Bemorabi ia
Bellefonte, Pa., May 31, 1929.
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WHAT BECOMES A LIE.
First, somebody told it.
Then the room wouldn't hold it;
So the busy tongues rolled it
Till they got it outside;
Then the crowd came across it,
And never once lost it,
But tossed it and tossed it
Till it grew long and wide.
From a very small lie, sir,
It grew deep and high, sir,
“lit reached to the sky, sir,
And frightened the moon;
For she hid her sweet face, sir,
In a veil of cloud lace, sir,
At the dreadful disgrace, sir,
That happened at noon.
That lie brought forth others,
Dark sisters and brothers,
And fathers and mothers—
A terrible crew;
And while headlong they hurrled,
The people they flurried,
And troubled and worried,
As lies always do.
THE LEGEND OF THE
VEILED LADY CAVERN.
How G. Edward Haupt’s Wonderful
Cavern in Brush Valley Was
Named. A Story of Love and
Pride as Related to Col. Hen-
ry W. Shoemaker by the
poet, J. H. Chatham.
In his older days the late J. H.
Chatham, known as “The Poet of the
West-branch valley,” loved to tell of
the times when he taught school in
Brush Valley, in 1867. He boarded
at the old stone tavern on the pike
at Madinsonburg and on calm sum-
mer evenings he could hear the hol-
low sound made by the horses hoofs
as they traveled across the part of
the highway which passes over the
Veiled Lady Cavern: “Why the Veil-
ed Lady Cavern?” he inquired while
taking dinner at the grand old Hu-
guenot home of the Duc, or “Duck,”
family as they are now called the first
day of his school term in the little
village of Grenoble! “You will see,
as soon as school is out,” replied
Despina Duck, his oldest pupil, a
black haired, dark eyed girl of his
own age, who sat beside him at the
table. Impatient to learn the won-
ders of the subterranean Pennsyl-
vania he adjourned school early, and
led by Despina, the entire school of
eleven pupils, each carrying some
kind of old style torch or lantern,
- went in single file down the narrow
gorge below the school house, into
the “Shades of Night” as the hemlock !
hidden glen was then called. The en-
trance to the vast cavern was most
impressive. A huge cliff, a hundred
feet high. loomed above them, from
the top of which grew towering elms,
beeches, and hemlocks. A herd of
six deer driven by untagged, half
wild dogs, the “modern Pennsylvania
Wolves,” plunged over this precipice
last summer and only two survived
the fall into the dismal abyss below.
Just inside the spacious doorway the
beautiful Despina held aloft her pine
torch revealing the outlines of “the
Veiled Lady.” “There she sits” she
exclaimed in tones of mingled awe
and reverence. There she was, true
enough, a beautiful female turned to
stone, her face covered with a, veil,
now of stalactite formation. her long
dark petrified hair hanging to her
heels. And as they stood, subdued
by the awful picture of arrested mor-
tality, the grandeur of the place and
made silent by the roar of Grenoble’s
Run as it dashes from the gorge to
lose itself in the vast mysterious
labyrinths. Within could be heard
groans, long drawn out, dismal, heart-
rending. Those are the cries of the
dead Indian lover, “Chief Strong-
heart” said Despina, with sclemnity.
Then the party roped themselves
together and passed down the slip-
pery course of the torrent into the
bowels of the earth. On and on they
went, overcome by the weird, mys-
terious beauty of the winding pas-
sageway until at length, half mile
underneath Brush Valley, they arriv-
ed at the calm waters of the hidden
lake. “There’s where her lover, the
great warrior, sank sick unto death
with poison. It is his expiring spirit's
voice even now re-echoing throughout |
these |
this’ cavern, even after all
years.” Teacher and pupils stood si-
lent gazing into the limpid depths of
the lake, then they turned and work-
ed their way back to the mouth of
the cavern, passed where the “the
Veiled Lady” sits in frozen majesty
into the half light of the hemlock
glade. Once out into the warmth of
the glen the young Poet-school-mas- |
ter asked the lovely dark guide to
tell him the whole story of “the Veil-
ed Lady” and her gallant lover.
