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Day of Solemn Dedication The old Fourth is gone like the dodo the Fourth of tail-twisting and eagle screaming, and crash-banging, and dynamite, and lockjaw. It had its uses. A nation has a long youth, and our old boastfuiness, and self-esteem, and excitability, and recklessness be fitted us well enough. On the old Fourth we let our crudity and our arrogance and our raw love of noise rise to the surface and skimmed it off all at once, and were the better for the process, costly though it was. But time has quieted our adolescence into, .something nearer maturity, and the old .-sound and fury can never return. Doubtless to some, to whom old as sociations are dear, the change has rBometlmes seemed almost painful. He vwas happy, that boy who slipped from Ms bed with the first streaks of dawn, who by noon had used, up his avail able supply of firecrackers and fingers, who spent 'the afternoon on the edge ., of the crowd in the grove, vaguely jaware of gesticulations from the wooden platform in the center and rabout equally conscious of his own -dirty bandages and the ability of his -country to lick creation, and who longed for darkness as earlier he had -longed for day, and splft the welkin with his exultant yell when the first rocket whizzed from its harrow trough -r.and burst into pale stars. His sons, on this great day, are hungry at break fast time and play tennis in the parks, ;v,and he has watched them knowing it was well, but It surprised him a little. This year, though, he Is not dis " Pressed. This is a new Fourth ; the " change Ms striking But for all our -seriousness on this Fourth we are not ' less, but more, a confident Tcountry ITe have lost our , flamboyance, but we have increased our determination. '-The spirit, is ours'not of the platform Sw)uter but of the Gettysburg oration. Our ears ring not with the sound , of the firecracker, but with tlfe great words of Lincoln: Consecrate dedicate the government by the people shall not perish from the earth! ' MAY HAVE FIRED FIRST GUN Good Evidence That Ebenezer' Monroe Had Honor of Opening Hostilities on Revolutionary Side. Ebenezer Munroe, a Revolutionary hero, was a member of the Lexington minute men, and ready on the 19th of April to do battle in freedom's cause. He was wounded in the elbow In the morning, but mounted, his horse and rode from town to town, alarm- .lng the people and rousing them to : action, until quite exhausted by the loss of blood. He claimed to have 'fired the first gun on the American side. That he did return the fire Is abund antly proved by the testimony of 6th- ers. His own account is as follows: "After the first fire (of the. regulars) Irrecelved a wound' in my arm.' 4s I " turned to run, I discharged my gun into the main body of 1 the enemy. Another ball passed between my arm .and my body," - and Just marked my clothes; one ball cut off a part pt my ear-lecks, which were pinned up, The balls flew so thick I thought there was l bo chance of escape, and that I migh as well fire my gun as stand still and : . - r r , ... . ; ...... GREED FOR ; EW I BELIEVE in the United States off Amer'ca as a gorernment of 1 the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a de mocracy in a republic; " a sovereign nation of many sovereign ; states; a perfect union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and hu manity for which Americans patriots sacrificed theif lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my dut to mv country to love it. to supoOrt its constitution, to obey its laws, to respect its flag and to defend it against all. enemies. . The Stars and Stripes is not the ilag of a ruler or an individual. When General . Grant was a candidate for the Presidency he saw a flag with his name attached to it and exclaimed, "Take down that flag or take my name from it; the man has never yet been born 1 whose name is great enough to put upon the flag of my country." It is the flag of all the people. It Is the eniblem of our unity, safety and faith. Into whatever parties we may tye divided by varying political' convic tions, as a single person we take our stand under the one flag. It Is not the badge of a particular policy, but of a complex agreement of privileges The flag Is the only thing we have about which to twine our national sentiment. We have no royal family ; we have no hereditary