Norwich Bulletin Newspaper, August 6, 1910, Page 7

(Written Specially for The Bulletin.) Tve been talking recently with from different parts of Uncle big farm, and the thing which i has- impressed me most in all the talks I've had has been the certainty of each 2o to eoine fougd, sooner or later, to the fact that the er is the selected vietim of the commercial world. He is to sell his produce at what the fellow is wiliing to give him: | he is expected to buy his supplies at whatever the other fellow sees fit to charge. He is given plenty of chance 1o argue and complain and cajole. but s no voice in the fixing of whether he buys or sells he wants to—talk vhat he says ends h a load of and is told —supplied that and that ha can't-get the quoted for his load. Of course. he will somebody to take it off his hand: “favor” and at a.price below the of production and hauling. But ust do that or draw it back home Then, when he goes to get a sugar or a pound of coffee, he learns that sugar and coffez have “gone up"—is_there anything buvable which hasn't “gone up” in the last year or two>—and he can pay- the increased Price or go home without them. It does no more good. for.him, to arguwe with the seller or to complain of him - thap It did to argue or complain with 1he produce buyer. There are the goods and there are the prices; take 'em or leave ‘om Worst of all, it he rejects the first| offer made him, on the ground that it | fsa’t & fair price, and sets out to.find | = new buyer, he is apt soon to discov- e that there is either a onibination or a “gentlemen’s agreement” among the purchasers, and that the figures ©f ome are the figures of all the rest. Likewise, if he tries to buy his sugar ©r coffee cheaper somewhere else, he is everywhere confronted with the same fixed prices. If he is like the boy from Missouri and “wants to be shown.” he is told that “the market” is thus and thus, and the recent in- crease in price has been so and so. 1, when he gets home, he sets at Mtwo&..n.,hevmmnnnd that this thing called “the market price” for the commodities he needs 0 buy is simply the price fixed by one. Zwe, three or a haif dozen men in New Xork or Lenox or Tuxedo, who control | the output, and, possessing the power to limit or increase that output, jug- it large or small as their private | erests suggest: who. also possessing the power to withhold or ship their product as they please, screw prices Tp or down to sutt their own merry | pleasure. He, Mr. Farmer-Producer, | controls no output. What his little farm yields of corn is of no more im- portance to the -total supply of corn than a drop of dew is to the Atlantic. He can mo more dictate. from the top his single joad. what the market of corn shall be. than the dew- falling into the Atlantic can dic- tate to the great ocean how high the shall surge against the base of Bl it 4 g é! £y | ig_“operators” manipulate control the price of his products some praperly styied _ “pit” at or New York. A féew big mul- Simillionaires manipulate and control | ®he price of sugar and tobacco and oil | mnd other supplis he must buy from | their Wail street or Broadway offices. | &0, on both sidee, just as far as | the law will let them; sometimes they | streteh the law to the breaking point. | A very few of them—a very, very few. have been carelss enough or greeds enough to expose themselves to prose- cution. But there is smalil causs for encouragement in the two or threc mililons which have been reecovered | from such prosecutions, in comparson with the hundreds and hundreds of millions which have been and now are being scooped from the pockets of un- ganga. Srfanized producers and consumers by less reckless but no lese greedy | With present tendencies in courts | unechecked, there is little use in the individual buyer or seller looking to them to protect him against combina- | tions of capital which can well afford | frequent hundred thousand dollar fees| %o “eminent counsel” What L then? Are we helpless?. Bound hand #nd foot | and delivered over to the spoilers? | Bfust we farmers accept it as our fate that we shall forever pay for our seeds DON'T EXPERIMENT Wou Will Make No Mistake If You Follow This Norwich Citi- T T Tzems Advice. Never neglect your kidneys. 1 you kave pain in-the back, urinary @isorders. dizziness and nervousnes: it's time to act and no time to experl- ment These are all symptoms of kid- mey trouble, and you should gseek a remedy which is known to cure the Xidneys, Doan’s Kidney Pills is the remedy to | use. No need to experiment. It has | eured many stubborn cases in or- wich. Follow the advice of a Nor- wich citizen and be cured urself. Mrs. Charles H.