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Bellefonte, Pa., June 14, 1912.
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REDEEMED!
They stand redeemed! They are not what we |
said,
Or felt, or thought; they are the kingly dead,
‘Who turned heroic after years of sloth
To save the weak. No longer need we loath
These rich whom Slander oft has smeared with |
muck— i
God tested them, and there they proved their |
pluck—
“Young lovers parting at the gates of death
‘With one long, lingering kiss, one tender breath
Of immemorial greeting and farewell—
The lonely sea, and whither none could tell! :
They stand redeemed, these idle sons that bore
‘The slurs and sneering of the world before!
In that great moment they were true, they stood
To help the helpless and forget the brood
Of selfish purpose that we said they nursed
In bosoms many have condemned and cursed;
They passed from honeymoons and dreams and
tears
Beyond the multiple and blinding fears
Into the arms of ocean, given up
‘Without one quiver—bravely—live's sweet cup!
They stand redeemed, these Titans of our day—
Husbands and wives who kissed and turned
away;
Lovers and comrades on whom still the bloom
Of bridal sat with all its rare perfume;
Old hearts and young, twined hopes that served
there
In the black hour of sadness and despair; i
Joy and adventure, laughter, sweetness, power—
Calm in that sudden and inviolate hour
Of new-born manhood to go down divine
In the great sea, forevermore its shrine!
Brave men stood back that women might be
saved
But there were heroines, too—
Those wives who clung in death where danger
waved
To all they loved so true.
No kiss farewell for them on lips that soon
Would leave them to go down.
But there together clasping death's sweet boon
They won immortal crown.
Yea, there together on that doomed deck those,
Who proved that they were wed
HE DIDN'T CARE.
“Now, John!" cried Mrs. Prill in
tomes of exasperation.
Prill continued removing his coat.
window from the screemed porch into
and with a relieved “Whew!”
| into the hammock.
“You are perfectly maddening!”
| went on his wife when she had wit-
nessed his deed. “How can you—"
Thud! Thud! Prill's shoes hit the
porch floor as he kicked them off.
Next he sighed with content.
“If the McSloys should come now—"
; tearfully began his wife.
Prill raised himself in the hammock
and spoke heatedly. “For four con-
secutive nights,” said he, “I have sat
on my own front porch in starched
and melting agony, all for fear the
McSloys would call!
coat that was constructed by a fiend-
ish tailor for arctic exploration
work and a vest that originally start-
ed out in life as a mustard plaster. |
"The Temper of a Thunderstorm.
| Then he tossed it through the open |
the living room. Next he determined- |
! ly shed his vest, his collar and his tie,
sank
A tall, well gowned young woman
entered one of the department stores,
accompanied by an angelic appearing
little girl of three years. “What a
beautiful child!" the shoppers murmur-
ed as she pussed. From one counter
to another the two went. purchasing
gloves, a white lace veil, some rose
pink ribbon, that the mother held un-
der her daughter's chin and then at
her child to see the effect, which the
saleswoman declared perfect. All the
time the child was sweetly acquiscent
In all her mother’s plans. Once or
. twice she spoke quietly to her mother,
angelic one: “I won't!
I have worn a
; rage and determination.
who answered her by saying, “Per-
haps, later.” and smiled. Suddenly a
change came over the angelic face. It
was like a great black thundercloud
passing over the face of the sick.
“I won't stop teasing.” shrieked the
I want choco-
late ice cream! I will have it! I will!
I will!” The voice rose in a shriek of
Then she
! threw her dainty self to the floor and
haves endured the glare of the lights |
from within the house which you in-
sisted on keeping lighted so the Mec-
Sloys would know we were at home. |
I have choked to death up to a late
hour because you wouldn't make any '
lemonade till you finally gave up hope i fled, but was only a student hold
of the McSloys for that evening. Now
I'm through!
“Why, the dumb animals in the
parks are treated with more consider-
ation by their keepers than I
been treated in my own home!"
“You might consider me a little!”
retorted his wife. “You know perfect-
ly well that Mrs. McSloy doesn’t in-
clude every one in her calling list,
rolled over and over.—New York Mail.
