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Belletonte, Pa., April 20, 1917.
PRO AND CON.
(The following poem was written by a
well known Sunbury woman and is re-
printed from the Sunbury Daily.—Ed.)
The Kaiser said to Uncle Sam,
“Sammy, why this commotion?
Why don’t you keep your children home,
Across the Atlantic Ocean?
The ocean is a play ground, big.
Your kids are too small to tamper.
But since you have declared the war
I'll put on you a damper.
You see with my aeroplanes,
And subs, I'll crush your nation,
So I, the lord of all the earth,
Will cause great consternation.”
Then Uncle Sam just winked his eye,
And straightened out his jacket,
And said, ‘“‘See here, Kaiser bold,
1 think I'll raise a racket.”
And show you just what young blood’s like.
And since I've got the notion,
I'll use my millions and my guns,
And I'll cross the ocean.
I'll blow your vessels inside out,
But, really, ’tis no fable,
"Tis just to pay you back a bit.
We'll show you, we are able.
Now Uncle Sam’s a peaceful man,
I don’t want any money.
‘What I want is justice to all,
And nothing that is funny.
I'll raise my cap to all the world,
If they love our field of blue,
But if they show disrespect;
Then I'll to my flag be true.
So hurrah, for the stars and stripes!
Thrice we'll pass the word around,
Hurrah, hurrah, for liberty!
By our flag we'll be found.
E.F. G.
THRIFT FOR SCHOOL CHILDREN.
The Chautauqua Reading Hour
WILLIAM BYRON FORBUSH, PH.D. EDITOR.
“Most men believe,” some one says,
“that they’ll wake up some day and
find themselves rich. And eventually
they—‘wake up.’ ”
We seem to be passing through this
stage as a people. We have been
called recently “a hilarious nation.”
The high cost of living is at least
partly due to the fact that we seem
to enjoy handling our money. Those
who sell things are trying to increase
this form of enjoyment. A parent
used to say to his child, be a good
man. Now he says in effect, be a
good spender.
The dream of personal wealth is not
being largely realized. It is stated
that out of 100 men, when the age of
65 is reached 36 have died, 1 is rich,
4 are wealthy, 6 are self-supporting
and 53 are dependent upon their chil-
dren or society. Only 18 of 100 wid-
ows are left comfortable. Two out
of three men who die leave no estate.
One of ten who die in cities is buried
in Potters’ Field. Ninety-eight per
cent. of us are living on our wages.
While we are the richest nation under
the sun we rank fiftieth in savings
bank accounts.
; THE TURNING TIDE.
Fortunately, just at this time there
is a growing movement in the schools
to recognize Thrift as an important
part of the education of children. It
has begun on a high level, as a moral
even more than a financial, factor.
For Thrift, as S. W. Straus says, “is
an attribute of character, not an ad-
junct of the pocket-book.” Certain
virtues seem to be involved in its
exercise that cannot come so well in
any other way.
Take self-control. What usually
calls a teacher’s attention to the need
of some action in this direction is the
presence of ice cream vendors and of
candy stores in the immediate vicini-
ty of the school. In Chicago it was
discovered that the children average
to spend from 10 to 25 cents a week
apiece at these places. This is more
than many family budgets can afford
and it is an indulgence that is
thoughtless and selfish. It is direct-
ly connected with the increasing ina-
bility of children to find pleasure in
their own resources, and able only
to get it in spending money. Thrift
is an antidote to this. It requires a
sturdy self-denial. It gives the pride
of individual achievement. The child
makes himself in making and saving
money. He finds the threshold to a
new kind of joy. Instead of forever
demanding, he becomes competent
and glad to be a giver.
HOW IT HELPS SCHOOL WORK.
If there were no moral result I
think the school would have come to
this recognition for its own sake.
