The Syracuse Journal, Volume 4, Number 15, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 10 August 1911 — Page 7

St £ The Reason L. By T. BLAIR EATON J 75 r\ “You needn’t read any longer, Margaret,” said Benson. “Somhow I’m not in the mood for it.” The girl closed the book very softly and turned slowly to look at the white face on the couch. “You are tired, Ned?” she asked. “No,” said he, with a wry smile, “not tired, but querulous and rather peevish, I’m afraid. I used to think, at the first of it that I had some pluck; but I’m rapidly being disillusioned. I haven’t the nerve of a chicken.” “Qh, haven’t you, you splendid boy ?” she said. “I would like to know who but you would have lain here as bravely and uncomplainingly and faced the things you have the past year?” “There are thousands of people who would have done it much better "than I,” ?aid he gloomily. “The thing is getting on my nerve. Good Lord, I ;an’t stand it! I can’t! I can’t!” She moved her chair closer to the eouCh. Her face suddenly paled with tenderness and pity. “Ted, hush!” lhe said soothingly. “You mustn’t talk like that. Think of your splendid jourage all these long, long months ilnce the accident. And every month puts you so much nearer recovery.” His eyes were turned away. She raw his fingers working ijgrvously. “’j'hat’s the rub,” he confessed. “What is?” she asked quickly. “The chance of getting better —the , shahce of ever, being of any use in the world again,” said he. “Gordon told tne [this morning very frankly ; that it ivas a question whether oLnot I would ever walk again. I wish ne had told me that in the first place, instead of > earrying me along like this with illjonjceived kindness of false hopes.” The girl’s face grew paler. “He told sou then?” she asked. “Yes. ‘ He said I had the right to know. He was perfectly correct there, too.; Only, as I say, he should have told me in the first place, if -he had my; doubts about it.” “Why?” said she. lie moved uneasily. “Oh, for many reasons,” said he. “Things would havle been utterly different. I could . havo stood it better, I believe, if I had > known it then.” * “But it isn’t at all certain you are going to be helpless permanently,” she declared. “Gordon is simply telling iyou that to warn you in case the worpt happens—and the worst is not going to happen,” she ended cheerfully. , “As to that we can only make surtnises,” said he. “Time alone will set'(R L ® / wiy ‘[This Is Very Hard for You.” tie the question, and from what Gordon said and the way he said it, I am rather inclined to the opinion that it won’| do to have too many hopes.” The girl said nothing. She was looking out the window at the first green leaves on the trees and her eyes were dim with tears. Benson, too. was looking at the leaves. His face was stern and set and about his mouth were hard lines of stubborn determiF “And so,” said he, quite as if their ’ talk had not been broken by the little period of silence, “I want to be very frank; with you, Margaret. Let’s not have jany foolishness or any quixotic business about this affair. I was thrown from the horse and very apparently I am in this fix for the rest of my’life. Well and good! I was very very just now to cry out so *• against it. What is dbne is done and cannot be helped now. But that needn’t necessarily upset the whole universe.” She looked at him questioningly. She had never heard him talk like this before. His had always been a cheerful, hopeful nature, even after the bitter accident had left him tor spend j»his tedious, endless day on the couch. “ “First,” said he, “give me the ring, please." The girl merely looked at him in unbelief. r “Give me the rijig, Margaret,” he repeated sternly. • Slowly she drew the diamond from her finger and laid it in his outstretched hand. He put it in the pocket of his smoking coat and the lines about his mouth grew more tense. "Now,” said he, “you are free. This

