i . though I wish with all my heart that LIGHTNING IS A
1 Bad died Bguting tie 207 Dulore| REAL FRIEND TO
! terday, despi! my efforts —
| life has been a burden to me for Lightning, long regarded as
-— _ in fact, ever since that which
Bellefonte, Pa., May 20, 1981. I first told you of.
TT m—— For Yous moet, wheaY Jared)
| think er (could think I
DECORATION DAY ON THE _ say, I
PLACE but love. Pps Rot go | grief Stick: |
+s lonesome—sort o' lonesome—it’ en when eard death as I
ig Eh i! Ly * thought I should have been. I
‘have loved her better
It 'pears like—more'n any day I nearly | ce since then.
ever see!—
Yit, with the Stars and Stripes above, our Sather ever lei We Kuow
a-flutterin’ in the air, her death; heard 3 on
On ev'ry soldier's grave I'd love tolay casual instead
a lily there.
oA Decoration days is have almost welcomed then over her
Ya hh ay grave, I think I hated him more.
‘Most evrywheres—espeshally by sol- They say love can only turn to hat- |
dier-boys that's served— red, never to friendship, and so that
But me and Mother's never went—we chance passed.
seldom git away— It is midnigh
In p'int o' fact we're allus home on
Decoration day.
They say the old boys marches through |
the streets in columns grand,
A-follerin’ the old war tunes, they're. His name was Williams, and he
playin’ on the band— was until recently employed in our
And citizuns all jinin' in—and little
‘firm in a comparatively subordinate
children, too— position. He was a troublesome,
All marchin’' under shelter of the old
Red, White and Blue. to the business, and not long
With roses! ‘ago he was gotten rid of, largely at
the town! d
And crowds o' little girls in white, jest
fairly loaded down—
Oh, don't the boys know it, from their
camp across the hill?—
Don't they see their com'rads cgmin’
and the old flag wavin' still?
O! can't they hear the bugul and the
rattle of the drum?—
Ain't they no way under heavens they
can rickollect us some?
Ain't they no way we can coax ‘em,
through the roses, jest to say
They knew that ev'ry day on earth's
their Decoration day?
And yit it's lonesome—lonesome!
a Sund'y day to me,
It 'pears like—more'n any day I near-
ly ever see!— | mity.
Still, with the Stars and Stripes above, | r
roses! roses—ev'rybody in
However, he belonged to the mi-
litia, and when the war broke out
he was given a commission in this
ent.
I volunteered for service, and I,
too, was put into this ent as
private, and thus it came about that
(he so soon found himself in a posi-
tion to take his revenge me,
and well did he do it, the blackguard.
| That's immaterial now, but it is nec-
it's |
TRgiiiin; Was almost in the
the first line the day
a-flutterin’ in the air, | center a Y hee
On ev'ry soldier's grave I'd love to lay fore yesterday the storming
a lily there. ‘big redoubt, and we 3ad hq. the
We've tried that—me and Mother— hou vi the Sents A any. ors
where Elias takes his rest,
In the orchurd—in his uniform and LOBE earthwo As in dont of Jue
hands acrost his breast, : artill lot
And the fag ho. dled fer smiiy ang | 3ded DY the infantry, had had a lo
a-ripplin’ in the breeze ving enemy from :
Above his grave—and over that—the and drivin the ene BY earthworks
robin in the trees! twice already and had lost at least
—By James Whitcomb Riley. a third of our officers and men. I
had two minor wounds only.
The captain of my company,
Franklin, was killed in the second
assault, and Williams took his place
in command.
nN.
