Walkerton Independent, Volume 54, Number 5, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 28 June 1928 — Page 3

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CHAPTER X—Continued "The only really objectionable thing about you, my dear, is your rotten sense of propriety. You need to be shocked out of it. And, believe me, I'll do my cousinly best for you in that regard! But I can’t marry you, St. Croix. And it isn’t only because of ‘Meely’—it’s hardly that at all. It’s because you and I could never be mates. When you know me better, you’ll realize that; you and I are everything the othor can’t stand! If I had to live with your standards, St. Croix, I’d feel as cramped as though I were in jail. And you’d have fits if you had to reckon with a free lance like me who finds all sorts and conditions of people so Interesting and.likable that your taking ‘classes’ so solemnly, your respect for a bauble like a title, and all that, just seems to me awfully funny!” “You don’t really know me. Sylvia!” he pleaded. “With ‘Meely’ I was not my real (and better) self! I was of course a cad! But that was not my true self, Sylvia,” he , insisted. “If you'll give me a chance to prove myself—” “St. Croix, shall I tell you how impossible It would be to me to marry you? Just as impossible as it would be for you to marry thaUpoor Meely Schwenckton!” St. Croix recoiled—for he knew when she said that that he was beaten. It was the first time in all his life that he had been humiliated. And by a girl! CHAPTER XI Mr. Creighton, senior, after the first shock and embarrassment of discovering the identity of his wife’s relative, Lady Sylvia St. Croix, with the teacher, Miss Schwenckton, whom he had ignominiously bribed to abandon his son when It was his dearest wish that she should marry him, regarded the episode with vast amusement; Mrs. Creighton and Sylvia liked each other on sight; Marvin accepted the confirmation of his suspicions with outward calm, but Inward delirium; but St. Croix, almost as soon as he had delivered the girl over to his mother, had escaped from his own devastating situation by fleeing to Florida on the pretext of looking into his father’s interests there. As these interests were not so pressing as to necessitate his leaving home at this crucial time, his action could be interpreted by his family in only one way—Sylvia must have given -him to understand quite unequivocally that he, the younger son, was not an acceptable substitute for his elder brother—even though the elder had long since flatly refused to so much as consider the question of marrying her. Mr. Creighton could now only hope that the apprehensions he had suffered lest Marvin had fallen a prey to the charms of the teacher of William Penn school were indeed well founded. The very morning after her arrival she asked “Cousin Creighton” to let her have a talk with him alone. Shut up with him in his study, the revelation she there made to him of her ambition and determination to exploit herself at Hollywood came to him as a blow. “The only way you could stop me, Cousin Creighton,” she answered his arguments against her plan, with sympathy in her tone for his manifest dejection, “would be to take back your money—what’s left of it.” She pushed toward him on the table between them a pile of bills—a pensive wistfulness in the lovely eyes she raised to his. “I can’t go, of course, without your money.” “And if you can't go, what then? Will you,” he asked hopefully, “then marry one of my sons?” “If I said yes to that,” she replied in alarm, drawing back the bills, “you’d take back your money! No, if I can’t go with your money, I'll earn the money. And if you won’t give me a job at mining, I warn you I’ll turn evangelist! I’ve heard there’s money in that. I’d make piles, for I'd be a new American sensation —an English titled woman prancing and ranting over your broad land as a Soul-Saver! I could do it, too!” “Yes, and would, by G —d!” he exclaimed. “Keep the money, in heaven’s name!” “Thank you. Then that’s settled.” “If you fail at Hollywood?” he gloomily inquired. “Don’t wish it on me—please! If I fail, I’ll come back and marry any of your sons that want me. Only I draw the line at St. Croix. 