Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, February 13, 1910, Page 9

| | ’ 25 Pleces Newvli‘ouhrd-. in almost as many shades and fully as many pat- terns—Rich satin finish silks, 24 inches wide; a special purchase about: - They are particularly desirable for early selec- tions, yd. . selection. Rep or Corded Wash Buitings are | unquestionably the vogue—Our line consists of Ottoman, Poplin, Fallle and Bengaline cords, and bave a high, silky finish; such shades as pongee, tan, reseda, rose, delft, peach, myrtle, green, helio, pink, light blue, etc., are promin- ent ......25¢ 39¢ and 50¢ Himalaya Oleth—A silk finished cotton fabric, closely resembling the silk Rajahs, shown in large line of shades; regular retail price 36c; Bennett's price Linen Suitings—Imported French linena. in shades that are dis- tinctive and different; double fold, 46-inch goods, at . T5¢ Bennett’s new fabrics express et Cream Serge Suiting—Here's a treat —Tomorrow several pieces of 54- inch, all wool cream serge for suits, coats and skirts will be of- fered; every piece is $1.50 quality 'or one day, 98c ‘Well informed women always choese have weight and firmness superior their patterns and colorings are the them. showing at Bennett's, ya. .. a third under value; splendld 86¢ silks, for .. The exclusive patterns should encourage A5¢ to 39¢ Notable Showing Wash Fabrics For the forehanded woman who anticipates her summer wash goods needs this February showing holds an incalculable charm. Beunett’s show now the correct fabrics for 1910, af- fording the early buyer every possible advantage for best Authentic 1910 Dress Materials You are absolutely certain to buy right here. Beautiful light weight plain and two-tone suitings, in all the prevailing shades of rose, greens, grays, tans, blues, big range styles and weaves..... Cheney Bros.’ "Showerprooi" Foulards also ‘‘showerproof,” meaning tbat rain or water ‘will‘not spot or injure, Ask for Cheney’s Foulards—Best Omaha In the new arrivals in embroideries, matched | We offer again Monday a large shipment of sets have been given much prominence— | Swiss, cambric and nainsook effects in ex- | quisite open and blind patterns are shown, | good a value, if not better, fine sales this season Swiss Flouncings, dreases. “ | | A typical Bennett bargain Tussar Silks—A delightful new silk mixed fabric, with jacquard designs, diagonal weaves, etc, comes in solid colurs and all lead ing shades ..............- Ramie Dress Linens, in about 30 shades, 28 inches wide .....10¢ French Ginghams and new Egyptian Tissues, about 250 pieces, and in a world of new patterns and color- ings, at, yard A. ¥. C,, Toile du Nord and Red Seal Zephyrs—The leading dom- estic lines of ginghams, in the new 1910 patterns, at 10¢ 12%¢ (11 S R SO S R Arnold Percales, in light and dark effects; the standard 36-inch qual- ity, at ........12%¢ and 15¢ the newest whims of fashion. 59e- Black and White Suitings—They will be extremeiy popular for suits and dresses; especially in checked effects. Eastern makers of women's garments are featur- ing them Strongly; all sizes, checks in the uhowlng, 1.50 Cheney Bros.” Foulard Silks. Thoy‘ to all others, and all acknowledge most beautiful.. These foulards are ..85¢-$1.00 .5%¢ wide embroidery flouncings that will be as New 24 and 2 in elaborute designs, rich and beautiful as any you'll see in most places at 50c to Goc a yd DAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 1 1910. than our former inch ns 7 25¢ a belt of diagonals am; colors or Bennett's Big Grocery Bennett's Golden Coffes, the usual 26c Monday and Tuesday dn Tea Monday and T long, English Bl’elkll.lt md 1mit) at, 1b. alt P pound 1 x lay—Basket heat, 2:1b. 00 Capit: nclke, ‘\o’i 2 And Bonl Blue Corn, 3 clnl 50 And 10 Stam Hartley's Capltol Baking Powder. b And 90 " Cookie Miguoneits Peas. 3 veis delictous And 10 Starps, ‘Tten's "fresh - baked, Graham c1 and Tourist* Cr: ckers, per «10¢ And 10 ‘Stamp: Some Things You Want to Know The Roosevelt Hunt These are busy times around the Smith- sonfan Institution and the National | Museum. The more than 8000 vetebrates collected by the Roosevelt-Smithsonian African. expedition are arriving, and there 1s much activity in the preparation, classi- fieation and cataloguing of this great col- lection. About half of the big mammals, heif of the birds and a third of the small mammals have arrived. The others are on their way, coming in several separate con- signments, and are expected 1o arrive within the next month. In a little room in the National Museum building are collected the skulls of the mammals that have arrived, and one who sees them might well imagine thet a | Noah's Ark of African animal life had perished and the skulls of the animals gathered together in this room. Skulls great and skulls