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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

In every place where there is swampy
area. large or small, one Is almost sure to
find rushes. reeds or tall meadow grasses.
usually growing five feet high and more.
These make a much more pleasant, pretty
and appropriate hanging screen for the
porch of an American dwelling than do the
japanese and Indian bamboo screens that
are commonly used
To make them, gather three or four
armfuls Of the rushes or grasses. If you
can pick them when they have their tas-
selled heads, they will be additionally orna-
mental, though on the other hand the heads
have a tendency to fluff out Hang them
in a dark place for a week or two before
using so that they may dry out partially.
Then get a strip OF light wood about two
inches wide and long as You wish the
screen to be. Lay 1t on the floor or
large table. Tack double lengths of heavy
cord on the wood about two feet apart and
as long as you wish. Lay two or three
rushes with the heads all one way across
the strings so that they will be between the
double cords. Then by knotting the
double cords together. you will at once
hold the rushes in place. Now place two
or three more across the strings with the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
Twenty-Five Cents Did This.

1t was a pretty tough looking spot
before the IS cents was invested-a rough
patch of wiry grass in lumpy tufts, with
$500 portable house of corrugated iron on
one side and a cheap shed on the other.
Five cents worth of cucumber vine seed
and 10 cents worth of cypress vine seed
produced enough to beautify both structures
and left some over to be trained up the
trees in the middle. Ten cents worth OF
naslurtium seeds made two big beds for the
portable house. a smaller bed for the shed
and left enough over for the bed under the
trees. The high clump of grass which
looks so ornamental, is one of the many
wild annual grasses that grow in almost
every untitled field in the United States.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

TIVE minutes day will keep insects
down more thoroughly than three
l. hours once a week spent in fighting
them.
Begin the five-minute fights before the in
Get three old tin buckets or little kegs
or any similar old receptacle holding a
quart or more Drop a bar of common
yellow soap in one and fill it with water.
Put Bordeaux mixture into another, mix
ing according to the directions that come
on the box Fill the third with water and
make it your practice to drop into 1t all
the cigar stumps and other tobacco that
usually goes into the house waste
Keep these three ready mixed insect and
fungus killers somewhere in secluded
spot where they will be very handy and
yet out of sight. Cover them with board
to keep rain out and prevent evaporation.
Alongside of them leave an old cup,
worn-out dipper or a rusty sprinkling pot
also an old whisk broom or a yorn-out
paint brush
At odd moments go to this bug-killer
corner and with the brush Stir the soap tlli
YOU have thick 1ather. Fill the cup WITH
it or douse the brush or whisk broom IN
see bugs Don't be afraid oe putting 1t on
thick It's a JOY to see rose beetles and
-caterpillars of all kinds curl up and go on
of business when the soap hits them. And
not only will the foliage and BUDS De
clear but the soapy water Will drip down
and soak into the ground where 1t does
two useful things at once: it kills the sruO5
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
Spare Nome
For Cultivation

G TIR the soil around, your plants every
time you have nothing worse to do. 1t
works wonders Don't make elab-
crate preparations or feel that you must
leave 1t till you. have time" You don't
need more than two or three minutes to
stir up the life of big shrub or even a
tree. Two minutes devoted to loosening the
earth around the fuchsa, aster. rose or
splraea beds will be repaid by sturdier
growth and quicker development.
Five minutes five minutes watch time,
not the five Minutes of commerce that
may mean half an hour) is quite enough to
stir up the dormant energy of good-sized
geranium bed so that your neighbors will
marvel at its richness and size Of bloom.
Don't waste time looking for your tools.
If they aren't right at hand. pick up a cane
or q poker or a clothespin or twig. II
nothing else is in ght use your lead pen
ell II you are happily devoid of BUSINESS,
use your fingers. 1t VIII do them good.
Just poke in among the roots and stir
around bit
Dent use a spade. If you use regular
gardening tools. take the hoe or the spad-
ing 20 l.: They VIII go between the roots
while tie spade will chop them on
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
How to Cook Rice.

