C'j'ily i: r3 m’:j to rix2
Artist DM His Best M limihsw
Managing Kilter Weuli Nat
a Satisfied -
Aa artlstwa drawing cartoon
wherein the Sac of our nation played
a larga part Ha draw tba flag first
Clmat with firs stars In tba blue field
and took It to tba managing editor
who promptly 1st obt a yelp
"Wady tblak tbla country la" said
tba managing adltor "a trnatf"
“What’s tba troublaT" aakad tba art-
ist "Trouble ballowad tba managing
adltor "why wa nsad mors stars
stars stars!"
fo tba artist brought tba plctsra
back and this Urn ha bad 117 stars la
It by actual count
Tba magaging adltor fait bis baad
and chokad slightly
"What do yon think you’re draw-
ing!" bs aakad aa last
“Tours tba hardest man to ptaasa
I srar met o my Ufa" said tba artist
Indignantly "first It’s too faw and
than It’s too many How many stars
do yon want anyway!"
TO KEEP THE SXIN CLEAR
For mors than a generation CutL
cars Soap and Cntlcura Ointment bars
dona mors for pimples blackheads
and other unsightly conditions of tba
complexion rad rough chapped
bands dandruff itching scaly scalps
and dry thin and falling hair than any
other method They do area more for
skin-tortured and disfigured Infants
and children 'Although Cntlcura Soap
and Ointment are sold by druggists
-and dealers throughout tbs world a
liberal sample of each with S 2-page
book on the cars of tba skin and hair
will be sent post-free on application
to "Cutleura" Dept I Boston
Let love make you strong pure aa-
were Let It prevent your sacrificing
tba least portion of your soul’s life—
Carmen Sylva
causes many serious dle-
us hi
fierce’s Pleasant Pellei
three for cathartic
Constipation
ssss It is thoroughly cured by Doctor
The Rest of It
She— I have a bill for yon on band
He— Well!
She— Foot It
to cm a coin nr ok dat
Vhks UAXAT1VB BRONO Quisles Tskls'a
I)rngf1israraiH oMf If It font to Ms Wa
You can flatter ellly girls by calling
them flirts
JHZ KZYSTOHZJ
TO HZALTH
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HOSTETTERSj
STOMACH
BITTERS
POISON IVY
Poison Ivy to more or less common
In open woods along old fences and
la similar places Poison oak three-
leaved ivy poison creeper and poison
Vine are other names for the same
plant Botanists differ aa to the Latin
name by which It should be known
me preferring Rhus radlcans L and
Other Hhus toxlcondendrea L
Th leaves are compared with three
leaflets th margins of which are en-
tire wavy or more or lest lobed The
flowers are greenish and rather incon-
spicuous Th fruit ia a small smooth
greenish berry which becomes whitish
- or cream colored when mature Tbe
Hikes Lov Ftres west vr1nU crPr- or five-leaved Ivy bee
auav0 'five leaflets to each leaf and la not
Great Northern Ity
-i
Coloolit Tickets on sale dally March lit to
April tfth
I The Great Northern Railway will place in
effect on Match 1st special One Way Cot-
onist fare of Iz J no from Ka nsasCity to poiata
la the Great Northwest and copunos tame
daily to April Ijth
This fare will enable everybody who baa
been coovinced of the great opportunitiea
awaiting theta ia the Goldea Great Norther
Slates to reach the goal of his deairce eco-
nomically aad quickly -i
Three daily traina will cany tha Colon lata
west - from the principal gateways — Kansas
City Minneapolis Chicago and St Paul— end
special preparations are being made far tbe
comfort and accommodation at passengers
I The fare from St Paul Minneapolis Kan-
as Citr Duluth and Superior will be flj-OOt
from Chicago fjJ-OO
1 Tickets will be told to neatly all points to
: f J w ftr'r n a I to of doubtful value unless repeated
SsThiSJa E8tesftS2T£ rvi”r cr
Great Falls Havre aad Kalipell Monisnaj I taken to prevent the development of
Spokane Seattle Tacoma Everett Belling-
r Victoria and Portland
ham Vancouver
1 Every town in this territory will enjoy tba
benefit of this rate and through tickets can
A be purchased at low figure In planning your
' trip to the Goldea Great Northern States
writs for free copy of Colonist Folder and
cost of through ticket from your tow to
rt Eouta
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CROP ROTATION
Tba ro tat lan at orwpa la Oklabi
la not given tbS attention that Its 1st
portaaoa demands It has been fre-
quently stated that no other state Is
capable of producing eo many differ-
ent crops as Oklahoma yet whan the
acreage devoted to each crop la
studied It will plainly be aaan that
there Is a difference between what
light bo grown and what la grown
Thera la a little over tea million
aores pf cultivated land In the state
of Oklahoma' Of this amount-over
fifty per cent la planted to eora each
year fourteen per cent cotton and
ten per cent to wheat Oats kafir
corn milo malts broom corn and cow-
peaa'Tnaka us most of tha remaining
twenty-els per cent of the acreage
devoted to crops
It will be seen from this that the
great majority of land la dsvoted to
cultivated crops Everyone realties
that it ia poor policy to grow tha asms
crop year aftsr year ou the same field
but at the same time aeema to ba
tba common opinion that a change
from one grain crop to another or
from one cultivated crop to another la
sufficient
Many reasons might be mentioned
In favor of crop rotation but we do
not think it necessary These points
may be passed by for those things
which enter into plane for laying out
a system of rotations
We may roughly divide all of tha
crops grown Into three main class!
