Bellefonte, Pa., August 1, 1919.
SS ————
I CAN AND I WILL.
I can, and I will—
Though the road be uphill,
And I may have to pause
On my way up the hill—
Yet if others have made it
I can, and I will.
I can, and I will—
Though at first the long hill
Seems to grow, as I go,
With each step up the hill.
Still, if others have made it,
I can, and I will.
I can, and I will—
Blaze my way up the hill,
What though thorn-brush and brier
Block my way up the hill.
What others have done, sir,
I can, and I will.
I can, and I will—
See the lights on the hill.
There are beautiful sunsets,
Where clouds meet the hill.
If others have seen them,
I can, and I will.
1 can, and I will—
Give a lift up the hill
To the chap who seems skidding
Right back down the hill,
And together we'll make it—
We can, and we will.
—By Idella Campbell Betts.
A DOUBLE RESCUE.
Sixty years shooting and spearing
the barge was a profitable and pleas-
ant pastime along the middle reaches
of the Rio Grande. That huge cat-
fish, which is now very scarce, was
then abundant. In high water the
fishes straggled up the river, and in
the season of drought went back to
the lower river into deeper waters.
During the downward run they often
had to pass through stretches of shal-
low water, and there the fishermen,
armed with spears or guns, made
great killings.
Spearing fish that weighed from
thirty to sixty pounds was exciting
sport, and the young people on the
ranch of my great-uncle, Timothy
Welles, never though of letting a year
go by without having their share of
it.
On one of those occasions Frank
and Tim Jr., Ruth and Cary, and little
Ellice and Billy camped at the mouth
of an arroyo where there had been an
old tow-rope ferry across the river.
An Indian and Mexican trading post,
long since abandoned, stood on the
barren sands within the gap. The
windows and doors had been boarded
up, but planks were gone from two of
the windows. The counters of the old
sales-room were piled against the
wide shelves on one side. The rear
end of the storage room was heaped
with boxes, barrels and worthless
goods. The young people had dinner
some fifty yards in front of that lone-
ly building. Then all went down to
the river shallows, where they spent
an exciting afternoon.
By five o'clock they had caught
enough fish, and Frank and Ruth
went to get the horses, which they
had picketed on bottom grass half a
mile down the river. The smaller
children were at play. Tim had hung
the last of the big fish on an old fer-
ry post, and Cary was watching him
as he deftly skinned it. At that mo-
ment seven-year-old Ellice came run-
ning up. :
“Oh, Billy’ll get bit!” she cried.
“A dog jumped through that old store
window, and Billy got in, and he’s
playin’ with the dog’s puppy, and the
Jdog’s growling, and Billy won't mind
at all!”
Now Tim and Cary knew that there
was no dwelling and probably no dog
within several miles. Tim sprang to
his feet, caught up his fish gun—an
army musket—and, with Cary at his
heels, ran at full speed for the old
shack. Peering in at the window be-
side the planked-up door, he saw Bil-
ly sitting on the floor of the storage
room, which opened from the front
room, with a small animal in his
arms.
From behind the pile of old boxes
at the rear of the storage room came
a catlike snarling. Tim immediately
jumped to the conclusion that one of
the lynxes of the chaparral had made
her lair in that old room. The crea-
tures were useful in destroyng the
overplus of prairie dogs and were,
he knew, usually harmless.
“It’s just a bobcat!” he called to
the girls. “I’ll go round to the back
room and pull Billy out.”
Leaning his gun against the side of
the house, he ran round the corner of
the building. Billy had seemed to be
sitting near enough to the storage-
room window to be within arm’s
reach from the outside. As Tim pass-
ed round to the rear he heard the dis-
tant, plaintive miaow! of a kitten in
the chaparral. The old cat, he decid-
ed, must have been disturbed by the
unusual racket of the campers and
had been moving her children when
Billy had interfered. As for five-
year-old Billy, he knew no fear; he
had heard too many growls from bad-
gered dogs and house cats to be dis-
turbed by hidden threats from the
boxes in the store-room. As Tim
thrust in his head at the rear window,
he saw a blunt, furry muzzle with-
draw into a darkened space behind a
heap of old skins and packing.