small, skulls with long Yorns and skulls with short horns, skulls of every kind stare at one from every | argle. In front are fourteen skulls of | glant rhinos, some of them showing well | plaged shots that tell of a head-on charge and unerring aim. To the rear are skulls of hippos and eléphents. To the left are the snarltng heads of huge African lions, seemiing o small in comparison with those of the rhinos and hippos that one forgets they belong to the mighty king of beasts. On the right are skulls of waterbucks, im- Palas, hartebeests, gazelles, elands, klip- pespringers, glraffes, dik-diks and other strange and curious animals Tho authorities have a problem that Is | eausing them no little worry The beau- | titul teeth of the carnivorous animals, and | those of the hippopotami, are shattering | to pleces in the dry, steam-heated n:~{ mosphere of the Museum bullding. A few | days ago while the workmen were engaged in the task of preparing the skulls, one of | the glant front teeth of & big hippo burst asunder Wwith a report and one plece waus hurled half way across the room. The big, | | begun, | When it is stated that it may take as long | naturalist-sculptor makes a little model of flosh-tearing teeth of the lions are split- ting tnto little splinters. What causes It | no one fully understands, but it seems | that there is a difference In porosity in the Interior and exterior of the teeth, and that the uneven drying out results In | thelr shattering. An experiment is being made toward checking it. The larger teeth are to be soaked In hot paraffine in the hope that they will absorb enough of the | oll to stgp the spiintering. process. There I a lare collection of small mam- | mal skulls, hundreds of them _being so small that they are packed away in little | broad-uecked bottles of from two to four | tablespoons’ capacity. Each oné has its | Witle tag, telling where It was found, who | prepared it and all other data necessary to | L# somplete identification. When the skel- | ons are shipped it is the.usual practice | ‘luva as much flesh on the bones as will | af) out. This is to protect the delicate little bones from injury in transit. After the skeletons arrive they are subjected to a boiling process, so that all this dried flesh may be taken off. The sking are all arriving in good shape. Heller, who had charge of their packing, is an expert. They were all packed in brine and placed In sealed casks. Not a single skin has been injured in transit. The ex- pedition had hard work getting assistants for the skinning of the big animals. The natives are usually slow and lazy. At last & group of men from a raw-flesh eating tribe were gathered .together, and their anxiety to get the dantfest morsels served to make them hustling workmen. They keep their teeth filed sharp and eat the flesh while yet It it quivers. The Smithsonlan {s deluged with in- quirles as to how soon the collection will be placed on public exhibition. The reply is that the work of preparing exhibits has some of the skins already having been sent to the tanneries, but that it will be a matter of years until it is completed. as slx months to mount a single large mammal, it is plain that to prepare a whole group of exhibits will take years. The process by complished is which mounting 1s ac- 0 interesting one. First the he animal he proposes to mount. It is! usually on a scale of about one to eighteen. | After he gets his model to suit him, in poso and detail, he submits it to others for criticism and suggestion. After the model has been worked up to the satisfac- tion of the responsible authorities, the task of making a life sized form is begun, wood and paper belng used princlpally. When this is completed, the placing of the skin on the model {3 but & small undertaking. | To construct a great group, like the fa- mous bison group in the National museum, with all the accompanying natural settings, is a task that requires Infinite patience | and much abllity. This bison group is re- garded as one of the finest mounted ani- mal groups in the world. It was done by W. T. Hornaday, now head of the Bronx 200/ He killed the big bwl bison himself, and declares that when he shot the splendid creature he felt as though he had perpe- trated a cruel murder. Not all of the mammals will be mounted | for exhibition purposes, as they require too much space. After the principal specimens | are mounted, it is probable that the others will be used as exchanges with various mu- seums of the country. Of course & good specimen of every specles will be kept at the Smithsonian and the National Mu- seum. Dr. Gerrit Miller, curator of the division of mammals, National museum, who has charge of the animal collections, says that when a big animal is mounted and placed in an exhibition case sclence