Belletonte, Pa., December 15, 1916
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THE SECRET OF THE TREE.
A tall fir whispered in the wood,
“I'd tell a secret if I could.”
Then all the dry leaves on the ground
Whisked up and down and al’ around
To see ifthey the news might hear
And spread it quickly far and near.
But the tall tree answered not the call,
It bowed politely, that was all,
And flung its tassels to the breeze
And looked the wisest of all trees.
But when I came beneath the tree
It whispered, “Yes, I'll tell it thee.”
Then, ag I rushed in eager haste
And threw my arms about its waist,
I held my breath that I might hear—
“My child, I'm coming soon to be
Your very own dear Christmas tree.”
Centre County Y. W. C. A. Notes.
Begin to plan now to come to the An-
nual Meeting of the County Association
to be held in Bellefonte on the second
Saturday in January. This is an open
meeting and a large attendance from all
over the county is desired. Miss Hawes
of Philadelphia will deliver the address
and other things will be announced
later. Save the day.
The State College High School Club
held a most intetesting Recognition Ser-
vice for New Members, using the candle
ceremony.
On Saturday, the second of December,
several girls from the Wahun Annung
Common Weal Club, the True Blue Com-
mon Weal Club, and the Happiness
Brigade (from Oak Hall, Dale Summit,
and Center Furnace) came into State
College and enjoyed some especially fine
records on the Victrola. They also visit-
‘ed the Home Economics laboratories at
the College, and were entertained by
Miss Lovejoy, Dean of the Department
and vice-president of the County Board
ofthe Y. W. C. A.
Helen Gould Shepard gives to any
member of the Young Women’s Chris-
tian Association who will learn and re-
cite certain selected Bible passages, a
beautiful Bible with the winner's name
12 gold on the cover, and Mrs. Shepard’s
autograph on the first page. Each year
« silver cup goes to the county having
the most members who have won the
Bible. Last year Greene County, Ohio,
won the cup, haying eighty-nine girls who
had won Bibles.
The poem for this week is a good one
‘to begin to learn for Christmas. Part of
it is here given.
THE HOUSE BY THE SIDE OF THE
ROAD.
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn
In the place of their self-content;
‘There are souls like stars, that dwell apart,
In a fellowless firmament; *
There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths
Where highways never ran,
But let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
Where the race of men go by
The men who are good and the men who are
bad,
As good and as bad as I.
I would not sit in the scorner’s seat
Or hurl the cvnic’s ban,
‘Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
1 see from my house by the side of the road,
By the side of the highway of life, -
‘The men who press with the ardor of hope,
The men who are faint with the strife,
But I turn not away from ther smiles nor their
tears,
Both parts of an infinite plan
Let me live in a house by the side of the road
And be a friend to man.
Sam Walter Foss.
Health Notes.
Dog fanciers have long noted that
when a house-dog begins to get fat and
wheezy it is pretty apt to be attacked by
-a stubborn skin disease. In such a case
they cut down the diet and increase the
open air exercise, thus relieving the
-over-burdened body of poisonous sub-
stances.
The sin of gluttony is common and
therefore much condoned, but like every
other violation of Nature's laws has a
penalty. Fat inefficiency, sluggish men-
tality, the reddened uose, the pimpled
face, certain of chronic skin eruptions,
and much fatigue and nervousness are
due to the abuse of the digestive appa-
ratus. Rich, indigestible foods in large
quantities. highly seasoned to stimulate
the jaded palate, are’ forced into a body
already rebellious from repletion. Exer-
cise is largely limited to walking to and
from the table and bodily deterioration
proceeds rapidly. Many an overfed dys-
peptic, suddenly dragged by the stern
hand of circumstance from a life of
physical ease and plenty and forced to
work out of doors suddenly discovers
that his semi-invalidism has gone, that a
chronic skin derangement of many years
standing has disappeared and that a new
vigor and zest of life has been given him.
Not everyone can spend his whole
time in the open air but a certain amount
of exercise and plain wholesome food in
an amount not exceeding the body’s
needs can be had by almost everyone.
