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Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
LAYING OUT A GARDEN
ERRONEOUS IDEA THAT MUCH
TIME Is REQUIRED.
Plot $50 by 100 Feet viii Produce
Enough Fruit and Vegetables for
Family Of Six---Run the Rows
North and South.
(By E. PARKER.)

(By E. PARKER)
There is an important economical
side to this question of a garden.
Beef, for instance, In its various forms
Is VIGOROUSLY expensive, especially
where 1t is eaten twice or three times
a day. whereas beans, peas. spinach,
ETC., when served with meat would
make up half the amount eaten, thus
reducing the cash cost of the whole.
And the impression that vegetable
garden requires much time and care
Ia such an erroneous one! Two or
three hours o week will suffice for a
garden 100 by 100 feet, which is cap
able Of producing fruit and vegetables
enough for family of six, provided
the rows are three feet apart so that
horse may he used.
In laying out such q garden the
rows should be run north and south,
for planted thus vegetables receive
the greatest amount of sun. The first
four rows should be six feet apart, and
the first of these might contain twelve
currant and twelve gooseberry bushes
set six feet apart In the second row
plant hundred raspberry canes three
feet apart, with two canes at each
place. The third row will be for
strawberries and will hold $50 plants
grown In hills set one foot apart, no
runners being allowed to grow. The
next thirteen rows will be three feet
apart and may be planted to the fol-
lowing vegetables In the order given:
Asparagus plants, so one-year seed
lings, set three feet apart In the row;
parsnips, so feet; then hundred feet
of onions, of which rs feet may be
young sets for early summer; beets
and lettuce, SO feet; early cabbage, a
hundred feet; late cabbage, hundred
feet; caulifiower, so feet; peas, three
full rows, corn, four fun rows; toma-
toes, hundred feet; beans, so feet;
okra, ten feet; then 80 feet more OF
string beans and $50 feet of dwarf
lima beans. The remaining four rows
5houlu uo Ci6ut loCt apart " dlioW tuo
vines to spread. In the first row
plant rs muskmelons six feet apart
then q row of cucumbers set six feet
apart, five elephants and ten early
squash, all six feet apart. The next
row may be planted to eight Hubbard
squash and twelve rhubarb plants, set
six feet apart. and the last two rows
may very properly be given over to
herbs and flowers for cutting.
It is frequently forgotten that a
great many people abroad, notably the
drawers of water and hewers Of wood,
live almost entirely on vegetables. con-
sidering meat luxury only to be in
dulged In once week, while we in
America, having the most delicious
and greatest variety of vegetables
grown anywhere, discard them for
meat
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
SEES PROBLEM FOR ENGLAND
Trouble Over Ulster Has Been the
Cause of Much Comment Through
out France.

The conflicting reports and rumors
with regard to the attitude of the Off
GERS OF the British army toward the
crisis In Ulster created painful i'm
preston In France. French history
has more recent instances of similar
events than that of England. The mu-
TIMES In the south when the troops
refused to move against the rioting
wine growers led to a general disloca-
ton of the French army with view
to avoiding the use of local con-
scripts against their own friends and
relatives; but perhaps closer par
allel is to be found in the refusal of a
few officers to obey their orders dur
ing the taking of the church invento-
ries under the church and state sep
aration law. Those officers were at
once arrested and court-martialed.
To the general upon whose orders
the arrests were made General de Gal
lifet telegraphed: my heart is with
you; you have done your duty. Dura
lex, sed lex"
That officers who belong to a nation
whose sense of discipline is the adj
miration of the French should have
rendered their designations rather
than obey orders is regarded as sign
Of the extreme gravity Of the problem
which the Petit Parisien fears may
lead to an Irish Vendee.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11

