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«o humbled as to permit her to cemM
They would not permit me to let her
come to my home. v ry well, then, 1
thought, there are other ways of ac-
COTTON WILT LOSS
zsuT’js. s *mmt imoired More
Than $2,000,000 Annually.
dying husband elsewhere, and there
send for the woman whose presence
he craved.
"I did so. I removed him to Atlan-
tic City, and then 1 sent for her, and
she came. I brought her myself Into
his dying bedchamber and 1 saw them
clasping hands. It did not make me
unhappy—that is, any unhappler than
I already was. In fact, it rather
cheered me to think that I had done
something which, while
Extended Variety Tests on Infected
Fields Show That Large Boll Sorts
Are More Susceptible to Dis-
ease Than Other Plants.
SELECTING IDEAL DAtBV COW 1
There Are Several Essential Point* to"
Be Taken Into Consideration—
Few Important Ones.
In selecting cows for dairy herds j
there are several essential points to
consider. The cow should have great j
stomach capacity; avoid a round j
bodied cow whose ribs are short, and I
a flat ribbed cow. There should be
ample room for the udder, which
It Is very difficult to estimate the
_______ total loss from cotton wilt. The in-
•t 'iiui-t mv jury varies from the death of a few
She was with him at the time and mmt add to the actual shortage of
she was very, very unhappy. I think he crop in the spots where the cot-
that her presence in his last hours ™ A diminished yield of
made it easier for him, but at the ‘he surrounding cotton due to the
time I know that when he passed dwarfing of the p ants from partial in-
was with a last look toward fectlons; (2) a lessened income to
same
away it
me, and not to her—there was lovo
and there was gratitude to repay hie
for everything In that look!
‘■And then, but not until then, did I
feel that I had earned the right to
think of that other love which was
awaiting me and which I craved so. I
had no false sentiments about the
length of time I should wait beforq
allowing myself to become happy in
the possession of this love. I had
been mourning, you must remember,
and I had been practically a widow
for many, many years. There was no
reason why I should prolong it more.
:li
ifel
EW YORK—The he-
roine of this strange
love story is now
Mrs. Edward Charles
Parker. Many peo-
ple in New York’s
literary and artistic
circles have known
her well as Mrs.
George Homans.
That marriage seems
to have been unfor
lunate from the start, and the one tie
between husband and wife was a lit-
tle daughter, Sara, who promised to
develop into a girl of rare charm and
talent. At eleven she was earning
money with her pen and she has writ
ten poetry that is deemed worth while
by critics.
But in time even this tie failed to
bind. The inevitable “other woman”
appeared on the scene, and the wife
and mother passed through that deep
valley of humiliation which is so often
revealed in divorce courts.
Mr. Homans, who was a theatrical
manager, making a good Income, con-
tinued to support his wife and daugh
ter. but made his home with the other
woman. Relatives and friends tried
to indure Mrs. Homans to sue for di-
vorce, but she firmly refused. While
not a Roman Catholic, her personal
religious creed did not tolerate di-
vorce, and she declared that the day
would come when the man who had
married her would once more need
her—and she must be ready to re-
spond to the call.
Her very serenity In her hour of
stresss did much to ripen a beauty
which up to that time had been mere-
ly glrliBh prettiness. Hair of rather
nondescript tone turned to an ex-
quisite gray, accentuating the deep
glow of hazel eyes. With her slim
girlish figure—though she was close
to *y—and fresh, delicate com-
plexion, Bhe made a charming picture
At least that was what Dr. Edward
Charles Parker, professor of literature
tn the manual training school of Phil-
adelphia, thought when he saw her
standing, bewildered and anxious, in
the crowded waiting-room of a local
station. He passed her, turned and
looked back. She was still In the
same position, but now she was turn-
ing her handbag and her coat pock-
ets, Inside out. The look of anxiety
grew, and finally as what she sought,
was not unearthed, a blank look set-
tled on her face. It was quite clear,
the fair New Yorker had lost her
purse. And the Philadelphia physi-
cian, being resourceful and alert, felt
Impelled to go gallantly to the rescue.
“Can I be of service to you?”
Beginning of the Romance.
A perfectly conventional question,
uttered in a perfectly well-bred voice.
The New York woman flushed,
paled—and considered.
“It is just a trifle. My purse has
been taken, and my friends live some
distance out. I haven’t got the price
of a phone call—”
"Permit me, please!”
