La Cygne Weekly Record from La Cygne, Kansas • 5

LA CYGNE WEEKLY RECORD LOCAL AND PERSONAL. County, California, Needs Farmers Notwithstanding the fact that Monterey County, County, California, produces $5,000,000 worth of potatoes, sugar beets, apples, livestock and barley every year, there is a lot of land that is waiting the settler and farmer. You should learn more about this splendid coast county. We have issued a booklet describing the county, which we will send along with a map of California, and a sample copy of SUNSET MAGAZINE, the monthy guide of homeseeker and settler, if you will send us ten cents in stamps to help defray the cost of mailing. SUNSET MAGAZINE SERVICE BUREAU, San Francisco, Cal.

Summer Tourist Fares FRISCO LINES TO THE Mountain and Lake Resorts Very cheap tickets, with liberal return limit and stop-over privileges. Tell me where you want to go, and let me figure your trip and make your sleeping car reservations. B. L. YOUNG, Agent.

The Fact Remains No amount of misrepresentation by the peddlers of alum baking powders, no juggling with chemicals, or pretended analysis, or cooked-up certificates, or falsehoods of any kind, can change the fact that Royal Baking Powder has been found by the official examinations to be of the highest leavening efficiency, free from alum, and of absolute purity and wholesomeness. Royal Baking Powder is indispensable for making finest and most economical food. Harvesting -Threshing -Haying mean to the housewife lots of hard work. Much of it can be avoided by buying your eatables as near ready to eat as possible, and by having PLENTY OF DISHES. LET US FIX YOU UP.

Park brand Baked Beans per No. 2 1-2 6 Good Pink Salmon, No. 1 tall can 10c-6 for Tomatoes, standard grade, No. 2 1-2 size 10c-6 for 55c Tomatoes, standard grade, No. 2 size for 50c Tomatoes, Beauty, ex.

standard, 2 for for 70c Corn, standard Iowa stock, 3 for .12 95c Kraut, standard, No. 2 1-2 size for 55c Macaroni or Spaghetti, a good substitute for meat, 10c ...3 for 25c Cream Cheese, lb lbs for 45c No. 10 size Peaches, per No. 10 Apricots or Blackberries, per No. 2 1-2 Table Apricots or Peaches, for 85c Good Small Prunes 100 lb.

for 25c Dried Peaches, bright and fine, per 10c Dinner Plates, plain or fancy white, per Cups and Saucers, plain or fancy white, per Gold Band Dinner Plates, per Gold Band Cups and Saucers, per 6.... Vegetable Dishes, Platters, in Proportion. Give us chance to figure on your next order. If we can't make it to your interest to buy from us, we won't expect you to do so. Wilgus Mercantile Company Phones 11 LA CYGNE, KANSAS Zeta Zeta Library Over the Linn County Bank.

Read the best books---you can always get them at the Organization of the Department of Agriculture. There were 14,478 employes in the department on July 1, 1913. Of these, 2,924 were employed in Washington and 11,554 outside of Washington. Of the entire force, 1,812 were engaged in scientific investigations and research; 1,323 in demonstration and extension work; 687 in administrative and supervisory work; 6,021 in regulatory 'and related work and 4,635 were clerks and employes below the grade of clerk. Production of Eggs.

Accerding to statistics of the department of agriculture, the products of the American hen aggregates a total value of over $600,000,000 annually. Poultry and eggs are produced in all sections of the country, but it is a noticeable fact that the bulk of these important products is produced by the farmers of the Mississippi valley. In this section there are practic-' ally no large poultry farms such as are commonly found in the eastern states and on the Pacific coast. Poultry keeping, therefore, is usually incidental, the hens being considered and treated generally as an agent for converting material which would otherwise go to waste into a salable product. Consequently the poultry and eggs produced constitute merely a byproduct of the general farm.

In order that the farmer may sell more eggs, better eggs, and obtain a better price for them, the department has issued the following suggestions: Improve your poultry stock. Keep one of the general purpose breeds such as the Plymouth Rock, Wyandotte, Orpington, or Rhode Island Red. Provide one clean, dry, vermin-free nest for every or five hens. Conclude all hatching by May 15 and sell or confine male birds during the remainder of the summer. Gather the eggs once daily during ordinary times and twice daily during hot or rainy weather.

