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Bellefonte, Pa., March 27, 1925.
WHICHEVER WAY.
Whichever way the wind doth blow
Some heart is glad to have it so;
Then blow it east or blow it west,
The wind that blows, that wind is best.
My little craft sails not alone;
A thousand fleets from every zone
Are out upon a thousand seas;
And what for me were favoring breeze
Might dash another, with the shock
Of doom, upon some hidden rock;
And so I do not dare to pray
For winds that waft me on my way,
But leave it to a Higher Will
To stay or speed me—trusting still
That all is well, and sure that He
‘Who launched my bark will sail with me
Thro’ storm and calm and will not fail
‘Whatever breezes may prevail,
To land me—every peril past—
‘Within His sheltering haven at last.
Then whatever wind doth blow
Some heart is glad to have it so;
And blow it east or blow it west,
The wind that blows, that wind is best.
—Selected.
WILL GETS A RAISE.
(Concluded from March 13.)
Then once in a while I'd get irritat-
ed at Will, when he bought things that
even on our income seemed downright
silly. We had a real quarrel over a
correspondence course in parlor magic
that he subscribed to. I said it was
silly and selfish to be thinking of
sleight of hand, when we could have
bought things we really needed for the
fifteen dollars. Will said he’d like to
see anything sillier or more selfish
than my spending fifteen dollars on
one party, just to impress Betty Bar-
tell and Mrs. Stevens, Betty’s chum,
who is also in the Harvester crowd. I
reminded Will that he made very
nearly as much as even. Mr. Stevens—
1 think Mr. Stevens does get over two
thousand; but that’s not so much more
——and that if the Stevenses could af-
ford to give that kind of party, so
could: we. babe
But there were no two opinions
about what we did a few days before
Christmas. We were coming home on
the train with Mr, and Mrs. Burris,
and Mr. Burris asked Will if he was
in a position to swing a second-hand
roadster. Mr. Burris’s son had bought
a new car and shipped his old one
home to his father. What he wanted
a new one for, I'll never tell you; the
old one was a knockout. But Mr. Bur-
ris didn’t want another open car, and
he said he’d let Will have it cheap and
pay for it as he liked, so much a month
if he'd rather. He likes Will an aw-
lot.
ah and I sat up till two o’clock
discussing it that night. Of course
we were both mad to get the roadster.
Will is just crazy about engines and
said that one was a marvel, said he
could teach it to come to the sound of
his voice and eat out of his hand.
There was room for another car in our
garage, and the idea of having two
cars—when our flivver sedan had al-
ways seemed rich beyond compare to
me—was enough to dazzle anybody. :
“After all, the two together won't
cost any more than the Stevens’s one,
I reminded Will. “And you make
about the same as Mr. Stevens does.
“Pye got to decide right away,’ said
Will. “Because—this is a funny one
—old Petey Jensen wants to buy it if
we don’t. Seems he’s been saving for
ten years, and he’s going to get an
automobile this spring.”
Well, that really decided us. If a
man who mows lawns and tends fur-
naces could buy that car it was a fun-
ny thing if a couple that went around
with’ the Harvester crowd and came
home from church in the Seogginses
limousine couldn’t. We decided to pay
for it, month by month, with the Mac-
Allister money, and that it should also
be our Christmas present to each
other,
So we were really at the very peak
-of our prosperity that last day of De-
cember, as I sat embroidering happi-
ly in the afternoon. ‘been a
grand Christmas; the new roadster
was in our garage; the Burrises had
invited us to go into the city the next
day to the New Year's maiinee; and
1 was feeling peaceful and prosper-
ous and content. It is strange how
you ean sit and embroider on the edge
of a great chasm in; your life, without
even knowing there is a chasm there
and that your rocking chair is edging
constantly closer to the edge.
As I looked out of the window and
saw Betty Bartell hurrying up the
snowy path to the door, I was just
leased to see her coming. I didn’t
Pier that her knock marked a turn-
ing peint in my whole life. i
She looked kind of strange and wild
as she came into the living-room, and
without a word of preliminary she
said:
“Dorothy, San you lend me a hun-
dred dollars?
“A hundred dollars!” I gasped.
