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NOW I'M BUeiNG A SEPTIC TANK Or, One of Those Boiltpin Furm Conveniences. I went over to WHl Jordan's the oth«r d»y to borrow his wir«-stretch«r, and U and Will out in the orchard dig- ging a hole that he could have used as a grave for a horse. "What th« dickens are you doing down there?" I called. "I looks as though you might be putting down a foundation for on« of those German siege guns. What's all the sand and cement for7" "Hello there, Jerry," said Will. "Come on down in the hole apd take a shovel. We're going to build a sep- tic tank." "You're going to build what kind of a Unk?" said I. "A septic tank. A concrete septic tank," said he. "Going to use it for dipping hogs or sheep?" I asked. "Neither one,'! said Will. "Going to use it to hold the sewage and waste water from the bathroom and kitchen at the house." "That's a new one on me," I ad- mitted. "Go ahead and teil me about it. I'm always looking for new ideas. Maybe I can understand this one if you'll explain it a bit." "Well, it's just this way," Will said, as he came up the ladder and sat down on a bag of cement "I've been hear- ing about these new-fangled septic tanks for some time. One day last up at the college apd sell them to you at cost I ordered mine from this fel- ' low from the college last week and he ' shipped it right down to me. I got| it Tuesday. I suppose I could havej made it, but I thought they could! make it exactly right up there, and it i didn't cost any more, so I let them make it." "Well, what becomes of tlus water when the siphon dumps it all out?" "I'm going to lay a few kandred feet of common drain tile in several i directions ^om the tank and that \ water will flow from the tank onto [ those tiles and Alter away into the soil. That's what they call an absorp- tion system," said Will. "Don't you have to add any chem- icals to kill the germs?" I asked. "No, you don't add a thing. The bacteria within the sewage convert ; the solids to liquid and this liquid is absorbed by the soil." j "Well, does this tank kill thej germs?" i "Now that's something I asked this ! engineering fellow and he explained | it in this way : He said that if disease ; germs entered the tank, they would j not be destroyed at all inside the tank ; '. they'd pass right through. But he ; said that there are certain bacteria in ' the upper layers of the soil which . would destroy these disease germs as , ^, * ., u -f I soon as the water gets into the soil. week there wag a fellow here selling : ,p.^.^ u„^^y.:„ „.,„ „„i„ :„ n,^ „»„„, ..... , J these bacteria are only m the upper subscriptions to a farm paper, and ^ }_„„_. while he was showing me some of the I ..i^.. 1 " ^^^*^ ' i^^^ T^^m^t^^K^fm.^ 1 7. rv'^^alj^^^^l 1 ' â- ' i^JJ^^^Et*''-' :.<- -A^J^ _.'- '^^ -~' ;^..;,vr7« ^'â- ^VM ': ..:vi,,j-^ i . . /â-  irl: ':^-i^k Wm^Sm^mW^ \ it • â-  r. .-.''%;-. '^^^ y« »-. .â- -.;';â-  ;p^i#: 7^- -- â-  ''^â- s^mtm-Ji^jM ' â- ^S^^biBD^^^S^HHrs^^^^ iQjC ♦ ' ^^9^K iCiSn iHlk^ â- ^^B^BBc/ fi \ flHlKgEU ^^'^^iHmw" ^Se^-- \j%.'x:ir: ^^.^--i^^ is^p '^m ^%»,-..: ...^^^v"^ ^; ?-, - ^ â- " „" " '♦. fc: Ay m^ BREADS FOR THE SCHOOL LUNCH BOX BY NELL B. NICHOLS. I uaed te (kyeod entirely on differ-! milk or buttermilk. Melt tT7o and ent fillings to vary the sandwiches i one-h.-i'.f tab'.eapoona butter and add made in ray home. That was Ijeforelto ont-half cup molasses. Stir all in- I appreciated how many kinds of j Bredltnts together and add ooe-half bread* could be manufactured rn the cake yeast which haii been dissolved kitchen. Now the staff of life «n ouri in < n*-fourth cup lukewarm water, table may be light or dark in color. 