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Bellefonte, Pa., November 27, 1914.
THE PRICE YOU PAY.
You dreamed for the Day, you schemed for the
Day,
Watch how the Day will go;
Slayer of age and youth and prime
{Defenseless slain for never a crime,)
Thou art steeped in blood as a hog in slime,
False friend and cowardly foe.
You have sown for the Day, you have grown for
the Day; |
Yours is the harvest red.
Can you hear the groans and the awful cries?
Can you see the heap of slain that lies,
And sightless turned to the flame-split skies
The glassy eyes of the dead?
You have wronged for the Day, you have longed
for the Day
That lit the awful flame;
Tis nothing to you that hill and plain
Yield sheaves of dead men amid the grain:
‘That widows mourn for their loved ones slain.
And mothers curse thy name.
But after the Day there’s a price to pay
. For the sleepers under the sod,
And He you have mocked for many a day—
Listen, and hear what He has to say:
“Vengeance is mine, I will repay.”
What can you say to God?
—Henry Chapell, i.« the London Daily Express. |
FROM INDIA.
By One on Medical Duty mn that Far Eastern |
Country. The Beauties of $rinagar and Life
Writer.
SRINAGAR, SEPTEMBER: 21st, 1913.
House-Boat, “Crocodile.”
Dear Home Folk:
Good afternoon!—A beautiful Sunday,
and I want to add a little more to my!
letter. From our last stopping point to
"this place was a very nice ride, for we |
It |
lay along the side of the mountains for a |
started early and the road is good.
short distance and the roar of the river
kept us company; but almost before we
| mountain beyond while behind, the gar- |
den with its great oak trees, flaming
with its!
knew it the mountains separated and
the valley widened and we were in the
midst of wide, rolling rice fields alternat-
Here and!
ing with corn and wheat.
there other Indian grain was seen, but
rice held the fore-ground.
We then came to Baramulla, a place of
perhaps eight hundred houses; curious,
two-storied affairs with flat roofs cover-
ed with mud and planted with flowers,
no verandas, but nearly always rather
We
beautifully decorated with carvings.
stopped here to have our horses examin-
ed and a certificate of health given for!
them. We then entered;ian avenue of
poplars,—road perfect—and these
mense, high, straight standing trees, not
more than three feet apart, for a distance
of thirty-three miles.
The mountains off in the distance were
covered with snow and the soft, purple
haze softened the upper outline, while
the mist rising from the river at their
base made them seem unreal. Unlike
the Rockies, they are green and soft in .
outline but have no trees on them; at
least those we saw along the way. | am
told, though, that further on great for-
ests of “chenar,” (a species of oak) hem-
lock, deodar, spruce and pine are beauti-
~ ful; but I had hoped to see the autumn!
tinting that one sees at home, and am to
be disappointed. The clouds played bo-
peep with a snow-cap and seemed so
near that it gave the appearance of a!
mountain smoking. We looked and ad-
mired all the way and finally came to.
this city of canals—this capital of Kash-
mir.
Srinagar is on the Jhelam river and the
Kashmires have built canals all over this
flat so that one passes along in boats
rather than any other way. It is a most
picturesque place and we were brought
directly to a tiny house-boat, with five
tiny spaces fitted up as rooms, which had
been engaged for us some days~ago by a
servant so in a short time we were again
located and were having tea in our new
home. t
The river here is wide and either side
of the way is lined with house-boats, in
which Europeans live, some all the year
The mountains surround us |
but the city is laid out in a beautiful way |
and it is cool and charming. As we came
around.
along yesterday morning it was cold and
I saw natives carrying little earthen :
Mrs. R., my compan- |
crocks in baskets.
ion, told me the crock, or jar, contained
coals and was kept under their clothes
when sitting, in order that they would
keep warm. The national dress for old,
young, big, little, man or woman, is the
“kurta” (a single piece shirt reaching to!
their knee,) legs bare and arms partially
so—this garment is wide and big, look-
ing exactly like a bag.
ing down the back.
