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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-11-15
How oEreshen and Renew a Lawn.

A lawn can be kept in constantly
green and dourishing condition pro-
vided fresh lawn grass seed is sown
at different periods throughout the
year, particularly in the spring and
fall The best time to SOW the gra1s
seed Is during a rainy spell and 81
rect1y after cutting the lawn, al
though this Is not necessary. Some
Of the best lawns in Richmond are
kept In a constantly green and vig-
orous condition in this way, and we
strongly recommend to our custo-
aners who desire to preserve their
lawns In good condition that they
sow fresh seed occasionally on the
top Of their lawns, at the same time
raking any bare spots and applying
a Light application Of our Lawn En-.
richeys
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-11-15

Argentine, Australia and India are
stocked with wheat Java has great
stores of sugar. But the first thing
Maryland wants the ships to do when
the war is over is to bring her back
her soldier sons.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-11-15

An honest confession may not only
be good for the soul, but it may re-
move suspicion from another
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-11-15

A small boy says the proper time
to gather fruit is when the dog is
chained.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-11-15

Travel was great educator. Espe-
cialiy hefore the Food Administration
took the la carte system off the rail
way dining cars.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-11-15

Cold potatoes take the place of sand.
Wiches in the lunch-boxes of thousands
Df Allied school children.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-11-15

Most things will come your way IL
you go after them.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-11-15

The average man doesn't add an
dignity to the Office he fills.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1918-11-15

The Fair Price List Is meant to pro.
lect the housewife against sinking In
a sea of high prices. But even a life
preserver ls no use to the person who
nQn't put e 81.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
Tragedy Of French. Trees.

Broken homes, ruined factories,
shattered churches, violated graves, it
had seemed to me we had rung all the
changes on the destruction Of war.
But there remained one-the tragedy
of the trees. You can rebuild houses,
churches, towns even-for that takes
only money. But you can't rebuild or
chards Of fruit trees and avenues of
great shade trees-for that takes time.
We were seeing them everywhere now
orchards with trees that were but
faded, shriveled punches Of brown
leaves lying on their sides; orchards,
where these had been cleared away,
that showed nothing but white-topped
stumps. They say that, when the
warm spring came, some Of those Or
chard trees, lying on their sides but
not wholly severed, leafed gently and
then-just before they died-bloomed
once again for France.-1nez haynes
Irwin In McClure's Magazine.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
MaKinu ShrapneI.

New inventions have been made by
Americans, and American machine
tools for shell making have been sent
to Europe and are used in the factories
there. The number of shells of shrap-
mel made in this country is almost be-
You'd computation. Long before we en-
tered the war our different factories
were turning out hundreds Of thou
sands of shrapnel week, and it was
due to this demand for munitions that
enabled US to turn out the big product
we ARE now making. This is so not
only of shrapnel, but of powder and
explosives of all kinds. Before the war
one company was making about 400,-
900 pounds of military powders per
annuM, another was turning out 500
12-inch> shells per day, and third
making 100000 loaded time fuses a
month. The orders Of the allies ran
into many hundreds of millions of dol
lars and it is said that almost $2,000,-
100000 worth of war supplies were
contracted for by J. P. Morgan & Co.
alone.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
Aztec Relics Unearthed.

Announcement of the recovery of
10000 specimens of prehistoric Aztec
civilization from the famous "Aztec
RUM in the Amas valley In northwest
ern New Mexico has been made by the
American Museum of Natural History,
Work of excavation has been in prog
ress since the summer of 1916, funds
for which have been provided by Ar
cher Nj. Huntington and J. p. Morgan
The scene Of the exploration was
once a typical pueblo, or great forti'
fed house and village, and although
the work Of unearthing the hidden
treasures is only partly completed
what has thus far been found within
the crumb1ing walls so long hidden
from human view has exceeded, 1t is
said, the most sanguine hopes Of the
investigators.
Necklaces of shell and tortoise, agate
knives, pottery vessels Of various
forms and Ornamentation, cotton cloth
and woven sandals are among the finds
reported by N. c. Nelson, assistant
curator Of the museum and Earl 81
Morris, In charge of the exploring
party.
Enough masonry in the ruin was I'M.
covered to have built wall half way
from New York to Philadelphia.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
Wished the SPIKES Also.