Napcleon’s Last Doctor,
M. Frederic Masson has traced the
remarkable career of Signor Antom-
marchi. whom Cardinal Fesch sent to
St. Helena to act as Napoleon's medi
cal adviser. He was not even quali-
an appointment in the dissecting room
| of the Florence hospital, and he diag-
nosed cancer of the stomach as a sim-
have = Ple indigestion and counseled the em.
. peror to cure it by digging in the gar-
' den. After Napoleon's death he tried
and she is on the membership commit- |
tee of that club I want to join, and |
Mr. McSloy runs out to the golf club |
in his machine Saturdays, and it would
be splendid if he liked you and would |
pick you up sometimes, and I should
To love forever, in that last hour chose
The nuptials of the dead! ;
—"The Bentztown Bard,” in Baltimore Sun. i
A PREMEDITATED ACT.
i
Some new tenants occupied the flat |
below the Kings. The occupants of |
the Lq Rex apartments were noted |
for their sociability. But to all events
and purposes the Swifts were exclu-
sive and did not seek other company
than their own.
“I don’t understand it at all,” con-
fided Mrs. Jennings as she seated her-
self on Mrs. King’s back porch. “The
poor thing is so abused. How her
husband talks to her. He doesn't
talk, he yells, shouts, screams and
shrieks at her.
“Don't shie answer him?” questioned
sympathetic Mrs. King.
“The angrier he gets, the more she
laughs and even when I've seen her go
out he continues to scold and gibber
jabber to himself. Once I heard that
man fairly eault because she was suf-
fering with a sore throat.”
“Probably for the first time in the
twenty years of your existence you'll
know enough to keep quiet,” he said.
“Something mysterious about them.
Never & soul calls on them.”
“Oh the butcher's boy informed me
they just moved from another town.
I called there one afternoon and
though no one answered the door bell
I could distinctively hear peals of
laughter. Listen to that now.”
“Can't you ever stop, you mummy
skull,” came the words from a dis-
tance in an exasperated tome. “I'll
throw something at you if you utter
another syllable.”
“Heavens, if worst comes to worst
and any attempt is made to harm that
exquisite child-like wife, I'll hasten to
her rescue.”
Things seemed to go from bad to
worse in apartment No. 2. Strange,
however, when the young couple left
‘the flat together, they could easily
‘have been mistaken for a congenial,
happy, care free pair.
The neighbors felt diffident about
(calling on Mrs. Swift until Mrs, Jenn-
ings appointed herself as committee of
one to make a formal visit. As she
approached the door a masculine voice
could be heard saying:
“I'll not put up with this any long-
er. You think that you can swear at
me until eternity, but you're mistaken.
Some day I'll wring your neck.”
Mrs. Jennings flew back to her flat
and telephoned the police that a man
‘was threatening his wife and her life
was endangered, then waited in
‘breathless horror.
Mr. Swift was amazed to see a big
burly policeman when he opened the
door, razor in hand.
“No, we don't keep a dog,” he said
‘impatiently.
“But you keep a wife, where is
she?" said the policeman, looking at
the razor meaningly.
“My wife is downtown shopping.”
“A likely story. Didn't you threaten
ito wring her neck a few moments
ago?’ “Maybe you found cutting it
easier.”
“To wring my wife's neck?"
peated Mr. Swift in astonishment.
Just then a voice came from the
dining room saying, “Go to h—. Go to
“Come with me and I'll introduce
you to the party whose neck I'll wring
the first opportunity, regardless of all
the gossipy neighbors and policeman
in the world,” said Mr. Swift.
When the policeman saw an ugly
re-
green parrot winking at him he ut- |
tered a few choice oaths apologized
for his intrusion,
The neighbors must have been in- | of
formed who the anticipated victim
was, as the next day Mrs. Swift was
surprised at her sudden popularity
and of all the articles most admired
think—"
“I know you would, Celia,” inter- |
rupted her emancipated husband in
languid content from the hammock.
| “I know just what you would think,
{and I am going to spare you the re- |
cital, because the weather is far too
hot for you to exert yourself by talk-
ing when you don't have to! I know
your every little thought, darling!
n't make a blithering bit of difference
if King George himself in his cor
onation robes and with his crown tuck-
ed under his arm should walk up those
front steps, 1 shou!? rely on his com-
mon sense as a man to understand
that nobody but a lunatic would keep
on his coat and the trimmings if he
didn’t have to!"