matter of a woman tying herself to a crippled ’man has been tried before! It is all nonsense. It doesn’t work—except in theories and sentimental fiction. You are not to come here again —rfot while things are as uncertain as thdy are at present, at any rate. You are” to forget me—forget me, do you understand?” The girl pressed her hand to her white cheeks. “Ted,” she said incredulously, “what are you saying? What does all this mean? Are you trying to test me? If you are, it is most illtimed. “You—you know very well I would never break it off, no matter what had happened. You are slandering me—insulting me.” His face twisted for a moment Then he smiled grimly. “I am doing nothing of the sort,” he declared. “I am simply talking good cold, common, every-day horse sense. It is better so. Can’t you understand me?” “No, I can’t,” she said brokenly. “Then let me make it plainer,” said he. “I wish it. I suppose I am not very noble about it—but a man in my condition isn’t supposed to be noble, or if he is expected to be he falls far short of the mark. I wish it. Do you realize all that means?” She shook her head. Her eyes were brimming. She dared not trust herself to speech. “It means,” he went on, “that we are not suited to each other —not now In the old days it was different, but we have to face new conditions now. I am exacting, peevish, broken. I shall probably be so for the rest of my life. I have got to face the future coldly, calmly. In that future you won’t fit. You are too sympathetic, too solicitous, too sensitive. You make me aware every hour of the day that I am a crippled wreck, and if I am never better it will be like that through all the future- —a future, frankly, I don’t dare sac you. Have I made it all plain now?” The girl’s face was buried in her hands. She was shaken with sobs. She could not see the worn, pitiful expression on Benson's own face. “Os course, all this is very hard for you to listen to, and very hard for me to say. Still, I think it is far better to say it now than to go on making some horrible mistake and finding it out when it is too late to remedy it.” There was a long silence, broken only by the girl’s sobs. Benson’s face was turned toward the wall. He did not dare to look at her. ■ “You will forget me in time,” said he. “You will marry some other and better man, and I shall, mayhap, marry some woman who is fitted to my peculiar position in life. There are such women I thoroughly believe.” Again the silence. At last the girl slowly arose. Her eyes were red and her shoulders shook convulsively. “If you wish it, of course,” she said and turned away. Benson bit his lips. His face was gray and drawn. “Goodby,” he said shortly. The girl was looking at him closely. Suddenly she dropped on her knees beside the couch and burying her face on his shoulder wept w ithout restraint. “Ted,” she cried in a choking voice, “you were lying, lying. Tell me it is so. Tell me that you were lying—for my sake. I can’t bear it!” She felt his hand on her shoulder. Then she heard his voice, strangely shaken. “Yes, it was a lie, Margaret, a ghastly lie. I thought I was strong 'enough to carry it through for your sake. But I’m not Here is the ring. Put it on again, dearie.” A Lummi Potlatch. In commemoration of a great victory achieved over the northern Indians ninety years ago the Lummi Indians on the Lummi reservation, five miles from Bellingham, gave a potlatch to about one thousand persons from this city, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. About a ton of clams was baked in the open under a huge bonfire, and an equal amount of spring salmon, cooked Indian style, on sticks- stuck over the blaze, was distributed. During the afternoon a dozen of the Lummis dressed in historic costume dashed out of the woods on their ponies, and after a mock attack upon the settlement quieted down to a game of “sia-boi.” This is the ancient gambling game of the Pacific coast Indians, and is played with marked and unmarked pieces of decorated bone, which are passed from hand to hand, the object of the game being to guess in which hand the marked bone is held. Before the potlatch was concluded, Washington, son of old Chief Washington, mounted a stump and recited the epic narra; tive of the prowess of the warriors of his tribe. Each guest was presented upon his arrival with a silk ribbon upon which was printed, “Eyas Summa” (“Have a good time”). ' How Some Sermons Are Made. A few days ago, under the shelter of the trees of a mfanse garden, half a score of ministers told each other “How they made their sermons.” It was an illuminating time. The “father” who led the conversation had many good things to say. At the end of thirty-six years of ministry, on account of his eyesight, he said he had not written fifty sermons. Every sermon was thought out, repeated to “the mistress of the manse” oh Saturday afternoon and evening, and after that wise critic had made her observations and suggestions, preached without notes. Most of the preachers said they preached without a MS. Some had brief, others more extensive notes. Every man had a high ideal. None felt that he had already attained the excellence he desired. — British Congregationalist.

Profitable to Fertilize Clover By JOHN B. ABBOTT Associate in Soils, Pardue Experiment Station Purdue University Agricultural Extension

ft, , gio - - Weeds on Untreated Plot at Left. Clover on Limed, Fertilized Plot at Right.

The fact that clover may need fertilization and that itzean often be fertilized at a profit i&i quite generally overlooked, probably' because clover is known to improve the fertility of the soil and is generally grown mainly for that purpose rather than as a money crop. As a matter of fact the use of mineral elements, phosphoric acid and potash, and in some cases lime as well, often makes all the difference between success and failure. The experimental field in southern Indiana, part of which is shown in the accompanying cut, is a case in point. This field had been heavily cropped and rather poorly cared for for about 75 years when the experiment was started in the fall of 1905. Clover has been seeded on parts of this field every spring since 190 C, but has never made a satisfactory crop on the unfertilized parts .of the field, the land remaining except for a few weeds as shown on the left-hand side of the cut. During the same period, clover had never been a complete failure on the limed and fertilized plats, one of which is shown in the right-hand side of the cut. These results are about what may be noted on naturally poor or badly worn soils in all parts of the country. Clover ’’failures are of course sometimes due to unfavorable weather, or in the case of over-rich soils to smothering " out by th-e nurse crop, but in very many cases it is simply a case of starvation. The soil has become too poor to raise clover. Such cases demand immediate attention; for soils that fail to grow clover are pretty sur® to run down in fertility very rapidly. It is generally recognized that the tubercle forming, nitrogen fixing bacteria, which after all are what makes clover valuable, will not tolerate an acid reaction of the soil, and this being the case the first step to success

