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The Parker post., 1918-07-13
FILLING HER CLUB NIGHTS
How One Girl Succeeded In Danish.
ing Loneliness Caused by Civ
ing Up Old Custom.

Barbara Carson felt bored as she
sat toying with her book under the
light of the table lamp after dinner.
1t was club night for the girls Of her
set, and she pictured them. enjoying
the excitement of the lights and the
music as she had done every week
through the winter.
She had had to admit, however, that
the tone Of the club-night dances had
gradually grown lower as the winter
wore on, and she had made up her
mind to break away from this group Of
young people. She wanted to attach
herself to persons who were more
worth while.
In remaining away tonight she had
taken the first step, but she had not
realized how hard ii was going to be.
Just then her mother entered the
room and noticed the troubled look in
her eyes.
"What is the matter, dear?" she
asked "Has something made you un-
happy?'
"No," said Barbara, mot exactly
that but 1 didn't realize how deadly
dull it was going to be to SPEND club
night at home"
"Aren't you trying to take something
out of your life without putting any
thing else in it's placer asked her
mother. "The Bible speaks about our
| overcoming evil with good. You are
| trying to overcome it with nothing.
| You are like the man Of whom Christ
spoke who had swept and garnished
his soul-house and then left it empty.
The result was that the old evil spirit
came back and brought seven other
worse devils with him. And, as Christ
tells us, the last state of that man
was worse than the first. The man
merely had a soul to let. Where he
made his mistake was in not getting in
some good tenants to take the places
of the ones he had turned out. The
Italians have q prOverb that says that
! the busy man Is vexed with only one
| devil, the idle one with seven. 1t IL
| lustrates the old saying that, II you
want to keep chaff out Of the gran
ary fill it with grain.
"The point of all this is that, If you
are trying to break bad habit, you
had better start good habit to take
it's place rather than to sit thinking
bow wretched you are. I would sug-
gest that you start now to make an
engagement for every club night dur
ing the rest of the season. Give your
self something interesting to do that
night; something positive to take
your mind in another direction In
stead Of leaving it to revolve on
nothing"
81 hadn't thought Of it in that way,
mother" said Barbara. II believe
you're right. Only the other day Mar
| jorie Sears said she wished some Of
US girls could get together one evening
a week to do some Red Cross work. /
believe I'll call up now and ask her
to come over and help me make some
| plans"
That night after Marjorie had gone
Barbara said to her mother shyly, 81
guess any little blue devil that comes
looking for lodgings with me on club
nights hereafter will find that I have
no room to spare."-Youth's Com
panion.
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
HOW CAMEL WAS PERSUADED
TeakettIe, and Was Lead to Be-
Ileve Rider Did the Work.

In 1866 camels from India were first
brought to Australia for general serv
Ice, says Norman Duncan in his book,
Australian Byways." 1t was a happy
experiment. A herd of more than 900
arrived with their Afghan masters in
1884. It is estimated that there are
now 10000 camels at labor in the dry,
back regions of the commonwealth. An
Australian loves horse and respects
the sturdy worth of bullock; he re-
CARDS camel, however, with tolerance
rather than appreciation, and will not
employ SO outlandish and perverse q
beast except to the great advantage of
his needs.
"We used to think" said Jerry, the
camel driver employed by the author,
''that we couldn't get along without the
'Ghans."
"Surely they know how to take care
of camels?" asked.
mo fearr' Jerry scoffed. "They had
a lot Of superstitions-like curing a
camel with a necklace of blue beads
and that's about all. The government
breeds better camels now. That's only
natural; we're white. I don't mean to
say, though, that we've bred the devil
out Of our camels. Sometimes / lose
patience with the brutes.
"a couple of years ago I was travel
ing to the north of this with a train
of four pack camels. One morning
when was packing found that had
forgotten to stow away billy can
(bushman's teakettle). When I picked
that little billy can up and made for
the nearest camel, meaning to hang it
on his pack, he began to double and
groan, as If it wasn't his billy can, and
he wasn't going to carry more than his
share, and what did l mean anyhow
by proposing to overload poor camel
that way? So to make things easy
switched off to the next camel And
he began to groan. They all groaned
Not one Of them would have that little
-bAl1s s--es>r1-s,rI =i1zr>fr
swell, I was disgusted. Instead of
hanging it on pack I mounted my
riding camel, with the billy can in my
hands. He was Mortified. Goodness.
how he bawled When he got up he
was bawling still Wouldn't move a
step! And then 1 leaned forward and
shook that billy can in his face. And
that satisfied him. Off he went with
out murmur. Why? I reckon he
thought was carrying that billy can"
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
Profit From Dust.

