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The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-01-17
SOIL EROSION ON
SLoPINC TRACTS
No Slope Sleeper Than IS De-
grees Should Be Cleared for
Best Cultivation.
TO PREVENT SERIOUS HARM
One of the Most Effective Methods OF
Thwartlns Soil Washing Is by /.
Terracing-Stops Washing Away
of Land on HiIlsides.

prepared by the United States Depart
ment Of Agriculture)
The farmer who contemplates clear
ing q wooded tract which is more or
less uneven in character should make
sure that, If cleared, 1t will not suffer
from erosion. How steep a slope of
wooded land can safely be cleared
for farming depends largely on the
character of the soil. 1t has often
been said that no slope sleeper than
Is degrees should be cleared and, as
general rule, this probably holds good.
However. not infrequently slopes OF
less than Is degrees show serious ero-
sion under cultivation, while occasion
ally others of 20 degrees and more
show no serious results. The queS-
ton, therefore, is one that must be
settled for each locality, or even for
each tract.
In Case of Doubt.
Usually the farmer who is in doubt
can find In the vicinity piece of
cleared land similar in character to
his own, and can judge his problem by
the condition of the cleared area. In
case of doubt, the safest course is to
leave the land uncleared, according to
the forest service.
Some erosion must be expected on
all sloping land cleared for cultivation,
but where the tract is really suitable
for farming, however, the erosion can
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-01-17
In WASHINGTON.

"Yes, they sometimes launder the
soiled money at the treasury"
"Can you tell me where they hang
It Out?"
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-01-17
Poor Paw.

''bfy, what q bright looking boy! Dc
you take after your father much!"
mo, but you ought to see maw."
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-01-17
Hard Going.
THOSE DEAR GIRLS

Hard Going.
Life is a journey all secure
AS over level roads we slip
And then Fate calls for a detour
That spoils the pleasure of the trip.
The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1920-01-17
Wish Him Luck.

Wish Him Luck.
"Brown has a great idea, if he can
work it out"
"What's he doing now?
Hes trying to invent a dollar that
will buy twice as much as the one we
now have"
Evening star., 1920-03-01
HARLAN LAW CLUB TO MEET.
Representative Little to Address
G.. w. u, ORGANIZATION.

The Harlan Law Club of George
Washington University will hold an
open meeting tonight. Representa-
tive Edward c. Little of Kansas City
will address the class. having for his
topic Revision of Our Laws
The club was organized at the open
Ing of the present session and named
In honor of the late Justice Harlan.
The membership is limited to forty.
and by invitation only. These officers
of the club we're installed week
ago: Chief justice. Van Mossman of
the senior class: first associate JUS
tice. w. H. Lacy: second associate
justice, G. F.. Rollins: clerk, u. NJ.
Hodge: deputy clerk. w. l. Cleveland.
and bailif. Mr.. Brahan.
The object Of the organization is to
encourage and stimulate interest and
study of important legal topics and
afford the earnest student opportu-
nifty better to qualify himself for the
practice of the law.
Evening star., 1920-03-01
PASSENGERS TAKEN FROM
SHIP WHICH STRUCK ROCK
Removed From Bohemian During
Snowstorm-Crew Remains,
Tugs Stand By.

HALIFAX. n. s., March 1.-Sixty-
three assengers of the steamship Bo-
hemian, which struck on Sambro
lodges off Halifax harbor. !n n snow
storm early today, were taken off by
tugs and brought to this port. Tugs
stood by the vessel. which was bound
for Liverpool from Boston. The 120
members of the crew remained on
board.
BOSTON. March 1.-Offlcials of the
Leyland line at this port received
word today that the steamship Bo-
hemian was not In danger Of break
ing and probably would float at high
tide.
The steamship Bohemian left here
last Saturday with siXty-four cabin
passengers. a crew Of about zoo men
and a valuable cargo. She had been
expected to dock at Halifax for a few
hours today to take on more cargo
and coal.
Evening star., 1920-03-01
BECOME ONE DIVISION.
Army Cemeterial and Graves Reg
istration Services Combined.

