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FEW RECRUITS FOR LIFE-SAVERS Small Wages and Lack of Pension Fund Are Driving the Surfnien Into Less Hazardous Callings. HB United States saving service It finding it Increasingly difficult to fill gap in Us crews caused by death ana , resignation. The young- er men of the coast ao not seem, as willing to accent the small salary and great dangers of the service as were weir forefathers. It Is still possible to find father and son serving in the same crew, and there are Long Island fam ilies that can boast of .having every mala member a coast guard:, but these Instances are by no means as frequent as they used, to be.' The turfmen are beginning to doubt the value of a serrloe that pays, at most, salary of f 1,104 a year, with no pros pect of pension or indemnification If a man dies in the performance of his duty. Why should a man adopt such M Hf h.B t- Ann J htA and 11 VA safely as fisherman or oyatermsn, or combination carpenter and yacht skipper in the summer months? Why, IndeedT Along the 10,000 miles of coast line there is no stretch that is so uniform ly dangerous as the tenuous sand spit that runs along the south side of Long . Island, projecting 120 miles Into the Atlantic The Great 8outh beach. It .. Is called, or Fire Island beach; but to men of the sea it is known as "the Graveyard of the Atlantic " because of the ships that have broken their backs on the shifting bars that dot Its ' length. - Since the white man first sailed these seas, the Great South beach has taken Its toll. Bluff-bowed Dutchmen out of Rotterdam; Spanish galleons from Cuba; high-pooped English merchantmen that traded to the loyal colony of New Tork; king's ships and fishing boats of the old days; stout clippers and ocean liners all these and many more have driven in with the flying scud, setting their stems deep In the clinging ssnd that has so seldom let loose its prey. You find evidences of them in the shattered thlmbers that line the beach from Fire island to the Hamptons and beyond stout spars, sections of planking, water-soaked timbers of many shapes and ages; and off-shore, sometimes one catches a glimpse of a shattered hullj draped with the green seaweed or a sunken mass of engines and boilers and twisted pipes. The government long ago recognised the peculiar dangers of the Long Is land shore, with Us menace to the ' liners that ply between New Tork and European porta, and measures to safe guard It were taken. - At Intervals of live miles along the most dangerous section, tiny stations - are planted. There are IS of them, each manned by eight men from the first of August to the first of June. Between these ' dates all the crews, eicept captains or keepers, go off duty without pay. ' These are are stations at New York's floor. Tney are aiso tne stations which do the greatest amount of work and bear the heaviest responsibility : - statement that casts no reflection ' on the remainder of the 800 stations. ' Some of the men In: these stations have performed noteworthy deeds of valor, but the most they have ever re ' jAlvaV In Mwwimltlnn hum Yiaan m fA medals, and la :' one Instance the thanks of the New Tork legislature. Ddfeplt the undoubted hardship of their work, and the fact that they are called upon to risk their lives more often than soldiers or sailors, or even firemen probably, the government has not seen fit to raise their pay or In crease the comforts of their surround ings. ; One wonders how long such an attitude will be preserved. It seems unfair and unwise, inasmucn as it nas . already begun to react" by curtailing the supply of, recruits. It should be borne in mind that In j ail the history or the lire-saving serv ice there has never been an Instance of c6waMtce not once. There has never been a time when a captain had any difficulty In getting his men to follow him into the surf. There has never been a time when It was necea- . nary -for the captain to repeat 'an or der. . Now, and then, men have been known to drink and neglect patrol ,duty, but even these have never Showed - themselves to be cowards. -And perhaps, after. all, that la the thing the service Is most proud of. - "Tee, they do say It's a hard life," said old Capt George Ooddard of Lone Hill, when some one once asked him whf he still stuck to his Job at sev enty. "Yes, It may be a hard life," be mused. "But I; like It Thirty-odd years I've been on the beach, for I was a middle-aged man when I joined the service. But I'm good for a spell yet, and then I've laid aside a little, eo's I can live . comfortable. - They don't give us a pension, you know." - This