The Syracuse Journal, Volume 19, Number 13, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 29 July 1926 — Page 2

Youth Rides West

THE -STORY SO FAR On their way to the new Cottonwood gold dlsalngs in Colorado in the early Seventies, Robert Gilson, easterner, and his partner. Buck Hayden, a veteran miner, witness the hold-up of a stage coach, from which the express box la stolen before the bandits are I scared oft Among tlie hold-up victims are Mrs Constance Beane, and Mra Barnaby, who Intends to open a restaurant tn Cottonwood. .Gilson meets Marcus Handly, editor, on hts way to start the Cottonwood Courier Arriving Ini town. Gileon and Hayden together purchase a mtgtng claim A threatened lynching is averted Iby the bravery of Chris McGrath, town marshal. Gilson becomes disgusted with gold discing, what with its unending Übor and small rewards, and BO the sudden appearance of Shorty t’roiy, old-tin e partner of, Buck, is not' altogether dis converting to him.

CHAPTER IV—Continued The look which Buck flashed back at , Shorty was a a herald of destiny. Had n»t Buck dropped that little, hesitant • flutter of the eyelids, had 1 not caught it on the wing, the future might have run very d..'fort nily for -all three o' US. It expre-M d was it r«-grel of his bargain ? Ou the one hand there stood I, an unseasoned tenderfoot- of little use in gold flashing; on the other, his e’d and trieltjl. partner. Yet he *u bound to tne by ties < t law and honor; i •nd Buck wni not the man to edge out of a bargain. He could not know hour much, at that moment. 1 wanted to edge out of it myseif The sight of J the camp. off human beings 1® aggie gatioti. had further sickened'me with ■ my hard lot on Placer Claim Num- i ber X' It flashed on me that Buck and Shorty wanted to be alone; that if ttfey could talk It over they might Come to closer agreement with the out come which L desired. And there in | m> hands whs my excuse. “I met the editor of this paj fir com tag across Ludiow s pass.” 1 broke In. I “And I promised to look him up.” “AU right, kid.” replied Buck, with i • readiness which piqued me. in spite of my deeper desires. “Guess I'll be i Somewhere round camp until late'” ' s So forth went, to search for Mar- I cue Handy and ' the Cottonwood Courier. When 1 first saw it a week before. I had thought .of .Main street ! •a crowded, Now it ran brimful. > A blob of light above the roadway I drew me up a side street. It ilium-j Ibated. I aa|kr presently, a board shack | leaning against a log cabin. 1 looked •gain; and there stood the object of > toy search. An !H,umiimth>n. such as 1 had s-en carried in political proves •lona. proclaimed that this was the Homing Courier. Pioneer New»pa;>er •f Cottonwood. The maid cabin. Hke nine-tenths of 1 the buildings in t'ottonw<«od. had not jet achieved the luxury of a regular > door In Its place hung like • portiere the conventional sack. I 1 pushed through this; to my nostrils ; Faroe a scent pungent and pleasing, but strange printers Ink. Among s the details of a cluttered interior, my ♦ye cHUght nrSt the central group. At • printer’s stone Just large eHv’ttgh to bold two forms stood Marcus Handy | in overalls, splashed with Ink and grease, hammering a block out of a galley. In one corner fumed a hot sheet I roti stove. The shack beyond revealed the figure of a fourteen year•ld boy. tinkering with Marcus Handy’s precious flat-bed pres*. Beneath It. th»lr heads prop|*ed on a pile of white’ print paper, lay two other boys. I •ven smaller, sound asleep These. I ! was afterward to learn, served as sub ; •tltute for the boiler which .Marcus j Handy hoped to get some day from Denver. When press time came, they would turn the great crank which re- i solved tire flywheel. To ope side of | the room in which I stood, rows of printer's cases lay so close to the •tone that two ancient printers, furious ly setting type, constantly bumped the i boas. -Op the other side was • pine | table. Iltjered with newspapers, proofs, scattered sheets; all weighted down by a double-barreled derringer. Marcus Handy Jerked up at me a, ; nervous eye. “Fur God s sake, don't —” > be began, and then: “Oh. the tender- | foot!” He rested In j-'shi.-u for an instant, his wooden mallet |«>lsvd, and 1 saw that the lilies of his face were I drawn and his eyes bloodshot. “Were you fooltag when you said you had a college education ?“ “The best and most complete education that Harvard university dispenses or affords.” I sad. taking hp, where we had left It off sn Ludlow's pass our Western game at chaff and rhetoric; “polished, refined— ’’ bat Handy broke that off with a gesture, as though the •ttuatlon were *cs> serious for humor. “God Almighty must have sent you co reward me for the'fine good deed I ♦ver did. which I don't know what It to.” said he. “A printer's got drunk •nd run out on me. and the paper ain't half written. Ikm't say you’re doing anything tonight. Just grab a pencil •nd • handful of that copy paper over • them, and bring lt here!" Even as he ■poky. be had hammered out the block; and when I had obeyed, fascinated. and turned back to him. he was lifting with careful fingers a stick of Take notes on this, and whenyou've taken them, sit down there and put thmn Into the English language.” be added, never looking up from hts work. -And don't stop to get any of your college grammar into It. either. There was a fire this morning up tn White . Mule gulch. Got two' cabins on a Halm. Hams of claim, Jennie June. Name of earners. John Ferguson and Ad Woolwich. Got that down?" Marcus had Bow filled oat his column and set in tlie rale* “AU right Two hundred words. Work in something about needtag a city government to afford fire protection. Rash 'em both—they're ’BMfliiiit” fin out this page—and then illl give you the big story!" 1 Aalrat down to the table and shoved ; gapers and derringer away t g