There is a cement plant at River
side, Cal, that was formerly the source
of great annoyance to the owners Of
the orange groves nearby because Of
the clouds of cement dust that settled
on the orange trees. The dust also
proved injurious to the employees of
the plant. Those facts and the result
ing lawsuits led the owners to try to
abate the nuisance by installing an ap-
paratus called precipitation, which
precipitates the fine dust by electrical
action before it leaves the exhaust
stacks. The recovered dust particles
were found to contain potash in the
form of crystallized salts, product
that is so scarce and valuable at the
present time, when no potash can
reach us from Germany, that the Riv-
erside company now devOtes it's entire
attention to recovering the potash,
and treats the cement as a by-prOduct.
The sales Of potash pay the entire op-
Grating cost of the plant and a reason
able profit besides, and the cement,
now produced at the rate Of 5000 bar
relS a day, is so much clear gain for
future sales. There is no immediate
market for so much cement; so most
Of it Is stored in bulk. Thus an ap-
paratus installed to safeguard the
health of the workers and to abate a
nuisance has changed the whole char
acter Of the industry and become a
source of unexpected proit.-Youth's
Companion.
The Parker post., 1918-07-13

Whenever heavy main dish is served
light dessert should follow, and when
light dinner. hearty dessert.
Heavy salads fit into light luncheons
and may often form the main dish
while fruit salad makes a most &C.
ceptable dessert
Fat meats need acid fruits and tart
f1avors to cut them.
Bean Soup.--COok a pint Of white
beans In two quarts Of water until ten
der, add stalk of celery, minced, q
sprig Of parsley and rub through a
sieve, season with bacon fat, salt, pep.
per, and half cupful Of sweet cream
serve hot.
Lima Bean Soup.-Pick over, wash
and soak over night sufficient beans
then cook slowly until soft enough tC
rub through a sieve. Return the sift.
ed beans to the fire, adding a spoon
full each Of -four and butter rubbed to.
gether, thin with hot milk, season with
salt and pepper and add q little
whipped cream. Any vegetable for
flavor, like onion, parsley, or celery
may be cooked with the beans II de-
sired for flavor.
Bishop Williams Corn Bread.-Sift
together one cupful each of cornmeal
and -four, three tablespoonfuls of
sugar, half teaspoonful Of salt, tea.
spoonful Of cream Of tartar and half
teaspoonful Of soda. Add one cupful
Of sour cream, two eggs and beat Wig
orously, then bake In a hot oven 20
minutes. II sour cream Is not avail
able milk may be used with the addi-
ton Of two tablespoonfuls Of short
ening.
Sausage and 5anana.--Cook link
sausages until we'll done and brown,
take up and in fat cook bananas cut
In halves crosswise, dredge with -four,
and fry golden brown, serve the sau-
sages and bananas together.
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
NOTICE OF NON-LIABILITY FOR
LABOR AND MATERIALS
FURNISHED.

Notice is hereby given to all per-
sons that the Empire-Arizona Consol-
idated Copper Company is the owner
of the mining claim hereinafter de-
scribed, with all the improvements
thereon. The said mining claim is
now leased to, is being worked and
operated by II. Randolph, persuant
to certain lease of said lode mining
claim, dated May %, 1918.
Said lease to said H. Randolph to
be in force up to and including the
22d day of November. 1918.
The Empire Arizona Consolidated
Copper Company will not be respon-
sible for any supplies purchased, la
Dor employed, work done, during the
life of this lease.
The name of said mine or mining
claim is:
The Gray Eagle lode mining claim,
situate in the Seneca mining district,
in Yuma county, state of Arizona.
The location notice of said mine or
mining claim being duly recorded in
the office of the county recorder of
Yuma county, state Of Arizona.
In witness whereof, the Empire
Arizona Consolidated Copper Com
pany, by it's superintendent, James
r. Goldsworthy, has hereunto set its
hand and seal this 22nd day of May,
1918.
EMPIRE ARIZONA CONSOLIDATED
COPPER COMPANY,
BY JAS. r GOLDSWORTHY,
Superintendent
Witness: LEE PRITT.
Subscribed and sworn to before me
this 31st day of May, 1918.
]. B. FLANAGAN,
(SeaD Notary Public
(My commission expires Oct. SO,
1879
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
Artificial Ewes of CartiIane.