Simple moderate diet and exercise make
for health. These are not faddish food
theories; they are just plain common
sense.
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Alfalfa as a Poultry Feed.
Alfalfa is one of the best sources of
green tood for poultry-growing chickens
and laying hens alike.
Many farmers in Pennsylvania practice
feeding ground or short cut alfalfa to
their poultry in a dry form in combina-
tion with other ground feeds. A dry
mash ration of 100 lbs. corn meal, 100
Ibs. middlings, 50 Ibs. bran, 50 lbs. beef
scrap, and 20 Ibs. alfalfa, has, according
to H, C. Krandel, in charge of poultry
extension at the Pennsylvania State Coi-
lege, proved very satisfactory.
Some farmers feed alfalfa through the
entire year for succulence or green food.
In winter, bundles of alfalfa are steamed
or soaked in hot water until it compares
very favorably to fresh cut alfalfa,
Others have found it advisable to feed
alfalfa in winter by throwing it into the
runs and allowing the birds to eat the
leaves. :
According to the U. S, Department
of Agriculture, the nitrogenous material
| in alfalfa is just what is needed by grow-
ing birds and is a good aid to egg produc-
tion. The chemical analysis of alfalfa is
practically the same as that of bran, ex-
cept that it has a higher per cent of pro-
tein than bran. It is a little harder to di-
gest but it is important in the poultry ra-
tion for the purpose of furnishing protein
| and giving variety and bulk to the ration.
Simple Christmas Candies.
With the approach of the Holiday sea-
made Christmas candies. Simple, inex-
pensive formulas for candies render the
making of wholesome confectionery for
| Christmas stockings and boxes.
Miss Pearl MacDonald, in charge of
home economics extension at the Penn-
sylvania State College, suggests the fol-
lowing recipes:
Gum Drops.—2 cups sugar mn 3 cup
boiling water; 1 lemon; 1 orange; 4
tablespoons or 1 package of Knox gelatin
soaked in % cup cold water. When syrup
boils, add the soaked gelatine. Boil 20
minutes. A few minutes before taking
from the fire, add the juice of one lemon,
the juice and rind of one orange. Strain
and set away in a very lightly buttered
pan to harden. Several hours will be re-
quired for the candy to become firm.
When set, cut into squares and roll in
granulated sugar. These squares may be
dipped in chocolate. Do not be discour-
aged when trying to handle.
Cream Fondant.— Three cups sugar; 3
tablespoons Karo syrup; one cup cream.
Boil slowly until a soft ball can be made
when mixture is dropped in cold water.
Cool and stir. Add chopped nuts. When
fairly stiff, the stiffly beaten white of one
egg may be added.
THIS BEETLE FOND OF FIRE
Remarkable Australian Insect That
May Be Called a Rival of the
Salamander. ‘
The remarkable power of withstand:
ing heat possessed by certain lizards,
which gave rise to the legend of the
salamander—a creature said actually
to live in fire—is not confined to the
reptile family. Professor Thomson has
recently given particulars of a race of
Australian beetles which seem, to a
large extent, to be fireproof.
“It is said,” he writes, according to
an exchange, “that when a bush fire
is raging certain Buprestid beetles are
attracted from a distance, perhaps by
the scent, and fly straight into the fire.
alighting and running about on the
hot, steaming branches, and sometimes
even over the parts that are glowing
red, yet without injury.
“Mr. H. M. Giles speaks of it as ‘one
of the most agile species known to
me, and as alert and active as an
eagle.’ It is probable that the larvae
feed on the half burnt roots of the
shrubs, The remarkable habit is paral
leled among a number of ‘fire bug’
beetles which lay their eggs in burnt
timber, probably thus insuring, as Pro-
fessor Poulton suggests, ‘some chem:
ical or physical advantage in the larval
food." ”
All Luxuries Barred.