Arithmetic has never been a really
practical subject. Its problems were
problems of fancy, not of fact. It
tried to teach cause and result, but as
the child had had no experience in be-
ing a cause he got only fictitious re-
sults. But today they are teaching
arithmetic in terms of actual grocery
bills, stubs of real checks, clothing
estimates and household budgets.
Arithmetic is becoming a study of
values, and as such it is becoming a
subject of the highest moral worth.
One of childhood’s defects, and a
defect that is making us a childish
people, is immediateness. Everything
is Now. What he wants he wants in
a hurry. He never lets a pleasure
ripen and grow sweeter while it ri-
pens. He must eat his cake all at
once. But thrift means plans, means
living for a future, having something
good in store. Folks tire of living
because they have not laid up pleas-
ures. Thrift makes such pleasures
possible. Not only because there has
been a saving of money, but because
there has been a saving of life.
THREE PRACTICAL VALUES.
Financially, thrift methods in school
have at least three practical values.
They establish in early life a habit
which is never successfully practised
unless it is established early. They
meet the American habit of finding it
easier to make than to save by show-.
ing how easy it 1s to save. They de-
fend men and women from crazed fi-
nance, because whoever has learned
the slowness of accumulation through
! saving is a conservative investor.
Thrift is a virtue which is hard to
| acquire late in life. It is difficult for
men or women who have led thrift-
i less lives to the point of early middle
. age to change. Thriftlessness is a
| vicious habit. If we are to make the
| America of tomorrow thrifty, we can
only do so by teaching thrift to the
. children of today. We must start at
i the foundation. We must begin in the
| school room.
i Several methods of Thrift are used
i in schools. The oldest is the stamp-
| saving method. Children buy pretty
| stamps for a penny and paste them in
i books. When the book is full a sav-
{ ings-bank account is started. This
plan has the disadvantage of being a
great deal of bother to the teacher.
By another plan a commercial concern
sells to one of the local banks a sys-
tem of slips and booklets and the lo-
cal bank does all the bookkeeping.
This is partial and not fully effective.
In some schools—Ann Arbor, for in-
stance—the savings scheme is a part
of the commercial practice of the high
school students. They keep all the
accounts, make the actual deposits,
and audit each other’s work.
THE SIMPLEST AND BEST WAY.
The most successful instance of
Thrift that I know of is in Oil City,
Pa. The superintendent of schools
went to all the banks and persuaded
them to accept directly the deposits,
even the smallest, of children. He
told them it would pay. Events prov-
ed he was right. The children’s de-
posits today aggregate $28,450, and
637 depositors have been added to
the bank books of Oil City. The
average deposits of the school chil-
dren are $45 each, an amount tempt-
ing enough for any banking stie
tion. ¥
Pennsylvania Bill.
William J. Howarth, a State Assem-
blyman from Allegheny county, Pa.,
has lately introduced a bill in the
Pennsylvania Legislature to tax cats.
In a somewhat humorous speech he
declared that there were at least 3,-
000,000 cats in Pennsylvania and that
he believed any citizen who lost a
shoe by a misdirected blow at a mid-
night marauder should be compensat-
ed for his loss by the State.
This, of course, is the humorous
aspect of the case, which is regarded
as a serious matter in other sections
of the country, especially in New
England, where the ravages of the
cat, the vagrant and the fireside pet
as well, have killed hundreds of
thousands of valuable wild birds. Ef-
forts are being made to combat these
ravages by Legislation.
Before this could be done it was es-
sential that there should be a scien-
tific report upon the subject, and this
has been supplied by Edward Howe
Forbush, State ornitholgist, of Mas-
sachusetts, whose comprehensive data
and observations have been printed in
a bulletin by the Massachusetts Board
of Agriculture.