Of course, he wanted to call a cab,
but Mrs. Homans insisted that a plain
Philadelphia street car would be quite
ns well—and would he tell her where
to return the change he had so kindly
lent her?
Now, of course, Professor Parker
never would have missed the nickel
or two, but not for worlds would he
miss the opportunity of meeting this
fair woman again. He gave her a
card. She opened her bag and drew
out one of her cards on which Pro-
fessor Parker wrote the address of
the friend she was visiting. If she
did not mind, he would call for that
little loan In person. Then he put
her on the right car, lifted his hat—
and Cupid, perched on the portico of
that sordid, dingy old railway station,
turned somersaults of glee!
The professor called the next day,
and the next, and still again. Then
Mrs. Homans had to return to New
York. What is ninety miles to a man
In love? Nothing!
But when Professor Parker came to
New York he found that something
far more -baffling and grave than
space stood between him and the
woman he had loyed at first sight.
Mrs. Homans’ views concerning the
permanency of marriage vows had not
altered simply because lovo had come
into her life. She was not sure that
happiness would follow the breaking
of that promise made at the altar
years before. And between the pow-
er of her old beliefs and the call of
the newly found love, she was sadly
torn. To use her own words:
'Tween Love and Duty.
“I was between two fires. I had
married George for better, for worse.
Somehow I felt that when it came to
the worse for him he would summon
me. On the other hand, 1 had the
natural womanly craving for the real
lovo which Is the consummation of
life for a wopian.
“Doctor Parker was In Philadelphia,
as I knew grieving over the situation,
which somehow I felt powerless to al-
ter. Even my daughter, who was now
In her teens, urged me not to stand
In the way of our happiness. But I
was restless, undecided, distraught
when one day two lovely little gray
gowned nuns came to the door at my
apartment In One Hundred and Ninth
Btreet asking for charity. No one will
ever know what a sudden feeling of
peace swept over me as I looked Into
their calm, beautiful faces. I felt that
here were women who had attained
peace through doing what they thought
was right. I asked them to como In,
and w-> talked. The younger sister of
the two looked, as I thought, with
just » little regret at my comfortable
home, my worldly clothes, and said
gently: 'You must be very happy.’
“ ‘No,’ I replied, 'I am very un
happy.’
“Then, suddenly, the elder sister
tmued to me and, clasping my hand,
said: ’But you are going to be very
happy soon, because you are strug-
gling to do what you think is right.’
“I had told them nothing of my pri-
vate affairs, but the words sounded
like a prophecy and I regained my
courage.
“It was only a few days later that
fate, moving In Its inscrutable way,
unlocked the door that was to let me
Into my kingdom of happiness. When
my husband, dying of consumption,
sent a summons to me I could hardly
Interpret It as leading me a Btep near-
er to that happiness. But It did, and
in a strange way.
“I answered his summons. I found
him in a pitiable condition, his health
shattered, his life hanging on a thread,
his earning capacity gone and, during
his months of Illness, bis savings used
up. In common charity there was
nothing for me to do but to look after
his welfare in the few weeks ho had
to live.
A Wife's Devotion.
"I took him to my home, nursed
him, saw that he had the best med-
ical service and did everything in my
power for him. There were even then
friends who told me that I was fool-
ish—that I should not take on myself
the responsibility of looking after the
man who had treated me as ho had
done. But I had felt that it was rll a
part of a Big Scheme, bigger thaa we
could arrange, and against the work-
ings of which none of us should rebel.
“But, as ray husband lay dying tn
my apartments, It became evident
that, while I was doing everything in
my power for him, I was not supply-
ing him with the one thing that he
needed moro than all else to ease Ills
last hours. He must have the pres-
ence of ’the other woman.’ I deter-
mined that he should.
“My friends were aghast wnen I
told them that 1 was going to tend
for her. It was outrageous, they do
Entering Into Joy.
“My actual widowhood after Mr.
Homnns’s death lasted for only a
month. My marriage to Doctor Par-
ker was hastened by his belief, which
I shared, that tradition and conven-
tion amount to little when the heart
dictates that one should go against
their tenets; and when he Insisted
on an Immediate marriage I yielded.
Besides, his vacation was about to
begin, and he wished to spend it, as
he had arranged, In the British Isles.
So we were married on June 25 by
Rev. George Clarke Houghton in the
Little Church Around the Corner, with
my clearest friend, Mrs. Mabel Barnes,
as matron of honor, and only a few
intimate associates in attendance. Wo
sail soon for England, and to mo now
life is one glow of bright sunshine!
