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Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Floor Plan.

D.
IL inches below the top of the wall;
also alta distance of about five feet
on each side of this stovepipe-hole
there should be six-inch tile set in
the partition wall, with the end of
the tile on the fire side about six
inches below the top of the wall.
This tile should slope upward SO
that on the opposite side of the parti-
ton it's mouth will be even with the
top Of the wall.
In the east end of the fire-box oppo-
site the stovepipe hole, set six inch
tile in the bottom of the end wall,
level with the bottom of the stove,
letting it extend through to the oppo-
site edge of the wall, where it will
connect with another six-inch tile
standing upright just outside the
wall.
This will furnish current of cold
air into the fire box, which will aid in
driving the hot air underneath the
floor of the storage-house.
Fill the 20x28 area with dirt to
within three inches of the top of the
wall pounding it down with a maui
during the process of filling.
Dig trench lengthwise through the
center from the stoyepipe-hole to the
west end of the area, and lay line
of eight-inch tile SO that the top will
be three inches below the level of the
top Of the WALL
Connect the west end of this eight
inch tile with a brick fiue built up
inside the wall and extending about
two or three feet above the roof.
Cover the beaten dirt in the 20x28
area with gravel or fine broken
stones to depth of two inches when
well beaten down. Then cover the
entire surface with cement even with
the top of the wall, leaving open the
mouths of the tiles on either side Of
the stovepipe. Now this makes a
rat-proof foundation that will never
be troubled with dampness or freez-
ing.
For the framing of this building use
good 2x4 stuff. placing one stringer
around the top of the wall even with
its outside edge and another stringer
even with it's inside edge.
Place a'series of 2x4 studs, eight
feet nine inches long, in an upright
position on each sill, and toenail
them to the sills Before placing the
studding, locate the door three feet
wide in the clear, and the windows
about two feet wide and six feet high.
There should be four windows on
eacA side; two In the west and one
the east end The door should be
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Food for Hens.

Fowls should eat about twice as
much whole grain as mash. The pro
portion may be regulated between
ground feed and grain by giving a
light feeding of grain in the morning
and about as much as the fowls will
consume in the afternoon; that is, be-
fore dark. 1t was found advisable
in the case of heavy laying pullets
and fowls to restrict both morning
and evening feeding SO as to induce
liberal consumption of dry mash.
This was especially true in the case Of
hens. 1t was also found advisable to
supplement the above rations with
green feed such as sprouted oats
cabbage, green clover, beets and other
succulent feeds, except where the
fowls were running on grass range.
At all times grit, cracked oyster
shells, granulated bone and charcoal
were accessibleFto the fowls.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
MAIN CITY OF CEYLoN
COLOMBO ALWAYS INTERESTING
TO THE TRAVELLER.
Its Origin Goes Back Beyond the
Pages of History and Has Record
In Writings Of the Earliest
Geographsr.

Colombo, Ceylon.--Apart from its
Importance as the chief city OF Cey-
lon, Colombo, in consequence of its se-
lection as port of call on the Aus
tralian route, has special signiti-
canoe. To so many. English eyes it is
the first glimpse of tropical luxuri-
ance, and, however much a man may
afterward explore Equatorial regions,
1t still remains in his recollection as
essentially typical of the Tropics.
One day early in November had
my first view of Colombo, and beheid
the low promontory which Ptolemy
the geographer marked on his map in
the second century A. D. as "Jovis Ex-
tremum" / thought on this, by first
day in Colombo, as ! stood in the
streets-streets as busy as Cheapside
at one o'clock-that it might well be
called "The City Of the Silent Feet,
for the fact that nearly everyone goes
barefoot lessons enormously the
amount of noise The heat and the
extreme humidity at first press hard
upon the stranger, and battling en-
VCAOpO VI ASiS0ALuQO oCClAOO y1AAeo
the while to clog and hamper every
movement of body or of limb.
Two-wheeled bullock-carts innumer-
able passed along at a leisurely pace,
many of them loaded with tea-chests
and some with plantains or other
fruit. The bullocks were little crea-
lures for the most part, sometimes
black and sometimes fawn or red
dish brown, and the wooden yokes
that lay across their necks were
heavily fashioned. A thatch of palm
leaves protected the goods from rain
and sun. In the main thoroughfares
tramways echoed the modernity OF
shops and office buildings, but the old
order jostled with the new. A herd of
water buffaloes ohstructed the tram
lines; on the steps of the pretentious
general postofI1ce native letter-writers,
under wide umbrellag, scrubbed mis-
sives for their clients, and at every
street corner squatteds the sellers Of
betel, generally women.
OF the wonderful Dag0bas remain
ing at Anuradhapura space will per
NIT no description not "a the Thu
parama, the most beautifu1 where the
right collarbone Of Buddha was en-
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
etc wall and extending up

