Benoa, Belletonte, Pa., December 1, 1916 LIFE’S JOURNEY. As we speed out of youth's sunny station The track seems to shine in the light, But it suddenly hoots over the chasms— And sinks into tunnels of night. And the hearts that were brave in the morning Are filled with piring and fears, As they pause at the City of Sorrow Or pass through the Valley of Tears. But the path for this perilous railway, The hand of the Master has made, With all its discomforts ind dangers, We need not be sad or afraid. Roads leading from dark into darkness; ‘Roads plunging from gloom to despair, Wind out through the tunnels of midnight To fields that are blooming and fair. Tho’ the rocks and round us, Tho’ we catch not one gleam of the day, Above us fair cities are laughing And dipping white feet in some bay; And always, eternal, forever, Down over the hills in the west, The las: final end of our journey, There lies the great Station of Rest. their shadows sur- ‘Tis the grand central point of all rail- ways All roads cluster here where they end, Tis the final resort of all tourists, All rival lines meet here, and blend ; All tickets, or mile-Lhooks, or passes, If stolen, or begged for, or bought, On whatever road or division, Will bring you at last te this spot. If you pause at the City cf Trouble, Or wait in the Valley of Tears, Be patient, the train will move onward, And sweep down the track of the years. Wherever the place is you seek for, Whatever your aim or your quest. You shall come at the last with rejoicirg To the beautiful Station of Rest. —E lla Wheeler Wilcox. What Children Can Do for Our Town The Chautauqua Reading Hour. DR. WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH, Editor. In the city of Pittsburgh “Boots’’ Shan- non, Ebenezer Garrison, “Red” Kovensky and Mickey Donovan have opened a new city park. No city officials were present at its dedication. It was mostly a for- eign contribution, as the names of the executives indicate, Ebenezer being the only American, and he is colored. “Jitney Park,” as the words neatly out- lined in stones at its entrance proclaim it, is in the heart of Pittsburgh’s worst ten- ement district. The elder boys cleaned a whole hillside—several acres of waste land, without encouragement or even the knowledge of their elders, “to make it nice for the kids,” as they explained. Now the Playground Association is tak- ing an interest and the Superintendent of the Bureau of Recreation is giving his aid. This illustrates what our junior citi- zens can do for our town. They may do it without encouragement from us, but they will be much more likely to do it and do it well, if they have our help. BEGINNINGS IN CHILDREN’S CIVICS. The first endeavor to enlist children in town betterment in this country was when Colonel George E. Waring organiz- ed his Junior League of school children to assist in keeping the city clean. These were revived three years ago, and there are more than 300,000 members. They devise their own posters to give publicity to the possibility of a clean city. They have their badges, their club-meetings and their own program for actual work. The latest of these endeavors is in Cleve- land. The boys are known as Junior Sanitary Police and the girls as Sanitary Aides. The boys inspect the backyards and report to their superiors the condi- tions of garbage cans and other fly-breed- ing places. Each householder is kindly requested to clean up. If necessary the Cleaning Department takes a firmer hand in the situation. The girls, in pairs, visit grocery and provision stores and count the number of flies visible in three min- utes. This silent census usually proves effective. The campaign begins early because, as Charles Zeublin says, “A fly in the hand in March is worth two thousand in the kitchen in August.” Small towns can fight the little fly as ef- fectively as big ones. In Kirksville, Mo., the women give every school child in town a blank cer- tificate which reads: KIRKSVILLE FUTURE CITIZENS — THE SCHOOL CHILDREN, This is to certify that my yard has been thoroughly cleaned, all ashes, trash and rubbish removed, and that I am do- ing all I can to make Kirksville a clean- er and more beautiful city. Signed Street. When the child returns this card, signed, he is given free flower seed to plant. Seven dollars spent for flower seed, bought in bulk and put in envel- opes by the ladies, supplied over 1200 school children. Kewanee, Ills., has organized a Junior Civic club. It is a junior branch of the Civic club of that town. It has 650 members. A contest in beautifying the home premises was begun with the no small task of photographing the premis- es of each of these 650 children. The judges selected the poorest-looking pho- tographs and after inspecting the grounds decided which child had made