“I fear I cannot do justice to the
tale,” the lovely girl replied with be-
coming modesty. “If you will remain
for supper, I'll get grandmother
Grenoble to tell it to you as her bed
time story, as she sits in her chair
by the fire.”
Needless to say the eager young
poet accepted the proffered invitation
for supper. After the meal the young
folks gathered about the venerable
lady of ninety summers, a relict of
pioneer days, a grand old Huguenot
dame who still retained traces of once
matchless beauty in the uncanny reg-
ularity of her chiseled features. In
frilled lace cap she sat by the roar-
ing fire smoking her brown porcelain
mother’s pipe. “Surely I will tell you
children,” she replied with her de-
lightful French accent, as she hand-
ed her pipe to her favorite grand-
daughter, the lovely Despina. “It was
during the Revolution,” she began,
“that many Scotch-Irish families
penetrated into these valleys, and for
military services became owners of
vast tracts of land. These Scotch-
Irish were not of the common people
but belonged to the aristocracy creat-
ed by the battle of the Boyne; they
held themselves miles above the oth-
a
er pioneers, the Dutch, the Hugue-
| nots, the Waldensians, the Greeks, or
| the Native Indian.
| We Dutch and, Huguenots got along
!well with the Redmen, and some-
| times our girls married particularly
| handsome braves, but our boys more
| frequently became the husbands of
‘lovely, shrinking aboriginal maids.
{It was from these unions that came
the wonderful dark eyes of the Penn-
sylvania people as well as from our
latin ancestors. Proudest of all these
quality people in Brush Valley were
the McCochrans. Old Michel Q. Mc:
Cochran was descended from Fin Mz2-
Cool, the hero of Scotland, and it wes
his boast that the:e had not been a
lowly marriage on either side of the
famly for twznty genzrators. The
apple of the old aristocrat’s eye was
his seventeen year old daughter Pa-
tricia. “The Lady Patricia” we all
called her as she rode on her snow-
white pony accompanied by two Ger-
man serving men erect and rigid as
Hessians astride their giant Conesto-
ga chargers. She never deigned to
speak to people outside her own caste;
she really believed that herself
and people would have a special Par-
adise when they died. I've heard
| many old women mutter in Dutch as
{she flew by in a cloud cf dust. She
| had a right, too, to be called the Lady
| Patricia as the McCochrans were re-
{lated to many of the British nobility.
.In order that the titles to the old
| General’s lands should be secure, John
‘Morton, that heroic Swede who was
[the first to put his name on the im-
| mortal Declaration of Independence
|in 1776, arrived one day at Fermoyle
{Hall, as the McCochran’s massive
| stone fortress-like home was called,
accompanied by an embassy of Indian
Chiefs. These redskins were to sign
off their rights to the lands in Brush
Valley taken up by the General,
“which would give im a far clearer
title than any one else had in the
Valleys. It was done as a favor by
General Washington, in recognition of
General McCochran’s unparallelled
| bravery at the battle of Princeton,
‘were single handed he captured a
Hessian battery.
Everybody in Brush Valley was out
to see the troop of well-mounted
dragoons, followed by the Indians on
their spotted ponies, and John Morton
in a huge coach and four, go up the
lane, to ‘Fermoyle Hall’ at the base
of Brush Mountain. The beautiful
Lady Patricia was coy about coming
down stairs to mingle with a Swede
and a bunch of wild Indians, but af-
ter some persuasion she elected to do
so out of idle curiosity, but far dif-
| ferent was the result.
| In the embassy was a handsome
young Seneca warrior, known as
| “Strongheart.” Big, stalwart, dark
and persuasive, his roving black eyes
lit on the blue eyes of the fair Pa-
tricia, and it was a case of love at
first sight on both sides.
