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Show THE GRANT8VILLE IDE LATEST TYPE HMEL1EB OF House Must Be Clean, Airy, Light, Roomy, Says Expert. Model . GOOD STYLE DESCRIBED HERE Provides 8tock to , Health cf Upkeep Low If First-Clas- s Material Goes Into Building. Essentials 1 SENSIBLE ' MAN. "Is Jibway still staying out late every night while his good wife sits up and waits for him! No." You mean he has reformed! Not at all. Jlbway stays out as as but his good wife goes to Site andever, lets him Bleep on the porch jlf he is unable to negotiate the keyhole with his latch-ke- . y. Cutting Down Gossip. How do you suppose some people spent their spare time before motion pictures were Invented!" I don't like to appear unkind to those persons, but before they started to spending practically all of their leisure moments In photoplay houses they knew a great deal more about their neighbors private affairs than they do now. By WILLIAM A. RADFORD. Mr William A. Radford will answer NEWS, GRANTSVILLE, It Is not filled fun for the smaller ones. The object Is to have the fluid deep enough to cover the hog all but Its nose and eyes, A portable fence, made In panels, la placed outside of the trough when In use. After dipping, the portable fence panels are fitted over against the lane fence and are wired fast to hold them upright until needed again. To protect hogs from vermin in the summer time, the cheapest and inoat convenient arrangement la a hog wallow. Where a good many hogs are kept, a number of wallows are necessary. These are made of concrete by first digging a pit about a foot deep. The concrete floor is made In the bottom of this pit by pounding down stones and filling In between them with concrete grout mortar. Then the Inside wooden forms are put In place and the side walla are raised a foot above the floor. The earth la dug square so as to answer for the outside form. The fop of the hog wallow walla are made after the fashion of a curb, to reach up above the ground about 2 Inches to keep out dirt A 2 by 4 Is used as an outside form above the questions and give advice FREE OF COST on all subjects pertaining to the auhject of building work on the farm, for the readers of this paper. On account of his wide experience as Editor, Author and Manufacturer, he la, without doubt, the ground. highest authority on all these subjects. Address all Inquiries to WlUlam A. RadThese hog wallows should be neatly ford. No. 127 Prairie avenue, Chicago, finished. The forms should be made 111., and only Incloae two-cestamp tor true and the curb or coping should be reply. beveled on the edges so as to glvo a What la required for the successful neat appearance and prevent chipraising of hogs! The answer Is pure ping. The wallows are built along the air, good water, clean feed and clean stock lane at Intervals, so the hogs pastures. Ventilation supplies pure may be admitted from the different air, a deep well with power pump and fields, either by opening the gates or a system of water pipes will supply by creeps. The yards In front of the hoghouse pure water in abundance. A good concrete floor with a waterproof surface should be paved with concrete. The graded to lead the surplus liquid away work Is dnue by grading the ground will fix the drainage. A liose attach- with a drop of about 2 Inches In the ment will quickly wash the floor, the width of the floor, which Is 16 feet. concrete or steel troughs and force The concrete lg laid sidewalk fashion, nt An Exception. Misfortunes often bring out the best there Is In a man, remarked the philosophic observer. Great misfortunes sometimes have that effect, answered the cynical person, but I have yet to see the man who wears an expression after trying in vain for thirty minutes to get a telephone number." hard-worke- the flirt out of the bottom of tne by marking off the area with 2 by 4s, drains. Steel partitions between the making blocks 6 feet square. The pens discourage bacteria and a com- lower part of the blocks may be made bination of all of these Improvements with a lean mixture of concrete on top HUBBY'S VIEWS. of which a surface layer rich enough Insures success. is 'placed. A winter hnghouse of the most mod- to prevent There should be a good wire fence ern type Is sliown In the perspective and floor plan. It Is made on the saw- all around the outside, Htapled to contooth plan with the upper windows crete posts. ,Tlie floor is used tot placed directly over the pens. The feeding and as an exercising yard for roof plan is worked out to fit the lat- hogs during the fall and spring, and itude In which It Is to be built, so the when the weather is mild In winter. sun will shine into the nests at farrow- In summer and fall the feeding floor Is used to finish the hogs for the maring time, both spring and fall. The building Is 24 feet by 54 feet ket. Sometimes a bunch of 20 or 80 In else, built of structural tile, on a will be fed on the floor every day for foundation of concrete. This makes a week or two and permitted to walk a hollow wall above grade which is back to the Adda between feeds. The Later on, say two weeks before shipboth wlndproof and dampproof. concrete floor slopes from the outside ping, they are confined on the feedwalls to the gutters at the sides of ing floor and In the hoghonse until the