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Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-05-15
WouIdn't Take 4 Dare.

Can dog respond to taunt? A
Vermont dog. which was growing old.
was in barn one day with his mas
ter. The two were up in a haymow,
from which a sloping ladder led down
to the barn floor The master walked
down the ladder, but the dog went
around another way.
When the animal reached the barn
floor his master said tauntingly: "Poor
old fellow! Daren't walk down the
ladder any more"
Whereupon the dog. with a quick
glance at his master, walked clear up
the ladder to the top, and then turned
round and walked down it again. The
proceeding looked very much like a
deliberate demonstrate ton on the dogs
part to prove to his master that he was
still capable of walking up and down
slanting ladder.-St. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
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SPROUTS should Be Il least two inches

skVouts sAouId pe y least Two lncnos
long. s35.
Throw out all ears showing weak
termination as well as the dead ears.
Advantages Of the sawdust Ger
mination sox.1 It costs nothing
but little time and labor
2. It furnishes nearly natural or nor
NAL conditions. Al
5. The sawdust Is light, clean. and
easy to get and handle In February,
March and April. when the test
Ing should be done; Is q good nom
conductor Of heat and cold, 80 that the
temperature 10 kept even during ger
minatton. and holds the moisture 20
perfectly that there IL no danger of
drying ont
The number 81 boxes required will
depend upon the amount OF seed TO be
tested and the time limit, Where sew
eral boxes are used. we generally
stack them up. one on top Of the
other.
When the frst set Of boxes has been
taken off, 1t 10 good plan to put
another set over at once, and while
the corn in these Is sprouting, the first
set Of ears can be butted and tipped.
shelled, graded and hand-picked. II
more than one kernel Of the six fail
to grow, the ear should be discarded.
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Fig. Put two inches of this sawdust
in the box and pack it down SO that
it is smooth and firm It is now
ready for the termination cloth.
This box is 3ox3ox4 inches deep and
will test 100 ears
down firmly by treading with the feet
The edges of the cover may be folded
over the sawdust in the box to pre-
vent drying out The box is now ready
to set away until the kernels sprout.
Keep in an ordinarily warm place like
the living-room where 1T will not
freeze. The kernels terminate in
about eight days. ~. .....
Remove the cover carefully to avoid
misplacing the kernels in the squares.
Examine the kernels in each square
in the termination box, and discard
all ears whose kernels in the box are
dead or show weak germination
Special Things to Be Observed
Be sure to soak the sawdust at least
one hour-or better still, over night
Use good quality of cloth (sheeting)
for the cloth that is marked off in
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Crop Improvement
Mix brains with sweat and your
acres will produce more.
The SAWDUST BOX
TERMINATION TEST
POPULAR METHOD FOR TESTING
LARGE QUANTITIES OF SEED.

Making the Test.-There are sev.
sral excellent seed corn testers on
the market. Probably no method IL
better suited to all conditions than
what II known az the sawdust ger
mination box method. which 10 briefly
described as follows
Getting Ready.-Make q box three
to four inches deep and 30x30 inches
In dimensions. Fill the box about half
tull OF moist sawdust well pressed
down SO as to leave smooth, even
surface. The sawdust should be put
IN gunny sack and set in tub of
warm water for at least an hour Cor
still better, over mighty so that it will
be thoroughly moistened before u.s.
ing. Rule off piece Of good white
cloth (sheeting) about the size of the
box, into squares, checker-board fash
Ion, two and one-half inches each way.
Number the squares 1, 2, 3, etc. Place
the cloth on the sawdust and tack it
to the box at the corners and edges.
Lay out the ears to be tested side by
SAAN VA palms., IdblSS, VI Ou IuC 11OOl ),
remove one kernel from near the butt,
middle and tip of the ear; turn the
ear over and remove three kernels
from the opposite side in like manner,
making six kernels in all, thus secur.
Ing sample from the entire ear
Place the six kernels at the end of the
ear from which they are taken. Use
care that the kernels do not get mixed
with those from the ear next to it.
After the kernels are removed, boards
may be laid over the rows of ears
to keep them in plce until he result
Of the termination is known. Place the
kernels from the ear of corn No.
IN square No. 1 OF the termination
box; from ear No. in square No. 2;
and SO on with all the ears. Lay a
piece Of good cloth on top Of the ker-
nels and dampen it by sprinkling wa
ter over it. Then place over this q
cloth considerably larger than the box
and fill in on top of this about two
inches of moist sawdust and pack It
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Marble Pudding

