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POLK COUNTY NEWS, TRYON, N. C. KnAVjfe THE SOtfERHOB Ifl NEW ROLE I , ? i. . thf rr p. scours i Council of th National Council or tn luriea ay Boy Scouts of America.) rANCE SENDS SCOUT CABLE mrpiirn Minister Pichon has sent ssage to the Boy Scouts or is mc nierica: cr.ncli boy scout organizations .,n tPii in n leaerauon. ea P A. .1 n vwnocn era 4" Vl k h'flV 1 prescmeu n incobc i LW'lM'll. Ill HIS BUUlcoa cunu. en-U.cim SillCI OUT UHRCIB nuu civj- the result .of scout traln- in- their strength comes from their They would like to have our is act here as scoutmasters in s where they are located. Boy i ilnf t on1 T l)U(s here are aiwap o uui. u r 2. I nnArni!tMT a Inform- liovernmeiu i ini.uni). Ineral system of physical and moral Lining along scout lines. Meeting or- Wd- the following message to oe cu ed yon: 'I.cs Eclairenrs de France and Les claireurs unionisies. ue nuuic ru- ratel have been thrilled by the mes- L,rp conveved to thera by Mr. Mac- rhml in behalf of the Boy Scouts of irI" T!. fm ,ioor,ur America, mania ui inuu ucrjuj uiuicu iearts they send you their greetings md respond with the cry, "America ind France onward together until final rirtory." General de Berckheiin, pres- jpnt de la Federation Francalse des claireurs. Minister of War sent ninmandant Royal a.s special repre sentative to meeting. V.ANADA SCOUTS VISIT U. S. Pour Patrol fc-eaoera i our wn oi- cycles and Camp Out. Four Canadian scouts, all belonging to Troop .No. 8 or uttawa, are in rsew York city on a well-earned sightseeing trip. They came all the way on their bicycles,' except for the boat trip down the Hudson. The scouts made the money for their journey by their farm vrork in the Ontario fields. They left Ottawa at p. m. on Tues day, August 20, and arrived in :ew York Monday, August 26, and the first One of the Canadian Scouts. tiling they wanted to see was the trans ports that are taking the American .forces across. They returned to Ot tawa, by way of Boston and Ogdens burg. The scouts are Troop Leader W. Rupert Esdale, Arthur C. Pennington, H. Robert Quinney and Thomas M. Crump, the three latter being patrol leaders. The Canadian scouts all had tne red 1914 badge for having taken r.ctive part in war work. Their sleeves were covered with merit badges and their shirts with badges showing their rank. BOY SCOUT DOINGS. Scouts of Aurora, 111., removed atones and other obstacles in the paths of tourists. The boy scouts in a camp near Akron, Ohio, hearing of the shortage of farm labor, picked many bushels of strawberries that would otherwise liavergone to waste. Boy scouts of Dayton, O., are doing fniard duty throughout the city" owing - the immediate neecL They are at their posts from' 8 a. m. until 5 p. m. They are doing excellent work. i l i yiB is ft- ' - " 'J I WW i Governor vBlckett In Training , Foi Cotton Picking Championship of the. South. Raleigh. A scene never before wit nessed In North Carolina featured the Governor of North Carolina; the Stat Superintendent of Public" Instruction, the faculty and students of. Peace in stitute, and .children from the Pvaleigh Public Schools, picking cotton " at the farm of Mr. Will Allen, north of 113 city.-yad in front of the Wake County Hospital. The children, under the direction of Col. Olds, who had inau gurated this cotton picking system, be gan work early in the morning and kept it up unAil the sun was nearly down. Quarantine Order Extended. Charlotte. The order establishing a quarantine in Charlotte because oi the Spanish influenza epidemic, was extended one week to expire at raid night Saturday, October 2!?, order to be renewed if considered necessary by the city commissioners. Mayor Mc Ninon said that the health authorities of the city reported the epidemic still a matter of grave coucern. though ru"lc , " t lulM,"e"MS"1 been noted. The hope was expressed that condrtions toward the end of week would justify the city authori ties in lifting the quarantine. In accordance with the action of the Charlotte authorities, the Meck lenburg comty authorities also order ed the quarantine in the county to continue for an indefinite period. Pneumonia Increasing. Charlotte. New influenza cases re ported at the city health department for the 48-hour period numbered 95. as compared with 230 cases for a like period October 6 and with 175 for October 13. , The number of pneumonia cases showed a substantial increase whieli was attributed to the bad weather of Sunday. Deaths here from pneumo-1 nia following influenza attacks were increased by seven to 40 for the 24 days of the epidemic. Dr. C. C. Hudson, city health officer, said ' he expected the daily report of new in- fiuenza case to show a slow but steady decrease while the number of cw pneumonia cases might continue about the same