HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1918-8-22, Page 6Fresh as a Flower,
and just as fragrant!
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is fust the tiny buds and young leaves from
,
hill -grown shrubs— So economical because
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CAUSES FOR FAILURE .IN DRYING. •
A recent institute speaker' in our drying will have' to be resorted to in
community said: "Don't e9,n anything , some eases. •
that can be kept without canning, The, next noticeable result will 'be
and don't dey anything that, fcan 'be
kept without drying';. In other
words,,don't ban up onions when they
keop well in a dry cellar, and don't
dry potatoes and turnips when they
keep . so ..well in root cellars. The
same speaker gave it as her opinion
that dryingshould be resorted to in.
comparatively few cases and with -
that more fruits, vegetables, jellies
and jams will be served all winter, the
family will fare better and enjoy bet-
ter health and meat bills will diminr
ash correspondingly. It'may be even
necessary to supply less fortunate
neighbors with some of the preserves to
finish them up at the end of the sea-
son, or some may becarried over,
special products. A few,'cher•ries as unsugared' sterilized juices of cur -
,should .be dried for= -use instead of rants, apples, crabapples and grapes
raisins (tile pits:;'ahouid be left in); keep from ,nine to, eighteen months
apples And peaches should be dried, andthen make excellent jellies.'
because they have such a good effect ' To put up unsugalied fruit juices for
'upon the health . of the individual; jelly making, piSaoecle exactly as if ers In giving, "Humph!" grunted Mr. Mann. "I'm
corn and peas should be dried, becausejelly were to be made at the time, Socially, also, Clinton changed' its doing spine important work but if you
they, may be more easily saved Cook the fruits until'they are soft and program.. Without argdment, most think you've anything worth saying,
through dryj g than through canning strain out the juice through a 'flantte1" of the entertainments grew into tomo in."
1 have trial -drying various things bag. Beat end pour while 'hot into benefits for the Belgian baby fund "Mr, Mann," bee' in Crane, "you
and find that it fails largely for four bottles previously scalded. Fill the I and few were arranged solely for the don't care much, for ins—it
reiisona. Either the heat is applied bottles. full, leaving no. air space be- pleasure of those who attended. ,her
''I don't know as I'd stop at this
too quickly, the pieces are too thick, tween juice and cork or seal. Place these events Marjorie Mann andtime to carry that word•
the materials are not prepared there the Riled sealed bottles on their sides debutente friends, dressed in their Crane aid no uvea
p p prettiest, "assisted" while Crane
Chapman and the young erten of the
His Great Decision
N'hich'ShowO the Attitude of Our SonlheruNeighbor At the 13ogin1ting of
tJhe',Yur, wird sow tho itopubhe's Noblest Sons alta Daughters
Roe to the Occasion,
13y"f4
4
h Brown Kirkwood,
speeelr and -.floe l3aeon s departure
tools thee plum: of the usual topics of
the town in the discussion.
"Say, fellows," put in Crane, "let's
rig up a citizen sadieiy"
A loud guffaw greeted this remark,
"Aw, shut up!" said Crane, "I mean
it: Ted's rig'ht. We're a lot of
average eitlzen, Clinton, like many ends to sit tight on the good things
mid -western cities large enough . to here at home and lot soma one fight
boast of opportnni{,iee and yet not tee our fights, Up to now we didn't
laige to spoil its friendliness, lay in know the truth but now we do. Let's
the midst of land upon which the gods get ready. We can drill, The set -
of nature had smiled. Ite harvests ting up exercises will do no harm and
yielded plentifully for man and beast; if we're needed 'we can go. Oh, 1
herd§ , of cattle browsed en ate pas•- know what you re thinking that I'd
titres; sheep dotted ita farms; pigs be a lot of help in the trenches but,
grunted happily in the sties, Al- by jimmy, I can de something' over
turned into groat- mounds veined Tn
coal. Its woods were full of fine
timber. Want or the possibility of
wept was a stranger. • It had nestled
In thin spot of comfort for more. than
half a centlnry, always building, never
destroying, Many of its people knew
"What ate girls Made' of?" remark-
ed Mr. Mann to his wife that night.
"There's a man who isa titan and she
ON unloved by his side'!"