crete wall and extending up to
plate:
n order to have the sawdust dry,
4 is advisable to get it fresh from
|the mill and put it in shed where 1t
will not get wet and where you can
stir it SO that it will season well. l
find that the dryer the sawdust the
better the result.
Having the walls finished, put on a
good single roof with fairly steep
pitch. Then cell under the joists with
good flooring and fill in the loft with
sawdust until the joists are covered
one or two inches. Compact this
sawdust with that of the walls.
This makes frost-proof house. The
top half of the inside door should be
of glass, then, by leaving the outside
door open, plenty of light will be ad-
mitted to the small room, which is to
be used as the barreling room.
Lay down 2x6 sleepers two feet
apart - make tight floor in the
small Make a trap door to
step do & to the fire box.
Lay 2x6F sYepers lengthwise Of the
large room, leaving 3-foot aisle on
the south side which will be all con-
crete floor for walking upon. Place
a floor of boards running crosswise
upon these sleepers.
The six-inch tile previously men
toned allows the hot air to circulate
underneath all bins of potatoes and
rise up through them, drying them
underneath as we'll as on top, thus
preventing the potatoes from rotting
in the bottom of the bin.
Set row of studding directly over
the partition wall and cell up the east
side of this row of studding and make
tight partition between the two
rooms, leaving room at the south end
OF this partition for doorway to the
aisle.
Then set other rows eff studding six
feet apart, the width of the bins.
This arrangement makes the bins
is IL feet long, 8 1-2 feet high and
feet wide.
Board up the sides and north ends
of the bins with 1x4 strips.
Also similar strips six feet long
should be provided for the front ends
to be put in when needed. These are
held in place by slide nailed up the
side of the studding.
Place all the strips one inch apart
to allow circulation of the heat all
around and through the bins. Have
a six-inch ventilator over the center
of each bin and one over the small
room
These ventilators should extend
through the ceiling and near a foot
above the sawdust Have window
door in each end of the gable and a
ladder on the outside, if necessary to
go to the loft.
Remember this one point always:
that freshly built house, and one
built out of green lumber and green
sawdust may, and likely will be, the
cause of houseful of ruined potatoes.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
SIMPLE SLIDING DOOR LOCK
Fastener for Door or Gate Is Easy to
Put Together and VIII Give
Good Satisfaction.

A very simple sliding door or gate
lock that has been used with satisfac-
ton is shown in the illustration. This
lock has feature that is not found in
most locks Of this characteristic of
keeping the door tightly against the
jamb besides locking it. The illus1
tration shows the bolt in a locked poi
sition ready to receive paddock,
writes w. H. Walker in the Popular
Mechanics.
To operate the lock, lift the hasp
from the staple, bringing the bent end
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
Alfalfa for Hogs.

The results of five years tests indi-
cate that for fattening hogs the way
to feed alfalfa most satisfactorily is
to feed it without grinding or chop
ping. says the Nebraska Experiment
Station Bulletin. This method has
given faster and cheaper gains than
feeding like amount of chopped or
ground alfalfa, or larger percentage
of either BY feeding alfalfa hay
with corn, the cost of the increase in
the weight of the hogs has been de.
creased about so cents per 100 pounds
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

a Pennsylvania woman suing for
divorce charged that she has had but
two new dresses in twelve years. No
stronger case OF extreme cruelty was
eveH made out.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
One Way to Pay Taxes.

Make it easy to pay taxes by going
into the field each year and destroy
ing the weeds; the increase In Yield
will not only pay taxes, but leave
good margin Of profit in addition.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Another defective golf ball has
broken into print by exploding, but
as rule it is the defective golfer who
Is explosive.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

The picture of a juggernaut on
10Y ride is indeed one to cause tenn
porary suspension of pedestrianism on
the highways and byways of the land
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

A New York man recently died OF
old age at 26. He was probably one
of those who sang: Better twenty
years of Broadway than a cycle OF
New Jersey"
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

A Pennsylvania man died at a ball
game while roofing for the winning
team From a fans" view he died
at the summit of earthly bliss.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

The New York commissioner of POI
lice had his pocket picked. Under
present conditions in that city this
seems like adding insult to injury.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Food supplies are to go through the
mails, and the cancellation of stamps
Oh packages of eggs should be con-
Quoted gently
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

The new 500 bill is said ito bear
Alexander Hamilton's portrait, but we
fear we shall have to take somebody's
word for it.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Kaiser Wilhelm is afflicted with
rheumatism. which hurts quite as
badly in German, we are informed, as
1t does in English.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Scientists claim they have discov-
cred the germ of measles by expert
ments on apes. But measles is not q
thing to monkey with.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