last was not a complaint, bat a fact It was spoken, too, by a man who had ' reached three-score years and ten and who. was still able to stand up In the stern of a big surf boat and handle a kicking steering oar, with the seas piling In higher every minute and the North German Lloyd liner Prlnsess Irene fast on the outer bar. His tone expressed certain amount -of surprise, but no 1ATK Comfort in Sliding Tears Provision of Nature to Bring Relief at Time of Mental Emotion or ' . , Grest Psln. , ' ' While tear do not always express trkif they certainly betray Intense mental emotion of some kind, and re lief is alway obtained" by the hed ing of tears, -whether the person be old or y-jng. Sv s rMn and suffering physically r ' 1 i c s for tears, except la youcg complaint In fact no member of the service complains about his lot, even when he resigns.- A msn went to the captain of his crew not long ago last summer, to be exact and remarked: "I'm goln' to quit Cap. Too much work feedln' the folks home, now we've got anoth er baby." The captain took his pipe out of his mouth and grunted. That was all. He knew perfectly well, as well as the man In front of him, that with a fami ly of young children to be brought up and educated In these days of ex pensive living, It was Impossible to get along on the coast guard's pay of $65 a month and f 9 extra for rations. If the coast guards are somewhat rough and uncouth outwardly, they are as gentle and courteous as wom en. The visiter will find nothing too a ' , - - 57 " good for him. When you sit down to eat with them you are expected to forage for yourself. They take It for granted .that every one does that at any table. - Every man knows how to reach for the condensed milk can, ac cording to - the coast ' guard's view point But if they once get it into their heads that a visitor Is not far ing properly they will make amends. Anv stranarer who goes to a life-savw ing station and appears to be a decent citizen can have board and lodging and he Isn't asked to pay, either. That part of the bargain Is left to himself. Even If be does pay he won't be al lowed to tax himself more than the coat price of everything. This is not said unknowingly; it is a act . The life-savers of the Long Island coast have a code of hospitality as rigid as the American Indians. They sire of the purest ('American stock, often with a strong vein of old Dutch blood from the colony at West Bayvllie. In most cases they have fol lowed the sea from father to son- for from four to six generations. One is almost Inclined to believe that they are born leather-skinned and able to pull the heavy fourteen-foot ash sweeps that row the; surfboats and "self-ballers." c Some of the Long Island fishing families have .estab lished enviable reputations for them selves In the service. Take the Rhodes family, the Bakers, the Reynoldses, the Raynors, the S earning and many others. They have all furnished at least one hero. - , ; "V -; Captain Baker of the Point o' Woods station has two sons In the service. The oldest, Eddy, Is No. 1 man at Point o' Woods; the second, Wally, I at Blue Point, and the youngest Sim my, Is already on the eligible list for appointment at Lone H11L They are fine, husky, strapping boys, the best type of young : Americans of their children, and then we are told that It is fear rather than pain which cause the crying at such a time. ' . Do not attempt to stop a child' cry ing U U gets hurt or Is afraid of any thing; reason with him, but remember that tears were provided by nature to relieve the mind of C e strain of an emolon too greut for tt ran re. After a good cry the cU: J l.l - i fsirH the fright or sorrow tLU e- i it to class and calling broad-shouldered, strong-limbed, with deep chests that have been developed by hours of tug ging at orrs that had to meet the un dertow and bite of the surf. In a way one is sorry to see material like this wasted on the sea But there is an other side to the story. Is it wasted, after all? These youngsters lead cour ageous, healthful Uvea, out in the open air. The city means nothing to them. Eddy Baker, who bossed the Job in his father's absence when the An tonio Lopes came ashore near Point o' Woods two summers ago, and went out to her with a scratch crew of cot tagers and bay men, was once Invited to spend a week in town with some of these, same cottagers, who had taken a fancy to his strong, simple nature. He was so dismayed by the confusion of civilization that he lost himself at si i .""::.: v-v-k-v.v :- , -a f ' - '-vi mm Jamaica, where he had -to change cars, and it took the police half a day to find him. He