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Human Interest Notes 
A Farmer’s Wife on Wills 
A few weeks ago 1 noticed an article 
in This K. N.-Y, beaded “Why Not. Make 
u Will,” and 1 was thinking how unfair 
it was for a man who has a good wife 
who works just as hard as lie does, and 
pats in more hours a day than he does, 
to neglect to make his will. It is the 
same in oar case. My husband is GO 
years old, and so far has made no will, 
vet is always talking about what, hogs 
lawyers are. You would think lie would 
get at it and make .a will so the lawyers 
could not play hog after he was gone. I 
do not see why the law does not give a 
wife everything when'she is left, the same 
as a man. She is more apt to take care 
of the children than a mail is, and will 
always keep them together, which lots of 
times a man does not do. Why must She 
divide the money with children before site 
is through with it, when she has worked 
so hard to help earn it, and denied her¬ 
self lots of things that the children have 
had which she has never had? Keep ham¬ 
mering away at the will question ; may- 
lie it will do some good somewhere, if not 
here. A PABMEK’S WIFE. 
A Venerable Horse 
The following newspaper story will in¬ 
terest many of our horse lovers. There 
are many of them left, in spite of gaso¬ 
line and cars. “Clover,” the old horse, is 
51 years old and now at Cntawissa, Fa.: 
“The horse is owned l>y the Rev. U. 
Myers, lie is si ill sound in wind and 
limb and has teeth enough to eat corn 
from the cob every day. It is in almost 
daily service, drawing a buggy in which 
the pastor and Ins wife ride about the 
town and vicinity. 
‘ In early life Clover was a race horse, 
lie slid down the scale and for live years 
had ber-n a cart horse before 1 >r. Myers 
purchased him 55 years ago. Since that 
time he has had good care and gentle 
treatment, and can still hit up a good 
gait. 
"Dr. Myers’ retirement pension is not 
large, and newspaper men who talked to 
him about the liorsc learned that he 
might bo forced to give him up on ac¬ 
count of the expense. However, no less 
than 50 horse lovers have written to him 
offering to provide an old-age pension for 
(lie aged horse." 
This old horse was brought to New 
York as an exhibit at the Masons* fair. 
No “Flapper” About Her 
The Philadelphia North American tolls 
of Mrs. Mary Ann Whitmoyer, a Penn¬ 
sylvania woman who recently celebrated 
her ninety-eighth birthday. She was 
born in New York State and was only 
six mouths old when she was taken to 
TurbotviHe, Pa. She evidently was no 
llapper in her youth : 
“Indians were still living in that vicin¬ 
ity, and it is tradition in her family that 
John Murray, an uncle of her first hus¬ 
band, William Murray, was scalped by 
the redskius. When a young woman 
Mrs, Whitmoyer was known throughout 
the countryside for her feats of strength 
and skill in the field. She was an adept 
at cradling grain, and could pitch hay 
with strength equal to many men. Once 
she wagered a new dress that she could 
shoulder a bag containing 2'/v» bushels of 
wheat, she standing ou a box one foot 
above the bag. This was a feat which 
scores of strong men failed to perform, 
hat she won the dress. 
"Mrs, Whitmoyer, it is believed, has 
more living descendants than any other 
living person in the county. She has 
eight children, 50 grandchildren, 00 great¬ 
grandchildren and 16 great-great-grand¬ 
children, a total of 175 descendants.” 
Twj Mothers 
A youth of 10 was convicted as a rob¬ 
ber in New York Pity last week and was 
remanded for sentence by the court, lie 
may he sent to Siug Sing for a term of 
1ft) years. 
This young man’s mother was a highly 
respected resident of one of those settle¬ 
ments in this town wherein neighbor- 
liness persists and friendships are culti¬ 
vated. She bore tip bravely when her 
eldest son gave up his life for his coun¬ 
try in France; that sacrifice she could 
make, not without grief, hut without 
despair. 
When her second son's disgrace came 
upon her, however, she could not bear up 
under it. Her mind gave way, and yes¬ 
terday she succeeded in taking her own 
I if,-. 
While this tragedy was in progress in 
the crowded city, Mrs. Catharine Enoit, 
the young wife of a farmer living near 
Nelson, Mo., allowed herself to burn to 
death rather than endanger the lives of 
her two children, ller clothing was 
ignited from a stove. She ran to a bed¬ 
room to get a blanket to smother the 
flames, II er children lay asleep ou the 
bed. Mrs. Enou feared that if she went 
to the bed to take the blanket from it 
her flaming clothing might endanger her 
children. She spared them danger, hut 
at the cost of her life. 
A great deal of time is spent in the 
consideration and denunciation of the 
superficial follies of women. In thinking 
of women let us think of these two moth¬ 
ers.—New York Herald. 