Clairton was not the only *et whore
the news of the outbreak of the world
way made little impression upon the
there, if its only tohelp the l:e'igiana
smile! I'm for those folks, if"alb Ted
says is true, and I know it ie if he
says it. All right, laugh. P11 'set
up' alone, I'll do better --I'll go to
Prance!" '
He stalked out of the store, •
wealth, most of 'them knew ab'vulance, Crane did not go home. Some-
none knew real poverty. Of what thing impelled hint to go'past the
importance to Clinton was this tar bank. There was a light in the pre -
away rumble act rolling by ambitious sicient's office. He 'wonde ed what
kings rued princes? America was it meant. Tho talk of - the evening
land of the free and Clinton repro- had oppned now doors to him. Over
sented well the benefits of that frets the top of the half -lifted shade he
dom. ' saw a familiar head. As nearly` as
. Clinton jumped the first ear ol"the
J p y ho could remember it was the first
war, arguing that America a$ a nation; titin, in his life that the sight of that
of ease could not fight. -Mr. Mann head had not given him a sinking sen-
sation. YTas it because new life stir-
red within him?
He shook the door gently and the
figure within rose 'and came to turn
with the instincts of, the financier too
well cultivated to lie set aside lightly,
made war investments that netted
good profits but he gavegenerouslyof
the returns to the first'of the war rile lock.
movements; Iie'.accepted with pride Wlsat do yon want?" Mr. Mann's
the chairmanship of the Clinton com-
tone was not cordial.
xnittee on Belgian relief and increased "May 1 ..Colne in? Crane's voice
and knees were unshaking. "I'd like
to talk to you."
his original donation that Clinton
might take its place among the lead -
oughly or the stuff is allowed to be- in water near the boiling point, and
coma contaminated by flies and mill- keep them in the bath for about thirty
ers, eaa.. minutes. Make sure that the cork -
The sun is the safest drier of them ed or sealed end is under the hot -em-
ail, for Old Sol never scorehoe the pro- ter. As soon as the bottles are cool
duct. But sun drying is very slow, -cover the cork with a paraffin seal,
especially if a ifew ,dark days follow Thorough sterilization and sealing are
- h1 succession. Where flinch is kept in absolutely essential to success,
this way, stove drying is often follow- To make jelly from the sterilized
ed instead. The usual inclination is juice, test its jelling quality, add the
to put the product into the l oven or in proper ;amount -of sugar, and proceed
a commercial drier and get the heat as in making jelly. from freshly ex -
to going. Experience has taught pressed juice.
that the heat should be kept as low
' as possible and the material should be
frequently turned. If the heat is
applied too rapidly, the result -is that
the outer part of the pieces becomes
seared over and the moisture of the
interior is "bottled" in. The stuff
teems to be dry but in a few, days it
smells a little sour or becomes moldy.'
Examination shows that the interior is
still soft and moist while the exterior
is flinty and dry. After the bulk of
the moisture has been driven off, the Came to the dawn of the earth's now
product should be tempered; that is, day;
Each doffed his prate and his golden
crown.
And, low to the Babe, he knelt him
down,
And the morning light, I trow, was
sweet
To the banging eyes and the faring
Three Kings.
"He who opposes ma I will break in
pieces," —William of Prussia,
"We kings must stick togeth:er."
—Charles of Austria.
"We democrats must stick together."
—George of England.
Three kings came out of time's sha-
1t should be -poured into another ves-
sel each day for four or five days.
• Stuff that•is to be dried should be
sliced, the slices being from one,
fourth to one-eighth of an inch thick..
The- pieces can be too thin but they
usually, are not. An ordinaty•vege-
table slicer is very convenient to pre- feet.
pard materials ready, for the drying
trays. It is not satisfactory to have Three kings. there be on the trail to -
the vegetables to be dried more than day, '
one layer thick on the drying tray. In Who ne'er have traveled those shad-
many cases, the molding that appears • ows grey,
is caused, from too great a depth of Wending along while the noon ie high,
the .product. - Under the blue of the patient sky,
The root crops of which the carrot, And this suffering earth, where the
• beet, parsnip and turnip are examples three kings. be,
must have special care .in the pre- Moans as it turns, full wearily.
;partition in order to make an edible
dried product. 'These -crepe will re-
tain the earthy flavor .unless carefully B
washed, scrubbed and peeled .(net Blind to the noon and the Star of
scraped) and a single piece of con- Morn;
FTie aivn dark shadow ie all ho knows;
His hands are red with the people's
woos; '
alis base heart, beating its pulse, "All's
well,"
Echoes Amen to the hate of hall.
