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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
A FARMERS PATRIOTISM

!. The shortest dennition Of
patriotism is service for ones
. country.
There are many ways in which
!. you can serve your country
while at home. Here are some:
. Plant larger garden than
ever and can sufficient from it
. to tide you through this year and
part Of the next.
) Plant more potatoes, especiaI-
~ sweet potatoes, as these are
staple food articles.
Every acre should be planted
to corn or kafir, and receive the
best cultivation possible.
Twenty-Five to 80 per cent Of
the wheat land could be disked
after cutting and planted to
feterita.
Corn land can easily be pre-
pared for wheat next fall, thus
having the two crops overlap.
Plant cOWpeaS for their feed .
value as well as a soil builder.
Save the manure and apply :
five tons an acre. ..
Make this q banner year for .
chickens and swine.
More attention should be given :
to raising turkeys. .
Insect pests should be COM
bated in orchard, garden and J
field.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
He'd Come Back

A boy who had done something TO
incur the wrath of his mother and
then had taken to his heels was holly
pursued for some distance by her.
Finding it was useless to continue
the pursuit. and almost beside herself
with rage, the old lady shouted at the
top of her voice:
III give anybody sixpence to catch
that boy"
The boy instantly stopped and, turn
ing around, shouted in reply:
Give me the sixpenee and I'll come
back :"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
the type already r3snifonef. a f;,es

| the type already r9sniiOncd, 8 f,Fes
! hrlck sail surface owe. Sheathed wood
! framing and ever braceG wood framing
without abe Sheathing. 1Ae two types
! OF construction just meltionpd are
| probably the most widely used OF any
IN residences. The larger houses are
built with the Sheathed wood frame
While the bra eed wood frame canstruc-
ton Is specially adapted to the small
or houses and cottages where the cost
OF building is the most important item.
The time when it was considered
necessary for special gang of men To
come on the job To lay the brlcl, "a
rapidly passing. The man who is TAX.
liS q progressive part ii the building
field rotlay calls himself general
contractor' and he is ready to execute !
any Kind Of construction yvorl, which |
may be asked of him. This change
works to the advantage Of the homn-
builder since it eliminates lost motion
expensive mistakes, and. makes one
man accountable for the entire lob.
Inc live contractor ana builder is
ready to erect Il residence according to
any Of the different types of construc-
ton mentioned
There Is little basis for anv man
giving up the idea of building a brick
mouse because of cost, if he is able 10
DulId house at all, for an Intelligent
selection of the design together Yirb
the use of the least expensive, t;.,a =
construction, Will give him house
Nhlch mas everything to be desired in
External appearance in addition to all
II the qualities inherent in this kind 1
u mouse, making for comfort and low {
wing expense. 1t is not necessary tn
pehd large sum Of money in decora- !
IONS In order to have q beautiful t
lone These little fancy fittings and t
pecan trim are the things which run r
lp the cost needlessly in house /
when would doubtless look inst no s
eel without the extras" Judgment
also necessary in the selection Of o
ne plan for low-cost house. The t
lumber and shape of rooms affect the Il
rice or construction. BY properly Sc g
'ctlnS the finish given the interior d
ais, floors and trim, it Is possible to h
Otaln refined and dignltied interior. W
HIGH is 1uliy up to any reasonable Il
without the use of an OK. Is
'nslve layout of rooms. Small corner r.
'ats and simple bookcases may be
seq 10 add the touch of variety which
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
ROADS IN NATIONAL FORESTS
~"o'ment Made to Each State for I'm.
provement by Secretary Houston
California Leads.

