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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1917-06-28, Page 2• • Isigsssses --itsws• frm, Ols I a al 10157,1 kirO S ej:) CA'reieit; Author or "AU pr oSerum or Plow," "Dearer Thou 1 Ito me, Published by liodder & titcalghtun, Liiniuo. London and Toronto CHAPTER I. been to Scott's Park you might come The Brunford Town Hall clock was back to tea. I don't believe father just chiming half -past three as Tont and mother would mind. Father wise Pollard left his home in Dixon street sayin' only this morning that you'd and made his way towards the Thorn got brains. You took three prizes at and Thistle publie-house, It wise not; the Mechanics' Inatitute last winter, Tom's intention to stay long at the and he said thitt if you got manufae- Thorn arid Thistle, as he had other plans in view, nevertheless something drew him there. He crossed the Unto lines in St. George'a Street, onds having stopped to exchange some rtis. i.Ay, lie did, only this morning. not more than .3 pm ten , o But I have no capital," said Tom farmers were found to be keeping tic jokes with some lads who stood at „ the corner of the street, he hurried PLAN FOR NEXT TEAR'S SEED. • Select the 13est, Part of the Field and Give it Special Attentiou. Of 400 fatmers visited in Dundas County, Ontario, by the Commission of Conservation, during the summer of 1916, only three were found to be following a really systematic seleetion of their seed grain; only 23 per eent, were saving the best part or parte of their fields for seed. Practically all of the farmers visited stated that they Mewled their grain for seed, but it was found that 74 per cent, cleaned it only once through the fanning mill. It is quite plain that sufficient atten- tion is not being paid to the seed Wring on your own, you'd make grain. It has been shown, time after brass." that, other things being equal, "Did he say that ?" asked Tom eag- the best seed will product the best erly . crops, It is, therefore, surprising that is thee teidly. 'their best grain foe seed, and that 74 across the open space and quiekly "Father's saved money," replied 1 1 1 1 o 1 bouse. :for Thistle's a good house and we have per cent. eleancs 1 on y once t ir ug 1 stood on the doorsteps of the public- Polly il eagerly. "The Thorn and the mill. If the grain from the best The weather was .gloriously fine,and if father liked a Part " parts of the fields 18 Mored a. wonder the air in the heart of tie. -good company; lad, cepetially if 1 reeommended him, and then graded or fanned until all town 'was pure and clear. That was he could easily find money to start n the small and infeeior kernels are 00 - counted for by the foot that it was small mill. But them I suppose yeti moved, the quality will be greatly im- Sunday,Throughout the week -days, both in T aro 0111)' of Alice Lister." The Town -Ball clock chimed the and the mills wets 1 . e o summer and in winter, the atmosphere w 1.1, three-quarters. and, much as he want - of Brunford is smoke laden, eu to stay with Polly, he moved to- . , „ , ,, ,. from a hundred mills steamy vapours , , door , ."Well,r n mg iite yield n little Win,1011, WiereaS- , Wants toe anti 5013, A Minn • ares emitted which makes that big bo g„b.L, 120N„.,, ing the cost of production. health resort, 'Tom was making his eyes, but still controlling her temper the best portion of the crap for seed way up the passage towards the bar, silo sn.c; i 1 "Ay. NO you'll come hack It would even pay to g,ive special care when the door opened and 0 buxem, this evening, won't yoo, Tom? Jim' to a special lot or small field from bold -eyed, red-theeked girl of ahoot Dixon's coming to tea, and if you'rej twenty-four stopped him, - not here, and be our to ask me to go; which to obtain seed for the following seaSon's crop. There is, perhaps, no "Am I?" replied Tom. "I didn't shouldn't have ans• out for a walk with him to -night, excuse fel, refall thing on the farm that will give a "You're late, Tont," she said. mean to be." !more profitable return than the rim "I was thinking lois :weren't coming There eould be no doubt about it spent in securing •it supply of gom T Pill • Powell looked very seed. Plan node to save the choices proved. By improving the seed the net profit on a grain crop can be greatly increased, such action increas- of this yeftee crop for next spring's seeding, GEA :READY THE