The wife of thrifty Western
farmer had worked very, very hard for
many, many years, depriving herself
not only Of all luxuries, but of many
comforts. ''Foolishness," she had
termed such things. But the mali
order catalogue in which father was
Interested had caught her eye-or was
it her neighbours new bonnet? Some
change had come over her ideas of
what constituted "foolishness," and
she astonished father one morning by
announcing she was going. to town to
buy a hat.
Arriving at millinery store she sur
prised the clerk who came forward to
wait on her by asking: II want to
know who's runnin' this here joint7"
II am at present." the clerk re-
sponded.
"Well, what I want to know is, If l
buy a fine hat here, will you throw In
the spikesT'-1ndianapolis Star.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
MADE POINT BY PARABLE.
Chancellor Quick to See Truth n Tale
Related to Him by Wander.
na Traveller. ~

To- Lee, the chancellor of the kingdom
Of Han, was plotting 10 murder the
king. Su, a wandering traveller, came
to visit him, and introducing himself
as follows:
"Your humble servant, Su, wretched
and poverty-stricken, possessing not
even feeble horse and an old buggy,
has left his aged parents at home
tramped through the dust, braved the
frost and snow, crossed River Tsarn
with the sole purpose Of seeing you
and offering you humble advice. Will
you give him the privilege of speaking
to you?"
The chancellor, knowing the speak
er's intent, answered maliciously:
'Any word about men am tired OF
listening to. But if you can tell me
something about ghosts and spirits, /
will be overjoyed to hear YOU"
'"That is just what would like to
tell about sir" returned Su, and he
continued: "When I was tramping on
my way here 1 lost my direction one
night in a lonely forest. Weary and
exhausted, I could find no place to
rest. I had no blanket. no mattress,
only a chilly, misty vapor wrapped
around me. I hid myself in the tall
grass. By my side stood a bulky tomb.
Family I heard quarrel between a
wooden doll and clay doll as to which
was the superior in quality. The clay
doll droned the following argument:
CT am nodded out of clay. If, per-
chance, I am ruined by swift wind OF
bitter rain, can return to my home
to Mother Earth. But as for you, you
are carved out of the branch of tree
You have been severed from your OWL
root. When you face swift wind OF
bitter rain, you will be thrown into the
Tsarn river, carried eastward to the
| sea, to the ocean. Then where will b<
| your abiding place? You will float ant
drift for eternity
II, the traveller, listened and won
dered, and felt that the clay doll wa:
| without question the winner of thu
| dispute.
| NOW, your uonH Is ploLllhS t1Sdil'o
the king and the royal family. d.
| you realize that you will kill off you
own root and destroy the very founda
ton sof your power?"
! "Remain with me over night, and
will talk some more to you to-mor
row." said the chancellor, after ;
moody reflection.-C. Y. Tang, II
Chinese Students Monthly.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
An Expert.

A government press censor was talk
ing about the German press censor
ship. ~
1--WE found on some prisoners, re
Gently" he said, "the German censor.
ships latest prohibition. Prominent
among these was an order to the press
not to mention under any circumstance
the growing use in Germany of dog
flesh for food. e.@*
''That prohibition reminds me of a
story-a story that may contain a lot
Of truth. H.
"A German prisoner" the story runs,
was rebuked by a sergeant for the
sloppy way he was feeding and look.
ing after some Red Cross dogs.
"T guess you think you know a lot
about dogs the sergeant sneered.
eyes, sir, that's right said the pris.
oner. for let me tell you, sir, I've been
cook in a Berlin restaurant for the
last two years."
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
YELLOW GASOLINE IN FAVOR
Supply Might Be Increased If Motor
lists Realized Their Prejudice
e. Was Unwarranted.