By Will Irwin ‘ “riKrWa

amusement at the unconventionality of the proceeding. I glanced up at Marcus again, and amusement yielded to sympathy and understanding. The early ajq>eanjnee of the Cottonwood Courier had been no miracle, unless a miracle of hard work. In less than a week. Marcus had got his plant set up and his newspaper out; anti I conjectured that he was as yet its whole editorial and business staff. Which accounted for his odd. almost drunken appearance. He was working by the light <vf his own blazing nt*rves. “Rush It!“ he called tw ice, as I set down my plain tale. Having finished. I h- tilled over th* sheets to him. some- | what thrilled at the prospect of seeing | myself for the first time In print. He i did not even glance at -tny copy, but i yelled to a printer: “Get this out as ! soon as the Lord'll let you! Now—” he wr.s lifting and arranging tyj‘>e , “’his reading item gms on the ! front page for a lead. Start It about I this way: ‘Mysterious holdups for j large sums have grown entirely too, common In camp of late We do norefer to picayune affairs where a ten derfoot parts with his roll. The boys must have their fun Rut hard ui»on two robberies of the stages came the , affair ( »t Black canyon, and yesterday j the gang..for the same gang it must J be. attempted the boldest crime yet | perpetrated.’—Do you think you can i get that down about the way I said it?” | “1 think «o.“ I faltered. '' “Well, take a hote or two. can't ■ you?” When I looked up. Marcus was i locking his completed page VAU ready?” he^proceeded. “Write ; the rest of It’your own w ay. Here’s the fact*. Stonewall Jackson mine up «>n Liverpool sends down a messenger to Cottonwood in a buckboard for the payroll. Probably about five thousand dollar* He don’t take any chances of being seen at the bank. Gets a business mm: on Mata street-don’t-know who—to draw the money for him. Then, at the. last minute, something ■ makes him rlngy. Just an instinct. I | guess. He ends up by sending the. money tn the saddle-bags of the boss; I and he rides alone, with a sawed off shotgun on the seat for a blind. Sure enough, he's, held up. Four men. masked. They go through him and see they've been fooled One of' em’s for torturing him. Indian fashion, to make him tel! what's become of the payroll, but the rest taat their sand- So they kick him once or twice for luck and vamoose. Broad daylight proposition. He comes down to notify the police and .lets go of th*- facts to me at the Black Ja«k ttds afternoon. Make the story of the holdup an interview with him. And get It dramatic. Go strong •>n the minute when he's facing the--♦el of hellish torment. His name’s Henry there. I’ll be d —d if I retueru ber what the rest of It is. Call It Smith for, the present. Finish up by drawing strong attenti'ai the fact that some «me in camp must be systematically ■peaching —“ • »’ .'Peaching?” 1 interposed; for that verb, now alm-st f rgotten in the prog news of our American language, was then new slang “Informing Watching shipments ot money for the gang. It's plain to me as the nose on your face. Some of the gamming element, maybe. And make an appeal for a strong, pure, munici pa! government That’s all no. wait a minute—“ Marcus lifted his form with a weary grunt? set it down on the fioiar leaned ft carefully against the wall, and rested his hands on the stone as be meditated “No, drop tfiat,” !>«in't even hint about confederates In camp. No politics, either. 1 want to