“Men,” observed Mrs. Prill agitated-
ly, “are the densest, stupidest, most
selfish things! If you knew how it
would make me feel if Mrs. McSloy
should catch you looking like this
you'd put on your coat and shoes and
collar at once!
looks as though she had come out of
a bandbox, and—"
“She can go right back into a
bandbox for ail of me!” persisted
Prill, airily. “I'd have you understand
that I'm just as good as the McSloys!
And all their relations! This toady-
ing makes me tired!
own house?
consult McSloy about my wearing ap-
parel? You'll be wanting me to tele-
phone him to ask whether I shall
wear my blue pajamas or my pink
ones! If Mrs, McSloy's delicate con-
ing a man without a collar, I don't
I were you!”
“Their first call, too!” mourned
Prill. ‘And first impressions count
so!”
“Fudge!” said Prill.
slave of conventions—"
“John!” hissed his wife, as she
sprang to her feet. “There are the
McSloys!"”
“You are the
An automobile was chugging slow-
ly down before the house.
body heaving and scrambling. Prill
tumbled out of the hammock. He
hurtled through the open window into
the Hving room, in whose dark fast-
nesses reposed most of his wearing:
apparel. As he disappeared there was
a crash. He had overturned the
fernery,
“Throw in my shoes!” he called
softly.
There was a bang and a growl as he
bumped against a rocking chair.
Something tore as he struggled with:
his vest. When he groped for his coat
his head encountered a corner of the
piano. Finally, gasping, breathless,
with his vest upside down and his
collar twined in weird convolutions
under one ear, Prill desperately ven-
tured out on the front porch to meet
| the McSloys.
“John,” said Mrs. Prill when he ap-
peared. This is the agent for the new
refrigerator 1 was telling you about—
he thought he'd find you at home if
he came in the evening!”
| “What are you giggling about?”
growled her husband. “I was just go-
ing to put on my things, anyhow—I
think the weather's turning cooler!”
Hydro Hat Arrives, Made of Sail Canvas.
“The “hydro hat,” which is to be the
headgear of militant suffragettes
of Vienna, made its first Pppearance in
America recently when Mrs. Lang,
whose efforts in behalf of women’s rights,
have made her prominent in both Austria
and Germany, arrived here on the Kronz-
prinz Wilhelm. The hydro hat is made
sail canvas smeared with tar and is
polished so highly that it looks some-
thing like patent leather.
~——There are many good newspapers
in her home the parrot was most ad-
mired.
A
published, but none that is quite as good
+ as the DEMOCRATIC WATCHMAN, Try it.
Then came the sound of a large. :
And somehow at this minute it would-
to obtain a pension from his heirs on
the strength of an unsupported state
ment that there was a codicil in the
will bequeathing one to him. Marie
Louise and Nelpperg refused to do
anything for him, but the matter ulti-
mately went to arbitration, and he was
. awarded an annuity of 3,000 francs.
He raised a little ready money by sell
ing Napoleon's death mask, and then,
after setting up in medical practice in
Paris and failing to obtain patients,
he crossed the ocean to New Orleans.
He died in Santiago in 1838.—West-
minster Gazette.
Dickens’ Resemblance to Tennyson.
Some of the great writers of the last
century seem to have resembled each
other in physical appearance as well
as in genius. Mr. Comyns Carr in his
“Eminent Victorians” states that he
was struck at one of Dickens’ readings
by the resemblance of Tennyson. Aft-
erward, on seeing a pencil drawing
which Millais made of Dickens after
! death, he found the likeness to the
; actly like myself.”
poet still more marked, and on the
sketch beinz shown to Tennyson he,
too, observed the resemblance. He
gazed at it curiously for some min-
utes, then exclaimed: “Why, this is a
most extraordinary drawing. It is ex-
And Lady Dorothy
Nevill in her “Reminiscences” tells of
a painting purchased by a friend of
stitution can't stand the shock of see-
Mrs. McSloy always | hers as a portrait of Browning.
It
was afterward found to be a portrait
of Dickens, made by an artist friend
at Gad’s dill.
Outs and Ins of London.