the great- est amount of effort. The prizes were bestowed from the platform of the sum. mer Chautauqua, all the children who had competed being admitted free one afternoon. CLEANING UP A SCHOOLHOUSE. In McMinn county, Tennessee, one winter day the school children co-oper- ated with their parents and some stu- dents and teachers of the near-by nor- mal school to see what improvement could be made in the building and grounds in a single day. At 8 a. m., the “official’’ photographer took pictures of the grounds, the exterior and the inter- ior of the building; at 4 p. m., when the work was finished, he took others to show the results “after taking.” The building in the morning was in about as disreputable condition as it could be and still be used for school purposes. The workers were armed with shovels, hoes, axes, carpenters’ tools, paint, whitewash and soap. They nailed on new boards where they were needed, painted the building, buiit a new chimney, cleaned up the rubbish, scrubbed the floor, re- | novated the entire interior, made a book- case for the teacher, tinted the walls a pearl gray, and hung pictures. The outlay was only $33. It included twelve gallons of paint, five gallons of linseed oil, four paint brushes, a haif bushel of whitewash, two dollars worth of weath- er-boarding and lathing, two pounds of nails, four window shades, material for sash curtains, four pictures, a number of books to start a school library, and one American flag Old and young spent a jolly day to- gether, working. At noon a picnic din- ner was served by the people of the neighborhood. MAKING A “SPOTLESS TOWN.” One of the prettiest ideas ever worked out with children for community beauty was in New Britain, Conn., where in the winter time a campaign was inaugurated to culminate at Easter for making New Britain “As Clean as an Easter Lily.” It was called a “Spotless Town Crusade.” Each child was given a badge in blue and while, lettered: SPOTLESS TOWN LEAGUE, NEW BRITAIN. Ten Commandments of Spotless Town were printed on red cards and given | each member of the league. There was also a literary competition, with silver and bronze medals for the best essays | by school children on subjects which had | to do with ideal back-yards, descriptions of a perfect city, what does our city need, etc. Thousands of leaflets were printed in the six languages spoken in this cosmopolitan town. By the time Easter Day came, after these many ' weeks of anticipation and work, the city was cleaner than it had ever been on any other day in its history. To get the co-operation of children, they need only to be recognized, organ- | ized and praised. The pride they feel | today in working with their elders will | when they are older become pride in working with their own children for town betterment. Millions of Texas Acres for Peanuts. “Texas farmers have tried to raise almost everything under the sun on the vast stretches of the Lone Star State, but I doubt if they ever launched forth in any agricultural enterprise that will prove more profitable in years to come than the raising of Spanish peanuts, said Frank Joyce, prosperous farmer of Texas, to the Washington Post. “Of course, Texans have not gone into the raising of the peanut on a large scale as yet, but the demand for its by-pro- ducts and the increased demand that is sure to come after the war is encour- ageing and will lead to further attempts along this line. Of the five varieties of peanuts grown in the United States, the Spanish nut is generally conceded the ! best, because it is adapted to a wider | range of soil and climatic conditions and contains a higher percentage of oil than any other variety. j “A few years ago a small number of farmers in Texas planted an acre or two of Spanish peanuts for hog pasturage, but they paid little attention to the out- side market. Today a market for peanut oil is developing and the hay is valued nearly as highly as alfalfa, while the | meal which is left after the crushing progess is considered more valuable for | fattening hogs that the nut itself. “I have been told that manufacturers prefer peanut oil to cottonseed oil for making oleomargarines and condiments for salads. We all know that cottonseed oil is now selling at a very high price, and if peanut oil is just as good, if not better, the new product is bound to create for itself a world-wide demand. There is also a growing demand for its by-products, meal and peanut butter and the root crop, which is a valuable fer- | tilzer. “There are more than 2,000,000 acres | of land in Texas now being devoted to the raising of peanuts, and it seems quite probable that the acreage will in- crease.” Creamery Men to Have Special Day at State College. As a part of the annual Farmers’ week at The Pennsylvania State Col- lege = special “Creamery Buttermak- ers’ Day” will be held Tuesday, Janu- ary 2, 1917. Creamery managers and butter- makers of the State ire constantly facing new problems brought about by changes in machinery and manu- facturing methods. Purtherniore, the demand for milk, for condensed milk, for ice cream and for other pur- poses, is cunstantly increasing. In or- der to meet competition and to keep abreast of latest developments and changes in the industry, it is necessa- ry for creamery men to study the most efficient methods of creamery management. The idea 0” the special day at State College is to bring the buttermakeis together for a discus- sion of their problems. The following topics and speakers are on the program: “Creamery Management,” J. C. Jos- lin, Dairy Division, U. S. Dept. of Ag- riculture. “Pasteurization and Better Butter,” Fred Rasmussen, Head of Dairy Hus- bandry Dept., State College. “Water and Salt Tests for Butter,” L. C. Tomkins, I. J. Bibby. Each topic will be opened and out- lined by the speaker and a general discussion will follow. The State Col- lege Creamery is in operation throughout the year. This creamery has the same vractical problems to solve as any creamery in the State. Discussion will, therefore, he prac- tical and to the point. Those in at- tendance will have opportunity to ob-) serve in detail the methods used at the College creamery. Usually the Case. “There’s one good thing about buy- ing an encyclopedia on the install- ment plan.” “And what is that?” “No matter how long it takes, you are pretty sure to have it paid for he- fore you have read it through.”—New York World. Great American Traveler. First Centipede—“Why don’t you go home 7” Second Centipede—“By the time I get my feet wiped off it is time to i thodox use. start out again.”—New York Sun. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT You cannot dream yourself into a char- acter; you must hammer and forge your- self one.—J. A. Froude. The very word “nut” has a variety of meanings, while “nutty” leaves it- self open to many an interpretation. In England to say a person is a “nut” means that he or she is a devotee of fashion and a good deal of a snob. In Ireland the vulgar slang for your head is your “nut,” and we all know what “nutty” generally presupposes in this United States of America. In fact, the slang misuse of the word has become almost as general as the or- The reason for referring to the vulgarisms at all is to point out a curious coincidence that in all cases it refers to the head or to a certain style, and we wonder vaguely if the misapplication arose from some con- ception of the wisdom of nut eaters and their superiority to many other : foods! I suppose they should be included among fruits, but really they have a i very much higher nutritive value and they are much richer in fat than any vegetables; but they have one draw- back, inasmuch as they have a dense, compact cellulose framework that makes them difficult of digestion un- i less masticated thoroughly. This ob- jection is obviated in nut butters by the very fine grinding to which they are subjected and which breaks up the cellulose, so that it could not possibly interfere with any healthy digestion. Some nuts are greatly improved by cooking, but others develop a disa- greeable, rancid, oily flavor when subjected to heat; and all nuts are the better for being chopped finely. The flavor of the different nuts depends on the kind of oil they contain, but many have in addition some special compo- nent with a marked taste. For ex- ample, the almond contains cyanic acid; the chestnut, sugar, and so on. As nuts have a high food value, they should not be eaten in large quanti- ties or with an otherwise heavy meal; themselves to serve as a substitute, in fact they are quite sufficient for meat. Nut bread is much liked by children and forms a very nutritious piece de resistance. For adults it is only nec- essary to chop the nuts, for at least they are supposed to have sufficient sense to masticate their food; but when making the bread for children it is safer to run the nuts through the finest blade of the mincer. Nut Bread—Four cups of flour, four teaspoonfulls of baking powder, one cup of sugar, one-quarter tea- spoonful salt, two cups of milk, one cup of walnuts and one tablespoonful of lard. Mix and sift the dry ingredients, add the milk, melted lard and chop- ped nuts. Beat thoroughly and pour into well-greased tins. Leave it standing for about thirty minutes and then bake for one hour in a moderate oven. Although nuts have such an amount of nutriment, they are mostly used for cakes, cookies and sweets of vari- ous kinds, so the following recipes may be of interest: Nut Wafers—Six tablespoonfuls of chopped nuts, one cup brown flour, two eggs; vanilla. Beat