had never seen the in side of a big theater before his visit and be went into ecstacies at the din ner table over some ice eream that had been frozen in fancy molds. But he could fry ham and eggs as dell clously. as the best chef that ever handled a griddle, and he knew his way through the mysteries of flap Jacks, plum duff, and other dishes that form the life-saver's menu. It was this same Eddy Baker, by the way, who summed up the whole viewpoint of his kind as the big Prin cess Irene beaded for New York, after For . the Sake Small Girl's Excellent Reasons for Wishing 8hs Might Be a Hen, If Only on Occasional Sunday. Out back of the house, on a grassy bank overlooking the chicken yard, sat Miss Thung and Margaret last Sunday. , They were absorbed, espe cially Margaret; in ' watching the chickens. -. -...'-,,; ' ;,- -;, 'They scratch Just the same on Sun day," observed' Margaret reflectively, "as they do on weekdays. It's wicked, I spose." ' '. iV v. . "Oh, no. It isn't wicked," objected Miss Thung. -x .'-, ' "My mother say that musmenton Sunday Is bad for the soul," remarked Margaret "But chicken are not like little boys and girls, are theyT" she questioned with a baby sigh. "No, they are quite different" "They haven't got a soul, ' have theyr pursued the child. . -No . --.i-, ..M-:..,.r Margaret paused long and reflect ively. "I wish I was a hen," she said at last with decision. shed tear, and this in Itself proves the relief It ha brought to the mind. ' The ancients prayed "Grant us the balm of tear!" They realised the philosophy of natural expression In time of great sorrow; and the repres sion of one' grief may lead to serious results later on, especially In case where the person Is of a nervous tem perament Pent np emotion gather unto Itself much power; It is far better to express a little a w go along. People who exert great control over their feelings do not alway prove to four tugs had unexpectedly dislodged her from the sand bar: '.- Td like to be aboard her," said a man, wistfully, as he thought of the long trip back to the city by boat and train. v "Whyr asked young Baker. "To go to New York! Shucks! What do you want to go there for?" Some of the Lone Hill surfmsn had been standing around when Baker made this remark and, afterward, in the messroom of their station, just after supper, and the "sunset" patrol bad started out the subject was brought up again. They were mildly amused by their visitor's inclination to return to New York and. Anally, Jim Reynolds, who, as he said him self, bad had mors schooling than the rest was Induced to frame the philos ophy of his mates in concrete phraaes. "Yon see, down here, we've got the clean sea and the wind," he said. "Everybody knows everybody else. And the everybddles aren't so thick thaj we can't have lots of space and air and sunshine on all four sides of us, outdoors and in. Nobody down here is after your money. . I don't need to knock the city. But down here they like you for yourself. Eddy Baker's right I cant see bow anybody likes to live in the city. Why, think of the breakers and the fights we have with them. Do you have anything like that in the city! No, sir; I guess not" The fact is, these men do not mind the dangers and privations they un dergo. They are nerveless, or prac tically so. They are not wholly Ig norant of fear; they realize it In grad uated degrees. Men like Captain God dard of Lone Hill or the Bakers of Point o' Woods have reduced the ap prehension of danger to a minimum. Although, It should be said, even Cap tain Gooddard, stanch old veteran that be is, has been known to break down and cry. . of Novelty "But don't you like to be mamma's dear little girl?" Inquired Miss Thung In surprise. . "Oh, yes, I 'spose so," replied Mar garet ."But," she concluded wistfully, "I think I should like to try being a hen for a while." ' Fraternal Fractions. Lodger My brother - is coming on a' visit; have you a couple of spare cotsT Landlady A couple! Is he so big as all that? Lodger No, but you see the fact Is,' he really consists of. two half brothers. : '' -.Accessories. . . . ., Bacon A small piece'' of tubing fastened across the handle bar of a motorcycle will hold convenient small accessories for which there is no oth er place on a machine. ; - '. '' " Egbert By accessories I suppose it mean arnica, witcbhazel and court plaster. ! th wirM that thnr are annerior In fact, It ha alway seemed to me that the man or woman who expresses no grief does not feel any. Watch thla same person under conditions of what apparently, ought to bring great Joy; do they rejoice T No, they do not; they aig Just