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Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-29
SPARKS OF FIRECRACKER
CAUSE DEATH OF CHILD

READING, Pa, June 2S.-The first
fatality caused by firecrackers here was
recorded yesterday when Mamie, the
7-year-old daughter of William Fox,
was burned to DEATH
The child was playing with the or
dinary shooting cracker when sparks
ignited her dress and in a few minutes
she was ablaze from head to foot. She
died several hours later in hospital
Arrowhead Hot Springs
for obesity and all stomach troubles
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-09-27
The Power ii GOOD cooklna.

If the girls who desire faithful hus-
bands only knew it, the culinary art is
the surest road to domestic bliss.
Poor cooking has broken up many a
home and severed many marital
bond. No man who is fed upon indi-
gestible, ill-cooked, food can wear
pleasant smile or exercise that optim-
ism which is the strongest influence
for success. Nor can he do himself
justice in his daily task, be it physical
or mental.
Every girl should learn to cook. She
may we'd man who can provide her
with servants, so that she never need
put finger to feather buster. let
alone frying pay, but her table will
never be as well served If she leaves
everything to them as 1t will be If
she can detect the cause of poor cook
ing and teach her servants to remedy
it.
The poor mans wife can effect
great economies by knowing food val
ues and the best way to convert them
into the human system. The rich
mans wife can win fame among her
friends by little study of the finer
points of cooking.
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COULDN'T PUT BLAME ON HIM
unraliabiIity Of the Doctors Cause Of
Tramp's Seeming Disregard
Of Truth.

Clement ]. Driscoll, New Yorks
commissioner of weights and meas
ures, advocates the sale Of bread
strictly by weight.
Some bakers oppose this idea, he
said the other day. They prove that 1t
IS better for the poor to trust to the
bakers generosity than to pin him
down, as grocers and butchers are pin
ned down now.
We'll, 1t seems to me that these
bakers are as illogical and absurd as
the beggar who wore a placard. say
ing, I have only six months to live
He was robust beggar, but the pla-
card touched all hearts, and through
its agency he must have made six or
seven dollars day.
- Philadelphia who had helped
the beggar literally In Philadelphia in
1906 came across the fellow, wear
ing the same placard, in Los Angeles
in 1909.
Why, you ought to be ashamed
of yourself the Philadelphia cried.
Only six months to live, forsoothi
You were saying that five years ago.
Well, growled the beggar, 1t
amt my fault, is it, If the doctors
make mistakes?,'
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NOT TO TRY FOR DAVIS CUP
No American Team Be Sent to Aus
tralia and Preparatory Matches
Are Called of.

No American team will be sent to
Australia this year to play the holders
of the Davis cup for the famous inter
national lawn tennis trophy. This an
nouncement was made in New York
the other day by R. d. Wrenn, vice
president of the American Lawn Ten
mis- association, who said that the de-
cision had just been reached, owing
to the inability of T. c. Bundy, the
California tennis star, to make the
trip to the Antipodes
1t had been planned to have Bundy
and M. e. Mclaughlin, another bril-
liant player and also Californian,
represent America in the contest with
the Australians for the Davis cup in
case America won the preliminaries
with the English challenging team
which were to be played here. Bundy,
however, telegraphed that he had
found that his business engagements
would not admit of his taking the trip
to Australia.
There being no possibility Of an
American team entering the lists to
play the Australians, the proposed pre-,
liminary matches with an English
team, which were to be played here to
decide whether England or America
should send the challenging team, also
were necessarily abandoned.
The British and Australian tennis
officials have been notified.
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INCUBATOR BEATS THE HEN
One Old BIddy Causes as Much Trou-
BILE as 220-Egg Observation-Disclosures
Her Own Way.

