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Show THE WEEKLY REFLEX. KAVSVILLE, UTAH Girl Graduates and June Brides re,CHT.G ledeeour tells WILL TAKE PLACE REVOLUTION UNLESS DEMANDS ARE MET. - h and help increaseJhe national food supply so that Ijving costs may be ' reduced and a victorious peace be assured : : : This is a matter df vital importance to every one of us U- the Socialists. m - : . RnhErQjl.MnultDii . y v-- ' V tl .: ??' r. . land of plenty. It probably will b the means of bringing Into cultivation practically untouched arable land, of awakening the country to the value of native food staple of which many are still Ignorant, and of enforcing a system of distribution which will supplant the wasteful and - - -- . v. . , - plain-spoke- - v"t fiV- - 'X Inefficient methods now In vogue. will ever be In the position of the belligerent countries In Europe, especially Germany, where land Is scarce as compared with the farm acreage on this con tlnent. The problem of feeding the more than It la unlikely that the United State 100,000,000 of Inhabitants of the United States ns well as supplying Great Britain and France can be solved by means of the enormous agricultural resources at the disposal of the American nation. Prudence, foresight and efficiency are dinary cultivation would be utu,.j uuitless. For his usual pursuits. best results plants need aeration at the roots. If For the business or professional man, who air caiSnot penetrate to the roots the plant lantolls all day In office, hank, factory or shop, the guishes and dies from suffocation. When The surneeded. face of the ground is covered with water, the change to the light physical labor In the open National policy decrees that there should- - be a " and needed air sunshine, gives Just the change plant suffers In the same way and for the same Mg increase la our acreage, and tills being so, reason. The sandwich beds can neither - be Such for both and mind. health of necessary body the nation as a" whole and not the farmer as a drowned nor smothered. The air circulates employment will be found restful and 'soothing' class should and must assume the major part of to the overtaxed and wearied mind and nerves. through the several layers of material, and If too the risk Involved. Each section of the country For city lot soli that Is hard, Impoverished nr much water Is applied. It readily passes through must become as nearly as practicable agriculturalthe fibrous beds ..and does no harm. Other adrocky, Mr. Albaugh has Invented a new system ly Independent. This Is a good policy In time of of gardening. From It he has achieved such sur- vantages of these beds are that the fertility Is peace and Is a vitally Important policy now that favorable results as to augur a great prtslngly placed just where It can be easily absorbed and we have entered the .war, with every prospect future for the new sandwich" method of city assimilated up earlier than does the natural soil, that our transportation systems will eventually lot cultivation. The sandwich garden is, tn a and the decaying mass of fibrous material retains be chiefly occupied with the transportation of sense, an artificial creation. It may be construct- - ' moisture to such on extent that only a nominal soldiers and military supplies. ed on brick or cement pavement, or even the tarred quantity of hydrant water Is required. From Washington comes the call of the nationor tile surfaces of the roofs of buildings. By A steel garden rake, spading fork, small garden al emergency food garden commission, which this method of growing vegetables, the products trowel, a long .handled shovel, a manure fork, would see a million food gardens planted throughof the garden are always earlier, and at the same and a small hand sprayer are about all the tools out the .United States. This plan Is similar to time of better quality than can possibly he prothat need be purchased. Mr. Albaugh uses a duced In any other way. that which yvaa followed In Germany when the small hand sprayer which Is cheap and very lawns of private houses, the parks and the In making a sandwich bed, Mr. Albaugh first satisfactory. . It has a quart Mason glass jar grounds about hospitals alike were subjected to for a reservoll; and has the advantage of blowplaces a layer of straw or stable litter or leaves, the spade and hoe. The Germans are given to about five Inches thick, upon the surface selected ing the spray at right angles from the barrel of the Intensive development of every Inch of soil; and then tramps or packs It rather smooth and the machine. With It the under side of the leaves as for that matter are other European nations. firm. Over this he