-Whaley, 9 Tread- way Avenue, Norwich. Conr. says “Ever since my first experience with Doan's Kidney Pills, some six vears @go. 1 have valued them highly. Their use has saved me a great deai | of suffering. My exXperience with | various remedies has taught me that many of them while doing good in | one way will cause distress in another. Sgen s mot true of Doan's Pills, which I procured from A 2 ®Eevin & Son's store. They act solely upon the kidneys, and do.not affect the stomach, heart or other organs in any way. I consider it a ire to recommend Doan's Kidney lis to other kidney sufferers. s For sale by all dealers. Price 59c. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York, wole agents for the United States. ~ Remember the name — Doan’s take no other. They Have a Definite Purpo Foley Kidney Pills give quick relief cases of kidney and bladder ail- ments. Mrs. Rose Glaser, Terre Haute, Ind, sells the result ihher case, AL ter ng for many years from a werlous 'A:( kidney trouble nng spending much money for so-calle cures, 1 found Foley Kidney Pills the ana |few acres and producing limited crops. |ten acres each will produce more and |much. But there's not one who can’t |cess. Those who began by sneering at and our fertilizers and our labor just whatever Tom, Dick and Harry seé fit to ask us, and then sell the resultant crop for just whatever Harry. Dick or Tom see” fit to give us? Shall we despairingly accept the conviction that we must always remain footballs in the game beétween buyers and sellers, o he kicked high or low or punted off the side according to the mood_and leg- power of someone else? Must we forever continue to load our wagons in the farm-lane at home with the as- sured knowledge that we must sell what w2 carry at some, stranger’s as- sessment and pay for what we bring back at some other stranger's dicta- tion? I don't think so. | don’t think we werg born to any such state of life, nor” that modern _civilisation inevit- ably dooms us to it. I don’t think it is our part to be like the corn kernels between the upper and nether mill- stones, forever rolled and crushed and ground into meal to make somebody clse's Johnnycake. In all forms of busi except farming the day of competition and individualism' is” pretctically ended. It as an age of combination. And we farmers have got to get-into the pro- cession or be crowded off the side- walks. We've got to get on or behind the steam roller, If we don’t want to be flattened out'under it. We've got to organize to meet _organization; we've got to combine to meet combin- ation. Of course the small farm must con- tinue. A vast majority of all farmers must always be small farmers, tilling God help the land when the number of such decreases! It is in the increase of their numbers and their power that the stability of the nation finds surety. Nor will it ever be possible for these small farmers to carry on their work of cultivation and production in any oth- er way. than as now—each one individ- ually “studying his own acres and learning their peculiarities, so as to malke the most of them. I must man- age my hill farm on Podunk Moun- tain and you must manage yours on Squeedunk Flats, each for ourselves, as we have learned their possibilities and their needs. You, perhaps, can raise good corn or tobacco where I, & stranger to your soil, couldn't grow pusley. I can get crops of corn and rye off hillsides where you, unused to my elopes, couldn’t raise huckleberries. I think I see a farming future full of small farms, better tilled by increa: ingly intell: cultivators forcing their small dings to constantly greater productivity. I am cock-sure that a hundred prainy, nerve-y, brawny farmers, putting in six days a week of their best and most expert labor on better crops than any one farmer could make of their thousand acres if it were ail combined in one farm. But if those hundred small farmers, after producing their crops, go to “bucking the market” in the same sep- arate and indlvidual way, each one for himself alone and against all the oth- ers, they'll soon fina what too many of us now find, that they have been work- ing days and studying evenings in or- der to provide the money for other| people’s automobiles. While they must farm their farms for themselves, each in his awn way, they must combine in some fashion when it comes to buying their supplies and selling their pro- duets, or they will be eaten up alive. What the hounds leave them, going to market, the wolves will take, coming back. But how dre we to bring about any effective organization in a class of peo- ple so notoriously