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Pa., July 26,1912.
MAKE THIS A DAY.
Make this a day. There is no gain
In brooding over days to come,
The message of today is plain,
The future's lips are ever dumb.
The work of yesterday is gone—
For good or ill, let come what may,
But now we face another dawn.
Make this a day.
Though yesterday we failed to see
The urging hand and earnest face
That men call Opportunity.
We failed to know the time or place
For some great deed, what need to fret?
The dawn comes up a silver gray,
And golden moments must be met,
Make this the day.
This day is yours; your work is yours;
The odds are not who pays your hire,
The thing accomplished—that endures,
If it be what the days require.
He who takes up his daily round,
As one new armored for the fray,
Tomorrow steps on solid ground,
Make this the day.
The day is this; the time is now;
No better hour was ever here—
‘Who waits upon the when and how
Remains forever in the rear.
Though yesterday were wasted stuff,
Your feet may still seek out the way.
Tomorrow is not soon enough—
Mase is SUEY. _ rrr D. Netti
Bellefonte,
-—_—
THE PERFECT TEST.
[BY ANNIE HINRICHSEN]
Copyright, 1911, by Associated Literary
Presse.)
“Do you really mean that you will
give me no explanation?”
“l can not explain, Katherine”
Larter protested. “My reason is an
excellent one. Some time I can give
ft to you. 1 ask you to trust me until
that time.”
“We have been the best of good,
friends, Doane. Before the legisla-
ture convened you came often from
your home in Johnsville to Benton to,
see me, a distance of seventy miles.
After the legislature assembled and
you were in Capital City, ten miles
{from my Lome, you came once to
Benton. Then you wrote me that
you could not come again for many
weeks, probably not until the legis-
lature adjourns. You said there is a
reason which some time I shall un-
derstand and—and you asked me to—
to—"
“To love me and trust me,” Carter
broke in. “You did not answer my:
letter.”
“Of course, I did not. When a man
tells a girl he does not intend to see,
her again she knows it is because he,
does not want to. I come to Capital!
City every few days to see my sister,
who is in a hospital here. Today I|
meet you by chance, and you ask mei
to believe that you care for me?”
“You know I love you, Katherine.
Will you not trust me a few weeks?
Will you not believe that my reason,
48 a good one and an honorable one?"
“Then why not tell me?”
“l can't, dear, yet.”
“Ig it because you can not trust me;
with the reason or—because there is,
no reason except your desire to end’
our friendship?”
“l am not a cad, although you seem,
to think I am. I could trust you with’
anything in the world that I could in
honor share with you. But I can not’
tell you this.” !
“You need not.” Katherine's voice
had become suspiciously gracious.
“Your affairs are no concern of mine,
You and I enjoyed for a time a pleas-
ant friendship. You have ended fit.
Will you please leave me? 1 do not
care to walk with a stranger.”
Carter's perplexed, angry eyes met
her calm ones. Then he lifted his hat
and walked rapidly away.
+ For several weeks the general as-
sembly had been deadlocked over the
election of a United States senator.
There were ninety-three Republican
members and eighty-eight Demo-
cratic ones. The Republicans had
onominated Sherrill Vane. The Demo-
cratic candidate was James Brown.
As the Republicans had a majority of
five it was expected that their candi-
date would be elected on the first
ballot. But when the Republicans
met in caucus and choge their candi-
date, five of the younger members of
the party rebelled, refused to support
Sherrill Vane and demanded the
election of George Allerton.
Allerton had never been affiliated
with either party. He was the lead-
ing lawyer of the state, a man of in-
corruptible honor and national fame.
The five insurgents openly declared
their hostility to Sherrill Vane, the
Republican candidate, and announced
that the deadlock would remain until
George Allerton was elected. The
leader of the insurgents was Doane
Carter.
