The Henry County weekly. (McDonough, GA.) 18??-1934, April 08, 1910, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextSERENADE. SW sleep! I would not. thoughtless, stir iny fragrant slumber, hear; I come but as a worshiper To wreathe my altar here, To breathe a song so soft and low, Perchance into thy dreams may pass and bless thee so ” ith some most holy gleams. Sleep, sleen! T would not wake thee, sweet; The world thy slumber knows Has no rude thorn for tender feet, No wind that harshly blows; It is a realm of golden light Where all is calm and fair; I would not call thee back to-night And earth s dull round of care. Sleep, sleep! Thy sentinel I’ll be, That watcheth till the dawn. Ah. would that I -were more to thee— Thy guard when night is gone. To shield thee from the winds of earth And smooth thy paths with peace, And pipe for thee a song of mirth' Until old Time shall cease. Sleep, sleep! And may the dusky hours Unload their fragrant stores Until, like Adrianople’s flowers, They burst the ivory doors Of peaceful dreams with their sweet weight Of frankincense and myrrh, And earth, at everv morning gate, Grows majestically astir. -C. G. B. WAS IT FATE? ' A Romance of Roller Skating. & *★★★★★ ★★★★ ★ ★ * * ★ If the bicycling fever doubled the price of wedding rings, what is the roller skating craze doing to it? What brought about Runner’s wedding or Shyly’s or Sour’s or little Willow’s? Roller skating. • Willow loved Vera. My., how he did love that girl! He idolized, wor shiped, adored her until it was almost funny. Not to \Villo\k, but to the others. Vera and paradise; no Vera, the other thing. That was how he felt about it, though otherwise he seemed perfectly rational. Not that they held hands in public, nor did he fix his eyes soulfully on hers and sit sighing before folks —not Willow. He was a gentleman and Vera had sense and their affection was a regular gem in oils by an old master, framed, shadow boxed ' and hung exactly as it should be. With Willow the. one question of the hour and all hours was how to marry and eat three meals a day on sls a week. He passed hours gazing in at grocers’ windows reading prices, though Vera had told him time and time again that she would manage it all right. Vera was the slave of a crabbed old uncle, her only relative, who needed lots of waiting on and some one to abuse. Vera cost him less than $3 a week and never talked back. Vera talk back to uncle! Her amateur per formance would have made a fine showing beside uncle’s professional nagging, he having been born with a gift for that sort of thing. In those circumstances a sensitive girl or al most any other girl would say foolish things about keeping house on little or nothing. Yes, Willow and sls a week looked like a reasonable propo sition to her. Whenever Vera had a beau uncle had a convulsion. Willow was pretty busy most of the time, covering his tracks, as he knew that excitement was bad for uncle. They managed things rather nicely so that uncle’s weak heart would get no jolts. Then the roller rink fever broke out. Willow, a clever ice skater, had very little to learn. But Vera! Hon est, it looked as if she just never would learn. Willow presented her with a pair of skates and she began home practice, guided by Willow’s in structions and some printed rules. It was easy enough. In fact, there was very little to it. See that the skates are fastened securely, stand firmly, advance right foot, throw full weight upon it, bend v r ell forward to get ‘send,’ and glide away.” It sounded easy, but it did not seem to work in practice. Vera never glided. Instead she would wave and wobble frantically here and there and then zigzag help lessly to the exact place she did not want to go. There invariably was nothing to grab, so down she would go with such force that everything in the room would jump, her skates al ways striking last. But she perse vered. At last there came a time when she consented to attend a masked carni val at the roller rink. They wore hired cheesecloth costumes. In a din ky peasant dress Vera surely did look all right to Willow. As Willow secured Vera’s skates he looked up with a start and asked: ‘‘Say, have you come away and for gotten to hang your other hat and jacket where your uncle can see them?” ‘‘Do I look as if I would forget?” tittered Vera. ‘‘He’ll see ’em, all right enough, ana think I’ve gone to bed.” The skates adjusted Vera arose, eager to do all that was expected of her. With knitted brows she endeav ored to stand firm, advance her right foot, throw her full weight upon it, bend well forward to get “send” Jflid glide away. Trying not to look scared she poised herself, took a long breath, ! lessened her hold on Willow and the ! furniture, concentrated herself on “send” and started. 0 She was considerable of a girl, to j begin with, brimming with energy. ; Before she knew it she had torn her- ! self from Willow’s bashful and re* | spectful hold and was vhizzing across the mammoth rink with power enough to carry a loaded freight four miles up hill on a wet day. She had lost all control of herself, and that diabolical momentum increased with every sec ond. At the opposite end of the rink, luffing up out of the distance and the disturbance he was causing, careened a huge, red, ungainly, masked Sar.ta Claus, whiskers streaming, his four extremities doing everything but the right ones. Plainly the man was de termined to cut some particular caper that he had set mind on if he had to kill every one on the floor. Singles and couples sprawled in his wake, come able to sit up and send male dictions after him, while others had only life enough to wave a skate-lad en foot in useless protest. A trolley car would have been as sensible of attack. The