“Why, Betty, I haven’t got a hundred
dollars.”
“Can you get it?” she asked. And
her eyes looked so wild and her voice
was queer and tense.
“Why, I don’t see how I can,” I fal-
tered. “Will and I agreed we would
never borrow from our people unless
we were sick and absolutely starving.
And all that we have saved, Will's
been buying some farm land over by
Verblen -with.”
Betty kept unbuttoning and unbut-
toning her fur coat frantically.
“I've got to get it somewhere,” she
said in the same tense voice. “It
means my whole future with Harry.
I owe it at the grocery and other
stores here, and yesterday a credit
man was up and threatened to gar-
nishee Harry's salary. I put him off,
telling him I could pay it today when
we got the bonus. Harry and I quar-
rel all the time about money, and I did
promise him I wouldn't run any bills,
but—" she shivered: “Oh, I'm afraid
to tell him!”
“Will he give you some of the bo-
nus?” I asked.
She stared at me, her eyes getting
dark and tragic.
“Dorothy,” she said, “Harry had
Betty began to cry.
“I'm afraid to tell Harry,” she re-
ated.
“Maybe you could borrow some
from Mrs. Stevens,” I suggested.
“Mrs. Stevens!” she sobbed con- !
temptuously, “Mr. Stevens doesn’t
get any bonus, either.” |
“But out of their savings, I mean—"
“Their savings—they’'ve got as
much as we havZ they'll have to let
their sun-room furniture go back;
they’re buying it on time. They're as |
far back ik their 18nd as we are—their
car is mortgaged, too.
I just stared at her. After a few
minutes she buttoned up her coat and
wiped her eyes.
“Well, I'll have to try Mrs. Curtis
then,” she said in a hopeless tone.
“She lent some to me once, and didn’t
tell Harry; but she said she never
would again. Maybe—oh, she'll have
to—I can't tell Harry—he's always
cross about money, and this time he'll
be .so worried besides—I'm afraid to
tell him—oh, I hate Mrs. Curtis—but
she’ll have to lend it to me—I'm
afraid to tell Harry—if they gar-
Dishes his salary he may lose his po-
sition,
1
She went at last into the cold De-
cember snow, holding the fur coat she
hadn’t paid for tight around her.
I went back to embroidering, feel- |
ing shocked and sorry. I wasn’t as
sorry for Betty as I would have been |
if I hadn’t been pretty sure Mrs. Cur-
tis would lend her the money. Mrs. |
Curtis is stingy and sharp-tongued,
but they say that underneath she is
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just telephoned me. There isn’t any than we had made. It didn’t seem
bonus this year!” |
I just stared in helpless sympathy. |
possible; but there were the figures.
I simply stared at them. :
“Well,” said Will, “you see where
you've brought us with your fancy
parties.”
“Where I’ve brought us!” I gasped.
“Where I've brought us! I didn’t buy
a stop-light or take an idiotic course
in sleight of hand, did I?”
“No; you've just been trying to live
up to Betty Bartell’s ideas every way
you turned,” said Will. “Pink satin
bedspreads!”
“Well, I guess—” I began indig-
nantly. But to my di t, my voice
caught and broke and I could feel
tears SmArting In my eyes. I was aw-
fully mad at Will, to be blaming me
like that; but I couldn’t seem to stay
just mad—I couldn’t choke back a
lost, forlorn feeling. It is a terrible
thing. to have your husband turn
against you. Some way, I kept see-
ing Betty Bartell afraid to tell Harry
about the hundred dollars * * * *
“Well, I g-guess I wasn’t the only one
that w-wanted to subscribe to Mrs.
Scoggins’s c-c-cats!” aa
Will just stared gloomily at the
check book. The forlorn feeling swept
over me, choking back even madness,
.in a great sick wave. Will standing
i there beside me seemed a million
‘ miles off. It was as though we were
people who had never liked each oth-
er at all. There was a long silence.
i Then Will said slowly:
“I was the one, though, that wanted
to get the roadster.”
“No, you weren’t,” I said honestly.
“I wanted it just as bad as you did.”
