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Show pBEBBB MERINO SHEEP CAN BE GREATLY IMPROVED AT A MUSICALE United States Behind trmany In Producing Mutton and tinaLlon How to Advunce Wool In B jlS. M. Cleaver. OOKLXO voumlf over this morning in introspective mood are vou likely to lie classed among that large and aeemingly growing list of more or less unwilling workers? Dont try to dodge the issue. Hold the mirror up to yourself and dont try to soften the image in the glass. You cant aiTord to do so. Your employer cant afford it. Asking yourself this question, look at your image in all frankness and read, the truth from that which the mirror shows you. If in the face looking back into any trace of grouch apjx-ar- I I s of yours it is up to you to get busy in taking the kinks out or clinic this counterfeit presentment of yourself. It is cither your your simply is dissatisfied with the conditions under which he is working. One thing, two things, a score of things may be lending to this dis-- 1 I satisfaction, but whatever the cause it requires only ordinary intelligence to disclose that the dissatisfied worker not only is not satisfying himself with his work but he is not satisfying his employer. It is doubtful if this unthinking young man has an appreciation of how unsatisfactory his dissatisfied efforts may be in a working organization. Accordingly as he is dissatisfied that dissatisfaction must find outward expression among hia fellows. He could not conceal tlie fact if he tried. Facial expression, eye, ear, voice and movement every hour in the reflects it in spite of day are indicative of his dissatisfaction. His work himself. And when occasion arises when criticism of this work may be criticism may be. expected, how harsh and blunt and unsparing this worked against men are men. not All employers are Injustices just model If something is be employes. who under the square deal might Jones caff see no way constitutionally wrong with Jones employers and to remedy tlie condition Jones owes it to himself to get out of his place of employment in search of a better opportunity. For whatever the source of the dissatisfied condition under which he works Jones cannot accomof the handiplish anything while bearing the burden It is impossible! But in my experience of men in the capacity of doubt employers 1 can say that in a case of reasonable of where blame rests in such cases an employer who is worth working for always is wise enough to lend an ear to a manly appeal from a man who is worth work- cap! ing for him. If you are grouchy get busy and find out the cause of it. Then you cant attack the cause too soon for either your own or your employers best interests. It may be true that the housewife who systematizes her work finds ample, time to improve her mind, always providing that 6he has only hcxself and her husband for whom to keep house. But most of us do not remain long in this ideal state. Children come, and even one child is a sad blow to system. If one ever has a small is lucky if she gets all to for care she baby her afternoons free to devote to the baby. I have been a business woman and can claim some success. 1 also believe in systematizing work, but I do not join in condemning the woman who finds housework When there is even one small child the best-lai-d plans are apt to well-forme- 1 to-da- y She. hard. gang aft agley. Let us say nothing of our broken nights rest, nor of the upsets that childish illnesses occasion, when even the dishwashing gets left to the man of the family while we turn in to get a few hours sleep. The housework doesnt get done then, and it takes time to catch up again. But even the ordinary, everyday work where there are two or three small children cooking and washing, baking and mending, making perhaps all of the small garments and taking a delight in doing it even this will An hardly give us our afternoons free. Has the reader ever tried to buy a hat with a small baby in her arms? dent fineness to command the I have, for we have no convenient grandmother. Let her Bee what a est price paid for merino wool. -- Merino Ram. Ohio-Bre- d high-price- fi- a great extent damage to the trees from that source, their droppings alsc enrich the soil, and. while ncccsKarilj limited in quanttiy, they contain IN more fertilising qualities than any other form of manure, so that in both these respects fowls are beneficial in the young orchard. As a means of helping along until his orchard becomes profitable there is nothing better than a flock of fowls. They will gather a very large part of their living from the soil, give occupation to their owner until his time is demanded in a more profitable direction, and prove a source of income while he Is waiting. When the two branches orcharding and poul-rio- r trees come into full bearing his whole time will be required in their attention and then, the poultry having nt0 bearing the fowls will sometimes aerved Its purpose, can be disposed climb Into the trees and Injure the of, if It becomes detrimental. POULTRY RAISED I have had a quarrel with my fiance. I am sure he was in the wrong, but I think ORCHARD VelTcoml u I it Is a mistake to have a large pei centage of that fleece consist of ol. a product that Is entirely worthless to the manufacturer. Do not misunderstand me. It Is highly Important to have a reasonable amount of oil In the fleece in order to secure the strongest and best ber, but do not overdo the matter With care we can Just as well double the quantity of wool per fleeco without destroying the value of the fiber or without diminishing the amount of oil to a point iliut wll weaken the fiber. high- A portion of our breeders, striving d to produce an extra fine fiber of wool without the use of wrinkles, succeeded fairly well for with their own flocks so many years. It la a well established fact that the merino will not Improve under strictly close Inbreeding. The greatest Improvement has been made by properly mating animals from flocks not closely related. The production of extremely heavy fleeces has been at the