bids goodby to it. The action of the light will change the color of its hair, and other transformations will take place which end its usefulndess to sclence. Not less interesting than the animal col- | The wart hog alwayd gets the booby prize ! cotton and dried. lections are those of the birds. About 1,300 have been received and some 1,400 more are expected shortly. They renge from the tiny little sunbird, that is some- times confused with the humming bird, up to the gojiath heron, the saddle-billed stork and the glant eagle-owl. ; All of these birds are carefully skinned, the skins pol- soned’so as to render them immnne to ver- vermin and parasitic attack, and then stuffed with cotton. At the Smithsontan they are kept In trays in big dark cases. One of the most interesting specimens 1s the honey-gulde. This little bird has a taste for larvae and other life that abounds in & wild beehive. It has learned that man is fond of honey and will work all day trying to persuade the hunter to follow it. How it has acquired the idea of the relation between man and honey is a most remarkable thing, but that it has done 50 1s agreed by all who know its hablts, It will gulde a hunter to a bee tree as uner- ringly as a pointer dog will locate a covey of partridges. The secretary bird is an- other interesting member of Africa’s feath- ered tribe. It has a crest of feathers which when the bird Is at attention resemble an old-fashioned quill pen placed behind the ear of a clerk. Hence its name, It is a snake eater and an adept in the art of snake catching. It kills the snakes it eats by carrying them high into the alr and dropping them on hard ground, Weaver birds bulld their nests together, there belng as many as a hundred families under a common cover. Another Interest- ing specles represented in the collection is the little whydah bird. This bird and the wart hog seem to have aroused Colonel Roosevelt's sense of the grotesque more than anything else he saw in East Africa. at African beauty shows and the whydah is cumbersome because it has more tall that it can handle in windy weather. It 1s sald to by the champion bird dancer. It goes into the grass, cuts out a neat little circle, spreads out the failen blades as a carpet and begins to dance, The bird specimens are all stuffed with When Major Mearns comes home thay will be placed In damp- ened sand or sawdust and kept there until the skins become pliable again. Then the work of mounting will begin. Only the notable specimens will be mounted for | exhibition purposes. There are more than 200,00 birds In the Smithsontan collection, and yet the first shipments from the Roose- velt expedition have brought about seventy- tive species that were not heretofore repre- sented. During fifty years the Smithv sonlan never recelved an African .crowned crane. Since the one killed by the Roose- velt expedition arrived, another friend of the institution has sent one in. The value of the Roosevelt-Smithsonian expedition to sclence is sald 1o be very \' ALENTI) erl'nlflg but well adapted to spring wear. roll collar; gray, tan, also black; $25.00 suits, at . 1imit) at, unpowder; Al Stamp: Double Stamps on lated Sugar. Double Stamps on Bunerlna Cream Chees .23¢ Chocolatina, 2 10c cans. .18¢ m 8 Wr([h!ln'(on lee Neck & 00 Good Cooking Butter, 1b. 380 | Consolidated Telephone companies of Penn- | great. The thoroughness of its work, in & E §—To clo valentines ot good Revealing fashion’s modes in tomorrow’ ge out tomorrow reductions. 57¢ most authentic s great displays of New Spring Suits Two distinguishing fashion elements are in the race for popu- some form introduced. are prominent, neat, conservative patterns. lar favor this season. While it is accepted by all authorities that coats are to be shorter, the form which they are to take. varies, af- fording a wider scope than during the previous season. The strictly tailored model as you see pictured here, touches our idea V' of a suit that will meet with widest approval. ! The noteworthy features are the long collars, or often with inlaid moire silk; the large buttons (fully as large as a silver dollar) ; the 32-inch coat length and the slightly shortened full pleated skirt The Russian Influence is Also a Notable Departure this Season There is nothing extreme about them. being slightly bloused and fitted backs, with They are perhaps a little more fanciful in design, The materials are French serges are shown in profusion, novelty stripe Pan- , homespuns and mixtures are liberally represented. , either of silk materials exceptionally beautiful, wide wale The tendency is toward plain A very wide color range is shown— $2500 $2950 $3500 $4500 Introductory Suit Offer An advance sale of handsome, all wool Serge Suits. buyer now in New York. They have three-button, 32-inch coats, with long, skirts are ntrnlght plented full satin lined; grade, 8,000 1 ib.. . 