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The sun., 1918-12-29
Back to Boyland With G. A. Henty!

too far away from its base Of supplies,
and, spiritually, he stands at his Marne.
Back to the Boyl-that is back to pure
untruth, pure make believe, pure mis-
chievousness, spontaneous anarchy, the
impenitent Rabelaisian spirit of youth.
What is the universal papaeeaf-the life
Of the Boy. Let US play hockey with Life
itself. Let US lay snares for the brutal
truant officer, Duty. Come, Men and
Women, out Of the back window of the
House Of Must; ike Huck Finn, in the
dead of the night, with our buds over our
shoulders, We viii make straight for law
less islands in fantastic Mississippis, whose
cops and Kasers, locomotives and ash
days, Deissrs and socialism are never
heard tell off
If the Boy was discovered by Mark
Twain he has been rediscovered by Booth
Harrington in his Penrod tales. And
now Charles Seribner's Sons are issuing
a Series for Young People," beautifully
illustrated in color by Gordon Browne.
They are all old friends. Two of them
just received are With Lee tn Virginia
and With Wolfe in Canada, by that in
comparable boys historian, G. A. Henty.
The Henty books present history
dressed as fascinating fiction. And Il
history is not fascinating fiction it is not
worthy the name of history. Henty has
a power Of viSualizing historic scenes and
characters that might earn for him the
title Of the juvenile Scott. And his in
sistence on the scenarios of nature brings
one back to Cooper.
The Boy IS the perfect reader par ex-
cellence. The book before him becomes
more real than the external world around
him. All-his psychic life is concentrated
in the characters and images that swim
from the printed page. He admits no
distraction. He is veritable yogi of ad-
venture. His brain is mult-winged. His
soul is emigrant to all shores. He moves
with the Seven League Boots. He lives,
he has his being in the Image.
The boy, between the ages of eight and
fourteen, lives nearer to the sources Of
intellectual life than any human being, no
matter how imaginable. In that mag
nfcent time We worn and threadbare
beings lived-hved in the only millennium
we shall ever know, the millennium Of
Pure Imagination.
With what impotence we used to wait
for the appearance of the weekly story
paper with the next instalment Of the to
be continued serial! Like being standing
on the golden sands of some fabulous sea
waiting for the galleon that bears his
Isolde or his ingots to bulge over the
horizon. Our mind all ear and eye and
wet clay. Our mouth set for moon cake.
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Tt appears that Ruth Sawyer was so
tiekled with Doctor Danny that she had
Harper & Brothers send her a copy with
the signatures of all who helped make the
book followed by descriptive lines: "Who
changed the titlefT "Who planned If"
who exploited it," "Who set it7" who
bought the paperf' Also,
"Who paid the royalties" 1t is requested
that all who can do so send her auto
graphed copies with the explanation,
who read it?"
The sun., 1918-12-29
By BENJAMIN DE cAsSEREs.

~ DSAN n IVA ~ S1O0SANSS'
WYE remember being at a play few
w years ago the name of which es-
capes US. In fact, We haven't the slightest
recollection Of what the play was about.
But one incident in the play We have
never forgotten.
An elderly, silver-haired man Of intel
lectual appearance is sitting in his Ii
brary reading book. Some friends come
in upon him unexpectedly, among them
youth, who asks what the elderly man is
reading. And the latter replies quietly,
Robinson Crusoe.
His visitors smiled and looked at one
another meaningly, and the solid mahog-
any audience roared.
His friends thought him scnile, and the
lobster-stuffed audience was a victim Of
that form Of humOr which Herbert Spen-
Ger calls Descending incongruity." A
man Of sixty-fve reading a boys bookl
And Shellac preferred had gone down the
same day!
But we fell into a revery, refusing to
listen to the drool of the Dialogue, and
tried TO reconstitute the old man psycholo-
gically. He was born "Pre-Destined,"
no doubt--that is, one Of those strange
boys who read Sehopenhauer's World as
WI and idea at thirteen, have covered
all the Hindu bibles and the cOmmenta-
ries on Kant at sixteen, whose favorite
piano piece at twenty is Chopin's Funeral
March and who have bagged everything
in French literature from Chateaubriand
to Octave Mirbeau at thirty.
At forty he was deep in Kraft Ebing.
At fifty he was studying the chemistry Of
ideals. At sixty he was actually weight
ing atoms and had pipe ointed the
Fourth Dimension. Then he fell into a
great siekness-mental, physical, meta
physical and psycheo-sexual, wherefrom
he emerged as this smiling, radiant, silver
crested old man who had found the way,
the truth and the life at last in Robinson
Crusoe, Jules Verne, Henty, Oliver Optic,
Tom Broun, and those perfect dialogues,
Beadle Boys.
We are all returning TO the Boy. Hav-
ing described tremendous trajectory in
the near infinite, having cruised through
all Intellectual heavens and emotional
bells from the birth Of Voltaire down to
August, 1914, We return 10 our begin
nings.
Consciousness and scIfeonsciousness have
been the maladies of humanity. We have
lost our spontaneities. We have got too
far, away from our feed pipes, the play
instinct and Che devil-may-eare blindness
of the Boy. The brain of man has get
B - 81 ts - -
The sun., 1918-12-29
"The SCarecrow":
Good Short Stories
COLLECTION of short stories not

