TOMMY’'S ADVENTURE
OMMY was a little boy who
longed , to adventure. He had
heard his grandfather talk of a won-
derful adventure to be had at the top
of a mountain where lived a strange
ald man,
They had never gone all the way to
see the old man, for there had been
a lovely half-way place where they
had always stopped and had a pienie,
and then decided to put off the long
Aimb until another time.
Tommy knew, for he had thought
it all out, that he would only be able
to get just so far at a time. In fact,
they had told him so. They had told
him that was the reason they had not
gone farther,
So he decided he would not expect
a great deal to happen at once, nor
to accomplish a lot in a short climb.
aM Tees
He Raised His Stick—and Kept It
Raised.
He was that the progress
should be slow. He knew all
the way he would enjoy himself,
It was holiday time and Tommy
made up his mind that be would find
the pond and the cave, and he hoped
he would see the old man.
Tommy's grandfather was delighted-
ly excited over the idea. “I'll lend you
the stick I used to take with me when
I started on that trip—only I 1 you
will all the way, Then, when you
come back you can tell me i>
His grandfather's eyes the
very thought.
So bright early one
Tommy off. No
with him, for the few boys of his own
didn't idea of 1
long tramp Just for a sight
the pretty pond and a pessible
man and a possible treasure.
“There's en
river here not to go
look
“Besides,
willing
along
¥ nope
go My
about
shone at
morning
went
and
started one
age like the
long,
ugh to do down
all that way to
thing, they told him.
story of the treasure
There aren't any
more.”
by the
for any
that
sounds foolish
treasures any
But It all sounded so thrilling to
Tommy. It was like living years and
years ago, somehow, and looking for
things that were beautiful, and becom-
ing friends with strange, strange, crea-
tures, and finding a treasured reward
at the end. Oh, what would it matter
if It was a great effort! What an ad.
venture!
He had a blanket and a knapsack
of food and his grandfather's stick.
“Don't be gone too long,” his grand.
father had said, for his grandfather
would miss him as would the other
members of the family. Dut they all
envied Tommy his great adventure.
They had all dreamed of adventures
themselves,
Up and down the hills he climbed
through woods and woods. After a
long time when he was feeling quite
weary he came to a small lake, He
thought it was a very pretty lake, and
he wondered if it would not be fun to
stop here and explore. Probably this
would do as well as the other, It was
a long climb here, and he was quite,
quite, tired. But then he remembered
that this was where the others had
stopped,
There was a higher hill beyond this,
then some woods, and then up to the
tip top it was caljed. That was where
the beautiful pond was to be found,
so they said. But now that he was
feeling tired he wondered if the
pond really was there. No had
seen it. No one was really sure,
Maybe the old man wasn't quite right
In his mind.
80
one
Maybe there wasn't any-
thing at all—no to
be had, no cave, no treasure, no won-
derful, wonderful, beauty.
He sat about it,
then de go and
Just a little discour-
wus really sure,
He had just begun to climb the next
hill heard a hissing and a
swishing in
Well. he was glad he had
with him.
Without a
snake,
there adventures
but
Boe,
thought
and
i would
selded he
though he was
aged when no one
when he
the glass,
his stick
There must be no delay.
doubt this sound meant
And no soor
than the snake
ahead of him. He raised h
and kept It raised.
snake was showing no sign of hurting
him. In fact, he was timidiy hurrying
away. After all, he was rather a pret-
ty snake and he had « |
How
’
to himself,
to move
wr had he thought this
was wriggling
Certainls
1
most a hel
look, dreadful,
not to have legs an
He put his
stick and the snake looked a¥ound.
“Dear me, but
snake said in
ice, Yet
“What's a
“To think
this way.
down
relief.” the
ny.
understand
that's a
his fun hissing
Tommy could
relief? Tommy
that ¥«
replied,
asked.
a friend,” the
Wore
snake
How It Started
By JEAN NEWTON
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“RIGHT OFF THE BAT”
6s E DID it right off the bat,” we
frequently hear or say about
some one, the idea being that what-
ever it was that was done, was ac-
complished without any preparation
or equivocation but Instantly.
