Benoit
Belletonte, Pa., April 18, 1913.
THE LAND OF BEGINNING AGAIN.
I wish that there were some wonderful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches
And all of our poor, selfish grief
Could be dropped, like a shabby old coat, at the
door,
And never be put on again.
1 wish we could come on it all unaware,
Like the hunter who finds a lost trail;
And] wish that the one whom our blindness
had done
The greatest injustice of all
Could be at the gates, like an old friend that
waits
For the comrade he's gladdest to hail.
We would find all the things we intended to do
But forgot, and remembered—too late,
Little praises unspoken, little promises broken
And of all the thousand and one
Little duties neglected that might have per-
fected
The day for one less fortunate,
It wouldn't be possible not to be kind
In the Land of Beginning Again;
And the ones we misjudged and the ones whom
we grudged
Their moments of victory here
Would find in the grasp of our loving hand.
clasp
More than penitent lips could explain,
For what had been hardest we'd know had
been best,
And what had seemed loss would be gain;
For there isn't a sting that will not take wing
When we've faced it and laughed it away;
And I think that the laughter is most what
we're after
In the Land of Beginning Again!
So I wish that there were some wonderful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches
And all of our poor, selfish grief
Could be dropped, like a shabby old coat, at
the door,
And never put on again.
~The Smart Set.
FROM INDIA.
By One on Medical Duty in that Far Basters
Country. Pew Good Cooks. Camels in Droves.
Spring-time Different from that at Home. The
Loo and Its Discomforts. How We Keep Cool
at Night, Hindu Women. Weddings and
Dress Makers. Its Crawling Things. Flies
and Some Customs.
Dear Home Folk:
JHANSI, MARCH 15th.
I have been complaining about the
cooks here—not the food,—but the man.
ner in which it is prepared, but learn
there are good cooks, as at home. For
instance, our native medical assistant is
a splendid example. Everything she con.
cocts is so tasteful that one must be very
careful lest they over-do a good thing.
I have remarked on the richness of her
dishes, but the answer came, “Oh, the
charcoal used to clean the teeth after
eating acts as a fine digestive.”
I must tell you of seeing the first big
drove of camels. There were about
three dozen old ones, fully grown, and
some six or eight wee, baby ones, very
weak of knee and muchly humped as to
back, the mothers of which were so just-
ly proud that their swing seemed to be
quite unnaturally pronounced. As seen
in captivity these animals are anything
but graceful, while here, with the
natural surroundings—palm trees, gor-
geous apparel of their drivers, etc., one
could almost call them picturesque.
*® . * . * * »
Another strange thing is that the open-
ing of spring here is so different from
what it is at home. It is only by the
delicacy of the color of the new leaves
that we can know the trees are putting
on their spring finery. The great mass-
es of dead leaves abounding on all sides
bear mute testimony of how many “dif.
ferent sets” each tree has had; in fact, as
fast as the sun dries them up a new
shoot starts and in less time than it takes
to tell, they too are matured enough to
fall off and others start. We plant a
garden seed one day, see a little green
blade the next and ina week's time the
plant is grown.
The only ever-green tree in this sec-
tion is the Neam tree, which somewhat
resembles the cottonwood at home, ex-
cepting that it does not grow as tall,
And everything else, excepting the cacti,
either from lack of rain last summer, or
on account of winter weather, is entire-
ly bare; even the hedge is leafless. You
can readily understand that when the
pitiless sun beats down on this bare san-
dy earth day after day, the heat becomes
truly, as the natives say, “cruel.”
The “Loo,” which blows constantly
day and night, is so strong at times that
the mattresses have been blown from the
beds of those sleeping outside and with
it is carried such deluges of sand that if
one is not well protected it means a great
deal of discomfort. The “Loo” has been
gaining in strength each day and will not
be over until the rainy season breaks in
July and August, but with all the discom-
forts India has a fascination which I,
after being here only these few months,
feel. One is so at home at once. The
English women spend their time enter-
taining, while the men are off soldiering,
and the social life is charming if one had
enough time to do and give to everything
that each day brings our way.