Few housewives understand how to cook
rice SO that 1t puffs into a snowy mass.
each kernel distinct, it is served On its
native shores. In the first place, wash
thoroughly through several cold waters.
rubbing the kernels between the hands
This Is to remove all the loose -four on the
outside Of the grains. After the water runs
clear. turn into a colander and drain. Some
fastidiOus cooks even go 30 far as to lay
the washed rice on a dry cloth and wipe to
make sure that all the -four Is or the
grain.
Put into q deep stew pan, allowing one
quart of boiling water to a cup of washed
rice. add a teaspoonful salt and let 1t come
to a good boil. Cook steadily for twenty
minutes. lifting the rice occasionally with
fork to prevent it's sticking. Shake the
kettle also for this same purpose, but
never stir nor mash with a spoon. Take
from the fire. pour of the water. II any Is
left (be sure and save the water for your
stock pop. then place on the back of the
stove, in the oven or over "a pot of hot
wate.'. where IL will finish swelling without
burning Cooked In this way, you will find
The rice plump. light and white. each grain
distinct and separate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

have due chance for its cultivation. due
chance for life. due chance for expression
The higher. the finer. sweeter functions OF
our existence must not be smotnered. They
must have due time to live and do. They
must have opportunity. They must have
attention. time. care and cultivation 1t IS
not all of life to have house and coat ana
breakfast. We must have art. music.
beauty, poetry, love. goodness, work, ser
vice.
Money is delightful and the luxur.es that
money brings are delightful. but they are
not the most delightful things. Be our po-
sition what 1t WILL be our poverty or our
riches what they will. the greater delights
should not. and need not. be stffed.
We Need
To remember the proper proportions OF
things. 1t perhaps is easy for us unduly to
exalt our physical needs. to make the raj
ment and the meat that minister to our
bodily life the summun bonums of our ex-
issence. But the body is only the temple of
the soul of the higher man.
We should let the physical life have its
proper need of regard. so that it can be a
proper instrument of the soul. Everything
In its place. but not the higher subordinated
to the lower.
There probably never was time before
when We all could be physically so COM
Portable with so little exertion now.
Let well enough alone. II Is not necessary
to be millionaire. nor giant philanthro.
pist. Let us be satisfied with a modest
competency. Let us live the simple life.
plain living and high thinking.
Let US leave those who will be rich and
tired OUT. let us keep fresh and young and
sweet and wholesome. Let US be rich of
mind and heart. let have the ability to
enjoy the finer things of life and existence.
The Ideal
or the western world, the ambition of many
men Of the west in contrast to the ideas of
the orient. is to die in the harness. to fall
at the post. not to be too old to work. to
minEle in the midst of the worldly storm
and stress. This idea is Numerically op-
posed to the ideas of the east. where the
purely worldly and physical phases of exist
ence are disposed of summary as pos
sible SO that the man can go free to the
pursuits of his choice. to the cultivation of
his superphysical nature.
In one the physical existence Is exalted. In
the other 1t is reduced to minimum impor-
tance. The decks are cleared with every
seemly expedition for the higher energies
to function.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

Some morning when you start for the
city, put that package of dwarf nasturtium
seeds you bought last week in your pocket.
AS you go down the walk. drag your cane
or umbrella along in the dirt Of the flower
bed by the side of Your walk and about six
inches from the walks edge. Drop a mas
turtium seed abou; every three inches Into
your little furrow.
Then walk back along the row, stepping
on the furrow. or, if time presses in the
morning do 1t when you reach home at
night Your feet will press the seed down
and pack the earth around Ii just as 1t
should be- and this will do them good and
assure a quick growth. 1t is simple, but eff
fective. and VIII give you a beautiful Dor
der of brilliant color and superb verdure,
absolutely as good as II you had spent a
halliday over 1t with trowel and spade
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
Starting Plants in Pots.

Make little paper cones of newspaper
fastened together with pins. Cut an inch
off the small end. Now you have min
iature flower pot with no bottom. 1t Is
about two and half inches high. little
over inch wide at the top and half an
inch at the bottom. Set them side by side
in a wooden box and Ali them with fine
earth. Plant one seed in each. When you
transplant to the garden. sink the little
paper pot in the ground. That's all. The
roots grow down through the open bot
tom into the earth and the paper Will rot
away and act as fertilizer.
Another way Is to save egg shells. Set
them side by side in the wooden box. Plant
one seed in each. Crush the shell when
you transplant
The beauty of these plans Is that you do
not check your plants when you trans
plant them into the garden. as Is the case
when plants are removed from pots or
boxes to go into the beds out-of-doors
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
Half Hour Gardening