do not make practise of hatch
ang with hens, but once in while !
set one just to humor her, says
writer in the Poultry Monthly. The
last experience l had with hen that
wanted to set in the breeding pen. Not
wanting her there / removed her to
another place and I penned her up.
but she got out and gave her chase
for about an hour Finally I got her
fixed again, and after setting two days
found her running about the yards
with broken egg shells sticking to her
feathers, feet and legs. / examined
the nest and found three eggs broken.
washed the remaining ones and re-
newed the nesting material and got
time was running 220-egg incu-
bator, and 1t was not as much trouble
as this old hen. And when the hatch
came of the old hen had six chicks
and the incubator Ill. That's the diff
ference. My experience with hens as
hatchers has not always been like
this, however. Neither has it been
like this with incubators at all times.
But good incubator will beat the
hen, even if the hen is good one.
Yet it frequently happens that it is
more convenient to use hens for hatch
ing and brooding than to use artificial
means. But as rule give me. hens
for eggs and incubators for Matching
them.
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LABOR SAVED BY SEPARATOR
Fewer Utensils Are Necessary and
Skim MIX May Be Fed to Farm
Animals at Once.

Because 1t saves all waste of butter
fat. What is the use of feeding cows
good corn, hay and other stuff that
costs money and then allowing the
product to go to waste?
Less work is necessary to handle
milk with the separator than without
because there are fewer utensils to be
used and the skim milk may be fed to
the pigs and calves and chickens at
once and does not have to be handled
again.
Forty or fifty dollars will buy good
separator, big enough for herd Of
four or five COWS and it will save its
cost the first year. If properly cared
for separator Is good for ten years.
The cream from separator will
bring more money because it is uni
form in richness and is sweeter be-
cause as it is separated while the milk
is warm and fresh 1t does not absorb
odors as it would if left standing
around
The separator saves hauling milk
to the creamery and then hauling the
skim milk back to the farm Then
skim milk hauled any considerable
distance becomes cold and sometimes
dirty and tainted and not fit to feed.
If farmer has ten or more cows
he will require larger separator
one that will handle say $50 pounds
of milk In about is minutes and he
then should have a small gasoline en-
CINE to do the work II Is Ol1fckAr
and cheaper than hand power.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-09-27

Standing on the banks of the River
Awberg. between Mallow and Fermoy,
County Cork, Ireland, is remarkable
edifice. known as Johnny Roche's
Tower" The whole tower was built
by the labor OF one man, who subse-
quently resided in--it. This indiyid-
ual. who received no education what
ever. also erected mill. constructing
the water wheel after special design
of his own. Long before the introduc-
ton of the bicycle he went about the
country on wheeled vehicle Of his
own construction. propelled by foot
power. His last feat was to build
his tomb in the middle of the river
bed. John Roche died about 20 years
ago. but was not Inferred In this
strange burying place which he select
ed for himself. his less original rela-
tives deeming such a mode OF sepul-
ther unchristian.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-09-27
NO HEALTHY SKIN LEFT

My little son, boy Of five, broke
out with an itching rash. Three doc.
tors prescribed for him, but he kept
getting worse until we could not dress
him any more. They finally advised
me to try a certain medical college,
but its treatment did no good. AT
the time was induced to try Cuti-
cura he was SO bad that had to cut
his hair off and put the Cuticura ONT
ment on him on bandages, as it was
Impossible to touch him with the bare
hand. There was not one square inch
of skin on his whole body that was
not affected. He was one mass of
sores. The bandages used to stick to
his skin and in removing them 1t used
to take the skin OF with them, and
the screams from the poor child were
heartbreaking. l began to think that
he would never get well. but after the
second application of Cuticura ONT
ment began to see signs of improve
ment, and with the third and fourth
applications the sores commenced to
dry up. His Skin peeled off twenty
times, but it finally yielded to the
treatment Now I can say that he is
entirely cured. and stronger and
healthier boy you never saw than he
is to-day, twelve years or more since
the cure was effected. Robert Wattam,
114S Forty-eighth St, Chicago, ILL.,,
Oct. 3, 1909"
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USELESS STONES FOR WALKS /
Saves Lots Of Muddy Walking and
Rids Farm Of Many unslghtIy
Rocks EASY to Build.
tBy JOHN W. ANpREws.l