The trouble will not be over until
we find out whether the American
DIT the National league champions are
the better ball players.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

shrined, Of the vast mass Of the Ruan-
well and the four statues recently dis
covered among its ruins Of the great
Abhaya-Giri, the Jetayanarama, or the.
Lankarama. They and the scattered
ruins in the depths of the forest show
still the extent of the buildings of that
sacred city beside which ancient.
Rome and Byzantium were but pigmy
towns.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

That electricity can cure hunger has
who has mingled with live wire.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

That ST. Paul woman who wrote a
novel with her toes certainly handled
the subject with good understand
ing.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

a woman in Washington was mar
lied eleven years and never told it.
This skaters another long cherished
tradition
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

There is a shortage in the cranberry
crop, but thus far no shortage in the
turkey crop has been reported.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Eating lunch every day in ten min
utes is another form of speed mania
that is responsible for many deaths.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Once upon a time man thought
ne knew a mushroom from a toad
stool. A large family survived him.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Some women pay more attentfo0
% their dogs than they do to their
husbands, but then maybe the dogs
growl less.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Red apples may produce red cheeks,
as fruit grower says, but green
apples make little boy blue.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Explorers in New Mexico recently
nave found prehistoric fiat, but even
the janitos had become extinct.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

The Bent End on the Bolt Holds the
Door Tightly Against the lamb When
in a Locked Position.
of the bolt in line with the slotted
hole in the door. This will allow the
bolt to be drawn through and left in
an unlocked position, as shown by the
dotted lines
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

There are four dozen wild buffalo
Gn Yellowstone park. We suppose the
Tourists make them Wild
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

When there are so many great men
and women in the country it makes us
few common people feel awfully
lonely.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Some men are born liars, some
nave to lie for a living, and some lie
because their wives are too inquiS-
tive.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Every woman hates to see her lit
tie son go to school or her daughter
married for the first time.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

New Jersey holds the chivalry cham
pionship. There women are girls IN
til they are forty.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

If the Astor baby had his way he
probably would trade his $3,000,00O
for an a1l-day sucker.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Nicaragua is no longer than an
american state, but it is fuller OF
bananas.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Pumpkin pie begins 10 draw upon
the culinary horizon.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

If the women reformed their clothes
the modistes would lose lot OF
money.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

No man can tell how marriage
will turn out, but any woman cam
and usually does
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

There is no proper season for plant
ing dynamite
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

Boys were playing Indians and ban
dts long before the advent of the
movies.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

What effect would synthetic rubber
have on the chewing gum industry?
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25

How fashion doth make fools of Us
ali.
Rural Retreat times. [volume] (Rural Retreat, Va.) 1892-1918, 1912-10-25
RURAL RETREAT TIM

PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-26
DIsFIeuRED WITH cRusTs

Some time ago I was taken with
eczema from the top of my head to
my waist. 1t began with scales on my
body. I suffered untold itching and
burning. and could not sleep. 1 was
greatly disflgured with scales and
crusts. My ears looked as If they had
been most cut on with a razor. and
my neck was perfectly raw. suffered
untold agony and pain. I tried two
doctors who said had eczema in its
fullest stage, and that 1t could not
be cured. then tried other rem
edies to no avail. At last, tried a set
Of the genuine Cuticura Remedies.
which cured me of eczema when all
else had failed. therefore 1 cannot
praise them too highly.
II suffered with eczema about ten
months. but am now entirely cured.
and believe Cuticura Remedies are
the best skin cure there is" (Signed)
Miss Matte ]. Shaffer, R. F. D. 1, Boz
8. Dancy. Miss. Oct. 81. 1910.
'T had suffered from eczema about
four years when boils began to break
out on different parts of my body. It
started with fine red rash. My
back was affected first, when 1t also
spread over my face. The itching was
almost unbearable at times. I tried
different soaps and salves. but nothing
seemed to help me until I began to
use the Cuticura Soap and Ointment.
One box of them cured me entirely. l
recommended them to my sister for
her baby who was troubled with tooth
eczema, and they completely cured her
baby" (Signed) Mrs. F. L. Marber-
ger. Drehersville. Pa. Sept. 6. 1910.
Although Cuticura Soap and Oint-
ment are sold everywhere. a sample
of each, with 32-page book. will be
mailed free on application to "Cut-
cura," Dept. L, Boston.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-26

