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Bema Nite
Bellefonte, Pa., February 14, 1919.
The Lode Tree Sentinel:
or, Ghosts on the
Firing Line
By
Sergeant Arthur Guy
Empey
Author of “Over the Top,”
“First Call,” Etc.
Oo-0-C
Mr. Empey’s Experi-
ences During HisSeven-
teen Monthsin theFirst
Line Trenches of the
British Army in France
ht, 1917, by The McClure Newspaper
(Copyright, by Ie Ns
One sunny afternoon our gun's crew
was sitting on the fire step of a front-
line trench, just in front of Gomme- |
court wood. i
Happy Houghton was busily engaged |
in rigging up a flash screen to hide the |
flare of our gun, which we were to !
mount on the parapet that night. |
Sailor Bill was sewing a piece of |
khaki cloth over his tin hat, because |
the night previous, while on sentry |
£0, standing in the moonlight, with his |
head over the top the rays from the |
moon had reflected from his steel hel-
met and a couple of German bullets |
had knocked up the dirt within a few
feet of his head.
As was usual with him, Hungry Fox- |
craft was wrestling with a tin of bully |
beef, while “Curly” Wallace was hunt-
ing for cooties. i
Ikey Honney, with our mascot, Jim,
was sitting on the fire-step, his back
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Bending Double Under the Weight of
the Ammunition.
leaning against the traverse of the fire- i
bay, picking mud out of his harmonica |
with a sliver of wood. Jim seemed |
happy and contented, not knowing the
fate in store for him. Two days later
poor Jim was killed by a German bul- |
let and we buried him behind the lines, '
placing a little wooden cross at the
head of his grave. After working a
few minutes at the harmonica, Ikey
would pause, put it to his lips and |
blow into it; a squeaky, rattly noise
resulting. Then, with a deep sigh, he
would resume the picking process. :
I had just finished a letter home and !
was sighing for the time to come when
once again I would be able to say “hel- |
10” to the old girl with the lamp in her
right band guarding New York har-
bor.
Although it was warm and sunny,
the floor of the trench was about three
inches deep in soft, sticky mud.
On my right I hegrd a low mutter-
ing and a splashing in the mud, and
around the traverse, into our firebay,
carrying a box of ammunition on his
shoulder, came the most weird-looking
soldier I had ever seen. As he passed
in front of me he turned his gaze in
my direction and a cold shiver seemed
to run up and down my spine as I
looked into his eyes. They were un-
canny; a sort of vacant stare, as if the
owner of them was looking into the
Great Beyond. As this soldier stag-
gered through the fire-bay, almost bend-
ing double under the weight of the
ammunition and passed from view
around ue traverse, it seemed to me
as if the Grim Reaper ha“ alked
througi.
Shuddering a little, I instinctively
turned my eyes in the direction of the
rest of the crew. They were also
staring at the traverse around which
the gleomy-looking soldier had dis-
appearea.
My heart sank to zero and I had a
sinking sensation in the region of my
stomach, and on the parados in front
of me, like a moving picture on a
screen, flashed a cemetery, dotted all
over with little wooden crosses. I felt
queer and uneasy.
Curly Wallace, in a low, half-fright-
ened voice, exclaimed:
“Blime me, that was ’Aunted Jerry's
brother, the one who clicked it by the
old lone tree. If you blokes want to
get the creeps you ought to ‘ear ‘im
talk. Some o’ the fellows claim that
it's unlucky to get 'im started. They
sye that one 0’ 'is ’earers is sure to
click in within a few days’ time, but
if you fellows want to tyke the
chance, I'll go over to ‘is section, which
is occupying the second firebay on our
left, and see if I can get 'im to tell
| up gainst the skyline at night.
! back to
| ¥' know, out there in the blackness
us about ’is brother. But, now mind,
this fellow is a little balmy in ‘is nap-
per, so don’t myke fun of ’im.”
I confess that I was glad to be rid
of him, but my curiosity overcame my
fears, so I asked Curly to go ahead.
The rest of the crew weakly assented.
and Curly went after Jerry's brother.