COI4LFC I1ON VI ohOEL SLoffeo hot
L \ already known 10 magazine read
ers and by writer new to the public
would usually be considered not good
risk for 4 publisher, but The ScdreeTotc,
by G. Ranger Wormser, deserves and
doubtless will have good sale.
The stories in the present collection
have certain unity of effect in that they
deal with the uneanny, the transcendental.
The popularity Of fiction of the super
natural is evidenced by the extraordinary
amount of it published In all countries, es-
pecially in recent years. Certain well
known authors, as Algernon Blaekwood,
eonfine their efforts almost entirely to the
supernormal material That was true of
Lord Dunsany till his last volume of war
sketches.
Miss Wormser's stories are worthy to
stand beside the work of BlaekwoOd,
though in one or two instances they show
a shade too obvious Blackwood influence,
as in The Hood Of Liring Trees, which is
suggestive Of The Hon Whom the Trees
LOred. Likewise The Efisy is a bit too
similar to Oscar Wilde's Picture Of Dorian
Gray. But in the main these stories are
original in concept and execution and de-
serve much praise.
Miss Wormser avoids the conventional
machinery Of supernaturaiism and achieves
striking effects by unusual suggestion.
There are no stereOtyped ghosts or devils
in these pages, but we get an uneanny in
fusion Of the psychic and the diabolic into
material and commonplace things and sit
uations. For example, In The Searecrov
we see the weird coming to life of the
scarecrow in the eornfeld, dressed in the
tattered blue uniform Of the Union soldier
summOning the young boy, against the
Efforts of his mother, to fight in another
war.
Haunted is an eerie tale of man who
came mp from the sea, akin TO Matthew
Arnold's Forsaken Norman, who loves a
mortal woman. Here one gets the feeling
of the seas strange power and beauty in
terestingly expressed:
when the sky above was tinged with
the first streaking eolors of the dawn he
watched the ghostly expanse of the ocean.
When the sun was high in the heavens he
looked steadily at the Kght-fecked spotted
sweils of the waves. When the shadows
began to creep up from the earth he
stared at the greater blaekness that swan
in glistening undulating darkness to him
from across the water. And at night his
eyes strained through the fitful gloom at
the pitchy, turbulent sea.
at was ike that in an kinds of weather.
The spring tides, with their quick changes
from calm to storm and the slender silver
crescent of the moon hanging Just above
the horizon. The long summer laziness
of the green ocean with its Later gigantic
fiame-red moons and the wide yellow
streak Of phosphorescent light that
streamed in moving ripples to him; the
chill, lashing spray in autumn. Then the
foam-cOvered seething dread of it in
winter when the high tides were as one
menacing, roaring turmoil ehurning itself
into white spumed frenzy. 1t always held
him. He was a man Of one idea: The
sea-"
All the stories in the volume are inter-
esting reading. Miss WOrmser's book
should have recognition from those who
like originality in the short story.
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cUcUM BEERS.