The boy should have realized that
there was a beast larger than a bob-
cat in the room, for, as he thrust his |
arm in after Billy, there sounded the
pat! pat! of a lashing tail and the
rumble of a deep growling. But he
had only spent his school vacations
on the Rio Grande range, and the on-
ly wildcats that he had seen were the
frowzy lynxes so plentiful among the
bluffs and arroyos.
Billy, who was just beyond the
reach of Tim’s arm, fearing that he
was to be robbed of his tiny captive,
scrambled to his feet, ran into the
front room and dodging under the
leaning counters, crawled back be-
neath the shelves.
Billy’s action was so characteristic
of him that Cary at the front window,
and Tim, as he crawled inside and
came through into the larger room,
laughed heartily. The kitten’s meth-
er seemed awed by the presence of so
many human beings, for she remain-
ed silent.
“Ill get you now,
you rascall”!
said Tim as he reached under the
counter.
But Billy was again beyond arm’s
length, and Tim had to thrust an old
bench aside before he could make
another grab at him. That time
Tim's fingers missed the little fel-
low’s arm, but closed upon the kitten,
which squalled dolefully as he pulled
it away from Billy.
“Now, buddy, come out if you
want your kitty,” said Tim coaxingly.
At that instant Cary, at the win-
dow, saw a big, spotted, black-and-
tawny beast leap into the open space
of the storage room and stand, with
bristling hair and bared teeth, peer-
ing into the front room.
Sccarcely knowing what she did,
Cary sprang in at the window and
ran to Tim, who was again reaching
under the counter for Billy.
“Tim!” she cried. “Give me Billy,
quick!”
There was a deep, rumbling growl
at the entrance to the other room, and
the old beast leaped upon the stoop-
ing girl.
Tim, scrambling after Billy, heard
the rattling growl, the swift attack,
and Cary’s fall as she was flung upon
the floor. Scrambling hastily from
under the counter, he sprang to his
feet. As he did so the jaguar, four
steps away, rose with her forepaws
on the prostrate girl’s shoulders and
snarled at him. Cary had fallen with
her face buried in her arms and was
apparently unhurt, although her dress
and belt were torn. The animal had
evidently but one object—to get her
kitten.
Shouting fiercely, Tim flourished
his arms at the beast. The jaguar
answered by crouching low and growl-
ing savagely. Tim stepped slowly
backward, casting an eye on either
side for anything that might serve
him as a weapon. But there was
nothing, not a stick, or a piece of
broken furniture. Turning his gaze
again to the beast, he saw that she
had put a foot across the motionless
girl as if she were crouching to
spring; but he noticed quickly that
her eyes were fixed upon his feet.
Glaneéing down, he saw a little be-
hind him the jaguar kitten curled up
on its back where he had dropped it.
No longer petted and soothed, the ti-
ny creature was putting up its paws
in a puny show of defense.
Tim’s brain worked swiftly. The
jaguar wanted only her kitten. If
she had it, she would no doubt try to
escape if a way were left open. Tim
would have stepped to one side, in or-
der to let the beast get to her young;
but he feared that she might flee to
the rear, where Ellice stood by the
store-room window, screaming fran-
tically. Instantly he determined to
toss the tiny beast with his foot to
the opposite wall and, when the dam
sprang after it, to leap toward Cary
and the entrance to the store-room.
Thus he would leave the way open to
the front.
Not daring to take his eyes from
the beast, which was creeping inch by
inch toward him, he tried to step
slowly backward and over the kitten,
but he miscalculated, and his heel
brushed against the tiny creature’s
upturned paws. It rolled over and
began to erawl away on wabbling
legs. Should he risk snatching it up
and tossing it across the room?
