from
Dewan
Bellefonte, Pa., May 4, 1923.
THE STUMBLER.
If you've faltered by the way,
Stumbled much or gone astray
Just begin afresh today,
Buckle to it.
For the errors you have made
And the faults that you've displayed,
Needn't leave you sore dismayed—
We all do it.
There is none so wise or great
But has faltered in his gait,
Left the pathway that is straight,
And been humbled.
And in every great man's wake
There is many a mistake,
That his courage tried to shake,
When he stumbled.
Just because you lost one fight
Do not cease to seek the right,
Battle on with all your might,
Fame will crown you.
Yesterday is past and gone,
Its mistakes don’t dwell upon;
If you’ll bravely struggle on
They can’t down you.
If you blundered yesterday,
Do not cling to your dismay,
Rise to seek a better way
When you've stumbled.
Keep your courage, struggle on,
Here's a thought to dwell upon:
You are not the only one
Who has stumbled.
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WOMANS’ PLACE BESIDE MAN.
! By L. A. Miller.
From the palmy days of Eden to
the present time the woman question
has been, of all others, the hardest to
settle; in fact, it never has been set-
tled, and if the future is to be judg-
ed by the past, it never will be.
Those fair daughters of Eve, who
pretend to be so weak, so tender and
unobtrusive, have ever made bold to
stand with the hardy sons of Adam,
no matter where his lot may have been
cast. The blazing suns and chafing
winds of the desert deterred not Sa-
rah from following Abraham, even
after he had denied that she was his
wife, and allowed her to be taken by
Pharoah the King. Neither did the
promised hardships of a new country,
the anger of an outraged parent, and
the chances of being made a slave,
stop Rachael from following Jacob.
Our own country and lives are full
of instances of woman’s daring and
adventure. There is no gulch so dark,
canyon so deep, or mountain so high,
but that she may be found there be-
side the sturdy miner or restless pio-
neer.
It is the nature of the creature, and
it is well known that a woman’s na-
ture cannot be changed entirely. She
may tremble a little more perceptibly
than man in the presence of danger,
but her fear quickly vanishes; she
may stop still in the face of towering
obstacles, but in the course of time
she comes up smiling and tiumphant;
she may complain more at the outset,
but she is the more cheerful at the
close.
With such a factor as this in the
case what is to be done? How is any-
thing to be settled? Full of caprices,
indefatigable in the prosecution of
her pet notions and as crafty as a law-
ver, she has been, and ever will be the
undefined term in the domestic social
problem. She has her faults, just as
any other living being has, yet we can-
not say with Milton:
“Oh, why did God,
Creator wise, that peopled highest heaven
With spirit masculine, create at last
This novelty on earth, this fair defect
Of nature?
If there is one thing that woman
will kick stronger about than anoth-
er, it is against rules. She will suffer
herself to be encased in rigid stays,
endure skin-tight shoes, and wear her
hair twisted painfully, yet she cannot
endure iron-clad rules relating to do-
mestic affairs, especially if they are
made by man. She wants to be free
to act according to her feelings in all
matters except fashion.
In all domestic affairs she claims a
right to the casting vote, and regards
the veto power as one of her prerog-
atives. Some women go farther, and
exercise the veto power outside of the
domestic circle; but these are special
cases.
It may often be necessary for them
to exercise this power, and also the
power of suspending the habeas cor-
pus. When such necessity arises it is
fortunate if they are equal to the oc-
casion.” If a woman is competent to
wield such power, there is no law,
written or unwritten, to hinder her
from doing so. That incompetent
women often assume to do it is mani-
festly true. And it is a pity if her
better-half is not so constituted as to
take it philosophically and kindly. If
he does not, there can be no harmony,
no domestic bliss, no fireside felicity.
The man who will compel his wife to
get up first in the morning, start the
fires and prepare the breakfast, is a
brute; and the woman who will com-
pel her husband to get up, light the
fires and put the teakettle on is no
better. There should be no compel-
ling whatever, in such matters. Some-
times it is more convenient for one,
sometimes the other. If one cannot
bear to get up and leave the other
snoozing comfortably, it will proba-
bly be better for both to get up and
divide the duties. At any rate this is
not a question to be decided by an out-
sider, but one that must be settled by
arbitration, with the interested par-
ties as arbitrators.