Secretary Houston has announced
the amount allotted to each stura fr,1I
ne million dollars to be spent during
me fiscal year 1913 in constructive
P"ads and trails within or partly with.
III Inc national forests. This money is
part OF the $10,0OO,00O appropriated
Dy the fcdersl aid road act To assist
development Of the national forests.
which becomes available at the rate of
Sl,0OO'OOO 4 year Cor ten years.
The allotmcnts as approved are rs
follows: Alaska. $4G,35t; Arizona,
$58,G04; Arkansas, $3,SC3; California,
$l4O,98S; Colorado, $G2,J7J; Idaho,
$10S,73O; Montana, S7Oot2; Nevada,
$l9,296; New Mexico, So Ore
Gon, $12S1l1; South Dakota, $500;
Utah, $41,167; Washington, $91,944;
Wyoming, $40GS4. A total of $685.
has been allotted to Florida, Michigan,
Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota
and Oklahoma. The group of eastern
stateS-GCOrgia, Maine, New Hamp-
shire, North and South Carolina, Ten
ncsSce, Virginia and West Virginia
In which the government is purchas-
Ing lands for national forests, receives
ST., 100.
In making allotmcnts, it IS explained.
~ per cent of the amount available
for 1918 Is withheld as a contingent
fund. One-half of the remainder has
been appOrtioned among the states in
based on the area of the ma
tionHl forest lands in each state, while
the other half has been allotted on a
basis of the estimated value Of the
timber ard forage resources which the
forests contain.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
CHAMPION PoLAND.cHlNA SOW FROM MISSOURI

should be bred this spring. By breed
Ing them this spring the feed given
them through the summer will have
been more completely devoted toward
food production. 1t will help to pro-
duce greater meat supply and sup
ply ready for market six months ear
lier than If they were not bred until
fall. Breeding such young gifts will
have no bad effect on the farm herd.
Results at the Missouri experiment
station show that the young pregnant
sow continues to grow under proper
feeding and that the size Of the litter
is not appreciably reduced. Sucking
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07

the SOW or of that breed which DIT.
dominates in the SOW. This will result
IN more uniform lot of pigs and an
upgrading of the breeding herd. For
the young gifts and small sows n
breeding crate may be necessary if
the boar be large.
The pregnant sow should be fed n
ration consisting of bone-making and
muScle-making feeds. She should
gain weight lat not be made fat. Pas
ture with Il small grain ration proves
excellent for carrying the pregnant
SOW until She is almost ready to far.
row.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
SHCATS FOR EARLY MARKET
Give MiIlfeed SIop Twice Daily in Cen.
nection With Good Green
Feed.

ShOats for early market should have
millfeed slop twice 4 day in c0nnec-
ton with an abundance of green feed.
Keep a box of wood ashes and char.
coal "a small quantity Of salt may he
mixed in the ashes) under cover in the
feeding pen, where they can eat what
they need
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07

AT the cost of small Jar of ordI-
nary cold cream one can prepare a full
quarter pint of the most wonderful
lemon skin SOftener and complexion
oeaut-fer, by squeezing the juice Of
Two rreS1 lemons into bottle contain
ing three ounces Of orchard white.
care should he taken to strain the
juice through q fine cloth so no lemon
pulp gets in, then this lotion will keen
fresh Tor months. Every woman knows
mat lemon juice IS used to bleach and
remove such blemishes as freckles SAL
ioWness and tan, and is the Ideal skin
softener, sinoothener and beautifier
Just try it, Get three ounces or
orchard white at any pharmacy and
TWO lemons from the grocer and make
up quarter pint of this sweetly fra
grant lemon lotion and massage il
daily into the face, neck. arms and
hands. It should naturally helm to
"hiten, soften freshen and bring out
[he roses and beauty Of any skin. II
g truly marvellous to smoother rough.
red hands. ADV.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
BRICK COTTAGE
For NARROW LOT
LOW Fire Risk and the Small
Maintenance Cost Make This
Type Popular.
SOME STRUCTURAL METHODS
RIOT Necessary TO Spend LARGE Sum
for Decoration in Order to Have
Beautiful Hore-ee Sure to
Select Well.

Mr.. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining to the
subject or building. for the readers of this
paper. On account OF his wide experience
as Editor. Author and Manufacturer. he
ls' without doubt. the highest authority
On al , IheSe subjects. Address all inquiries
to William A. Radford, No. 1927 Prairie
avenue. Chicago. Ill, ana only enclose
tWo-cent stamp for reply.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
CONCRETE FLOORS ARE BEST
Poor Economy to Replace Worn.out
Floors With Wood, Says Mime.
nesota Highway Commission.