In about twenty minutes he returned :
with him. Jerry’s brother came over
and sat on the firestep next to me. He
sat silent for a few minutes, and then,
in a thick, piping, high-pitched voice
spoke:
“So you want to ’ear about Jerry, do |
you? They called him ¢’Aunted Jerry,’
but he weren’t ’aunted; he could just
see—’e could see into the future;
could sort o’ tell what was agoin’ to
’appen. ’E could talk to the dead,
and they told ’im. °'E always ’ad
spirits around ’im—ghosts, you call
‘em, but there ain’t no such thing as
| ghosts — they're souls awanderin’
around; they're about us now”—
slowly eased down the firestep away
from him.
“Jerry used to talk to the dead; ’e
would sit in a cemetery at night while
in rest billets, and receive messages
from them what can't speak no more.
“Sometimes, 1yte at night, T can ‘ear
| far aw’y, voices callin’ to me, but as
yet cawn’t understand ’em, but I will
—I will.”
My blood began to curdle.
Curly Wallace, placing his hand on
the speaker’s knee, softly said:
“Righto, mate, we know you can
see far beyond us, but tell us of ’Aunt-
ed Jerry and the pome ’e wrote the
day before ’e clicked it at the lone
tree.”
Jerry’s brother nodded in a compre- |
hending way, and reaching into the !
pocket of his tunic drew out a creased
and muddy piece of paper, which he
opened out upon his knee, and then, in
an unnatural, singsong voice, which
sent shivers through us, recited the |
following poem:
Between the lines, In No Man’s Land,
With foliage gone, and trunk that’s
torn,
A lonely sentry takes his stand,
Silently watching from morn to morn.
On starlit nights, when moon is bright,
And spreads {its rays of ghostlike
beams;
Against the sky, that tree of blight
A ghastly hangman's gibbet seems.
When night is black, and wind’s faint
sigh
Through its shelltorn branches moans,
A call to men, “To die, to die!”
They answer it with groans and groans,
But obey the call, for “more and more,”
And Death sits by and grins and grins,
And watches the fast-growing score,
The harvest of his sentry’s whims.
There they lie huddled, friend and foe,
Ghastly heaps, English, Hun and
French—
And still those piles forever grow,
They are fed by the “Men of the
Trench.”
No wooden cross to mark their fall,
No tombstone theirs, no carven rocks,
Just the Lone Tree with its grim call,
‘Which forever mocks and mocks.
When Jerry’s brother had finished,
a dead silence ensued.
lighted a fag, and out of the corner
of my eye noticed that Sailor Bill was
uneasily squirming on the firestep.
Letting out a sigh, which seemed to
whistle between his teeth, our “guest”
carried on:
“Jerry weren't much at cheerful
writing, because ’e ad a calling.
! Even back ‘ome in Blighty, ’e weren’t
much for lights nor fun.
'E took af-
ter our mother. The neighbors called
er 'aunted, too, but she weren't. She
{ could see things, like Jerry.
“This ‘ere lone tree sentinel Jerry
writes about was an old tree in No
{ Man's land, about a 'undred yards from
| our front-line trench.
+ well knocked about by bullets and
. shell fragments. It made a pretty good
It was pretty
guide post, stickin’ sort o’ lonely like
Re-
connoitering patrols and bombing pare
ties used it to show ’em the w'ye
their trenches, because,
it’s easy to lose your w’ye, unless
you ’ave spirits a-guidin’ you.
“Lots of times English and German
patrols would meet near the lone
tree, and many a ’and-to-’and fight
would tyke place around its roots.
“At that part o’ the line it were
pretty ’ot, what with the rifle and ma-
chine-gun firing. The only time there
would be a lull in the firing was when
3 reconnoitering patrol was out in
front, and then, as you know, you
couldn’t fire for fear of a ’itting your
own blokes. All around the lone tree
were scattered many bodies, mostly
English and German. Some of ’em
sa been a-lyin’ there for weeks, and
when the wind were a-blowin’ from the
German lines towards us it were sort
of unpleasant in our front line.
“Every time the captain would call
for soldiers for a reconnoitering pa-
trol, ’Avnted Jerry, as you call ’im,
always pat ’is bloomin’ nyme on the
list. It got so that after a while ’e
never asked if ’e wanted to go; the
captain would just naturally put ‘is
uyme down as agoin’.
“In our dugout, Jerry would tell me
‘ow many dead were around the tree.
