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Conducted by Professor Henry G. Bell
The object of thle department a to place at the air•
*sloe of our farm readers the advice of an acknowledged
authority on all subjects pertaining to soils and crops.
Addreae all questions to Professor Henry 0, Bell, In
care of The Wlleon Publishing Company, Limited, Toronto,
and answera will appear In this column in the order In
which they are received, As space Is limited It ie advis•
able where Immediate reply Is necessary that a stamped
and addressed envelope be enclosed with the question,
when the answer will be mailed direct.
Important Points in Home Gardening. Those three plantfoods are found in
This year the home garden is of the soil and aro supplied • in manus•',
supreme importance. There are cer- and fertilizers, Sandy aoias are es -
tan points which if taken care of will wally short of all three important
greatly assist in making the garden pl'antfoods, Clay soils have a med-
Most productive. First, there should ium supply of them, while muck voile
be prepared a careful plan of the gar- have a relatively large amount of nl-
den, so that all available space will be trog'en, a smell amount of phosphoric
used to best account. Necessarily a acid, and a very small supply of pot -
is impcssible to suggest a plan for all ash,
gardens on account of variation in All crops take up their food through
shape. However, the plan put out by their tiny rootlets, This is possible
the Ontario Department of Agrlcul- only when the plantfood will dissolve
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In comparable° small areas it is un-
wise to attempt growing potatoes or
corn, since these crops requires a con-
siderable area to produce a quantity
of food and are best handled on larger
areas where the necessary care can
be given with a reinumum expenditure
of labor.
Many home gardeners would do
well to pay more etbention to arrange
their crops in what is called a com-
panion cropping system. This cou-
plets of planting alternate rows of
vegetables with differing habits of
growth and rates of maturity. For
instance, lettuce or radishes may be
growth with early cabbage—either in
the same row with the cabbage or be-
tween the rows. Green onions or
spinach may be handled likewise.
Radishat may be sown in the same
rows with onions, parsnips, beets or
cari.•ots. Successive plantings of
lettuce and radishes may also be made
between beets; turnips and bunch
onions may be grown in rows between
peas. Sweet corn may be planted be-
tween rows of early peas or beans. As
like early crops truth as lettuce, rad-
ishes, etc„ =t ee, they can be har-
vested and the ground• left for the
later maturing crop. The pulling of
radishes, early carrots, etc., leads to a
cultivation of the soil which is good
for the following crop,
Another important item in planning
the garden crop ie to arrange for a
succession of crops. For instance, if
the early radishes and lettuce have
been planted in separate beds as soon
as the crap is harvested the ground
Amid be immediately planted to cab-
bage, tomatoes, kohl rabi, garden tar -
rips, etc. Lettuce may be followed
by bunch onions and the onion fol-
lowed by late beets. Late sowings
of beans and turnips oanbe sown after
sweet corn is harvested. Such mixe-
s ful management of crops will prodeee
ft maximum amount of food on the
land.
A circumstance which frequently
lignite garden yields hi the supply of
alma:food 'et the disposal of .tire gar-
aon crop. Plantfood is made up of
three important constituents. Nitro-
gen, whirls causes the leaf antistalks
of the vegetables 'ta grow, pho� ,relic
acid which causes the vegetables to
Mavture, and .potash whieh gives them
sbrenerth to ree'lst plaint disease and
easiste in tie fermation of filling of
the roots anti fruit,
obtained by tieing both manure and
foxtllimrs.
The 'amount of fertilizers to add to
varioue garden areas is recommended
as follower
Anelysis of Fertilizers
The analysis of the fertilizer refers
to the amount of plantfood constan-
eats that nre found In the fertilizers.
These comtituents are ammonia, (ni-
trogen) the stalk grower; phosphoric
acid, the plant ripener; and potash,
the plant etrengthener and snereh
form'e'r. For average gardens it is
well to use fertilizere carrying 3 to 0
per cent. ammonia, 8 to 12 per cent,
phosphoric acid and 1 to 4 per cent.
peta'sh.
How to Apply Fertilizers
After the seed bed is well prepared,
scatter one half the amount of fortis
I'Jeer over the ground before planting,
Rake it well into the soil. When
ready to plant, make your furrova
and scatter the remainder of the fera-
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Hear lightly in the furrow. Ralce a
light covering of fine soil over the
fertilizer before dropping seeds, oe
setting bulbs, or plants.