The love making was brief and im-
passioned. The old General was fur-
ious when he heard of it and intimat-
ed to the Swede to finish his busi-
ness and depart with his band of un-
couth savages. The coming of the In-
dians aroused different feelings
among the people of the Valleys. Old
Jacob Royer, Huguenot scalp-hunter
for example. He hated the Indians
from the days of 1775 when they
swarmed across the Blaken Barri-
chen (Blue Mountains) on the bor-
ders of Berks County and killed and
scalped all of his family, except him-
self, during the French and Indian
war. He vowed death to every “In-
cha” that crossed his path and to
many this meant a short cut to the
happy hunting grounds. When he
saw the gaudy troop of braves en-
route to ‘Fermoyle Hall’ he went to
his huge chest, unlocked it, and took
out a box filled full of caltraps, or
“crowsfeet.”” These barbed murder-
ous weapons have a point any way
they are placed; these ends he care-
fully poisoned and strewed them on
the path adjacent to his improve-
ment. When the Lady Patrica, tears
brimming from her big, blue eyes.
confessed her father’s hostility to her
Indian lover, “Strongheart” suggested
an elopement to his lodge in Canada
to which the lovelorn beauty imme-
diately assented. He would meet her
that night just inside the cavern at
the end of Grenoble’s run, which was
a quarter of a mile below the log
cabin and clearing occupied by the
old Indian fighter, Jacob Royer, at
the foot of Nittany mountain. Going
to her room the pampered beauty
penned a cruel epistle to her devoted
and blue-blooded parent. It ran:
“Dear Father and Mother: You will
| never see me again when this letter
{| falls into your hands, I have left with
i the man of my choice, a hero under
| whose dark skin is as fine blood as
{ any of yours in the twenty centuries
of our tamily tree. He is my ideal,
my Fin McCool, noble, fearless, chief
Strongheart. Farewell. May you soon
forget me, for I will never forgive the
affront you placed on the man I love.
{ I never want to see either of you
| again, Your no longer loving, Pa-
tricia.
{ Heavily veiled and cloaked to the
i heels, in case any one was met with
ron the way, the love sick aristocrat
{ departed on foot along a woodland
| path to the entrance to the cave, ac-
companied only by two German serv-
ing-maids, where “Strongheart”
would meet her with his fleet ponies,
and they would depart for the coun-
try of the northern lights. When she
reached the yawning mouth of the
cavern she handed the note to one of
the maids to deliver to her parents
expected to be well on the Boon road,
the Indian short cut throught North-
western Pennsylvania to the Cana-
dian border. There was no one at the
cave when she arrived, so dismissing
her hand-maidens she sat down re-
gally on a ledge of rock just within the
entrance and awaited “Strongheart’s”
coming. It was bitter cold, and
wolves and panthers were giving vent
to cries of hunger along the base of
the mountain. “Strongheart” seemed
a long time coming. Oh, but if she
only knew. Just as dusk the hand-
some enamored brave tied his po-
nies to a giant white oak, known as
the “Strongheart oak,” near the lane
which leads to the schoolhouse (now
a main driveway from the Brush Val-
ley road to the cave) intending to
the next morning by which time she |
finish the journey down the gorge to
the cave on foot as it was too slippery
to ride on horseback. Alas! he had
to cross one of the old Indian paths
where Jacob Royer had cunningly
strewn his poisoned caltraps in the
snow. The soft moccasined foot step-
ped on one barbed point. ‘“Strong-
heart” uttered a groan of agony, he
stepped out with the other foot, and
it, too, was cruelly impaled. He
groaned again for the pain suddenly
shot up through his legs to his heart;
he was poisoned and he knew it. By
walking on his hands and knees like
a wild beast he worked his way down
to the entrance to the cave intend-
ing to try to keep alive until the rare
Patricia’s arrival, bid her farewell
and expire in her arms.
ly in the month of March, and the
raging torrent of Grenoble’s run
surged down the glen into the cav-
ern’s mouth. Just as he reached the
cave entrance he lost his balance,
reached out wildly but could not get
a hold, rolled over on the icy rocks
into the stream, and was carried
away down the roaring water cause-
way. Just as he was swept into the
bottomless depths of the hidden lake,
he uttered a cry of despair and baf-
fled hopes and disappeared forever.