grain cultivated crops grasses and
legumes A good rotation will change
from ono of these classes to another
Roughly we -may consider the grain
a sales crop tha cultivated crops
aa tha cleaning crops and the grasses
and legumes aa the soil builders This
classification of course is not -very
definite but It calls attention to some
of the effects that these crops have
on the aolL
The class of crops most neglected
In this state are the grasses and
legumes When the soils of Oklahoma
were first broken they were filled with
a large quantity of vegetable matter
ee result of the long growth of grasses
The vegetable matter ia of great Im-
portance yet It la being rapidly de-
stroyed by present system of farming
8olls that did not blow when they
were first broken begin to blow after
several years of cropping duo to tha
reduction of 'the vegetable matter
present
There la probably no way more
quickly to destroy the vegetable mat-
ter in the soli than by tha constant
growing of cultivated corps At ths
present time probably tha best and
quickest method to overcome this con-
dition is to grow cowpeaa every three
or four yeers either aa a main crop
or aa a catch crop snd"plow them
nnder — O O Churchill
poisonous
All parts of th poison ivy produce
an oil which ia highly poisonous to
th skin of most persona causing in-
flammation sever Itching and oftau
swelling There to considerable vari-
ation among Individuals aa to teal st-
ance to tbe effects of tha poison In
some th allgbteat touch produces the
most aerlone inflammation which oth-
ers are seemingly able do handle the
plants with Impunity
Th poison Ivy should be eradicated
especially from near the house from
city parka from school grounds and all
otner places where children play Per-
haps the only certain method of exter-
mination la to dig th plants out root
and all Cutting off tba stems only
leaves
Washing th hands or whatever
parts of tha body have come In con-
tact with the plant with soap soon
after handling will often prevent any
111 effects Water alone however will
not dissolve the oil Alcohol end chlo-
roform will also remove the poison
The most common remedy for use
after th poison has begun to takq
effect to alcohol or water te which hat
been added aa much sugar of lead
(lead acetate) as will readily dissolve
The alcoholic solution Is especially
effective aa It removes-whatever -of
the oil 1s qtlH upon the skin
Poison elder poison oek end poison
sumach are olesely related plants all
belonging te the genus Rhus’ Thslr
effects upon th skla are practically
ths same aa poison ivy aad th aaine
remedies are affeatlv— W O Stover
Department of Horticulture end Bet-
PAauzs rci :zzz
What would bo the beet kind ot
grace or forage plant for a permanent
hog pasture on upland where alfalfa
will not grow! Would vetch da and
would R do aa i soil renovator! —
James Ortaisr Fottawattomlo County
Okie
Bermuda makes the beet permanent
jrrass pasture ea upland In year per
tJ3o of the state There seems to be
no other grass which will grew suc-
cessfully i tba greater portion of
this state Vetch would not make a
perm an sot pasture and la sot a very
suooeeaful crop even under the bast
of conditions Vetch being a legume
It to very good aa a soil renovator
specially U it to plowed under but
we would nover recommend the row-
ing of this crop where wheat to grow
for market aa It to apt ts become a
weed If yea are looking mainly
toward the building np of yolir soil
I believe It would be well to grow
some of the annual crops making the
legumes especially prominent Ob
farms where the fields are fenced tn
small paddocks It to possible to have
a number of pasture from annual
crops Early sown wheat would fur-
nish winter and spring pasture This
posed trip with more than a passive
would be followed tn another field by 1 Interest That speech now to being In-
a mixture such as oats rape end terpreted as the latest notice given
vetch Tbs wheat field 'could be
plowed as soon aa tba pasture played
out and seeded to some crop such
as cowpeaa sorghum millet etc for
later pasture When the oat pasture
played out some other forage crop
could be planted on tbe same field
By properly selecting tbe crops to be
grown and pasturing one field a while
and then another reseeding when
necessary a large number of animals
may be kept on a email area It would
bo well at the same time to have a
permanent grass paddock to run stock
In when tbe cultivated field are
muddy or If the animals crop the
pasture too close Peanuts do exceed-
ingly well on sandy land and -may be
harvested by the hoga themselves
wham they are ready If you grow
them for this purpose It would be
welt to grow the Spanish variety Two
fields one of peanuts and one of corn
have been found very profitable for
feed In this way The combination
gives better results than either crop
by Itself— O O Churchill Department
of Agronomy
DAIRY QUESTIONS ANSWERED
1 What to a dairy farm! Ana—
A dairy farm to a faym devoted to
dairying
2 What to dairying! Ant — Dairy-
ing Is the combination of a dairy barn
a dairy herd a silo dairy feeds and
the brains of a dairyman back of the
combination
8 What lands are beat adapted to
dairying! - Ana — Possibly the moat
productive lands would be the most
profitable for dairying however no
system of farming will build up and
make more productive the poor farm
than dairy farming
4 How do the profits of dairying
compare with other lines of farming!