One wipes hie lips where a knavish
• smile,
With •its wan delight betrays his guile,
Vain vassal of vice he fain wottld-hide,
A cur he cowers by his comrade's side.
Weighed, bought, and sold—ahl me,
the goal
When Jetties, speaks to the perjured
One wears his crest with a haughty
SWIM,
taminatecd' carrot will spoil. a whole
. container full of the dried's, carrot
chips. Itis desirable to blench. most
of the - vegetables and some of the
fruits, such as apples. The blanch-
:ing sets the milk in corn and makes
it less pasty and soft to work with.
It keeps the kernels entire and for
this reason, hastens the drying and
givet;a better looking dried corn. The
corn should he blanched on the cob for
five or ten minutes, then cold -dipped
and immediately cut from the cob.
After the products have dried until
they are tough andeleathery,..the next soul!
thing isto store hem. If sun drying
is resorted to, the, drying pans or But one—all thanks to the God of
trays should be brought in about four
o'clock and covered up until the next
day. Most of the contaminating in-
sects and moths fly in the evening.
Place the dried' stuff in wide-mouth-
ed bottles, pasteboard boxes, paper His face sobered, "What can a fella
sacks and in fact, anything that hap- do clear out here in Clinton? We We call it a "tarantula"—a Raine
can be , conunonly applied 10 any one • of sev-
ptntt to be tight, - Paper sacks cant believe allyou fellows rint you
e enemies -t h i p '. . er•al species of big "trapdoor' severe,
made to exclude inset en e by but this -talk of yours mattes
rolling them about in a pan of pare- Inc want to do sometl>,ing." but The bite of such a spider is severe,
;ifln, Storing in small quantities will "If I shade you want to do some- it will.u.ever attack a human he-
eliminate many losses. ' Good stuff thing; Chapman, Ted returned, "I armee spiders do not make woos.
in the. winter -should not be expected . must have Billie Bryan backed off the
from scorched material or'that which -• = -••--- - boards. Why don't ,you organize a They dwell in holes in the ground,
' been poorlyprepared, Citizen soldiery? ' Many of the towns which they excavate with the books
hats p ]? aro doing it. Won't hurt to be pre- that terntinete their powerful jaws,
Grace ---
Greets earth and sky with as tin -
shamed face,
Flis sceptrod alight is a holy thing;
He lifts his ,klnsbip over the king;
And girt with the love from service
won
Sees Tod in each brother -man undone.
"God Save the King," from our hearts
'we pray,
With plays The man on the King's
Highway.
"I'm sorry," Crane went 011: "Ive
crowd;' hurried from stores and, always hoped. yon would like mo for
offices where they were employed, to I've loved Marjorie since we were kids,
dance with them as a fitting close of No, ho motioned the older man to
an evening spent in work for others.
keep quiet, I haven't told her and I
Driving Monte in the family car Ion' tell her untilne of l say 1msl but
from 0310 of these entertainments, Mr. know it for„,Po 'going away to -mor -
Mann remarked to Mrs. Mann, at his ,,,,,,,,
ids:
• "Doo Ba.eon came to 'tile this even-
ing to tell hie he is leaving for
France." -
"What's he doing that fqr?" asked
Mrs. Mann in an injured tone.
"Well, it seems they need more doe -
tors over there and a lot of the
young medical men are going. You
remember he. .said he would. Sorry
to see ]lifn do it but X don't blame.
"Away 7" Mr. Mamn's tone was in-
credulous.
"Yes. I'm going to war." -
"To war, you say? You're going to
war 7"
-
"I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking I'll be a rotten soldier.
Well; maybe I shall but I'm a rotted
law student too and keeping men out
of the hell Ted pictured is morel(' my
him. He's giving tip a finepractice liking than putting them into prison.
I want to tell Marjorie that I in going.
here to go when there must bea lot I've never gone to your house since
of men not sn valuable at home who.
might go over but that's his business
and hes got the courageto do it all
right."
"It hardly seems fair for our, best
doctors to leave,us stranded," began
Mrs, Mann, "Still, I suppose there'll
be some one to take his !$ace. Didn't
Marjorie look pretty to -eight?
Mrs. Mann's sudden changes of
topic always mystified her husband.
He made no attempt to keep abreast
of them or to understand them, When
interest in his own flagged, ho re-
mained silent; so, wrapped in indivi-
dual thoughts, the two drove home.
