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,}*»J % <** , - f, V " ' ' • * ' • $j*&3 ;V -•:^„ 4mc ••*,».?! ;>fsL . ANNUAL CONVENTION OP ILIJ. NOIS STA-fE SOCIETY 18 HELD IN 8PRINGFIELD. PRESIDENT CORBETT TALKS Tells Delegates That Much III Health Among School Children la Re­ sult of Neglect of Teeth. Springfield.--The Illinois State Den­ tal society held Its forty-eighth annual convention In Springfield. The meet­ ing was attended by 600 dentists from all parts of the state. President C. C. Corbett of Edwards- •llle, In the annual address by the president of the society, told the dele- fates that much of the ill health prev­ alent among the school children is the direct result of neglect of teeth, and be laid the blame for this failure to safeguard health to parents who fall to instruct their children in the simple forms of hygiene and cleanliness nec­ essary to proper tooth care. According to statistics shown by President Corbett, more than 8.000 school children in Chicago last year failed to carry their studies because of ill health due to defective teeth. The annual cost of maintaining schools for these children the speak­ er estimated at^|300,000. Over 20,000 pupils in schools throughout the state failed last year to make passing grades from the same cause, entailing a loss of about $700,000 expended In giving them instruction which must be repeated. The work of the public service com­ mission, which was formed at the dentists' convention held at Peoria last year for the purpose of studying diseases of the teeth and means of their prevention, will occupy a large portion of the attention of delegates. State aid in carrying on this bene­ ficial work was declared necessary by President Corbett, who declared that unless some provision is made for the Improvement of health of school chil­ dren suffering from maladies super/ induced by lack of dental treatment, both the state and the children will suffer. The children, in many cases, discouraged and handicapped by poor health, leave the schools altogether, while the cost of repeating courses in which children fail to make satisfac­ tory grades is enormous. The address was followed by a dis­ cussion participated in by H. L. Whip­ ple of Quincy, Don M. Castle and J. B. Buckley of Chicago, L. B. Torrence of Chester, E. D. Black. Edward Noyes and C. R. E. Koch of Chicago and J. M. Barcus of CarlinvlJle. Many New State Druggists. Secretary Fred C. Dodds of the state board of pharmacy announced the can­ didates who passed the pharmaceutic­ al examinations in Chicago last month. Twenty-one of seventy-six for regis­ tered pharmacist passed and twenty- five of sixty-nine for assistant were successful. Among those successful were: Harry Beilin, Wilmette; Ken­ neth C. Bonus, Oak Park; Frank Bras- sie, Olney; Joseph Huerbinger, Evan- ston; Elmer J. Kennelley, Joliet; Wil­ liam J. Stinson, Hinsdale; Frank W. Carlyle, Springfield; assistant--Wil­ liam R. Kost, Astoria; William G. Ly­ man, Peoria; Raymond S. Mayer, Joliet; Frank E. Nussle, Walnut; An­ drew J. Schultz, Bloomington; Homer D. Webster, Kewane^. Want Reduced Freight Rates. Commissioner John Bowlus of the Springfield freight traffic bureau has practically completed the arrange­ ments for entertaining the members of the Illinois freight traffic commit­ tee which meets in Springfield. There will be 120 people in attendance at the banquet, sixty out-of-town traffic men, and one Springfield business man to look after the entertainment of each guest. At the conference the rate matters docketed for the entire state of Illi­ nois will be considered, and the ques­ tion of reducing the rate from a 117 per cent, basis to a 110 per cent, basis will be considered. A confer­ ence will also be held regarding switching rates in Springfield. A uni­ form rate on all the railroads is de­ sired by Commissioner Bowlus. At present the rate varies from three to seven dollars. Guards' Pay Adjusted. Salaries of guards at two penal in­ stitutions of Illinois have been read- Justed. The changes, however, will be effective only in cases of new em­ ployes. This announcement was made by Secretary Ward Robinson of the State Civil Service fleommisslon. The two where the changes have been ordered are the state prison at Ches­ ter and the reformatory at Pontiac. Illinois Corporations. Secretary of State Rose issued cer­ tificates of incorporation to the fol­ lowing : Chiagourta Shoe Shining company, Chicago; capital, |2,500; to operate shining parlors, barber shops, etc. Incorporators--George P. Chia­ gourls, Constantino Chiagourls, Vasil- tus Chiagourls. United Specialty Manufacturing 'company, Chicago; capital, $25,000; general manufacturing business. In­ corporators--Charles