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adding to its beauty and desirability. They have lately put up a substantial light iron fence, which, kepi well painted, will last unto the third and fourth generation. wheat or rye bread does. The wheat berry in itself comes very near being a balanced ration. If It is robbed.of j its gluten, which lies next to the skin, it is no longer a complete £ood. Pota- I toes are extremely one-sided and should be eaien'in connection with some nitrogenous food, such as lean meat or beans, which, however, If eaten alone would afford the system | too much Aitrogen. This bulletin, which is written by a woman, also dis cusses the practical side of bread mak ing and can probably be read with STOP YOUR RUNAWAY NONE GENUINE UNLESS STAMPED I SAFETY REIN 3EAUTIFYING RURAL HOMES. UESUWCT f BUCKLES CROWN PIECE GUY ELLIOTT MITCHELL. PRICE, COMPLETE, $5.00. Expressage Prepaid No more Smash-ups; Mo more Lives Lost; Can bo bucktod WORKS INDEPENDENTLY OF THE DRIVING REINS* **** Write for descriptive circular, free o« application, to THE) GE)ER MANUFACTURING CO M 47,EXCHANGE PLACE, NEW YORK. -Will Stop May Bono or Money Refunded, Tin* Enjlb-iiiuan Jives in a house which in all probability id'* father and his forefathers have Jived in for a down generations. Even where the house i« not owned by lie resident, the preferential right descends from father tc son o rent aui occupy it. It is a true home. American are stiongly imbued with the idea of owning homes, houses with accompanying plots of land; but as a rule Americans arc all too careless, ut the same time, about creating a bit of scenery or making the home such an attractive abode as will cause the traveler to pause a cd Into, it and lived there the first year, while they were building their house. They at once planted a garden which seemed to tu.em like a real | farm after their tiny back yard, and the first year they raised all the veg etables they could eat, besides over fifty chickens. And since then they have gone on beautifying and embellishing this place, until it is now a lovely country residende, twenty per cent, higher in value than it would have been If, five years ago they had made it a mere benefit by any housewife. Items of Interest. Oscar flunt of the Carlisle football team is a millionaire Indian. Sandwich Old, battered, second-hand silk hats are in good demand among comedians —also among the colored fraternity. A cubic foot of earth weighs on an What More Acceptable! CHRISTMAS • A COSY FIRE-PLACE^ CORNER. "Ah,” said the man, "if we had only had the advantages when we were young which our children have here, there would have been a lot more In life for us." And so it is [little, “ front , m ... ly under your window, whether you have a plain or a carved window sill, but It does matter whether your front HAY PRESS >uso, one rn, will rs hence. ■ my long -t year, •n, were /erywhere. It matters If you live in a brown stone with the brick pavement direct- ;Could you send to yoor friends?: i It Costs Ten Cents j fit is Worth Ten Dollars- | WHY? j BECAUSE • ' Every Woman’sLifeisaProblemj The Baler for speed. Bales 18 to 18 tons a day. Has 40 Inch feed hole. Adapted to bank bam work. Stands up to He work—no digging holes for wheels. Self-feed Attachment increases cap. acity, lessens labor, makes better bile*, and does not increase draft. or buck yard is well kept and well fenced and Is prettily decorated with plants and Tines, and whether, if you have more ground, it Is a poor, un- have more „— , „ „ _ r , attractive plot, or instead is a thing of beauty and a joy, not only to you hut to nil who see it . How many men you run across who have been “awfnily busy" but are going to- “flx up" their place*. They seldom get fixed. Before they get fixed up with tho little things n home should bare, they need fixing in enmest-they are old places. If ns a people we could !