individualistic and “contrairey” as farmrs? Wel, we cer- tainly shall not help by sneering at and criticising attempts in that direction T'm afraid it's going to be a slow pro- cess at the best. But we'll never hast- en its advance by blocking its wheels. Perhaps no one of us can effect very | do a little somethiing by word or act or encouragement. I've just been read- ing about a co-operative kitchen In a little town out in ° Missouri. It has been running about a year now, is said to haye “passed the _experimental stage” and to be an esfablished suc- it as “impractiable” and “too silly for anything” are now clamoring for ad- mission to memebrship. It is saving sixty women of that village a lot of hard work and some mon And- they're getting better meals, botter cooked, than they used to.have. I personally know of one little club of about twenty-five farmers who have saved over §2,500 in the Hst four years just by combining to buy their house- hold supplies in common. I have seen it stated that one farmers’ association on Lonz Island saved over ten th sand dollars last yvear by bunching their fertilizer purchases. Scores and hundreds of clubs and associations and alliances and granges all over the land are feeling their way along the line of co-operative buying and selling. Where, twenty vears ago, there was but a sin- gle trickling sprihg, there. are now numberless brooks and rills and rivu- lets. It wop't be so very long before some of them will come together; first a few and then more and more till their united volume will make a mighty river sweeping resistlessly over any ang all artificial obstacles. Right here comes suggestion for each one of us, if he can't help swell the flow of any of these liitle streams, he can, at least, refrain from going out of his way to put obstacles in their course. If he can’t help, he can surely abstain from hindering. As things are at present, the farmer who, by word or deed, sceks to block or turn aside the progress of co-operation, is helping to enslave him— in the practical throush the eye of a needle, but & poverty-stricken man can get into the| other place as easy as a fly can drop into @ pan of fat. Samantha Psalter says the women who want to vote ain’t worth a ders: when it comes to milking cows of durnin’ stockings: 1 ¢ I heard a city man say farmers may have their trials, but they don’t have to borrow their awn lawn-mower from a neighbor in order to get their work done. Going bare-footed may ‘be healthy, but one look at Sally Bangs' feet is enough to. teach anybody that I doesn’t add to their beauty. > Parson Dawson told us too ‘many men judged of their own goodness by looking at their neighbors' sins, but that it was not genuine piety. By gosh! I guess he's the only man among us who doesn't. Cy Cymbal says it is all well enough for a farmer to marry a girl who can milk and saw wood, but it isnt evi- dence of a good farmes to shova that work off upon her as a daily ‘duty. Bill Bangs says the countryman who doesn’t let his wife drive into town to do‘the tradin’ and hear the gossip half the time in warm weather is @ durned hog. That is Bill's sense, not his practice. Parson Dawson's boy says he don't want to preach, he'd” rather bd a po- liceman, He seems to take to the shady side of life instead of to Mt. Zion. : The farmer who leans too much off Providence or the hoe handle doesn't keep up with the champions in hoe- ing his row. The farmer whose fences are al- ways loose and whose stock -get. into 's- garden seems ‘to -think his neighbol an apology. is just as zood as mone: unless it is his gardem . that. was ruined You show me a willing, sweet-tem- pered farm hand and I'll show you a rarity. Most farm hands are willing to do promptly what you don’t care to have done. Sariah says she’s been looking all her life for a man who loves God and all his creatures. -T feel mighty glad she’s néver found him. There are men who are such swap- pers that they would swap their wives off if they could; but such men don’t marry women that any man will bar- gain for unless there is a pup or a shoat thrown in. If tha man who hits his horse every time he gets mad could be whipped once a day until ¢ured of the habit— he'd reform in a week. It don’t take a hog long to learn a bad habit—some men have genius in this direction, to. Sensible men sit down and talk nonsense tc women. ~That's the rea- son that women among themselves say we all ought to have conservators. A lazy milker on the farm loses a large per xent. of the cream and spoils the ‘cow. Bbenezer Elkins says women' are not twenkful for what they get, be- cause’ they constantfy have in mind sueh a