1 couldn't,” she shook her head, “marry St. Croix.” “Why?” asked Creighton testily, wounded in his paternal pride. “First, because I’m not in love with him. Then I think h girl owes it to her children to pick out a good father for them —and St. Croix strikes me as too self-absorbed to make a successful husband and father. His own in- . terests would always be first with him.” “St. Croix is a very fine young man I” bis father warmly defended him. “Sensible and well balanced. No wild vagaries—” “But I like rebels and vagabonds so much better than ‘fine young men’!” “Oh, then you mean,” said Creighton, again picking up hope, “that you will marry Marvin if Hollywood disappoints you?” “Not unless he asks me to.” “If he doesn't ask you to,” exclaimed Mr. Creighton, “he's a —” “Yes, isn’t he! I think so too. But though I’d never marry a man that

hadn’t proposed to me, if I never got married, that question need not engage us, Cousin Creighton, because I'm not going to fail at Hollywood!" • ***•♦* It was a few days later that Marvin Creighton, one evening after dinner, standing in front of the library fire, looked down reflectively over his folded arms upon his radiant young cousin who reclined lazily and with a maddening grace on the big couch that stood before the fireplace. “It’s incredible—utterly incredible!” he voiced his reflections. “Yes, isn’t it?—everything! But what in particular were you referring to?” “That you—sitting there in front of me—you!—are the girl I said I wouldn’t marry! Why didn’t some one suggest that I cross to England ;and look you over first?” “Prpbahly because they were all too sensible to think you’d pay any attention to such a good suggestion. 57F7T® f “Is This a Proposal,"Marvin?” And if you had, you’d probably have found me flown from home to elude you.” “You see, you were offered to me," he explained, “like a mark-down at Woolworth's! Too cheap an article, it seemed to me, to take as a wifeseeing I did have a few dreams of fair women that were not so purchasable! And now, if I'm correctly Informed as to ‘the fury of a woman scorned,’ there can't be the least hope for me—can there, Sylvia?” “Is this a proposal, Marvin?” “Well, I'm not sure it is. I’m not so conceited as to think my worth to you could measure up to the worth of a career for which you are highly talented ! So I don't think lam proposing. I don’t believe I intend to —if I have any influence with myself.” “Let’s be engaged, Marvin, until I see how I make out at Hollywood. If I succeed, then no wedding bells for Meely and you’ll have to jilt me again!” “If only,” he fetched a deep breath, “you hadn’t that fatal talent! For we’re mates, Sylvia, it’s written in the heavens! I believe, you know, that you and I are mates in the real and lasting sense —for it's you I love, sweet child, not just your epidermis, lovely as it is—” “My what?” “I can think of you as old and wrinkled and I want and love you just the same —” She warbled, “ ‘Believe me if all those endearing—’ But that’s such old stuff—can’t you tell me something a little more up to date?” “Our sort of love. Sylvia, is so rare

Flute-Player Never Popular in Society

Flute-playing seems to have gone entirely out of fashion. Can this be due to the denunciation which this most ancient of musical instruments has received from the pens of eminent writers? Violinists and pianists may figure in fiction as heroes and heroines, but performers upon the fiute are generally introduced into novels only as comic or unpleasant characters. At least three comic characters of Dickens were flute-players; Dick Swiveller, who took to it as a “good sound, dismal occupation,” and was consequently requested to remove himself to another lodging; Mr. Mell, the schoolmaster, who “made the most dismal sounds I ever heard produced by any means, natural or artificial and the young gentleman at Mrs. Todgers’ musical party, who “blew his melancholy into the flute.” Bulwer Lytton wrote of a clever schoolboy who “unluckily took to the A Mill Rollers for both men and machines are lightening the work in a modern industrial plant. Light machines, cas-ter-mounted and motor driven, are wheeled to the point where they are most needed. Packages in the shipping department are handled by boys on roller skates. Even the plant library Is on wheels and visits each department at regular Intervals.