Like so many other expressions,
“right off the bat” comes to us from
the world of sport. It was originally
connected with the game of cricket,
played in England and subsequently
was transplanted to our own game
baseball.
To do anything right off the bat is
to do it as instantaneously as a man
strikes the ball when It Is thrown by
the pitcher,
With the tremendous popularity of
baseball, the metaphor struck just the
needed note and quickly became a
common phrase,
(® by the Bell Byniticata, Ine.)
“Pity the poor fool who has belles
on his toes”
(THE WHY of
SUPERSTITIONS
By H. IRVING KING
FELLING TIMBER BY
MOON'S PHASES
EW superstitions are more univer.
sal than the one which considers
the phase of the moon when felling
timber, It is a companion superstition
to that one which regulates ageicul-
ture by the moon's phases and, like
that superstition, has an alinost in-
credible hold upon the popular mind.
Like “planting by the moon,” the idea
that timber should be felled by the
moon is accepted by people of intel
ligence and education without a
thought that it is merely an ancient
survival—a superstition reaching down
from the days of moon worship-—a part
of the doctrine of Lunar Sympathy
80 dear to the ancients,
This superstition has existed in Ger.
many since the days of Tacitus who
mentions it as prevailing among the
Teutonic peoples, In France, before
the Revolution, the forestry law en.
Joined that all timber be cut In the wane
of the moon and one may still see
in French papers, according to Frazer,
advertisements of wood for sale “cut
in the moon's wane,” In this country
and Canada the superstition is wide.
spread, Pliny, Cato the Censor and
Macroblus, wrting early in the Chris.
tian era, speak of the connection be
tween the moon's wane and the felling
of timber as of a fact no one doubted.
This was in accordance with the theory
of the ancients that the moon was the
source of all moisture and that ter.
restrial matters waxed and waned In
sympathy with the waxing and wane
ing of the satellite. It therefore fol-
lowed that the moisture In trees In-
creased as the moon, increased and
timber cut at that period would not
dry properly; while wood cut when
the moisture was decreasing In all
things in sympathy with the decrease
of the moon, would soon be In a prop.
er state for use.
(@. 1930, McClure Nowsoaner Syndicate.)
ssl Yossi
Gives Thinking Power
The gray matter of the brain, or
what scientists call the cortex, does
the thinking, This Ig a thin layer
from one-tenth to one-quarter of an
inch thick, spread over the surface
of the upper part of the brain,
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deleted ib
Ivan Simpson
elie
This well known character actor
of both stage and screen has played
the part of Watkins in “The Green
Goddess” more than a thousand times,
including the silent picture version.
His first picture was with John Barry.
more in “The Dictator.” Simpson was
born in England in 1875.
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For Meditation
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By LEONARD A. BARRETT g
THE PROBLEM OF FATIGUE
NE of the Important problems
the field of engineering is to
in
com
amount of strain which can
by a girder used P
roadway !
pute the
be borne to support
of a bridge. Error in
making the computation er failure to
reinforce when the
evident, will In all
in the downfall of a structure,
element of strain ix one ¢
not
ural
moral
“Just
furs
becomes
probability result
strain
no
In
industry,
working
hours =a
able to
product large
r
turn
quantity
f
better qu
L. A. Barrett.
ork when fatigue
iV-WeeK
mental stag
In the world of moral »
is an
man can be at his best,
established fact that
fe » fr %
Ng OF
strain against which the higher nature
cries, “Go not beyond this mark.”
are gradually coming
psychic centers. Very clear
strations have been made of the serie
ous results of nervous overstraln
which the “brain, spinal chord and
the entire nervous system became ine
volved,” Fatigue can play havoc with
the psychic centers. “A tired person
Is literally a poisoned person-polson
due to the unexpelled toxins of fae
tigue”
Much of thé crime today may be
traced to fatigue. When fatigued,
people will do and say things which
at a later period they would give any-
thing to be able to recall. When
circumstances lead one to face a
crisis in an hour when resistance is
at its lowest level, a crime is. come
mitted,
The remedy may be found in seek.
ing opportunities for proper rest of
body, mind and soul. Thus shall there
be stored up sufficient energy for bet.
ter service, The possession of self-
control secured through proper rest,
will command all the forces of our
nature, which Is the secret of effi
ciency.