spreads about one inch deep can be effectually reached, and this Is often esThe call to the garden, however, will undoubtedly of rich, fine stable manure. Another layer sential to success. The barrel should be of brass, have some effect In providing food for those who of stable manure about two Inches thick as many spraying compounds are corrosive on ore thrifty and patient enough to look after their iron. With this. little machine, and a supply of goes over this, after which a hose Is turned on own gardens. and the mass given a thorough soaking, caie bordeaux mixture, hellebore, tobacco extract or ' as an P. known Albaugh, Benjamin being exercised to stop before leaching begin. nationally tea, parts green, aphlne, etc,, the careful gardener enthusiast in the subject of city lots gardening, The next step Is to spread evenly over the' Is well fortified against attacks of insects and and author of several books on the subject, says bed at least four Inches of street scrapings, avoidfungi. that the gardenette," or back yard farm, Is oue ing, however, streets that have oil or asphalt in The provisioning of the country will be much of the surest means of combating the rapid rlse-I- n their make-up- . If street scrapings cannot-bu- r aided by the educational work among boys and the price of foodstuffs. In his book, The Garreadily obtained, a composition of equal parts of ' girls of the United States which has been carried Mr. fine river 'sand, rich garden soli and old, fine denette, Albaugh has pointed out the. possion through the of the department of bilities of unoccupied building lota, and he Is now stable manure may le used Instead. This should agriculture and the rural school garden clubs fif be thoroughly mixed by shoveling over tn a heap, , the various states. ' The younger .generation has taking an active part in the general campaign which has been inaugurated to educate the city and then, after It Is in place, trumped until It Is ' been stimulated in the raising of vegetables and dweller up to the potential worth of a few square firm. The bed Is then ready to plant. fruits on waste land and In the backyards in rods of ground. In some Instances the real sandwich bed" Js the cities and towns. ' If one has an unoccupied area in the rear of not possible or practicable. If this be the case, An example of what can be accomplished by and the soil Is yet reasonably fertile, and In good Ms home, even If It Is only 25 by 50 feet In size, the pupils of rural schools was strikingly demoncondition; excellent results may be obtained by strated last year by the Cook County, Illinois, then he has the means of cutting down the cost tne following method: Garden club which had a membership of 2,387, of summer foodstuffs almost says Mr. The cluhr cultivated over 2C0 acres of latd,-up-on Albaugh. The soil need not be particularly fertile-t- - Procure one load of rich stable manure for each square rod of ground (a square rod Is 10 by 10 which grew nearly $48,000 worth of vegetables. yield satisfactory returns In garden crops, If feet) and dump it near where the beds are to be treated right And the soaring equations on all After deducting expenses the club members had a net profit of $41,029.28. If these 2.3S7 boys and varieties of vegetable foodstuffs make the effort' -- made. -- Then with a spading fork,' beginning at one end of the bed, spade a furrow across .the well worth while. girls had not grown these gardens, probably 73 bed, fill the furrow nearly full of manure, and The backlot garden has been tried successfully per cent of them would have been Idle doing trump It down firmly. Now spade another fur-In the East and iu many other sections of the nothing throwing away time and energy. The row, throwing the dirt from this over the tramped-dow- n country. At first the backyard gardening tn the gardens gave helpful exercise, stimulated Interest, muhure In the first furrow. Fill the second and encouraged thrift and ownership. larger centers of population was undertaken by furrow with manure and tramp it down as before, The economic side of the problem is l?ople of foreign birth, who from a desire to and throw over this the dirt from the third line effect practical economies, or from an Inherited but greater still, and of far more Imof spading, and so on until the entire bed. ts Ienihunt for the work, began Industriously spadportance, Is the wholesome, moral Influence spaded. brought to bear tipon the lives of these young ing up the small areas of unoccupied ground Finest vegetables, says Mr. Albaugh, can be around their homes. people who are receiving most excellent training ln doing worthwhile things. Two or three months lnterthese thrifty Inter- n- grown on hard, stony, or alkaline solls. where or slve agriculturists were selling hundreds of bunches of celery, radishes or lettuce about the neighborhood, and receiving the full market price friends of the birds. The cat is a crafty bird ' lor their u urea. catcher by nature. Cats have been seen lying in Housewives augmented, the- family Income with "n!t for the winged victims which are attracted to a strip of garden land 15 or 20 feet la width and h food 0 bountifully spread. They hnve even In length. 