center feeding alley. These gut- ready for market. Such a complete hog department as ters drain out at the far end of the hoghouse and are easily kept dean this requires a number of small portable hoghouses to be used In the fields. with a hose. The portable houses may be 6 by 8 On the north side of the hoghouse it Is advisable to build a long, narrow feet, simply made, with died roofs. tank for the hogs. It should They may be hauled away and- placed '1 think a trip to Europe would do dipping 18 Inches wide at the top and 8 in any field for the accommodation of be your wife good. However, I shall call measbows with their litters, or. to make in another physician to see If my inches wide at the bottom, inside20 feet sleeping quarters for the older pigs Bhould be urement. tank The diagnosis is correct. The size np- - when running on pasture. I guess it's correct enough, doc. Bet- long on the bottom, with a ter call In a dressmaker if you want to 8' HOLLOW TILt WALL hasten the cure. water-loggin- g . - 10-fo- ot Learning. Slie'a learning farming By degrees; She thought potatoes Grew on trees. An Illustration. Isn't It strange how the majority of people can become attached to a bad custom 7 Yes; look at the street car straphangers. Easy Job. His lawyer couldn't clear the man who was accused of being a fence. That's queer; it ought to be ear. enough for any man, let alone a lawyer to whitewash a fence. Up In the Air. Bob White Isn't Jim Meadow Lark peevish of late! Mrs. B. W. Oh, terribly. The least noise makes him soar. Just Now. Whats the best seller today! Judging from the most recent reports, I should say It was a potato pellar. Home of the Centro Gallego. of the most striking of the general social of the Cuban capital Is unique development of Its clubs. The city has a population of about 350,000, and according to recent statistics at least 125,000, or over of all the inhabitants, are members of some club. On the face of it, such a statement would seem hardly credible to a clubman In a city of the United States or Europe. The further assertion that there is one club In Havana whose membership has 0 reached the enormous total of seems equally unbelievuhle, and yet these statements are absolutely true, according to the Bulletin of the Union. Practically every man in the city Is a member of a dub, whether he be a millionaire sugar baron or a hod carrier ; and of the two, the latter has greater Incentive to belong to this large social organization than has the former to join the select and exclusive dub to- which wealth and position In society are This requisites for membership. state of affairs Is, to say the least, rather unusual and Is due to certain features thnt are peculiar to a number of these organizations, and the following account, chiefly based on data furnished by Sr. Frandsco A. Godoy of Havana, may serve to elucidate the matter : The leading dubs of the city, considered from the standpoint of number of members and wealth of their treasuries, are the various organizacentros. tions known as These were originally organized by Spanish residents of the city whose purpose was to unite In s social organization those of their compatriots who came from the same section of Spain. Thus the Centro Gallego was organized primarily for the benefit of the dans, the Centro Asturlano for natives of Asturias, and the various other' sections of the mother country were similarly represented. Mutual Aid and Benefit JTn addition to Its social and recreative functions, the eentro soon developed mutual aid and benefit features that have made It not only a pleasant luxury but a real necessity In the lives of the people of Havana. The "centros have In recent years not confined their membership to persons from the respective sections of Spain which have given their names to the various organizations, but most of them are still chiefly composed of or the Immediate deSpanish-bor- n scendants of such. The exception to this rule is the Centro de Dependl-enteone of the three largest and wealthiest of these organizations, which is the most democratic, and to which most of the Cubans and residents of foreign birth belong. club" This remarkable "Clerks counts among its 25,000 members not only clerks, but merchants, professional men, artlxqns, men of wealth and leisure, as well as men who must work hard for their dally breud, and men of practically all nationalities who make their permanent home in the Cuban capital. Its doors are closed to no one who Is honest and trustworthy, however rich or poor, If he can but keep up his modest dues of $1.50 a ONE one-thir- d 45,-00- - Makes Them Envious. The Idea of a rich woman paying 81,000 for a fur coat I exclaimed the socialistic observer. That doesn't increase the sum of human happiness. You are right, friend, answered a d At any married man. rate, It doesn't Increase the sum of happiness among women who can't afford to buy $1,000 coats. Hard Pressed. Ben Brokelelgh Hurling, let us get married at once. I positively can't live another day without you. Gertie Gotrox Why, Ben, I had no idea you were that hard up. UTAH. proach at each end. The incline down Into the tank should be made smooth and the one" leading out of the tank should be corrugnled. The tank la made narrow for two reasons: In the first place, less dipping