“ORDERED SHOT”
The original manuscript of the
following narrative is in the posses-
sion of a grandnephew of the man
who wrote it in the year 1862 in
one of the camps of the Federal
army.
where our heavy artillery
. a breach, and we were hurled at it,
It is here printed for the fist at Yon regimen
time. e names Persons gonting. One was conscious of noth-
and of places have been changed to hor buy explosions and shouts and
fictitious ones. The signature at g.reams blood everywhere and men
the end, which was somewhat rapid- gyryggling and men fallen. At last
ly written, was apparently I was on the slope at foot of the tenna leads, and the wiring system,
later, since immediately above it preach. head if BLT “and But if no free path is provided, ight- {i mateq that
there are obvious signs of a pen h&V- fonting my way blindly, half chok- Ring Is apt to jump about. One
ing adhered to the paper by means of hy the smoke and dust.
of dried ink. ed DY oe ib
As will be seen, it was intended goin then suddenly I saw yo
for one who would already be in 1 cannot explain what hap
possession of some of the facts of thin me at pat moment, was
the case, and it is in that light it pair mad and dazed from a wound
must be read. It is dated from the Dorin a oti
camp of the Federal army at Jack: | hone "I cannot "explain, but I
sonville, Md., Sept. 25, 1862, and guy him as thorgh he were the
reads thus: only man before me. all
It is now 10 p. m. and I am to be the years since I had last
shot at daybreak. I am tired and ,.4 ‘the state he was in, with
have not much time before me for ,,4 grime on his face and in his
though
writing. Yet I am going to set | orizzled hair, I saw him
down here clearly and so that no > together in the old
doubt may remain what happened ere at-home
in my case at the storming of It was as though a vision flashed
Davidstown redoubt the day before
tir IEE a lp Id on me and made me unconscious of
what I did,
I write this to you, my nephew
and only near ae ive, so that you He
may read it w Frow up (for
they have ed os my lawyer ow but
have it.) You will then know how y
your father died, and you will also
know that nothing dishonorable at-
taches to my name—our name-—in
spite of ail. The court has found me
guilty, but that is mere circumstance
circumstance. It is not
my fault, and my conscience is clear
before God, my final tribunal.
Firstly, though, I must tell
about your father. Long before the
war broke out he and I had quar-
reled—about your dear mother. That
is a different story. Never mind
that. It was another hard stroke of |
fate in my life, though perhaps it
will all be put right now.
We both loved her, your father
and I, and he wou : left our home| I am tired
and went to New York, where n- rythi
ed Samson & Headley, then a sald eve ng
firm of engineers. Your father stay-
ed at the old place down south—
which I hope will be left for you
when this hateful war is over—and
there he married your mother and
ran the plantation, i
We had been very dear friends all |
our lives, he and I, and I was fur- CALIFORNIA TO RAZE 50,000
ther embittered that on, | NBOARDS IN 2 WEEKS
coming as it han addition to my | SIG ——
Large crowds of men were tearing
man
or two.
other great loss, for your mother
was the sweetest woman that ever down thousands of signboards that
that.
She died four years ago next De- chairman of the State way Com-
cember on your birthday. | mission.
Your father I never saw again un- Every advertisement that had
til the day before yesterday. been erected in rural communities
It is as much for the e of her without permission cf property own-
memory as for any other i
that I am making this
for you.
When this war broke out your fa-
ther, of course, was bound to the
south, the Confederates. I, how- |
ever, had severed my connection clearing them away, and expected
with the south. I had no interest that the job would be finished in
in it. On the contrary, I hadevery two weeks.
reason to t for the north, And
I have so and fought as well
as any man—with what a result!
oor bon ;
up thou such permission.
assigned 1000 men to the task
Young Isaac had not been away
My boy, learn to hate war, and, |from home long when he sent his
above all, civil war, for that is when | father this telegram: “Am broke
DE Oe Er Tu (uid bve: 3°, feiqngs, what shall I
God That Yous Sotuey e to |do?” :
As for , in one Y am [Feat J 5 wondirtil Hag
not sorry that this hs Beppened, make some friends right away.”