aristocracy; we are pledge'd to no political party. Of any country we have the least race pride ; we can scarcely be said to have any distinctive art or music As the grave of the martyred Koscl uscko is made of a handful of earth from every battlefield of long-suffer-. Betsy Roes House Where the First United States Flag Is Thought to Have Been Made. lng Poland, so our flag is woven of every thread of our national strug gles. Because It a)one represents all the principles which our forefathers upheld, because it is a constant re minder of duties heroically performed and , of errors and defects retrieved through suffering and sacrifice, be cause It testifies to a century and a half of enlightened progress and prophesies all the hope and assurance of bur future, it .still has power x to direct thought and concentrate emo tion, to make the hot blood throb in the heart of every citizen. Itsi white stands for purity, its red for valor, its blue for, justice. To gether they form a trinity of social virtues which ft is our inherited priv ilege to honor and uphold and promul gate over the whole earth. As a na tion we are pledged to let no human power dim the brightness ' of that galaxy, but to establish, it forever In the observance of order, i In the obe dience to law,' in the recognition of human right and in the immortal love liness of , world-brotherhood. We have rebaptlzed it the emblem of democ racy's fairest, flower and the flaming meteor of resistless destruction against all tyranny. RAISING BLAZES. - "Say, how do people raise blazes ?f MBy shootln' off skyrockets tnd ro-. man candles." m ml tiffi&mm RAISE ONE CROP AFTER ANOTHE Garden Plpt Should Be Kept Busy by Successive Plantings of . Different Vegetables. COMPAHIOll CR0PPII1& URGED Maximum Production Can Only Be Obtained by Careful Study and ' Strict Attention to Various j Little Details. (Prepared by the United States Depart ment of Agriculture.) Southern gardens begin to look seedy about June 10, gardens in the Middle states section are in the height of their glory, and the New England gardens are just getting well started. It seems to be a foregone conclusion on the part of most persons through out the Southern states that southern gardens can be grown only in the spring and in the fall, with a few chance hardy crops during the winter. The farmer of the middle section plants his spring garden, then gets busy with farm crops, and very little further attention is given the garden, unless the work is done by the wom en. In the New England states and parts of the Northwest where the grow ing season s quite short only one crop of most vegetables can be grown. 'In the middle section, however, two crops can often be grown on the same land, and, more important still, a con tinuous supply of peas, beans, sweet corn, and a number of other vegeta bles can be had by making successive plantings. Grow One Crop After Another. ' The garden is generally the richest spot of ground on the farm, and for that reason should be expected to pro- 1 trv- r& Companion Cropping Peas and Pota toes In the Home Garden duce mere tfeaa any other similar strea. To get maximum production, however, it is necessary to keep the land; busy all the time. This can be done two ways; 'first by companion cropping, and, second, bj following one crop with another or successive plantings There are a number of crops thatt lend themselves to t companion crop ping. For example, whre onion sets5 are planted in- rowsy sny IS Inches be- J tween tho, rows a row of radishes, spinach, or lettuce can be drilled be tween the rows of ooiona- and be off the ground before the onioos need the space. Spinach, radishes,, early beets;, or turnips- cam be planted! between car rots, parsnips, ftnd salsify;. A crop of snap beans can frequently be grown between the row of tomatoes. Radish seeds may oftem be planted alongside a row of peasy the radtshes being pulled and' out of the way before the peas begin; to climb the trellis or brush provided' for their support or to spread over the ground. A little later ln the- season sweet ern or late cabbage can: be planted) between the rows of early Triarfx potatoes and make considerable of a start before the Irish potatoes sore dug. In the middle sectloov early- peas may be followed by late cabbage, late potatoes, late snap ; beans, beets, or turnips;' Early Irish potatoes may be followed by tmmips, late soap