In this report we learn the true
character of Felis domesticus, and it
is bound to be a revelation to those
who are fond of cats. Mr. Forbush
points out that the cat is the only do-
mestic animal that is not regarded as
property under the law and which is
neither fully restrained nor protected
by it. He adds the cat is the only
animal that commonly is allowed by
its owner to run wild and get its own
living. “This,” however, he continues,
“is the lesser evil. The greater lies
in the fact that hundreds of thousands
of cats, deserting their owners or de-
serted by them, have reverted to the
wild state, bred in the woods and the
number of their progeny has increas-
ed until they have become such a men-
ace to small game, insectiverous birds
and poultry that some method of re-
pressing them must be found. In re-
cent years some evidence has been ad-
duced in support of the assertion that
| the cat disseminates disease, particu-
larly among children.”
“The cat, being naturally carnivor-
ous,” remarks Mr. Forbush, “feeds
first of all on flesh, destroying birds,
mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish-
es, crustaceans and insects. Its path
is a trail of blocd. Nevertheless, it
consumes some vegetation.” This lat-
ter remark alludes to the cat’s habit
of eating grass, which it instinctively
knows is a panacea for an ill-digested
meal, especially of hard-backed in-
sects, which give pussy an uncom-
fortable feeling in the waistline.
An unquenchable appetite for birds
has got the pussy cat in wrong with
bird societies and farmers who de-
pend upon the birds to kill the insects
that spoil the crops. In killing birds
pussy is only living up to his tradi-
tion, for one of the earliest paintings
in the temple of Thebes in Egypt de-
picts a cat making way with two fowl.
It appears that the cat was kept in
Egypt for much the same reason that
falcons—to catch and retrieve birds
for them. The modern puss, however,
may kill birds, but he refuses to re-
trieve, eating the prey himself.
Ancient paintings in other parts of
the world show the cat mainly as a
bird slayer. There is one in Pompeii
and there is a mosaic in the Neapoli-
tan museum to the same effect, while
in the latter museum there is another
mosaic picturing puss stalking some
doves or pigeons at a fountain.
It has been found that cats will eat
eggs, catch and kill full-sized fowl,
drawing line at geese, which are bet-
ter able to contend with the cat than
the barnyard chicken, or even the
young turkey. They will catch and
eat rabbits, hares and squirrels, and
chipmunks appeal to the dainty ap-
petite of the cat when it gets a chance
at such prey.
It is always kill, kill, with pussy,
and nothing of the lovable disposition
which cat lovers find in him is detect-
ed by scientific and unprejudiced ob-
observers.
To the question, “Does not the cat
kill rats and mice?” the answer to
these observers is that it does occa-
sionally, but it prefers birds, and adds
that the best rat catcher is a well-set
trap, which does the work more ef-
fectually and thoroughly than any
puss that ever purred.
——Father—“I got a number of
sealed proposals at my office today.”
Daughter—*“Oh, pa, were any of them
for me ?7”—Puck. ,
—The “Watchman” has all the news
the Europeans of wealth once kept |.
CONGRESS PASSES BOND ISSUE.
Provides For $7,000,000,000 for War Purposes. The Presi-
dent Also Defines Conscriptive Measure. Tells All
Citizens How to Conduct Themselves.
$7,000,000,00¢6 War Bill
House.
Washington, April 8.—Without a
dissenting voice the House, amid
plaudits of members and the galler-
ies, late Saturday passed the seven
billion dollar war revenue authoriza-
tion measure. One member, Repre-
sentative London, of New York, the
only Socialist in Congress, voted
“present.”
The bill is the most collossal mone-
tary measure introduced before a leg-
islative body in the world’s history.
Owing to general pairs and absen-
tees only 389 votes were recorded for
the bill, but both Democratic Leader
Kitchin and Republican Leader Mann
announced that all of their members
would have voted affirmatively if they
had been present. The formality of a
roll call would have been dispensed
with if several members who voted
against the war resolution had not in-
sisted upon having the opportunity of
recording themselves in favor of pro-
viding money to carry on hostilities
now that the nation is at war.