E. Loop, Joseph A. Ambros, Hiram I. Keck. Corporation Guarantee and Trust company, Chicago; capital, $1,000; general brokerage business. Incorpor­ ators--John E. Erickson, George H. B. Martin, Leonard L. Cowan. Schreiber Brothers company, Chica­ go; capital, $60,000; manufacturing and dealing in brandy, wines, vinegar, cider, etc. Incorporators--Harry G. ^Waxier, Samuel H. Rosenberg, Irwin P. Lewis. The Lin coin-Belmont Theater com­ pany, Chicago; capital, $160,000; gen­ eral theatrical business. Incorporat­ ors--John P. Price, Martin C. Ander- poo, Theo^pre John#on. Twenty Girls Will Graduate. ^ Bishop William A. Quayle Of Okla­ homa will deliver the address at thi sixty-sixth annual graduation exercises held at the Woman's college in Jack­ sonville, Juno 4. Twenty-six young ladies from six different states will recefte diplomas. They are: May E. Heflin, Wenona; Mary Isabelle Mc- Intyre, Hanover; Myrtle S*. Walker, Jorlin, Mo.; Esther M. Asplund, Little Indian- Ruth M. Stimp«on, Eldorado. Kan.; Ethel M. Rose, Virginia; Cath­ erine Louise Gates, Jacksonville; An­ nette P. Rearlck, Ashland; Clarissa H. Garland, Jacksonville; Lena M. Hopper, Jacksonville; Pearl Schlosser, Mayvllle, N. D.; Stella M. Shuff, Jacksonville; Ruth Widenham, Jack­ sonville; Beryl Vickery, Dwight; Sue Myrtle Fox, Jacksonville; Frances English, Jacksonville; Mary A. Sev- erns, Sedajla, Mo.; Jeanette McClun Taylor, Jacksonville; Edna M. Alli­ son. Jacksonville; Jennie M. Allison, Jacksonville; Rhea M. Curdie, Alton; EWa M. Newman, Jacksonville; Sid­ ney Rose Newcomb, Gibson City; JClsa F. Rlchter, Trinidad, Colo.; Mary C- Watson, Sauk Creek, Minn. Agreement Is Adopted. Miners In the Illinois fields voted by a majority of almost thirteen thousand to accept the wage agreement arranged at the state con­ ference of operators and miners at Peoria, and to put an end to the sea­ son of idleness, in the recent referen­ dum vote, an official canvass of which was completed at state miners head­ quarters in Springfield. Totals for the state show that 24,- 924 miners favored the adoption of the contract, while 11,970 were op­ posed to it. The total vote cast num­ bered 36,894 ballots. Officials of the state organisation were unable to state Just how soon work will be resumed, but it 1b ex­ pected that very little time will elapse between the signing of the agreement and the beginning of operations in mines throughout the state. Miners have been idle since April 1, when work was suspended pending a settle­ ment of the contract question by ref­ erendum vote. Heavy majorities either for or against the agreement marked the election. In very few locals wag the decision close, the small organization almost invariably swinging in almost solid blocks towards a favorable or unfavorable view of the compromise. The majority for the adoption of the agreement received its greatest num­ bers from the southern portions of the state, where the election went for the compromise by wide margins. The northern section of the state, which was expected to reject the proposition, voted in its favor, although not by such large majorities as prevailed in southern Illinois. Springfield sub-district favored the agreement, although several locals in surrounding towns refused it their ratification. The local at Ren'd was included in the latter class, as was that at Divernon. Two locals at Gil­ lespie gave the contract their support. In the Belleville district and in Wil­ liamson county the proposition carried with a good majority. An increase of 5.55 per cent, in day wages and tonnage rates is granted the miners in the agreement, while the greater number of working condi­ tions are the same as those embodied in last year's contract. WHAT ABOUT BOYS? Parcels Post Bill Would Bar Them From an Education. . MOTHERS SHOULD ii cc. Auburn Likened to Your Town--What the Mail Order and Parcels Post Mean to You and Yours and Why You Should Get Together and Fight. Chlcagoan Heads K. of C. The Illinois state convention of Knights of Columbus will meet in Chicago next year, according to a de­ cision reached by the 1912 convention which closed its session in Peoria. Officers elected for the ensuing year follow: State Deputy--Le Roy Hackett, Chi­ cago. State Secretary--M. E. Dalton, Chi­ cago. State Treasurer--V. A. Dieter, Na- perville. State Advocate--Eresia Meeks, Jo­ liet. State Warden--W. D. Rose, Spring­ field. Delegates to the Supreme Conven­ tion--Lawrence Ryan, Decatur ; W. E. Clark, Amboy; Dr. E. N. Redder, Chi­ cago; Frances J. Houlihan, Chicago; John R. Kilcran, Granite City; K. J. Freiberg, Quincy; O. J. Dolan, Peoria. Prenarations were mads and tn ap­ propriation set aside to send 700 dele­ gates from Illinois to the unveiling of