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In many parts of Switzerland
he Yuletide customs and
festivities still have their be-
ginning on Dec 6 which is
the anniversary of St Nich-
olas Markets and fairs are
then held in villages and cit-
ies ant V seeing that the old
traditions prescribe for this
day the purchasing of pres-
ents for the children it is an
event of utmost importance
to all youngsters In some
districts St Nicholas parades
around In person in an attire
very similar to that of our
American Santa Claus gener-
ally carrying a ’ big bag filled
with apples prunes nuts and
homemade cookies which he
distributes among the children
who have been obedient during
the year
' The next and in modem days
the most important festive day
of the whole Yule season It
Christmas day History relates
that it was only in the year
SS4 A D that the Roman
Bishop Liberius regarded this
particular day as the birthday
of Christ and as they were fur-
thermore desirous of giving a
more religious importance to
two important Roman festivals
which also fell due in the
same period With the obser-
vation of Christmas day the
Christkindli described as "a
lovely angel with wings"
gradually started to take old
Bantu's place in many sections
of Switzerland Christkindli
the Christ Child is said to
come from the far north and
always brings a wonderful
Ohristmas tree decorated with
all the glittering things asso-
ciated with fairyland and heav-
ily laden with manifold gifts
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CHRISTMAS AND FEAST TIME
Illustrating the Multiplication of Food
When Chriet Made Starvation
Jy Into a Banquet
In the story of the feeding of the
multitude there was more food after
the feast thnn there was In the begin-
ning for the feast began with what
one boy had in a basket but it took
twelve boys and twelve baskets to
carry away the fragments left on the
tables and the grass The explanation
la given us In the statement that the
Divine Lord presided at the out-door
stable and had made starvation into
a banquet
f The story illustrates well the mul-
tiplication of beauty when a great
religion and a great philosophy repose
beneath It for what was one basketful
when the hungry ones began to eat
becomes afterward more basketfuls
than many hands can carry away from
the blessed Held Christmas Is the
twelve baskets full found remaining
from the first simple arts and It
should be an adequate explanation for
us that a great Savior has passed over
the banqueting ground-swing— Ex-
change A Wish
I’d fain have a centipede’s stockings
To littng by the fireplace tonight
And then hnve an octupus Santy
With eight trms to fill them up tight
-New York Bun
CbeCbrtetmas
Story
7 HERB was peace on the lone Ju-
dean hills
And the shepherds watched
their flocks by night
When there came from the silent star-
ry skp
A burst of glory a dazzling light
And the angel choir from far away
Bang “ Peace on earth good will to
men"
And we hear the song o'er lapse of
years
As it echoes in our hearts again
They sang in notes of heavenly joy
They brought a message from Ood tdt
men
For the Prince of Peace had come lot
earth
And a child
was bom at
Bethlehem
rhe Christ had
come the
King of
kings
That we might
Ood in his
beauty see
And hearts be light in blessed hope
That death should be swallowed in
victory
And they left their flocks and hasten-
ed on
To the city of David to see the bob
Tne Saviour of men and the Bon oj
God
The humble child in a manger laid
And they marvel at that which had
come to pass
And return with glory and praise tq
God
While the chorus echoes within their
hearts
As back to the lonely hills thsy plod
As the shepherds of old let us hasten
on
This Christmas day to Bethlehem
town
To be with him
through the
whole of
life
To bear the
cross and to
gain the
crown
No more shall
we find him a
lowly child
But there forever with God above
He watches and guides our feeble steps
Till he bears us horn with hi in-
finite love
How sweetly how gladly to all the
world
There comes a message of hope
today
For Christ is bom and man is free
And pain and sorrow must pass
away
How sweetly and silently into the
heart
The Christ Child comes this blessed
night
To' make us noble and good and true
For the light of the world is a won-
drous light
Dear Christ may we follow with will?