The soil for cucumbers should be a
rich sandy loan, rather moist but not
wet. The seeds may be planted in
berry baskets or on sods In the hotbed
and these transferred to the open
ground, or the seed may be placed d.
rectly in the ground. Considerable
time will be saved by starting the
plants in the hotbed. In either case
they should not be placed in the open
until the ground has warmed up,
which will be about four weeks after
the last killing frost in the spring.
They may be planted in hills feet
apart each way or drilled in rows z
feet apart in the rows. 1t is a good
plan to use an abundance of well-rot-
ted manure in the holes or in the rows.
Cucumbers should receive frequent
shallow cultivation until the vines be-
gin to run freely; after this very little
cultivation is required. They are ready
for use as soon as large enough, and
no fruit should be allowed to ripen on
the vines. 1t is advisable to spray
cucumbers with Bordeaux mixture, as
they are quite liable to be injured by
diseases.
For full discussion of insects and
diseases affecting cucumbers and rem
$50, entitled Control of Disease and
Insect Enemies of the Home Vegetable
Garden"
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the roads at the proper time. Surely
we shall soon reach time when every
farmer will take pride in seeing the
road in front of his farm kept smooth
and hard, whether he is paid for it or
not. The best work we get done In
this world, the work that counts for
the most, is that which a man does for
love of it, and because of his own self
respect, rather than for the money he
may make. This is true of about every
thing we do. The best work is work
that cannot be paid for in cash, but is
the outward expression of the inward
life of the man.
Let's get over the idea that we must
do only what we are paid for doing,
and that when we are paid for it, it is
all right TO do less work for the same
money for the township or county than
we would do for neighbor or employ
err. Let's develop loyalty to our
selves, to our farms, to the township.
to the state, that will lead us to do
things because they should be done,
and not for the gain We get out of it,
not primarily for the pay.
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DRAGGING IN EARLY SPRING
Easiest and Best Method Of Road
Maintenance After Road Has
Been Properly Located.

Farmers don't realize the value OF
the drag. If 1t costs $25 or $50. and
was painted up. and somebody could
make money by going around selling
drags, it would be better. For the
farmer would then think he must use
1t to get his money out Of it. Its cheap
ness and simplicity work against 1t. In
ten years time, when we have had ex-
perience, we will find that the drag Is
the easiest and best method Of road
maintenance after the road has been
properly located, graded, drained, and
bridges and culverts put In. The drags
In a township are worth many times
as much as the expensive machinery.
In the way Of graders. which the town.
ship usually buys.
Ii you really want a good road this
summer, don't forget the spring drag
cling. II you dragged your roads
smooth last fall after the last rain,
SO that they froze up smooth. You
have had good roads all winter. II
not, you have smoothed them down by
humping over them, and then smoothed
them only in the tracks, torturing your
wife, your children and yourself SIM
ply because you would not follow our
advice, says Wallace's Farmer.
There will always be trouble about
getting the township trustees to drag
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BETS.

The red garden beet may be grown
In any good soil. but rich sandy loan
will give the best results. The seed
may be sown In spring as soon as the
ground is in condition to work. They
may be planted two weeks before dam
ger of frost is past If for horse cul-
tivation, the rows should be from 21s
to 8 feet apart, or wide enough for the
horse to walk between the rows. II for
hand cultivation the rows need not be
more than II to IS inches apart. The
usual custom is to SOW the seed some
what closer together than the hnets
are desired, and after the beets are up.
to thin them from time to time, using
the ones removed for green's until the
beets finally are some A to inches
apart in the rows.
1t should be remembered that what
Is commonly termed beet seed is really
! seed ball, containing several indi-
vidual seeds, and for this reason each
tne of these balls may bring from 3
to 4 plants. All of these plants except
one should be removed during the thin
ming process. Two ounces of the seed
are sufficient to plant a 10O-foot row.
Beets should be planted In success
hon at intervals of about two weeks
hrinS the suHmer so as to have Z
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LATE cABBAGE.