the statue of Columbus at Washington on June 8. Agrippa gave the endeavor of her life to see her son, Nero, on the throne of the Roman world. Agrippa was no whit nobler than you, mother. Your dream for your boy may not be so ambitious--but It Is in your breast. It was born with the babe, and as your heart throbbed with the ecstasy of motherhood there came to abide with you a great hope--a hope that has been and Is your dream! And the dream 1b that the boy shall be noble and upright and true and suc­ cessful. No matter what individual things you may hope for in the boy, your dream is that he shall be ail that I have enumerated above. And to help him be what you want him to be, you will <jhow a Spartan's courage, withstand a Savior's cross. Mothers have suffered and died for sons throughout the world's history--and i you are a mother! In life you are for everything that helps the boy, against everything that hinders him. And above all, no mat­ ter how poor you are, you want your boy to have an education. You pray that he may have Just a little better chance in life than his father had. You want him equipped with the train­ ing so necessary in the game of life. You realize, in a vague sort of way, what the struggle is among men, and you would press your heart against his aruior and buckle on' his sword with clinging fingers of love. Monster Stalks the Land. Mother, there stalks through the land today a growing power to defeat your dream, a power which If given rein will take from your boy the chance you have prayed and hoped and petitioned for--the chance of an education. That power, mother, is THE PARCELS POST. The name should be forever hated by you. It is the tool of greed, the means by which the Midas-like mail-order bouses may gather into their coffers more gold at the expense of you and yours. Let me tell you why the parcels post, now proposed as a law, strikes at your hopes for the boy. The parcels post is being backed by the mail-order houses. Building up the mail-order houses means tearing down the home town. Tearing down the home town means taking away the high school. Robbing you of the high school means that your boy will fail of an education unless you have money to send him to college! And the sad part of it Is, you--find there are thousands of you over this land--have not the money to send the boy away to school! Samuel Eels says the hope of the nation lies in the boys And the high schools, yvhat about the nation's hope when the high school is taken away j actual need. The power that Is at the thought of buying, bat appealing for all that. And they argue that they have a right to spend their money where It will bring them the best re­ turns. What is the result? The next day a great big bunch of letters go out to Blngbang & Co. and in a few days the goods come piling back. For the time being we will wave all question of whether the goods are or are not satisfactory. To be sure, Hiram Scroggs makes a great to-do because the trousers he sent for do not fit and gets angry when the local clothier falls to listen attentive­ ly to his troubles, refusing absolutely to swap the Blngbang trousers for a pair of Auburn t -ers. We will waiye all this anu _,et down to tho meat in the cocoanut. This trading out ef town is felt at once by the local merchant whose sales have fallen off considerably. Then, too, he notes that the cash cus­ tomers having sent all their money to Chicago, are asking him to carry them, Bingbang doesn't do this, but the home merchant Is compelled to give credit ^ How It Affects General Business. The banker getting nervous over the accounts of the local store brings a bit of pressure to bear. The mer­ chant does the best he can but, in time, with so much money going out of town, he gives up and quits. The store building he was in is owned by Andrew Dodds. Andrew comes down town the next day after the merchant's failure wearing an overcoat be has bought of Blngbang, and when be sees his vacant storeroom, he blushes for himself. This store room represented about all his surplus capital and he may be pressed to pay his bills. To his chagrin there doesn't seem to be much chance to re-rent the building because Smith, across the street, is wabbling on his business pins since Wheezer & Wheeze, of New York, un­ loaded that last carload of mall-order catalogs--and that store room is even better located than his. Taxes are due and there isn't enough money in his bank account to meet the obliga­ tion. To his utter amazement, An­ drew finds that others are in the same predicament. The parcels post and the mail-order houses have been do­ ing a rushing business and have bloodsucked Auburn until she Is no longer a thriving business town. The traveling