MACHINERY. Time May be at Harvest by so---yed Being Prepared. Tine is money on the farm at har- vest time, Now is the time to repah the mowers, binders and ralcea which will very shortly be required for ser- vice. AU machines should be inepeet- ed now and, if trby parts are broken mio.sitig, they should be obtalnsd Immediately. It is much better to 50- 02100 what is needed WAY 21141 to risk having to make a special trip to town during the busy season, thus causing o serious delay and, possibly, extend- ing the harvesting of the bay os grain crop into wet weather, It is also an excellent plan to keep on hand a few extra pieces or parts which need fro- quent renewing, such as tithe sec- tions, canvas slats, reel slate and braces, rivets, Ms. These are conveni. ent to have and will often save time and annoyance, Clean out the oil cups and oil all running parts of the machinery a few days before it is to be used, This will allow the oil to penetrate to the bear- ings, and permit the machine to quick- ly get into smooth running order, The knives should all be eharpen- ed and in readiness. These things • should be particularly attended to this year. Help is scarce, production is manufacturing town anything but a Again anger flashed front Pally's -It is not much trouble to keep apart PROTECTING WATER SUPPLY. Catchment Areas 'Being Ae-forested 10 Conserve the Rn -off The beneficial effect of proper su- pervieion, and partieularlys of main- taining forest growth, in water -works catchment areas, is being more folly recognized. .A. reeent example is in the state of Pennsylvania, where the Commissioner of Forestry urged the planting of trees on those portions of their wt -works catchment areas not useful for agriculture. Favorable replies were received from one-half and, of the remainder, over 100 had no land requiring plant - lug To those who replied favorablYo all planting facilities Were afforded, including the services of a forester, and seedlings were offered at bare cost of pacilting and shipping, about 50 cents per 1,000 seedlings delivered. Applications were made for a total of 446,100 young trees for use on about 230 acres.—L.G.D. • I needed, and if crops RTC to bessaved , with as little loss as possible good management must prevail. It is good business to be ready for the harvest -; season. Do it 3.10W. e Some people's idea of War economy I ; is to save tell cents painfully and t! spend ten dollars joyfully, at all. Some young men I know of that, to om i 5 wouldn't have been late if I'd saithem what said to you on Friday be and her beauty was of a highly' • d to alluring. She 1008 rather older thanj . night." Then she looked at him arch- colored - order . At that moment -Tom's mind 10118 melt distracted, neverthe- ly. less as the sound of the deep -toned belil "I couldn't get away before," re-; in the Town Hall tower died away he plied Tom. Evidently lie was determined to take his leave. not quite comfortable, and he did not. "And I thought we might have such return the girl's glances with thea nice time, too," she said, following warmth she desired. him, "But never mind, You% be "Anyhow I am free till half -past back this evening,. Ay, Tom lad, tha five," she went on. 'I don't know doesn't know when tha'art well off." what father and mother wouldsay if -- And she gave him her most bewitch-, they knew I was walking out with you; ing smile. • but I don't mind. Do you like my Toni hurried un Liverpool Road with new dress, Tom?" the sound of Polly's voice in his ears Tom looked at her admiringly; there and the memory of the flash in her was no doubt that, after her own great black eyes in his mind. : "Site is j order, she was a striking -looking girl, a grand lass,'' he reflected, "and she's and her highly colored attire was quite fair gone on rne too; and what's more in accord, with her complexion. "Jim Scott was • here half an hour she's not so finickin' as some lasses are. After all, whs• should I be so ago," she went on; "he badly wanted me to go with, him, but I wouldn't." strait-laced? She's a lass as loves good company, she likes a lark, and— Tom looked more uncomfortable: and—" than ever; he remembered the purpose thoughtful. After that Tom became for whieh he had set out, and VMS 501'- ry that he had called at the Thorn and; Tom Pollard was typical of thou-, Thistle at all, even although the girl' sands '''i lads who dwell in the