Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, July 23, 1910, Page 13

a2 ——— What Weeds Show--What Dry Tillage Does (Written Specially for The Bulletin.) We are having a real old-fashioned sdrouth up this way. The roads are «deep in powdery dust; the upland aneadows are browning fast; many po— tato fields are dying from lack of wa- *er; even corn is backward and stunt- «d. Ive been taking a leaf from the experience of the western “dry weath- er” farmers, and find that constant <ultivation—deep or shallow, as the different crops require—realyy helps a goed deal in conserving moisture. The trouble is that many crops, wach as grass and grains, cannof be w<ultivated while growing—at least not =fter having attained some consider- =mble size. Corn, however,one can keep cultivated up to the time it tassels— perhaps even later. We've just been through a patch ®re quite frequent. Thus far we've een over that little bit with either | cultivator, horse-hoe, or hand tools, weven times. IU's the best plece of corn I've got—better than any T've seen about town. It's on dry, gravel- 1y, soil, too. In spite of the frequent| cultivations it's a little weedy, even | now. I suspect that any general treat- | ment which is good for the crop is ®aod for the weeds, too—if it doesn’t quite tear up by the roots. Really, however, I'm not worrying muchabout In small crops, such as onions and parsnips and carrots and celery and the like, they're-a nuisance and must be cleaned out. But the best corn I've ever had has been from land which, despite much cultivation and horse— ®oeing, was infested with rank growths of pig-weed or wild-spinach, “red root” wild; buckwheat, and the like. If the soil is strong enough and rich enough to grow good corn or po- tatoes, It is going to be mighty good for weeds, too. I'm beginning to grow & little suspicious of land which is maturally too “clean.” If &row weeds, I set to work at ®ringing it into a condition so once Not that | try to encourage weeds for their own sakes. Durn ‘em, Y've no liking for them as weeds. But they serve something like a thermom- eter, to tell you the state of the soil as the mercury tube tells you the| temperature of the air. find a certain piece of land satisfac- tory as a seed bed, I'm reasonably con- fident that the same land will make a Z0o0d home for plants more useful than weeds.- If a certain course of cultiva- tion seems to be stimulating to the ‘weeds, the probability is that it will also help boost the crop I'm after. Moreover, one can kill most of the weeds, if they get too familiar and pushing. Don’t understand me as favoring such slipshod work as leaves the weeds to grow unchecked, just so as to indicate the richness of the field. Far from it. I believe in keeping 'em down. What I mean is that their per- sistence and vigor in coming up afresh after every cultivation doesn’t worry me one tiny little bit. The old farmers used to plow out and hand hoe their corn and weed the hills with their fingers chiefly if not solely to kill the weeds. I, on the other ‘hand, cultivate and horse-hoe and hand hoe, too, when occasion calls for it, but I do it to stir up and aerate and muleh, first of all—to kill weeds as a useful but secondary consideration. You've heard of the man who declar- | ed that weeds were the farmer's best frierds--because they made him culti- vate his soil when, but for their visible presence, he’d be finclined to- think there was no necessity for it? Well, I'm coming somewhat to his way of thinking. One can’t do much at cultivating a meadow, three years in grass. So my drier meadows are burning up. But that corn we can cultivate. And it ‘s not drying up; it is growing like Jo- nah’'s gourd, tall, rank, deep green, with every present promise of a bunk- um crop. Right by the side, too, and on the same sort of land as the dry- ing grass. The only difference has been in the cultivation. Similarly, my secend and late crop pens fizzled completely out; died and dri up in the rew ‘They gbt a good start, grew thriftily and rankly till the drouth set in. We use poultry netting as “brush” for the vines to climb on, and, when that is once up and the vines are beginning to cling to it, horse cultivation is out of the ques- tion. At present prices for labor, hand hoeing and weeding are quite as im- practicable. It would cost more to keep my peas hand héded than I could get for the whole crop. But, right be- tide the deaq peas, bests und carrots and parsnips and asparagus, which