ABOUT THE SEWELLE!LS ROBABLY every one, when sues think it over enough, is thankful lot to be anyone or anything else, Often some one will say: “Oh, dear, if only I had money so-and-so has I would be able to do this and that,” but if it eame cight down to it they probably would aot he willing to entirely change Maces, They would want their own homes, or their own families, or their own little favorite pets or toys or surround- tgs, They haps something have but would want they didn't per they “It Is Fine to Be Satisfied.” wouldn't be willing to give up what they had in exchange—even though it didn't have any great value or wortl y what the world wou according to ( think. It would have the one to whom it belonged and that Is what counts, In the wouldn't want to be other than people, They wouldn't want to be dogs and lle or the floor. They wouldn't want to be cats and purr. Boys wouldn't to be girls and girls wouldn't want to be boys—that Is all the time, though sometimes it seem as though boys could have more fun, Mostly, though, play the same and they have others to enjoy they were boys, such as playing dressing up as big ladies, and all nice games, Now the Sewel mountain beavers, way, value and worth to same ‘way people i pussy want not does girls can games which they couldn't enjoy {00. CTHE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS By H. IRVING KING ~~ SINGING AT TABLE 0 SING at table is a sign you will be disappointed or that you will have bad luck. This superstition Is rather common in the rural districts and Is evidently a survival from the ancient conception of a charm as words of power cast in a metrical form to be sung or chanted. This idea has already been noticed in con- sidering the superstition with regard to involuntary rhymes. The majority of these ancient magic songs perhaps were like the paeans which celebrated the healing power of Apollo or the healing song chanted by his relatives over the wounded Odysseus. The Runes of the old Scandinavians are good examples of the versified chant. ed charm-—and they were not always beneficent charms by any means, Among the northern races at least witches and warlocks “dropped into poetry,” when they wove their hellish spells and cast their baleful charms. Witness the witches scene In “Maec- beth.” Early man, in short, appears to have conceived the magic power of words as being greatly increased, either for good or evil, when the words were sung in a versified form. There was something mystic about a song: It was not to be lightly dealt with, Now a person who beging to sing at table may, for all you know, be casting a spell upon the food or on the eaters thereof. Some idea of runic Incants- tions appears to linger In the Iden that “it is bad luck to sing at table.” {4% by McClure Mewspaper Syndicate.) (@® by MeClure Newspaper Syndicate.) —— 0 Inventions Every year about 40,000 inventions are sent to the patent office at Lon- don, “I've always been thankful,” sald Sewellel, “that I wasn't a Mrs. Rat or a Mrs. Mouse, or even a Mrs. Cat or a Mrs, Dog.” “I have been glad all my life,” said Mr. Sewellel, “that I wasn't born a Mr. Rat or a Mr. Mouse, or a Mr. Dog.” “It is fine to be satisfied,” said Mrs, Sewellel, “It Is, Indeed,” sald Mr. “and it is even finer to have a family name of which to be proud. Wouldn't it have been dreadfully sad if you had fallen in love with a Mr. Kangaroo for example? It would have been equally sad If you had fallen in love with a Mr. Pig” “It would have been you had fallen in Kangaroo, and still you had fallen In love Pig,” said Mrs, Sewellel, “Of course,” sald Mr. Sewellel, “we are related to the Mountain Beaver family which Is very fine, look like a good-sized Sewelle!, Just as sad If with a Miss dreadful if Miss love more with a We muskrat, “That is, each one of us looks about that size. “But our lives are "like led by the Beaver families, “We burrow in damp and marshy ground and we work when it rains as the prairie dogs do. “We are strong fi and we are as brave as brave can be” “We are all that," Mrs, Sew- ellel. “Yes, and more than that, Mr. Sewellel “We are “iy and the lives fine, ghters sald too,” sald very rare, from Dr California 200 for we § ¢ come from in the i keeper tells vi gome anim never seen | “And ther irs. Sewellel, “The keeper knows we're how pleased he Is when with surprise: “I've never even heard of them fore.’ “Ah, my have a great dear Mrs. deal for whi “We have a haven't become superior ire a treat for the visitors to see “We work har sing, the do, an re brave, very cail an hour later than she promises to be ready.” —-" {) How It Started By JEAN NEWTON THE BAYONET HE bayonet, which is a sort of blade attached to the end of a rifle, Is not a distinctively modern weapon of warfare—far from it. Indeed, history indicates that the bayonet in practically its Identical present-day forin has been used for als most three centuries. And if we in- clude the long Jousting spear, which undoubtedly furnished the inspiration for the bayonet, its origin dates much farther back. The term itself, by a peculiar eoin- cidence, has a double origin, The ar ticle itself was first manufactured on a large scale in the town of Bayonne, France, And It was the Basque prov. ince of Beyonetta whose troops, in the course of one of thelr spasmodic eon. flicts with their neighbors during the middie of the Seventeenth century, first Improvised the weapon in Its present form. Modern bayonets are of various shapes and are often used as Intrenching tools, as well as for assault. 