* “70nd the insurgent band raged
the political battle. The Republican
party used every weapon and every
strategy at their command to compel
the five to support the party candi-
date The Democrats fought as fierce.
ly to win them for the Democratic!
candidate. Day after day for many
weeks the ballot remained the same:
Sherrill Vane, 88; James Brown, 88;
George Allerton, 5. ‘
One morning Katherine Vane sat]
in the gallery of the house of repre-
sentatives. The began.
Amidst the wildest bedlam the old hall
had ever held, George Allerton re-
celved the vote of the entire Demo-
cratic faction and of the t
band and was declared the su }
candidate for the senate.
Katherine pushed her way through
the crowd toward the elevator. A
hund touched her arm. Doane Car-
alifost as great a hero In that botr
secured, stood heside her. He drew
ber into 8 corm?
“You know now why I could not
come to see you." His voice was
cold. He spoke hurriedly as if in
haste to dispose of an unpleasant
topic. “Your uncle, it was known,
was using every means to secure
those five votes. The Democratic
candidate was also doing his best to
get them. Both men are grafters
and bribers. We five stood out to
elect a good man. 1 was made chair
was watched by the sples of each!
side. Had it been known that I was/
going to Benton, Sherrill Vane's:
home, to see his niece I should have;
been suspected of secretly favoring!
his candidacy, I could not have made:
any one understand that he and your:
father are bitter enemies because:
your father despises his political
methods. My connection with his
family would have made my men sus-
picious of my sincerity and they
might have been won by one or the
other faction.
“There was more at stake than a
little glory for ourselves. We were
fighting to compel the assembly to
elect a great man instead of a bood-
ler. Last night the Democratic lead-
ers agreed, since they could not elect
their candidate, to share with us the
honor of electing Allerton.
“Now you understand my reason.
When I refused to tell you and you
refused to trust me, the candidates
had not been nominated, and our
plans to refuse to support Vane, if he
should be nominated, were still se-
cret. I could not in honor tell you
the plans of my assoclates.”
“I understand, Doane, and I am
sorry—I can't tell you how sorry I
am—how much I regret my unkind-
ness. If you were to ack me again to
trust you—"
“1 shall not. Since I have been
proved honorable you are willing to
trust me. | have given you the ex-
planation I promised you. I do not
sk you to love me. What sort of
wife would you be? A woman who
would have no confidence in her hus-
band, who would not believe his word
of honor unless it was supported by
affidavits.” He opened the door to
allow her to pass out. “Good morn-
ing,” he said curtly.
In thé rotunda she met her uncle,
the defeated candidate. For the first
time in her life he spoke to her.
“Doane Carter sold out for a price,”
he said deliberately. “His price was
Allerton’s daughter. He expects to
marry her. She is the reason he,
formed an insurgent band and elected
her father.”
“That is not true.” There was con-
viction in Katherine's voice. “He
elected Mr. Allerton because he was a
great man, an honor to the state and
not a boodling politician. Doane
Carter is a man whom no price can
buy.”
“Good for you,” laughed Carter be-
hind her. “I hurried after you,” he
went on when her uncle was out of
hearing, “to ask you to forgive me
for being such a brute and to love me
if you can. I've loved you all the
time, Kate, dear, but my pride had
been awfully hurt by your lack of
confidence in me.”
“Lack of confidence?
prove that my trust in you is abso-
fute when Uncle Sherrill could not
make me suspicious or jealous by
saying you loved another woman?
Have I not stood the perfect test?
Aren't you sure now that I trust you
and—and love you?”
Neapolitan Waiter Had Shrewd
Scheme to Coax More Money From
Generous Tourists.
“I was in Naples when old Vesuvius
proke loose the last time,” sald an
American tourist, “and the waiter at
lhe table at my hotel was certginly
pleased at the size of the tips I hand-
+d him daily. He could speak pretty
lair Engiish, and for three or four days
he gave me all the information he
rould. One day, however, when I
handed him the usual coin he looked at
t In a way to make me see that he
vas dissatisfied.
“‘Anything wrong, Josa? 1 asked.