'Ow ’e could count ’em in the dark, I
don’t know, but ’e could see—'e could
Bee. :
“Sometimes in the daytime ‘e would
rig up a periscope on 'is own, and sit
on the firestep for hours alookin’ out
in No Man's land at the lone tree,
and the bodies around it. This sort
0’ got on our captain’s nerves, and
‘e gave Jerry orders not to use a peri-
scope. After this order Jerry used to
sit off by ‘’imself on the firestep
8 musin’ and a musin’! The other
blokes laughed at ’'im, but I kuew
what he were adoin’—'e were atalkin’
to the spirit of the lone tree.
“Then 'e got sort o’ reckless, and be-
cause it were against orders for 'im to
use a periscope, ’'e used to, in. the
I nervously .
| bloomin’ daytime, stick ’is ‘ead over
! the top and gaze in the direction of the
| lone tree. Bullets from German snipers
! would kick up the dirt and tear the
| sandbags all around ’im, but none o®
| ’em ever ’it im. No bullet ever myde
could kfll ’Auvnted Jerry, as you call
im,
i
| would pull ’im down off the firestep.
|
! life, but Jerry weren’t afraid from bul-
| lets. 'E knew, and so did I, that they
couldn’t arm ’im. Then our captain—
| doctors, to send 'im to Blighty. Jerry
| was told about this the night before
|e was to leave. 'E was greatly upset,
| and did nothin’ but talk to the spirits
| —the air was full of ’em—I could ‘ear
| their voices, too.
! “That night about ten o'clock Jerry
| was missed. The next morning ’e was
| still a-missin’. For two days nothin’
Irish Rifles took over a sector of
trench on our right. A lot of our
blokes told
and I described Jerry to ’em, but I
weren't afraid for Jerry--I knew
where ‘e was—’e were with ’is spirits.
“That night an Irish patrol went out
and when they returned they brought
a body with them; said they'd found
i it at the foot o’ the lone tree. It were |
i Jerry, all right, but ’e weren't ’it no- |
. where. Two bloomin’ doctors exam-
, ined ’im, lookin’ for wounds.
tain—'e ’ad brains,
sponsible for ’is death.
i
| answer its call. 'E answered it, and
| now ’e’s with the spirits ’e loved, and
' some time I'll be able to talk to ‘im.
’E’s with ‘em, all right, I know—I
i know.”
Just then Jim started to whimper;
I guess if the truth were known, we all
| felt like whimpering.
| Without another word, Jerry's broth-
| er got up, and, muttering to himself,
i passed out of sight around the trav-
erse. As he disappeared from view,
Sailor Bill exclaimed :
“Blawst my deadlights, but if =a
bloke like that ever slipped in the
i navy, in a fortnight’s time ’e would
bloomin’ well be an admiral, because
| ’e would be the only one left in the
. blinkin’ navy. Gives me the proper
I creeps. ‘Ow in ‘ell ’is company stands
for ’im I don’t know. 'Ow about it,
i Curly—why ‘’asn’t ’e been sent to
Blighty as balmy?”
I “TN tell you, Bill,” answered Curly.
“This bloke only gets these fits occa-
sionally "E's a d——d goed soldier—
always on the job, and next te Cor-
poral French and his brother ’Aunted
Jerry, ’e’s the best scout for work
in No Man’s land that’s ever put a
foot in these blinkin’ ditches. It’s only
lately that ’e’s been ‘aving these spells
so often, and yesterday the sergeant
major told me that ’e was under ob-
servation and that it would only be a
i short time before ’e was shipped
: back.”
| “Is it a fact, Curly,” asked Happy,
“that this ’Aunted Jerry crawled out
there the way his brother says, and
that he was found dead without
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Brought in the Bleeding Body of Jim.
wound on him? If it’s so, he must
have bad a bloody poor heart and died
that way.”
Curly answered: “It sure is so, be-
cause I got it from a leftenant in
Aunted Jerry's section.”
Jim was still whimpering,
on Ikey . ri>rves; he gave hi
cuff on the side of the head. This
was the first time a hand had been
raised against Jim since he had joined
us months back. He gave Ikey a pite-
ous lodk, and sticking his stump of a
tail between his legs disappeared from
the fire bay. Two days later Ikey
made up for that slap, because at the
risk of his life, during an attack, he
raced into No Man's land under heavy
fire and brought in the bleeding body
of Jim.
