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OUR COUNTRY’S PRIDE Independence, Strength and Beauty j ---—-:-... .1 .j.. 1 .. VALLEY FORGE ONE OF NATION’S MOST VENERATED SPOTS — Hills and Valleys Where Washington Camped; in 1777 Have Been Made Beautiful by a Grateful Nation—Vis- j ited by Thousands 1 Thousands of visitors to Boston never leave that city until they have visited Concord and Lexington, 20 miles' away, to gaze upon the spot Where the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard 'round the world. How many visitors to Philadelphia remember that at Valley Forge, a ; ■ few minutes' ride from kour city hall, is a locality fully as significant in its historic a s s o c 1 a tions as Lexington? ntJitJ, ill CliC iUUfciJ TT l/UUO W4. ™ * ley Forge, is the spot forever hallowed where Washington knelt upon the snow and prayed in the extremity of despair that the cause of liberty should yet be successful, says the Philadel phia Record. Thousands of visitors do. indeed, visit Valley Forge, bnt many thou sands more would do so if they realized the pleasure which attends such a trip, altogether apart from the rich reward to be gained by seeing with their own eyes the ground where a handful of ragged and starving men. paupers In everything save their store of indom itable courage, fought cold and hun ger—enemies more relentless than hostile troops—through that terrible winter of 1777. For now the beautiful woodlands that line the Schuylkill, the slopes that enclose the Chester Valley, are ideal spots for a day's Jaunt That anyone within Philadelphia should not make a pilgrimage to Val ley Forge, less than an hour's ride from the city, seems unthinkable. Valley Forge is extremely accessi ble. Two railroad lines, a traction car line and automobile passenger omni buses running from the cfty to all the points of interest in the vicinity, make it an extremely easy matter for any tourist to reach Valley Forge and enjoy the day there. A dozen splendid inns in the neighborhood, located among the pleasant hills of the beau tiful Chester Valley, are famous among automobilists for their cordial welcome, their appetizing dinners and their attractive rooms. Some of them have the added charm of recalling, by their Colonial architecture and their quaint furnishings the historic days when they were first erected. In no locality, outside of Europe, can be found so many delightful wayside tav erns as are open to the rambler through this lovely valley. PATRIOT ARMY STARVED. Washington and his little army of some 10,000 men—equal only to the hundredth part of the vast force which * Germany is now putting on the field in France—after the unsuccessful bat tle with the British under Lord Howe at Germantown, withdrew in discour agement to take up winter quarters at Valley Forge, 24 miles northwest of Philadelphia. The British troops, numbering 15,000. contented them selves with remaining in the city throughout the winter, making occa sional forays in force through the sur rounding country and clearing it of provisions as effectually as did Sher man in his march through Georgia. As a consequence, the Continental troops suffered unimaginable hardships for lack of food in the six months from the middle of December, 1777, until June 19, 1778, when Lord Howe, relin quishing the command of the British army to Lord Cornwallis, evacuated the city and withdrew to New York. Through the efforts of the state of Pennsylvania. Valley Forge is now public property. More than 400 acres are included in the park, comprising Washington's headquarters, most of the campground and the remains of the Revolutionary forts and earth works. Altogether the state has ap propriated more than $250,000 for the preservation of the campsite. Pleas ant drives have been constructed A — Where Washington Lived. where impenetrable thickets once grew. The entrenchments and forts that were concealed in a dense wood a few years ago are now accessible to visitors. The fine drives of the park attract horsemen and automobilists in great numbers. By the principal road the ascent of Mount Joy, an elevation of 500 feet, is made by easy grades, and from the brow of the hill views covering 20 miles are obtained. WASHINGTON’S HEADQUARTERS. Washington's headquarters, a stone farmhouse which belonged to Isaac Potts, a Quaker, stands near the rail road station, and at the entrance to the park. It was Isaac Potts who is said to have seen Washington at pray er in the icebound woods, at a time when hope seemed almost gone. The rooms are today as they were in Washington’s t‘me. The log kitch en at the rear was built while Wash ington occupied the house. From it descends an entrance into what was a tunnel to the banks of the Schuyl kill river. Priceless Revolutionary relics are gathered in the building. The tent which Washington used on the field is still preserved. At this entrance to the park stands the beautiful memorial arch of stone built by