(or so It seems to me) that it’s an awful pity, don’t you think, to let It go by us even for the sake of a brilliant career?” “Go by you, you mean?” she sweetly inquired; “for I didn’t say I was in love with any one in particular.” “I said, didn’t I, that we were mates? I’m your mate, too, if you only knew it—as much as you’re mine!” “When did you begin to feel that way?” she asked with a bright Interest, her eyes shining up into his with rather a feverish excitement. “From the first day I met you In your school! I couldn't keep off you ! You had me —in the hollow of your hand!” “Oh, gee, I didn’t know It! And. Marvin! I’ve got to hold on to myself like anything or you’d have me in the hollow of your dear hand—and 1 don't want to be in any one’s hands — not even in your strong and tender ones!—for I want to act!” “I’ve seen you with those school children—l think your bigger career, Sylvia, lies in your having a brood of your own—l don’t shock you, child, do I?” “Well, yes, when you suggest a whole ‘brood’! I think that’s too many! I wish," sighed Sylvia, “1 could have babies and a career, too. If I insisted on that, would you jilt me?" “But, dear child, I can't live In California. Not even in New York. My work will always be here. And what kind of a marriage would that be—you in California and I in Pennsylvania?” “You wouldn’t give up your work for marriage; why should I? What Is going to become of marriage when women’s professions become as important and as Inevitable to them as a man's is to him? I wonder!” “Do you really think, Sylvia, that being a screen actress Is as big a thing as rearing children?” “It would depend, I should say, upon the sort of children you rear. I'd consider it an awful waste of life to bring up most of the people one knows!" “But you and I, Sylvia,” said Marvin solemnly, “might get some satisfaction from bringing up a family of—well, honest, fearless truth-seekers, propbets of a new gospel—” “Oh, come, Marvin, let’s give them a chance to be themselves!" “That's what I want them to be! So few of us are ever ourselves! We’re forced into a mold that’s quite unlike our real selves! Let’s rear a family that shall be a nucleus to start something—” “But it’s so dangerous, these days, to start anything—" “Let them start the long-looked for ‘good-will to men' era. It’s about due, if humanity is to survive, don't you think? Well, what do you say? Shall we ?” “This is the queerest proposal I ever had !" “Well, I can’t seem to do anything, even propose to a girl, according to pattern!” “But you see, Marvin dear, love lasts such a short time. My career on the screen would last rather longer." “Ours won’t be the kind that doesn't last! It will be the kind that grows! It will —” “Oh, you’re young! You sound sixteen ! I’m not so sure. But it does not really matter, does It?—whether it lasts or not? It's the supreme thing now!” “You admit that?” he eagerly demanded. “Oh, yes. Marvin! You've gone and dimmed the glorv of the screen for me so that I don’t feel half so enamored of It as I did—” “I tell you, Sylvia!" He flung himself on the couch at her side. “You go on out to your old Hollywcod, my dear, and try it out. For if you didn't give it a trial, you'd never be satisfied. never be sure you had net made a mistake —” "I might even throw it up to you that you’d deprived the world of a great star —” “That's what I want to avert. So you go on out there—and then when you decide to be mine, I'll have you fastl" “I won’t go a step unless you promise to come to see me over some weekend.” “It's three thousand miles across this continent, you know—or probably you don’t know! You probably think California is a suburb of Philadelphia! You need to travel out to Hollywood to pick up some United States geography on the way.” “Now, Marvin,” she feebly protested as he slipped a hard, strong arm about her and drew her close, “if you really make love to me. I’m lost!” [THE END]

flute and unfitted himself for the present century,” and Charlotte Bronte represents “inept curates” as performing upon it. And then there was Goethe, who summed up the case against the flute by saying: “There is scarcely a more melancholy suffering to be undergone than what is forced on us by the neighborhood of an incipient player on the flute.” Kin to a Mysterious Race So long ago that it is impossible to say when, there dwelt in Europe or Asia a most remarkable tribe of mankind. These people are not mentioned in any ancient history and no legend gives a hint of their existence. They were the so-called fathers of the Aryans who now people the earth, and the knowledge we have learned about them has been learned through the study of words. Word by word the language of the original Aryans has been exhumed from the descendent modern languages until, pieced together, they tell the story of a vanished people. Historians tell us that words and customs are a great index to the life of any race.—Capper’^ Weekly. Looking to the Future In praising or loving a child, we love and praise not that which is, but that which we hope for. —Goethe.