Glancing beyond the jaguar, he saw
that Cary had lifted her face and was
gazing, white with fear, upon the
cautioned her not to move, and in the
same breath he warned Billy to make
no noise and not to stir. And then he
heard Ellice crying distractedly at the
front window! She had suddenly run
around to the front of the shack.
One hasty glance showed him the
kitten wabbling toward Ellice. The
mother was scarcely three steps in
front of him, snarling savagely now,
and advancing inch by inch, with her
eyes still glued on her kitten.
There was nothing he could do ex-
cept to back slowly away toward the
front window and to get the musket
that he had left leaning against the
wall outside. Ellice was plainly too
: frightened to be of help.
Shouting loudly in the hope of cow-
| ing the jaguar, Tim continued to step
slowly backward, and the big cat,
snarling, followed his deliberate
movements step by step. Her eyes
| glittered in the shaft of light from
| the window.
Half a dozen slow steps brought
| Tim within three yards of the window,
| where Ellice still stood and screamed;
| the jaguar had decreased the distance
| between them until Tim could fairly
| have reached her with an arm. Sud-
{ denly she stood at her full height and
| launched a threat at him that thrilled
him like the shock of an electric bat-
i tery.
Wheeling, he leaped for the win-
| dow; he believed that his last moment
| was at hand. Indeed, as he drew his
| musket inside he was amazed that he
i did not feel the beast’s claws in his
| back. As he faced about, gun in
| hand, he saw that the creature had
| stooped, had thrust her paw into a
| crevice under a bench, and was draw-
| ing forth her kitten.
In a breath she had lifted the small
| thing in her teeth and, rising to her
| full height, again, uttered a snarl
| that warned him to get out of her
| path. His fear for Ellice alone kept
' him from doing so.
Aiming hastily between the crea-
| ture’s eyes, he fired. But, in the in-
| stant that he pressed the trigger, the
' jaguar had squatted for a leap over
| his head and his bullet tore harmless-
' ly into the floor beyond her. Through
' the s:noke the beast launched herself
' at the wirdow opening. :
Tim’s musket was torn from his
! hands and he was hurled to the floor.
| The jaguar, checked in her leap by
| the contact, scrambled for an instant
on the lower logs of the aperture;
then she flung herself outside and,
leaving Ellice screaming, bounded in-
to the chaparral.—The Youth’s Com-
panion.
Oldest Minister, 102, Advises Hard
Work.
Jeanette Pa.—Rev. Albert Vogel,
aged 102 years, has never smoked or
chewed tobacco or drank intoxicating
liquor. Hard work, lots of walking,
with an occasional fishing trip, is the
formula he gave on his birthday re-
cently for a long life.
Rev. Vogel is the oldest active min-
ister of the Gospel in the United
States, it is believed. He still preach-
es occasienally.
beast and himself. In a low voice he |
ING LAW ENUMERATED BY |
HEAD OF N. Y. LAW AND OR-|
DER UNION.
In Open Letter to Senator Gronna, of |
North Dakota, Mr. Bramam Notes :
Value of Plan He Introduced on |
His Maine Farms Fifteen Years
Ago, and Shows Its Advantages in
Cities.
Written to the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Hon. Asle J. Gronna,
Senate Chamber,
Washington, D. C.
Dear Senator—We understand that
you are in some hysteria about the re-
peal of the daylight-savings act. We
would like to make it an issue before
the people in your State and jointly
debate it in every city in your State, |
the State of North Dakota. We were
largely instrumental in educating the
masses of the people for the necessi-
ty of daylight saving to keep in touch
with nature and introduced it in
Maine fifteen years ago. The people
of Maine, as everybody knows, and
doubtless yourself, are the most effi-
cient of any other State in the Union.