The bill authorizes $5,000,000,000
in bonds of which $3,000,000,000 will
be loaned to Entente countries, and
the issuance of treasury certificates
for $2,000,000,000 ultimately to be
met by increased taxation. Passage
of the measure never was in doubt
during the two days it was under con-
sideration in the House.
Passed by
Persons Exempt from Draft Under
Proposed Selective Plan.
Washington, April 18.—The War
Department’s selective draft bill ex-
empts from its provisions the Vice
President of the United States, legis-
lative, executive and judicial officers
of the Federal Government and the
several States and territories; mem-
bers of recognized religious sects
whose -creed forbids military service.
In addition, it authorizes the Presi-
dent to exclude or discharge from the
draft, or to draft for partial military
service only persons of the following
classes:
Custom house clerks; persons em-
ployed by the United States in the
transmission of mails; artificers and
workmen employed in the armories,
arsenals, and navy yards of the Unit-
ed States, and such other persons em-
ployed in the service of the United
States as the President may desig-
nate; pilots; mariners actually em-
ployed in the sea service or any citi-
zen or merchant within the United
States; persons engaged in industries
found to be necessary to the mainte-
nance of the military establishment
or the effective operation of the mili-
tary forces or the maintenance of na-
tional interest during the emergency;
those in a status with respect to per-
sons dependent upon them for sup-
port which renders their exclusion or
discharge advisable, and those found
to be physically and morally deficient.
No exemption or exclusion shall con-
tinue when a cause therefor no longer
exists.
The draft would apply to all ex-
cept the specified classes and any
other classes which the President
might determine capable of rendering
services in their usual avocations
equally as valuable to their country
as their presence at the front. Pri-
marily, the purpose of the draft be-
tween the ages of 19 and 25 is to call
to the colors men who, for the most
part, are free from responsibilities
and whose place in the economic world
is not definitely fixed.
40,000 Motors Needed for Army of
Million.
Washington, April 18.—Complete
plans for motor transport service in
the war were approved today by Gen.
Sharpe, head. of the quartermaster’s
corps, and sent out to truck manu-
facturers. ;
The call is for 35,000 to 40,000 mo-
tor trucks, equally divided between
one-and-one-half and three ton types,
sufficient for an army of a million
men.
President ‘Wilson Sends
Warning.
Forth a
President Wilson on Monday issued
the following proclamation defining
treason and the punishment that will
be meted out to any person or per-
sons convicted of that crime:
“Whereas, all persons in the United
States, citizens as well as aliens, should
be informed of the penalties which they
will incur for any failure to bear true al-
legiance to the United States;
“Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson,
President of the United States, hereby is-
sues this proclamation to call especial at-
tention to the following provisions of the
constitution and the laws of the United
States; :
“Section 3 of Article III of the consti-
tution provides, in part:
. “Treason against the United States
shall consist only in levying war against
them, or in adhering to their enemies,
giving them aid and comfort.
“The criminal code of the United States
provides:
‘ ‘Section 1—Whoever, owing allegiance
to the United States, levies war against
them or adheres to their enemies, giving
them aid and comfort within the United
States or elesewhere, is guilty of treason.’
‘“ ‘Section 2—Whoever is convicted of
treason shall suffer death; or, at the
discretion of the court, shall be imprison-
ed not less than five years and fined not
less than $10,000; to be levied on and col-
lected out of any or all of his property,
real and personal, of which he was the
owner at the time of committing such
treason, any sale or conveyance to the
contrary notwithstanding; and every per-
son so convicted of treason shall, more-
over, be incapable of holding any office
under the United States.’
‘“ ‘Section 3—Whoever, owing allegiance
to the United States and having knowledge
of the commission of any treason against
them, conceals and does not, as soon as
may be, disclose and make known the
same to the President or to some judge of
the United States, or to the Governor or
to some judge or justice of a particular
State, is guilty of misprison of treason
and shall be imprisoned not more than
seven years, and fined not more than one
thousand dollars.’