Small cities make gala events of
the leave-takings of prominent cit-
izens, This15not because there is
rejoicing over the departures but be-
cause there is the wish to send with
them theood will of the big town
fetuily. Anton sent out a call to
the old school friends of Tom Bacon
to return and add their .numbers to
the newer:group known as the friends
of Dr, Bacon, Ted Speer, fresh from
the fields of war, ran back to Clinton
to serve es the speaker of the even-
ing'and say the word that was wanted
at his old friends party.
"I've always been proud to be Tom
Bacon's friend," said Ted as he closed
an impassioned plea for the Belgians;
"but to -night I'm more proud of him
than ever. Would to God that America
we've been grown that you haven't
made me feel like a sneak thief. I'd
like to go once feeling like a man.
May I?"
Mr, -Mann looked into the boy's eyes.
He had never before seen him serious.
"Crane, no real man ever is denied
my house. I don't like you. I never
have. You're not my style. Mar-
jories is too big a prize to give to a
monkey -on -a -stick. I'm afraid she
likes you. I've been afraid of it a
long time. If she thinks you're go-
ing over to be sacrificed, she'll get a
notion that the romantic appeal is
love. I don't want her tied to an
ideal. I want the genuine article of
a man for a son-in-law. I'm afraid
you'll backslide. If you're serious,
go to her but promise you will leave
her free. You'll abide by your state-
ment that you'll tell her of your love
only when I say you may?"
A gasp escaped Crane's lips but a
new 'determination was in his eyes,
"I will, Mr. Mann."
Clinton refused to believe the word
that passed from house to house. Most
of the citizens smiled at "Crane's
grand -stand play," Crane had hoped
to slip away suddenly and quietly. He
had planned to run back to the city
with Ted Speer and from thereto
make his, preptixations for going
straight for enlistment with the am-
bulance corps in France. Crane act -
had more of his vision! Dr. Bacon ing on Ted s advice chose the ambul-
leaves all he has budded to go to give ance corps because the family auto -
of his science and his experience to
those who have fallen fighting our
fight for its. It is our fight, 'Old
friends, just as much as if it were be-
ing fought in our own land. Pray
that the war may" -save the Tom Ba-
cons to be returned to us but thank
God that we have them to givel"
"Some speech, Ted, old boy, some
speech!" Ted turned to find a web»
coming hand out -threat and a smiling
face. "If they ever put you up
against William 3,, hes a goner. Glad
10 800 yon."
"Gine Chapman—and still laugh -
tropical port, yields a surprise in the
Ing exelaimed Ted. Its good o s eltape of a gigantic black spider—a
you fellow'% again. What are you
doing for your country these bays?" most alar
1, that has
Crane laughed,
"Studying law in Dad's office and
eating timed meals a day. Gay life!"
'THE "JEWSHARP."
How. Rs Nemo ferrlginated Is Not De-
'
.
flnitely knoWn.
At lunch t1te011101' day a Modem
men was tolling sane of his relonat111
that leis fleet nnt0leel tendeeclas wore
towards the jewsharp, As a boy he
need to go out to his grandfather's
farm In the summers and 00 00011 ase
he arrived be would go to it drawer
in the big .o1d-faaltiened cupboard and
get out 0, jewsharp that was kept
tltbce, It eppealed to flip boyish
fancy to drunr'eWay 011 it, People to-
day, ace less of the jewsharp than
they need to, At the end of the
seventeenth century, It wee the only
It ualeal tuetruntent in the possession
of the inhabitants of the Island of St.
Kilda and with the jewellery they
"solaced" themsolvee, we are told. As
l;ar bath th.e extiot
shape it is as ta'day.1811 It was
The jewsharp 1.0 nota bei'). 11 has
m1 connection with the Jewe,. The
reason foe the na.tile is not known.
Soine authorities believe that it was
originally called a jaw's -harp because
11 was played with the jaw. Others
say it wee neat called . the Jew's'
Trumpe, the name coming from the
French %ford "jeu"—a "jew.trompe" or
toy trumpet. Other peoples called it
a mouth -drum or 0 ltunlining-li'On,
while the Italians designated It las the
"scaccia 1 pensiers," banisher of
thought, The actual origin of the in-
strument, which is;a universal sound -
Producer, is not known, It ie known
to be of very ancient origin for the
Chinese books of the twelfth century.
show the jewsharp as almost identi-
cal -with the Europeeu'form.
