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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
SOIL TIPS FOR I HOME GARDENS

Practically all truck crops do bet ter on a sandy loam soil than on one that is sticky and heavy. Larger sized crops, however, such as cabbage, to- matoes, beans, and peas, will do we'll on heavy soil provided it contains the necessary vegetable matter.
 The soil in most backyard gardens is distinctly heavy. It will help the soil greatly if the owners works into it good amount of finely sifted coal ashes free from all cinders Coal ashes are used largely for the physical ef- feet in breaking up compact, heavy soil. Such ashes do not take the place of fertilizer.
 Plentiful use of well-rotted manure is still more beneficial in breaking up heavy soil because this improves the texture and adds fertilizing material
 Many gardens soils are sour. To off, set acidity and also to improve the physical properties of the soil the gar den specialists recommend tho use of lime. Burnt lime should be applied at the rate of 1000 pounds to the acre or slaked lime at the rate of about l. zoo pounds per acre. A garden plot 50 by 100 feet is approximately one- ninth of an acre.
 To apply the lime, broadcast it and mix it freely with the surface soil by narrowing or raking. Lime should be applied before the crops are set out or planted and should not be applied at the same time that fertilizer or manure is put on.
 Manure will greatly improve land. If well-rotted manure is not available, it may be advisable to use a complete chemical fertilizer. Apply at the rate of 800 to 1000 pounds per acre a mixture containing 2 to 4 per cent nitrogen, 8 per cent phosphoric acid. to per cent. potash. The amateur gardener will find it easier to use ready-mixed fertilizer, which can be obtained from any reliable dealer.
 No amount of fertilizer, watering, and cultivation will make up for the absence of sunlight in a garden. Home gardeners before attempting for the first time to use a back yard or other space should consider carefully how many hours a day any part of the yard is in shadow from buildings, fences, or trees. At least 5 hours of sunlight a day is necessary for a successful garden. The more sunlight they get the better it is for most vegetables. For this reason it is bad practice to put plants of low habit between tall- growing plants which will shade them for the greater part of the lay. AS a rule, foliage crops such as lettuce, spinach and kale do fairly well in partial shade, but even these must have sunshine or 3 hours a day. In laying out the garden, therefore, use shadier parts for suc1 plants and re- serve the sunny spaces for those which must have plenty of sunlight to grow fruit proDNRfv
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07

| strange that a 1ove-lorn heart will beat
 l With rapture wild amid its folly! No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, l AS loves delicious melancholy" Women who are young, attractive, with a gracious personality, often fail
 to win the easiest man going They are greatly puzzled, wishing they could probe the reason why. One such wo-
 man said to me recently, You say being brought in contact is the magic wand that may draw hearts together. Now let me tell you of my experience. I have been obliged to go to the office and consult a certain lawyer flor a year in the interest of my employer. At first he seemed deeply interested in me. Suddenly his eager attention to- ward me waned. He avoided me as much as possible. His manner toward me is curt not to say bralsque. I wish knew why"
 Knowing this lawyer we'll, I deter mined to probe the matter in her in- terest. Like careful general I preached the matter in a round about way. When I mentioned the young woman's name his eyes brightened. He sighed. Then suddenly he grew confidential #a
 She is one of the sweetest women I have ever met,'' he declared, the only one who, in recent years, has ap- pealed to me. I was on the point of expressing myself thus to her, asking permission to call with the object pos sibly of matrimony. But a widower's heart is held in leash by those who constitute his home folk. I considered 1t their right that they should be con- suited. I gathered my little motherless family about me and confessed to them that I had met the woman of all others whom I should like to ask to take the place of my lone since de- parteid wife. Never did a man face such heartrending scene. My daugh- ters fell on their knees, clinging to me, Econvulsed with grief. weeping as if their hearts would break. My sons begged of me, for the sake of the fam fly, to reconsider my determina tiOn Even the household servants were up in arms concerning it. The upshot of the matter was-I crushed my desire to be nearer and dearer than simply a friend to this little woman whom I had iardently hoped to lead to the al tar. Controlling influences have come between us. We are going our sep arate ways"
 Controlling influences, back of one or the other, form the rock which splits many a love craft. Again there are men who will not be controlled by outside influences, no matter how near and dear. It's not alone home inf1u- ences that get in their work, block ing and routing a mans intentions to wed. There's an old flame, for in- Stance, the woman his family know nothing about, who is an outside in huence to be reckonad with There
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07