Our “punkas” have not been placed as
yet but will have to be hung ere long, as
even now the middle of the day, in a pro-
tected room, is too hot without fans of
some kind. The “punkas” are swung on
ropes and a long bar of wood,
which hangs a strip of matting;
pulled backward and forward by a
passing over a pulley and through a
in the side of the house, and I deeply
pity the poor men whose duty it is to sit
iff
: outside and keep the thing going night |
| after night. Usually a second man is
| employed to keep the “punkie” man from
' going to sleep.
i You asked if all women of India were
{in “Perda.” No; only those Indian wom-
| en who belong to the Mohammedan faith,
' and high caste Hindus (idol worshippers)
i go in “Perda,” which means, that no girl
| or woman can be seen by any man, save
! her husband, and even he does not see
the girl he is going to marry before the
ceremony. The ceremony is performed
and then the bride-groom goes forward
and sits in front of the bride, backwards;
he is given a mirror and her veil is rais-
ed for a brief five minutes for him to
gaze on her face, through the mirror, and
that is all, (“bus,” as they say here.)
The bride is taken back home immedi-
ately and remains with her parents in
strictest seclusion until she is fully de-
veloped (twelve or fourteen years of age)
at which time she is given into her hus-
band’s keeping. She never walks out-
side her own house and if driving, never
rides in an open wagon; be it a tonga or
phaeton gharry, it must be tightly closed,
and if she be Hindu extra care is taken
by drawing her Sauri across her face like
a veil.
APRIL 12th.
From the Hindo caste of which 1 wrote, to
the tropical India dress-maker is in truth
a mighty step, but the greatest thing of
any interest happening since my last let-
ter, was the visit from the Jhansi mod-
iste “Dhersi” who, by the way, happens
to be a little, old dried-up man, with a
padded coat, sparse trousers, bare legs
and feet, his few hairs, if natural, would
be gray, but feeling his age keenly he
has dyed them a brilliant carrot shade,
and while his “creations” when finished
are almost as grotesque as his make-up
yet it pays one to have him about for the
sheer amusement of watching his earn-
est interest in his life's work, as he
thinks it.
We were out to dinner last night with
some friends from Pittsburgh and much
to my surprise, on looking up to thank
the servant, found my own “Behrer” of-
fering me the potatoes. He had not
been asked to the “feast” but fearing I
would not have my share of the food pro-
vided came along, as is the custom here
with all better class servants, so you see,
an invitation to me really means my en-
tire household.
Easter passed us by without a single
thing to mark its advent. The days are
so hot that one thinks more of laying
aside all unnecessary clothing, including
bonnets, than even trying to grow en-
thusiastic over some particularly stun-
ning creation for our service and thé na-
tives, as you know, never change their
head wrapping, so Easter has no joys for
Jhansi folks.
The “crawling world” is beginning to
make its appearance—bugs and beetles,
the color and shape of which I have
never even seen in books, crawling and
buzzing on all sides, night and day. Our
compound is full of quail and gray squir-
rels that seem to be more at home here
than ourselves; and at present there are
six light gray lizzards making the walls
of my bed-room a play ground for their
antics. I have been advised to end their
lives, but they look so fat and squashy
that I fear more for the mussiness of my
softly tinted walls than the dread of
suddenly falling on me at night, the
chances for which accident being much
lessened by the net curtains enveloping
my bed.
And that brings to mind the fly ques-
be all about us here, but to the contrary,
notwithstanding the fact of our doors
and windows standing open constantly, I
have seen but two or three flies in our
house so far.
At the hospital it is different for the
natives, in their filth, before we can
them scrul are attacked them
the millions.
E
:
E233
Biiin
5
ei%
:
3
g
g
:
i
Or ara.
Bishi amber and Belle-
tion. One would think that pest would | the head
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN
DAILY THOUGHT.
Run away from gossip as from a pestilence,
and keep in your souls great ideals to solace your
solitude.—Ada C. Sweet.
