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Insects Injurious to Farm and Garden
Crops.

Cabbage hea-The fret insect of i'm
%portance that appears is the small
black flea or jumping beetle that at
tacks the cabbage, radish, turnip, etc.
busting with Paris green mixed with
one hundred times its weight of Plaster
has proved an eifectnal remedy. This
must be done when the plants are wet
and after every rain.
Cutwornl-The, cutowrm of which
there are several species, including the
aamy worm works only during the night.
and may be destroyed by the same eme-
dy as the above. We would advise q trial
of pyrethrum powder mixed with five
times its bulk of plaster as being mor
safe, although we have no positive proof
that it will be effectnal.
Striped squash bug.-The striped
squash bug, which has been SO abund-
ant for the past two seasons, is best
in check by the use Of plaster and Paris
green. For the family garden the
safest and most satisfactory way to over
come them is to make a bottomless box
twelve inches square and six or eight
inches deep, and cover it with mosquito
netting. One of these boxes placed
over each hill until the plants have be-
come tough and hard is a sure protec-
ton.
The potato beetle-The potato beetle
has evidently become a permanent resi-
dent among us. Paris green extended
with plaster, -four Or water, is the only
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government contractor welcome to
Tewkstown within twenty-four hours
But Cyrus cared little for the friendl,
oyertures Of the old n~eighbors.
Aunt Abby was the only person for
whom he seemed to care, and his great
est grief was that the old woman re-
fused to leave the old Dabney farm
house to live in the stately brick man
sio1 which he built on Prospect Hill.
And then he asked permission to deck
her little bedroom with the ~curiosities
he had brought FROM the Isthmus, and
In lacking up draperies and arranging
shells and silver coine he and Mary UNI
consciously became quite good friends.
Friends. She never knew that it was
any thing else, until one day old Aunt
Abby took a strange idea into her head.
And Mary, holding a rich Oriental cord
for Cyrus to loop into knots for picture
frames, heard her introduce Mrs. Mil
Ter to q neighbor as my guest, Mrs.
Miller, the mother Of the young lady
that nephew Cyrus is to marry"
Cyrus looked at Mary. Mary drop
ped the ball of cord and turned crimson.
"Mary!"he said piteously, "say that it
shall be SO. For l love you! And
and you We're good to old Aunt Abby
when all the world turned against her.
| sometimes think, Mary, that you must
be like n of heavens angles"
And this was how they became en-
gagged.
They still live at the old farm house,
the happiest of married lovers, and
Aunt Abby firmly believes that they are
all her guests; for to her the woare
stands ~eternally still-the world that is
so full of bloom and beauty to Cyrus
and Mary!
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Simple Words,