Of course, it is easy for a well-di- |
rected propaganda to start anything |
in any of the districts of the mem-
bers of Congress. When you are
aware, however, that in nine States
aliens are allowed to vote, you see
how simple a matter it would be to
start a request to repeal an act which
has been found beneficial to all the
citizens of the United States in in-
creasing greatly their efficiency. You
have the benefit of living in North
Dakota among the green fields and
hills, but the people of our great city
have no such luxury. The farming in-
terests commend it in every farming
district known. I, personally, am the
owner of twenty-four farms, and my
next-door neighbor in Maine intro-
duced the daylight saving to his
clock fifteen years ago for the reason
that the sun rises there in the sum-
mer months between 3 and 4 o'clock
and between sunrise and 8 o'clock is
considered the finest part of the day.
Our fishermen and farmers all are up
and have their breakfast at 5:30 or 5
and have saved so much in light at.
night, in oil and gas bills. Besides, it
is very conducive to their health.
If you take the record of any uni-
versity, for instance the University
of North Dakota, and put it to vote,
or in any of the large cities, you will |
see that daylight saving has been
hailed as a great blessing. What ar- |
gument can there be for its repeal? I|
fail to see, and this matter must be
discussed and settled on its merits and |
should not be settled by any subter- |
fuge or an amendment to any appro-
priation bill. |
The people of the United States are
a clever nation. They can decide these
questions right when they are given
the opportunity. You may not be
aware that the cost of living in our |
cities in the East has been advanced
63 per cent. in the last four years of
the absolute necessities of life. That
is to say, a dollar four and one-half
years ago would purchase as much of
the absolute necessities of life with-
out rents as $1.63 does today. If you
will send here and get the prices of
commodities of life—corn, for in-
instance, is $5 per bushel, butter sev-
enty cents per pound, cream $1 a
quart, milk anywhere from seventeen
cents to twenty-three cents per quart,
fresh eggs anywhere from sixty cents
to $1 per dozen, chicken as high as
$1.10 per pound and vegetables in ac-
cordance—you will see in a measure
what the working people have faced
and are now facing. There are no in-
dications whatever of any relief in
sight from government sources, as
the government has already fixed the
price of wheat to aid the farmers |
throughout the West in feeding Eu-
rope by increasing acreage which cer-!
tainly is a wise provision; but as the
people of this State pay 49 per cent.
of the federal income tax and 50 per
cent. besides for the other expenses
of running the federal government,
the deficiency which has been estimat-
ed would be made in the government |
receipts to pay the farmers the fixed |
price of wheat, which amounts to 1,-
000,000,000, one-half of which the peo- |
ple of this State will have to pay. We |
are all practically working people |
here. There are no drones and they !
work over time, and not only do they
enjoy work, but they enjoy saving, as |
is shown by the deposits, which have |
greatly increased those of 3,500,000 of |
our people in the savings banks. In|
our city here in some blocks there are |
as many inhabitants as there are in |
some of the States.
To be sure you were elected a mem-
ber of the Senate from your own |
State, but you are also a member of |
the Congress representing the people |
of the United States under the consti- |
tution who pay your salary. In the
preamble of the constitution of the!
United States, which you are doubt-
less familiar with, and the Declara-!
tion of Independence you will see that |
the States created the federal govern- |
ment, and the welfare and happiness |
of the people should be consulted, that |
is to say, the large majority of the |
people. It would be wrong, and is
wrong morally, for a small minority |
to pass laws to interfere with the wel- |
fare and happiness of the large ma- |
jority. We must look on this ques- |
tion with a human conception.
Life in our great city is a great |
struggle. There are tens of thous- |
ands of people in our east side who |
have never seen a bit of green grass
and who play in the sand of our city
streets with the thermometer at 90
degrees. You gentlemen of the West
have no conception of this unless you
have worked among them. So, there-
fore, pray do come on here and con-
sult with some of the working people
of this great city before you vote to
repeal the daylight-saving act.
In our State two years age we in-
cresed our acreage 750,000 to feed
our people, army and navy and also
our allies and starving people in Eu-
rope, and last year 1,000,000 acres.
We are all very busy here. Why not
give our people a chance to work and
save?