'Heat -he batter. It should be very Sometimes I add raisins, dates, nuts stiff: if it isn't, add more flour. Plare or flgs to the dough to provide a In greased pans, kneading slightly, change. I Ijot ria^ When light, bake in a mod- •\f ter many experiments, conducted erate oven, as a pupil in a country school and FRuiT bread. carried on later when I was a rural I gcald two cups milk and pour into school teacher, I have decided that the ^j^^ny bow', containing two cups roll, foundation for the ideal .unch-box ^ ^^. ^^.^ teaspoons salt and four meal is the sandwich. Thw may be tablespoons sugar. Stir in two table- accompanied by a hot beverage or 3p,^3 shortening. When lukewarm, .soup fni.t and cookies. I have a ^^^ ,„ „„, ,^j,e yeast which has been sma.1 %-acuum bottle which I use to ^^^^i^.^ j^ one-fourth oup tepid ho.d the soup or drink when packing ^^^^ ^dd sufficient flour to mak« luiv.ies. a dough that may be kr..»aded. Usual- Oatmeal graliani. bran, rye, Boston ]y four cups are re<]uired, but the brown and breakfast cereal breads amount varies with different flours. are some of the favorites with my j^^^j until the dough is smooth and k'""'.:^' u u T '^^''t '^ * steamed ^^^^^^ ^^^,-^^^ -^ ^^ ,^^^^,^^ pj^,. bread which I mak^ from stale bread in greased pans and let rise. When crumbs. We thmk it is de.icious. j^^bW in bulk, bake from forty-five Some of the recipes for these choice ^.^^^^ ^^ ^^ ^^^^ ;„ ^ moderate loaves are as foLows: | ^^.^ j^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^ desired, add WHEAT CEREAL BREAD. ! one and one-fourth cups chopped Mix two cups hot cooked wheat raisins, dates or figs with the flour, cereal with one-half cup light brown sugar, one teaspoon salt and one and one-fourth cups each of stoned and NUT BREAD. Substitute nuts for the raisins or run in that paper, he a story about a septic stories they came across tank. He told me about the work that the agricultural representative over in the next county was doing along the lines of farm sanitation. They've That's -why you lay the tile pretty shallow." been holding a lot of septic tank de- „ v'L„ 4.i.„.. «_ _j • »u 1 u e ^_„.^:„t *k„„ A.;. „»., o.,.!' when they figured in the labor for God's Services in God's Country." Amid the setting of the eternal hills. How much is this thing going to! members of the Alpine Club of Canada at Lake O'Hara hold Sunday service, cost you?" I asked next. 1^^^^^^^^^^ "Oh, I can't say exactly what it will I â€" _ ~ cost. They figure on the cost of the, tank they built over there the other, day. That one cost less than $50 i Bread. Use one cup nuts. RAISIN BREAD WITH CORN SYRCP. Put one-ha'.f cup dark corn syrup monstrations over there this year and I guess they've got a lot of folks all stirred up about it. Anyway, they're falling all over themsVves to get their septic tanks built." "This representative went on to say that they'd been having a lot of typhoid fever over there and that they'd traced it to a farm where there'd been a bad case of the fever, and as near as they could find, the disease had been-carried all over the township. ."Now that set me to thinking. You know, my wife had a pretty bad case of typhoid fever last year. We always thought that she picked it up over at the fair. Well, you recall how we just about gave her up for lost several , j^^^^ ^^^j. ^^^ days, and then how, just about the!. ', „ "„ ^x.â-  ^ â- , j * , ^. , , . J ,-,ii Tir-u I t«r spend .>.iO on this tank and take time she beean to mend a little, Will, I "^ , .,,, , , , . V , -i.!. j.1. \\.- I no more chances. I'll feel a lot i Jr., came down with the same thing, and -almost died. I l)egan to think about that, so I asked this representa- tive, what they had learned over in the next county about the way the fever spread over a township. "He told me that they traced the ^.