Just now, as I look across the river,
some women are pounding or cleaning
rice, which is in a stone receptacle, and
they are standing with a six foot long
pole, about three inches in diameter.
curved in the middle for the hand, and
this they raise high above their heads
and drive it down into the rice.
to be hard work for they are using every
muscle of their bodies ‘while working.
But everyone works here, so it don’t
seem strange. :
Today we went to the Dal Lake. We
got into a little pointed boat with a top
to it and three men picked up their heart-
shaped paddles and off we went. First,
we went through a rapid rushing portion
and then we glided into a beautiful lilly-
padded place that surely must be Arca-
dia. On each side of uswere tiny islands
im- |
The women !
wear a “chuda,” a piece of cloth pinned
tightly about their heads the ends hang- |
It seems |
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edged with willows whose center was a
| little vegetable garden. The lilly was
| the lotus variety, with great pink blos-
isoms nearly a foot across their
| face; reeds tall and straight, the lake
i as clear as a mirror and so smooth the
| blue of the sky, the white, fleecy clouds
‘ and the green of the mountains were as
| plainly seen in its depths as we saw them
i above. Through this beauty we were
: smoothly pushed and our boatmen called
| our attention to the floating gardens—
( little four by ten spaces that man has
i made by driving two bambo postsinto the
i lake's bed, then putting a netting of rushes
‘ he has piled the rich black soil of the
| lake upon it and on this he plants toma-
i toes, melons, and various other things,
i with most splendid results.
i On, on, through the lilly pads we go,
| to go under a beauteous little bridge and ,
| off in front of us a mirror of a lake, a
' a sea of pond lillies, and a beautiful lit-
' tle eastern house greets us.
‘house we are pushed and out we get,
to go into one of the most beautiful spots :
The great Shah Jehan
I have ever seen.
' built this garden, as well as many oth-
| ers,
! whose memory he
| Taj Mahal.
Oh, mother! Your color-
| loving soul
{ From far, far up the hill a big stream of
| water came pouring through under a
carved screen at the back of a beautiful
ing forward dropped down a stone cut
: causeway of ten or twelve foot height
i and thence into a long basin set with
fountains, and this again emptied into
four of these while on either side beds
full of geraniums, astors, marigolds, dah-
| lias, zinnias, petunias, cosmos, verbenas,
"all in a riotous mass of bloom that made
the green garden one bewildering mass
all
mountains—I
flowers, sparkling water,
back-ground of majestic
just wanted to stay there, but of course
I couldn’t and we got back into the boat
and glided away, down the lake through
| the lotus flowers—down the most pictur- |
"esque little water-ways bordered with |
+ willows, while interesting but dirty na- |
tives worked in the gardens behind the |
willows. We passed the native boats—
long, narrow, shallow affairs—with the !
boatmen sitting on one end (the front)
paddling.
We treaded our silent way through all
this loveliness seeing children along the
water, very much resembling fish; cows |
‘swimming, and even chickens acting
nearly like ducks, for two hours, passing
under a series of bridges with funny
looking houses—two storied and stone
behind, and other interesting north In-
dian peculiarities, which I have forgot-
ten. We finally reached the landing
place and back we came to our watery
‘home. And now I think this is really
good-bye for this time.
For fear you may worry about our
safety, I want to tell you that any one
could locate us at any time during our
. stay in this “Happy Valley.”
that we were stopped ot a toll. gate upon
i entering Kashmir. There a book was
brought out to us and in it we had to
| sign our names, distination, occupation
and probable length of stay in Kashmir.
As we moved from place to place each
move was reported to the Tasil-dahr (a
"sort of commissioner of that district) |
and any queries as to our location were
‘readily answered. This espionage was
done without our knowledge, just so at
the time our names were signed as
going out the Rajah of Kashmir was
no longer responsible for our safety.
No English stranger can take up a resi-
dence in Kashmir without the consent
‘ of the Rajah. They may board at the
. hotels or live in a house-boat, thus in-
: suring ony a temporary stay.