B 2 cups sifted pastry -four
2 level teaspoonfuls X G Baking Powder
u teaspoonful cinnamon
4 teaspoonful salt II cup sugar
Yolks Of eggs, beaten Light
tablespoonfuls melted butter
u cup cold water
Whites Of 2 eggs, beaten dry
~ ounces melted chocolate
Sift together, three times, the -four, bak.
ing powder, salt and cinnamon. To the
yolks add the sugar. butter and water, and
stir into the dry ingredients. Add the
whites Of the eggs. Divide the mixture into
two parts and add the chocolate to one
part. Dispose the two parts in buttered
mold to give marbled appearance. Steam
forty-fve minutes. y
In mixing egg and sugar, use rotary egg
beater making light creamy mixture Of ega
yolks and sugar. In steaming pudding have
low blaze under the water for at least the
first Is minutes, giving the pudding time tt
rise before cooking
Serve with Vanilla Sauce.
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Fig. 3-showine sprouts in the ger
minating test at the end of eight
days. Nos. I, 8, 4, II, IL, e and
"a show strong termination. The
ears from which these kernels were
selected should be saved for plant
ing. Nos. 2, II, 13, Fl and 20 show
weak vitality and should be discard
ed.
II only one kernel fails to
grow, the ear should generally
be discarded; unless it Is an
especially good ear in other re-
spects, when it might be well to give
1t another trial in the next test.
Ears whose kernels mold badly in
the termination box should be dis
carded. II the kernel shows weak,
spindling sprouts, or a part Of them
are very weak and uneven, the ear
should be thrown out to make place
for an ear whose kernels give strong,
vigorous sprouts. Remember that the
kernels which are slow to sprout and
are weak will be behind the strong
ones In the field, and being shaded by
them will give US weak, runty stalks
with small ears.
Poor seed means poor stand, with
missing hills; one-stalk hills with
weak stalks, producing little or moth
Ing, also wasted land and wasted la
Dor; it means less than 80 bushels Of
corn per acre instead of so or so: it
means that we produce on an average
In each hill just one small ear Of
corn weighing less than ten ounces.
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Baking Helps

Select materials with great care. The
best of everything is always the cheapest.
To have a perfect finished product we
must first have good material for our
foundation. In selecting materials for
baking, first get a high grade baking
powder, for unless properly leavened,
food is not palatable. A high grade bak-
ing powder is not necessarily a high priced
one. K c Baking Powder is medium in
price, but of the highest quality, made of
the best and purest of materials properly
combined to produce the best possible
results. ~
For cakes and pastries a soft wheat
pastry flour is preferable. To determine
a soft wheat from bread, or hard wheat
-four, press it tightly in the hand; if the
flour stays packed in a mass showing the
|imprints of the fingers, it is pastry -four;
If it falls through the fingers sandy, it is
Ia bread -four, and should be used only
with yeast.
Shortening must be fresh and sweet.
Sugar should always be cane sugar.
Water il equally good as milk in all
articles where a large amount of sugar
Is used, except for cookies.
Larger masses of dough require longer
time for rising and baking.
Bear in mind that baking rules are az
important as measuring rules. Do not
bake cakes, pudding and such pastries
as short cake, dumplings and meat rolls
with hot FIRE at the start. Have slow
oven until the dough doubles m bulk;
then increase heat to bake and brown.
Biscuits, cut cookies and pie pastry
require hot oven. "....
Have food thoroughly cooked. Half
cooked pastries are hard to digest and
Injurious, better to over-bake than under
bake.
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Cherry Pudding

2 cups sifted pastry flour
2 level teaspoonfuls K c Baking Powder
u teaspoonful salt Il cup butter
2 eggs % cup milk (scant
Cherries =. '~
Salt or tablespoon butter
Sift together three times, the -four, bak-
ing powder, and salt and work in the butter
beat eggs, add milk to eggs and stir into the
-four. Half fill a baking pan with cherries,
add bits of butter and pour batter over ton
of cherries, and bake slowly for fifteen min
utes, then increase heat and bake until
pastry is done. Turn on a plate with
cherries uppermost, serve with hard sauce
or very sweet cherry juice. Other fruits,
such as apples. peaches, apricots, berries OF
bananas may be used.
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Educated

The Press-And we understand you
are a self taught as well as q self made
man? The PersonageI ham, sir. At
twenty-one ! knew nothink. Then l
set to work. and at twenty-five I'd
taught meself all knew:-Sydney Bull
let1n.
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Tempo.