manu-; evidently favored him more than any, facturing districts of Lancashire. His: of her other admirers. father and mother had been -weavers, "I just called to say I couldn't come! a.lalgt1: while his mother had ceased go-; for a walk with you this efsesasme . i to the mill, his father still earned: said, looking on the ground. \ h,.,„e. his thirty shillings a week behind the, see I have an appointment." "---", looms. They did not belong to the. "Appointment!" cried the girl."Who I beat class of Lancashire operatives, with?" , and Tom's home influence was not all; "Oh, with no one in particular; only' it. might have been.. That was I must keep it." ; years before, mans wondered that • The girl's eyes flashed angrily.! Tom promised to turn out so welt! "Look here," she cried, "you are still He was not particularly clever, but be' possessed a large share of the provers; sweet on Alice Lister; I thought you. had given up all that Sunday-school.sial Lancashire sharpness and common; lot." , sense; he had an eye to the mairy : "Well, I have nowt been to Sunday chance, and dreamt of becoming some- : school," said Tom. thin& better than an ordinals; weaver.; "Ay, but you're to meet Alice Lister I For that reason he had attended some: now, and that is why you can't go wi, .. technical classes at the Mechan•ics': me." Evidently the girl was very Institute, arid, as Polly Powell had , Preserving, Cherries. cold water and used immediately after taking them front the solution. They Cherries are ripening and may be can be used .for noft boiling up to No- e:limed, preserved, made into jams ' vember frying until December, and ellies or spiced.- To can cherries Until March for omelettes„ wash the fruit thoroughly, then drain a".ei that sm ambled and in cooking. wen. Sort the fruit aver carefully,, removing all blemishes and all soft; cherries, Remove the stems and ; The Useful Tomato. stones. Pack them into sterilized Outside of such staples as potatoes jars and cover with boiling water or a and beans there is probably no V5218 551211) made of sugar and water, us- table that is more prized and more ing the formula:One cupful sugar, two' generally used M1 the year around in and one-half cupfuls water. Place in one form or another than tomatoes. a sauce pan and bring to a boil, Cook' Tomatoes grow easily, but they have for five minutes. Place the rubbers an enemy that you must be on the and lids in position, partially fasten !watch for—a large green worm so them, then place the jars in a hot wa- nearly the color of the plant he feeds ter bath and process for thirty minutes upon that it is hard to detect it in spite after the boiling starts. Now re- of its size. This must be knocked off more, fasten the tops securely, invert! and destroyed or sprayed with arsen- to test for leaks, then label and store l ate of lead. in a cool place. Tomatoes can be used in more ways Preserved Cherries.—Stem and; than any other vegetable. For can - stone the cherries. Weigh after ston-' ning one must choose perfect fruit in Mg, allowing one-half pound of sugar good condition. Dip them in hot to each pound of cherries. To each ;water for a few minutes and then re - pound of sugar allow one-half cupful ; move the skins, crit them up and place ef water. Place in a saucepan and an almuinum or procelain lined Iset- stir oil it well dissolved. Bring to a 'tle and add a level teaspoonful of salt boil and cook for tire minutes, then add for each quart. Bring slowly to a boil, gat , Write ter am Illustrate B99 0 MANI ---res yrs° PQTT6, 1710 Royal Bank l3Idg, TORONTO All He Was Fit For. In an Irish court house recently en old man was called into the witness box, and being infirm anci just a 1 11.- tle near-sighted he went too far in more than one aense, Instead of go- ing op the stairs that led to the box he motinted thos2 that led 20 21)8 bench. The judge good -naturally said; "It it a judge you want to be, my man?" "Ah, sure your honor," was the re- ply, "I'm an old man now, an' mebbe it's all I'm 211 202!" The Judge raised his spectacles. Cabbage, mangels and Hubbard squash all make a good winter feed for poultry. . . , angry, and a look a jealousy flashed reminded lum, had .onls a few months; from her eyes. Still there could be before taken prizes there. Young as no doubt that she was very fond of he was, he had aleeady been prom- i Tom and meant if possible to eap„ iced a Tackler's job, which