Ana— It to generally recognised that
all of all lines of stock rasing or crop
production (truck fanning excepted)
that dairying to th moat profitable
B How do the opportunities In
dairying today compare with those tn
the past! Ana— -They were never
better There to an Increasing demand
for Improved dairy stock also the de-
mand for and prices of dairy products
are equal to and higher than the aver-
age of ten years ago — —
8 Is th dairy cow an economical
producer! An— Yea If she produces
over 200 pounds of butter fat In a
-year Experiment stations have
found that for every dollar’s worth of
feed consumed she returns n net profit
aa high aa 12S per cant
7 How can the production of a cow
be best determined! An— By weigh-
ing her milk and taking samples ef it
for three days each month and calcu-
lating her production by multiplying
her production for three days by ten
Tbe for thirty days
8 How do the profits from three
cows which collectively produce 600
pounds of butter fat in a year compare
with the profit of one cow producing 00
pounds of butter fat In a year! An —
The profit from tha one cow would be
several hundred times greater
9 How do you reason that out!
Ana — Th 200 pounds-butter fat cow
will pay for her feed and a few dollars
besides to aay nothing of the labor to
take care of her while the 600 pound
butter fat cow will pay for all feed
and labor and n handsome profit be-
tide 0
10 If the 100 pound butter fat cow
to worth $2500 what la the 600 pound
butter fat cow worth! An — Consid-
ering her value from the standpoint of
her production as compared with tbe
200 pound butter fat cow she would be
worth 125000 or more — Roy C Potto
Dept of Dairy Husbandry
COTTON SEED MEAL AS FERTIL-1
IZER
Pleaaa send me the analyela of cot-
ton seed meal aa a fertilizer— W O
Church Oklahoma County Oklahoma
Replying to your Inquiry regarding
the value of cotton teed meal aa a fer-
tiliser I am pleased to submit the fol-
lowing which to calculated from 250
analyses: —
Nitrogen (N) 716
Phosphoric arid (P205)296
Potaah (K20) 190
In a series of testa conducted by
the United States government it was
shown that 1( 450 pound of cotton
eed meal were applied to their experi-
mental plot with 670 pounds arid phos-
phate and 142 pounds of Kalllt -wa
average yield la seed cotton ot 1727
pounds waa obtained for the two sea-
sons during whlqh the tost wa made
m TO SOUTH
waiii nniiviii muit as rfv
WOULD ALLAY ALL DOUBT A
SECRETARY OF fiTAT TO VI 8IT
CAKRIEEAN COUNTRIES
siGific'i:Dt in visit
INTENTION
Invelvee Attitude ef Oewenwwent To
ward R ecu biles European Cewm
trie Interested Other New
ef Oeneral Interest
Washington D C — World-wide ilp
tn (1 canoe attaches to the visit soon to
be mad by Secretary Knox at thn
direction of President Taft to the
countries bordering oa the Carribeaa
European diplomats recalling n ro-
oent speech of lfr Knox before the
New York state bar association o the
Monro doctrine look upon the pro
by tbe United States that tbe prin-
ciple of "America for Americans"
must be observed
Central American diplomats war
unanimous In tbalr statements Sunday
night thgt tha secretary’s visit not
only would allay International doubt
as to the Intent of tba Unltad States
toward those-eountrlei but would warn
off possible encroachment of nations in
the other hemisphere
The state of unrest lfl many aLtln
American countries the efforts of tha
at'te department to maintain neutral-
ity as between the republics ot th
south and Its endeavors to unravel
their financial tangles have proceeded
It to said not without tbe potential
Influences of world power
War Planes Te B Built
Washington — Undismayed by th
Small appropriation allowed by th
bonus for carrying on aeronautics la
tba army during 1912 tba war depart-
ment recently let contracts for flv
war aeroplanes These contracts war
let out of the appropriation allowed for
this year
It will probably be several months
before tbe machines are delivered at
the army headquarters at Collage
Park Md and tbe army aeronautical
squad than will be Jback from Augusta
Georgia
Brigadier Oeneral Allen chief signal
officer said the war department soon
would order several more aeroplane
The signal corps to handicapped la
Its aeronautic work to eom extent
by the lack of officers available for
u Aeronaut By th time th
le nchlne roach College Park