Iir India, the-""inurchang" or just
"chs.ug" is the same as the continen-
tal jewsharp. The marchang le found
all over the Eastern lands. The Chin-
ese call it -a mouth -harp, The Orien-
tals made it of pieces of bamboo, five
to nine inches long. In 1827 a Jews -
harpist gave concerts in England and
Scotland in which, he used sixteen
different sized and different pitched
jewsharps. -He could change so quick-
ly from one to the other that the
melody was net interrupted: By us -
Ing two, be gave a duet effect. A
story is told that In the time of Fred-
erick the Great, there was a soldier
who played the jewsharp so well that
his fame spread. 'When on guard one
day he was asked by Frederick to go
to the palace to play for him, the sol-
dier refusing, as he would be punished
if he left his post. However, when he
at last played at the palace, the king
was so pleased that he gave the sol-
dier honorable discharge from further
military service.
Playing the jewsharp is not a gener-
al accomplishment to -day. It is hard
to say. whether or not a musician,
even it he performed on sixteen jews-
harps, would draw a crowd to -day.
mobile had been one of his playthings.
IIe needed no long 'months of pre-
paration before he could_get into the
fray and now that he had determined
to go he was eager -to be on his way.
• (To be continued.)
THE "TRAPDOOR" S)'IDER.
Which Occasionally is Found In a
Bunch of Bananas..
Once in a while a bunch of bananas,
newly arrived le our "midst" front It
sought a hiding place among the fruit,
It may Have a "spread" as big as a
teaplate,
THE V.O. OF THE UNITED STATES.
pared, you know." • using them pickax fashion to loosen
Keeping bruit, Juices Without Seem.. A Bronze Medal,0onferred by Specfil "You really don't think we'll be the onrth. The hole may be fifteen
drawn in, do yon'?" inches deep and tubular, or It may be
Fruit juices, clan be. kept without Act of •Congress. • ere nu fellows nth footbn.il figu,rea
1 sugar for use later ort in jelly malting: Y is shaped more tike la box, hu in any
This elables file housewife to of
One of the ghost sparingly granted Wait to be drawn in, you are boobs, case it is smoothed on the inside and
it How you can keep out of a world
War r
• of tv drsao n,iJort 15 the
s Con cession•
g silk of. an exquisitely el -
lined with s ldell-
a) fewer jelly glasses,. 14lnre-
with er st is
i1.l ,- lessstay nu
along J g anis lace this murh a
gYy
-, g
al Alctda.l 011lonaixr Arusric 's i
' over;,wlt}t bottled juice a greater vas •a V, G, t too much for me. X ttierl'to gat in rote w'envn:
'riety of jjollies pan be made, as Juices is 0(311fe1't1'4 by Nineclal Act 17 Con' but I'm undersized, To miss tine 1t is also provided with a door, dish-
that wil snot jell Can be put up when grTsa' `i t opportunity to serve God and 1'nnlaln- shaped mid coutpoaed of alternate
the fruit is ripe and colrt'liined later n the 5pa111.,1 It it lesct ihsn tnvcnly ity by a few inches Arid poitncls, You layers orearth ;and silk, This (1oor—
with fruits,„that will jell, or ftu,ts al i.hoee 1n'10e e,0 aleeretel slip h.g, 354454, well-fed, smiling mocker, wtirh int ',be eta n of 0 thinner holo,
ripening lit ditl'obent seasons eali be l+euher, -hr .l'e .l'J:ilippino, campaign, nary don't you get h1?” ntight be 001194 a lid ---bus a flange
which lasted off and on for savet•alIt was said In 1 spirit which t0 fit in a corresponding groovo, end
prompts one frier) o spealt to, swinge ori hinge of silken threads
r ala g
to lto 3 endured yom
oil r lb v 1n1 net of
an- enomy k1gj filo force frock loin
it that (taillike tb the tautnosN of the
eembined. Juice pf strawberries,
Wherries' or plitea p1Q can be kept
1. ;1t+lthout sugar an •int r When apples
aro plentiful ma o t
ti into combination
'14.11/. •
It is really . autfprlsing how revolt
fruit is allowed t0, fee to waste 113 e
01'4inary garden. until ono hag Wide
AM effort. to Nave all the tuft grown,
;Including the windfall apples, to Idea
ben be had of the Ihxge ardotint whiff=.