Late cabbage is usually grown as a
crop following early potatoes. peas or
some other crop that leaves the ground
free for about one-half the growing
season. The plants may be grown in
the seeded, it being necessary to SOW
the seed some three or four weeks
before it is desired to set them in po-
sition in the garden. 1t is an excel
lent plan to follow early potatoes with
late cabbage, as none Of the insects
that affect early potatoes are liable
to modest the late cabbage, and 1t is
possible to set the plants between the
potato rows some two or three weeks
before the potatoes are dug. In this
manner sufficient time Is gained to
permit the cabbage to reach maturity
before hard freezing weather occurs
in the fall.
The rows should be about 3 feet
apart and the plants some feet
apart in the rows. Slight freezing
does not injure cabbage, but it should
not be subjected to repeated freezing
and thawing. Late cabbage can be
stored by taking up plants and pack
ing them closely together in trench,
placing frame of boards or poles
around the trench, some supports
across the top, and covering the whole
with straw or corn fodder. The heads
may be removed as needed and the
roots and stems left in position in the
trench. These will furnish an album
dant supply of greens in early spring.
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RECORD OF HoLsTEIN cow
California Animal Sets High Mark by
Producing 24.01 Pounds of But
ter in Seven Days.


Purebred Holstein cows are certain
y doing their level best to respond to
Hoover's injunction to increase produc-
don. Records are being broken SO
,apidly that COW no sooner gets used
20 her championship laurels than an
other one snatches them away.
Miss Valley Mead De Kol Walker has
Just added to the dairy fame of Cali
.ornia by breaking the record for but
.erfat production in the junior three
Fear-old class, by producing 24.01
pounds of butter in seven consecutive
lays, in the division covering tests
begun not less than $40 days from
,reshening.
Miss Valley Mead De Kol Walker
treshened at the age. Of three years,
i've months, twenty-seven days, and be-
gan her test eight months after fresh
sning. In the seven days she produced
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The tomato is one Of the most salts
factory of all the garden crops and one
that Is found In practically every vege-
table garden. No matter how small
the garden space available, 1t Is always
advisable to have few tomato vines.
Tomatoes will grow in almost any
good soil, but the soil should not be
too high in heterogeneous matter, as this
VIII cause the plants to go to vine,
rather than to fruit. The plants should
be started in the window box or In the
hotbed, some six weeks before time to
set them in the open. For best results
they should be transplanted at least
once. 1t Is possible to secure crop
much sooner by carefully growing the
plants indoors in pots and transplant
Ing to the open ground as soon as CON
ditions permit. They should not be
set In the open until about two weeks
after the last killing frost. II set
sooner than this, they should In all
cases be protected from frost with
muslin cover or with boxes covered
with glass or by other means.
AhC POL-6AOWh pIdAlc dAC CoPCSAoA'J
desirable, as they may he brought to
the blooming period by the time 1t Is
warm enough to plant them In the gar
den. If the plants are not to be
trained, but allowed to lie on the
ground, they should be set about feet
apart each. way. If trained to single
stalk and tied to stakes or trellis,
they may be planted In rows feet
apart and IS inches apart In the row.
If to be used for table purposes only,
20 plants under good conditions will
supply the average family. If for CAM
ming, from 80 to 100 plants will be nee
essary. One hundred plants should
supply sufficient tomatoes for present
use, and enough to can at least 100
quarts.
Under favorable conditions tomatoes
will continue to grow and bear for
the entire season, and 1t should not be
necessary to set late crop
The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1918-04-19
LEAVING CALVES WITH COWS
for Human Consumption, Leave
Calf That Time.

Practical dairymen differ in their
opinion as to the length of time the
calf should be left with the COW. The
first milk, or colostrum, is necessary
to cleanse the digestive system of the
calf and get it in working order. The
younger a calf is taught to drink the
easier, but as the milk of the COW Is
unfit for human consumption for at
least four days the calf may well be
left with the COW for that time. Also,
the udder of the COW is generally in
famed and often caked and the nursing
of the calf helps to relieve this condi-
ton.
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Building-up for the Spring Attack al
the Front is a good deal like putting
the body in condition for an invasion
Of the germs of grip, pneumonia or
"Spring fever" here at home.
At this time of the year most people
suffer from a condition often called
Spring Fever. They feel tired, worn
out, before the day is half thru. They
may have frequent headaches and
sometimes "pimply" or pale skin and
white lips. The reason for this is that
during the wintertime, shut up with
in doors, eating too much meat and
too little green vegetables, one heaps
fuel into the system which is not burned
up and the clinkers remain to poison
the system-a clogging up of the circu-
lation-with inactive liver and kidneys.
Time to put your house in order.
For an invigorating tonic which will
clarity the blood, put new life In the
body, sparkle to the eyes, and a
wholesome skin, nothing does so well
as a glyceric herb extract made from
Golden Seal root, Blood and Stone
root, Oregon grape root and Wild
Cherry bark. This can be had In con-
venient, ready-to-use tablet form at all
drug stores, sixty cents, and has been
sold for the past fifty years as DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery. By
reason of the nerves feeding on the
blood, when the blood is pure the
nerves feel the effect. and neuralgia or
other nerve pains disappear because
such pain is the cry of the starved
nerves for food. When suffering from
backache, frequent or scanty urine.
rheumatic pains here or there. or that
constant tired feeling, the simple way
to overcome these disorders is merely
to obtain DR.. Pierce's Anuric from
your druggist. In tablets. sixty cents.
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SILAGE FOR DAIRY ANIMALS
Found Superior to Corn Fodder by Ex-
pertinent Stations - Larger
Amount of Nutrients.