1t Is poor economy to build bridges
with wooden floors or to replace
WORKOUT floors with wood, the Mime.
sofa State Highway commission saws
In a late bulletin issued to county
boards and district engineers.
"The department. is frequently re.
Guested to inspect old bridges and de
termine whether it is feasible to re.
place wooden floor, because In a ma.
Jority OF cases the old bridge is found
to be dangerous when carrying trac.
tion engines" says the bulletin. 1T
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07

the ground, it burrows for a time in
the ground, is changed into the palpal
stage, and from this the mature fv
energies in about one month. Some
/ claim that the egg matches on the hair
/ and the larva makes its way directly
through the skin.
GrubS cause cattle to fall off little
IN flesh and milk, and they greatly de-
preclafe the value of the hide. 1t is
well to press out the grubs, using n
knife, if necessary. to enlarge The
opening. \ quicker way to destroy
them is 10 apply few drops Of kero-
Sene through the opening with an oil
can. To keep the flies away from the
cattle. use pine tar or one Of the coal
tar dips.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
EvlnCeI of Good Roads.

The automobile is the cvangel OF
'tile good roads movement. Every sale
OF tiye-passCnger touring car with
1Ircs subject to sudden and Gishcart-
tl2iag purcture means better roads and
Ia0re CT them. Therefore, everyone
siiould buy touring cars because he
viii then become a good roads advo-
cate.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07

The cost Of this type Of construction
IS, of course, closely comparable with
hat of the solid wall construction,
there being a difference only in the
saving made possible by the'number of
face brick replaced by the common
brick or tile, in the veneer construc-
ton.
The veneer construction consists of
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07

takes strong bridge to carry a con.
crete floor, but we find that after the
original floor has been replaced twice
with wood, on a light truss, the ex-
pcnsc is as great as it would have been
40 build concrete floor bridge, with
heavier steel, and any further expense
is 4 clear waste OF money"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
Ooubiy Efficient.

he is Il man of deeds, I under
stand"
Yep; also words. He is a probate
lawyer"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
BABIES AND GROWING CHILDREN

need a tonic to tone up the system and
regulate the liver. Mothers are con-
stantly using with wonderful success,
our "Plantation" Chill ana Fever Ton.
ic. Pleasant to take-contains no CAL
omel. Price 5Oc.-Adv.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07

torpid liver condition prevents proper
IUod ASSIMILATION Tone up your liver with
Wrlghts Indian Vegetable Pills They act
gently and surely. Adv
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
SICK WOMAN HAD
CRYING SPELLS
Restored to Health by Lydia
E-Pnkham's Vegetable
Compound.
Enhaut, Pal was all run down and
weak inwardly. had female troubIaa

and nervous feelings
and my head both
cred me. / would
often have crying
spells and feel as Il
| was not safe. II
! heard anyone COM
ing l would run and
lock the door SO they
would not see me.
| tried several doc
tors and they did not
help me so / said to
npu y,af1a- Ct
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
Wanted for NOTHING.

Good roads, according to Howard
Ram, are something which everybody
gTaDtS 51r nothing.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07

Forget the sorrows of yesterday and
go after the joys of today.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07

will have to die as there is no he fa fos
me. She got me one of your littls
books and my husband said should trv
one bottle. / stopped the doctor.
medicine and took Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound. 1t soon made a
change in me and now | am strong and
do all my work. Mrs. AITCffsTrs
bAUGHMAN, Box &c, Enhaut, Pa.
Why will women continue tn sufrax
Day in and day out and drag out sickly
half hearted existence, missing three.
fourths of the JOY of living, when thew
gan find health in Lydia Z. Pinkbarn's
Vegetable Compound?
II you would like free confidential ad-
wee address Lydia Z. Pinkham Medicine
Co., Lynn, Mass.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07

Bermuda in 1916 expended s148,GS2
ID roads and bridges.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1917-07-07
SWAMP
ROOT

= w p M 2 IS not reCOmmeNdel for
everything; bue If y3u
EOOT nave kidney. liver or
bladder trouble Il may
&c found Just the medicine you need Il
yyr n1! in ffty-cent and dollar sizes.
lou 9u may receive sample size bottle OF
SO pamphlet telling about it. a.
Address Or. Eilrec & Co. Binghamton
H.; -, II ana enclose ten cents. also menr
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-05-31
FOR HIM AND HER AND IT."