dian girls are making in various fields OF
deavor Is found in the heritage OF good health
which has to them from generations OF
healthful ancestors. and the influence OF their
early training and outdoor life Particularly
would this explanation account for the splendid
constitutions possessed by many Indian girls
and which have stood them in good stead in
many exacting vocations for instance. in nursing.
Great numbers of Indian girls have qualified as
trained nurses and the services of most OF them
in constant demand at 500 month
The Indian baby. strapped to a board or Sc
curely packed in an elongated basket woven for
the purpose. can neither kick nor squirm and this
proves advantage which is far-reaching in Its
effect in later life Similarly is there no danger
that the child will attempt to walk at an earlier
age than is desirable. From earliest childhood
the average Indian girl has been subjected to that
rigorous outdoor life which results in making
them almos. perfect physically. For Instance.
there may be cited the method followed in giving
an Indian child bath,-a weekly event The
mother visits some convenient pool or stream and
the young member of the household, after being
loosened from her odd cradle Is placed in shall
low water to kick and splash to her hearts con-
test In due course the dripping youngster is
lifted from the water and. instead OF being ten
deily dried with soft linen, is simply hung to the
bough of some convenient tree. by means Of a
cloth tied around the waist. and there dries in the
air and the sunshine while the mother stands BY
looking with approving eyes upon the progress or
this heroic hardening process
In the old days the Indian girls accepted at
tenuer age tne Tduitiondi iot vi
that of pack horse, and 1t was nothing unusual
in the average Indian camp to see Wee girls toll
ing along with bundles of wood, etc, almost as
large as themselves. This condition yet obtains
to a considerable extent, although It is not 30
universal as formerly. The capacity of the In
dian girls for hard work. however, finds daily ex
emplifcation in every walk of life which they
have entered. Incidently. 1t may be mentioned
that whatever influence civilization may exert up
on the young woman in whose veins courses m
dian blood she never seems to lose that love OF
ornaments and bright colors which characterizes
all children OF the wilderness and which the In
dian girl will let crop out in her latterday cos
tunes even though they be fashioned in accord
ance with the most conventional modes.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-26
TOO EXCITING FOR CROKER
Ex-Tammany Chief, Like So Many
Others, succumbed to the Fasei-
nation of Stevenson.

The ideas of Richard Croker do not
run on bookish lines. Regretting this
circumstance and considering that a
taste for literature, once inculcated,
might be a source of pleasure in his
advanced years. a journalistic friend
who crossed the Atlantic with the one
time chieftain of Tammany hall not
long ago cornered him in the steam
ships library one evening and OBJ
tanned a reluctant permission to read
Treasure Island" to him.
Much to his friends encouragement
Mr.. Croker listened with unfeigned in
terest until the lights went out and
apparently enjoyed the narration OF
the exciting events of John Morgan,
Billy Bones. Black Dog, John Silver
and the others. Wherefore, finding
Mr.. Croker In the library the next
evening, the journalist again pro-
duced his volume OF Stevenson and
drew up a chair. But the one-time
Tammany chieftain lifted protesting
hand.
Don't read that book to me any
more" he said. II couldn't get to
sleep last night for thinking about
those fellows"
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-26
The Thin Girls Temper.

No thin woman can afford to lose
her temper. Nothing" says a good
authority, will make you SO angular
pr give your face such an undesirable
look as the free indulgence of your
own will" A girl who was thin to a
really painful degree gained 80 pounds
in 60 days on the following regime:
Twelve hours sleep a day; a we'll
ventilated and cold room to sleep in,
with plenty of fresh air all night;
light down coverlets for warmth and
hot-water bags at the feet If they
are cold: loose, light clothing at all
times, with plenty of space about the
chest, shoulders and waist; a diet OF
cereals. cocoa, fresh fruits or starchy
vegetables, potatoes, beans, etc, milk
and cream-everything of a warming,
fat-projucing nature in the way of
food; warm baths, though not too fire.
quently.
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-26
Their slender Income.

On his way homeward from the
shop where he toiled at his daily vo-
cation Mr.. Billiger McSwat. carrying
into effect stern and sinister pur-
pose he had cherished for months,
stopped at barber shop and had
portion of his beard removed.
Half an hour later he entered the
humble dwelling which, in bristling de-
fiance of newspaper style cards, he
called his home.
Mrs. McSwat was sitting in an easy
chair and gazing pensively at the fire
that burned cheerfully, but economi cal
ly, in the crate.
"Lobelia, my dear" he said, look
at mel" She arose to her feet and
looked at him. Then she sank back
nerveless into the easy chair.
During the twenty years of their mar
ried life, as it may be necessary to ex-
plain, sinking nervelessly into chairs
had been one of Mrs. MsSwats lead
ing specialties.
'Billinger." she gasped, 1--WE never
can live up to that pair of side
whiskers.'
Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-26
The Trust Test.

Mother" said Bobby, after full
week of obedience, "have | been a
good boy lately?"
'Yes, dear" replied his mother. "A
very, very good boy"
And do you trust me?" he contin-
ued.,
why. of course, mother trusts her
little boyi" she answered.
But the chastened child was not
pacified.
Il mean, really, really trust me, you
know" he explained.
"Yes, really, really trust you."
nodded his mother. "Why do you
ask?"
"Just because" said Bobby, diving
his hands into his pockets and look
ing at her meaningly in the face, "if
you trust me like you say you do, why
do you go on hiding the jam?"