Improved Uniform International i Sunday School ' Lesson ’ (By REV. P. B FITZWATER. D.D.. Dean Moody Bible Institute of Chicano.) (S'. 1928. Western Newspaper Union.) Lesson for July 1 — THE EARLY LIFE OF SAUL LESSON TEXT—Devt. 6:4-9; Phil. 3:4-6; Acts 22:3,27,28. GOLDEN TEXT—Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth. I PRIMARY TOPIC—The Story of j Paul as a Child. JUNIOR TOPIC —The Boyhood of a ' Great Preacher. INTERMEDIATE AND SENIOR TOPlC—Saul’s Train.ng for Service. YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULT TOPlC—lnfluences Shaping Saui’a Early Life. - —— I. Israel’s Responsibility With Reference to God’s Laws (Deut. 6:4-9). 1. Central truths to be taught (vv. 4,5). (1) Unity of God. “The Lord our God is one Lord.” He is God alone, therefore to worship another is sin. (2) Man’s supreme obligation (v. 5). God should be loved with ull the heart, soul and might, because Ue la God alone and supreme. This being the first and the great commandment, | we know what.ls man’s supreme duty. 2. How these truths are to be kept 1 alive (vv. 6-9). The place for God’s Word Is In the heart. In order that it may be in the heart (1) ‘ teach it diligently to thy children” (v. 7). The most Important part of a child’s education Is that given in the home in the Word of God. How sadly this is neglected today I (2) To talk of them In the Lome (v. . 7). This Is the right kind of home life. How blessed is that home where God’s Word is the topic of eon versa- ! lion. (3) Talk of hem when walking ! with our children and friends (v. 7). (4) Talk of them when retiring for the night (v. 7). The last thing upon which the mind should rest before go Ing to sleep should be God and His truth. (5) Talk of them when rising in the morning (v. 7). How fitting that God should speak to us the first thing when we awake! (6) Bind them upon thine band (v. 8). This was literally done by the Jews even to the wearing of them in little boxes betweei their eyes. (7) Write them upon the posts of the houses and on the gates (v. 9). Such a remembrance i of God's words would create a spiritual atmosphere most desirable. 11. Saui’s Ground of Confidence I (Phil. 3:4-6). He had everything a true Jew gloried In. 1. Circumclzed the eighth day (v. 5). This was the literal requirement, of ’ the law for those born under the Abriihamlc covenant. 2. "Os the stock of Israel” (v. 5). Tills shows that l:e was a true Jew, related to the chosen people by blood and birth. 3. Os the tribe of Benjamin. Benjamin had always remained loyal to the national customs. The first king of Israel, whose name he bore, was of Benjamin. 4. “Hebrew of the Hebrews” (v. 5). i This showed that be was of Hebrew parentage and not a proselyte. 5. Touching the law, u Pharisee (v. 5). The Pharisees were of the sect most i zealous for all the rites and cere- | monies of Judaism. 6. “Concerning zeal, persecuting the church” (v. 6). He proved his zeal by positive effort to stamp out that which was threatening Judaism. 7. “Touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless” (v. 6). So exactly had he conformed to the outer requirements of the law that he was consciously blameless. 111. A Sketch of Saul’s Life (Acts 22:3, 27. 28). In this sketch he gives us a glimpse of his birth, education and citizenship. 1. His birth (v. 3). Though born at Tarsus, a city outside of Palestine he had been brought up in a strict Jewish home. Tarsus was the capital of the province of Cilicia. It was a city of prominence because of its commerce and culture. It was one of the three principal university cities of that period. 2. His education (v 3), Born out of Palestine, he was sent to Jerusalem for his education. This fact shows that he belonged to a zealous family of Jews. His teacher was the great Gamaliel, a doctor of the law and the leader of the strict sect of the Pharisees. His citizenship (vv. 27, 28). He was by birth a Roman citizen because Tarsus was the capital of a Roman province. In the providence of God the great apostle to the Gentiles was given the prestige of a freeborn citizen of the empire. While he was religious, he was at the same time patriotic. He was loyal to his country and nroud of his citizenship. Turning of Attention “Look unto me, and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth.” And the urgent reason for turning of attention is that here is our only hope and sure deliverance : “For I am God,” the prophet adds, “and there is none else.” —Isaac Edwardson. Our Need Our need above all other need is for satisfaction of our spiritual nature. Our heart-hunger is the true reality. AU bread perishes except that which nourishes the soul. —William T. Ellis. Be on Guard Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, lest it betray me as it did my Master with a kiss! —C. 11. Spurgeon. The Preacher If the preacher is not gifted, remember that you can bring a large torch to a small taper and curry away a great blaze.