beans, or by late sweet corn. Ran Fall Gardens Fall gardens should In do case be overlooked, especially from the Middle states southward; Plantings of prac tically an the early spring vegetables may be made from July to September, according to locality, and be brought to maturity before early autumn frosts. By proper attention to the gar den, fresh vegetables may be had through a period of about 10 months of the year In the extreme south and for about 7,months in the middle sec tion. The season for the New Eng land and northwestern sections is necessarily much more limited, but even here the efficiency , of a garden can be greatly increased by a careful study and attention to the matter of companion cropping and , successive plantings of certain vegetables. MOST TURKEYS ARE OVERFED . .- :: Qood Plan to Follow Is to Feed Very Light Grain at StartGive Poults Milk. Turkeys on most ; farms are over fed. The best plan to follow Is to feed very light grain at the start and give all the milk that te young poults can drink. Experienced turkey rais ers tell; us that the abundant use of milk is tn best method f feeiiag CONSERVING MANURE HELPS CROP YIELDS Efficient lethod Used By Penn K sylvania Farmers. ' Walled! Enclosures Adjacent to Sta - ties; Often Paved With Flap.-; stones, Save Valuable Ele- , ; ments Needed by Soil. (Prepared by the United States Depart-. J merit of Agriculture.) Farmers in some parts of eastern Pennsylvania, notably in Chester county 'have ; been sxving barnyard manurelin walled enclosures ..adjacent to the fables, often paved with flag stones, I for more than a century. , The value of!: this efficiency has been shown Piling Manure in This Manner Permits the Rain to Wash Out Its Fertiliz ing Elements. ' "3 . " in an r Investigation embracing the standards of management on ten farms selected by specialists of the United.. States Department of Agri culture in the region mentioned, and the results are embodied in Farmers Bulletin " 978, which may be had free upon application to the division of publications. The bulletin shows that the average yield of corn for the state is 42.50 bushels fan acre, while on the ten selected frarrhs it Is 85.50 bushels; the average wheat yield for the state is 18 bushels and for the ten farms 29.75 ; ,hay average for the state is 1.43 tons an acre and for the ten farms 2.65 tons; while the three farms that grew oats 4 produced ar average pf 45 bushels aa acre as com pared with the state average of 33.10 bushels. 5 A survey of 378 farms in Chester 'county; n vhich exceptionally high 9tandard of - management ar main tained. Including close1 atteaHpn to hundling!f 'barnyard ujanure; whowed an average corn yield of 65:3 htisliels: wlieat 2i8r and oats 41.61 The com parativela 'high yields in Chester coun ty, the jjspedallsts say, canniot be credited ntirely to the way in: which man are handled, because1 the- soil in that; canity Is maich better" than the state's af erage soil, but special at tention tr manure and its conserva tion has Ibeen an outstanding' feature of that? county's farming. COST OF PRODUCTION VARIES Specialist Point Out Fallacy off Gionv s i deling Average as Basis , for Rguring. The fac that there is a wide voxia- L iSon on i)dlvid'ual' farms In the cost of producing, any product has been substantiated! by recent cost surveys cnductedby specialists of the Unitedi States Dartment : of Agricultures. Because' o this variation, the special its'point ot it is- a fallacy to consider the averafi a representing the cost or produclloix For example, the average- cost wheat per bushel on the 481 farms studied by the specialists last yeariwas. $2-JIr but more thacu 50 per ceo; off the farmers concerned! produced heat at a cost above this figure, raafking up to an extreme of $8.20? per $usaeL Similarly the aver age cost.'Q'.ctftoa'for.'the 842 farm studied ' was approximately 23 cents-per- pounjd yet almost 6CT per cent of the growers; had costs above this average-; ;; Tha- depjirtment now gives the re sult of est" studies in the form of frequency paWes in order to show the proportlonSof a product that is pro duced at 1c below a given cost and! to call attrition to the importance of Vi, i 'JS - .... I u. uui&-uu, -.cosi ratner than average cosft ha relation to price. -i; ,. v.: -' ; CflSlNFECTIOM OF HENHOUSE Woodwork and Roosts Should Be Gone iyir Occasionally, With SdreGood Lice Killer. The rooTts and nearby woodwork of the pouJry house should be pamted occasionally with some good liquid lice killer Iwhlch can he bought fmm poultry supply dealers) or with kero sene, to kl the little mites which live there durirfg the day and at night tor ment the ffgwls. - ,. -V,.