each day for several days yet. He explained Jtat the de velopment of pneumonia following re lapses after apparent recovery from influepta is reported frequently now, and. the daily increase in the number here who have had the disease makes possible a disproportionate number of new pneumonia cases as compared with the daily report of new influenza cases. The health officer cautioned those who have apparently recovered from influenza to continue to exercise the greatest care in avoiding relapse. Deeds of Heroism. Trinity College, Durham. Word has just come of the safe arrival in New York of Lieut. John C. Boggs, of the Second Machine Giui' Battalion. Lieut. Boggs was wounded in one of the first battles fought by American troops, but was soon back in the trenches, and at the bloody battle of Chateau Thierry "he displayed," in the langu age of the official citation for heroism, "exceptional personal bravery aTnd in itiative by volunteering to take charge of a machine gun and crew. For the succesful deed of heroism, Lieut. Boggs was awarded the Distin guished Service Cross amd was pro moted to first lieutenant. Lieutenant Boggs is a graduate of Trinity of the class o-f 1917. Henry Thomas Garris, ex- '18, U. S. M. C, of Margarettsville, N. C, is an- Albanians have stood their ground, other Trinity man to be cited for con- yielding their patrimony foot byxfoot, spicuous service and bravery. He has jjUt guarding the fragment of their been awarded the French Cross of native larid sc well that It today re Honor. 'I mains the least known region in Eu First Lieuteaant Robert Banks An-' rope. They are the oldest race in derson, whose home was at Wilson Europe to survive upon the land and who fell in 'the battle of Cantigny, j where the morning light of history was posthumously awarded the Dis- i foun(i it and this stubborn tenure of i tinguished Service Cross. The expla- nation is given in the words of the j onjy Dy a longer, braver and more in award as follows: "In t,he attack and j domitable struggle than that waged by defense of Contigny, France, on May ' any other Balkan people. The taciturn 28-30, 1918, he showed utter disregard ! and dour Shkypetar, however, has for his personal safety in leading his command forward in spite of artillery and machine gun fire. Ho Fair of Carolines This Year. Charlotte. There will be no Fair of the Carolinas In Charlotte this year. The directors of the association de cided to call off the fair, it was an nounced, owing to health conditions. It was thought that, even if the pres ent quarantine should be cancelled in time to hold the fair the people would not attend in numbers large enough to make the event a success. It also was explained that there undoubtedly would be a scarcity of entries, as was the case at the recent Gastonia fair. Building Large Laundry. Camp Greene. A camp laundry at the contract price of $155,000 is now well under construction at Camp Greene and will be finished under present plans before the first of the year. The building is enormous in proportions, being 272 x 162 feet with an additional wing 48x72 and is locat ed on the Dowd road near the Re mount station. At present the coor tractor has moat of the frame work completed and fcy November 20 he expects to have everything ready for tbe Installation. of the machinery. ? - I! WVKM" """ 'W.J I HI 1 ' 1 " nil 4s ci hi minii Iff View of 0 ISPATCHES tell that the Al banians have joined forces with the soldiers of democ racy. From the pan-Albanian Federation of America, Vatra, which has its headquarters in Boston, comes word that the 70,000 Albanians in the United States have purchased nearly $1,000,000 worth of Liberty bonds through the organization. The news indicates that a most ancient and hardy nation at last has made the proper Choice, observes the New York Sun. Albania stretches along the eastern coast of the Adriatic sea, opposite Italy, having Montenegro on the north, Serbia on the east and Greece on the south. Albania has a, commanding place upon the landlocked sea, and her harbor at Avlona, one of the fin est in the world, is considered by mili tary critics an Adriatic Gibraltar. The country is a rugged, wild, heavily wooded mountain, complex, undevel oped and unpathed. Albania became nominally a prov ince of Turkey in 1468 and remained such until 1913, when the London con ference granted a national independ ence under a prince chosen by the great powers. , The Albanians bitterly complained at that tJme about the bor j ders delimited for them on the grounds t that many purely Albanian districts had been given to Montenegro. Greece and Serbia. Albania was in a sulky mood at the outbreak of the great war. However, its isolation was char acteristic, for Albania has stood alone throughout its history. In this time of flaming national orides the Albanian, or Shkypetar, de serves a fleeting notice. He has fought the longest and the hardest of all historic struggles for native land and independence, but wild, inhospit able and untutored in the uses of propaganda, his heroic story has at tracted rare and scant attention. Ur supported by allies, sympathy, song or story, the Shkypetars. a "little na tion," with their backs to their baf ren crags, war for freedom voiceless throughout the centuries. 