rage, five or ten years afterward, they
are kept imprisoned In bamboo cages
from which they are released for only
an hour once day Despite this
close Imprisonment, they grow up ap-
lparently strong and In good health.
Romance is absent from the betrothal
ceremony which is concerned altogeth-
er with pigs, canoes and tomahawks.
Husbands Won by Cookery.
The second marriage differs in this
tribe from the first in that the widow
has her husband selected for her by
her relatives, but she must win him
by her skill as cook. AS soon as
the man is selected, the widow, with
her cooking pots, is taken to his house.
She prepares and cooks his food and
when he returns in the evening offers
1t to him with her own hands. Should
he accept, the marriage Is established,
but II the lady be not attractive in his
eyes he clicks his tongue, a peculiar
Papuan note of disapproval, and she
must leave to try her culinary skill
on another man. The good cook near
ly always wins, whether or not she Ia
good looking. Not in America alone
is husband won or kept By feeding
the brute" The American girl who
wears q cook apron gracefully will
get her best young man sure!
A story is told in New Guinea of a
Papuan widow who was an indiffer-
emit cook. She cooked dinner every
day for three weeks for the man Sc
lected to be her second husband, while
the willy prospective bridegroom,
moving what was In store, took all
h,s meals with his father. Finally.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
cocoanut and Is used for soap, oil an,

cocoanut and is used for soap, oil and
many commercial purposes One Ger.
man firm, with headquarters at Maron,
has 10000 cocoanut trees from which
copra Is being obtained. The devel-
opment of the copra industry has
brought some commercial prosperity
to the islands, but 1t has brought also
many OF the demoralizing vices of
civilization. There are honorable
merchants engaged in the business,
but there are also many low-class trad
ers or beach combers," who dis
grace the name of white man. Slave
labor, through system of enforced
servitude called euphemistically la
bor-recruiting system, has nearly ev-
erywhere been introduced as neces-
sary for the copra industry. 1t is not
strange to find that the native fears
the white man. Wherever possible
the white man, trader or planter, In
the South Seas forces him to labor,
when he had never worked before, and
carries him, q practical slave. for this
labor to cocoanut plantations on dis
tant islands.
Good Work of Missionaries.
The German missionary has done
and continues to do much good among
the natives. For making conditions
better in these lonely but beautiful H.
lands much credit ia due to the Ger
man missionaries--as in other lands
credit is due missionaries OF other
nations. The missionary seldom re-
ceives the need of praise he merits.
A new Acts Of the Apostles could be
written from the stories Of the lives
of the missionaries. men and women,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11

out in these outposts Of German civ.
ilization. True, there is divided and
discordant Christianity, to the shame
OF Christianity here and at home. Com
petition still exists among Christian
sects when cooperation has succeed
ed competition In the business world.
True, there are unworthy mission
aries. But when all has been said
against them by traders with whose
cruel methods they interfere and by
tourists who travel only for pleasure
and by cynics who are deaf and blind
though not dumb, the worlds good is
being promoted, immeasurably pro-
NOTED, by these self-sacriflcing men
and women who are engaged In splen-
did adventure for God and man in
the islands Of the sea.
Heroic Preachers Work.
Take one example out of many. On
the island of New Pommeru the Rev.
H. p Wenzel, a German Methodist
missionary, is closing his eighth year
Of unremitting service, without holt
day or relief. He gave up a comfort
able pulpit in Berlin to come to this
distant land. His wife, who came
with him, died Of fever and lies buried
near the mission church he built His
children were sent home to live with
relatives In Germany. He kept on
with his work, facing loneliness, pri
walton, disease, death. Fourteen mis-
sionaries on the island were killed by
hostile natives. His life was threat
ened and for long time in imminent
danger. He never faltered. He went
about alone among the natives, preach
ing, teaching, healing with simple med
icines the sick. leading into gentler
ways the natives, half savage and
half child" Cannibalism was stamped
out. slavery and polygamy disap
peared.
The Native Converts.
Six thousand converts are the fruits
Of eight years labor Of this man and
his associates. Nor are these con-
verts merely rice Christians" as the
native Christians for revenue only are
contemptuously called in some coun-
tries, but men and women who lose
In present position, socially and ma
terially, by adoption of the new faith.
They are accepted as converts on pro-
baton for three years. during which
time they must lead upright lives, So
Der, industrious, before they can be
received into the church communion.
After baptism they are dropped from
the rolls or placed again on probation,
should they fall into their old and evil
practises. Even the most captious
critic in the islands has only words Of
commentator for the work of Pastor
Wenzel and his colleagues. The re-
suits in the lives of the natives
brought under their influence are too
patent to be sneered away. And the
German Methodist missionaries in the
German islands OF the South Seas are
| types Of the hundreds who labor for
humanity's betterment In the worlds
! dark places. OF such stuff are gen
uine heroes made.
| Copyright, 1914, by Joseph B. Bowles)
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
Time for Bird study.