rollers under Willow seemed riveted to the floor with horror. He saw that at a point near the centre of the rink it \yas foredoomed that Santa Claus and Vera should collide with the impulsion got from new skates well oiled, a floor that cost‘s4ooo to lay and polish, 140 pounds of uncon trolled girl and nearly twice that weight of man resolutely sending himself in the direction he was deter mined to go. i As if in a dream. Willow heard an attendant say: “Pal, you shouldn’t of shoved your lady out that way when old reapin’ and thrashin’ machine is operatin’ hisself. We don’t dare say a word," fof he is one of the main ropes here and can order; .Ms opt of our jobs any time he likes. Gee! It looks like we was goin’ to need a doc tor or a bearse or somethin’.” Willow should have dashed out, and shown himself a hero, but he only groaned and closed his eyes and waited. They struck with a frightful im pact .and thqn fell apart an,d £P un about. One of Vera’s skates came down on Santa’s head kerwhack. His wig and beard had fallen off and, ere she fainted, Vera saw that it was un clp! Talk about poetic justice! The attendant had almost to carry Willow across the floor. He was near ly dead and, oh, howhe wished uncle was also! Willow’s wishes never did come true. Uncle dead? Before the doctor got there he was sitting up stanching the trickle of blood from his head and telling the crowd how he had seen Vera coming and by skillful maneu vering had managed to save her life by heroically sacrificing himself. Fur ther he told Vera and Willow that skating was the first sensible thing he had ever known either of them to do. Then, after he had seen what a skater Willow was, he made Willow manager of the rink at more than sls a week. —Pittsburg Dispatch. Electricity of the Future. By THOMAS A. EDISON. Large cities will be as free from smoke and steam as the fresh, green fields. Electricity will be generated direct from fuel without the aid of steam or gas engine, boiler or dyna mo. Vibration will cease in manu facturing plants. Each machine will have its individual motor. Electricity will run the world. The entire system of railroading in all countries will be on an electrical ba sis. Houses will be heated by elec tricity, and for less than half the cost of the present heating systems. And most of the city’s distressing noise will cease. Perhaps the people will have be come so accustomed to aerial naviga tion that they will consider them selves “very close to the ground” when they are 300 feet up in the air, walking about on the building tops with the same freedom and lack of fear that the average pedestrian does now on terra firma. The greater number of buildings will be of concrete and steel; that is the coming material for construction in all cities; re-enforced concrete for the shell and foundations, steel for the frame and bars. Concrete is the all-important factor in the future for construction in connection with steel —it lasts for ages. My new battery -will be an impor tant factor in the future. It will be the means of accumulating electricity for portable uses the vehicle, the small ear, the airship, with its skele ton motor, with its high speed. Elee jricity will also have its hand in set tling future wars. Warships will per haps be a thing of the past. A horse will be as much of a curosity as an old Broadway stage. A Palmetto State Champion. H. C. McHugh is the champion bird killer of the Reidville section of the county. This morning he went out for a hunt through his fields and killed ten partridges at one shot.— Spartanburg Journal. v PRACTICAL ADVICE ABOUT DIVERSIFIED FARMING An Example of Profitable Forestry. The fact that three-fourths of the timber of the United States is In private ownership seems to indicate conclusively that it is to these private owners that we must look for the bulk of the timber supply of the fu ture. Few private owners regard their holdings as permanent timber investments even when the land is of a character which makes it of little or doubtful, value for farming. The general policy is to cut as closely as possible to increase the amount of the present profits; to neglect the protection of the young growth on the cut over land from fire on ac count of its cost; and then, if possi ble, to sell the cut over land if not good farming land, rather than pro tect it and improve it for future cut ting. That it is possible for private own ers to manage their timber lands so as to maintain them as permanent producing investments is well shown by the results which have been ob tained by the University of the South, at.Sewanee, Tenn. These lands con sisted of 6600 acres of rough moun tainland which, in 1900, the universi ty thought of selling for S3OOO, since the tract was not of the best quality. The trustees of the university knew nothing ;of the' methods of managing titnber lands and were absolutely im 7 able to protect the tract from fire, which was yearly injuring much of the young timber. At the instance of a member of the faculty, who was an enthusiastic believer, in’the possi bilities of scientific forest manage ment, experts of the* Forest Service examined the tract, and prepared a working plan,' marked ' the trees were'to be solfi and cut, and those 'Which were to be left, and recommended a method 'Of securing protection from fire, which always threatens to destroy young trees. Thq system of cutting was to get rid of, all defective trees, and all species of low value, cutting at the same time sound trees wherever re moval would not injure the future value of the forest. During the dry months of the autumn a paid patrol was maintained to prevent the start ing of any fire, or to see it before it had made headway, and at once ex tinguish