Side or Top-Dtesaing with Fertilizers
Good results have been ohtained by
saving a bag of fertilizer to be seat-
tered between the rows while the crop
is growing. Before cultivating your
beets, carrots or other garden crops,
scatter a few handfuls of fertilizes•
between the rows, and work it into the
soil by hoeing or raking between the
rows. This additional plantfood givers
added vigor to the growing crop.
Rapidity of growth is essential to
tender, delicious vegetables.
In applying fertilizers as sills -
dressings avoid sprinkling it on the
growing crops- Scatter along the
ter in the soil is a point of vital im-
portance. The av'emage home garden-
er has the advantage of 'being able to
add water to his garden when the crop
needs it.
For garden crops the seed bed
should be dug or plowed a medium
depth and the soil worked until it is
r't:
spaces between the rows, and work it
into the coil as indicated.
Principles of Thinning and Cultivation
There is a certain limited supply of
plentfood available for glowing cropt
This supply will produce geed vege.
tables up to a certain quantity per
square yard. If the crops are plant-
ed too thickly, theee is too great a
&mend on the moisture of the soil,
consequently the yield of the crops us
well as the quantity of the prodhreo ie
seriously interrupted, As a consequ-
ence, care ahould be taken to thin out
carrots, beets, turnips, onions and
parsnips, and to .guard tegainayt plant-
ing corn, tomatoes and eabbages too
thickly.
Cultivation of crops has one main
purpose, which is to maintain a sur-
face mulch or layer of loose soil. This
should not be koo deep, A mulch Ire"
to 2" deep is sufficient. The purpose
of the loose mulch is to prevent the
escape of moisture or soil water by
evaporation. Of course, cultivation
of the erope also kills weeds, which
in all eases should be kept out of the
garden. In cultivating growing crops.
as the plants develop avoid cultivat-
ing too deeply and too- close up to the
growing crop's. Such a practice prune's
off many of the small rootlets which
are the feeding avenues of the crop.
Such a practice amounts to starving
the crop. On heavy clay soils, a
judicious amount of cultivation must
be done in order to assist a good cir-
culation of air through the surface
layer of the soil. As the garden
crops develop, attention should be giv-
en to suitable treatment of the veri-
ous types of garden crops and to the
control of garden 'insects and diseases.
These subjects will be treated in sub-
sequent articles.
For a plot On a medium
measuring loam soil
12' x 16' use 10 lbs. fent{ leer
18' x 20' use 20 lbs. fertilizer
20' x 80' use 26 lbs. ferti iter
25' x 40' use 55 lbs. fertilizer
On sandy
or loam soil
16 lbs. fertilizer
80 lbs. fertilizer
60 lbs. fentilizer
75 lbs. fertilizer
RENOVATING THE RHUBARB
By R. G.
The gardener stopped before the
rhubarb patch and seed, "It is more
thaw five years old and at has not been
fertilized since it was planted. Tye
blossom stalks have been allowed to
develop and the production of seed
has been a severe tax on the strength
of the roots. Why not renovate the
rbubarb, give it a new lease on life
and raise stalks that are fit to mar-
ket?"
Then the farmer remembered that
quality rhubarb was one of his fav-
orite side dishes and rhubarb pie was
cheap but good and healthy. He be-
gan to pick up a few points about the
plant with the idea of making the
rhubarb patch more productive. The
rhubarb is the only useful member
of its genus ars the docks to which it is
dlosely related are prominent among
the black sbeep and of no value on
any farm.
A Warm Location Best
A warm soil on a southern slope
will bring out the rhubarb early in
spring when the price is best. A deep
sandy loam which is well drained will
,produce the 'best results and it can
scarcely be,fertilized too heavily. The
root cuttings can be started to the
best advantage in trenches about one
and a half feet deep which have been
filled with composted manure. An an-
nual application of manure in the fall
will keep up the quality of the crop.
Root cutbings are the most desirable
fine and mellow. The soil should for starting a rhubarb'plantation. They
contain a good supply of 'humus or de- can be started from seed but this is
eaying matter. Humus performs six apt to produce pleuebs which are not
uniform. Divide the root, allowing a
strong eye to each piece and the cut-
ting will produce a good plant in one
season.
Growing Quality Rhubarb
In growing rhubarb it is well to rem
member that the size and quality of a
crop depends upon the care during the
0. Iiumus forms the food of soil preceding year. Large stalks bring
bacteria. the 'best prices and, of course, a fertile
If your soil is clay, and it is dead soil free from weeds means a rapid
development of the rhubarb
and heavy, obtain strawy manure or stalks
leaf mould and work it iavto the soil. early in the spring when the prices
If the garden is sandy and tends to three
0.1e the best. Placing the plants
out, the addition of -sire ma. or four feet aleant in rows four
pure, leaf mould or decaying pleat feet wide is the usual custom.
matter will be of great benefit. The cultivation of a commercial
important functions:
1. Humus catches and holds water
like a sponge.