In the United States “My dear Mrs. |
Smith” is a more f
“Dear Mrs. Smith.”
some one whom you have met only once
in a letter as “My dear Mrs. Smith.” You
should call upon a newcomer to
lage before inviting her to tea.
is not invariably followed, if
mutual acquaintance and have met
where, but it is the correct thing to do.
If & latter of introduction has
to you, you very
wise it may be looked upon a slight, |
not only to the stranger within fark
i
gates, but to the friend who sent the let-
ter. You should follow the call very |
soon with some other courtesy—an invi- |
tatian to lunch, dinner, or something of |
that sort.—Harper’s Bazar.
A costume in green and yellow does |
not sound very seasonable for the spring i
of the year, w more subdued tints are !
usually worn, but it must be recorded
that orange and a rather bright sulphur |
are in great favor, especially for the col- :
lar and revers of the new spring coats, !
the materials of the revers being usually '
satin or velvet.
Many of these new coats convey the
idea that the wearer had not en but- |
tons at her disposal to provide sufficient
fastenin, From one to three are the |
fashionable allowance. Invariably the
right front crosses over to the left and
buttons there. loose back is again |
in favor, and the whole cut of some of
these coats seems modeled upon the |
Chinese.
One of the charms of the coat used to |
be its beautiful fit upon the shoul
across the front and below the waist. |
clumsy, and below the yas
One fashion authority says that the
new haiping for spri and
longer. It is expected, ever, that the
points are to be sheathed. But, of course,
there are women who will wear them
without any protection for a neighbor's
eyes and this will mean ordinances pass-
ed in cities where no ordinance exists for i
the regulation of the length of these |
deadly weapons. What a foolish thing a |
hatpin is, anyway! A rubber band is!
much more satisfactory and less destruc- |
tive to the hat. Either a felt or a straw
hat may have its whole shape ruined by |
being punched full of holes with a big
never wear anything but a narrow band |
of elastic which fits the head snugly
under the soft coils of hair. Their hats |
never blow off, it is easy to tell when
they are on straight, and there are a
number of advantages. Vey not adopt
the rubber band and discard all hatpins,
thus making women and their styles less |
likely to be the subject of meetings of |
town boards and city councils?
General health has much to do with
the looks of the hair. Glossy, jely hair
generally indicates health, and dull, un-
attractive hair shows a poor pl!
dition. So the first requisite
ful or even moderately
good general health. Granted that clean,
well brushed and carefully arranged hair
is bound to look well.
con-
or beauti-
Then run the hands under
the hair and with tha balls of the fingers
with firm, gentle rub the scalp
vigorously in all directions. This treat-
§
fe
AE &
Ege
385d
fies
Se’
sHEEEE
58:8
:
gs
:
2
ol
3k
i
g
:
if
fel
:
|
i
i
J
fi
3
of
gi
1
|
|
Hi
5
;
i
;
:
:
52
:
g
!
it
:
£3
i
3
t
1 |
}
i
:
7
2
|
i
}
t
i
i!
:f
be
2
Ei
i
;
:
L
g
ig
!
p
fi
ii
:
i
|
28
E
:
3
attractive hair is | the
FARM NOTES.
—The majority of troubles and diffi
culties in hatching eggs can be traced
the improper selection and care of
eggs we incubate. In selecting
tching, never use one that is
the variety of the bird, and never
never prove to be a good breeder. If any :
of you doubt this, try it for yourselves.
You will be convinced if you mark these |
ect eggs and mark the chickens, |
imperf
provided any of them hatch.
Another serious mistake which we
Jriilen in Sslecting eggs or ching | is in
eeping them too long. ould not |
be over two or three weeks old. The
fresher the egg, the stronger the chick.
Some of you may have a choice breeding- |
pen, and in order to get enough to fill
your incubator will keep the eggs until
they are three or four weeks old and
set them. After the first test, you will
find many with dead germs. After the
tenth day if you go over them again, you
will find several more that fall short of
the proper test, and when the time
comes for them to hatch you will find a
few plump little fellows all out on the |
twentieth day. I have had many come |
out on the nineteenth day. Then there |
ill be others just breaking the shells, .
while still more do not come out until the
twenty-third day.