Married men will not be selected for
military service under the CONSUMPTION
law for the present, according to an
unofficial report from Washington.
Their names will be available after
June but, owing to the difficulty of
determining what constitutes depen-
dence and necessity of remaining at
home, the War Department may fol-
low the obviously easier course and
take only the footloose. This reason is
a good one, all sentiment aside. We
need our Army quick. With all possible
delays eliminated, the new army can
not be ready soon enough. To deter
mine each case of married men claim.
ing exemption because of dependents
would entail costly delay. If We are
going to strike in time to make the
blow count we must do it soon, so for
our first draft it seems the part of wis
dom to select only the men who can
move quickest, the single ones.
auOlllCI iGiSOil III cunning INC
first draft to single men is the common
opinion that single young men make
the best material for the ranks. Rud-
yard Kipling wrote that the bachelor
fights for. only one while the married
man fights for three. him and her and
1t, " and that he always wants to fin
ish his little bit and wants to go home
to his tea" He struck truth there;
in the mental makeup of the victorious
bands that lead attacks on every front
there must be an element of irrespon-
sibility which is not possible when a
man is thinking about his wife and
children and the necessity of getting
home to them. Not that husbands do
not make good soldiers; but the Staff
probably believes the bachelors are
better for the quick action needed.
The great army of married men of
draft age will not consider themselves
lucky if they are excluded. With few
exceptions they would rather take their
chance for the opportunity to serve
with the rest. Only mature judgment
of what is best for the nation should be
permitted to exclude them. Fortunate
it is that the national military service is
not entirely closed to the married man
who can show his family is provided
for during his absence, because it is a
good deal easier for one who is made of
the right stuff to go than to stay, in
spite of "her and it,"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-05-31
THE TRAINING CAMP LESSONS,

The young men at Fort Niagara,
Plattsburg, Fort Sheridan and the other
officers training camps are devoted to
the idea of liberty or they would not
have volunteered to go. So it is a
paradox that the first thing they have
had to learn is to give up their own
liberty. Yet that is true. Indeed
these early days of preparation there
are DEVOTED to learning the lesson of
implicit, unquestloning, unreasoning
obedience to regulations and commands,
for he who cannot obey orders is not fit
to give them. The man who never has
been disciplined cannot discipline others.
So these young men, until the other day
many of them.carefree students, must
learn to give.up their liberty of thought
and action for the good of the service.
Minor details of the regulations at
first provoke men who have never been
crossed, the.pampered sons of doting
parents. There is the little matter of
the hat cord. 1t cannot be worn ac-
cording to Individual whim; it must be
so, and every mans must be like every
other mans. The same with the
jackets and blouses; if the regulations
say the jacket must be buttoned.
buttoned it must be, although some
rookie mav.prefer to wear his open.
Even the tone of the voice and infec-
ton of commands are according to rule.
For every. detail of the soldiers life
there is a right and a wrong way
whether itsbe.in the matter of making
a bed or salutiDg superior. 1t all
tends to merge the man with the
machine and make him understand the
worth of organization, the strength of
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-05-31
That PREPAREDNESS" MEETING.

Senator Williams, of Cecil county. in
recent issue of his paper, the Cecil
Wing, commenting upon the Prepared
ness meeting held few days previous
at Elkton, where Governor Harrington
delivered an address to the farmers,
said:
Governor Harrington sharply cri-
ticised the attendance at the prepar-
edness meeting in the Court House on
Thursday afternoon, saying it was
much the worst attended meeting he
had visited. Handing the Governor a
Rowland for his Oliver, we beg to say
that the attendance while only fair
was much better than the meeting de-
served. The writer knows. He was
there (as mere matter of courtesy
and suffered in spirit-as did many an
other, We imagine. The only thing to
redeem the meeting was its opening
and closing. Dr. Howard Bratton, as
presiding officer, opened with a few
very appropriate and well chosen re-
marks, and Prof. C. S. Richardson
closed the meeting with brief speech,
that was sensible, forclble and effective.
But, Lying darkly between" these two
events was rambling discourse of an
hours length by the Governor himself,
and an eXasperating sort of 'drule''
by Prof. Symonds-some of which was
not so, much of which was yeriest
commonplace, and the end of which
was the regulation appeal for the Gre
alton by the county of another we'll
paid job under the guise of uplifting the
farmer and his -trodden wife. Not
well attended! We are glad for the
farmers and their wives that no more
of thems were present We are glaC
they did not waste a,whole afternoon OF
precious time in listening to stuff that
wouldn't have done them any possible
good in any.possible.way.
If anybody doesn't like this deliver.
ance; let US say neither does the writer
as farmer like the stuff that is hand
ed out to US by politicians, job holders
and hunters, half-baked agricultural
experts, etc, etc. We reserve the
right to speakias plainly and roughly tc
these gentry as they speak to US. While
this ''talk-fest" is going on here is one
farmer who proposes to talk back
whenever and wherever he pleases.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-05-31
GIRL GRADS.