as silent In the face of good news as they were in the home of sorrow. Still waters may run deep, but the depths of a human soul that Is worth anything to its fellow men does not go too deep that sorrow can not "sound the depth!" NOTES cswra. MOD0BR00K FARM All animals need salt The bog Is a debt payer. Every farm should have a silo. ' A silo built of concrete will pre serve silage welL Milk and corn meal makes a fine forcing feed for friers. A good time to cull out inferior Mrds is when the market is up. The finer the soil, the better the vegetables, both In quantity and qual ity. Feed the soil If you would have the soil feed you, applies forcibly to worn' out lands. Grape vines require frequent shal low cultivation throughout the en tire season. In setting an orchard stick to the proven varieties. Let some one else do the experimenting. The thermometer must be used as regularly in the dairy during the summer as during the winter. At this time of the year care should be exercised In bousing the pullets that are to be the whiter layers. In breaking a colt, remember that it Is an easy matter to overload and ruin him by causing him to balk. Bran Is a very good feed for cows. It is light, palatable and rich in inln. eral matter, especially phosphorus. With fruiting orchards, mineral fer tilizers are often great assistance, but an excess of nitrogen should be avoid ed. Annual flowers can be hurried along by watering them with a tablespoon. ful of nitrate of soda to a pailful of water. Heroic pruning measures are needed ed to bring many old trees Into bear ing; but it need not all be done the first year. , The theory that one can overfeed the growing pullets has been exploded, and many a flock has been retarded by under feeding. The earlier in the season after the "June crop" that thinning can be done, the better it will be for the tree and remaining apples. The most humane method of de horning a cow is to do the work with a little caustic potash when the horns are Just starting on the calf. When the strawberries are off the vines remove the mulch and cultivate thoroughly to kill off the weeds and put the soli in fine condition. Some folks have their houses so that they can open them up all around the foundation walls when it is hot and let the air circulate everywhere. Fromearly spring until August sow a few rows of summer lettuce every two weeks or so, and thus try to pro vide a continuous supply of good heads. Throw open the windows every night but tack some wide-meshed cloth of some kind over them to keep out things that have no business in the house. Alstke clover is a perennial and can be grown on ground that is too low and moist for the medium red or mammoth, but It 1 grown equally well on high ground. Men who are inexperienced in al falfa growing should have forced on their attention the important! lesson that It pays well to put a little Jabor on the surface after removing each crop. : Lambs should be docked when they are from eight to ten day old, accord ing to the advice of the Minnesota ex periment station. At that time the young animal receives practically no setback. . Never milk the cow with wet hands. No more- filthy habit la Indulged in than that of milking on the hand in order to strip - the teat Milking should always be done with a full, dry hand. , Meat in some form should be sup plied the fowls. They , need protein, and in beef scraps this Is found In good quantities. - Good beef scrap contain from 60 to 60 per cent It should be well aired and clean, In selecting eggs for hatching much care should be used. , Select Only, nice brown, well-formed and good-slsed eggs from healthy stock. Keep them Just cool and Incubate them a soon a possible, v; ' Strength, endurance and speed la a horse are not developed by violent usage, but rather' by, a Judicious amount of exercise given o as to de velop, but not strain. When the train ing goes beyond a certain point It be come Injurious, ao that the develop ment of muscle, strength and the pow er of endurance cornea within the trainer' province. r r-s Keep the pigs growing. Look out for chicken Ilea, Order crate and boxes early. , Timely harvesting Is necessary. Gather all the brush from the or chard and burn It When cream appears moldy on the surface It is overripe. You are safe to buy an old sire, but don't get htm very fat An orchard neglected for one year virtually puts it back three years. Early turkeys are what pay, and these can only be had from early laid eggs. Plenty of exercise is one very im portant Item for keeping a flock healthy. The use of silage for sheep feeding purposes has been tried out to a