Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 60, Number 47, Jasper, Dubois County, 2 August 1918 — Page 6

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The Hidden Treasure

By PHYLLIS M. ABBOTT (Age Fifteen Yeui)

Once upon a time, many, many years ago, there lived In the palace of Jnplter a beautiful goddess whose name was Merci. Every evening as the sun went down, Merci would go to the walls of the sky city to look down to the world below. She loved the earth people and watched over them. One day, as Merci watched over the wall, she saw great excitement in one city; men were polishing long bright pieces of metal that shone in the sun. In a neighboring city men were marching out of the gates with a great banner at their head. Merci was puzzled. She had never seen anything like this before, and because she was immortal and knew nothing of the passions of men, she did not understand. Intently she watched as on the plain below two great bodies of men came together with a clash and smote each other with those shining things they carried. Above, Merci watched in amazement and sorrow. Oh ! she must help those men who were suffering so.

Vivian A. Brown, Age Five Years. What could she do? What was it they needed? She must find it! So sho went to Jupiter and told him what was happening to the earth people, and asked him where she could find the thing that would help them. Wise old Jupiter only shook his head sagely and replied: "Merci, I cannot tell you where the treasure is that will help your earth children. Only you can find it." Then Merci wandered about the sky palace, asking everyone she met if they knew where the treasure was, but no one knew. She searched the treasure houses in vain, but the wise men could not tell her where it could be found. f At last she went back to the walls of the city, and as she stood looking down on her suffering earth people she exclaimed: "Oh ! where is the hidden treasure? What can I do for the earth people?" Suddenly, forgetting her helplessness, forgetting the treasure she sought, forgetting herself, sho flew down into the planet below. She gave the dying water and bound up the wounds of the injured, giving help and bringing back happiness to the hearts of the men she loved. Then, just at the end of the day, as the men watched her standing on the blood-red battlefield, she vanished and among the glorious colors of the sunset a tiny scarlet cross 'appeared; Merci had found the hidden treasure in her own heart. And all .those who wear that scarlet cross and carry it in their hearts have found a precious treasure, the Spirit of Mercy.

Find Markets for Canned Goods By the U. S. Department of Agriculture Housewives and members of canning clubs are urged to study their market at the beginning of the season and pack according to the local demands for different products. They are advised by the bureau of markets of the department to secure orders for canned goods before putting them up. Small lots of nonstandardized products are difficult to sell except among local buyers and are not purchased by the army, navy, commercial dealers 'or any department of the government. Many appeals to the department of agriculture to find a market for home'canned goods have been made during .'the past year and often the canners "believed that the government was in 'the market for such goods. Subject 'to whatever regulations may be made "by the federal government, the mar keting of food products will proceed In the usual manner and the bureau of .markets points out that proper grading, standardizing and careful preparation for market are especially necessary in handling canned goods, jams, jellies and preserves. Home-canned products can be kept over from one season to the next and those who have not sold their goods ;have reserves to draw from for their !home table. It is good policy, say the 'specialists, for the housewife to provide a reasonable surplus beyond the probable home consumption for the next crop year. While the bureau of markets is giving aid to producers on marketing problems it says that it is difficult to place producers of small quantities of different kinds of products in touch with buyers and urges home and club canners to learn the marketing end of their business just the same as producers in other lines of industry. j More than 190 canal boats are regularly navigating the creeks and tributaries of the Thames. Among them 56 carry families which aggregate 256 (children.