In what time was that composition
Written?' asked the; man who profess
es to be expertly musical.
I don't know" replied the man who
doesn't. But it sounds to me as if it
ought to have been written in about
ten minutes. Washington Star.
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Prune Kuchen

a I>yU0e AUC0e0
2 cups sifted pastry -four
2 tablespoonful granulated sugar
teaspoonful salt Z cup butter
2 level teaspoonfuls K G Baking Powder
Cinnamon to taste egg
e cup milk n pound prunes
3 tablespoonful melted butter and table.
epoonfuls sugar for top of Kuchen.
Slit together. three times, the -four, sugar
SALT and baking powder, and work in the
butter. Beat the egg add the milk, and
stir into the dry ingredients. Turn into q
shallow buttered pan and spread the dough
Copyright 1915 ~ Jaqxss H6e. Co.
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evenly in the pan. Have tho pruues cooked
tender and remove the stone. Press the
prunes skin aide down. into tho top Of the
dough.
| Brush over With melted butter, dredea
with sugar and cinnamon, and bake twenty
hve minutes. Serve hot, cut into sQuaresi
with hard sauce or stewed pruneo.
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Vanilla Sauce

Boil cup of sugar and u cup of water
six minutes; add 2 teaspoonfuls of butter and
teaspoonful of vanilla extract.
Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1913-05-15

Fig. Putting on the cover cloth. AZ
soon az this 10 laid over the ker
nels, sprinkle few handfuls OF
warm water over It to fft down tight
over them. It 10 now ready for the
larger cloth, on top Of which u to
be put two inches OF sawdust.
squares and the cloth which is laid
over the kernels.
Leave at least two inches margin
around the edges Of the box to pre-
vent freezing and drying out.
Rule the cloth off in large squares
2kx2H inches.
Never use the box the second time
without first thoroughly scalding both
the cloths and saWdust (The cloth
should be untacked and the sawdust
removed to do this.)
Do not open too soon The stem
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Hard Sauce

Cream II cup butter with a cup sugar
end favor to- suit, putting over pudding
when pudding is still warm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18
INTEREST GROWS IN
Chiffon CAMPAIGN

Mountain Creek May 17.-(Special)--
The interest manifested by the people of
Jemison and vicinity In the work being
accomplished by the nine days Chiltoi,
County Sunday school campaigns vas
yesterday shown to be truly intense. The
crowd to hear the speaking and take
part in the exercises was the largest
gathering that has greeted the workers
this week,
All the Sunday schools in the neighbor-
hod were represented in the gathering,
and the teachers especially took interest
in all that was said looking to the ad-
vancement of the Sunday school cause,
and the best and most desirable means
of instruction.
The speakers, Leon Palmer, the Rev
Q. W. Greer. Miss Bachelor and MISS
Mary Carr Gibson arrived after their iiVe
days campaigning at other points, and
were received cordially.
After song service and some remarks
by the church officials, the speakers were
introduced and followed each other.
Miss Gibson and Miss Bachelor spoke
of Teacher Training" and Ways of I'm
proving the Sunday school,"
Mr.. Palmer spoke on the "Big Roy
Problem" while the Rev o. w. Greel
suggested practical Plans for Sunday
School Teachers
The instructors were at Liberty Hill
church Saturday and thence to Clanton
for three-sesson on Sunday morning
afternoon and evening.
This nine day campaign has certainly
accomplished much good for the Sunday
school cause in Chiffon county.
At every point visited so far the peo'
pie have welcomed the workers most cor.
diallY.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18
WASHINGTON SEEMS TO =
ADMIRE THE PAINTING
THAT SHOCKED CHICAGO
BY {. f. STEWART

| the Sixth City received complaint from
a woman about the Undraped form which
might be viewed by every passing young
man with a green hat and bow In the
back"
rhereupon = special delegation of tho
cleveland police went to view the disturb
ing work. but heng better educated as to
the fine arts, perhaps. than their Chicago
brethren. they agreed that Mr.. Chamas
was corking good painter, aud voted the
picture a dream and let it go at that.
Now comes the plump victim of all these
harsh criticisms to the national capital,
and, though she is doing much to make F.
street popular, there has been no hue
and cry raised about it, and so far no res
ollition has been introduced In Congress,
nor complaint made In the district build
ing.
The picture shown In the United States
Is very fine photogravure of the original
which Is owned by the French govern
nent and now hangs in Paris gallery.
The scene represents a mountain lake.
near the edge of which stands a young
woman ankle Geep In the water, and huo-
died up as though she found the water
rather chilly, and extremely wet, ana
wasn't Just sure whether she had oetter
come out or go In. In the background
ale several mountains, shrouded In the
gray mists of the September morning
Crowds OF people every day pause before
lie window and admire the picture, ana IL
is worthy OF admiration AS September
Morn has been on exhibition at the art
Dealers place here for several weeks
Without the slightest intimation from the
police that they are shocked, 1t Is TO pc
pre sumed that she has at last found an
appreciative audience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18