The present cemeteraI branch and
the graves registration service of
the quartermaster generals office
have been combined into one division,
to be known as the Cemcterial di-
vision. Col. c. c. Pierce of the graves
registra ton service has been desig-
mated chief of the new division. with
Col w c. Jones as executive officer
The new division will be located in
the munitions building.
Evening star., 1920-03-01
ADVERTISING CLUB TO MEET.
Baltimore Guest Will Be Speaker
on "AnalyZing Advertising"

E. Lyell Cunts of Baltimore is to
be the speaker at the weekly lunch
con meeting Of the Advertising Club
of Washington, to be held at Har-
veys at 1890 o'clock Wednesday, His
Evening star., 1920-03-01
Col. Parrott Goes to Camp Dodge.

Col Ralph B. Parrot has been re-
lieved from duty in the office of the
adjutant general of the Army and
ordered to Camp Dodge, Iowa, for
duty as division adjutant.
Evening star., 1920-03-01
Lieut.. Col. Burr Assigned.

Lieut. Col. William E. Burr. field
artillery. stationed in this city, has
been assigned to the 18th Field Ar
tillery at Camp Travis, Tex.
Evening star., 1920-03-01

prizes are to be distributed in the
popularity voting contest which has
been made a feature of the weekly
luncheonS.
Evening star., 1920-03-01

subject Is to be "Analyzing Adver-
tising.'
Following the plan adopted at a
recent meeting of the club. valuable
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08
Cutting Down
Home Waste

1
People of average means can hardly
afford in these days to keep servants
Households which formerly kept two
or three now get along with one maid
Many manage with half a servant
sharing her with a neighbor. Not q
flew housewives have been driven tc
the necessity Of doing their own cook
ing and sending the washing to 9
laundry.
This has meant to deal a discomfort
but there has been an Incidental gain
Waste is enormously reduced.
Servants make nearly all the waste
Of household. Many housewives
deprived of "lady help" have been
astonished to observe shrinkage Of
their food bills, Notwithstanding the
present doubled and trebled prices.
When domestic establishment EN-
ploys half dozen servants the waste
is enormous. Nearly always in a
house run on that scale the butler
and cook "stand in" with the butcher
and grocer, and their rake-off in
creases with the amount of food they
throw away.
Recent investigations by the New
York Health Department proved that
the average family living in private
J house with one or more servants,
throws away a pound and a quarter
of perfectly good food every day.
It was found that the average
apartment house family throws away
only one fifth as much largely, doubt
less, because such families reduce do
nestle service to minimum.
In the tenement districts Of New
York one garbage can usually suffices
to hold the food refuse of 20 families
But in the private house districts
1T was found that 1853 families had
I175 garbage pals, or more than pail
apiece.
Examination of the 175 pals re-
vealed IS pounds of bread and rolls,
so pounds of meat, 35 pounds of po-
tatoes, 16 pounds of cereals and large
quantities Of perfectly fresh vege.
tables.
Always the amount of food waste
varies directly with the number OF
servants employed. AS a matter Of
fact the full garbage pail seems hith'
erto to have been regarded in this
country as manifestation of pros
perity. Not until very recently have
people begun to think that possibly
this was foolish idea.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08
The Latest Gossip
Among the Vitamines

Every month we have few more
ldisconcerting facts about the vitamine
For example: A fresh young carrot
has over three times as much ants
corbutic vitamine as fresh but old
carrot. Both the age and the method
of cooking a food may have much
effect on this valuable food item.
Dried milks keep their vitamine
value and may be used for children if
orange juice is fed Condensed milk,
on the other hand, supplies very lit.
tie antiscorbutic.
Potatoes may or may not guard
against scurvy, according to how they
are cooked and how much is eaten.
It is thumbs down" for the boiled
potato, especially with the skin off.
Too high temperatures and too long
cooking are death to the vitamine
that may, however, survive cooking
under less strenuous conditions. For
example, of four pigeons on the same
lration of corn and barley and peas, the
two whose food was heated in a pres
sure cooker at Is pounds pressure for
rs hours died in 40 days, but the two
whose food was heated only IS min
utes were doing well after 2S0 days.
There is nothing momentous about
ritamines. Each little vitamine has
habits of it's own. Glittering generali-
ties are their adherence. And fur
thermore the same food varies not
|only with age and the treatment it has
received, but with its production
vegetables with the soil and animal
God with feeding of the animal. But
erfat, the great purveyor Of growth
promoting vitamines, varies in this
regard with the feeding of the COW,
IN standing, and on pasturization.
The humble cabbage eaten raw, car
OTIS, fresh milk and yeast are all no
table sources of these protective
foods" Our scientists are hot on the
rail of the vitamine, but the end is not
,et, not apparently for a long time yet.
All this appears from the work of
Marguerite Davis of the Home Eco
nomics Laboratory of the University
of Wisconsin, as set forth in recent
lumber of the Journal of Home Eco
nomics.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08
Porter Wins