L ,
An Wert •Id save fill the fruits
f,'I fid vogetai,les will r•dstiif' ii s't in the
t i euseviife learning the't there ere
ribabsv
only about one..third or
one.
Iiijpltrter of the ne0ossaly colts, on ilaltd or ordinary sseinan, SA epr" 11y eligible
iyAnd finally that to save a til) food to W0rtr it,
years,.gtill fewer Were gained.
' The Medal p Honor' ib Of ;bronze,'
and its 8111110 is that of a fiye-pointed
stab, with, in the ce'n'tre, the head Of
111Mfiterva, the Raman Goddess of Wlu',
renrideill by the words, "tfrilted
tater eif Amerioa," It le enoonrpase-
ed by a, laurel wreath, and 11 worn
5uePoniled by a ribbon frons a trophy
repreeerting an eagle on 0 bar, the
latter Inscribed with the ttngld word
"Valor." -
r
Like our 'i.C., tho 0,4II, rocoitmiass •
tib rank, General or pxfyate, admiral
Made er411e W1106,
"I dohitl 1.111. fer a teas sit ilow»clo»
y,o,tq-tiio and J gat fish tl ponied,
Nobly thet 111�.x.. 01) 0 0011 is 81a pe4,
ti'.. t11 othef. Nuts, peer --gar's
W at the wax hap briefs of ou, i ou
' o
'. Teats
of toe. a 1:� � d
n0 trr e patted .Co s
heel and turned 4wety,
71A'11 ,right,:' Ted celled after 114irl,
"but a lot' of yeti fellowli are going to
lie a dinged el t 110arer 1f you, en's
bt1 k-ue,
R
ulnar•wnnder0d onto the ciui) of
the Mall town., -tate feVeri10 eb7nor,
Of Mite hbys had prooedded 11111, Tod's.
latter) operates 40 a Orin/. Thedoor, oponod and l'ale38o , snaps
etterplY shut,
The tarantula is a mantes of the
art of 0attlouflago. Its untiorprouuci
dwollirtg ohms no external sign, The
door Is Made 16 snatch the immeefitte
gurroundingb. Mra, Spider, emerges;
the portal she a eltut behind her, and
who, then, le 'te determine wlssr
lives?
Bo Moro than your do all you
0411,
WONDERS OF GREAT
W'ALL OF .CIJIN
FLOWERS AS SUGAR MAKERS.
A Source of Sugar Pr°duction That �
Should Receive More 14ttention.
A dower is a sugar fact/dry on.a tiny
scale. It makes sugar for the purpose
of attracting sweet -loving insects,
which, thus lured, carry pollen from
blossom to blossom, and thereby ac-
coplish a the cross-fertilization of
plantsm.
Some kinds of flowers secrete much
more sugar than other kinds: the
quality secreted is also influenced by
cllnsate.
The honeysuckle is a familiar ex-
ample of high production in sugar.
Try to think of _the total quantity of
nectar produced by all the flowers
that bloom within the limits of Cana-
da in a single summer. 'It is almost
beyond the grasp of the human mind.
There is only one known agency
by which the sugar output of the
flowers can be harvested. That agen-
cy is the honey bee; and (as such
things ordinarily are reckoned) it is
not very efficient.
The average bee colony consumes
for its own maintenance about 400
pounds of honey per annum. Its sur-
plus (which is what comps to the bee•
keeper) is perhaps fifty, pounds. A
well-mann.god apiary, of 100 colonies,
gathering twenty-two and one-half
torts of honey, may yield a not crop of
two and a half tons.
There you have it. The margin of
profitable production is not great. Yet
thero is a fair return to be obtained
from beekeeping, well conducted.
The honey bee gathers _ her sweets
from an area within two miles of the
hive, - The fact that 100 colonies of
the busy 'Insects can Red inside of
such a radius nectar enough to yield
twenty-two and ono -half tons -'of the
oonoentcated sugar product we call
honey gives an idea of the enormous
quantity of sugar produced by flowers
in, let us say, the smallest Province of
Canada, Prince Edward Island.
And yet the annual honey crop of
Canada • is only 0,small fraction of
what it ought to be, The bee -beeping
industry, relatively sneaking,is neg-
lected in this country; and thereby
at important source of sugar produc-
tion lacks adequate development.
VASTEST MONUMENT TO HUMAN
BNGINGERiN,O AQHIEVEMENT.
a,
TRY THEM BEFORE YOU BUY.