^^ ^^^^ j ^^^^,^^ ^^^ ^~ ^^^ first case of the fever and then they! ^^^^^ .^ j ^.^^.^ ^..^^^ ^; ^^^ went all over that farm and ^"'""1' digging the hole and mixing the con- crete. I'm not figuring that in. The stuff alone cost me alxiut $30 all told. ; You've got a gravel bank over on your farm and it wouldn't cost you as much as it did me, because I had| to buy sand and gravel. I "There's just this about it. That; pock of sickness and trouble cost me over $150 in doctor bills. I had to ' pay that trained nurse $45 a week for ; three weeks all told, and I don't knowK how much the medicine cost me. Will, I Jr., was laid up just when I needed ', him on the farm, and I had to hire an extra man, and if my sister hadn't come out to do the cooking and house- 1 work I don't know what that would i I figure that I had bet-' d safer." ; "By golly, I wouldn't wonder but , what you're about right," I said. "You! let me take that bulletin wha^n you're i through with it, or else tell me where I can write to get one like it. I l>e- \ lieve I'll look into it myself.' aiPSip .â-  &duaoeJ>aMena\ found that the folks had a sewer that drain ed into an open drain in a pasture.; They noticed that there were always . a lot of flies and insects hanging: around the outlet of that sewer. The ; crows and blackbirds used to hang' around there, too, and wade around! in the sewer outlet, and darned if he \ didn't figure out that the flies and! bugs and chickens and other critters that did their loafing around that sewer outlet had carried some of these ; typhoid germs over to the neighiwr's. | They were the next ones to have the 1 fever, and it passed along the line! until half the farmers over in that. section had it. { "I put two and two together andj figured that maybe, after my wife] came down with it last year, some; flies probably brought the germs up| to the hou.^ and scattered them on a milk pail food on the table and that's how Will, Jr. got it. "â- This representative told me that they were going' to have another de- monstration over near Podunk in two days. .That was last Thursday, so I Will for that wire-stretcher. But I \ wont back the ne.xt day for it and Will j ! was pouring his concrete and setting! sizes 16, 18 and 20 years (or 34, 36 and 38 inches bust). 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Pour a tablespoonful of Ixjil- j ing water over half the amount ot mixed spices you usually use for a ; spice-cake and note the difference in chopped dates and broken pecan-nut o*^*". ^rujt in the recipe for Fruit meats. Stir in two tablespoons melt- ed butter. When this mixture is luke- ' warm, stir in one cake yeast which has been dissolved in one-half cup , . lukewarm water. Add sufficient flour '"^ °- ^^^1°^ 0°^! and add one table- to make a dough that may be kneaded. ^P«>n '»«;»'^ shortening and one tea- Knead as with white bread. Shape in fP^" ^^^^- ^"^^ three-fourths cup two loaves and let rise again. Bake '^^»"» â„¢'^t*'"' =^<i st;r. When luke- from forty-five minutes to an hour in ^â- ^""- ^"" « °'^^ =f I'® y«=*st first dis- a moderate oven. j ^-^'^ '^ one-fourth cup tepid water. .A.dd two cups graham flour, one cup STEAMED BROWN BREAD. i.-^. a j ..v t .1 oic^..!:.!/ oo.wr,. o,^«^. [white flour and three-fourths cup Use one cup each of rye flour, corn- chopped raisins. Let double in bulk. meal and graham flour. Mix with one Beat thoroughly. Turn into a greas- teaspoon salt and add three-fourths ed pan, cover and let rise again. When light, bake in a moderate oven one hour. BREAD-CRUMB LOAF. Break up very hard and stale bread in small pieces. To two and one-half , . , ,, .,,. ,, quarts of crumbs add one quart of ! greased molds or cane, fljmg three- ^^,^ ^^,^^ ^^ ^^^ ^^^, ^^_ . fourths full, and steam for tiu-ee and easionally, until the