War has caused some of the Euro.
pean countries, notably France and
Italy, to frown on the importation of
luxuries. Italy has just come for
ward with a drastic decree which pro-
hibits, among other articles, the im
portation of the following: Mineral
waters, sparkling wines, cognac, and
other sweetened or perfumed spirits;
confectionery and biscuit; manufac
tured tobacco; perfumery and scent
ed or glycerin soap; lace and tulle;
woolen carpets; furniture and frames;
wallpaper; illustrated postcards; kid
gloves; manufactured gold and silver;
jewelry and precious stones; automo-
biles; mirrors, common bottles, and
manufactures of glass and crystal in
general ; household ornaments; manu
factures of ivory, amber, mother-of-
pearl, and tortoise shell; women’s
trimmed hats, feathers, and artificial
flowers; valises ; toys, imitation jewel
ry, fans, and musical instrurhents.
Ice Cream Cones Often Unsafe.
One of the delights of children is
the cone of cakelike mixture for hold-
ing a small quantity of cream. Ii
may seem tiresome always to bring a
laboratory analysis to bear on what
we eat, but chemical test has shown
that as food ice cream cones rank
about zero, since they contain noth:
ing but the cheapest starch, flavored
with glucose and baked; but more
particularly since the cones are fre-
quently exposed in dirty boxes and
often used to decorate the window of
an ice cream ‘“saloon.” In seme
places there is a law against this, and
the cones must be kept on the coun-
ter in a sanitary container. It is cer-
tainly more than doubtful policy to
allow a child to eat cones, bought any-
where he may happen to care to spend
a penny, for it is impossible to make
products which are pure and whole-
| some at this price.
Typewritten Postage Stamps.
Have you any typewritten postage
stamps among your collection? “Long
Island,” the island off the coast of
Asia Minor which was taken from the
Turks in the spring of this year, has
issued typewritten stamps,” remarks
the London Chronicle. “Each stamp is
edged with dots—colons down the
sides and horizontal lines of periods
top and bottom. Within the frame thus
formed is the inscription ‘G. R, IL,
Long Island Postage Revenue,’ and
the value of the stamp. The stamps
also bear the name of the administra-
tor in red ink or indelible pencil. Long
Island’ is not the first British posses-
sion to issue such stamps. The claim-
where 21 years ago Rev. E. Millar of
the Church Missionary society issued
typewritten stamps at Mengo.”
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——They are all good enough, but the
WATCHMAN is always the best.
son come inquiries for recipes for home- !
ant for this distinction is Uganda,
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RULER OF MECCA AT HOME
Typical Oriental Luxury Marks the
Great Audience Hall of the
Grand Sherif.
In an article in the vernacular jour-
nal, Al Nirsad of Cairo, Egypt, Aly
Loutfy tells of a visit that he paid to
Mecca some years ago.
“The Sherif Hussein Pasha, Emir of
Mecca,” he writes, “is a man sixty-
two years old, of medium build, white
complexion, with large and bright eyes
and a short gray beard. A white tur-
ban covers his head, and he is clothed
in silk garments after the style of the
Ulemas of Egypt. He is well versed
In history, geography, geometry, arith-
metic and astronomy, and is regarded
as an authority by the Ulemas of
Mecca, Medina and Taif on the Shaira
laws.
“The sherif sits in a large hall, the
floor of which Is covered with the
finest carpets, and all around are
chairs upholstered in white satin. Next
to the entrance is a large chair on a
platform raised two feet from the
floor. A punkah of white silk is sus-
pended from the ceiling. To the right
of the hall is a room in which a mili-
tary officer sits, whose duty it is to
have the sherif’s orders executed by
the guard in an adjoining room. To
the left of the hall is the private bu-
reau of the sherif,
“It was at eight o'clock at night that
I was admitted to the bureau of his
highness. I found him sitting before
an oak desk of magnificent workman-
ship, on which were carved in Persian
characters several verses of the Koran.
“The sherif spoke bitterly of the
misrule of the Young Turks, and con-
for the day when Arabia will be able
to throw off the yoke of these
traitors. ”
DOMESTIC ART THEIR STUDY
Newly Founded School in Chicago
Provides Instruction for Both
Mistress and Maid.
A school of domestic art and science
where cooks may go to learn their
Job of cooking before taking the job;
Where housemaids may learn to lay
these different courses is small com-
pared with that paid by employers
who must furnish the cost of their ig-
norant servants’ experience or the an-
guish and mortification required of the
woman who undertakes the compli-
cated duties of marriage unprepared.