meant that tare him. , he would be a kind of foreman, anti' "I can't go out wi' you this after-! have the oversight of a small part of noon, and—and— but there, s.m. o mill. This, Tom we, sure, would !open the way to a marc responsible For a moment the girl seemed ...in position, and then if 'he had good luck the point of speaking to him still more ho might in a few vears. start mama - angrily, and perhaps of bidding him to factoring for himself. Many of the ;leave her for good. - She (wieldy mill -owners in Burnford were, a few altered her mind, however, and seem-. years before, poor men while now, ed determined to use all her blandish- owing to a great boom m the cotton melts. ; trade, they were quite wealthy men, "Ay, Tom," she said. "Tha'rt too' During the last few months, however, good to throw thyself away on the Tom's best friends had not been quite goody-goody Alice Lister sort. Tha'rt so hopeful about him. - He had been too much of a man for that, else I a frequent visitor at the Thorn and should never have got so fond of thee.", Thristle; and he had altogether given "Art'a really fond of me Polly ?" ;-1111 attendance at Sunday school. This asked Tom, evidently pleased bs• was considered a bad sign in Brun- Polly's confession. ford, where the great bulk of the re - "I'm not gain' to 5115 1211)' more," ses; spectable young men attend one of the plied the girl. And then she laugh -1012111Y Sunday Schools in the tONT11. ed. "I was thinkin' that after we'd! (To be continued.) ion't PAINT YOUR SHOE'S FEED them with 7,77 s ss, Sh. e "Nugget" does not put on a surface shine that disappears in an hour. "Nugget" feeds the leather, keeps your shoes soft, makes them waterproof and gives a brilliant shine that will last all clay. Ask for "Nugget" at your dealers. BLACK, TAN, TONEY RED, DARK BROWN. 100, per Cm ffirARE CARE OE YOUR 11510215."11.......svmoarmarelosussAvsAmmunsurAtmenmetarnensonarvemouosuppsent*Nmememmemmeaksw.esszarwasmall tnimmt2i,s0 WAR SONS GERIVIOila :NtateM1,7444 10 1012 ragr,..,ns-Ittvas Thrift that brings Comf insiead of Sacrifice THRIFT, the paramount national duty, applies to time as well as to money—to small personal outlay as well as to larger,' family expenditure. Applied to the daily thave, thrift means the use of a GILLETTE SAFETY Ot• ; AZOR The Razor of National Service. The Gillette reduces shaving time to five minutes or less—an atual saving of a week of working days a year ! To the man who depends on the barber, it saves still more time, and from $25 to $50 or even more annually. This means the cost of one or several War Savings Certificates. Moreover, there is not a man living with a beard to shave who cannot shave better with a Gillette if he will use it correctly—with the blade screwed down tight and a light Angle Stroke. - For the thousands of young men just reaching shaving age the Gillette Safety Razor is a source of good habits—not only thrift, but pundtuality, personal neatness, and efficiency in little things. For yourself or your son, at home or Overseas, it is a splendid investment. Gillette "Bulldogs", "Aristocrats" and Standard Sets cost $S.—Pocket Editions $5. to $6.—Combination Sets from $6.50 up. Send for Catalogue. 251 Gillette Safety Razor Co. of Canada, Limited, Office and Factory: The Gillette Bldg., Montreal.. tw•o pounds of prepared cherries. Cook stirring frequently, and boil fin at after the boiling point is reached for least half an hour. twelve minutes, then fill into glass If you are using the screw top type, jars. Place the rubber and top in:immerse the jars, tops and rubbers in position and partially tighten; now ; boiling water. Remove the jars one place the jars in a hot water bath and at a time, place a rubber around the process for ten minstes after the boils' neck and fill with the boiling hot tome- ing strats. toes. Take the top of the jar from 1 Cherry Jam.—Three-quarters pound the boiling water, being careful not to: sugar, one pound stemmed and stoned touch the inside with the fingers for cherries. Place in a saucepan and :fear of introducing spores into. the jar, cook until thick. Fill into jelly glasses; and screw it on tightly. Invert the allow the jam to cool, and then cover jar and let it stand in this position un - the gasses with parowax. Seal and til cold. Have everything sterile that store in the usual manner for jellies. 'is put into the jar. When using a Cherry Jelly.