^IIAKD QLEANING3 TELLS VALUE OF APPLE VARIETIES Discussing the profits obtained from various varieties of apples grown in western New York, G. P. Scoville, professor of agricultural economies at Cornell, said Baldwin and Rhode Island Greening pay the best; Mclntosh sells the best, and Duchess, Hubbardson and Russet paid least. Professor Scoville quoted figures and statistics obtained from a study in 1917 to 1926 on 176 fruit farms near Newfane and Olcott in Niagara county, speaking at Farm and Home week at the New York Slate College of Agriculture at Ithaca. { “Baldwins yielded 176 bushels an acre, Greenings 172, and Twentyounce was third with 160 bushels to an acre. The lowest yielders were Uubbardson with 119 bushels, and Russet and Spitzenburg each with 133 bushels an acre,” he said. The Baldwin was also the most regular bearer from 1918 to 1926. “It may be true that the Baldwin tree I tends to bear in alternate years, but I there were enough trees bearing every 1 year so that it was the only variety j whose annual production per acre al- । ways exceeded 100 bushels in each of I the nine years,” said Professor ScoI ville. The yield of the Greening, on , the other hand, was the most variable I from year to year, being 61 and 19 j bushels an acre respectively in 1919 i and 1921. It tends to bear more heavily than Baldwin in the big crop years । and very light in the off years. Among the young trees the better I yielding varieties were Wolf River, i Greening and Baldwin. These were j the only varieties that yielded over I two bushels to a tree for trees 10 to i 29 year' old. M< Into<h averaged 1.65 bushels a tree. Delicious took more than three trees to yield one bushel. “The best selling variety was McIntosh; it netted the grower $1.29 a bushel above the cost of the container for the years 1922 to 1926 inclusive. 1 Northern Spy and Jonathan were second and third and averaged SI 13 and sL<’l a bushel. Greening averaged 77 I cents and the Baldwin 72 cents a bush- . el. Duchess was the poorest seller | and returned the grower only 38 cents above the cost of the package, and j tl c Ru>>« t brought back only 62 cents. ' “The bc<t returns an acre for trees 1 I over years old were obtained from ' I Northern Spy, Greening. King and ( Baldwin when one considers the yield j and price for the past five years For | trees 1(1 to 29 years old the best returns were obtained frotn Wolf RlvtWt j M Intosh, Greening and Twenty-ounce. I T1 e lowest returns an acre for trees | I over 2'l years old were secured from ; Due! ess, Hubbard- 'it, Russett ami I Wealthy. The return from an acre ' averaged only about two- thirds that , j of the Baldwin ami Greening. Blackcap Raspberries Helped by Bee Swarms A patch of blackcap raspberries, . ■ planted in 1922. never had borne us | j more than three pints of fruit in a J single season. Sprays, fertilizers, i pruning, and similar treatm aits had j been used to stimulate production I without success : and during the summer of 1925 we discovered our trouble to be due to deficient pollination. Several remedies for this condition were suggested by Iccal horticulturists, but late that fall we bought two swarms of bees, ami placed the hives near the berry patch. It took $3 worth of sugar to help the bees through the winter, but when the vinos bloomed the following spring. I the little fellows got busy and that year we had a normal crop of berries, says an Ohio writer In the Successful Farmer. They spread the pollen thoroughly among the different vines, and so solved our problem without further effort on our part. Besides making our berry crop a success, the bees stored up enough | surplus honey to last us for several months, and this repaid us well for our bother and time. Cultivation Necessary for Black Raspberries From the fact that the black rasp- ■ berry is a shallow rooted plant, level or very shallow cultivation should be practiced. By all means keep the disk j out of the raspberry patch, unless it ! is in the hands of a very careful workman. If the plow, disk, or harrow is run deep enough to cut off the horizontal feeding roots, the leaves of the plants will take on h yellow appearance, appearing as though they were diseased, and the crop will be almost worthless. More damage can be done by deep cutting implements than one can imagine, and, therefore, their use is to be discouraged in caring for I black raspberries, the reds al>o. Brovm Rot Harmful Peaches, cherries and plums are ruined by a fungus disease known as brown rot, if they are not sprayed I ' shortly before ripening time. The spores, or “seeds.” of this rot live over winter on dried or “mummied" fruits which may be found now hanging to the trees or on the ground under them. A measure of preventing the spread of this infection is to pick and burn all “mummied” fruits found on peach, cherry and plum trees and under them. Keep Trees Covered In districts where excessive numbers of codling-moth “stings” abound, it is recommended that a strong effort be made to get the trees well covered with a strong application of arsenate of lead at the time of the entrance of the greatest number of larvae, which occurs normally about twenty-one days after petals fall. Do not let up on the August spray. The large number of “stings” prove its value, since each sting would have been a full-sized worm-hole. ■