‘“ ‘Section ¢—If two or more persons in
any State or territory, or in any place
subject to the jurisdiction of the United
States, conspire to overthrow, put down,
or to destroy by force the government of
the United States, or to levy war against
them, or to oppose by force the authority
thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder or
delay the execution of any
United States, or by force to seize. take,
or possess any property of the United
States contrary to the authority thereof,
they shall each be fined not more than
: : |
five thousand dollars, or imprisonment not :
more than six years, or both.’
“The courts of the United States have
Stited the following acts to be treasona-
ble:
“The ‘use or attempted use of any force
or violence against the government of the
United States, or its military or naval
forces ;
“The acquisition, use, or disposal of any
property with knowledge that it is to be. !
or with intent that it shall be, of assist-
ance to the enmey in their hostilities
against the United States:
“The performance of any act or the
publication of statements or information
which will give or supply in any way, aia
and comfort to the enemies of the United
States;
“The direction, aiding. counseling, or
countenancing of any. of the foregoing |
acts.
“Such acts are held to be treasonable
whether committed within the United
States or elsewhere: whether committed
by a citizen of the United States or by an
alien domiciled, or residing, in the United |
States, inasmuch as resident aliens, as
well as citizens, owe allegiance to the
United States and its laws.
“Any such citizen or alien who has
knowledge of the commission of such aets
and conceals and does not make known
the facts to the officials named in Section
3 of the Penal Code. is guilty of misprison
of treason.
“And I hereby proclaim and warn all
citizens of the United States and all aliens,
owing allegiance to the government of the
United States to abstain from committing
any and all acts which would constitute
a violation of any of the laws herein set
forth: and I further proclaim and warn
all persons who may commit such aets
that they will be vigorously prosecuted
therefor.
“In witness whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
“Done at the city of Washington, this six-
teenth day of April in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred and sev-
enteen, and of the independence of the
United States of America the one hundred
and forty-first,
WOODROW WILSON.
“By the President,
ROBERT LANSING, Secretary of State.”
State College Gives Campus to U. S.
for Training Camp.
Athletic fields, the 300-acre campus
and the buildings of The Pennsylva-
nia State College have been offered
to the War Department and to the
National Guard of Pennsylvania for
training camps, drill grounds and
such other purposes as may be nec-
essary to bring the wireless telegraph
corps and the field hospital contingent
of the regimental cadets into condi-
tion for immediate field service.
Women of the faculty and the girl
students who have organized a Red
Cross nursing staff, under the direc-
tion of Mrs. E. E. Sparks, wife of the
college president, and an officer of
the Women’s Preparedness League,
are to have free use of the college
buildings and other facilities for their
activities.
For the past three weeks the cadets
of the college regiment have received
instruction in First Aid work. The
staff of the college physicians and
nurses taught the students bandag-
ing, care of wounds, disinfecting, and
all elementary hospital work.
This week the student regiment re-
sumed outdoor drills and maneuvers
after spending the winter in class-
room study of tactics. Five hours
each week will be given to extensive
field practice by the Sophomore com-
panies.
The Flag.
In these days, when the national
spirit is aroused by great and signifi-
cant events, it is natural that our flag,
the symbol of nationality, should re-
ceive much attention. It is displayed
everywhere, by everyone and on all
occasions. Along with this display of
the national colors will naturally
come to the patriotic citizen a desire
to have it treated with respect, and a
consequent interest in the rules es-
tal lished by custom for its use. The
War and Navy Departments have pro-
mulgated such rules and many States
have specific laws for the display of
flags in public places. Some of the
most important follow:
The flag should not be raised before
sunrise and should be lowered at sun-
set. It should not be displayed upon
stormy days or left out over night.
