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SnatIS and SIuHS.

A woman gardener wrote to State
Zoologist H. A. Surface at Harrisburg,
Pa, asking for instructions how to
overcome the snails in her garden.
Prof. Surface replied: 'Snails and
slugs, although very great and seri
Gus garden pests, especially where the
gardens are damp and the vegetation
rank, can be prevented by the use OF
an impossible barrier of poWdery sub
stance around the beds of plants tc
be protected. SCOT is excellent fol
this, although dry ashes will serve
the purpose, and air-slaked lime will
be found very good. Also, you can kill
them by busting them with some
freshly slaked lime mixed with paris
green, using about thirty parts Of the
lime to one part of the paris green
which is busted abundantly over thell
bodies. Also busting their food plants
with flour and paris green will de
stroy them. Another method is to poi
son some leaves of plants of which
they are particularly fond, and put
this where the snails will find and eat
them and be destroyed. Another meth
cd is to place boards loosely on the
ground, as traps, and in the morning
examine them and pick out and gath
err the snails and brush them into 8
vessel containing salt, which will kill
them. If the ground is dry and crack
ed pour salt water into the cracks
and thus destroy them. The barriers
mentioned above should be kept dry.
or renewed every time after rain
Keep the vegetation around the gar.
den moved low, or keep the ground
cultivated, so that these pests VIII
not find suitable places where they car
multiply"
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SERMONETTES.

Most people slip up on their own
smoothnesS.
The greatest sorrows are the ones
we never reach.
Many man would be like Job If it
did not cost so much.
Big plans for tomorrow are the
stuff that sloth fattens ON.
Many a preacher smothers the truth
In his attempts to protect it.
We would all live in FOOLS para
disc but for LIES bitter blows.
Most men like to let their light
shine when they get new car.
Good advice is seldom taken save
as it is given in practical doses.
The people who are going nowhere
are always in a rush to get there.
It's an awful thing to be green, but
it's good deal worse to be born dried
up.
The religion that has to be warmed
up once a week soon becomes tough
proposition.
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well as the other less important ingre-
olents. When the original trees out
OF which were formed the coal beds
were reduced to coal the mineral ele-
ments remained in them, and conse-
Quently those same elements go with
the ashes. One authority says that
the reason why people have formed an
IDEA that coal ashes contain no fertil.
lty is that the trees now grown have
IN them less carbon than those in the
OLD days and thus the percentage of
other elements to carbon Is probably
greater now than then, which gives a
larger value to our wood ashes but
does not annihilate the value in the
coal ashes. Ashes can be used to ad
vantage without sitting, but large
quantities Of half-burned coal are by
some considered a detriment to the
soil.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-11-26

discipline. When they enter the
gates of glory the Lord is represented
as wiping away tears from their eyes.
But, weeping ones, be comforted! Your
Lords special mission to earth-the
great errand He came from heaven to
fulfill was ito bind up the broken
hearted" Your trials are melted out
by tender hand. He knows you too
w3ll-He loves you too well-to make
this world fearless and sorrowless!
There must be rain and hail, and
storm" says Rutherford, lin the
saints cloud" We're your earthly
course strewed with flowers, and moth
ing but sunbeams played around your
dwelling, it would lead you to forget
your nomadic life-that you are but a
sojourner here. The tent must at
times be struck, pin by pin of the
movable tabernacle taken down, to
enable you to say, and to feel in the
spirit Of a pilgrim, II desire better
country" Meantime, while sorrow is
your portion, think Of Him who says,
not say so-they cannot sympathize
with you, for trial is strange word
to them. But there Is mightier
than they who can. All He sends you
and appoints you is in love. There is
a provision and condition wrapt up
in the bosom of every affection, III
need be-" coming from His hand, sor
rows and riches are to His people
convertible terms. If tempted to muir
muir at their trials, they are often
murmuring at disguised mercies.
why do you ask me-" said Simeon,
on his deathbed, what like? am the
Lords patient cannot but like ev
erything."
And then-"your sorrow shall be
turned into JOY" THE morning COM
eth"-that bright morning when the
dewdrops collected during earth'a
night of weeping shall sparkle In its
beams; when in one blessed moment
lifelong experience Of trial will be
effaced and forgotten, or remembered
only by contrast, to enhance the full
ness of the joys Of Immortality. What
revelation Of gladness! The map
of time disclosed, and every little rill
of sorrow, every river will be seen to
have been flowing heavenward-every
rough blast to have been sending the
bark nearer the haven! In that Joy
God Himself will participate. In the
last words of Jesus" to His people
when they are standing by the tri-
umphal archway of glory, ready to
enter on their thrones and crowns, He
speaks of their JOY as II 1t were all
His own. Enter We into the joy Of
your Lord"
Reader! may this Joy be yours! Sit
loose to the worlds joys. Have feel
ing Of chastened gratitude and thank
fulness when you have them; but be-
ware of resting in them, or investing
them with permanency they cannot
have Jesus had His eyes turned upon
heaven when He added: Your JOY no
man taketh from you. Rev. J. R.
MacDuff, D. D.
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"Lest We Forget"