PRUNING MATURE APPLE TREES By C. G. WOODBURY Horticulturist, Purdue Experiment Station Purdue University Agricultural Extension

It was shown in the last pruning lesson how wrongly made pruning wounds open the way for the entrance of disease which either kills the tree outright or shortens its life by many years. The main idea brought out was to make clean, close cuts and to paint over large wounds. The best time for pruning is one of the questions which the orchard owner most often asks. The answer depends upon the purpose for which the pruning is done. The most common advantage gained by judicious pruning of mature apple trees is the

to it >,■ . JsFl T > 'IWI &SS&&X < ■■*'•“. £sr '' "•'' ' x xA^S®jg&J ' *• '- 7 'L. ' -1 An apple , tree with a well-formed head. The scaffold limbs are 'well distributed and the crotches strong. relieving of competition between branch and branch. A mature apple tree should not be looked upon as an individual being, such as a horse or cow, the entire body of which suffers if any part of it is removed or injured. The tree rather represents an aggregation of competing units, a colony of individuals all striving for their own development, regardless of the effect upon their neighbors. The bud is the unit, rather than the tree. Every bud aod every branch devel-

with clover is the correction of soil acidity by an application of about two tons per acre of finely ground limestone or slaked lime, which should be disked in before wheat is sown. It is to be noted, however, that not all soils which fail to grow clover are acid, ana limestone should be tried in an experimental way before going to any great expense for liming, which may not do any good. The next thing to be considered is the physical condition of the foil. Clover is very tender as a seedling plapt, and must not be expected to thrive in a soil so devoid of decaying organic matter that it puddles when wet and bakes and cracks wide open when dry. No small tender plants could stand such treatment. A good coat of manure will go far towards correcting this condition, or a vigorous, large-seeded legume, such as the cow pea may be grown and plowed under, after which it will be much easier to get a stand of clover. Finally, after the physical condition of the soil has been made good enough so that clover can get a start, and acidity has been corrected by the use of lime sb that clover can utilize the atmospheric nitrogen, there remains the necessity of fertilization. Clover feeds upon the same elements that other crops do, and gets them from the soil in the same way with the exception of nitrogen, and if the soil is too poor in the mineral elements to grow grain crops successfully, it is likewise too poor to grow clover. It is not. necessary or advisable to provide a special fertilizer for clover. It is better practice to fertilize the preceding small grain crop liberally enough so that there will be some left over for the clover. The application of less than 200 pounds of fertilizer per acre for wheat certainly does not provide for a sufficient amount and it is probable that 300 pounds per acre is not at all excessive.

oped from a bud, is engaged in a fierce struggle with neighboring buds and neighboring branches, for access to the light and the air which are essential to their development. In this struggle many succumb. Many more are nearly overpowered by stronger neighbors and lead a half-starved, feeble existence. It is the business of the.,fruit grower to select those buds in the young tree or those branches of the mature tree whese preservation will benefit the whole tree. Thus the relieving of competition, the pruning away of the unfit, and the feeble, is a benefit to the whole collection of units which make up the tree. Each one which remains can. and should have free access to light and air. Every one should be removed, whether large or small, which is poorly placed and which is not fit to survive and bear fruit. The best time to do this annual * IM Ji ■ < VWSo IE Jr A Hl jiF /jjWrQ x" x. - yTHlMirMttow Don’t allow the head to develop In this way. Such over-crowding can be prevented by correct early pruning, pruning which is so necessary In every mature orchard is probably late winter and early spring. Some good fruit growers defer the work until after growth starts in the spAg, thinking that the wounds heal a little more rapidly after the sap begins to flow actively. In a large orchard, however, there are so many other things ■to do after growth begins in the way of spraying, cultivation, etc., that it is well to have the pruning dut of the way.