In the last ten years the little CON-
pany OF students of bird life has grown
into an army. Everywhere the birds.
are interesting, but not everywhere
can they be seen and studied to equal
advantage. This month marks the
height of the tide Of the spring migra-
ton. The schooiFoom has not walls
and the sky Is Its ceiling. Now IL
the time to study.--Chicago Post
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
SUNLIGHT AS DIsINFECTANT
Most Disease Germs Are Killed by d.
rect Light as Repeated Tests
Have Demonstrated.
(py H. PRESTON HosKINs.)

(By II. PRESTON HOSKINS)
Sunlight is one OF the best and
cheapest disinfectants at our disposal,
and wo should take advantage OF this
fact at every opportunity. In the con-
structicn OF barns or shelters OF any
kind for animals, ample provision
should be made for the admission OF
the maximum amount Of sunlight.
Southern exposure is desirable, that is.
having the majority of the windows
facing the south. The warmth thus
provided in cold weather is desirable,
and much OF the excessive heat In
summer can be avoided by providing
suitable curtains or screens. Most dis
ease germs are easily killed by direct
sunlight, as has been repeatedly shown
By experiments.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11

Gap. Caroline
Islands. No old
maids are to be
70 nd In I b 9
South Sea Is
lands. There are
no "unappropriat-
ed blessings. No
widow remains a
W 1 d o W N any
days. There are
no odd" women.
The bachelor girl
is one product OF
civilization which
has not yet found
way to these
tropical islands,
though cigarettes
and liquor are
here in ample
m e a sure. The
widow tears her
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11

condensing plants where they do not
have the by-product returned to their
farms to feed out to the calves that
are being raised to replace the cows
that are annually discarded from
their herds.
The keeping of more cows for
creameries and cheese factories Is
also encouraging and many men are
willing to pay a good price for we'll
bred dairy COWS.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
Mo Use for Cholera.

II 1t we're not for hog cholera pork
raisers would be living in the lap of
luxury. The time will come when
there will be no more excuse for hog
cholera than for human cholera that
until a century or 80 ago periodically
devastated Europe and America. Both
are essentially filth diseases,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
RAISING BEST DAIRY BREEDS
No More Profitable Line Of Stock
Growing Than Raising Good Cows
for the Dairymen.

Any farmer is safe In breeding and
raising for sale large milking or but
reproducing cows. AS an industry
there is no more profitable line of
stock growing than raising good cows
and selling them to the dairymen who
are making a speciality Of producing
market milk or selling their milk to
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11

Many Children are Starving
not from lack of food, but because
arasites--worms-ar feeding upon
what ought to go to nourish the child.
Trey's vermifuge will quickly correct
this. Csc at all dealers.--Adv.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
Whenever You Need a General T0nic
Take Groves
The old Standard
Groves 7aSfeEeSS
chill Tonic

Equally Valuable as General Strengthening Tonic, Because Acts on he
Liver, Drives Out Malaria uces tho Bleed and Builds Up the Whole System
you taking when take Groves Tastss chill Tonic
printed LABEL showing that contains the wenown
properties QUNE and IRON has equal for Malaria hs and
Weakness General Debility and Loss Appetite Gives life and vgr
Nursing Mothers and Pale scy Children True Tonic and Sure Appeze
children. Guaranteed BY Dg We mean IT, 60o
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
Their Use.

Tourist Cooking at the famous cas-
cade)-Whatever becomes of all those
sheets of water?
Facetious Guide-They 60 into the
bed of the river.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11

Constipation causes many serious dis.
eases. 1t is thoroughly cured by Doctor
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. One laxative,
three for cathartic Adv,
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11

1t is easier to hear lot than 1t is
to raise the money to pay for one.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
Then 1t Started.

