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Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-04-22

planter and space them just as
you like if you will first dampen
them and roll them in a barrel
built upon a frame like a grind
stone, putting into the barrel
dry dirt or ashes. Plant seed
promptly after rolling, because
the cotton fuzz will return when
thoroughly dried out.
The season generally is late
due to so much water. In these
sections a fight against the frost
is necessary. A small acreage
well prepared planted in an early
maturing seed, fortified and
we'll cultivated, will open earlier
than a greater acreage thrown
into a bad seed bed without fer
tilizer and without sufficient Gull
tivation. Good cultivation and
greater quantities Of fertilizer
hasten maturity. You get better
opening, a surer crop, more
pounds per acre and if restric-
ton of acreage is practiced to
the extent it should be, you get
maturing seed, fertilized and we
greater money returns, and that
is what we plant and reap for.
The remaining land sown in
peas, soy beans and late corn will
improve the soil and furnish the
feed for the crop Of 1914 and
make it a much better year than
it otherwise could be for profit
able farming.
JOHN H. PAGE,
Commissioner Of Agriculture.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-04-22
To Entertain Elks Convention.

Arrangements are practically
completed by the committees Of
the Pine Bluff Lodge of Elks,
No. 149, for entertaining the
fifth annual convention of the
Arkansas Elks Association and
the State Reunion of Elks, which
will be held in Pine Bluff May
% and %. Preparations are be-
ing made to entertain several
thousand Elks, their ladies and
visitors, and it is expected that
at least two thousand Elks will
be in the big dress parade which
will be held Thursday evening
at 8 o'clock, May %. In addi-
ton to this large number of
Elks the parade will include a
large number of ladies on horse
back, in automobiles and other
vehicles decorated in flowers and
Elks colors. The Elks will car
ry torch lights and it is planned
to make the parade a magnifi-
cent pageant. There will be
music in abundance as it is ex-
pected that ten bands will be in
the city during the convention,
and another delightful feature
is a band concert which will be
held at Forest Park on the after
noon of May %, at which time a
prize of $50 will be given the
best band.
Nobby Uniforms.
At the last meeting of the
Pine Bluff Lodge of Elks the un-
forms which will be worn by
the local members of the antler-
ed herd were agreed upon and
the contract awarded to H. C.
Bluenthal to make them. The
uniform as agreed upon con-
sists of a striped coat and
trousers, the coat to be Norfolk
style. With this white caps will .
be worn, with purple band and |
silver Elks emblem on the pur-
pie band. Purple ties and hose,
with white shoes and canes will
complete the uniform. 1t is ex-
pected that the Pine Bluff Lodge
will have at least two hundred
Elks in the parade.-Pine Bluff
Commercial.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-04-22
An Estimate of Man.

The place to take the measure
of man is not in the market place
or the amen corner, the forum
or the field, but by his own fire
side. There he lays aside his
mask and you may learn Wheth-
er he is an imp or an angel, king
or cur, hero or humbug. | care
not what the world may say OF
him. whether it crown 5 him
with bags of gold or pelts him
WITH bad eggs; care not a cop
der cent what his religion or
reputation may be, if his babies
dread his home coming and his
better half swallows her heart
every time she asks him for a
five dollar bill, he is fraud OF
the first water, even though he
prays both night and morning
until he is black in the face, and
bowls hallelujah until he shakes
the entire hills. But if his chill
dren rush to the gate to meet
him, and loves sunshine illumln-
ates the face of his wife when
she hears his football, you can
take it for granted that he is
pure gold, his home is in heaven
and the humbug never gets
near the white throne of God.
He may be a rank atheist and a
red-fag anarchist, a Mormon
and mugwump; he may buy
votes in blocks of five and bet
on the election; he may deal
them from the bottom of the
decK and drink beer until he
tell a silver dollar from a
circular saw, and still be an in
finitely better man than the cow
ardly little man who is all suavi-
ty in society, but who makes his
home a hell, who vents upon the
heads of his helpless wife anC
children an i'll nature he would
like to inf1ict upon his fellow
man, but dares not. | can for
give much in the fellow mortal
who would rather have the
hate of the world than the con-
tempt of his wife; who would
rather call anger to the eyes OF
the world than fear to the face
Of a child.-W. C. Brann.
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-04-22