store of things they want What's the of talking ventila— tion of the barn to the man who al- ways sleeps with his windows down? Some farmers can talk up garden truck So that customers think it is Cheap at the highest prices. The man use with a silvery tongue is not always an orator. When a man who in his wrath knocks down his wife says he loves ‘his horse as he loves his wife, what does he mean? This looks to me like an ambiguous remark. ® donna of one and Lillian Poli of the other. s Kitty Mason, premiere dancer of the Gaiety theater (which means that she is the Bonnie McGinn of London), is coming over to dance in Our Miss Gibbs. Lionel Walsh, Juliette Diker and Florence Reid have been engaged by Henry W. Savage for The Wife Tam- ers, a new musical comedy by Oliver Herford, James C. Harvey and Robert H. Bowers, soon to be produced at At- iantic City. David Belasco has announced that the name of the new play in which he wiil presant Blanche Bates the coming season is The One Woman, by Avery Hopwood, co-author of Seven Days. The date of the production will be some time in October. — s The New York Review says: Cissy Loftus is to become a star of legiti- mate comedy once again, the vivacious lady having been engaged by J. E. Vedrenne for the principal rois in Wil- liam J. Locke’s play, The Man from the Sea, with which Mr. Vedrenne is to open his West End theater, London, in September. Among returning passefigers from Europe this week was Arthur Ham- merstein, who has been abroad sice May. ¥le announced that he has com- pleted arrangements, according to in- structions from his father, for a comic opera season at the Manhattan opera house, which will begin Sept. 15 with a production of Hans, the Flute Player, an English work by Louix Ganns: Fhe principal role will bs taken by Sophie Brandt. self and to ‘rivit the shackles on the limbs of all his fellows. THE FARMER. MUSIC_AND DRAMA - Trixie Friganza is soon to be seen at Chicago in a new musical comedy called The Sweetest Girl in Paris. Lillian Ruseell is to be seen early’ in the season in & new play by Char- lotte Thompson cutitled In Search of a Sinner. Henry B, Harris announces the en- gugement of Frank Mills as leading man for Elsie Fergueon in A Matter of Money. John T. Kelly has been engaged as leading man for A Certain Party, the play in which Mabel Hite will star for only meflicine that gave me a perma- cure. 1 am again able to be up to my work. 1 shall never to recommend them.” & Co another season. k) There are to be two Chocolate Sol- dier companies on the road next sea- son. Lois Elwa® =l be the prima It is a daring thing to present en the stage the life story of a man still living, who is the author of the story presented. Yet this is fust what is done in_Regeneration, the tale of life in the Bowery, which the Poli Play- ers will_offer Hartford all mext wesk. Owen Kildare's romantic ac- count of his redemption from the life of a robber forms a story of much fas- cinatlon. It is a play of strong . cli- maxes aud stirring incidents. Dangerous to Be Inte, An Austrian physician commends yawning as a cure for all pgimonary troubles. Philanthorpic lectufers will please &vold being too interestin Washington Star. Kansas the Crop Sta This has been a sreat season for crops. The goatee whith Col J. W. P. Hughes plaMed last spring has be- come a full-blown chin whisker.—To- peka Capltal +5 THREE PRIZES MONTHLY: third. Award made the last Saturday The Bulletin wants ful letters of any kind the mind may ‘Wednesday of each week. Write on but one side of the paper. Address, SOCIAL CORNER EDITOR, Bulletin Office, Norwich, Conn. PRIZES AWARDED FOR JULY. d First Prize of $2.50 to “Elanche” less Cooker,” Second_Prize 6f $1.50 to * entitled “Be a True Helpmeet.’ Third ‘Prize 6f $1.00 to’ “F. of C." Domestic Helps*, ~ . . We all- welcome- “Aunt. Maria™ to harity “more ‘formal “Editer Social Corner.” in their sympathies and Interests; and if those replying pleasantly or seek- . “Dear. Hannah Homespun,” or “Dear Arethusa,’ or “Dear Wayfarer” direct, instead of the editor, is going to Be & reat homelike Corner where home expressions and Let us hear from you in any way, your heart and task may. dictate—Editor Social Corner. ing information addres This honie heafts are ever to be found. " How Do You Save? 1t might be of" interest to Corner readers to learn how to economize—how to save Perinies, dimeés’ or nickels. Have -you in your home any special plan for saving? If you have write the Social Corner a letter telling of your plan. Tell the in. which. first $25. The major prize for August will_be given for the best letter on this subject. —Editor Social Corner story of the way you eaved your An Inquiry. An Old Subscriber wishes that the sister who wrote the Corner about the use of sage tea for the hair will send in her method of brewing it—quantity of sage gnd guantity of water—and say how {o ‘apply” it and how. freqmently. Editor Social Corner. Good Things Aunt Sadie Makes. Editor Social Corner: I enjoy read- ing the letters of the Corner, they are so friendly and personal. 