Number of Apple Trees Declining No Shortage of Fruit Has Developed and Production Increases. (Pre->ared by the United States Department ot Agriculture.) Although the number of apple trees in the United States has been declining since 1910, no shortage of apples has developed and commercial production is increasing. The crop of 1926 was the largest produced in many years. Tills apparent paradox is explained by an increased output per tree and by the fact that the reduction in the number of trees has taken place largely in scattered family orchards and in the less favorably situated commercial areas. Apple production for the market has been increasing materially in some areas through better orchard management, better selection of varieties, and increased bearing capacity resulting from an increase in the age of the trees. Decrease in Trees. For each lUO trees in the country in 1910, there were 70 and 64 respectively in 1920 and 1925, according to the census. In round figures the decrease from 1910 to 1925 was about 79,000,600 out of a total of 217,000,000 trees reported In the former year. The significance of this decline is modified i by the fact that in the box apple region of the Mountain and Pacific states no less than 55 per cent of the trees were not of bearing age in 1910. By 1920, the percentage of nonbearing trees had fallen to 13, and the same percentage is reported by the census for 1925. It would be a distinctly unfavorable augury for the apple industry had plantings from 1910 to 1925 been large enough to prevent a decline in the proportion of trees not of bearing age. Present conditions tn the apple in- I dustry are in marked contrast to those ' that prevailed eighteen years ago. In 1910 there were 15.000,000 trees not of bearing age in the box apple regions i of the Mountain and Pacific states. As these trees cane into bearing, the ; producing capacity of the region in- - creased enormously. In 1920 the region had 175 trees of bearing age for each 100 reported in 1910. From 1920 to 1925, however, the number decreasefl and in 1925 stood at 151 for each lUO trees of bearing age in 1910. Apple Tree Planting. In recent years plantings of apple trees have been to a large extent in I the eastern apple region and have I been chiefly concentrated in the commercial areas. Most areas of heavy concentration ot trees are now tn regions adjacent to the larger con- ■ suming centers, although there are im- ' portunt areas in the West which, be- j cause of favorable natural features, | successfully produce fruit far from i consuming markets. In the states north of the Cotton Belt and east of the Great Plains, farm orchards are ’ fairly evenly distributed. In the west- : ern states, scattering of trees throng!)- j out extensive areas, in the manner | typical of the farming regions of the East, is not found. । Satisfactory Means of Eradicating Cutworms If one cutworm in the garden cut j only one plant and ate that plant, the damages would not be so very greaL But the worm is not satisfied with one plant. It usually follows one row and j cuts as it goes. Ln this way one cut- I worm will do a great deal of damage. ’ The cutworm is nocturnal in its ! feeding habits. It usually starts .to feed late in the afternoon and con- j tinues throughout the night. The 1 knowledge of tins' habit is very essen tial when the worm is to be poisoned. Two satisfactory control methods are: first, place a collar of cardboard or tar paper around each planL This should extend to a depth of two or i three inches in the soil. The second method of control is probably the ; most satisfactory. This control is the ! use of poison bait. The bait should i be scattered late in the afternoon, at feeding time, and near the plants. The poison bait consists of wheat bran, 25 pounds, paris green, one pound, and three oranges or lemons. This material should be thoroughly mixed and ; brought to a consistency of a thick dough by adding a low-grade molasses. ; ' with water when necessary. j t Short Farm Notes ❖ The silo stores feed in one-third the space required by hay in the barn. • • • For the first week, baby chicks should have liquid skim milk instead of water. • • • Sweet clover should be used as a green pasture crop and as a soil build- ' er rather than for the production of hay or silage. Lubricating oil emulsion is being | used for the control of plant lice. It ; should be used at the rate of one pint to four gallons of water. Hay which is allowed to cure rapidly in the swath loses much of its feeding value and is usually off color due to excessive drying and bleaching. • * * Discolored grain should be looked upon with suspicion as a seed propo- j sition. Green grain is usually immature and weakened pla its will result • • • The ideal incubator cellar or room is one in which the air is constantly changing without varying perceptibly the temperature of the room itself. • • • No stalks remain in the way of farm implements and none are left in feed racks and mangers to be thrown out and wasted when feed is stored in a silo. Red clover has longer roots than alsike, hence it is better adapted to soils which may become drouthy. It matures about two weeks earlier than either alsike clover or timothy.