II motorists realized that their preju.
dice against yellowish gasoline was un'
warranted the gasoline supply might
be Increased considerably.
In the early days of the oil industry
poor refining methods were RESPONSE
Die Tor the production of yelloWlsn
kerosenes and gasolines. which were
sometimes dangerous. E -
Another handicap, according to Pc
troleum experts, il the necessity for
ref1ners treating gasoline with sui
phuric acid and caustic soda to remove
unsaturated hydrocarbons, which have
a high fuel value In an explosion en-
CINE.
It is estimated that there Is loss
OF 100000 a year in the United
States through these prejudices. repre-
scented BY 90. 600 900 gallons Of gaso-
line, $1,000 tons Of sulphuric acid and
$500 tons q causuc soda.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26

en-, may then be cut in squares, served
on lettuce with highly seasoned
dressing. Lemon jelly may also serve
as a dessert with chopped pineapple,
cherries or strawberries and a few
pecans, nodded and served with sweet
ened whipped cream. Lay halves of
canned peaches on lettuce leaves and
place ball of nicely seasoned cottage
cheese on each; pour over salad
dressing in which a fourth of cupful
Of cottage cheese has been carefully
mixed. Canned pears may be served
in the same way.
], Take nicely seasoned rich cottage
cheese, pack it in baking powder cans
and put into ice and salt to freeze.
Unmold and cut in slices, make de-
preston in the center of each and
place therein preserved fig, stem up.
Baked Corn With cheese.-Take two
cupfuls Of corn, mix with two we'll
beaten eggs, a cupful Of milk, two
tablespoonful Of melted butter, half
cupful Of grated cheese and cayenne
pepper, with a pinch Of mustard and
two teasp0onfuls Of Worcestershire
sauce; add a cupful of bread crumbs,
reserving few for the top, which are
spread over the dish after mixing well
with two teaspoonfuls of melted fat.
The simplest Of all desserts and
those of which the majority are most
fond, are the frozen dishes. Various
fruit juices or combinations Of them
with the pulp of fruit, adding rich
milk or thin cream, even buttermilk,
makes delicious frozen desserts. The
Juice Of two oranges, two lemons with
two cupfuls of honey and pint Of
thin cream frozen, is one worth try
ing. A little Of the finely grated rind
may be added, If liked, to vary the
flavor. 4f
Another combination well liked Is
the Juice of one lemon, two oranges,
three bananas, put through q potato
ricer, sugar to sweeten, add pint Of
cream, rather thin. Freeze as usual
Nt.4. nla<.sQ
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
TROUBLE FOUND IN BATTERY
Corros'on OF Terminals Decreases Pow
= or OF Current for Lights and
ignition Of Fuel.

If trouble develops in the battery
which upon examination is found to be-
up to normal and yet, is not delive,tno
enough current to furnish lights noc
spark enough to ignite the fuel. the
basic fault will very possibly be fond
In corrosion Of the terminals. When
the terminals are covered with hard
green deposit no current can flow
Sometimes this deposit 10 90 hard thai
4 takes Z ohlsl te remove e
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
saw WARS HORROR.
English Lady Writes Of Expert
ences in Roumania.
Ver)table Inferno When Oil Fieids
Were Destroyed-Russian Soldiers
PilIaqe While Their comman.
der Is Occupied Elsewhere.

had not thought that we could pos
sibly enter into new phase of horror,
but it was born on Boxing day, when
the first whispers reached us Of the
destruction Of the Oil fields. Frankly,
we had, each and every one of us, COM
pletely forgotten the oil! A man, a
friend Of ours, drove up in motor,
streaked with CRIME, weary and dead
to the world. After lunch he started
to. tell his story, fortified by big
cigar.
He had been one Of a party who
went out alone to the petrol city to
destroy. : No one would give them
help, and he told us wonderful &C.
counts of the scenes which he had wit
messed. The first step had been to
capture every single man and boy who
knew anything about the petrol plans
and deport them bodily to Moldavia,
so that the Germans should find no
skilled >workmen to utilize to their
own profit. And then a few pairs OF
hands sufficed to crumble and lay in
ashes what many hundreds of brains
had worked to build. First they broke
up all the machinery-the how of the
happening is immaterial; the most
primitive and brutal weapons served
them best. Then they poured benzine
from the roofs of factories down their
walls and set them alight, they dug
trenches round the watts and started
blazing channels of flame toward the
reservoirs. These blew up each in turn,
and SCOT and flames made of what had
been sunlight an eternal night where
the fire king went mad. Town by town
saw the .destrOyers come to let hell
loose, and factory after factory with
ed in death agony Of twisted iron to
send jets of poison fumes after the
four small flying motor cars. The de-
vastation left by a retreating army lay
before them, turmoil of an enemy
drunk with success stirred in the wind.
gusts that fed the flames from the
south. One can hardly credit the fact
that those few little men have so eft.
fectually accomplished what they sci
out to do that it will be six months be-
fore the Germans can squeeze drop
of petrol from the saturated earth
In our English hospital there is 8
man who has had his foot amputated
He lay pinned under burning car. A
Ratchet was brought by doctor to d
French officer standing near, and the
doctor said: "Do it If you can; have
no instruments and feel paralyzed.'
The Frenchman did the thing in the
whole, horror of the sunlight, whilst
the Russian privates who were his
charges took advantage Of the oppor'
tunity and pillaged private passenger
luggage on the train Lady Kennard
in The North American Review.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
Practical Education.