lim ited extent There Is no reason why potatoes should not be-cultivated with a rid ing corn cultivator. If you want a fine, early yellow peach, put two or three Triumph tree In your next nursery order. Some tell the sex of the guinea fowl by its wattles. Those of the male are double the size of the female. A liberal application of ashes to the soil where cabbage plants are grown Is a preventive of clump root Condiments that stimulate egg pro duction are. very much like anything that stimulates a human being. An orchard will live longer, bear better and be more profitable by be ing well cultivated and enriched. Good fruit can be raised only with care and attention given to spraying, pruning and generally good care. . Gooseberries require a cool situa tion, with plenty of air and moist ure, and should be partially shaded. It requires two-thirds of a full ra tion to keep a cow in fair condition before there is any milk production. A blockish built mare with a large barrel on short legs is likely to pro duce a better foal than the tall, leggy kind. " Capons are the most profitable parts of the chicken business, Just as steers are the most profitable part of the cat tle Industry. Frequently disinfecting the hen houses, coops and drink and feed dishes Is likely to save lots of trouble from disease. It does not require any great ability at figures to show that there is a great waste in selling hogs when they are but half fed out ' Truck crops suffer least from fungi In seasons that open with a cool spring and end with a very hot summer, with rainfall below the average. Raspberries and blackberries should be mulched with straw or litter after they have been shallow cultivated two or three times In the spring. If the onions are not growing well, a little nitrate of soda or hen manure sown broadcast, before or during a rain, often helps hem to fill out You don't have to take the frost out of the bits these days, but you might take the fire out of your temper and save much suffering In the horses' mouths. Sugar-beet growing means more than the mere profits from growing the beets. It introduces a higher type of agriculture and the crops raised In rotation are better. At this season cows should be dry, so as to avoid milking during fly time and excessive heat. Pastures are short, too, and a dry cow can stand It better than a good milker. It pays to whitewash, ventilate and properly light stables; to brush and curry cows; to use clean and well covered utensils, to cool milk quickly and to bave a cool place for the milk. The farmer who raises fruit for his own family should have a much larg er variety than the commercial or chardlst because the latter must pro duce enough of each kind to ship to advantage. , Turkeys are the choicest fowls that can be taken to market, and bring the highest price of all fowls. Turkeys require the most care and attention during the first few weeks following Incubation. Cowpeas or soy beans are frequently sown in standing corn at the time of the last cultivation or they can be sown after such early-harvested crops a wheat have been removed In case it is not too late In the season. Those who contemplate starting an alfalfa patch should bear in mind this one fact, that ander ordinary circum stances no one factor will contribute so much to the success of the crop a an application of farmyard manure. : In the raising of hogs, it 1 found that rape or some leguminous crop such as alfalfa or clover makes pas ture superior to ordinary grass, and If snch 1 provided It 1 not necessary to feed so much grain to hog to keep them growing..;: . Spraying to kill the apple aphis la a difficult Job.' The Insects work on tha nnder aide of the leave and thl cause them to curl np and It 1. very difficult to reach all of them with spray material. The Insect multiply rapidly and the few that are not reach ed with the poison toon bring oa an other crop. , Safely, Liberty and Sustenance By Rev. Parley E. Zartmann, D. D. TEXT I am ths doors by me If any man enUr In h shall b savsd, and shall to la and out, and And paatur.