the eggs to a froth then add the flour and sugar gradually, beating well between each admixture. Chop the nuts, which may be either mixed or of some one particular kind, and mix in. Lastly add the vanilla; about a teaspoonful is the usual amount, but it is better to use the very best make, in which case one-half spoonful is ample. Pour the mixture into a large pan, 30 that it is spread out very thin- ly, and bake for ten minutes in a hot oven. . When it is cooked cut at once into rounds with a sharp cutter, for the cookies get hard and brittle very quickly and would snap if you tried to stamp them out. These wafers are delicious served with ice cream or with any type of bavaroise or mousse. Another dain- ty trifle for the tea takle are nut kiss- es, and they are very easy to make. Nut Kisses—White of an egg, onc half cup of chopped nuts, one cup of powdered sugar. Beat the white of egg until quite stiff and dry and then add the sugar; beat again and lastly mix in the nuts. Drop in spoonfuls on a well-butter- ed tin and bake in a moderate oven until brown. Lift on to a cake rack and leave to dry and get cold. Keep in an air-tight tin. ; ‘When using any of the nut butiers or pastes for sandwiches you will find them excellent if both brown and white bread are used. Cut one slice of the brown to two of the white. Spread the nut butter on both pieces of white and put the brown between, press well together and then cut into fingers. These look very attractive when piled on a pretty white doily. Nut butters also are good on plain crackers, on bread or on toast; in fact, the children seem to find them appe- tizing, no matter in what form they are served. Remember that although nuts are highly nutritious and splendid for the school boy or girl, they should never be given to very little children or to people of weak digestion. Potted Plants—With potted flowers regular attention is quite important. So many women are unable to keep flowers growing because they are overzealous in their care of them for a few days and then leave them dur- ing the rest of the week without a bit of nourishment. Geraniums and primroses are the most satisfactory flowering plants and last well through the winter. If dead leaves are kept picked off and blossoms removed im- mediately they become faded, new blecoms will appear very frequently. Changes in temperature, so disastrous to most potted flowers, will not affect these two varieties to any great ex- tent. “People catch anthrax from contact with diseased cattle or horses,” says Farm and Fireside, “or with wool or leather from diseased animals. FARM NOTES. | | —Hen House or Bird Cage.—In its ef- | fort to make poultry keeping more uni- formly successful the Pennsylvania De- partment of Agriculture through its Bu- reau of Farm Advisers, has spent consid- erable effort this year in inducing own- ers to erect more rational poultry houses. Not only this, but to place same on the most favorable sites possible. It is the theory of the Department that expensive houses or houses of the ultra “warm” type are not necessary or advis- able in this State. That the location, or site, is of prime importance and that it is wiser, cheaper and better to choose. a sunny slope that has good air and good water drainage w*" a loose, warm soil, sandy or shale ° composition, than to spend many extra good dollars in build- ing a tight warm house and reap in divi- dends besides, epidemics of colds, roup and kindred diseases for good measure. On a good location or site the house can be rather a cheap one and can be an all the year round “open or curtain front” house. Such a house, with the | simple and easy to build, shed roof is the | best poultry house for Pennsylvania. | Twelve or sixteen feet deep, five feet at |! rear wall, eight feet at front wall, inside | measurements, are the correct propor- | tions. Length is made to suit the num- | ber of fowls desired. A house twelve to ! sixteen feet deep and twenty feet long | will take care of 75 to 100 adult fowls. | One of the worst types of houses is | that of a house on posts—bird cage fash- | ion, given vogue by a famous exploiter or promoter in matters of poultry. For | a swamp or for a warm climate there | may be a place for such a house, but for | Pennsylvania it has proven a delusion ! and more than one owner after realizing | the mistake he had been led into, lower- | ed the house to the ground. If the drain- | age is as it should be, one foot from the | ground is immeasurably better than four. An error, more frequent before the De- partment’s efforts than at present, was | the building of poultry houses on steep i hillsides with the front of the house pro- | jecting anywhere from three to eight feet. The thing to do on hillsides is to scoop a shelf into same and locate