“ ‘Hasn't the service been good? he
queried in turn.
“¢All that 1 could have hoped for.
“‘But I had looked for a little in-
srease in the signor's generosity.
“ “Why, because the flow of lava has
mcreased?'
“‘No; because I had a brother in a
rilage six miles away.
“‘Well?”
“‘And the lava it overtekes him and
41s wife and five children and they go
Jp what you call the spout, and I am
put to expense to buy mourning for
them. }
“The point seemed to be well taken,”
sald the tourist, “and I doubled the
tip, but later on, as I found all the
pther waiters playing the same game,
| wasted no more tears on the family
that went up the spout and came down
well roasted.”
Good Meal Won Husband.
Newspapers from Canton, Ohio, re«
port a romantic wedding of a poor
Norwegian cook to a local millionaire,
Wr. Edward Langenbach. The cook,
whose name is Rosa Jansen, won her
husband through her skill in the culi-
mary art. Mr. Langenbach engaged
Miss Jansen as cook, and was so de
lighted with the first meal she pre
pared that he proposed to her on the
spot. The new cook was consider
ably astonished, but accepted him
with equal promptitude. The million,
aire lost no time, but immediately
took out a marriage license, and the
ceremony was performed an hour aft-
10 ¢ leader of the insurgent band,
er the satisfactory meal had been
nlaced on bis table—Exchange.
as the man whose election he had |
. *~om and closed |
the docr against a clamoring mob of |
| admirers.
: FIGHT
: —
: may be used as follows: Heat a shovel . Is Our State College Fulfilling its Obliga-
i : — (or any similar article and drop thereon! (jon Toward the Character-Training
| The common house-fly is coming to be | 20 drops of carbolic acid. vapor | of its Studepts?
| known as the “typhoid fly,” and when | kills the flies. a o —
| the term becomes universal greater care A cheap and pertectly reliable fly poi- . :
will be exercised in protecting the house | Son, one which is not dangerous to hu- | [The following article taken from The Contincut
from his man life, is bichror.ate of potash in so- | of June 6th, 1912, relates the experience of William
grea uman | lution. Dissolve one dram, which can be | Thomas Ellis, of Swarthmore, Pa.. while on a
beings than ai Rater umber on with bought at any drug-store, in two ounces | visit to the Pennsylvania State College. He writes
all of the poi
man of our band. Every act of mine: |
as the fly comes out of his |
shell he is full grown and starts out in|
the world to make a living, and if your
home is not clean he knows it by the
odor. They can discern an odor filth |
for miles. |
As much as they like filth odors they !
| dislike other odors. Where a bad odor |
(will attract them the clean odor!
will repulse them. A pleasant-smelling |
substance—the fragrance of flowers,gera- |
niums, mignonette, lavender, or any per- |
fumery—will drive them away. i
He is a frequenter of offal. The fly |
lays her eggs in the manure pile or other |
objectionable filth. All the germs~all the
imaginable abominable microbes—fasten
themselves on the spongy feet of the fly. |
and wipes |
He brings them into the
them his feet. The fly you see walk- |
ing over the food you are about to eat is |
sons are among the things to use in kill-
ing flies, but the latest, cheapest, and
| best is a solution of formalin or formal-
dehyde in water. A spoonful of this
liquid put into a quarter of a pint of
water and in the room will be
enough to kill all the flies.
To quickly clear the room where there
are many flies, burn pyrethrum powder
in the room. This stupefies the flies,
when they may be ge up and burned.
If there are flies in the dining-room of
vour hotel, restaurant, or boarding-house,
complain to the proprietor that the prem-
ises are not clean— The National Geo-
ic Magazine.
When Washington Was President.