self opinionated man, of no great
‘my instigation and thoroughly as he
eserved
4
and a roar of
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN,
DAILY THOUGHT
This is what May means to me—
enemy of is million unemployed walking Ameri- Lilacs on a slim park tree,
| denib-denling I In. it ca's streets, pul the gay concourses Pineapples in market places, those heat Sarid 1. the environ-
by scientists. Instead of an of society haven't been feeling the Sunburns tinting city faces. Heft o Sue piiictlar awa the
enemy lightning really is one of the grind of poverty's heel. OF, M&Y- This is what May means to me— SHRED: 150. Svs
greatest benefactors of mankind, de- be, they've just begun putting tp 4 The far calling of the sea, —In raising calves much bett
te its reputation for being a ter- big bluff, For this season Pink ice cream at soda fountains, results btained o"”
enemy, according to Mr. K, B. |31 has seen two of the mast extrave- And the lure of distant mountains. Ei ome WY heepiis
McEachron, a research cugiies: of (Sant Schulte parties TY | This is what May means to me— of age instead of them on
8 Genseanl Hectris Qaugny. of A Seriegn ago the 400 gasped Freckles where tuey snould not be; pasture, They should have clean,
gh tn 3g produces, | when Be oe embarked upon Hair so straight I'll save each cent light stalls and plenty of water and
100,000,000 ¢ ~Merachs on, A abou the Debutante Seas in such a blaze 2 : Jute a permanent. —Margaret good feed.
y over the earth's surface. 1p|af- glory. that King Midas _ bimseit Ser Ses | —All the summer flowering bulbs
acts in this ty the Fame as, would ye luied over BraV€ Narrow ruffies, either pleated or may be set out late in May, To insure
heavy electric do ni- in eH 0 of Betty into (circular, are one of the most im- a continuous supply of gladioli, they
Of fixation ts. da society has te duce and di od inthe portant for both dayand can be set at bi-weekly intervals,
into the ake a if you want og bb blaze of this year's season, which SYcRing clothes that are designed by The rule is to plant all bulbs twice
| 3 nae a ushered in last August by Doris © ors: as deep as their diameter.
th ) This, is in effect, a Duke, the billion dollar princess.
—Costume necklaces this spring —A convenient and rapid method of
iron room perfectly ground Her debut was fraught with inter- . >
| ea Rarturty = Bln est. Was it going to be an extrava- Lon © GAhe-cord size and propor planting garden seeds is by using an
for a human being to be. gauza, ‘as was befitting a ~ Golden [LLL | 07CX I, | "heats in” pastes | cur Opin moraor cone acy 4nd. then
“Since this is impossible, however, Girl, or was it to be a quiet debut? Viounet makes hers of Fi open across one end. Sowing
we should simply remain away from It turned out to be the spl Se Bie ake jG of MNS | Ib eqcte of the amount required for
overhead wires, keep away from the Affair society had hoped for. New- aenge Dey hy hi ek Sg A a gvod stand of piants is poor prac-
raido, not take a bath, be post Wegiaghapt Bt the sumplueus the head. These are sewed like oe :
host Sang ne \ophone oy ed ‘the world had known, Doris Duke, cupine quills to a cord. —A readily available nitrogen fer-
ger.
| protection from
(sound after all.
“It has been in
| ferent ways that lightning can be
blown and moved
the wind. This is
much lightning consists
sion of discharges too rapid for the
eye to distinguish, but not too rapid
{for the wind tc blow along, i
“Recently a photograph was taken
of a bolt of lightning passing near a
large radio transmission tower, which
shows very clearly the stroke being
moved in its path some little dis-
promise of much more when she
reaches 25, had been reared in out-
wardly quiet simplicity, where mon-
ey doesn’t count, and where the ex-
penditure of hundreds of thousands
other less moneyed debutantes. At
home, there were extravagances that
even the Golden Princess of the fairy
tales would never have had.
Four months later another prin-
cess stepped out on the social seas
to the tune of a rumored cool $1,000-
000. This little golden bud was none
other than Helen Lee Eames Doh-
erty, adopted daughter of Henry L.