Many “Cold*” Caused by Poor Ventilation

To tAd better preventive a»eth«Hß. doctor# In reevut years have been studying the cvmwvn cold more carefully than ever, aud two authorities . have summarized the auppoaed causes of thia affliction under five headings: chills and drafts, conditions of the > weather. Irritation of the membraae ] on the breaking apparatus. Infection . and bad ventilation The last is garded aa the commonest of all the ; causes, as warm stagnant air produces j congestion and swelling in the j membrane which becomes covered with .a thick secretion and affords a,i weak spot for germs to attack. In cool air. thia membrane remains taut ; •nd well moistened. Then, tn a poorly ventilated room, cold currents of air are likely to strike.the feet while the bead la exposed to the warm, polluted upper attmwsphere. This la Just the reverse of what ta considered the ideal condition for health, “cool breeaee blowing around the head, the radiant heat of the sun. and a warm ground to stand on ” Exposure alone will not cause eolda In healthy Indivlduala. the doctors declare. Arctic explorers, fishermen, and others who

Thermomefer for Fishermen The wise fisherman of the future will test the temperature of the water ta which he easts his lines. The biological board of Canada, after an extensive survey, has found that haddock and cod eepecially are very particular about temperature, says Popalar Science Monthly. The cod will a stay where the water ta freealng. for him 50 degrees to unbearably hot. Between 40 and 45 degrees to about right, and It fishermen will fish where rach temperature prevails It to ciatmed they ean scoop cod up wholesale Haddock prefer muter about five itaginr warmer. The board urges fishermen to use deep-sea thermometers and not waste rim* where there are no hah. Unde Ebon -Religion.” said Unde Eb*n- * great comfort, until you begins to ar-

know more before I cut loose. Now get it written Looking up occasionally from the frantic haste of my labors, I noted absently that men were constantly passing and repassing through the canvas door and talking with Marcus as he worked. Y»ne. evidently, had brought tn an advertisement. Just as evidently, Marcus had told him to write It himself; for he seated himself at the table opposite me and. with a protruding tongue-tip following the course of his pencil, set himself to the labor of literary creation. Another must have la>rne news, for presently Marcus called to me: “You. kid! Name of the messenger’s Henry Seward. They took seven dollars off him. He left his gold watch in camp when he started his bluff. Put that in-T—eontrast between what they expected and what they got.” I finished, hesitatingly set the copy on the case before Marcus. He ran rapidly, professionally, through the sheets. “Nine hundred words or thereabouts.” he said. '‘Couldn’t have guessed better at space myself. Now I’ll show my gratitude and appreciation practically. Just for a change. I can use y<>u I've been wanting,a reporter If you like the Job. sit do*€n and go on with it—at twedty a wefck. What say?” j My breath taken away by the .xlra matte suddenness of his proposal. I realized that here lay my way out.