(Continued next week.)
The World's Postal Business.
According to French statistics, recent-
ly compiled, there are at present some
271,000 postoffices in the world, spread
over ninety-seven States, and covering
an area of over 30,000,000 square miles.
, The United States has the greatest
number, 63,663; Germany comes second
with 49,838 offices, and the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland third
with 23,738 offices. . Russia has 18,000,
' France 13,000, and Italy and Austria
! have each about 9,500 offices.
It seems that the average daily postal
business of the world amounts to some
+ 110,000,000 mail pieces of all sorts, rep-
| resenting on the estimated value of the
contents of registered letters a sum of
$68,600,000.
The number of the world’s postal offi-
.cials is given in French statistics as
1,394,247, to which Germany furnishes
the greatest number, 314,251. There are
{ said 2 be 767,898 mail boxes in the
; world.
| White Animals.
In Siam white elephants become the
property of the King and are kept at the
palace because of the good luck they are
supposed to bring with them. A writer
i in the Assembly Herald tells of the ar-
rival at Bangkok of a young white ele-
phant from the north. “At the same
time a small white monkey, caught in
| northern jungles, was also presented to
the King. His Majesty gave the sum of
$190 as a gift to the owner of thisstrange
life and mischief and is now on exhibi-
tion, together with the young elephant,
in a beautiful, large pavilion especially
built for them.” : bx
—TFor high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office. .
Up to this!
for The Delight of the Harem, in!
later erected the
would have been satu-
| rated with the gorgeousness of it all.
i li en house of stone, and sweep-
on a House-Boat Vividly Depicted by the ! ittle gard cols » and sweep
another lower basin, and so on through '
of color, and at one place a platform was '
placed upon which if you stood you could *
see away out across the lake and the’
I told you!
little monkey. The little fellow is full of |
Pennsplvania Record Smashed by Worst
Drought in History.
Pennsylvania is now in the throes of
the most serious drought in its history,
according to United States Weather Fore-
caster George S. Bliss. The records of
the weather bureau show no such pro-
tracted dry spell since the organization
of the bureau in 1871.
. Reports of serious water famine come
from all sections of Pennsylvania, New
Jersey and Delaware. Thousands of acres
of winter wheat and rye are in danger of
being totally ruined because of the ab-
sence of rain. Winter forage crops, such
as clover and alfalfa, are also suffering
severely.
Wells are going dry, and many factories
.on small streams in Pennsylvania have
been obliged to shut down because of
dwindling water power. With wells and
: streams rapidly drying up, farmers in all
parts of Pennsylvania and New Jersey .
are facing a serious situation. Already
many of them are carting water to their
{ farms from long distances. The dry
weather has made large tracts of timber
an easy prey for forest fires. These fires
. have been especially prevalent in Bur-
lington county, N. J.
The drought, according to Bliss, start-
“ed August 22, and from that time until
| September 23 there was only a total of
37 of an inch of rainfall. The normal
rainfall for that period is about 23 inches.
On September 24 and 25, the precipita-
i tion was £ of an inch. After that there
was no ram of any consequence until
October 15, 16 and 17, when there was a
total of 1.48 inches for the three days.
That rain, according to Bliss, would have
contributed considerable relief if the pre-
cipitation prior to that date had been
normal. Another dry spell set in on Oc-
tober 18, and from that time the rainfall
has been but .10 of an inch.
“Since August 22,” said Bliss, “we have
had only four days of rainfall, which, I
i believe, .is a record drought for this sec-
tion for such a long period. The drought
is caused by the tendency of the large
rain areas to cling to the Mississippi val-
; ley. Out there, there has been an ex-
i cess of rainfall. There has also been an
excess of rainfall in western Europe.
The report that the continuous firing of
the large armies battling in Europe is
the cause of the drought is ridiculous
and absolutly untrue. It is impossible to
predict how long the dry spell will con-
. tinue, but if we do not get more heavy
rains soon, winter crops are bound to
suffer severely.”