Improbable as it may seem, it is
nevertheless a fact that a large per
cent. of the domestic infelicity preva-
lent today, as well as in times past,
has been and is due to the neglect of
just such small affairs as this. Were
a man dealing with another woman
than his wife he would make a bar-
gain, have a definite understanding,
and live according to the contract. So
would a woman agree with any other
man than her husband, what her du-
ties should be. Why such husbands
and wives not have such arrange-
ments ? :
Not long since a lady wrote a letter
on this subject which is just to the
that she was house-keeping for a wid-
ower for the space of seven years, |
during which time she received a
weekly stipend of five dollars, includ- |
ing boarding and all the comforts af- |
forded by the home. Her duties were
cleary defined, and the master of the
house knew his place and kept it. |
Things went along swimmingly.
There was not a complaint or cross
word. She kept things in excellent
trim, and her employer gave her due
credit for it. In fact, she kept things
in such good trim that she is now the
ruler of the mansion. Instead of the
weekly stipend and the comforts of a
home she gets her board and clothes;
and instead of being credited with
keeping things in excellent trim she
is growled at every day for some
shortcoming, either real or imaginary.
Instead of being treated with defer-
ence she is regarded as a dependent,
and instead of mildly-worded sugges-
tions she receives crisp and impera-
tive orders; all of which leads her to
exclaim: “My second estate is worse
than my first.”
This lady neglects to state whether
or not she keeps herself in as good
trim since she became mistress of the
house as while she was only a servant;
whether, as a wife, she looks as neat
as she did when a candidate for the
position; whether she knows her place,
and keeps it as well as she did then;
or whether she strives as hard to
please the husband as she did the mas-
ter. These are very important points,
in fact, they are the points upon
which the whole matter turns. More
than half of the infelicity extant is due
entirely to a lack of the exercise of
common sense. Husbands and wives
seem to forget that they are men and
women, but look upon each other as
a specie of chattel property.
The marriage contract is regarded
as a surrender of the obligations in-
cumbent upon ladies and gentlemen, at
least so far as they are jointly con-
cerned.
TURKEY RAISING.
Prepared for the County Farm Bureau by
Miss Sara eitz, Broadacres Farm,
Brookville, Pa.
FEEDING YOUNG TURKEYS.
It is not uncommon to hear com-
plaints from turkey growers that they
can rear their young very convenient-
ly up to six and eight weeks of age,
then they die in large numbers with-
out giving one much warning. A com-
mon fault too many people give their
flocks free range. They allow young
turkeys to get new grains such as
corn, oats, wheat, etc., and also any
weed seeds that they might pick up.
By confining the birds until this dan-
ger period is over, we have succeeded
in cutting our losses to a minimum.
The following feeding schedule is
one that has been used with a great
degree of success: :
First day (after 48 hours)—8 a. m.,
one tablespoon rolled oats; noon, one
tablespoon moist chick manna; 4 p. m.,
one tablespoon moist mash, with one
teaspoon epsom salts. Water and
sour milk and grit already in the
brooding place.
Second to tenth day—8 a. m., one
tablespoon moist mash with chopped
greens; 10 a. m., one tablespoon rolled
oats; noon, cne tablespoon moist mash,
2 p. m.,, rolled oats; 4 p. m.,, moist
mash, with epsom salts and greens.
Corn for hen and sour milk all the
time.
Tenth day to three weeks—T7:30 a.
m., moist mash, with greens; noon,
pin head oats; 4:30 p. m. moist mash,
with greens. (Use epsom salts twice a
week in moist mash for evening meal)
contiruing sour milk.
Three weeks to three months—Morn-
ing, one part pin head oats (by meas-
ure), one part chick grain (a good
commercial brand; noon one quart
clabber milk to 25 turkeys; all green
food they will eat quickly. Night,
grain—govern amount by what they
eat quickly. Gradually change this
chick grain mixture to grain of a larg-
er size, then onto the whole grains,
using equal proportions of pin head
oats, until three months of age.
FEEDING OLDER TURKEYS.