I Sat Down to the Table and Shoved Paper and Derringer Away to Give Myseif^ Writing Room. The smell of printer’s Ink was already per fame to my nostrils. 1 had enjoyed thls'dlttle whirl at intellectual work—the thing I was trained to do—as much as I had loathed digging on the claim. If Shorty would only buy me out— With a promptness which equaled that of Marcus, 1 answered: ’•Give me an hour, and 111 let you know.” “Well, come back anyhow—need you tonight!” ekclaimev) Marcus as 1 dartex! through the door to search for Buck and Shorty. CHAPTER V I pushed and Jostled my way from Siegel’s beer hall to the Black Jack., from the Black Jack to Myers’ Variety theater, where at last I found tny two adventurers lolling expansively on a back seat. Buck's arm hooked over Shorty's shoulder They, in common with the rest of the audience, were listening with heads sentimentally

rematn out of doors*for long b-’urs In stormy, cold weather, often seem Immune from the.se disorders Irrltatiou of the mucous membrane of the res plratory°passages by dusts and chemicals is also a common cause of colds f—Popular Mechanics Magazine. f Oalrtcft as Food Th* flesh of the ostrich Is used for food to a limited extent In the sections of the world where the ostrich is bred It Is used fairly frequently by the Arabs, who regard It as UH«t wholesome and palatable The value of the feathers, however, makes if Improbable that the flesh of the ostrich will ever be used to any con siderahle extent

Some Trouble to Get Light in Early Times

> It was not until 1534 that luclfer matches superseded the flint and steel. Every tootle tn Britain prior tor this time bad Its tinder box filled with charred linen rags- These burnt fragments and shreds, known as tinder, were kept along with the film and steel on the mantel above the fireplace. With the tinder box were long. thtu. flat matches tipped at both ends with sulphur. Thus there were matches ages before the luclfer match waa invented. but they would not fire by friction When a light »« needed the matches, flint and steel were taken from the box and the tinder left In. . , No Apped A Journalist, his wife and child, little Alice, were having lunch together. “Can I have some more pudding, mother?” inquired the child. T think you have had enough.” said the journalist; “it will make you 111.” His wife, as to thrwuy of mothers. Tudd. “Let her have a little more.” -It will make her Ui.” insisted father. Little Alice looked from one to the other. Finally she sighed and said.

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■skew to “The Blue Atsatiaa Moubtains,” as rendered, to the accompaniment of a guitar, a violin and the only piano in camp, by a hawk-faced woman In short and ruffty skirts. I had to wait until she rendered two encores before 1 could announce to Buck and Shorty that I wanted to see them on important business and drag them to the recess between the Variety and Cheap Jack Eckstein's Dry Goods Emporium. And there I wasted no time with preliminaries, but plunged straight into business. “Shorty.” 