sacrifice of the carcass. The typical mutton forma have pleasure it is to go shopping with a child of two or three and see how successful she will be. For my part, without children I would prefer the business world, but I have made my choice and I am not sorry for it I work a good deal harder than when my hours were nine to five, with a short day Saturday and Sunday free, but there are compensations that the childless housewife lacks. I regret I have little time to improve my mind what time I take for reading I often begrudge. Things will be better by and by, and meanwhile let me find pleasure in my babies. Here and now we have them and nothing else not even the systematizing of our housework is so important. he wants to make up, but is too proud to say so. Do you advise me to say the first word? So rtfns the wail of a very forlorn young woman. Certainly, I advise her tc speak the first word, and 1 say the same thing to every young woman similarly situated. So long as two people lore each other, it doesnt matter in the least which is the first to make up. Generally it is the supe-- 1 person who makes the first advance. And there is comfort for twenty apologies in being the superior person. Men are a good deal like children in the matter of misbehavior. They to bo coddled into .dmitting they were imho wrong And the wrong or right of a quarrel doesn t matter when two people are willing to forget it moke the first advances. I dont mean that the woman should always . . But the less discussion of a quarrel there is after it is over the better. Talking over the cause of the fuss too often leads to its renewal. The best way ia to let things simmer down. S. CUTLER. (Copyright, by J. h. Llppincott Co.) been produced at a sacrifice in fleece. fuShe (laughingly) Why, how do you see how she has got herself up! ItS The improver of the merino in the ture must carry the two essential da (She hasn't seen him for a year.) a shame fur me to luugh, but It's awd Awfully kind of you to struggle In that fully funny. Four woman! What a points profitable fleece and a carcass of Butflcleut size to crowd. I believe there's been cause burden to herself a woman must be make the animal as profitable for a to congratulate you since last we met. who hasn't any taste. He No more than an African savmutton sheep as a wool producer. lie Not only cause, but reason. She Yea, they say you are very age, because lie isn't a Christian. Americans are now mutton eaters. She Did you see her arrange bei Therefore, It is highly iinimrtant that happy. . we pay as much attention to the prolie Is that an effete way of saying skirt then? He I was looking the other way. duction and development of a mutton that you think us both utterly misShe I can always tell a well-bre- d form as we do to that of a wool pro- erable? woman to In In She by tlie way she arranges hei your opinion, ducing form, Evidently, spite of the fact that our heaviest wool producing sheep be 'effete' 1s to he disagreeable. Don't skirt; she doesn't make everybody carry but little mutton and the strong- protest. I had to say something; It turn and look on with surprise and usde est mutton producers usually shear would be ridiculous to answer your Interest. He Isn't she affected, the way she a light fleece. There la a large op- question seriously. (Aside) I wish also an Increased amount of oi portunity for the breeder to use hla that woman wouldnt stare at mo so. talks with that woman next to her? Dy following this 'line of hr She I should say so! The poor skill In the combining of these two So it ia true the weight of the fleece was di1 characteristics In one animal without He That we are happy? That's creature probably doesn't get Into an several times. Wool was the affair like this more than once er one being sacrificed to secure the the impression I want to give. object sought as Americans wei the twice a year, and It has turned her to other. or wife To She whom eaters not considered mutton your head. I am of the opinion that the field world? i uht hearing merino was He Some fat brewer's wife, or a He To you. She Why to me? struggling clerk's. She Probably a large family of cryHe I want to make you sorry you didn't marry me. ing children to wash and put to bed She Aren't you happy enough with- before coming. He Lets make her a shoplifter; out that? He No, indeed. It'a part of a that will be even more entertaining. She Aren't you ashamed of your bridegroom's happiness to know that self! She can't possibly be anything hia bride la bitterly envied. Do you really She But you must remember my like (hat unless old conviction: that marriage ia an think ao? He (holding desperately to hla gravindiscretion no one should commit without an awfully good excuse. As ity Well, I wouldn't swear to It At merely a possible excuse you didn't the same time She That gown certainly does look appeal to me If you'll remember. like odds and ends. He H'm! Enjoy the music? He My, Isn't she a giddy old ladyl She The selections weren't very She Old? I hadnt noticed that good. He And the artists? But, now you speak of It, I do sea She Like all foreign operatic won- wrinkles. He You must have pretty good eye ders, they look more human lu their stage costume. sight: she's been looking the other lie And the people? way ever glnce I discovered her. Now She lleally, their faces haven't ex- - shes turning Heavens, what a sight she is in that purple! She Sir! for Improving the merino le very developed Into a profitable wool He (inquiring pleasantly) Beg par of the large and the development ducer, without any special Interest don? most profitable and practical wool lng taken in the development She The lady In putplo Is my si mutton merino Is still in Its infancy. carcass. Merino breeders ter. With of the the the with past, experience many had to compete He (after a time In which horrified next 20 or 30 years should bring ton breeders in a country confusion is followed by a wild desire eaten. Consequently, as much at- about a combination merino of great to yell with laughter) The other lady tention was paid