200 Fired, Japan, Oo- reguiar 48¢ qual- ranu- 20 Sta Pure Fruit .Ylm! 250 Clean-Up Day, e have quantities of glassware, in odds and ends, to be closed out tomorrow; presscut pieces in large var- iety, at a trifling price; cuf, fancy vases, crystal and colored glass, bon bon dishes, fruit dishes, jelly stands, sugar shakers; perfume bot- tles, jugs and pitcheys; Values to 60c, at ... PRESSED GLASS. Footed Punch Sets, with six sherbets ., ..... 1.2 Blown Wine Glasse: About 50 suits rushed out by our $192 colors navy, Glassware 10c 25¢ GLASSWARE A clearing up of glass egg cups, goblets, tumblers, with """" oil Hottles, vinegar o Fradn mads, SELGRIPEY omn = T8 cruets, vages, salts and molasses cookles: Fm:led Hot Whiskey Glasses, peppers; ‘a splendid bar- otter & Footed - Pressed Goblets.5¢ Pressed Wine Glasses gain; values up to: 25c, in one lot, 3 e lec at THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE. FOR ALL THe [{LWS THE OMAHA BEE BEST IN THE WESI | SINGLE 68c 3¢ made months ago are in this sale, throngs. also dimities and lawns, grouped into two lots— Assortment of 18¢ and 22%¢ materials, will be 15¢ summer undermuslin per yard, at all linen fabric; always at 35¢. d 70-inch all linen Table Damask, full bleached, a strong, durable cloth that wears and launders well, 75¢ quality, at 59¢ Bleached Damask—58 inches wide, the best low price damask we know of, always 30c a yard, fine pleces, .- 18¢ CoPY Monday's Lowered Prices in Bedding Dept. ¢ More February White Goods Sales The February White Goods Bale Imunu again tomorrow cost less here now than . s Medths giving you the benefit of our Here are three decidedly strong offerings to attract the Monday shopping SERETS, SEEETS. | PIL. CASES. | BLANKENTS | BLANXETS. gflon:m'l Bleached and |46 x 36 ineh;|14-4 Cotlon | i g gray Weol | Pure Al b oo v loes. $1x00 |Made from | Blankets, felted Y g o, | ton filled, yarn with seam, 9-4 | feamiess. 81X90 | 4irong, service- | to look' 11k e | Rlankets, - | knotted. 13218 gine, $-1n. tom, o0k Ot dey [BAie gusiin ool Best col: | to pair, wers 86 | nen, and #1.2 F The pVsis] onlyac Monday | hest T8e casen.| 100 a%, "were|anl winter; now | quality, at— dur 75c grad nly \ made ¥ White Mercerized Waistings, in checks, stripes and figures: in checks and stripes; we have them 86 inch Nainsooks—Here is a very soft sheer nbr(c. particularly niee for very best, 16¢c quality, Waist Linens l‘;)r tnllored and embrnldered wnlnlu a fine, round thread, For those who can come Mon- we offer a quantity, per yard, at ......... ...t Table Damasks, Napkins and ‘l‘owels SPLENDID ECONOMIES ON WANTED HOUSEKEEPING LINENS FIVE CEN 32 | 98e mhum no savings— Advantageous pu Assortment of 26c and 29¢ 1be.... .19 12¢ 19¢ All Linen Napkins, full bleached and 21 inches square; serviceable qual- ity; well worth $1.50 a dozen-— now at .... . .$1.00 Huck Towels, with red or white borders; perfect goods; our best 10c towel; buy a dozen tomorrow, each, at . Te¢ February Sale Brass and Iron Po!lllvll)’ every bed at a big sacri- fice. Twenty-five pattorns in Brass Beds.alone, polished and satin finish, show the advantages of buying at Berinett's. Reductions as follows: Brass Beds usually $30.00-—cut to No. 1681, $20.00 No. 863, usually $45.00—cut to $32.50 No. 367, -usually $25.00—cut to §16.80 No. 360, usually $35.00-<-cut to. $26.00 Tron Beds No. 246, usually $8.76—cut to, No. 6526, usually $12.60—cut to. 0. 692 (lfke cut), $3.76—cut to. No. 844, usually $3.00-—cut to 98 5100 place were species are most numero gives opportunity for zoological and ornithological studies heretofore impossible. With the 50 large mammals, 3,879 small mammals, 2734 birds, 1,600 reptiles and batrachians - and 260 fish collected, the British East African territory has been covered thoroughly. The reports from Uganda have not yet come in. It fs the hope of the Smithsonian authorities that the example of Colonel Roosevelt may stimulate others to add to its collections. In England nearly everything is sent to the British museum. In America every big clty gets specimens, hence there has been no one collection as complete as that of the British museum. It is now Intended to embark seriously upon the work of mak- ing the Smithsonlan and the National museum collections the most comprehensive in the new world. BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN. Tomorrow—THE PANAMA LOTTERY. Gives Life Size | Portrait of Lincoln President of Ladies of G. A. R. Makes Present to Sons of Veterans | Memorial School, MASON CITY, Ia., Feb. 12—Mrs. Della R. Henry of Kansas City, Mo., national president Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic here today presented the Sons of Veterans memorial university a life size St. Gaudens portrait of Abraham Lincoln, The presentation was a feature of the ex- ercises held in celebrating of Loncoln's birthday. Mrs. Henry's address was warmly Pplauded. “I present this portrait,” she said, “in the name of the thousands of women of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic, who are bound by the tles of blood and | marriage to the noble men who went forth at the call of Lincoln to battle for the | upion in the great struggle from '61to frogs b i Al "PHONE LINES MUST EXCHANGE Pennaylvania ap- Commission Agninst Exclusive Contracts and Fa- vors Uniom of All Lines. HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 12.