All afternoon we tried to be as
cheerful as possible, but our merri-
ment was very artificial. Every laugh
seemed forced and strained. Haunt-
ed Jerry had sure put the “kibosh”
on us.
That night Curly, Happy and I were
on watch from ten to twelve, and, be-
lieve me, we never spent a worse two
hours in our lives. There was not a
word spoken among us. I was think-
Ing of Haunted Jerry, and no doubt
the other two were doing likewise.
A few days later Jerry's brother
was sent back to Blighty, and no
doubt right now is in some insane asy-
lum in Blighty communicating with
Haunted Jerry and his spirits,
This got
sharn
“The rest o’ the blokes in the trench |
They thought they were a-savin’ his |
'e ’ad brains, ’e ’ad—said that Jerry :
i was balmy, and gave orders to the ser- |
| geant major to tyke ’im back to the |
was ’eard of Jerry. Then the Royal | Twelve men were chosen, all ball |
’em about Jerry bein’ |
missin’. A few of ’em got around me, i
‘E was | gymnasium and each threw three tri- |
: dead, all right, and that bloomin’ cap- ; al throws without keeping score, and |
’e ’ad-—was re- |
’E ’ad tried to |
tyke Jerry aw’y from ‘is spirits, 80 |
| Jerry crawled out to the lone tree to |
; The Effects of Smoking on Accuracy
in Baseball Pitching.
Some time ago the Young Men's
Christian Association College, of
| Springfield, Mass., had tests made to
| determine the effects of smoking up-
on the heart rate and blood pressure.
They revealed that the smoking of a
single cigar by smokers and by non-
smokers alike, increased the heart
| rate, and made the individual un-
! steady in writing and less accurate in
lunging at a target. An additional
test has been made which adds to our
knowledge of the effects of smoking
upon the nervous system.
Baseball
ized
| exercise.
It requires accuracy, self-
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Nothing finer has come out of the war
than this line from an epitaph in a Brit-
ish graveyard in France: “For your to-
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morrow they gave their today." —London
Truth.
Fortunately the silhouette for |
spring will not be radically different
from that of the garment with which
milady has already stocked her ward-
robe. This means that some of the
light-weight suits of winter and some |
of the frocks which have been worn
under winter toppers can be used for
| pitching is a highly organ- ,
and intricate form of muscular |
: control and prompt response of the !
i muscles to the will.
| therefore, to make a study of the ef-
It was decided,
i fects of smoking upon accuracy in |
| baseball pitching. These tests were |
| held at Springfield College,
under
Prof. Barry’s direction, and recorded '
| by William A. Lang, a Senior student
| who reported the study in his thesis. |
Three types of tests were taken. |
i players, upon whom the experiments
| were made. Some were smokers,
others non-smokers.
In test “A” the following proced-
ure was followed: The men arrived
at the gymnasium at 6:30 p. m. Three
trial throws were made by each man
at a target 60 feet, 6 inches distance.
The results were not recorded. This
| was done simply to warm up. Then
' ten throws were made by each man,
the results being recorded. Then they
| retired to a special room, smoked one
| cigar for which 30 minutes were al-
| lowed. Then the men returned to the
then ten throws which were recorded.
The target was five feet square, the
bull’s eye 1 foot in diameter, the cir-
I cles six inches in diameter. Five
| points were scored if the ball hit the
bull’s eye, four points if the ball hit
; the inner circle, three points if the
ball hit the middle circle, one point if
| the ball hit outside the outer circle.
Text “B” was the same except that |
| the three warming up tests were not
| taken, and 2 cigars were smoked in |
| sixty minutes.
In test “C” the method was the
same as in test “A” except that no
smoking was done during the 30 min-
ute intervals.
Here is the following tests of sev-
en men:
Totals
Name Before After
MPA. a a an hl 21 26
Mr. B 29 33
: 3 20
30
28
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Not Know Where Term ‘Electric-
ity’ Originated.
_ Millions of people of today who are
ly do not know where the term elec-
tricity originated, and how people
came to use the word universally to
signify that power which performs
{all the myriad wonders that we see
| daily all about us.