When the late Franklin Fyles first
visited London he told his traveling
Isn't this my Companion as they rose from break:
Why should I have to |
fast the first morning that he would
have to be gone most of the day. “I've
got to see a doctor and a lawyer to
whom I have cards of introduction,”
he explained, “and there are a couple
of dramatic critics here who've written
me to call as soon as I reached town.
' Then I'm going to hunt up Goldsmith's
think I'd bother about knowing her if |
grave down in Temple Gardens. I'd
. rather see that than any other one
thing in England.”
A few minutes past 10 Mr. Fyles
| walked into the hotel again, and, to his
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friend's surprised look, merely said:
| “Doctor and lawyer and critics all out.
Only man at home was Oliver."-Lip
pincott's Magazine.
Found Imitation Difficult,
Bert, a Wabash freshman, closed a
letter to his cousin Joe, five years old,
by saying, “Now I must quit and write
five pages on Esther.”
The next day his father found Joe
armed with tablet and pencil trying to
hold down his young brother, Robert,
and said to him, “Joe, what are you
doing?’
“I'm trying to write five pages on
Bob, but he won't be still,” replied the
little fellow.—Indianapolis News.
In His Mind,
An artist gazes intently into the
space within an empty frame,
“What see you there?” says a friend,
“I see a wonderful picture,” was the
reply.
“Oh, an intentionist picture!” the
friend retorts.—American Art News.
Taking No Chances.
Mr, Bjones—Don't you think Johnnie
is getting too big to be a messenger
boy?
Mrs. Bjones—No; I'd rather keep him
there because there is no danger of his
getting into fast company.—St. Louis
Globe-Democrat.
Picking Up Pins.
“How do you make your living, my
lad?”
“Picking up pins, sir.”
“Dear me- What an odd occupation!
Where?”
“In a bowling alley, sir.”—Boston
Transcript.
Disgraceful.
Willie—Has Jack a good reason for
being ashamed of his ancestors? Billie
=] should say so. His grandfather
struck out four times in a world's
series.—Philadelphia Record.
It is less pain to learn in youth than
to be ignorant in age.
Playing Cards For a Treaty.
Years ago | was in America and
went down with the English minister
in the United States to a small inn in
Virginia where we were to meet Mr.
Marcy, the then United States secre-
tary of state, and a reciprocity treaty
between Canada and the United States
was to be quietly discussed. Mr. Mar-
cy. the most genial of men. was as
cross as a bear. He would agree to
nothing. “What on earth is the matter
with your chief?" I said to a secretary
who accompuuied him. “He does not
have his rubber of whist,” answered
the secretary. After this every night
the minister and 1 played at whist
with Mr. Marcy aud his secretary, and
every night we lost. The stakes were
very tritling. but Mr. Marcy felt flat-
tered by beating the Britishers at
what he called their own game. His
good humor returned, and every morn-
ing when the details of the treaty were
being discussed we had our revenge
and scored a few points for Canada.—
Henry Labouchere in London Truth,
April 12, 1877.
Cost of Floral Decorations.
Millions of dollars are spent on floral
decorations in American every year. It
is said that the amount spent for deco-
rative purposes each year is sufficient
to build three battleships and place
them in commission. It is considered
nothing unusual for $1,000 to be charg-
ed by florists for decorating a banquet
hall, while as much as $15,000 has been
The deco- |
paid for home decorations,
rator has to go through a hard and long
school of experience before he is able
to command the salary of an expert, for
the materials at his command are of a
fragile nature, and it is next to im-
possible to experiment with them. Cer-
tain set forms are known and prescrib- |
ed for certain occasions, but when a '
carte blanche order is given then the
art of the deccrator comes into play.
and his artistic sense is well tested, for
it depends upon him to please his pa-
trons in an artistic way, and also by
the wonderful blending of his flowers.
—New York Sun.
Weight of Brains.
According to some scientists, every
human bein; gets a complete new out-
fit of brains about every two months
They estimate that the duration of a |
nerve's life is approximately sixty days
and that every brain cell is destroyed |
and renewed that often. In other
words, we all have six brand new sets
of brains each year. The following tig-
ures, showing the comparative weights
of persons of different nationalities, are
interesting.