1 would like to send a few tested recipes in ex- change for some of the fine ones I $2.50 to first; $1.50 to second; $1.00 to EVERY WOMAN’S OPPORTUNITY. home letters, good business leters; good help- ~GREATER LICENSE. The readers of the §pcial Corner doubtless noticed last week that Roena” addressed her letter 10 “the dear Sisters of the Cormer,” and editor rather liked it, and any writer who prefers it need not keep to have copled from these columns: Summer Mince Pies: Pare, core and chop one-half peck of swest apples, then add two cups chopped raisins, two cups molasses, one large cup su- gar, two-thirds of a cup of vinegar, two teaspoons of sait, one teaspoon of cinnamon, one-half tsaspoon of cloves, one nutmeg, small piece butter, grated rind and juice of a lemon; add water to make the proper consistency. Stew slowiy till apples are dome. 1 double the recipe -and can while hot. and when Thanksglving or Christmas comes I make my pies from this recipe, so don’t mind if they raise the price of beef tlll it is as high as it w*s when the “cow jumped over the moon.” Fine Tomato Catsup: Eight quarts of strained tomato. five tablespoons of salt, two tablespoons of black pepper, two tablespoons of mustard, one table- spoon of ginger, ~one tablespoon of cinnamon, one tablespoon of cloves, one quart of vinegar, one cup of brown intil reduced sugar. Boil the quantits one-third. Do not add the sugar at first, for fear of burning. Stir co: stantly. Seal hot if wanted to keep & long time. Baked Huckleberry Pudding, No. 1: Onz cup molasses, two cups of flour, and three of berries. pinch of salt and half teaspoon of soda dissolved in a little milk or water; make a liquid sauce. Huckleberry Pudding, No. 2: small cup sugar, half cup butter, one or two eggs, two and a half ‘cups of flour, with two teaspoons of cream tar- tar and one of soda, sifted in thorough- ly, & cup, or sufficient, rich milk to mix them’ add three cups of washed and floured berries and make a nice liquid sauce. Date Pies: Two or three pounds of dates that come in bulk: pick over carefully, put in an enamei kattle, just cover with water, boil a_few minutes, remove from -the ‘fire; when cool take out the seeds, add the grated rind and juice of,a lemon and ona or two cups of sugar; bake in two crusts. They are fine -and economical, as it is rich and does not require so much in a pie. AUNT SADIE. Leonard Bridge. ’ Horie or . Table Decorations. Editor' Social Corner: Those who have had experience know that a small aquarium with gold and silver fish therein, sand, & few stones and a lit- tle duck weed, or a small herbarium with pretty green ferns, squawberry, little pine trees or even cranberry vines and mosses make very pretty living room ornaments in the winter time. Expensive glass cases used to be One | mecessary and costly glass globes, but of late vears the bell glass inverted on a block made for it has proved to be most attractive for keeping fish, while over-a glass dish with growing sreen things in it, it makes the prel tiest little herbarfum in the world. The dish the plants are to be set in should have broken bits of charcoal in the bottom- to keep it sweet. The earth shoulg be the very leatmold in which the ferns and wood plants grew It hould not be drenched, only moisten- ed, and after it &ets o growing need never be wet, beécause the moist- ure always in the glass will be suffi- cient to sustain them. I have found such little house eor table ornaments to give oppoTtunity for continuous study of nature in cold months, to say I ing of the con- stant delights they were to persons who had no other interests-in-them ex. cept as pleasing obj for the eye. Some of the young. readers of the Corner might find such things a source pleasure. WOOD NYMPH. “Norwich. : i in each month. suggest. They should be in hand by of Norwich for letter entitled “Fire- Sweat” of Central Village for letter of Moosup for letter entitled “Little the Social Corner. the the It brings the writers closer together the form will be accepted. Two Little Words—One Good Pie. Editor Soclal Corner: Joy and sor- row are two littie words that repre- sent the light and shadow of life, and it IS up to every Individual