Mrs. Washington was a strict discipli-
serpents added. .of water, and add a little sugar. Put | under the nom de plume of “The Wayfarer.”]
spread d wie slays Tp ig in shallow dishes a ve te beater Lal @ fessage is one
while big, powerful beasts kill single and distri them abou Jouse. _ thing; to be lletin board i
victims. Sticky fly-paper, traps, and liquid poi- ah 2 t iy
At the moment, the Way-
farer is feeling like a badly battered
bulletin board; and all on account of the
Christian zeal of the Young Men's Christ-
ian Association at a certain
college.
lecture on Saturday night and address
the students at chapel on Sunday morn. |
ing. Even so uncertain a public speaker '
as the Wayfarer could muster up courage |
and material for this. Therefore, with a
clean collar in his bag and a bad cold in
his chest, he fared gayly forth to the fast-
nesses of his native te, little s
ing what snares awaited his guileless
feet.
{ Here is the schedule of what happen-
ied: Arriving in the early evening at the
| hospitable Presbyterian manse the Way-
: farer was haled forth to dine with one of
secretary |
The invitation which the Way- |
farer accepted was innocent enough—to
t- !
the fraternities; being waited upon, in
narian about certain matters, and among
covered with filth and germs. If there is | other things always required the mem- | the handsome college fashion, by an es- |
any dirt in your house or about your bers of the household to follow the ex- | cort from the fraternity. After dinner,
ises, or those of your neighbors, he ample of her husband and dress for din- | and a little talk, he went to his formal,
as just come from it. It is his home. ner, which was at three o'clock. On one | stated performance on the lecture plat-
Watch him as he stands on the lump of | occasion Nellie Custis and her cousin, | form.
sugar industriously wiping his feet. He ! Martha Dandridge, appeared at the ta-| Then he was told that a reception by
is wiping off the disease germs, rubbing ' ble in their morning gowns, but no com- | the Freshmen awaited him, to talk—
them on the sugar that you are going to ' ment was made upon it until a coach | “Just anything that will interest the
eat, leaving the poison for you to swezl- was seen approaching and the visitors, | boys.” It drew near to midnight ere the
low. some French officers of high rank and | traveler found his couch.
He wipes his feet on the food that you
eat, on the faces and on the lips of your Miss Custis's ardent suitors, were an-! himself to preparation for the congrega-
sleeping children. This does more to nounced. Instantly the girls, in a flutter | tion of more than a thousand
spread typhoid fever and cholera infan-, of excitement, begged to be excused, in | who would face him in the chapel, the
i tum and other intestinal diseases than order to change their gowns, but Mrs. | smiling secretary appeared to bear him
| any other cause. : Washington shook her head. “No,” she | off to “the fellows who are interested in
! attacks human beings only said, "remain as you are.
! when they are brought in contact with ' good enough for President Washington the Wayfarer held forth for about half
{it. For instance, you cannot get typhoid | is good enough for any guest of his.” an hour on an unexpectedly assigned
| fever unless you swallow the germs of | Needless to say, Miss Nellie never over- topic. Only ten minutes intervened be-
| typhoid, and you do not swallow these | looked her proper garb for dinner again. | fore the opening of the chapel service, at
germs unless they get on the food you, Owing to the prominent position of her | which the visitor was to deliver an im-
| at or in the liquids you drink, or on the | grandparents, Nellie Custis had untold | portant address.
| glasses or cups from which you drink. advantages and was accustomed in early | Surely that morning's work deserved
| Not only does he scatter the seeds of | life to both flattery and attention from | rest and refreshment. Not yet. The
| disease from his body over your food. but ' the notable men of the time. She was | “coeds” were waiting in their house for a
| before your fruit and vegetables are plac- ' one of the most interesting figures in the i lecture on a woman's career. The ne-
| ed before you they have been subjected White House during Washington's regime, | cessity for beingat a fraternity house din-
| to his filthy habits, either in the kitchen | yet that she was content to take up again | ner table on time curtailed this address,
| or in the stores, where he flies from the | life in the country is evidenced in a hap- | and after dinner, in the comfort of the
| the horse dirt in the middle of the street | py letter written a few days after the | fraternity house, the visiting editor “just
| to the tubercular sputum on the sidewalk, family returned to Mount Vernon (Wash- | talked,” until his captor hustled him off
and then back to the foodstuffs displayed | ington having completed his second term | to meet a club of town boys. That num-
for sale. : ; as President), in which she writes: “We | ber had to be ended in time to permit the
Many diseases which are attributed to | arrived here on Wednesday without any | stranger to face the 3 o'clock round table,
milk and water originate through flies. ' accident, after a tedious journey of seven | a free-for-all question box upon all sorts
germs from sewers, and flies in millions | pleased with being once more Farmer memory fails not—for the bedraggled
Sattle on the refuse that washes along ' Washington.” | Wayfarer was in somewhat of a daze by
e water's edge. !