 gro be received here by man in his stable clothes-so to meet us when we come formally to pay our call to this government-that is an insult! fancy it td be a direct and intentional one" Insult is small word for it, broke in the irate Spanish minister, still far ther down the table. "I certainly shall report to my own government what has happened here Of that be very surer'
 ''Give me leave, sir," continued Mer- ry. ''Thts republic. what is it? What has it done?"
 'T ask as much;" affirmed Yrujo. "A small war with your own country, Great Britain, sir-in which only your generosity held you back-that is all this country can claim. In the south my own people own the mouth of the great river-we own Florida-we own the province of Texas-all the southern and western lands True. Louis XV.- to save it from Great Britain perhaps. sir''-he bowed to the British minister originally ceded Louisiana to our crown. True, also. my sovereign has ceded it again to- France. But Spain still rules the. south, just as Britain rules the middle country out beyond. And what is left? I snap my fingers at this republicr'
 Senor Yrujo helped himself to a brimming glass of his own wine
 T say that western country is ours," he still insisted, warming to his ora ton now. Suppose, under coercion. our sovereign did cede 1t to Napoleon. who claims it now? Does Spain not govern it still? Do we not collect the revenues? Is not the whole system of law enforced under the flag of Spain all along the great river wonder? Pos session, exploration, discovery-those ere the rights under which territories are annexed. France has the title to that west, but we hold the land itself we administer it. And never shall 1t go from under our flag unless it be through the act of stronger foreign powers. Spain will fight!'
 twill Spain fghtT' demanded deep and melodious voice. It was that of Aaron Burr who spoke now, half in query, half i'll challenge. "Would Spain tight-and would Great Britain. if need were and the time came?
 He spoke to men heated with wine, snarting under social indignity, men owning hurt personal vanity.
 Our past is proof enough said Mer- ry proudly.
 Yrujc ..eded no more than snrug.
 Divide and conquer?" Burr went on, looking at them and raising an eye brow in query.
 They nodded, both of them. Burr looked around. His daughter and Meri- wether Lewis were oblivious. He saw the young mans eyes, somber, deep. fixed on hers; saw her gazing in re- turn. silent troubled. fascinated.
 (To be continued.)
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07

 TODAY'S POEM
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QUEEN NAB.

ttf' et E s - s4 2 A little fairy comes at night; Her eyes are blue, her hair is brown with silver spots upon her wings, . And from the moon she hutters down. She has a little silver wand.
 And when a good child goes to bed She waves her hand from right to left, And makes a circle round it's head. Of fountain filled with fairy fish. And trees that bear delicious fruit, And bow their branches at wish. Of arbors filled with dainty scents From lovely flowers that never fade; Bright flies that glitter in the sun. And glowworms shining in the
 shade.
 And talking birds with gifted tongues, For singing songs and telling tales, And pretty dwarfs to show the way Through fairy hills and fairy dales. But when a. bad child goes to bed, From left to right she weaves her
 rings,
 And then it dreams all through the
 night
 Of only ugly, horrid things! The lions come with g1aring eyes, And tigers grow1 8 dreadful noise, And ogres draw their cruel knives To shed the blood of girls and boys. i. Then stormy waves rush on to drown, Or raging flames come scorching
 fOund;
 Fierce dragons hover in the air, And serpents crawl aldng the
 ground.
 Then wicked children wake and weep, And wish the long black gloom away;
 out good ones love the dark and find The night as pleasant as the day.
 Thomas Hood.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
Machinists Oppose Ordinance Aimed at
 Meeting of Labor