A story is told of a professor of rhe.
toric in a by-gone generation, that one
day while examining a Composition
he asked the young author, pointing to
what had been considered an especially
well-written passage, M, what
did you mean by this?" The embar-
rassed student stammered out the state
ment in the plainest words possible,an
the professor. drawing his pencil across
the fowery paragraph, calmly replied.
"Say so, then"
1t was a trying hour for the student,
he took his manuscript and went his
way; when, IN after years, he had be-
come a brilliant and persuasive speaker,
he often said that he owed much of his
success to the words of his old instruct
or.
Language has been called "the garb
of thought" and as the disturbances of
simplicity in dress is acknowledged, let
a word be said for simplicity Of speech.
There is q grace and propriety in the
most elegant clothing at suitable times
there is a beauty in stateliness and
magniticence of diction on fitting occa-
sion, but for everyday use, and for
ommon topics, let words be appropri-
ate.
Some persons seem greatly averse to
plain and simple phrases and apparent
ly suppose that the longer q word is,
the more grace it must lend to Che con
versation. Such a one. once mentioned
her inability to execute house-work."
Such persons generally "~peruse," sell
dom read" They seldom prefer one
"place," but n location" to another.
They find pleasure in certain" works"
not "books." and it must be observed
that they seldom read a novel" though
they may muse themselves with "fcti-
tious reading" They prefer "publica-
tions" to magazines Oh papers," and
ali it must be noted that they invariably
commence anything that simpler
mortals begin" 1 have known pupils
who in conversation would scatter
"hain't' and "be' with painful profu-
sion, yet were careful to say that the
lesson commenced on such q page and
extended" TO such another.
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speedily purify. The use of lime in
whitewash is not only simply to give a
white color, but it greatly promotes the
Any vapors that contain combined nit
rogen in the unoxidized form contribute
powerfully to the development Of dis
ease germs.
Here is the way John T. Ames, of
Northtield, Mimi, told the Dairyman's
association he put up hay: Apply q
mixture Of two quarts slaked lime, and
n and one-half quarts of salt with a
little sulphur, to every load of hay. He
stores his hay rather green, letting it
cure in the NOW.
The authorities of the Iowa Agricultur-
al college make the following class;f-
cations of the relative values of various
foods as milk producers: Corn, per 100
pounds, so cents; oats 60 cents; barley,
55 cents; wheat, IS cents; wheat bran,
70 cents; oil meal, $1.45; clover hay,
so cents; timothy, so cents; potatoes,
40 cents.
Several years since, I had a piece of
land so infested with cut~worms, that I
could not keep q stand of cabbage, rs
the plants were cut down as regularly
at night, as they were set out in the day.
The next Fall | had the land plowed,
made it white with lime, plowed that in
lightly, and then sowed salt freely. The
rains dissolved the salt and brought it
in contact with the lime in the soil. 1
again planted it in cabbage, and I did
not lose five plants from cut-worms that
season.
An Illinois farmer writes to a scien-
tifc paper:-''This summer, when my
own corn was two feet high, the light
ming struck it, killing a patch one hun
dred feet in extent. 1t seemed to kill
the ground, as neither weed nor spear
of grass has grown on it since. The
ground looks dead, and / believe it is.
Occasionally these spots are met with
all over the prairies. The people ac-
count for them as buffalo tramps, where
butfaloes c~ongregated in my time and
tramped until they killed the soil, but
from the above occurrence / account
for them as being struck by lightning.
A correspondent of the Rural New
Yorker describes the following method
by which an extraordinary crop of wat
ermelons was raised: Holes we're dug
ten feet apart each way, eighteen inches
square and fifteen inches deep. These
holes were filed with well-rottad
manure, which were thoroughly incor-
porated will, the soil. A low, flat bill
was then made and seed planted. When
the vines were large enough to run the
whole surface was covered to the depth
of a foot o. fifteen inches with wheat
straw. The straw was placed close up
around the vines. No cultivation what
ever a given afterward; no weeds or
grass grew. The vines spread over the
straw, and the melons matured clean
and nice. The yield was abundant and
the experiment an entire success. This
is surely worth trying.
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Funny Eancies.

"Yes," said Biggs, 1T enjoy a glass
now and then; but I deny myself, fear
ing that 1 might take too much and say
something foolish" "Nonsense!" ex.
claimed Fogg; drink, if you like it.
Say what you will, nobody will ever
suspect that you have been drinking
that is nobody who knows you, you
know"
$50 you think your son smokes, Mrs.
Jones?" Tim sure OF it, Mrs. Brown.
I've found pieces of tobacco in his pock-
cts" Dear me, dear me! Tn sorry.
My son has no bad habits. T never find
anything in his pockets but cloves and
coffee beans."-Somerville Journal.
Mrs. Jones-',Ah, and good morning
to YOU, Mrs. Smith. Did you like the
cream I sent you?" Mrs. Smith-"O,
very much, thank you" Mrs. Jones'
"Yes: and if you could let me have the
pot l sent it in you'd oblige me, COS
you see, it's my old mans shaving mug,
and he don't like no other."-Fun.
Liz uIIeCtOl VI tle bureau OF STATUS
tics at Vienna finds that out of 1O2. S31s
individuals who have passed the age OF
80 years, 60,303 are women and only
52,52S are men. In Italy there are 241
alleged %centenarian women, and but 141
men of that age. The fact that of chill
dren who reach the age Of 10 wears
there are more females than males seems
to be well established, and that the dis
proportion in numbers grows greater as.
the years of their life advance is equal
ly certain.
A citizen Of Hamlet in Kidder wen,
to the cars in White Haven one dav to
see his ~favorite daughter off. Securing
her a seat he passed out of the cars and
went round to her window to say a part.
ing word, as is frequently done on such
occasions. While he was passing out
the daughter left the seat to speak 70 n
friend, and at the same time a prim old
maid from Wilkesbarre took the seat
n moved up to the window. Unaware
OF the important change inside, he hast
lily put his face up to the window and
hurriedly exclaimed: Gone more kiss
sweet pet" In another instant the
point OF a blue cotton umbrella caught
his seductive lip, followed by the pas.
sionate injunction: "Scat, you gray.
headed wretchp and he seated.
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Canada as a Resort for Roeues.