that are Matching under the soil and it fer
tilizes the earth excellently.
Whenever you see leaves turning yellow
or curling up or getting strangely spotted
and notified, go 10 your poison nook, fill
the brush with Bordeaux mixture and spat-
ter 1t over the affected plant.
When you start on a stroll around your
garden fill the cup or sprinkler with to-
bacco water and sprinkle it over roses or
chrysanthemums or any other plant that
has a bug on it. . Don't wait till you see
two bugs. One Is enough. Douse the
plant at once and there won't be two. One
bug on a plant today may mean 200 tomor-
row.
If you don't want to work enough to
keep the three insect killers, confine your
self to the soap and water. Tell your
kitchen help to pour all the soapy water of
wash day somewhere where you can dip
into it whenever you want a one-mlnute
fight with the great American garden bug.
If on the other hand, you are very am
bilious, you can convert your poison nook
into quite a laboratory. For instance, You
can add to it a box in which can be put
the SCOT from the cellar furnace and the
kitchen chimney. This is both fertilizer
and sure notice Of ejectment to many
bugs, such as the tiny black hopping beetle
that eats asters, radishes and egg plants
Keep a little pile of fine coal ashes
there, too. to sift over flowers or vegetables.
1t keeps insects Off and isn't bad for clayey
ground because it helps to keep it loose
Ten cents worth of finely pu!yerized
sulphur can be kept in Jar. II eHceiieit
to sift around the roots of shrubs If you
suspect that crawlers and grubs are max
ing free there.
Most bugs fasten to the unders;de OF
plants Seize the plant or shrub with the
left and bend it over gently as far as 20 i
can without harming 1t and with the r gat
hand spatter the underside Of the leaves
and twigs with the brush or whisk broom,
or you can even smear the thick soap father
on with your hand alone.
There will be many hints for hve-inlnute
fights with insects IN succeeding articles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

smell. The trailing arbutus prefers dryer.
sunny ground 1t trails close to the messy
ground ana it's flowers are rosy and whitlsh
pink. Hepatica grows on open banks.
hardy little beauty often defying even the
sweep of the winds. 1t is purple and blush
white.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

teur gardening. The one shown here was
sink, q tub or key or even a piece Of drain
pipe will answer the same purpose. Wood
side ferns, ribbon grass and iris are planted
around 1t to hide it. The water Is renewed
by simply playing into it with the garden
hose when watering the rest of the garden.
Pond lilies, water hyacinth. lotos and UNI
brella grass grow readily in such aquatic
gardens. Twenty-Five cents worth of bulbs
will stock 1t.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
A SIMPE WAY TO MAKE PATH BORDERS.

in. Other early seeds that don't object In
the least to the cold. clammy soil of the
early year are morning glories. pansies.
peoples, mignonettes, portulaca, asters,
phlox. larkspurs. bachelors buttons, cal
liopsis and pinks.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

The curiously forked vegetables in the
foreground are the wonderful Japanese
radishes known as Sakurajimi. They
weigh from ten to fifteen pounds each and
will grow in any part of the United States.
Five cents worth of seed will plant bed
big enough for two, families. This radish
Is wonderfully delicate and is good from
spring till fall Peel and slice it for the
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
Slip On.

II you have mince pie on the buffet,
slice of pie with a spoonful of hot rarebit
poured on gives what il popularity known
as slip on" Whether the "Rarebit
Fiend" gets one afterward or not depends
upon the digestion.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

KTO matter how small your garden
IN or how densely populated your sur
roundings. you will be amazed at
the number and variety Of birds that
will be attracted to your place II you
make a quiet spot where they can drink
and battle. Such a spot serves two
purposes Besides attracting birds. 1t
makes pretty aquatic garden. one Of the
most interesting and easy forms OF anna
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

sun can reach early. Lift away some OF
last years litter of old leaves and weeds
gently. For skunk cabbage look in damp,
"soggy" places. Often you will find 1t
thrusting it's flashy yellow cap beautifully
notified with purple through the rotten ice
near a rill or pool 1t is beauty despite it's
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
Cold-Blooded Plants.