2, Humus retains plantfood dissolv-
ed in soil water.
8. Humus binds together Bandy soil.
4. Humus opens up heavy clay soil.
5. Humus forms the home of soil
bacteria.
On heavy clay gardens, or on sandy
soils where clover refuses to ,grow, it
is well to add ten to fifteen pounds
of Time (either ground limestone or
air -slaked burnt limo,) to 200 square
feet area. Spread this on dap of the
soil when the garden is dug or plowed
and work it in by harrowing or rak-
ing. This lime corrects the sour con-
dition of the soil. Remember lime is
not a plenefood; lime is a soil cor•
rector.
The Food of the Plant
Manure and fertilizers are the
great garden piantfoods. Both carry
nourishment for the growing crops.
Vorbilizeee easry .planvtfood in..a mare
menoentrated form than does manure,
Manure =ries a oonsideaable amount
of humus or decaying plant matter.
Fertilizers do not supply a consid-
erable amount of humus, but they do
carry plantfood in an available form.
Lt its poseiblo to maintain the humue
of the garden by carefully gathering
piles of leave's that ordinarily blow
suety in the autumn, enol the clippings
of lawns, xvliidh are usually destroy-
ed. It' this humus -making material
has been stored in a pile throughout
the winter, spieled it on the garden
just before digging or plowing and
work it into the soil,
Largest yields 'a,P best quality%re,
OUR PR LEM
by
NI -SP -HELEN LAW
`-' `may., G
Mothers and daughter', of all nee are cordially Invited to write to that
department initials only will be published with each question and Its answer
as a means of Identification, but full name and address must be given in each
letter, Write on one side of paper only, Anaemia will be mailed direct If
stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed.
Address all correspondence for this department to Mrs, Helen Law, 236
Woodbine Ave., Toronto,
Subecriben-1. Paint spots can be
removed from hardwood floors by ap-
ply kerosene and then rubbing with a
soft cloth wrung from lukewarm wa.
ter. 2. Butter and cheese are two dif-I
ferent classes of food, both of which
are important. Cheese is a meat sub-
stitute and is therefore a muscle -
building food and very important as
such, especially when it becomes the
main dish in a meal. Butter as a food
in the fats class and is valuable be-
cauee it makes energy, Children must
have a certain amount of butter each
day. In actual units of food value but-
ter has 3410 calories to the pound and
full-cream cheese 1885 calories, 8
Yeu can remove a grease stain from
white canvas shoes by scrubbing the
shoes with warm water and pure
white soap. If, however, you prefer
not to wet the shoes sponge the
spot with chloroform or a little
ether. Either is inflammable,'
so be careful of it, In re-
moving the stain surround it with a
ring of French chalk to prevent he
grease from spreading. 4, As you dis-
like the taste and odor of soda in
tomato soup, you will be glad to know
that it is not necessary to use the
soda, for if you have both the toma-
toes and the milk boiling, when the
two are combined, the milk will not
curdle. 5. Oleomargarine is made of
beef fats and vegetable fats. By vege-
table fats are meant those made from'
olive, cocoanut; peanut and refined ,
cottonseed oil.
Vegetette:—Glad to know you are
turning garden plans over in your
mind and that you will soon be turn-
ing over the soil. You have the right
war -time idea. A Canadian Army
Medical officer, writing to his mother
from France, says: "You garden ex-
perts will be interested to hear that
the British Army has ordered every
available bit of ground, even under
shell fire, to be put in, cultivation.
I It will mean literally a million small
gardens growing all kindsof things.
It is a thing that should have been
done three years ago, and we wouldn't
be eo short of things." This was
written before the present heavy fight-
ing commenced and the "best laid
plans o' mice and men gang aft
agley" but you may be sure that there
will be countless war gardens some-
where in France this year. Why not
Kirby
rhubarb plantaltion ehould be thor-
ough but not deep. The large ex-
panse of leaves means that the plants
need plenty of moisture and so the
weeds must be kept down and the soil
maintained in a mellow condition.
when the plants are bearing heavily,
which is the case by the third year, it
is best to delay cultivation until after
the crop is 'harvested. Then well
rotted manure can be worked into the
foil to prepare the roots to undergo
the strain of prodnoing another crop
the next spring. The blossom stalks
must not be allowed to grow or they
will cauie serious injury to the crop
during the succeeding year.