It to expected enough officers will have
been detailed to aeronautic to handle
the machines Aa soon aa more of-
ficers are detailed undoubtedly further
contracts will be let under the 1911
appropriation
Bryan Ready te Testify
Ban Antonio Tex— William Jen-
nings Bryan Intimated hto willingness
to testify before the house committee
which will investigate charges of th
existence of a money trust He de-
clared he would reserve anything he
might aay until h should appear be-
fore the committee
Mr Bryan declared that tha resolu-
tion Introduced recently by Represen-
tative Pujo in connection with the
money trust Investigation vindicated
the position taken by Congressman
Henry
"The Pnjo resolution" he said "to
hot comprehensive enough to me yet
It shows that there was reason to
doubt the hanking committee’s sym-
pathy with th Investigation desired
The question now to how complete the
Investigation will he”
Maks Officers Work
Leaves worth Kan-— Officer at Fort
Leavenworth are not to lead a hot
houso existence while stationed there
according to a general order Issued
by Colonel Daniel Cornman com-
mandant which requires that all of-
ficers taka sufficient exercise each
day to keep themselvee to fit physical
condition to perform active duty with
troops under war conditions Tha or-
Strike Threat Withdraw
Chicago— Th strike by which street
railway employes of Chicago hav
threatened for several days to tie up
all traffic on surface end elevated rail-
ways will not occur Following a
conference with officials of th rail-
way company Saturday th union of-
ficials announced that all their griev-
ances had been referred to certain of-
ficials of the railway companies and
that In these men th "unions had ex-
plicit confidence"
Cambridge Wine
Loudon-Th Cambridge associa-
tion football team defeated th Ox-
ford eleven In the annual match throe
goals to one
Two Ship Crewe Saved
Chatham Mass — Two three-masted
schooners th Ann! Lewis and the
Rhode Holmes with rigging and sails
encased in 1c and with their crows
near exhaustion from exposure were
taken In tow for Frovlncetown Satur-
day by revenue cutter Gresham
Forty Are Killed
Curnavaca M ex— Forty Zapatlstaa
are reported to have been killed la
Friday’s two hours’ battle at Santa
Maria government reports show tong
federal 4ed
eivwrvwM ft lees eii §q V free setWiv i J
Cl Yerttee fi arose Year !e FedsrsJ
Fries far Crime He Ci4
Net Commit
Rev Yorit— Pardoned by FrecIXsst I
Taft alter serving one year In the
Federal penitentiary at Atlanta for A
rim be did not commit Oscar Krom
pr w decorator rejoined Ms wife and
Lrwyaerold eo la their home at No
Cut usth street the other day
Ur Krueger opo whom th dtograe
o t kto conviction although laaowrit
had weighed heavily throughout the
period ef hto Imprisonment to la Cl j
health doe to nervous collapse
Ur Krueger ears that hto (osrtol
tloa was partly tf not wholly due be
th activity of Aatbony Comstock aeo-1
rotary of th Society of the Buppre
tdoa of Vlos Ur Krueger rehearsed I
the story of hto unhappiness Cross the
’ - Oscar Krueger
day thirteen months ago when ha
was accosted In th street by a young
woman who asked him if bla name was
"Ed" Ha answered In th negative
and to prove hto assertion he showed
her hto bankbook which bore hto name
While the woman was holding Mr
Krueger's attention- Mr Comstock
stood on th opposite side of th
street and after Mr Krueger and th
woman separated Mr Comstock fol-
lowed Mr Krueger to the Bowery Bar-
ings bank where he learned hto ad-1
dress A few days later Mr Krueger
was arrested and after a speedy trial j
convicted and sent to Atlanta
"I was dated" said Krueger "I
knew I was Innocent and I could not I
understand why that court and Jury
did not think so too When th doom
of the prison- closed behind me weeks
passed before I was able to realise th I
horror of my position I wrote my
wife and assured her of my Innocence
bnt she had faith In me and needed no
assurance of mine So she began to j
plan my freedom She and my sister j
took np my fight and an Investigation
of my case was mad by order of th
Department of Justice at Washington
My Innocence wax established and 1 1
regained my freedom"
Krueger was convicted on th 1
charge ot using the malls for Improper
purposes
HEAT FOR ANCIENT R0ZE
House Heating Apparatus Just Found