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Magazine Writer's Close-Up of Our General Pershing, as a Man and American Soldier. What of General Pershing, who may one day have as great an army as any? The question is asked as often in Europe as in America. It is not, I think, known in America how deep a first impression his character as man and soldier have made on the British and, indeed, the French, writes W. Beach Thomas in Harper's Magazine. When he landed in England in June, 1916, one of the British newspapers, whose correspondent had been for a long while in his presence, compared him with Moltke, who was "silent in seventeen languages." What General Pershing, the master of several Philippine dialects, said was little and good. When General Joffre shook his hand in Paris a few weeks later a scene worthy of a great historical memorial he said to one of his staff, "General Pershing will think first and act afterwards." At all junctures the general has been cool and prompt and determined. His colonel in Cuba wrote of him, "He is the bravest and coolest I man under fire I ever saw in my life." His own recorded maxims are few ; but at the most worrying crisis in France when news of the arrival of American troops was published while some of those troops were still in the danger zone at sea he said, "I do not worry, and when the day's work is over I go to sleep. Notes of Interest. In the schools of the Philippine Islands there are 11,000 native teachers and 500 American instructors. Within the foreign concessions of Hankow there are 2,357 licensed jinrikshas, 67 public carriages, and S3 private motorcars. The reason why opals are often lost from their settings is that they expand with heat more than any other precious stones, and consequently force open the gold which holds them in place, with the result that they ultimately fall out. i i I

1 I 2 A Song For Marching Men. i r

O who -will give us a song for them, The silent marching men? A martial song with a swing in It, With measured rhythm and ring in it, The breath of a deathless thing in it, A song for marching men. O who will give us a song for them, The silent marching men? A gallant song with a cheer in it. A tender song with a. tear In it, And never a taint of fear in it, A song for marching men. O who will give us a song for them, The silent marching men? Trumpet and bugle and fife in it, The passion and pride of life in it, And the old mad joy of strife In it, A song for marching men. O who will give us a song for them, The silent marching men? With iron and blood and ruth in it, Vision and beauty and truth in it, Terrible pathos of youth in it, A song for marching men. O who will give us a song for them, The silent marching men? With a sacred wordless space in it, With a clinging last embrace in It, A song with a woman's face in it, A song for marching mn. O who v give us a song for them, The silent marching men? A scorn for the tyrant's rod in it, A thought of the crimsoned sod in it, A faith in the Living God in It, A song for marching men. Theresa Virginia Beard, in the Bellman. Immigration Fromises to Set New Record Smallest Since the Colonial Days When the present fiscal year ends, June 30, it is highly probable that a ! , trnrrf tit 5 1 1 Virv arh tne smallest since -coioumi uuys, suj& the Washington Herald. Immigration statistics of the first six months indicate that the year's total may be less than 100,000 persons. For the half-year ending January 1, 1918, only 57,715 came to America, and since then the monthly totals have dwindled to a few thousands. The war, of course, is responsible. The real dwindling began when the United States entered the war. Since that day only one country has sent ontrfninrr lU.-o fho nnrmnl number of uuj w.b immigrants. That is Japan which, country now leads all nations in sending immigrants to America. Japanese immigration this year will reach 12,000 as against 8,925 in 1917, 8,711 in 1916 and 8,609 in 1915. During .the first half of this fiscal year 6,008 Japanese arrived and they've been coming over at the rate of more than a thousand a month. Italy, which before the war sent over seven times as many immigrants as Japan then did, this year will send less than a third as many. Mexico, which sent 16,438 immigrants in 1917, will send less than three thousand this year. t ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft 1 Mother's Cook Book Those who live on the mountain have a. longer day than those who live in the valley. Sometimes all we need to do to brighten our day is to rise a little. A Few Cooling Drinks. Drinks that are cooling always find a place any time of day and the house wife who keeps a well-stocked ice chest will always be popular with her friends. Ever-Ready Lemonade. Boil together a cupful of sugar, a cupful of water and a half cupful of lemon juice ; multiply this any number of times and keep in a cold place, adding iced water and using a tablespoonful of the sirup to a glass of water. Boil the mixture for five min utes before bottling. Almond Drink. Blanch three dozen sweet almonds and pound to a pulp ; boil them in two quarts of milk, adding a vanilla bean, which may be removed in a short time; sweeten with half a pound of sugar or a cupful of honey, cool and strain. Serve in lemonade glasses. Barley Water. vrr-u i- " c i VUbU UVU UJ- iJe"11 ana aaa to two quuru, ot uusr; ucul s mw v nnn nn nnrii rpmippri m l quart. Add two ounces of sugar and the juice of a lemon; strain and set aside to get cold. Fruit Sirup. Boll together a pint of juicy fruit and a pint of water, stirring from time to time, then strain and add honey to sweeten ; boil for ten minutes and then bottle. When serving allow a tablespoonful of the sirup to a glass of water. Tea Punch. Make a strong infusion of English breakfast tea, using a teaspoonful to a cupful of boiling water. For a quart of tea add honey to sweeten, and the juice of two lemons and an orange. A few slices of the fruit may be served with the punch. Mint Julep. Boil a cupful of sugar with a pint of water 20 minutes. Crush six sprigs of mint and pour a cupful of boiling Avater over it. Allow it to stand ten minutes, strain and pour into the sirup. To this add strawberry, raspberry and lemon juice ; serve very cold. Save the whey from cottage cheese, chill it and serve with any desired fruit juice flavor. A lemon with a slice of pineapple and a few cherries will serve two or three thirsty throati.