bread is soft. ' one-haif or four hours. Set in the â-  cup dark mo'iasses, two cups clabbered â-  sour milk and one teaspoon soda dis- â-  solved first in one tablespoon hot I water. Beat thoroughly. Let stand ' fifteen or twenty minutes. Stir in one-half pound raisins, pour into , , Mash until smooth and stir in two oven to dry a few minutes when the cornmeal, one-half cup flour and steaming is comp.eted. ! ^^^ teaspoons soda dissolved in two BRAN BREAD. | tablespoons hot water. Stir in from Mix thr(>e cups gTaham flour with one-half to three-fourths cup molasses, one cup bran. Sift in one and one- or enough to make a thick batter. .A.dd half cups whole-wheat flour and one- ^ one teaspoon salt. Beat thoroughly,' half teaspoon salt. Dissolve one- pour into greased molds, filling three- fourth teaspoon soda in ere tablespoon fourths full, and steam from four to hot water and add to two cups sour five and one-half hours. BEGINNLNG STORE IN A WATER PAIL FROCKS THAT H.A.VE MADE THEMSELVES VERY POPUL.A.R Simple enough for streot wear â€" 1 flavor. .A.dd three tablespoonfuls of the siphon. I got some good pointers and charming enough for bridge or vinegar and one clove of garlic to the on how to build a tank, and I guess dance I Fashion still smiles upon : pot-roast for a change in flavor and I'll start digging a iio'.e in the morn-' these simple frocks, both of which to make the meat tandir. A rich, fine ing.â€" J. D. Z. BY EDWARD A. RAND. 1 ".\nd what have you here, Fred?" 1 Squire Emery leaned over his coun- ! Fred held up his mother's yellow â-  ter one day, set back his old felt hat brown pack- ] "n his head, and gave Fred a friendly look through his specs. "Fred, I have heard about your store, and how it started in a water- Make Your Bees Safe for Winter. i were fashioned from one pattern. The flavor can be added to a rc«ast of veal i little frock of flowered material has , Iamb or pork by basting it with the ' two side panels trimmed with narrow syrup from spiced peaches, lace, and then shirred onto the one- : Add paprika and narrow strips of I piece foundation at the raised waist- ! fresh green pepper to your Dutch Do you know that your 1926 honey ' line. The round neck and short cheese. Mix lemon and almond flavor- crop is largely dependent on what you kimono sleeves are finished with the | ing for your cake, being careful to do with the bees this fall? If your | narrow lace, and a ribbon of pastel | use but a f-^w drops of each, or add colonies are too weak in bees or have' color ties in long ends at the back. A ; currants or sesdless raisins or change old failing queens, you cannot pos- , bordered material was used withjtho frosting occasionally. Add a drop charming effect for the plain frock, j of peppermint extract to the choco- which opens at the neck with flat re-! late pudding. Other variations will vers and has long sleev«s gathered ; suggest themselves, especially to a re- into a narrow band. No. 1166 is in I sourceful cook. water-pail, filled with ages. "Goods for my store, Grannyl" "So vou begin store in a water- paii?" •'That is what it amounts to." Fred had stopped at old Mrs. Ack- erman's gate for a little chat. Every- bodv called her "Granny.'' but Joe pail. Let me encourage you. I will let you have a thousand dollars' worth of goods and f-et you up. You can pay me by-and-by." "Thank you, squire, but I gpiess not. sibly secure a profitable crop next' summer. If you have good queens and strong colonies to go into winter quarters, you may still lose many col-j onies this winter and fail to secure a maximum surplus of honey next sea-| 1. uu cL, Prof. Eric Millon, of the or maybe on some of the s ' ^ •' : O.A.C. ^ I You can almost entirely avoid the! possibility of a poor crop in 1926, if; weather is at all favorable, by prac- \ ticing the following management this ; fall: i ....... J m J J I Unite all colonies which, when ex- I lust took a day off and drove over . , , .