0nmvrloht v Jeanette MacDonald URN HW He Fe We Ye He We We We Ue Woe He Ye He HW 2 EN Poe. Beautiful Jeanette MacDonald, fea. tured in the films, who was cast for regal roles in “The Love Parade” and “The Vagabond King,” has an entirely different part—that of an American heiress—in “Let's Go Native,” her lat. est picture, rsm— J ———— SOOO SHH HH OHO SO SH OHO For Meditation CO0000 By LEONARD A. BARRETT SOIREE ORT IMMORTALITY “lr A man die shall he live again? This has been the universal quest, Job of old asked this question, so did the philosop phers and the poets, Every the that one departed one og and gun, loved be perfectly in the 1 1tin 30 y ~ 10h sti f Cod to he » everlasting.™ proofs of im- 3 EF Are none. No back to tell where It Is. Science is if asked for evidences pro- duced from its laboratories. The evi. dences lie one's thinking and feeling. argued that there must be an immortality of life or why greatly desire It Whence the desire if It has no founda- tion in fact? What Is death? What causes it? The answer is simple enough—breaking down of the bodily tissues. When the organsgf the body no longer function death results, re gardless of what causes the break- down. It Is the same law as In all nature, The body dies just like all material substances die, Death does not destroy the spiritual realities, Love, goodness, Integrity, In short character are not of the body are not dependent upon It up the character, some call It, is the thing in the world, The fade away, grow dim with age And nature sink In years: But thou, O, Boul, shall flourish In Im- mortal youth Unhurt amid the war of elements The wreck of matter and the crush of worlds (© 1930, Western Newspaper Union.) er came us what is like or pow ETivRs within Cleero should we so most important stars shall the sun HE other day I met a novelist What kind of a typewriter do you suppose he uses? An old 194 model Where you lift up the carriage to see what's been written, I've noticed several other well-to. do writers still cling to some old typewriter of their youth, They seem to feel it's friendly and will be patient with them if the thoughts don't come right at first, Many a good Idea has been jotted down on the back of an envelope: many more, probably, than on any new-fangled desk memo pad. An idea Is a weak, timid thing to start with: it needs to be encouraged. Even Lin. coln's Gettysburg address was written on a scrap of paper, If he'd had to use embossed stationery the thing nev. er would have been written at alle Fred Barton, (Covveight.) Oat Varieties Resist Disease Tests Made by Government to Determine Suscepti- bility to Disorder. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) As the first step in a program to reduce the annual loss suffered by oat farmers on account of rusts, the United States Department of Agricul- ture, In co-operation with 65 experi ment stations, has completed tests extending over a period of five years to determine varieties resistant to stem rust. Incidentally, observations nlso were made on the these varieties to crown rust smuts of An Important the tests is that no relation between stem rust and rust, Some of gistant to sistant to the smuts, of ont Is aiso no relation sistance and rust resistance in varieties tested. resistance of and the oats, fact ¥ there brought out by seems to be resistance to resistance to crown the varieties most re. rust were least re- the other, Observations on another important group that there gmut re- the one diseases, Indicale between Resistant Varieties. which were most re- rust during the five- year period are: logold, Hajira, Rich- land, Minota X White Tartar (White Russian), White Tartar, Green Moun- tain, Anthony, and Edkin, Varieties least affected by crown rust were Mountain, Red Rustproof, lo- “Rustiess selection,” and Jira was the only variety to be resistant to the f rusts, of the resistant to The varieties glstant to stem Green the the conditions of these Markton, Red Rust- jira, Those i Wore » smuts in- silva { SHvermine, Varieties were oup of disease very susceptible m and Fulghum both smuts, both also was highly muls and to crown tible to stem rust. Mountais both smuts Green resistance in To do this a detailed specialization peculiar to oats t tests has by the United Agriculture, In ¢ Minnesota Agr tat slalion Slates Orr i experiment ab pt on is Technical “Field Studies on the lexlstance of Oat Varieties ™ Coples of the bul- letin may be obtained from the office of inforn Department of Agri- cuiture, Washington, D. OQ, as long as there is a supply available for free distribution, EXEL ERERRRBRERE BERBER ES Agricultural Notes FERRULE RERRERRRRBEERERRRRRRERS Sanitation makes for farm economy. * » » Copper carbonate dust controls smut Keeping up the body weight of hens The soil is the farmer's source of Income, his Investment, his wealth. » - * Clover hay Is two-and-a-half and al- falfa three-and-a-half times as rich - » » Money spent for fertilizer should be considered a business Investment. Like other Investments it should be made wisely, . * » A maximum amount of sunshine, good drainage and soil rich in organie matter, are the requirements of the home garden. *» » . Improved machinery--such as plant- ers, larger cultivators and diggers—in- crease the yield of potatoes and les- sen the cost per bushel and per acre. * * - A rotary hoe Is useful in cultivat- ing wheat or other small grain, or for tilling first-year alfalfa. It tears out weeds, loosens baked soil and stimu. lates the growth of the grain plants, * - - Sudan grass seeded late in May may be pastured late In June or used as a Soliing crop during July, Because of Its quick growth its adaptability for late sowing, and its ability to with- stand drought, sudan grass has at- tained a high ranking as a supple mentary pasture crop. * es» Cutting corn low