In summer, place eggs as soon as gathered in a cool, dry room. Use all small or dirty eggs at home. Market frequently, twice a week if possible during the summer. The department has also issued the following suggestions to the country merchant and cash buyer: Candle all eggs and buy on the lossoff basis. Allow the farmer to see you candle the eggs occasionally and return those rejected if he wishes them.

Pack carefully in strong, clean cases or fillers. not keep in a musty cellar or near oil barrels or other odoriferous merchandise. Ship daily during warm weather. Bouillon Cubes Not Concentrated Meat Essence. The belief of that bouillon cubes are concentrated meat essence and of high nutritive value, is shattered by 'a bulletin of the department of agriculture.

The department authorities say that while they are valuable stimulants or flavoring agents they have little or no real food value and are relatively expensive in comparison with home-made broths and soups. The bulletin compares the contents and food value of bouillon cubes with meat extracts and homemade preparations of meat. The ordinary commercial bouillon cubes, according to this bulletin, consist of from one-half to three-quarters table. salt. As they range in price from ten to 20 cents an ounce, purchasers of these cubes are buying salt at a high price.

The department's meat chemist has carefully analyzed semi-solid meat extracts, fluid meat extracts, and commercial meat juice, which are offered on the market to. the American lic, in addition to the bouillon cubes. He has also conducted experiments in making home-made beef broth, and meat and vegetable soup. Both the bouillon cubes and the meat extracts are stimulants and flavoring agents, but have only a slight food value and are more expensive than home-made soups. The bulletin recommends a wholesale meat and vegetable soup which will furnish enough for a family of five, at a cost of approximately 16 cents.

This may be made according to the following recipe: Ingredients and approximate cost (prices actually paid by department chemist): One soup bone, weighing about 24 ounces (one-third meat), ten cents. After being washed it should be placed in a large kettle with three pints of cold water and heated for three hours, when the bone and meat should be removed. One-quarter of a small head of cabbage, one onion, one carrot, one large potato, two small tomatoes, a little flour seasoning, six cents. Chop these vegetables and add to the soup. Boil the mixture for one hour, thicken slightly with a little flour and season with salt and pepper.

Land of Indolence. There is no doubt that the climate of Mexico inclines to both physical and moral indolence, and exercise of elther body or mind such as people indulge in in the United States or Europe seems impossible there. The old fashioned Mexican of culture WAS quite content if his daughters went to church constantly, embroidered, sang a little and painted a little. One Use for Them, "Did you know," remarked a Springfield lady to her Boston friend, "that we have several thousand Poles in the Connecticut valley?" "How nice to grow beans on!" replied the lady from Mrs. K.

Casley went to Parsons Saturday for a visit. H. H. Marks went to Paola Saturday, returning Sunday. Mrs.

Frank Higgins, of Fontana, was shopping in La Cygne Thursday. Mrs. Mary Mooney went to Pleasanton Saturday for a visit with her daughter. Mrs. Leta Trimble returned to Kansas City Saturday after a visit with friends.

Mrs. U. M. Alexander came down from Olathe Saturday for a visit with home folks. The Jayhawk ball team went to Amoret, Sunday, and drew a shutout-15 to 0.

Mrs. I. A. Jones returned to her home in Kansas City Saturday after a visit with Mrs. Anna Atchison -returned to her home in Kiefer, Saturday after a visit with Mrs.

N. J. Shrake. Mr. and Mrs.

J. R. Martin came down from Kansas City Saturday for a visit with Harry Parker and family. Miss Pauline Holmes returned to her home in Fontana Friday after a visit with her grandmother, Mrs. Hattie Holmes.

Miss Lucy Croghan returned to her home Thursday after a visit with her aunt Mrs. Emmet Perkins and family of Fontana. Geo. West took the ball team to Block, Sunday, where they gloriously maintained their record, scoring three runs while the Blockheads got only seven. Miss Kitty May came home from Manhattan, last Friday.

Her brother George and wife of Kansas City also came down and remained until Sunday afternoon. "Spitfire" gasoline is clean and quick--more power and less carbon. Sunshine coal oil makes a white light and is clean-especially nice for oil Cash Store. Most of the wheat in Linn county is safely harvested, and a local statistician tells us there are about a quarter million bushels of it, all top quality. He also says present indications are for a million bushel corn crop in the county.