“Some of my friends and, I am
afraid, many who do not know me,
will not see my actions in the same
light that I do. I know that I shall j
be criticized for my kindness toward
Mr. Homans. I have been told that I j
showed a lack of spirit, that I acted
foolishly. Lack of spirit! If those
who have never undergone the agony
of those last days, with the attendant ■
humiliation entailed by bringing that :
other woman Into the presence of the j
man who should have been satlstled |
with my love—If that does not shew
spirit and plenty of It I am not able 1
to analyze the sentiment!, I only hop*
that never again shall I have to go
through such an experience of self-
sacrifice and self-effacement!
“My meeting with Doctor Farker j
was, of course, unconventional. My J
'wooing by him was equally uncont
the farmers on account of the neces-
sity of planting on Infected land some
less profitable crop, such as corn, or
of throwing cotton out of cultivation
altogether; (3) the increased cost of
cultivation of wilt-infected spots due
to the foothold obtained by crab-grass,
nut-grass, cockleburs, and other weeds,
after the death of the cotton; (4) a
depreciation in the market value of
wilt-infected land.
These losses probably amount to
more than $2,000,000 per unnum and
are annually Increasing.
Cotton wilt may make Its appear-
ance on single plants In a field, but
Its later and most characteristic de-
velopment is In definite spots of ir-
regular size and varying area In which
most of tho plants slowly wilt and
die. Some plants partially recover,
but remain dwarfed and bushy, often
one sided, while for some distance
around the wilt-infected area the cot-
ton Is more or le«s stunted by partial
root Infections. Occasional plants are
found to remain healthy even in thf
COLO. ..... KAOO. Of A
The Ideal Dairy Cow.
should extend well forward and not j
hang down. The milk veins should
be largo and tho farther they go tho
bettor. Tho udder should bo loose and
pliable, when empty—not fleshy.
Tho eyes should bo large and bright
and project well out from the face, j
This is a strong Indication of the
nerve force needed for strong dtges- !
tlon and largo milk secretion.
The dairy cow should bo deep and
wide from one to two as this gives her I
largo capacity for rough feed. Tho
back from one to four should be sharp. J
With little flesh, when she Is In good
condition. She should be well cut up
behind so that the udder can extend |
well up, as at three. Her flank should j
be well arched, as at five, to provldo '
room for a large udder.
Make tke Liver
Do it* Duty
I Nine tinea in ten when tin liver ia right thfl
stomach and bowela are tight,
CARTER’S LITTLE
UVER PII IS
gen'ly but firmly com^
pel a lary liver to
do ita duty.
Curea Con-
stipation,
Indiges-
tion,
Sick
Headache, and Diatrea* after Eating.
Small PUL Small Dose, Small Price
Genuine mm beat Signature
BILLIARD TABLES
POOL TABLES
LOWEST PRICES EASY PAYMENT!
You cannot afford to experiment with
untried goods sold by commission
agents. Catalogues free.
THE BRUNSWICKBALKE-COLLENDER CO.
14 W. Main Street. Dect. 0. Oklahoma City. Okla.
OLD SORES CURED
Alton's I rtnoflaWucu tv sl'hronlc u ictjr*.injne
doTont'Sf eo ro.Merc u rl ul Ulcere, Whites well*
No other man appreciates a helping
hand like & man in trouble.
Lewis’ Single Binder 80 cigar equal*
In quality most 10c cigars.
Tips you get are almost as worth-
less as thoso you give.
I>r. Pierce’s PellotB, small. Btijrnr-c
take a a candy, reguluto ana lnvl^oi
liver and bowola. Do not gripe.
*d, easy t«
stomach
CROPS FOR GOOD ROTATION
A woman's Idea of an intelligent
man is one who can tell whether or
not her hat is on straight.
Excellent Method of Succession to
Support Herd of Fifty Hogs With
Pigs—The Plan.
AM, ITP-TO-D ATD IIOrSEKKEI-En*
Use Red Cross Ball Blue. It makes clothe*
elean and sweet os when new. All grocers.
My field is 20 rods in width and 40 j In tho Night School,
rods in length, divided into five sec- j Teacher (of night school)—What do
tions, each four roda in width, con- | you understand by tho terms “life
Diseased Cotton Stem.
wosst infected spots. Of two plants
in the small hill one may die and the
other live.