"Yes," Mrs. Marshall said, with a
sigh, returning from the kitchen,
where a pretty mulatto girl went about
her work as if her mere presence there
were a condescension, ELIZA is by no
means trustworthy even always
courteous She can do good work when
she tries, but-I'm afraid she doesn't
often try. AS they used to say on the
plantation, she's 'trifing,
81 simply wouldn't keep her." Wis
iting cousin declared. 1.-The daily
wear and tear on your patience-why,
she isn't worth it,"
well, don't know" Mrs. Marshall
returned, taking UP her sewing again,
maybe she isn't And yeti seems
to me we owe those people patience;
we owe them so much, we Southerners.
/ never can forget those four years of
love and loyalty to us women and chill
dren, when every man was at the front
and we were so completely dependent
on their care. Over and again they
deprived themselves of the barest ne
cessities- cold and hungry-that
we might not suffer. Why, if it hadn't
been for Eliza's grandmother" and
she told us the simple story, the eoun-
terpart of which is doubtless known in
hundreds of homes throughout the
South.
1t was during the closing months of
the war. The last half of the last loaf
of bread had been reached 1t was
not safe to stir beyond the immediate
dooryard. Foraging, indeed, would
have been to small purpose, as the
whole countryside had been laid waste.
Two little children, their delicate
mother and old black nanny" had
been living from day to day in the
forlorn hope that something would
happen" Otherwise that half-loaf of
bread with very small strip of bacon
were all that stood between them and
stark starvation.
Gray haired Nanny Chloe was over
heard praying in the empty pantry:
DE good Lawd hep dis nigga not
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tech dem vicruals!" the tears fOzE0sP
ing in quick succession down hag
cheeks, the bread and meat On this
shelf before her. ''Gawd CONS dowM
an quell de achin' empties I'm 0e9S
here insides an fill EN- wild do grace
O. de Lawd! Hep me wrastle wild tsE1p
tation forty days an forty nights
here a oonvulsive sob was stsHaa
apronwise-"ef need be, but GIN IDS
strengt' to cut dat bread an meat &sa-
out tastin' so much as crumb.~
The hushed voice frayed of fnSD s
sigh of real physical weakness las 8fsB
suppl1ant rose from her knees and Ra&a
her hand On the bread-knife prepare
tory to serving dinner. "-Y0uahis
Companion"
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No More Walking.

What the inventor says will be a
u..ot boon to small farmers, as the
s.rontton. It is claimed, will do the
~ort oP six horses, is in use in Cali
sorn,a but 1t can be adapted to any
Iocalty. It is a gasoline tractor and
:. help in blowing, narrowing and
borvesttng. 1t will keep running as
,onp as it is fed gasoline.
pniIt with a two cylinder motor,
Tho tractor has plenty of power. 1t
has two speeds, forward and reverse,
and is easily operated from an extern
chm seat from much the same posi-
,,on q driver would occupy with his
team
II Is particularly an orchard tractor,
having low, wide wheels, narrow
,road short wheel base and short turn
ing radius. A special feature is that
tba tractor may be driven from the
coat Of the ordinary wheel pillow or
harrow. enabling one man to drive and
onsrate the levers of this pillow and
mltIvator with perfect ease and con-
vaDIence. 1t is a one man machine,
Bght in weight, with all control levers
nDveniently arranged.
To obtain the greatest efficiency the
rront wheels are made the traction
wheels, also the steering wheels. In
the rear are smaller plain wheels,
close together, with fanges to hold
against side slipping, used simply as
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-11-26

trailers, to which the pillow, cultivator,
harrow or farm wagon Is hitched the
same as though coupled to the small
wheels used on the rear of the ordi-
nary tongue when blowing with a
team.
The power plant is built in stiff
steel frame, mounted rigidly to the
main axle, and is composed of a two
cylinder opposed engine Of standard
make. rated at twenty-four horse
power
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-11-26