Now Method of Testing the Freshness
About 2,090 Mlles Long, 35 Feet Hieh,
and 30 Feet Thick, Slanting
Slightly at Top.
By fur the gr'eatost woriceof military
prepa.redne8e ever tlndei•talcee was the
Great Wall of (1111130, which was finish-
ed about 2,200 years ago:
It was also; -beyond eornpal•ia0n, the
greatest engineering work ever ecoon1-
pllshod, Compared with the Great
'Wail, the Pyramids of Egypt, all of
them put together, are of inslguiflc:ant
Importance, A
Consider the ilgisree, The Great
7Vall (built througlwut of rubble !'need
with cut stone) was—and is to -day, 00
it stands—about 2,000 mites long, ft
is thirty-five feet high and trility feet
thick at the base, slanting slightly
from bottom to top.
It starts (froth the eastern end) at
Shan-hal-buan, on the. Gulf of Chih•ll,
end runs almost directly west 3.60
miles to a point not far north 01 Pe-
kin. There it spate into two walls,
one of thein following the crest of the
!',''est FIills clown into the province of
Shanai;,where it makes another split,
a branch refining westward toward
Thibet.
An Outer and Inner Wall.
of Eggs.
The best eggs sold by city dealers
nowadays are the "parcel poet",, grade,
They come direct from the fame to
the retailer, shipped dally. - Profit me
to you," says the hen --fir almost that,
The' jobber and wholesaler are elinti-
netted, helping to keep the price with -
ht t'oaeon,
But the. newest ,idea In the selling
of these eggs is represented by a
wooden box, lees in size than a typo-
writer, tlsat stands on the dealer's
counter, Gays a U.SR newspaper. It
invites 1.11.0 dllstomer to Wet the fresh.
nese of the eggs before paying for
1110131.'
in the bottomof the box is it power
ful eleetri0 lamp. Suppose that you
want a dozen eggs. Tito dealt;r OAS
then offhand into a little giasecbot.
tooled tra, and 9910 the latter in the
aro C,
Yelil strut the bo t•eggver 3101931
ev011 the racy, and, 1001tiltg through en
opening in the #o , you see all tits
Theft
113 r
j� eat.ati, 1 r
'illi ti ik u i
oggtld �1 ,.t� y 1
clear tt'4�u1131 eonec' proves their ahem-
lute
rhsolate trel151if,;i si,
MOUSE i1RA TES"S
FOR SOLDIERS'
US]M) 'IN TIIIi PSYCHOLOGICAL)
DEp'r) OF U. S, ARMY.
Uncle Sam Bits Some Novel Metiaods
of 'Wiring Sure That Hie Soldiers
Are Fit For Fighting.
Every man, according to the
Military oxports, does not make a sole
diet, and in every regiment there are
scores of round pegs in square boles.
The new National Arany of 'U.S.A
has a Psyohological Department that
tests the mental fitness for military
service of its 'men, and it is said to
The system is too complex, however, be one of the most modern and inter -
for adescription 'without an acc0in• esting of the factors contributing to
pant'ing map• l:t nray be said inn the scientific upbuilding of 113611• neer
general way that the Great Wall runs armies.
front northeast to southwest, There It claims to be a short cut to sec -
is an outer wall and an inner wa11, the cessful choice of candidates for spec -
latter being of later construction. and iab jobs and particular duties.
to -day in better repair. Its examinations, drawn up, tested,'
The object of the wall was to keep revised and abridged by wnrld-famous
oat invaders from the north. Front experts, enable a commander to tell in
our viewpoint to -day it may seem ab- advance how practically every officer
surdly ill -adapted for such a purpose. and man under flim can be relied upon
But this is a mistaken idea, At the In the various circumstances in which
Period when it was new, the Great ho might be placed by military tweeze
Wall was an admirable fortification, sity.
wisely contrived. Brains Before Muscle
Why should not an army of. invaders
from the north find It easy to climb Another big economic value of the e
over the wall—to make a breach to it tests is that they point out conclusive -
if necessary, and march through? ly that the man of defective mentality,
There wore sevorel reasons, hut in or-
der to understand them we must real-
ize military conditions as they were
2,200 years ago
is more of a tnisflt in the firing line
than the man physically unfit.