we wan cultivate—can and do—are simply rioting in luxuriant triumph,despite the drouth. One little happening within a week given me cause for som= wonder- me: and much thought. About ten iay ago 1 found that the woodchucks 8ot into my pateh of string begns and eaten all but parts of two short rows clean to the stalk. The pesky varmints had come twenty rods out from a neighbor’s rye field, and 1 didn’t want to go trapseing all through his rye, trampling it down, to find and poison their holes. So I hurried to the cabbage seed bed. wherein still stood some rank plants left over after The 1 mporta-ni Problem confronting anyone in need of a laxa- tive is not a question of a single ac- tion only, but of pekrmanently bene- ficial effects, which will follow proper efforts to live in a healthful way, with the assistance of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna, whenever it is re- quired, as it cleanses the system gently yet promptly, without irritation and will therefore always have the preference of all who wish the best of family laxatives. The combination has the approval of physicians because it is known to be truly beneficial, and because it has given satisfaction to the millions of well-informed familtes who have used it for many, years past. To, get lts beneficial, effects, always buy the genuine manufactured by the California Fig Syrun Co. oniz- have | in which the tassels: it will. | no! | If the wee(h; i i | weeds, not half so much as I used to.| it won't | ¢ | | iest and most practical. | ought to be prepared setting, tore up two clumps, carried them to the bean patch, and set them in the ground dz2ep enough to keep | them upright. Then I sprinkled the leaves with a little water and dusted | them with paris green, so Messrs. Woodchucks might find a medicated meal of cabbage all handy for them, if they came back for late supper. Now the ground of this bean patch is the very driest and stomiest in my gardens. It is on the side of a gravel ridge. The ground is a porous sieve of gravel at les eight or ten feat deep. And dry—w when I dug into it to set those cabbages I found noth- ing but drouth and dr. tom of the trowelled h little water 1 sprinkled le. Nor did the on the leave wet in the soil a fraction of an inch. Yet those overgrown cabbage plants, simply stamped into that apparently e rooted and are any set with waterad in.” dried up gravel, hz today growing as well proper care and duly “If you'd wanted 'em to grow there, you couldn’t have made ‘em,” said a neighbor. Perhaps not; but why did they grow, whether I wanted them to or not? h can ly explanation 1 1 id been con- It been kept mulched” from the up. All the mois- it from dews and ttle showers has tillage. It isn't the eye or must be there. and “d beans come dinky th that occasional been conserved enough to be noticeable by time ture by the touch. But it simply There must have be ome water in that dry looking or even a cabbage would have d|rd in it. On some of the arid farms of the west where irrigation is impossible and where the rainfall for an entire summer doesn't equal our average for a single month, th ng good crops of first clas: mpiy by cou bienr and the akes crops grow as it is the water which stays in the land. Our summer thun- der showers seldom do much good. The rain fall in sheets and bu st that not even a drought soil can absorb 3 /%t off into the brooks and ponds. The little that has got down S\ 1HEE o twb At ithe wiict dins vt in a few hours of hot sunshine. And ever. Even an ordinary are worse tha dewfall of then things the ordinary summer’s night more to the crops—provided w ve it all for the crops ep it where th crops can get at it and use it. Cul vation makes the soil t all t the ¥ S0 t Moreover. thus kept o hinder v the moistt to it. Where irrigation is practicable and cheap, it is probably more effective than anvthing else against drouth. But irrigation, to be of 1y great alue, must be on ‘ale than most eastern farmers and gardeners appreciate. This attempt to water crops with a sprinkiin or a hose may be all ndred feet square of g 3Jut when we must the sprinkler hose and as effective and sensible Partington's broom st scean. For irrization on any commercial scale we must have ks or small rivers of water. We must apply it not by the gallon, but by the hundrads of barre We must put enough to drench our water table—wherever t dirt f rface soil to at may chance to be. Most of us will find such irri- gation impracticable for the occasiona