Demonstrates Hew People Kept
Warm ZfiOO Year Ago '
London—' Thr discovery of exton I
slve Roman remains at Great Ch ce-
tera on the Tyne hat demonstrated
that the Romans 2000 years ago en-
joyed a much better system ot heat-
ing houses than Englishmen do at th
present time
By th Roman system th heat was I
distributed evenly throughout th
walls and floors of the house where-
as th usual British system to an open
lire at which your face roasts while
your back freeses and you are liable
to die of cold If you go Into the ear
aero ot the room or the passage of
the house
In on of th houses ot Groat Ches-
ter there to a beautiful example ot
a hypocaust th name ot tha Roman
heating apparatus Great Chesters
waa tha alt ot an Important Roman
military station along th great wall
which th Emperor Hadrian built to
keep back th barbarian a descending
on Britain from Scotland Th house
waa that of the Roman military com-
mander Hot air waa generated by a circular
furnace which heated water and gav
out streams of hot air Into th hypo-
eaust which waa a chamber under th
ground floor of the house containing
arrangements of hollow til pillar
called "snspenaurae"
From the hypocaust tha hot air was
distributed throughout th building by
a aeries of wall and floor flues giving
an ven temperature throughout th
bona
This system was invented shortly
before th tlm of th Emperor Aug-
ustus who feigned from 27 B 0 to
Hill and waa soon adopted not
only In publto hatha bnt tn prlvat
houses
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Wee Tessa
FORCE OF HABIT
Father — Now If you ask me one atn
gl question more ni aend you to
bed—
Bon— Why t
Kaiser a Writer
The German emperor had he beU
born a commoner and chosen news-
paper work ea a profession would
without doubt have become on of
th most famous journalists of th
day He has written a great deal
which has never seen the light but
which will doubtless be published In
th future Recently the emperor as-
sisted ia tha preparation ot an article
entitled "How th Kaiser Works" for
the Strand Magaslne tha proof sheets
which be read and corrected himself
Consolation
Father (to hto daughter’s suitor) — t
have aad news for you I am ruined I
I have lost everything!
8ultor — Conaol yourself dear air
with the thought that you are now la
ao danger of losing your daughter j
— - Boetonese ' 1
Hokua — Bo that Boston girl said I
wasn’t worth my salt eh!
Fokna— Well she did remark that
you were in Inverse ratio to our chlor-
ide of sodium— Puck !
j
A pretty girl doesn’t hav to pr
poe during leap year and a homely
one to afraid to — but there’s th stren-
uous widow
A TROUBLE MAKER
Coffee Foleon Breeds Variety ef lllm
A California woman who didn’t
know for twenty years what kept her
111 writes to tell how the won hack bar
health by quitting coffee:
"1 am 84 years old" ah says "hav
used coffee all my life and for 28
year suffered from Indignation and
Insomnia life was a burden aad n
drag to me all the time and about
once a year my ailments got such hold
upon mo that I waa regularly ‘sick In
bod’ for several weeks each time
"I was reluctant to conclude that
coffee waa the cause of my trouble but
I am thankful that X found out th
truth
"Then X determined to use Postum
exclusively — for a week at first — for I -doubted
my ability to do without cof-
fee for any length of time I mad
th Postum carefully aa directed and
before th week expired had my re-
ward In n perceptible lucres a la
strength and spirits
"Seeing the good that my short ex-
periment had accomplished I resolved
to continue the us ot Postum cutting
out th coffee entirely This I did for
nine months fisdlng dally increased
cause for gratification at my steadily
Improving health My Indigestion grad-
ually leu ma my sleep returned X
gained 26 pounds In weight my color
changed from sallow to a froah rosy
hue and Ufa became n blessing
"Than I thought I would try eoffa
again and did so for a few weeks Th
punishment for deserting my ’ good
friend Postum was a return of my old
troubles
"That taught me wisdom and X am
now and shall be all my life hereafter
aslng Postum exclusively and enjoy
I tng th benefits It brings ma" Name
given by Postum Co Battle Creek
Mich
I "There’s n reason" and It to explain
d in the little book "Th Road to
Wallvllle" In pkgs
rev ns4 th a have lettevf A w
le tuMh Veer
Ml at