The school occupies an entire floor
in a building in the very heart of Chi-
cago and runs a lunchroom in connec-
tion with the school, where food
cooked by the pupils is served to the
public and where prospective employ-
ers may test the skill of their future
cooks and maids. Not the least of the
benefits of this arrangement is the
recognition of the personal element
which figures so largely in the inti-
mate relations of domestic service.
Most women can tell as soon as they
meet whether they are going to get
along together, and it is nearly ap-
proaching an ideal condition when,
without compromise, mistress and
maid may each observe the other un-
der normal circumstances.
Solomon Proved Financier.
Mr. MaclIsaacs takes the greatest
pride and pleasure in his garden,
where grow all kinds of fruit and
vegetables.
On the birthday of Solomon, his
only son, MacIsaacs thought to give
the lad a treat.
“Solly, my boy,” he said, with a
kindly smile, “you vos haf my perrhis-
sion to ask all your leetle frients into
der garden, and dey can take any-
dings except der strawberries.”
In an hour or two the garden
seemed to be overflowing with small
boys, and MacIsaacs took a stroll
through the wandering gangs.
Almost at once he came across a lad
whose hands were full of the prized
strawberries and whose face bore sus-
pictous stains.
“My tear boy,” remonstrated Mac-
[saacs, “you must nod dake der straw-
berries.”
“Vy not?” retorted the lad prompt.
ly. “I haf paid my penny.”
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Chicory.
When, in olden times, sailing vessels
used earth for ballast, lots of weeds
and plants traveled from one country
to another as stowaways. That's the
way chicory came to America, after
seeing Europe first.
You have heard of chicory. Its seed
formerly was largely used as an adul-
terant of coffee, and it was in so
great demand that it also was adul-
terated with roasted wheat or barley.
Nowadays it is barred by pure food
laws, but some say that its presence
improves the flavor of coffee.
Chicory grows profusely in the east-
ern States, never far from the haunts
of man. It keeps regular hours, awak-
ening at five in the morning and re-
tiring at 10 a. m. During its morning
“at home” it is visited by the elite of
the insects, for its blue flower is most
attractive to them.
Realism on the Stage.
The Author—Well, how did you
like my play?
The Critic—Oh, it was very nice.
The Author—Didn’t you think the
church scene realistic?
The Critic—Intensely so. Why, a
‘great many of us actually went to
sleep while it was on.
cluded by saying, ‘I am only waiting | DeW Processes evolved are in actual
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IMPORTANT AID TO INDUSTRY
Much Good Work Done Through In-
dustrial Fellowship in Edueca-
tional Institutinns.
The industrial fellowship of Dr.
Robert Kennedy Duncan, initiated at
the University of Kansas in 1907, was
adopted some years later at the Uni:
versity of Pittsburgh, where it has de-
veloped into the Mellon Institute of In-
Gustrial Research, which now has a
new building and special equipment
costing nearly $350,000. The fellow-
ship is a kind of partnership, in
which, for the study of some prob-
lem, an industrial concern places s
given fund or endowment against the
services of a scientific specialist, ard
the research carried out both pro-
motes American industry and aids the
investigator. At Pittsburgh the first |
fellowship was founded through a |
grant from a baking company desiring
to improve its product. In the five
years following the establishing of the
first fellowship, 47 distinct interests
have endowed about 105 one-year fel-
lowships, contributing for the investi-
gations $30,400, and expending in ad-
dition more than $300,000 for con-
structing experimental plants, besides
awarding $21,300 in bonuses to fel-
lows successful in solving problems
submitted. The university itself ex-
pended about $175,000, besides the in-
vestment in the new research station.
About seven out of ten of the problems
assigned have been worked out to the
satisfaction of the donors of endow-
ment; many fellowships have been re-
newed; 25 patients have been granted
to holders of the fellowships, while as
many more are pending, and about 20
operation on a commercial scale.
TAX ON WAGE EARNERS DUE
Many English Workers May Escape
the income Assessment Re-
cently Levied.