2,000 Years' Struggle. Serbia's or Montenegro's endufhnce is pale compared to that which has preserved this remnant of a race against all comers through truceless ages, r or more man years tne their fatherland has been possible fouzht silently, with mc;ose and un- broken spirit and at lone venture. All other Balkan ponies have continuous ly clamored for the sympathy of tho world. Today, however, their hills, swal owed up in thr overwhelming mael strom of world war, their land c-ossed hy the battle lines of great powers, they are living the last chapter of their troubled history. Whatever turn the great battle in the Balkans may take, it. apparently can only mean that the time has come at last for Albanian submergence. Italians, A.i9tnans ana Serbians are contending bitterly for .the last strip of the Shkcpetar herit age, and it seems that th? measure of their existence has been re ached. They wll emerge from this world shock Italians, Serbians or Austrians, and the ancient Blyrian will vanish into the limbo of forgotten things. Fought Without Complaint "There is no such thing as Albanian nationality !" Bismarck roughly ex claimed at the ; congress of . Berlin. More properly speaking there was no Albanian diplomatist,' no Albanian spokesman. There was just little nation to be-dealt with according t the irrefutable wisdom of power, Just the ' remnants, of an ancient race that has been forced ever farther into, a 'ringe '"""of unproductive mountains. The conflict sustained for more than Avlona. 2,000 years against Greek and Slav and Turk and Frank, by this uncon querable race, has awakened no echo of understanding or applause abroad In the civilized world. Montenegro's sturdy defiance of the Turk through five centuries; the courageous resist ance of the Serbians; the stolid sur vival of the Bulgarian under cen turies of merciless domination, and , the revival of the Greeks, the nation j of illustrious ancestry ; all these have j stirred the world. The wrongs and the hopes and the virtues of all other j Balkan peoples have been told in the press everywhere. The Shkypetar has continued his history into modern times of propaganda and press agen cies practically voiceless. Overshad owed and overshouted by the peoples around him, he at best received flashes of consideration as a possible booty or as a race of guerrillas. Lord Byron gave the Shkypetar a momentary notice, a brief literary memorial, when he said that the wild Albanian had never shown an enemy his back or broken his faith to a guest. The Albanian has asked noth ing of Europe, and Europe has given him nothing but a sad reputation, which, judged according to the great er enlightenment of our civilization, he undoubtedly has deserved. Neglected by Missionaries. But even the mission schools have passed him by and so he has had lit tle opportunity to learn the advantage of the high moral codes and humani tarisra which rule the destinies of civ ilization. Pillaged and warred upon through the centuries, he has bevome habituated to war and pillage. The Albanians are the remnants of the original inhabitants of Illyria, Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace. Over whelming waves of Celts, Goths, Ro mans, Greeks, Serbs, Bulgars, Franks and Turks have flooded against them, but the Shkypetars b-?vc vuways sur vived the sbeck; have survived the burning of their villages, the wasting of their lands, the massacres of their people, and have somehow emerged un broken, unassimilated upon the stage of the twentieth century. They have borne the assault of Sla vonic storm almost since the Euro pean debut of the Slavs. Between the Slavs and the Illyrlans there have been centuries of blood feud. The Slav has called the Albanian a brigand and plunderer, and the world has accepted the verdict, while the Slav and the Turk have steadily encroached upon the Shkypetars' homeland. Until the wild torrents of this world war swept over his country the Albanian had managed to maintain the freedom of his-hills. Single Handed for Independence. Though occasionally beaten and forced into narrower limits, he has ofc stinately refused submission, has op posed a rugged, uncomplaining, uncon querable spirit to all grievous misfor tune ; and alone, without the sympathy of anyone, illiterate, poor in country, his few remaining rocks coveted by every neighbor, with no ally or