a bill appropriating twenty-five
thousand dollars for such q
school-provided some philan-
thropist would give the State
three hundred and twenty acres
of good farm land for a site.
That sounds like something out
of the Dark Ages.
''To this farm school at St
Charles more than two thous-
and delinquent boys have been
sent. remaining there an average
of twenty months. They live
wholesomely in the open, are
taught farming and manual
trades. besides the ordinary el-
ementary school subjects. The
superintendent says that not
over six per cent of them have
resorted to crime after leaving
the school.
"'The St. Charles institution IS
overerowded now. The legisla-
ture is asked to found a like
farm school in the central or
southern part Of the State; and
again the shadow of the Dark
Ages obtrudes. Nobody denies
that another farm school would
be a good thing; but there IS
the awful question of expense.
1t would cost the State seven
hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars-and there has been grave
doubt at Springfield as to wheth-
er Illinois can afford to spend all
that money to merely avoid max
ing criminals of boysn'
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-04-22
What Boys Are Worth.

Under the heading above the
current issue of the Saturday
Evening Post says:
"Says Judge Richard S. Tut
hill of Chicago: 'One day |
went over to the criminal court
building and I found there one
hundred and twenty-eight little
boys, many of them under ten
years of age-just as nice look
ing boys as yours or mine-shut
up in the old Jail, four or five
of them in a cell, waiting to be
tried. These boys had first been
placed in a police station, where
they heard everything that could
be heard in Chicago-vile Ian
guage and vile thoughts. When
they were graduated from the
Jail they were sent out to the
Bridewell, or back to Jail to
serve a term; and when they
came out they had learned their
trade-crime.
'That sounds like something
from the Dark Ages; but it was
the standing condition in Illi-
nois and other states only few
years ago. By way of remedy
came the Juvenile Court, found
ed on the idea that children
should be treated with kindness
"a very revolutionary legal in
novation! Next came agitation
for school out in the country,
where delinquent boys could be
kept in wholesome surroundings
and taught something besides
crime.
"After prodigious efforts the
legislature was induced to pass
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-04-22

wv VbG&0SVt vi SHS LIMA
A humble and honest aah,
WHO st hts t1sps for pickerd
Maine pond tie okher day Is RI
mako AFFIDAVIT ~ follows: TN
Declare On oath that did catsAI
pdckerel On o1e hook The frK
orel swallowed the bait and &
Hike It Apparently he tried to I
Il up. At any rate he spewsd|
hook out under his gills snd It ID
OF IN the water to be grabbed
second piokerel. Thus there cam
two pickerel, all strung On q n
lewiston Journal
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-04-22
Foolish Query.

Foolish Query.
4 Kentucky girl has been kissed
thousand times and signs for d
While an Illinois woman had 81
arrested for Kissing her once IN VI
state would you rather uve'
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-04-22

good About q
year az W.
h e ard II DR..
Miles Nervtna,
and it certainly
h as proved .
blessing TO our
little girl. She y
ow apparently
cured and 10 q.
joying the best
of health. It -
over q year since
she has had Q
IT. We cAnnoe
speak too highly
Newport daily independent. (Newport, Ark.) 1901-1929, 1913-04-22

q u. Niles Nervine."
MRS. FRANK ANDERSON.
Comfrey, MlnA
Thousands of children in the
United States who are suffering
from attacks Of epilepsy are
burden and sorrow to their passnt1.
who would give anything to restoes
health to the sufferers.
Dr.. Miles Nervine
= one OF the best remedies known
for this affection. It has proven
beneficial in thousands Of eases
and those who have used il have
the greatest faith in it. Il b aos
. "eure-all," but reliable remedy
Scr nervous diseases. You nso4
soe hesitate to give it Q trial
~ BY all prue9ists. II ~ -
0Det3o fails - benefit ysur aoA1R y
usA1S AgpicAA CO., Eil<Aaah -
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Finds Cure for Epilepsy
After Years of Suffering

NY daughter was arlicteo WIN
spGsptic fts for three years, the attacks
coming every few weeks. We employee
sswsraI doctors but they did her NO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
Vex Each Other NTH Habits.