*„ ,„ _ . - â- v' I amined on a cool morning, do not •, ' cover more than two frames on both ; "They had quite a crowd of folks , out at this farm where they put in j the tank. There was an engineer from ! the agricultural college, and a doctor. sides. The simplest and tseet plan to, unite is to place one brood chamber directly on another, with a single â„¢. V .1. » 11 -i ,.• ' sheet of newspaper between. Leave They both gave talks on sanitation '. , f f^ ,' . • J -n u ,. .1.- -J â-  this way for one weak and then shake and exp.amed aJl about this epidemic , " . ' . . u j i. v. Tt, .. i 1. J J .w J TV â-  all bees into one brcod chamber. The that had made the rounds. Their; ... ^ , . , ,. . ,. . L » .u VI. two queens will hght and the stronger Btorios were about the same as what i ? • u- • • ' I one invariab.y survives, so no nouce : be taken of the queen when ! need that representative had told me. "The fellow who owned the farm had dug the hole according to thei "" ''"f*-"-. ^ , , â- . a t s^ t • ». 11 »â-  11 •. • TV i Colonics must not be united it .\m- plans m a bulletin. Here it is. Theyi . , ,, , . . .v â-  r.j . .. iiv_i erican fo'.iIbnx)d is present, otherwise handed one to e\-erybody at the meet-' , ' ... â-  *^ , Tf ^ '1 • »v 1 i the disease wiil be spread, ing. I m fo.lowing the same plan.i. i. .: " . i j ... rnv V J 1 V ; Besides strong coit^nies and cood right now. They had some lumber i ""â-  , ^ , t i „ • .. J ' t t •â-  _ J i ' aueens, an iibundarcc of food is nec- Ihere and a coup.e of fe..ow3 sawed it; 4>"^"-' " . . , , , J t J , . . essarv for winter and spring brood up and hammered a wooden form to-!"' .- , V . ,u- ^- .v ,. rearing. It is in thi.^ connection that many beekeepers fail to put their colories away for winter and so avoid â-  h~avy loss and -seoare nvixinium crop ; next spring. : (pether. You se?, this wooden form . that I've built l»re goes inside the ,' hole in the ground and you pour the â-  concrcto between the form and the • wall. When it rets, you've gpjt a tank." ^^^^^^tS^^''iR^^^ Too Tight Stove^Pipe Joints. ! in one place and then at one end itj If joints fit too tight when putting '.was more shallow. It looked as though up sheet-iron stove or heater pipe. Will figured on making two tanks. and you find a length will not readily .* "Why, that's the recond chamber. } slip over cnothcr, h-at the too-small .The dosing chamber, they cail it at j piece. The heat will expand it suffi- •the meeting." said Will. "You see.lcirntly so that it can then be slipped "the sewaira comes thr«ugh this tile! onto the end of an unhealed length. " from the house and rur» into this bigj Do not make the mistake of he'^ting "chamber. It stays thore until it is | both pieces, as this would enlarg^ ' all changed to liquid and this liquid gradually overflows into this second chaml>e'r. 'ihat fills np to Just a cer- tain point, when it is siphoned out thi»>ugh thl,* iiTSjr here. That's the au:o-r«tv- cifhon. They malm tham both and nothing would bo gained. The pipe can be heatod by putting in an oven or standing on end on a hot stove. Do not apply a flame directly, as this may warp It or burn and rougdea tlw met«l. , Akerman, who was lolling over the j ^"^ "^''y • ' gate, was reallv her grandson. He ! "--V!'- rightâ€" all right. Fred. Glad iwas a smart young man. that felt j to see your ^^spirit. What will you equal to the ruling of a nation, but his have, ma am . ambition far exceeded his industry; -•^"'^ 'h« squire stood up to wait and his place in the nation was verv,<"» a^ o'-d woman, just arrived. ; likely to be a mean one. I "Look here, squire!" said Fred, the "Fred!" said Joe patronizinKv, "^^^ day, "you made a land offer yes- â-  "swing out.