Those who have been watching developments along that line predict that La Cygne will be the market center for at least $25,000 worth of pecans this fall--a crop that grows wild, requiring no attention other than gathering and marketing the nuts. They sell readily for 10 to 124c. per pound. Att'y W. B.

Cline went to Mound City, Friday, to attend the meeting of county, republican committee. The meeeing named D. Z. Engle, of Valley township, for sheriff; W. B.

Cline, of La Cygne, for probate judge, and for coroner endorsed the selection of the County Medical Association at Pleasanton, Dr. John T. Kennedy. The democratic county committee convened in Mound City last Thursday and designated the following persons as candidates before the August primaries: For representative, Al. Humphrey, of Pleasanton; for treasurer, J.

M. Brodie, of Blue Mound; for clerk of the district court, Harry Park, of Mound City. Bill Rose is some scrapper for business, and he generally holds down his end of it, too. Last Saturday evening his airdome found itself pitted against two tent shows. William quietly engages the Pleasanton band to come up and give a band concert in connection with his picture show.

Net results, a full house at the airdome and a crowd at Honest Bill's, while the Morgans pulled down their tent, packed their traps and quit the game. We strolled out to the big Men- denhall wheat field west of town, Sunday afternoon, and watched Art Hurley and Bill Calvin, with their crew of helpers, harvesting two hundred acres of as pretty wheat as you ever saw. They had two Deering binders hitched to a 30-horse oil tractor, and were putting that grain in shape- to shock at the rate of about eight acres per hour. This is where Calvin raised the banner wheat crop last year, and this year's yield promises even better. Amos Rush was in Mound City, Monday.

C. F. Potter made a business trip to Paola, Monday. Frank Maris made a business to Kansas City, Monday. Fancy white middlings, per cwt.

$1.55, at Potter's. The Christian Aid Society will meet, with Mrs. James Giffin next Tuesday afternoon. Miss Pauline Kennedy started Tuesday for a summer's visit with relatives in Chicago, Ill. Mrs.

Wm. Warren went to sas City, Tuesday, to see her fatherin-law, who is seriously ill. Mr. and Mrs. Chas.

Pryor returned to their home Monday after a brief visit in Osawatomie. Mr. and Mrs. John Sage, of Leavenworth, were Sunday guests of Mr. and Mrs.

Herschel Helm. New line of fancy flounced and plain messaline ribbons for those fashionable sashes at I. Glucklich's. Miss Ethel Henry went to Paola, Tuesday, to visit her brother Harry. She may decide to remain there at least for a time.

Mrs. Steve Rex and baby returned Tuesday to their home in Kansas City, after a visit with La Cygne relatives. The Prairie Home Cemetery Society will meet at the home of Mrs. Will Calvin for an all-day meeting, July Lura Lee, Secretary. Most Linn county wheat is now in the shock or stack, and threshing is well under way.

The new wheat is already coming in, all growers report a fine average yield and the grain tests high. Three cars of stock were shipped from here to the Kansas City ket, Monday night. Joe Rose and C. Ed Pollman shipped a mixed car, T. M.

Vezie a car of hogs, and a buyer from Kansas City shipped a car of sheep. Mrs. R. G. Mendenhall is finally at home in her elegant new residence at the east terminus of street.

It represents a cost of approximately $12,000, and is far and away the finest and best-finished home in the city. Mrs. Lucinda McCracken, who spent the winter in Lawrence, and has lately been visiting at Bartlesville, arrived Saturday from the latter place for a visit of indefinite length with her daughter, Mrs. J. H.

Ralston, and family. Mrs. Mary King, and daughter Miss Lida, of Ros well, New Mexico, arrived here Saturday for a short visit at the home of sister and aunt Mrs. J. H.

Ralston. They started on their homeward today, Thursday. Miss Hattie Glucklich, Mrs. Ella Saunders, Mrs. Mayme Smith, Glucklich and June Broadwell enjoyed a Sunday outing at the club house on Middle creek, northeast of town.

Fishing, feasting, reading and hammocking left little to be desired. Vaughn Kelsy of Jingo, who has for some time been failing rapidly under the ravages of consumption, passed away at 5 o'clock last Friday evening. Funeral services were held Saturday at 2:30 p. followed by interment in Jingo cemetery. A call was published last week for a meeting of bandmen, to be held at the Journal office Monday night, to.

reorganize a La Cygne band. Two lone newspaper men responded to the call, which would seem to imply that local musicians are not specially keen to "blow themselves." Miss Margaret Roberts finished her college course at Kansas University last week and returned to the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. E.

