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Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21

and l judge they both had lower
berths; otherwise their minds would
have been busy with dark and per-
sonal fears of the future.
WELL" exclaimed the gabby one
from Kansas City, what is politics?
Well, what is it?"
Politics. replied Wise Willie from
Providence, politics is where we get
it-sometimes in the bank, sometimes
in the neck!"
Everybody present peeled the cover
off a loud laugh and the smokeless
hog at the window stole four inches
extra space so that he could shake
more when he giggled.
Well" resumed the inquisitive per-
son from Kansas City, what is a poll.
tician? Do you know? Eth, well,
what is a Politician"
"a politician" replied the fat man
from Providence, "a politician is the
reason we have so much politics"
Much applause left the hands of
those present, and the smokeless hog
turned sideways so that he could
NAO ONhOA0
Perhaps" insinuated gabby Jim
from Kansas City, perhaps you know
what statesman Is, eh?"
"A statesman is a politician in good
luck" was the comeback from our
fat friend from Providence, and in
the enthusiasm which followed the
smokeless hog found out there was no
buffet car on the train, so he offered
to buy the drinks.
Don't you believe that all men are
born equal?" inquired the Kansas City.
ite.
"Yes, but some OF them have pull
enough to get over IT," responded the
Providence philosopher; whereupon
the smokeless hog by the window
took out a flask and began to dampen
his conscience.
Just then the towel rack fell with
a crash, and after 1 picked up the
comb and brush and myself l decided
to retire to my bracket on the wall
and try to sleep.
When left the smoker the smoke
less hog was occupying two and a
half seats and was now busy breath.
ing in some secondhand cigarette
smoke which nobody seemed to care
for.
How do l reach my Alpine bunga.
lowT' said to the porter, whereupon
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21
PREPARE LAND FOR
STAND OF ALFALFA
Best Method Of InoCuIating Is
to Use Soil From Old Field
Keep Weeds Out.

Alfalfa is hard crop to start. 1t is
delicate and tender, and to put alfalfa
on ordinary land without any protec-
tion or help is about like throwing
away four dollars an acre.
Put on 20 to 30 loads of manure per
acre; you are preparing the land for
ten years.
But the land must first be worked
over and over until it is free from
weeds. 1t may take a disking or har-
rowing every ten days all summer to
do this.
If the soil is acid, as shown by the
simple litmus-paper test, put ON the
ground limestone. Inoculate the
ground and sow the alfalfa the last of
July or the first of August.
The best method of inoculating the
soil is to use soil from an old alfalfa
field or from a patch of sweet clover,
a wagon load or more per acre, but
this soil must not lie on top Of the
ground in the hot sun many hours or
the bacteria will be killed.
There is little danger from sweet
clover, which is a two-year plant, and
will not survive in the field when the
alfalfa is moved as often as it needs
moving.
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SEEING LIFE Wh
N1JOHN HENRY
SSA A@ Geo1qeV eVIIobart
E4IN\1N9t1 John Henry on Human Nature
John Henry on Human Nature