The disease reappears in the same
place each year cotton is planted and
on a larger scale. This annual ap-
ventlonal. Everything has been um j pearance and spread will distinguish
conventional, perhaps. Why, then, I ! w[]t from barren spots due to other
have been asked, did I so wait on con- causes.
vention as to refuse to obtain a di- j \yj]t )s most prevalent during June
vorce and marry my present husband j an(j ju]yi but some cases continue to
when I might have done so months ! ^eveiop until the end of the season,
and months ago? I reply, because it standard varieties of cotton differ
taining one acre. Along tho division ;
fence are mulberry trees for shade, j
Beginning in April, lot No. 1 was j
planted in sorghum, to be followed by [
turf oats and vetch in October. No. 2
was planted in sweet potatoes, also to ;
be followed by oats and vetch. No. 3
was planted in peanuts; No. 4 is plant- j
ed In sweet potatoes; No. 5 Is planted
In artichokes.
The following year, lot No. 1, which
was In oats and. vetch through the
winter, Is planted in sweet potatoes,
to be followed by oats and vetch In
the fall; No. 2 also covered with oats
and vetch through the winter, is
planted in artichokes; No. 3 is planted
In sorghum or kafir corn, to be fol-
lowed by oats and vetch In October;
No. 4 Is planted In peanuts, and No. 5
In sweet potatoes, both to be followed
by oats and vetch. This succession
and rotation is to support 50 hogs
with pigs, etc.
sentence?” Give an example of one.
Shaggy-Haired Pupil—I pronounced
you husband and wife.—Chicago Trib-
une.
did not seem right. I am governed
in everything by that sense of right,
and it never fails to make me happy
in the long run.
”1 believe that there is great hap-
piness in store for me and my hus-
band. 1 believe so firmly in his fu-
ture. He will never be very rich, per-
haps, because he is above all things
a student, but I shall have reason to
be proud of his work. He has done
some admirable literary worn and Is
now writing a serious volume which
will challenge attention. And, after
all faith and love will bring the hap-
considerably in susceptibility to wilt,
but none of them are sufficiently re-
sistant to be cultivated with profit on
infected land. Extended variety tests
on Infected fields have shown that as
a general rule the large boll sorts,
Russell, Truitt, etc., are more subject
to wilt than other groups or varieties.
The most resistant of the American
Jjpiand varieties tested was the Jack-
eon Limbless, which produced about
45 per cent, of a crop where other
kinds failed. The original Jackson
was not sufficiently resistant to Justi-
fy its general cultivation, hut it has
GENERAL FARM NOTES.
Feed the slop to the hogs before
the grain is fed.
Never attempt to keep summer but-
ter for early fall prices, because it
will not keep.
Look out for all breeding places for
mosquitoes and flies; abolish them.
A Simple Matter.
“Charley, dear," said Young Mrs.
Torkins, "the paper Bays that the Pro-
hibitionists have trouble with boot-
leggers.” r
"I believe so."
“Men _are £0 stupid I Why don’t
they' ^ut'a’ stop to It by compelling
everybody to wear low shoes?"
—
The Dentist's Joke.
At a recent dinner of the Authors'
club in London to Mr. Owen Seaman,
the editor of Punch, Mr. Walter
Emanuel, another member of tho staff
of Punch, referred to the fact that the
man with the largest sense of humor
ho had ever struck was an Englishman
—a dentist. He went to him after suf-
fering long with a toothache. He re-
fused to have gas, and the dentist
pulled out a tooth, leaving him writh-
ing in pain, and took the tooth to the
window, where ho laughed quite heart-
ily. He groaned: “What’s the joke?”
“Wrong tooth,” said the dentist.
Merely a Prevaricator.
A doctor relates the following story:
“I had a patient who was very ill and
Sow a good patch of carrots for I v,ll0 ought to have gone to a warmer
the horses this year, if you eve'- have j cnmate Bo I resolved to try what hyp-
before. j notlsm would do for him. I had a
When two horses become accus- ! large sun painted on the ceiling of his
tomed to working together, don't ; room and by suggestion induced him
change them. ! to think it was the sun which would.
If the incubator does the hatching [ cure him. The ruse succeeded, and
you can keep the hens laying all the . he Was getting better rapidly when
piuess which money has never been heen 0f value as a basis for breeding
known to purchase.” j better races.
Mrs. Parker is still under forty, ; Egyptian cotton, is more resistant
possessing more than ordinary beauty f0 wllt than upland cotton, but it
and rare gifts, including a delightful j)ag noj ag ye{ been found practicable
voice which has brought her many of-
fers for opera. She is not interested
in a career for herself, though she is
planning one for her daughter, who,
inheriting her mother’s vocal gifts,
will make her debut this coming fall.