to get for himself what he can of joy, for sor- row will take care of itself, needs no coddling and should not be allowed to taunt memory. .Thosz who take things as they come cannot see them; but those who have dispelled sorrow know that its departure means the return of joy. Restralned anger—kind words —tell for joy. ~Where the husband thoughtfully gives his heart to: kind- ness where the wife is. patient and speaks without anger, where the chil- dren are addressed firmly bug posi- tively there is a well orderad home Children learn to lie to protect them- selves from scoldings and whippings. Children who are treated as if they were criminals for faults and errors tell falsehoods to cover them up. It is @ good habit to speak kindly to the poor and to the dissolute ev The word of cheer to old people adds joy to life with no other tax upon us than the little thoughtfulness and time it takes to say it. Much good would re- sult it we all made more of the good ward. send ‘a recipe for an pld-fashioned lemon pie which is fat and rich: Peel one lemon, cut in small pieces, take out seeds: one cup sugar, one ogg. beat all-together. Break up or roli five -crackens with warm water enough to soften, a good pinch of ealt. one cup of sweet milk; stir well;. add a little butter, drop in a few raisins and bake in two crusts. F.J. C. Moosup. Stop That Cough and That Pain. Editor Social Corner: 1 have dem- onstrated that a -little "thought . will save large doctor's bills There is too much unnecessary suffering in the world—too many long illnesses which prompt action will cut short You do not know where vou got that summer cold. It doesn’t make any dif- ference where or how you got It, if you just put 6 or 8 drops of the spirits of camphor into a tumbler of spring water and just drink it during the first night. This will usually ecure a cold. How you do pity that little child erying with'a gnawing pain caused by a hollow tooth! The child would not need your pity long if you would sat- urate a littie pinch of-cooking soda with water, dip a piece of cotton bat- ting into it and press it into the hol- low tootn to neutralize the nerve-an- noying acids. Have you acute and painful inflam- mations of any kind. boils. rheumatism and swellings of that nature?: Just get out the old molasses jug and spread molasses on cotton. flannel or warm cloth, and put it on, and it will beat many concoctions highly recom- mended that sell for half a doilar a box. The world Is full of little reliefs of this sort. Try them and if they work right do not forget them. They tell for comfort and for economy. ONE WHO KNOWS. Preston. The Sundown Pienic. Dear Bisters of the Corner: 1 know what housework is—housework with- out servants—and what a tax it is up- on ,one’s time and energy. Oh; the Mr. Armstrong Telis How He Grew Hair in'a Short Time ‘Dear Sirs: 1 was told of your great remedy, Parisian Sage, that it would grow hair on bald heads. so I &ot a bottle and tried it, and it is fine, 1 am a young man, and only 25, ”d was completely bald on the top of my head, and now I have hair one ingh long, with the use of only one. tle. 1 shall certainly keep o’ using it until I have A‘gand head of hair, which I bave no bring.’ ich L bave no “doubs. it will —Oscar Armstrong, neer, Belleville Horseshoe & Rollij i1 Co.. Bellevile. Ont. August 21, 1909. To the readers of The Bulletin: The Giroux Mfg. Co., American makers of Parisian Sage, wish to state that they do not guarantee Parisian Sage to grow hair on bald head: most cases the hair root i 3 the case of Mr. Armstrong the hair root was not dead, and, knowing as we do, the astonishing hair growing virtue of Parisian Sage. we sce no reason why it should not grow on_the head of Mr. Armstrong. _But we do guarantee Parisian Sage (and so does The Lee & Osgood Co ) to stop falling hair, dandruff and. itch- ing scalp, in two weeks,,or money back. Parisian Sage s a daintily gumed hair dressing. not - sticky or and is used extensively by who desire brilliant and Jux- uriant ‘hair that attracts and fasci- nates. Large bottles 50 cents, at druggists everywhere, and at The Lee & Osgoot Co. per- ful—it fs-energy that makes business hum. People wiho do useful things are not evil. thinkers. It is evil thought to use the mind for our own undoing. If things do not go to suit you, grin— it is better to do that than t swear. The - soul_ that_envelops itself 1n good cheer, who puts a.little song Into vour heart that will make it glad if things are mot just right. We radiate ourselves—are we spreading sunshine or misery? ROSALIE. Jewett City. Practical Penny Economy. Fditor Social Corner: 1 will