>ecomo ed ucated to the idea of greater perma nency in our modb of living, of build ing nud Improving for our future years, or doing something with the idea In mind that we would not have to re-do it In ten or • fifteen jeers hence, the average American homo would have a far more substantial, comfortable and attractive appear- PLANTS BELOW THE SILL, average five and a half times os much as a cubic foot of water. SANDWICH MFG. CO- ISt Main Street, Sandwich, lit It costs as much to fire a 16-lnch cannon ns It does to pay a private soldier his wages for five years. n The ruins of n prehistoric fortified Well Drilling Machines British .village have neon unearthed near Ganbalton, England. Tho fly Is seven times stronger than “ tin won nralffhf fn. mrvlwh# T t- /U< n 114s a horse, weight for weight It can lift twenty times Its own weight The canning of blue berries is an Important Industry In Vermont One factory lost season canned 300,000 Over 70 sizes and styles for drilling either deep or shallow wells in any kina of soil or rock. Mounted on wheels or sills. With engines or horse powers. Strong, simple and durable. Any me chanic can operate them easily. SEND FOR CATALOGUE WILLIAM BROS., Ithaca, N. Y. Balanced Rations for Man and . Beast, / Two Farmers' Bulletins of the De partment of agriculture, widely dis similar In contents, yet treating of sub jects which have a closely-connected relationship are tho Feeding of Farm Animals and the Principles of bread Making, and both of them have proven so popular that their reprinting has been required several times. The feeding of the animals on the farm Is a matter which every farmer is studying more or less closely, uo more successful ones the mist closely, since It Is a matter of constant experi ment and Inquiry to determine Just what Is the bust ration for work, meat and dalty animals. While each man's experience most be to a great extent bis guide, there are certain laws, the results of wide experiments, which of- THE HOME THEY MADE AND THE BARN IN WHICH THEY DWELT WHILE BUILDING IT. i framo dwelling, usually of cheap, spent In going ovcl- architect's plans >nd-growtli timber. Iu twenty years and adjusting pretty nnd-artistic ef- Eturllsh homo Is covered wth Ivy ects to their limited price. And If a WORKER OR HOUSEWIFE How to. Save Time and has the appearanco of subtantl- ifllty nnd solidity, as though it had al ways been there and intended remain ing. If you mention "twenty years hence” to tho American, he will shrug lila shoulders and smile and tell you he expects to be somewhere else In twenty years, if he has not bettered I his condition and gotten out of 1^ In half that time. But twenty years pass more quickly than is expected, nnd what docs tho place look, like then? It has had perhaps three coats of paint The second set of shingles la curling up nnd needs replacing and the house itself is worth one-half of Its value when now. ' Yet it must bo agreed that every man should build a bouse with tho idea ot making it Ills permanent home, adding to it ns his needs grow, but continually improving it nnd beautifying It If for no other cause .than increasing its selling value, he should build well and Improve. And this applies to tho surrounding grounds, the outbuildings, etc., fully as much ns tho home proper. “What is homo without a mother"- and n good wife and children? What Is home, I would add, oven with theso blessings, unless It is a real home, a comfortable and a beautiful one? Ah, there Is a difference, nnd Suoh a wldo difference, between an nbodb or a mere dwelling plnco nnd a home. Trying to treat this matter from a I practical standpoint, the Department I of Agriculture recently Issued on II- t lustra ted bulletin on beautifying back 1 yards. This applied to city and su- c hurban homes, but tho Idea Is the c Bamo everywhere. . c AMERICAN CROWN What it ought to be ,IS TOLD BY ONE WHO KNOWS *• a great .oap, constancy of potto, a perfset cleanser for automobile machinery and a) 1 vehicles; will not injure the moat highly polished surface. Made from pure vegetable oils. If your dealer does not carry American Crown Soap in stock, send us his name and address and Ve will see that your wants are supplied. Puf up in 12}$ 25 and GO lb pails. James S. Kirk & Company CHICAGO, IU. MAXWELL'S Dietary experts of the Department of Agriculture estimate that a man EXCAVATION WORK. With Grextezt Economy > An Illustrated Monthly £ j Edited by (Imy Clisbtc flaxWell j > which will be sent to yon 5 iONE WHOLE YEAR! FOR ONLY • jTEN CENTS j ! Send a dime or five two-cent • stamps to. • ; MAXWELL’S j : HOMEMAKER • MAGAZINE • use the Western Elevating Qrader and Ditcher. ROAD CONSTRUCTION. Western Wheeled Scraper Cm ONE OF THE DELIGHTS OF THE RURAL HOME doing bard muscular tvo.c should hare dally food with a fuel value of 4,350 calories while a man taking lit tle exercise needs only 2,450. and bone producing, known as nitro genous, and