Suddenly Will pushed back the
check book, sat down beside me on the
one kitchen chair, putting his arm
awfully good-hearted. But I was cer- ' around me to keep me from falling
tainly shocked. I suppose sooner or off. :
later the knowledge has to come to' #Doll,” he said solemnly,
everybody, but the first shock of it is been a pair of fools!”
fearfully upsetting. I had always | Oh, the unexpected, heavenly sound"
heard that society was corrupt, but I of that sentence!
had never taken much stock in it. And | I dropped my head on Will’s shoul-
now it had suddenly come home to me, der and sobbed in sheer relief. I did
right among my own friends. ! not mind that it was true! Will's arm
I could scarcely believe it. That was tight around me and he said we.
you could belong to the Harvester | The next morning we went down to
crowd, and yet owe money to the gro- ' Petey Jensen’s before ten o'clock and
cery and the butcher shop! Like the gold him the roadster. Then, before
low Hunky families down along the we went to Mother's for New Year's
tracks. That you could keep a maid dinner, we dusted out the old budget
and have dinner at night, and yet be box and divided up Will’s hundred
shiftless, have to borrow money, ‘dollars.
“we've
something which Will and I have al-'
ways thought was downright disgrace-
ful, unless you’re sick or something. .
That you could have a six-cylinder !
car, and still be buying a wicker bird
cage on time.
It was enough to shock anybody, .
and I switched on the kitchen light
and started to get supper, feeling half |
dazed by the revelation. I heard
Will’s step crunching up the walk and ;
looked over my shoulder at him as he!
opened the door. Before he had time
to take off his coat or stamp the snow ,
off his shoes, I knew something was
wrong. Bad news was stamped all
over his open countenance.
‘“What’s the matter, Will?” I de-
manded.
Will did not beat around the bush
any, either: i
“Mr. MacAllister is coming back.”
“Coming-back?” I echoed. |
“Yep. Had a letter today. He
doesn’t like California. Says he likes
a place yon have some weather you
stay in the house for. He’s coming .
back.” . F
“And he'll take care of his own
buildings then?”
“Yep. My job's
twenty-five per.”
“Oh, my soul!” I sat down limply
in a chair by the kitchen table.
“Isn’t that the limit?” Will asked.
1
gone. And my
For a few moments we just stared
at each other. Then the real meaning |
Honestly, it seemed a pretty
good way to be starting the new year,
after all—the good old budget that we
knew would work. After the first
shock, we didn’t seem. even to mind.
We agreed that it’s better to live on a
hundred a month, and know just
where you're at, than on fifteen hun-
dred a year—or even more—and think
that you’re the Vanderbilts, while
you're really just eating up your old
savings... Why, at the rate we were
going, one more raise would have put
us on the town!
As a matter of fact, Father Horton
has hinted pretty strongly that Will is
going to have a regular raise before
long. We don’t know how much it
will be, or anything; but we don’t have
to worry about that any, donjt have to
decide what social set it will put us
into. That New Year’s Eve Will and
I picked out our social set for life.
It’s a pretty big set right here in
Montrose. “Judge Burton "and the
Scogginses and the Burrises belong to
it, and most of our young crowd. And
so does Petey Jensen and the Right
’s
| watchman at the Harvester plant!
all the people that earn their money
i before they spend it, that plan ahead
and save something, whether it’s much
ior little. It’s old ladies who know
they can afford to support homeless
cats before they set out to do it, fur-
nace men who send their girls to col-
lege. They may not get a big car or
a wicker bird cage quite as soon as
of what had happened began to per- | the Betty Bartells, but when they do
colate through me.
“Why, we won’t be getting a hun-
dred and twenty-five dollars a month
any more,” I said.
Will sheok his head gloomily.
“What hits me hardest of all,” he
said, “is that we won’t be able to keep
the roadster.”
“Oh, Will!” I fairly wailed it. It is
one kind of shock to learn that society
is corrupt, but quite another to realize
that you are going to drop out of the
two-car class yourself, “Unless,” I
said suddenly, hopefully, “we should
just take money enough out of what
we’ve saved and pay for it outright.”
“That’s a fact,” Will said. “Let’s
look at the check book and see how
much we can raise.”