Value in Mine Waste.
*
In all mining districts quantities of ma-
i terial which have been considered almost
ithe rack for the glory of the Lord.”
- Some of these instruments of torture are !
: worthless have been accumulating for
years. Persons of an inquiring mind
have in several instances found uses for
much of this so-called waste or refuse.
In Jasper County, Missouri, there are
hundreds of lead and zinc mines. The
. comparably more severe than the tor-
| ores are strongly allied with lime and .
flint, and to remove the metals from the
| crude material as cheaply as possible it
is necessary to crush this rock formation
into small particles: After the lead and
iat her in the darkness.
1 zinc have been removed, there remains a
i very hard substance known to the work-
| men as “chats ”’
For years this was left lying on the
Colors of the Seas.
The poet sings of ‘deep, blue sea,”
but the sea is not always blue by any
means. There are any number of colors
to be observed in the oceans, and many
interesting facts have been gathered with
respect to them.
The Mediterranean and Caribbean seas
present the true blue color. The extra-
ordinary blueness of the first named has
been assigned to two causes. One is
that very few large rivers of fresh water
enter it; the other is that the Maediter-
ranean, practically landlocked and ex-
posed to powerful sunlight, has the great-
est evaporation of all seas. By actual
test, it has been ascertained that the
Mediterranean water is heavier and salt-
ier than the water of the Atlantic Ocean,
which is an important circumstation of
the cause of its color.
Aside from blue and green, other colors
are to be seen in the world’s seas and
oceans. In January, 1909, a river of yel-
low water, three miles wide and of enor-
mous length, was observed running par-
allel with the Gulf Stream. It stretched
from Cape Florida to Cape Hatteras, and
was undoubtedly caused by some subma-
rine upheaval, probably of a volcanic na-
ture. [t endured for some weeks.
In 1901. off the Californian coast, the
sea turned almost black. The whole of
Santa Cruz Bay assumed this extraordi-
nary inky hue, and fishing came to an
end. In this case no definite reason was
ascertained for the phenomenon.
The dull-reddish tint that is seen in
the Red Sea, and which has given that
body of water its name, is said to be due
to the presence of millions upon millions
of microscopic algae.
The Yellow Sea, of China, is supposed
to owe its color to the floods of muddy
water that the great river pours into it,
but many scientists are of opinon that
the color is to be ascribed to the living
organisms that flourish in the waters.
Generally speaking, the blueness of
sea water is in constant ratio to its salti-
ness. In the tropics the tremendous
evaporation induced by the blazing sun
causes the water to be much more salt
than it is in more northern latitudes. :
For about thirty degrees both north and
south of the equator the waters are of an
exquisite azure. Beyond these latitudes
the blue fades and the color becomes
green. In the Arctic and Antarctic
oceans the greens are almost as vivid as
the blues in the tropics.
In the Tower of London are yet pre-
served some of the relics of the past,
when men used “the thumb screw and ;
dyed deep with the blood of the unfortu-
nates who suffered from them, and many
of these sufferers were women. We
shudder at the thought, and yet women
today, are undergoing a slow torture, in-
ments of the torture chamber. When
the nerves are racked ceaselessly, when |
the day is joyless and the night is sleep-
less, many a woman sees the gaunt,
wild-eyed phantom of insanity clutching
Even insanity,
when caused by disease of the womanly
organs, has been cured by Dr. Pierce's
Favorite Prescription. It has cured St.
: Vitus’s dance and other forms of nervous !
ground in great piles, and, except for the °
i use of a little in road construction, no
! use was known for it. Finally one of the
! railroads used it for ballast, and then it
| was not long until every road in that dis-
very best material for that purpose.
When concrete paving came, it was
It heals ulceration and inflammation, re-
i lieves female weakness, soothes pain
i trict used it, and it was pronounced the :
| tried as a filler, and it was found as good |
, as gravel, and owing to its vast quantities |
| was much cheaper. It found its way into |
concrete blocks, and was used in the con- |
! struction of cement foundations, cul-
~ verts, and bridge piers. Farmers mould-
‘ed it into fence posts with cement as a
| retainer.
have been experimenting much more
{ with this waste, and they declare that it
! is one of the very best materials for the
| construction of large concrete buildings.