Tbumps in pigs is caused by a sur
plus of fat and a lack of exercise. The
humping IS due to violent beating of
the heart, causing shaking movement
Of the sides and TANKS of the animal.
Often it is so violent that the whole
body trembles and shakes with the
movements In aggravated cases the
pig is weak and uncertain in his
walk and lies down most of the time.
Before death the nose, ears and other
parts Of the body become red and pur-
pie with COngested blood, due to weak
circulation.
Advanced cases of the thumps are
difficult to cure When first symptoms
are noticed reduce the bedding if there
much in their sleeping quarters;
reduce the feed and compel the pig
10 exercise in the open air. Fresh air
VIII purify the blood and exercise will
promote circulation. When pigs be-
come fat and lazy they will lie in bed
great part of the time, often COM
Ee'eIy covered with bedding, so that
.uV! breathe impure air and dust.
a1S poisOns the blood and reduces
Tue Vitality in general, which, with
suppression Of the heart with surplus
at causes the malady.
III the spring or summer when pas
'u'e IS good it is well to change pas
,u's OF hogs afflicted with the thumps
'Aat they will be induced to take
aUIe exercise and eat green food. Re
ole neayy feeding and keep the
''"e1S OF the animal loose by doses
" castor OIL A little turpentine in
lS STOP or drinking water is said to
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-11-26

taking in the amount of dirt post
would replace, and then withdrawn
bringing up the dirt just as a dredge1
would. Indeed, the implement works
much like dredging machine. The
advantage of auger is in the small
clean hole it makes Without it post
hole must be dug with a spade and the
smallest spade not only makes hole
too big, but one that necessarily slants
from the rim to the bottom and must
be filled again. 1t is easy to under
stand that a post will stand much
more firmly in a hole that does not
have to be filled in.
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HYMNS AND THEIR AUTHORS
MY FAITH LOOKS UP TO THEE
By Ray Palmer.

Tray Palmer (Little Compton, r.
Nov. IL, 1808-Newark, N. T., March 29
1897) was we'll known as a Congrega
tional pastor and as the secretary Of the
Congregational Union. He wrote this pop
ular hymn when he was but 81 years old
He says that it was the expression of hi
own feelings at a time of great trouble
One year later Lowell Mason set it t.
the tune, "Olivet," with which it has eve
since been welded. 1t has been trans
lated into almost every dialect and tongue
Almost all church people know it by heart
and certainly all love it heartily.l
MY faith looks up to thee,
Thou Le.snb of Calvary,
Savior divine!
Now hear me while 1 pray,
Take all my guilt away;
0 let me from this day
Be wholly thine.
May thy rich grace impart
Strength to my fainting heart;
My zeal inspire;
AS thou hast died for me,
O may my love to thee
Pure, warm, and changeless be,
A living fire!
nile IKE OZARK maze lredu,
And griefs around me spread,
Be thou my guide;
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wipe sorrows tears away,
Nor let me ever stray
From thee aside.
When ends lifes transient dream,
When deaths cold, sullen stream
Shall Ger me roll,
Blest Savior, then, in love,
Fear and distress remove;
0 bear me safe above,
A ransomed soul.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-11-26
oil from Potatoes.

The United States Department. OF
Agriculture is conducting experiments
in the manufacture of oil from pota
toes nv the introduction of four varie
ties of coarse, heavy, starch-producine
notatoes from Moscow, Russia. These
are sorts adapted to the steppe region
of Russia and are believed to be prom
icing for our great plains. 1t is hoped
that these potatoes will demonstrate
whether it will be profitable for oul
farmers TO grow special alcohol crop
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-11-26