49.6 ounces, English brain 49.5 ounces
French brain 47.9 ounces, Zulu brain
7.0 ounces. Chinese brain 47.2 ounces,
Pawnee brain 47.1 ounces, Italian brain
40.9 ounces, Hindoo brain 45.1 ounces.
Gypsy brain 44.8 cunces, Bushman
brain 44.6 ounces and Eskimo brain |
43.9 ounces.—San Francisco Chronicle.
Faces Over the Doors.
Those who visit Pompeii for the first
time are struck by one significant fea.
ture of those little houses whose own-
ers have been dead for 2,000 years. |
That is the faces which are often carv.
ed over the door or in the atrium and
intended to convey a welcome or a de-
fiance to the entering guest. The New
House, as it is called, because it is the
last rescued from the tomb of ashes,
has before it two marble heads on pil-
lars rising from beds of roses. Their
faces are turned to greet the stranger
with gay, friendly smiles. No one could
enter a house which gave him so cor-
dial a welcome without a happier throb
of the heart. In the entrances of some
of the other houses are set angry.
frowning heads of demons.
The Origin of Jack Tar,
Jack Tar apparently is considerably
older than Tommy Atkins, for the use
of Jack to signify a sailor is at any
rate as old as 1630, and old Tar is a
nautical character in a play of about
the same period. The origin of the
name is net very romantic, for the
sailor is supposed to have got the title
from his tarred clothes and hands.
Jack being merely a sort of generic
name for a man.—London Standard.
|
! Self Sacrificing.
' “I'm glad to make your acquaintance.
- major. I hope you'll pardon the ques-
| tion, but is your marriage with my di.
vorced wife happy #*
“Oh, very! 1 don't understand how
, you could separate from so charming
a woman. Don’t you want to take her
' back ?’—Pittsburgh Press,
|
| Unkind.
| Ella—Live and learn. Stella—If you
| had been learning all the time you
| have been living you would make a
| sixteen volume encyclopedia look like
: a pocket dictionary. New York Press.
[ Proof Positive,
' Madge—Do you think he really loved
! you? Marjorie—I'm sure he did, dear.
| When I refused him he went and mar-
' ried the very first girl he happened to
| meet.—New York Times.
! Basis of His Belief.
| Sillicus—Do you believe in long en-
| gagements? Cynicus—Sure. The longer
| a man is engaged the less time he has
| to be married.—Philadelphia Record.
i Not This Side of Eden.
| Will not the world ever produce a
great artist in the form of a tailor who
can make clothes to harmonize with
the pocketbook ?—Nashville Banner.
Enjoyed Moving.
| Weeks—I 6nce knew a man who real-
| ly enjoyed moving. Seeks—I don't be-
! lieve it. Weeks—It's a fact. You see,
| he lived in a houseboat,
According to Bastian and i
other brain experts, the average Scotch |
brain weighs 50 ounces, German brair |
Blackmore Resembled Greeley,
R. B. Blackmore. the author of
“Lorna Doone,” was. says W. H. Ride-
ing in his volume of reminiscences,
very like Horace Greeley in appear-
ance. He must have been some inches
more than six feet in height in his
youth and he towered above ordinary
men even when his shoulders sagged,
as they did in his closing years. [is
head was In proportion to his stature,
and the sparse locks remaining had a
sort of debonair friskiness that hinted
at a vitality reduced a little perhaps,
but without a sign of the cloudy dregs
of exhaustion, though he was well
along in years. His beard. shaved
away from his upper lip and chin,
festooned a rosy face from ear to ear,
a face of wholesome color, pink and
creamy as a girl's and lighted by hu-
morous, twinkling eyes of mingled
shrewdness and kindness. Rusticity
appeared in his loose fitting, {ll match-
ed clothes, and an air of rusticity en-
veloped him. He seemed to exhale the
very essence of the moorlands and
coombs he loved and interpreted so
well.
Sleep.
Investigation by scientists of the
nature of the sleep of persons in nor-
mal health shows that it varies ac-
cording to the daily diet and the differ-
ent hours at which sleep is begun. Al.
| together the idea! hour for retiring is
. 10 o'clock. The sleep of a person going
to bed reguiarly at approximately this
time gradually augments in intensity
for the space of an hour. It then sud-
denly becomes very profound, reaching
its maximum intensity at about 11:30
o'clock. Within five or six minutes
from this time it has been found that
the sleep begins to be less deep. In an
hour the sleeper is again in the same
condition of slumber as at about 11:15.