The sweet girl graduate and the
boys, too, have great chance to do
their bit" for their country in June,
said Charles Lathrop Pack. president of
the National Emergency Food Garden
Commission.
The graduate of high school or
college will find fund of material for
essay or orations in the food situation
in this country today" continued the
man who made food "F. 0. B. the
Kitchen Door" famous all over the
country.
There is the economic side first of
course, then there is the outlook for
the future IN the nation wide garden
campaign. Canning clubs are being
organized throughout the land and the
girls can tell of that work that is so
important to the country just at this
time,
''She can, in my opinion. make a
mighty interesting essay out of women S
work and the war and how the women
are doing their part. This commission
is getting out now great deal of data
on this very subject which will be sent
to any who ask for it free of charge"
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1917-05-31
1000 FOR NAVY.
A New Quota of Men From Mary.
land for Service.

Within the next few days Maryland
will be assigned, by the Bureau of
Navigation, a new quota of Navy re-
cruits as its share in bringing up the
aquatic arm of the country defense to
1900 men in accordance with a bill
recently passed by Congress.
1t is expected, by the Navy recruit
ing authorities at Baltimore, that the
State will be asked to supply not less
than 2, 900 men.
1t is not believed likely that the pro-
visions of the Selective Draft Bill will
apply to the Navy. Men for the coun.
try's first line of defense will be raised
by the volunteer system. This will give
THE young men of the State an oppor-
tunitY to choose the branch of service
in which they will serve.
By selecting the Navy, a young man
chooses an opportunity to become line
officer in the United States Navy with
outpassing through the Naval Academy.
Secretary of the Navy Daniels has de-
cided that in the future 100 bright
Young men will be picked each year
from the enlisted personnel and sent to
the Naval Academy.
Besides this number, hundreds of
men from the enlisted ranks will be
given commissions ia the line.
This will leave vacancies that will be
filed from the ratings below them, and
no ambitious young man need reach the
point in the Navy where he will remain
IN the lower ratings.
Before reaching the stage where he is
eligible to selection either for the Naval
Academy examination or an appoint
ment as line officer, the enlisted man in
the Navy finds himself engaged IN an
adyocation that is unusually interesting
and for which the pay and allowances
are great deal better than is offered
in the average position in civilian life.
Men in the Navy have the opportuni-
ties to see the world. for W hich civilians
must pay extensively. The battleships
of the United States go to nearly every
port in the world, and it would be i'm
possible to imagine another avocation
in which young man would get these
advantages of travel.
The Navy recruiting authorities of
the Maryland District are doing every
thing in their power to get the advant-
ages Of the Navy before the young men
of the State.
Arrangements have been made where
by information concerning the Navy
can be obtained from every postmaster
in the State.
/ The age limits for enlistment are
from II to 80 years. Minors must, how
ever, have the written consent of their
parents, or legal guardian, and in order
that these may be presented IN the
proper manner, forms have been pro-
vided by the Navy Department and can
be procured from the postmasters of
the various cities and towns throughout
the State.
Full particulars of Navy enlistments
can be obtained from the nearest post
master; directly from the Navy Re-
cruiting Station, Calvert and Lexing-
ton Streets, Baltimore, or from the
Navy Recruiting Sub-stations at Cum
berland and Hagerstown.