We are fortunate in having an orch-
ard of sixty acres, so when the insect
life has diminished in the yards, which
happens about September first, the
turkeys are allowed to wander as they
please. They never wander away but
are at the gate at noon waiting for
their dinner.
Around the middle of October the
flock is confined again in a large cov-
ered runway and is not permitted to
roam at large, only on exceptionally
fine days.
Beginning the early part of Novem-
ber, green food becomes scarce, when
chopped apples are used as a substi-
tute. Corn is gradually added to the
ration and thick milk fed at noon un-
til twelve or fourteen days before the
date they are marketed, when the fat-
ening mash is fed exclusively.
When fattening turkeys we feed the
following mixture: Two parts corn
and oats chop; one part wheat bran;
one part wheat middlings. Moisten
this mixture with milk and feed morn-
ing; and noon with chopped apples
and grain feed at night. If an excess
of milk is on hand, they are permited
to have it also.
BOALSBURG.
Dan Fisher is ill with pleuro-pneu-
monia.
William Reish Jr. is a patient in the
Bellefonte hospital.
Mrs. Rachael Wilson is visiting her
daughter, Mrs. John Dernar.
Mr. and Mrs. Edward Riley have
opened their ice cream parlor in Mal-
ta hall.
Cyrus Wagner, of Altoona, visited
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
Wagner, on Sunday.
Dr. George Woods and daughter,
Miss Mary, of Pine Grove Mills, were
in town on Tuesday.
Mrs. Charles Mothersbaugh and son
Charles spent Saturday at the home
of Waldo Homan, at Oak Hall.
Mrs. Annie Homan and daughter,
Miss Cora, of Centre Hall, are spend-
ing some time at the home of William
eish. :
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——Little tricks fool little people
for a little while.
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point in view. She went on to say LESSONS IN FOREST PROTEC- burns over more area, and does more |
TION.
No. 12—How to Fight Forest Fires.
There are many methods of fight-
ing forest fires. Some are good and
some are not. A good warden is al-
ways ready for useful suggestions,
and is willing to give them fair trial.
Methods of fighting vary with the
character of the fire, type of the for-
est, condition of the atmosphere,
strength and direction of the wind,
raphy and material on the ground. i
Tree Fires.—These are stopped by |
shutting off the air which makes a
draft through the hollow trunk. Close
the hole at the ground if possible with
dirt. If this cannot be done, the
ground around the burning tree should
be cleared, and the tree should be
felled. The fire can then be smother-
ed inside and outside the tree. If wa-
ter is available, the fire may be put
out with a force pump or sprayer or
chemical extinguisher without felling
the tree. Dead snags in forests
should be felled as a matter of fire
prevention as well as for the benefit
of the forest. i
Soil Fires.—These can be stopped
only by digging deep enough to pre-
vent their spread. The ditch, as well
as the surface should be flooded if
possible. This, however, is seldom |
possible. Where a soil fire has a good
start it may be cheaper to blast a,
ditch than to dig one. Well-placed dy- |
namite will do effective work in a
short time.
Crown Fires.—We have few crown
fires in Pennsylvania. Natural con-
ditions as to topography and growth
which serve as a check are the most
effective means of stopping any that
may occur.
Surface Fires.—This is the kind of
fire which occurs most frequently in
Pennsylvania. If there is little wind
the flames may be put out by beating
with branches (pine preferred), shov-
els, and wet burlap. Fire fighters
should beat the flames with a side
sweep toward the fire to avoid spread-
ing sparks. The burning material
may be pushed back upon the burned-
over ground with brooms, rakes,
sticks, forks, or other tools. The idea
is to separate the burning material
from that not yet afire. Water is al-
ways effective, but too frequently de-
pendence is placed upon it and when
it is not available fire fighters seem to
be at a loss to know how to make their
attack. The fire can be smothered by
throwing on dry or moist sand or dirt.
If it is possible to plow, a furrow
may be thrown up quickly to restrict
the spread of the fire. If no trail is
cleared to the bare ground entirely
around the burned area, here and
there small pieces of smouldering
wood may be fanned into flame and
the fire may again break out. The
only safe practice is to make a clean
trail with exposed mineral earth en-
tirely around the burned area.