Intestinal diseases are more frequent |
whenever and wherever flies are most
Whose Little Boy Was He? | with a crowd of boys perched about a
In the early
| Charles Carroll, Jr., of Carrollton, one of | morning, when he expected to devote
A costume missions,” a goodly company, to whom |
A polluted brook, river, or lake furnishes days. Grandpapa is very well and much | of themes. After the round table, if |
| this time—came a dormitory meeting, |
room. Then another hospitable fraternity |
Did I not |
heat are the active agents in its spread.
There is special danger when flies drop i
into such fluid as milk. This forms an |
ideal culture material for the bacillus. Al
few germs washed from the body of one |
fly may develop into millions within a
few hours, and the person who drinks’
such milk will receive large doses of |
bacilli, which may later cause serious
sickness.
Therefore, keep the flies away from
the milk.
DON'TS
Don't allow flies in your house.
Don’t permit them near your food, es-
pecially milk.
tolerated. :
Don't have feeding places where flies
can load themselves with ejections from
typhoid or dysenteric patients.
n't allow your fruits and confections
to be exposed to the swarms of flies.
Don’t let flies craw! over the baby's
i mouth and swarm upon the nipple of its
nursing bottle. |
Clean up your premises inside and out,
and then, as much as you can, see that
others do the same.
Strike at the root of the evil. The]
house-fly breeds in horse-manure, kitchen
offal, and the like. Dispose ot these ma-
terials in such a way that the house-fly
cannot propagate. Screen all windows
and doors and insist that your grocer,
butcher, baker, and every one from!
whom you buy foodstuffs does the same.
There is more health in a well-screen-
ed house than in many a doctor's visit.
Flies breed in horse manure, decaying
vegetables. dead animals, and all kinds
0
NOT LESS THAN 95 PER CENT. OF THE
PESTS ARE BRED IN THE STABLE.
All stables should have a manure bin
with a door at the side and a wire screen
on the top, that the larva deposited in
manure before it was placed
will be screened when hatched,
g
burn. |
rating where flies can feed upon it.
HOW TO KILL FLIES. \
To clear rooms of flies carbolic acid
f | Proons,” said the girl. “If I
abundant, and they and not the summer | |
An iron hoop bounded through the
payed havoc with the kitchen window.
e woman waited, anger in her eyes,
for the appearance of the hoop's owner.
Presently he came.
“Please, I've broken your window,” he
said, “and here's father to mend it.”
And sure enough,he was followed by a
, stolid-looking workman, who at once
, started to work, while the small boy took
his hoop and ran off.
" "That'll be four bits, ma'am,” announc-
ed the glazer when the window was
| whole once more.
| “Four bits!” gasped the woman. “But
! your little boy broke it—the iittle fellow
Don’t buy foodstuff where flies are | with the hoop, you know. You're his |
| father, aren't you?”
' The stolid man shook his head.
| “Don’t know him from Adam,” he said.
“He came around to my place and told
| me his mother wanted her winder fixed.
You're his mother, aren’t you?”
And the woman shook her head also.—
Lippincott’s.
Stop the Leaks.