PLANS OUTLINED

FOR MAKING HAY Three Men and Two Horses Is Most Economical Crew for Gathering Up Crop. HAULING DONE IN AFTERNOON Amount That Can Be Handled Un. der Conditions Given Will Be From 40 to 60 Acres, Much Depending Upon the Yield. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) On many farms haymaking is car ried on in a more or less haphazard manner, resulting in a loss of time, as now and then a part of the crew is idle. With small crews there is usual ly less loss of time than with larger crews, where some are mowing and raking, loading and hauling, and oth ers working at the barn all of the time. The smallest economical crew for bringing hayfrom the field and putting it into the barn is the three-man and two-horse crew. In the East, the common practice is to load the wagon with hand forks and unload it with the horse fork or sling. This arrangement allows two men to pitch on the load and one man to build the load on the wagon and drive the team. When the load is on, all three men go to the barn to unload. At the barn one man works in the mow, one sticks the hay fork on the wagon, and the third man drives the team on the rope. No time is lost, except that lost by the two pitchers in traveling between the barn and the field. In the East the average distance between these points is a quarter of a mile or less. Custom in East. On most average-sized farms In the East the general custom is to haul hay in the afternoon only. In the fore , , , ooui one man mows enougn nay in llüOUt Iour "ours, scarung aiter xue uew is aimost gone, ior nan a any s hauling. Three to five acres, yielding 1.5 tons to the acre, is about all the ordinary three-man crew can handle. The second man rakes every morn ing, at the beginning of the haying season, the hay that was mowed the day before. In the forenoon the third man does not work at haying at all, but is free to do other farm work, such as plowing corn, etc. Let us see what the effect will be on the size of the crew if the hay is not cut until well past "full bloom," the Hay Making With a Small Crew. stage of maturity at which hay (timnthv fnr pvnmnle must be cut if choice or "tea green" hay is to be secured. Hay cut when past full bloom cures quite rapidly if the weather is favorable, and hay mowed in the forenoon can be put into the barn in the afeTnoon. This angement Quires an extra luu.ii uuu uvu cliu uuiaea j ,1 1 1 "U,v rc 4-f rake the hay. To facilitate matters, the side-delivery rake should be used, so that loading can be started as soon ns thp rnlrp lms mnrte nnf round. The fourth man will usually finish raking by three or four o'clock in the afternoon, uuu tau utjijj iuuu uunug tue amumuei VJ- U1U UU nlf-phinc Onto One WaffOn iS not oruinariiy a very economical arrangement. Mowing in the Afternoon. Now let us suppose that it is decid ed to do the mowing in the afternoon as well as the raking, and see how this arrangement affects the size of the crew. Such a method requires anoth er additional man or team, making a crew of five men working in the hay field in the afternoon only. There will be one man mowing, one raking the hay mowed the day before, and three men bringing hay from the field and putting it into the barn. Two more horses will also be required with this J,fLl hay per day than the three-man crew above described. The amount of hay that can be handled under these conditions will be from 40 to 60 acres, depending upon the yield. If the hay loader is used, more hay can be handled per day. The two pitchers work on the wagon building the load, and the third man drives the team. Dusting for Brown Rot Dusting peaches through the season for brown rot and scab is fully as effective and much quicker than sprayIng. Two applications are necessary in a drv season ; three if rainy. The last application should be made about tbr weeks tefore picking.