The lady Patricia McCochran, who
had never been kept waiting a min-
‘ute and would beat her maids with
flax paddles and tie them up by the
thumbs for hours at a time for half ,
a second’s tardiness, could not under-
stand “Strongheart’s” strange behav-
ior. She was angry enough to have
deserted him instantlv. but her pride ;
was such that she could not go home,
disgraced and humiliated by a red
savage after the nasty letter she had
sent her parents which might be de- |
livered to them before she could find
her way back to the ‘Hall.’ She wait-
ed, getting hotter inside while the
temperature of the night kept getting
colder. A terrible biting wind blew
out of the land of the northern lights !
covering her filmy veiled disguises |
with powdered snow. The nigh!
seemed to become colder than thc
frigid regions about Hudson Bay. She |
was too angry and too cold to move;
at length her mind grew numb, she
ceased to care, her hard heart had
become stone. She now belonged to
the ages, frozen stiff at the mouth
of the cavern which has ever since
borne her name.
Patricia’s absence was discovered
late that night by the irate General.
Clubbed into confession the maids
described where they had left their
mistress and there the old veteran
hurried post haste. Abandoning his
horse at the top of the icy zlen he
stepped right on one of Jacob Roy-
er’'s caltraps as the Indian had done
and gave out a shriek of pain. His
henchmen hoisted him on their
shoulders and carried him down the
slope in the shadow of the giant hem-
locks, where he saw his daughter
seated at the entrance of the cavern
turned to icy stone. All the while
his foot throbbed with intense agony
and the grim old military hero threw
up his hands in horror and gave up
the ghost; dying in the same man-
ner, unknowingly, as the cause of all
his troubles, Indian “Strongheart.”
As lady Patricia could not be pried
loose from her pedestal, she was left
where she was, gibbeted by unfriend-
ly nature, but the corpse of the old
General Michael Quigley McCochran,
like a poisoned wolf, was carried back
to ‘Fermoyle Hall’ where Rev. James
Martin, .the pioneer minister of the
Valleys preached one of his most
beautiful eulogies over the remains.
He was Central Pennsylvania's saint,
the old covenanter averred in his ser-
mon.
There was a pause when Grand-
mother Grenoble finished her impres-
sive narrative of the Veiled Lady's
Cavern. “Listen,” she said, “don’t
you hear that dreasiful sound coming
from the depths of the cave; we of-
ten hear it on quiet nights like this.
It is the soul of Chief “Strongheart,”
down in the hidden Lake.”
The darkly beautiful Despina Duck
handed the little porcelain pipe,
which she had carefully lighted tc
the grandmother who took a few
puffs of the fragrant tobacco then
smiled benignly upon her listeners.
“I guess I must be going now,” as he
stroked his superb black beard, said
the young Poet and his tall slim form
rose from his chair.
Thank you, Grandmother”, he said,
“I really think that this is enchanted
ground, these wonderful environs of
the “Veiled Lady Cavern.”
SMALL CHECKS LEGAL.
It is not unlawful to write a check
for less than one dollar. The belief
that it is, says “The Pathfinder,
arose from a misinterpretation of
Section 178 of the Federal Criminal
Code. This section, which was ap-
proved March 4, 1909, reads as fl
lows: “No person shall make, issue
circulate, or pay out any note, check.
memorandum, token, or other ob
ligation for a less sum than one dol-
lar, intended to circulate as money or
to be received or used in lieu of law-
ful money of the United States: and
every person so offending shall be
fined not more than $500, or impris-
oned not more than six months, or
both.”
i A bank check is not intended to
circulate as money or to be received
or used in lieu of lawful money. It
is merely an order to pay money. The
Department of Justice says:
The statute is dimed against such
checks, as are “intended to circulate
as lawful money or to be received or
used in lieu of lawful money of the
United States’ and does not apparent:
ly have any reference to an ordinary
individual bank check, and it has al
ways been the view of the depart
ment that the statute does not apply
to such a check.”