send my way of saving pennies to the Social Corner. Have a_good sized bank and begin the first Saturday of the new vear by saving one penny: then in- ¥rease ecach Saturday through the vear. One will ‘be surprised to see how much it will amount to at the end of the year. Why, enough to buy a new suif, or a spring hat! I find this an easy way, as one always has extra- pennies, 1 think. Trust I made It plainf 4 SWEET LAVENDER. Norwich. (Sweet Lavender is all right. We thought she began with one cent the first Saturday and doubled the sum every succeeding Saturd: and we commenced to figure that up, and we found that the last Saturday in the third month would call for a deposit of $40.96, and that the total of pennies would be 447 for the' first three months, and that there wouldn't be pennies enough In town to carry the programme out for a year. But “Sweet Lavender” says “incredse each Satur- day.” If it was a nickel or a dime or & quarter a Saturday thereafter, it would produce quite a sum. But there are readers of this column who have cute ways of enforcing economy, and they should compete for the $2.50 for the best story told how to saye money in small amounts.—Editor Soefal Cor- mer.) Seek to Do a Few Things Different. Editor Social Corner: In these ‘days of garden products it may be well to know how to do some things different, and, perhaps, better, The Yankee does not begin dinner like the French with mushmelon, but uses it as a _des- sert e_complain that it hurts us but_ besides sugar they give it a little dash of white pepper, and it doesn’t hurt them. Abroad canteloupe come before soup—here it follows pie. If the sisters of the Corner never tried this way of cooking green peas they might like it: Take one quart of tender green peas, a small teacup of seven ounces of butter—best wiiter, butter—add tablespoon of sugar and a little sal the butter doesn't suf- ficiently season, and two ounces of little onions or dash of onion extract, and cook them thirty minutes. Then blend ounce of butter with the wheat flour it will take up and stir in; then sweeten to taste, if not-sweet enough. This makes a savory dish. Wihere figs are grown and eaten at table they are taken before meats and are usually the entree at the morning meal. 1 real: that busy housewives can- not fuss at cooking, and that plain cooking is ordinarily sufficient for them, but once in a while a few like to have something different; for that this is designed to help. SALLY DUN Preston. Saving Nickels. Eaitor Social Corner: One of m: fads is saving fuel. In the morning | have a wood fire and stew, boil and bake, and what I do not do on the range is finished in the fireless cooke.: If there are sticks half-burned 1 tak. them with some of the coals out. of doors and extinguish with water. If_you have a bed of coals and wish to do some roasting in a small way, brush off the top of the. oven, and the | The Porteous & Mitchell Co. © Al Day Today and This Evening. Here are scme of the remarkable values that will help you to economize, today, in your buying. : Read every item. MEN’S WEAR arance Sales IN EVERY DEPARTMENT OF THE STORE Clearance Prices on Men’s Clothing, Shirts, Uriderwear, Neckwear, Hosiery, Etc. Washable Ties at 12%c Men's Suspenders at 19¢ Président Suspenders at 33¢ : Men's Hoslery at 5¢ Men's Hoslery at 17¢ Outing Shirts at 42c Outing Shirts at 79 Outing Shirts at $1.19 $1.00 $1.50 color Shirts and 21o—Men's Ecru Drawers, value 89c—Men's fine Balbriggan Shirte and Drawers, value 50c. 33c—Men's “Porosknit” Shirts and Drawers, value 50c. 3%c—Men's “Nainsook" i J Athl Shirts ana Drawers, value 50c. 29c—Men's Fast Black “Machin- ists’ " Undershirts, value boc, Ribh, Bk 3 Ribbed At 79c—Men's Japan:ye and Draw At 29c - Men's u Suits, value 50c At 79c—Mew's Koru Buits, value $1.0 At 79c—Men's “Mesh” v $1.00. Union BOYS’ WEAR Children’s Boy Boy Boyw' Roys' Bluc Khakl T Wash Wash Wash Sull 100 19 Hats at K Hats at % at 390 suses at 19c Trousers at 44c isers at 696 ts at 49c ts at 90 ts at $1.19 MID-SUMMER CLEARANCE SALE. BASEMENT DEPARTMENTS, COTTONS AND LINENS AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES IN THE srezaanetassrisssneRnnan’ sezsrensesanese MAKE IT A POINT TO VISIT OUR & 51.00 29¢ $1.25 $1.50 Women's Waists at 50c Dressing Sacques at 19c House Dresses at 85¢ House Dresses at $1.19 3850 Wash Suits at $4.60 36.00 Princess Dresses at $3.39 $10.00 Wool Coats at $5.98 $13.50 Wool Suits at $6.75 AC B5e—Women's Gingham Wash Pet- ticoats in a variety of striped effects, all sizes, value $1.00. At 25c—Women's Nainsook Drawers, umbrella ruffie and Hampurg trimmed, value 89¢c. At 69c—Women's White