If a ship springs a leak it would be a fool-
ish captain who would crowd on sail and
try to run away from the leak. The first
thing to do is to stop the leak, or the
very press of canvass increases the dan-
ger. Look at the drains which affect
| some women in the same light as the
leak; Iti no uss 10. ite stimulants and
cs, as if they carry you awa
from the effects of that leakage of vitali-
ty. The first thing to do is to stop the
After you have cleaned up your own unhealthy drain, which is Kuhing, the
premises i the borhood for | hody of strength with every day. t's
fly-breeding Call the attention of | what Dr. Pierce's Favorite Perscription
the owner to them and, if he does not re- | does, it stops the drains which weaken
move them, complain to the Board of women. It ates the ods, heals
Health. ulceration and inflammation, and cures
female weakness. When the local health
of the womanly organs is established,
women find an improvement in their gen-
eral health at once. is no for
tonics or stimulants. There is no more
nervousness. The whole body is built up
into sound health. “Favorite
tion” makes weak women strong, sick
women well.
“No, Annabel Green, I cannot marry
declares
| Jou My rich bachelor uncle
will
he cat me olf witha Nicks) if wed
thont his approval.” young
man with a weak chin sighed forlornly.
“Very well,” replied determined
ge. “1 will go to your uncle. What is
is
“Don’t go, Annabel!” cried the youth.
It would only prejudice him still more
against me.”
“You mistake my meaning, Clarence
can't marry
you I will marry your uncle.”
the premises, and are more ———
{han vie Sod Miowselverer's terror found Mother's Diagnosis.
n bed-rooms. i —
Remember that wherever absolute, Speaking of mothers, a Squirrel Hill
cleanliness prevails there will be no flies. | matron is an object of considerable solici-
Look after the garbage cans. See that tude just now on the part of a cou e of
they are cleaned, with lime or | young Pittsburgers, although she doesn’t
kerosene oil, and covered. know it. The young man called, and
Remove all manure from stables every | this was the first question he asked:
three or four days, and when removed | “Have you spoken of our love to your
keep in a tight pit or vault, so flies can- | mother as yet?”
not breed in it. The girl shook her head.
Lye, chloride of lime or blue vitrol| “Not as yet,” she whispered.
water, crude acid, or any kind | “Has she noticed nothing?”
of disinfectant may be “She has noticed that I've been acting
Pile fied uy from ihe Jeelen: gueerly of late, but she thinks it's just
away from from those ———
ill with diseases. ——*“Why can’t the chickens swim,
y this rule not mamma?” queried little Eda.
only at home, but to| “They don't know how, dear,” was the
ell, then,” continued the informa-
tion seeker, “why don’t they hire the
expecto- | ducks to teach ‘em?”
——For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office,
! dinner by a
Young Men's Christian Association meet-
{ing in the big chapel. with an address
i upon personal character, wound up the
| day; for even as the visitor spoke, a
| waiting automobile chugged at the door,
impatient to bear him away to fresh
TS.
house opened its doors and fed the.
!
| area railings of a suburban house and stranger, who immediately paid Jor Jus;
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN
DAILY THOUGHT.
Contentment consists not in great wealth but
in few wants. — Epicletu:.
—
Many short black taffeta and satin coats
are being worn over lingerie frocks.
Black lined with white is exceedingly
fashionable and exceedingly
and as many of the silks are made very
thin and light, even two thicknesses do
not mead any great warmth.
The latest cry of fashion is the white
tulle shirt, which is very smart and use-
ful with white coats and skirts says the
Indianapolis News. Instead of the quan-
tities of tucks which decorate all the
lingerie blouses nowadays, but which are,
of course, useless in this connection, it is
trimmed with small ruches, while it is
supplemented with a very high neckband.
At the top of this collar band there is a
tiny ruche, while the sleeves are very
! long, Jalling over the hand nearly to the
: and are likewise edged with tulle
| ruches. blouses are specially use-
Such
ful for luncheons, as they have a more
“dressy” appearance than the ordinary
lingerie blouse, which has a strictly
morning air when the coat is removed.