—The State Railroad commission in a decision an-| nounced today In the complaint of the | sylvania against the exclusive contract be- tween the Bell Telephone company and the Slate Belt Telephone company of Slating- ton, Pa., rules that exclusive contracts are fllegal and strongly recommends that there be an interchange, of local business. In the decision the commission say ““Che convendence of patrons would be best served If the lines of all telephones were connected." Justifiable A your honor, I'll admit I chased the complainant for a mile or mor ou meant to do him bodily “Injury Indeed, your honor.' “Becuuse he handed me a pamphlet en- | titied ‘How to Live Well on 7 Cents & lscharged."—Cleveland Plain Dealer, HERE'S YOUR VALENTINE! Together with Some Remarks on the Origin .of the Custom. MOST SENTIMENTAL OF HOLIDAYS | A Pagan Practice Gathers Romance and Poesy as it Moves Down the Alsles of Time Un- changed. “This is the day on which those charming little missives yclept valentines cross and intercross each other at every street and turning. The weary and all for-spent two- penny postman sinks beneath a load of delicate embarrassments, not his own.” So wrote Charles Lamb. Valentine was a humble bishop of Rome who achieved sainthood by being beaten to death on February 14, in the year 218 A, D. To all appearances his career had been stald*and unromantic; vet he has become the godfather of the most sentimental of English holidays. To find out how this | has come about we must go far back to the-days of pagan Rome. At the annual feast of the Lupercalla, in honor of Pan and Juno Februats, it was customary for each Roman youth to draw from a recep- tacle the name of one of his city's maldens, who thereupon became - his sweetheart, When Christianity overwhelmed Paganism the church engrafted upon this custom a radical change; the name which was drawn by both youths and ‘maidens, was not that | of a fellow being to be admired, but that of a salnt who was to become a special object of veneration during the ensulng year. The old date of Lupercalia remained, but under these Christlan modifications the drawing of patron saints became asso- clated with St. Valentine, for it was on February 14 that the cholce was deter- mined. Later, the names of women were again substituted for those of saints. Traditions Cateh On. Another important tradition sprang up and helped to perpetuate the custom. It was sald that on February 14 the birds first chose their mates. An old English dictionary remarks: “About this time (month of February) the birds choose their | mates, and probably thence came the cus- references to this mating, Says Chaucer Foules, take hede of my sentence, I pi e R S 28 el | Ye know well, By how on St. Valentine's my statute, and through my gover- nance, Ye do chese your mates, and after fly away With hem. And Drayton, several centuries after: Muse, bid the morn awake, Sad winter now declines; Each bird doth choose & mate This day St. Valentine's. Valentine Verse, Specimens of valentine verse are to be found as eerly as the fifteenth century. At times It happened that the youth was not facile with his pen, and hence was forced to rely on printed verses published for his bemefit. At about the end of the don’t have to shop around for shoes. Everything! Here! The sort that society wears. SWELL—very —Dorothy Dodd shoes exclusively -at Ben- nett’s in Omaha. eighteenth’ century the market was flooded with these books. of valentine verses. Gradually the verses began to be accom- panied by plctures or designs emblematic of atfection and devetion.” In the courss of time these came to be more important than their caption. The first models were merely heart:ahaped bits of. paper, roughly stained; but during the nineteenth cen- tury there developed & whole plotorial vo- cabulary for St. Valentine's day, of which the chief symbols were the arrow, the dove, the heart and Cupld. These four are endlessly employed. A dove flits through the sky, holding in his bill a scroll. The bleeding heart is transfixed by an arrow which nearly resembles a weather-cock. The ‘children of a genera- tlon ago were