the poultry house on this shelf. The Department welcomes correspond- ence from all contemplating erecting poultry houses and offers, without charge, the advice and counsel of their trained and practical experts. This guarantees a good poultry house and usually a large saving of money. —The adoption of more careful meth- ods of handling milk and cream and im- proved practices in the making of farm butter will reduce rather than increase the trouble incident to home production of this food, say dairy specialists of the department, and will result in a superior product which can be sold more easily and for a better price than the average farm butter. Last year about 30,000,000 pounds of butter, much of which origi- | nated on the farm, was washed or reno- | vated because it was of such poor qual- | ity that-it could not be profitably offered on the regular butter markets. Cream alone should be churned. It may be skimmed as soon as it rises or | may be separated by a separator. The latter plan is the more efficient, and though requiring a considerable initial outlay often will be profitable. The cream should be set aside in a clean place by separate milkings A temperature of 50 degrees F. or lower should be maintained until from 12 to 18 hours be- fore churning time, when the various batches should be stirred together well and brought to a temperature of about 70 degrees F. by placing the container in in a bucket of warm water. One of the first acts of the farm house- wife who decides to adopt improv- ed methods should be to purchase a dairy thermometer. Temperatures play i an important part in the development of i flavors in butter, and always should be determined with fair accurcy. After the cream is mixed it should be kept at ap- proximately 70 degrees F. until just be- fore churning time, when it should be re- duced to about 58 degrees F., where this is possible (or to such temperature not above 65 degrees F. as to complete the operation of churning within 25 or 30 minutes.) The barrel type has been found by | dairy specialists to be one of the most satisfactory churns. The dasher or plunger type requires a somewhat great- er expenditure of labor. Earthenware churns are especially undesirable unless perfectly glazed, since if pores are ex- posed they absorb milk and cream which later decay. Churns with mechanical devices inside them are difficult to clean | and sometimes injure the body of the butter. The churn should be scalded prepara- tory to churning, but should be cooled with water before the cream should be poured in through a coarse strainer. Every few minutes during the early part of the churning gas should be al- | lowed to escape from the churn. If the | temperature is right the churning should ! require about 25 or 30 minutes. The | process is completed when the granules | of butter are about thesize of large wheat kernels. The buttermilk should | then be drained off and the butter re- | peatedly washed with cold water while still in the churn. The washings should | be continued until all milk is removed. Under no circumstances should working be depended on to remove surplus milk. When the butter is free from all milk it should be taken from the churn with a paddle and placed on a worker. The | hands should never touch the butter, | both on account of sanitary reasons and | because the body warmth may melt the fat. The working should be done care- fully to avoid making the butter greasy. Before the butter is worked, fine salt should be added at the rate of about an ounce per pound of fat. The butter should be prepared for market in a rectangular mold, since, when in this shape, the product is more easily wrapped and handled and is more pleasing to customers. Regular parch- ment butter-wrapping paper should be used around the prints, as ordinary wax- ed paper tears easily and sticks to the butter. The placing of the wrapped prints in pasteboard boxes is a desirable final step, as it protects the package, gives it a better appearance, and per- mits the nse of the maker's name or trademark as an advertisement. After the butter-making operations are completed the churn should be rinsed carefully with warm watér. It should then be scrubbed with hot water, cleans- ing powder, and a fiber brush, and final- ly should be scalded and set in a clean, sunny place to be drained and dry. ————————— For SALE—At the Bellefonte hospital, three good alcohol barrels at a reasona- ble price. — HARD WORK ON THE FARN ‘Many Middle-Aged Men Will Remem. ber the Tribulations Consequent on “Haying” Time. July was once a period dreaded by the American country boy, as the time of “haying.” To be sure it was re- lieved by the turbulent and explosive Joys of July 4. But every other day, often in fhe concentrated hours of the national