Then 1t Started.
THE man | marry must be well
off,"
The man you marry won't. "-Hous-
ton Post.
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
Its Kind

lts Kind.
Doctor, my trouble is wholly ath-
letic."
What do you mean?"
1--WE got a jumping toothache."
Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1914-06-11
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IT IS SERIOUS

Some keokuk People Fail to Realize
the Seriousness of a Bad Sac
The constant aching of a bad back,
TIL. WEAKNESS, the tired feeling,
The pains and aches Of kidney ills
MAY result seriously If neglected.
Dangerous urinary troubles often
follow.
A Keokuk citizen shows you what
to do.
Martin Kelleher, 300 North Twelfth
street, Keokuk, says: 81 caught a
heavy cold and soon after l began to
suffer from pains in my limbs and
back. My kidneys became weak n
I had to get up several times "a night
to pass the kidney secretions. Despite
all my efforts, I failed to get relief.
One day a friend insisted that | try
Doan's Kidney Pills and I got a sup
ply at Wilkinson & Co.'S Drug Store.
They restored my kidneys to a nor
condition and removed the back
ache. | can recommend Doan's Kid
ney Pills just as highly today as
did some years ago. I have had no
sign of kidney complaint since"
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Kelleher had. Foster-M1lburn Co,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
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Miss Lupton, Keokuk; Mrs. Winona
E. Reeves, Keokuk.
HENRY COUNTY OLD SETTLERS.

HENRY COUNTY OLD SETTLERS.
The Henry County old settlers
association held an unusually well at
tended and enjoyable meeting at
Salem on Saturday. DR.. Frank G.
Beardsley Of the Keokuk Congrega-
tional church was the orator. The
meeting was held in the public park
and the following program carried
out:
1890 a. m.-Music by Quaker City
band.
Invocation-Viola Smith.
Address Of welcome-President HI
Pickard.
Response-Rev. Jonathan Lee.
Music-Quaker City band.
Dinner. =
1870 D. m.-Music by Quaker City
band.
Concert by Salem chorus.
Address-Rev. F.. G. Beard'sley.
Short talks by pioneers and old
settlers.
Music-Quaker City band.
Reading Of mortuary list. H. Ar
mold.
$50 p. m.-Ball game. Salem VS..
ICantril.
500 D. m.-Band concert.
Beside the speakers stand was
erected a large platform on which
was placed comfortable chairs for the
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Pioneer Iowa coHe9e at Salem aash-
crs Its Sons and Daughters
Home Once More
on Friday.
OLD SETTLERS REUNION
Henry County Early inhabitants AZ
terd Their Reunion Yesterday
Keokuk People at Both
Celebrations.
.c.ao,o, ,o The Gate City.l