telegram to your wife in Logansport. "
Curtain.
OF course the fact that Wedge didn't
have a wife in Logansport or else
where made no difference. He couldn't
prove an alibi, so he faded out into
the day coach and became as one
who isn't
The Roast-Beef Sisters seemed to
be all carved up about something or
other.
While these more or less grin-pro-
ducing incidents were occurring there
was ever present in my own noodle
the grim reality that bedtime was ap.
preaching and l had drawn an upper
berth.
Say! I'll be one of party of six
to go before Congress and tell all
know about an upper berth.
The upper berth in a sleeping car
is the same relation to comfort that
a carpet tack is to bare foot.
AS a place to tie up small bundle
of sleep a boiler factory has 1t beat
to a whimper.
Strong men weep every time the
ticket agent says, Nothing left but
an upper" and lovely women have
Mysteries and begin to make faces
at the general public when the colored
porter points up in the air and says,
Madam, your eagles nest is ready
far up the mountainside."
While the porter was cooking up
my attack of insomnia l went out in
the smoking room to drown my sor-
row, but found such a bunch of sor-
row killers out there ahead of me that
1 had to hold the comb and brush in
my lap and sit up on the towel rack
while took little smoke.
Did you ever notice on your trav-
els that peculiar hog on the train who
pays two dollars for a berth and al
ways displaces eight dollars worth
Of space in the smoking car?
If he would bite the end of a piece
Of rope and light up occasionally he
wouldn't be so bad, but nix ON the
smoke for him.
He simply sits there with face like
fish and keeps George Nicotine
and all the real rag burners from en-
1oying a smoke.
If ever a statue is needed of the pa
triot Buttinski l would suggest a
model in the person of the smokeless
smoker who always travels in the
smoking car.
Two busy gazabes were discussing
politics when squeezed into the
smoker on this particular occasion,
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he laughed teethfully and hit me on
the shins with stepladder.
The spectacular gent who occupied
the star chamber beneath my garret
was sleeping as noisily as possible,
and when l started up the stepladder
he began to render Mendelssohn's
Obbligato for the trombone in the key
of g.
Above the roar of the train from
away of in lower No. 2 family could
hear an answering bugle call.
climbed up prepared for the worst
and in the twinkling of an eye the
porter removed the stepladder and
there l was, sitting on the perilous
edge of my pantry shelf with nothing
to comfort me save the exhaust of
professional snorer.
After about five minutes devoted to
a parade of all my sins, l began to
try to extract my personality from my
coat, but when l pushed my arm up
in the air to get the sleeve loose my
knuckle struck the hardwood finish
and / fell backward on the cast-iron
pillows, breathing hoarsely like a
busy jackrabbit.
l waited about ten minutes while
my brain was bobbing back and forth
with the excitement of running fifty
miles an hour over a careless part of
the country. and then cautiously
tried to approach my shoe laces.
Say! If you're a man and you
weigh in the neighborhood of 200
pounds, most of which is in the re-
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gion of the equator, you will appre-
ciate what it means to lie on your
back in an upper berth and try to get
your shoes off,
And this goes double for the man
who weighs more than 200 pounds.
Every time reached for my feet
to get my shoes off l bumped my
head OFF; so l decided that in order
to keep my head on had better keep
my shoes on also.
Then tried to divorce my suspend
ers from my shoulders but Just as
got the suspenders half way over my
head struck my crazy bone on the
rafters, and there was, suspendered
between heaven and earth, but pray
ing with all my heart for a bottle of
arnica
Finally l decided to sleep as ma
ture made me. with all my clothes on,
including my rubbers.
So stretched out, but lust then the
train struck curve and went up in
the air till the ceiling hit me, and
then bounced over to the edge of
the precipice and hung there, trem-
bling on the verge.
Below me all was dark and gloomy.
and only by the hoarse groans of the
snorers could l tell that the Pullman
company was still making money.
Luck was with me, however, for Just
then the train struck an in-shoot
curve which pushed me to the wall,
and l bumped my head so completely
that fell asleep.
When l woke up a small package
of daylight was peeping into the car,
so l decided to descend from my cup
board shelf at once.
l peeped out through the aluminium
curtains, but there was no sign of
the colored porter and the stepIadder
was invisible to the naked eye.
The car was peaceful now, with the
exception of gent in lower No. 4.
who had strangle hold on a Bee
thoven sonata and was beating the
cadence out of 1t.
| made short prayer and conclud-
ed to fall out, but just then one of my
feet rested on something solid; so |
put both feet on 1t and began to step
down.
Alas, however, the moment | put
my weight on 1t my stepping stone
gave way and l fell overheard with a
splash.
How dare you put your feet on my
head?" yelled the man on the ground
moor of my bedroom.
Excuse me. 1t felt like something
wooden" whispered, while I dashed
madly for the smoker.
From that day to this l have never
been able to look Pullman car in the
face, and whenever anybody mentions
an upper berth to me lose my pres.
ence of mind and get peevish.
If you have ever been there your.
self know you don't blame me!
Do you?
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GREAT AMOUNT OF
WORK AROUND FARM
Of Much Importance to Have
Fresh Water for StoCk-Turn
Horses Into Pasture.
(By E. VAN BENTHuYsEN.l