From this time until after 2 o'clock the
rest is steady and light. From 2 until 4
it augments. and then it consistently
diminishes until it ceases at the cus-
tomary tine of rising.—Harper's,
The Largest Dials.
The art of the clockmaker has
. achieved many remarkable triumphs.
Sometimes it Is in a clock wonderful
| for the complexity of its movements
and its busy population of automatons
that attracts our admiration, like that
In the cathedral of Strassburg. At
other times the immense size of the
machinery and the dials excites aston-
ishment. This is the case with the
| celebrated clock in the tower of the
Church of St. Rombaut at Mechlin.
This clock is believed to possess the
largest dials that exist in the world.
There are four of them, one on each
side of the great square tower, and
their extreme diameter is nearly thir-
| ty-seven and one-half feet. The fig-
| ures showing the hours are nearly six
| and one-half feet high, and the hands
| have a length of nearly twelve feet.—
| Harper's Weekly.
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Heads and Tails.
A proposes to B to toss a coin eleven
times for the price of the theater tick-
ets, A taking heads and B tails. Whiel
ever comes up oftener wins for the
| man backing that side of the coin.
| “I have a better scheme than that,”
says B. “Let us toss the coin only ten
times.”
| “But it will come heads just as often
as tails,” objects A. “That is exactly
an even chance.”
“If you think so,” says B, “I will bet
you $10 even that it does not come
heads as often as tails, and we will re-
peat the experiment as often as you
like to call the bet.”
What B is betting on is that in ten
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five tails, no matter in what order the
heads or tails may come. Try it.—Bal-
timore American.
Luck.
A modest game in a small town had
a rakeoff which was devoted to the
purchase of drinks and cigars. Every-
body won once in awhile—all but Sam
Pryor, who never was returned in
front. He was down to one chip in
a table stake game and was age man,
holding a pair of aces. Everybodr
dropped out around to the dealer, who
threw in a chip and stayed. Sam drew
the dealer didn't help. It was a show-
down, of course, and the dealer drop-
ped both chips In the hole because
Sam held better than two pairs.—Chi-
cago Post.
Detecting Shortcomings.
Do you wish to find out a person's
weak points? Note the failings he
the quickest eye for in others.
may not be the very failings he is -
self conscious of, but they will be
next door neighbors. No man
such a jealous lookout as a rival.—J.
and A. W. Hare.
Fearless.
“He's absolutely fearless.”
“Afraid of nothing, eh?”
find the way to his room in the dark.
Free
Outgeneraled.
“What did you do with all the get-
M.
“Lost it,” replied Mr. Flimm. “A fe!
low invented a get-rich-quicker scheme
and lured me into it."—Washington
Star.
Fully Explained.
Passenger—-Why are we so late?
Guard—Well, sir. the train in front
was behind, and this train was behind
before besides.— London Punch.
os
| Principle is a passion for truth.— Wi!
| lam Hazlitt,
throws there will not be five heads and |
another ace and a pair of tens, and
“Nothing. Why, he'd actually try to |
knowing well that his wife had that |;
day begun housecleaning.” — Detroit |
Press.
rich-quick money you landed?’ asked |
Flamm,
FARM NOTES.
—How easy it is to forget to wash the
calf pails.
~—You can save time by teaching your
Cows to go in their stalls,
—Plan to raise our own protein feeds
this year and cut out the high-priced
mill stuffs.
—Bieeding for a speciul purpose tends
to develop an animal that will be in har-
mony with her function.
—The man who is producing milk for
the city trade should have a clear mind,
clean Lands and a pure heart.
—Mongrel fowis should not be kept
for egg production because the eggs will
be unitorm neither in color nor size.
—Any sharp stones will answer for
gn, if they are smaller than a grain of
curn, and larger than a grain of wheat.
—Few dairymen now make butter to
sell. The price paid for butter fat by
creameries takes all the cream from the
farm.
—Clover leaves and heads break off in
handing clover hay. These should be
saved and fed to the hens. They may be
ied dry or placed in a pail and steamed
by Dounag on boiling water and covering
ughtiy.