40 or SO vege- The amount-o-tbeen accused of decoying birds within the reach of tables that can be grown on such a lot. when Intheir pawa by Imitating the note of the feathered telligently cultivated and carefully tended, is asngsters. They climb the trees by night and day tonishing. In quest of eggs and fledglings. T There la a threefold incentive to city lot garhn Burroughs declares that cats kill more dening. The first is a handsome saving if the birds than do any other' animals on this continent vegetables are consumed by the family, or a neat . It is also charged that the cat kills squirrels profit If they are sold In the neighborhood. The and hares and rabbits, moles and shrews and fish second is the Incomparable superiority In crispand useful Insects, whUe as a ratter he Is greatly ness and flavor of garden-grow- n The produce. . variety purchased after several days of transporRat traps, when well handled, are credited with tation and exhibition In stock la often tough, surpassing the cat In efficiency. The other day leathery and flavorless. there was put on exhibition an illustration of the Mr. Albaugh Is authority for the statement that effidency of the cat The cabin of a steamship was three square rods or a space of ground, say 13 fumigated with the result of a mortality of one cat by 43feet, can be made to produce a large part and 24 rats, which the cat was supposed to keep of all the vegetables needed to supply the table away. When the cat Is right on the premises the of a family of five or six persons, throughout mlee play .Just as much as when he 4 away, say origin: Travelers front Greece seetng the cats" iso' the enemies of the cat the season. He, himself, has repeatedly-produceonly they keep out of sight cm such a plot, but containing four square rods, comfortably ensconced In Egypt saw to It that some Few persons In a normal, lifetime," Insists Dr. of them were brought to Athens, and from the an- - A. K, Fisher, who Is In the following: charge of economic Investi' otie bushel dry dent seat of culture" the cat la supposed to have Thirty- dozeur green onlonjs, for the bureau of biological surrey of the gations spread over Europe. The animal In Europe was onions, ten messes green peas, 15 dozen beets, 22 United States department of agriculture, run 'dozen radishes. 200. heads fine celery, 25 choice .adopted by man as a pet about the ninth century. across mors than half a dozen eats that habitually so Is There egg plant fruits, 25 extra fine squashes; 50 messes something Inherently wild about the attack rats. ... lettuce 20messe codive, - f tncsses kohlrall,-has his fur combed with celluloid and has cream eight dozen sugar corn, tea messes green beans, ,rLm dKlIn, 25 heads finest cauliflower, 25 heads, cabbage, 20 every day he has within him the old spark of llv,ne- - . . messes spinach, ten messes chard, 20 messes assavagery. The known facts are that the domestic cat, strayThe cat la of the race of the paragus, ten meases salsify, ten dozen carrots, ten tiger ing Into the Adds and woods, whether a and Is credited with an insatiably bloodthirsty dispet, a dozen parsnips, 50 fine muskmelons, WO pickling or a wild dweller in the open, is'a menace vagabond cucumbers, ten slicing cucumbers, five bushels toposition. He torments his prey. He has no abidto wild life and a detriment to the general welfare. matoes, two bushels early potatoes, eight quarts ing affection for tho-- whose hands have fed him. As a further argument against the cat the lima beans, three bushels turnips, three quarts Chateaubriand said to his friend, M. de Marcellus. charge is made against him that he disseminates disease that there Is In the cat an ungrateful spirit which okra, and three dozetn sweet mangoes. by becoming the playmate of sick children and At a low estimate these crops were worth well that prevents him from being attached to anyone. he carries microbes In his fur, over $50. Often they would cost much more to la the lockjaw of the Prindpal goad nationwide crusade scratch of his claw, and rabies la the bite of his buy. Tet the plot was cultivated In Mr. Albaughs against the villainous, false cat comes from the ' teeth. New York odd moments, without In any way Interfering with -- , " -- two-third- s, o -- - conservatives and socialists. asserted Dr. von Bethmann-Ilollwe- g that these called for the governments specific peace program, the announcement of which would at the present time not only be premature but wWch It would be difficult to formulate, and also of no practical service to the nation In the present situation. While appreciating the passionate desire of all classes to know the governments views, the chancellor plainly declared that he would not permit himself to be swayed by pressure from any source, and that he was not under the spell of any party or clique. The best Interests of the nation, he believed, demanded that the reticence he had Imposed upon himself in the face of continuous clamor since December, 1915, should be observed by him until the moment was? ripe. He was sure that ouch a course would be indorsed by the nation at large, which continued to rally around tls emperor" and also would meet the views of the majority of the members of the relchstag. i The chancellor then briefly reviewed the present military situation and Germanys relations to the neutrals, In the course of which he warmly praised the attitude adopted by Spain. PETA1N HEADS FRENCH ARMY. Is the Man Expected by Frenchmen to Win Decisive Success. Paris. General Petals was appointed as commander-ln-chle- f of the French armies operating on the French front at a cabinet meeting on May 15. General Petain, who was a retired colonel &t the outbreak of the war, Is the man to whom many Frenchmen have been looking for the Initiative Which would W'in a decisive success on the FTench front To him more than to any other commander now In active service with the French the legend of success attaches: He became a popular hero and the idol of the soldiers for his defense of Verdun. . - f1 -- ovgr-rate- d. -- - d -- - ' saber-toothe- d e Sun. g, STRUT SAIT UK CITY TO. WORK Japanese Scientist Conceives Idea of Teaching Bivalves to Produce Pearls. The Japanese conduct great oyster farms where the bivalves are taught" to make pearls. It was Doctor M;m -- n noto, a scientist, who conceived the idea that oysters might be educated and made to worifformanT After many years of costly experimentation he discovered the method la use today. The farm has an area of about 50 square miles and the water varies la depth from 5 to 15 fathoms. The farmwell-know- er selects the spots where the larvae of oysters are most numerous and thea he' plants small rocks and stones. These are soon covered with oyster-spThey are ' then removed and placed In special beds, where they lie undisturbed until the third year. It Is said that an oyster will not e a pearl unless It be Irritated by some foreign substance. As soon as it feels this it proceeds to cover It with nacre, layer on layer, until after a few years It has made a peart. When large enough the oysters are taken from their beds and carefully opened ; a tiny speck of some, foreign substance is introduced Into their bodies, and they are .replaced In the sea. By the end of from three to five years the oyster has coated the foreign 'substance with nacre and this has become a peart. at pro-duc- Fortymlle Gold District, Alaska. The earliest placer mining in the Alaskan part of the Yukon basin was done on the bar of Fortymlle river In 1SS0, and daring the next two years hundreds of miners came to the scene of the discovery. This event opened up Inland Alaska and led to the discovery of the famous Klondike placers, on the Canadian side of the boundary, some ten years later. Over $200,000,-00- 0 worth of gold has been taken out of the Klondike and the Alaska Yukon placer camps In the 30 years slice Fortymlle was discovered. Of tijs about $6,500,000 worth of gold has come from the Fortymlle district. This district is described In a report published by the United States geology leal survey, department of the Interior, entitled The Fortymlle Quadrangle , Yukon-Tanan- Region, Alaska. a -- Discovering Columbue. During a recent campaign a Tam many .leader on the East side, a man and one not entirely completed yet in some parts, was addressing a mass meeting of Italian-bor- a voters on behalf of bis partys ticket Gintlemen and fellow citizens," he began, I deem it an honor to be permitted to address you upon the issues May Organize American Unit London. The proposal that the thou- of the day. I have always had a deep sands of Americans serving with the admiration for your native land. I British forces should be formed Into wlnerate the mimory of that great that a unit to fight under the American flag noble, Eyetallan who was the original In France