A Government makes too big an In-
vestment in the modern soldier to risk
Then (as no'iv) a military force or wasting it on the fellow who cannot 130
great sizo could not move without
immense quantities of supplies. Iu
relied upon to carry otit orders suc-
cessfully.
the absence of better means of trans- This psychological test can spot him
port, these supplies had to be carried at the beginning of his Army career
on the backs of men. The transpcn•t and save the country any .further lose
trains could not cross ruggc'.11 moun- in futile efforts tp give him a military
tains; lienee they must proceed education.
through one or another of a foes open- There are two forms of tests --the
ings 1n the hills—in other words, mental and the manual. - The latter„iee
through the passes• known as "the mouse -trap test,"
Formidable Defence. chiefly reserved for men without sur -i.
Now wherever the Graaf Well ficisnt education to pass the written
blocked a pass, it was strengthened by test and for Foreigners unable to
supplementary fortifications. At the mite T'ngiish.
entrance there were outlook citadels, Memory and Observation
susceptible of formidable defense. The manual or mechanical exam-'
Further along, the invaders would find 'nation consists chiefly of getting the
themselves barred by heavily manned candidate to show his ability in fitting
bastions. Then they would conte to together the dissembled parts of a
an outer wall, which they must sur- mouse -trap, a monkey -wrench, a door -
mount before reaching the Great Wall lock, and certain other articles.
proper. The mentality examhsation come
Here were strong defenses indeed prises the familiar digit memory test
But it was to use to try to find a Children have used it in games for
way around them because of the in-; generations, and now Uncle Sam's
superable difficulties of transport. The war directors have adopted it as a
Great Wall fulfilled its purpose, and means of allowing the mental graps of
for many centuries proved an effec-' soldier and his ability to remember,
tivo bar against invasion by the bar- The examiner calls out numbers in
barian hordos from the north. sets ranging up to nine numerals.
True, a marauding party might get After he has finished reciting a line
over the wall. That erten happened. I of figures, the men try to write them
But it was a platter of small amnia down exactly as given.
tante. Such a party could not lead Another test -shows on paper, by
an invasion. E0lsewhere -than at the an interesting series of squares and
passes, the wall was lightly bead by' ; circles, the soldier's ability to Helen,
a few trooptt. • � remember, and carry out quickly and
The Great Wall was so' well built accurately specific orders. Captains
that it is in a fair state et preserve- I say tho practice this gives their Wren
tion to -day. To look upon It excites is alone worth all the t me spent on
amazement. Over bIgh mountains, and , the examination,
across rivers It runs, the greatest I Another test carries the men
monument to human engineering i through mathematical problems, rang -
achievement. ing from simple to difficult, from addi-
Marvel of Engineering. tions to equations. There is also an
Along the top is a parapet for the information test to show the man's
protection of defenders, with openings knowledge of general subjects.
through which to discharge stones or I Still another is purely a time -limit
arrows. At frequent intervals are test, a sort or speedometer to indicate
towers, affording points of advantage the speed with which the candidate's
hi case of attack. brain operates.
The most vulnerable point in the At first the Army, sceptical as all
Great Wal from 0 strategic point of armies are of innovations, pooh -pooh -
view', we/ the Naukoly Fame, forty ed the idea of these mentality testa,',
miles t0• the northwest of Pekin, It They called the psychological ward 111e'
was in Its day a marvel of englnoor- "nut factory"; but before long .the
ing, Beak of the outlook citadels mental stimulus it aroused won a good
were scone and third -line dateline deal of interest, and Army peychola1y
before the wall itself could be reached can be said to have •made good.
With high stone harriers running tip
the hills on either side, n •
Eventually the Tartars from the
north got in through the Groat Wall,
But hew? They `Were invited In, to
General Foch'e Name.
The pronunciation of General 1Po,lI•s
Name and the question whore he wog
help,Chiva fight intruding laoreea 10711 have been dlscllsae'3 In E4us
Mongols. And bilging arrived, they , tion, and the contraver-y has brought
stayed and proceeded to run and rule iforth illi interesting sialenient from
the country. . (the Getferal's officer d nr lonnunre,
�.b who says that General Forth was barn
doves with hot vinegar. This latter!
Paint may be removed from twin-' at Tarbes, Mutes Pyrenee, and le
thus ,from the south of t•rancn: alp,'
will in the name way soften paint
that his name is pronounced "1''nch.1,•
brushes wh .a have become hatdeled,Iwhich we, of e0t11'ae. render dr •'lrnsl!-"
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