dry season whi I for it. must resort to flthf’r S frequent tillage se seems to me itations, like everything those limits, however, it of real value. In all such crops as | can cultivate I have come to dread a wet season much more than a drouth. I don't know of any substitute for sunlight and warmth. If they are deficient, | things will not grow well. Nor can I do much to halp out in a too wet time. Cultivating mud is reither pleasant nor profitable. It does more harm than good. But cold, wet summers are not so frequent with us in the east as summers with intervals of drouth. We don’t have a drouth every year, but wa have one often enough so that we to do what we to save our crops. can, when it comes, Just look into this theory of cultiva- tion and tillage as a possible allevia- tion. Experiment with it in a small way and see whether it works with you or not. Don't ke my word for anything about it, nor accept some neighbor’s dictum that here ain't nothin’ to it.” Try it for vourself. Only bear in mind that cultivation, be- gun after a drouth has developed. is much like giving whiskey to a man the day after the snake bit him. Prompt and early treatment where the same d. will be wholly may be of use e, delayed too long. ineffectiv THE FARMER. Nothing New Under the Sun. Unquestionably it pavs to advertise. We are informed by a presumably re— liable authority that systematic ad- vertising really had its origin in Pomn- peii, whose last days were so graphi- cally described b Lytton. Tt is saiq that this ar ty was per- haps the most enterprising of all the commercial towns of antiquity, and that its enterprise lay lagely in the fact that its merchants even in that early age were firm believers in the value of advertising. But they were crude advertisers. Their medium was practically the same as the modern billboard. Thei rannouncements were done in glaring colors on the walls of the city, chiefly in the form of pie- tures. A school for boys would have a picture showing a boy being whipped, while one relic shows a picture of a goat as an advertisment for soms dairy. We learn that the beauties and would-be beauties of those times had their troubles just the same as they have today and that they were large ultimate consumers who must have be— lived in the solemn assertions of ad- vertisers with pathetic confidence. Halr tonies, beauty ereams and complexion ointments were exten But we must re advert board vua happened Journal, ély advertised. member that all this was of the offensive bill- ty. And we kmew what to Pompeii. Providence a0 S Not Forgotten. We are glad to see that John R. Thayer of Worcester continues to be “mentioned.” It is a mighty slow sum- mer campaign in which the man who is closest to the heart of the commdn- wealth is forgotten as a possible can- didate.—Boston Journal ness to the bot- { % . Parson Dawson says it is all right to build castles in the air and then it is up to the builder to put foundations under them. I haven't seen him haul- ing stone yet. Bill Bangs says he has been a no- body for a good many years just to give the somebodies something to talk about, ‘When mean men can fly they can bother their fellow men worse than ever with broader avenues for escape. It is curious, but some men who never lived-on a farm can tell how to run a farm right, just as old maids al- ways know the best way to bring up children. A farmer doesn’t have to look for work—work invites ‘his attention around every corner and sometimes haunts him after he is in bed. An oval of limp leather tacked to the end of a stick is a splendid fly swat- ter. In the right hands it is singu- larly fatal. Sariah says she used to have doubts and fears, but now she just hangs them up and forgets them. That seems to me like wisdom. One hot wave follows another with such persistence that we all feel like a lot of stokers doing duty in front cf a fiery furnace. Samantha Psalter says when yeast is working slow in ddugh a little gia- ger added will give it despatch. Sa- mantha doesn’'t need any added, she has quite a bit to spare. One of my neighbors says when things press hardest she just sinzs her cheerful songs. Her conference meeting vdice indicates that it is just as well that she has no near neizh- bors. Throwing slops down at the door is a good imvitation for the Zevil of disease to come inside to find vic- tims. The farmer has to do a lot of thin; to earn three cents, while the store keeper passes the three-cent agricui- tural products over the