It is said on good authority that corded
weaves will be very popular in the au-
tumn. These new ribbed fabrics will
include materials so light in weight as to
be suitable for dress draperies and heav-
| ier ones adapted for suits, outer wraps
and trimmings.
To leave the neck in the state of ease
that was insisted upon last year is the
determination of the girls of this season,
judging by the instant success accorded
to the V-shaped decolletage, the loose and
limp Byron collar made of lawn or silk,
‘and the equally loose and limp bow, or
the knotted scarf of the sailor type that
is the finishing touch.
A smart ochre-colored hat, with its
white bows and beige quill, has a grim
facing of deep red silk, which at that dis-
| tance from the frock tones excellently
' with the rose-pink marquisette.
With respect to the laws that govern
the choice of hats, the broad determining
rule is made that should a model suit the
face perfectly it is suitable for it.
But there must be no tampering with
the conditions. In these days of ample
choice there can be no excuse for wear-
ing anything but the hat that meets the
case to absolute perfection.
One of the most appreciated wedding
presents of a recent bride was an attrac-
tive basket containing six glasses of as
sorted 3 jovies: ye glasses were daintily
| wrap in white crepe paper and the
| basket had been treated to a coat of
: white enamel paint, while the handles
were tied *~~~ther with a bow of white
ribbon througn which was thrust a tiny
spray of artificial orange blossoms.
There is hardly any limit to the varie-
ty in fillings for layer cake. The follow-
ing are from the San Francisco Call:
Cocoanut Filling.—Grated cocoanut,
whites of two eggs, cup of sugar; spread
between layers and on top of cake.
Fig Filling.—Take a pound of figs, chop
| A forty-mile motor ride through the
snow and slush and ram helped out the
nyse Betivities In giving Shafactey pio fine and put into a stewpan on the stove.
| principal item in the traveler's liggage. | Pour over them a teacup of water and
IP RO nonprofessional layman. whose ii] half a cup of sugar. Cook all to-
favorite habitat is a quiet study, that | S€ther until smooth and soft. When
ME 3 cold, spread between layers of cake.
was “going some. e next time a PI
| Young Men's Christian Association sec- _ Fruit Filling—Four tablespoons of very
| retary comes after this Wayfarer he is finely chopped citron, four tablespoons
+ of finely chopped seeded raisins, half a
cup of blanched almonds chopped fine,
also a quarter of a pound of finely chop-
ped figs. Beat the whites of three eggs
to a stiff froth, adding half of a cup of
sugar; then mix thoroughly into this the
i
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| likely to find himself in a situation that
i
| will suggest the present political cam-
| pain! . .
| Nevertheless and notwithstanding, the
memory is fragrant of a host of whole- |
| some, eager, hospitable American college |
| students, afire with interest in the big
' world which they soon are to adventure.
| A new pride in the human resources of
his own State, swelled in the busy visi-
tor's breast, and he has become one of
the “loving friends” who will advertise
this particular expression of this Com-
monwealth's life.”
THE WAYFARER.
The Doom of the Chestnut Tree.
but a tradition in America. It is being
destroyed by a mysterious disease which,
scientists concede, cannot be cured. In
New York city cally every chestnut
tree is already Over Isla
this tree malady is traveling fast. It is
t in Connecticut, New
nsylvania, Delaware, and, to some ex-
tent at least, in Maryland and Massa-
chusetts. The whole chestnut tree area
in America, which reaches as far south
as northern Virginia and as far west as
Buffalo, is ntacted, Qnly a few scatter-
trees can possibly escape.