it. Cutting, with these objecls in view, was begun in 1901, to siipply a small mill, and by October, 1909, the tract had been entirely cut over. The net profits, after deducting all expenses of every kind, including fire protection, exceeded SIB,OOO, or about six times the accepted value of the property in 1901. The cost of fire protection has amounted to more than S6OO. All of this amount, ex cept $122, was for patrol service, a man being kept constantly on the watch during dry and dangerous weather. He was paid S3O a month. Extensive fires occurred only during three years. The cost of extinguish ing .them with hired labor amounted to $122. The excellent patrol service prevented fires getting under head and beyond control. The logging was done by contract, and the con tractors were required to prevent fires. There has been only one fire of importance, and that burned only a small part of the tract. A leaf has not been burned in eight years on more than nine-tenths of the tract. Although the tract has been entirely logged, the conservative cutting as sures a second cutting within ten years, and indefinite future cutting thereafter at ten-yefer intervals; and the indications are that at each fu ture cutting the amount of timber which is cut will increase, and the quality improve. The defective trees have been largely removed, as well as the species of low value. The young trees are all sound and thrifty, have never been scorched or stunted by fires, and there is an increased pro portion of the valuable species like yellow poplar, hickory and red oak. The cost of fire patrol has been ex cessive, since one man should patrol a much larger tract, and this patrol cannot stop now, but must be con tinued for the next ten years, -when no cutting is taking place and no in come is being derived from the prop erty. The great value of the results which have been secured indicates, however, the desirability of a legal ized or systematized patrol system during the dangerous season in the forested portions of the counties, es pecially in those sections where there is tender young growth. The result ant benefits extend far beyond the in dividual owners. It means the main tenance of the producing value of lands, assuring additional property for taxation, and a cheaper and more abundant supply of raw material Re building and for industrial uses.— W. W. Ashe, Forest Service, Wash ington, D. €., in Southern Planter. Watering Flowering Plants. Many who have the care of window plants seem to imagine that the op eration of watering is one of the almplefit items incident to their care, and will hardly think it necessary that we should draw attention to this matter, and yet we may safely assert that more plants are injured, and more fail to reach their greatest per fection from an improper mode Of watering than from all other causes combined. To water the various plants, that their different wants shall all be sup plied and no more, is an art acquired by but few, and the credit which most cultivators receive for a fine col lection of plants is often due to the proper observance of this one item. It should be borne in mind that the duty of the water Is to dissolve and convey to the roots of the plants the food which they need; some plants must have a season of comparative rest, and if such are watered liberally during this time they will keep on growing, and the necessary rest Is not obtained. Sometimes growers will tell us that they succeed very well with certain classes of plants, such as fuchsias, etc., but that they fail with other sorts. We at ohce set puch people down as being profuse water ers, who, by too much water, injure or destroy such plants as will not bear It. On the other hand, there' are those* who* fail with* this class of plants .and succeed wjell with others, because, their mode of watering does not supply enough fpr the wants of one class, but is about the proper amdufit for another. Many plants are permanently in jured by water remaining in the saucer; others often suffer from a bad selection of the soil. Some ama teurs fail with a certain class of plants, of which begonias mar'be taketi asia type;* because they sttpwer the leaves with cold water, bus for this very reason they sre eminently successful with another class; of which the camellia will serve as a type. As a general rule, frpm which there are few variations, the texture of the leaves may be taken as ap In dex of their power to resipt the appli cation of water. Plants having por ous, open or fleshy leaves covered with soft down should be seldom, if ever, moistened, while those having glossy or hard leaves will do all the better If washed frequently.—W. R. Gilbert, in Home and Garden. Dairy Notes. As a good disinfectant, gypsum, sprinkled on the floor about the stalls of the cows will keep down the odors and help retain the ammonia of the manure and add to Its fertility. Use it. The yard where cows are kept should have good surface drainage, and it should be covered with gravel or cinders deep enough to h. hard surface at all seasons ctf tho year. Silos furnish one of the b'.st foods for cows, but if you cannot have one, raise some of the root?, such as the mangel-wurzel, which yields 600 to 700 bushels per acre, and can be pre served in a root cellar, cheaply built. The dairyman should be a natural ly neat person. This will give him a good reputation to begin with, and as milk is one of the quickest pro ducts to absorb odors, he will need to be always particular and on the outlook for anything harmful to his business. Never allow the milk to stand in the barn, but remove it at once to a cool place to be aerated, and cool to a temperature of sixty degrees or below. Then be particular that all empty