'Why do you insist on studying Ger.
man?"
Il may get chance to tell one Of
those Prussian generals what think
Of him, face to face, and want to
make sure he understands me.''
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
Eordof About Her.

Maisie-After Jack proposed told
him to see papa.
Daisy-What happened?
Maisie-Why, they started to play
cards and now he goes to see papa
every night.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
The wrono impression,
The Better Way.

The Better Way.
"They used to quarrel great DEAL"
Eyes, but they're getting along mucA
better now"
"What happenedr'
Nothing. He just discovered that
instead Of arguing it was easier and
quicker to admit everything and ask
forgiveness"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
Removable Inference,

Reasonable lnference.
Mrs. Gabby-The woman across the
way has mean, suspicious nature.
Mrs. Hearall-Why, do you know
her?
Mrs. Gabby-No, but she always
pulls down the blinds at her windows
when she lights the gas in her roonasL
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
pr,,ssianism In the Homo.

PrussianiSm In the Home.
"What excuse does this man give for
DESERVING his wifer'
"He says her conduct was Teutonic."
I'm what respect7"
1T seems she hit him with poker
after he had agreed TO suspend ho9tilt'
(tdes,"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
Mature Enlightenment.

I 'srhat great railroad president waa
once an Office boy"
~ venture guess" observed Miss
Cayenne, that he felt much more Sc
cure and important when he was IN
once boy than he does today.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
The Expected Happened.

The Expected Happened.
Patience-He married g. leading
dancer.
Patrice-Really?
''Yes; and might have known what
would happen"
"What's happened"
"She's leading him a pretty dance"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
TEMPTED,

"Everybody's economizin'," COM
planned Meandering Mike.
EYES," rejoined Flooding Pete.
"Sometimes I'm wonderin' whether
de meal ticket dat goes wit Jail sen
tence isn't worth very serious consid-
Grafton"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
What He Deserves.

The man who thinks he knows it all
Is apt some day to have a fall,
But when he does we shed no. tears
In fact his plight our bosom cheers.
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26

ton, making salads and
desserts of various kinds.
With lemon jelly as a
foundation, chopped vege-
tables such as green pep
per, cabbage, onion and
celery, stirred into the
Jelly and allowed to hard
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26


of ground peanuts, one egg, we'll beat
en-, one and a half teaspoonfuls Of
salt, an eighth of a teaspoonful Of
pepper, salt pork or bacon. Mix the
mashed potatoes and seasoning with
the peanuts, add a beaten egg, form
into cakes or sausages, roll in meal
or bread crumbs, and place in a
creased pan with small pieces of salt
pork on each. Bake in hot oven
until brown.
Lettuce With Peanuts-Take crisp
lettuce, sprinkle with coarsely chop
ped peanuts, little shredded onion,
and over all q French dressing, using
three tablespoonfuls Of OIL to one Of
vinegar.
Peanut Loaf.-Take q cupful OF
chopped peanuts, two cupfuls OF
bread crumbs, two tablespoonfuls Of
fat, one egg, a half teaspoonful OF
salt, a few dashes of pepper and one
half to three-fourths of cupful Of
milk. Mix, using milk to make q
moist loaf. Put into buttered pan
anu Dukc one uOCT Ill llOueIdte
oven, keeping covered the first half
hour. Basic once or twice with melt
ed fat. Turn into hot platter and
sprinkle with chopped nuts.
Peanut Fondue.-Grind one cupful
Of peanuts fine, add one cupful OF
dried bread crumbs, the yolll, Of ont
egg, beaten, one and three-fourths cup
fuls of milk, one and half teaspoon
fuls of salt, and dash of paprika
Fold in the beaten egg and bake ir
buttered baking dish 40 minutes.
Peanut Brownies.-Take a hal
cupful Of corn sirup, one square o.
chocolate, three-fourths Of cupfu
Of buckwheat, half teaspoonful O.
baking powder, one cupful Of chopped
nuts, half teaspoonful Of salt and
teaspoonful Of vanilla. Bake in small
gem pans.
N,,., nm u<ep
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
LITERAL BoLsHEvlK9.