Our civil service correspondent
writes, according to the London Tele- |
graph:
“The first quarterly income tax as-
Sessment gn wage earners is now due, '
the period according to the finance act’
tables and clean silver and make | of 1915, under which the rate was im- |
beds; where girls intending to be mar- | Posed, having commenced on April 1, ;
ried may acquire the principles of this year. Only those earning wages |
housewifery, home nursing and the | above £130 sterling ($650) a year are |
care of small children is something of ! liable. It is estimated that about 900,-
an innovation. The prices charged for | 000 workers will come under survey,
but after the usual abatements and
reliefs are given a large proportion of |
those will be exempt, and it is as yet
impossible to say hrw many will be-
come actually liable to the tax, or
what amount may be expected to be
received.
“When the abatement of £120 and
the relief in respect of children (£25
each) and the deductions for life in-!
surance are taken into account, it is
believed that the actual number of |
wage earners who will pay income tax |
will turn out much smaller than is |
popularly supposed, unless the high |
wages due to the war may upset pre- |
vious estimates. The tax may be paid !
by weekly installments by means of |
post office stamps where the amount |
of tax for any quarter exceeds six |
shillings. This is a concession which |
will greatly facilitate payment, and :
no doubt will be largely availed of.” ;
" Mammy Wasn’t Educated in Law.
“Mammy” Washington seemed very
ill at ease in court. She admitted to
the judge that it was her first time on
“poleeceman ground.” Considerable
difficulty was experienced in making
her answer questions. She would ga
just so far and then stop, all afluster
The judge hit upon a scheme.
“There is no need for you to be ex.
cited, Mrs. Washington,” he said, with
a smile. “I'm just a judge and{you are
just you.”
At last the old negress found her
tongue.
“Dat’s jes’ hit, suh,” she cried, ex-
plosively, “I is me, but yo’ isn’t you, in
dem specs, and wid dat crokay mallet
in yo’ han’. Ef yo’ could fix hit fer tg
talk dis over in a kitchen, I'd be all
right, jedge!”—Case and Comment,
Record of Peruvian Invention.
According to a report made by the
ministerio de fomento to the Peruvian
congress in August, 1915, the number
of trade marks registered for the year
1914-15 was 286, as against 406 for
the year 1913-14. Notwithstanding
this decrease, the number of marks
emanating from the United States in-
creased not less than 50 per cent. The
number of patents granted during the
year was 95, a record number, as
against 51 for the preceding year. More
than 40 per cent of these were for im-
brovements invented in the United
States.
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Has Woman Bank Cashier.
Wall street has a woman cashier!
Woman cashiers in stores and business
an cashier in a Wall street bank es
tablishes a precedent, because women
have been believed to be uneducated in
the ways of high finance.
The new cashier is employed by the
Bank of Cuba in New York, and her
name is Lillian Jones. Miss Jones has
come up from the ranks, having been
a stenographer.
Economic Phenomena.
“Look at the difference made by the
high cost of living,” exclaimed the
agitated citizen.
“I can’t see as much difference as
you do,” replied the man who refuses
to worry. “It seems to me that I knew
of just as many people going broke
when living was less expensive as I
do now.”
‘ fluids on water against enemy posi-
| days.
. vested ali of his money, $10,000, in
i by joint treaty between Great Britain,
SOLDIERS DO SOME THINKING |
Men in the Trenches Have Devised
Numerous New Implements of
Offense and Defense.
The patent office of the French gov-
ernment has received many applica-
tions for papers covering the rights on
various inventions of French soldiers
at the front.
Taking the hint from the enemy’s
infernal maghines, and evolving ideas
for offense and defense from their
daily contact with the foe, the poilus
have offered some interesting models
for use in warfare.
“The Moving Trench” is what a
soldier in the Champagne sector calls
his model of an armored barrier on
rollers, adaptable only for level ground
—in which the defenders push for-
ward the bulwark toward the enemy's
trenches, thus saving themselves from
exposure to machine gun fire,
Another has perfected a model of
an “armored wheelbarrow,” which con-
sists of a carriage on one wheel, of the
general shape of a barrow, with its
sides extended up quite high and pro-
tected by steel plates.