Trouble with Noisy Neighbors 
Near my farm, just across the road, Is 
a Summer boarding-house, Every Sum¬ 
mer, as soon as the hoarders begin to 
conic, we have to go without any sleep or 
rest No doubt you will realize what 
that means after you put in 17 to IS 
hours every day, and you know one has 
to work on the farm during Summer, if 
one cares to have anything. While we 
are working during the day, hoarders are 
sleeping; then at. night, when we have u 
few hours for sleep, boarders are up and 
making so much noise that, it is impos¬ 
sible to have any sleep; singing, playing, 
etc. It is going on until morning. As 
the Summer is at hand, we are awaiting 
it with fear. 'We realize that, those peo¬ 
ple who are coming out her for Summer 
need enjoyment, but we need our sleep, 
and, again, if it was once or twice a 
week we wouldn’t mind it, hut. night after 
r.ight for three months, it isn't an easy 
thing to pull through. Kindly advise me 
whether there are any rules and laws by 
which farmers who are in a position like 
my own, are protected. farm Kit. 
Every year we have a dozen letters 
from farmers who ore annoyed by these 
Summer boarders. It is hard to accom¬ 
modate their life to that, of a hard-work¬ 
ing farmer. They came for “recreation,” 
and to them that means a noisy time. 
They are often very careless and selfish 
about their habits. There is a limit to 
such things, and no oue has a right to 
destroy the rest or quiet of another. If 
it gets too bad, make a complaint to the 
health oflici-r of the town. If he will not 
act, go to the county prosecutor and see 
if you can make out a charge against the 
boarding-house keeper for keeping a dis¬ 
orderly ionise. That should he a last re¬ 
sort. Wo should try to get on as rea¬ 
sonably as possible. Go to the boarding¬ 
house keeper and tell him just the situa¬ 
tion. If he wants to be fair he will make 
his guests keep quiet. If he will not be 
fair, he deserves to be prosecuted. 
Forestry and School Grounds 
There are still some rural school dis¬ 
tricts in New York State where there is 
little desire for “consolidation.” People 
are ready to “do it themselves,” and they 
do it well. The following report show's 
how they did it in one district. What do 
you think of the last sentence? 
“Ou the afternoon of Friday, April 14, 
14 men from the community gathered at 
the Snook’s Corner school and were as¬ 
sisted by the boys and girls of the dis¬ 
trict, who were excused from their regu¬ 
lar studies for the afternoon, in the 
planting of 2.000 white pine trees across 
the road to the west of the school. Sev¬ 
eral days later the men met again at the 
school and built a good fence, using for 
this purpose about 70 posts and four 
reels of barbed wire. 
“A stimulated interest in the rural 
school was responsible for this under¬ 
taking. The purposes of this work were 
outlined to be: (1)To provide a perma¬ 
nent windbreak for the school; (a) To 
do away eventually with the enormous 
snow drift which accumulates nearly 
every year in the road and yard by the 
school; (3) To add potential value to 
the district; (4) To set an example of 
reforestation and to place before other 
communities the desirability of such local 
betterments. 
“There are 7.000.000 acres of waste 
and unprofitable land in New York Mrate 
which needs reforestation. It would be a 
step of Inestimable educational value if 
nearly every rural school were to start a 
community forest. The State will give 
tbe trees for such community betterment 
purposes. The educational department is 
interested and could influence the diver¬ 
sion of a small amount of public money 
for the encouragement of such develop¬ 
ments. Forestry could lie taught in a 
practical way and this influence would 
lead to the individual farm, nearly every 
one of which has rough land that should 
be set to trees or wood lots which have 
been slashed with the ax in a desultory 
fashion. Fifty years ago. if our rural 
schools had developed a fair-sized field 
into a community forest, today they 
could be self-supporting.** 
Wife’s Right in Husband’s Property 
A New York court has held that a 
wife cannot make use of her husband’s 
credit to obtain goods without his con¬ 
sent. Tu the case thus decided a man 
gave his wife what lie considered a rea¬ 
sonable allowance. She bought a num¬ 
ber of expensive dresses and ordered 
them charged to her husband. lie re¬ 
fused to pay the bill, and the Court sus¬ 
tained him. We had a case smaller and 
humbler than this where a wife and 
daughter cared for the husband and 
father, lie was old and very “cranky.” 
While having considerable property, he 
was penurious and refused to provide 
many family necessities. The women 
came asking if they would be privileged 
to sell stock or other property belonging 
to this old man and use the money to 
provide for the family, since he would 
not do so! Of course they would have 
no legal right to dispose of his property 
in any such way without his consent un¬ 
less he could be proved incompetent, or 
unless they could establish a claim for 
taking care of hitu and obtain judgment. 
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a New Ford Car 
A STATIONARY engine can give all its atten¬ 
tion to just one thing—furnishing power. 
But the Ford engine must contend with the 
terrific road jolts constantly received from 
stony, rutted or worn-out roads. 
The big spiral springs of Apco Shock 
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their full SIXTY-SIX inches of resili¬ 
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springs, to STEADYING the Ford 
and to PROTECTING it from the 
blows of the road. 
Ask your dealer to install a set of 
Apco Shock Absorbers on your 
Ford. Your money back if you are 
not satisfied after a ten-day trial. 
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