Mining waste from other mines has
disease. It is a medicine remarkable for |
its direct action upon the delicate female
organs, and its wonderful healing power.
and tones up the nervous system. It.
contains no alcohol, and is altogether
free from opium, cocaine and other nar- |
cotics.
|
A Friend in Need.
This friend was a tame stag that be- |
longed to a lady living near Manila, in|
the Philippine Islands. He was a great
pet and allowed to roam around at his!
will. !
During the past few months experts
been found to be of more or less value. !
| One use for slag from furnaces is in the
| construction of wharfs and filling in of
i low water fronts.
The Lyre-bird.
The Queensland authorities have for
some time past expressed great concern
about the notable decrease in the lyre-
i bird population of that colony. So great
has been the destruction wrought upon
this beautiful creature that the State has
protected the bird until the year 1915.
Nevertheless, the bird
scarcer and scarcer.
is becoming
opment of the tail feathers that tempts
the hunters and vandals. The contour
of the bird, with its long neck and stout
feet, is by no means unlike that of a pea-
cock, and the wonderful tail, possessed
only by the male birds, fulfils a corre-
sponding role of vain display.
The bird executes a series of antics
for a train of female admirers on a raised
the year, about January, the lyre-bird
loses its characteristic plume and has to
rest content with the sober plumage of
ite mate. The fully developed male
lyre-bird is one of the most handsome
and notable of the forms of bird life of
Queensland.
Parcel Post May Cut Cost.
Commission, redoubled because of war-
ing problem by recourse to the parcel
post, resulted in an appeal being sent to
Washington by the Commissioners to
have the weight limit on parcels increas-
ed to 100 pounds. At present the limit
is 50 pounds.
The investigations of the Commission-
ers have disclosed many obstacles in the
way of the direct producer-to-consumer
plan, and not the least of these is the
stupidity of some rural postmasters, who
are charged with permitting perishable
products to be sent as “merchandise”
and thus doomed to decay or to be crush-
ed. Farmers, it is said, must be weaned
from the “shoe-box” method of shipment
and taught many things about preparing:
packages.
Horrors of War.
“This war in Europe is a terrible
thing.”
“Sure, but it ought to cut down irri-
gation to this country.”
——Subscribe for the WATCHMAN,
There is a fine of five pound for its cap- |
ture, injury, oi the taking of its eggs. |
' waited to see what would happen.
. down under the pony’s nose. Then he
! before him and was making a hearty
It is the extraordinary lyre-form devel-
i uniform. His recklessness is character-
"warns of increasing physical derange-
ment.
earthen mound. For a short period of"
The efforts of the Chicago Market
!
time prices, to solve the high cost of liv- |
i
‘| solutely foolish.”
The ponies did not have the same free- |
dom. When they are taken out they |
must be tied. One day the man who fed
the ponies tied one of them with a very!
short rope, and then carelessly put its’
bunch of hay beyond its reach. |
The poor little beast strained in vain |
at its rope to reach his meal. His own-
er, watching from the window, was about
to go to his help, when he saw the stag
standing by, taking in the situation. She
The stag soon found a way out of the
difficulty. He bent his proud head, lifted
part of the hay on his antlers and put it
went back for more; in a few minutes
the grateful little pony had his full meal
breakfast.—The Outlook.
Taking Chances.
There is no more reckless fighter than
the American soldier. The American
soldier is but the American citizen in
istic of the man, whether working or
fighting. He is always taking chances.