counter witt a smile and makes a nickel. Mrs. Parson Dawson says that she designs all her own clothes. She is a mighty smart woman, but she never looks like a fashion plate. The hired man who deserts the farm when he is most needed. regardless of his contract, isn't as honorable as a Digger Injun. ' Cy Cymball says there good profit in well-grown They're easy to grow and easy About the only keep good-natured when up is the camel. The homely toad looks handsome just as soon as we know what an ap- petite he has for insects and how con- tinuougly he works to supply it. for is always turnips. to sell. creature that can its back is People who try to grow chickens and garden truck on the same ground nev- er succeed with both. They were not designed to mature together. The crowded garden is never robust- populated. Slim Jim's family al- s preempts quarters of this kind. Iy w Wood ashes around trees help to give the apple a red cheek that puts it in demand, It is said that fence, posts cut in August on the second run of sap make better posts than winter-cut wood. God made the days shorter than some farmers want them, but those who live to His days do best and live longest. JOB JOLT. BLOCK ISLAND W. C. T. U. Held Lawn Party and Sale—Five Year Old Boy Run Over But Not Injured—Personals. Block Island W. C. T. U. held a lawn party and fancy work sale on the Eurzka hotel ground. The decora- tions were Japanese lanterns, willow cat tails and pink roses and each table were water lilies and sweet peas. The cake table, Mrs. Lizzie Hull: home- m:ade candy, Mrs. Lou Hull; fancy work, Mrs. Josephine Rose, Mrs. Nich- olas Ball lemonade, Miss Gladys Dodge e cream, Mrs. Mary Conley Mrs. Arletta Rose, Mrs. Lydia Dun- well. One of the principal features was the baby show, there were about twenty bables on exhibition. The first prize a silver spoon was awarded to Mrs. Alton Mott’s little son, Samuel D.; second a blue ribbon to Mrs. Myrtis Clayton’s son, Donald. The proceeds of this sale go toward the fund the society is raising to place a meamorial window in the Harbor church to be known as the Frances Willard memorial, Mr. and Mrs. Owen Spencer of Prov- idence, R. I, are guests of Mrs. Morris Ball at the West Side. Work On State Road Suspended. Work on state road betwzen the Harbors has been suspended on ac- count of the heavy traffic during July and August. Mrs. Joel Kennison and daughter of Palmer, Mass., are at their cottage, Harbor View for two weeks. Charles Allen and family are occupy- ing their new bungalow on the West Side. Alfred Dickers of Sheiter Isl- Mrs. and, L. L, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Simeon Ball. Spring House Bellboys Win. Ball gama Tuesday between the Spring House Bellboys and a picked g[ne. Score 7 to 8 favor Spring House OyS. The change in the weather of the last few days has been welcomed. Many of us were searching for an overcoat. ‘The family of Francis Flynn are ex- pected in a few days. Mrs. J. R. Barber was in New Lon- don, Conn. one day this week on a business trip. Windsor hotel opened this waek. Rather late, yet. we are glad to see it open. Boy Run Over By Carriag The little five year old son of Adel- bert Negus was run over by Dr. Perry’s carriage as the doctor drove around the turn near the hardware store of John Rose where the street is dark at night. No light from the neighboring stores reflact on this part. The little b who was with his grandfather, lefr him and ran into the street and against the horse. The force of contact threw the child to the ground. The horse shied so that only the hind wheel of the vehicle passed over his bod The doctor stopped as soon as possible not knowing what he had run over and found the child lying on the ground. He was immediately taken to his parents’ home where an examination showed no bruises. This boy is deaf ard in the darkness did not see or hear the a%nroachlnt carriage until it was THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: All is Soon Ready in an Orderly House $2.50 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to third. Award made the last Saturday in each month. EVERY WOMAN'S OPPORTUNITY. The Bulletin wants good home letters, good business letters; good he?- y ful letters of any kind the mind may suggest They should be in hand Wednesday of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. 