From Elektron, the Greek name for
amber, is derived the word electricity,
which is now extended to signify not
| ies with silk, fur, ete., but other pow-
| ers connected with it, in whatever
| bodies they may be communicated.
The attractive nature of electrified
amber is occasionally mentioned by
Pliny and other later naturalists; par-
ticularly by Gassendus, Kenelm, Dig-
by and Sir Thomas Brown.
Very exhaustive experiments have
been carried out by William Gilbert,
a native of Colchester, and a physi-
cian at London, who, in his excelient
Latin treatise, “De Maguete,” pub-
lished in the year 1600, relates a great
variety of electrical exneriments,
which were allied in nature to the
properties by amber. He has disclos-
ed several of the substances which
had these peculiar properties of at-
tracting light bodies when agitated
by a material.
Amber was used by the ancient
world as a jewel for decoration, re-
lates the Electrical Experimenter.
Its color and luster reminded the fan-
ciful Greeks of the virgin gold which
glistened in the hands of Pactolus:
even as the brilliant metal itself had
recalled to them the yellow sunshine.
Afterward they applied the same
name to the compounds of metals,
which, when burnished, have a gold-
en glow. They were all children of
the sun Elector-reflecting in minia-
ture its radiance. Thus in common
with native gold and the silver-gold
alloys, the amber, in Hellenic speech,
came to be called “Elektron.”
ORVISTON.
Mrs. George Bixel is feeling much
better.
Lieut. Hume was home from Lock
Haven for a few day’s visit with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Hume.
The young friends of George Moyer
gave him a big surprise on February
4th. An enjoyable evening was spent
but the scribe was unable to get all
the names of those present.
Mr. L. Neff was over from How-
ard, Thursday, to install the members
in our local P. O. of A. Refreshments
and general jollity followed the regu-
lar business meeting. Mrs. John
Hume and Carrol Brown told laugh-
able stories and kept the rest holding
their sides. Every one was willing to
have it all over.
Ward Keller has a dandy little en-
gine that he intends using at the Cen-
ter Brick and Clay works, removing
the coal from the cars. It is a 4-horse
power and runs with kerosene. He is
quite enthusiastic over his venture
and thinks, as others do, it will prove
a decided success and eliminate a lot
of hard work.
Taught to Repress Emotion.
Until late years the repression of
any appearance of a strong emotion
was carefully drilled into the mind
and life of every Japanese child of
the better class. There is much more
freedom now than formerly, but the
influence of past training is seen
everywhere—in art, in literature, on
the stage and in the customs of daily
life. Artists paint the autumn moon,
which every Japanese adores, but
wrap the brilliant disk within a veil
of cloud.—Ex.
living in an electrical age undoubted-,
‘row hem of the skirt.
the beginning of the spring season
without any danger of making the
wearer look passe.
With the exception of the top-coats
the usual garment outline will be flat
and tapering, now and then broken by
what is now designated as the “re-
strained” tunic, that is, a tunic of
scant fullness which does not materi-
ally change the silhouette.
case of a frock this tunic is sometimes
a continuation of the bodice and in
the instance of the suit it is, of course, |
an attached portion of the skirt.
The skirts of both frocks and suits
are at all times quite scant, rarely
being wider than a yard and a half
and often narrower. A very slight
fullness of the hips,
i however,
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FARM NOTES.
—One or two bran mashes a week
for the horses that are being winter-
ed largely on straw and cornstalks is
good, cheap health insurance.
—Stable manure or other fresh or-
ganic matter should not be consider-
‘ed in the home-mixing of fertilizers.
Manure in itself is a complete fertil-
izer, but a poorly balanced one.
—A temperature of 90 degrees F.
is the best for separation. If milk is
cold when separated, there is too much
loss of fat. If the milk becomes cold
it may be warmed by placing the ean
of milk in hot water. It is preferable,
to separate the milk soon
after it is drawn and before it be-
! comes cold.