the nation and completed last year. It Is known as the Washington Memorial arch, and another, to be called the Steuben Memorial arch, is planned for the other principal en trances of the park. For beauty and impressiveness no similar structure in the United States, with the exception of the Washington arch in Washing ton Square, New York, whose design is similar, can compare with that which now stands at Valley Forge. FINE MEMORIAL BUILDINGS. Other new edifices of surpassing beauty and dignity are the group of memorial buildings erected by popu lar subscriptions from citizens of ev ery state. They include the Washing ton Memorial chapel, the Thanksgiv ing tower and the Patriots' hall. Serv ices are held in the chapel by its rec tor, the Rev. W. Herbert Hurk. who started the movement for the erection of the buildings in 1903. The entire group of buildings are of the beautiful Collegiate Gothic type of architecture. They house a collection of Revolu tionary relics and a library of Ameri cana which is unique. It is estimated that $200,000 will be needed to com plete the structures as planned. When finished they will constitute a sort of Westminster abbey, without compari son in the United States for histori cal associations, a Mecca for all pa triotic Americans from every part of the nation. It is estimated that 100,000 visitors from all over the United States make a pilgrimage to Valley Forge each year. With the inauguration of Phila delphia's Greater Fourth of July, sig nalized by the visit of President Wil son, members of congress and dele gates from each of the thirteen orig inal states of the Union, great inter est was evident in 1915, when the richness of Philadelphia's historic memories were brought more closely to the attention of the whole nation. Americans from Maine to California visit Valley Forge. Do the citizens of Philadelphia realize what an excep tional opportunity they themselves have of spending a memorable after noon in a place so near at hand, so crowded with memorials of the most critical period in American history, so beautiful In its setting among the cool, green hills of Chester Valley, so attractive in every way to the person who wishes to escape for a day the city streets ? WHO RANG THE LIBERTY BELL Identity of Man Who Will Forever Live in History Has Not Been Definitely Established. “The mystery of the old bell ringer” is the most fascinating of the myths which were revived by the trip of the Liberty bell from Philadelphia to San Francisco. Who was the old man who rang the bell when it first pealed forth in cele bration c-t the Declaration of Inde pendence? It is conceded that the story of the boy dashing into the street on July 4, 1776, calling to the old caretaker in the belfry, "Ring, ring! They've signed it!” is fiction pure and siipple. Wilfred Jordan, custodian of the mu. seum in Independence hull, and an au thority on the history of the Liberty bell, declares there is no record of such an event. The first authenti cated ringing, after the signing of the Declaration of Independence was on July 8, when it called the citizens cM Philadelphia together to hear the doc ument read. “Andrew McNair, doorkeeper at the time, may have been the first bel’ ringer, but this has not been estab lished,” says Custodian Jordan. A story for which history will not vouch is that when the news of thf surrender of Cornwallis reached Phil adelphia, "the old bell ringer died o! joy.” The history of the Philadelphif Pine street church contains the nam« of “William Hurry, bellman of the ole statehouse.” And on the ancient stone in the graveyard where Hurry lies bur ied are the words, “who departed thii life October 22, 1781.” That day th< news of the surrender of Cornwallis reached Philadelphia. Was William Hurry really the old bell ringer who rang in the new yeat of American freedom on the day that the Declaration of Independence was approved, and did he really die of Joy on hearing that the long war with England was over at last? The duration of radium’s activity is about 1,650 years. PRODUCE PERSIAN LAMB FUR IN AMERICA) r i Very Young Karakul Lamb, Showing Desired Tight, Uniform and Lus trous Curl, Evenly Distributed Over Entire Ec Jy. fPrepared by the United States Piepart ment of Agriculture.) Persian lamb fur, says a writer in the year book of the United States department of agriculture, can appar ently be produced in the United States and seems to present commercial pos sibilities. At the present time this fur is brought to the United States through Europe from the plateaus of Bokhara, a section of central Asia lying between Turkestan on the north and Afghanistan on the south. In this territory there are from 3.000,000 to 4. 