Washington. May 17.-(Spseial. Sep
tember Morn very blond young lady,
fond of bathing in a mountain lake.
While other girls. not so richly endowed.
are taking their beauty maps, and a crea-
tion of the brush of Paul Chamas, is now
exposed to the gaze of the critical and
curious in the window OF an art store
On F. street oae of the PRINCIPAL shopping
boulevards of y ashington.
September Morn" has a record of hav-
Ing Jared the nerves of the ultra -circum
speot, and aroused considerable adverse
criticism in two American cities.
Miss September Morn has an entirely in
rooent appearance, but in spite of this
fact, she so 'lorrifed the Chicago police
that they arrested the wabash avenue
art dealer who gave her shelter In his
window, and it took a jury of u men 80
minutes to agree on a verdict of mot
guilty" at the subsequent trial.
The next, public appearance of Miss
Morn-so 1t is said-was In a window at
the Taylor arcade, In Cleveland. but hard
ly had she become accustomed to her
strange surroundings when the police OF
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18

]. p. Rivers Grocery Co., A. G. Cham
bers, M. o. Richards, A. b. Andrews &
Co, M. j. Collins Grocery Co., Bots
field Grocery Co, w. B. Emonds Gro
Gerry Co, j. e. Burks, Kirkland &
Marerurn. j. p. Lantzlester, j. NJ. C.
Parks, II. E. Beckham Grocery, Bev-
erly Grocery Co, w. c. Sheppard Gro
cery Co., w. C. Gardner A. l.. Cham
blee, 1. M. McKilvey. c. b. Stamps, T.
A. Davenport, Peerless Market, Carson
& Co, Alabama Meat & Produce Co.,
Graymont Grocery Co., Fowlkes x
Myatt Grocery Co, Orr e. Roberts. j.
NJ. Morrison's Market, Clarke Brothers,
H. e. Chaplin & Co, j. A. Wilson 4
Co, Shropshire & Daniels Grocery Co.,
the Palace Market, Five Points Gro
Gerry Co., Walton Morrow Grocery Co.,
kenney Grocery Co, Aldridge & Gaines,
Allbritton- Hooper Grocery Co, Ware &
Hardwood, Scott Grocery Co., f. NJ.
Curtis, Lanier Grocery Co, Hogan
Brothers, Hal j. Copeland, Catazano
Brothers, A. E. Knowles Grocery Co,
John e. Hill. j. F. Lewis, Goodman d
Schulman, George w. Merritt. Hotel
Supply Co., III. Siegel. Sid Levy Mar
ket Co.. II. A. Miner Grimes Brothers
Tanner Brothers Market, White Stai
Market, J. c. Brocato, Abernathy &
Blunt, Norwood Grocery CO., G.. T.
McHale, II. +. Reinsicke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18

same time heshad big open range on the
North Platte m Nebraska. In 1887 he
leased 100000 acres in the Cheyenne
country that S now a part of Oklahoma.
lie was then one of the largest land
owners in the world and was worth $780,
Veo He had .4.090 cattle on his Cheyenne
ranch. And then came the governments
order, during the first Cleveland admin
lslration, to clear the Indian country of
cattle. This order came in the fall of
the year. 1t had to be obeyed and the
2foO0 cattle were driven out If the range,
leaving behind the feeding sheds and hay.
winter of unusual severity followed.
with bliszaras that swept down from the
north and the cattle drifted before 1t
ana piled UP dead in great windrows in
creek bottoms and the financial loss was
stunning.
Mr.. Mabry was personally acquainted
with the famous Sioux chieftalns Sitting
EGll, Red Cloud and Spotted Tail. lie
was in Fort Sully, S. D., when the news
came of the Custer massacre and he did
not believe II was true.
He had many fight with Indians; in
fact, he says, to drive out herd of cat
tie from Texas to the Dakotas, or from
Texas to the Snake river in Idaho, which
he did once, meant a running fight with
Indians nearly all the way
And buffaloi He had seer countless
peBa and Wichita and Oklahoma City are
now.
He has seen the great plains. the natural
grazing grounds of the buffalo herds,
cut up into great cattle ranges He has
seen these. in turn, divided irto ranches
and then into farms.
And the next development is to be in
tensive farming" he says. IN few
years more than 100 acres will be too
much for one man to try and farm. All
over this vast southwest will be millions
OF little farms of 10 and 20 acres, and an
acre then will produce more than 20
acres do now. and the population of the
west will be multiplied a thousand fold
Kansas City will have 100000 people in
20 years and 200G, 600 peeple in 10000 years,
and this alluvial plain will TEEN with
people as thickly as China does now; and,
le cause of the richness of tile SOIL this
Will be the most prosperous, the most en-
liehtened, the happiest people on the
farth ~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18
MRS. w. w. BLACKMAN HURT
Shaken Up and Bruised When Cars
Collide on Fifteenth Street Line