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however, prevents |
that upper tightness which was so un- |
graceful in the skirts of several sea-
sons ago. When the skirt is slashed,
the opening is usually concealed by
close-hanging panels or flat drapery
which scarcely breaks the silhouette making a trip around the world, de-
chaste line.
follows the natural figure line, the on- |
ly extreme feature of it being the nar-
Shoulder lines
—Horses should not be confir 2d to
the barn during the winter on a liber-
al supply of grain. It is far better to
“rough” them through the cold
months. They should be given the
run of the yard or lot during the day.
In the | This should be provided with a pro-
tected shed, dry and well provided
with bedding.
—DMending grain bags is a job the
farmer usually dreads. An easier and
better method than the common way
is to spread cold flour paste on the
patch, put the patch inside the bag, lay
a piece of brown paper over the hole,
and press the patch with a hot iron.
If pepper is put in the paste, mice will
stay away. The pressure of the grain
in the bag tends to hold the patch in-
: stead of pushing it off.
—A Kentucky horseman, while
| termined to find the equivalent of the
On the whole the spring silhouette |
English “whoa” in every country he
visited. He was surprised to learn
| that the Russian, the Persian, the
are normal and sleeves follow the out- |
line of the arm until th 1b is |
Fi Show is same word, “whoa,” and that the word
{ was equally intelligible to horses of
reached, where they widen into kimo-
no or bell shapes.
Suits are both belted and unbelted, !
many short box coats being perdict-
ed. Belted styles usually have a nor-
mal waistline. Waists have both nor-
mal and long waistlines, while yet
i others have no waistline defined at all.
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{only its power of attracting light bod- !
There is a noticeable combining of
the Directoire and the Moyen Age
lines in one garment, especially in the
stunning coat frocks which will be so
fashionable for spring street wear.
Conservative blouses have the
three-quarter-length sleeve in the new
models. French blue, league blue,
bisque and beige, gray sunset and pas-
tel shades of blouse are called for.
ee blue and bisque are the most pop-
ular.
With back panels reaching to the
knees, forming a skeleton coat, and
the one-piece dress from a popular
three-piece costume.
Southern resorts are showing some
smart black and white checked suits,
with long lines.
For the separate skirt the wrapped |
effect seems to be the most popular.
A New Note.—The new trimming
of looped crocheted chains to take the
place of fringe.
Overblouses appear in increasing
numbers, the shorter length being the
most popular.
Bell sleeves are used in the better
grade of merchandise.
Some suit men predict the blouse
coat to be popular for the spring sea-
son.
Hat Lore.—Taffeta hats are the
smart note at Palm Beach.
Straw hats in henna are being worn
considerably now.
Silk and crepe hats, trimmed with
straw braid, are seen very often on
smartly-dressed women.
Large hats are predicted for the
younger set. ’
Bright colors will predominate.
Elongated sailors, with navy blue
rough straw brims, underfaced with
satin and softly draped blue satin
crown, trimmed with a long flat bow
on the right side of the brim, extend-
ing a little beyond at the front and
back brims, is seen occasionally dis-
played.
Shades of brown are the leading
color at the moment. Black, too, adds
to the effect by the woman who has a
severely plain suit or a black and
white checked suit.
It is a constant puzzle and an an-
noyance to many women that while
they have fine textured and pretty
skin upon their faces the skin upon
the rest of the body is unbeautiful.
Frequently the pores of the skin are
large and there is even at times a
slight irritation and redness that is
most unpleasant and disfiguring. If
they but knew it, cool baths will often
solve the problem. The skin of the
face is kept in condition by the fre-
quent washings in cold wate, and you
will find that the cool ba... will con-
tract the large pores of the skin upon
the rest of the body in much the same
fashion, and in a month’s time you
will find a great improvement.
Of course, the cool baths must agree
with one, or more harm than good
will be done. Best begin them while
the weather is warm or by regulating
the temperature of the water with hot
water during the cooler weather and
decreasing the amount of hot water
until very little, if any, is used. Be-
sides closing the pores of the skin, the
cool morning bath will send the blood
racing through the veins so that it
will carry off the impurities and so
leave the surface of the skin clear.
The cool bath should last but about a
minute, just long enough to get into
the tub, dash or spray the water over
one and jump out. A vigorous rub-
down with a turkish towel should fol-
low, and then a minute or two at least
of exercise. If you know of no partic-
ular exercises that you care to try, a
little bit of old-fashioned jigging and
kicking will get you into a glow, and
you will generate “pep” for the day.