salesmen begin to say slighting things of Auburn and the town is bruited about as being on the down grade There is no sale Tor residence or vacant property and many who would move away are com­ pelled to stay and starve along. Dissatisfied families without hold­ ings move away. The town board and the school board get together and decide not to appropriate money for a high school the next year because everybody is poor, business Is poor and the town Is poor. Your boy was about to enter the high school, but now he has to go to work instead. There Is very little for him to do in Auburn and it is not at all In line with your dream for him that he 6hould get a job driving delivery wagon orfc become an apprentice in a livery barn. In your disappointment, you appeal to the pastor ol your church. He looks decidedly sober when he hears your story, and then-- He tells you that for weeks he hasn't had his salary, that he Is In VALUE AND METHODS OF TESTING CORN PLANTERS IN LABORATORY AND FIELD * ' +4 A ;• i Testing 8tand to Determine Drop. WOMAN SICK TWELVEYEflRS Wants Other Women to Knov How SLe Was Finally Restored to Health. ••MM Physicians' Names Are Published. The Illinois state board of health has published as a supplement to Its monthly Bulletin, the last installment of the official register of legally quali­ fied physicians of Illinois. The first was issued last fall. The present Installment is revisepL. to April 15, and covers the counties from Peoria to Woodford. The register contains a complete list of physicians in alphabetical or­ der, and shows the place of residence, college by which graduated, time of graduation and year licensed in Illi­ nois. Chicago physicians have not been Included in this register, owing to the frequent changes in address during the last few months. Dental Inspection Praised. Springfield's board of education, which recently co-operated in the es­ tablishment of a free dental dis­ pensary, heard members of the Illinois State Dentists' association tell of the merits of dental inspection. The board members were guests of the State society at the last lecture ses­ sion of the forty-eighth annual con­ vention held in Springfield. F. F. Molt of Chicago was the chief speak­ er. He is head of the Chicago dental bureau. from the country town because the people of that town have made it pos­ sible for the mail-order houses to rob the children of an education? Do you know that the greatest men of the great cities came from the coun­ try, out of the tall grass or the corn rows? But they did not go directly from the grass or the corn. They went from the best schools the coun­ try could give them, and armed with knowledge and splendid physique they went to the cities and made good over the effete, city-born men! From what will the city recruit when the coun­ try boy no longer has the opportunity of an education? And what will be the effect upon the nation's progress? Study this well, you students of the olden countries with histories of decay and death! Suppose We Study the Situation. Mother, let's look Into this thing a bit. Let's you and I sit down here in the cool shade of the veranda and talk like human beings who are trying earnestly to get at the truth of things. Let's be honest with each other! Let's get the kernel of truth from the shell of ignorance. For the time being you and I live in Auburn--once the fairest village of the plain. And It is flourishing now as we talk. Auburn has four dozen stores, a blacksmith shop, livery stable, real estate office and all the other places of business common to a typical country town. In fact, Auburn has about all the stores it can sup­ port. And at the time we begin this talk, Auburn enjoys the trade of all its peo- and the farmers lroni the sur-ple rounding terri tory, large town, but i ts Bonably prosperous provident and the Auburn is not a residents are rea- There are the Improvident, the Insurance Agents Meet In Decatur. Over 100 special and state agents of the Illinois Fire Prevention asso­ ciation, composed of district agents, field men and agents and other insur­ ance men will meet In Decatur, May 23, to inspect Decatur's business blocks and factories. The society which is organized for the purpose of recommending changes and betterment of conditions to building owners and to take other steps for the lessening of fires, meets twice a month and each time visits some city to inspect tit buildings. enterprising and the plodders, the town drunkard and the town gossip but nobody Is really in want. Occa­ sionally some unlucky person gets struck by the tall of the financial kite and is temporarily in distress, but the good people of the community rush in and care for that man's family and get