Good water for the stock is more i'm
portant during the long hot days of
summer than any other season.
Now is the time when the forage
crops-did you SOW any last spring?-
come in to keep up the milk flow.
A pig kept in dirty, dry pens these
days cannot thrive.
1t is cruel and poor judgment to
keep horses shut up in a stable during
the hot nights.
When the horses come in from the
fields in the evening their heads and
legs should be washed and rubbed dry,
and after drying feed in the open air
and turn out to pasture.
These are hard days for the dairy
man, as the milk flow decreases while
the flies increase. Use the forage
crops, screen the stable windows and
spray the cows with hy-repellent.
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best receptacle for filling. Pour boil
ing water, well salted, over the pep
pers and let stand to cook three min
utes. Remove and set in a serving
dish suitable for the oven. Have ready
for six peppers, cupful and a half
of white sauce, half a cupful Of rice
we'll cooked, three mild onions, boiled
tender, Cut the onions in bits and mix
with third of the white sauce Fill
the peppers with alternate layers of
creamed onions and the rice. Cover
with buttered crumbs and bake until
the crumbs are well Drowned. Turn
the rest of the white sauce around
the peppers and serve at once.
Ginger Ale SaIad.-Soften a fourth
of a package of gelatin in a fourth
of a cupful of cold water, and set to
dissolve over hot water add a grating
of lemon rind, and cupful and three
fourths of ginger ale. Turn into small
molds and chill. Serve very cold on
heart leaves of lettuce with either
French or mayonnaise dressing. to
cupful of which three tablespoonfuls
or more of cocktail sauce is added.
Fruit Puddlng.-Sift a cup Of flour
with a teaspoonful of baking powder
and half teaspoonful of salt; add
half cupful of milk and put a table,
spoonful of this mixture into a but
tered cup, then add few fresh straw
berries, raspberries or any fruit at
hand; put another tablespoonful of
the dough on top and place in boiling
water to cook, well covered, for 20
minutes
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Maries from Plainfeld, New Jersey.
They were members of the Soubrette
Singing Society, and they were en-
route to the West to join the Bunch
of Birds Burlesque Company"
Their names were Mile and Tillie,
and they wore Feather Duster hats,
and did a sister act that contained
more bad grammar than an East Side
VinOchle game.
Millie was fully aware that she
could back Duse off the map, and
Tillie was ready to bet a weeks sal
ary that she could make Bernhardt
feel like she was out in the storm we
had day before yesterday.
Tod called them the Roast-Beef Sis
tiers, Rare and Well-done.
In a minute the castors on Wedges
aeck began to turn.
Nick put the others wise with a
wink. so they lit the fire and began
10 cook 1t up.
Wedges heart was warming for the
birds in the gilded cage.
Nothing into it," said Slim. 'Tt's
q plain case of Appomattox. The war
Es over and they are yours, Wedge!"
Wedge turned few more volts into
ais twinkling lamps.
Lower your mainsail Wedge, and
drop alongside; you've made the
landing" suggested Nick.
Wedge began to feel his necktie
and play patty-cake with the little
bald spot On the top of his head.
Stop the hanson and get out ;
you're at your corner" said Tod.
The Sweet Dreams across the way
we're giving Wedge the glorious eve.
roll. and he felt that dinner was
ready.
Hang up your hat. Wedge, and
gather the myrtle with Mary!" Slim
Clipped in.
Then Wedge bounced over and he
gan to show Millie and Tillie what a
handsome brute he was at close ouar
t8rR
He sat on the arm of the seat and
steamed up.
In less than a minute he crowded
the information on them that he wa,
a millionaire who had escaped from
Los Angeles. California, and he wa,
Just going to put them both in grant
opera, when Slim toddled over II
Aim and said; Next stop Erie! Yo,
SOld nae to remind you to send tina
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21

TAYl Did you ever sit around in
~ the Pullman Car and study a few
paragraphs from the worlds most ia
@Ous text book-human nature?
Go after 1t the first chance you get
youth learn at lot.
For instance, during a trip recently
en- one of Mr.. Pullman's sleep-wagons
l soon learned that the brisk and
sreezy crew in the seats around me
we're commercial travellers, and they
we're tanning each other with fairy
tales about the goods they sold.
l learned that the one who looked
ake human apple was affectionately
known as Slim because he's so fat
ahat every time he turns around he
meets himself coming back.
And it wasn't hard to learn that
ahe tall one with the sandy hair was
Nick Dalrymple. who goes after the
orders for a hardware house in
Columbus and knows everybody in
the World-bar one family living in
YOnkers.
Then there was Tod Gilpin, who
cuts Ice for match factory in New
ark, and he's the life of small party.
Tod's main hold is to creep into
ahe reading room" of a Rube hotel
after the chores are done of an eve
ming and throw salve at the come-ons.
Tod tells them that their town is the
brightest spot on the map, and they
warm up to him and want to buy him
Sarsaparilla and root beer. Then
when he gets them stuck on them
selves he sells them matches.
Presently learned that the party
with the mauve forehead and the
magenta mustache was Mutt Daw-
sOn-the most reckless spendthrift
with his words and the meanest man
70 the English language I ever
Astened to.
The Dream Builders Association
vas in full session when Wedge Muir
ray caromed over and weighed-in with
tie party.
Wedge is saucy little party, FIVE
loot four. with three foot shoulders.
He thinks he strikes twelve on all
"ccasions, but his timepiece is an
hour slow.
learned that Wedge sells canned
shirt waists for the Shine Brothers,
and II he's ever let into the firm It
will be as a brother.
Wedge is one of those goose-headed
ginks who scratch gravel and start
IN to make killing every time they
zee a pretty girl.
Across the aisle sat two pet ca
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Prevent Forage POISONING.