g1 lSDoClai " hC '"eS ~
SALEM, Iowa, Aug. was
the scene OF a reunion OF orWe STU
dents and graduates of Whittier COZ
leee. mn Friday. 1t had, been the IN
tention to hold the celebration on
the campus, but the rain caused d
change Of plans and the meeting was
held in the town hall. There were
present two representatives OF 'he
first class of 1889 and representatl'es
of many other classes. all the mem
bers of the class OF 1888 being at 'he
reunion, Miss Annie e. Packer' o.
1869. who for fifty.two CONSECUTIVE
Years has been a teacher In the
schools of Henry. Lee and van buien
counties forty of those years havlns
been spent in teaching in Wnitt'e,
college. presided during the informal
n-ogram of the afternoon. Shoi.
speeches and "reminiscences were to'o
bv most OF those present. A perma-
nent whittier association was organ
izes with Miss Packer as president
Tha association will meet
on the dsr proceeding the old settlers
meeting in Salem. ,
Whittier ~ecllege was one among the
Oldest institutions of higher learn1ne
IN Iowa. having been opened IN 1898
unc.sr the supervision OF the Salem
quarterly MEETING Of F-ionas n con
dr-sed in accordance with tue pr'n-
ciples and ideas Of the GraSe- chur'h
II was named fer the Quaker poet
Whittier who to the dav OF mis- death
took an interest In the school send
I'M ran~ hooks TO it's library and LOT
wears sending q letter nf greefin' at
commencement time. The foliowips
i=tte- wce sent l., the bcarI OF rus
tees In acknowledgement OF the letter
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In the evening at 7:45 p. m. A social
time will be given at John Anderson's
on Hilton road, Thursday evening. at
which all friends are welcomed.
Baptist Church.-Sunday school at
$50. Brief service with sermonette
at 1920. The subject for Rev. Nc
Allister's brief address will be. The
Hidden Thorn" At 2:30, services at
the Baker Mission. In the evening at
Gas the B. Y. P. U. will hold it's SER
vice. In the evening there will be
no evening service because of the
union services. All are invited to at
tend these services.
First Westminster Presbyterian
Church.-Sunday school at $50 a. M.
r. l.. Reid. superintendent. Public
worship at 1O:45 a. m. Sermon by
Rev. w. L. Mathews of Grand Forks,
n. D. Christian Endeavor at 700 p.
m. The evening services. Wednesday
evenings and Sunday evenings. here
after at 7:3o. Congregation invited
to the union services at 500 p. m.
Pastor will return during the week.
Second Presbyterian Church. West
Keokuk. Pastor. J. c. Hughes, IT'S
Park street.-Sunday school and
Bible class, 9:45 a. m. School at Rock
Hall Mission 2:30 p. m. Preaching
services II a. m. and 8 p. m. Subject
of morning sermon. The Superiority
Of an Experimental knowledge to a
Historical knowledge OF Christ
Evening subject, "a Gracious Invita-
ton and Promise" Prayer meeting
Wednesday 8 p. m. The public cor
daily invited.
The First Methodist Protestant
church, corner of Twelfth and Elk
change streets.-Sunday school al
$3.50 a. m. class meeting at 800 p
m, Christian Endeavor at 700 p. m.
preaching at 1O:45 a. m. and 500 p
m. The pastor, J. o. Ledbetter, will
preach his final discourse in the
evening and the following week will
go 20 his new pastorate in Muncie
Indiana. 1t is especially requested
tina all the members attend these
services as the pastor desires to set
them once more before he takes his
leave. All neighbors and friends are
cordially invited to come and worship
with us. The Rev. E. Leroy Stefey
D. D., the incoming pastor will take
! charge of the work and I'LL the pulpit
the first Sunday in September, he j:
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telling him that the new Quaker col
lege had been named for him.
Prixed Letter from Poet.

HFlZS0 IStSSF IToT1 NC
The letter was addressed to Isaac
Gibson, secretary:
Amesburg, Mass, 9th Mo-, 26th, 1868
NV Dear Friend: l hasten to an
swer thy note of the goth. trust l
gratefully appreciate the kind estima-
ton OF my life and services which has
given my. nam to the new literary IN
stitution, Of which thou are secretary;
and | beg leave through thee to thanh
the friends Of Salem quarterly meet
ing for their marked expression OF
good will and confidence. May a good
Providence SO order 1t that the o
;ege may prove Of permanent useful
ness, n that the bearer of its name
NAV be preserved from any word or
a t which shall make the selection OF
mat name a cause of regret.
Yours very truly,
JOHN G. WHITTIER.
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many old people who were in attend,
eeards,ey Praise. Pioneers.

DR.. Beardsley gave an eloquent ad
dress, emphasizing the debt we W
to the. pioneers. He spoke Of the per
sonnet Of the early settlers Of Salem.
They were Quakers and were people
having the highest moral standards
and were lovers Of education.
Henry county has the distinction OF
having had the first school of higher
learning in Iowa, the Iowa Wesleyan
university at Mt. Pleasant, Howe's
academy at Mt. Pleasant and Whittier
college at Salem we're also established
in a very early day. DR.. Beardsley
was given the closest attention. Rev,
Jonathan Lee Of Ottumwa who gave the
response to the address Of welcome,
is n of the we'll known men In III
part of the state. being a pioneer Bap-
tist preacher. Salem has held old
settlers meetings every year since
1880 and it is a day which attracts
hundreds Of people from a distance as
we'll as from Henry county.