1t is certainly time to have done with
this trihing. Canada lies temptinely
near. 1t ought not to be possible for =
New York bank off GER to make wav
with ~ 1000 600 or SO, 600, 900 Of othcr
peoples money and then step into a
sieeplng-car and awake on soil where
he is beyond the reach of Justice. The
present laxity of treaty relations works
In the interest of criminals, large classes
OF whom can put themselves out Of harms
way by crossing the line. OF late vears
we have very materially enlarged orr
extradltlo relations with countries
with which our dealings are much less
important than they are with Great
Britain: There is every reason to sur.
pose that the English Goyernmapt
would meet cordially an effort in tbe
same direction. Negotiations to that
end should be opened without unnecess
sary delay.-Boston Journal,
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cheap and easily appliedremedy known
ercised in its use, and especially in the
place where the package is kept, that
it may not get upon the food of animals.
Cabbage worm-The cabbage worm,
the larva of the common white butterfly,
may be easily ~destroyedin several ways.
That of hand picking, if begun before
the first brood has passed into its per-
feet state, is effectual. We have also
found that pyrethrum powder mixed
with five times its bulk of plaster and
busted into the centre of the leaves with
sulphur bellows, is certain destruction
to every one of them. The applica.
ton of insecticides in liquids to the
cabbage hus n been satisfactory on ac-
count of the peculiar structure OF the
leaf surface, which allows the water to
roll off in drops and not adhere to any
part Of it. Paris green is unsafe to use
after the leaves have become over four
inches in diameter.
Currant worm.-The currant worm
should be destroyed, while small, with
the dust of heilebore or pyrethrum.
The latter, being perfectly harmless, is
to be more highly recommended.
The rose bug.-The rose bug has thus
far been the most difficult to overcome
of the whole tribe of injurious insects,
and we can recommend no remedy with
a great degree of confidence, but would
advise the trial of the fumes of gas tar
held under the vines a short time every
evening while the grapes are forming.
1t is certainly offensive to them, and if
used carefully neednot injure the plant
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Little People.


Little Flaxen Hair-Papa, it's rain
ing. Papa somewhat annoyed by work
in hand)-Well, let it rain.-Little
Flaxen Hair timidly)-I was going to-.
4 -, M
.''ie gni Ni".lina' leu nhe curry .ne
baby. Mamma.No, darling, you're
too little; you might let IT tall. Little
Worn ont?,J,ondon .Judy ~
aco
p..,;.,, - a.
~ -
school; sand how are YOU this mornings,
"We dursen't tell you," replied the old
est, a boy OF eight. Dare nottell me"
exclaimed the doctor: "and why not?"
"Cause papa said that last year it cost
him over ten pounds to have you come
in and ask us how We re."-English
paper.
Proprietor of Small Lake House
b;s hands oa,ia11v, ..Ab
~,
MASTER 'olnhS, WHATS on your pro
gramme for to-day?" Will you try the
rowing this morning?" Johnny--'tFm
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Personal Notes.