In general, a crop of rhubarb is not
difficult to produce and with the in-
creased cost of early vegetables, to-
gether with the scarcity which may
result from labor shortagee, the rhu-
barb should bring a fair price. At
present there are marry old nhuberb
beds which are not producing the
quality stalks which they are capable
of growing if plenty of fertility is
furnished. Other beds are so old
that their renovation is hardly \earth
the trouble and new bed's can be start-
ed in fertile soil by the divisien of the
roots.
in Canada? It's for the same cause.
Cora:—Yes, I can supply you with
the information you want about the
Quebec Home -Makers Clubs, They
are planning to organize all the girls
in their respective communities. These
girls' organizations,. in conjunction
with the Quebec Home -Makers Club,
will assist in the production and con-,
servation of food. By growing vege-
tables in home gardens and on vacant
lots, by canning all perishable vege-
taales, by picking and canning fruit,
by helping in the production of maple
sugar, by making soap for laundry
purposes out of bones and fats not
used for food and by encouraging the,
"Keep a Pig" and "Grow more
Wheat" campaigns.
Few Insect Enemies
The plant ,is quite free from insect
enemies. The rhubarb curculio and
the rhubarb flea -beetle sometimes
cause slight injuries but are seldom
serious. The curcullo punctures the
stems, causing exudations, and while
the stems cammt be sprayed with ar-
senioals for obvious reasons, these
pests are not active and they can be
picked off by hand if their damage ap-
pears to be serious. Many fine crops
of rhubarb are produced with no re-
gard to insect enemies and this is
more than cast be said about the ma-
jority of garden crops. As a spring
tonic the rhubarb .is of great value and
it should be mare generally used. In
a section where winter is long and
severe the use of canned rhubarb will
undoubtedly be of •great value in im-
proving the health of the family, es-
pecial'la if pork and potatoes have
been playing too heavy a part in the
daily diet.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON
' MAY 12. •
Lesson VI. Jesus Faces The Cross—
Mark 10. 32-62. Golden
Text, Phil. 2. 8.
Verse 82. On the way, going up to
Jerusalem—Moving steadily along,
talking as they went. That it was p
to the holy city, may be remernbered,
when we consider that Jerusalem
stood nearly four thousand feet above
the level of the Jordan valley. Jeans
was going before: and they were
amazed , afraid --It is Mark
alone who notices the position of
Jesus and the mental perturbation of
dr
the disciples, It •seems at it was
unusual fox Jesus to go aimed of the
company, Then, there was some-
thing m his appearance and spirit
Which awed them. A crisis wes im-
minent, Hiticipation of the seri-
bus conflict made itself known itt his,
douneenance. And he took again the
Up-to-Date:—The new form of in-
duction does not seem quite courteous
to me. To say, "Miss Blank, meet
Mr. Smith," makes of it a command,
when according to the rules of polite
society permission should be asked be-
fore a stranger is introduced, To say,
"Miss Blank, may I introduce Mr.
Smith?" shows an inclination to
please both Miss Blank and Mr. Smith,
which is entirely absent from the first
form. It is sometimes more com-
mendable to be courteous than up to
date, and I think you will find that the
fad for such introductions will be
short-lived.
A VICTORY BOND
"Curious things happen these days,"
sabd Maw. Eaton, Who was returning
the cupful of sugar mho had borrOwefi,
"We were speaking not lone ago of
Your brother-in-law's contribution to
the iced Cross, I want to tell you
now something fully as surprising
about a relative of my own by mart -
liege.
"It'e old Joe Dingley, over at the
Falls. He isn't a brother-in-law, but
only a cousin -in-law, which is about
as near as I ever cared to have the
relationship. We all felt that it was
quite a Comedown when Cousin Clara
bel married him. His father had
some means, and .lees was allowed to
grow up in idleness. What little
money 'he inherited went pretty quick,
but the idleness remained. I've often
thought that if Claribel hadn't been a
good dressmaker -they'd lava been on
the town long ago.
"What I'm going to tela you I got
from Claribel herself. It seems that
one day their little boy, Sammy, came
to dinner kind of down in the mouth,
and asked if he couldn't skip school
that afternoon. The teacher had
been telling how that it was every-
one's duty to buy a Victory bond in
order to help the country. Finally,
she asked all the children to talk the
matter up at home and try to get
1 their fathers to invest. In the after-
noon she would ask them dhow they
had succeeded.
