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So.  I  remembered,  the  old  man  went  | 
on.  and  sitting  there  in  the  dark  I  ; 
smiled  at  it  all.  What’s  the  front  door 
for,  anyway?  Is  it  an  entrance  to  the 
home  or  some  sort  of  holy  place — too  j 
good  for  the  family?  Why  train  our  ■ 
children  to  sneak  around  to  the  back  door 
of  life?  As  for  butter,  it  is  the  best  and 
healthiest  fat  there  is.  I  think  all  chil¬ 
dren  should  he  encouraged  to  eat  it  free¬ 
ly.  Not  only  is  that  good  for  health,  but 
it  helps  the  dairy  business.  As  for  sav¬ 
ing  every  penny,  in  theory  that  is  a  fine 
thing,  but  some  of  the  meanest  misers  I 
have  ever  known  were  started  that  way. 
I  would  teach  children  not  only  to  save,  | 
but  to  learn  to  invest  money  so  as  to  j 
make  it  work.  As  to  bread  pudding,  I 
am  witli  my  friend  on  that,  hut  this  new 
nutrition  is  not  a  fool  thing.  It’s  wise. 
And  then  suddenly  the  light  flashed  on 
once  more,  and  all  was  well.  No  one  had 
become  engaged  or  enraged  during  the 
darkness.  Fear  is  95  per  cent  imagina¬ 
tion.  It  all  depends  on  what  you  pack 
away  at  the  bottom  of  your  mental  trunk 
— in  the  pocket  of  the  subconscious. 
h.  w.  c. 
Sugar  Maple  As  Shade  Tree 
Nothing  adds  beauty,  comfort  and  cash 
value  to  the  home  like  hardy  shade  and 
ornamental  trees  judiciously  planted.  For 
such  planting  I  have  found  nothing  to 
excel  or  equal  the  sugar  maple.  In  grace 
of  form,  beauty  of  foliage  and  density  of 
shade  it  is  inviting,  and  restful.  In  Au¬ 
tumn,  the  foliage  turns  a  beautiful  yellow 
A  Well-formed  Sugar  Maple 
and  bright  red.  I  have  found  the  tree 
hardy  and  apparently  free  from  the  usual 
insect  pests.  It  is  profitable  commer¬ 
cially  in  the  maple  sugar  production  for 
one  who  plants  in  quantity.  I  regard 
the  presence  of  a  sugar  maple  with  its 
graceful,  well-rounded  top  on  the  lawn, 
worth  at  least  $500  to  any  farm  home. 
The  sugar  maple  tree  shown  in  the  ac¬ 
companying  picture  was  grown  from  seed 
planted  by  the  writer  about  15  years  ago. 
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|  Intensive  Strawberry  H 
Culture 
By  LOUIS  GRATON 
|  This  book  has  grown  out  of  Mr.  If 
|  Graton’s  more  than  40  years’  experi-  If 
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|  turist.  Of  special  value  to  the  home  1 1 
|  gajrdener  and  small  commercial  || 
|  grower,  producing  high  quality  her-  || 
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1  sale  by  RURAL  NEW-YORKER,  11 
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“Snow-on-the-Mountain”  and  Poisonous 
Honey 
A  very  popular  garden  annual  is 
“snow-on-the-mountain.”  botanically  Eu¬ 
phorbia  marginata.  The  upper  leaves, 
broadly  margined  with  white,  are  very 
showy,  and  the  plant  makes  a  fine  dis¬ 
play  in  late  Summer,  especially  during 
a  dry  season.  It  has,  however,  one  very 
great  disadvantage,  which  should  bar  it 
from  any  bee-keeper’s  property.  Accord¬ 
ing  to  the  Government  bulletin  on  “Prin¬ 
cipal  Poisonous  Plants  of  the  United 
States,”  large  quantities  of  Fall  honey 
are  made  unsalable  in  districts  where  the 
plant  is  abundant.  The  honey  is  hot  and 
disagreeable  to  the  taste,  but  the  poison 
is  not  dangerous,  though  it  produces 
vomiting  and  purging.  Some  persons 
are  poisoned  by  contact  with  this  plant, 
results  being  an  eruption  similar  to  that 
produced  by  poison  ivy. 
“Snow-on-the-mountain”  is  a  native  of 
the  West  and  'Southwest,  but  is  now  be¬ 
coming  naturalized  in  many  parts  of  the 
United  States,  and  is  said  to  be  ap¬ 
pearing  in  Europe.  In  the  garden  it 
self-sows  persistently,  but  can  be  kept 
in  bounds  by  weeding  and  clean  cultiva¬ 
tion,  as  it  does  not  root  deeply.  Its  poi¬ 
sonous  properties  are  shared  by  other 
members  of  the  spurge  family.  We  all 
admire  the  plant  as  an  ornamental  fea¬ 
ture,  but  it  would  be  wise  to  avoid  it  in 
a  bee-keeping  section,  where  it  might 
readily  become  naturalized,  especially  in 
sandy  waste  land.  It  might  easily  be¬ 
come  a  serious  question  to  honey  pro¬ 
ducers. 
Multiplying  Man-power 
To  the  man  with  pick  and.  shovel  the  digging  of  holes 
for  telephone  poles  is  a  slow  and  arduous  task.  Under 
favorable  soil  conditions  three  to  five  holes  are  for  him 
an  average  day’s  work.  Under  adverse  conditions  per¬ 
haps  he  can  account  for  only  one.  When  the  hole  is 
dug,  eight  or  ten  men  are  required  to  raise  the  pole 
with  pikes. 
But  the  hole-borer  with  derrick  attached,  operated  by 
only  three  men,  can  erect  as  many  as  eighty  poles  in 
a  day — releasing  for  other  telephone  work  upwards  of 
forty  men. 
Hundreds  of  devices  to  quicken  telephone  construc¬ 
tion,  to  increase  its  safety  to  the  employee,  and  to  effect 
economies  are  being  utilized  in  the  Bell  System.  Experi¬ 
ments  are  constantly  being  made  to  find  the  better  and 
the  shorter  way  to  do  a  given  job.  Each  tool  invented 
for  the  industry  must  be  developed  to  perfection. 
In  the  aggregate  these  devices  to  multiply  man-power 
mean  an  enormous  yearly  saving  of  time,  labor  and 
money  throughout  the  whole  Bell  System.  Without 
them  telephone  service  would  be  rendered  neither  as 
promptly,  as  efficiently  nor  as  economically  as  it  is  to-day. 
“BELL  SYSTEM” 
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