— tilizer applied as a side dressi
—Dark frocks with pale coats and speed up the growth of aE
pale or white frocks with dark coats tables, such as lettuce, asparagus
or jacket are right in style in these celery, and spniach. :
parts. Satin frocks with jackets ——
or coats of self-material or wool are —An inch of rainfall weighs 113
real runners. The veil-thin wool tons to the acre. To provide this
dress is quite as fashionable for a amount of water by irrigation re-
Sunday in spring as anything in quires 7% gallons a minute 10 hours
silk, and many ladies of undeniable & day 6 days a week.
distinction wear it. Some dresses
math their coats and others con-'
rast.
$100 for some
—Debudding is the modern meth-
od of starting a strong fram
for young trees. Vigo wok
—That cooling breeze, so welcome Properly spaced should be
on a summer day, cannot come into all others removed.
the house if the windows are heavily
curtained and draped. Glass cur-
—Have the sprayer in good run-
. tains for the windows in summer RIDZ condition so there
quo For that reason it is not wise to Dy I mas in Europe “hould be of the thinest, sheerest delay or failure in oe 7
| stand. an opel Shea doorway bx mon: for several ve prior to her moth. Material. A figured pattern will | complete spray program, say State
‘should strike and be blown by the
'wind in the direction of the person Pril two years
er's marriage to Doherty, who in
ago, was 58, and
insure privacy, no matter how thin College plant pathol
the material, and at the same time Droken Re
parts and have the spray
| "admit the maximum of t and boom easily adjustable.
standing, it might prove fatal. Such giin te ne o isaricnas and rela: | 4 Draperies should no eae] —
instances, however, are rare. He surprised them all by wedding | that they can be pushed back leay- _ ——Rural folks will ind Farmers
| irAnother old idea concerns the ure Percy Frank Eames the Kern. 0g the entire window free. The Field Day at the Pennsylvania State
lightning rod. tucky beauty, who had nursed him L8H, thin draperies look better in College a storehouse of useful in-
| “This very valuable instrument tproneh avery serious illness, When Summer, too. formation,
came into Siarepute S2 number of
years ago throug! h-pressure
methods of traveling ie igh p How-
ever it is a fact that a good light-
ning rod, properly installed, will pro-
tect a structure ninety-nine times out
of a hundred and prevent fire and
P y damage.
“It is especially true that light-
ning-rods are well worth while on iso-
lated buildings, such as farm houses
and barns.
“Lightning seldom damages build-
'ings in cities, because most of them
are constructed on a heavy steel
frame, which acts as a perfect ground
| for the lightning.” Then, too, there
central
Helen Lee Eames, the young daugh-'
ter, returned from collecting several
academic degrees in Europe, being a
cultured student and linguist who
had been presented to a dozen courts
in Europe, it behooved her father
who adopted her legally, to give her
a coming-out party worthy of her
charms.
The Hotel Mayflower, in Washing-
ton, was transformed into a
fairyland for the evening. All dur-
‘ing the day, hundreds of guests had
been arriving by special train from
points all over the country.
Invitations had been issued to Eu-
The ecvent opens witha
— program of ent
—A coffee or tea table may stand day evening, a - on Sines.
in front of the sofa, where it will be all day Thursday. :
convenient for the hostess— and it
will prove useful for many other —To maintain Ta
numbers
things besides tea and coffee. Some dairy herd, it is n in
the
to raise
tea tables have tops in the shape of one heifer calf each
trays, Other styles have marble 4 to 5 cows in the ey oe Suey
tops which can be easily washed. A should be raised from only the very
wood top is equally practical for any best cows, for high milk production
smal table, Joyeves, F polished is inherited. To grow into good
wax, e film of wax pro- cows, calv
tects the wood from heat and liquid $6 must Yowell om.
—Grass cut or old leaves
stains and all types of marring.
id make an excellent mulch for newly
—-Desk accessories are almost as ted
important as the desk Planted Shrubs and’ trees. . "This
magic
No mulch will conserve mois
are plenty of water pipes and steam | TORERR titles and international fig- living room is complete without a control weed growth. Aire abi
pes all making a valuable protec- ures in society and finance. place to write—letters, notes, checks, -
Pipes . Washington society, official, diplo- grocery lists or menus. The cor- Turkey eggs hatch in 28 days.
a . o Mr Mo oh matic and Sr hsaional, attended ect aibastiories ie oy only an Sid —
| poe out, is not likely to be dam- of the i as ra} oover, young ting, but of great decorative One had best avoid inbreeding
(aged by lightning, because there are! was present, as value in the room. Brass, pewter, at least until he has had consider.
plenty of outlets to the such | Vere hundred of ardent swains, who
|as water-pipes, vent-pipes, radio an-
| difficulty is that the outlets to ground
|de not extend through the roof.