cans and pails, and everything that comes in contact with the milk, are thoroughly washed and sterilized. One of the most essential requi sites in turning out good first-class butter is cleanliness. Not only should the vessels for milking, and those for keeping the milk in, be clean and sweet, but the cow also must be kept free from mud and any other filth that may have adhered to her, for milk is quick to absorb im purities. To become successful in dairying, one must provide plenty of the for age crops, to be able to keep the cows in the best condition for supplying milk, and then calculate to do your milking at regular hours, never changing unless unavoidable, and be sure to milk the cows dry. It is not so much the amount of milk and butter a cow gives, if she consumes a greater amount of feed than will make the business profit able, she is useless. Professor Robin son, of the Canadian Department of Agriculture, has been conducting some experiments, which go to prove that there is no profit in the dairy cow when she consumes more than six or seven pounds of grain per day. —Successful Farming. Kills Wild Mustard. Wild mustard plants ars easily killed without injury to the growing cereal crop by spraying the grain fields with a twenty per cent, solu tion of iron sulphate just before the mustard plants have reached the blossoming r.tasG. arm Topics GIVE A LIFT. The persistent effort to‘give every body a lift Avhen possible, to make everybody we come in contact with a little better off. to radiate sunshine, cheer, hope, good will, to scatter flowers as we go along, not only brings light and joy to other hearts, but opens wide the door to our ofl a happiness. —Farmers’ Home Journal. DOING FARM CHORES. Don’t keep the boys and the hired man half the night doing chores. After the day’s work is over, there comes a long list of chores to be done. It is hardly fair to expect a man to do a big day’s work, and then ex tend it far into the night. No wonder that the boys get disheartened and leave the farm. In the office or shops there are no chores after work hours. Quit the regular work in time to do up all chores by supper-time if at all possible. This can generally be done by planning, except in the very busiest seasons. Let the boys and the hired man have the evenings to themselves, free from all work or care. —Farmers’ Home Journal. DRAINING. I have 100 iicres‘of land that I want to drain* Will you tell me what size tile to use, how deep to put them, and how far apart, to make the lines of tile? There is about nine feet fall to 100 rods. —L. B. Answer—These questions cannot be answered definitely, as much de pends upon* the physical condition of the soil. I£,tt\e soil ,1s a tight clay the tile should be near together and shallow. If a” loose; sandy soil, the tile should b& pTacfed deep-add far apart. If they are too deep in clay soil the drainage jvlll be too slow, but when they are deep In a , loose soil more land will be drained and more space in which rboth can de velop will be made. They should be from two and one-half to-three or four feet on,- the average. In determining the distance apart notice land nearby that has been drained, and if thoroughly done, find out at what distance. In the spring dig a post hole and notice how fast it fills with water. If it fills rapidly the lines of tile should be placed close together, not over thirty feet apart. Some loose soils are sufficiently drained when the lines are 150 to 200 feet apart. The size of the tile In the main line should be eight or more inches In diameter. The laterals should be of four or five inch tile, depending upon the distance apart. Before draining your land you should consult some neighbors who have already had their land drained. —lndiana Farmer. CS DAIRY NOTES. About eighty-seven per cent, of the milk is water, and milk and its prod ucts are used raw, usually with all the impurities that may have gotten into them from an impure water supply. A half inch flange at the bottom ot the milk pail is a good thing. It makes the pail more durable and less apt to rust, and if seams are well filled with solder a pail will be easier to clean and keep clean. Cold stables will reduce the milk yield. Comfort for the milch cow in winter means the right kind of tem perature in the stable and a good bed. Comfort is just as vital as right feeding and the right kinds of cows. Haste makes waste. When we get In too much of a hurry to milk the cows dry the loss amounts to some thing, and it never pays to let a hired man milk who does not like the task. He will never do the work satisfac torily. Other breed, excel the Jersey cows In the production of large quantities of milk, but these cows come nearer being veritable “cream pots” than any other breed, and no other breed will produce so solid an article of butter in hot weather. It (s a well known fact that break fast and other cereal foods derive most of their virtues from the milk and cream with which they are par taken. The elements needed to nourish the body may be obtained more cheaply from milk than from meat. The kicking cow is exasperating and a regularly recurring vexation. A neighbor who has been trying by various methods to break a cow of this vicious habit has given it up as a bad job and sold the cow. If we will raise our own cows and raise them right they will never be kickers. If you have one cow and just*a little milk, try this method of making butter: Put your cream in a half gallon glass fruit can, have it not more than two-thirds full, ripen and churn by shaking the can. If you save only thickest cream —little milk with it and stir often while ripening —you can bring butter in a little bit by this method. —Fannie M. Wood, in the Indiana Farmer.