The mayor of Riverside has been
reelected to Office. And it is strange
case. In the betting ring the odds
would have been 1000 to 1 against
him.
This mayor presided over the town
If Riverside during the "flu" epidemic,
says the Los Angeles Times. In order
to set up an additional preventive
against the spread of the disease he
issued an edict that there should be
no kissing in that town He made it
unlawful for man to kiss his own
wife. You wouldn't dast' kiss the
prettiest girl in Riverside, and that's
a big word, for Riverside is just liter
ally jammed with pretty girls.
If you were to see the prettiest girl
| in Riverside you would risk the "fiu,"
lumbago, mumps, Charley horse and
every other misery to kiss her. You
would walk a tight rope across Niagara
Falls on a, windy day to do it.
But, if you did, and it was when
the "flu" was rampaging around there,
Mayor Porter's policeman would slam
you into the calaboose and all the
lawyers in California couldn't get you
/ out.
"This is the last time he will ever
be Mayor" was what they all said.
And certainly it looked like it. Every
body was mad.
Yet, here comes along another cleo
ton, and there is the honorable mayor
|just where he was, booked for another
term, his same old chair waiting nice
and coy for him in the city hall.
1t is indeed true saving that poll
/ tics is like a cat. mo one can tell
which way it will jump But there
must be something more than that
back of the reelection of Mayor
Porter. There must be something I'M
usual aboutthe man himslf.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08
APPLES PLENTIFUL;
NOW FOR JELLIEs

With enough apples in sight this
year for everybody in the United
States to have almost bushel each,
housewives can plan on putting up a
plentiful supply Of apple jelly and
apple butter. Not only is there an
unusually heavy crop forecast (the De-
partment Of Agriculture estimates it
at 97,764,O00 bushels) but a shortage
of barrels will prevent the usual guam
tity of apples from going into cold
storage. This will probably result in
more apples going on the market as
they are picked, thus lowering the
price. In some apple producing cen
tiers, growers are offered only 40 cents
la bushel. At such prices, housewives
will be able to preserve apples this
fall in large quantities.
Apples are one of the most desirable
fruits for jelly-making. Crab apple
jelly is always favorite dish and
other varieties make jelly which may
be favored with other fruits or spices.
If the apples are acid it is not neces-
|sary to use any fiavoring. To make
jelly that win not crystalline. the right
proportion of sugar must be added to
the fruit juice.
Another condiment is apple butter.
This is made little later in the apple
season when farmers begin to make
cider. 1t can easily be made at home
by boiling cider and ground apples
with the proper amount of sugar
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08
When Steel Breaks
Like Glass

