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New Britain herald., 1915-01-07

ban be black hce of ivory
 lemon, and though warm
 the consist m the boots er and soap.
 on the black Fave 1t for a t. Then leave (ur hours and |reanl.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-07

A potatoe pOultice is an excellent substitute for linseed. Boil the pota- toes in a bag for this purpose, and when they are soft bruise them into a mass and apply them in the bag to the patient.
New Britain herald., 1915-01-07
Household Notes

Peas. beans and lentils are the
 most nutritious of all vegetable SUD-
 stances.
 The heavy heads of cabbage are
 always the more solid and or liner texture.
 Little bits of leftover rice added to the griddle ackes will make them delicious.
 Cabbage leaves contain a great deal of gluten, therefore are very nourishing. Tn making salad dressing, cream and melted butter may be used in place of oil
 Strong lemonade mixed with grape juce makes an excellent drink for an invalid To help out meatless meal use cream soups, or dishes which include cheese, beans or eggs. Try making a make-belive trip with the convalescent child who is l fretted by staying in bed. Oysters chopped and served in the gravy of a particularly juicy DOT | terhouse steak are delicious. Rag rugs made of cotton wash we'll are inexpensive and are often 1 just the thing for the kitchen. If you are so unfortunate as to l have a bilious headache put a tea spoonful of lemon juice into cup of black coffee. This is a cure for such an attack.
 1 To make a syrup for fruit bever- ages, add 3-4 cup of sugar to 3-4 cup 1 of boiling water, stir till dissolved, | then boil 2 minutes without stirring, ] cool and bottle. The lower step of the black stair may be made into handy tool box having the top of the step put on a 1 hinge like a. lid. Every one who uses l the stairs. however must be careful. Dried fruit and vegeta bles should not be soaked in cold water; wash thoroughly in many changes of water | and soak them in a generous amount of tepid water; they will swell larger A potatoe poultice is an excellent substitute for linseed. Boil the pota- toes in a bag for this purpose and when they are soft bruise them into 8 mass and apply them in the bag to the patient
New Britain herald., 1915-01-07

Dried fruit and vegeta bles should not be soaked in cold water: wash thoroughly in many changes of water and soak them in a generous amount of tepid water; they will swell larger
New Britain herald., 1915-01-07

The lower step of the black stair may be made into a handy tool box having the top of the step put on a hinge like a lid. Every one who uses the stairs. however must be careful
New Britain herald., 1915-01-07

If you are so unfortunate as to have a bilious headache. put tea spoonful of lemon juice into q cup of black coffee. This is a cure for such an attack
New Britain herald., 1915-01-07

To make a syrup for fruit bever- ages, add 3-4 cup of sugar to 3-4 cup of boiling water, stir till dissolved, then boil 12 minutes without stirring, cool and bottle
New Britain herald., 1915-01-07

Rag rugs made of cotton wash we'll, are inexpensive and are often just the thing for the kitchen
New Britain herald., 1915-01-07

Oysters chopped and served ir the gravy of a particularly juicy DOT terhouse steak are delicious.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04

tice. His own people had cast him
out. They had branded him as the
deserter; they felt no need OF him or
his counsel. Very well, let them have
It so. His problem had been settled
for him. His Gordian knot was cut.
Sally and his uncle alone had his
address. This letter, casting him out,
must have been authorized by them,
Brother Spencer acting merely as
amanuensis. They, too, had repudi-
ated him-and, IL that were true, ex-
cept for the graves of his parents,
the hills had no tie to hold him.
Sally, Sallyl" he groaned, dropping
his face on his crossed arms, while
his shoulders heaved in an agony OF
heartbreak, and his words came in the
old, crude syllables: II lowed you'd
believe in me ef hell froze!" He rose
after that, and made fierce gesture
with his clenched fists. "All right"
he said, bitterly, "I'm shet Of the lot
of We. I'm done!"
But it was easier to say the words
of reputation than to cut the ties
that were knotted about his heart.
With ranking soul, the mountain
eer left New York. He wrote Sally a
brief note, telling her that he was go
Ing to cross the ocean, but his hurt
pride forbade his pleading for her con-
fidence, or adding, Il love you" Ho
plunged into the art life of the "other
side OF the Seine" and worked vora-
ciously. He was trying to learn
much-and to forget much.
One sunny afternoon when Samson
had been in the Quarter Latin for
eight or nine months the concierge of
his lodgings handed him, as he passed
through the cour, an envelope adj
dressed in the hand of Adrienne Les
colt. AS he read it he felt glow of
pleasurable surprise, and, wheeling, he
retraced his steps briskly to his lodg-
ings, where he began to pack. Adri-
enne had written that she and her
mother and Wilfred Horton were sail
ing for Naples, and commanded him,
unless he we're too busy, to meet their
steamer. Within two hours he was
bound for Lucerne to cross the Italian
frontier by the slate-blue waters OF
Lake Maggiore.
A few weeks later Samson and Ad-
rienne were standing together by
moonlight in the ruins of the Coli
scum. The junketing about Italy had
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04
AGE HAS ITS COMPENSATION
Philosophical View as Taken by This
Man Seems to Have Much to
Recommend It.