him on his foot again. You will see that Auburn is a village very much like other places of which you may be posted. Tfcat same community inter est and charity always a part of vil­ lage life, is here, with none of the coldness and disregard of suffering BO pregnant of cities. What Happens to Auburn. And into this Ideal country town one day there stalks the destroyer! The parcels post bill has passed (God grant that it never shall) and the mail­ order houses are at the throat of Au­ burn. From the mail car of the one train a day there is thrown a wagon- load of catalogs. The curious people of Auburn take them home and that night in Auburn every (inthinklng In­ habitant is engrossed in the pictures and prices. They are gratified and outraged to learn that a certain bar of soap can be bought for a half cent a cake less at Blngbang & Co.'s, Chi­ cago, than from Brown, their home grocer. There are a few other prices that appeal to them, some of them, to be sure, on things they never had vitals of ^Auburn has reached with its tentacles even to the man of the cloth, and unless something happens soon to aid him, he will be compelled to give up his pastorate and go to the city or sopiewhere, he doesn't know where! Mother, when you stop to think that Auburn is like the town you actually live in, and like thousands of towns over this country, you may begin to realize what it means to tear down the country town in the upbuilding of the great city. You may begin to realize how many mothers are weep­ ing over shattered dreams, how many are asking with tear-dimmed eyes, "Where Is my wandering boy to­ night?" Organize the Women. You love your boy! You are will­ ing to flgbt for him! Then take up arms against the parcels post. Or­ ganize the women of your community and begin a systematic campaign for your boys #nd your girls. Write your congressman to help you fight the bat­ tle for your children. Make no mis­ take--this will be a flgbt worthy of your most earnest effort, your BU- premest zeal, your mother-love cour­ age. The foe you are fighting is striving to throttle your town, striving to close your Btores and your churches and your schools. It is taking away from the country with Its health and its freedom. Its morality and its de­ cency. the chance for you to live other than a clod upon the land, and It is enticing--yes, forcing--your boy into the city with its filth and Its servility, its immorality and its indecency, to become a flat-dweUer between cold and stifling walls, with people above and below and around him--in a home that has no right to be called a home, that has no flowers or pure air or things that ennoble and make men great and good and pure. . It is taking away from him the sweet, simple Im­ pulses of a tender heart and giving him instead the damning thirst for money that is killing the men of the nation today. It is giving him for a country heart, a city stone--and the stone Is cold and hard. It is making him selfish and self-centered and un­ like your father or his father. There is no life like the life in the open, in the country town. It is nat­ ural and free and unstrained. Look j into the faces of the city street, | mother--into the drawn faces, the leering faces, the distorted faces, the liquor-bloated faces, the vice-ridden faces, the hawk and wolf faces, and ask yourself, "Shall I fight the power that Is building this sort of men?" Ah. will you fight the power? Will you work for Auburn and your boys and girls" If you will and get your sisters to work with you, woman may save the day for education and man­ hood, may save the country from bus­ iness stagnation and the city from a pathetic decay. Strike now Strike tomorrow and keep on until the lawmakers of this land have ceased in their efforts to" saddle the parcels post upon a happy people--the people of the countrjf towns. BYRON WILLIAM*. By C. O. REED, University of Illinois. The farm mechanics division of the eollege of agriculture is conducting a series of tests to determine, if pos­ sible, bfetter methods of securing ac­ curate drop of corn per hill by the corn planter. The following factors are being considered In the experi­ ment: The shape of the kernel as in­ fluenced by the kind of corn, the grade of the corn, the system of drop and the proper selection of plates. The experiments have not yet been com­ pleted. The average corn grower seems well satisfied with the latest methods of corn planting, but the shrewed, scientific business farmer is giving careful consideration to the present day problems confronting him In economically seeding his major crop. As the agriculture of our middle west becomes more Intense, these problems will become more serious, and in or­ der for the