those two foods should lie supplied tho nntmnl In the proper, pro portion. If there Is a preponderance of either, the ration Is unbalanc'd. Both of these bulletins can be ob tained free through members of con gress or senators, or by - writing to the Secretary of Agriculture at Wash ington. Corn, for instance. Is n food rich In carbohydrates and should be “Ini- anced" by a portion of some nitroge nous .food such ns barley, bran, cow- peas of others of the legumes. A per rusnl of this bulletin will give the reader n very e’enr understanding of tho valoe of food for animals. Food Value uf O- cad. The second bulletin on Bread Mak ing, Farmer's Bulletin 112, also goes Into the question of what Is a balanced ration, but for human food. As cofn nnd corn fodder Is a fat-produclng Switzerland la the oldest as well as one of the smallest republics In the world. The cantons of Uri, Schwyx and Unterwnldcn formed a defensive league In 1291, nnd this was the be ginning of the Swiss Confederacy. Tho American harvest ot broom- corn this year will furnish material for 42,000,000 brooms worth, appprox- Imatcly, 115,000.000. With 4,000 brooms to a car, 10,000 freight cars will be required to transport the International Harvester Co. GASOLINE ENGINES When equipped with an I. H.C. gasoline engine, the form, the dairy, the min. the threshing machine, or the busker and shredder can he operated more eoooomkslly Uuuvwith any other power. Fanners wbo have water to pump, wood to saw, feed to grind or com to shell, can do this work at a minimum broom output. Tho star nearest to the earth la Al pha Centaurs, estimated to be 25,000,- 000,000.000 miles away or 275,000 times farther distant from the earth than the son. Needless to say these figures are in what are known at "round numbers." .• handsome and well-built homes The care and attention given to this place may In Itself have brought good neighbors. A good lawn was made,,shade and fruit trees were Immediately set out and sedulously cared for, tho man has become nn expert gardener, the chick en business has become an Important adjunct, furnishing not only an ample meat supply, but a considerable ad ditional income from eggs, broilers and capons. Tho fruit trees are be ginning to bear and the berry lashes have long sinco yielded fresh fruit for the table and Jellies and Jams for winter. The place Is constsntly Im proving and being Improved. The Interior of the house was well finished to commence with. Room after room has since been furnished and beautified as means admitted. For making this move, for adopting this change In their modes of life, this couple are better people: they are bet ter citizens, they arc broader, they know more, they are happier and they are richer in two senses. They make more money and they save more. They bny less of caused vegetables and meats and they have more to spend In Improving their place and And this calls to mind a practical 11- lnstratlon of what a good thing It Is, what a splendid thing: to start In r wlng something In your back yard, you have nothing bigger. For 1 have In mind two. people, a young man and hts wife, who started their married life In a rented city house with n bock yard 18 feet wide and containing about jjne-fortlcth of an acre. They had lived In the city all their lives and knew nothing of the wonders of plant nnd animal produc tion, But they commenced at once to -JSO their ground. They planted radishes and lettuce nnd some flow- vrr. and trained tomatoes against the fence, and they set a ben. Their tall- vres and interesting experiences dur ing the two years they lived thus would fill n volume. But the great re sult was that before the end of* the first year, they who had never lived outside their four walls, frit terribly confined. They longed to get out nnd have enough land to grow more things, to make a genuine garden nnd to nurture nnd rear and reap the tilings which they ate. And so they moved Into the country, hardly the r.-, I ,-ourrtry yet: hut they bought ball’ an acre Just beyond the city out- food for animals, so com bread Is a one-sided diet for man and while It produces fat and energy or fuel for tho body does not tend to give him the same capacity for endurance that I. H. C. HORIZONTAL ENGINE LRC. gasolino engines are rhade In tho following tbes P„ vertical type, stationary: & 8, to, is and 15 H. P., horizo “GOLLY, rSK GLAD I DONE LOOKED IN DE WINDOW FUST.'