is understood to be the sub- discoverer of this here land of ours. "Why, gintlemen, at me mother's ject of conversation between the Balknee I was taught to sing that Inspirin four' commission and the United States ' song, Columbus, the Jim of the "T government self-ma- de L -- aston-lhhfn- MAKERS OF JEWELRY ' WO MAM OYSTERS. FORCED Berlin. The socialist leader, George on Ledebour, declared In the relchstag Gerfor May 15 that it was impossible many to win a war of subjugation, and revoluexpressed the conviction that a tion must happen in Germany as it had happened In Russia. Ve shall propos? a constitutional committee," he said, to take preparalntroduc-In- g tory steps In the direction of a republi c In Germany. In one of the most vigorous and n speeches he has yet made before the relchstag since the outbreak of the war, khe German chancellor on May 15 bluntly refused to enter Into a discussion of Germanys war aims as demanded In Interpellations by the A jr 'x " 'Cl- - vi BOYDPARK . ' '5 V AR MAY end that great American anomaly, high coat of living In a to German Chancellor Bluntly Refuses Enter Into Discussion of Germany's War Alms as Demanded by Make them happy with a gift membrance from our store.. Nothing is more appropriate, more lasting nor better appreciated. Dainty pendants, necHaces, rings, bracelets, wristlet watches, beautiful wedding silver. Our modest prices' make buying easy Asks Authority Over Freight Rates. Washington. Broad presidential authority over transportation, including power to determine what commodities shall be' given preference In the movement of freight was asked of congress Tuesday by President Wilson with the plea that the exercise of such authority has become imperatively necessary." Enlarged Army and Navy Bill. The senate on May'lo Washington. Mil increasing the house the passed. 0 enlisted strength of the navy to men;- that of the" marine corps to 50,000 men, and granting Increases In pay to the navys enlisted personnel equal to tluse provided for the army forces. 150,-90- Ocean! Whereupon there was loud applause . --Saturday Evening Post Light on Obscure Law. A clay tablet bearing a map of ancient Babylon, which has' Just been discovered, throws, according to Dr. of Stephen II. Langdon of the University-Pennsylvania museum, a welcome' light upon an obscure law In the great law code' of Babylonia, In column XV, lines 65 following, there Is a ref-- , erence to the custom of blowing a rds horn at-t- he village gates to "notify-shephe- that the grazing season wa over. These rural villages appear to have been so arranged that the village buglers were able to make the shepherds and farmers hear the sound of the horn In every part of Babylonia. The tablet dates back probably to - Fewer Ships Lest Last Week. London, The report of the weeks losses through submarines. Issued May 16, is the most favorable in several weeks. The number of ships torpedoed was well below the average, while the cumber of ships escaping attack was rery large. Food' Problem a Serious One.. New York. In manufacturing there can apprehension as to production. but the food problem ts a serious one,. In the opinion of CoL George Pope, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, which is holding Its annual meeting here,. he-llttl- e- 1500 B. a AR Muddled Up. One day a new pupil In a music settlement school came home and asked: Mother, how many carrots' are there In a bushel? Teacher wants to know. What? answered the mother. What has that to do with music? T don't know," replied the child. The next day the mother went to the music school to inquire what kind of music her child was being taught The teacher laughed and said: Well, that is we asked madam. What hardly correct your child was how many beats there were In a measure. Lead Forces. Our Sens of Duty. sense A of duty pursues us ever. IlConferees of senate Washington. and house agreed upon the bill on May ls omnipresent like the Deity. If we 13, deciding to retain the senate take to ourselves the wings of thf under phich ' Colonel morning and dwell In the uttermost amendment, Roosevelt may be authorized to raise parts of the sea, duty performed or not more than four divisions of In- duty violated Is still with us. .for our or our misery." Daniel happiness fantry for service In France. Webster. Woman Suffrage Bill Introduced. London. Walter IL Long, secretary It Makes a Difference. of state for the colonies. Introduced In Everybody believes In exercise, but the house of commons on May 13 the not when It Is associated with the electoral reform bill, "Which provides lawn mower. Charleston News and Jor the enfranchisement of women. Courier. . Poosevelf.May - - - . |