1 OPEN HOUSE FOR ALL. It is not the o6bject of the Editor of the Social Corner to furnish topics for writers, or to advise special discussions. This is a home circle in which every member is free to write upon any domestic matter which ap- peals to her, or upon any question that is close to her heart. best practical suggestions and helps, We invite the and good-natured, gossipy letters upon all subjects under the sun. Here is a chance for any woman who fezls the spirit move to dip her pen in ink and write. —EDITOR OF THE SOCIAL CORNER. Yankee Methods of Cooking. Editor Social Corner: There are many people who live in New Eng- land who do not know how to cook some things. I herewith submit three grand recipes for trial by readers not familiar with them: Boston Brown Bread—Put a cupful of graham flour with one of white flour and one 'of Indian meal and stir into them a teaspoonful of salt. Dis- solve a small teaspoonful of baking soda in a cupful of warm milk, and warm this with a cupful of molasses. Mix the flour and meal with a cup- ful of boiling water, add the warmed ‘molasses and milk and beat hard and long. Put into a greased pudding mold and after covering this tightly | set it in another vessel of boiling water and cook steadily for three hours, fliling up the outer vessel from the teakettle as the water boils awav. At the end of this time remove the | mold from the water, take off cover and set the tin in the oven for | 15 minutes. By this time the bread’ should be dry about the edges and can | be removed from the tin und wrapped in a napkin. Boston Baked Beans—To be the real thing these must, of course, be cooked in a Boston bean-pot. - Put a quart of beans to soak over night in warm water. In the morning put them over the fire and cook them until, when vou take a bean cut and blow on it the skin curls back from it When this stage is reached pack the beans in your earthen bean-pot, score the skin of a piece of salt pork—it should weigh about a pound—and put it deep down among the beans, only the top out. Pour in a good teaspoonful each of vircgar and molisses, a saltspoonful of pepper and a teaspoonful of mixed | mustard. Cover closely and bake all night, or six hours in a steady oven. Yankee Fish Pie—Have a pound of steak cod boned and cut into pieces. Roll each piece in slightly salted flour: sorinkle with pepper. Spread over this six or seven large oysters and add their juice. Squeeze the juice of half a lemon over this mixture and a slight dredz- ing of flour. Put in water to just cover the mixture. Too much would | make it thin. Dot with a few bits of | butter. Let it bake slowly 20 minutes, then cover with a crust of mashed pota- toes. Brush this over with sweet milk to make It brown nicely. Bake until brown. The members will find these recipes all right. Strict following of the di- rections are sure to give satisfactory results. AUNT HANNAH. Preston. Housework. Editor Social Corner: Variety is called “the spice of life”” So I think housework ought to be set down in the list of recipes a big spice-cake. Keep a memoranda of the hours that vou are working every day and compare them with the number that other oc- cupations require. Housework is healthier than almost any other em- ployment: but the work does not make an exhibit like a picture. The brush and broom do lively work in the vari- ous art departments of home. The editor covers the subject of drudgery in_a few well-chosen words. When a person has taken carbolic acid, I have read that if vinegar is given it will relieve better than whiskey. When making a plain cake, bake in a shallow tin; put in fruit across one- half of the surface, thus making two kinds of cake in one loaf. Norwich. BLANCHE. Flowers in the Home. Editor Social Corner: At this sea- son of the year we love to have cut flowers in the house, and 1 have been surprised how differently people dis- play their taste in this respect. The plainer the vase and the fewer the flowers the more beautiful the bou- quet seems to look. To some a great bunch of flowers never looks pretty. Others are quite positive that a single rose or dahlia in a vase is enough to meet the taste and to call forth the admiration of any spectator. I have a friend who keeps upon her desk all the year around a tall crystal vase with a single white rose in it. When I admired the custom she explained its origin in a statement a great art- ist had once made to her: that two things represented absolutely perfect beauty of line and coloring—a half- opened rose and a perfect violin. She said she couldn’t afford the violin, but she could the rose, and so she tried to haye