In February, 1852, General Boyae1s
Brigade was ordered from Columbia
KY, to Mill Springs, to take part dR
what is now known in history rs saaR
ZOllicoffer battle In promnaga9dDg
this order General Boyle was caTefR
to instruct regimental commanders
that no foraging upon the cxtSEgnS
along the route would be tolerated This
regiment to which 1 belonged had Usae
of those fellows who always find SEGaH
way to evade orders, and get what tho
country affords for their own use This
fellow was a member of Company e.
Nineteenth Ohio Volunteers, and was
known all through the regiment EaS
Buckskin How he acquired this c1g
nOmen | am unable to tell, but gge
sumo in some way that was no cTEaliE.
to him. On the morning of the march
Buck came to me and wanted AZ
mule for the day, telling me tlaf he
had a lame leg and was unRhlS axs
march, but was anxious to participate
in the expected battle, and dad xsot
want to be left behind. Unfortunately
for "Buck"-as the sequel win SHOW
l had an old mule that was mot i'm
use, and l told him that so brave GTkr2
patriotic a soldier as he seemed TO he.
could have the use Of that mule, ana
thereby get chance to be shot. @BxEe&
improvised a saddle and brfd}e, Mn8
mounted the old relic and startedEEOS
with the regiment but with the waExrn
train-but was hardly clear OF 4sae
town until he started across the cHrEn-
try on his own hook. Buck Was very
successful that day and had captngRW
some half dozen chickens and tHrkagss
and headed toward the camp where 1TH
Judged the troops would halt for Sire
night. But it grew dark long befoToa
old Buck could get any definfte dm-
formation as to the whereabouts OF Tlte
troops. He had gone beyond the cai1sEs
ing ground, and as he now found ftEaT.
no troops had passed the point yyfEgsa
he struck the main road, he stRs-esa
back to meet the troops, and, seeIng
bright fire In the middle OF the rsssG5~
did not like the looks of things, so tied
his mule by the wayside and proceR6es3
to investigate on foot, getting caxsRs
enough to discover that the OEstrnn-
ton was picket post and coEnpoaea
of men from the Nineteenth 0t1an-
Buck" went back, mounted his mule
and, putting spurs to the same 1aa
came tearing down the road, shouting,
"The rebs are coming!-the res1s eye
coming!" At every jump the chickens
squalled and Topped, the turkeys Ssxto-
bled-all together making such aR arn-
couth racket that the picket fed, ans-
lowed by old Buck" who drove tssgu
into camp and caused the long rBl
to be beaten, getting the entire brigade
under arms Buck" got to quarters
with his provender, but on quiet being
restored and the matter being EngesaS-
gated, he was doomed to wear baM
and chain for twenty days, doing ssal
ira duty the while. Thus ended pIm-
first big scare and first call to aFHns aIs
the long roll-Chicago Ledger.
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A Terrible Scene.

In reading these war memories nlg-
mind goes back over those SCENES N'f
danger and death, and fastens aaEssEs
one, the most solemn and awfa2 80
me, that came under my observation
during those trying times Tisnaar
spring of 1864; place, camps near Dad
ton, Ga Fourteen stakes sSfanfRa
firmly in the ground, fourteen mem
tied to those stakes, fourteen willga
white handkerchief tied over earh
mans face; the provost guard drawn
up in front of the victims, and Fwen-
ty thousand soldiers massed in 1f2S
valley to witness the execution ses
the guard make ready, the command
ant lowers a handkerchief rattle ct
musketry. l see some of the victims
shrink, while others stand bolt up
right see the dirt fly up in thu ExsaT-
of the condemned men, and 4 kDDW
some Of the guard have missed puY-
posely; the doctors pass along the Time
of the condemned and feel OF Ef1asaT-
pulse. The rear rank of the guard al
vance to within a few feet OF the VIC
TINS, single out certain individuals.
make ready and fire. No missing this
time; the heads Of the remaining vic
tins fall forward, the CHASTITY scene
is over. I wondered then, | wonder
now, If such a sacrifice was necessary
We start back to camp, our heads
bowed down by the awful scene We
had just witnessed. No one spoke fox
some time, when a fellow by the zaTTF
of Dave Defriese says: Boys, III bet
we have to git out here in less than
three days. "Why?" some orre asked
Because leaders that win have mszR
treated that way win never prosper"
Sure enough, it was not very mary
days before Sherman ffanked Ers Uuf.
OF that position and we comEuencB9
falling back toward Atlanta HsaE
slightly acquainted with three Of those
men who were executed that day
They appeared to be passably good
men. The charge against all foasrteeu.
was desertion.
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cn..L-Rein ON Horses.

when a horse stumbles he is faI
,.ss like,v to go down when his heae
= left free. In England. where they
80 for ahead of us in everything per
tanning to horses, the check-rein mas
Noon abolished, the last surrender be
to that of the artillery and commits
Fiat trains of the British army, ths
go having been made by Sil
George Bourgoyne, the late comman
der.in-chief, and he testifes to the Den
of,o;al results attending 1t.
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The Bees Sense of Direction.