Moreover, you will find a few that were
fully developed, but did not have strength
enough to break the shell. :
Now when you have a hatch like this
ou are apt to attribute the fault to the
ncubator Father £han to the £5535 OF, ore |
correctly, to yourself. Why do the eggs
hatch so u ? The machine seems
to ate ectly, but we say there '
must be some wrong with the venti. |
lation, or we assign any reason Other |
than the right one. But many times the
trouble is with the eggs. The newer the |
eggs, the shorter time it takes for them
to incubate and the stronger are the
chicks. The longer it takes the eggs to’
hatch, the older they are. The reason |
for this is that an eggshell is us and |
is constantly evaporating the germ
is gradually weakening until there is not |
enough strength left in the chick to |
enable him to help himself out of the
shell. If you wish to be convinced of
this, I suggest hat you try it. Take a
setting hen, put under her one egg that |
has just been laid and still warm, then |
take two eggs that are a week old, two |
that are two weeks old, and so on until |
you have reached the sixth week. This
watch. You will find that the cag that
never got cold will be the first to hatch, |
and so on through the different ages, If |
the oldest eggs hatch at all, they will be
always behind the rest, and the chicks
will die sooner or later before they are
weaned. good practice to date
t a very
the as I bring them in, and then I
am able to distinguish the new from the |
old ones even if they are put together. If |
you want the best results, do not set eggs
that are over fifteen days old. And don’t
Awass blame the incubator for a poor
tc
“When is the best time to prune m
trees?” is a question frequently a el
That there are various kinds of
Overbearing, so as to require
ng,
gensrally ands not oly in small, inferior
t, but in broken branches.
—Many fail from mistakes in handling
AE To in itself, per-
haps outside of consideration here. But
if
;
tH
i
|
fl
:
:
i
gg
°s
®
8
3
£
:
;
:
E
i
3
:
EF
:
g
in
il
hi
sg
i
i
:
i
:
i
i
:
2
| the New Tariff Bill.
| litically even from the viewpoint of
| pelis and turned over to them the ma-
Salient Features of i
Free List 1s Largely Increased, Meat,
Bread, Sugar, Flour, Salt and Fish
Being Added, With Reduction on
Butter and Eggs—Sugar to Go on
Free List After Three Years—Few
Changes Im Luxuries, and Such
Changes as Are Made Increase Du-
ties—Incomes of More Than $4,000 te
Be Taxed.
Here is the explanation of the new
tariff bill as prepared by Chairman Un-
derwood of the house ways and means
committee, which framed the measure:
The present condition of the revenue
legislation of the United States is the
result of years of adherence to the
protective tariff policy. This theory is
the result of circumstances and in no
way can be said to be the choice of
the people. At the beginning of the
civil war the United States found it-
self with little other taxation than
that of a low revenue tariff. The un-
fortunate political situation of the war |
times permitted interested persons to
increase and continue high protective
duties, und this system of high pro-
tection has been maintained to the
present time, except from 1864 to 1897,
when the Wilson tariff was in effect.
1909 Revision.
The enactment of a tariff revision
measure in 1909 was unavoidable po-
high protectionists. The country de
manded of the then dominant political
party a modification of the extreme
tariff policy with which the country |
was afflicted. but the expectation of
redress through the act of 1000 was
blasted, for that measure not only fail-
ed to give the desired relief, but made
many conditions even worse. The
rates of duty on some commodities
were even advanced, due largely to re-
classifications by which the real duties
were concealed. It is only natural,
therefore, that the deception imposed
on the people through the failure of
the law of 1909 to give needed relief
has become more and more irritating
to the people as the years have passed
by. This was evidenced by the po-
litical results of the election of 1910, |
by which the Democratic party se-
cured control of the house of repre-
sentatives. Following this a series of |
tariff bills were passed at the first ses-
sion of the Sixty-second congress dur-
ing the summer of 1911, which were
Impatient to obey the mandates of
the people, congress during the winter
and spring of 1912 repassed these with
other tariff revision measures, but the
fate was the same as at the former ses-
sion, in that they met the prompt veto
of the executive. Then came the elec-
tion of 1012, which gave the Demo-
cratic party a sweeping victory at the
chinery necessary to effect tariff legis-
lation and placed upon them the re-
sponsibility of revising the tariff down-
ward In accordance with the urgent
and repeated demands of the public.
