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THE RURAb i-JEW-'POftKER 
January 4, 
^BronchiaP 
Troubles 
_ wmmmmm— ^mmmmsamma _ 
| not only irritate the throat I 
and weaken the system, but 
pneumonia easily follows. 
Syrups and nostrums may 
temporarily allay the cough, 
but Scott’s Emulsion 
soothes and heals the delicate 
membranes of the throat and 
lungs and its nourishing, cura- 
g tive powers drive the cough 
from the system and create 
physical strength to resist 
further attacks. 
Medical authorities everywhere 
prescribe Scott’s Emulsion for 
Bronchitis. 
^^Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J. 12-12^^ 
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1 
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YOUR OPPORTUNITY 
Is NOW * n the Province of 
SASKATCHEWAN 
Western Canada 
Do you desire to get a Free 
Homestead of 160 Acres of 
that well known Wheat Land! 
The area Is becoming more lim¬ 
ited but no less valuable. 
New Districts have recently 
been opened up for settlement, 
and Into these railroads are now 
being built. The day will soon 
come when there will be no Free Home¬ 
steading; land left. 
A Swift Current, Saskatchewan farmer 
writes:—“T came here on my homestead, 
March, 1906, with about #1000 worth of 
horses and machinery, and just #35 In cash. 
Today I have 900 acres of wheat, SOO acreB 
of oats, and 60 acres of flax.” Not bad for 
six years, but only an Instance of what 
. „may be done In Western Canada, In Manl- 
FT toba, Saskatchewan or Alberta. 
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way Rates, etc., to 
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301 E. Genesee Street, 
Syracuse, N. Y. 
lor Address. Superintendent of Immigration 
Ottawa, Ont„ Canada 
Seven Million Watch-Towers 
in the Bell System 
Woman and the Home 
From Day to Day. 
THE TURN OF THE YEAR. 
The road winds downward through the 
snows; 
The bleak winds blow; 
But we will follow with steadfast cheer 
The patient feet of the pilgrim year, 
Because we know— 
Beyond the realm of the Winter snows 
The road winds upward to the rose ! 
—Ethel Allen Murphy in Everybody's Maga¬ 
zine. 
* 
The back of a skirt, especially a tight 
one, often acquires a shiny look that is 
not removed by ordinary pressing. It 
is often possible to remove the shine by 
rubbing it on the right side with am¬ 
monia and water, equal parts, and then 
ironing on the wrong side while damp. 
It should be well dried out with the 
iron. If the shine is due to hard wear 
which has rubbed the pile off, ammonia 
will not improve it, and it should be 
gently sandpapered. Lay the fabric flat 
on a table and pass fine sandpaper gently 
over it. This will bring up the pile, but 
it should not be done so roughly as to 
wear the fabric into holes. 
* 
CAN’T-fail cake is recommended to us 
as delicious whether baked in layers, 
loaf, or a shallow pan, but it is not 
likely to be favored by housekeepers 
who are paying 6o cents a dozen for 
eggs. Cream a half cupful of butter 
and work into it two cups of sugar. 
Sift two and a half cups of flour, two 
scant teaspoonfuls of baking powder. 
Add some of the flour to the butter and 
sugar, then add part of a cup of sweet 
milk. Alternate flour and milk, until 
you have worked in the two and a half 
cups of flour and the cup of milk, beat¬ 
ing manfully all the while. Then fold 
in the well-beaten whites of eight eggs 
and a scant teaspoonful of vanilla. An 
oven that is too hot or too slow may 
injure, hut we are assured that it is hard 
to spoil it even under these disadvan¬ 
tages. 
We like Miss Mary Donnelly’s anec¬ 
dote, as reported by the “Woman’s Jour 
nal,” which points out a changing point 
of view. Says Miss Donnelly: 
“I was walking the other week in 
Long Island. The sky was blue. The 
crystal air was pure and frost)'. The 
trees were painted with autumnal colors 
-—gold and pink and raw red. How 
beautiful it was! 
“In a meadow a half dozen young 
women were practicing putting. They 
looked very smart in their trim golf 
suits, their skirts of rough homespun 
and their scarlet jackets. As I 
watched them, an old farmer and one 
of his farm hands approached. 
“ ‘Boss,’ grumbled the farm hand, 
‘them girls in the medder is scarin’ our 
cows.’ 
“The old farmer shook his head and 
sighed. 
“ ‘Ah, Timothy,’ he said, * ‘times is 
changed since I was young. In them 
days the cows scared the gals.’ ” 
* 
Among slipper ornaments that may be 
made by a handy girl are wired bows 
decorated with beads. They are made 
of three small loops edged with beads, 
steel, silver or crystal being prettiest on 
black slippers, with a cross piece in the 
middle covered with rows of the beads. 