birthday, he was driven to the hayfield with rake and fork. How his heart rebelled against the humdrum toil! By one of the mysterious dispensa- tions of Providence, the smallest boys were put to work in the most exhaust- ing post. While the older men were down on the barn floor where the cool breezes swept in from the wide open doors, it was the function of the boys to receive the hay under the eaves of the structure and push and trample it down in the smallest possible com- pass. Only by much treading could the dried grasses be compressed into a reasonable space. It wus a perfect inferno of heat, the air filled with choking dust, the mow baking from the sun beating on the roof. With no particle of breath from out of doors it was like the fur- nace where walked Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego of old Bible times. The men down below seemed pos- itively to gain satisfaction from covering them up with fast coming forkfuls of the dusty hay. Still there were certain alleviations. The can of iced water sweetened with New Orleans molasses and spiced with ginger from the pantry is still re- | called. Also at the close there was an Elysian dip in thie swimming hole. Today the youth may swing in the hammock with the summer boarders, while Polish and Swedish farm hands perform these tasks for which their physique is ample, greatly lightened by modern machinery. But certain habits of toilsome industry that gained their hold in the father’s soul from ° the regular performance of such hard labor may be lacking in the son.— Janesville Gazette. MOST FAITHFUL OF FRIENDS Love of Dog, Once Gained, Is Never Forfeited, Though Fortune May Smile or Frown. A dog worthy of the name is of all | animals that walks on two legs or on four the creature least affected by the mutations of fortune, says the Phila- delphia Ledger. “Caesar” in the funeral cortege of King Edward VII, was not more sorrowfully proud of his place than a dog faithful at the grave of a tinker whom he has followed in all weathers. Your dog does not regard your clothes nor explore your pockets. He takes you on faith— blind faith; you are his king, incap- able of wrong. He reads his heaven on earth in your approving counte- nance. : No ribbon or medal can take the measure of the sentiment of the true dog lover toward his most faithful friend of all. world is cold and hard, his dog will still rejoice to meet him when he | His dog will | comes home at night. think no evil, whatever the master may do. It is a wonderful thing for a man to experience a trust so absolute and so unfaltering. Who shall call it a dumb brute whose eyes and paws are so eloquent and whose love speaks in a look? Queer Town. Margaret Illington was making a | coast-to-coast tour as the star in a new play. land of the one-night stands out in the Southwest. To break a long jump she was to play in a new community that expects to have 50,000 inhabitants some day. As the actress, in the early morn- ing, dismounted from the through train, with her maid and her manager and the supporting company, an aged darky laid hold of her hand baggage and led the way, bowing and scraping, to where the hotel ’bus waited. Fol- lowing him, Miss Illington emerged from the station shed on an expanse of one-story stores flanked each side of a dusty road. “Uncle,” she asked, “is this the prin- cipal street?” “Dis yere one? Nome,” he said. “Dis yere town ain’t got no principal street.”—Saturday Evening Post. The “Nelson Touch.” ‘Who invented the phrase the “Nel- son touch,” which is being freely used again in connection with the North seat battle? Admiral Mahan states that it probably originated in Nelson’s family circle at Merton, and the first frequent use of it occurred in the great seaman’s correspondence with Lady Hamilton, as where, writing just be- fore reaching the fleet, he remarked: “I «.m anxious to join, for it would add to my grief if any other man was to give them the Nelson touch, which we say is warranted never to fail.” There was a quaint allusion to it also in the motto which he told Rose he had adopted—*“Touch and Take.,”— London Chronicle. Earache. Dip a piece of cotton wool in sweet oil, then into black pepper; putting this in the ear proves a quick remedy. Nose Bleed.—Roll a piece of soft paper quite hard and pack hard be- tween the upper lip and the gum, and in a few minutes the bleeding will stop. Hoarseness.