I set the teakettle back on the stove
and we spread the check book out on
the kitchen table. We'd both made
out the last few checks when we were
in a hurry, and hadn’t carried forward
the balance. So it took a few minutes
of subtracting before we could tell
how much we did have. And as Will
subtracted the last check, I stared at
the check book in horrified amaze-
ment.
We had a balance of ten dollars and
twenty-seven cents.
“That can’t be right!” I gasped.
“Why, we had over two hundred dol- :
lars when you got vour raise—don’t
We were almost
you: Femen per? g aumust
ready to make a ent on the Ve
len land.” pay
Will went back over the figures,
while I watched him in fearful fasein-
ation. There were a lct of stubs. Be- |
fore he got the raise we hadn’t made
out hardly any checks, paying for al-
most everything in cash, except the
rent and payments on the land. But
there had been so many things since
that we had had to send a check for—
theatre tickets, Mrs. Scoggins’s cats,
the subscription to the golf magazine
—rafts of check stubs. And not a
mistake could we find!
“Maybe there’s a bunch of money
left in the budget box,” said Will
hopefully. ; |
We got out the tin box and unlock-
ed it. Dust had sifted in a little. But
there was no bunch of money. There
was a fifty-cent piece in the “Doctor
and Dentist” cubby-hole, a nickel and
two pennies in the “Lahor and Serv-
ices.” And that was ail. Not a sin-
gle dollar bill. And ten dollars and
twenty-seven cents in the bank.
The truth dawned on us both at
once. In four months, getting twen-
ty-five dollars a tonth more than we
had ever had before, and feeling as
rich as Croesus, ¥ been going
backward all the time. We had spent
two hundred and thirty dollars more
there’s no mortgage on the car, and
there’s money enough left ‘over to get
a little bird seed for the bird.
We've had our fling at prosperity.
i It nearly ruined us, but we aren’t eith-
ier of us sorry. It is something to
have learned that there isn’t any in-
come you can’t spend more than. No
matter what we may ever have, we'll
never feel so rich again. And it was t
‘fun to soar socially. We aren’t sorry.
But we’ve had our last soar. Will and
I have picked out our social set for the
rest of our lives.—By Fannie Kil-
bourne, in American Magazine.
GROW PLANTS in GLASS HOUSES
DURING MARCH.
Many farmers and gardeners of
Centre county already have plants
started in small greenhouses or hot-
beds. These plants are likely to be in
various stages of growth depending
on the vegetable. For example, cab-
bage and lettuce are likely to be two
or three weeks in advance of toma-
toes, pepper and eggplants.
Remember that the growing of
plants is no guess work. It is an ex-
acting business, which often requires
hourly attention. Much of your stc-
cess later in the season will depend
upon the kind of plants you set out in
the spring. Good, early head cabbage,
cauliflower or lettuce, or good crops of
tomatoes, peppers or eggplants never
come from poorly grown, stunted or
spindly plants.
Pay strict attention to ventilation
and watering during the day and
proper protection during the cold
nights. Night temperature should be
45 to 60 degrees, cloudy days, 55 tc 60
degrees; and sunny days 60 to 75 or
higher. Water plants on sunny days |
in the forenoon. The plants should
not be allowed to be stunted by tem-
porarily stopping growth. Keeping
the plants growing steadily and not
too rapidly when they are very small
is the best practice he states.
slender or spindly plants that will not
give good results. Such plants are
hardly worth transplanting, The best :
plants are raised by planting the seed |
in flats or soil in the hotbed and when
they are small seedlings, transplant- |
ing them to other flats several inches
apart each way or transplanting them
. to other hotbeds or to cold frames.
' Remember that plants require room
for proper develo f.. "This is
more than the number of transplant-
ings they receive. Well grown stocky
plants with good reot systems set in
the field mean that the crop is one-
half ‘made. The fact depends upon
proper fertilizer and good culture.
‘land
INOCULATE ALFALFA SEED
TO INSURE RESULTS.
g Alfalfa goes not work along in iis
nitrogen gathering campaign.
fact, the bacteria gathered by inocu-
lation are the agencies for taking ni-
trogen from the air and changing it
to nitrate, so valuable in plant growth.
Neglect of proper inoculation is a
very frequent cause of alfalfa failure.
