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The Parting of the Ways
Going away! Going away!
Ono pallid beam fading out of life's
sky;
Still in the mart of the busy and
yet,
Out of my lifo; but you can not
forget.
You will not forget me. There
always will be
Ono pale ghost of memory pleading
for mo;
Wherever you tarry, wherever you
roam,
In shade or in sunshine, the memory
will come.
Into your lifo will come women more
fair
Sweet with lifo'B morning, and gay,
debonair;
Warm with youth's passionate ten
derness; yet,
Charm as they may, you will never
forget.
When burdened, discouraged, op
pressed and alone,
You long for the love that for all
things atone,
The ghost of the Past will bring
comfort and cheer
In joy,. or in sorrow, the love will
bo near.
I
shall not forget you. The wide
gulf may bo
A Dead Sea of silence between you
and mo;
Tho days may bo leaden, the years
may bo long;
Tho laughter bo stifled, and silenced
tho song;
The pathway of life hedged by many
a thorn;
Tho highway wind upward, of all
beauty shorn.
Yet always above me, the skies will
be blue;
And voices, like dreamt. nnenkinrr
softly of you,
All the sad hours, the dark hours
will sweetly beguile
I shall find you again, in the Great
Aftorwhlle!
Helen Watts McVey.
February, 1912.
few plants of dill; rosemary, thyme,
hprffnmot. sweet clover, caraway,
coriander, and many others. Don't
forget the horseradish roots; you
will need them next winter. These
things take up but little room, and
should have a corner by themselves.
Be sure to start an asparagus bed;
if you wait another year, it -will be
Innt- nnnthpr vefir before VOU Can
begin the use of this most excellent
edible. A few healthy roots of rhu
barb will furnish all the "pie" stuff
you want early in the spring; but the
first year it should not be pulled
unless it is unusually thrifty.
Get a few gooseberry bushes
started, and, if you live where cur
rants will grow and Dear, nave a row
of this splendid fruit.
Many seedsmen and nurserymen
are offering collections of these
roots and bushes, and if you
patronize reliable firms you will get
your money s worth. For most ot
living demand possession. In many
cases, by this time, the living in
terest in the dead has ceased, be
cause of the removal to other places,
or the death of the living relatives,
themselves, and the place of graves
is abandoned save by the very few
that never forget. Within the recol
lection of people yet active in the
interests of the day, many ceme
teries within the limits of cities are
not now used, and even the location
of many of them has been forgotten.
In most cases, the bodies have been
re-interred elsewhere, but in others,
the unknown and unclaimed were
left undisturbed, and the roar of
traffic is heard above the forgotten
dust, where great buildings rear
their heads above the one-time place
of graves. For this reason, crema
tion of the body after death is grow
ing in favor, and after cremation,
the dust may be returned unto dust
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loved has been returned to the ele- the herbB. it is better to buv the
ments. DlantB: but if you are not imnatient
for results, most all of them can be
Cremation, or Bnrinl?
The article recently published in
the Home Department pages regard
ing cremation for the dead instead
of burial in the earth, has awakened
some thought on the part of our
readers, and has brought me several
letters or inquiry. It 1b claimed by
those who have watched the trend
of events that the period of un
disturbed rest in tho average ceme
tery of the growing town or city
is not much longer than the average
span of life. Although the idea of
a perpetual guarantee in some form
or other Is found in the charter of
nearly every cemetery association,
as far as is known to our best-informed
lawyers, there is no law that
will assure iudisturbed possession of
a grave to the dead, longer than
fifty or sixty years at most. There
is nothing to prevent the ground be
ing condemned and the bodies re
moved or ignored. A prominent
lawyer Bays, "I have never heard of
a law that protects such interests of
the dead, or will Btop the encroach
ment upon the sacred spot made by
the march of progress." The dead
are Beldom allowed to Interfere with
the interests of the living, and in
ueany ail localities, It the town or
ity grows in extent, the dead must
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Between Seasons
At this season of the year, the
woman who did not "gather up the
fragments" last summer and fall,
and whose purse is not over-full, is
having a rather hard time getting a
variety of foods for her table.
Where one lives near a large mar
ket, and has money with which to
buy, there is no dearth. About
everything that gTows from the
ground in the spring Is at her hand.
If one is a good buyer, with close
judgment, and willing to work up
the cheaper articles, even a slim
purse can cover a good assortment;
but there must be close buying and
good judgment at the market, and
a lot of common sense cookery in the
kitchen. A scarcity of vegetables
may be less felt if one can use the
dried products. SUCh as beans nono
lentils, macaroni, spaghetti, and corn
meal mushes cooked in various
ways after the mush becomes cold,
will add to the variety and nourish
ment. An excellent food that our
mothers used much of is wheat,
either coarsely ground by the home
nana-miii, or tne whole grains;
either of which require long cook
ing, and will be found both palatable
and nourishing If properly done.
Another is the old fashioned home
made hominy that is far superior to
anything one can buy of the kind in
the market. The houRe-wlf Trmef
study her resources and learn to
make the different dishes, and only
by this means can she give her
family the necessary changes of diet
when everything seems to have
dwindled down to "the same old
thing."
raised from seeds.