experimentalist to meet them efficiently he must enter the field at an early date. He is indeed late as it is. Experimental work on farm field machinery falls naturally into two general classes. The first class In­ cludes that work which furnishes data Indicative of the most economical use of a machine by the user. It is a typical product of state experimental stations, of primary value to the farm­ er and of but secondary Importance to the manufacturer. In the second class, however, the benefactors are reversed, for here emphasis is placed on the efficiency of the machine, its points of weakness or its failure to meet certain requirements, and op­ portunities for improvements are thus suggested. Such work is typical of our manufacturers' laboratories; it is of primary value Ao the designer and of secondary importance to the user. When the farmer demands a purely mechanical Improvement to Bolve a simple problem, the genius of the manufacturer meets that demand. The Inventor can even force an Improve­ ment on the market, and thus educate the farmer to make use of It. On the other hand, the farmer's demand may be just as influential. Each of the different factors of shape and grade of corn, and system of drop or selection of plates has Its possibilities. Due to the kind or corn, the kernels may range in shape from flat, rounding kernel to the narrow peg-top shape; the grade may be hand-sorted, unsorted, or machine sorted; and the kind of drop may be the edge, flat or hill drop system. Also the right sized plate may be used, or by carelessness the operator may use a plate in which the cells are a little too large or too small. With these complexities before us we see that a number of factors Influence accuracy of drop and what range each of these factors possesses. The great dividing line In methwds of testing may be drawn between those of the field. The former are simple and much alike in detail, but In field methods a greater number of possibilities present themselves. If we wish to determine the efficiency of an Individual machine, or exactly what a machine will do under field condi­ tions, we must by all means go to the field. Manufacturers who employ both laboratory and field methods agree that one or two per cent, better tests can be obtained in the field, at­ tributing the increase in accuracy to the jarring of the machine. The ac­ companying photograph shows method of setting up testing stand for labora­ tory experiments. Louisiana, Ma:--"I think a woman naturally dislikes to make her troubles known to the public, but complete restor­ ation tohealth means go much to me that I cannot keep from telling mine for the sake of other suffer­ ing women. "1 had been sick about twelve years, and had eleven doc­ tors. I had drag­ g ing down pa i n s , pains at monthly periods, bilious spells, and was getting worse all the time. 1 would hardly get over one spell when I would be sick again. No tongue can tell what I Buffered from cramps, and at times I could hardly walk. The doctors said I might die at one of those times, but I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegeta­ ble Compound and got better right away. Your valuable medicine is worth mors than mountain a of gold to suffering wo­ men. "--Mrs. BERTHA MUFF, 603 N. 4th Street, Louisiana, Mo. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com­ pound, made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotic or harmful drug's* and to-day holds the record of being the most successful remedy for female ills we know of, and thousands of voluntary testimonials cm file in the Pmkhant laboratory at Lynn,Mass., seem to prove this fact. If yon want spfdsl ^advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confi­ dential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, reau and answered by A •woman and held in strict confidence The man who gets gay with a busy bee is apt to get a stinging rebuke. That Irritable, nervoas condition doe to a bad liver calls for its natural antidot#-- Garfield Tea. The Exception. "In one respect, a man is unlike A conflagration." "What is that?" "When they put him out he is fait of fire." LABOR-SAVING METHODS OF GARDEN TILLAGE Irreveiant Reasons. "Why is Jones making his girl take music lessons? She'll never learn If she practices for a million years." "Jones says he knows she has no talent, and he can ill afford the ex­ pense, but that be hates the people so on the next floor." Decorations of the Daughters. The aggregate value of the jewels worn by the Daughters of the Ameri­ can Revolution at a reecnt reception in Washington Is said to have ex­ ceeded $500,600. Estimates of jewels are always liable tp large reductions, but ft may be said that if the fathers of the revolution could at certain periods of the struggle have bad $50,- 000 worth of ammunition at their command they could have shortened the war by two yeftrs or more.