The committee has given very careful
consideration during the last two years
to the economic conditions throughout
this and other countries, has studied
every phase of the tariff as related to
our economic conditions, and the bill
which it now presents to the house is
its Interpretation of the responsibilities
placed upon it by the people in the
matter of revising the present tariff du-
ties and also its views of a tariff re-
vised to a basis of legitimate competi-
tion, such as will afford a wholesome
influence on our commerce, bring relief
to the people in the matter of the high
cost of living and at the same time
work no detriment to properly conduct-
ed manufacturing industries.
Theory of a Competitive Tariff.
The dividing line between the posi-
tions of the two great parties on this
question is very clear and easily as-
certained in theory. Where the tariff
rates balance the difference in cost of
production at home and abroad, includ.
ing an allowance for the difference in
freight rates. the tariff must be com-
petitive, and from that point down-
ward to the lowest tariff that can be
levied will continue to be competitive
to a greater or less extent. Where
competition is not interfered with by
levying the tax above the highest com-
petitive point the profits of the manu-
facturer are not protected. On the oth-
er hand, when the duties levied at the
custom house are high enough to allow
the American manufacturer to make a
profit before his competitor can enter
the field, we have invaded the domain
of the protection of profits, In the
committee's judgment the protection of
any profit must of necessity have a
tendency to destroy competition and
create monopoly, whether the profit
protected is reasonable or unreason-
able.
Which course is the wiser one for
our government to take? The one that
demands the protection of profits, the
continued policy of hothouse growt"
for our industries, the stagnation of de-
velopment that follows where compe-
tition ceases, or, on the other hand,
ual reduction of our tariff to
where the American manufae-
must meet honest competition;
he must develop his business
the best and most economic
where, when he fights at home
control his market, he is forging
way in the economic development
his business to extend his trade in
markets of the world. The future
growth of our great industries lies be-
yond the seas.
Necessities and Luxuries of Life.
In its tariff revision work the com-
mittee has kept in mind the distinction
between the necessities and the lux-
F
:
FR
ER
uries of life. reducing the tariff bur
dens on the necessities to the lowest
possible points commensurate with
revenue requirements and making the
luxuries of life bear their proper por-
tion of the tariff responsibilities.
Revision Explained.
The committee has in the main fol-
lowed the policy set forth in the re-
vision bills reported at the Sixty-second
congress. A brief discussion of some
of the changes will suffice to furnish a
general clew to the character of the
new tariff measure.
Chemical Schedule.
As representing the chemical schedule
the rates on certain commodities show
heavy reductions. For instance, boracie
acid is cut from 78.70 per cent to 21.43
per cent, glue from 35.06 per cent to
14.29 per cent and red lead from 60.35
per cent to 25 per cent. Moderate re-
ductions have been made on medicinal
preparations, which are cut from 25
per cent to 15 per cent. blacking from
25 per cent to 15 per cent, drugs from
12.55 per cent to 10 per cent and olive
oil from 35.18 per cent to 21.05 per
cent. The schedule contains a number
of articles on which either no reduction
lias heen made or an advance provided
for In each case the cffort has been
to consider not only the character of
the article, whether a necessity, a
comfort or a luxury, but also theamount
of its probable importation and its re-
lation to the revenue yielding power
of the schedule. In every case the ac
tion taken has thus been the result of
complex factors, the prime motive be-
ing that of granting to the public as
much relief as was practicable, while
at the same time conserving the fin-
comes of the government to the neces-
sary extent.
