all I can get to give me relief." Acidity and gas on the stomach quickly taken up and carried out by' Eatonlc, then appetite and strength come back. And vmany other bodily miseries disappear when the stomach Is right. Don't let sourness, belching; bloating, indigestion and other stomach ills go on. Take Eatonlc tableta after you eat--see how much better you feel. Big box costs only a trifle with your druggist's guarantee. KILLS PESKY, BED 9UGS " P.D.Q. m . . *•&.. *>.»" AI k «£. measure should be heaped the phraseology generally Is vague and Indefinite. The heap has been referred to as a cone, the base being the top of the measure, and the height depending tipon the nature of the article when piled "as high as may be wit! - out special effort or design^ Such vegetables as sweet potatoes und<r this definition might be piled so hlgn that the heap would be as large as the measure Itself. In view of the difficulties which are D0NT SHIP POOR POTATOES Late Blight Tuber Rot, Followed by •limy Soft Rot, la FiaquMll • Cauee of Big Loss. ~ 4 There Is no business economy in paying freight for shipping potatoes when rejection Is a foregone conclusion, says the United States Department of Agriculture. In Its study of shipments of potatoes on the principal markets, the markets Inspection service finds that /late blight tuber rot, which Is frequently followed by slimy soft rot, causes heavy losses. This disease Is apparent at the time of londlng, and tlie bad tubers can hf sorted out rod not shipped. Virtue of Sandy Soil. The chief virtue of sandy soil Is that the roots of plants can pass through It ,*eadlly; its chief fault Is that It dribs out too quickly. i Ptek Berries Carefully. Pick strawberries carefully, well and pack neptiy and-yon gqjt top pricea. Just think, a Mo bo* at P. D. Q. Devils Quietus) makes a awut. kill a million Bed Bom or Cooties, and etope foture _ by killing their em *»»*>•• the ciotkmg. LiquMflre to UwBed 1 le what P*V Q. Is Uke; Bed B»as stwjd u good a chance as a eoowbail la a Justly famed heat resort- Patentepout free to erery package of P D. Q . to enable you to kill them and tbtfr nest eggs In the cracks. e devil's head on ev» • Look Cpr boa. the devfl'i Special H i Bve aall< three spout*. Inaw, or seat prepaid on re- - ">y Owl Che lad. 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