There is no necessity of any one in
North Dakota getting up any earlier
in the morning. He can fix his clock
to suit himself, but let the large ma-
jority of our people have the benefit
of daylight saving, which every phy-
sician will advise you has been one of
the greatest acts passed by the Con-
gress of the United States to improve
{led by Senator Cummins, Gore and
| LaFollette in the Senate.
| from States where aliens cast a large
. vote, and the people opposing it must
. the price of kerosene
week, as they thought the consumers |
would have to buy more.
| people.
' the treasury some time ago afforded
| above this.
EH rere ——————————————————— EE
| BENEFITS OF DAYLIGHT SAV-
their physical health and efficiency. |
As you have been aware, there was |
an enormous shortage of coal, so
much so that 188 vessels were locked
in this harbor during the winter of
1818 and could not sail for Europe |
with food for the suffering, for our |
soldier or Allies. Daylight saving |
has saved at least 2,000,000 tons of |
coal, and this commodity, which oth- !
erwise would have been burned out, |
has been so much saved that there is!
no shortage of coal anywhere in our
country now so far as known. Many !
days during the winter of 1918 we!
had a coal famine here with the ther- |
mometer at zero weather and the peo-
! ple died from the cold in their homens,
and also their children, the sick and
| suffering. Even hospitals were with-
| out coal, and hotels with one day's
| supply of coal on hand were facing
| the most grave crisis in their history. |
Daylight saving has been attacked |
by a well-organized propaganda and |
It comes
have done so in the interest of oil, as
went up last
Such arguments have been circu-
lated among our dairymen as, cattle’
will give one quart less milk when!
milked an hour earlier in the morn-
ing than befere, but they fail to add
that at the end of the day the cattle
will give one quart more milk; and
then in the haying season. which con-
sists of but one or two days in the
summer, they claim the dew does not
get off the hay as early as it used to;
and then again in cultivating with the
hoe the ground is mere moist than
heretofore from the dew. The far-
mers have plenty of other work to do
on the farm while letting the hay dry
one hour longer and the dew disap-
pear.
These arguments are zl] untenable,
as were the arguments of the great-
est professer in mathematics at Har-
vard University, the late Professor
Pickoring, who used arguments
against daylight saving. He was one
of the greatest experts in mathemat-
ics in the country, and said that the
railroad trains would collide and that '
the steamboats could not run on their |
schedule and the whole world, com-
merce and all the mills would be gen-
erally upset the first day it was tried.
All his theories proved to be utterly
fallacious. The day it was tried it:
went through without a ripple like
the stroke of a pen.
DWIGHT BRAMAM, President. |
MANY SWIFT & CO. EMPLOYEES
BECOME SHAREHOLDERS.
More than 20,000 employees of
| Swift & company are today vested,
with part ownership in the packing
, concern.
Announcement has
been made of the results that came of
the gigantic profit sharing plan re- |
cently offered by the company to its
] The avidity with which
workers, from label stickers to man- |
agers, seized the opportunity to be-
come partners in the business, is noth-
ing short of a sensation at the compa-
ny’s headquarters in Chicago.
So great was the demand for shares
from employees that the company set
aside sufficient stock to take care of
such employees as are in the army.
and navy and who will be back within
the next few months.
“We are pleased,” declared F. S.
Hayward, secretary of the company,
“at what we look on as a vote of con-
fidence on the part of our employees.
Their response to our offer has been:
fairly amazing. I believe today that
our stock ledgers will show a greater |
proportion of employee shareholders |
than any other large manufacturing |
concern in the country.”