CAREFUL SANITATION TO PREVENT DISEASE

Pttiltry Coops and Houses Should , Be Thoroughly Ventilated j Observance of Simple Rules Will Prevent Trouble by Overcrowding and Soil Contamination Turn Sol! in Yards. (Prepared by the United States DepartI ment of Agriculture.) (With all classes of poultry breeders tllere should be more careful effort than ever before to secure thorough sanitation and thus to prevent disease. On farms correct sanitation Is secured in houses and coops by good ventilation at all times and the removal of the night droppings as often as necessary to avoid bad odor. On tlje land the desired result is obtained by distributing the stock so that all droppings are taken up as fertilizer by the vegetation growing on it so quickly that there is no soil pollution. Observance of these simple rules will not only prevent all diseases caused b -!? a Ai i za mcKcns nre Miways necuuuer it Kept on Open Range. overcrowding, and soil contamination, but the younsr stock reared under such conditions will grow faster and better. Where it is inconvenient to distribute a large stock as widely as is necessary to secure permanently the fine sani tary condition of land desired, the same result is obtained in growth by a rotation which places young birds al ways on land not used for poultry the preceding year. In back-yard poultry keeping scru pulous cleanliness is essential. The night droppings should be removed early in the morning. Those which fall on the floor of the house and in the yard should be removed as often as is necessary to get them before they become finely broken and so mixed with the litter of the floor or the soil of the yard that much of such material must be taken up with them. Frequent turning of the soil in small yards is desirable, but ought not to be accepted as a proper substitute for re moval of droppings there. If these are simply turned under in soil in which no vegetation is growing there is tem porary improvement, but after a short time conditions become so bad that renewal of the soil to a considerable depth is necessary. Clay soils should be frequently and liberally treated with lime. Good sanitation checks the rapid multiplication of lice and mites, but does not destroy them. For this the appropriate insecticides should be used. In a series of tests oi insecti cides by the bureau of entomology sodium fluorid was found most effective, completely destroying all lice present at the time of application, and -fing the birds treated immune to The I uLlliuaO iVl OUUIO LJllH.. methods of using sodium fluorid for lice and of eradicating mites are given fully in Farmers' Bulletin 801. l! flOW FARMERS GET HELP J, (Prepared by the United States 3 rtm.nt of Aoxieulture In every agricultural district there are farmers who have suc - s ceeded in holding their em- J. 5 5 ployees in spite of all the attrac- ftions offered by other Industries. These farmers have usually em- fployed married men and have furnished them with a small but comfortable house. Moreover, the laborers have enjoyed the privilege of raising a small gar den and a few pigs and chickens. . a 1 5 Clarence Ousley, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture. PREVENT DISEASE ON FARMS Disinfection of Seed, Location and Care of Seed Bed and Crop Rotation Are Important. (Prepared by the United States Department of Agriculture.) The first aim of the farmer should be to prevent, if possible, the introduc tion and distribution of destructive dlseases on his farm. In order to accom plish this, several precautions should be observed, of which the more important are (1) the disinfection of seed, (2) the location and care of the seed bed, and (3) crop rotation. Beans in Succession. Beans may be used as a succession I crop for grass, splnacü, or onion seta.