disin terested counsellor, ?t the outbreak of the world war the Shkypetar stood at the end of a splendid fight of more than 2,000 years' duration, in which the armistices have been few and frhort. And their claims ar the best in Eu rope to the lands thp" occupy. There can be no doubt of te legitimacy of their tenure. When the Slavs first ap peared in the Balkans in the beginning of the sixth century th Shkypetars had already enjoyed 1.100 years' pos kiisslon. True, the Albanian has not been a friend to the stranger nor his he been a seeker after the stranger's light, but then almost the whole story of his con tact with higher civilization has been ta battle for his heartk. and home against aggression. Rome-policed the shores of the Al banians' country, but left tha unbreak able people largely to themselves. The Slavs drove them from many of their lands,, but could not crush, or subdue them. For more than 1,000 years the Shkypetars . have contested i their ground foot for foot against the Slav and' : Turk. -Montenegro iV struggled against the Turk a bare five centuries. KITCHEN Home Is the resort otlove..-of joy, of peace, and plenty, where supporting and supported, polished friends and dear relations mingle into bliss. Thompson. TOMATO WAYS. HEX, canning, select tomatoes . that are ripe, but not over ripe, and free from blemishes. Scsfld them for two minutes, then dip in cold water, and remove the skins and the green core witt . a sharp knife. Pack ' into sterile iars whole ! for the cold pack method, fill each jar ' with boiling hot tomato juice, add a teaspoonful of salt to a quart jar and 1 If liked, one to three teasnoonfuls o- i sugar. Cook 25 minutes in a hot water bath. Tomato Puree. This may be mnd from small or broken tomatoes. Cut and cook them until the tomatoes arf soft, then press the pulp through r sieve, discarding the seeds and skins Add one medium-sized onion, two ta blespoonfuls of chopped sweet pepper; and a teaspoonful of sugar and a hall teaspoonful of salt. Cook all to gether until the mixture is of the con sisteney of catsup, stirring often tc keep from burning. Pour it into jars and sterilize for 20 minutes in a hot water bath. Dried Tomato Paste. Prepare the romatoes as for canning. Put to cook with no water in an enamel kettle; when tender put through a sieve and cook the pulp until it is very thick, then place it over hot water in a slow .oven, where it may dry out without danger of scorching. It may be then sealed in hot sterile jars or further dried on plates, cut in squares and stored In moisture-proof containers, This paste may be used for soups, sauces or scalloped dishes. One tea-1 spoonful of the naste will make a dish pf soup. Spanish Pickles. Slice thin one peck of green tomatoes, four onions, j and chop four green peppers. Let the j onions and tomatoes stand over night in a cupful of salt. In the morning i drain them and put them into the pre serving kettle. Add the pepper, one- j half ounce each of allspice, cloves, and peppercorns, one-half cupful of brown mustard seed, one pound of brown sugar, and enough vinegar to cover the mixture. Heat gradually to the boiling point and boil one-half hour. Pour into scalded jars and seal. The sweetest music is not in the oratorio, but in the human voice when it speaks from its instant life, tones of tenderness, truth or courage. CHICKEN SOUPS. O L LOWING are chicken soups a lit tle out of the ordi nary : Vermont Chicken Soup. Reheat s i x cupfuls of chicken stock, seasoning with salt and pepper and a grated onion. Add - one head of lettuce, shredded, and one cupful of green peas. Simmer until the peas and let tuce are done. Beat an egg, add enough stale bread crumbs to make a paste and shape into small balls. Drop these into the boiling soup and simmer ten minutes, then serve. New Jersey Chicken Soup. Reheat three quarts of chicken soup. Simmer one cupful of rice until it is tender in the stock, rub through a sieve, sea son and reheat. Thicken with one ta blespoonful of cornstarch, rubbed smooth in a little cold milk. Add a cupful of boiling cream and one-half cupful of chopped cooked chicken ; serve with croutons. Chicken Soup With Dumplings. Chop fine two ounces of suet, add half a cupful of flour and salt and pepper to season. Add enough cold water to make a paste and shape into balls. Reheat six cupfuls of stock, drop in the balls and simmer 15 erinutes. Sea son to taste and serve. Chicken Soup Hollandaise. Cut Into dice two .cucumbers, two carrots nnd two turnips ; cover with a quart of chicken stock and cook until the veg etables are tender. Season to taste, add a tablespoonful of butter and thicken with the y.lks of-four eggs beaten smooth with a cupful of cream. Pour. Into the tureen and add half a fupful each of cooked green peas and French beans. New Orleans