000.000 of what are known as Karakul sheep, the name being derived from Kara Kul, meaning Black Lake, a vil lage in the eastern part of Bokhara. The fur of the young Karakul lambs is in great demands in the large cities of the world, and the common practice is to kill the lambs when but a few days old in order to prevent the skin Imported Karakul Ram, Used by Bu reau 07 Animal Industry at Experi mental Farm, Beltsville, Md. from deteriorating in value with age It should be noted that what are com monly called Persian sheep in the United States are not the sheep which are the source of Persian lamb fur. This is a distinction which will save from inconvenience and loss persons who may wish to go into the business of raising Persian lamb fur in the United States. In recent years the increase in the demand for Persian lamb fur and the accompanying rise in prices have stim ulated interest in the production of this fur in the United States. At the | present time there are some 60 pure bred Karakul rams and ewes in the country, and more than 1,000 head oi sheep having one-half or three-fourths Karakul blood. With further cross ing these grade ewes should prove valuable as producers of fur-bearing lambs, and. at some later time, of breeding rams. Prospective breeders are warned in the article mentioned, however, that there is no prospect of securing marketable skins by breeding half-bred rams to ewes of any class. It is not enough for the lamb's cover ing to be black in color and curly; it is the character of the fur and the luster with the blackness that gives the skin its value. SI.ins possessing the desired qualities cannot be pro duced with haif-bred sires. The future of the industry' in this country depends very largely upon the results obtained by mating Karakul rams with ewes of other breeds. Be tween 1911 and 1915 the department of agriculture conducted various breed ing experiments along these lines, but all but four of the sheep used in the work were lost through the burning of a barn in March, 1915. Before this disaster took place, however, much useful information had been acquired, and it is largely as a result of this v.'ork that the statement is made that apparently Karakul sheep can be bred successfully in this country. The Karakul is a sheep of medium size with black face and legs, and a long coarse fleece of some shade oi gray, in its home in Bokhara the sheep is accustomed to an elevation oi about 8.000 feet and to very hot, dry summers and long, cold winters. As a result of this environment it seems reasonable to assume that the Karakul is well adapted to areas of extreme temperatures and limited rainfall. In Texas, it has been found that these sheep, whether imported, native born, or grades, were better able to resisl cold and storms than animals of othei breeds. From a mutton standpoint the conformation of the Karakul is quite inferior to that of the British breeds though lambs by Karakul sires from ewes of other breeds have made rapid growth and found a ready sale. FEED AND CARE FOR FARM SHEEP FLOCK Diseases and Parasites Are Readily Transmitted—Roots Give Tone to Health. In buying sheep, either lor breeding or for feeding, be sure they are all en tirely healthy. Diseases and parasites are readily transmitted from one flock to another by a single sheep. Lambs, when two weeks aid, should begin to eat grain in a side pen, from which ewes are excluded. Roots go a long way in giving tone to the general health of the flock and fed with grain make both doubly valu able. Sheep will eat off many weeds that cattle avoid and in this way help clean the pastures. Strawy beds at night make strawy wool at shearing time. Raw winds injure the lambs. Shelter your flock and save money. Mutton and wool are high enough to encourage sheep raising, especially on farms where pasture is sufficient, with grain, hay and roots. Heavy or forced feeding during the first year or two of the sheep's life will often make it lose its teeth be tween the ages of three or four. Soil Improvement. Soils occupied by growing crops are constantly getting better, as the natural agencies are more active. That is, unavailable plant food is made available, and vegetable mattei is accumulating in the roots and stub ble, which improves the soil, both in physical and chemical character. Teaching Calf to Eat. When the calf Is two or three weeks old he should be taught to eat grain and hay. By putting a little feed in the calf’s mouth after drinking milk. It will soon learn to eat. To Drive Nails Easily. Keep a lump of tallow handy when driving nails into hardwood. By dip ping the points of the nails into It, they will drive easily. Sheltering Sheep. Keep the sheep dry. The wetting from a cold rain or snow may take off the gain of a week’s feeding. Most Profitable Land. The most profitable farming land is not always the best suited for truck gardening. FEEDING OF MOLDY SILAGE IS HARMFUL In Some Cases It Has Caused Death of Horses and Severe Scouring in Cattle. Avoid feeding decayed or moldy si !age to live stock. In some instances the feeding ol such silage has caused the death of horses and severe cases of scouring in cattle. In most cases the method of filling the siio has had much to do with the spoiling of the silage; hence, little can now be done to prevent the dam age to the feed. Experienced feeders of silage are urging ilieir neighbors to avoid feed ing moldy or decayed silage to any class of live stock. Where, without the presence of mold, the silage is in an abnormally heated condition the adding of water may help to check decomposition.