On Memorial day, May 30th, the na-
tional flag should be displayed at half
staff until noon, then hoisted to the
top of the staff, where it remains un-
til sunset. When the flag is formal-
ly raised all present during the cere-
mony should stand at attention with
hand raised to forehead ready for the
salute. The flag should never be al-
lowed to touch the ground in the rais-
ing or lowering of it. The correct
hand salute to the flag is: Standing
at attention, raise the right hand to
forehead over the right eye, palm
downward, fingers extended and close
together, arm at an angle of forty-
five degrees. Move hand outward
about a foot with a quick motion,
then drop to the side. Whenever
“The Star Spangled Banner” is play-
ed, all persons within hearing should
stand uncovered. No advertising of
any sort should ever be placed upon
the flag nor should it ever be used as
a trade mark. When worn as a badge
it should be small and pinned over the
left breast or to the left collar lapel.
The flag should be displayed on the
following national’ anniversaries:
Washington's birthday, Lincoln’s
birthday, Memorial day, Flag day and
Independence day, July 4th.—Roches-
ter Post-Express.
Material for an “Exter.”
An editor in the far west dropped
into church for the first time in many
years. The minister was in the very
heart of the sermon. The editor list-
ened for awhile and then rushed to
his office and shouted:
“What are you fellows doing ? How
about the news from the seat of
war?”
“What news?”
“Why, all this about the Egyptian
army being drowned in the Red sea.
The minister up at the church knows
all about it, and you have not a word
of it in our latest. Bustle round and
get out an extra special edition.”
law of the |
Sending Eggs to United
i China
i States.
| As the average housewife has cor-
‘ rectly surmised, one reason why eggs
{ of late have been so high in price is
‘that the output of the American hen
‘has been largely shipped to the war-
i ring countries abroad.
| Eggs, indeed, would have been very
| much higher but for enormous impor-
{ tations from China. They have been
i coming from that country to the Unit-
i gi States almost literally by the ship-
| load.
Most people are disposed to look
upon the “egg-from-China” story as a
| They do not really believe it
and they would certainly be most
: reluctant to buy eggs which to their
| knowledge had been fetched from
Shanghai or Hongkong.
! Nevertheless, the story is quite true.
i We are even now importing eggs from
| China by the millions of dozens, and
i they are sold in our markets on the
same price basis as the cold-storage
| American eggs which during the last
winter have brought forty to fifty
cents a dozen.
| In China these same eggs are
i bought by the exporting concerns at
{ a rate, ordinarily, of nine for a cent.
i Thus there is a pretty fair profit on
| them.
| There seem to be no reliable figures
on our imports of eggs “in the shell.”
{ But the Department of Commerce
| says that in 1916 we imported from
China more than 7,000,000 pounds of
“preserved eggs”—i. e., the dried
whites. and barreled yolks, for bak-
ers’ use chiefly.
Within the last few years great
“egg-products” plants have been es-
tablished at a number of Chinese sea-
ports, the biggest of them at Shang-
hai, which is at the mouth of the
most important, commercially, of all
Asiatic rivers, the Fangtsekiang.
Agents of the concerns engaged in
this trade invade the far interior of
the country for hundreds and even
thousands of miles, buying eggs by
the millions and forwarding them to
the seaports by trainloads, or more
commonly by boatloads, down the riv-
ers, railroads being rather scarce in
{ China. Some of the eggs from the
nearby farming regions are brought
to the drying concerns by coolies who
carry great baskets of them, 800 in a
basket. .
One plant at Shanghai is described
by an agent of the Department of
Commerce as having a capacity of
100,000 eggs per day. They are brok-
en and the whites separated from the
yolks by women.
The yolks are churned until the flu-
id mass is of a solid color, and then
strained - through wire sieves, borax
: being added as a preservative. The
stuff is next poured into vats, allow-
ed to settle for some days, and skim-
med. It is now ready—of a rich yel-
low hue, slightly thicker than cream
—to be sealed in barrels and shipped.
The whites, similarly churned, are
poured into hogsheads, to ferment—
a process which may take from five
days to two weeks, according to tem-
perature. The contents of the hogs-
heads are then skimmed, a little am-
monia is added, and the fluid is trans-
ferred to shallow pans, which are
placed on tiers of shelves in the evap-
orating room. This room is heated
by worm-flues of brick, the fire being
built outside.