This blight was first discovered in the
New York Botanical Gardens five years
| ago, and ever since scientists have been
| working to find a remedy for it. In this
they have been unsuccessful. The chest-
nut blight is a disease that can best be
In some way that even the most Spent
of foresters cannot determine it eats into
attack any other tree than the chestnut.
ph th startli apdiy. © of
t! ng raj ,
Though the disease was five
years ago, the progress it has been mak-
alm ES Fo
no possi of stamping t
| out, scientists can now only 8 She Mam
| American forestry did not come into its
{own a quarter of a century ago.
|S hoot Tight have been saved
own vears ago
have oe a ic. Now the
devastation is too complete; the
has too much headway. In Forest Park,
Brooklyn, alone there are standing six-
teen thousand dead chestnut trees.
| The difficulty and danger are that the
| disease spreads in almost the same man-
| ner as does a plague among human be-
| ings or animals. It is contagious.
: t forms on the tree's LL in tiny
pock: n these there grow e
or seeds. The wind i pores
| everywhere, and any chestuut tree that
doomed. The
Spores carry the contagion for miles. They
spores carry the contagion for mi
are also carried in the fur of squirrels
and in the plumage of birds, and in the
end no tree escapes unless it is complete-
ly isolated. In this way for years the
| blight has been creeping the
| chestnut and has done its The
| blight does not show itself in the bark
{until the tree is thoroughly infected.
j—Thaddeus S. Dayton, in Harper's
' Weekly.
The chestnut tree will soon be nothing
Jersey, ©
compared to a cancer in the human body. ! clear
the living tissue of the tree. It does not |
The | €ups of powd
: whole of the chopped ingredients. Put
| it between the layers of cake when the
| cake is hot, so that it will cook the egg a
| little. This will be found delicious.
i Apple Filling.—Peel and slice green,
, tart apples, put them on the fire with
| sugar to suit; when tender remove, rub
' them through a sieve and add a small
piece of butter. When cold, use to spread
| between the layers; cover the cake with
' plenty of sugar.
Pineapple Filling.—Whites of ire
: cup of sugar, can of grat.
ear.
ornia Filling.—Cup of sugar, quar-
ter cup ot A or ao until brittle; take
| trom the stove and stir in the white of
| an egg well beaten, cup seeded raisins,
and one of blanched almonds
Spread between the layers.
i Cream Filling.—Pint of milk, two eggs,
| three ta s of sifted flour (or half
, cup of cornstarch) and cup of sugar. Put
i two-thirds of the milk on the stove to
| boil, stir the sugar, flour and in
, what is left. When the milk put
, into it the whole and cook it until it is
as thick as custard. When cool add va-
nilla extract. This custard is nice with
| acup of hickory nuts chopped fine and
| stirred into it.
Ice Cream Filling.—Three cups of su-
gar and one of water; boil to a thick,
| syrup or until it begins to be brit-
| tle. Pour the boiling hot water over the
well beaten whites of three eggs. Stir
the mixture very briskly and pour the
' sugar in slowly. When all in beat it un-
til cool. Flavor with lemon or vanilla
extract.
| Chocolate Filling—Five tablespoons of
grated eliocolate ith enough cream or
milk to wet it, cup , egg, teaspoon
of vanilla flavoring. Stir over the fire
until mixed, having beaten
| the egg well before adding it. add
| the vanilla flavoring after it is removed
from the fire.
{ Peach Cream Filling.—Cut peaches in-
| to thin slices or chop them and prepare
| cream by whipping and sweetening. Put
a layer of peaches between the layers of
i cake and pour cream over each layer and
| over the top.
| Banana Filling.—Make an icing of the
| whites of two and one and one-half
i sugar. this on
| the layers and then cover thickly and en-
tirely with bananas sliced thin and chop-
i ped fine. This cake may be flavored
i
: with vanilla. The top should be sim
| frosted. py
i C
Nut Filling—Whites of three eggs,
| three tablespoons of sugar, cup of chop-
: nutmeats, teaspoon of extract of
| lemon.
| Caramel Filling.—Half a pound each of
brown sugar and chocolate, half cup
milk, butter size of an egg, two tea-
oons of extract of vanilla. Boil until
' thick enough to spread, then spread over
the top and sides of cake as well as on
the avers,