know you have such trials as this in your
family. Your husband provides his share
OF them, and half dozen come foclSing to
your memory at once. He will not recollect
to throw out the stubs of his cigars when
he has been smoking late at night after
you have gone to bed. and the old SOL
diers " are left there until morning and the
air reeks with their stencil. You have told
him score of times that the place for his
soiled collars Is in the basket in the bath
room, but he always leaves them on his
bureau. just as he never hangs up his wet
towels properly but filings them in heap
on the wash stand. He has way OF
whistling under his breath when b Is read
ing the paper, and a trick of cutting his
bread into strips with his knife before ba
buffers it that may seem of no importance
to any one else but which try you To tbs
verge of endurance. Some of the thinv,
that seem too petty to speak of-but Won
wish he would stop doing theml
Perhaps it hasn't occurred to you tha.
there may be a few peculiarities of vour
own which he does not find altogether
pleasing He has teased you about the vav
you shake your foot when you are sitting
with your sewing, but you never have
thought that 1t vexed him as much as his
whistling over his reading does you Pos
sibly your fashion of sitting in the big chair
with one foot tucked under you SO that you
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
Inpalid Wants Sunshine.

Can you give me the address OF some
one who has anyinvalid chair for which
she has no further use and which would
be given or lent TO an old gentleman suf-
fering from rheumatism? The doctor says
IL the patient could be wheeled out into
the sunshine it would at least give him
much comfort If it did not actually hasten
his recovery. MRS. >. D H.
We have given and lent many invalid
chairs In the course of the helpful work our
Corner has done In cheering and aiding
shut-ins Such an appeal as the above is
likely to receive an early answer. The pic
ture of the lame old man longing to get
out into the blessed sunshine touches any
one who has known and loved elderly peo-
pSs-and who is there who has not? hope
the eSyers may be near enough to the home
of the lhyalid to make the expense of trans
porting ths> chair inconsiderable hold
the address ox Mrs. S. S. II. subject to de-
mand. and / trusS to receive it soon. Every
day the sufferer waits for the sunshine will
seem to him longer than We veil ones. who
can go where we please can fully appre-
cIate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
"New England Dinner. /"

'' VIII you be so good as to give me the
menu Of a New England dinner, as wish TO
give one and do not know positively what
should be served? PERPLExEp."
The phrase New England dinner" is
rather elastic. for there are many good
things In the way OF food that are cherished
by New Englande 9, and it Is hard to get
them all into one meal. we often think OF
pork and beans as distinctively Yankee
dish. and have been at a dinner where this
was the main article served The beans
We're boiled with pork and the only item
served with them besides plain boiled po-
tatoes, was hot brown bread. The dessert
was a delicious Indian pudding. with a
sauce of rich cream sweetened with
pounded maple sugar. Another New Eng
land repast is the old fashioned boiled
dinner know to all OF us.
have also had what Massachusetts peo-
pie call chicken dinner" when they
served a big dish OF young chicken stewsd
with cream gravy and biscuit dumplings,
baked and arranged around the chicken
Every one took biscuit and plenty OF gravy
along with the chicken. the vegetables were
mashed potatoes and peas or string beans
with cream and the dessert was pie.
The regulation Thanksgiving dinner is a
New England product and with its turkey
It's chicken pie cranberries. vegetables
pickles. and jelles. winding up with vari-
ETY. OF pies. served with cheese and with
perhaps nuts and raisins. makes up a meal
10 which one might be glad to invite one :
friends.
II any Of my correspondents can give me a
more characteristically New England din
ner than this / shall be glad to hear Of II
for the sake of this inquirer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
IF WE COULD "SEE OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE U.s."