Experiments conducted by expert
ment stations demonstrate that silage
is superior to corn fodder for dairy
COWS. Cows receiving silage in the
ration produced IS per cent more milk
than cows receiving corn fodder. Hen
ry In "Feeds and Feeding" states that
"Silage gives better results than dry
corn fodder for the reason that cows
fed the succulent palatable silage usu-
ally consume a heavier ration than
those fed the dry fodder and hence
have a larger amount of nutrients
available for milk production after
the maintenance requirements of the
body have been met"
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CELERY.


Celery seed should be sown in the
hotbed or window box about the time
OF the last frosts in the spring. The
seed is very slow in terminating and
the plants are small and delicate.
They are improved by transplantins
at least twice.
Celery requires deep, rich, moist
soil with plenty of well-rotted manure
or fertilizer and frequent shallow cul-
tivation- In the garden, celery may be
planted after some early crop, such as
lettuce, radishes or peas. AS soon as
the plants attain considerable size the
leaves should be drawn together and
a little soil compacted about the base
OF the plant to hold 1t upright. If the
blanching is done with earth, care
should be taken that the hearts Of the
plants do not become filed. Boards,
paper or other material may be used
for blanching, but earthing up will pro-
duce the finest flavor.
Celery may be stored and kept for
winter use by placing 1t in old hotbeds,
and covering It with fodder or straw;
In trenches covered with coarse ma
nure or straw; In outdoor cellars; or
In the storage room in the basement
Celery will test the skill Of the gar
dener about as severely as any crop he
may choose to grow, but no garden
product pays better for painstaking
care and effort than this crop.
For details as to the storage Of eel
cry, see Farmers Bulletin 879, 1.-THE
Home Storage of Vegetables.
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TRAINING FOR YOUNG BULLS
Should Be Taught to Be Led by Halter
When Quite Yovng-Caretaker
Must Be Master.

When quite young, the bull should
be trained to be led by halter. By
he time he is year old, strong ring
should be inserted in his nose so he
IAN be led by staff. 1t is not safe to
Try to lead grown bull merely by
natter or rope fastened to his ring. In
leading by the staff, the caretaker
should always walk at the side and
never in front of the bull. One of the
essentials in training the young bull is
that he must be taught that his care
taker is his master. Bulls known to
be vicious usually are handled with
care, with the result that fewer acct
dents are likely to occur with them
than with those considered gentle.
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SWEET CORN.

Plant sweet corn about the time or
the last killing frost in spring and
make 8 or successive plant
ings at intervals Of two weeks.
From a quarter pint to half pint
of seed is sufficient for a hundred
foot row. Plant the seed In drills 8
feet apart and thin to single stalk
every 10 to Ia inches, or plant 5 to
6 seeds in hills 8 feet apart each way,
and thin out to 8 to 5 stalks in a
hill. Cover the seeds about 2 inches
deep. Cultivate frequently, taking
care to remove all suckers from around
the base of the stalks.
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supply of young tender beets at Al
times. The beets should be used be-
fore they exceed a diameter OF 2 inches
as the young beets of moderate size
are of much better quality than those
allowed to make greater growth.
The beets that remain unused during
the latter part Of the season should be
allowed to grow until frost, pulled,
trimmed and stored for winter use. II
not desired for table use, they make
an excellent stock or poultry feed.