The doorkeeper of the New I
Stock Exchange, named Tom Faye,
who had, by hook and by crook, accum-
ulated a property valued at owe Sloo,-
900. died last week. He was actually
weather. than many of the ~pretendeae
millionaires of the board.
Mr.. John Mussey, of Portland, Me.
who was graduated from Bowdoin Col
leee in 1909, is the Oldest alumnus OF
that college now living. He is now o.
years of age and in excellent health.
The only wheeled vehicle that Colonel
Fred Grant now owns is a baby carriage,
and this he may be seen trundiins
through the streets of Morristown any
pleasant Sunday afternoon.
Ex- Governor Prescott, Of New Hamp-
shire, has secured ITO portraits Of lis
tinguished men for the State House,
Dartmouth College, his alma mater.
and Exeter Academy, where he received
| his earlier education. Among those Mt
Exeter are portraits Of Daniel Webster,
! Edward Everett, Lewis Cass. Jared
Sparks and George Bancroft.
The family of Mr.. Joel l.. Phillips,
| Keowee, S. c., has a remarkable re-
| cord. He has been married twice, hay
ing born to him by his first wife twelve
| children, and by his second nine. He
has now living eighteen children, the
youngest three months and he Oldest
forty three-years old, and has In all
about e~ighty-tive lineal descendants hv-
ing. He has lived on the same place
forty-four years, and all the children
were born there. The whole eighty
five of the lineal descendants live with
in twenty miles of the parental home
and are doing we'll. Mr.. Phillips is
sixty-seven years old. Such q large
family kept so near together for so
great o length of time seldom happens
in this life.
DR.. McCosh, Of Princeton College,
is a very handsome old gentleman, who
was born seventy-three years ago. He
was n pet of Sir William Hamilton, who
was a great opponent of phrenology. As
an old-time metaphysician DIR. McCosh
has hardly an equal in this country.
Recently, while the doctor was being
complimented in q Pennsylvania Rail-
way train for his ability to dissect
Kant, the good old gentleman replied,
with that little spice of conceit which
comes from ones own knowledge Of
ones abilities, "It was perfectly easy to
me-"
Ifthere is any virtue in ancestry.
says the Philadelphia Times, DIR.
William Barton Hopkins, who has
just been elected to the vacancy in the
medical staff of the Episcopal Hospital
in Philadelphia, should enjoy great
professional advantages. He is a
great-grand-nephew of David Ritten-
house, the astronomer, and a great
granddaughter also of DR.. Benjamin Bar
ton, the naturalist andphysician who vas
professor of botany and natural history,
and afterward of materia medica in the
University of Pennsylvania. His great
uncles were DR.. William p. G. Barton,
Chief Medical Director Of the United
( States navy, and also eminent as a
botanist-''Barton's Flora" being still a
standard work-and DR.. John Rhea
Barton, one of the most eminent Of
American surgeons.
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During services in n of the Presby.

During services in one of the Presby,
terian churches in ithaca, last Sunday,
a dove entered the auditorium and, af-
ter circling around once or twice, alight-
ed on the shiny pate of a bald-headed
gentleman. The symbol Of peace was
rather nncermoniously dislodged from
its resting place, when it took wing and
flew to a perch near the ceiling. just
after the communion service was finished
the dove foated down from aloft and
lodged on a table in front of the al
tar and began eating the remains OF
the sacramental feast, butt was not al
lowed to enjoy itself any longer than it
took devout deacon to cover the dis
lance between his pew and the table.
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=. L .E-
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., who is known
amourg his familiars as Buck" Grant,
in a recent interview with a New York
Herald reporter regarding the recent
failure. said: Il first put the ST., 500
yearly oil my wife's fortune into
the concern, and than I put the princi-
pal in with it, My father-in-law loses
$500, 900 which [ borrowed from him..
The cool manner in which young
Ulyss mentions that his father-in-law
loses $500, 900 which he BORROWED"
would be deliciously refreshing if it
were not such a serious matter. How
ever, ex-senator Chaffee, of Colorado,
who is the unfortunate faith erin law,
can stand it, for he is a very wealthy
man.
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Getting Potatoes Early.

Some years ago I conceived the idea
OF planting my potatoes with shoots to
them. Probably the sprouts suggested
the idea. At any rate l carried out the
plan, and have been so well pleased
with it that I have followed it for three
years. A few weeks before planting
time l select my seed potatoes and set
them in q warm place to sprout. BY the
time my ground is ready the shoots are
about three inches in length. The po-
tatoes are handled carefully, so as not
to break the growth, and cut up in
suitable sizes, as in the ordinary
way. One strong shoot is left to each
piece. The sets must be put into the
ground carefully, of course, or the
shoots will be broken off. As growth
commences at once, the green tops show
i'll a few days. There is easily a saving
of two weeks at the start. Those who
have rather low ground which cannot
be worked very early in spring. as / have,
will find this method will enable them
to compete with their neighbors on
higher ground, with success. BY July
10 l was using fine Beauty of Hebrons,
an excellent early sort, by the way,
planted April %. They were not then
fully ripe, though the yellow tint in the
leaves was getting quite %perceptible.
Generally the tops are dead at this date,
but an unusually fine potato season kept
them growing later this year.
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Some years ago Mr.. Dana. of the
New York Sun, took it into his head
that he would like to experiment with
mushrooms. So, at a great cost, he
built a great mushroom cave, got a
Frenchman, to whom he paid a large
salary, and began bis experiment. The
first year it cost him about $4,000, but
to-day he is not only raising all of these
delicious fungi that he wants for his own
table, but his cav yields so many musl-
rooms that the gardener has been able
to sell enough to pay, with interest, for
the expenditure.
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Farming Paragraphs.