mum PERRY Hero of Lake Erie to Have Memorial. Big Celebration Is Planned in Honor of American Commodore Who Defeated the British in Memorable Engagement. Cleveland, O.—Doubtless everybody has read in the newspapers of an act of congress, passed at the recent session, for the commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the battle of Lake Erie, which was fought by * Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry against a British fleet under Captain Barclay off Put-in-Bay. An appropriation of |250,000 was made as a contribution toward a general fund to pay for a suitable monument, and the president was authorized to appoint three commissioners. The centennial celebration had already been agitated for two years in Ohio and the legislature of the state had already appropriated >BO,OOO. The legislature of Pennsylvania had appropriated >IOO,OOO and the Rhode Island legislature had appropriated >25,000 by a unanimous vote, but the governor vetoed the bill after it had adjourned. Bills have been introduced in the legislatures of New York for $75,000, in Illinois and Wisconsin for $50,000 each and it is expected that Kentucky will do equally well, because that state furnished nearly all the soldiers for General Harrison’s army in the war of 1812, and a squad of the gunners in Commodore Perry’s fleet. A good deal is expected from Michigan, but nothing has been done there yet except to appoint a commission to meet with those representing the national government and Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Rhode Island, Kentucky, Wisconsin and Illinois. It is proposed to erect a lofty column, at least 450 feet high, with a lighthouse and a wireless telegraph office at the top, and at the base an auditorium that will seat at least 1,200 people. Within the shaft it is proposed to have historical, military and naval museums and rendezvous for the naval militia and the yacht clubs on the lakes. It .is also proposed to bring from the harbor of Havana one of the masts of the battleship Maine to be used as a flagstaff. Several 13 inch guns from the Oregon and from the Spanish battleship Viscaya are to secured and used as ornaments at the base of the monument. While the Perry victory will not be celebrated until 1913, arrangements are already under way in various lake ports along the lower Lake Erie pre paring for the occasion which will fittingly mark the one hundredth anniversary of Perry’s victory. Not only will the various state national guardsmen be sent to the lake region for - 111 1 I Perry Monument Near Cleveland, the occasion, but the military and naval departments of the United States government have promised to send federal troops and middies to take part. The committee on military and naval affairs has framed a tentative program by which the famous “battle of Fallen Timbers,” “siege of Fort Meigs,” “battle of Fort Sanducky” and “battle of Fort Stephenson” will be reproduced in the lake near this section and Put-in-Bay, the latter place containing the cave where Commodore Perry hid for some weeks following the battle in which his ships were losfi The “battle of the Thames” will also be reproduced according to present plans. Thousands of regular troops and many brigades of the various state militia will be camped near Put-in-Bay where they will give a sham battle as one of the leading features of the celebration. They will be met near there by war vessels of the British and American navies to assist in the maneuvers. Later, “Perry’s victory of Lake Erie” will be staged near Put-in-Bay. The events reproduced ' will be events of Nearly 25 years of warfare between Americans on one side and British and Indians on the other. Only the most important events will be enacted, so that the performance will not last more than 14 days. There is no suitable monument for Commodore Perry and his four brothers, the most famous family of sea fighters in the United States. The father and five sons were officers pf the navy and two of the sisters mar ried naval men.

I ONE 0* THE OLD GENTLEMAN I Absolute Fact Destroyed Force of Well-Meant Argument for Temperance. On a pleasant Sunday afternoon an old German and his youngest son -were seated in the village inn. The father had partaken liberally of the homebrewed beer, and was warning his son against the evils of intemperance. “Never drink too much, my son. A gentleman stops when he has enough. To be drunk is a disgrace.” “Yes, father, but how can I tell when I have enough or am drunk?” The old man pointed with his finger. “Do you see those two men sitting in the corner? If you should see four men there, you would be drunk.” «i The boy looked long and earnestly. “Yes, father, but —but—there is only one man in that corner.”—Lippincott’s. BABY’S HAIR ALL CAME OUT ’ “When my first baby was six months old he broke put on his head with little bumps. They would dry up and leave a scale. Then it would break out again and it spread all over his head. All the hair came out and his head was scaly all over. Then his fcce broke out all over in red bumps and It kept spreading until it was bn his bands and arms. I bought several boxes of ointment, gave him blood medicine, and had two doctors to treat him, but he got worse all the time. He had it about six months when a friend told me abcut Cuticura. I sent and got a bottle of Cuticura Resolvent, a cake of Cuticura Soap and a box of Cuticura Ointment. In three days aft'sr using them he began to improve. He began to take long naps and to stop scratching his. head. After taking two bottles of Resolvent, two boxes of Ointment and three cakes o" Soap he was sound and well, and never had any breaking out of any kind. His hair came out in little curls all over his head. I don’t think anything else would have cured him except Cuticura. “I have bought Cuticura Ointment tnd Cuticura Soap several times since to use for cuts and sores and have 1 rever known them to fail to cure what I put them on. Cuticura Soap is the 1 lest that I have ever used for toilet iu rposes.” (Signed) Mrs. F. E. Har--1 non, R. F. D. 2, Atoka, Tenn., Sept. 1 10, 1910. Although Cuticura Soap and 1 Ointment are sold everywhere, a sam- ' pie of each, with 32-page book, will te mailed free on application to “Cuti--1 cura,” Dept. 16 L, Boston. i — i Showed the Effects. He —I understand the speakers at ! the banquet used a great deal of hy- > perbole. I She—Well, to judge from the way their wives have been telling how they • came home that night, they used -a good deal more than was good for r ’«m.

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