fluid is needed fur n narrow tank, and the second reason Is that when a hog gets started through a tank as narrow as this, It cannot turn around. The length Is about sufficient to give the dipping flnid time to soak into the hair and skin of the animal, while It Is swimming through. A depth of 2 foct is sufficient for the large bogs. t Is small enough so that a with her litter of pigs can keep warm when the temperature Is below freezing. Tills size also accommodates about u shqgts. They need shelter from storms and sleeping quarters at nlglit The principle of ventilation is the same In all kinds of farm buildings. The air is heated by the bodies of the animals and rises. This air Is replaced by fresh air coming In from below. The lower door is almost always open. In these houses, and upper doors are provided to take care of the discharge. mentioned bow half-doze- n s, The features that most appeal to the modest workingman, clerk, small merchant, and others of limited means may be briefly summarized as follows : The club maintains free night schools for Its members, where those of limited education may Improve their general knowledge, study shorthand, bookkeeping and various other subjects; It maintains a kindergarten for the benefit of their small children ; grammar and high schools for larger boys and girls; domestic science classes, where their wives and older daughters may take courses In cookand other domestic ing, sewing branches; It employs Its own staff of surgeons, physicians, oculists and dentists, who attend to the wants of the members free of any charges save perhaps for the material used In filling teeth or the lenses prescribed for the correction or aid of sight; It also maintains Its own hospital, n sanitarium for .consumptives, and an asylum for the Insane. All these advantages belong to each and every member, not as a matter of charity but as a matter of right. He pays his dura of $1.50 a month and thereby becomes a partner In the organization, and Is entitled to any of these privileges he desires. These mutual aid and benefit features are not peculiar to the Centro de Pejiendlentes" alone; several of the other "centros have practically the same features. Of all of them, the Centro Gallego Is the largest and wealthiest. It has a membership of 45.000, an annual income of over and is housed in a palatial structure that cost over $1,000,000.1 The second largest is the Centro which has a membership of 37.000, composed chiefly of Spaniards, but with a considerable Cuban contingent that Is also represented on the governing board. It has one of the handsomest buildings In Havana for Its home, covering an entire square and Including one of the best theaters In the city. Some of the centros, such as the "Balear" and Castellano, admit wdmen as well as men to membership, and for an additional fee of 50 cents a month give medical aid to other members of the family of a member. Although the medical services rendered are the chief attractions of these latter 'institutions, they also have a clubhouse in addition to the sanitarium. In addition to the centros, Havana has a large number of other clubs that differ in no material respect from the typical soda!, athletic and political clubs of other large cities. For the sake of convenience these may be divided Into city and country clubs. Among the former the foreign dabs occupy an Important position, and of these the Spanish Casino is the largest; second comes the American club, founded In 1902, which has steadily grown in membership until it hasi something over 300. It occupies a. building on the Prado, Havanas beautiful boulevard, and has all the typical modern club features thnt are found In similar sodaL organizations In the United States. Among other foreign clubs are two well-appoint- Chinese, which Include In thrir mem- bership the important persons of that race. Of the stridly sodal clubs, the oldmonth. est 37 and most exclusive is the Union The club was founded about years ago, and has grown to be one dub, a Cuban organization, which is of the greatest social organizations in restricted to men only and to whose the Americas. 'Its magnificent build- functions the ladles are never invited. ing, which occupies nn entire square of the city, and cost $1,000,000, lias all Strong Defense. the appointments, conveniences and But, your honor, Im satisfied I was attractive features of the large. social not going very fast. clubs of other American cities. Its This motorcycle policeman says he Immense ballroom will accommodate timed your car and you were going 45 8,000 couples nt a time; Its dining miles an hour. Impossible, your honor. The train room contains 200 tables; and Its billiard hall Is said to be the largest in I was racing has never been known to the world. Elegant rending rooms, a travel faster than 25 miles an honrj gymnasi- and it was still In the lead. large library, um and modern bathrooms, are all adeOld Familiar Traces. quate to accommodate the hnge memFirst Alumnns And dont things bership. In these features, us well as in Its social entertainments, hHlls, etc., look familiar though! Second Alumnus They sure do It Is not different from the typical social club; hut these form but a part was at a dance last night and saiyj of its attractions. , my old dress suit Widow. d i |