The final product thus obtained is
odorless and perfectly water-free.
Taken from the pans in crinkled
sheets of a clear, transparent amber
hue, it is cooled and packed in air-
tight tins for export.
The Home Gardener.
The Department of Agriculture has
just issued some practical advice on
the preparation of the soil for home
gardens. The Department points out,
that practically all truck crops do
better on a sandy loam soil than on
one that is sticky and heavy. Larger-
sized crops, however, such as cabbage,
tomatoes, beans, and peas, will do
well on heavy soil provided it con-
tains the necessary vegetable matter.
The soil in most backyard gardens is
distinctly heavy. It will help the soil
greatly if the owner works into it a
good amount of finely sifted coal ash-
es free from all cinders. Coal ashes
are used largely for the physical ef-
fect in breaking up a compact, heavy
soil. Such ashes do not take the
place of fertilizer. Plentiful use of
well-rotted manure is still more bene-
ficial in breaking up heavy soil be-
cause this improves the texture and
adds fertilizing material. ,
Many garden soils are sour. To
offset acidity and also to improve the
physical properties of the soil, the
garden specialists recommend the use
of lime. Burnt lime should be ap-
plied at the rate of 1,000 pounds to
the acre, or slaked lime at the rate
of about 1,500 pounds per acre. Three
50 pound bags of hydrated lime from
a building material dealer is about
the right amount for a garden of this
size, and it
form of lime to use. A garden plot
50 by 100 feet is approximately one-
ninth of an acre. To apply the lime,
broadcast it and mix it freely with the
surface soil by harrowing or raking.
Lime should be applied before the
crops are set out or planted and
should not be applied at the same
time that fertilizer or manure is put
on,
Manure will greatly improve land.
If well rotted manure is not availa-
ble it may be advisable to use a com-
plete chemical fertilizer. Apply at
the rate of 800 to 1,000 pounds per
acre a mixture containing 2 to 4 per
cent. nitrogen, 8 per cent. phosphoric
acid, 1 to 2 per cent. potash. The
amateur gardener will find it easier
to use ready-mixed fertilizer, which
dealer.
A Very Small Disease.
French Maid (to inquiring friend)
—~Oui madame is ill, but ze doctaire
haf pronounce it something very tri-
fling, very small. .
Friend—Oh, I am so relieved, for I
was really anxious about her. What
does the doctor say the trouble is?”
French Maid—Let me think! It was
something leetle. Ah, I haf it now.
Ze doctaire say zat madame has ze
small-pox.”—Boston Transcript.
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HERE’S AWAY TO SAVE DOCTOR
BILLS.
Physicians. Give Free Advice by
Which Parents May Profit.
It’s a matter of general interest just
now how one’s physical condition can
be got into shape to best receive the
‘benefits of the summer season. Es-
pecially is this true of the children.
They have become run down by a win-
ter of unnatural manner of living be-
cause of ill-considered food and much
time spent indoors. Spring comes
with its sunshine, its fresh vegetables
and all else invigorating, but the chil-
dren are in no condition to receive na-
‘ture’s remedies.
Many parents call in the family
physician. Many: other parents take
advantage of what the physician told
them when he was first called in con-
sultation. All good family physicians
say: “Give the children Castoria.”
Healthy parents know this remedy of
old, for they took it themselves as
children. It was more than thirty
years ago that Castoria made a place
for itself in the household. It bore
the signature of Charles H. Fletcher
then, as it does to-day. The signa-
ture is its guarantee, which is ac-
cepted in thousands of homes where
there are children.
Much is printed nowadays about big
families. Dr. William J. McCrann, of
Omaha, Neb., is the father of one of
these much-read-about familes. Here
is what he says:
“As the father of thirteen children
I certainly know something about
your great medicine, and aside from
my own family experience I have, in
my years of practice, found Castoria
a popular and efficient remedy in al-
most every home.”