All Cleaned Up for $ | an Interview ? • £ £ By RING LARDNER ❖ To the Editor: The other wk. 1 was setting around the home wishing callers would come or something so i would have a excuse to mix up a cocktail when all of a sudden what should ring but the telephone bell so of course 1 thought at first it must be the wrong No. like usual, but I answered it and the girlie says Bridgeport wants you. So 1 sail yes 1 suppose they do but I can't live everywheres at once and then another female voice spoke up and she «aid she was a reporter on the Bridgeport Herald and when could she get a interview. So I thought for the second time that they must be calling the wrong No. but soon I remembered who I am so 1 kind of snarled back at her like all the big birds do when you ask them for a interview but I didn’t snarl so as she could hear me for the fear she would think it was a sincere snarl and would hang up and end it all, and little by little we got more friendly and she said she would be over the foiling Tuesday. So then the both of us hung up on each other and 1 come back into the parlor with a kind of pale look and the Mrs. said 1 who was that woman and I said she is ' a reporter on the Bridgeport Herald. What does she want? She wants to interview me because 1 am notorious. Yes but you been notorious ever since you were kiddish and nobody wanted to interview you till now. Well 1 said the N. Y. City papers has started the fashion by interviewing George Maeterlink that can't even parle anglais and this lady is going to show them up by talking to a poet | witch can say something back besides | ooiala and anyway she is coming over ' here next Tuesday to see me so thats j thaL Yes replied the Mrs. but when you ! used to interview notorietys like Ty I Cobb and Jessie Willard for instants, why you done it without going to no i bother like seeing them. So I said shut up and between that day which was a Thursday and the foiling Tuesday 1 took light exercise and read and eat a good deal and things went along about as usual without no marked change till the Monday night when I begin to feel a little dizzy right after ti e supper and I thought at first it must be something I had eat or something till 1 of the kids happened to make the remark that tomorrow was Tuesday and then it flashed on me that all that stood between the Bridgeport lady and I was a ordinary Monday night in the ■ summer time. But was it a ordinary Monday night , god forbid. I retired early and lay there and tossed and read the story of Joseph Ilergesheimer and tossed some । more until it must of been fully 9 o’clock when 1 droped into a light doze witch came to a sudden terminus at i 7:30 Tuesday A. M. and it was broad ■ day and I got up and shaved myself and dressed the latter and came down to breakfasL Already the women folks was cleaning up the parlor in honor of the occasion emptying the ash ; trays, chairs and etc. They was a sensation when I entered the dining room where the 3 elderest children was working on their prunes. How do you happen to be up said one. What have you got a collar on for? Wear is your whiskers? So I gave them each a nasty look and they shut up and I set down and j eat a hearty breakfast of serial, toast I and coffee. Promptly at a % of 12 what should I ring the door bell and who was there I but the lady from Bridgeport? NoI body. We shook hands an<l exchanged ■ a few confidents and I led her in the parlor and was just going to call her tension to it being all cleaned up for I the occasion when my eye happened to ■ stray under the radiator and there was the mouse trap. Well you could I of knock me over with a big rock when I seen it but lucky its latest I quarry had been removed but they was i no telling when the next little rascal would scamper in and get himself in trouble and probably raise enough he —11 about it to spoil the party. The lady may of wondered why it was I ' kept stomping my ft. and coughing, ' and etc. Well it was to warn all vermin that the room was occupe to use a frog expression and don’t trespass j only at your own risque. The details of the interview can be read in the Bridgeport Herald but anyway before it was over they was susj picious noises towards the dining room i door and a wif of beans and pancakes I smote the nostrils and the lady got up and pulled a camera and asked if she could take a picture of whatever kids they were left in the house so 1 went for one and he was broughten down | and didn’t know me on accL of being j shaved at that hr. of the day ami ■ busted out crying so I kind of choked him a little and he quit and we was all photographed and the Mrs. ast the i lady from Bridgeport would she stay at lunch and she said no and walked out on us to some place where the j washer woman don’t come Tuesday and nave to be surfeited with bake beans and pancakes. So when the lady had left I took the Mrs. in the parlor and showed L«?r a I certain article of furniture that laid there under the radiator in plain site j and then 1 went in the dining rx>m and eat a hearty lunch of i uncakes and bake beans by myself. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) Healthiest Country Statistics prove New Zealand's claim I to being the healthiest country in the ' world. The average age in that country for men is 62% years and for women 65 years. In England the figures are 56.5 S for men and 60.47 fur w raen. Lord Mayor's Jewel The jewel comprising the emblem j of office of the lord mayor of London was made in the first year of the 1 reign of Edward VI and is Insured for £12,000 (85S.000).