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