~ Get trusted for "a "big terday. and I will tell you what I I stock of goods, and go it." ! would like. I will go round and get Fred's only answer was a flourish orders, buy my goods of you as I need 1 of the water-pail, and then he passed th^m. and y^"^ "^^n ^a^or »>« a-' ^u j on. ' can." "If it is small." he thought, "my! "Agreed!" said the squire. stock is paid for." i Each day, then, Fred made two trips I He had earned three dollars hilling to various houses. The first time, he ' the parson's potatoes, and then smash- went with an order book. The second ing his Colorado bugs. | time, he went with a wheelbarrow of Fred was seventeen. It occurred to goods. him that he might pick up a few pen- ' 5^ the snowball kept turning over nies bv trading. So he borrowed his and over, growing every day. At last, , mother's small kitchen table, paraded th^re was a new store m town, small j his goods on it, and drove quite a »"d unpretending, but its goods were thrifty trade with the small, but all Pald for- Over the door, was the ' ready buvers of candv and molasses *'?" o' a waterpail. ! gingerbread. He found that his three ' "That Fred Parker," said Mrs. A gingerbread j dollars had brought him four in re j turn. "Mother, lend me an.ither water pail?" he asked, the next day. "What for, Fred .\ck- erman. "is bound to make money." I "Yes," said Squire Emery, "for he goes sure, and he is willing to be small that he may become big." .Another store was opened about "Oh. something!" snapping his that time. You would have thought b!ighteye« till they twinkled like fire- that th? circus had come to town. flies on a July night. He went to Squire Emery's sti^ra Yellow circulars went flying into e\-ery house as if a swarm of butter- ! and filled his pails with more substan- ""^s were out on a raid. All day, a tial goods, adding a few articles for fancy wagon went flashing about tk-> toilet from the squire's showca.<e. town. It was as gay with bold and ! He did not forget that som^ of his red as the last new Ch:r.a tea store. . buvors bad a perverse appetite for "What's that rattlin' "round so rwiet thinsrs. and he made a modest sniart and lively?" said Squire Emery, inroad u7on th? squire's stock of red "Grocery!"' he read on tho side of peppermints and white sugar hearts. "Sloth^r. lond tre that shelf in the old pantry which you don't use?" ".â- V shc'f! What next, Fred? Yes, give me my pails and take th? shelf. th? wagon. "Pooh I that ninny. Joe .•Vckerman. is settin' up in business, l'!! give him three months to set down again. He borrowed a thousand, I hear, and has started. F«r better if Nine, birt tL"vn in a trr>> on the laaailhir.CnlteiStates bonier, ii lies several comrcrtments, representing an ofllce. garace awl a seviMi storey apartmeai house, and ts atrlctly "oatprool.'* Fred njiV.ed it up outsid? the kit- he ha d borrowed Fred Barker's water- ohen window, arranged hi^ goods pa'I- th«re. and w'nen f.irm work was over. It would have been much better, would trade with his neighbors in the '" three months there was a failura, o-€ning. The wagon was so.d to a fish peddler. So he wont oi. On? shelf incrcas.vi He put out the red and gold lights and to three shelve.', and ths "store" was Pointed it a fea-gre^n. transferred to the inside and kent The goods in the store were aucthw- open all dav. his mother min;iginir ed off to satisfy creditors. wKi;e he was at wcrk in the om field. Everything was sold excepfng a Fml':» money grew as a snowball damaged waterpail. It was Joe's only rolled over and over in tlw drifts after possession. : a January tbttw. It is better U 4tart taaa I to end in a waterpeil