And there Is the story of a woman
who had the courage to wait. And
you see the same thing might happen
to any woman or any man. Only.—
how many would have the courage to
wait Until fate opened the door to
happiness?
The High Handshake.
He put his hand on a level with
the lady’s chin. Reaching her own j (ungu8
up, she said with a laugh:
“It is easy to see you have been In
the Philippines for some years, else
you would know, my friend, that the
hlgh-action handshake, is no more.”
He flushed and bit his lip.
“But aren’t you. glad?” said she.
"It was a silly thing, that high-action
handshake. My cousin, the marchion-
ess of Granby, told mo how it origin-
ated It originated la a boil under
King Edward's arm. He had a boil
there for some weeks. Hence he
shook hands high up in the air. And
the world thought it was a new fash-
ion.”
to utilize this quality, as the Egyptian
varieties do not succeed in our south-
eastern states and It is easier to breed
resistance direct from Upland va-
rieties than from crosses with Egyp-
tian cotton.
Tho use of resistant varieties has
been shown by experiments in most
of the southern states, to be a sat-
isfactory method of combating wilt.
The illustration shows an enlarged
section of part of a diseased cotton
stem, with vessels filled by the wilt
fungus. Normal water vessels are
shown (H) in comparison with several
such vessels (F) plugged by the wilt
The Neapolitan Pepper.
time.
Put a shallow box of buckwheat
shorts near the calf. It will soon be-
gin to eat it.
Any enterprising farmer Lving near
a town of 5,000 or moro can sell
every pound of his butter at full retail
prices or little above, the year round.
If the ewes are young they may not
let the lambs suck until they are held
once, so that the lambs can get at
them. There is no trouble after that.
Goats do not fatten on pasture as
fast as sheep. They prefer brush, but
brush Is not a fattener. They ought
to take kindly to straw.
There is great room for more dairy
work in the south. Millions of dollars
are sent north for cheese, butter and
other dairy products that ought to be
made at home.
Making the hens do all they are
capable of doing and then through
selection and breeding, growing bet-
tor hens, will put any poultry plant
on a paying basis.
When the vigor of the flock is low
productiveness cannot long be kept
up, therefore the profit will be very
little, if any, so it pays to keep the
flock vigorous.
one day on my arrival I found he was
dead.”
"Did it fail, after all, then?" asked
one of the doctor's b«"rers.
“No," replied the do-tor, "he died
of Bunstroke." _
Made to Match.
Jim—Why does Miss Power wear
such big sleeves.
Miss Spite—Have you ever noticed
her mouth?
Jim—Why, yes; but what has her
mouth to do with it?
The Neapolitan pepper should be
grown more largely by gardened
where conditions are not especially
favorable for peppers. It 13 much
easier than other varieties of the
same type and attains a size which
satisfies market requirements. Pep-
pers are grown most extensively
southward. In Now Jersey and other
prominent trucking regions, hut they
might bo produced profitably at high
altitudes which are comparatively freo
from late spring and earlfr fall frosts.
The grower should be assured of a
market before planting largely.
The Mare With Colt.
It takes a good deal of the mare’s
Miss Spite—O, nothing, only *hey | energy to nurse a colt. Light work
say she has a habit of laughing in her should be her ahpre or she will be
dared, for me to allow myself to be f sleeve.—Stray Stories. pulled down to skin and bones.
Menace to Health.
Owners of country homes some-
times forget that the manure pile Is
a menace to the health of the family,
particularly is this the case when
within easy reach of the dwelling. j
Although a most excellent fertilizer
there Is nothing that will breed flies
more quickly or certainly than stable
manure and If It be true, as no doubt
It is, that they carry disease, then the
upsightly heap should be removed to
the garden or field where Its value Is
appreciated.
The Shortage in Swine.
We can't import swine to make up
a shortage. This Is the great swine
country.
Know How
To Keep Cool?
When Summer’s sun
and daily toil heat the
blood to an uncomfort-
able degree, there is noth-
ing so comforting and
cooling as a glass of
Iced
Postum
served with sugar and a
little lemon.
Surprising, too, how
the food elements relieve
fatigue and sustain one.
The flavour is deli-
cious—and Postum is
really a food drink.
“There’s a Reason’’
POSTUM CEREAL CO., Ltd.,
liattle Creek, Mftctx.
«$k*.
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