Lightning must make a hole in
| whatever happens to be in the way
|in order to reach a conductor to the
| “It is a good idea to keep away
from chimneys or open fireplaces
‘during an electrical storm,” Mr.
McEachron warns. Lightning, if it
does strike, will find its path to the
(ground blocked, and is liable to
{Jump several feet in any direction
lat t time.
“ of the poorest places
EE
water. you are , bath-
ing, or enjoying
‘during a
teen for the
to be
t,
the
simple |
impressive. The
, who said:
high- |
It will occasion no surprise to the
' motorists of the State to learn that
Mr. Pinchot's campaign promise of |
'a reduction in the automobile regis-
tration fee and driver's licenses will
not be fulfilled. The House Commit- 'life—its
souls are all the
aims
sions looking to the
ductions from the
bill amending the
Code, and this could hardly
n | battle.
have saw and heard on
Wir Goveroer, been obvious that with should
| ong us i
the vast Righway
gram reason plan |
Ey
n every
able by the existing scale of motor while wearily wai
taxes, and even more. And end; that this one
the first t
shower
ction, improvement and
ar Jo provide the funds. The 23: | mansion.
mop e no a
tax, all of the proceeds of
‘applied
g
pose diversion of the motor license |
apd. gaso tax funds to any pur-
Ea. the | where
; 1 rest, asl
y related
—We will do your job work right. | heart, entombed in
| were there to greet the newest en-
'trant into society. All in all, it was
a rare, gala occasion, and it was es-
this one part
cost more than any other debut ever
before given in this country,
That same day the fashionable
Hotel Mayflower established a
unemployed and dis-
tributed hundreds of tickets. While
at one door gala Washington,
| sables, ermines, diamonds and satins,
‘was being let down at the canopied
entrance from their limousines, at
another door men, w
to make a living and getting daily
bread for their famillies, were wel-
coming the bread and soup.
It is not unlikely that the canteen
and debutante party
ned, and quite possible that the
wealthy oil man had something quite
definite to do with its installation.
| For he himself was what he proudly
‘called a “self made” man.
Not until he reached the latter
of life did he seem to have
yeties he himself has let
Ficlen's deb seemed to
‘probably just a “quiet little party.”
—Jersey Shore Herald.
——————————————————
! On the first formal Memorial day,
in 1868, the services at Arlington
tery were perhaps the most
was General James A. Gar-
“I love to believe
£
3
g
®
2
%
g
g
g
spired by what their
done; that treasured up in American
unconscious
fluences of tne Srest: deeds of cel
Anglo-Saxon race m Agincourt
Bunker Hill. Each for himself gath-
ered up the cherished of |
and ambitions, its
tee on Roads has eliminated provi- dearest affections—and fl
re- with life itself, into the
If each grave had a voice
Motor Vehicle to tell us what its silent tenant last age
been done without the full consent of stand with uncovered heads and hear
the whole story of the war, We
hear that one perished when
i to fall,
of the l darkness that first disaster at
the State Manassas fell like an eclipse on the
dollar made avail- nation; that another died of disease
the State must naturally look to those when the tide of war shook the
most directly benefitted by TOA SOR+ | dome | of yonder capitol oe fesachoed |
in The Toios Ce thin la half cupful of shredded crabmeat perature drops just after the eggs
will forever fill the land like
Tor ey | ir re omer Do
to the highways, fitting for thei res
do object to and will vigorously op- this, wide ¥ the shadow of the
sa y
the grim edge of battle joined, here
all the hope and d
of their country centered, here | juice.
silver or china desk sets may be able experience.
used, whichever is in keeping with
the general atmosphere of the room.