1 said —I had never heard any other name for him, “do you want to buy out my share of our claim?" It was Buck who answered. He looked upen me with a startled eye. which grew a little suspicious as he asked: “What's the game? Got anything in sight?” “Nothing In mining.” said I. “Rut I've been offered a job on the newspaper. And I want to take it.” Shorty spoke: a slight difficulty in pronunciation proved that since I left him he had taken many drinks. “Throwin 1 down your good old pardner. huh!” he exclaimed, truculently. “Double-cross him—“ “Shut up. Shorty •” commanded Buck. ’•This Is a square kid. Only I want to see if he ain’t a d—n fool. Don’t you know you’re lettin’ go of a mighty promising prospectT’ “I know you think so,” I replied. “Course.” said Buck, with the flash of an understanding for which 1 had not given him credit, “you’re plumbs disgusted with diggin’ just now. It’s hard for a young fellow to get down real work. Rut the first week’s always the toughest. You’ll —” “Aw, cotne to the p’int!” exclaimed Shorty, waving slightly toward me as though to begin hostilities*"How much do you want to skin me for?” “I don’t want to skin you at all.” said L a little touched, in spite of Shorty’s condition. “Just what I put into it.” “Don’t know's I can let you cheat yourself that way,” said Buck, utterly ignoring, then and afterward, the interpositions of his muddled friend. “Why don't you grub-stake Shorty? Then you'll have your share coinin’— ’* “Grub-stake, h—I!” broke in Shorty. “No grub-stake in mine—” “When we strike a pocket." concluded Buck. “And how's Shorty goin’ to pay?” “I’d rather not grub-stake anyone.* said I. “and Shorty can pay me on the Installment. plan, can't he?” I was growing eager; for our discussion had brought up In my mind the sickening memory of that last week In the ooze of the stream-bed: and the blisters on my hands still burned. 1 perceived, however, that my affair was going well. Buck had not denied that he wanted to combine with Shorty. Only, honest man that he was. he had tried to guard my interests. “I've got a better chance with the Courier.” I added. . “Os course. I don’t like—” and here I Stepped, too shy byvirtue of my youth aud my origin to bring out the rest. I wanted to tell Buck that my only regret at selling Claim No. 32 was the thouglrt of leaving him. Toward Buck I felt at that stage of my western panderings as a yotfng soldier must feel toward a stern but benevolent and efficient superior officer. But Buck, it seemed, understood. for he replied tn an unwonted!y low voice: “I'll be sorry to lose you. kid.” And It was done; all excepting the process of getting logic into the muddled head of siu-rty. Alternating force with tact. Buck accomplished that. Shorty had admitted ownership of a hundred dollars. He eveu drew it from its hiding place in back of his watch. I sliould have that to bind the bargain. I was to keep my horse and the personal articlM of our equipment, and to take Shorty’s note at three months for the remainder of the money we had put into our outfit—which had now been transmuted into our claim. That note Shorty was to pay off on the installment plan from current yield. Having arranged the details of this simple transact ion. having got momentarily, at least, the consent of the party of the second part. Ruck aud I hurried him to the Comstock Lode saloon. We managed to Jam our way to the bar, gave Shorty's drink to keep him quiet, paid the harassed bartender four bits for a pen. Ink and two sheets of paper. Buck wrote tn his scrawly hand at ray dictation, which seemed entirely to satisfy Shorty. But he drew back at the last moment, glaring at me with a suspicious eye. Then his shoulders began to heave with suppressed laughter; he suddenly took the pen and appended the signature of Edward D. Croly to agreement and note. And. having handed back the paper, be let his-laughter go. “All right?” he Inquired. “Look'x all right, don’t Lt? Ain’t worth paper's written on. Note signed by drunken man ain't no good.” Shorty's laughter became Homeric.