-N
We made walk recently entirely
out of rough stones. These rocks weSs
gathered out Of the field where they
were in the way, and thus two pur-
poses were served By their utiliza-
ton.
The method of building was as
simple as the material used A trench
was dug along each side Of the walk
and stones put into it so that they
projected about an inch above the
surface Of the ground
The earth was packed back around
them to keep them firm. Then the
space between was covered with
smaller stones, the middle of the walk
being made higher. very little. than
the edges.
These stones were beaten down with
a sledge SO that one could walk over
them without too much injury to shoe
leather, and the whole then covered
with sawdust and cinders.
This fills up the crevices, holds the
rocks steady until they settle into
place and makes the walk smooth
and even.
There 10 almost always a need for
more walks on farm. Sometimes
this is very pressing need A few
hours work may save wonderful;
amount of mud wading.
Material for walks is not hard to
find. Beside the standard brick ana
concrete there are shells, rough stones
nf al p iud dc Al Ia
cinders, sawdust and tanbark.
All these make good walks, al
though the latter ones require fire.
quent renewing.
Neither is construction hard job
The main essentials are good side
lines that will not be torn loose or
heaved out and that are straight and
smooth, and some provision for drain
age.
The center of walk should be
made higher in practically all cases;
and where water is likely to stand on
one side means should be provided to
carry it on.
In the matter Of design, curves are
recommended by the landscape gar
deners; but these curves should never
be abrupt and never without an ap-
parent reason.
In a barnyard and other places
where walk could not be very well
kept up; stepping stones, well placed,
will answer the purpose, and not only
save lots Of muddy walking but also
help to get rid of any useless rocks
you may have scattered about in the
way.
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HOW PLANK GOT HIS START
Simply Closed His Eyes and Cut Loose
Afterwards Studied the Game
and Pitchers.
BY EDWARD S. PLANK.

They all say got my start the day
OF the battle of Gettysburg, but they
exaggerate somewhat l was born in
Gettysburg in 1875, and that gave the
boys a chance to say things. | adj
NIT the 1875 without trying to get
away and scalp half dozen years off
my age as some of them do.
At any rate think / am rather a
freak as a baseball player because
seldom have heard of any case any
thing like my own
As told you I was born in Gettys-
burg and played some baseball
around there in an amateur way. and
without giving the game much
thought.
| started to college about the time
most Of the other fellows are get
ti1g enough. was twenty-five when
was began pitching for the Gettys-
burg college team, and was big and
strong and fast and wild and inexpe-
rienced and everything else that goes
to make up college pitcher. / sim
ply shut my eyes and cut loose and
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POULTRY NOTES.

without doubt corn is more com
monty fed to poultry in this country
than any other grain.
Green sprouted oats have been very
widely exploited in recent years as a
green food for poultry.
The Bronze turkey is the most popu
lar with farmers in America They are
quite hardy and lay large number
of eggs.
The Toulouse geese are one of the
very best breeds for the farm. They
grow to great size and as a rAe are
splendid layers.
There are three important factors
to be considered when the object is
the production of eggs; the stock. tho
feed and the housing.
II we are fortunate enough to have
good egg-laying strain 1t follows, that
we must feed properly in order to gel
the best results.
Some poultrymen feed their fowls
almost entirely on corn with appar-
emily no evil results. 1t is heating
and fattening food and is, therefore
excellent for winter feeding
It would be impossible to tell the ex-
act amount Of feed necessary for the
fowls each day. One must be gov.
erned by the eagerness with which
they come for their meals.
The most common method OF feed.
ing throughout the poultry world to.
day is to give wet mash of some sort
to the fowls once day: whole grain
being fed In the morning and even
ing.
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PROPOSE ON KNEES
ALSO KISS YOUR LADY LOVES
HAND.
Fashion In Vogue in the Early Vie
torian Period Is Revived in Eng
land After Lapse Of
20 Years.