—Crushed bone is valuable fertilizer for
fruit trees and may be used to advantage
whenever it may be secured at a reason-
able price. An application of 400 to 600
pounds of bonemeal per acre will prove
helpfull on silt and clay soils.
—Dry bran is good egg food and
should te kept before the hens practically
all the time. Keep it in a dry place and
give it to the hens in a narrow trough
slatted over the top so they can pick it
out, but not tramp in and spoil it.
. —Every farmer ought to have some ob-
jective point toward which he may work.
In buttermaking it should be to produce
the very best butter ible; in growi
corn, the largest yield to be had. In rais-
ing calves let none be better than ours.
So on through to the end. The highest
point all along the line should be the only
thing to satisfy.
—It is best never to feed hogs on the
ground. It is no more natural for a hog
to pick his feed up out of the dirt and
mud than for any other animal to do 80,
although circumstances have in many
cases forced him todo so. Have floors
on which to feed hogs, and not only will
you save feed by using them, but they
will appreciate their rations much more.
—One of our enterprising dairymen
sent a bottle of milk to Paris at the time
of the Exposition. It made the journey
over and back, a trip of 28 days, and was
still sweet. There was no preservative
used, and the only precaution was to have
the dishes and bottle perfectly sterile,
cooling the milk at once and keeping it
all the time at a low temperature. This
seems a good while to keep milk sweet,
but it shows what cleanliness and a low
temperature can do with milk.
—Don't let your sheep run after you
have sheared them without giving them
a thorough dipping. It is likely that the
ewes are full of ticks unless something
has been done to prevent them, and if
they are the ticks will all go onto the
lambs after the ewes are sheared. Then
the lambs will begin to get thin and make
peor growth for the ticks will worry them
a great deal. There is no money in lambs
that are worried and eaten by ticks and
if you loose the profits on the lamb crop
there will be no profits from the ewes.
Their wool alone is not enough to pay
fer their keep and leave a profit.
—The leguminous crops, such as clover
and alfalfa, are not equal to grasses as
soil protectors, but are superior to grass-
es as soil fertilizers, since they increase
the total available suppiy of nitrogen in
the soil. This is due to the action of
bacteria which are found on the roots of
leguminous plants, and which take free
nitrogen from the air in the soil and
- make it available for the use of plants.
Moreover, perennial legumes, such as
| clover and alfalfa, are very deep feeders
and take a part of the mineral elements
! of their food from the scil below the
depth of the feeding ground of ordinary
crops.
—Lime is generally considered one of
, the most efficient disinfectants because it
| possesses the ability to destroy organic
| matter as well as bacteria. To
milk of lime add a pint and a-half of
i water to each quart of quicklime to be
! slaked—by weight 60 parts of water to
| 100 parts of lime. One quart of the re-
| sultant dry powder can be mixed with
| four quarts of water. This preparation
, should be used as fresh as possible to
| spray the walls, partitions and floors of
| infected buildings. It should be run
| through a fine sieve or strainer before
| ro to prevent the clogging of the
| Spraying nozzle, as it is preferably ap-
pl th a pump.
i The t ectant properties of
| whitewash are quite generally appreci-
| ated, and no stable should miss at least
f ple or two iil tewasliings a year, as Hvis
| Inexpensive process is not only a u-
| able means of controll disease germs,
| but it also oie to the clean-
i five feet and covered with cklime.
Where a shallow grave is the dis-
| eased remains may be su tly dis-
| interred by some prowling an and an
| entire herd which is on pasture near by
| may be to the disease. Anthrax
, especially is often spread neglect of
| these precau as ogs an
other animals on the unburied car-
the germs.
Great care must be exercised to pre-
vent the transmission of any germ-bear-
ing disease to the rest of the through
the death of one of its members. e
stable which has housed an animal which
“has died of a contagious disease should
: be subjected to rigorous sanitary treat-
ment. All the infected forage and bed-
! ding should be raked up and burned,
' while the walls should be well soaked
| with water and then thoroughly
| In case there is any rotten wood in the
floor, feed boxes or stanchions it should
be removed and burned. Some vigorous
germicide, which will stamp out all possi.
bility of further transmission of the dis-
ease, should then be used.
cass and distribute
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