helps to control the European corn borer, tnsiling and shredding are operations em- ployed to destroy the insect. Clean Ing up all trash Is a necessary prac. tice and it should be burned, buried or plowed under cleanly in the field. In- sects permitted to lve will multiply by the hundreds next year, Outbreaks of Army Worms Described Migration Is Result of Flight of Moths. (Prepared by the United Biatos Department of Agriculture.) The frequent outbreaks of the fall army worm have caused this insect to be known and feared by farmers living In the southern half of the United States east of the Rocky moun- tains, For several years the United States Department of Agriculture has been conducting studies of this insect at Brownsville, Texas. Results of these studies have now been published as Technical Bulletin 1387, “Studies on the Fall Army Worm in the Gulf Coast District of Texas.” The general outbreaks occur in the United States as a result of the north- ward flight of moths, By going north. ward, the finally reach terri- tory where species Is unable to survive the winter, irmy worm is a tropical species. The north- ward migration Is only a part of the general migration which occurs in all directions, but it Is the part which is of most Interest to the United States. moths the since the As a rule corn and forage crops ma- ture ahead of the flight of moths of the fall army worm, but in occasional Years crops Moths concen- rate on these late crops and the re- sult is an the fall army worm, The bulletin gives a cussion of the life history and habits its seasonal history and natural enemies. It may be obtained from the of Information, De- partment of Agriculture, Washingtor D, C, as long as there Is a available for free late, are outbreak of complete dis- of the insect, Office distribution, Sheep Manure for Bean Growing Thought Bes! , Where Ix 8 n aving good bean growing properties, but runs second to sheep manure in this respect. Sheep contains more nitrogen than manure ] about twice 1, a very im- growth of hb s OF COW manure and osphoric acl for he i= needed for the {1 that is why #8 much seed ar * is desired are very hog sheen Poison Bran Mash Best to Control Cutworms Polson bran mash is the most effec control for an outbreak of cut- worms, This mash Is made by stirring together three gallons of water, two quarts of blackstrap or other cheap molasses, and one pint of 40 per cent sodium arsenite solution. If the so- dium arsenite Is not available one pound of the crystal can be used This should” be stirred together thor- oughly and then mixed with 25 pounds of bran. This mixture should be scattered over infested fields at dusk at the rate of about eight to ten pounds an acre. The greasy cutworms which may be found on overflow areas do not re- spond to the poison bran treatment very successfully. The best control for this pest is late planting of corn or the substitution of other crops such as soy beans, millet or sudan grass, according to W. P. Flint, Illinois state entomologist. Perennial Vegetables Are Drought Resistant The perennial vegetables, with the exception of strawberries, are more drought resistant than most of the or- dinary sorts. This should be taken into consideration in the arrangement of the garden. The high side of the garden, If it Is not level, always dries out first during hot weather. There fore if these more drought resisting sorts are put on the high side of the garden, it will give better all around results in the long run. One cannot plan a garden that will apply to all farms, Jt must be varied according to the tastes of the family that is going to use it. For example, some folks like sauerkraut and others do not, The family that does should go strong on cabbage. It is, therefore, first necessary to study the tastes of the family and then plan the garden according to those tastes, tive Soy Bean Fertilizer Soy bean meal is little used as fer. tilizer In this country, but Asiatic countries use a great deal, For cen- turies soy bean meal has been sent to the sugar plantations of southern China, and its use gradually spread to plantations in Java and other tropleal countries. The high fertilizing value of soy bean meal has long been recog: nized in Japan, where large quantities are imported annually from China for use in the rice fields and as manure for mulberry trees Se —— of system. . . . Doctors know that this modern scientific laxative works efficiently in smallen doses because you chew it. 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Frey’s Vermifuge Expels Worms eilky snd glistening, your refreshed. entire Use Glenn's Sulphur Soap Te Pure Selghur. Mt droge Rohiand’s Styptic Cotton, 25¢ Bourbon Poultry Medicine foreach ebick dally in drink or feed stim wintes mids ay - setion. On market re. Small size 60c, hail pint §. Pint $150. AL druggists, or sent by mail. Bowrbon Remedy Co., Box 7, Lexington, Two tons of dried grasshoppers were ordered from South Africa re cently for animals at the national zoological park at Washington, says Popular Mechanics magazine. They were for the diet of some of the rare African birds and also for mix. ing with the food of some of the mammals, according to the 200 direc tor, Dr. William M. Mann. Valuable elements are combined in the proper amounts in the insects, experts have found, and few satisfactory substi tutes for them have been discovered. AUGUST FLOWER ~brings almost instant relief from terrible colic pains. Banishes heart. burn, nausea, sick headache, bilious. ness, sluggish liver, constipation. Promptly restores good appetite and digestion, and regular, Rh elimination, DYSPEPSIA
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