The worst feature of this recklessness is
the way in which men take chances with
their health. Symptom after symptom
But they run by all danger
signals,—often to collapse in a total
wreck. If there is undue fulness after
eating, or bad taste in the mouth, spots
before the eyes, loss of appetite, or sleep-
lessness, heed the warning of nature and
put the stomach, blood and liver in a
healthy condition. It can be done by
the use of Dr. Pierce’s. Goiden Medical
Discovery. It cures ninety-eight per
cent. of all who give it a fair trial.
Steel Plant Fights ‘Booze.’
A campaign to discourage drinking
among its 20,000 employes has been
launched by the Illinois Steel Company.
Electric signs flashing pointed queries as
to the effects of drink have been placed
over entrances of the company’s plants
in South Chicago. They ask:
Did booze ever do you any good?
Did booze ever get you a better job?
Did booze ever contribute anything to
the happiness of your family?
Milk stations, with icing facilities,
have been installed in the plant, and the
company is encouraging the use of milk
in place of liquor.
Lectures and moving pictures are be-
ing employed in the campaign.
——“Fear,” said the professor, “is ab-
“Yes,” remarked one of the students
pleasantly, “it does cover one with goose-
a 2
——The WATCHMAN enjoys the proud
distinction of being the best and cleanest
county paper published. :
“into a pint of soft, cool water.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN
DAILY THOUGHT.
In God’s world, for those who are in earnest,
there is no failure. No work truly done, no
word earnestly spoken, no sacrifice, freely made,
was ever made in vain.—F. W. Robertson.
The Woman's Home Companion is ap-
pealing to American women to wear
American-made garments. In the Oc-
tober number Ida M. Tarbell wrote such
an appeal and in the December number
her position is strongly approved by a
number of famous people whose letters
are published. Among those whose et-
ters are published are Mrs. Thomas A.
Edison, Gertrude Atherton, James J. Hill, ,
William C. Redfield, Secretary of Com-
merce; Mrs. Senator La Follette, and
Margaret Deland.
The idea is that in the past American
women have preferred foreign goods, but
that with the war the opportunity has
been opened for American consumers to
use domestic goods and to develop a real
taste for them which shall continue.
Gertrude Atherton’s letter in the De-
cember number follows: ;
“It is my intention to have my even-
ing gowns this winter made of cotton
materials—voile, crepe, etc.—and to wear
nothing but cotton at evening entertain:
ments. I have succeeded in interesting a
number of my friends in this idea, as it
will be no sacrifice to wear the beautiful
transparent materials of delicate colors
manufactured by some of our Southern
houses. I am sure that if every woman
in the United States who can afford to
have an evening gown at all would agree
to have it of cotton the situation in the
South would very soon be relieved, and I
certainly shall buy nothing of foreign
make whatever until this dreadful crisis
is well past.”
Teeth are the things which most par-
ents are prone to neglect. It is esti-
mated that more than 60 per cent of the
children in the public schools have at
least one tooth which badly needs atten-
tion from a dentist.
Don’t think that nothing needs to be
done for a tooth just because it causes
the child no pain. Decayed teeth are
. ideal breeding places for germs and make
' a child much more liable to all sorts of
infectious diseases. If something is not
done for them they may cripple his
mouth for life or they may cause the
' glands of his neck to swell up and form
abscesses. Then, too, the child with de-
cayed or painful teeth cannot masticate
his food properly, and so fails to get the
, nourishment his growing body demands.
Before you deal too severely with your
little sons and daughters because they
, are irritable or because they do poorly in
| their studies, be sure that it’s not some
, defect in their physical condition that is
: to blame.
Perfectly white hair is always very
| beautiful, especially if it still grows thick
about the brow and temples. The best
shampoo is the white of an egg beaten
Wet the
head and hair first with cold water. Rub
in the egg, which will make a soft lather,
and finish exactly as for any other sham-
poo, except in the last rinsing water,
which should be cold, a few drops of
best indigo—not the ordinary washing
bluing, but indigo that can only be had.
at the druggist’s—should be added; bare-
ly enough to slightly tinge the water.
This acts exactly as does blueing on
white goods—leaves the hair a pure
white, not in the least tinged with yel-
low.