There are lots of cold-blooded plants that
grow best If their seeds so into the ground
when 1t Is cold and chilled. Sweet peas
hate warm ground at least to be planted
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

heads pointing the other way. and so con-
tinue. AS the grasses dry they assume a
rich blending of golden and green hues.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
Cleaning-Up Time.

Now is the time to clean up last years
garden spot Don't leave it as resting
place for worms and insects. Clean up and
keep cleaned up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

table. Plant in rows four inches apart and
thin out the poor ones as soon as possible.
Thinning out is one of the most simple and
most often neglected tricks of truck gar
dening. Every poor plant that you pull out
means that the plants on each side of IL
will grow twice as well as before.
Try this Sakuraj!mi in your gardens. 1t
Is radish that should be introduced
throughout the country.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31

Hepatica, skunk cabbage and ira ling
arbutus awake while snow and slush still
lie wherever the sun has no ready access.
Look in spots where trees. banks or rocks
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-31
Five-Minute Fights
With the Insects

TIVE minutes a day will keep insects
down more thoroughly than three
l. hours once a week spent in fighting
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02

The News-No Pure Drug Cough
Cure Laws would be needed, If all
cough cures were like DR.. Shops
Cough Cure rs-and has been for 20
years. The National Law now re-
quires that If any poisons enter into
a cough mixture, it must be printed
on the label or package. For this
reason mothers, and others, should
insist on having DR.. Shops Cough
Cure. No poison-marks on Dr..
shPcp's labels-and none in the
medicine, else It must by law be on
thelabel. And it's not only safe, but
it Is said to be by those that know 1t
best, truly remarkable cough
remedy. Take no chance, particu-
larry with your children. Insist on
having Dr.. Shops Cough Cure.
Compare carefully the DR.. shoop
package with others and see. No
poison marks there! You can al
ways be on the safe side by demand
ng DR.. Shops Cough Cure. Simply
refuse To accept any other. Sold by
all dealers
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02
a Square Deal

Is assured you when you buy Or. PIerce.s
family medicines-fOr all the ingredi
ents entering into them ar printed on
the huttle-wrappers aud their formulas
are attested under oath as being comDlete
and correct You know jus, " hut yun are
naving for and that the Ingredients are
gathered from Natures laboratory, being
selected from the most Valuable native
medicinal roots found growing in our
American forests md lille potent 10 CUR
are perfeCtly harmless ersn 10 the mos,
delicate womea a % ChiIdFerS Not ! , dron
" alcohol ellteS into their c0m15sI Inn
A mIicb -better aRe1t is used 65ff I'm ~,
Gacting and preSerXIIlg lac fnedicinTl
pIlnciples used IN thenl, yiZ--nilTa fTISslsSS
rehued gIycerIne. This agent DoSsesses
Intrinsic meuicInal properties of Its own
being most valuable antsepfic ana ami.
ferment, nutfitive and soothing dnmul-
cent.
Glycerinc plays an important part in
DIR. Plcrce's Golden Medical Discovery IN
the cure OF Indigestion. dySpeDsla and
weak stomach. attended by SaIr risInfrS
heartburn. foul breath, coated tonrne,
poor appetite, gnawlng feeling IN stOm-
ach, bii0HsiieSS and kindred tleranpe-
ments Of the stomach liver and bowels.
Besides curing al the above Distressing
ailments, the Golden Medical Discovery :
Is specific for all diseases Of the mucous
membranes. Us rltarrh, whchnr III the
nasal passages or of the stomach. bowels
or pelvic organs. Even in is lucrative
stages il will yield to this sovereign REM
rdv If its use be perSevcred in. hi Chronic
Catarrh Of tile Nasal passages. Il IL well.
while taking the Golden Medical his,
covpry for the necessary constitutional
treatment. 10 cleanse the.pasSagcs freely
two or three timeS,a day with Dr. Sage's
Cltarrh Remedy. This thorough course
Of treatment generally cures The worst
,.aSP>
In coughs and hoarSeneSS caused by brOn-
chat throat and lung affections. except com
sltmptionin Ms advanced stages. the Golden
Medical Discovery Is most efficient rein-
cdy. especially in those obstinate hang-on
coughs caused by irritation and congestion Of
The bronchial mucous membranes The Dis"
cOveTy Is not 50 good for acute coughs aris-
ing from sudden colds. nor must Ii hc exc
pecled ~ cure copSUueptlon IN It's advanced
stages no medicne.lylll do that hut for all
the obstinate, chronic4cOuRhS. which, IN neg
| lected. or badly iteatdll. lead I'M 10 Consume
ton. II is the lf'Si medicine thai can be aiken.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02