The bow is set up quite high on the 
instep, and curves out instead of lying 
flat, like a pump bow. Rosettes of satin, 
chiffon or tulle having a buckle or cir¬ 
cle of sparkling heads in the center are 
easy to make, and quite expensive to 
buy. Another smart slipper ornament is 
an oval or oblong piece of black satin or 
moire stiffened and wired with ribbon 
wire, dotted with rhinestone or jet nail- 
heads; in the center a shapely upturn¬ 
ing tongue of the material is decorated 
with an arrow-head of the jet or rhine¬ 
stones. Satin roses, tiny in size, are 
used to form the center of a bow or 
rosette, and sometimes a little wreath 
of roses is used in place of the buckle. 
Various styles of decoration are applic¬ 
able to satin or suede slippers, and will 
give an effective finishing touch to a 
simple evening dress. 
* 
The State Factory Investigating Com¬ 
mission has recently brought out many 
things that may well shock the Empire 
State out of any complacency regarding 
its industrial conditions. The testimony 
regarding canning factories was so sen¬ 
sational that foreign newspapers are re¬ 
ported as comparing it with stock- 
yards conditions which, a few years 
ago, shocked all Europe; no day of rest, 
women working 119 hours a week, and 
mere babies of three snipping beans! 
We know nothing of this except what 
was printed in the newspapers, so can¬ 
not offer any criticism from personal 
knowledge. But further testimony as to 
factory work done at home in this city 
throws a strong light on “easy work at 
home.” We were recently asked for an 
opinion on an advertisement of well- 
paid home work on stocking supporters, 
and we advised against trying it, on the 
ground that the advertisement seemed 
misleading to us. One witness before 
the Factory Commission told of girls 
eight and 12 years old who work until 
late at night fitting buckles on garters. 
They cannot stop long enough to go to 
a clinic when medical care is needed, 
because if the work is not finished every 
day their elder sister will lose her job 
in the garter factory, and they have 
nothing else to live on. That hardly 
sounds like “easy work at home,” does 
it? Then there are the little children 
of four or five kept home from kinder¬ 
garten or day nursery because their tiny 
fingers are needed to stuff the dolls 
their mothers make—big grown-up hands 
can’t press the filling into the dolls’ arms 
and legs. More than 50 years ago the 
author of “Alton Locke” described the 
costly garments of the rich being used 
in a sweatshop to cover the sufferer 
from contagious disease, and one of the 
nurses testifying before the Commission 
told of seeing a long garment on which 
a tenement-house worker was sewing 
spread over a sick child in bed. The 
child had smallpox. It was the opinic 1 
of all the nurses, investigators and set¬ 
tlement workers who appeared before 
the Commission that home industries of 
every class should be absolutely pro¬ 
hibited. 
Meat on the Farm. 
Having suffered a good deal from the 
lack of fresh beef this Fall, I killed a 
six-year-old bull that was becoming un¬ 
desirable. After trying to sell meat 
among the neighbors, and failing, I de¬ 
cided to prepare the beef for Winter 
use. Prices here on stock are on hoof, 
three to V/2 cents; dressed beef 10 to 
16 ^ cents, local butchers. I took shank 
hones and hoofs and extracted the oil 
from them, gave the head and neck to 
a woman who prepared the tripe and 
coarse fat. I cut up the fore parts into 
blocks about six pounds in weight, and 
put them into the following pickle: To 
100 pounds meat, 8 pounds salt, five 
pounds sugar, two ounces soda and four 
ounces saltpeter. First pack meat in 
salt; next day mix sugar, soda and salt¬ 
peter in a gallon of water, warm (not 
hot), pour over salted meat, then add 
enough water to cover nicely. Store 
in tight barrel and set in cool cellar. 
The hind quarters I cut from hone and 
put into the following pickle: To 100 
pounds meat five pounds salt, three 
pounds sugar, three ounces saltpeter; 
rub one-third on meat, pack for three 
days, rub another third on meat, pack 
for three day, rub remainder on meat, 
pack for three days, then take out of 
pickle. Hang to drain, then smoke for 
dried beef. In packing, do not waste 
the liquor in the cask, which should 
be a tight one, and reverse the pieces 
each time you pack. There was a good 
deal of trimming on bones; these 1 
put into a big pot and cooked down, 
and cut with a meat chopper, then sea¬ 
soned with salt, pepper, red pepper and 
saltpeter, to suit taste, stuffed into cloth 
sacks about three inches across by about 
one foot long. This is one way to get 
all the consumer’s dollar. 
JOHN S. BOGGS. 
The original campanili were 
the watch-towers of old 
Venice, guarding the little 
republic from invasion by 
hostile fleets. 
Later, bells were mounted 
in these same towers to give 
warning of attack and cel¬ 
ebrate victories. 
Judged by modern tele¬ 
phone standards, such a sys¬ 
tem of communication seems 
crude and inadequate. 
In the civilization of today 
a more perfect intercommuni¬ 
cation is essential to national 
safety, convenience and 
progress. 
The Bell System binds to¬ 
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hundred million people, by 
“ highways of speech” ex¬ 
tending into every nook and 
corner of this great country. 
Seven million Bell tele¬ 
phone stations are the watch- 
towers which exchange, daily, 
twenty-five million messages 
for the happiness, prosperity 
and progress of all the people. 
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And Associated Companies 
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