Machinists of the city are preparing to fight the ordinance which will be voted upon by the common council Monday night, compelling all people proposing to hold gatherings to obtain a permit from the superintendent of police, on the ground that the ordi- nance is aimed against them among other organizations.
 At meeting of the Machinists' local held last night in Lyric hall, 1t was voted to semi d delegation before the common council Monday night to op- pose the measure. The machinists point out that if the ordinance is passed, the superintendent of police will have full power to censor any meetings that he pleases, a power which savers too much of the curtail- ing of the right of free speech.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
JAPANESE WOMAN
 EAGER FOR SUFFRAGE

/ Tokio, April 7.-The voice of a Jap anese woman urging the extension of suffrage in her country has struck a new note in Japanese politics and is attracting great attention during the pending constitutional struggle. The woman is the famous Mrs. Akiko Yo- sano, the champion of greater rights for women who is celebrated for her articles on social questions which she addresses to the masses of the people.
 In his recent interview with the As- sociated Press, Yukio Ozaki leader of the constitutional forces, referred to the question of suffrage extension but expressed his doubts that the franchise would be made more general because there was not sufficient popular clam or for it from the people.
 Mrs. YoSana comes forth in vigOr- ous language. She says: Just. as the 'bureaucrats' and party politicians each make up only a small section of the nation, so do the voters, since Jap- an has not yet adopted a system of universal suffrage. Before we make sure that the politicians in the House of Representatives reflect the opinion of their constituents, we should see to it that the voters themselves faithful ly represent the will of the majority of the nation, that is, of the greater part of the Japanese people who have at present no vote"
 She added: That women have no vote is no reason why they should be indifferent to politics. It is not only an unavoidable duty, but also an inalien- able right of all Japanese, to make the government of this country mat ter of their own personal concern"
 Mrs. Yosano urges all Japanese to revive in themselves the zeal for popu- lar rights that animated the whole na- tion in Ithe earlier years of the Meiji era She argues that the people should not tolerate the Terauchi ministry Which stahds with the support of the elder statesman-a system which is denounced as a relic Of ar. autccratic regime. She believes that the thorough democratization of the nations of the Entente allies since the outbreak of the war cannot have failed to exert a strong influence on the minds of the more intelligent section ,t the Japan ese nation and to have increased the number of young men and women dis satisfied with existing conditions. In closing she urges women to take a more lively interest in politics.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
DON'T SKIP AS IF 16
 IF YoURRE NEAR 40

M A. B. E.. l.. writes:> 'I am a bright, happy -go-lucky woman, consid- erably less than 40. I do not look, nor feel, bit less apry than when I was 16 or so. My birthday came a while ago. Young man of 35 who is nice wis., it's me; asks what to seid that I'd like on my birthday. He hinted. .<yet I did not tell my age. He sent me a girls skipping rope as a gift with words: Skipping like 16, if one's not far from 40 Shall I resent this or not, please?"
 Take no notice of the ungentlemanly words and he will not have the sat-
 isfaction of believing it leases you. Keep young and on the same gait.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
TODAY'S ANNIVERSARIES

On this date in 17S9 occurred tbe mutlny on the ship Bounty, some of the mutineers landing on Pitcairn's lsland. Where their descendants, not ca Tor their piety and Puritan moral ny. stiii live. Greece's Independence Day, commemorating beginning of the revolution in 1921. William E.. Charming, father of Unitarianism in America, born in 178O. Solomon Juneau, French-Canadian founder of the city, elected first mayor of Mill waukee in 1846.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
OSTEOPATHS PLEDGE UNIT

By adopting resolution offering to President Woodrow Wilson a unit from it's ranks to aid in the treat ment of wounded soldiers if the United States engages in actual war; fare, the New England Osteopathic Association convention which open- ed yesterday demonstrated its loyalty to the Stars and Stripes
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
ONLY GIRLS OF FOUR SISTERS.