A surgeon of the British army is
experimenting with balls of cartilage
for artificial eyes. When live car
tilage is transplanted to the eye sock
ct it establishes connections with blood
vessels and surrounding tissues, and
before long moves naturally in co-or-
dination with it's fellow. To what ex-
tent the cartilage can be colored so as
to simulate real eye is yet to be
proved, but 1t can at least be faced
with shell Of celluloid that will ap-
pear natural.
The Parker post., 1918-07-13

eighteen years anu over, who have
been engaged as machine operators for
more than one year, is to be 13 cents
an hour for hot-waX machines, and II
cents for dry-thread machines. The
time rate for female operators between
the ages of fifteen and eighteen is to
remain as at present, provided that
after being engaged on machines for
one year the time rate shall not be
less than eight cents per hour. Time
and half has been settled as the
overtime rate.
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
Says He'll Enlist: It's Easier

Ralph McMurray, colored waiter at
the Hotel McCurdy in Evansville, re-
ceived his QUESTIONABLE a few days
ago.
."What is it? he asked some of his
friends.
"Oh, you just have to answer those
questions" he was told.
Answer these?" shouted McMurray.
turning over the numerous pages
"Nope. I'm going to war instead. En-
listin' is lots easier"
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
Certain to Win.

"How's your boy getting on at the
training camp?"
"Wonderful !" replied Farmer Apple
cart. Il feel sense Of great security
An army that can make my boy get up
early, work hard all day an go to bed
early can do most anything, People
Home Journal
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
Pay ShoeWorkers More.

The female machine operators en-
ployed In the Birmingham and Walsall
leather trades have been awarded ad-
vances in wages as from last October.
Female machine operators fifteen
years Of age and over are to receive
10 per cent bonus on their actual earn
tnGa The minimum rate for those Of
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
switzerland's Live Stock Prices.

The price of oxen bought at q re-
cent sale ranged from $40 to $3.50
the pair; bulls were sold for $3.50 to
$3.50 each; cows, $24O to $3.50 each;
young cows, $3.50 to 5000 each; goats,
$12 to $16 each; small porks, SIP to
$16 each; medium-sized porks, $40 to
SEQ the pair; fat pOrks, 80 cents per
pound; sheep, $12 to 16 each.
The Parker post., 1918-07-13

CtJt Uo It 10 easy lIICI 10
see the lack of variety.
An occasional meal may
be left vacant which may
be filed with leftovers
from a previous day.
The character of the
menus depends upon the
people who will eat 1t.
Active children need
hearty wholesome food,
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
Win Truth by Strength.

We think that we shall win truth by
striving after strength, instead of
knowing that we shall gain strength
just in the degree that we become
true-PhillinS Brooks
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
ARE YOUR MENUS IN A RUT?

The greatest help in planning q
weeks menus is the chance for vari-
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
N.... h~+~eeQ
After the Lecture.

After the Lecture.
"In his lecture he gave some bare
facts"
"Why, thought his words were
clothed with beautiful ideas"
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
Natural Procaedino.

Natural Proceeding.
Poor old Grimes! So he's gone at
last. What man he was to run after
WidOws!' %
ayes, after eyerybody's but his own"
The Parker post., 1918-07-13
"a NKITtc.HHEN z
6CABINE TI

Not in the clamor of the street,
Not in the shouts and plaudits Of
the throng,
But in ourselves are triumph and de-
feat.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-29
WAR WORK BY COUNTY AGENTS
Not Only Laboring for Department Of
Agriculture, but Also Aiding
Food Administration.

prepared by the United States Depart.
ment Of Agriculture)
The county agents and home-demon-
stration workers employed in the Unit
ed States are not only instructing
farmers and farm women In food pro-
duction and conservation, but are as
sisting in other essential war work.
They are not only working for the de-
partment of agriculture but are assist
Ing the food administration. the treas
ury department, the war department,
the navy department, the department
Of justice, and the department Of labor.
They have taken part, in addition to
their regular activities, In such work
as food surveys, seed surveys, seed
distribution, obtaining credit for farm
ers, selling Liberty bonds, eradication
of live stock diseases, surveys of insect
pests and campaigns for their destruc-
ton, marketing farm products, prefer
entail or priority shipments by rail Of
farm products and all farm supplies,
and dissemination Of information Civ
en- out by the war department, the
council Of national defense, and the
committee on public information re-
garding the war, and other matters af-
fecting the national policy under. war
conditions.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-29
FIND HUMoR IN AD COLUMNS
Notices Not Intended to BE Funny, but
Are Made So by Their Pc
culiar Wording.