Charles H. Fletcher has received
hundreds of letters from prominent
physicians who have the same esteem
for Castoria that Dr. McCrann has.
Not only do these physicians say they
use Castoria in their own families,
but they prescribe it for their pa-
tients. First of all it is a vegetable
preparation which assimilates the
food and regulates the stomach and
bowels. After eating comes sleeping,
and Castoria looks out for that too.
It allays feverishness and prevents
loss of sleep, and this absolutely
without the use of opium, morphine
or other baneful narcotic.
Medical journals are reluctant to
discuss proprietary medicines. Hall’s
Journal of Health, however, says:
“Our duty is to expose danger and
record the means for advancing
health. The day for poisoning inno-
cent children through greed or igno-
rance ought to end. To our knowl-
edge Castoria is a remedy which pro-
duces composure and health by regu-
lating the system, not by stupefying
it, and our readers.are entitled to the
information.”
Stabilizing Potatoes.
Those who have been hoping that
the high prices for potatoes would
lead to an increased 1917 acreage may
be disappointed, aceording to the crop
|| reports from traveling salesmen of
the American Steel and Wire compa-
ny, who keep in close touch with
farming conditions. Scarcity and high
cost of chemicals to control fungus
diseases, sulphate of copper and cor-
rosive sublimate; scarcity and high
cost of labor; lack of normal potash
fertilizer and unscientific cultivation
combine with uncertainty of future
prices to make the farmer dubious of
potatoes. Yet never has there been
greater need of a bumper crop.
What is needed, here is suggested
by what one of the European nations
does with its potatoes. It raises al-
most four times as many potatoes as
it consumes in table use. It feeds to
cattle nearly half as much again as
used for the table. It uses for alco-
hol, for which we use corn, about one-
fourth as much potatoes as for table
use. For starch, gums and dextrines
it uses 15 times the potatoes we do,
as we, instead, purchase gums and
dextrines from Europe. But most
startling is the fact that it turns its
left overs, a quantity half as large as
our total production, into potato flakes
and potato meal, products that may
be stored and kept for years.
The produce of years of plenty is
made available for lean years and
prices are stabilized. The potato
grower knows about what he can
count upon. Bushel prices last year
are not peck prices this year. What
others have done Americans ought to
be able to do, if we give the subject
the same thought and the same pa-
tience in working = out.—Pittsburgh
Dispatch.
Oleomargarine Ruling on Licensing all
Dealers.
* 'Harrisburg.—Agents of manufac-
turers of oleomargarine must have li-
censes before they can solicit business
in Pennsylvania, even if their orders
are to be filled through a licensed re-
tailer, according to a ruling given
some time ago to James Foust, Dairy
and Food Commissioner, by W. M.
Hargest, Deputy Attorney General.
The question was raised by some
western manufacturers having license
to sell the product in this State and
who desired to send agents here to
obtain orders to be forwarded to re-
tailers for delivery. The manufac-
turers plan to pay all expenses. Mr.
Hargest holds the plan cannot be car-
ried out in Pennsylvania.
“It is within the letter of this stat-
ute to require every agent of a retail
dealer to obtain a license before offer-
ing oleomargarine for sale. This con-
struction, however, may not be with-
in its spirit, but it is certainly with-
in both the letter and the spirit to re-
quire an agent of the manufacturer
who holds a wholesale license to take
out a license before he shall be per-
mitted to offer oleomargarine at re-
tail. Nothing said in this opinion is
intended to apply to agents of licens-
ed wholesale dealers who take orders
for oleomargarine to be sent directly
to and filled by said licensed dealers.”
’ Hard Times.
“Just tired of him, eh?” asked the
lawyer. The actress nodded.
“Well, I wouldn’t advise you to sue
at this time. The war is crowding
SySvilung else off the front pages.”
—Puck.
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