He was a lively old chap of past
seventy at lobster palace table with
glass of plain water for tipple.
"Of course" he was saying to the
younger men with him, II am not as
long for this world as you chaps are,
If you live to be as old as l am, but
1 have a satisfaction in life that you
haven't. know, because when l
was in my forties every time / had
anything the matter with me l got
scared.
II was afraid that either it would
kill me with only half my life lived or
that it was some lingering disease that
would make thirty or forty years OF
my life a burden. Nor was / alone
in thinking that way. Every man of
my age had the same feeling. i think
that comes to most men when they
are about thirty.
Youths carelessness lasts only a
very short time and man mighty
soon begins to wonder what will hap
pen to him next, or how long he will
stay in good shape. When man
reaches my age he begins to be care
less again. Most of what will happen
has happened, and he is through with
it, and what is to happen next doesn't
make much difference because in the
nature of things it can't last long
whatever it is and the finality comes
as resting spell and cessation from
the worries of the flesh.
Il know some old men who don't
take the same view of themselves that
/ do, and am sorry for them, be-
cause a man owes it to himself,
think, to quit bothering about giving
up when he knows he has to do it
whether or no."
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04

been charming, and now in that circle
Of sepia softness and broken columns
he looked at her and suddenly asked
himself:
Just what does she mean to you?"
If he had never asked himself that
question before he knew now that it
must some day be answered. Friend
ship had been good and seemingly
a sufficient definition. Now he was not
so sure that it could remain so.
Then his thoughts went back to a
cabin in the hills and girl in calico.
He heard a voice like the voice of
song bird saying through tears:
81 couldn't live without We, Samson.
jest couldn't do HIT"
For moment he was sick of his life.
1t seemed that there stood before him.
in that place of historic wraiths and
memories, a girl, her eyes sad, but
loyal, and without reproof.
t'''You look" said Adrienne, studying
his countenance in the pallor of the
moonlight, "as though you we're see
ing ghosts"
81 am" said Samson. Lets 60"
Adrienne had not yet seen her por-
trait. Samson had needed few hours
Of finishing when he left New York,
though it was work which could be
Done away from the model. So it was
natural that when the party reached
Paris Adrienne should soon insist on
crossing the Pont d'Alexandre III to
his studio near the "BouIe Mich for an
inspection of her commissioned canvas.
For while she wandered about the
businesslike place, Uttered with the
gear Of the painters craft. 1t was, in
way. form of mind-reading, for
Samson's brush was the tongue Of his
soul
The girls eyes grew thoughtful as
she saw that he still drew the leering,
satufnine face of Jim Asberry He
had not outgrown hate, then? But
she said nothing until he brought out
and set on an easel her own portrait
For moment she gasped with sheer
! delight for the colorful mastery Of the
technique, and she would have beer
hard to please had she not been de
lighted with the conception Of her
self mirrored In the canvas. 1t was 6
face through which the soul showed
and the soul was strong and tiawless
The girls personality radiated from
the canyas-and yeti A disappointed
little look crossed and clouded hel
eyes. She was conscious Of an In
definsble catch Of pain at her heart.
samson stepped forward, and hi
waiting eyes. too. were disappointed
you don't like it, Drennie7" HI
anxioualy questioned. But she smile'
In answer, and declared:
Il love it,
n He went out few minutes later 4
telephone for her to MIS-. Lescott, an
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04