Look out, or you will drop that
chiseI!" Before the sentence was fin
ished the tool had slipped from the
hand Of my assistant and, striking
upon some bar iron, few into pieces
as if it had been glass instead of
steel"
This reads like bit out of "Alice
in Wonderland" but in sober fact, as
told by an American formerly en-
gagged in various enterprises at Daw-
son, in the Yukon territory.
It is interesting to learn what
happens at so degrees below zero, a
temperature not uncommon in the
Yukon. For example. the gentleman
entioned tells of one stretch Of such
cold in January, spell that endured
two weeks. The temperature ranged
from Al degrees below zero (the
.warmest) down to 6S degrees below.
Some of the outlying Yukon police
stations reported 80 degrees below.
The cold wave alternates with warmer
periods of 10 degrees below.
At such temperatures as these
strange manifestations appear. One
is the way a fire burns in the stove.
It roars and crackles like a great
forge, and wood in the stove seems
to dissolve in the flames like chunk
of ice; the wood is gone and one won
ders where the heat went.
At so degrees below every stovepipe
throws out great white cloud of
smoke and vapor, resembling a steam
boat in it's whiteness, and this cloud
streams away for from so to 100 feet,
mingling with the other white-gray
mist of haze that remains permanent
in the atmosphere of the town like a
great fog when it is 40 degrees or
more below zero. This white-gray
fog is not fog as we know it, but is
frozen fog, and every man, woman,
child, animal and even the fire that
burns is throwing out moisture into
the air, which is Immediately turned
into cloud of frozen vapor that
floats away and remains visibly sus-
pended in the air. Very slowly this
settles to earth; and in the morning,
about the steps and any protected
place, one can see very fine film Of
flourlike dust deposited, which is COM
posed Of frozen vapor.
Exposed cars, hands and noses
freeze at this temperature in going
the distance Of about one city square.
The breath roars like a mild jet of
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08

steam, while a dipper of boiling water
thrown out into the air emits pecul-
liar whistling as its drops circle
through the frosty atmosphere.
Prospectors, in attempting to boil
a dish of rice or beans upon a camp
fire unprotected from the weather,
find that the side of the dish that is
in the fire will boil, while the part
of the dish exposed to the weather
has frozen. To remedy this, the dish
lis set completely into the fire.
In such temperatures one must be
very careful about touching things
with unprotected hands. 1t is danger
GUS to take hold of door knob when
lit is so degrees below zero or there
abouts with the uncovered hand, un-
less one is careful instantly to release
his hold, for if he does show this
!carelessness the inner palm of his
hand will be frozen in five seconds.
The result is the same as though he
had touched red-hot stove.
Great spikes, used in. constructing
the frames of buildings, when sub
jected to this frigid temperature con-
tract when embedded in the wood,
and when the ciinging fiber Of the
wood can no longer control the con-
traction, the shrinking spikes give a
great jump in the wood, this being ac-
Icomplished by a loud booming sound
like the firing of heavy gun, or that
of building struck with a s1edge
there is, therefore, not one but many
of these explosions, which resemble
the sounds from a target range.
Coal oil begins to thicken at 40 de-
grees. below, and at go and 70 degrees
below becomes as thick as lard and
looks very much like that substance,
only a little darker. 1t can then be
cut out of the can with a knife the
same way that one cuts lard or but
ter. A lighted lamp or lantern left
exposed in this temperature will
freeze up and go out in about 80 min
utes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08
IMPRESSIVE FEATURE

"You have doubtless admired monu,
nents in the old world"
81 have" replied the travelled per-
son.
"And what impressed you most
about the pyramids?"
$50 far as I could judge from
rather hasty inspection, they were
quite free from all advertising matter"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08

Recently detectives in Berlin in an
airplane chased and apprehended three
money traffikers who, with 11,000,000
silver rubles, were en-route to Frank
fort by train. The pursuers reached
Frankfort before the train and nabbed
the traffikers as they were in the act
of transferring the money to accom-
plices in hotel.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08

To offset the effect of the strike of
telegraphic employees, an airplane pos
tai service has been organized between
the principal cities of Italy by the
Italian government.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08

In the first four months of this year
62,509 Italians came to this country.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08

Airplanes are to be used to- carry
mail and funds to American relief
workers in the interior of Syria who
have not been heard from for moro
than a month, according to a cable
message received recently in New
York by the Near East Relief.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1920-10-08

Treasurer John E. McDougald of
the San Francisco treasury department
will use an airplane for taking the
payroll from City Hall up the Sierras,
journey from the different locations
at the various tunnelmouths, saw
mills and dam sites, as well as to
the men at outlying points at Lake
Eleanor and Hetch Hetchy proper. 1t
is a long journey by boat. train and
motor, but an airplane can go and re-
turn in day.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09