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U. B. Ministers Forbidden Tobacco.
Use of tobacco in any form hy
United Brethren ministers will re-
sult in the revocation of their li-
ceénses, under a resolution adopted
at the quadrennial general con-
ference of the church hare. Smoking,
chewing and use of snuff were speeif-
{ically prohibited.
It was ear- |
COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM
1929 AT PENN STATE.
More than 600 students will be
graduated and approximately 60
graduate students will reecive ad-
vanced degrees at the commence-
ment exercises of the Pennsylvania
State College on June 18, it is an-
nounced by W. S. Hoffman, the col-
lege registrar. John A. H. Keith,
superintendent of public instruction,
Harrisburg, will be the commence-
ment speaker. The baccalaureate
sermon to seniors will be given by the
Rev. Edward A. Steiner, of Grinnell
College, Grinnell, Towa.
Many alumni are expected to re-
turn for the commencement celebra-
tion which will be held from June 14
to 18. A feature of the commence-
ment program will be the class re-
unions on June 16 and 17. Classes
that will hold reunions are 1879,
1889, 1894, 1899, 1904, 1909, 1914,
1919, and 1924. There are three liv-
ing members of the class of 1879 and
the commencement committee is
! planning for the return of all three.
They are Dr. T. C. Houtz, of Susque-
hanna college, Selinsgrove; Rev. W.
K. Foster, of Penney Farms, Florida;
and F. B. Greenawalt, of Erie.
FRIDAY, JUNE 14
9:30 p. m.—Fraternity Dances.
SATURDAY, JUNE 15.
1:00 p. m.—Alumnae Luncheon—Univer-
sity Club.
1:00 p. m.—Gold
Course.
2:00 p. m.—Annual Meeting of the Board
| of Trustees—President’s Office.
2:00 p. m.—Election of Trustees: Dele-
gates in Old Chapel; Alumni in
Room 180 Main Building.
| 2:30 p. m.—Lacrosse—Onondaga Indians
vs. Penn State—New Beaver Field.
7:00 p. m.—‘‘Pinafore’’ by the Penn State
Thespians and Combined Glee Clubs
—Auditorium.
:30 p. m.—Fraternity Dances.
SUNDAY, JUNE 116.
(Baccalaureate Sunday)
10:30 a. m.—Baccalaureate Sermon by the
Reverend Edward Alfred Steiner,
B. D., Grinnell College, Grinnell,
Iowa—Auditorium.
p. m.—Band Concert, College Mili-
tary Band—Front Campus.
6:30 p. m.—Vesper Service conducted un-
- der the direction of the Y. M. C. A
and the Y. W. C. A.—Front of Old
Main.
8:00 p. m.—Recital by Advanced Students
of the Department of Music—Aud-
ium.
ALL DAY—CLASS REUNIONS.
MONDAY, JUNE 17.
(Alumni Day
ALL DAY—CLASS REUNIONS.
9:00 a. m.—Senior Class Day Exercises—
Auditorium.
9:45 a. m.—Annual Meeting of the Alum-
ni Association—Old Chapel.
{12:30 p. m.—Campus Luncheon for Alum-
ni, Faculty, Graduates and Visitors
—Big Tent.
|
Tournament—College
9
3:30
1:30 p. m.—Parade of Classes-to New
Beaver Field; Class Stunts.
2:30 p. m.—Alumni Baseball—New Bea-
: ver Field.
44:30 p. m.—Schoel Receptions to Alumni
| and Parents.
: 00 p. m.—Alumni Dinner, Seniors and
| Guests included—McAllister Hall.
i 7:45 p. m.—‘‘The Queen’s Husband’ by
| the Penn State Players—Auditor-
i ium. :
p. m. to 10:45 p. m.—Commence-
ment Reception for Alumni, Fac-
ulty, Seniors, Juniors, Candidates
for Advanced Degrees and Guests—
Recreation Hall.
TUESDAY, JUNE 18
(Commencement Day)
a. m.—Commencement Procession.