gave Adrienno "a ~ blanche TO bfowss
among his portfolios and stacked can
vases until his return. In a few min.
utes she discovered one of those ef-
forts which she called his "rebellious
pictures"
These we're such things as he paint
ed. using no model except memory
perhaps, not for the making Of finished
pictures, but merely to give outlet to
his feelings; an outlet which some
men might have found in talk.
This particular canvas was roughly
blocked in, and 1t was elementally
simple, but each brush stroke had
been thrown against the surface with
the concentrated fire and energy of q
blow, except the strokes that had
painted the face, and there the brush
had seemed to kiss the canvas. The
picture showed a barefooted girl,
standing, in barbaric simplicity OF
dress, in the glare of the arena, while
a gaunt lion crouched cycling her. Her
head was lifted as though she wero
listening to PARKWAY music. In the
eyes was indomitable courage. That
canvas was at once a declaration of
love, and a miserere. Adrienne set
it up beside her own portrait, and. as
she studied the two with her chin rest
ing on her gloved hand, her eyes
cleared of questioning. Now she knew
what she missed in her own more
beautiful likeness. 1t had been paint
ed with all the admiration Of the mind.
The other had been dashed off straight
from the heart-and this other was
Sally! She replaced the sketch where
she had found it, and Samson return.
ing found her busy with little sketches
of the Seine.
"Drennie," pleaded WiIfred Horton,
as the two leaned on the rail of the
Mauritania, returning from Europe,
ARE you going to hold me off in
definitely? I've served my seven
years for Rachel, and thrown in some
extra time. Am no nearer the goal?
The girl looked at the oily heave of
the leaden and cheerless Atlantic, and
its somber tones found reflection in
her eyes. She shook her head.
81 wish l knew" she said, YEARLY.
Then she added vehemently: I'm not
worth it, Wilfred. Let me go. Chuck
me out of your life as little pig who
can't read her own heart; who is too
utterly selfish to decide upon her own
life"
us it"-he put the question with
oreboding-"that, after all, was a
prophet? Have you - and South -
wiped your feet on the doormat
marked 'Platonic friendship Have
you done that, Drennie?"
She looked up into his eyes. Her
own were wide and honest and very
full of pain.
(TO BE CONTINUED)
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04
QUIT MEAT IF KIDNEYS
BOTHER AND USE SALTS
Take a Glass Of Salts Before Break.
fast If Your Back is Hurting or
Bladder ls lrritated.

If you must have your meat every
day, eat it, but flush your kidneys with
salts occasionally, says noted author
ity who tells us that meat forms uric
acid which almost paralyzes the kid
neys in their efforts to expel it from
the blood. They become sluggish and
weaken, then you suffer with q duh
misery in the kidney region, sharp
pains in the back or sick headache,
dizziness, your stomach sours, tongue
is coated and when the weather is bad
you have rheumatic twinges. The
urine gets cloudy, full Of sediment, the
channels often get sore and irritated,
obliging you to seek relief two or
three times during the night.
To neutralize these irritating acids.
to cleanse the kidneys and flush of
the body's urinous waste get four
ounces of Jad Salts from any phar-
macy here; take tablespoonful in a
glass of water before breakfast for a
few days and your kidneys will then
act fine. This famous salts is made
from the acids of grapes and lemon
Juice, combined with lithia, and has
been used for generations to flush and
stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to
neutralize the acids in urine, so it no
longer irritates, thus ending bladder
weakness.
Jad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in
jure, and makes a delightful efferves-
cent Whitewater drink.-Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04
! PIsasure in ones Work.

Pleasure in work produces a sym
pathetic, teachable mental attitude to-
ward the task. 1t makes the atten-
ton involuntary, and eases the strain
OF attending. It stops the nervous
leaks of worry. One of the secrets of
lasting we'll is to avoid getting stale
and tired and in q mental rut. Pleas
ure gives sense Of freedom that is a
rest, as wide road rests the driver.
To know thing thoroughly and at
tain mastership in it, one must be
drawn back to it repeatedly by Its at
fractions, and must find ones powers
evoked and trained by it's inspiration
Prof Edward d. Jones, in Engineer
ing Magazine.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04
(cOpyrisht. Eors. BY W. ]. Watt & Col
SYNOPSIS.