"I soane doubt if that was wise, but
I I suppose eche was full of zeal to do
missionary work. At any rate,
j Sammy took it very seriously, and
said he was most sure that all the oth-
er children would be ready to raise
their hands when the teacher asked
how many belonged to a Victory -Loan
family. So couldn't he stay at home?
"Joe wasn't there at the time, but
Claribel told Sammy that the country
' needed brave boys as well as brave
men, and that it would not be brave
to stay away from the place where
;duty called him just because he
couldn't ratse his hand when ethers
did. She admitted, though, that it
1 made her 'heart ache to see him kind
of swallowing to keep back the tears
when he started for school.
"But he was all smiles when he
came running into the house at night.
'I did raise my hand, after all,' says
the little fellow, `and teacher put fath-
er's name on the blackboard with all
the others that are going to help save
bhe country by getting Victory bonds.'
"Why, Sammy!' says Claribel.
'You ought not to have done that!"
"All this time Joe was in the next
room, but the boy didn't know it. 'Of
Icourse you don't believe that pa can
get one,' mays Sammy, 'and I shouldn't
if I hadn't seen something that you
h:aventet Then he went on to tell what
he had seen on his way to 'school.
"It was a handbill that Ike Remick,
who runs the bowling alley at the
Fails, had put out, offering a fifty -
dollar Victory bond as a prize for the
one who should make the highest total
score at his place during the next
month. 'Pa's just the same as gat --
that bond if he makes a try for it,'
sags Sammy. 'That% one thing he
can do,=he can bowl with the best of
'em,—and he's always in practice,'
says Sammy. 'It will be just fun for
him helping his country.'
"Then Sammy ran off to play, and
Ex-Torontonian:—Many thanks for
your kind appreciation. Your attitude
towards the war and the problems it
raises is that of all the really thought-
ful people of Canada. Some there
are who think the war will last until
everyone comes to realize the lessons
this conflict is meant to teach us—
the lesson of thrift, of endurance, of
consideration for others, of humility,
and above all the ability to see the
' Divine in the daily which will solve
for us f'ife's enigmas. The book you
mention, "Toronto Does Her Bit," costs
fifty cents.
X• Y. Ze—A plan for the remodel-
ling of your kitchen will be sent you
by mai-l. Judging from the details
you furnish, the work should not be
difficult, and the new arrangement
' will greedy lessen the housework.
Best wishes for success, I trust that
you received the expert advice mailed
you regarding .the installation of wa-
terworks.
Matthew. Put him to death, like the
meanest and most abandoned criminal.
After three days he shall rise again—
Here is a prophecy which makes this
utterance a revelation. Foresight
might euggestithat to go into the very
midst of his enemies evould mean dis-
aster and death, but to affirm that •he
would rise from the dead at a stated
time lifts this prediction above com-
mon forestgh•t into divine knowledge.
85. We would that thou shouldest
do for us whatsoever we shall ask—
Certainly a large request and in any-
thing but a modest spirit. This ie a
very painful episode. At a time when
their hearts should have been deeply
touched by the thought of the suffer-
ing which awaited their Master they
were thinking about securing the best
places in his kingdom.
87. Grant that we may sit, one on
thy right hand, and one on thy left
hand•• -The positions of 'honor, newt to
the throne itself, the right hand hav-
ing the past of precedence. In thy
glory—The glory of the -Messianic
I •
98. Ye know not what ye ask—They
were to learn the difference between
standing first and being first, and that
there is a vast difference between ap-
pointment and achievement. They
were also to learn that it is suffering,
I not honor which marks the first place
' in the high roll of the kingdom. Are
ye able to drink the cup . to
lee baptized—Figueattive expressions
to indicate a man's portion in life and
M--. the overwhelming power of calamity.
with them in ordinary conversation.
Began to tell thean the things that
were to happen unto hem—This is now
the third time that he seeks to impress
upon them the gravity of the days
aihead of 'him, but they 'seem not to
comprehend, so unwilling were they
to entertain any .thought of disaster
to their Messiah' and to the kingdom
he was to establish,
83, The Son of man shall be deliver-
ed unto the chief priests and the
scribes—He saw clearly that there
was rho avoldiseg the cutches o3 his.
enemies, He did not seek to evade
the inevitable issue, but marehed
directly toward his goal, caring not
for himself bub for these trustful dile-j
eiples to Whom hu was to band oval
the great work he had inaugurated�
and who were pitiably ignorant of the]
great meaning of it all, Condemn him I
to death deliver him unto the
Gentiles—To Trim the approaching'
death was not an accidental rtra:gedy,�
but an event which clearly lay in h�s
pathway as a part of his Messianic
w
program, It was not an incident, but
a necessary pant of his work. Them.
tvere hitter words to the di-sciples, The;
thought that he was to die and was to
be delivered to the C.entilee instead of
reading them to victory over the "na-
tions" must have thrown them into
atter confusion.