Forms in front of College Library
and marches to Recreation Hall led
by College Band.
a. m.—Commencement Exercises.
Address by The Honorable John A.
H. Keith, P. D., Superintendent of
Public Instruction, Harrisburg.
Admission by Card—Recreation
Hall. -
1:00 p. m.—Senate Luncheon to Trustee
and Speaker of the Day—Centre
Hills Country Club.
The Graduate School at Penn State
has grown from a group of 177 in
1922, when it was organized, to 348
in 1928. The number of new stu-
dents admitted last year was 179
while those admitted this year, to
March 1, numbered 200. The stu-
dents came from 71 different institu-
tions, and they majored in 35 dif-
ferent subjects. Forty-nine advanc-
ed degrees were conferred by the
school.
10:00
9:15
10:00
CONCERNING PENNIES.
That Americans are careless of
their small change is evidenced by
the fact that of the 300,000,000 pen-
nies annually sent out from the
Philadelphia mint a large percentage
are never accounted for afterward.
It is thought that but a very small
percentage of pennies lost in the
streets are ever found, since they
lack luster and fail to catch the
eye as does a silver coin. The
chances are that they are swept up
with rubbish and so far the most
part are lost as coins.
When the Lincoln pennies were
first placed in circulation thousands
were used as souvenirs, never again
to find their way in general circu-
lation. Hundreds were gold-plated
and silvered to be used as cuff links
and stick pins.
County fairs and shows of various
kinds mutilate thousands of pennies
every year. At the fairs one may see
a machine that will flatten a cent
and at the same time emboss a
souvenir view of the event.
Hundreds of thousands of pennies
are carried out of the United States
by tourists, who leave them abroad.
Some years ago 100,000 of them
were shipped to Cuban bankers and
placed in circulation among the
laboring classes in Cuba. The Amer-
ican copper runs a close second to
the pin, of which millions are lost
every year.
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Past tense—didn’t study.
Present tense—don’t know.
Future tense—you're flunked.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
Daily Thought.
What do I care if the skies are gray
And it rains for a month or two!
I can laugh and sing as I work or play;
For the sky of my soul is blue !
Oh, the sun may hide, or the sun may
shine,
But never a whit care I!
For ’tis always June in this heart of
mine,
And will be till I die.
Summer underthings this season
have taken on a new chic, and with
it an added sleekness of line, and they
do give one the latest of graceful,
curving figures. The new garment
that takes the place of almost every-
thing necessary for use under the
summer frock is a combination che-
' mise, bloomer, bandeau and every-
thing. The top is a bandeau. It is
cut in the new form-fitting way, and
to make it snug there is a section of
elastic in the back to give it a firm
support. The rest of the garment ex-
tends bloomer fashion with the legs
finished with neat, comfortable cuffs.
It’s nice to step into, it fits well and
it is made of that particularly soft
and lovely rayon that tubs so easily
‘and requires no ironing. A recom-
medation for the traveler.
Beige and black, while not strik-
| ingly new, is still an excellent color
marriage, and according to Paris will
be good for some time to come. The
past season has witnessed an ava-'
lanche of sports and semi-formal en-
sembles which employ this color
scheme in the same manner—coat of
beige trimmed or lined in black,
dress all in black.
Now there is a tendency to use
black not as a foundation color, but
merely for accent. Dresses worn
with beige coats are invariably in
shades of tan, with perhaps a touch
or two of black. The coats carry
black encrustations or black fur.
Spring and a Summer heat wave
have filled the shop windows with
flowers and the open air cafes with
the prettiest girls in Paris. The re-
sult has been concentration by the
grandes couriers on Summer frocks.
Printed chiffons are still the vogue
and these along with the filmiest of
crepe de chines furnish infinite varia-
tions in design and color. It is only
coats that are being standardized.
Backbones will be jewelled this
spring and summer, according to the |
latest dictum from Le Touquet and
Biarritz where smart Casino-goers
are wearing pendants and diamond
or paste buckles at the back of the
frock instead of down the front.