On Misery creek Sally Miller finds
George DcsCott, landscape painter, I'M
conscious. Jesse Purvy of the Holman
clan has been shot and Samson is sus-
pected OF the crime Samson denies It..
The shooting breaks the truce in the
IHollman-South feud. Lescott discovers
artistic ability in Samson. Samson
thrHshes Tamarack Spicer and denounces
him ms the "truce-buster' who shot Purvy.
Samson tells the South clan that he is
going to leave the mountains. Lescott
goes home 70 New York. Samson bids
Spicer and Sally farewell and follows. In
New York Samson studies art and learns
much of city ways Drennie Lescott per-
suades Wilfred Horton, her dlettante
lover, 10 do a mans work in the world
Prompted by her love, Sally teaches her
self to write. Horton throws himself into
the business world and becomes well
hated by predatory hnanciers and politi-
clans. At a Bohemian resort Samson
meets William Farbish, sporty social par
aste, and Horizons enemy. Farbish con
spires with others to make Horton 1eal-
GUS, and succeeds Farbish brings Horton
and Samson together at the Kenmore
clubs shooting lodge, and forces an open
rupture. expecting Samson to kill Horton
and 80 rid the political and financial thugs
of the crusader. Samson exposes the plot
and thrashes the ConsplratOrs.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04
Primitive Chinese stllI.

In the extraction Of camphor the
Chinese use most primitive still,
which at the same time proves OF con-
siderable more efficacy than might be
expected The leaves are placed in d
wicker basket, which is tixed over an
iron caldron containing water On the
top OF the basket a basin OF cold water
is placed. The steam from the caldron
passes through the leaves Of the basket
and carries over the camphor vapor,
which is deposited in the form OF cam.
phor on the cool under surface Of the
basin.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04
When Greek Meets German.

A Companion subscriber, jealous of
the claims of the classic languages to
superiority even in the length of the
words the ancients could upon occa-
sion invent, writes thus:
Il notice that the Companion says,
NO one can compete with the Teuton
in word joinery.' But what do you
think of the following word that you
can find in Liddeil & Scott's Greek
lexicon? Leparotemachosela
k ranioleipsanodrimupotrimmatosilphi
paraomelitokatakec humenoRichlepik
ossuphophattoperis teralektruonopte g.
kephalokigklopeleiolagoosiraiobaphe t.
raganopterugon.' The meaning is "A
dish compounded of all kinds of daiu-
ties, fish, flesh and fowl" That is GER
tainly an elaborate way of saying
hash youths Companion.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04
CHAPTER XII.

The second year of new order
brings fewer radical changes than the
first. Samson's work began to forge
out Of the ranks Of the ordinary and
10 show symptoms of a quality which
would some day give it distinction.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04
When Your Ewes Need Care

Use Murine Eye Medicine. No Smarting-Feels
Fine--Acts Quickly. Try II for Red, Weak,
Sore Eyes and Granulated Eyelids, Murine is
Medicne"-but used in successful physicians
Practice for many years. Now dedicated to
the Public and sold by Druggists at Soc per
Bottle. Murine Eye Salve in Aseptic Tubes,
25c and SOC. Write for Book of the Eye Free.
Murine Eye Remedy Company, Chicago. Adv.
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04
A Nipped Scandal.

DO you know 1 heard from the best
of authority that young lips is going
to the dogs"
$50 he is. He's been appointed one
of the judges at big bench show"
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04
Exhausted Itself.

Teacher-Years ago the kingdom o
Spain ran clear around the world.
Tommy-Who chased it?
Mexico Missouri message., 1915-02-04

Painted compilations shouldn't "a
ways be taken at their face value.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24
WADE SENDS OUT BULLETIN ABOUT
 FIGHTING WEEV|L Commissioner Recommends That All Stalks Be De-
 strOyeL When Cot
 ton Is Gathered