LOOKING FOR A HOMER THE
BEST, EASIEST AND MOST salts.
FACTORY WAY IS TO LOOK
THROUGH THE FOR RENT ADS.
IN THE WANTED COLUMN. YOU
WILL FIND ALL THE MORE DE
SIRABLE PLACES ADVERTISER
HERE AND A LIST MADE OF
THOSE THAT APPEAL TO Yor
MOST WILL BE OF MATERIAL
AID TO you WHEN YOU GO OUT
on YOUR HUNT.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02

Thave Just received from the quar-
ries4of Vermont and Massachusetts,
bought for cash from the manufac-
turers direct, the finest and best line
Of granite and marble monuments
ever shown In Clarksburg. ~ Will
guarantee better work, better prices,
and the very latest designs in. monu-
ments than any marble man in West
Virginia. We do all our work with
pneumatic TOOLS" much better than
can be done by the old way. Come
in and see our stock. Wells Marble
Works, 40 North Fifth street.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02
Duluth. MINI.

At a recent meeting OF the city coun-
ell n resolution was passed authorizing
the water board to make contract
with the Great Northern Power com
pany 10 furnish electricity for operat-
ing the pumping station. Under the
proposed contract the maximum price
for pumping 100000 gallons is $3.50.
Last year 1t cost the city. $3.50 per
100000 gallons. withor: coGnting the
cost OF depreciation in the plant
Electrical World.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02
SWEET MELODY FLOUR.

There are many kidney remedle,
but few that accomplish the result
"Pineules" is a kidney remedy; that
contains no alcohol or opiates of any
kind. Complies with the National
Pure Food and Drugs Law. guaran.
teed to give satisfaction. Thirty
day treatment for $1.OO. Inquire
about "Pineules." Sold by Frans
G. Bland.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02
Pernieious ps-tiaan Activity.

Nothing is more certain than that
public ownership multiplics the posi-.
bllities of pernicious partisan activity.
Employees OF the postofTiec department
defeated Representative Loud of Call
fornia because Of some stand he tod;
In congress relative To their dcsfrcs.
This is an Indication Of what might
be expected under public ownership.
both in city and nation.
Strong men al the head of munich.
pal employees in street cars. parks,
paving, watcrworks and lighting serv-
Ice could swing any election they might
desire TO control. officials would be
paralyzed as 10 their duties TO the pub.
lie through the necessity of placating
or humoring these immense bodies of
municipal employees. Then we should
have the leaders of the aggregation
making bargains with heavy interests
for the delivery Of votes to desired
candidates or measures. Self interest.
more or less corrupt. would supcfsele
the disinterested patriotic motives arr
differences or opinion on which men
now divide in local and general cleo
hons.-Terre Haute Star
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02

In using a cough syrup, why not
get the best? One that comes highly
recommended Is Bees Laxative
Cough Syrup, contains Honey and
Tar and is superior to other cough
syrups in many ways. Children al
ways like It because It contains no
opiates, is laxative and is guaran-
teed TO give satisfaction or your
money refunded. Try It. Sold by
Frank C. Bland.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02
SWEET MELODY FLOUR.

Coughs and colds contracted at
this season Of the year should have
immediate attention. Bees Laxative
Cough Syrup contains Honey and Tar
and is unequalled for hoarseness.
Group and coughs. Pleasant to take;
mothers endorse It: children ike to
take 1t. Contains no oplates. Moves
the bowels. Sold by F. G. Bland.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02

Upholsrering ana furniture repair.
ing cheaper than ever. E. E. Allen,
664 West Main street, c. r. odell's
old stand.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02

KoDoL for dyspepsia clears the
stomach and makes the breath as
sweet as a rose KODoL is sold by
druggists on a guarantee relief play
1t conforms strictly 10 the National
Pure Food and Drugs Law. Sold
by all druggists.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1907-04-02
SWEET MELODY FLOUR.

settees, vases, iron fences, wire
arches, in fact every thing. for the
cemetery Kept in stock. Wens'
Marble Yard.