faults or failings are displayed by your
children It may be a part of your duty to
correct them. You cannot have your girl
grow up to butter large slice Of bread and
bite into 1t instead of breaking 1t into small
pieces before applying the butter: you can
not let your son form the habit of eating
audibly. Even with your husband there
may be certain faults-such as using a
toothpick at the tapIe or cleaning his nails
IN public which for his own sake you ought
to try to persuade him to discontinue. But
how about the trifies-his habit of creasing
his trousers by putting them under the
mattress which you think most insan-
rary and even unclean-or of resting his
feet on a chair when he reads the paper
after dinner. or OF wearing bow tie instead
OF four-in-hand, or or putting on seedy
old slippers when ne comes home in the
evening instead Of a smart looking pair Of
house shoes? Don't all these try you? IL
you are OF the nagging variety haven't you
kept at him to stop them all until you have
brought him to a stubborn holding-fast to
his own works and ways?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09

mint family. But wanted the spearmint
branch and did not get it,
May 1 offer you my sincere thanks for
your help In the paper? am past 6s years
OF age and have been a home maker for
forty-eight years. but as l was not taught
to cook as a girl at home, though know
how things ought to be, / cannot always
get them right. So your department is
great help. Sd"
do not myself know of any method ly
which you can keep shelled nuts for an in
definite length of time, unless you set them
in the oven long enough to Kill any lurking
Larvae or eggs. Why do you shell them?
My own observation Is that nuts which
have been sheiled long time are dry and
hard. Shell themias they are needed, unless
you wish to salt or sugar them. Then the
cooking does the work OF preservative
You ought to have no difficulty in pur-
chasing spearmint from "a responsible
scotsman or nurseryman. or perhaps some
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09

jelly. Currant and raspberry Is a good
combination. Sweeten to taste with white
sugar, boil all together for a few minutes
II too thick or too rich add a little boiling
water.
" also give the following. which is good
for invalids;
WHITE SAGO SOuP-cook together
the same quantity of water and sago as in
the preceding and flavor with lemon peel.
When the sago is tender do not boil any
more, but beat until thick the yolks of two
or three eggs with tablespoon of cold
water to prevent curdllng and a wlneglass
more, II desired. of sherry or brandy.
Stir up well and serve atenee. READER"
am always interested TO get new and un-
usual recipes and l do not see why the Dam
ish sweet soup should not begin a meal as
acceptabiy fruit cocktail or tutti frutti
of some sort. The white sago soup should
be good for an invalid and nutritious as
well as stimulating IL the malady from
which the patient suffers Is one that per-
mits the use % stimulants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
Appeal 10 German Hausfrau.

WIN some of the Cornerites come to
my rescue? | am anxious to know how to
make the Scotch shortbread, made of but
ter sugar, and -four. 1t is really cake
and is delicious. Also the Germans make a
cake called torti and a dessert, apple
streudel.
:" know l am asking a great deal and
have only this original recipe to offer In
return. 1 find 1t supplies a good use for
extra yolks of eggs when l am making a
white cake or meringue:
CUP CUSTARDS-To the we'll beaten
yolks Of six eggs add half cup OF sugar
two small cups OF milk. half cup of desic-
Gated cocoanut. two tablespoons of melted
butter, vanilla to taste. Pour the mixture
into three cups. stand them In pan of boil
ing water, and bake in a moderate oven
until firm In center. This will take about
twenty minutes. Remove the custard from
the cups when it is cold and serve with
cream. Occasionally pour about a table
spoon of liquid caramel burnt sugar sirup)
In the bottom of the cups and turn the
custard in on this. When baked the cara
mel makes the sauce. These are goodi
MRS. J. A. l."
Thanks for the recipe. ! confess that but
ter in a custard is a new notion to me- but
l should think it would add both to the
richness of the dish and to it's flavor. Have
you ever tried stirring grated chocolate into
the custard instead of the cocoanut? I
should think 1t might be pleasant varia-
tion.
As to the Scotch shortbread. can give you
recipe presented to me years ago by a dear
old lady Of Scottish blood. birth and breed
-ng The shortbread she made was as de-
licious as any l have ever eaten. and my
own success with the recipe proved its ac-
curacy. If any Of our readers have other
directions which are tested and trustworthy
] shall be glad to receive them and print
them.
For the other dishes you wish must
rely upon the cornerites. have eaten sew
eral different kinds of German cakes which
were called "torti." One was an APPEL
torte," and there We're others with nuts in
them instead of apples and also with fruits
-aprfcots and plums and the like. / am
sure some of our German hausfrauen can
help us out with. these and with the . ap-
plestreudel' too. The latter is dish with
which | am not familiar
SCOTCH SHORTBREAD--Chop c pound
Of butter into two pounds OF -four fter
you have softened the butter little oy
putting it near the fire. Knead in the ugar
and make the dough into sheet about hair
an inch thick, rolling 1t out smooth. Oh
can cut it into shapes with biscuit
cake cutter or make it into SQUARES Lay
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09
Consider Your Own Foiblcs.