94 Mock . spit upen
twelve—That is, fell back from Ins' ad- seourge, ki11---T•he climax of
d 'tloih and resumed his place indignities Crucify 'itis says
89. They said, We are able --We are
hardly to suppose that this indicates
they had an adequate idea of the Bost
of drinking the cup and undergoing
such a baptism. It is rather an in-
considerate and 'superficial answer.
The cup. that I drink ye shall drink--•
I He administers no rebuke for their
1f -seek -in but assures them that
they shall verily 'sham in his ;suffer-
ings in the pathway of their apostle.
ship.
40, To sit on my right 'hand or on
lay left hand is not mine to give .
for them for whom It hath
been prepared—Not personal influence
but fitness, land that fitness is deter-
mined by the service rendered. So,
the bestowment as a matter of per -
eons]. favor is ;out of the question. No
personal equation enters into it.
Se
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trance .pose' .,
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42. Josue called: them to hiuch
a display of selfish ambition must
have intensely grieved him, They
who are accounted to rule over the
Gentiles --Thea ie, these who seem to
rule, He would show them blit men
talo by forge, by heredity, by choice,
by flattery, by inbrigtlet. but that row
poascss the zeal dualities of. }calor-
ehlp. They lord it over thorn, and the
people become their servants.
43. But it le not se among' you.--.
In the Xingdom the leaders instead of
beieg.lotcie become servants and the
very highest become bond eervant o:l
all. 'into essential peineiple of tiro
kingdom of God ie to achieve create
ness—not through preferment, but
through service rendered.
45. The Son of man came not to be
ministered unto, but to minister—
Even the Son of man is not exempt
from this rule. He is the Head of
humanity and yet he is the servant of
all. To give his life a ransom for
many—Ills death is the supreme ser-
vice far humanity. He gave his life
not merely in behalf of many but in
stead of many. Here we have before
us the profound truth of the vicariou
sacrifice of Christ. His life becomes
the "lutron" or price .by which men ar
freed from bondage.
pretty soon Joe came out of the sit-
s ting room, 'I guess it's up to me to
bring home that bond; says he. Then
e he got him a bite from the cupboard
and went off, and didn't get home till
past midnight.
"'After that,' says Claribel in tell-
ing the story, `Joe never missed iteingt
out late a single night.'
"Then she 'stopped, and I saw that
I was the same as invited to put in a
word.
"'Well,' says I, 'I suppose he won
the prize.'
"'Well, you suppose wrong,' says
Claribel, with that kind of droll slant
to her eyes that I remember when she
was a girl. 'Dick Perry beat'em all
way out of sight, and carried off the
bond.'
"But she was particular for me to
understand that Joe could have won;
and the reason he didn't was because
he never went near that bowling alley
at all.
"'I never supposed I was much of a
hero to grown-up pe-ople,' Joe says to
Claribel, 'but when I found my own
boy taking it for granted that the only
way I could sea my country was by
winning a bewli match, it did give
me a kind of erre lia
"What Joe did was ,01).,.p,looking
for work. Of course, the nice, game l
jobs were all tauten; but he found
that there was a chance for another
man to work nights at Cooper's mill, .
and he went for it, He's been at it
already long enough to 'earn a fifty-
dollar band, and, whata more, he
seems determined to stick. He tells
Olaribel that he had been a slave to
laziness all his life ,and he says than
to him that Victory bond he brought
home stands for victory in a double
sense."
Subject to Moisture.
Furniture which, like chairs and
stands for porches and tents, in sub-
jeoted to continual dampness, often
falls apart without warning. To fore-
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twice with transparent shellac before
setting the article in an exposed spot.
Be doubly thorough at the joinings,
and thus add years of weer to its life.
Get oats in early for the best
yield.
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Some Joh.
The sergeant and the lieutenant
were conversing about the new re -
omit.
"'E's thin as a rflmrod, and 'e don't
even look strong enough to 'elp in the
store," complained the sergeant,
"11,3'11 do to clean the rifles," sug-
gested the lieutenant.
"And tools a-goin' to pull 'iris
through? wailed the sergeant dis•
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