In the V-shaped apex a machine gun
is placed. The contrivance may be
propelled by a strong soldier or by a
small engine. i
“Showers of fire” provide for the re-
lease of numerous small balloons filled
with explosive gases, which burst auto-.
matically by time fuses. They are so |
weighted that they do not rise more
than ten feet above the surface of the
ground. .
Another idea was evidently a result
of a perusal of “Michael Strogoff,” by
Jules Verne, as it employs the princi-
ple of floating explosive and volatile
tions and then igniting them.
HARD FATE OF “SILVER SHIP”
Romantic Craft Once Owned by
Stevenson Is Now Humble Hali-
but Fisherman.
The Silver Ship has come upon evil
Once a rich man’s expensive
toy, later the yacht that carried Rob-
ert Louis Stevenson to his last home
at Vailima in the south seas, with her
wings clipped and an ill-smelling gas
engine doing the work her sails once
did, the schooner Casco is employed
in the north Pacific ocean bringing
home cargoes of fish.
The Silver Ship, the picturesque
nickname given the schooner by the
natives of Fakarava when Stevenson
sailed to their country, served some
years as the private yacht of a San
Francisco millionaire. In 1888 Ste-
venson was induced by failing health
to try a desperate venture. He in-
the charter of the Casco with the in-
tention of spending a few months
cruising in the south seas and writing
a book of travels. The journey ended
when the author chose his Samoan
home at Vailima, where he died six
years later.
After the Stevenson voyage the
Casco joined the notorious seal poach-
ing fleet that used to sail in the early
nineties out of Victoria, British Co-
lumbia. Her wonderful speed under
sail many times served in good stead
at this hazardous game,
When pelagic sealing finally ended
sapan and the United States the
Casco lay idle until four years ago,
when she was bought cheap, to be
turned into a fisherman.
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Tests of Patriotism.
Two million of boys, averaging but
nineteen years of age, went into the
og war to save the Union.® And if
you had asked them what the Union
was few could have given a better an-
swer than that it was the thing they
were fighting for, an idea not to be
expressed in words symbolized by a
few stripes and stars.
Has there ever beem a time when
we did not stand the test? The time
when the American spirit came near-
est to falling was 150 years ago when
New York would not join in signing
the Declaration of Independence and
Rhode Island refused for so long to
ratify the Constitution. And when
I read New York or Rhode Island pa-
pers criticizing some of our western
states for lacking spirit because they
are not yet convinced that we need
military training for our boys, I just
turn back to the old school history
and ask a few disagreable questions
about the past.—Franklin K. Lane,
Secretary of the Interior.
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In Mid-Victorian Days.
Trollope, the English novelist of
mid-Victorian days, was neither critic
nor commentator. He pointed no mor-
al as he wrote. One is scarcely curi-
ous to inquire whether he himself per-
ceived a moral.
He saw the dim shadow of social
transformations without a wish to
hasten or retard them. He sketched
the life about him, an inchoate con-
temporary scene.
We turn back to his books with the
mingled amusement and respect which
8 good son may feel as he turns the
pages of his father’s diary.
We gather as we read the unearned
increment which comes to truth from
time,
Excessive Neutrality.
Some are born neutral, others
achieve neutrality, and still others have
it thrust upon them. The Englishman
born in Roumania, who arrived in New
York with a Gerinan wife on a Span-
ish ship and took out naturalization pa-
pers from Uncle Sam, declined to be
interviewed on the war on the ground
of neutrality for all three reasons.
PASTURES IN SOUTH AMERICA
Large Unoccupied Area on That Conti-
nent Affords Field for Cattle
Raising.
“Beef prices will never fall to the
level that obtained a few years ago,
but with the increased production of
cattle the world over, there ought not
to be any material advance over the
present prices,” remarked F. A. Smith
of Chicago. “Breeding lands of the
world except in Latin America have
So narrowed through the encroache
ment of agriculture that the world’s
consumption of meats, constantly in-
creasing, has passed the supply. The
lands of wheat production—Canada
and Siberia—are too cold for cattle
breeding and the unoccupied ranges
of Australia and South Africa receive
too little rainfall to make them good
cattle ranches, so that they are likely
to be called upon for increased pro-
duction on a large scale only after
South America’s well-watered pastures
are filled.