One of the wisest matrons 1 know told
me at one time of how hard It was for her
to reconcile herself to her husbands un-
willingness TO dress for dinner, as he had
been in the habit of doing In his courting
days. She eoaxed and complained and
argued, but to little avail. Once in while
he would hnmor her but his usual course
was to exchange his street coat for an
easy house coat wash his hands and come
to the table with no other modification
of his attire. Finally she came to q wise
conclusion. IL his home was to be to him
a real refuge from the cares and vexations
of the outside world he must not be forced
into a dinner toilet when he was tired out.
His comfort was more important than her
whims. So she let the matter go and
obliged herself not to care for his dress,
but to rejoice in the knowledge that home
10 him was peace and indulgence and COM
fort
| am quite sure he finds things in mo
that are as hard for him to stand as his dis
like to dinner drescing,' she said, laugh
inely. That reflection consoles meI'
Look at similar annoyances as she and
Thomas Kempis dol When the peculisri-
ties of a relative or housemate or friend
disturb YOU consider the possibilities of
your own tricks or foibles distressing them.
One of the best friends l ever had used
to drive me almost Wild With way she
tad of fussing incessantly with her
nails She was all the time picking at her
cuticle. nbbling at hang-nails, pushing
back the skin about the base of the nails.
1 stood 1t impatiently for a long while. but
one day l spoke to her about It. She took
it coed humoredly but as the boys would
say, handed me one" in return.
i" IL you will stop twisting your bangle
and pulling your rings Off and on all the
while you are talking, I'll let my nails
alone" she said.
My mannersm had bothered her as much
as hers had tried me. and had never sus-
pected that | was not impeccablel
II you have been annoyed and fretted
with such trlfies. and the one who has prac-
ticed them lies in danger of his or her life.
you will have an opportunity to learn OF
what little account were the peculiarlties.
If you reeollect them 1t is with a pang of
bitter self-reproach that you should ever
have let their existence vex you with one
who may pass away from and leave you
desolate In that hour you feel you would
give years of life to be able to see the little
tricks again that once irritated you. and
you VIII wonder that such a little thing
could ever have counted for an instant
Try to take that point of view now and
practice the Kempis maxim to some pur-
pose.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-02-09

- WISH to ask a favor CT your Cor
~ | ner. l have two children to sup
port, and at the present am not able
to work much. l am married for
the second time. but these two are
children by my first marriage, and their
stepsather is not inclined to spend money
for them except for necessities. If any of
your readers have caston toys that would
do for boy of and a girl of 6 l would
be glad to get them. They would make
the children happy. | will gladly send for
them IL the givers are in this city.
MRS. ]. M. NJ
This appeal touches my neart, as 1t will
the hearts Of all mothers. If little children
have a right to anything it is surely TO
toys and the enjoyment that comes with
these. The stepfather may be possessed
of sturdy virtues, but evidently sympathy
and Imagination are not among his quail
ties. He reminds me of the man who, as
one of the directors of an orphan asylum
in a city where / had my home for many
years, discountenanced giving lie children
molasses with their bread, on the ground
that circumstances might arise in their
after life when they would be unable to
procure molasses, and 1t was unwise to
accustom them to an enjoyment that some
time might be denied them! This is a true
Incident The stepfather and the director
both belong TO class that should have
nothing to do with the management or care
of children!
But to come back to the poor toyless
babies Are there not some more fortunate
children whose stock of toys contains ar
tlcles they would be glad to pass on to
these less lucky ones? If so, will their
mothers not write TO me for the address of
Mrs. j. NJ. NJ and take an early opportu-
nifty of bringing pleasure and play into the
lives of the little folks who have no toys
OF their ,own7 l am sure shall have
prompt and liberal reply to this appeal