Chemical extinguishers are some-
times used. Careful tests have been
made by foresters and it has been
found that the chemical spray is of no
more value in the woods than is plain
water with a little force back of it.
This force can be supplied by a foot-
pump, or by air pressure, as in the or-
dinary fruit spraying devices. Sprink-
ling water in front of the fire reduces
the force of the flames and permits
close beating and raking. To be ef-
fective, considerable water is required
when it is sprinkled directly on the
flames. Water is used to the best ad-
vantage when the stream is thrown at
the ground immediately in front of
the flames. The water and force com-
bined will stop the flames’ advance.
It is also satisfactory to spray water
against the base of the flames from
the rear, particularly if there is much
smoke.
Back Firing.—When the wind is
strong or when the flames are in slash,
fallen logs, dead ferns, bracken, or
grass, fire becomes so intense that it
is unsafe and impracticable to attempt
close attack. Back-firing is resorted
to in such cases. It should be remem-
bered that fire is a dangerous force
and that when fire is fought with fire
extreme care and keen judgment must
be used. If a fire starts some area
will be burned over and some growth
will be damaged, but in order to re
duce the damage as much as possible
some additional sacrifice may have to
be made by starting a back-fire. The
area to be covered by the back-fire
should, however, be kept as small as
is practicable.
A satisfactory arrangement of
crews .is as follows: The warden or
foreman directs the course and loca-
tion of the fire-break, if one must be.
made. He is in charge of the whole
fire-fighting force and should urge
each man to do his best. According
to the amount of brush to be cut one
or two axemen or brushcutters follow
the warden. Four men with small
wooden rakes, or some other tool, one
working close to the other, make a
clean trail, exposing the mineral soil,
raking the material to the side away
from the fire unless it is needed to
start a back-fire. Next comes a man
with a torch. He must not set fire too
1apidly for the nearest raker, nor for
the guards who follow him. If the
torchmen sets fire too rapidly for the
rakers the heat may drive them off
their course, and if too rapidly for
the guards, the fire may not burn
away from the trail fast enough to
permit their moving up with the torch-
man. As a result sparks may blow
across the trail where there will be no
one to discover and stamp them out
immediately. Four alert and active
guards can take care of a long line of
back-fire. They should have three-
gallon spray tanks and a continuous
supply of water. They should have
also a rake or broom. Pine brush
may be used in the absence of a bet-
ter tool. The rear guard must be the
most dependable man in the crew for
he must determine when the line is
safe and must not leave it until it is
safe. It is important that some one
who knows the woods after dark
should be detailed to carry water.
The Last Spark.—Sometimes war-
dens and men leave as soon as the
flames have been extinguished, with
the result that frequently the fire has
started up again at one or more plac-
es. Then the fire has to be fought
again; it is larger, is harder to sub-
due, takes more time, costs more,
damage than the first fire. No chanc-
es should be taken with its breaking
out a second time. All but the most
dependable men should be discharged.
The burned area should be inspected
to see that there is no danger of fire
creping across the trail which ought
to have been cleared around the burn-
ed area. Threatenting brands should
be thrown far into the burned area;
logs and branches holding fire should
be rolled over and sprinkled with wa-
er or covered with dirt until they are
safe. Punky stumps should be exam-
ined and broken apart to see that they
can give off no sparks. Burning snags
standing within several hundred feet
of the unburned area should be cut
down. Every precaution should be
taken to prevent a recurrence of the
fire. If a fire has been put out dur-
ing the day, the tract should be pa-
trolled until the wind goes down in
the evening, or until dew falls. If the
fire has been extinguished in the morn-
ing and there is the least danger of
its starting again, the area should be
patrolled until the next afternoon or
evening. No fire is out until the last
spark is dead.—By George H. Wirt,
Chief forest fire warden of Pennsyl-
vania.
Long Distance Courage.
“And then,” continued Jinks, “I told
him that he was a dirty bum and that
if I ever saw him again I was going to
knock the daylights out of him.”
“He is rather bigger than you,” re-
marked Brown. “It’s wonderful that
> didn’t take a swing at you.”
“Oh, I was going to tell him more,
too,” continued Jones, “but central cut
off the connection.”
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