—Cherries do not make spoon, fork or cup with the tomatoes good jelly, owing to the absence of first immerse it in toiling water. pectin, This pectin may be added in Another method of canning tome - COM very thin, discarding the peel. Cut the tomatoes, as nearly whole as P05' peeled. lemon in small pieces. Cut sible into wide-mouth jars. Pack a sufficient number of apples in small :them in until the jar is full and add pieces to measure three cultfuls, then one level teaspoonful of salt to each • f • ofapple,.Peel one large lemon toes is to take off the skins and drop add: Three pounds cherries, one quart quart. Put on the rubber and top nod wster. Place in a saucepan and cook fix the spring to leave the top loose until eoft enough to mash,strain in and allow the steam to escape dm - the usual manner for jellies and meas.. ing the boiling. ure the juice. allowing an equal meas. 1 In the wash bullet or sterilizer set • ure of sugar. Return the juice to as many jars upon the false bottom as the preserving kette and boil ten min- : the boiler will conveniently hold and utes. Then add the sugar. Cook pour in enough cold or tepid water to until it jellies when tried cn a cold come about two inehes up on the jar. • saucer, usually about eight or nine j It is not neeessary to have the jars minutes, 12 a thermometer is need,: competely immersed during the boil- ceok until 221 degrees Fahrenheit is ;Mg; the steam does the cooking. Put reached. the top on the boiler and set it on the !stove; bring to a boil and sterilize for How to Preserve Eggs. one hour. Remove the top of the , boiler, allow the steam to escape and Eggs must be fresh and perfectly ',press down the spring at the side :of ;infertile; the shells must be clean and the jar. This will clamp on the top 1 free from cracks. A single cracked ; 0113 prevent any outside air from get - 'egg may cause the whole bateh to ting in. spoil, Get water glass solution from In the vast majority of cases this the drug store, diluts with nine parts one sterilization is all the treatment, of cool boiled water and place eggs in that is necessary, but it is not always small crocks containing the water :safe to rely on it. glass. The ;solution should cover the As relishes and flavorings there are eggs to a depth of two inches above ;numerous trays in which tomatoes may the topmost layer of eggs. Cover the be used. . This year it is not rum- erock and place in a coM place where! mended that the green tomatoes be it will not have to: be moved about; used for chow -chow and other pickle Repace the water which evaporates ; combinations, as it is better to let with cool boiled water occasionally.. 1 everything nusture and ripen so that Limewater may be used in place of : the supply will go further to meet the water glass. Mahe the 5012121012 with great demand, 2tn ls 211)1101(011 lime in five iI=IMIEnEtat2LW,EnasMitrarsgmMERVSSEEnsust • Ana '41,,twAr,A.A,R 7C, 0080 22050 1, pc, n gallons of cool Wiled Water and use the clear li.tuid after the lime settles, -Containers for egg! must be clean and should he ecalded with hot watts after washing. Eggs 1..rscrved in water OUT, or limewater elasuld be rinsed in clean, •Immemm. N. B.—A course in Domestic Science, coinplete in twenty-five les- sons, will commence next, week. If you clip out the lessons as they appear and paste in a scrap -book you will have the tomplete series for future re- ference. STORIES FROM WAR.TORN FRANCE SENT BY AN AMERICAN NURSE IN FRANCE. Weary Soldiers In Devastated Land Write Letters to Their Former Nurse. Writing to her 2riends in the 1.Inited States, a nurse gives extracts from the letters she receives from French soldiers who have been nursed at her convalescent home, Our great source of. joy is the de- liverance of our towns and The letters of some of my soldiers, though often most illiterate, are act, nally hymns of joy. Unfortunately the gist is lost in the translating. One man writes, "What happiness, my vil- lage ia now the hands of our brave French - soldiers!" But a pang of anguish seises him, for he has as yet no news of the family be left there— old parents, a young wife and four little children—did they remain there through all the fighting, and will he soon see them? Or have they been taken off into captivity, farther even from him than they were before? Many are living through these alternations of hope and fear, Many also have