A stucco house requires vigorous
cleaning. For stains. which some-
times are found below the windows.
diluted sulphuric acid can be applied.
The stucco must first be scrubbed
well and then rinsed thoroughly.
To clean a stucco a strong flow of
water through a hose with the noz-
zle set to throw a small stream will
be found effective. Begin at the
top of the wall under the roof and
work down. Naturally the closer
you can get to the stucco su” “ice the
more satisfactory will be the. cesult,
A linoleum floor covering that has
seen hard service for a period of
years need not be eye-sore even
though the pattern is fading out or
becoming dingy. It can be complete-
ly covered over with two coats of
paint and made as fresh and bright
as it ever was.
Do not wash the berries until
ready to use them. Put them in a
well-ventilated container such as a
wire sieve with the handle removed
or in the original wooden box if
clean and dry. But remember not
to crowd the berries, for they will re-
sist mold longer if the air can circu-
late freely around them.
Spiced cherries, preserved with
vinegar, make a good relish. Here
are directions for making them given
by the bureau of home economics.
Wash and pit large sour, red cher-
ries. To the desired amount of cher-
ries add three-fourths of their weight
or measure of sugar. Sprinkle the
sugar over the fruit in layers and
let them stand overnight. In the
morning stir until the sugar is dis-
solved and then press the juice well
from the cherries. Tie a small quan-
tity of whole-spicesin a loose cheese-
cloth bag, drop this into the juice,
and boil it down until it is three-
fourths of the original quantity,
While the syrup is hot pour it over!
the drained cherries, and add 2
| tablespoonful vinegar to each pint.
' Seal and let stand about two weeks
' to become well blended before using.
Spiced Ham Cutlets.—Cut small
slices of cooked ham about a half-
inch thick and allow one to each per-
son to be served. Rub a small
amount of mixed mustard into each
| slice on both sides, rub in a small
1 amount of Worcestershire sauce and
{a bit of ground clove. Dip the slices
| of ham thus treated in beaten egg
| and then in cracker crumbs and saute
i in butter or drippings until a light
brown. Place on a heated platter
and garnish with bits of parsley. If
desired the cutlets may be surround-
ed with tomato sauce. Serve at once.
Soft Molasses Cake.—1 cupful mo-
lasses, 1 egg, 1 teaspoonful each of
soda, ginger and cinnamon, one:
fourth teaspoonful salt, % cupful hot
water, 1% cupful of sugar, 2 table-
spoonfuls melted lard, 2 cupfuls flour.
Mix egg, sugar, lard and molasses
through the flour into which the
spices and salt have been sifted.
Lastly, add the hot water with soda
dissolved in it. Pour ivto three well-
greased, shallow pans. Bake in mod-
erate oven. Serve with whipped
cream.
Grated carrots are pretty and good
to eat in the vegetable salad.
Boiled onicns are good covered
with a white sauce, buttered crumbs
and then baked.
A few sour pickles chopped and
added to sardine paste for sand-
wiches make a delightful filling.
—Subscribe for the Watchman,
FARM NOTES.
—If you are observing, you have
noticed that the cows milk better on
a sunny day in any but the excessive-
iy hot months.
—Let us take the very best pos-
sible care of our barnyard manure
for no matter how one may figure, it
is too valuable to allow a large per-
centage of it to go to waste.
—Every garden should have an
herb border. Plant sage for the beau-
ty of its foliage as well as for its
flavor. It is an excellent gray-hair-
ed plant for the flower garden.
—The old farm with old methods
was once good enough, but today the
same farm must combine with new
methods to meet competition. This
means up-to-date farm machinery.
—DBe sure your farm ladder is safe
and long enough to reach the roof of
your house and barn. Keep it where
it will not get warped or twisted, and
paint it every two or three years.
—Rape is one of the good pasture
crops of the farm. For years it has
been known that our experiment sta--
tions have given it a value for hogs,
almost equal to that of an acre of
corn or an acre of alfalfa. They de-
pend on an acre of good rape to make:
at least 700 pounds of pork.