A London scalp specialist makes the
following assertion: That all women
brush their hair entirely too much.
This is why, so he says, women of to-
day have such poor heads of hair; they
have simply brushed until they have
loosened the roots, then more brushing
has pulled the loosened hair out The
wearing of false hair has done little or
no damage, for there is no particular
reason for keeping the head cool. Neith- !
er has the marcel waving been injurious
unlessdone by an inexperienced person
who needlessly pulled or burned the |
hair. Waving has a tendency to dry the
hair, but brilliantine will counteract
that.
Massaging of the scalp is all wrong, so
the London man thinks, and tonics
should never be rubbed in. The hair
should be parted, the tonic dropped on
the scalp and the head gently pressed
with the finger tips until the liquid has
‘been absorbed. Before applying a tonic
the hair should be carefully combed.
After the hair is quite dry again comb
any possible tangles out, then part the
hair and braid loosely, tying at the ends
so it will remain braided during the
night, thus avoiding unnecessary tangles
in the morning.
A wide toothed comb is best and a soft !
brush when one must be used to smooth
the hair.
hair the more gently it should be hand-
led. A comb run over the scalp in the
ordinary night and morning combing is !
all the friction any healthy scalp
ever require.
After an illness of any sort special
tonics are advised. Shampooing should
be frequent, but must be regulated by
the life one leads as well as by the con-
stitution.
will
Instead of giving the bride the usual
shower, give her a large common box,
and at various times send her useful lit-
tie articles to put away in it. She must
be told not to open the packages, but to
just watch the contents of the box grow,
then take it to her home and open it as
a surprise when she starts housekeeping.
It should contain all sorts of useful
household articles.
Probably never before have artificial
flowers had such a vogue as they have
just now. And a small corsage flower is
one of the best means of giving color to
a dark street {rock or suit. :
There are bunches of tiny flowers in
brilliant red that are very good. There
are bouquets consisting of a rosebud, a!
few forget-me-nots and a sprig or two of
green that are good. Then there are
zinnias, nasturtiums, poppies and many
other flowers in their own natural, rich
coloring. . b :
The placing of the flower is rather im-
portant. It can be placed on the left
shoulder with good effect. It looks well
at the closing of a ruff or a close collar
of velvet and fur.
Of course, the flower on an evening
frock is usually part of the frock. That
is to say, it is placed in position when
the frock is made. However, a frock
that needs a little refreshing can be
brightened up with a new flower, and one
of the newest places to put it is about
half way down the back.
The softer the texture of the
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FARM NOTES.
—Never ship a chicken to a customer
that you would not want sent to you for
the same amount of money.
—In building up fertility, more depends
upon the saving and proper application
of the manure irom the stock than upon
the class of animal fed.
—Careful use of the drag on a road
that is already in reasonably good condi-
tion will almost entirely prevent trouble
from ruts, mud holes or dust, and give
good service at a low cost.
—Overproduction affects generally the
producer who is content with the aver-
age crop of the product of medium qual-
ity. The best of cereals and the choic-
est stock bring remunerative prices.
—The older a hog gets, the more it
costs to put a pound of meat on him. The
State Experiment Stations have estab-
lished this truth beyond all argument.
Early to market is the way to capitalize
this information.
—Molasses seeds have usually been
‘ found to contain large quantities of weed .
seeds. It is said, however, that now sev-
eral of the largest firms kill the weed seed
germs by heat, so they will not grow
when scattered on the soil.
—Indigestion in older calves is usually
due to unclean milk or feed, unclean ves-
sels, close confinement in dark, unsani-
tary stalls and irregular or excessive
feeding. In some cases it appears to be
due to sheer weakness and inability to
digest.
—A corn expert of Illinois places em-
phasis upon the stalk as well as the ear in
choosing seed corn. He prefers the stalks
that are of uniform height, with ears that
hang over at the proper angle. Interest,
he thinks, should be taken in the stalk as
much as in the corn.