=
Advertisements are vagarious things
sometimes, as, for example, these,
which were oil actually printed: "a
respectable young woman wants wash
ing" Il will make coats, caps, and
sboas for ladies out of their own skins"
= want an oyerseer who can take care
Of 5000 sheep who can speak French
afluently." Wanted girl who can
cook one that will make a good stew"
4 want husband with strong Ro-
man nose with strong religious tenden-
cies." Il will sell fiddle of old
wood ] made out of my own head and
have wood left enough for another"
For sale-A small stock Of the same
whisky drunk 81 his majesty on his
recent visit to Dublin" zone hundred
dollars reward for the recovery of the
body Of Hale Short, drowned in the
river on the night of the 18th. The
body can be recognized by the fact
that Short had an impeachment in his
speech"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-29
HAARLEM OIL CAPSULES
IF YOUR BACK ACHES

Do you feel tired and "worn-out 2"
Are you nervous aud irritable? Don't
sleep well at night? Have a dragged
out" unrested feeling when you get
up in the morninaR Dizzy spells? Bill
ious? Bad taste in the mouth, back
ache, pain or soreness in the loins,
and abdomen? Severe distress when
urinating, bloody, cloudy urine or sed-
iment? AL these indicate gravel or
stone in the bladder. or that the poi
sonous microbes. which are always in
your system, have attacked your kid
neys.
You should use GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules Immediately.
The oil soaks gently into the walls
and lining Of the kidneys, and the lit
tie poisonous animal germs. which are
causing the Inflammation. are imme-
diately attacked and chased out of
your system without Inconvenience or
pain.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-29
BOYS AND GIRLS WORK HARD
Produced and Conserved Products Last
Year Worth SO, 000, Oo0-Many
Were Enrolled.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture.)
More than 100000 boys and girls
were reached through club work last
year, according to compilation re-
Gently made by the United States de-
partment Of agriculture, which super
yises this work in cooperation with
the state agricultural colleges. OF
this number approximately $4,000
made complete reports, which show
that they produced and conserved
products amounting to $40, 600. In
the 33 Northern and Western states
$4,000 boys and girls were enrolled.
OF this number 16O.825 made complete
reports and produced and conserved
products valued at SIS. 700, 900. In the
South there were 115, 745 boys enrolled
In the regular work, who produced
products valued at 4,5OO, 600. and 73,-
S08 girls who produced and conserved
products valued at 81, 800 600. In the
emergency club work in the South the
club leaders reached over AGO. 600 boys
and approximately 100000 girls who
produced and conserved products
valued at more than $4,000, 600.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-29
RUSSIA NEVER REAL NATION
Pessimistic Museovlte Explains the
True Situation in the Former
Empire Of the Gar.

= &
"We're nation Of artists and saw
ages. You can reach us through our
feelings give us a poem, a play, a
picture, and we can initiate it, or even
improve on it.~Y ou send as cannon
He raised both arms ,helplessly and
dropped them.
You thought Russia was q huge
country. That was fiction built up
by the old regime, which meanwhile
Intrigued with Germany. AS mat
ter Of fact, Russia extends for few
hundred kilometers, north, south, east
and west Of Moscow. The rest was a
foreign country, held together by force.
1t might become federation and grow
into something like your United States,
but it never was nation In the real
sense of the wovd.
You think we're a great agricul-
tural country. Another fallacy. We
have land, but no agriculture. Our
peasants dance on their fields instead
OF fertilizing them.
Foreigners have been very naive.
They assumed we were modern,
strong and capable because of few
fine things we sent to them. They
read Tolstoi or SAT Pavlova and said
All la great people! They saw
greatness through the entrechat OF
some ballerina's legs
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-29
COUNTY AGENTS TEACH MANY
Farmers In Southern States Given In
struction In Growing Of Crops
and Other Problems.
prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.)


Prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture.)
The war emergency brought q great
increase in the number Of farmers,
farm women, and boys and girls in
structed by county agents in problems
OF greater food production and con-
eervation.
According to reports to the Office Of
extension work South, Of the states
relations service, 303,723 farmers in
the Southern states were reached dur
ing 1917 with definite demonstration in
the growing of crops, raising and feed
Ing Of live stock, marketing and other
problems. The number of acres COW
cred by the crop demonstrations alone
In 1917 was 1857, 485. In addition to
these a conservative estimate of the
number of farms directly reached by
the county agents in 1917 is 1885, 900.
The figures represent about 60 per
cent of all farms in the South.
Agents are giving advice and help
In one way or another to nearly every
one with whom they come in contact,
and the direct and Indirect influence
of the county agents work and the
proportion Of the farmers reached is
thought to be much higher than the fig
ures given.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-29

/ Don't ignore the "little pains and
aches" especially backaches. They
may be little now but there is no tell
ing how soon dangerous or fatal dis
ease Of which they are the forerun-
ners may show itself. Go after the
cause of that backache at once, or you
may find yourself in the grip Of an in-
durable disease.
Do not delay minute. Go to your
druggist and insist on his supplying
you with box of GOLD MEDAL
HARLEM Oil Capsules. In "a hours
you will feel renewed health and vigor.
After you have cured yourself. con-
tinue to take one or two Capsules
each day so us to keep in frst-class
condition, and ward of the danger Of
future attacks. Money refunded IL
they do not help you. Ask for the
original imported GOLD MEDAL
brand, and thus be sure Of getting the
genuine ADV. .s-.....,rssi
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-29
Originated With Webster.

.'When began the custom for indi-
Nduals and audiences to be standing
when the 'Star-Spangled Banner was
sung or played n
It was q fair question. 1t was adopt
ed by the army and navy long ago;
but the army and navy did not origi-
nate the very appropriate and patriotic
custom.
Between sixty and seventy years
ago. when Jenny Lind, one Of the
sweetest singers the world ever pro-
duced, was the chief attraction at a
Boston concert, Daniel Webster, the
great senator, secretary Of state and
patriot, was present.
Jenny Find sang the "Star-Spangled
Banner" as only that songbird could
sing it. The audience called her back
several times, and she sang a verse
OF our present national anthem.
Each time one man stood up, and
at the close gracefully bowed to the
singer. That was Daniel Webster.
It was good example to set, q
needed custom to establish, and one
that has been an important factor IN
impressing patriotic lessons.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-29
MANY SHEEP KILLED By DOGS
Ways OF Preventing Ravaues BY AMI.
mals Are sugseseed BY Agricul-
tural Department.
prepared by tire United States Depart
menf Of Agx5culturo)


'(Prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture)
Uniform state laws are advocated by
,she United States department Of agri-
culture as being the most effective
method Of dealing with the sheep kill
Ing dog. Investigation by the depart
mept among sheep owners In Is states
east Of the Rocky mountains shows
that out Of q total of d888, 400 sheep IN
the 500 counties reporting, 34,688 were.
killed BY dogs IN one yeas (1918) and
were paid for BY the counties. AT the
same rate d loss In other farm states
the total annual destruction Of sheep
by dogs would be 1O7, geo.
But these figures are based only
upon the number actually paid for, and
1t is more than probable that the true
losses far exceed this. Il Is known
that many sheep are killed which are
never reported to the county official.
In 1918 crop reports In SO states sub
mitted estimates which showed that
the number Of sheep In those states
could be increased $50 per cent with
out displacing other live stock. Such
an increase would place approximate
~ $4,000, 600 more sheep In. these
states than there are now. OF 1,411
answers received to the question as
to whether sheep raising is profitable
In the farm states 887 answered Eyes. =
OF 1914 answers as to the causes pre-
venting increase in the numbers Of
sheep 581 said. Dogs"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-08-29

screens, arranged one above the other
The diameter Of the openings in the
upper screen in some graders is liz
inches and In others 2 inches, while
the lower one may have openings any
where from y to III inches in dam
eter. Some makes Of graders or sizers
have wire-mesh screens with square
openings, while others have circular
or oblong openings with circular ends.
Pickers and serters.
Three pickers usually work with
one sorter, each taking row. The
potatoes are picked into wire or splint
baskets having a bail handle, and as
the baskets, are filed they are dumped
on the upper part Of the top screen
and then shaken down. The large po-
tatoes passing over the top screen are
diverted into one sack and those pass
ing through the upper screen and over
the lower go into another sack. One
man drives the horse and operates the
sorter while another sews the sacks
and assists in loading the wagons.
One digger with the necessary crew
of men and teams can harvest from
three to four acres q day.