—Much of the alfalfa hay produced:
is of low quality due to a large per-
centage of the leaves being lost.
Most of the leaves may be saved if
the hay is raked into small windrows.
as soon as possible after the leaves
have wilted and the curing completed
in the windrows rather than in the:
swath.
—Increase in muscle and nerve tis--
sue and the total weight of growing.
chicks, is largely due to the protein.
content of the feed ration, said Prof.
G. F. Heuser, at the Cornell univers-
ity at Ithaca, N. Y.
| Chicks.grow rapidly in the begin-
ning. During the first month they"
have the fastest growth, and after:
the second month the rate of growth.
begins to decrease until the time of
maturity. Since protein is needed for
growth larger amounts should be fed
'at first, and less as the chicks grow
‘ older.”
According to Professor Heuser, the
experiments at Cornell show that ¢er-
tain amounts of proteir are best for:
chicks at different ages and that feed-
i ing more than these amounts will not’
| give greater growth, but that feeding
{less than these amounts is apt to re-
{sult in decreased growth.
These experiments show that the
best amount of protein in the feed
| for chicks from one to six weeks old
1is 20 per cent.; for chicks of frora
to 12 weeks, 17 per cent.; and for
those from 12 to 20 weeks old, 14.0:
per cent.
Large amounts of protein feed will
not hasten maturity, but enough
should be fed so that the best pos-
sible growth can be attained at the:
time of maturity and this will mean
I larger eggs and better production:
—The practice of raising hogs on:
clean ground and with clean equip-
ment probably has done more to
make hog raising profitable for farm-
ers who used it than any other pro-
: duction method. One farmer found
: that he could produce 100 pounds of
‘pork on 6 bushels of corn and 20
pounds of tankage by raising his
| pigs on clean ground. His neighbors
{ who had unthrifty pigs found that it
| required 10 bushels of corn and 3®
| pounds of tankage in the production
| of the same weight of pork under the
old fashioned system of management.
Thorough cleaning of pens and
equipment in the farrowing house. the
first step in the McLean county sys-
| tem, can best be done when the
equipment is modern, preferably of
steel. Scrubbing with plenty of lye
water and an application of good dis-
infectant afterward lessens the dan-
‘ger of the young pigs picking up
‘ground worm eggs and disease
germs.
Remodeling can best be done in the
summer. Pens can be patched up or
rebuilt damp ficors can be planked to
make them warmer and dryer and
ventilation systems can be installed
in houses which are frosty and un-
healthful in winter and in which hogs
are subject to “flu” and other respir-
atory diseases. In some cases it maj
, be necessary to line frame houses in-
side the studding and rafters witl
boards or insulating material so thal
the house can be kept warm. and the
temperature uniform.
Litter carriers and feed carts save
many steps in large hog houses anc
can be installed with little trouble
Running water piped into the hog
house also is a great convenience an(
a time and labor saver.
After the growing litters are trans
ferred to pasture and housed in in
dividual sheds much of the work o
caring for them can be eliminated b;
the use of self-feeders and automati
waterers. !
Government statistics show that 5
per cent of the pigs farrowed:in: th
country are born during March, Apri
and May. It takes the average farm
er 8 or 9 months to prepare his hog
for market. The big run of hog
gets on the market about the middl
of September and the prices declin
from then until the middle of De
cember. The price of hogs on th
Chicago market last September 17t
was $13.65 per hundred pounds an
on December 15th the price wa
$8.45.
In Keystone Ton Litter Club wor:
last year all litters weighed up t
October 10 averaged 13 cents a poun
and the average profit on these wa
$114.62 per litter. From October 1
to December 31 the litters: weighe
averaged 91% cents a pound and th
average profit was $64.70. Thos
farmers who had their hogs read
for market early made therefor:
$49.92 per litter more than those wh
marketed later.
The farmer who uses ton litte
methods, whether hé has one pig or
hundred. is the man who will mak
| money in 1929, he declares.