Dear Miss Libbey: I am the only school girl in our home. Four sisters (now grown women) are by parents first marriage. I am only girl home. am by second marriage and not yet 1S Since holidays letters from young men are addressed to the house with Miss So and So on. Some for me, oth- CTS for elder spinsters. Have I right to open them and see if they're for me?'
 We'll, yes, if you think you know by the writing it's for you. Have your card with your nilidle name on.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
LAURA JEAN LIBBYS DAILY TALKS ON TOPICS
 shted Ne.vspa Syndic

are those close male friends who laugh a man out of his liking for one wo- man. They have women in their own family that they are anxious to push forward and make a match for. You can never tell what controlling indu- ences are behind a mans actions. If he holds aloof it is wisest and best to let it go at that.
 Though hid from us the good in- tent, the ways of God are all in mercy
 meant"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
Z CORNER FUR CuOhS }
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Creamed Potatoes.

One quart potatoes, two cups milk one tablespoon butter, one tablespoon fcar. one tablespoon chopped parsley <sl1 yn oicspoon onion juice, 1 1-2 tea .s.,ov.,s salt, one-eighth teaspoon ~nise pepper.
 Wash, pare and dice the potatoes; cover with boiling water; add one tea spoon salt and boil 20 minutes; drain, cover with milk; add the butter and flour, rubbed together. the onion juice, parsley, salt and pepper; boil five minutes. or until the milk IS creamy.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
JEALOUSY SEPARATES
 FOND HEARTS

W. V. A. writes: ''As girl of 17, wish your opinion. A girl friend tells me the young man I go with called her up and asked to come and see her the night before he was to see me- She refused. The evening following he came to see me. told him of it. He owned to it's truth. Should I continue going with him or not? He still wants to come. He is 22. Will wait your re- sponse."
 It is best not to decide hastily. T9le green-eyed nonster-jealousy- sepa- rates many fond hearts.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
POINTS. OF INTEREST.

E. H. Dillon & Co.,. 1105 Main street. are offering great price con- sessions on our large stocks of un- trimme millinery. trimmed dress hats, cloth hats, silk skirts, shirt waists, petticOats, raincoats and millinery trimings of every description.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07

The people who need most to ob- serve Straighten Up Week are not the aged veterans bent over by rheuma- tism. but the school youngsters who get the habit of Hopping languidly over their desks.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
steamed Bran Bread.
DeyilIed Clans.

Chop 50 steamed clans and add to a sauce made from one-haf cup or milk and one-half cup of water, rounding tablespoon each of butter and flour and seasoned with one table spoon of chopped parsley and salt and pepper. Add two we'll beaten eggs and fill small dishes. Sprinkle but. tered crumbs over the top and brown in a hot oven.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

(Correct namc and address must bo given to insure attention. not to print Cse ink. Write short letters. only on one side Of paper. Address Miss ldb. bey, 918 President Street. Brooklyn N. M
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
MASONIC NOTES.

Corinthian lodge, No. 164, F. and A. M. will hold a stated communica- tioni at t1sA Masonic Temple at 7:3O o'clock D A, Tuesday,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07

Thirty-four men are believed to be trapped in mine Mo- at Coal Creek, near Fernie, B. C., as the result of eS- plosions in mines Nos. ~
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
Sandwiches.

Mince one small white onion and mix with a small cream cheese that has been rubbed to a paste. Run two sweet cucumber pickles through the meat grinder and add them to the cheese and onion, with two table spoons of chopped pimentos. Spread between buttered slices 1of Boston brown bread These are delicious for light supper.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07

Farme. want Ads. One Cent a Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07

JOHN RICK & SON FUNERAL, DESIGNS AND
 BOUQUETS
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
Filled Waters.