Stock which had been tarned into
just |
the company an opportunity which it
had long sought—to offer -hares to!
employees at par. Accordingly, the
stock subscription books were opened
last May on the iollewing plan:
Each employee earning up to $20 a
week was allowed to purchase one
share of stock at its par values, $100.-
00. The market quotation is much
Employees earning $20
and up to $30 a week were entitled to
two shares; $30 and up to $40 a week,
three shares; $40 and up to $50 a
week, four shares; $50 and over, five
shares. No employee was allowed to
purchase more than five shares. The
stock is to be paid for at the rate of
$1 a share per week. :
Employees whose economies for
the immediate future were committed
to the purchase of Liberty bonds were
given the right to reserve stock by
making a $10 deposit on each share;
no further payment was required of
them until they had completed pur- |
chase of their war bonds. The only |
pledge asked of any one taking ad- |
vantage of the proposition was that
he should look on his purchase as an
investment and not a speculation.
“We hoped,” said Mr. Hayward, “to
put 10,000 new shareholders on our
books. We had already 5,000 share-
holding employees who had come into
the company under our old system of
selling stock at market value under a
two year payment plan. But the hur-
ricane of applications that blew into
the office after the new plan was an-
nounced straightway convinced us
that we had underrated the interest
of our employees in the business.
Now, six weeks after we began ac-
cepting applications, we have 17,000
new share holders. And the most sat-
isfactory thing about the whole af-
fair is that we have associated with
us as partners many of the very per-
sons we most wanted—the plant
workers.”
The unexpected demand for shares
has caused the company to create a
special department to handle the 2p-
plications. More than 2,500 of the
new shareholders are women. Sub-
scriptions have been received from
employees at all of the plants of the
company and also from each of the
400 towns and cities where the com-
pany has a branch house.
Joy Riding Preferred.
A youth was being scored by his
father for hi# flighty notions, his hab-
it of shirking and general unrelia-
bility. “Hard work never killed any-
body,” the old man added.
“That’s just the trouble dad,” re-
turned the youngster. “I want fo en-
gage in something that has a spice of
danger in it.”
i service and
' the clubwomen.
: printed at Mexico City and treats oc-
' casionally of
| Mexican women.
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FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. |
DAILY THOUGHT. |
“He who Builds no castles in the air,
Juilds no castles anywhere!”
Passage of the suffrage amendment
by Congress has stimulated the study
of citizenship of the Federal govern-
ment and the relation of State and
county politics to the national politics
among the organized clubwomen, ac-
cording to reports of the Washington '
headquarters of the General Federa-
tion of Clubs.
The study of civics is becoming one |
{ of the most popular subjects with the
| thousands of clubs throughout the
| country.
| organized in the general federation.
| These women are beginning to use the
Washington headquarters of the na-
tional association. This office has been
open for only about a year and is a
information bureau for
Data from the var-
ious government departments and the
Congressional Library are supplied
through this bureau to the women
making requests.
One feature of the general citizen-
, ship study being made by the organ-
| ized clubwomen is their Americaniza-
tion program, which provides for ex-
tending an understanding of Ameri-
can citizenship to the immigrant. It
is pointed out by the headquarters ex-
ecutives that this effort to interpret
the laws of the country to the foreign-
born resident is doing much to pre-
pare the average clubwoman for her
duty as a citizen. Every indication
points te a broadening of the club pro-
grams of 1919-20 to include all phases
of civie and political discussions. The
studies of the causes of the war made
so diligently by the women for the
past two winters will be succeeded by
inquiries and studies on community
Dy eme and their own political wel-
are.
In India only 12 women out of every
1000 of full age can read and write.
Yet the movement for woman suf-
frage in connection with the Indian
constitutional reforms has been gain-
ing ground rapidly in India and in the
British Isles themselves.
Community canning centres are to
be the thing of the moment in New
York and much developed. The Board
of Education and the Department of
| Public Markets are co-operating, since
they realize that the high price of
food makes the choice and use o it a
serious daily business and therefore,
instruction will by no means be limit-
ed to canning. The women who at-
| tend the classes will be taught food
| values, the proper nutrition for the
children of the family, and to buy the
proper food and how to cook it to the
best advantage. In fact, they purpose
using the conservation centres as a
! means of educating the women of the
neighborhood in all the branches of
housekeeping and homemaking.