The steel, shaped like a horseshoe magnet, was struck against the flint and the sparks produced were allowed to fall upon the tinder. Sooner or later It began to smolder. The brimstone tip of the match was applied, burst Into flame and set fire to tha wood of the match. Violin Strings for Cure For more than a century the story has been revived at times In England that the ailment of lumbago would flee from the human body if the Individual would wind a violin string loosely about the body and wear it for a few months. The D. A and E strings are favored as .having that curative power, and recently when a few cases of lumbago developed among members of the London Stock Exchange there was a very real ran on the music store*, the demand for these violin strings taking nearly all the strings on hand. Fancy prices were demanded and received for pure Italian gut strings, particularly the E string, that was said to have a very marked power over human suffering Austria-Hungary waa dismembered by the treaty of Versailles, 1919.

“It’s good In this case,” remarked Buck dryly; and then he added la an aside to me: “Better move on—expect you up for your stuff In the mornin’. .Hl have your half of our output ready for yon —share and share alike.” I had actually forgotten the small detail of reward for my week's work. Not in the least disturbed by Shorty’s drunken remark about the note, I jostled back to the Courier. Marcus was still sticking type with Jerky, maniacal speed. “All right,” I said. ‘TH stay." “AU right,” echoed Marcus. “Now move! I’m a hard boss. I am. Local news Is awful slack. Hasn’t been a single shooting, and it’s Saturday night at that. Want three columns of telegraph stuff—” . « Telegraph?" “Sure—news of the world. You’ll find the Denver Friday morning papers and the Wednesday K. C. evening sheets there in the heap. Run through 'em and rewrite me a set of good-look-ing dispatches. If there's a hanging anywhere, play that up big for the main story. If anything happened in congress, make three or four inches out of that, unless it's got to do with mining And remember, we're Repub lican. lock, stock and barrel. Treat the Democrats nasty.” I gathered the Denyer papers to myself. and settled down to my Job. However, ten minutes later Marcus, looking up as he transferred a stick »f type to the stone, found me loafing and called: “Rustle! What I want ain’t literature. but speed!“ Struggling with the creative problem of Imagining how a man might deport himself on the scaffold. I had looked up to meditate. And my eye had caught on a sheet of proofs hooke<l to a leg of the stone. At its head was an advertisement for Mrs. Rarnaby’S boarding house and restaurant. California and Aspen streets; special attention to transients. At Marcus' rebuke I started unnecessarily; and as I bent to my work. I felt my cheeks burning. Marcus, on bidding me gi>od night, added that Sunday was a day off for the whole staff excepting maybe him; and he didn't know but that even he was going to get the big sleep. I ha|l found in the meantime that my dutiep on the Courier, like his, were not ta be wholly literary. When the last hews tiller had passed into type. I helped wash the forms, carry them Into the pressroom, fasten them onto the platens. A# soon as the somewhat Jerky old press, at the furious impulsion of the two boys, began to knock off passably fair Impressions, all spare hands set to folding—Marcus on the stone. I on our editorial table, the little printer's devil on the floor. But not before I had retired into a corner with one of the early, dim copies and read myself for the first time in print. It was Marcus who recalled that I had no lodgings. “Sorry I can’t bed you down.” he added, “but I’m sleeping three in a roojn as it is. My cabin's just behind Siegel’s beer halt. If you’re doing nothing today, come around about noon and rout me out. There’s a lot of things I’ve had to leave at loose ends. You’d better go to the St. Louis lodging house. Tell the tn I said they were to give you a bed.” J By now very tired, what with a night of mental work piled onto a day of physical. I trudged down Main street. It was three o'clock in the morning. The clerk of the St. Louis lodging house lay wrapped In a blanket just inside the flap of his tent, a dim lantern illuminating"'a drawn and unshaven face. He woke when I shook him. muttered that he was full up. fell asleep, had again to be shaken awake before I could make him understand that I came from Marcus Handy and must have a bed. Then without a word he shed’ his covers, rose, stretched, yawned, took the lantern In one hand and a roil of blankets tn the other, and led tne to a tiny compartment with canvas walls. On the floor lay three men. snoring; between them and the wall a pile of hay afforded just space for one more. My nostrils, fresh from the pure air of a mountain night, bridled at a vile mixed scent of human effluvia, stale tobacco, staler whisky. The clerk unrolled my blankets. collected my two dollars, and turned away. Next morning stirrings on all sides w<>ke me and I shook out my clothes, dressed and emerged to the outer air. I made my toilet with such poor and soiled facilities as the St. Louis lodging house afforded—a tin washbasin, encrusted round the edge, a roller towel whereof only one hand's breadth was gray instead of-Nack, a hairbrush from which the bristles were coming out In bunches, a stained whlskboom. a piece of broken mirror. Some premonition of need had caused me. when Buck and I left the claim, to slip a clean collar Into my overcoat pocket. I put this on and started for breakfart at Mrs. Barnaby's boarding house in a condition of Sabbath respectability. Never had I entertained the slightest doubt of where I intended to board in Cottonwood. 1 pushed through the canvas flap of Mrs. Barnaby's, half expecting to And Mrs. Deane at the long table, wholly disappointed when 1 did not. Three nondescripts of the mines, their eyes on their tin plates, were wolfing ham and eggs and sucking down hot coffee. These. I learned later, were accidental transients. Just then Mrs. Barnaby herself waddled In with a platter of steaming cakes in one hand and three tin cups, emitting breakfast odors, hooked fanwise into the other She wore a long gingham apron, not any too recently laundered, but ber gray frlsxes seemed Just out of curt papers; above her flushed, tanned aad ruddy face they gave the effect of a sliver crown “Hello!” she said. Mapping the hot cakes before the three miners, who all reached for them simultaneously with their forks. “Didn’t I see you at the holdup?" “Yea.” I replied. T wasn't held up. but I was there.” [Ara you watching Mrs. Oeana? || Follow the next Installment II ciooely. II - - ''' CTO U CO )