Young men intending to propose
should do so on their knees--if they
wish to follow fashions dictates.
They should also, when meeting
women in the drawing room, lightly
kiss their hands and perform other
courtesies Of the early Victorian pc.
riod. Such is the new style of man.
ners which are becoming fashionable
again in England, or at least in Lon.
don society, after lapse of go or
70 years.
One of the most beautiful women
in London, and well known in the
social world, has just confessed that
her fance proposed to her on his
knees.
The act was SO gracefully done
that could not refuse him. she told
friend.
Other girl friends of mine have
told me Of similar experiences What
can possibly have Influenced the young
man OF the present day to act in such
a manner? Brusque, unconventional,
almost rude manners have hitherto
distinguished him. These gentle
courtesies and old-fashioned graces
make woman's life doubly happy. /
hope every man will follow the ex.
ample of my fiance and otherwise i'm
prove his manners"
A well-known expert on dramatic
art said she certainly agreed that
the manners of men were inn
proving.
1t must be admitted" she contin.
ued. that there is room for improve
ment. For several years past the
attitude of young men toward women
has been almost disrespectful Only
a few days ago had pleasant sur.
prise. A young man meeting me grace.
fully kissed my hand. He did it in
a quiet, transformations way, as nicely
as If he had been a gallant of a cen
fury ago.
Il have noticed similar signs of i'm.
provement among other young men,
in what one might call School for Scan
dali manners. In that play the gal.
lantry of the men toward the women
lis an object lesson to ALL A man vino
proposes on his knees--a form of pro
posal which is stated to be reviving
is doing the natural thing. He is ask
ing a great favor Of the lady-a favor
SO great that unconsciously takes the
form Of prayer.
Il have often heard it remarked
that stage proposals where man
falls on his knees before the WON
an he loves-are not true to life. But
more men propose on their knees now
adays than people dream of The
casual offhand proposals. which are
stated to be common, are dying out
And Londoners so badly need re
turn of fine manners! 1t is not mere.
ly the fault of the men. Women, by
competing with men and standing up
for their rights are liable to lose
their privileges and sanctity as
women"
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Wood Ashes and Manure.

Prof. e. B. Hart, of the University
Of Wisconsin, says farmers need to be
cautioned generally against the use OF
wood ashes and lime with manure.
The ashes and lime produce an aka
line condition. resulting in the loss OF
the ammonia which carries on the
nitrogen. This point has not been suf-
ficiently emphasized, and many we'll
meaning farmers have used ashes and
lime with manure to disadvantage.
The lime and ashes If needed by the
soil should be put on In other years
than those in which farm manure is
applied.
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most of those who didn't strike out
got bases on balls, and l have suspect
ed since that lot of them struck out
just to escape from standing up there
at the bat
Seriously think the real reason for
my start was that I was older, strong
er and better developed than the av-
erage college man. That made me
stand out among them and it attract
ed the attention of professional clubs.
had not thought of baseball as a
profession at all until offered a job,
and / joined the Athletics in May,
1901, after school closed, knowing
bali as 1 know about who will make
a three base hit in the morning game
next Decoration day. Suddenly saw
that there was more to it than
throwing as hard as possible and
curving them. | saw would
have to do some thinking and l began
to study the game. Queerly enough
went wrong right away was
guessing wrong, but luckily for me I
had enough speed and shoots to hang
on by sheer power until I learned
more. worked and studied hard at
the game, watched the other pitchers,
picked up their tricks and began to
pitch with much less exertion and
strain and still get results. If had
gone on the way / started would
have been out of it in two seasons.
and I'm still here. On the other hand,
if had known as much when start
ed about pitching. I'd be here long
time
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PICK APPLES FOR STORAGE
Fruit Not Too Ripe and Yet Not Too
0reen--Hard Problem to Hit
Proper Time.
(Bv R. B. RusHrNG.l