—A calf that has one-half of its moth-
er's milk will put on 100 pounds of
weight a month, and at three months it
is eating and may be weaned. Such a
calf at 6 months will weigh nearly as
much as a year-old calf that was taken
away at once from its mother.
—The best time to peel posts is a
question which must be determined for
each particular case. As a rule, itis
good practice to remove the bark as soon
as possible after the posts are out, and
regulate the rate of seasoning by meth-
ods of piling. In this way peeling will
be easier, there will be less danger from
insects and seasoning will be more rapid.
—Cultivating crops, with turning plows
and one-horse cultivators is a slow pro-
cess, and should not be practiced unless
the land is full of roots and stumps.
Such a condition is inexcusable, for the
reason that we can burn, dig, pull and
blow out the stumps in a few years.
Spare time can be used to the best ad-
vantage in getting out stumps and roots.
—When we take into consideration the
larger prices received by the Eastern
farmer for his produce, his nearness to
market, shipping station, school and
church and other advantages we are con-
vinced that there must be something
wrong with the man who sells his farm
at a low price and buys new land in the
far west. The eastern farm values may
go higher, but they will not go lower
than they are at the present time, and
are therefore safe and sure investments.
—Good breeders and farmers with ex-
perience have the fixed habit of never
allowing a newly-purchased hog to min-
gle with the other hogs on their farms
until it has been kept in quarantine for
several weeks. Every new hog that is
bought should be quarantined in a pen
widely separated from that which con-
tains the other hogs, and kept there for
not less than three weeks, or until there
is an absolute certainty that it will not
develop any disease or carry it to the
other animals of the herd.
—Concrete Storage for Apples.—~Apples
can be kept in cold storage without the
use of ice. In a specially constructed
| concrete storage cave, built by the horti-
cultural department of the Kansas Agri-
cultural College last fall, fruit was kept
in such perfect condition through the
winter that it was not necessary to open
. the packages and regrade before selling in
the spring. Practically no loss was in-
curred by rotting, which causes damage
to stored apples only when there is a lack
of ventilation and a variation of tempera-
ture. The average variation was one
or two degrees a week.
Such a cave as this one, large enough
for 1000 boxes of apples, can be built for
$250 to $300, not including the excavat-
ting, which should not be expensive. In-
side, the cave measures twenty-four feet
long, twelve and a half feet wide, and
seven feet high. Ventilation was pro-
| vided by means of an eight-inch tile laid
below ground and coming to the surface
three rods from the cave. The air which
passed through this Ventilator waswarm-
ed in summer and cooled in winter, so
. that it was near the temperature of the
! cave when it reached the storage room.
| After the fruit had been stored about
a month the ventilator was partly closed,
| as the fruit during the remainder of the
| time required less rapid ventilating. Dur-
i ing the picking season when the nights
, are quite cold and frosty a low tempera-
i ture is obtained in the fall without the
| use of ice by opening the cave door late
| in the evening and early in the morning.
i A temperature of 40 to 50 degrees is low
. enough at the start, and little trouble is
{ experienced in obtaining a lower temper-
| ature after the first month. As near 33
| degrees as possible should be maintained
| during the winter and spring.
| Nearly any fall or winter apples will
' easily keep until after Christmas. Under
| proper care the Winesap, Tewksbury,
Genet and similar varieties keep almost
| perfectly until May or June.
i The apples should be taken from the
| tree as soon as well colored but before
they become very ripe. They should be
! handledr with great care, as a bruised
i spot will start to rot within a very short
| time.
| Any one having several barrels of
apples can afford to build a small storage
house. This need not be expensive, but
should have insulated walls like an ice
house.
It is better to place the apples in boxes
or barrels than to store them in the
bulk. If one apple rots in a box it will
spoil only that box, while in a pile it
would cause all the others to rot.
Under no conditions should apples be
stored in the cellar, because it is very
unsanitary and is likely to cause disease.
Also it is impossible to keep an even
temperature and good ventilation, the
most important factors in the successful
storing of apples.—Kansas Industrialist.
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