Montgomery, October 23.-(Special) Because of the great increase of boil weevils in the state during the pres ent season, Commissioner of Agricul- ture J. A. Wade today issued a brief statement in which he gives several remedies for the extermination of the pest
 Commissioner Wade recommends that all cotton stalks be destroyed as soon as the cotton has been gathered; that all cultivatable lands be sown in winter oats, rye or some other cover crop, and that hedges, ditch fence corners be burned in midwinter
 Following is his statement:
 Destroy all cotton stalks as early as possible after the cotton Is gathered by blowing them under as deeply as pos sible or by cutting and burning them. Do not allow your cotton stalks to stand. produce and hybrinate a bumper crop of weevils after you have gath cred the cotton.
 "Sow all your cultivatable lands in winter oats, rye or some other cover crop They will keep your land from washing and teaching. It will give your horses and cattle a good appetite and keep them in a healthy condition dur ing the puny winter months; it will furnish some green manure to turn un- der in tho spring. These three things will pay you well for 75 cents worth of seed per acre.
 "Burn all hedges. ditch banks, stumps, dead trees and fence corners
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24
in midwinter. but do not burn the

in midwinter, but do not burn the open woods.
 Prepare your cotton crop we'll in the spring and plant as early as the season will permit; reduce your acreage to six or eight acres to the blow; dou- ble your fertilizer if you can afford the price. If you use small amount Of fertilizer. put 1t in with the seed make the rows one foot wider than you expect the cotton to grow In height; plant an early maturing. fast fruiting variety like Kings Improved. Trice, Triumph or Cleveland Big Boil; work the crop shallow and often, not less than once a week. When the plants are about six inches high look for the weevils, and kill all you can find (this may be called a stitch in time or an ounce of prevention); when the cotton begins to bloom, pick up and burn the first crop of fallen squares; continue to blow shallow and often, agitating the plants with light brush attached the machinery so as to brush off as many weevils and infested squares as possible and get them down in the hot mulch; keep this up until the middle of August If you will follow this plan intelligently and consistently. you can make as many bales on as many acres
 ''If the cotton is an early variety, planted early, worked fast, the first weevils found on the plants just as they begin squaring are destroyed and the first crop of squares that fall to the ground are picked up and burned just after the cotton begins blooming, the weevils will do very little damage until about August to 15, by which time a good crop can be safely made Late cotton or a top crop is thing of the past when weevils are present
 "One cannot depend solely upon cot ton, especially under boil weevil con ditions You must grow your own mules instead of buying them. have several
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24
DEFER ACTION ON
 REALTY CONVENTION

According to word received In Bir- mingham last night from Hill Fegru- son at St. Louis, the executive com mittee of the National Real Estate EX- change association has postponed &C., ton on the selection of its 1916 con- vention city for 30 days. It had been understood that the committee would announce its decision after hearing the claims of the rival cities and the req son for the postponement is not yet known.
 MT. Ferguson went to St. Louis as a representative of the Birmingham Real Estate exchange. with instructions to bring back the 1916 convention of the national body. He was opposed by large delegation from New Orleans, but still stoutly maintains that Bir- mingham's chance of landing the con vention are good. The decision will be announced within 30 days, according to the message received here last night
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24
GERMAN OFFICERS
 ON PAROLE EFFECT
 ESCAPE TO LINERS

Washington, October 23-As the re- suit of conferences over the parole breaking of the six warrant officers who slipped away from the German auxiliary cruiser Kron Prinz Wilhelm government official who participated in the conferences said today he was sure the men are now at Hoboken, N. J., aboard one of the big German liners there.
 The facts that have come to his att tention, he said, warranted the conclu- sion that there was a general effort to get as many of the men as possible away from the interned cruisers. He added that the precautions taken since the parole breaking by the six men probably would prevent fN'ther escapes. Officials said tonight they believed they had located one of the two missing officers from the PSnz Eitel Fried rich. Navy officials ere said to expect to take him into custody and return him to his ship. The missing officers are Lieutenant Koch and pr. Kroneck.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-10-24
Clarke County Fair Opens

Thomasville. October 25.-(Special.) 1.-The Clarke County fair closed its fourth an nual session today with the celebration of negro day. There was a record-break- ing attendance on account of the fact that a special building was being dedicated Tor the negro exhibitors The dedicatory ad- dress was delivered by Walter S. Buch- anan, president of the State Agricul- tural and Mechanical College for Ne groes at Normal. Buchanan expressed keen appreciation in the interest which the white people are taking in encourage ing the negroes of Clarke county to take part in the fair by exhibiting the best products of their farms and handicraft.