ing hedrts
The path of duty where thou hal
led ’
That sin and shame may have an end
And that joy
may fill our
souls in
stead
And on this thy
glorious natal
day
We shall catch
the sound as
the glad bells
ring
Till we hear thy
away
And in heaven
sing
—Rev Norman Van Pelt Levis in Phil
adelphia Public Ledger
SACRED MISTLETOE
The druids with ceremonies of great
solemnity used to collect mistletoe with
a golden sickle “against the festival of
winter solstice” Only the oaks bear-
ing mistletoe were sacred to this an-
cient order of men
It Is recorded that the people's rev
erence for the priests proceeded In
great measure from the cures which
the priests effected by means of this
curious green plant of the pear-Uke
berries It was collected thus cere-
moniously by the druids because It was
supposed to drive away evil spirits
The reason among the druids for
bringing In bits of evergreen from the
woods and adorning the house Is a
most charming and lovable one : “The
bouses were decked with evergreen
In December that the Sylvan spirits
might repair to them and remain un-
nipped with frost and cold winds until
a milder season had renewed the foli-
age of their darling abodes"— Grafts-maq
CARE FOR SEPARATOR
Unclean Machines Necessarily
Cause Financial Loss
Cream From Polluted Device Has Poor
Keeping Qualities and 8oon De-
velops Decided “Off Flavor"
—Rules to Follow
(Prepared by the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture)
In the care and use of the cream
separator the necessity of thoroughly
cleaning and scalding it every time It
Is used cannot be too greatly empha-
sized Cream from an unclean separator
has very poor keeping qualities soon
develops a decided “off flavor" and be-
comes second grade Cream of this
kind brings financial loss to the pur-
chaser whether he is selling on
quality basis or not Poor cream
makes poor butter and poor butter
returns a low price to the producer
whether the creamery is co-operative
or otherwise
The financial loss caused by unclean
separators is frequently not fully ap-
preciated because It Is Indirect It Is
however none the less real Good busi-
ness management of the dairy there-
fore demands that the following rules
be observed In using a separator:
1 Put the separator in a bright dairy
room that can be easily cleaned and
that Is always free from odors of all
kinds
2 Set the machine perfectly level
and bolt it to a solid foundation pref-
erably concrete
5 Oil thoroughly each time It Is
used
4 Be sure that the parts are proper-
ly assembled then start the machine
gently slowly
6 Maintain the proper speed and
keep an even pressure on the handle
at all times
6 When separation Is completed
flush the bowl with a quart of skim
milk or warm water
7 Having set the cream into cold
water and disposed of the skim milk
take the bowl apart and rinse with
luke-warm water
8 Using hot water washing powder
and brushes scrub all parts that come
Into contact with the milk
0 Rinse with hot water then place
In boiling water for a few minutes and
hang up to dry
10 Wipe frame of separator and
clean the room
SOME POTATO PARINGS
Good seed potatoes free of
blight and rot are always worth j
saving for one’s own future
crop or to supply others
Feed the cull potatoes to the i-
hogs Cook the potatoes thor-
oughly and mix with commeal
shorts or bran Skim milk Is a
good addition
Grading potatoes for market
Increases- the possibilities of
sales and raises the price re-
ceived Keep the culls on the
farms and save the cost of haul-
ing Potatoes add succulence to the
dairy ration Where corn silage
Is not available and there are
plenty of small potatoes a peck
a day will give a marked in-
crease in the milk flow They
should be Introduced into the
ration gradually and should be
run through a root cutter to
avoid the possibility of choking
the animal — United States De-
partment of Agriculture
Excellent for Poultry
Shrunken wheat which has neither
been frosted nor water soaked Is an
excellent food for poultry and costs
comparatively little when obtainable
Corn le Esaentlal
It Is almost Impossible to feed fowls
properly without some com or com-
meal and It will not pay to try to do
without this kind of grain entirely
Good Dairy Cow
A good dairy cow is one with a large
capacity for nslng feed above the main
tenance requirement and one that uses
this food for milk production
Best Returns From Fowls
The fact that grain Is high In price
makes It all the more necessary to
feed well so as to get the best returns
from the fowls
Burning Straw Is Criminal
The man who burns a strawstack
should be fined Its full feed or menu-
rial value In other words about $45
Attend to Hen House
If tbe henhouse has not been denned
tnd whitewashed Inside attend to It
now before cold weather comes
Feed snd Csre Tell
Blood will tell— and so will feed—
also care
EXPENSE OF TRACTOR WOht
Oil Gas and Wages $160 an Acre In
Trial Conducted Recently at
Iowa 8tate College
One acre of ground can be tractor I