(@, 1930, Weatern Newspaper Union.)
(@. 1930, MoClure Newspaper Syndicate)
Cube Root Fatal
to Cattle Grubs
Entomologists Successful in
Its Use to Control
Grub Pest.
{Prepared by the United States Department
of Agriculture.)
Whoever would think of trying to
solve a problem In entomology by ap
plying cube root! As a matter of fact
that is exactly what federal entomol-
ogists did try—and with gratifying
success, The cube root, however, has
no relation to the mathematical proc.
ess familiar to high school students,
Even the pronunciation is different,
and “cube” Is divided Into two syl-
lables—coo-bay—and the root is the
root of a South American plant which
Is now considered a highly promising
source of Insect poisons. The pol
sonous principle in the cube plant is
“rotenone,” the same polson that Is
more familiar in derris powder.
Best Control Methods.
In trying to discover the best meth-
ods for controlliag the grub that in
fests cattle and causes knobby bunches
to form In their backs, federal
mologists experimented with several
| powders. They sprinkled these pow
| ders on the backs of Infested cattle
{ und observed the effect on the
ento-
grubs.
Other poisons used Included powdered
derris root, hydrated lime; nicotine
sulphate, and tobacco powder, all of
which were reasonably effective in rid
ding the cattle of the grubs. The hy-
drated lime was too caustic for the
skin of the cattle. The derris and
cube root powders had no unfavorable
{| effect on the skin and hair of the an-
| imals, and these materials are not par-
| safe to use, Applications of these pow-
ders at 15-day intervals killed most of
grubs, T to four
required.
Control
fs deral
to
ihe Wo
Heavy Losses.
scientists been
of
have
method
annual losses
from will be less
tedious and disagreeable than the cus
The
discover
the
cattle grubs which
sane
heavy
¢
The
ols tiie ds or
Rive A UEN degree of control
infested animal, dusting %
and
would be p is 13 sffective If the
whole «¢
Fattening Live Stock
Do you know how much feed is re
tof
The United Staes Departme
nish a carload of livestock?
f Agr!
qu rod
follows:
1.1063
alfalfa and five
be as
bushels of
Cattle: corn
tons of st
ii fatten
viti fatten
20 steers welg
them
pounds in 180 days
Hogs: 450 1
pounds of tankage wil
going from 1X to
make a carload
5%) bushels of
of hay will fatten
pounds each
Sheep:
fons
welghing 06
them weigh S00 pounds and
t i rine
Oe k Cari ad,
Hobo Insects Dispersed
by Empty Freight Cars
Insect pests have been caught steal
rides In empty freight cars by
workers in the United States Depart.
ment of Agriculture. A careful study
of several cars which had nsed
for shipping alfalfa hay revealed the
that 15 per cent of the alfalfa
weevils In the hay remain alive dur
been
trip.
A check on the movement of freight
cars has shown that they often ap-
pear in widely separated parts of the
country in a remarkably short time,
It 1s believed that many Insect pests
other than the alfalfa weevil are dis.
persed over the country in this way.
Bone Meal for Chicks
Bone men! as a part of the mash fed
growing chicks or reasonably fine
ground bone fed In a hopper If no
mash Is fed is a real aid. Chicks fed
bone In some form will make a more
rapid growth than those whose ration
lacks this, but it Is good In other re.
spects. Not only Is this backed by
results at experiment stations, but
flock owners have found it a real ald
in bringing the cockerels to broiler
age most quickly,
Digging Root Crops
Root crops which include such vege.
tables as beets, carrots, turnips, win.
ter radishes, and things of that sort,
should be dug in the fall some time
after mid October, or just before the
weather freezes up. Nearly always
these vegetables keep better In the
ground than they do outside. How.
ever, carrots sometimes tend to rot be
fore digging time and In such cases it
Is better to have them out of the
ground and placed In storage.