Earthen and Glassware.
Rates on all brick have been cut on
the average from 30.23 per cent to 10.28
per cent, tile from 47.84 per cent to
23.36 per cent, asphalt from 37.05 per
cent to 9.62 per cent. Ordinary earth-
enware, which was already relatively
low, being subject to an average duty
of 24.67 per cent, has now been cut to
15 per cent. while window glass has
been given an average reduction on all
glasses of from 46.38 per cent to 28.31
per cent. On the other hand plate
glass, which may be considered a lux-
ury, still retains a duty of nearly 40
per cent, the average of paragraph 94
being 38.45 per cent in place of the
duty of 63.95 per cent in the law,
Metals.
Pig iron and slabs, which were 16.35
| per cent and 17.79 per cent have heen
blunt pin (for very few of them have | will give you thirteen eggs. Mark the | Passed by congress and presented to . . . go per cent in each case, beams
anything of a point.) There are a num- | dates on these eggs, and when the time | President Taft, only to be vetoed by |
ber of young women in this city who | comes for them to hatch keep close him.
from 23.0 per cent to 12 per cent and
forgings from 30 per cent to 15 per
cent. On the other hand, bicycles, a
much more highly manufactured prod-
uct, are dutiable at 25 per cent, as
against 45 per cent, and razors at 35
per cent, as against 76.68 per cent.
Many items of manufacture controlled
by monopolies have been placed on the
free list.
Lumber,
The idea of the large extension of
the free list for the unmanufactured
products has been the fundamental
conception, while the effort has been
made to improve the status of the
manufactured lumber. Thus sawed
boards other than cabinet wood have
been carried to the free list, while
sawed cabinet boards, which were
12.75 per cent in 1912, are now 10 per
cent; casks. barrels, etc, which were
30 per cent, are now 14.77 per cent, and
house furniture, which was 385 per
cent, is now 15 per cent.
Sugar.
The action of the committee with re-
gard to sugar is interesting and shows
an appreciation of the commercial con-
ditions involved and the committee's
desire to respond to the public de
mands tor free sugar. The plan as
provided in the bill is to reduce with
its passage the present sugar rates by
25 per cent. with the further provision
that three years from the date of the
enactment of the bill sugar goes on the
free list.
Tobacco and Spirits.
The schedules containing these prod-
ucts have been found to be good pro-
ducers of revenue, are sufficiently ad-
justed to the internal revenue duties
of the United States, deal entirely with
articles not to be classed as necessa-
ries and have therefore been left at the
same rates as in the present law.
Agricultural Products.
In the effort to relieve the consumer
and to mitigate the high and rising cost
of living*Schedule G, which deals with
agricultural products. has been thor-
oughly revised and important reduc-
tions have been made. For instance,
the duty on horses has been reduced
from 25 per cent to 10 per cent, cattle
from 25.07 per cent to 10 per cent,
sheep from 16.41 per cent to 10 per
cent, barley from 43.05 per cent to 23.07
per cent, macaroni from 34.25 per cent
to 23.81 per cent. hay from 43.21 per
cent to 26.67 per cent, fruits from 27.21
per cent to 15.38 per cent, figs from
51.53 per cent to 42.10 per cent, lemons
{27m 68.85 per cent to 24.03 per cent,
live poultry from 13.10 per cent to
6.67 per cent and vinegar from 33.08
per cent to 17.30 per cent. Other
changes are in proportion, and the gen.
sral effect has been to reduce in a very
material proportion the heavy taxes
upon imported foodstuffs,
Cotton Goods.
During the last few years a large part
of the’ discussion of the tariff has
borne rpon the textile schedules, which
it has been felt, were unduly high.
Particular attention has therefore been
paid to the revision of these schedules
in the effort to adjust them more equi-
tably both to the needs of the con-
sumer and to the condition of the man-
ufacturing industry in the United
States. In Schedule I, dealing with
cotton, comparisons of the princival
(Continued on page 3, Col. 1.)
wm