81.
There are two things to be avoided
In picking apples for cold storage:
first, fruit must not be fully matured:
second. the fruit should not be too
green.
When fruit is allowed to fully ma
ture on the trees the very best and
most perfect cold storage in the coun-
try will not carry it for any consider
able length of time without heavy
shrinkage
On the other hand, when you pick
the fruit too green, while it will likely
carry well, 1t will lack size, color and
flavor; and experienced apple dealers
will want from SO cents to 81 discount
per barrel according to the market
Just when to pick fruit so that it
will not be too ripe and SO it will not
be too green. is sometimes a hard
problem.
Where man has large orchard
and only small force to do his work,
he will have to commence earlier, and
possibly the first fruit he picks will
be too green, and the last fruit he
picks will be too ripe.
He must SO plan his work that the
bulk Of his fruit will be picked about
the proper time.
The heaviest shrinkage ever sus-
tanned in cold storage, except on wind
falls and apples picked off of the
ground, was on fruit that seemed to
be perfect when it came in, beautiful
and highly colored, large and smooth;
yet inside of month or two / no.
ticed that these barrels were slack.
Inside of 315 months the shrinkage
was such that they had to be re-
packed. In four or five months the
shrinkage was very great
1t could not have been the fault Of
the storage, for there were others
right beside it, in the same room, the
same temperature, the same humid
ity, and the same care. and practically
no shrinkage at all.
What was the cause of this fruit not
keeping? Nothing more or less than
because the apples had been allowed
to fully mature on the trees.
The. best and surest way to handle
- uAS AuAAy udJuISu IN 10 put IL Oh the
market at once.
Most any man with medium-sized
orchard can pick and pack the greater
portion of his fruit without it being
fully ripe; but in case he cannot, he
would better have it little green
than too ripe.
Green fruit will gradually mellow
in cold storage, and such varieties as
Huntsman and Grimes Golden will
gradually change from green in color
to yellowish tinge very much like
the natural color of the fruit when
ripe. Ben Davis and Winesap and
some other sorts. however, will not
change much, if any.
1t therefore is very desirable that
the red apples be allowed to mature
as much as possible without getting
too ripe in order to get the proper
color.
Good nice apples always sell for
much greater prices later in the sea.
son and therefore it is profitable to
have them placed in cold storage in
the proper condition so as to keep
well.
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AFRICAN Looic.

Dusky Driver clustering ladies IRON
steamer) Yes, marm-dis way, marin;
ca'iage to de hotel
First Lady (hesitating at step)-
And what will you charge?
d. Done dollar, marin.
Second Lady-Half dollar apiece,
when the hotel is barely block away?
Why, we'd just as lief
D. d. (interrupting) Would you
jest as lief go in de hotel bus? Dey
charges quarter.
Ladies lin chorus) as lief.
D. D. with fiourish) Den step
right into de ca'ige, marin, an I'll take
yu fer de same as de bus-dey is some
folks prefers de caige and | has to-
charge accordin'! Virginia Vintage.
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NOTED PLAYER HAS RETIRED
Frank Bowerman, One of Most Ec-
centric Figures in Baseball,
Drops Out of Game.

With the retirement of Catcher
Frank Bowerman, baseball loses one
of its most eccentric characters.
Bowerman has been playing in the
bigger leagues longer than many of
the other players in the same COM
pany today have been living. He
made his debut years and years ago.
and has played in fast company con-
tinuously since. His best work was
done for the New York Giants. with
whom he played when they were at
the pinnacle of their fame. Bower
man has always been a lively,
scrappy player, up to his neck In the
struggle all the way. He left the
Giants and took whirl at the mana
gerial end of the game in Boston, but
his Beaneaters. after making glori-
Dus start, fell by the wayside when
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Care In Handling Wax.

There Is probably no product Of the
apiary that shows a greater percent
tage of loss than in the wax that is
lost by imperfect methods of extract
ing it from the comb. Wax brings a
good price at all times, requires no
particular care to keep if desired to
hold for any season, can be shipped
at any time and in any manner with
out danger of injury in transit, so
that every ounce that can be saved
means just so much saved to show on
the right side of the account for the
year,
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RaIl PLAYERS scarce.

TITS queer thing said President
Navin of the Detroit club, that out of
the S0,0O0,0OO people of the United
States and the 100000 Of Canada,
that there are less than 200 flrst-class
ball players. Probably there are actu-
ally more capable of playing in the big
leagues. but discovering them is what
keeps lot of scouts and pocketbooks
busy"
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1910-09-27

A correspondent from Lima, Pa.
wants to know how to exterminate or
drive away moles that are devastating
the lawns and gardens. They may be
captured in their burrows in the even
ing by shovel and spade, or by the
use Of traps, The Pennsylvania Agri-
cultural Department has bulletin
(No. 3l) on moles that is worth hay-
ing. It will be sent free oy address,
ing the department at State College.
Pa