If you wish to make puff pastry
very flaky you brush it over with
white of egg each time it is rolled.
The white of egg should be _ very
slightly beaten and should be lightly
brushed over the pastry when it is
rolled out; you then fold it in uiiree,
and roll out again, brush over again
with white of egg; repeat this the re-
quired number of times, which is gen-
erally seven folds and rolls.
| allowed on country roads.
Turk, the Greek, the Chinaman and
the inhabitant of every European
country stopped his horse with the
every nationality.
—At present high price of dairy
cows it is an advantage both to pro-
ducer and buyer to buy or sell cows
with records. The buyer does not hes-
itate to pay the price if records can
be shown to justify. It is a mistake
for any one to pay over $75 for a cow,
grade or pure-bred, unless the records
behind her warrant the price. Don’t
count altogether on looks, investigate
past records as well. The butterfat
production tells the tale.
—Oat straw gave nearly as good
results in feeding horses at light work
as timothy hay, was the conclusion of
an experiment at the Missouri Experi-
ment Station. In each case 1400-
pound horses were fed 15 pounds corn
and cobmeal and two-thirds pounds
oilmeal daily. At the North Dakota
Experiment Station it was found that
horses when fed oats or bran and
shorts needed about a fourth more
grain feed when fed oat straw than
when given upland prairie hay.
—Excessive loads placed on wag-
ons with narrow tires are exception-
ally bad for any road. Tractors us-
ing wheels upon which are cleats, or
anything that will cut through or in-
jure the road surface, should never be
Disc har-
rows, and in fact any cultivating tool,
should be kept off the road. If it is
necessary to move them along the
road, place them upon a drag, stone
boat, or haul them to the field on a
wagon. If dragged over the road,
they will scar the road badly, break
| through the surface and start disin-
tegration. No road is in such poor
Sons as to warrant abuse of this
ind.
—Authorities on pork production
say that a pig should never see his
own birthday; or, in other words, he
should be so fed as to go to market
before he becomes a year old. The
sooner a pig “makes a hog of itself”
the better for the owner. When ac-
count is taken of the saving of labor
and the reducing of loss from disease
by marketing animals at seven to nihe
months of age, instead of keeping
them for a year or more, the advan-
tage is almost always with the more
rapid growth. The self-feeder sys-
tem which permits hogs to eat grain
at will either in pastures or dry lots,
is becoming more and more popular in
the corn-belt States. Likewise the
practice of hogging down crops. The
idea many farmers have, and it is a
good one, is to get a hog onto mar-
ket as quickly as possible and with
the least possible outlay for labor.
—The most satisfactory method of
applying all kinds of fertilizers has
not been worked out as yet. This is
especially true of the quick-acting
fertilizers, like nitrate of soda. Ni-
trate of soda is so soluble that it
makes little difference whether it is
applied on the surface of the ground
or worked into the soil or put into the
row with the crop. It is largely a
matter of convenience in applying
rather than the superiority of one
method over another. It should be
borne in mind, however, that when
plants are small, nitrate of soda
should be applied near the plant, in
order that the plant may get hold of
it and prevent it from being wasted.
Of course, this only applies to culti-
vated crops planted with drills. After
the plants have attained good size,
and the roots have occupied the
ground pretty fully, nitrate can be
applied broadcast with little chance
of its wasting.
—Wheatless Ration for Hens.—A
dry mash, egg ration, as worked out
by poultrymen at the Ohio station,
is made up of ground corn two parts,
bran one part, and meat scrap two
parts. This mash when fed in con-
nection with a grain mixture of corn
and wheat gave an” average annual
production of 140 eggs per hen. Oth-
er mashes made up of the same ma-
terials but in different proportions
have not proven satisfactory as laying
rations for hens. When a large
amount of meat scrap was used in
the ration fewer eggs were produced
than when a medium amount was fed;
similarly, when only a small amount
of meat scrap figured in the ration,
the egg production was unsatisfacto-
ry. From the entire experiment the
poultrymen have decided that a sat-
isfactory ration for egg production
should contain 12 per cent. of meat
scrap, but wheat is not necessary for
laying hens if the proper proportion
of corn, bran and meat scrap is main-
| tained.