it always before her as she worked. Often as I read her poems I fancy I can feel the influence of that per- fect’ white rose mutely demanding of her a replica of its own perfection and sweetness. But there are exceptions to all rules. Mixed and bunched-up flowers are de- cried by the artistic. A few mixed flowers of strong contrasts like white and maroon, or whitz and vellow, oc yellow and purple, or red, vellow ‘and blue, loosely arranged, are always pretty. The gladiolus is one of the prettiest of flowers for a vase, for as soon as the first flower opens it may be put in a vase in the house and it will last fon ten days, opening very much prettier than it does in the garden. But what looks prettier than a few pinks, or a few violets, or just a few blue gentians in & plajn v WILTE PO Norwich, Tricks May Come Home to Roost. Editor Sockal Corner: When chil- dren are getti to the age of judg- mfi and responsibility they should t‘l!dr attention called to some of tricks, they may | the con- the | leaving | children who think it is so cute to| fool father or mother should be made to know that in the end they may fgol themselves—may destroy their fond- | est hopes. The girl who thinks it is smart to fool mother may carry the practice to her husband and create { trouble enough for both. The boy who plays his father for a guy is very like- ly to play his wife for a fool and by his deceptions make a hell of home; and both may breed a lot of tricksters for children. There are not two quali— ties that stand for more all through life than honor and honesty—there Is | nothing in them to destroy self-respect | or to bring distrust or dishonor to dis- turb the peace of the family. Beware | of deception of every kind, for there is | nothing that is doing more mischief in the world today than this. To be true ‘ls to be successful in all the ways of ONE WHO KNOWS. Preston, Happy to Have a Husband to Do For. | Edtor Social Corner: I have read with so much interest the letters to this Corner and so many answers sent. | Eliza Jane's letter U'rmnlfllnlng of her | | hubbie, and the answers from ‘“The | Widow"”; also “Charity Sweet.” very happy to do for, and know Aunt Eliza Jane i§ too; but there is a great difference in both sides. T am only going to | “peek in" this time; and if I do not | ecrowad the table will come again with | something worth while. I have lots | of too, that might interest ‘Louise” as well as others of the Social Corner. S\\'E%T LAVENDER. | Norwich. Work With a Will. Editor Social Corner: Life is a good ceal as we make it, Trying to put the | mind upon too many things at once is the cause of confusion and failure. We | must set our minds on the work before us and work with a will. To roll up your sleeves and pitch in is not drudg- €ry but achievement; and achievement is a pleasure. Housework is conflning jand a daily repetition, but so is many other kinds of work. Those who work cheerfully accomplish most. Do noth- ing half-heartedly. Take time to rest —this means more energy for work and i greater accomplishment. Conduct | yourself as you would have the chil- | dren behave themselves and they will | profit by your example. Do not yawp | or snarl at children unless you desire | them to be disagreeable, The Golden Rule is tiptop for family use. The { conduct of the home is a good subject to. discuss and we eagerly await the opinions of others. ay the editor of the Social Corner be biessed with over- f®Hwing measure, and may all ahe readers of it find pleasure and peace in its good work. F.J.C. Moosup. Three Little Helps. Editor Social Corner: How I do en- joy the suggestive and breezy letters of the Corner, but I am such a practi- cal sort of a soul that I must be con- tent to tell the members how to do little things. If old housekeepers know - all about them, the young read- ers may not. To prevent the oil which is at pres- ent used so extensively on the streets from being .tracked into the house, sprinkle sawdust on the driveway, walk and steps. This will absorb the oil from one’s shoes. In cleaning out a refrigerator it is well to wipe out the food compart- ments with a solution ot cold water and borax. Hot water heats the re- ceptacle, Leave a little borax sprin- kled in the corners, and keep a small Diece of charcoal in each food com- partment for sweetening and purifying purposes. An excellent freshener for the linol- eum s made from paraffin and linseed oil. Take equal quantities of each and | melt in a double boiler; apply