— Wisconsin Experiment Station. AYLESBURY SECOND ONLY TO THE PEKIN Possesses Same Good Qualities and Can Be Grown With Almost Equal Success. F r farm purposes the Aylesbury is second only to the Pekin, possesses also some of the good qualities of the Pekin and can be grown with al most the same success. There is one point greatly in favor of this va ried of ducks and that is that it will thrive in most any country or climate, its early maturity, Its large size. Its great hardiness and also because of the real beauty which it posseses. Not Afraid of Disease. It would be pretty hard to convince the man with a well-filled silo that its contents would produce disease in his stock. Heifer1* First Year. It is not sensible to discard a heifer because she does not do well the first year after calving. She may do bet ter the following year. Cheap Milk 8trainer. There is no better milk strainer than white cheesecloth. IS YOUR STOMACH IN A BAD CONDITION ? TRY OSTETTERS Stomach Bitters IT IS FOR INDIGESTION BILIOUSNESS MALARIA, FEVER AND AGUE A Bad Example. Miss Jane Addams, during a tea j at Hull House, said: "I disapprove of the new fashions j because they encourage vanity. “I know a little girl whose mother has gone in for all the new fashions j —sheath skirt, slit skirt, short skirt ' and what cot. | "That little girl’s teacher said to j her reproachfully one day: " ’But. my _dear, don't you want to i j grow up so that everybody will look j | up to you?’ j "‘No, ma’am.- said the youngster. decidedly, 'I want to grow up so that j | everybody will look round at me.’ ” WONDERFUL HOW RESINOL STOPS SKIN TORMENTS The soothing, healing medication in resinol ointment and resinol soap soothes and cools the irritated skin, and usually stops itching at once. The resinol treatment speedily heais ecze ma, ringworm, and similar eruptions, ' and clears away disfiguring pimples even when other treatments have been almost useless. Resinol is not ar experiment. It is a doctor's prescription which proved so wonderfully successful for skin troubles that it has been used by other doctors all ever the country for twen ty years. Every druggist sells resinol ointment and resinol soap.—Adv. Took the Gold Cure. ’ The Spinster—It is said that love is a disease. Do you believe it? The Bachelor—Well, I have no rea son to acubt it. A friend of mine once took the gold cure for it. The Spinster—You don't say! The Bachelor—Fact. He married a girl worth half a million in her own right. IF YOU OR ANY FRIEND I Suffer with Rheumatism or Neuritis aeute oi : chronic, write for my FREE BOOK on Kheuma : tism—Its Cause and Cure. Most wonderful book • ever -written, it’s absolutely FREE. Jesse A Case, Dept. C. W., Brockton. Mat»o.—Adv. Reproof. "Does your bey Josh have any ideas about running a farm?” "I should say so,’’ replied Farmer | Comstossel. "He says I'm all wrong, j I’m spoilin’ the makin’ of a fine set of j golf links jes’ fur the sake of a little corn an’ hay an’ such.” F R ECKLE S Now Is the Time to Get Kid of These Ugly pilots. j There’s no longer the slightest need of feeling ashamed of your freckles, as the j prescription othine—double strength—is j guaranteed to remove these homely spots Simply get an ounce of othine—double strength—from your druggist, and apply a little of it night and morning and you should soon see that even the worst freckles have begun to disappear, while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It is seldom that more than one ounce is needed to com pletely clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear complexion. Be sure to ask for the double strength j othine. as this is sold under guarantee of : money back If it fails to remove freckles.— Adv. Modesty Line Changes. Mrs. Thomas A. Edison is of the opinion that some of the accepted present-day styles of feminine dress have passed “beyond the bounds of modesty.” Perhaps so, but these dress critics seem to ignore the fact that the modesty line changes with the fashions.” HOW TO TREAT DANDRUFF Itching Scalp and Falling Hair With Cuticura. Trial Free. On retiring touch spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment. Next morning shampoo with Cuticura Soap and hot water. A clean, healthy • scalp means good hair and freedom, in most cases, from dandruff, itching, i burning, crustings and scalings. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard. Cuticura, Dept. L, ! Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. A watch is sc called because it’s eften on guard. DOGS DEVELOP TAILLESS RAT • ' Scientific Terriers Nipped So Many Rodents That New Generation !s Deformed. The latest style hereabouts is tail less rats. Several years ago, on the farm ot D. D. Hess, near Quarryville. the barn was infested with huge rats, and to get rid of them Hess employed a brace of terrier dogs. The latter chased the rodents to their holes, but about all they could get hold of were the tails. The result was a large num her of tailless rats that year. For some time no rats were seen, but recently there appeared a number of young ones minus the usual ap pendage.— l^ncaster (Pa.) Dispatch Phila. North American. Art Objects Sold. A rare Flemish tapestry entitled "The Haymakers,” dating from late in the seventeenth century, brought $1,400 at an art sale at the Anderson galleries. New York. It went to M. Kernochan. Other important sales were a large wine jar of the Sung dynasty in China, about 960 A. D., so’.d for $175: a Chi nese painting from the Ming dynasty, sold to M. Kernochan for $160; a land scape painting from the Ming dynasty, to the same buyer for $150. and an other landscape scene from the Ming dynasty to Y»\ Hotchkiss for $130. important to Wiothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and 3ee that it I_I In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher’6 Castona The Fitting Sort. ‘‘My glover told me today that he has twins.” “Most appropriate. A pair of kids." PAINS IN SIDE ansi back How Mrs. Kelly Suffered and How Site was Cured. Burlington, Via.—“I waa very irreg ular, and had pains in my side and back, but alter taking Lydia E. Pink.ham’s Vegetable Com pound Tablets and using two bottles of the Sanative Wash I am fully convinced that I am entirely cured of those trou bles, and feci better all over. I know your remedies have done me worlds of good and X nope every suffering woman will give them a trial.”—Mr3. Anna Kelly, 710 Chestnut Street, Burling ton, Wis. The many convincing testimonials con stantly published in the newspapers ought to he proof enough to women who suffer from those distressing ills pecu liar to their sex that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound is the medicine they need. This good old root and herb remedy has proved unequalled for these dread ful ills; it contains what is needed to restore woman’s health and strength. If there is any peculiarity in your case requiring special ad vice, write the Lydia E. Pink ham Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, Mass., for free advice. Don’t Persecute Your Bowels Cut out cathartics and purgatives. They are brutal, harsh, unnecessary. lAKIbil 3 LliiLt LIVER PILLS A Purely vegetable. Act aS] gently on fh: liver, As3 eliminate bile, and a|H8( cootne inc ae.icaie. mem brim e of thejd bowel. Cor Constipation, Bili.usness, Sick Head acne and Indigestion, at millions snow. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature C X\T A TVf P. Is not recommended ▼▼ X&.JT1.X for everything; but if ROOT y°u have kidney, liver * or bladder trouble it may be found Just the remedv vou need. At druggist# in fifty cent and dollar sizes. You may receive a sample size bottle of this reliable medicine by Parcel Post, also pamphlet telling about it. Address Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., and enclose ten cents, also men tion this paper. DAISY FLY KILLER ££ “TSS 5 flies Neat, clean, or naxnental. convenient, cheap. Lasts all season. H&deo* metal. oantfiplliortip over. will not coll or Injure anything. Guaranteed effective. Alt dealers orflMsil exprea* paid for 11.00. ■AHOLD B0MIH8, 160 Da K*lb At... BrgoBljH, K T. W N. U., OMAHA, NO. 26-1916. Bumper Grain Crops Good Markets—High Prices Prizes Awarded to Western Canada for Wheat, Oais, Barley, Altai fa and Grasses _ The winnings of Western Canada at the Soil Products t Exposition at Denver were easily made. The list 1 comprised Wheat, Oats, Earley and Grasses, the most / important being the prizes for Wheat and Oats and . sweep stake on Alfalfa. j N° less important than the splendid quality of Western fy Canada’s wheat and other grains, is the excellence of the cattle fed and fattened on the grasses of that h country. A recent shipment of cattle to Chicago 4^ topped the market in that city for quality and price. Weitera Ciaidr prodaced m 1S15 one-tkird as Back wheal as all «f tke United States, w over 300,000,000 basket*, Canada in proportion to population has a greater exportable surplus of wheat this year than any a k country in the world, and at present Dnces vou can figure out the revenue foi the pro ducer. In Western Canada you will find good markets, splendid schools, excep tional social conditions, perfect climate > and other great attractions. There war tax aa land and no conscription. Scad far fflaatiated pamphlet and ask for reduced railway rates, information aa to beat Locations «rr addnaa Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or '• W. Y. BENNETT, Room 4, Bee Bldg., Omaha, Nebr. Canadian Government Agent