WOMEN FAIli IN WESTERN CANADA

Success Has Followed All Their Efforts. On the train from Edmonton to Winnipeg the writer took a seat beside a soldier who had returned from th front. On his breast he wore the beautiful distinguished service medal. One coat sleeve was armless, and on his left cheek he bore a scar that he would carry to his grave. He had served his country faithfully and well. At the first call for soldiers in August, 1914, he hastened to the recruiting office, leaving his 320-acre farm, with its crop ready for harvest, a full equipment of farm implements, plenty of horses, and a wife. The wife should not be last on the list for she proved the master of the situation, and loyally took hold of the question of production, while her husband was on his way to fight the Hun. And she succeeded. In 1915 she succeeded, and again In 191G, and when her husband returned In 1917 she was able to show some contemplated farm buildings completed, the indebtedness of the farm paid off, a considerable addition to the stock, and the Irnd ready for a 1917 crop. This war the story told by the soldier, and wp sn't he a proud man I He was now ready to do what he could to keep up the period of prosperity and provide food for the allies. The women of Canada have done nobly during the struggle. Among the most successful farmers of the Oak Lake district, Manitoba, are the Misses Clara and Beatrice Forward, who, for the past fourteen years, have farmed their own land, doing all the regular work on the farm, such as plowing, seeding, summer fallowing and reaping. They have been especially successful with stock, and have a splendid herd of shorthorns, both purebred and grade. At the recent Brandon sale they purchased a new purebred stock bull for $700. Their herd was last year increased by 23 calves. Miss R. M. Hillman of Keeler, Saskatchewan, is another successful woman farmer. She has gone In extensively for grain growing, and farms 1,120 acres. She also owns some of the finest Percheron horses in Saskatchewan. The prairie now boasts of many women who have had more or less success, though few are farming on the same large scale as Miss Hillman and the Misses Forward. These women have demonstrated, and are still demonstrating, that a versatile woman may be just as good and successful a farmer as her brother. There are other women, too, on the Canadian prairies, who, though they have not had thrown upon them the responsibilities of "running a farm," have been decided factors in making the farm a success. They assist their husbands by keeping the farm accounts, reducing the grocer's bills by their management of tlie poultry and butter, taking care of the house, and, very often, proving good advisers in the economic management of the men and general conduct of the farm work. The man wTho moves to Canada carries with him a wonderful asset in a good managing wife. Advertisement. HIS INTERVIEW WITH VETERAN Reporter Met Oldest Member of Organization, but Results Were Not Altogether Satisfactory. Everybody in this outfit wears a gold stripe on his left arm, and a goodly number boast campaign badges in addition. So it occurred to an energetic correspondent attached to othe battalion to request an interview with the organization's veteran. "Sure," agreed the major, "but there are certain difficulties. He's hard to Interview." "Aw, I can make him talk," declared the reporter. "Just lead me to him." The major got up and led the way out into the courtyard and around to the stables. "Here he is," said the officer, grinning. He had stopped in front of an aged mule. "His name is 'Peanuts.' He has served In Cuba, the Philippines, China, at Vera Cruz, on the border and In France. Go to it, young man." But all that Peanuts would say for publication was, "He-haw! He-haw I" Get New Kidneys! The kidneys are the most overworked orcans of the human body, and when they fan in their work of fiiterinc out and throwing off the poisons developed in the system, things begin to happen. One of the first warnings is pain or stiffness in the lower part of the back; highlycolored urine; loss of appetite; indigestion; irritation, or even stone in the bladder. These symptoms indicate a condition that may lead to that dreaded and fatal malady, "Bright's disease, for which there is said to be no cure. Do not delay a minute. At the first indication of trouble in the kidney, liver, bladder or urinary organs start taking Gold Medal Haarl iem Oil Capsules, ana save yourself before it is too late. Instant treatment is necessary in kidney and bladder troubles. A delay is often fatal. You can almost certainly find immediate relief in Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules. Por more than 200 years this famous preparation has been an unfailing remedy for all kidney, Uadder and urinary troubles. It is the pure, original Haarlem Oil your great-grandmother used. About two capsules each day will keep you toned up and feeling fine. Get it at any drug store, and if it does not giv you almost immediate relief, your money will be refunded. Be sure you get the GOLD MEDAL brand. None other genuine. In doxm, tkret izes. Adv. Some folks go abroad to complex their education and some to begin it.