Horses Need Grain
Work horses and mules should be
wel] fed and properly cared for dur
ing the busy season, These animals
cannot do their best and keep In con
dition for regular work unless they are
given the right kind of feed. Liberal
grain feeding and bright clean hay are
necessary, Feeding too little grain
ond too much roughage means work
animals that are sbort winded and
lack endurance,
Piling Potatoes in
Warm Houses Costly
Tubers Are Newly Dug.
have been dug, Is expensive business.
Ohlo State university examined
tubers. His potatoes had been dug,
hauled to the barn, and put into a
plle approximately 12 feet long, 6 feet
wide and 7 feet deep. The pile con-
tained several hundred bushels of po
tatoes and a heavy percentage of
them were rotting.
Cuts and bruises on the potatoes,
suffered as they were harvested, were
in part responsible for the develop-
ment of the rot, the specialist found.
And the action of the bacteria caus-
by moisture on the potatoes, which as-
sisted the growth of the bacteria and
also gave them opportunity to travel
from potato to potato,
“Potatoes should be kept in crates
after they are dug, until they have
had time to cure,” says E. B. Tussing,
vegetable specialist In the extension
service, “The process of transpiration
goes on in the tubers from
three weeks after they have been dug,
and that period the potatoes
will and water will
on their outer surfaces. They
have time to dry and cure until
period is over”
one to
urine
quring
‘sweat’ collect
should
Ration Essential for
Developing Good Pigs
Starting ig pigs early on a
ration is of
for developing good health and vigor
the your
one he essentinls
to dis-
Schwab,
resistance
John W,
Mr. Schwab points
rapid
hogs
and in developing
ease, accordis
Purdue univ
out that young pigs make more
and cheaper gains than do older
A home feed
fully consists of 80 pounds of cracked
g to
mixed used success
corn, 20 pounds coarsely ground wh
and 10 pounds of tankage. A self.
feeder for feeding Is recommended
and pigs shoul
ration
» continued on this
until g about 50 to GO
pounds,
Wheat m
dlings or ile nls
replaced
or
ground oats, Screening of
is necessary
handle the oat hulls, milk ma
be fed ; and repl:
the ta age, If fed (0 any quantity
Roy bean found suit-
able fo
Good
advant
home-grown
No Great Advantage in
Feeding Cracked Grain
From the standpoint i
consyme 3
instinctive fo
larger particles of »
feeds
and corn,
whole
grains are
on the part of the
ick out the cor
ult do not
wheat grains to halan
the ot!
forced
and
When corn gra
no tendency to make 8 meal on one
grain alone,
slow enters are
1
to finisl meal on wheat
also receive an unbalanced diet.
ins are cracked there is
Drying Combine Grain
in Northwest States
combine Is solved by the
method of harvesting, according
those agricultural engineers
combined harvester
the northwestern states and In Call
fornia the past season. Green spots in
ters not.
a quick,
the pick-up attachment to the com
bine gets It
The longer that a good permanent
pasture can be maintained, the cheap-
er will be the cost.
* » .
Hauling out the manure alds In
keeping the surroundings of the dairy
barn clean and sanitary,
- . -
The Importance of a sufficient kind
and quantity of protein in the swine
ration is acknowledged by all well In-
formed swine feeders,
. & »
Superphosphate Is equally well
adapted for use on the dropping
boards of the poultry house as in the
gutters of the dairy barn.
- » .
Roup or colds in poultry is generally
a result of overcrowding, poor housing
or ventilation, gr lack of vitality due
to poor feeding during the growing
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roots attached and storing them un.
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season,
Feen-a-mint is
the answer. Cleansing action of
smaller doses effective because
you chew it. At your druggists
the safe and scientific laxative,
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