--Bos­ ton Transcript. A HOT ONE. Horse Cultivator for Garden. By PROF. JOHN W. LLOYD, University of Illinois. Labor-saving methods can be em­ ployed in the care of the growing gar- fen crop as well as In the preparation of the Beed-bed. It is desirable to plant the garden In long rows so that horse tillage may be introduced. By the use of a narrow-tooth cultivator it is possible, with a steady horse, to work fairly close to the rows of even small vegetables. However, for the early tillage close to the rows of beets, onions, carrots and similar crops, there is nothing equal to a wheel hoe; and throughout the season this tool can be very largely substituted for the hand hoe. Its use will result in a great Baving of labor. Labor will also be saved by cultivating the garden frequently, and keeping the soil In good friable condition, rather than till­ ing at less frequent Intervals and al­ lowing the ground to become baked before it is tilled after a rain. Timely tillage means easy tillage and the easy tillage and the most favorable conditions for growth, while untimely or Infrequent tillage means difficult tillage and lets favorable conditions for growth. The most tedious labor In the ordi­ nary garden Is the hand weeding of the small vegetables. By proper man­ agement of tBe garden a large amount of this labof can be eliminated. One way to avoid excessive labor in hand weeding is to keep weed seeds out of the garden as much as possible by avoiding the use of manure containing such seeds, and by destroying all weeds in and about the garden before they go to seed, even If they appear after the crops are harvested But in spite of all that can be done there will always be weed seeds present in gar­ den soil. The way to prevent these from producing weeds that are larger than the vegetable plants and endan­ gering the life of the latter, Is to keep them from starting growth before the vegetables have a chance to start. This Is done by thoroughly working the soil immediately before the vege­ table seeds are planted, thus killing any weed seedlings that are about to appear above the surface, and giving the vegetables an even start With the weeds that may develop from seed* germinating later. Wisdom in Buying Eatables. Some housewives never learn that there are less expensive cuts of meat than steak and rlb-roaBtB which are as nutritive and just as suitable for cer­ tain ways of serving. They are usual­ ly the same individuals who order oysters, fish, strawberries out of sea­ son and do not assimilate the Idea that certain things, as soap, can be pur­ chased at a bargain in large quantities while certain perishables, like ripe fruit and vegetables, had better be purchased in small lots. Some eatables are really cheaper in bulk, as the com­ mon raisins, and some as coffee, tea, crackers, etc., lose In a short time de­ sirable quality unless they have been kept in packages. Quality In yeast, baking powder, and flour, in the end, pays. Test Your Seed Corn. So much has been said recently about the seed corn situation that one hardly needs to be reminded of the fact that a thorough germination test is absolutely essential this year. Seeds­ men have practically sold out all <|f the 1911 crop and it seems necessary to use some of the 1910 crop in order to get enough seed. Much of the 1#1Q crop, if It has been properly stored, is likely quite as good as the corn grown during the past season. A germina­ tion test should, however, be made of this In order to insure perfect safety. Afraid the Mule Would Enlist. At the last encampment of the state militia at Fort Riley several of the regiments were on dress parade and the occasion brought out a large num­ ber of spectators, among whom was a farmer boy, mounted on an old mule, who was gazing, open mouthed, at the soldiers. As one regiment passed close to the boy the mule became frightened and started backing. A young officer, thinking to start some fun, called out: "What's the matter, son? Afraid he will run away?" I "Naw," returned the boy, Ttt afraid heU enlist."--Kansas City Star. \ \ Miss Chance--Sue has a fine set of teeth. Miss Caustique--In her comb? When the Appetite Lags A bowl of Post Toasties Wftllfe nammint hits the right spot, "Toasties" are thin hits of corn; fuDy cooked, then toasted to a crisp, golden- brown. This food makes a fine change foi spring appe­ tites. Sold by Grocers, and ready to serve from pack­ age instantly with cream and sugar. "The Memory Lingm" v. Mad* by PoMut Cereal Company. L*d. Pxirt F«xl CrMk. Hie*. " .* ' a r - s . ...si- ^