Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 113, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1917 — HAPPENINGS in the BIG CITIES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HAPPENINGS in the BIG CITIES

Nearly All Greater Boston Put Under the Plow BOSTON —Greater Boston has been put to the plow. So, history recounts, the conqueror dealt'with ill-fated cities in ancient times when they fejl into barbaric hands. The phrase plucked from the tedious Latin translation con-

jures up in the schoolboy’s mind a picture of the ashes of the captured city furrowed by the plowman rather than the pictures which Greater Boston in wartime have registered on tha. plates of the camera. The plow is a mighty weapon of the nation at war, a nation to which has been allotted the tremendous task of feeding a large part of the warring world. It is not enough that the farmers

in the great agricultural lands of the middle West should turn to their work with a determination and skill and care never before necessary in the history of the country in peace or war. It is not enough that the commonwealth should discuss plans, in response to the president’s appeal, for the mobilization of 5,000 boys in their teens to work on the undermanned farms of New England. It is not enough that the suburban gardener should cultivate his little plot in the rear of the house. Greater Boston is plowing up its public parks, its golf links, its school grounds and its churchyards, in some ■instancesu-and-thp front lawns nt its—domiciles in many Instances. Rather an ugly duty, It seemed, this tearing up of a spacious lawn, but as one grim-faced suburbanite remarked: ■ “This is not time for estheticism.” “Anyway,” said the housewife, who was watching the operation from the front piazza, “it will look much better when things begin to come up." Training Women of New York to Till the Soil NEW YORK.—To be operated as an extension of the agricultural department* g e -ahJThepuhllc'Tilgh”®stroW®r~SW — agricultural demonstration farmito train college women and high school girls

to till the soil has been opened under the auspices of the National League for Woman’s Service. The Crawford estate, a plot of 200 acres at Two Hundred and Twen-ty-second street, Baychester avenue and the Boston Post road, has been donated by George Crawford for this purpose. Mrs. Mary E. Hamilton, chairman of the agricultural committee of the league, will have charge. Mrs. August Belmont is the treasurer

of the committee, and on the advisory .... ' -. -- - board are Prof. O. S. Morgan of Columbia university, Dean A. R. Mann of Cornell university, Mrs. Annie Nathan Meyer of the Home Economics league. Miss Helen Cameron, city chairman of the league, and Miss Harriet Bardner, field secretary. The school will be equipped with all modern farming implements, including tractors, harrows and scientific canning apparatus. After a survey of the ground the farmerettes will raise chiefly potatoes, beans, corn and green vegetables, and all the work of plowing and hoeing will be done by the girls. There even will be a machine shop whece the students will receive instruction in the repairing of tools and the making of them where it is possible. A modern cannery will be opened and the girls will be taught this phase of farm work as well. In spite of the advance in the price of tin, the league’* school will be supplied with cans at a reduced price by tin manufacturers to whom the project has been explained. Temporary bungalows for the accommodation of students will be built on the ground, and tents set up to be used during the summer, when the farm will be more crowded than at other times. The colleges and the high school* will have Saturday and’specified afternoons on the farm, and arrangement* can be made by the students for occupying the bungalows at night.

Forced to Dispossess Bees From Attic of Home SAVANNAH, GA. —E. J. Ward is authority for a story of bees taking possession of the residence of J. H. Hulme and appropriating it to their own use as a monster hive. A swarm of bees “settled” in the second story of the house four years ag<r and found a knothole

to go in and out. All during the spring and summer th ey ma de th et r h 0 ney i n long rows of honeycomb which reached from one sill to the other. The first year there were only two swarms, and from these there came two swarms each in the next year, making six swarms in all. The third year two more swanns from each’made a grand total of 18 swarms of bees and the fourth year two more swarms from each made 54

jwarms jointly occupying the residence with Hulme and his family. And the bees and the folks did not get along together —especially the children and the bees. The youngsters were inclined to insist on their rights in the house, with the result that they were frequently stung. iRecently Mr. Hulme recognized the fact that either he or the bees musti move, and the longer he waited the greater the handicap he would labor under, since the bees were increasing their army rapidly. He called in at number of neighbors and all the negroes working on his farm and, after offer* Ing each 50 cents and his share of half the honey captured, started out U» exterminate the bees. Armed with gallons of boiling water they caught the bees all buddled] together to keep warm during the cold and soon made short shift. Hundreds of pounds of the finest kind of honey was in the room.

Trainer Left Pets to Fight for Uncle Sam n ALTIMORE.—WiIIiam T. Meickle, trainer of Lady Alice’s rats, one of the D many amusing features in Barnum and Bailey’s circus, left his pets to join ■ the United States Marine corps. He visited Captain Evans at the Marinq

corps recruiting station and following a whispered interview, was taken to the back room, there examined and when lie emerged was a proud member of the “Soldiers of the Sea.” . Not long after Meickie had proudly left the recruiting station another member of the circus came swinging down the street, and when he spied "the blue coat of the marine on duty he hurried upstairs to Capfaln ~Evfins. - “Who are you, sir?” asked the cap-

tain of his visitor. ___ .—ix. - -as **M<*ue other than Frank Patrick Gallagher, Irish from the tip of me head to the aoles of me feet,” quoth the visitor. “And sure I was born on St. Patrick’s day, back in *99 when the Yanks were kicking the Spaniards out of Cuby. Sure, I was too young to fight then, but I’m the right age flow, you can bet. Look me over, admiral. And sure, I forgot to tell ye that I’ve been chummin* for the past five years with the wildest bastes that ever clawed an Iron bar inside a cage. Just show me a German—that’s all I want Sore. I’m a very bad man, I am, you bet your sweet life.” “ About thirty seconds later Gallagher Was also a member of tM Marina corps. He was an animal trainer. / . • ' ’ ■ ■'