“No larger extent of such pastures
with climate suitable for cattle has
ever existed than the immense regions
of southern Brazil, eastern Bolivia,
Paraguay and northern Argentina,
which now is the only large unoccupied
region eminently adapted for cattle
breeding. Argentina and Uruguay are
well occupied with cattle ranches, ex-
cepting northern Argentina, so the de-
: velopment of cattle breeding and the
substitutes for ranches taken for agri-
cultural purposes, must be in the
greater part of the area I have men-
tioned.
“Many American cattle breeders
have had to go out of business because
of the rise in the price of their land
and to these the South American pas-
tures offer a profitable field for invest-
ment.”
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RECORD YEAR IS PROMISED
Mineral Output and Prices in This
Country for 1916 Are More Than
Ordinarily Satisfactory.
Judging and estimating from its first
six months, the year 1916 will be the
greatest year in mining this country
ever experienced. Good prices and an
active demand for mineral products
have spurred mine operators.
Reports from throughout the coun-
try show that soft coal, copper, iron,
lead and zinc are being mined in
larger quantities than last year. Gold
production probably will show a de-
crease, but silver mines are working
to capacity.
Shipments of iron ore from Lake Su.
perior points for the first five months
of the year exceeded by more than 80
per cent last year’s shipments for the
same period. Higher prices and heavy
derfiands are stimulating the produc-
tion of manganese as never before.
It is predicted that 1916 “will
doubtless be the most profitable year
in the history of copper production to
the present time, and possibly for
years to come.” It is asserted that
profits of the producing companies
have been large, and, as much of the
output is sold several months ahead
of delivery, the prosperity of the in-
dustry is well assured for the remain-
der of the year.
Under the influence of large de-
mands and resultant high prices the
production of copper during the last
six months has exceeded that of any
equal period in the history of the in-
dustry. Priees of copper have aver-
aged more than 26 cents a pound dur-
ing the first six months of this Year,
the highest in recent years.
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Overworking the Czar.
To the true Scot there is no place
like his land and no people like his
People. Not that he doesn’t get away
from both as soon as he can. But the
pride is still there.
When the Royal Scot Greys were
honored by having the czar appointed
as their honorary colonel, an officer in
the regiment told the news to his serv-
ant.
“Donald,” he said, “the czar of Rus-
sia has been appointed colenel of our
regiment.”
“Indeed, sir, an’ is that s0%” ex-
claimed Donald. “It's a verra fine
thing far him.” Then a puzzled ex-
pression stole over his face, and he
scratched his head thoughtfully. “Beg
par-rdon, sir,” he added, “but wull
he be able to keep baith jobs?”
ei mestiaersans.
Cookery Curiosities.
Old English cookery was astonish-
ingly lavish. Yorkshire cooks, for in-
stance, seemed to fling about dozens of
eggs and pints ef cream. A favorite
pie to send to one’s friend at Christ-
mas was made like this: Take a tur-
key and bone it; take a goose and
bone it, and so on with a chicken, a
pheasant, a partridge, a pigeon, and a
lark; then put the lark in the pigeon,
the pigeon in the partridge, the par-
tridge in the pheasant, the pheasant
in the chicken, the chicken in the
goose, and the goose in the turkey.
The turkey should then be placed in
a dish with a couple of hares to fill
up the crevices, and six pounds of
fresh butter, covered and cooked. The
recipe said this was “an agreeable pie
to eat cold.”
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Real Burglar Alarm.
Mrs. Willis—So you aren’t afraid of
burglars? No doubt Your husband has
a revolver.
Mrs. Gillis—Yes; but I am so afraid
of firearms that I have hidden it.
Mrs. Willis—Then what protection
would you have in case of a robbery?
Mrs. Gillis—My dear, the way that
man will roar at me when he can’t find
that gun will scare any burglar out of
his wits!