FIND CULTIVATION BEST IN ORCHARD Most orchards should be cultivated during the early part of the season, and a cover crop, preferably a legume. should be sowed In the'' early fall, according to the New York agricultural experiment station. This practice is claimed to have decided advantages over the sod mulch system. at least for most districts of the state. The station. In tests extending over ten years, secured an average yield per acre of 6&.16 barrels of apples from an orchard left in sod. A yield of 116. S barrels per acre was obtained from an orchard cultivated during the same period. The cultivated trees made. jt.dwidedly better growth than the ones in sod. The beneficial effeejs from cultivation are believed to result from the saving in soil moisture and to ths lack of competition between the trees and the sod for moisture and plant food. Also Insects and diseases are more readily kept under control in the cultivated orchard than in the sod orchards, due to the protection afforded by the sod during the winter. The station recognizes, however, that on soils that are rocky or which are so hilly that cultivation would be difficult it may be impracticable to cultivate. Furthermore, hilly land may wash badly If cultivation is practiced. It must also be recognized that cultivation is somewhat expensive on hilly and rocky land. In view of such conditions, it may be advisable, tn ths opinion of station expert?, to practice sod cultivation In some orchards on hilly or rocky land. On most applo soils, however, the station believes that tillage will prove more profltabls than sod culture. While the station’s recommendations pertain particularly to conditions in New York, the recommendations ’ will prove applicable in many other states, particularly in eastern and northeast ern fruit sections. Anthracnose Disease Is Enemy of Raspberries One of the common enemies of a full raspberry crop Is anthracnose di» ease. It is quite prevalent, and. this, together with crown gall, has diseour aged many from attempting to ralsa cane fruit. It is detected by ,a spotty appearance of the canes, and thes< places are centers of infection. Prop er spraying helps to control anthrao nose. For the first spray use liquid lime-sulphur, 10 gallons in 100 gallonl of water. The_comnaercial liquid lime sulphur recommended is about 33'de frees Baume. and dilutions of thti strength test should be used. For ths next spray bordeaux mixture is recommended. at the rate of 4-S-lOOi which means 4 pounds copper sulphate. 8 pounds stone or lump lime t< 100 gallons of water. The use of lime sulphur at the second spray is not recommended. Black raspberries re quire spraying every season, but reds are not so susceptible to anthracnose ♦ fil B i fi > •■ •■ • » »■:»:■»,> > >ll fill M Horticultural Hints Give the waste land a chance t« earn its way by growing trees. • • • The fifth orchard spray should be made about two weeks after the fourth ■pray. • • • ' Do not neglect the orchards because a part or all of the fruit may have been destroyed. It Is Mother Nature’s provision that plants shall have a rest occasionally. • • e Apple scab test plots tn Cuyahoga county, Ohio, this year showed a control 95 per cent efficient where the spraying was thorough. In unsprayed plots scab infected 65 per cent of the crop. • • • Clean; up black knot In plum and cherry orchards by removing the knotted twigs and branches, and then get rid of the© by burning. Lime-sul-phur spray also helps prevent infection in clean trees. • • • Apple and other trees Injured by rabbits or mice should receive treatment as soon as noticed. Where the damage $s slight the bark should be smoothed down and the injured portion covered with grafting wax. • • • The earlier that fruit and ornamental trees of all kinds are planted after the ground la dry enough to dig, the more successful will the planting be. The same applies to bush fruits, strawberries aud other herbaceous perennials. • • • The codling moth, on leaving the apple, spins a little cocoon In which It passes the winter. The apple maggot immediately disappears tn tha ground,* with no cocoon, until lata June or early July of the' following year. • • • Time Is short Tor effective spraying Os fruit trees which are Infested with scale. This infection Is so difficult to eradicate that it requires a strong spray which would kill the tree if applied during the active growtag •eaaoa For the Hen’s Grinder Gravel or very coarse sand Is an ata •elute necessity If bens aro to remala ta good condition for laying. Withrat gravel the food that enters the ftasard ta not properly digested. Bravel er sand does not contaia aoough lime to furnish shells to the aggs or that la needed to keep the bones In condition and the easiest way to supply this is to keep crushed oyster shell or clamshell before the hens at all tlmaa. Kedp It where the hans mu get at it at all timra.

ORGANIZATIONS AND MOTHERS BOTH AGREE Health of School Girls Important The Girl Scouts and Camp Fire Glrlf <re two national orranizaHnnn wnrin.

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