-Joba The beauty and suggest! vness of this entire chapter are hard to de scribe. They have been the charm and cheei of thousand of saints and bav been the call to many a sinner to forsake hi ways and find In Christ the three great blessing promised In the text The most precious part of the chapter 1 ths picture which it give u of Jeaui as the Shepherd. This work of Jesu Is set forth In three aspect In the Scriptures. ' In John 10:11 lie speaks of himself as the "good" Shep herd who gtveth his . Ufa for the sheep; and therefore he can be the door tor the sheep. Thl answer to Psalm 23. In Hebrews IS: 10 we read of him as the "great" Shepherd brought again from the dead, setting forth his work In caring for and per fecting the sheep; this aspect 1 also smphaalzed in Psalms 11 In First Peter 6:4, which answer to Psalm 24, w read of Jesus as the "Chief" Shepherd coming In glory to give crowns of reward to the faithful The figure of the door not only I beautiful, but It Illustrate a great necessity, for when sin hsd separated us from God Jesus opened the wall, placing himself in the breach, and 'so has become the door between dark ness and light danger and safety, sin and holiness, despair and hope, earth and heaven. "He shall be saved." Here we have the certainty of the gospel giving us everything in one word. Salvation it the great inclusive word of the gospel gathering Into Itself all the redemp tive acts and processes. Therefore It' was perfectly natural that Paul should say "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ for it Is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that belleveth." There Is salvation for the past covering the guilt and penalty ol sin; there is salvation for the present covering the power of sin; there I salvation for the future, covering the presence of sin when we are to b perfectly conformed to the image ol Christ No wonder the redeemed sin ner cries "Hallelujah, what a Savior!" The figure of the text Is a perpet ual Illustration of the efficiency and extenslveness of salvation In Christ He is the door protecting us from ths bands of the enemy, from sin and its results, from the enticement of the flesh, from fear and pains of death. He is the Savior we need. "And shall go In and out" What a beautiful lllustrAlon of the happy life of the believer and how aptly and com pletely it answers those who say that the Christian life is a life of bon dage. To make such a statement is to confess' ignorance of the very funda mental and primary blessing of Chris tian life, for it knows no fear and constraint bnt it experiences full Joy and freedom Indeed. The child oi God Is not bound by rule as a slave but is guided by love as a son, and the farther be goes in his experience the more he knows that there is no nar rowness In Christ I And find pasture." , This make one think of the confidence expressed In Psalms 23; the Lord is my Shep herd I shall not want, and to realise that that covers every need of ths human soul. V What wealth of provis. Ion and what generosity of supply one finds in Christ Paul had tested thla In Romans 8:32 he says "He that spared not his own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall 'he not with blm also freely give us all things r And In Phlllpplans 4.19 w read, "But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches In glory by Christ Jesua" There need be no lack of food and rest ' Ths Shepherd wants us to be nourished, and sickly sheep are contrary to hi wia xs; v-v - We may find pasture in the willing, acceptable, and faithful doing of out dally duty; In cheerful giving to oth ers; in the quiet and sometime mis understood discipline of our lives; In daily meditation upon God's word; In communion with God In a secret place ' of prayer. Our range is as wide as God' love and the supply never fails, "For all things are yours; whethef Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the . world, or life, or death, or thing pre ent, or thing to come, all are yours; and ye are Christ's; and Christ is God's." ... ,, , ix- . : - The picture of Christ supplying our every need Is carried into the future where we read (Revelation 7:16-17) "They shall hunger no more; neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat For the Lamb which la In the .midst of ths throne shall feed them, and shall lead , them untol living fountains of water: , and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." The text give us still further assurance- when we ars told that we shall find pasture. Christ give all we need. The blessing oi the Christian life 1 not an attainment bnt an obtalnment' David knew this when he poured out hi Joy In Psalms 23. Let this be your song "I shall not want" . - : Tb text Is really the gospel in a sentence. Note its simplicity by ms If any man enter.' But aiso Its ne cessityby ma Just pass in by the way of simple faith In Christ to this - - tj - Wk, and sustenance. Yon say yon are great sinner. No matter; yon have a great Savior. Just enter by ths ! . Note fhe wlsJeness of t' e f s-. f . man. The only eoec:.;.-a i.. . : ; s shall ra your t," '. ej 1 i ii i a f v ' i I
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