Frequently horses die of forage
poisoning caused by molds in the
straw or corn. At once change to
good hay, sound oats and wheat bran,
then there will be no more losses.
Keep the horses out of pastures. At
the outset of an attack full dose Of
physic should be given; but preven-
ton is allimportant, and no specific
remedy has been found.
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Spray Mixture for Potatoes.

Lime-sulphur is not a good spray
mixture for potatoes. This is the de-
cision of the New York experiment
station after a series of tests. Where
lime-sulphur was compared with
bordeaux mixture as a remedy for
potato blight 1t was found the lime
sulphur decreased the yield about 20
bushels per acre, while the bordeaux
increased the yield 20 bushels per
acre.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21

bdIduI WIln CdUDdBt bdIdU
and in fact almost any
combination of vegetable
is improved by the addi-
ton of a portion of green
pepper.
Stuffed Green Peppers.
Cut a slice from the
stem or pointed end of
the peppers, whichever
will furnish therehv thn
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caddy Is Doomed.

The doom of the caddy is read in
the invention of d. and X. Roberts OF
Grantham, England. They have pat
ented an adjustable golf stick, with
interchangeable heads, so that it will
be necessary for the player to carry
only the stick and as many heads az
he wishes to use. Even the number
of heads is cut down by having two
striking faces on each, either oi
which may be used.
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NeAn. 1NGt.-e .-eaQ
RathIess Middle Aaes.

Greece had baths for every citizen;
so had Rome. but the Goths broke her
aqueducts and the fanatics closed the
public baths (being dirty themselvesl
and Rome fell and the Dark Ages set
in. "A thousand years without a
BATH" as Michelet epitomized them.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21
Most Obnoxious Msed

Wild barley, or so-called fox-tail, is
most obnoxious weed that should
be shown no mercy. It is even creep
ing on to raw prairie and into old
stands Of alfalfa and tame grasses.
The neglected roadsides and fence
corners are very prolific sources of In
festation. Clean them out.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21

'Tt Is a good thing to be rich." said
Euripides. land a good thing to be
strong. but 1t is better thing to be
beloved of many friends"
Tell me how you spend your spare
time and will tell you what you are,
says another wise man.
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Keep Poultry ounrters clsan

Keep the poultry quarters clean, by
all means, at this season, and give the
interiors occasional coatings of white
WASH to which little crude carbolic
ACID. cresol or any of the stock dips
Is added.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21
Right Number Of Nes+s

One open nest for each four hens is
about the right number. Nests are
best made of light material and part
ly OF wire and constructed in pairs
SO they may be easily removed and
cleaned.
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Worth While Quotation.

To work. to help, and to be helped
to learn sympathy through suffering,
to learn faith by perplexity, to reach
truth through wonder-behold! this
is what it is to live.-Phillips Brooks.
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prettv Leoend Of the Red Ro..

The Greeks held that the red rose
derived it color from the blood OF
Venus when she trod on a thorn of
the white rose while going to the as.
sistance of the dying Adonis.
Middletown transcript., 1915-08-21
Stakes Last Lonu.

Stakes driven into firm ground u
to IA inches will last longer than II
put down two feet. and hold barhod
wire Just as well
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sEAsoNAsLE RECIPES.

Those who are fond of green pep
pers enjoy them shredded in potato
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Private Emergency Hospital.

One of Cincinnati's Office buildings
is supplied with an excellent emer.
gency hospital.
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nallv rhounht.