-- " - "; - t' -' ' "7 '!'. MAKING IpROFIT WITH GEESE -v;;. p.: - Cheap Sheti Is All Shelter Necessary and Feed Need Not Be of ; Expensive Variety. Almost ny farmer might raise a flock of gse with profit A cheap shed Is alljjthe shelter "needed by the 'breeders, tjven In winter they are not costly to fd, as they do well on en silage, clover andchopped vegetables with seine rrala, ( ' ; 1 IT FFIGEHS OFTEN m tod INCIDENT OF. ADMIRAL SIMS' SPEECH RECALLS OTHERS THAT CAUSEP TROUBLE. SPANISH WAR "ROUND ROBIN" Captain Coghlan's Famous Recitation About the Kaiser Admiral Brown, son Once Disciplined for Angry Crit icism of Order by Roosevelt. By EDWARD B. CLARK. Washington. Rear Admiral W. S. Sims, who won fame as the. American commander in European waters during the war, has been talking again. There is no intention here to express an opin ion as tQ whether Sims talked right or talked wrong While the matter is in abeyance so far as the outcome' is coiicenied? administration officials are keeping mum. They probably are do ing a lot of thinking, however... The people probably will guess at the na ture of these thoughts after a manner in keeping with their own thoughts on the subject. Army and navy officers from the very beginning of things in the service occasionally have been brought into tho field of criticism because they have opened their mouths. There Is a reg ulation forbidding serv5ce men from expressing their opinions In public writing or In public speech on matters which are reserved for discussion to the executive department, and tills de, partment covers a wide field. There were troubles back in the Spanish war days over the "round robin which was signed by many offi cers who wee at the :ont In Cuba. Theodore Roosevelt wa r one .of the signers of this then fan. mis document General Miles and General Corbiu had a controversy during the Spanish war which was aired in the public prints and which the administration seemed to feel went beyond the limits of serv ice discretion. . , The quartermaster general of the army at that time got into real trou ble because of some things which he either said or wrote. Memorable Cace of Cogblan. It is probable that a good many Americans with memories not neces sarily long will recall the after-dinner speech, made by Captain Coghlan of the navy just after the Spanish war. He had been in comsuM.' of one of Dewey's ships at the battle of Manila, and he, with ".other Americat. officers, was extremely resentful at tt conduct of the German admiral v ho otninand ed the 'kaiser's ships it JUinila buy,' and who tried to caus. trouble; for Dewey. Coghlan recited to the dinner gusests the famous Me' uhd Gott" poem. The country roared over it, bud it roused anger in some- places Coghlan said he , was in civilian clothes, 'on leave, and nerely actmg; as a private' citizen when le spoke, and that be believed he had Ml the righ;ts of a private citizen to say wlkiat;-he wanted to. The country pretty . gei eraily agreed with him. 7t was- uiwler stood that the matter " irtually. was allowed to drop because high, officials In Germany could not 1 1 elp laughing over the thing, and whe. the- risibili ties are aroused no man cam be oer Indignant. Whii Theodore Roosevelt was. pres ident Rear Admiral Browpsonv now a the retired list, held a high positLeo in tlie navy department. Recoil ectieo ha it that he was chief of the bureau of oarigatlon. Roosevelt and Browo 3oo were great friends, but when, as pcesiiJent, Roosevelt ordered that a aavy doctor should be supreme com mander at sea of the hospital ship SGfaee. the line officers waxed wrothy and Admiral Brownson; said, secme thliags which caused him lm a way to be disciplined. Solace Order Caused Amusement. There was a lot of fun. over the matter. As the order was understood by the people, the chief surgeon on the Solace actually was to command the ship; in other words. navigate It. This was not what was lnteiMled by .be order. A line officer was to con tinue to run the ship, but the doctor was to-be allowed to tell where it was to go. . , - ;:;,':'; ;-;. - McLaiidburg WTilson took advantage of the row