his hand TO any enterprise, private or
public, without backing his endeavor
to the limit. He is always successful
because when he leaves something for
George to do he makes sure that
George does it. He doesn't reach the
finish only to find that some impor.
tant detailha been neglected. He is
an executive who directs and directs
intelligently and successfully. He
Will direct the business of the state
just as energetically and painstak-
inly as he directs his own business.
He has had legislative experience in
both houses of the Vermont LEGISLATURE
and it is a safe gamble that he and
any Vermont legislature would join
fraternal hands in putting across any
reasonable program of legislation after
election is able to get Incorporated
into workable law by cooperation
with legislative branch of the state
government When it comes to re,
suits at the showdown, one can al
ways count on Frederick n Babhitt.
Curtis S. Emery is still another
type country lawyer, county clerk
and federal Office holder 1t is safe
to say. chat II he has accumulated any
money II was while he was collector
at the Port of Memphremagog a pos
ition he he'd for eight years by grace
of presidential appointment His
roots may come nearer reaching to the
soil than those of either of the other
candidates but the soil of Chelsea
where he spent most of his life is not
noted for its fertility. He has had leg.
islatiye experience in both branches.
but his life for the'most part has been
along lines of least resistance He
has not tackled propositions which re-
quire great energy, foresight and
skill, He has never taken bust
ness which was small and made It
great He has he'd Office and perform
ed the duties thereof creditably. but
has never shown initiative or more
than ordinary energy OF purpose. He
too is man one likes, social, friend
ly and a good citizen. His present
Office of Mayor Of Newport, Vermonts
6ebutante among cities, IS the FIRST he
has ever held requiring executive abil
ity along untried lines In his other
offices the trail has always been blaz-
ed by others. Mi Emery may be 4
good mayor of Newport If so, he
ought 10 he left there to go to school
a little longer before the business OF
a great corporation like the state Of
Vermont is placed in his hands,
Bellows Falls Times.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
The Three Candidates.

There are three candidates for the
Republican nomination for governor
of Vermont and it is not likely that
there will be more. The.one who re.
ceives the most votes at the Septem-
Der primary will be the next COVER
nor
All are good citizens, able men who
have made good in their several lines
of endeavor The state is to he con
graduated on the prospect of q clean
campaign, free from personalities and
above reproach. The public veal will
not suffer, whoever is the final choice
but this does not mean all are equally
qualified TO become governor of a
state A man may be eminently sue
cessful in one field of endeavor and
be but an Indifferent success in an
other Let us briefly consider the
three candidates in the order in which
they made their ambitions known to
the public.
James Hardness, scholar inventor
idealist. dreamer. very likable man
and withal thorough gentleman. He
is the head OF a large manufacturing
company which has made practical
and profitable the product OF his in
ventive genius. AS we understand it,
he is not an industrialist who knows
his business from the ground up moi
.an executive who pays much attention
to the details of the business he nom
inally heads. Not until recently has
he taken an interest in public affairs
He is without legislative experience
No governor, no matter how good his
intentions, can carry far unless he car
carry with him the hard headed, pract
al men who compose a Vermont leg
islature. To believe that the Spring
field candidate can cooperate with
Vermont legislature as successfully as
either of the other candidates requires
a wide stretch of the imagination
James Hartness is the Henry Ford oil
Vermont. Fords are useful in theil
place. but that place is not the sump
tuously upholstered chair in the eX
ecuive chamber at Montpelier
Frederick H. Babbitt is a wholly diff
ferent type. He has made success
in business by being in 1t and apart
of it, working at top speed through
long hours and knowing an directing
the major details He has never given
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1920-03-09
DORSET HOLLOW

Miss Anna Hughes of Troy is visiting
her sister Mrs. John Dalton.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kelley were in
Manchester last Saturday.
Steve Roberts and family are going
to move to the Potts farm.
Adolf Funke has been spending the
past week in New York on business.
Mrs. Mary. Jones and family have
moved into the George Baldwin house.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dennis Bowie and fam
lily are going to move to the HARDWOOD
farm,
MISS Mary Daley Of New York spent
a few days with her cousin, Mrs Will
liam Kelley.
John Schimerhorn, who has spent
the past year at Glen Farm, has resign
ed his position.
The Boy.es. who have been sick for
some time are able to be out, but Mr.
Bowie is not very we'll
Mrs. Adolf Funke and son Herbert
are staying at the Wade Inn while Mr..
Funke is IN New York