to the development er value than any to be found madam, Is my wife. animal must grow rapidly, nu of a mutton merino as have good quarters, deep producing merino, NOT A "VERY JOYOUS MEAL short, strong neck, carrying the therefore, carried both typical shorthorn. It must very high standard Student Took Supper with Professor, coated with a fleece of great bulk American 'breeders made a specialty But It Was Rather an Inof the greatest number of pounds of and sufficient quality to command a 1 f uffla fleece fair of In hospitably Affair, wool per single individual heavy producing price. The Improvement of the merino In the United States as a wool producing any animal has far surpassed that fall other country. We, howevej short of Germany In the production of wool and mutton in comblatlon, writes S. M. Cleaver, in Orangf Judd Farmer. The breeders of thlAcoun-tr- y hare had varied Ideas lng to Improve the merino. ambition to Increase the fleece, selections were made anlmaU (howiug the greatest of wrinkles, for the reason that A here funeral. This unwillingness in the worker who lias accepted a position that calls for him to work has a single chief source of origin. The worker BY BURYVELL JW. Vto Reserve Feed 6upply. are great workera and are If the supply of grain eating stock In over the earth turning constantly Is kept up to a certain number on the the ,eaJch of should not the supply of lanean insects, and they will also cap-- farm, why be up in equal proportion? kept grain other Insects and moths (ure manr We are all too free to dispose of the ?n the wing and in this manner great r nJurlou surplus whenever there le a "fat" ,the i ordchard and prevent to year. good health ' 1 .11 "I Never Gossip." pressed enough emotion to be worth watching. He And myself? She If you are trying to regain 'the old power over me, tiresome. He (after a long pause) I do not like blase people no Interest In anything. Why, the most trivial matter can Interest me in some way. She I can readily understand that. He I thought you would: you're not a bit conceited. She You needn't strive to be impertinent, Just because He Just because I'm no longer hoping to marry you? She Oh, you never were. You only wished me to hope you were. He (after another pause) Tell me, how much longer can you keep this up? She Keep what up? He This laborious, abusive attitude of being tired, surfeited, bored. She I feel that I'm beginning to weaken. But it's your own fault. I knew, when I saw you renting through that crowd, that yon were bent on putting me on the defensive, in your old way. And I resolved won. Now, I'll give He You to recover your you one minute strength, nil then well make our chat a matter of pleasure. She I never gosr'Ti. He No? I dare yon to tell me what you think of Miss Inglis over there. She She's a very sweet girl and I'm very fond of her. Slic'd lie a tremendous favorite ton, if she wasn't so vain and He Have you any more dear .'riends in the room? She I don't Hee any Just this minute. There's one woman In this room do you see those two over by the Joor? He One of them She Is a fright, I agree with you. He Oh, that one. She She's been staring at me for i whole half hour. I may as well nake up my mind to give away tomorrow this gown I have on. She'll appear next week with an exact copy. Heaven knows 1 don't blame her, if I do say it myself, for He The thing she has on Is a trar- esty. She I wasn't going to aay that He I know It glir You're right, however. Just A graduate of Washington and Lea was telling a story of one of the professors of the famous Virginia Institution. This particular pedagogue was known as close and crusty, and cons qucntly he did not stand see high with the students. One of the features of college life, of course, was seeing that the freshmen did not pine because of monotony. Occasionally the sprouts they were subjected to took the form of bogus invitations to dine with members of the faculty. A member of tbs baby class who didn't know much about the professors received such a of the note from the prixe tlght-wa- d faculty, and accepted It in good faith, says the Louisville Courier-Journa- l. He turned up at the learned mans home in due aeason and rang the bell. Well, what la it? growled the professor as he opened the portal about s of an Inch. Please, sir, Ive come to supper, said the somewhat abashed freshman. The professor gazed at him a moment In astonishment and then opened the door to allow the unexpected guest to enter. If youve come to supper, come on In, he said. The freshman related that mush and milk composed the menu, and that the sole conversation between him and the unwilling host, who he discovered toward the close of the festivities had not Invited him, was the teacher's announcement that he retired early and his acquiscence and consequent departure. three-elRhth- No Redress from Uncle Sam. Injured by a rolling log, mistreated, as he alleges, by a physician under government contract to treat him at Hie Good Samaritan hospital In Washington state, and claiming reimburs ment as the result of such medical mistreatment. Ole It. Susort, an Okanogan reela inalion service employe at Ouncully. Wash., has been advised that lie has no redress from the government. A person who enters into a contract with the United States provides for the performance of a service by one of its ngents must be presumed to do so in recognition of the rule of law that the United States is not liable for the negligence of its employes, holds the comptrol-'e- r of the treasury. The United States does not undertake responsibility for lack of akill or negligence of ngents that it employs under the contract The damages, it any, arising from negligence or lack of skill cannot be paid by the government. The wrong, if any, was committed by the agent of the government and not by the government. well-know- n Meat Ration of Jap Soldiers. Dr. Jatnes Crltchton Browne, who la the real authority behind most wls acres and oracles on feeding, says: "The meat ration of the Japs In Manchuria was the largest ever served In any army. |