to write a poemi which many n naval officer has stowed away: In his scrapbook. The. poem appeared, as memory has It, in the New York Sun, Here It Is : The good vessel Iceberg. The finest afloat, Had Admiral Sawbones Commanding-the boat. While these were his duties. With maliy a kick Great Admiral Bowlines Looked after . the sick. Though all of the potions . He faithfully tried,, Beneath his attention The sick men all died. ; " But little It mattered Just ' then with a shock Great Admiral Sawbones Ran onto a rock. Admiral Sims always has been an outspoken man. Those who agree with his views are seemingly ga that he was their champion, because he never has beep afraid to speak his convictions, although navy department authorities are not backward In saying that a . naval officer is not supposed to speak his convictions, when speak lng them Is likely to get the country into trouble. M pout.tdv; CACKLES Q: REDUCE POULTRY By or i able Scran WteisMcstvr Economical plar at1t) (Prepared by the "ted . ment of Agl h If the chicken flock u t economic surrp . J Prov. tl iuusr lot , i ly. All table scraps and should be utilized. cllena Scraps of meat or leftover which cannot be utilized l way make excellent feed V"y waste products, such as br?y nip tops, carrot tops. potatn M,t onion tops, watermelon and I rinds, the outside leaves ot S waste lettuce leaves, and b cake crumbs are relished by . and can be used to good advant? In saving the scraps and well to separate the portion, , for feeding to the flock and pw? in a receptacle or pail 0f vZ Meat Scraps and Waste Vegetables Make Excellent Feed for Chirt. -' 'rsi. Flock. Decomposed waste material or moldy bread or cake should never be saved to feed to the hens, as it is harmful to them and may cause serious bowd trouble, floppy materials, suck as dishwater, should not be thrown into their pail. It is also useless to pist in such things as banana peels or the skins of oranges, as these have little or no food value. Any sour milk which is not utilized In the house should be given to the fhifkfn: Tliis shrmlri hp fpd sennrsita. ly, however, either by allowing tie hens to drink it or by allowing It tn clabber on the back of the stove and feeding it in that condition. When the family's table waste is not sufficient slble to get some of the neighbors who keep no hens to save material suitable for feeding. Many people are glad to do this if a small pail in which to pot the waste is furnished. Table scraps and kitchen waste are best prepared for feeding by running them through an ordinary household food chopper or meat grinder. After the material has been put th rough the grinder It Is usually a rather moist Bass, and it is well to mix with it some corn' meal, bran or other ground grain until the whole mass assumes a crum bly condition. The usual method is to feed the table scraps at noon or night, or at both times, as may be desired, in a trough or on a board. All should fed that the hens will eat up clean, and if any of the material is left after one half or three-quarters of an hour, It should be removed. If allowed to main It "may spoil and be very bad f. the hens. POULTRY NOTES, A hen is in her best condition only When she Is seen industriously at wort Nothing will more quickly mate scrubs out of good stock than scrub treatment. ' Perches should be built low and ar ranged so they can easily be tafeea out and cleaned. s Uniformity In the size of egg best be obtained by keeping one stand ard breed of hens. If ducks are overfed, they soraetimM become so fat that their legs are in Capable of supporting their, bodies. ' Every poultryman should lay In supply of alfalfa and clover for ws fowls during vthe winter. Green few Is as essential as grain. If every farm flock could be rid of the drones and worthless members tna lay few eggs, there would at once. an amazing increase in profits. One of the greatest drawbacks successful poultry-keeping is tn . tempt of many folks to crowd 50 row where there is only room for J ' One of the greatest mistakes feeding poultry Is that of v,ng exclusive grain ration. Meat, Sre vegetables, etc., saould all have place, -f" I Poultry raising is similar to lng in that It Is not so much the ber of acres owned, but the nu properly handled that gives the rf Us. Small, well cared for floC". fowls always bring the best r rem i .
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