The first duty OF a man is still that
vi subdUtng fear.-Carlyle.
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M&NM Salmon cakss.-Take
6NAlm a can of salmon and
mix with one beaten
MS~ egg, add cupful of bread
yAaAHrrSA crumbs and a table
Ss;s}Z spoonful of softened
zz MM butter Season with
UuunuSV salt and pepper, form
into small cakes and fry in hot fat.
Serve garnished with slivers of sour
pickle.
Tlpperary salad.-Mix two table
spoonfuls Of finely chopped parsley
with one and half cupful of well-sea-
soned mashed potato that has been
left from dinner, add a teaspoonful
OF onion juice and half tablespoon.
ful of vinegar. Chill thoroughly,
shape In small balls and serve on let
tuce leaves with French dressing.
Peach Puddine.-Line a deep bowl
with thin strips of sponge cake or
with ladyfingers. Pour into the bowl
a thin cornstarch pudding, favored
with almond. When the cornstarch
has settled lay on top halves of
canned peaches. Fill the bowl with
more cornstarch pudding, garnish the
top with sliced peaches and sprinkle
with cocoanut.
Salad Dressing for Fruit.-Beat
we'll the yolks of two eggs, add one.
half cupful of maple sirup and the
juice of lemon, with dash of salt.
Cook over hot water until smooth
and thick, beating with an egg whisk
or Dover beater constantly.
Hamburger Steak.-When getting
this meat at the market ask for half
hamburger and half pork, mix well.
season with salt, pepper, onion juice,
ground cloves and nutmeg. Make into
balls and cook in well-greased frying
pan until we'll Drowned. In another
pan put a piece of suet, tablespoon
full or two, and add sliced onions;
when we'll yellowed, add green ap-
pies. cut in slices, leaving on the peel
ing; add a little water and when near
ly soft small amount of sugar. Sim
mer until smooth and well cooked.
Serve around the platter of meat
cakes. When one has a limited
amount of meat, a good serving of
onions and apples helps to piece it
Hut satisfactorily.
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GOOD DISHES WORTH TRYING.

When 1t is hard to think of any
thing to have for luncheon or supper,
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NHKMeHHA
E6ABLNEG

For my own part. have ever gained
the most profit, and the most pleasure
also, from the books which have made
me think the most; and, when the diff
ficulties have once been overcome.
these are the books which have struck
deepest root. not only In my memory
and understanding. but likewise in my
affections.
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try
Salmon cakes.-Take
a can of salmon and
mix with one beaten
egg, add a cupful of bread
crumbs and a table,
spoonful of softened
butter. Season with
salt and pepper. form
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LESSON FOR AUGUST 22
AsA's GOOD REIGN.

LESSON TEXT-II Chron. 15::1-l6
GOLDEN TExT-Draw nigh to God and
he will draw nigh to you. James 4.8.
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INTERNATIONAL
SUNDYSQIOOL
LESSON

(By O. f. SELLERS, Acting Director Of
the Sunday School Course Of the Moody
Bible Institute)
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-12-15

rected to R. v Covington, treas
urec. 361 St. James building, Jack
sonville. A letter from Marcus G..
Fagg. superintendent of the society
to the editor of the Telegram shows
an urgent need for money to meet
necessary expenditures, and we re-
produce the body Of the communi-
cation in the hope that it may meet
the eye and touch he heart of some
one who will be glad to respond to
the call. Says Mr.. Fagg:
''ln order to provide for the eight
hundred and more little ones who
have been referred to us for aid from
every nook and corner of Florida
this year, we have not only used up
all of our receipts for the year but
some months our necessary expen-
ditures for the care Of our little
ones have exceeded our receipts by
hundreds of dollars so that in order
I to close up our great years work
without debt and have just little
to start the new year with, we must
raise five thousand dollars this
month. We can do it if you will just
give our work little boost through
your paper and make an appeal for
help for us from your readers =
The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-12-15

If the recent meeting in Gaines
vile of the Central Florida High
way Association intended to discip-
line or in any way maltreat Clar-
cnce Woods, of the Eustis Lake Re-
gior, because of the now celebrated
disturbance he raised over brick
roads in Orange and other counties,
it failed to carry out it's intentions
Clarence returned from that meeting
head and tail up, so to speak, unre-
pentant and aggressive as ever, and
from what we can learn he had the
association eating out of his hand
during its session. Repelling a re-
port in the Tampa Tribune that he
had agreed to retract his statements
concerning the brick trust and the
brick roads in Orange county, Clar-
cnce says: -,
ION the contrary, | reasserted ev-
cry essential claim before the exec
utive committee and Orange county
delegates and editors and not for an
instant retracted anything except
that the grouted brick road at Matt
land was not damaged as badly as