The first call this summer has come
out of the harvest fields of Kansas for
women to cook for harvest crews. For-
ty women are needed at once, at $3 a
day and board. According to the
Federal labor director in that district
a number of women have already ap-
plied and many more are needed.
Copies of a new woman’s magazine
published at San Juan, Porto Rico,
have been received at Washington.
This is a monthly publication called
The Woman’s Herald. It is devoted
to those interests about which women
are especially concerned. Sixteen
pages of matter, with illustrations,
make up the publication. The articles
are printed in Spanish mainly, with a
few in English, Mrs. Geraldine
Maude Froscher is the editor.
The only other periodical compara- |
ble with this, according to the library
of the Pan-American Union, is The
Modern Woman. This is a weekly,
suffrage matters for
It iz printed in
Spanish.
What habit is there that gives more .
pleasure than the afternoon tea hab-
it? Not the grand reception, with the |
table laid in the dining-room and
beautifully gowned women at either
end pouring tea and chocolate, and:
maids in caps and aprons passing
about trays of tea and elaborate
cakes, which is what a tea so often
means to us in America. The war has !
broken us of this habit, and our so- |
journ in Europe has shown us what a
different thing it can be if we wish,
simply wheeling in the tea cart or
bringing in the tray when our friends
drop in of an afternoon. A cup of
good tea witH a slice of lemon or a
drop of cream, a thin slice of bread
and butter and perhaps a small cake
or cookie is enough. Such a tray can
be gotten ready in five minutes in all
well-regulated households.
A little more time can be spent on
it if guests are expected. Thin slices
of buttered toast with cinnamon and
sugar and served piping hot are every
bit as good as the most elaborate
sandwich or cakes. Triscuits crisped
in the oven and spread with jam or
date nut butter are delicious. Pie
crust may be rolled thin, cut in fancy
shapes and sprinkled with chopped
nut or raisins, and baked a delicate
brown. Tiny cream puffs, just a bon-
ne bouche, as the French say, are ea-
sy to make, and will be very popular.
There are little patty pans that
make cakes not much larger than a
50-cent piece, and being so small, they
will bake in a jiffy. Make your favor-
ite ginger-bread batter the next time
you have a few friends in, add a few
chopped nuts or raisins, if you have
them, or some melted chocolate, put a
spoonful in each pan and set in the
ice chest. A few minutes before they |
are needed pop them into the oven |
and serve hot.
Grandmother’s Hermits.—One and |
a half cupfuls brown sugar, two- |
thirds cupful of shortening, two eggs, |
a scant half cup of sour milk with a
level teaspoonful of soda, one cupful |
of raisins, one-half teaspoonful each |
of cinnamon, cloves and nutmeg. |
Flour to mix as soft as possible. Roll |
one-quarter of an inch thick and cut
out. They may be dropped from a
spoon into the pan.
Macaroons should never be thrown |
away when not used as they may be |
crushed and used to flaver custard |
puddings and ice cream.
About 2,500,000 women are ,
“an economic crime.
{ based on records.
FARM NOTES. »
—The sound, well-bred draft mares
are farm money earners.
—A trough of corncob charcoal
' should be in every pasture.
—Reports say that Snyder county
Nii have the largest crop of hay since
—The modern tendency is to take
the burden off the man and put it on
the machine.
—An unusually large acreage of
buckwheat is reported from all sec-
. tion of the State.
—It were better for a neglected, un-
sprayed, untrimmed orchard that it
had never been planted.
—Farmers who are experimenting
with spring wheat report it in blos-~
som and in good condition.
—The farmer that says that ordi-
nary scrub stock is good enough for
him may be telling the truth.
—Considerable damage to crops
was done in many northern counties
by severe frosts on June 23 and 24.
—The Hessian fly has again ap-
peared and done damage to the wheat
in Berks, Cumberland and Juniata
counties.
—The man who planted good seed
on poor, half-tilled land is no wiser
than the man who built his house on
the sand.