Roberts, in this city. She brought with her a state certificate and will teach the 6th and 7th grades in the La Cygne schools next fall and winter. Miss Olive Ruth Gage of LaCygne received the degree of Bachelor of Science in the course in home economics at the Kansas State Agricultural College June 18. Two hundred twenty-six young men and women received their diplomas at this time. Miss Olive returned home with her mother and sister Saturday.

Take your home paper. Take THE RECORD. THE UNSCIENTIFIC SCIENTIST. Introducing Scotty in the First of His Weekly Letters Back Home. San Diego, Juue 20.

Dear you the time to read thousands or even hundreds of tomes upon the subject of Ethnology and its first cousin, Archaeology? Neither have Neither have some ninety per cent of our fellow-citizens. Would you read them if you had the time? Neither would Neither would the same percentage of our brother-men. I don't believe I would wade clear through one of the aforementioned tomes on a bet, and probably I wouldn't understand or remember any appreciable part of it if I did--to win the bet, But if you could walk into a beautiful big building on the crest of a sightly hill overlooking San Diego, the Bay, Coronado, Point Loma, the Coronado Islands, and a nickel's worth of Mexico--which is considerable ground at present market values -I say if you could walk into such a building and see before you a history of your kind portrayed by pictures, models, relics, all of them absolutely authentic, graphically illustrating the evolution of yourself from the paleozoic age -if that was the startdown to the perfected product embodied in your own handsome self-wouldn't you jump at the chance? I would. How do we. best remember things in general? By our mental images of them, of course.

How do you remember Napoleon Bonaparte, for example? Through the pictures you have seen of him--probably as the saddest, most serious little fat man you ever knew of -that, however, being but one of his characteristics. How do we remember the earmarks of the Mesozoic or the Caenozoic period? Well, frankly, I don't. But here in the massive Ethnology Building will be collected the most remarkable exhibit that has ever been attempted. It is a most ambitious undertaking and will represent the sum total of human knowledge of the history of you and me and the rest of us. The ablest talent in the world has been working upon this for years.

No expense has been spared. And where it has been impossible to purchase certain collections which were logically necessary to complete and round out the exhibit, they were borrowed. Incidentally the institution which loaned them did not take any chances -they exacted huge bonds for the safe return of their invaluable collections. The result is the most complete and unique exhibit of the sort ever brought together under one roof, and a considerable part of it has never been under a roof before. To get it all together the Smithsonian Institution of Washington has sent its explorers unto the ends of the earth-and other places-where they dug up some of the prehistoric red men and then dug out before the descendants of said prehistoric red men could dig in and shoot them full of poisoned arrows and other souvenirs.

The School of American Archaeology has contributed extensively and has fallen in with the idea of making the whole exhibit graphic and comprehensible to an unscientific lowbrow like me, and another one like you. And so we may go to school again, without the inconvenience of set hours, or text-books or the stern eye of a long-suffering teacher; and in a few days, or even hours, of such intense interest that they pass all too quickly we may learn more about our human history- and remember it-than we learned in all our school years combined. And then when the youngster says: "Dad, tell me about the Crustaceans, "'or "Why was a troglody te?" able to lay down the evening paper and say with becoming impressiveness; "Well. Son, being blind on one side, the troglodyte progressed in a circle, there beating Senatorwell, you know the dub I mean to it by a couple of million years, I haven't seen the complete exhibit yet myself." Talk about your royal roads to knowledge! Yours for the logos of ethnos, SCOTTY. Take your cream, eggs and poultry to Potter.

Our line of serviceable hot- weather hosiery for men, women and children is complete in all colorsblack, white, pink, blue gray- and tan-10c to $1.00 the pair. I. GLUCKLICH. H. B.

Fuller, county farm agent, was a caller at the Record office yesterday morning. He 18 a man of progressive ideas and a firm believ. er in the religion of making two blades of grass grow where but one grew before. Mr. Fuller will be in -La Uygne and vicinity the greater part of next week, conferring with our farmers on soils, seed and stock subjects.

He says hog cholera has already made its appearance, and advises prompt preventive meagures..