the hope of long months dashed to the ground, and the patient waiting must begin again for them. Another, a more fortunate one, writes; "I wish to tell you that I have found my little family. They were at C— when the French troops enter- ed, and now we are at last reunited, They suffered greatly during the oc- cupation, but are well now. We will come to see you some Sunday" (this man lost a leg at Verdun. His bro- ther is a prisoner in Germany). Joy and Sadness. Still another: "I'm out of it ones more, out of the blazing furnace. I was made a sergeant on the field of honor. We entered the town four days ago under the bursting shells. The church bells were ringing all the morning and the few remaining inhab- itants had put on their Sunday best. It was a fete day; and we were satis- fied that in all this joy there was a good share of OUT efforts. We have made a big push and captured many prisoners, and even at the rear the number of our celebrated battalion files from mouth to mouth, and how- ever mud-becoated we may be, a great welcome is given us wherever we pass. . . . You cannot fancy what this de- vastation means. Even the papers give no idea of it, . . . What was my joy to find my sister-in-law and her child, also two aunts—but alas, my two young girl cousins each with a German baby, Think of the horrible thing! How can they return among us? We dare not think of it, and the future lies before us all terribly black.Innocent Victims of War. One of my faithful young soldiers of twenty-two, who has come to lite after each of his three wounds, has just written me: "Your servant is lying in a hospital near the front, not restored yet because of all the blood . he has lost, and a bad heart owing to shock front bursting shells. The hospital is outside the town and therefore expos- ed to the enemy's fire. Most every evening German aircraft are flying above us and we can see the effect of the bombs as they fall on the city. A terrible strain it is for those poor wo- men and children, to be awakened by that infernal noise, to see the flarnes, and to hear the crackling of the fires lit about them. It wrings my heart to read the terror on the poor haggard faces of those innocent victims." "For God and Country." From a Belgian private: "In spite of all we will hold out, for we are fighting for God and country." Time and again my French soldiers have used the same words, proving the same ideal. They are all so pene- trated with the justice of their cause that they feel that it is actually "for God." me to close these extracts with one from yet another young son of martyred Belgium, a poor miner of twenty-one: "We feel we are fighting to redeem our dear homes over there. I know you will think me brave, and I'. take pride in that feeling; and yet I only light like nny other. I sleep in the mud, I fear the shells, and I long for a cozy little bed; but since I must keep on fighting for peace, I will stick it to the end. Should I, however, keep silent 501110 day, do not accuse me of ingratithde. In his turn the little sol- dier would be dead, that is all." Is but another word for "insured" when it refers to jams and preserves. Molding and fermentation are impossible when the jars are securely sealed with o. PURE REPINED PARA.PFINE Parowax keeps the container air -tight. When you have the jars securely parowaxed your preserves will be the same when you open them as they were the day you put them up. Best of all, Perolves is most convenient to use. Pour melted Parowax over the tops of jelly tumblers and they are made air -tight, dust aud germ proof. FOR THE LATiNDRY—See directions on Parowas labels f or its =0 in valuable service in washing. At grocery, department and general stores everywhere. THE IMPERIAL OIL COMPANY Limited BRANCIIES IN ALL CITIES 2-1 COnefi' He Wished to Read. "Nurse," moaned the convalescent patient, "can't I Have something to eat? I'm starving," "Yes, the doctor said you could stilt inking solids to -day, but you must be- gin slowly," she said. Then she held out a teaspoonful of taPioea. "We moat only advance by degrees," she added, sucked the spoon dry, and felt more tantalizingly hungry than ever. - Ile begged for a second spoonful, but the hook her hear, saying that everys thilus at the start must be clone in entnil proportions. 'Present - Summoned her again•to his bed - 1 e "Nurse," he said, "brig me a Ootto ego rtmosti I want to read.°