Ernest Poole, the Russian expert,
said at socialist meeting in Troy:
"The Bolshevfks are applying to tho
Germans the Tolstoian principle Of
non-resistance to evil, but they are fol-
lowing Tolstoi too literally. To be too
literal is to be ludicrous.
TITS like the case of the brakeman
who was learning the ropes on first
trip.
I'll yell out the names of the sta
TONS his teacher said to him, and
you listen and then yell the same at
your enG.'
$50 the train started off and when
the first stop came the veteran at the
front Of the car yelled lola lola = and
then the new man at the rear door
yelled:
- Same at this end! Same at this
end!"
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
Kl Ic ( Ii
CABINET
1irth is next to health,
When mirth springs up from fn0o-
cence and fun;
IT'S quite ahead of WEALTH
IT'S joy that knows no pang when
once begun.
A FEW NEW WAYS WITH PEA.
NUTS.

Peanut butter is so we'll known that
It is not necessary to mention how
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1918-07-26
HAUNTING J0LTS
FOR KIND FOLKS
Picking Up Passengers Does Not
Always Work Out as
t Should.
EXPERIENCES OF MOTORISTS
Trials and TribuIations Of Men who
Sought to Aid Those Not Fortunate
Enough to Have Cars to Ride
to Town In.

There are reasons why motorists do
not pay more attention to the casual
pedestrian whom they might pick up
from the safety zone along the street
car track and carry with them to the
city center. Advices to motorists to
travel with all seats filed as a means
to assisting in transporting the people
at all hours, and particularly at busy
hours, has been needed again and again
by motorists who have all too often re-
GREETED their kindly feeling later, says
Detroit Free Press. In q gathering OF
motorists at club recently some Incl
dents were related Of the trials and
tribulaHons of men who had decided
to take the advice and aid those not
80 fortunate in having cars In which
to ride at the time.
What's the Graft?
One moto:ist related an incident
which made him hesitate about stop
ping to pick up pedestrian. He said
that he came to full stop at safety
zone and asked a man standing there
If he would like to ride downtown. The
man turned round with sheer and
! said, whats your graft, anyway?''
! That man was left where he stood,
| with no car in sight and with his ears
burning from the roasting he received
within the few seconds it took for the
mOtorist in question to get his car un'
der way again.
| Another motorist told of picking uI
| a respectable business man who seemed
in hurry as he ran down side street
! to the main car line. The business
man climbed in gladly, but the moment
he took his seat beside the driver
sett] I'd back into that seat and placed
his boots squarely on the dash Of the
car where he left long scratches which
remained until removed by that cal
owner. That driver said that he hat
stopped for no pickups except soldier:
and women and children since tina
time.
Car Was No Good.
Another motorist had a car in whic]
he took much pride and which was run
ming particularly well at the time h
picked UP man. That passenger b;
invitation Immediately started to be
little the car of the man with whom h
was riding, and said that that pal
ticular make had never been any goo
and that the company would never
I able to make good car if in bushes
a hundred years, The dryer was on
! Ct the partners in tfe company mani
featuring the Car he drove, 50 held hi
! temper, but lost no more confdenc
in his product by picking up critics
business men without cars of thei
own, but with decided opinions on tn
subject with which they had no expe
rience.
| So 1t went on, and man after ma
of the party showed plainly by his ow
experience that the dear people VIII
do not own a motorcar care little flo
the opinion which the real motorca
owner may have Of them after thei
boorish acceptance of kindness we
meant but oftentimes not repeated.