Cream one cup of brown sugar with pne-half cup of lard; add one-half cup of thick sour milk. Grind two cups of oatmeal in the meat grinder, mix with it two cups of sifted flour with one-half teaspoon of soda and add- Lastly add one cup of ground nut meats and one-half teaspoon of salt. Roll very thin and bake. Put two together with a date filling as follows: wash and stone one-half pound or dates, add one tablespoon of butter one-half cup of sugar; two taple- spoons of lemon juice. one-half cup or water and few grains of salt. MIX and cook to paste in a double poll CT. Spread between the wafers and let cool before serving.
 Russian Feat Jelly.
 Soak one envelope of Plymouth rock plain grantllated gelatine in one-half cup of cold water for five minutes; add one pint of strong black English breakfast tea, boiling hot; one scant cup of sugar. Stir until the sugar IS dissolved, then add more hot tea and two tablespoons of Jamaica rum, two teaspoons of lemon extract. Add hot tea to make all measure full quart. no more as the proportions to the one envelope must be kept to make the jelly success. If more is desired double the quantity, carefully keeping the proportions. Keep on ice until hard and ready to serve. Steamed Bran Bread.
 Bran can be bought by the pound. Use one and one-half cups of graham flour. one-half cup of bran. one-half level teaspoon of salt. one level tea spoon of soda, one third cup of mo- lasses and one and neaquarter cups If boiling water. Turn into one pound baking powder. cans and steam two hours.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07
CONTROLLING INFLUENCES.

Strange that a love-lorn heart will
 beat
 With rapture wild amid it's folly! No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, AS loves delicious melancholy"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-04-07

A little fairy comes at night;
 Her eyes are blue, her hair IS brown With silver spots upon her wings, q [ And from the moon she hutters
 down.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
From Thursdays Daily.
JUDGE AND MRS. CALDWELL
Gel E,RRkTE COL DEN wEDNIN
CELEBRATE

LIE Sueur News: Judge and Mrs.
Caldwell celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary Monday of this
week, as noted in The News last
week. With them many people of
lie Sueur celebrated, in extending to
them the fluctuations suitable for
the occasion. The family, with a
few friends, enjoyed a dinner at the
home in the afternoon. Among the
guests was Rev. Smythe of the Pres
byterian church, who again united
this couple of worthy citizens in
marriage using a ceremony suitable
to the occasion. In the evening,
from eight to ten o'clock p. M, a
continuous stream of people visited
the home, and in the afternoon many
others did likewise. One of the in
cidents of esteem in which the worthy
of this judicial district, over which,
as judge of the court Mr.. Caldwell
presided for many years, was a tes-
timonial in the shape of a very
handsome library lamp, which was
presented by o. J. Parker, for the
bar. Judge Caldwell responded fit
tingly. The home was gladdened by
the children of the family, seven in
NUMBER, Grover, one Of the sons
alone being absent He went to
Minneapolis the fore part of the
week, slipped on a walk and was in
bed in that city with sprained
ankle and unable to move. At the
home all were served with ice cream
and cake, but the pleasing smile on
the faces of the bridal co-nle of fif-
ty years. surrounded by the family
and with friends to greet them,
was the most pleasing spectacle that
we have witnessed for many days.
Years haG marked their run, upon
the faces of each, but had not damp
ened their desires to be friends, good
citizens, democratic land above all
else, people of LIE Shepr. May they
long live is the wish of all who
greeted them, as well as many 9TH
ers who could not do SO.
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1917-03-30
FOX TROTTING HARMFUL
That Is What Robert E. Nevin Tells
the Athletes.
ASSOCIATED Press Dispatch.

ASSOCIATED Press DlSpatchJ
Columbus, Ohio, March 22-FoX
trotting, keeping late party hours
and general college social life is
ruinious to athletics, in the opinion
Of Robert B. Nevin, captain of the
1917 track team at Ohio state uni
versity. Nevin declares that ath-
letes cannot hope to be social Ii
ons" if they expect to harvest a
crop of laIrels on the cinder path OF
field.
Participation in social activities
should be discouraged in the inter-
est of producing better teams, Ne
vim Believes.
eff such circumstance should
exist, he said, the coaches would
have less trouble in keeping the men
in proper condition and the men
would have less desire to break
training. 1t is up to the student
body Of Ohio state to protest her
athletic laurels and thereby assure
her future in the western conference
Athletes, to be in the best pos
sible condition, must sacrifice the
entire social side of their college
life. When we learn to support ouI
athletics in the right way, we will
have more winning teams"