—It has been proved by every gen-
eration of farmers that there is very
little if anything to be gained by
cross-breeding.
_—Franklin county has had a splen-
did wheat harvest, some farmers re-
porting the best grain during the
present generation of farmers.
—Butler county farmers report a
renewed interest in sheep raising as
the new dog law is making a high
mortality among the unlicensed dogs.
—The weather conditions have been
most favorable for the blight infec-
tion of potatoes and unsprayed fields
ope seriously damaged in many sec-
ions.
_ —A good sheep is one that will pay
its own expense with wool; will pay
the money it costs if shipped to mar-
ket, and will pay a profit if kept for
increase.
—Dust cabbage with powdered lead
arsenate and hydrated lime or gyp-
sum, one to four or five parts. There
is no danger of poisoning the inside
of the heads because they expand and
grow outwardly.
—Harvesting of wheat and rye is
now in progress. While reports say
that there has been some damage by
fly, rust and storm, yet indications
point to the largest crop ever produc-
ed in Pennsylvania.
-—A horse trainer says the training
of colts cannot be commenced too
early. Accustom them to being han-
dled, teach them to lead, to stand tied,
to have their feet and head handled
; and to be tractable.
—While one class of stock may pay
better than another, the fact must not
be lost sight of that the average farm
needs a few head of every sort in
crder to make the best and closest
use of all the products.
—A mixture prepared as follows
will keep the agricultural implements
from rusting: Melt together lard and
powdered resin, one part of the latter
to three parts of the former, and if it
is desired add a little lampblack.
Paint the iron or steel with a brush.
—A pound of swine flesh can be
produced more cheaply than a pound
of flesh in any other farm animal.
The hog is built so compactly that
there is very little waste in slaugh-
tering, and it will eat many kinds of
food that could not be disposed of
otherwise.
—The heifer calves from the better
cows should be saved. To “cash in”
a good heifer calf for veal when ‘she
might readily replace a poor cow, is
. While feed is re-
quired to rear a calf well, such expen-
diture is justified if the selection is
One calf in five
should be reared to maintain the size
of the herd.
Quality is very important, but
probably more produce is judged by
appearance than quality. Some far-
: mers are prone to think of the likes
and dislikes of the purchaser as
whims and fancies, whereas, as a
business principle, he should endeav-
or to cater to the desires of his cus-
tomers. It is known that white eggs
| sell better in New York, while brown
| eggs bring a premium in Boston. The
average farmer cares little whether
eggs are white or brown, but this in-
difference should not govern what he
sends to customers.
—In the past horse feeders have
not understood the value of clover
hay. Clover should constitute one of
the main coarse roughages for horses.
It has been found to be more nutritious
than timothy, and nearly equals al-
falfa in this respect. Feeders object
to it, however, because of its tendency
to produce heaves and other respira-
tory trouble when fed in a dusty or
otherwise unclean condition. These
objections do not apply to clover,
which is cut at the right time, proper-
ly cured and free from dust and
mould. Mouldy clover will often
cause acute indigestion and even
death. Those who do not care to feed
straight clover will find that the
grade of light clover mixed will give
better results than timothy, and there
is no good reason why it should not
be used extensively throughout the
eastern half of the United States.
—It has been shown that the con-
sumer can not expect to receive pro-
duce by parcel post at a price much
lower than the local retail price. The
producer’s appeal to customers, there-
fore, is largely through the quality
and appearance of his produce. The
consumer has come to expect a uni-
form product and will not be satisfied
with a shipment of miscellaneous un-
graded produce. As the sending of
anything but high-grade material will
result in failure to retain trade, ana
as many persons Rave discontinued
ordering produce by parcel post be-
cause they received one shipment that
was unsatisfactory in quality, it is
better for a producer to reject ap or-
der than to send such goods. The yro-
duce should be uniform in size, color,
and quality and should be packed so
that the contents and container will
carry properly, arrive in good condi-
tion and present a satisfactory ap-
pearance.