A brick cistern will outlast the con
crete cistern in sandy soils by a score of
years. Concrete walls in sandy soils are
very liable to crack by frost or of pres
sure, and then leak, or ave in, OF both.
Use only best quality of water lime for
the mortar to lay up the brick and then
TO plaster the inside. After the plaster
hardens give it a good coat Of white
wash made with water lime.
Red clover will produce the heaviest
crop of hay on suitable land that can be
grown. About four pounds Of green
grass make one of hay. Orchard grass
produces a pound Of hay to less than
three pounds of grass. Alsike clover
yields less than the red variety, but the
proportion of grass to hay is the same.
While it is advisable to secure as large
yieldas possible, it is best to grow a mix
ture in order to secure quality.
A correspondent of the Country Gen
tleman objects to the ~smokehouse for
smoking meats. Every one knows that
this way of smoking befouls the outside
Of the meat; that by the breaking of a
string a piece is often lost, and that not
infrequently the s1nokehouse furnishes
. contlagration. But how else can meat
be smoked? This correspondent says to
thoroughly smoke the barrel inside
with maple or hickory chips or corn
cobs, pack the pieces closely and cover
with prepared pickle.
One good agency for keeping the air
Of the cellar sweet and wholesome is
whitewash made Of good white lime and
water only. The addition of glue OF
size or anything Of this class is only a
damage by furnishing organic matter te
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Father Hyacinthe having completed his lee,
ture tour in America is expected to arrive in
London at the end of next week. His object in
going there is to establish o mission in aid of
his Gallican church in Paris, and he has OBJ
tanned an authorization from the Right Rev.
John Jackson, D. d., bishop OF London, to
preach q series Of sermons.
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THE OLDEST" MASON.
The Recent Claim to "that Honor" Set At
Rest.
From the Boston Herald.

The Recent Claim to that Honor" Set At
Rest.
From the Boston Herald.
"The Oldest" Twenty of them are
older. About once a month we read of
"the oldest Mason" here or there or
somewhere else. A few days ago the
Herald got a letter asserting that the
Oldest Mason in the United States was
Jonathan Woodbury., aged 81 years, q
native of Annapolis, N. s., where he
was made q Mason in 1878, in Annapo-
lis Royal Lodge, thus showing he
had been Mason for sixty
six years. His father, William
Fairfield Woodbury., would have scored
II years if he had lived four days long
er. Now, this is absurd. Every man,
woman and child, who knows an old
man who is a Mason assumes at once
that he is the oldest of all Masons.
The best evidencein the world, we
have reason to believe. is the list which
Mr.. Stephen Berry, of Portland, Maine,
keeps. He omits no care or expendi-
ture OF time or money in making it per-
feet, and il may be worth while, for the
benefit Of axnberant people. to repro
duce here MeA4ist of the Oldest living
Masons, every name having been veri-
fed, and the wholehst corrected up to
this month:
initiated.
|. Captain $. Hatch, Port L~avaccs, Tex..1SO9
2 Col Edward Swayer. Grand Blanc,
s Wait Garrett, New Hartford, Ct..,....1slo
T. Edward Nichols, Woodbury., Ct......1slo
s. knight. Dover, England. Ian, ISL
s Philip Chetllam, Stockport, Eng, Oct 5. 1871
I. Edward l. kidder, Berlin, CT .........1S1
s Hon. Jas Garland, Iynchburg, Va.
9. James Scott, Midtiebonfno.-........lSl2
20. Elijah Pratt, Castleton, \. Y.........1sla
T. Moves, Croydon, England. ........lsl2
r Ahijala ssssiaus; fiidssetield, CT Oct ls.lsla
a. Sir Moses Montefore, England, .......ISl
- David Mcdaniel. johnson. VT. May, 1914
ii Capt. Hiram Ferris, Fond du Lac, Wis. 1915
= Pierpont Potter. Jamaica, l. L.. Oct 1915
\. YIN, Elliot, Weymouth, England Feb, 1916
~. Phineas S. Bradley, Woodbury., Ct.....lS16
The really and truly Oldest Mason up
TO the 18th day of March, when he died,
was William Mcdowell, Of Traverse
City, Mich. He was 104years old then,
and was made a Mason, Mr.. Barry as
sures us, in June. 1907, in County An
trim, ireland.
Tothe outside barbarian, this does not
seem a matter of much importance, but
it shows how the wisest men, newspaper
men for instance, blunder by thinking
they know it all, when some specialist
who deyotes himself TO picking up and
saving what seemed important facts
knows more. The average newspaper
man always blunder when he tells his
readers about "the oldest Mason"