—Beat the white of an egg, add the juice of a lemon and sweeten with sugar. A teaspoonful at a time. When the rest of the ! She had reached the far | a HAS NEVER-FAILING CHARM Blography Holds the Readers’ Atten. tian More Than Does Any Form of Literary Endeavor. Reading biography will furnish you with a peculiar and rare form of en- tertainment, for besides the subject in hand biography legitimately treats of the foibles, the fashions and the pe- culiarities of the age with which it deals, says Youth's Companion. His- tory, although it may have its lighter moments, is essentially sober; but bi- ography, although it is never merely farcical or satirical, may touch vividly upon the lighter phases of life, and take you, as it were, into quaint and delightful byways, through private parks and into remote and lovely fields. “Indeed,” wrote Boswell in his in- troduction to his famous biography, “I cannot conceive a more perfect mode of writing any man’s life than by not only relating the most important events of it in their order, but by in- terweaving what he privately wrote and said and thought; by which man- kind are enabled, as it were, to see him live, and to live o’er each scene with him, as he actually advanced through the several stages of his life.” Biography, treated in that manner, must inevitably include much that is delightfully diverting. It will give you “the table talk of the great;” it will recount those fascinating little inci- dents and anecdotes that history so often regards as beneath its notice. It will afford far more than a running account of a life, “beginning with a pedigree and ending with a funeral.” FAMILY SIMPLES FOUND BEST Great European War Has Opened the Eyes of Surgeons to a Variety of New Things. Experience beats theory in the ap- proximately exact science of surgery as in more experimental departments of knowledge. A half century of scientific exposition of the discoveries of Lister and Pasteur in clinics, hos- pitals and laboratories has filled the drug stores with a multitude of com- plex and costly antiseptics that have been thrown aside in the war for old- . fashioned dressings. ~The drugs whose prices rose to al- most prohibitive figures on the early demand of the war began to be super- seded hy family simples. The British’ surgeons are using sugar for dressing infected wounds and sea water for fresh injuries, with better results than they got from the scarce carbolic acids, iodoforms and other specifics of science. The curious discovery that garlic is an antiseptic dressing was made from inspection of the remarkable success of a French peasant nurse in dressing wounds. Now the smelly bulb is sold in drug stores by the ton instead of by the ounce. Hindus have used plas- ters of garlic for ages. Our scientific grandmothers knew what they were about in many things. —Philadelphia Ledger. Cow’s Fondness for Roses. | Because E. R. Patterson’s milch cow i walked into Walter G. Hyman’s rose garden and consumed a sundry assort- ment of blossoms, Hayward Pagf, a fashionable residence district of San Mateo, is in the throes of a Civil war, avers a San Mateo (Cal.) telegram . to the New York World. The law has | beeen invoked and threats and coun- | ter threats are breathed. . Hyman filed a written complaint ! with the San Mateo city trustees, who | referred it to Poundmaster George : Maggi. | Recently Patterson made public the following letter to Hyman: | “I hand you herewith my check for : $3.25 to cover the full amount of dam- | nges, as claimed by you, done by my : cow when she recently broke loose and got into your yard. In view of the very childish ‘tell-the-teacher’ at- titude you took in taking this small accident up with sundry city officials ‘and others, I think I might have felt that I was justly absolved from any ' financial obligation to you. However, ' I guess your action carries with it its own punishment, as I know that I ! should hate to carry the brand real men put on one who assumes the at- titude you did on this occasion.” American Woman. Our American woman has become emancipated over night, she has emerged from her chrysalis stage of humble dependent to the butterfly stage, full-winged and jeweled, in the same brief time the transformation takes place in the lower order of na- ture. From having been negligible and voiceless she is now a fixed quantity and vociferous. Her suddenly gained freedom has made her feverish, restless, excited to do things. i Her justification for what she has won, and her plea for still larger pow- er, is her moral superiority. Musical Instrument Output. American manufacturers of musical Instruments, with an annual output valued at about $100,000,000, export only $300,000 worth annually to for- eign countries. American pianos are chiefly exported to Canada, where they constitute about 90 per cent of the to- tal imports of that class to Great Brit- nin, for reshipment to other parts of the world, and for reshipment to Cen- tral and South America. Our player pianos are sent in about equal num- bers to Australia, England, Italy and Argentina, und in much larger quanti- ties to Canada. id -
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