delighted with the cards covered by lace paper which could be pulled out, accordlon-wise, to form a mound of white frame from within which a little picture peeped from flanking lay- ers of paper lace. To that same generation belongs the valentine wherein there sits on a rustic bench a very pink woman clad In a garment half ‘way between ‘a riding habit and a princess, while over the back of the seat leans a gallant in tight laven- der trousers, a purple surtout and a green Beau Brummell hat.' In the background a little church nestles against the horizom At present the forms are many'and com- plicated. The cheap comic valentine has had a bad effect on the quality of the day, but, nevertheless, with every l4th of February a little of the old spirit crops up. Every good valentine has in it a bit of the tone of that immortal document which Sam Weller laboriously drew up: “Lovely creetur,’” Sam wrote, “afore I see you I thought all women was alike, but now I find what a reg-lar sofi-headed, inkred'lous turnip I must ha' been, for there aln't nobody like you. ix- cept of me, Mary, my dear, as your val- entine.”—Colller's Weekly. French Find Land Near South Pole Antartic Expedition’Discovers Large | Tract West and South of Al- exander Island. VALPARAISO, Chjile, Fel 12.~The French antarctic expedition under Dr. Jean tom of young men and maidens choosing | M, Charcot reached ,latitude 70 degrees | valentines, or special loving friends on | gouth, longitude 126 ddgrees west and dis- thie day. KEnglish literature is full of covered 120 miles of fiew land to the west and south ‘of Alexander island. — A Practicsl nevl“. A uegro preacher whose su of hominy and bacon was running 1ow. 4ecided tc. take fredicsl steps, to imprgss upun his flock the necessity for wlllflwt{m (berally (o the church umom:x Acgordingly, at the close of the sermon 6 an impressive pause and then ¥r°°“fl.d as follows: “I hab found it nec'srry. on Scooint of de stringency of de ‘hard ti dn ireral deficienc; m of ge ch’rululn lnl um n connection wid dis chu'ch, t' interduce ma new otermatic ¢ box. . It -run‘oa dat a half-di fa Fed plush Casbion without molse: s nl(kcl '"I ring mall heard by de congregation, nn l mawtals, will fire off a nol 'n yo'selves accordi now p'ceed, while I <ibs out & hymn. '~ H, Vion r or & quatah o EW SYSTEM TO TEST CORN Innovation Adopted by Omaha and Other Grain Exchanges. PURPOSE TO RAISE, THE STANDARD Corn that May Be Shipped South More Valuable and Nebraska This Year Puts it Over Missourt in This, The Omaha Grain exchange, as well as other exchanges of the country, 1s work- ing & new system in the matter of test- ing, and all corn sold on the floor of the exchange is tested to determine the amount of water in the corn. The standard 1s: Corn with not over 1 per cent molsture, No. 1. Corn' with mot over 16 per cent mofsture, No. 2 ¢ Corn with not over 19 per cent moisture, No.'3. Corn with not over 22 per cent mojsture, No. 4 Tlie corn is tested for moisture on the floor -of the exchangs by placing equal parts of corn and oll and bolling. The ofl and water are thus bolled off and measured in & graduate to determine the amount of molsture. A molsture testing machine is used. i Corn which may be shipped south 1s worth 6 cents a bushel more than corn which has to be used at once and will not stand the southern climate. Corn, as a rule, has about § per cent more molsture this year than last, and, as a consequence, the farmers are geiting that much less for thelr corn. Nebraska corn s better than Missourl corn this year and as a consequence Ne- braska is finding a market fn Missour! for corn that fofmerly went farther soutl. ' Grain men say the farmers aione are responsible for this condition, as they could have helped it by placing their corn in cribs and husking eariier. Many farm- ers husked thelr corn and them had it | snelled and for want of cribs placed it on | the ground where the November rains and the snows of December caught them and made it impossible to ship to the market it was thoroughly soaked with water. e way to get & better grade of corn in Nebraska and thus to get higher prices is for the farmers to provide cribs,” said & prominent graln man at the exchange. “The higher price they would get in one year would pay for the extri expense. Wet corn In Nebraska this year cost the tarmers at least ¢ or 7 ocents a bushel, which might have been saved If they had provided themeelves with cribs.” Corn to be shipped south generally has o be held until it drys of ltself to some extent or until it s kiln dried. “‘Come here, Tommy, called his mott er from the edge of the [-ond a8 she concealed the birch switch behind h ““What do you want, ma tle_boy, su ked the 1it- ““Then I shall be even more liberal. 1 am to glve you something for nothing.” 50 News.