Get a packet of pepper seeds, and
grow your own "pickle" peppers,
and have some of the "hot" stuff for
other uses in the kitchen. Be sure
to look over the catalogues and
study the contents.
of
Plnnning tho Garden
Be sure to make arrangements to
have your own home-raised herbs
Among them,, be sure to have a bed
of mint. A few roots will give you
a start, and once entnhHeVi . i
fixture. There Is no end to uses for
ou? ofeitVeS' bth k the kitchen ad
Have your own sage: no "stnrA
sage', will ever equal iit you your-
I ,lail8e.and cure- xt ls almost im
possible to do without sage. It Is
good for a little of everything
Have a row, or a bed of 'laven
der, and take care to give It good
care, so you can have plentv of
"sweetness" in vonr iKSSL,?
among your clothes and in your bed
Some Tried Home Remedies
Many people are so afraid
carbolic acid that comparatively few
know its many medicinal virtues.
In sufficient quantities it is a deadly
poison, and like ammonia, concen
trated lye, and many other house
hold necessities, it should be kept
on a high shelf away from the reach
of children and careless persons. All
drugs, harmless or otherwise, should
be carefully labeled. Carbolic acid
may be purchased in a small can in
crystallized form, and In this form
it is both safe and handv Direc
tions for liquidizing are printed on
each can. One need dilute but little
at a time. Its uses are many.
A teaspoonful or twn nt vo
liquid acid added to the ordinary
sized foot-tub of warm water is an
excellent remedv fnr fmctaA
der feel; the relief is speedy and
A tablespoonful or more added to
the summer hath allays tho torture
from the mighty little chigger, and
is soothing and healing for heat
irritation or tne skin.
For cute and sores for man and
beasts, there is no better ointment
man mutton or beef tallow mixed
with carbolic acid -one part car
bolio acid to four or more of the
tallow; keep this in a covered tin
can, and it is ready for any emer
gency it will need to be warmed
a little in cold weather. For cuts,
owico, buuuu suouiaers on stock, it
L8 e?ce1llent- As a disinfectant and
deodorizer. carbnHn dhh ta t,,i
sable about the house, the poultry
yard?, coops, nests and roosts.
The crude acid has its value in
many things, but for the medicine
closet for the family, tho better
grade should be used
ia Afew, ?Iop!! workGl into vaseline
catnrVL beaHng nts for
catarrh of the nose, and a few drops
in a quart of water used through the
nasal douche is wonderfully healris
to tho nasal passage.
top dirt to he sieved to remove all
lumps or trash. Sow the seeds
thinly, put on them by Bifting evenly
about half an inch of fine dirt, Dam
pen surface of the soil lightly with
warm water, then fit a paper over
the top of the box, turning up the
edges, and pour a quart of boiling
water slowly on the paper, and leave
to soak through. This will warm
and dampen the soil and not disturb
the seeds. Leave tho paper on it
for a few days and wet it in tho
same manner every day with water
too hot to hear the hand in; set the
box in a warm place. This method
of moistening the soil will not work
the seeds out, or wash the dirt from
over them, and they will germinate
quickly. Care for the plants well
until they are large enough to trans
plant to the ground.
To start hard shelled seeds, such
as the cyclamen, canna, moonfiower,
smilax, soak in very hot water,
changing it as it cools three or four
times a day. The cannas should
have a small hole filed in the shell,
until the white shows through, then
soaked, when, as the seed swells, the
shell will hurst, letting the young
plant get started. Most of hard
shelled seeds require, even when
well soaked, a month's time for ger
mination. Without soaking, it may
be months before they germinate.
Tn fitrhtinc insects which ruin tho
garden, the best thing to do is to
get ahead of them, and keep up the
warfare. The way to kill the
second brood is to kill the first
thoroughly, which Is a comparatively
easy matter, as the first arrivals are
but few in number. In the plant
kingdom, as elsewhere, prevention
is better than cure. Ge all your
insecticides ready, and if you don't
know what they are. or how to use
them, and what for, get" all the
Farmers' bulletins on the subject,
and read, read, read, everything you
can find in your farm papers; and
in addition, ask for information of
your agricultural papers and magazines.
Making Iieathcr Water-Proof
During the days now at hand,
there will he more or less mud and
bad walking, and one should do
everything possible to keep the feet
dry. For making leather water
proof, this is recommended: Mix a
quarter of a pound of mutton tallow,
three ounces of beeswax, two ounces
of rosin, one gill of boiled linseed
oil. Melt this over a fire and stir
until thoroughly mixed. Apply
while hot to the foot-leather, and
soak it well in. Once every week or
two will be sufficient to keep the
leather in good shape, even though
subjected to constant wetting. The
bottoms of the soles should be
greased well with the hot mixture,
and let get dry before using.
For tho Garden
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Peanut Butter Requested
Butter from peanuts is very palat
able and nourishing. In order to
make the butter a mill for grinding
the nuts is a necessity; such a mill
will cost from five to twenty-five
dollars, according to size. These
mills may ho used for grinding other
things nuts, coffee, horseradish and
vegetables. In order to make fivo
pounds of peanut butter, take eight
or nine pounds of roasted peanuts,
run them through with the' mill
opened wide, so as to 'separate the
halves of the nuts, after wliich run
tnrougn a windmill, or let fall
several feet on a clean cloth whero
a strong wind will blow the thin
brown skins away. Sprinkle fine
salt on them when clean, and put
them again through the mill with
all the salt that will adhere, grind
ing fine, which will make a fine
grained, smooth, oily and delicious
butter that will be a close rival for
tho best of cow's butter. If the fluti
are too dry after being ground fine
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