the mix- ture while still hot, using a brush. Use as little as po ible and wipe off the linoleum immediately with a ecloth, so that every drop of liquid may be | absorbed. This will do for this time. T have been helped by the good things sent in by J. E. T. of Yantic, Mrs. Maynard and others. I really find that a scrap book is necessary to keeo in orderly readiness the good things I find in the Corner. ROSALIE. Plainfleld. The Letters Afford Real Pleasure. Editor Social Corner: I confess that I find real pleasure in reading the let- ters of the Social Corner and I have been much helped by them. I have particularly enjoysd the well written letters of ‘“Hannah Homespun,” of “Arethusa “Experienc * farer,” “Charity nard,” the “Old Boy,” Iull the other breezy and pr-eucnl writers. It seems to me that the Cor- ner will be of advantage as a teacher in letter writing, as well in domes- tic matters and sthics. It is to me a real help as well as a real treat and I wish T was ablz to lead instead of follow in this interesting work, for it s%uh to_me" a work all women read The Bulletin and have th equipment should promote in one wa; and another. I believe I shall try to help in some simple way, other than commendation, by and by RUTH AMHI'R\' | Wauregan. " ! Walnut-Mix Coffee. i Editor Soclal Corner: “Laugh and grow ftat” 1 think of a time when coming Into the house I found father searching the pantry for tea or cof- fee, and. he could Mnd none. 1 sald: “You want some bad, Dad?” and he replied: “Yes” I told him 1 was an expert on good drinks, like himself, Ibut of another kind, and would do some compounding in his favor. T cracked a cup of pig walnuts, as some | call them, put shell, meat and all into | the coftee pot, added some brown- bread crust and cut an acorn in three T am| to think I have a husband | g:u‘ -:f toasted it and put ln the bitter with a n-o‘ of salt; added cold water, d fll w'. “tight and wt a new col‘k‘ pout. When brewed I tried a lltuo cnutlmuly, and, behold, it was good! Got a large, pretty cup and served father and myself. drank smiled, then sal “It is first-raf Silk.” That was his pet name for me when pleased; but I can still laugh, thinking about it. We had it many times after, together, Yantie. J BT ely Recipes. Editor Social Corner: T submit a few timely'recipes: Huckleberry Pudding—One pint of molasses, one tablespoonful of cinna- mon, one teaspoonful of cloves, three pints of berries, a little salt, one tea- spoonful of soda dissolvea in hot water; stir into the molasses and ber- ries till it is very light, then add flour enough to make a very stiff batter; afterwards add the other ingredients and steam three hours. Raspberry and Currant Preserves— Two pounds of raspberries, three pounds of sugar, one pint of currant juice; cook 20 minutes Put currants in kettle, mash with potato masher, using one pint of water to cool currants in. Currant Jelly—Do not stem currants, five pints currant juice, two pints of water; boil five minutes; after it be- gins to boil skim well and add one pound of sugar to each pint, including water; boil three minutes. Do not cook more than this amount at once, MRS. L. MAYNARD. herewith Mystic. An Unexplained Killing.' New York city loses a good citizen in the death of Henry Dexter,'at the age of 98 years. In memory of his murdered son, he helped to give to the New York Historical society its | new building at Seventy-seventh ! street” and Central Park west, an- hattan. That building cost $350,000 which, the donor sald, was just one- |half his fortune. The seven years’ period before his death was embittered for Henry Dexter by that unprobed | and unpunished killing of Orrando P. | Dexter, near Dexter Lake, in Franklin county, on September 10, 1903. To he )lormd into a righteousg blood feud at 191, to spend a fortune on lawyers and detectives in vain, and to go to his grave without more than a suspicion as to _the identity of his son’'s assassin, was Dexter's fate. The spirit of the defiant poacher wag clearly behind the killing, and Mr, Dexter never doubted that the erim- {inal was protected by influential forces In Franklin county. That the local sentiment there was gtrongly against . game preserves, such as the vounger Dexter had established—his place had 10,000 acres—cannot well be questioned. But the course taken In establishing the preserve was legal and proper: and the state owed pro- tection to Orrando Dexter. It is said that in his will Henry | Dexter conntinued the offer of $10,000 | reward for the detection of his son's | murderer. There is little chance now of having justice done. The case fur- nishes remarkable illustration of the way in which, even in our own conservative state, a rural community may wink at murder that is inspinred ! by the old historic protest of Anglo- | Saxondom against any check on hunt- ing in wild lands. In that way it { claims a unique place in the annals of l,rhhlnfllfl‘) Brooklyn Eagle, Respect and Obedience. A Brooklyn man, who is educating his son in France, explaints that he is doing so in order that the boy may learn three things—how to study, re- spectfulness and obedience. “These things cannot be taught in a school in thig country. Children in America do not learn pither respect or obedience, and they ‘do learn it abroad” ocem- ments the father. If the schools are depended upon to teach pect and obedience, the American youth il never have that polish which is adis- tinguishing mark of children in sev- eral foreign countries, These two things should be taught In the home, and parents who shift the burden t instructors in private or public sch ought not to be shocked if their of spring fail to display good manners !n after life, If mothers and fathers are not competent to compel respect and obedience, or are so indifferent that they do not try, they should not be surprised if a teacher with from 30 to 60 children to look after fails along these lines. The work must be done at home. That is the place where t! child is under the mother’s watchful eve every minute of the dayv until it Is old enough to thoroughly understand what respect and obedience mean. The trouble is that too much is left For teachers. They can continue the work, but the foundation should be Armly laid before the boy or girl is of the Aage to take an educational course, The gchools are doing their part, despite the view of the Brookiyn man. The failure is elsewhere.~Brooklyn Stand. ard-Unlo The season of the vear is approache img when the attention of the voter wiil be called to what this public man end that public man accomplished for the masses; but as a rule, the great mass of individuals accomplish most for the masses. The millions of voters ready to accept almost auything in the shape of salve for their feelings dur- ing the aveage campaign, make It possible for the wily politiclans to ac- complish just what they secure every vear., The peopls little realize thelr strength. Officialdom, if you will no- tice, always looks to self first; espe- clally is this true during the heated term, when it is necessary to hie to the mountains while the great mass eople are so busily engaged in look- Png after thelr own affairs, that they do not have time to vacate, notwith= stnading that a great majority have the price.—Middletown Press, The World's First Sunday School. The centenary of the establishment of the first Sunday school on Man- hattan Island, probably the first in the United States, and possibly the first in the world, has just been celebrated. The corner of Divislon and Eldridge streets was where it was established, The Rev, Joseph W. Griffiths, Episco- palian, and the Rev, Charles G. Som- ers, Baptist, were the founders, ‘Though two denominations were thus represented, the feaching was exclu- sively religious, d the teaching was voluntary. It is almost needless to say that this section of Manhattan and Division streets has a population alto- gether different from that of 1810. Ru. sian and Roumanian Jews made up the greater part of the audience at the celebration under the ayspices of the Rev. R. F. Y. Pierce, but they sang Christian hymns and did not find anv- thing to protest against in repeating the Lord's Prayer.—Brooklyn Eagle. Derelict Near Bermuda Islands. According to a report received at the hydrographic office of the navy department, the derelict Norweglan bark Crown, which was abandoned by her crew last December, after she had her rudder, salls and filled with water, was sighted a few weeks ago 300 miles south of the Bermuda Isl- ands. She is loaded with lumber and bas traveled more than 1,000 miles since being abandoned, It is expec ©d that she will drift westward toward | the gulf stream and thence northward. If the derelict drifts into the steam- ship lanes and becomes a menace to navigation, it is likely that a revenue cutter will be sent to destroy her, The 11)1’ of lh. Mv cable between Nagaaski, Tamsul, For- mosa, to cost uul.ooo will be bégum at once by the Japanese governmes’