Unless alfalfa, or sweet clover, which
uses the same bacteria, has been
grown on the same field before suc-
cessfully, the proper bacteria will not
often be in the soil. Without these
bacteria to produce nodules on the
roots and supply the crop with free
atmospheric nitrogen, the alfalfa must
depend entirely on the nitrogen in the
soil. Without them it will be yellow
and unthrifty, will not produce a large |
yield or a high protein forage (pro-
tein is another name for nitrogen)
will soon be choked out by weeds and
will leave the soil poorer rather than
richer.
The bacteria of alfalfa and sweet
clover differ from those of the com-
mon clovers, If manure from stock-
fed alfalfa hay is applied to the field
or if dust is blown or washed upon it
from old alfalfa fields artificial inocu-
lation is not always necessary but it
is invariably safer and involves little
labor or expense.
The easiest method of inoculation is
by the use of pure cultures of inocu-
lation, which may be secured through
the county agent for 25 cents per acre.
If these cultures are well made and
fresh, and if used according to direc-
tions. results are ordinarily satisfac-
tory. A sure method is to broadcast
evenly on the new field 500 to 1,000
pounds per acre of soil from a place
where thrifty alfalfa or sweet clover
is growing. :
The soil should be taken from a
healthy field, free from noxious weeds
to prevent the spread of weed seeds
and alfalfa diseases. The county
agent will be glad to give further in-
formation on inoculation methods.
MANY POINTS IMPORTANT ‘
WHEN STARTING ORCHARD.
Selecting a site is one of the im-
portant steps in the fruit growers
march toward success. Among the
points which prospective orchardists
in Centre county may well consider in
choosing an orchard spot are: Land
value, availability of transportation
and storage facilities, of fruit product
establishments and of labor supply,
and the social conditions and educa-
tional advantages of the community
where the fruit farm is to be started.
The overhead charge due to cost of
should never exceed 10 per
cent. of the value of the product at
the orchard and should not amount to
more than one-half of that figure.
Kinds and varieties should be selected
to obtain the closest adaptation to the
farm or parts of farm used. This will
permit taking advantage of the en-
vironmental differences due to differ-
ent slopes.
Air drainage and proximity of
water are of great importance in de-
termining danger from late spring
and early frosts. Often small varia-
tions in elevation, 25 to 50 feet, make
a difference in danger from frost in-
jury. This influence is also important
in determining the amount of damage
from midwinter freezing.
In general, fruit crops demand the
same qualities in the soil as cereal or
forage plants. On account of their
growing habits, the depth of soil,
character of subsoil and general phys-
ical conditions are of more import-
ance to the fruit trees than to the |
crops. The character of the vegeta-
tion growing naturally on the soil fur-
nishes one of the best indications to
Be kinds of fruits that may grow on
i
USE TOOLS TO WORK IN
ORCHARDS IN TIME.
Proper tools, preparation of soil,
and natural drainage all contribute to
successful orcharding in Centre coun-
ye
Speaking about the former, R. S.
Snyder, fruit extension specialist of
State College says, “Labor-saving
tools and machinery are of vital im-
portance in fruit growing because of
the necessity of doing all the work on
time. Such a nd warrants the
Se
Thorough preparation of the soil
‘before’ planting is very necessary if | {Ig
ple orchard is to be well start- | FRE
the a
ed. It is the best in nearly all cases
to anticipate planting by a year or
two in order to subdue the soil b
rowing tilled or cover crops. Soils
epleted in fertility and low in humus
content should be built up by grow-
ing legumes.
. Deep plowing should precede plant-
ing in every case, this same specialist
states.
when hard pan or a thin layer of rock
occurs near the surface. Ordinarily
it is not advisable to use such soils.
If planting is to be done in the spring
plow in the fall. In case of a heavy
sod land it is best te plow and cross-
plow in fall, working it up with a disc
and harrow in the spring. Where
cover crops have been grown to im-
prove the soil, plowing should be de-
ferred till spring.
Natural drainage is essential since
the apple tree does not thrive with
wet feet. A subsoil depth of at least
6 to 8 feet is necessary to insure prop-
er root development and a sufficient
water reservoir,
—For all the news you must read
‘the “Watchman.”
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