-. french beekeeper made a test
n, -''D satisfied him that the sense of
~ r,.sSuon is more finely developed in
zee than in the pigeon. He took
.ss we" pigeons and a dozen bees about
sSa' miles from his garden and there
1. ''@Seo them. To recognize the bees
h;, USED them with -four, and had a
h ,.0 stationed near the hive and well
-. S" Oh the dovecote. The first bee
bs. he'd nome exactly fifteen seconds
O,,. ,7 'ne first pigeon, and their COM
-.OAS followed in due order.
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value of Coal Ashes.

m.a we're IS more value in coal ashes
b. y generally realized by the
,I.r T' For the amelioration of heavy
III. 'aaa they are exceptionally valu-
,sbs MS IS particularly so with the
,aI, NJ u soft coal. as such usually are
C C almost to dust.
nj. @shes have a fertilizer value.
hail. ~ oplhlon. however, is not held gen.
ma. The coal beds contain phos-
u.s. potash, nitrogen and lime, as
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by a Michigan man. This
implement digs a narrow.
fence or other post hole and
digs it quickly. In appear
ance the auger resembles a
clean hole, just the right
diameter for a huge auger
of the ordinary carpen-
ter's kit. 1t is pressed
down into the earth, the laws
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FOR CUTTING FoRAG tened to the stand
ard at with a piece of strap iron
Another piece of strap iron, c, acts
as a guard and keeps the ak close tt
+be edge of the box.-Farm and Home
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which most farm
ers have. Put E
h a n dl e in, a s
shown, and build 6
frame of 2x2-incl
hard wood and inch
boards. The end Of
the handle is fas
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Homemade Feed Cutter.

Here is a feed cutter which anyone
can make from little cheap lumber
The knife, a, is a common broad ak:
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Newest Postho1e ANGER.

An invention that will be found use
ful by fence-makers and farmers gen
orally, is the post-hole anger designed
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-11-26

Mercury ranks next to silver ana
copper in conductivity of electrIci1Er
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THE JOYFUL ThANSFUHMAT1ON
Christ's people are a sorrowing peo-
pie! Chastisement is their badge
great tribulation" is their appointed
New-York tribune., 1909-04-28
WHAT rs GOING ON TO-DAY.

tsa admission TO Metropolitan Museum Of Art the
American Museum Of Natural History and the
geological Garden
chaneI Of the Collegiate Church. Fifth avenue and
4sth street II a. m
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a ,neetinx OF the Army Relief Association. homo OF
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.seang of the Board Of Education, Park avenue and
59th street, p m
>-v York Curchmen's Conference. diocesan HOUSE. NO
416 Lafayette street. p m
,,ner for Mr. end Oscar Straus by citizens OF
New YORK, Hotel Astor, evening
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snd p West 44th street. evening
r,nner OF the Unitarian Club. Hotel Manhattan p m
Ttr,er of the Unanimous Club. Hotel Manhattan, p m
graduating exercises the Training School for Nurses
~ ST Marks Hospital No III Second avenue.
tan exercises of the Bellevue Training School FOR
Nurses Cornell Medical college F4fsI avenue anu
2Sfh street s4I fbs p Hoard Of Education D
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.rta Tbird Avenue and sth street. New York the
worlds Metropolis John Dc Wit warner F99ilc 9
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Hall No 205 East 42d street, HoIne-A Rev view, W,
Arthur S. Rigs: Sunshine Chapel No 5So Wes1 ] 4Uta
Nens Christian Association Hal, No West i IZSIh
street 'R6ntgen Rays ChaTIes ,Jsr, a9d HIraat
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INSTITUTE paisst,ne Albert A Brockwsyi Public
school "a Kappock street spuyter r,tIT c,ooi ~
Sans Farm ChaFieS az wills avenue American Ideals
Tn5ay" Professor Holland Thompson