Chicken Gumbo. Cut up a chicken, dredge the pieces with ! flour and fry brown with a sliced onion and ftfur slices of salt pork. Add four quarts of water and cook until the chicken is nearly tender. Add two slices of boiled ham cut In bits, a pod of red pepper, two quarts of sliced okra and half a can of tomatoes. Sim mer until the chicken is done, season with salt and pepper and add one tea spoonful of powdered sassafras.. Peaches With Marshmallows. Take halves of peaches, arrange in serving dishes and pour over a sauce made of the juice thickened with , cornstarch and a bit of butter added, then place a marshmallow in the center of each peach and pour the sauce .over, chill nd serve cold. Sill fltAational War 0ardnl Ii 'Commission- ji IRRIGATION OF AN ORCHARD Plan Outlined for Proper Distribute of Water In Furrows Grade Varies Widely. (From the Uaited States Department of Agriculture.) In Irrigating orchards by the furrow method the. length of the lateral, ditch es or furrows is governed by the is'ize of the orchard and character of the" soil. The rows of citrus trees seldom ex- . ceed 40 rods in length, but the apple orchards of the northwest are larger , as a rule. Even in large tracts.it is doubtful if it ever pays to run water in furrows more than ahout 600 feet Where, the soil is open and water sinks readily through it, short furrows should be used, otherwise much water Is lost in deep percolation on the up per part of the tract Prof. IL Ciri bertson of San Diego County, Cat, af ter a careful investigation of this sab ject has reached the conclusion that on sandy or gravelly soil having a steep slope the proper length of fur rows is 200 feet, whereas on heavier soils and flatter slopes the length may be increased to 600 feet. The grade of furrows varies quite widely. In flat valleys it often is not possible to obtain a fall greater tha 1 inch to 100 feet, whereas on stjF slopes the fall may reach 20 inches per 100 feet. On ordinary soils a grade of 3 to 4 inches is to be preferred, ant where the fall exceeds 8 to 10 inches to 100 feet the trees should be set ouj in such a way as to decrease the slop of the furrows. The number of furrows in orchardi depends on the age of the trees, the space between the rows, the depth of mrrow, ana me character oi ine aou. Nnrsery stock i irrigated by one ot two furrows and young trees by tw to four. A common spacing for scat low furrows is 2 feet, but deeper furrows are 3 to 4 feet apart Thf general trend of orchard practice i toward deep rather than shallow far rows, a depth of 8 inches being use in many instances. In spacing furrows chief considera tion should be given to the lateraC movement of moisture in the soil o each side of the furrows, so as to in sure a fairly uniform distribution oi moisture. The furrowing implement roost cm monly used by the citrus orchardisti of southern California consists of a sulky frame to which are attached two or three mold-board plows. Tt)se who prefer a small number of deep furrows use a 12 to 14-inch wra Ustet. In the Payette Valley, Idalin, 330 or more miner's inches are turned int the head ditch and divided up ty means of wooden spouts into a lii number of furrows. On steep gturaoi much smaller streams are used. The length of the furrow varies from 309 feet on steep slopes to 600 feet and more on fiat slopes. The lime r- quired to moisten the soil dejwoids o the length of the furrow and the hji- i ture of the soil. In this locality it varies from three to 36 hours, A 20-acre orchard tract under the Sunnyside canal In the Yakima Vallex, n . -Mr A - ta;r Irrigating an Apple Orchards by tfc Furrow Method. Wash., is watered four. tlnies in eaeL season with 14 miner's ' Inches 0.3i cubic foot per second). Three furrow are made between the rows, which are 40 rods long. The total supply is ap plied to one-half the orchard -te acres) and kept on. 48 Igjpurs. On the clayey loams of the apple orchards on the east bench of the Bitter Root river. Mont., Prof. R. W. Fishes formerly horticulturist of the agricul tural college of Montana, has found, at a result of experimenting, that It re quires from 12 to 14 hours to moistea the soil in furrow irrigation 4 feet deep and 3 feet sideways. In 1908 an orchardlst of Hod"Btvex Ore., irrigated three acres, ff jappts trees in furrows 350 feet Ieug,paoe4 3 feet apart About a miner's Inc of water was turned Into 3k3i alter nate furrow' from a wooden bead flume and kept on for about 48 horns. .After the soil had become sufficiency Jry tt was cultivated, and in eight r.."tea days thereafter water was taraed tnt the alternate rows, which were left dry during the first Irrigation J Product of Sdn4OrcMrd. . , Some orchards ; produce mainly . crop of Insects, for tbs chickens. , - . .. . K.
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