Gay-colored blotters and quills may
add color and animation.
~—Floors should be darker than
walls. Remember this in buying |
[Fie o tiutids the walls. A large, |
rug es a room look larger get all the information you can
and more quiet and dignified. Small, | gbout them. Learn diseases
gaily colored rugs do not seem re- th, k Wat
| they are likely to have and be able
lated to the furniture but appear
like so many floating islands. P to recognize them when they occur.
With figured walls or fancy furni- —Eggs fo ste .
ture, plain rugs make the most gathered ae SE
pleasing backgrounds. With plain ypiform temperature, about 50 de-
walls, patterns may be used but the grees.
vague, grayed down patterns are a
—The egg producer can get away
- with many practices on his farm
placing rugs, make them that the breeder cannot afford to
parallel with the walls; a rug in countenance for a moment.
front of the davenport, one in front
of the mantel and one hetween the
windows. A rug should never seem
to divide the room into halves.
—A practical satisfactory method
for the person who does not wish to
| trapnest or pedigree is to buy cock-
(erels perferably as chicks or eggs
from a good breeder.
—Before trying to raise turkeys,
y alone
in
eary of trying
were so plan-
gs should be gathered several
times a day in cold weather to pre-
'vent chilling. Produce as clean
eggs as possible, but wipe any that
are dirty with a cloth dipped in
warm water.
~The construction of expensive,
_ elaborate poultry houses should be
discouraged, but, on the other hand,
no farmer should construct a poultry
house that is not durable and com-
fortable.
panish
propriate for the boy” s
ed and braided rugs are ular. In
room use a Tug so
that the inevitable spots will not
show on it,
him,
i
—Mash feed should be moistened
‘crumbly, not sloppy, with milk or
buttermilk. To this may add
potato peelings, or rain that have
ed In case you
| -—Summer Tidbits.—One of the
surest ways to have a y -
cessful is to be perfectly natural
about your entertaining. Parties
that cost so much money that it
worries you, and that demand a
| maximum of just to get
that no heroic Shc in swing aren't much fun, us-
‘been cooked.
have the milk or buttermilk, use wa-
ter but remember that the meat
scraps should be used in this case.
on that
| necessary ts,
colator and a pot of |
quisitely brewed tea in order that
your guests may take their choice
in- |
, even an impromptu gour trap doors, one leading into
party couldn't help being a grand oq.; fenced lot. The entire fenced
affair. ‘area contains about an acre of land
Much, to be sure, will depend ou
all, the sandwiches. I commend you to
of | these that follow! t
Orient Sandwiches—Cream a pack- |
of cream cheese, and add to it
young
nth of salt and ten o.4 oe a Gifferent trap door into a
hoped dates. Add chopped gifrerent lot at er oon month.
Waits aud ap be butter- mne plan calls for careful feeding
Salmon and Cucumber Sandwiches | 30d Keeping the turkeys away from
—Remove the skin and bone from a CHICKS at all Hives:
Sun A —Run the incubator a few
been pared chopped | before putting the into it.
cls Ha oa with La ep- | This will permit perfect regulation
per and moisten with salad dressing. and reduce the that accom-
Use as a filling between slices of pany the regulation of the machine
‘buttered ' when the eggs are incubating. Do
Crab and Olive Sandwiches—Chop not become alarmed wien the tem-
earth we might an
of the crimson
when the
§
for winter to
ell on the field
stuffed olives together. are put in. The cool
a with salad areas and heat and lower the
spread on toast. | the incubator. If you
Ginger and Nut Sandwiches—Put high at this time in all likelihood
through the food chopper candied or | you will cook the eggs before you
Add chopped nuts get it regulated again.
T Vv usually nec-
read on buttered toast —Only a few days are
on the nation’s | garnish rR Omit | essary to teach the calf to drink
nation's love!” the top slice of toast. | from the bucket.
holy
spot
|
Here ere
fear and and