plowed 6 inches deep on 2 gallons
of kerosene and one-eighth gallon of
lubricating oil
This was demonstrated in a two-1
day tractor plowing test conducted re-
cently at Iowa State college by the
agricultural engineering department
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Tractor In Operation
It took one hour and seventeen
minutes to plow an acre The length
of furrows was 648 feet Dead fur-
rows were 800 feet apart Because of
the shortness of the field one-sixth of
the time was spent In turning
A tractor pulling three 14-lnch
plows was used The average rate of
speed was 225 miles per hour aver-
age draw bar pull 1677 pounds
horsepower developed 1006 It took
10 hours and 24 minutes to plow
814 acres The field was level
The total c6st of plowing an acre is
figured at $160 This is figured on
the basis of kerosene costing 10 cents
a gallon lubricating oil 32 cents a gal-
lon operator’s time 60 cents on hour
interest depreciation and repairs 698
cents per acre
PIG FEEDING IS PROFITABLE
Nebraska 8tatlon Finds Alfalfa Hay
and Corn Best Feeds for Fattening
—Don’t Grind Corn
Alfalfa bay and corn were the best I
feeds for fattening hogs for profit at
the Nebraska station Pigs fed on this
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ration did not gain as rapidly as those I
fed on tankage and corn but made a
better showing in cost of gains Corn
was valued at 70 cents a bushel al-
falfa at $10 a ton and tankage at $260 1
per 100 pounds
Tbe test showed that It does not pay I
to grind com for pigs Those fed on
ground com made the slowest and
most expensive gains Where ground
corn and alfalfa hay were used the cost
per 100 pounds gains was nearly $2 per
100 pounds more than where dry
shelled com and alfalfa were fed
CROP TO PRECEDE ALFALFA
Ohio Experiment 8tatlon Recommend
Potatoes 8lnce 8oll le Usually
Well Fertilized
For sections where early potatoes I
succeed the Ohio experiment station
recommends this crop as one of the
beet to precede alfalfa since the land
Is usually well fertilised tnd manured
and frequent cultivation kill nearly
all weeds before alfalfa Is seeded
The potatoes can be harvested for late
July and early August alfalfa seed-
lngs and a good seedbed can be pro-1
pared merely by disking and harrow-
ing Field peas have also been found I
satisfactory when cut for hay as a
preparatory crop for alfalfa Such
midsummer seedlngs of alfalfa have
been found by the experiment station
more satisfactory than spring seed-1
lng In oats or barley Most alfalfa
failures are attributed to competition I
with weeds and to nurse crops that
provide excessive shude and leave too
little moisture and pluat food for the
young ulfutfu
Costs Less
and Kills
That Cold
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CASCARAR QUININE
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S4 Tablets fee ISe
At Any Drug Stan
Figuring His Loss
Billie — How much does this Job pay I
Mr HIrem— Why do you ask that
when I have already told you that yov
won’t do I
Billie— 1 just want to figure out how
much I am losing
WOMEN SUFFERERS MAY
NEED SWAMP-ROOT
Thousands upon thousands of women
taro kidney and bladder trouble and
never suspect it
Women’s complaints often prove to he
nothing else but kidnev trouble or the
result of kidney or bladder disease
If the kidneys are not in a healthy
condition they may cause the ether or-
gans to become diseased
Pain in the back headache loss of am-
bition nervousness are often times symp-
toms of kidney trouble
Don’t delay starting treatment Dr
Kilmers’ Swamp-Boot a physician's piw
scription obtained at any drag store may
be just the remedy needed to overcome
such conditions
Get a medium or large- size bottle Ism
mediately from any drug store
However if you wish first to test this
great preparation send ten cents to Dr
Kilmer & Co Binghamton N Y fdr n
sample bottle When writing be sure and
mention this paper— Adr
Lost Hie Head Also
“What happened when yon encoun-
tered the burglar?”
“He took my breath away”
“Anything else — anything of valuel"
asked the officer mechanically
WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY
Is her hair If yours is streaked with
ugly grizzly gray hairs use “La Cre-
ole” Hair Dressing and change It la
the natural way Price fLOO— Adv
Paper String and 8acka
Paper string Is being used In Eng-
land for commercial purposes Evan
tissue paper can be used in Its manu-
facture Paper Is being used for
making aacks for commercial use In
place of burlap and these have been
found to equal the former sacks la
every way
RACINE OIL COMPANY
Strikes It Rich Again
4 PRODUCING WELLS
Operating In shallow field— Pa la Kano
$25000 CAPITALIZATION
Reeponsible people Interacted Planning
to pay flrat dividend before Christman
Stock Selling at $LfS Per Shan
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CHILDREN’S COUGHS
Bur be checked end mere serious eoadl-
tiooa of the throat will be often avoided
by prempUr sivlof the child s doee cf