Muslin Skirts, with deep flounce and under ruf- fle, trimmed with lace aud brolderies, value $1.00. At 95c—Women's Nainsook Gowns, Dutch nesck and short sleeves, trimmed with laces and em- brojderies, value $1.50. WOMEN’S WEAR $3.00 OXFORDS at $1.95 A Remarkable tire stock sold up to $3,00 Th Pu; clo T, At 48c i mps oth t es, Ve includes Patent ten and Reduction ! of Women's Oxfords all at $1.95 t nothing reserved clearance Patent Button Oxfe at $1.95 a pa Oxford MILLINERY AT GREAT REDUCTIONS At 10e les. All our value as hig At 98c—All our that were Untrimmed hildre FINE HATS at $4.98 Women's Fine Dress ing Pattern workroom Taflored and Hats—all Hats at Hats all for thi Trimmed Out former prices as high Wonren's Hats, trom Ga $3.98 to a8 $1 Womeng compr brofdery, value Z5c. hurry and rush of it: but it would be better if in- this delightful weather tired mothers would take time—or make time—to lunch under the trees in the open. It is good to get out of doors into God's pure air and fanning breezes. Just at nightfall. when the sun is sinking over the hills and the heavens are aglow with the most at- tractive clouds and colors. A cold lunch there is better than a warm lunch indoors. There must be, per- haps, negligence of the home, but is that really as deplorable as neglect of one’s self? I have found that often something must be neglected and when it comes to determining what it shall De, it is too often in too many homes mother’s health.. Don’t you think that is rather poor judgment? That is the thing which ought to be of first con- eration because without it what de- plorable conditions come to the home. Do not sacrifice yourself to pride, for it is much nobler to wait upon ne- cessity. Just learn to take a rest pow and then, force one of these littie sun- set_out of door lunches for what there is in it of health for vou, do things for_strength and for jov and you will find vourself doing all your duties eas- ier and better. MERRY MARTHA. Preston; The Unwelcome Guest. Editor Social Corner: I wonder how many of the sisters are ever pestered with an unweltome guest, the caller under side of back covers. then onions, potatoes, apples, bee ever you like on small pail covers, turning when necessary or If liable to scorch shield with a piece of tin, or something of that sort. A few biscuit, or a small shortcake can be baked.in.this way. They will taste like grandma’s cakes baked be fore the. fireplacy A little charcoal in the bottom of the bread. jar or cake box absorbs tho molisture apd prevenis moulding. The gospel of heaith teaches breakfast, -tea, coffee, or drinking meals, thus prompting better healtli and less call for medicine. and more saving of nickels. BLANCH. Norwich e T = Keeps All Guessing. The American stock market is puz- zling Paris speculators. Nothing strange ajout that. It keeps home folks guessing.—Jac ville Times-Uni Better Change the Brand. Champ Clark says he can almost see himseif in the speaker's chair. It is a ntirage. Colonel.—Omaha Bee. Dsotect Yoursolf! . Get the Original and Genuine who doesn’t enjoy good heaith and who thinks vou are not looking as well ax you were? T shoild rather be dend than o be & mugazine of discournge- meat for myself and eserybody 1 met. met the soul! that envelops itself in a fog of gloom and then confirms it- self in the belief that this ix a world of “horror needs to be shaken out into the sunlight. There are a million blessings every. day that are nowherss near. balanced by the. workd's miseri Dow't tell your neighbors how discour- aged you be>how miserable they look, or how poop busimess is._ Make the subject of conversation something, that resembles the outflow of a glad heart. There is too much sniveling in the world.. “The world does not it It is /that makes the world tear- % HORLICK'S MALTED MILK * The Food-drink for All Ages. F L;.?Iid-.md&wm T.h--hflm.ufillo.lucrs. In No Oombine or Trust ALL OUR WASH DRESS FABRICS. ARE MARKED AT FINAL MENT AND SEE THE MANY SPECIAL VALUES WHICH £SUMMER SALE OFFERS IN SEASONABLE SILKS AND DRESS GOODS H CLEARANCE PRICES IN THE MID-SUMMER SALE. MAKE IT A £POINT TO VISIT OUR WASH GOODS DEPARTMENT TODAY At 9c—Children’s Black Ribbed Hos-|At 12%c—Children's fine Lisie Vs fery, sizes 5 fo 9%, regular 123c n odd lot, reduced froi Hosfery at 9c a pair, 3 for 26c. At 11le—Women's Ribbe ests, At 19c—Infants’ and Children's Socks, riety of etyles, regular 1 black, white and colors, some at 1lc with plaid tops, value 25c. WOMEN'S PANTS 8¢ At 9c—Women's Fast Black Seamiess| Women ‘“‘el‘(],'::“”‘ W, i e Hoslery at 9¢ a pair, 3 for 25c. last. 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