Mrs. Walter w. Biaekman was badly
shaken up and bruised In street car
collision on Sixteenth avenue. south, be-
tween Fourteenth street and phsl,n
street, about $3.50 o'clock yesterday after
noon, The accident occurred between two
Fifteenth street electric cars and wa
caused by the car in charge of Moterman
D. Il. Lanier running over a block sia-
nal, causing head-on collision. Heth
cars were damaged to a considerable sx.
tent, Mrs, Biaokman was the only ene
seriously injured. The other passengers
in both cars suffered only a shaking un
and slight cuts from broken glass.
shaw's and Johns ambulances were
called to the scene, but when they ar
rived Mrs. Blackman had been removed
to her heme at 1894 seveHtsenth avenue
south, In an automobile by friends. Her
condition is considered serious, owing to
the fact that she has just recovered from
z severe operation and has only hean
cut ct the hospital few weeks,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18
GROCERS AGREE TO
GIVE HALF HOLIDAY
Will Close on Thursday Aft
ernoOns From May Is to
September Is

The retail grocers and meat dealers
have signed an agreement to close
their stores every Thursday afternoon
from May Is to September Is, with the
exception of Thursday, July 3. This ex-
ception is made because July falls
on Friday and consumers will want to
get their meat for the holiday dinner
the night before.
This is the agreement signed: I'VE,
the undersigned retail grocers and meat
dealers, hereby agree to close our re-
spective stores at 12 o'clock on Thurs
day of each week beginning May 15 and
continuing through September IS, 1913.
with the exception of Thursday, July 3.
on account of Friday, July 4, being a
legal holiday"
The names of the dealers signing the
agreements follow
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-05-18
F.P. CKAFFEE TELLS
OF WANE MOTOR
Former Secretary of Fair
Association Is Visiting
Birmingham

: Frank P. Chaffee, former secretary
of the Alabam State Fair and Exhlnit
association, and the Business Men
league, arrived in the city yesterday
from Steubenville, O., where he mas
been located since leaving Birmin CHAM.
Mr.. Chaffee is now interested IN the
Gulf states Wave Moter company and
associated with Earl @. Mccoy, sales
manager. He states he Is glad to re-
turn to the city and Will prooapiy
locate here as the motor company In
which he is interested intends to build
a plant here for the manufacture of
the wave motors.
"The efforts to harness the rivers and
streams have been so successful that
attention has turned to harnessing the
tides which has been accomplished,
said Mr. Chaffee. I'm the Rhodes wave
energy motor a practical and efficient
method has been devised that will revo-
lutionize the cost of electricity along
the coast line The wave motor we
propose to build Is operated by means
of a hugh boat-like float, which is con-
nected by gear wheels and a ratchet
to two double racks of such ingenious
mechanism as to cause the main shaft
to revolve in the same direction wheth-
er the waves are rolling backward OF
forward, up or down. The motor will
be built in units of 100-horse power
each. Four units of course would de-
velop 4O0-horse power, which would
develop 29S kilowatt hours of electri-
city.
''The only cost will be the first cost
for no fuel or boilers will be required
and the mechanism is such that it will
last for years, and is easy of repair
The initial cost will be about $4,000 per
unit, so you see 1t will mean much for
the Birmingham district to have the
company located here.
The engineers that have seen the
model at work declare it almost a new
principle in mechanic and have un-
qualifedly given 1t their approval"
Mr.. Chaffee has working model OF
the wave motor from which can readily
be seen the principle on which the large
motors will be worked. He and Mr.. Nc
Coy are at the Hillman, where the
model of the device can be seen.